Christmas season is an absolute annoyance. I can’t go to the grocery or pick up day-to-day supplies. I can’t get work done because the building are locked and everyone internal and external has checked out. Traffic in this normally empty region has reached annoying levels. Everyone in the inevitable crowds looks pissed off- and acts it. Christmas music everywhere, the same fucking songs over and over, and all Christmas music sucks donkey balls. Really, I hate this shit and wish Joseph and Mary had been pro-choice.
Anyway, despite my grumpiness at what the goyim hath wrought, birthdays today include a guy who managed to make fucking a lot of women a successful grift; a cartoonist with a sense of line and shape unequalled by any except Ernie Bushmiller; the Jimmy Carter of Germany, but with even more Judenhass; a great man, therefor unsuited for politics; a guy who got lost; a guy I just saw a couple weeks ago; a guy whose wokeness killed off one of the best cartoon characters of all time; a modern guitar wizard and twang bar king; one of the reasons that there’s so many antisemites; Sloopy’s idol and masturbatory fantasy; and a guy who I loved to watch play, the Mike Curtis of defensive backs, the opposite of safety.
“How else are we supposed to re-arm them?”
The cartoon alone will cause Progs to have an aneurysm.
“So go back to bombing the shit out of everything.”
Kamala gets a key endorsement.
“As god is my witness, I thought Santa could fly!”
Old Guy Music will NOT be a fucking Christmas song. I never get tired of McMurtry.
Somehow I expect an Immaculate Conception would either be more difficult to terminate that normal if they went that route, we’d get an earlier repeat cycle of “raising himself from the dead”… or God would have laid a smack down not seen since this side of Sodom and Gomorrah for their insolence.
The main thing I’m sorry about is that the folks around you are unable to find within themselves the spirit of the season — but with the economy being what it is and the usual bustle to get things done, I expect it can be hard this year. I certainly haven’t flipped into “Christmas mode” mentally myself… but it has been a damned weird year all around.
Merry Christmas season anyway, ya curmudgeon (and to the rest of you reprobates)… Off to actually read links now….
Happy Festivus! I got no problems with you people.
Quiet- you’ll get yours in a minute
I was just introduced yesterday to some rather bizarro concept that Christianity, and Christ himself, were inventions of the Romans.
I suppose time traveling space alien zombie is blase these days… have to push the tinfoil hat boundaries.
It was a Pilate program.
Boo!……Okay I did get a real laugh out of that.
It is possible that people’s mood around OMWC is related to his views on Christmas.
I’m not a Catholic but I recall Immaculate Conception refers to Mary’s conception, not Jesus’. Free of original sin or something?
Correct (but, careful, I am Lutheran).
Sigh.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa… I think of them both as miraculous, hence use the term for both. Bad lapsed Catholic. Should remember better.
Tell me about it. I didn’t remember that. In my defense, I lapsed around my 10th birthday.
Ackchually, “Immaculate Conception” refers to Mary’s being conceived without Original Sin.
Those crazy Russians…
If I ever have the need and occasion to visit, I’m certainly staying away from windows there. Even Rudolph the Red Flagged Commie couldn’t stop a defenestration!
Hey, Sean. A firearms auction you might enjoy perusing:
https://hibid.com/oregon/catalog/507664/collector-and-enthusiast-firearm-auction?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pd_featuredseller&utm_content=PortlandPickers_12_23_23
A lot of your type of thing.
😃
I’m done buying until next year.
Teenaged girl Ewwwwww! inserted here…
Sigh… Apparently didn’t hit ctrl-c and didn’t notice… that was for:
He has a dedicated cumrag just for his Harbaugh fetish.
Again… only “Ewwwwwww!” captures my mental reaction.
A brillo pad?
I grimaced.
“Don’t worry, kids, that Santa was obviously an imposter.”
Not just Hallmark / Lifetime. See Sweet Home Alabama, The Proposal, etc… — of course, the formula works for a reason — idyllic rural life fantasies (slower speed, more community… all the Willoughby fun), “Getting Her Groove Back” style themes, “Unsticking the Stick Up Her Butt” (or is that kielbasa?), etc.
The kielbasa would be in Mojo’s stockings.
Duh.
