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HO HO HO!

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For this year’s annual Christmas music extravaganza, I’m going minimalist with two tunes we’ve seen here before, and another which I think is one of the all-time greats.

Another old favorite:

And now, a gorgeous song from what some might consider an unlikely source:

That’s a piano-four-hands version of a little ditty from the Rankin-Bass classic TV special Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Personally, I’ve always liked Rudolph way better than any of the other holiday TV specials—yes, including the Grinch and Charlie Brown both, good as they surely are—and the music therein is nothing short of amazing.

This song in particular is a real grabber, what with the intoxicating waltz tempo, the lilting, unforgettable melody, and the note-perfect bridge section tying everything together with a neat little Christmas bow.  Throw in Yukon Cornelius, the Bumble, Hermy the elf (“A DENTIST?!?”), Sam the Snowman, Comet the Reindeer Games coach, and the rest, and there’s certainly one heck of a lot to like about this one.

 

Update! Leave it to those zany guys at the Bee.

Sure, why the hell not. Wouldn’t be the most bizarre news item we’ve seen this past year, now would it?

3rd Quarter Growth – 4.3% “Unexpected”

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Not unexpected by me or other people that do not suffer Trump derangement. Trump did it in his first term but it took longer.

It is why they released the virus along with their psyops – they had to shut down the economic progress before the American people realized how easy it was to have a robust wealth producing economic system in the USA. The other benefits (to them) were extra but planned. #1 was stop the economy.

Now it’s back. The plan has always been – grow your way out of the trouble created by every past administration since Ike. And it is working.

Unexpected only by those ignorant enough to believe the business school propaganda. The WSJ propaganda. The Chamber of Commerce propaganda. The democrat party propaganda. And the republican in name only propaganda.

It’s always enlightening to me to discover there are many that do understand it and expected it. I’m not alone.

One year in and the result is 4.3%. I expect to break 5 next year and 6 the year after if the American people just stay the course.

US Economy Grows Like Barry* Expected

*and many others, like Kenny

UPDATE:
America rises, Chinese growth stunted, under 3% – Thanks President Trump!

Notable anniversary

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Nobody seems to know exactly on which date Ludwig Van Beethoven’s birthday falls, but what is known is that today, Decembef 17th, is the anniversary of his baptism. Which is all the excuse I need to run this.

Assuming I did that right, which I freely admit I may not have, the above vid should begin with the opening of the 2nd movement of my personal favorite of the Beethoven symphonies (ie, the oft-overlooked number 7), and carry on from there.

Just the 2nd and 3rd movements are my faves, I should say; the first movement is alright, I have no real gripe with it, but the 4th just leaves me altogether cold; for whatever reason, I just can’t get with it AT. ALL. Probably on account of I’m an idjit, I suppose.

Really, when it comes to the finales of Beethoven symphonies it’s pretty dang tough to top the triumphant, rousing finale of the famous 5th, sometimes spuriously referred to as the “Fate” Symphony*.

Yeeee-OOOWWWW! Man, music just does not GET any better than that, if you disagree, please keep it under your hat or I cannot be your friend anymore.

* It has been claimed that Beethoven said of the stirring “ dit-dit-dit-DAAAH” riff which opens the Fifth, “Thus Fate knocks at the door.” Hence, the “Fate” Symphony. This tale is almost certainly apocryphal, however; the most credible explanation of it I ever read was that the “Fate” moniker was actually coined by his secretary/publicist, who put it about to generate some extra buzz for his boss’s latest masterwork.

A bargain at any price

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Reminds me of the dialogue between H.I. and Glen in Raising Arizona:

“It’s a crazy world.”

“Somebody oughta sell tickets.”

“I’d buy one.”

Merch commemorating drunk Virginia raccoon raises over $250,000 for animal shelter
Merchandise commemorating the raccoon that gained international fame by barging into a Virginia liquor store, smashing bottled spirits and passing out drunk in a bathroom on Black Friday has raised more than a quarter-million dollars for the local animal shelter where he slept off his bender.

The Hanover county animal protection shelter raised the charitable amount after caring for the inebriated raccoon in question and teaming up with custom apparel maker Bonfire to create and sell items seizing on the internet virality achieved by the creature.

Emblazoned with the words “Trashed Panda”, the shirts, sweatshirts, cups and stickers contain an image of a raccoon spread-eagle next to a spilled booze bottle – unmistakably evoking the compromising position the animal that burgled the Ashland ABC store on 29 November was found and photographed in.

