Merry Christmas to you and thank you for doing what you do. For me, you are the closest voice to Rush - hard truths surrounded with just enough humor. May you continue to do so long into the future.
I want to wish you, Mr. Surber, all your immediate family, and all those of your Surberite family here, a Most Blessed, Merry and Joyous Christmas, and a New Year filled with Hope, Health and Happiness! God Bless us, everyone!
Merry Christmas to everyone here. At this time of year I like to remember that The Lord of Glory deigned to become one of us in order to save us all from Satan's power, as the glorious old carol says. And He will come again from His place at the right hand of The Father, but then it will not be as a helpless infant, but in His full glory, might and authority. It woulld be well for us to remember this and live accordingly.
“The parent company of Pornhub.com admitted Thursday that it took money tied to sex trafficking as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department that subjects it to three years of monitoring.”
So, the Feds arranged a deal which now enables them to watch porn as part of their job, while the sex trafficking enablers get off virtually scot free?
Amen Rev. The problem I see with Christmas today is it is all about toys and parties and not enough about Christ. "Happy Holidays" is not Merry Christmas. "Are you all ready for Christmas"? "Yes, I am ready to count my blessings and pray they continue.
The quote is is one of today's countless cases of bad, confusing writing. Read literally, it says that the porn people got sex trafficking money from the Justice Department.
On further thought -- what if it really does mean that? After all, nothing done by the Justice Department should surprise us.
Sly writing, kudos! That means that the gummint boys on company time were watching The Best of Stormy Daniels while planning the Mar-A-Lago "document" raid, no?
And a Merry Christmas to Don and every one of his readers!
Item #5, WaPo axed employees being encouraged to buy WaPo merch on their way out the door evokes the image of a hooker trying to reel in a sailor.
The story reminded me of my dumpster-fire career in Manhattan, decades ago.
1980's: Got a call at 8:30 am one morning to go on a temp job to the Museum of Modern Art. At the time, I lived in the neighborhood and got to 5th Avenue and 53rd Street by 9:15 am, which I thought was pretty neat.
Wrong. I was admonished for being "late."
(They'd only called the agency at about 8:15 am.)
Well, that got things off on the wrong foot, didn't it?
Then, there I sat until 12 noon, given nothing to do.
At noon, the Crayola Regime lackey came around the corner and barked, that's it, pack up, you're done for the day.
"Sure, just sign my card for the minimum eight-hour work day."
"WHAT?! You've only been here for three hours!"
"Sorry, that's the rule that the temp agency has."
After a blast of hissy-fit-bluster (the Museum's endowment was approximately 200 billion times my personal net worth), the assh*le signed the card and away I went, proud of myself for doing the right thing.
Surprise! The temp agency yelled at me for enforcing its own rule and "alienating our client."
Which meant goodbye temp agency, which was bad news because there wasn't an unlimited supply of them and few of them were any good.
As it turned out, not only was I given the fish-eye by my now ex-employer, it took quite some doing to get the agency to pay me that day's wages (probably because they had told MOMA, "We're sorry it ended badly. No charge").
Eight weeks later, the check (peanuts) finally arrived.
Right next to it in the mailbox was a solicitation from the Museum of Modern Art, asking me for money.
No wonder I went on a 30-year lunch hour.
***
ITEM 16... “ 'Harvard finds more "duplicative language" in president Claudine Gay’s work as Congress investigates plagiarism.' ... Gay is Harvard’s Dylan Mulvaney..."
Good Lord, can you imagine seeing that lizard's face on a beer can?!
I say that she's Harvard's Elliot Spitzer (ex-NY gov). Both "stonewall" attempts to save their jobs failed and will fail.
If in the unlikely event that she keeps her job, she'll be Harvard's Stephen Ambrose.
Sad but true. And I got a million of 'em! One time, I worked for a week at an ad agency. The job ended. The next week, I got a call from the agency. Seems that the woman whose desk I was manning, when she returned from vacation, called the agency and accused me of stealing her tampons out of her desk drawer! With all this (vile) tranny business forty years later, I was merely a man ahead of my time...