Can’t read the article because I will give the NYT neither money nor my email address, but I would like to once again go on record saying I never even turn on the Hallmark Channel, the Hallmark Movie Channel, nor Lifetime. I would much rather observe the holiday by watching Die Hard the way God intended. (Since we’re not doing the family thing until meeting my sibs at a restaurant on the 30th, we may movie-binge, but it’s more likely to be all the Lord of the Rings director’s cut Blu-Rays.)
The only great Christmas movie is Bad Santa.
Not Black Christmas?
In all serious I have a soft spot the size of the Rockies for Muppet Christmas Carol…
Heh, just paid four bucks to watch that on pay-per-view.
Archived version to bypass pesky paywall.
https://archive.fo/7GYgU
Thanks, Tonio! 🙂
This^^^ Mrs. Hobo got us the Hans Gruber falling to his death Advent calendar. Really drives home the reason for the season.
As previously noted, Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
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I like her already.
Username checks out.
Clearly we need a Christmas movie where an asshole goes somewhere, runs across a bunch of other assholes, learns no lessons from it except it’s fine to be an asshole, give no fucks whatsoever about the local orphanage burning down or whatever, and then goes back to doing exactly what he was doing at the start of the movie.
Cover Up
I would think Siegel and Shuster would approve particularly.
I think Q would approve as well.
I couldn’t take my eyes off the number of fingers on her right hand.
Thalidomide is a hell of a drug.
There were fingers?
😏
Mickey Mouse Syndrome
whaddup doh’
whats goody yo
Yeah… somehow I think if they keep targeting the leaders it would work eventually. And isn’t that the whole premise of “surgical strike” versus carpet bombing style warfare in the first place?
Yet another thing I’m really not sure Trump is right about, frankly. Senile, Evil and controlled by handlers… or Incompetent, Evil and controlled by handlers… not really seeing an upside either way….
Whatsherface is less likely to crap herself when meeting dignitaries.
I suppose kneepad diplomacy might be better than Full Depends talks, true.
variety is the spice of politics
Bill Weld playbook of politics?
He saw her poll lower than Joe, I’m guessing.
Or, TDS is so strong that his mere endorsing someone will cause them to fall out on the left. Reverse Jedi mind trick!
And I am still waiting for OMWC to give me odds on this election…
Already have bets with Sloopy, Spud, and Heroic Mulatto.
Sloopy’s idol and masturbatory fantasy;
I got this one right. 🙂
have a cookie
You don’t wanna eat that cookie.
Nathan J Robinson
@NathanJRobinson
My colleague @lefty_md
on what’s actually causing the loneliness epidemic. (Yes, it’s capitalism.)
https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1738263656188596735
I had my suspicions that would be to blame
Let me guess — “shoulder to shoulder in a communal system, you will be happy Comrade?”
I could rant a bit about consumerist (not capitalist) focus, the need for two-income households versus sole breadwinners and the impact on the family, child rearing / psychology, etc… but honestly — I’d be preaching to the choir and just don’t feel like it. Y’all probably know everything I’d say and beyond.
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
I am seriously considering writing a follow-up essay to this that takes place five years later.
“ She had won the victory over herself.”
I didn’t know women had findom fantasies too.
when clean energy became free
[snicker, snicker, chortle, snort BWHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahha]
Holy shit.
So, a homeless bum in a Communist created economic wasteland?
Weird fantasy.
Let me get you started… At first no one noticed the trains left the station full, but arrived back to pick up passengers completely empty.
“At which point the survivors realized that whoever praised the Dear Leader least lavishly were ‘asked’ at gunpoint to board the trains.”
I’m curious: where does food come from? Or industrial goods?
Santa’s elves?
The plantations and the re-education factories.
I’m not convinced ol’ Nate isn’t a performance artist.
Well, if an overly transactional society is going to underweight relationships . . . .
From the article: ” in which levels of poverty are embarrassingly high”
… for definitions of poverty where you can have an apartment, a car, a big screen high def TV, high speed internet, a local thrift store where clothes and other household goods are almost free, and such an abundance of affordable food that obesity is described as an “epidemic”.
Residents object to return of onion festival
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0dp8ydk7ko
A festival which could bring nearly 5,000 people to a small Gloucestershire town has generated strong opposition from some locals.
Onion in the Wood will take place at Newent Arboretum in September 2024
Onion in the Wood is a modern version of the internationally renowned Onion Fayre
They Fayre dates back to 1226 and went through a quiet period when Covid-19 stopped many public events.
