FEATURE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23rd EDITION

      Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to review the film we'd intended to this week. However, thanks to a link from a regular reader, we instead have the text of the Presidential Christmas Message delivered via radio to the American people on December 24th, 1950. President Harry Truman's words are just as relevant now as they were then.

      Here is the speech in its entirety:

 { "My fellow-Americans: across this country, and in many parts of the world, men, women, and children are preparing to celebrate the Birthday of Christ. Never before has it seemed that a Christmas was so important. I'm not thinking of turkey dinners and stacks of gifts. I mean the quiet, reverent celebration of faith, hope, and love: born in a manger in Bethlehem.

    {"Across all the continents of the world, peace-loving peoples are feeling apprehension, and loneliness, and fear. Many have forgotten the humble surroundings of the Nativity; and how---from a straw-littered stable---shown a Light, which for nearly 20 centuries has given men strength, comfort, and peace. Peace of mind. At this Christmastime, we should renew our faith in God.

    {"We celebrate the Hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him.

    {"Many of us are fortunate enough to celebrate Christmas at our own fireside. But there are many others who are away from their homes and loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefields of Korea. But all of us: at home, at war, wherever we may be are within reach of God's Love and Power. We can all pray. All of us should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's Will. We should ask for courage, for wisdom, for the quietness of soul which comes alone to those who place their lives in His Hands.

    {"We should pray for a peace that is based on righteousness. Our land is already in the midst of a crusade of prayer. On the last Sunday of the old year, there will be special services devoted to a revival of faith in God. I call upon all of you to enlist in this common cause. I call upon all of you no matter what your spiritual allegiance may be.

    {"We're all joined in the fight against the tyranny of Communism. Communism is godless. Democracy has its foundation in Faith: faith in oneself, faith in one's neighbors, faith in God. Democracy's most powerful weapon is not a gun, a tank, or a bomb: it is Faith. Faith in the brotherhood and dignity of man under God.

     {"Let us pray at this Christmastime for the courage, the wisdom, and the humility to carry on in this Faith."}

     It is actually amazing to reflect that 66 years later, two generations of Americans have grown up hearing nothing other than neo-Communism being taught in public schools and colleges; and have never heard a US President calling upon Americans to pray and renew their faith in God at Christmastime. Older generations probably never imagined that the first quarter of the 21st Century would witness the re-emergence of Communism, Anarchism, and Naziism within our own borders during an election year.

     But Truman was right: Faith is the foundation of freedom. This Christmastime of 2016, we should heed his message of 1950; though Truman is but a dead white male to our so-called Cultural Elites, he "being dead, yet speaks." This is the time today---as it was then---to renew that Faith, and go forward with courage, wisdom, and humility.

    

BEFORE THE WHITE HOUSE WAS THE RAINBOW HOUSE

      There was a time in the United States when Christmas was a season of people coming together in fellowship, with the top leaders of our country setting the example with displays of national unity. Of course, times have radically changed.

       For example, the President-Elect's daughter Ivanka was travelling with her young children today when a pair of homosexuals went berserk on the airplane and caused an incident. Homosexuals are frequently prone to jealous and resentful outbursts against attractive females with children; and the sight of the famous Ivanka was too much. One of the perverts was dragged kicking and screaming off the plane, while the other celebrated the deed on social media in front of shocked passengers.

      But a few generations ago, the family of the president wasn't forgotten by grateful citizens. In 1923, a group of high school and college students collaborated with electrical engineering societies on a project that became an annual tradition---lighting of the White House Christmas Tree.

     Mrs. Grace Coolidge, the First Lady, organized the ceremony. Charitable organizations---in which the Coolidge Family were very involved were present---and a carol-singing was held on the North Portico of the White House. The only change was that President Coolidge insisted that the tree be placed on a lot adjacent to the White House so that the event could be enjoyed and shared by the community.

     In 1923, electrical technology was still fairly primitive, but the engineers solved the problem of powering the tree by installing a system of batteries. The President pushed a button and a new tradition was born.

     President Coolidge was a modest man by nature, and eschewed pomp and ceremony. He left the grounds to the festive citizens of Washington and his entourage retired to White House for a private Christmas celebration, though a photographer captured the Christmas Carol event on the Portico.

                             

        The President made a surprise visit to the Veterans' Hospital on Christmas Day, while the First Lady sent 500 Christmas packages to the Salvation Army to assist needy DC families.

        The 1923 event was such a success that it drew visitors almost immediately. In 1925, the news broadcast the ceremony over radio for the first time. President Coolidge greeted a group of Boy Scouts who had come to witness the new electrical technology (as well as the new marvels of radio). This was, of course, in an era before the Scouts became a grooming-stable for homosexuals. Thus, the President said:

       "There is a time for play as well as a time for work. But even in play, it is possible to cultivate the art of well-doing. Games are useful to train the eye, the hand and the muscles, and bring the body more under the control of the mind. When this is done, instead of being a waste of time, play becomes a means of education. It is in all these ways that boys and girls are learning to be men and women; to be respectful of their parents, to be patriotic to their country, and to be reverent to God. It is because of this great chance that American boys and girls have in all these directions that to them, more than to the youth of any other country, there should be a Merry Christmas."

