Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus

By William Teach December 25, 2025 – 7:00 am

Every Christmas, once everyone is up, Christmas greetings were made, hugs were exchanged, the presents were opened, and breakfast was being made, I would read this first in the paper (ye olde parental units get an actual paper, and they live in NJ). It is a Christmas classic that has always touched my soul. While some people outside of the Tri-State area have heard of it, rarely do papers outside of the NY-NJ-Conn area see it in print, and I always direct them to read it online. Especially since we keep getting news pieces as to whether or not we should be telling kids the truth about Santa (we shouldn’t. Let them be kids). I humbly bring it to you, and hope it touches you as much as it touches me:

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, If you see it in The Sun, it’s so. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

And a Merry Christmas from deep down in my heart to all my friends and visitors out there.

If you would like to know the background on the letter, you can go to the 2004 posting of this.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

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That’s What Christmas Is All About, Charlie Brown

By William Teach December 24, 2025 – 7:32 pm

I find it wild that I was one of the first to upload this to the old MSN videos when it was competing with Youtube, and to Youtube (2/23/06, 1:52 long), and a lot of these are copied from my upload, but, Youtube wacked my upload :). Oh, well, at least it is out there for people to see, and that’s what really matters.

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UK Seems Surprised Over Resurgence Of Islamic State

By William Teach December 24, 2025 – 3:18 pm

Hey, maybe it was a bad idea to let all these jihadis into the UK?

Two men found guilty of UK plot to kill hundreds of Jews as IS fears grow

Two men were found guilty on Tuesday of plotting to kill hundreds in an Islamic State-inspired gun rampage against the Jewish community in England, a planned attack investigators say demonstrates the resurgent risk posed by the militant group.

Police and prosecutors said Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, who went on ?trial a week after an unrelated deadly attack on a synagogue in the nearby northwest city of Manchester in October, were Islamic extremists who wanted to use automatic firearms to kill as ?many Jews as they could.

Had their plans come to fruition, it would have resulted in “one of, if not the, deadliest terrorist attack in UK history”, said Assistant Chief Constable Robert Potts, in charge of Counter-Terrorism Policing in northwest England. (snip)

While not posing the same threat of a decade ago when Islamic State controlled vast areas of Iraq and Syria, European security officials caution that IS and affiliated al Qaeda groups are once again looking to export violence abroad, radicalising would-be attackers online.

“You can see signs of some of those terrorism threats starting to grow again and starting to escalate,” British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said last week.

The UK consistently lets in unvetted Islamists, and has for decades, even after the 7/7 bombing

Ken McCallum, head of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5, said in October that his service and the police had thwarted 19 late-stage attack plots since the start of 2020, ?and intervened to counter many hundreds of other terrorism threats.

But, will the government do anything at all, or, continue to arrest British citizens for mean tweets and flying the Union Jack?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 24, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a rising sea encroaching on the land which is turning to desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on stricter net zero targets for the UK.

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Important News: Excitable Adam Kinzinger Cancelled His Paramount Plus

By William Teach December 24, 2025 – 10:30 am

I had something else I was going to post, then ran across this

This is possibly the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time. A major Credentialed Media outlet’s reporter, Tara Suter, spent 9 paragraphs on this, and editor let it be published, when it deserves zero. And ends with

The Hill has reached out to Paramount for comment.

If Paramount was going to reply it would probably be along the lines of “who? Why do we give a shit?” Of course, reaching out these days means sending a tweet or a quick email, not actual journalistic work. Not that this deserved work. This is The Hill on TDS.

 

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St. Greta Arrested For Hanging With Terror Group In The UK

By William Teach December 24, 2025 – 7:15 am

For being so against fossil fuels St. Greta sure does travel around a lot

Greta Thunberg Arrested in London While Supporting Palestine Action Terror Group

st greta carProfessional protester Greta Thunberg was arrested Tuesday in Central London while part of a mass gathering backing the Palestine Action terrorist group.

The 22-year-old Swede was detained as she expressed support for the proscribed organization.

In a video shared by the Prisoners for Palestine protest group, Thunberg can be seen holding a sign reading “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide” at the demonstration outside the central London offices of Aspen Insurance.

Two activists sprayed red paint over the front of the building before police arrived and made arrests.

Prisoners for Palestine said its protest had targeted the offices of Aspen Insurance because the company provided services to Israeli-linked defence firm Elbit Systems UK.

The climate cult basically embraced a Jew hater

Thunberg also joined a pro-Palestinian protest in central London last night where she was seen shouting “we support the hunger strikers.”

She said in a video posted on her Instagram: “We are witnessing with pure and utter disgust how the UK government is handling this situation.”

Why is this her business? She’s not a British citizen, yet, she took what had to be a fossil fueled trip to the UK.