A petition signed by more than 200 locals said: “It would be naive to think that by drinking all day and late into the night there would not be a risk of crime.”
fewer NIIMBYs in 1226
“It would be naive to think that by drinking all day and late into the night there would not be a risk of crime.”
I thought most Brits did that anyway.
Now they’ll be pissed.
Yeah, but not Festival Drinking!
Yeah, I think they had their fill of “Normans In My Backyard” around 1066 or so.
But what about “Roger in my Daughters?”
NOIMWs
No Onions In My Woods.
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Suspicion confirmed.
The decision tree for Hallmark movies is not quite that simple, but there absolutely is a “one from column A, one from column B” process. I’ve been told (but cannot verify) that Hallmark has literally one person that writes all their scripts.
We have noticed that what is acceptable has changed over time, particularly the last few years. It used to be, if a there was a single parent, they were a widow/widower. Then, you started to see divorced males, but females were still always widows. Now you see not only divorced parents of both sexes, but story lines involving the ex-spouse. Similarly, homosexuality used to be verboten. Then, after the kerfloffle where Hallmark refused to air a commercial that just showed a lesbian couple in passing (and killed Good Witch, which was pushing lesbian characters), they made an abrupt U-turn and started writing lesbian couples as secondary storyline, and then gay couples, and now this year they have a gay couple as a primary storyline (albeit in an ensemble cast). Speaking of, now you are much more likely to see one or more secondary romantic storylines, frequently with the widow/widower parent of one of the lead characters.
Anyway, none of that really matters, because the only reason to watch a Hallmark movie is for the actors. If you like the actors, then watch the movie. They never change how they play a character, regardless if that character is a corporate executive or farm hand. So you’re watching for the chemistry between the leads (and sometime the supporting actors), not for the putative plot.
I am so, so very sorry you have so much experience with this genre. Thoughts & prayers.
Yah I was a bit agog there.
Rock on, Grum.
Most spy/thrillers have same formulae. Every Patterson novel has to feature a nerdy young hacker who can penetrate the most sophisticated computer firewalls ever invented. Only difference is the hacker is either a pimply fast food eating dude or a goth chick who is a sexy virgin.
Jebus. I tried to read one of his books back in the nineties, man that was bad.
Trying to read one of his novels turned me off of the entire genre, I haven’t read a spy/thriller since.
I wonder how long till they catch up with trannies.
Well, OM, I’m seeing the competition for Grinch O’ The Year has gotten a lot tougher.
We had Xmas yesterday, daughter, 2 grand daughters w/husbands, 1 great grandson. Because of scheduling/travel we had the traditional dinner and last night the very limited gift receiving.
I overheard the blood relatives talking.
“I wonder if Grandpa has a will?”
“Oh, I’m sure but I’ve never seen a it. I think the executor has a copy, I wonder if…”
/sarc
A good time was had by most, good to see ’em all talking to each other and more or less reconciled. Son and 1 g’daughter not in attendance though
“Maybe if we…”
Pull the confused grandpa on them.
“Will!? Sure! I made arrangements to leave Will all my money a few years ago! Helluva nice guy, Will. Met him at the local diner over breakfast.
Will is my youngest g’daughter’s husband’s name.
In reality, the g’daughters (3) have made good choices in life, the oldest in getting married in May to what seems to be a very nice guy. Younger two are married, all have bachelor’s degrees and paid off student loans and well into adult life.
Life is good
*insert Sean’s avatar*
I hope your actual Christmas was jubilant!
However the will discussion does remind me that I need to get mine cleaned up.I had one legally drawn up many years ago when my stepsons were minors (and “step” is not a legally recognized relationship). But many years have passed and I’m not even married to their father.
I believe it’d be prudent for me to get a new legal will on file. Not that I have much after giving the ex our house free and clear.
“Federal judge rules Massachusetts assault weapons ban is consistent with recent landmark Supreme Court decision”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/politics/massachusetts-assault-weapons-ban/index.html
Merry Christmas!
Also, get off your fat asses you Supreme Court pussies and bend the lower federal courts to your will or we’ll all be screwed and not just on gun control.
Whoops, sorry about that.
Then she shouldn’t have identified as white, problem solved.
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better
You have been conscripted into the army?
