Shamelessly stolen from HackWhackers.
Watch what happens on the evening news when the sports guy is drafted into reporting the weather:
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac gets creative and rewrites A Christmas Carol.
What the Dickens! Oh, come on. I’m old.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara makes the case that non-Christians should feel okay celebrating a secular Christmas.
On those occasions when Michael is right, he sometimes demonstrates a talent for stating the obvious.
Still there is a bit of history on how December was selected.
Key cliché:
Being a national legal holiday, Christmas can have non-religious, non-Christian meaning just as validly as a Christian meaning. It’s a matter of individual preference. Otherwise, what’s the point of freedom of conscience?
- At The Moderate Voice retired U.S. Air Force Officer Dorian de Wind sees Hanukkah through the lens of 80 years ago, when Hitler’s Nazis chose that annual celebration of Passover for the Eight Days of Auschwitz.
Key quote from a Holocaust survivor:So the Germans made a Hanukkah celebration: on the poles of the barracks, the outside poles, they hung up the prisoners who were chosen to be one of the ten, of the tens, on their feet, head down. We had to pour oil on them, and they had a bonfire, and we had to sing Christmas songs. “Heilige Nacht” [“Silent Night”], I mean, we, they, we had to sing the songs while our brothers, our fathers, our, our cousins were burning.
- Nan’s Notebook does her homework and, I think, is largely correct on how Paul, the Apostle formerly known as Saul, changed the course of Christian history.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has a thought about hope when it is less illusory, more realistic.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce attends the funeral of his mother-in-law, watches, listens, and becomes justifiably confrontational with the pastor.
- Scotties Playtime relays a story taking place at Monday’s White House Hanukkah party. A little girl interrupts as the closing music plays for Biden’s speech. Her question, and Biden’s answer, are both worth reading about.
- YellowDog Granny has some very good reasons for liking Nancy Pelosi.
- Vagabond Scholar contrasts the brightest ideals at the core of our Republic with the path chosen by one of our two political parties, and concludes that Donald Trump is not an aberration.
- Presumably after considering fund raising alternatives, Green Eagle is offering one of the most valuable collectible items in history:
Green Eagle Trading Cards. Samples are wonderful!!
- Dave Columbo is inspired by a Trading Card to put Donald Trump and the Trumpettes into DC Comics
@davecolumbo #henrycavill #superman #dc #dccomics #comics #comicbooks #superhero ♬ original sound – Dave Columbo - tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors provides ringside commentary as Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene continue their wonderful boxing match.
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