Proceeds from the campaign anchored by those limited edition items “directly support shelter animal care and enrichment”, according to Bonfire’s website.

An ABC store employee found what Bonfire’s website referred to as “our unexpected raccoon celebrity” next to a toilet the day after Thanksgiving. Shattered whiskey bottles littered the path to the bathroom, and the raccoon was evidently inebriated when it was photographed for posterity’s sake.

The animal was uninjured beyond possibly grappling with hangover symptoms and regret over “poor life choices”, said officials at the shelter where the raccoon was brought to proverbially dry out.

A fine sense of humor, these animal-shelter employees have. I hope they make a gazillion dollars off this merchandise, they deserve it.

Trump nails it…AGAIN

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The Truth-Teller-In-Chief.

President Trump on Sunday said he meant every word of his Thanksgiving attack on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that he stands by calling the Democrat “retarded” and adding, “Yeah, I think there’s something wrong with him,” when asked whether he wanted to revise the remark. Trump pointed directly to Walz’s record as the reason for his choice of words, arguing that no responsible governor would preside over the kind of refugee policies that have transformed Minnesota in the way he described. “Anybody that would allow those people into a state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia,” Trump said, before launching into a broader criticism of Somalia itself. He told reporters the country “has a name, but it doesn’t function like a country,” and said Walz’s approach to migration shows “there’s something wrong” with his leadership, not Trump’s assessment of it.

The controversy stemmed from Trump’s Thanksgiving post on Truth Social, where he warned that America’s “refugee burden” has become a driving force behind what he called growing dysfunction in communities across the country. Minnesota, he argued, is the clearest example. In that message, Trump accused Walz of letting “hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia” take hold of the state, writing that organized gangs are “roving the streets looking for ‘prey’ as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone.” He then blasted both Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, calling Walz “seriously retarded” for doing “nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both,” and accusing Omar of entering the country under a fraudulent family arrangement — a long-running allegation she insists is false but has never fully put to rest. Trump described her as someone who “complains about our country” while coming from what he called a “decadent, backward, and crime-ridden” place that “is essentially not even a country.”

Yeeee-OWTCH! Poor Tampon Timmeh, the Minnesota Doughboy™, had to have felt that stinging bitch-slap from halfway across the damn country.

Yep, Ye Aulde Bloggehoste is a bleedin’ idjit

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AWFL Karen=Dolores Umbridge.


Ya hit the nail right square on the head with this one, Frank. As big a Potter fan as I am, still that connection had somehow escaped my notice until just now.

Update! A commenter makes anoher clear connection.


Annnnd ANOTHER nice catch.


S’truth.

Dolly dishes

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TMI? Or no? Inquiring minds want to know.

Dolly’s Holiday Message Amid Health Battle — and One Actor’s Sweet Story About Her
Back in September, national treasure Dolly Parton announced that she was postponing some of her upcoming shows in Las Vegas to September 2026 because she was dealing with some health challenges and had to have “a few procedures.” She wrote the following in a letter to her fans:

…While that sounded better than what many fans first believed, there are still a lot of worried people out there. Ms. Parton will be 80 in January after all. We simply don’t want to lose her. Well, she took to social media again on Thursday to let us all know she’s still hanging in there and wished us all a “Happy Thanksgiving.” How we come to the truly juicy stuff. In a manner of speaking. In the meantime, an X user told actor James Woods that she’d recently watched an interview with Dolly, during which she said that love scenes in movies always made her nervous, but that Woods was, by far, the best kisser of all the leading men she’d worked with over the years.

Dolly’s fulsome praise got a rise out of Woods:


Is there more, you ask? Why yes, there is.

I actually managed to track down that interview with Jay Leno from years ago. “You wouldn’t believe how James Woods can kiss — in fact, I tell him every time I see him, ‘You want to kiss? You want to do another…I bet he’s a great lover, too,” Dolly said with a laugh.

Dolly also mentioned Sylvester Stallone being pretty good at this particular part of his craft, but she had something else to say about Burt Reynolds. She said that when they filmed The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Reynolds had to dye his mustache black because it’d actually already turned gray by that point. “Every time I kissed him, I’d just have all black around my face,” she chuckled.

Okay, I don’t give a fig who you are or what your opinion of Dolly Parton might be, that’s some funny-ass shit right there.

