Night Before The Night Before Christmas ONT

...and I said “I don't care, there's no way all those Siberians in the orchestra are trans”.

Oh! Hi Horde. Didn't see you there. Two days to Christmas, who's ready for an ONT?

Christmas Cheer

Maybe Only Of Interest To Marylanders

Phillips Crab House Closes in Ocean City After 66 Years

Phillips wasn't the only crab house in OC, and it certainly wasn't the best place to eat crabs, but it was the most iconic, and it was pretty hard to resist dropping in for a meal when you're downy oshun. Say, I wonder if I can get them to re-open in Galveston?

A Smart Military Blog

Biden Bans Conservatives and Christians from the Military

We're not qute there yet, but this is exactly how they will do it. Greenfield is spot on in his analysis of the endgame here.

The purge goes even further, reaching out to punish anyone who engages “in electronic and cyber activities regarding extremist activities, or groups that support extremist activities – including posting, liking, sharing, re-tweeting, or otherwise distributing content”.

A service member who “likes” a Facebook post from a conservative group is now an “active participant” in “extremist activities”.

You might claim that the article is making pie-in-the-sky projections based upon a paranoid mindset, but I ask anyone who hasn't been under a rock for the past century if this is not exactly how the left always advances its agenda. You're a fool if you don't see where this is going.

Question Of The Day

I've been listening to Christmas music for the past few weeks. I enjoy it as part of the ritual of getting into the spirit of the season. I'm sure many of y'all have been doing the same. However, no matter how much you like Christmas music, there's always that one song. You know the one I mean, that damned song. That one Christmas song that you absolutely hate.

Now, I'm not very hard on Christmas music. I actually like The Little Drummer Boy, and can abide Dominic The Donkey, at least the first 3-4 times I hear it. The Red Shoes is putrid, but it usually gets a eye roll and station change rather than something more drastic. But there's one song, one damned song that I hate more than all the others. Listening to Scandinavian death metal puts me in more of a Christmas mood than this song.

Marshmallow World

Ugh! I'm in a bad mood just from typing it. So, what's yours?

Heroes Aren't Born, They Are Made In The Moment

Teenager jumps from McDonald's drive-thru window to save choking customer

Good for her, she kept her head and saved a life. It's kind of weird that the police gave her a hundred bucks, but she deserves it.

Musical Interlude

Ave Maria sung in a stairwell sends shivers

When Does A Conspiracy Theory Stop Being A Theory?

Archbishop Vigano’s Message to America

DEAR AMERICAN PEOPLE, DEAR FRIENDS, for two years now, a global coup has been carried out all over the world, planned for some time by an elite group of conspirators enslaved to the interests of international high finance. This coup was made possible by an emergency pandemic that is based on the premise of a virus that has a mortality rate almost analogous to that of any other seasonal flu virus, on the delegitimization and prohibition of effective treatments, and on the distribution of an experimental gene serum which is obviously ineffective, and which also clearly carries with it the danger of serious and even lethal side effects. We all know how much the mainstream media has contributed to supporting the insane pandemic narrative, the interests that are at stake, and the goals of these groups of power: reducing the world population, making those who survive chronically ill, and imposing forms of control that violate the fundamental rights and natural liberties of citizens. And yet, two years after this grotesque farce started, which has claimed more victims than a war and destroyed the social fabric, national economies, and the very foundations of the rule of law, nothing has changed in the policies of Nations and their response to the so-called pandemic.

I don't know a thing about Archbishop Vigano, and the source is GP, but it's an interesting letter.

A Leftist Becomes Disillusioned

The Turn

I don't know if I'd have any common ground with this guy on policy, I suspect not. Even leftists who are disillusioned with this particular iteration of leftist government often can't get away from the idea that “some other” all controlling entity would be a good thing that would lead us all to Utopia, but I suspect that we could have an honest conversation about it. And that's a start. And hey, some times hardcore leftists do come to realize the eror of their ways and embrace the light, see Sowell, Thomas.

Related: What's Happening

Now, as any good cult does, these Communists have an eschatology, or end-times mythology. This mythology is based in alchemy, and the belief that just as there is a seed of gold under the nugget of lead there is, too, a perfect world under the bad one. They believe that by stripping away the bad world that they will reveal this utopia. They, being structural determinists (believing people do not have agency or free will, but are simply products of their culture), believe that by tearing down the pillars of society (believing they are a dam holding back utopia) they will collapse the bad world into the good one. All of the destruction you now see, and cannot comprehend, is being done on purpose. It is an attempt to end the (bad) world.

However, before they can truly end the (bad) world they need to awaken a revolutionary critical consciousness in enough people. It was Marcuse who came to believe – after the western Marxist revolutions failed – that the development of the “middle class” after the industrial revolution caused too many people to become too contented with their lives to be revolutionaries. He, as part of writing this grand plan, made quite clear that the masses must be made miserable to make revolution preferable to continuing on with their nine-to-fives. This is the heart of it. This is a tough pill to swallow. Take a look at all that is wrong now. They are hurting people on purpose.

Related, Part II: NYT wonders: Say, why aren't deep-blue states progressive Utopias?

Like Father, Like Son

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