“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.”
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The United States Senate may consider competing bills on Obamacare this week. The Democrats are demanding that the emergency subsidies put in place during the former Current Unpleasantness be extended for 3 years, period. Republicans want to expand individual Health Savings Accounts, condition health funding on verifying U.S. citizenship of recipients, banning gender affirming care (i.e. genital mutilation surgery), and abortion. It is unlikely that either bill will survive a filibuster.
“You end up with what our Founding Fathers feared the most, which is that you have foreign immigrants who become advocates, not for this country, but the country that they left. So you see, throughout Somali politics in Minnesota is this constant concern about how to reorient U.S. politics around Somalia, and then using welfare fraud, pillaging the U.S. financial system to prop up a foreign country.”
–White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
The Federal Reserve Bank cut interest rates by a quarter point. Yawn.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld President Trump’s ban on “trans” members serving in the United States military services. Common sense prevails.
“If you look at the history, we demonstrated that we were not ready. These are incredible women who have run: Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and I think that we are getting there. That’s why we can’t afford to turn the clock back. We’ve taken one, two and three steps forward and let’s not take two, three and four steps backwards which is what we are doing in these elections.”
–Representative James Clyburn (D. S.C.), speaking on Meet The Press, advocating for the election of a woman President.
Please, please, please. Run Commiela again in 2028. You think she’s “incredible”? So do the American people. They think that she is “incredib[ly]” incompetent.
Representative Haley Stevens (D. Mi.) filed articles of impeachment against Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., because “he has turned his back on science”. HA! This from a woman who believes that a man can “transition” to a woman, and vice versa.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
–H. L. Mencken.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D.) has named Mysonne Linen to his transition team to advise on matters of public safety. Mysonne Linen is a former rapper who was recently released from prison, after serving 7 years on an armed robbery conviction.
Mr. Mamdani also announced that he would end Mayor Adams’s program of sweeping homeless encampments off the city’s streets and parks. Wonderful! The Observations hopes that the homeless gather en masse in front of Gracie Mansion, the Mayor’s official residence.
Democrat Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett (D. Tx.) says that she doesn’t care about Trump voters, and doesn’t need Trump voters to win the general election. Hmmm. Wanna bet?
Governor J. B. Pritzker (D. Il.) signed legislation aimed at preventing ICE enforcement actions at courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day care centers. It is stupid, anti-American, and unconstitutional. On issues of immigration, federal law remains supreme.
Kansas City, Missouri’s city manager has banned all references to Christmas in City Hall. No tree, no Nativity Scene, no angels, nothing. He said that Christmas imagery was “insufficiently inclusive”. Hmmm. So the only way you can be “inclusive” is to ban Christians?
As an aside, Kansas City typically permits Kwanzaa decorations. Kwanzaa is a fictional holiday. But since it has no connection to Christians, it is okey dokey.
Kent State University’s choir is restricting certain solo parts to people of color (colored people?); white singers need not apply. What could possibly justify such blatant racial discrimination? According to Kent State’s choir director, to permit a white singer to sing pieces historically performed by colored people would constitute “impermissible cultural misappropriation”. Sigh. What absolute horse hockey!
Our atheist friends at the Freedom From Religion Foundation have bullied an Arkansas public high school into renaming its annual Christmas program, now calling it a “holiday program”, and removing all references to Christmas, and disallowing the singing or performances of Christmas songs. What small minds these atheists must have not to comprehend that singing Christmas songs at a Christmas program is kind of standard, and normal. How hateful these atheists are, and how cowardly are the high school’s administrators.
Virginia State Senator Aaron Rouse (D. Va. Beach) wants to change the law to permit tenants to remain in their rented domiciles when they fail to pay their rent. Senator Rouse has lots of sympathy for deadbeat tenants. Not so much for landlords who are not getting paid, and whose property is being confiscated, albeit temporarily, by the Marxists in the General Assembly.
The Winooski [Vermont] public school district flew the Somali flag over its high school last week. For goodness sakes, why?
Little Debbie has introduced a brand new snack offering–Banana Pudding Creme Pie cookies! Be still my heart! How absolutely fabulous, and delicious, is that?
Japan has rejected any notion of “same sex marriage”. The Japanese are far more civilized than are Americans in this regard.
An elementary school teacher in London, England was dismissed from her job for telling a Muslim student that Great Britain was a Christian country, and the King of England was head of the Church of England. But, but, but . . . Great Britain is a Christian country, and the King of England is the head of the Church of England! Sigh.
Country singer Raul Malo has died at age 60. R. I. P.
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson.
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