Everything is designed for durability, repairability and recyclability. The materials are flowing more quickly in our economy and can be transformed to new products pretty easily. Environmental problems seem far away, since we only use clean energy and clean production methods. The air is clean, the water is clean and nobody would dare to touch the protected areas of nature because they constitute such value to our well being. In the cities we have plenty of green space and plants and trees all over. I still do not understand why in the past we filled all free spots in the city with concrete.
There were a few anti-social lunatics who did not agree with this path, but we soon killed them, or forced them into the underground maze from which all of our wonderful material goods magically spring.
The amount of hand waving in that article is almost enough to create all that free energy.
Winter gloom
These incremental changes alter the way we celebrate holidays, the way we get dressed to go outside, and even, on a deep level, the way we feel. The philosopher Glenn Albrecht has coined the term “solastalgia,” or “the homesickness we feel while still at home,” to describe the disorientation some of us experience as the planet we once knew changes drastically around us.
“There’s this sort of existential offness,” said Heather Hansman, a Colorado-based ski journalist and author of the book Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow. “My body knows that this isn’t right.”
Like worsening summer heat waves, winter warming is caused by companies and governments burning fossil fuels. The resulting emissions intensify the greenhouse effect, in which the earth’s atmosphere traps heat from the sun, making temperatures on the ground warmer. The greenhouse effect is strongest at the poles, and it’s also most pronounced during winter, said Kenneth Blumenfeld, a senior climatologist with the Minnesota State Climatology Office.
Thanks for Voxsplaining that to me.
And they make fun of Trump for mooning about a nonexistent version of the past. Go ahead. Bring winter back, and ban heat. See where that gets you.
This lack of below freezing weather so far is really getting to me — said no Prole ever.
I’m sure they furnished proof of this?
It is my day to celebrate Christmas with nieces and nephews. But I’ll leave you with a few Christmas songs.
The Pimps – Grandma’s Christmas Shirt
Slaves on Dope – All I want for Christmas
But as winters warm, many of the activities humans have developed to survive and thrive during the colder months are slowly vanishing. Skiing, for example, is becoming more difficult in Norway and around the world as rain replaces snow. Leibowitz said that she fears that climate change will leave Norway with the darkness of polar winter but none of its joys. “We won’t have snow to reflect the light. We won’t have ice to make beautiful patterns. And we won’t have all of the recreational activities that come with snow and ice.” One study estimates that, in a worst-case scenario, the majority of US ski resorts will be unable to continue operating before the century’s end.
I remember when “climatologists” were saying that in the 1980s.
Back then we still had rain forests, oil, polar icecaps, and enough arable land to feed 6 billion people. None of these will exist by 2000, oops 2010, ooops 2020, oops 2030.
Happy Festivus, motherfuckers
Lipstick on a fascist pig
So could she actually do it? Could Haley become the first female and first Indian-American president of the US? It’s unlikely but not impossible. More important, however, it’s not anything anyone vaguely to the left should wish for. Haley may be a woman (she’s certainly been very happy to lean into her gender and ethnic background when it’s convenient) but she’s no friend to women or minorities. She’s got reactionary views on abortion, immigrants and LGBTQ people. Her politics are just as hate-filled as Trump’s are. She’s just as opportunistic and self-serving as the former president. She just comes across as less obviously dangerous and extreme.
Partly that’s because she’s not as mercurial, of course. Chaos doesn’t follow her everywhere, like it does Trump. She’s frequently described as the “adult in the room” because she acts like more of a grown-up than the other Republican contenders – which, to be honest, isn’t saying much. But another reason so many people seem keen to paint her as a “moderate”– when her politics are very much to the right – might be because she’s a woman.
Women are becoming increasingly prominent in the far right. Last year Giorgia Meloni, head of Italy’s most rightwing government, became the first female prime minister of Italy. In France, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally party, has gone from strength to strength. In the UK some of the most aggressively anti-immigrant policies have been voiced by brown women like Priti Patel and Suella Braverman. And one of the rising stars of the Conservative party in the UK is Kemi Badenoch, a Black woman who has styled herself as anti-woke culture warrior.
The feminization of fascism isn’t happenstance – it’s highly strategic. “It is a trend Marine Le Pen started about 10 years ago – she softened the image of the party [the former Front National], getting rid of the unappealing aspects and the macho image,” Dorit Geva, a sociologist at Central European University told DW last year.
Women cannot be allowed to think for themselves. They might have impure thoughts.
