Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup – Christmas 2016 Edition

By William Teach December 25, 2016 – 10:41 am

JR Thompson patriotic pinup

Happy Christmas Sunday! It is a gorgeous day to celebrate with friends and family. This pinup is by JR Thompson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Basil’s Blog is all about Christmas
  2. Political Clown Parade discusses no mice stirring
  3. Raised On Hoecakes notes silent nights
  4. The First Street Journal covers Christmas
  5. The Other McCain has a very McTrump Christmas
  6. This ain’t Hell… has the perfect stocking stuffers for liberals
  7. Proof Positive has a PC Christmas carol
  8. Neo Neocon has the Blogger’s night before Christmas
  9. Moonbattery has Prince Charles’ Islamist Christmas message
  10. Legal Insurrection has the ultimate Christmas flash mob video
  11. GeeeZ is all about Christmas
  12. Fausta’s Blog has a beautiful Christmas concert
  13. Evil Blogger Lady reminds us what happened on Christmas in 1776
  14. Bizzy Blog has Cloverton’s Christmas version of Hallelujah
  15. And last, but not least, Virtual Mirage has thoughts on Christmas

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus

By William Teach December 25, 2016 – 7:34 am

Every Christmas, once everyone is up, Christmas greetings are made, hugs are exchanged, the presents are opened, and breakfast is being made, I 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. 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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What Christmas Is All About

By William Teach December 24, 2016 – 8:30 pm

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Sore Loser Symphony: Donald Trump Is Ruining Christmas

By William Teach December 24, 2016 – 4:20 pm

You just had to know that someone was going to go there, right? In this case it is Shikha Dalmia at The Week

Donald Trump is ruining Christmas

I am a Hindu, my husband a Jew. So which religious holiday do we celebrate? Why, Christmas, of course!

Every year, we get the obligatory tree and open presents while sipping eggnog and listening to Nat King Cole’s Christmas album. Later in the day, we bake shortbread cookies with our (Christian) friends and dine over lamb rogan josh and pulao. In short, we may not celebrate this national holiday in a traditional American way (whatever that means), but we have no trouble doing so, much less saying Merry Christmas.

But in Donald Trump’s America, millions of Americans like us who have embraced Christmas voluntarily will become involuntary recruits in his War for Christmas. In the long run that won’t save the holiday, it will doom it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 24, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise up and swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on George Jetson’s job.

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‘Climate Change’ Will Ruin White Christmas’ In The Future Or Something

By William Teach December 24, 2016 – 8:27 am

Everything is proceeding as normal, but, doom will soon arrive!

(Seeker) As the calendar works toward Christmas Day, an annual question returns: “Will there be a White Christmas?”

In some parts of the U.S., a white Christmas is expected, while in others, it is unheard of. The white areas on the map below indicate the historical chances of a white Christmas, based on the National Centers for Environmental Information climate data from 1981-2010. In this case, a white Christmas is defined as having one inch of snow on the ground on Christmas Day. (snip)

A look at the current snow cover map in the U.S. is actually pretty similar to the historical probability map, with snow (or no snow) in most locations you would expect for this time of year. There are some subtle differences, however, with snow currently covering most of the Dakotas, Michigan, and New York, areas that are usually far from guaranteed to have a white Christmas.

So, sounds normal.

Climate change could wash out white Christmas in areas where they’re already unlikely. Rising temperatures are ensuring that more winter precipitation is falling as rain in many locations across the U.S.

A Climate Central analysis of 65 years of winter precipitation data from more than 2,000 weather stations in 42 states, found a decrease in the percent of precipitation falling as snow in winter months for every region of the country.

Here’s the thing: it doesn’t make it anthropogenic. In fact, there is absolutely nothing unusual from previous Holocene warm periods.

That means that while white Christmases will not disappear in the near future, it is likely they will become less common in places that have become accustomed to them in years past.

“Likely.” It’s always about the future doom.

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Trump: Berlin Attack A “Purely Religious Threat”

By William Teach December 24, 2016 – 8:02 am

This will surely cause many liberals to feel the Wedgie Of Doom and stain their panty shields. Liberals women will probably be rather upset, as well

(The Hill) President-elect Donald Trump is tweeting about the Berlin Christmas market attack, arguing it represented a “purely religious threat.”

Twelve people were killed and 48 were injured when a man drove a truck into a crowded outdoor market on Monday. A 24-year-old suspect from Tunisia, Anis Amri, was killed Friday morning by police in Milan after he drew a weapon when approached by police.