Maybe it was a bad idea for the UK to continue to bring jihadis into the UK, particularly after the 7/7 attack, turning the nation into a hotbed of Islamic extremism

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Bummer: “Immigrants” Have Fewer Legal Options To Not Get Repatriated

By William Teach December 24, 2025 – 7:00 am

America has always been generous. Should we be taking in every 3rd worlder who refuses to assimilate, lives off government programs, and demands America change for them?

Immigrants now have fewer legal options to stay in the U.S. under Trump

More than 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status in the first 11 months of President Trump’s presidency. The staggering number includes people who applied for and were accepted to come to the country on a wide variety of immigration parole, visa, asylum and temporary protected status programs. That number exceeds Philadelphia’s entire population.

This is the largest effort to take away deportation protections for migrants who are in the country legally. Immigration advocates say it’s very likely an undercount.

“These were legal pathways. People did the thing the government asked them to do, and this government went and preemptively revoked that status,” said Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, an immigration advocacy organization that has been tracking the efforts to delegalize immigrants.

Yeah, they falsely claimed asylum. Here on TEMPORARY status. Visa holders calling for the eradication of Israel and Jews.

Many of the immigrants who lost legal status have been in the country for years. Now, they fear what could happen should their immigration cases not process quickly enough. The administration has encouraged immigrants to leave the country as it gets rid of their legal authorization.

Mostly illegals for whom previous admins unlawfully gave them parole, or just ignored them being here illegally.

“The Trump administration has done more to limit migration, both illegal and legal, than any administration in history,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said during a press conference this fall. She touted all the ways the administration has cut off these avenues, including by pausing and revoking visas.

“Having a visa in the United States is not a right. It is a privilege and the secretary of state — if you are deemed contrary to our country’s foreign national interests — has the right to revoke that privilege.”

Exactly, so, keep crying, NPR

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President Of Ireland Calls For Unity For Christmas

By William Teach December 23, 2025 – 5:48 pm

There is, of a course, a climate scam component, but, this is really about telling those citizens of Ireland to simply accept the people from 3rd world shitholes and jihadis who are erasing Irish culture

President Connolly calls for kindness in first Christmas message

President of Ireland Catherine Connolly has used her first Christmas message to encourage people to reflect “on the values that truly matter: kindness, tolerance, respect for each other’s differences, and to reflect on how we may nurture our shared humanity”.

In an address delivered in both Irish and English, the President said Christmas was a time of goodwill and hope, as well as an opportunity to look ahead to a new year filled with possibility.

Referring to the winter solstice, she noted that while this period marks the darkest days of the year, it also signals the gradual return of light – a reminder, she said, that better days lie ahead even in difficult times.

“Christmas invites us to reflect on the values that truly matter; kindness, tolerance, respect for each other’s differences, and to reflect on how we may nurture our shared humanity,” she said.

She said her thoughts were with the millions of people around the world affected by climate change, war, conflict and displacement, with particular mention of those suffering in Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan.

How about her thoughts being with the citizens of Ireland who have to deal with the immigrants/refugees/fake asylum seekers, who rape Irish lasses, create no go zones and crime, who fly their own flags and want the Irish flags taken down? Do they count? How about all the money being spent to support the invaders?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 23, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible gas powered fireplace, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is bluebird of bitterness, with a post on holiday chuckles.

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Bummer: Trump Admin Halts 5 Offshore Wind Turbine Projects

By William Teach December 23, 2025 – 10:30 am

I wonder how much money the Congress critters who are tweeting about this have invested and are making off the projects, like

From the link

The Trump administration on Monday said it would pause leases for five wind farms under construction off the East Coast, essentially gutting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry in a sharp escalation of President Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.

The decision injected uncertainty into $25 billion worth of projects that were collectively expected to power more than 2.5 million homes and businesses across the Eastern United States, according to Turn Forward, an offshore wind advocacy group. The five wind farms were projected together to create about 10,000 jobs.

It left intact just two operational wind farms in U.S. coastal waters — one small project off Rhode Island that has been complete since 2016 and a larger project off New York that has been fully operational since 2023.

The five wind farms targeted on Monday had all obtained leases from the Biden administration. But citing unspecified national security concerns, the Trump administration said it would freeze those leases, effectively blocking construction or operations and jeopardizing billions of dollars that have already been invested.

I love the video of the turbines, which were not turning, meaning they provide no power.

Anyhow, every single one of these projects has lots people in those areas who were dead set against the projects, from fisherman to people who live there to people who are going to have to deal with the unreliable, undependable, and more expensive electricity. Turbines which can easily be damaged by enemies of the U.S. They don’t even have to totally destroy them to disable them. Seems like a weak excuse using “national security,”, though, if I’m being honest. Really, they should just let the projects go forward, and without federal money, let the residents in these Dem voting states deal with the fallout.

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