It’s unlikely but not impossible? Bullfuckingshit, the only people that don’t hate that bitch are Raytheon execs.
It would be patronizing to say that women are being used by far-right organizations to soften their image, but they’re certainly useful. Haley gives a veneer of respectability to an increasingly dysfunctional and dangerous GOP. Beneath her grown-up gloss, however, is the same old rot.
Poor, Nikki, she’s nothing but an empty headed child who has been led astray by evil male manipulators.
“Florida woman, 34, is arrested for raping her husband’s autistic younger brother and giving birth to his child because it ‘made her feel good’ after calling cops to claim SHE was sexually assaulted”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12895897/Amanda-Rose-Brooks-arrested-rape-Orlando-Monroe-County-Florida.html
Classy.
“Gen Z college grad Brielle Asero – who went viral after complaining about working a nine-to-five job – reveals she has been LAID OFF from startup and is now broke”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12895727/Gen-Z-Brielle-Asero-job-laid-off.html
Who thinks this is a set up for an OnlyFans?
Those eyebrows with the bleach blonde hair looks ridiculous.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/the-week-in-pictures-dont-say-gay-edition.php
“Before crowbars were invented crows had to drink at home.”
From an article Old Man posted yesterday on Israel/Palestine. I argued something similar. The only real solution to the entire problem is to allow nature to take its course. A conquered people who refuse to accept they’ve been conquered can only be dealt with one way. Modern times or not, it’s the reality. Otherwise you will end up with an endless cycle. How long is Israel going to play that game while the Palestinians continuously up the ante on their atrocities?
It’s going to be brutal and there will be major blowback for Israel. But it is the only way to rid themselves of the threat permanently.
America’s role, if it has any, is to keep other nation’s off Israel’s back diplomatically as much as possible. We sure as fuck should not be funding the Palestinians (or Israealis, who simply don’t need it).
Nope, genocide or even just good old fashioned ethnic cleansing are not acceptable ways to handle the issue. In the longer run either of those will be ineffective as well and will ensure Israel’s destruction.
I like platitudes in the place of policy, as well!
Palestine should be leveled after what they’ve done, and forced to rebuild on their own. Or flee elsewhere and the ground salted behind them. You can call it what you will. People spewing this crap have never seen war, and certainly don’t have any actual answers of their own. It’s this demand that Israel fight with its hands tied behind its back that has allowed this cycle to continue for so long.
Waging all-out war is not genocide. It is not ethnic cleansing. Palestinian institutions need to be destroyed, and if anything comes after them, they need to be rebuilt by Palestinian hands alone so that they learn the value of protecting their own shit. Maybe a people who actually have to work for what they have instead of being the world’s biggest welfare queens would think twice before committing acts of barbarism against its much stronger neighbor.
So I guess Israel is doomed? Because I also don’t see Israel surviving an endless two front war with Hamas and Hezbollah as proxies for a nuclear Iran.
Israel is only doomed to a long, endless cycle of tirelessly stupid wars against a completely outclassed neighbor who has managed to gin up internationals support for itself as some sort of proxy for anti-colonialism and anti-Semitism.
The people who want Israel to hold back at all times are playing into this game just the same as the morons marching on college campuses at the Ivies.
Real war is, in fact, sometimes the only real path forward and war has in fact solved many issues in world history. Wizzelteats and I would agree on a large amount of shit, but this just isn’t one of those topics.
Palestine is a culture predicated on nothing more than hating and killing Jews. Nothing productive comes out of that shithole and it’s all enabled by an endless network of foreign aid that needs to be cut off completely. Force the Palestinians to do what the Israelis have done – build a productive nation in the same environment – and you will see a change in attitude because suddenly they’d have something to lose.
Who wouldn’t rather snowshoe to the grocery store dragging a sled rather than riding in a giant heated four wheel drive station wagon?
Embrace the true joys of winter.
Fourteen years ago today, I arrived in Korea and began my 12+ years living in Asia.
Today is our family Christmas celebration this year. Into the early hours, there was a light snow dusting. Now it’s 47 out. That’s 8.3 in Celcsiwhatcha. It’s why that shit is fantastic for every temperature-related measurement… except the fucking weather: 0 degrees is fucking cold; 100 degrees is fucking hot. Water freezes at 32, ~one third through. Sellchoosis does not delineate nearly enough.
Hope everyone is doing well. Go out and kick ass.