Amri appeared to have posted a video prior to the attack on social media in which he talked about slaughtering crusaders who had come to kill Muslims.

“My message to the crusaders who bombard Muslims every day: With God’s will, I swear we’re coming to slaughter you, you pigs,” Amri sais in the message, which Trump referenced in his Friday evening tweets.

Trump tweeted out in a 2 parter (here and here)

“The terrorist who killed so many people in Germany said just before crime, ‘by God’s will we will slaughter you pigs, I swear, we will….. slaughter you. This is a purely religious threat, which turned into reality. Such hatred! When will the U.S. and all countries, fight back?” Trump tweeted.

On one hand, he is utterly correct. This is a religious threat from the hardcore Muslims, both the violent ones and the ones using our own modern societies, mores, laws, and founding documents against us.

On the other hand, Trump needs to be really careful to make sure he confines his remarks to those who are the hardcores, the Islamists, and not to drag in those who are not part of that movement. You want these people as allies, not radicalizing themselves.

Anyhow, what this means is that liberals will…..attack Trump and defend hardcore Islam, as you can read in the comments. Interestingly, radical Islam kills more Muslims than non-Muslims. It has a horrible record in the treatment of gays and women. Children are married off to middle aged men. The Islamists stand against virtually everything Leftists stand for. Yet, Leftists bend over backwards to defend radical Islam.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Question On Buying A Computer From You Smart People

By William Teach December 23, 2016 – 7:38 pm

It’s been awhile since I’ve purchased a laptop. My Samsung lasted 6 years before the hard drive died. I’m still pretty tech savvy, but, thought I would ask you smart people what you think.

I’m looking at 3 laptops, but, the primary two are the HP Envy X360 at Best Buy and the HP Pavilion 15Z at CostCo. The first is $670 and the latter is $649.

The X360 has an AMD FX 9800, running at 2.7ghz. The 15z runs an AMD A9-9410 at 2.9ghz.

Graphics card slightly faster on the X360. Both have 1Tb memory. Both have 15.6″ screen. Both have lighted keyboards. Same screen resolution. Both touch screen. Both quad core. Same 2gb cache. Most things are pretty similar.

Here’s where they diverge. The X360 has 8gb of ram, no DVD player, no ethernet port, and has a 7200rpm hard drive, so that HD is fast. It is also a 2 in 1, so the screen folds all the way back. Nice, but does mean that the screen wobbles a little when you move it. Keys are soft.

The 15z has 16gb of ram, DVD burner (cannot find if it is dual layer), ethernet port, and the HD is 5400rpm.

Kinda leaning towards the X360, because, while less ram (and not upgradable), that hard drive blazes. I do have an external DVD burner which can be used for installing programs (have a couple that require this), and can always get both a dual layer dvd burner and an ethernet to USB adaptor, both cheap.

What are your thoughts? Of course, it also depends on whether Costco actually has it in stock.

BTW, I prefer HP’s over Dells and Lenovos, of which can get some pretty good ones from $500 to $700. I like where HP puts the US on the right side, high near screen, due to using a mouse so close to the laptop.  Sadly, Samsungs are expensive and hard to get. I will not purchase without touching and playing.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 23, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…are trees dying from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post wondering if California will attempt to ban all semi-automatic rifles.

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It Snowed In The Sahara: Can You Guess What’s At Fault?

By William Teach December 23, 2016 – 11:38 am

It’s you for your poor choice in wrapping paper and planning on serving meat at Christmas dinner. You had to know someone would do this, right?

Climate change: For the first time in 37 years, snow in the Sahara

In 1984, charitable supergroup Band Aid sang, ‘And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time’.

Had it been this year, they’d have got it wrong — on December 19, a freak snow shower coated the dusty red dunes of Aïn Séfra, Algeria’s ‘Gateway to the Desert’.

The snow — the result of a combination of atmospheric factors — stayed for about a day before melting.

The Washington Post reported that a weather map analysis from the day of the snowfall shows that temperatures in the area, at the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, were about 10 to 15 degrees colder than normal when the event occurred. Also, a very strong patch of low pressure had been created at a high altitude, which rapidly sucked up air and cooled it, creating conditions for the extremely rare snowfall.

Seriously. They’re blaming this on ‘climate change.’ Snow.  These people are nuts.

Rather pretty, eh?

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