      The youth that Coolidge addressed on the radio in 1925 would later prove their mettle as adults: this was the generation that would overcome the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Then-future President Ronald Reagan once stated that the Coolidge Administration left a lasting impression on him and that, in many ways, Coolidge served as a role model during his own term in office. Certainly they weren't the types who went into hysterical rages on public airlines against mothers and children at Christmas.

      

     

      

WHERE PUBLIC NATIVITY SCENES AREN'T BANNED...

    The once-great city of Santa Monica, California made headlines last year after a US Federal Court upheld the city's ban on Nativity Scenes. Nativity Scenes are becoming increasingly rare sights here in the Prozac Nation. Lawsuits and harassment from radical anti-Christians have made such displays a source of controversy even in communities that want them.

     Every December, the American Corporate Media has headlines of even the smallest towns being forced to bend to Political Correctness. This year, the so-called Freedom From Religion Foundation, with much encouragement from the Seattle-area media, went after and successfully removed an annual Nativity Scene in the small village of Gig Harbor, Washington. The town of 7,000 was hardly a match for the George Soros-funded FFRF and metro media pressure.

      But in the small village of Lintou, in Shanxi Province, China, a Nativity Scene is being welcomed as a symbol of hope for the struggling village. Shanxi was first visited by Christian missionaries in the early 1700s and Lintou was a village populated almost entirely by Catholics. Around 1910, Lintou erected the beautiful Immaculate Conception Church---which is still the center of worship in the village.

       However, like many villages in China, Lintou has suffered from a demographic shift. For economic reasons, young people have moved into the cities, living Lintou mostly a city of the elderly. But with the arrival of a new priest: 29 year-old Father Bosco Han Bo, hope is beginning to dawn in Lintou again. Father Han hopes to make this Christmas the center of a project to revitalize Lintou---with a Nativity Scene at the center of his plan.

       The Nativity Scene has attracted nationwide attention in China because of its artistic merit and the community effort involved in it. China's official Party news outlet, The Global Times, visited Lintou and praised the Nativity Scene in an article titled The True Meaning of Christmas.

       "Villagers used to put up the Nativity Scene inside the church, but Father Han decided to install it in the open air, right in the center of town. His first thought was to construct the Holy Family out of straw, but the villagers insisted that it look real. The young priest listened to his flock. He drove to town and bought some mannequins and made a Baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph out of them. The villagers were impressed."

      The article goes on mention that a large celebration is planned in Lintou for Christmas, and the villagers who have emigrated are returning with their children for festivities including carols, prayers, food and a bonfire. "For certain, the children will know the story of the Nativity by heart while most of their peers in the cities know only Santa Claus." the Global Times said.

      So, when we compare Christmas in Lintou to Christmas in Gig Harbor, Americans should be hanging their heads in humiliated shame that the Communist Party of China is not only not removing Nativity Scenes but praising them in their official news organs---while Nativity Scenes in America are subject to witch-hunts not seen in China since the Maoist Era.

      What a testimony, too, to the cultural rot that's infested the US that the Seattle media applauds the events in Gig Harbor, while the state-run Chinese media actually understands what Christmas is all about.

      But leaving the bleak and gloomy nature of America's War on Christmas, Chinese Christians have reason to look forward to the future. A report submitted to the CPC Politburo earlier outlined and recommended a new policy of expanding religious freedoms in China---which has the endorsement of President Xi Jinping. Pope Francis has also been working to restore Vatican relations with the Chinese government all throughout 2016.

      At least it looks like Christmas in Lintou this year will be one worth remembering.

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MOSLEM IMAM REJECTS CHRISTMAS BAN

    Today in the Prozac Nation, the Austin Travis County Integral Care Center in Austin, Texas became the latest in a collection of public entities to clamp down on free speech and ban employees from saying Merry Christmas in front of patients. This kind of reactionary policy is something of a New Normal in the effete Postmodern United States; today it was also reported that the University of Virginia has a petition going to ban the phrase. The Cultural Marxists have been attempting to ban Christmas in general for some time, under the pretense of being inclusive; in spite of the obvious contradiction involved.

     Not so in the SE Asian country of Malaysia. In that predominantly Moslem country, the Supreme Islamic religious leader decreed that the term Merry Christmas in no way violated Islamic cultural norms.

     Dr. Zulkifli Al-Bakri, the Islamic Mufti of the Malaysian Federation stated that use of the term is not forbidden to Moslems and wholly permissible when used to celebrate the holidays of non-Islamic faiths.