Items 9 & 21; The battery operated cars are a dangerous, unsustainable, environmentally damaging joke. A customer bought a Rivian a few months ago and thought it was the cat's meow until he recently crashed it on 95. He told me that he and his young son jumped out of it the second it came to rest on the other side of the median because he was worried it might explode. A minor accident totals these vehicles because the battery could be compromised and might catch fire. They are also extremely heavy due to the battery weighing as much as a compact car. He replaced the Rivian with with a Toyota Tundra hybrid. Smart move!
Item 26; Why are libs more upset about the war between the states than the people who actually fought it were right after it happened? They are also very angry at Columbus discovering the Americas 531 years ago. 3000 Americans dying on 911 doesn't bother them that much though and 1200 Israelis being slaughtered makes them happy. 600,000 men died at a time that there were only 30 million Americans. That's at least 5 percent of the adult male population or the equivalent of 6 million men dying today. Leave the effing statue alone!
Last spring I laid a cigar on a bucket of golf balls in my cart and then went to putt out. Wind blew the towel on my bag over the cigar. When I got back to my cart the towel was on fire. Being sly, cunning and alert, I removed the burning towel and checked out the golf bag. All good so I moved to the next hole. Standing with my buddy when he commented "your golf carts on fire". Ran to it and discovered the bag was burning like a torch. Pulled the bag off the cart and watched it and my clubs burn up.....
I forgot to take out my lithium ion hand warmer. The burning towel was over the top of it and started it burning. Luckily I saved the cart but the clubs were toast, literally.
Didn't tell the wife until six months later. Quit smoking cigars.......
Good luck with the next set of clubs. I promise -no word about the lithium battery- as it wouldn’t go. If you need witnesses for a new set, let me know. I’m there.
Hell, I don't like batteries in general. Never cared for D-batteries for flashlights. Little chunks of poison that don't work for long, then get put in a landfill.
Yep, battery cars are dangerous. There was a one car accident in our town, electric. Fire fighters tried to put it out. It burned for 3 days. and Salt water and lithium are a really really bad combo.
Item 16: Ironic DEI appointee Gay was saved by DEI President Obama in a plagiarism scandal only because he was president because he plagiarized his Hawaii Birth Certificate.
Merry Christmas Don hope the Bentley GTC convertible is finally under the tree this year.
No amateur political comments from me today. Enjoy the good things in your lives and give thanks for your blessings. Merry Christmas and here’s hoping for a happy, healthy New Year.
The Chick-fil-A story is a local one here in Mordor-on-the-Hudson. Seems one of the original sponsors of the bill to retroactively ban them from NYFS Thruway rest stops is known for his outspoken stance on LGBTQEIEIO issues and is taking to putting his heterophobia into bill form. Of course, a week+ later I can find no mention of his role in sponsoring this in the local media. Thankfully, NYFS’ other problems have been solved, which is amazing considering how corrupt and stupid our state pols are across the board. Opening meme brought an LOL. Hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas Don! That includes all the fine folks with the good sense and taste to read your Substack every day!
ITEM 16: The New York Post reported, “Harvard finds more ‘duplicative language’ in president Claudine Gay’s work as Congress investigates plagiarism.”
I've been wondering about the difference between plagiarism and ghost writing. Both pretend that the written work was penned by the "author". For example, how is a ghost written autobiography of Barack Obama any different than a plagiarized document? I can only see that one is paid and the other is not. . . sort of like the difference between a slut and a prostitute.
Such topics can wait until after the holiday . . .
I guess the difference is in the origin, regardless of who is typing it in final form. A ghost written book is theoretically written by the author, but the ghost writer polishes it into a sellable form. In any regard, the author is required to show where any quotes or proprietary research came from and to credit the original author. It isn't difficult although in technical writing in certain professions sometimes it is difficult to not step on the research of others thru similar word usage or such. But what Ms. Gay is accused of is outright plagiarism, and that is a big, big deal in the research world. She will eventually be forced to resign after Harvard realizes this isn't going to go away anytime soon. Not sure what Harvard is doing but they are going to reach a point where their reputation is so tarnished and damaged they will not recover.
ITEM 15: The Colorado Supreme Court, Democrats all, banned President Trump from running for president under the 14th Amendment. It does not have that power because the amendment bars insurrectionists only from the offices of “a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President.”
I never liked this argument because it agrees or acknowledges that Trump engaged in an insurrection. Don't let the left control the language. There was no insurrection. Just look at the evidence and videos provided. The only shots fired were from police at unarmed civilians.
