Month: December 2019

A Gift for You (Again)

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(I wanted this scheduled for Tuesday, but I got distracted and wound up posting it today. I think I have deleted it. Now I can try again for Tuesday. I think.)

I like to post this at Christmastime every year, a kind of Christmas present to all of you out there. It doesn’t really have much to do with Christmas, beyond being Alice’s theme in 1951’s Scrooge, with Alistair Sim. If it seems familiar to you, that’s probably where you’ve heard it.

Anyway, as I work to trim our Christmas tree, here it is–My Love’s an Arbutus, sung by the Fairhaven Singers. Merry Christmas, everybody.

They Just Won’t Leave Us Alone

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It’s urban! It’s energy efficient! Wretchedness is good for you!

(I didn’t want to cover any nooze today, I just want to trim my tree and listen to some Christmas music, and have my cigar–but wherever you turn, these days, there’s a Democrat trying to crawl up your pants and bite you.)

Well, Virginia, pat yourself on the back! You asked for a Democrat government, and now you’ve got one–complete with “live birth abortion” (once known as premeditated murder), confiscation of law-abiding persons’ means of self-defense–and now they’re coming for your zoning.

Yep! According to some guy from the Muslim Brotherhood who’s now a big cheese in the Virginia legislature, single-family homes are out–the state will override municipal zoning laws to create a big fat urban mess (https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/23/virginia-house-zoning-environment/).

The big story in New Jersey in the 1970s, the story that I cut my teeth on as a reporter, was the state’s desire to impose multi-family housing on suburban townships. Ironically, most of those were Democrat towns, whose local officials fought tooth and nail to preserve their communities. The only thing that’s changed is, now it’s Democrats trying to wipe out the suburbs.

But Delegate Ibrahim Whatsit says, “The more dense a neighborhood is, the more energy efficient it is.” And also “suburbs are bastions of racial segregation.” And Israel is worse than the KKK–yeah, he’s said that, too.

And once again, just as it was in New Jersey in 1974, the buzzword is “affordable housing.” That’s a laugh. Go ahead, I dare you–find some “affordable housing” in New Jersey. Even as they tear down the real houses and replace them with multifamily rabbit hutches, there is no such thing.

They’ve even got a nice dishonest euphemism for their little scheme: “upzoning.” Now doesn’t that sound pleasant?

Hey, everybody! If you want to live in the kind of hell-hole featured in The Hunger Games, just keep on electing Democrats.

Wait’ll they start ordering the National Guard to grab people’s guns. That’s going to be lively!

‘Borrow “The Borrowers”‘ (2013)

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If you sometimes buy presents for your loved ones right after Christmas–usually because events conspired to make you late!–this series of young readers’ books might be just the ticket.

Borrow ‘The Borrowers’

The Borrowers and its sequels, by Mary Norton, is a treat for any reader, young or old or in-between, whose imagination hasn’t ossified.

Now, at last, you’ll understand what happened to all those little green army men who went missing from your toy-box, way back when.

By Request, ‘The Holly and the Ivy’ (Traditional)

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TheWhiteRabbit asked for a traditional version of this hymn, and this is about as traditional as it gets–The Holly and the Ivy, performed by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.

Cats & Christmas Trees: The Disaster Movie

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We put up our Christmas tree today (to be decorated tomorrow), and it turned out to be a hard job because the trunk and the tree-stand were only marginally compatible. But we managed it in the end–and then the cats came and slept peacefully under it. They love to sleep under our Christmas tree. They have never attempted to climb one. Never. Gold stars for them.

Handy Hint for When Cats Get Bodacious with the Christmas Tree: a couple of marbles (or quarters) in a tin can, shaken at the right moment, will deter cats from getting out of hand vis-a-vis the tree. We had to do that for Buster’s first Christmas, but he learned his lesson and was a good boy from then on.

By Request, ‘Beautiful Star of Bethlehem’

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Requested by Erlene–Beautiful Star of Bethlehem, sung by Ben Speer, with the Gaither group.

Now all I have to do is clean the cat boxes, vacuum the living room, and set up our tree. But we won’t trim it till tomorrow.

By Request, ‘Angels We Have Heard on High’

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Yeesh, am I busy today! But not too busy to post this Christmas hymn request by Joshua–Angels We Have Heard on High, sung by Fernando Ortega… with a really long “Glooooooria”!

‘Silent Night’ (Andre Reiu)

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Whenever I went to see my aunts at Christmastime, I’d find them watching this man on TV–Andre Reiu, with his orchestra, with Christmas carols. Here, Silent Night.

I do find it hard to separate the music from my memories of loved ones who loved this music. But every good thing we have ever known is the gift of God, and Christmas is a good time to remember that.

He’s Crazy, Too

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An experiment to see if it’s possible to embarrass Obama. Well, if Mayor Pete can’t do it, nobody can.

Democrat presidential candidates scare me. They should scare you, too.

Now it’s Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s turn in the straitjacket. He wants to pay “reparations” to illegal aliens (https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/12/19/buttigieg-commits-to-reparations-for-illegal-aliens-not-for-african-americans/)–to make up for all that stress we caused them, trying to enforce our country’s immigration laws. It’s not nice to inconvenience people whose only crime was to commit a crime.

Oh! And the “reparations” will come complete with a “fast track to U.S. citizenship,” says the jidrool who is mayor of some madhouse in Indiana. Lavishly reward those who break our laws!

He’s not sure, though, about doling out “reparations” to the descendants of slaves, five generations after slavery was abolished in America.

I’m still waiting for my free money. The Romans enslaved my ancestors. I should get free money for that. Money that somebody else had to work for.

Money that some Far Left Crazy politician is only too eager to give away. Someone else’s money. It’s always someone else’s money.

Democrat candidates for president: they’re all flaming crazy.

He’s Crazy

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Joe Biden wants to be president. That’s not news. But what if he were president?

Well, sez Joe, that would give him the opportunity to knock out Climate Change! And fundamentally transform America! And would you do that, he was asked, if it would cost American workers hundreds of thousands of jobs?

“The answer is yes,” he said (https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/12/20/biden-admits-hes-willing-to-scrap-hundreds-of-thousands-of-blue-collar-jobs-for-greener-economy-866462). I can see the campaign slogan now: “Vote for me, and your job is history.” Yeah, chuckles–run on that.

But not to worry! Getting kicked out of their crummy blue-collar jobs, the Democrat presidential wannabe explained, will give all these poor sods “the opportunity to transition to high-paying jobs.” Bank president, rock star, oil sheik…

Uh… Why don’t they just “transition” to those high-paying jobs now, instead of waiting for some lunatic in the White House to destroy the industries in which they’re currently employed?

See, we gotta Transform Our Economy and Our Whole Way of Life to make it “greener”–as defined by the same Democrat Party that never saw a patch of ground they didn’t try to pave over. You think the Democrat Party is green? Come on over to New Jersey and take a look around; see what they’ve done to us.

Government never made any nation rich. But it has made many nations poor.