WRECKED ’em

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What Coleman said.


PREACH it, bruh.

Off with their masks!

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Forcibly, violently, and painfully, thanks to the great and powerful Wizard of Oz Musk.

Elon Musk’s zeal for truth reveals the online frauds aiming to divide us
On Friday Elon Musk, having figured out that a lot of influential X accounts weren’t what they claimed to be, activated an X feature showing where users were actually posting from — and uncovered (at least) a million lies.

Turns out a lot of users claiming to be disillusioned Trump voters, or anti-Israel Americans, are actually foreign frauds.

Like the one that posted: “Trump is Israel First. I’m done with MAGA. I hope Republicans lose.”

Americans turning on Trump over Israel?

Nope. The account was based in Turkey.

Likewise the woke-right “groyper” movement supposedly elevating white supremacist Nick Fuentes seems to be largely a foreign sham, and “Ron Smith, MAGA Hunter,” a prolific anti-Trump poster with a substantial following, turns out to be from Kenya.

Many users billing themselves as “Native American” with accounts specializing in divisive racial attacks on white people are actually foreign, and mostly from Bangladesh.

And so on, and so on.

Awful lot of jihadi weird-beards skulking behind those online guises, same-same with the ostensible Paleosimians whining about being the victims of “genocide” in Gaza from their homes in Turkey, Kenya, or Poland. Crack on Netanyahu, Israel, and (((***Dem JooJooJooJOOOOOOZ!!!***))) all you like, but don’t go acting all shocked and butthurt to learn that the people you’re associating yourself with online ain’t necessarily the people you think they are.

Kudos to Elon for yanking the rug right out from under certain unworthy, deceitful frauds, thereby prompting plenty of long-overdue attitude adjustment into the bargain. Kinda pathetic that so many of us so badly needed reminding of the most basic rule of online existence: Nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, is as it seems here. On the Innarnuts you either take absolutely everything with a YUUUGE grain of salt, or you just aint tall enough for this ride yet, kid.

The perfect response

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Another “politics as usual” story I wouldn’t ordinarily give a fiddler’s fuck about, except for this one beautiful thing.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared on CNBC on Friday, expecting another friendly segment where he could blame Republicans for everything under the sun without being challenged. Instead, he ran into Rebecca Quick, who did something that clearly stunned him: she asked real questions, pressed him for real answers, and refused to let him filibuster with recycled talking points. What followed was a live, televised meltdown that revealed just how much Jeffries depends on compliant hosts to keep his political theater afloat.

Quick opened with a straightforward point: If Democrats claim they want to avoid the expiration of key Obamacare subsidies, they need Republican votes. So why not start with something achievable?

“If this is something that you want to satiate, if you want to get done, you are going to need at least some Republicans to come over,” she said. “Why not start with a one-year extension or potentially even a two-year extension?”

Jeffries immediately shifted into campaign mode. He declared, “Leader Schumer offered a one-year extension in the context of trying to end the Trump Republican [sic] shutdown.” He went straight to the past, ignoring the question. Quick stopped him.

“That’s different. I’m talking about what you have now,” she said. “Let’s not go back to what’s done in the past and what has not been extended.”

Jeffries started getting irritated at this point. “You can ask me the question. I’ll provide the answer,” he snapped.

Quick didn’t flinch. “Answer the question instead of going back.”

The dodging, weaving, and dissembling continues from there, until finally Ms Quick’s patience is so thoroughly exhausted by the ongoing barrage of ever-less-persuasive weasel words that she can no longer contain her exasperation, culminating in what would have to be one of the finest moments in the history of journalisming.


Heh. If I was a MSM reporter/anchor/newsreaderperson, the network would can me after my second day on the job, citing my inability to stop pulling that same face throughout the broadcast as justification. There would almost certainly be some girlish giggling involved as well, which wouldn’t help me any.

Say, did somebody mention a work-around just a little while ago?

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Why yes, I do believe somebody did at that.

Lakeside Joe elaborates.

Although you can buy fireworks in the state, they’re not actually legal here. Indeed, The Tampa Tribune in 2014 called fireworks sales in Florida an “institutionalized charade,” leading one lawmaker to call for “more freedom (and) less fraud.”

The whole FUSA could use a hell of a lot more “lawmakers” like that guy, seems to me. If we’d had ‘em all along, from sea to shining sea, it’s a lead-pipe cinch we wouldnt be in the godawful mess we’re in now.