On target. Essentially, what they did was bar him for being accused of a crime which we all know is not Constitutional. It will be overturned. They knew it when they did it, and went ahead and did it anyway. That is the mark of truly corrupt people.
Agreed on the "language," as if the only valid criticism of Gay's plagiarism can come from conservative blacks (try telling people that the only voters who can criticize Biden are whites!).
Yes, we need to stop accepting the left's premises completely. We always argue these things on their terms in their language. Everything, and I mean everything they do has an ulterior motive.
#2 "We released the Hunter Biden of Venezuela." I'm pretty sure Hunter's collection of bag money is small potatoes compared to the real professional griftrers in DC. They just aren't into posting photos of drug use and prostitute sex all over the place. They prefer sex with captive children in private places like jets and island hideaways. At least they thought they were private. That's how government by blackmail works. The big question: Who the hell does a responsible citizen vote for? Who is trustworthy? Who's the only one risking his life, his fortune and his sacred honor on our behalf? Who's the only modern-day founding father, who ripped the lid from the deep state? Maybe he should be called a re-founding father. God help us. We are overdue for a stream of good news.
I have come to believe that DJT is the real deal and possibly the only person who can turn this hyper-corrupt blob government around. He can't do it himself though, we all need to pitch in.
Merry Christmas to you and thank you for doing what you do. For me, you are the closest voice to Rush - hard truths surrounded with just enough humor. May you continue to do so long into the future.
I want to wish you, Mr. Surber, all your immediate family, and all those of your Surberite family here, a Most Blessed, Merry and Joyous Christmas, and a New Year filled with Hope, Health and Happiness! God Bless us, everyone!
🎄🎁 🙏 ❤️
Amen.
Dittos. Merry Christmas to the Surber family and all of the Surberites who celebrate. To those that don’t, enjoy your Chinese food!
Merry Christmas to everyone here. At this time of year I like to remember that The Lord of Glory deigned to become one of us in order to save us all from Satan's power, as the glorious old carol says. And He will come again from His place at the right hand of The Father, but then it will not be as a helpless infant, but in His full glory, might and authority. It woulld be well for us to remember this and live accordingly.
Well said...not bad for a recovering lawyer! Isn't Grace amazing?!
“The parent company of Pornhub.com admitted Thursday that it took money tied to sex trafficking as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department that subjects it to three years of monitoring.”
So, the Feds arranged a deal which now enables them to watch porn as part of their job, while the sex trafficking enablers get off virtually scot free?
We live in a truly evil world.
It's why we need Christmas: the Light has to overcome the darkness (in all of us).
Amen Rev. The problem I see with Christmas today is it is all about toys and parties and not enough about Christ. "Happy Holidays" is not Merry Christmas. "Are you all ready for Christmas"? "Yes, I am ready to count my blessings and pray they continue.
Merry Christmas Rev.
Amen.
The quote is is one of today's countless cases of bad, confusing writing. Read literally, it says that the porn people got sex trafficking money from the Justice Department.
On further thought -- what if it really does mean that? After all, nothing done by the Justice Department should surprise us.
Sly writing, kudos! That means that the gummint boys on company time were watching The Best of Stormy Daniels while planning the Mar-A-Lago "document" raid, no?
And a Merry Christmas to Don and every one of his readers!
Item #5, WaPo axed employees being encouraged to buy WaPo merch on their way out the door evokes the image of a hooker trying to reel in a sailor.
The story reminded me of my dumpster-fire career in Manhattan, decades ago.
1980's: Got a call at 8:30 am one morning to go on a temp job to the Museum of Modern Art. At the time, I lived in the neighborhood and got to 5th Avenue and 53rd Street by 9:15 am, which I thought was pretty neat.
Wrong. I was admonished for being "late."
(They'd only called the agency at about 8:15 am.)
Well, that got things off on the wrong foot, didn't it?
Then, there I sat until 12 noon, given nothing to do.
At noon, the Crayola Regime lackey came around the corner and barked, that's it, pack up, you're done for the day.
"Sure, just sign my card for the minimum eight-hour work day."
"WHAT?! You've only been here for three hours!"
"Sorry, that's the rule that the temp agency has."
After a blast of hissy-fit-bluster (the Museum's endowment was approximately 200 billion times my personal net worth), the assh*le signed the card and away I went, proud of myself for doing the right thing.
