Archive for December, 2013

A Cold Season’s Greeting

Posted in Politics, Religion, Society on December 27th, 2013

Christmastide in America is supposed to be about warmth, caring, and family, yet that’s wasn’t in any way, shape, or form the tone, nuance, or feeling of the Obamas’ “Holiday” card.

Obama's Un-Christmas Card
A Cold Season’s Greeting From The Obamas

It’s more than a little ironic that the card references, “the warmth and joy of the holidays” when its design and message is so cold, empty, and aloof. In fact it’s so ironic that, if I didn’t know better, I’d say that the Obama’s were courting the Hipster vote.

It’s colors are cool, not warm, which seems to refute the warmth that Christmas brings to people in the dark of winter. It shows a vacant building, which seems symbolic when one considers that Obama invariable answer to all the scandals revealed in the past year is to disclaim knowledge or responsibility. And lastly, despite going out at Christmas time and despite Obama’s claims to be a Christian, the card makes no mention of Christmas.

Still, this is what one has to expect from the Obamas. They are neither Americans nor Christians so whatever card they approved wasn’t ever going to glorify either the American idea of Christmas or the Christian one. Even the overall tone of the card should have been expected as it perfectly summates the elitist, aloof, above-it-all attitude that Obama has displayed since being installed into office.

Vida Twerked The Halls

Posted in Music, Society on December 26th, 2013

Sometimes it’s nice to extend the Christmas season past Christmas; sometimes it feels a bit naughty to do so; and sometimes it’s a delicious combination both nice and naughty.

Merry Christmas from Vida Guerra

I think that a slightly belated Christmas blessing from the Cuban-born beauty, Vida Guerra qualifies as the latter case. So let’s enjoy Vida twerking the halls even though Christmas has past.

Besides, technically Christmas Day is just the first day of Christmastide. 😉

Merry Christmas!

Posted in Politics, Religion, Society on December 24th, 2013

My fellow Americans, Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas as well to all of you foreign nationals who celebrate the holiday and who visit here.

American Xmas Tree
Christmas – A Very American Holiday

Yes, I’m what is easiest to describe as Pagan, but I celebrate Christmas. My religious holy day was Yule. Christmas, to me, a secular, American holiday – a part of the intrinsic culture and character of America, but having only a tangential relationship with Advent and the celebration of the mortal birth of Jesus.

This is what the Godless and their Liberal and Progressive enablers and fellow travelers don’t seem to understand. Their war on Christmas – and all public expressions of Christianity or Christian beliefs and morals – is also a war on American culture, on Americana if you will. It’s a base attack on part of what it means to be American.

This is also what the Christians don’t seem to understand. Christmas, as it is celebrated in America, hasn’t been centered upon Christ in living memory. It’s a cultural holiday largely made of up of traditions and iconography that were created or, at least, promulgated by Coca Cola, Macy’s, and Norman Rockwell.

So once again, I wish a Merry Christmas to all of my fellow Americans. As for you Liberals and Progressives, may Krampus take you and your get. 😉

Obama’s Insecurities

Posted in Politics on December 24th, 2013

Obama InsecureOne can tell a great deal about an individual by who or what they fear. Even more than love or desire, fear is a telling marker of one’s beliefs and the content of one’s character. Insecurities make the man as it were.

Obama’s insecurities and who and what he fears should themselves strike a chord of fear or, at least, concern in hearts of the American people. This is because Obama fears us, not our enemies, and his actions clearly show this to be case.

Late Friday, December 20. 2013 the Obama Regime moved to prevent a federal judge in California from ruling on the constitutionality of warrantless surveillance programs that they’ve been using throughout Obama’s tenure as POTUS. They claim that, despite all the recent exposures of National Security Agency domestic spying, litigating the case in an open court would jeopardize state secrets.

That’s a very telling position for the same regime that strove for years to have Muslim terrorists removed from Gitmo and tried in US federal courts, despite constant warnings from Congress, the military, and the intelligence services that doing so would would jeopardize state secrets and not be in the interests of American national security.

Obviously, Obama has no fear of Muslim terrorists but a great deal of fear of the American people. He’s seemingly only insecure about state secret pertaining to his regime’s covert surveillance of the American people.

Veni Veni Emmanuel

Posted in Music, Religion on December 23rd, 2013

For my Christian readers, especially those who are Catholic or Anglican, here’s something old school to celebrate the coming of Christmas with.

Domine, ad adiuvandum me festina. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Alleluia.

It is after the last week of Advent.

Veni Veni, Emmanuel

It is a metrical version of the Antiphon, O Emmanuel and dates back to at least the 12th century.

O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos Domine Deus noster.

That particular antiphon would be sung, chanted, or recited at Vespers on December 23rd and is the final in the series of “O Antiphons.”

So enjoy a bit of the past and its grace and majesty, my friends and other readers. Worry yourselves not one bit over the Pagan who’s so familiar with traditions that you’ve long ago cast aside. 😉

Merry Christmas!