Retail sales are allowed only because of a 60-year-old loophole in the law, the only known one of its kind in the country. That allows “fireworks … to be used solely and exclusively in frightening birds from agricultural works and fish hatcheries.” Indeed, anyone who’s bought fireworks from a roadside tent over the years may remember signing a form acknowledging the buyer falls under an agricultural, fisheries or other exemption.
For the record, fireworks can also be used for “signal purposes or illumination” of a railroad or quarry, “for signal or ceremonial purposes in athletics or sports, or for use by military organizations.”

See what I mean? Now that there’s a GREAT workaround. As all such things should, it tells our would-be masters, in no uncertain terms: you go ahead and write your damned bills, pass ‘em, and pose for the press-gaggle cameras when the Gov signs them into law. Then the whole sorry lot of you can just sit back and watch as we all ignore the fucking things, you Big Government baglappers.

Funny, innit, how Texas keeps slip-sliding deeper and deeper into Progressivist/Mooselimb Perdition, while DeSantis’s Florida just goes from strength to strength to strength. As bastions of liberty go, Texas begins to seem mushy, unreliable, and dispirited, but the Great State of Florida looks more and more like a big upraised middle finger flourished all up in the grilll of Wokester Amerika in a show of defiance, doggedness, and direct challenge.

Grow Your Way Out of Debt – The Trump Plan

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Quarter 3 growth is 4.2%
It just keeps going up.
Private spending – private investment – not the damn government growing (gov is downsizing)

It is a big deal, one that is glossed over by the left, the “media”, and the rino republicans.

Real Private Sector Growth

Hat tip Instapundit

Also, from the comments, one by Kenny:
“Native-Born Workers Rise By 2 Million Under Trump To A New Record High, As Foreign-Born Plunge By 1.6 Million”

Native Born Workers Rise

It is a BIG DEAL. How often have we told you the plan is to increase growth and grow ourselves out of trouble and increasing personal wealth at the same time. Get the economy on track, then next eliminate institutional welfare…

Straight talk

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In case you’ve forgotten, this is what a heroine looks (and sounds) like.


PREACH it, baybee!

About. Fucking. TIME

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I checked, but could find no mention of the old Vichy GOPe “repeal AND REPLACE” subterfuge. Which I consider to be a very good thing

Yes! Trump Calls for Ending Obamacare
President Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday to lay out a blunt message for Senate Republicans: End Obamacare once and for all, and give the money straight back to the people.

As the government shutdown drags into its 38th day, Trump is pushing for a common-sense fix that bypasses the bureaucrats and delivers real results to Americans directly.

“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,” Trump wrote. “In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare.”

While details of the plan remain unclear, one thing is certain: Obamacare has been a disaster, and it’s time to do something about it.

Hey, anybody remember back when Obamacare was being pimped as the cure for all our healthcare ills? YOU know, when Obamacare was going to make health insurance affordable, readily available to all, and easily comprehensible to the ordinary Joe?

Everything would be simplified, streamlined, more cost-efficient and smooth-running than ever before. Patients, doctors, nurses, admins, assistants, every last man Jack of us would benefit enormously from the “fundamental transformation” of our creaky, dilapidated, antiquated system. For this beneficent retooling of a badly-broken system, every American would owe Bathhouse Barry a debt which could never be repaid. President Ogabe’s legacy would make Washington, Jefferson, and Adams look like pikers by comparison.

Yeah, about all that…

Our disdainful Lords and Masters admonished us from On High that we’d “have to pass it to find out what was in it,” but unfortunately, the bag we were left holding turned out to be yet another pig in a poke. All anybody’s talked about since the implementation of the Obamacare shit circus is the desperate need to “fix” the thing, which far as I’m concerned gives the game away. Trump has the right of it: dump the worthless boondoggle, let the market work its magic, and return health-care freedom of choice to We Duh Peepul.

Who knows, perhaps medical care and health insurance could even get back to being as reasonably-priced, the health-care labyrinth as readily navigable, as it was when I was a wee bairn (ie, twenty scoots per visit to the doctor’s office, payable via cash, personal check, or credit card), before boozehound Teddy Kennedy (D-Chappaquiddick) poked FederalGovCo’s big, fat nose into what had heretofore worked quite well as a private affair back in ’65, turning a health-care system that had been the envy of the world into the most unfunny joke of all time.

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