Surprise! The temp agency yelled at me for enforcing its own rule and "alienating our client."
Which meant goodbye temp agency, which was bad news because there wasn't an unlimited supply of them and few of them were any good.
As it turned out, not only was I given the fish-eye by my now ex-employer, it took quite some doing to get the agency to pay me that day's wages (probably because they had told MOMA, "We're sorry it ended badly. No charge").
Eight weeks later, the check (peanuts) finally arrived.
Right next to it in the mailbox was a solicitation from the Museum of Modern Art, asking me for money.
No wonder I went on a 30-year lunch hour.
***
ITEM 16... “ 'Harvard finds more "duplicative language" in president Claudine Gay’s work as Congress investigates plagiarism.' ... Gay is Harvard’s Dylan Mulvaney..."
Good Lord, can you imagine seeing that lizard's face on a beer can?!
I say that she's Harvard's Elliot Spitzer (ex-NY gov). Both "stonewall" attempts to save their jobs failed and will fail.
If in the unlikely event that she keeps her job, she'll be Harvard's Stephen Ambrose.
Awesome temp agency story.
Sad but true. And I got a million of 'em! One time, I worked for a week at an ad agency. The job ended. The next week, I got a call from the agency. Seems that the woman whose desk I was manning, when she returned from vacation, called the agency and accused me of stealing her tampons out of her desk drawer! With all this (vile) tranny business forty years later, I was merely a man ahead of my time...
Correction: Last line, change to "(wo)man."
WO WO!
Not necessarily an evil world, just a world with too many evil people in it.
Items 9 & 21; The battery operated cars are a dangerous, unsustainable, environmentally damaging joke. A customer bought a Rivian a few months ago and thought it was the cat's meow until he recently crashed it on 95. He told me that he and his young son jumped out of it the second it came to rest on the other side of the median because he was worried it might explode. A minor accident totals these vehicles because the battery could be compromised and might catch fire. They are also extremely heavy due to the battery weighing as much as a compact car. He replaced the Rivian with with a Toyota Tundra hybrid. Smart move!
Item 26; Why are libs more upset about the war between the states than the people who actually fought it were right after it happened? They are also very angry at Columbus discovering the Americas 531 years ago. 3000 Americans dying on 911 doesn't bother them that much though and 1200 Israelis being slaughtered makes them happy. 600,000 men died at a time that there were only 30 million Americans. That's at least 5 percent of the adult male population or the equivalent of 6 million men dying today. Leave the effing statue alone!
Last spring I laid a cigar on a bucket of golf balls in my cart and then went to putt out. Wind blew the towel on my bag over the cigar. When I got back to my cart the towel was on fire. Being sly, cunning and alert, I removed the burning towel and checked out the golf bag. All good so I moved to the next hole. Standing with my buddy when he commented "your golf carts on fire". Ran to it and discovered the bag was burning like a torch. Pulled the bag off the cart and watched it and my clubs burn up.....
I forgot to take out my lithium ion hand warmer. The burning towel was over the top of it and started it burning. Luckily I saved the cart but the clubs were toast, literally.
Didn't tell the wife until six months later. Quit smoking cigars.......
Good luck with the next set of clubs. I promise -no word about the lithium battery- as it wouldn’t go. If you need witnesses for a new set, let me know. I’m there.
Hell, I don't like batteries in general. Never cared for D-batteries for flashlights. Little chunks of poison that don't work for long, then get put in a landfill.
I undestand when Columbus came ashore, he tripped over a Viking helmet.
The Minnesota Vikings aren't that bad, they just play like they are.
Yep, battery cars are dangerous. There was a one car accident in our town, electric. Fire fighters tried to put it out. It burned for 3 days. and Salt water and lithium are a really really bad combo.
You people who bring facts into any discussion make me sick!🤒 you’ll just anger all the loony libs.
Item 16: Ironic DEI appointee Gay was saved by DEI President Obama in a plagiarism scandal only because he was president because he plagiarized his Hawaii Birth Certificate.
Merry Christmas Don hope the Bentley GTC convertible is finally under the tree this year.
May Harvard inherit all the blessings that endorsement is worth.
They already have. They ended up with Claudine Gay.
No amateur political comments from me today. Enjoy the good things in your lives and give thanks for your blessings. Merry Christmas and here’s hoping for a happy, healthy New Year.
14. Puns reign Dear
The Reigns fall Mainly in the Puns of Spain.
Merry Christmas, Don! You are an invaluable American.
The Chick-fil-A story is a local one here in Mordor-on-the-Hudson. Seems one of the original sponsors of the bill to retroactively ban them from NYFS Thruway rest stops is known for his outspoken stance on LGBTQEIEIO issues and is taking to putting his heterophobia into bill form. Of course, a week+ later I can find no mention of his role in sponsoring this in the local media. Thankfully, NYFS’ other problems have been solved, which is amazing considering how corrupt and stupid our state pols are across the board. Opening meme brought an LOL. Hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas Don! That includes all the fine folks with the good sense and taste to read your Substack every day!
ITEM 16: The New York Post reported, “Harvard finds more ‘duplicative language’ in president Claudine Gay’s work as Congress investigates plagiarism.”
I've been wondering about the difference between plagiarism and ghost writing. Both pretend that the written work was penned by the "author". For example, how is a ghost written autobiography of Barack Obama any different than a plagiarized document? I can only see that one is paid and the other is not. . . sort of like the difference between a slut and a prostitute.
Such topics can wait until after the holiday . . .
Merry Christmas everybody.
Don, I hope you get your Subway very soon.
the difference is the duplicate factor.
I guess the difference is in the origin, regardless of who is typing it in final form. A ghost written book is theoretically written by the author, but the ghost writer polishes it into a sellable form. In any regard, the author is required to show where any quotes or proprietary research came from and to credit the original author. It isn't difficult although in technical writing in certain professions sometimes it is difficult to not step on the research of others thru similar word usage or such. But what Ms. Gay is accused of is outright plagiarism, and that is a big, big deal in the research world. She will eventually be forced to resign after Harvard realizes this isn't going to go away anytime soon. Not sure what Harvard is doing but they are going to reach a point where their reputation is so tarnished and damaged they will not recover.
“Reach a point”….?
I’d say they’re waaay past that point, them and the rest of academia, except to oblivious liberal automatons.
Thanks for this distinction between the terms. Both seem to give undue credit to the author for a polished work they didn’t create.
You got it right. Have a great Christmas.
I didn't know there was a ghost written autobiography. I thought it was a novel. Poorly penned at that.
Harvard would replace President Gay but they can't find a less qualified candidate.
Merry Christmas to Don, the Surber family and the extended Surber family (that means you!) :-)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Merry Christmas, Don. Rest your active/clever mind. And come back "smokin"!
ITEM 15: The Colorado Supreme Court, Democrats all, banned President Trump from running for president under the 14th Amendment. It does not have that power because the amendment bars insurrectionists only from the offices of “a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President.”
I never liked this argument because it agrees or acknowledges that Trump engaged in an insurrection. Don't let the left control the language. There was no insurrection. Just look at the evidence and videos provided. The only shots fired were from police at unarmed civilians.
Merry Christmas to Don and all!
On target. Essentially, what they did was bar him for being accused of a crime which we all know is not Constitutional. It will be overturned. They knew it when they did it, and went ahead and did it anyway. That is the mark of truly corrupt people.
Agreed on the "language," as if the only valid criticism of Gay's plagiarism can come from conservative blacks (try telling people that the only voters who can criticize Biden are whites!).
Yes, we need to stop accepting the left's premises completely. We always argue these things on their terms in their language. Everything, and I mean everything they do has an ulterior motive.
#2 "We released the Hunter Biden of Venezuela." I'm pretty sure Hunter's collection of bag money is small potatoes compared to the real professional griftrers in DC. They just aren't into posting photos of drug use and prostitute sex all over the place. They prefer sex with captive children in private places like jets and island hideaways. At least they thought they were private. That's how government by blackmail works. The big question: Who the hell does a responsible citizen vote for? Who is trustworthy? Who's the only one risking his life, his fortune and his sacred honor on our behalf? Who's the only modern-day founding father, who ripped the lid from the deep state? Maybe he should be called a re-founding father. God help us. We are overdue for a stream of good news.
I have come to believe that DJT is the real deal and possibly the only person who can turn this hyper-corrupt blob government around. He can't do it himself though, we all need to pitch in.
From your lips Gary.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Danny Huckabee