      "It's no more than merely a greeting to express one's happiness and enjoyment upon seeing the happiness of others celebrating." the Mufti said, "As long as communications with other religions do not glorify non-Moslems, wishing someone a 'Merry Christmas' is permissible."

     The Mufti cited the 2007 decision of an Islamic Ecclesiastical court which ruled in favor of a group of Egyptian scholars who sent Christmas greetings to then-Pope Benedict. The Mufti's decision came in response to a legal challenge by an activist from a Moslem group, seeking to ban the term Merry Christmas in Malaysia on the grounds that it was offensive to Moslems.

     Does this sound familiar? Once again, it is uptight, drugged-out, native-born American Liberals---offended and outraged at 'seeing the happiness of others celebrating'---who are the ones shutting down Christmas cheer and not Moslems from abroad. The Grand Mufti of Malaysia has no problem with Moslems saying Merry Christmas in hospitals in schools; the overpaid and hysterical bureaucrats running such institutions in America, do.

     So, nobody is going to get sued or harassed in Malaysia any time soon for celebrating Christmas. Maybe Americans can take a lesson in inclusiveness from the Mufti.

                                    Christmas in Kuala Lumpur. Nobody 'offended' here.

MANOSPHERE ALPHAS BEAT UP ON GIRL

    As sort of an unintended follow-up from yesterday's post; a group of self-described Manly Alpha Leaders among the Manosphere's Red-Pill Cult collectively decided to get into the Christmas Spirit and---to use their own words---word-rape a female blogger who dared criticize one of their writings. The guilty Gamers (so far) are Roosh Valizdeh, Quintus Curtius, and Vox Day, with a number of their fawning acolytes tagging along.

      They've all ganged up for this burst of Alpha outrage on Donna Zuckerberg, sister of the CEO of Facebook. The Red Pills have had a long-standing dislike for Facebook and social media in general; since the owners of these sites are routinely obliged to discipline them for their continual spamming, doxxing, trolling, harassment, and other obnoxious behaviors.

     Donna Zuckerberg wrote a few articles recently expressing some concern about the increasing Nazi rhetoric coming out of the Red Pill Cult, a specimen of which reads:

     "Why have so many White male leaders of communities and websites that used to focus on sex and gender shifted in recent months to Anti-Semitism, White Nationalism, and complaining about the (Jewish) media? In part it is because these men were always grossly bigoted and racist. The outspokenness of the Alt-Right empowered other men to share Anti-Semitic views which they otherwise might have been quiet about. But the Alt-Right was getting a lot of attention. And attention is what these men crave."

      What she said here was a little too close to the truth for the Manospherians, who unleashed a torrent of abuse on her. Roosh and Vox are actually gloating over several of Donna's Twitter posts complaining about the deluge of Anti-Semitic spam, including a few where her face is photo-shopped on a lampshade. 

       Males who engage in this kind of behavior are simply punks. They aren't leaders of men, they are poltroons who pose as leaders. The only reason that they get much attention is because Feminism and Cultural Marxism have so culturally depreciated masculinity that hoods like these can pass themselves off as real men and get away with it. 

        Quintus Curtius, an intellectual pygmy who really started the whole gang-bang against Donna Zuckerberg, wrote a rant under the guise of a rebuttal; the gist of which was that he is more of a man than Donna is. "I am a 48 year old man who has more scars than you will ever have!" he exults to her, "I fought more battles than you will ever fight! While you were mincing around the halls of Princeton, I was leading Marines on Okinawa and East Asia..." and other rather unmasculine braggadocio. As a side note, one wonders what battles Quintus was leading Marines into these regions. Considering that the last battle the Marines fought on Okinawa was in 1945 and the last they fought in SE Asia was in 1974; Quintus seems a bit young to have participated in these. 

        Vox Day gleefully quotes an extract from Roosh's article, showing us all the deep spirituality and masculine courage these two boast of having. Addressed to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, these cowards actually boast that they've somehow gotten to him through his sister:

       "If Mark Zuckerberg is reading this right now, and there's a good chance that he is because his sister bit off more than she could chew, I want him to know that she is now our 'house ho'. Mark, we have raped your sister's mind with our ideas and our vigor. We have so burrowed a hole into her head that not a day goes by without her thinking of our ideology, our arguments, and our words. You can do your worst on Facebook, and hide reality to your heart's content, but you cannot begin to stop us from wounding your own family. What goes around comes around---you've manipulated the minds of millions of people who use Facebook---censoring the truth from them, and now we own the mind of your sister."

        As sinister as this sounds, it's doubtful that Zuckerberg is too worried. Quintus, Vox, and Roosh don't even own their own minds anymore, let alone owning anybody else's. They exhibit such advanced stages of psychological dysfunction with screeds like these, one has to doubt that they actually have it together enough to do more than bluster---like the Internet version of a street bum shouting abuse at random pedestrians.

       The civilized way to handle criticism is by debate: but the Gamers can't defend any of their positions through logical argument. So they take the thug's way of force and intimidation---the very things they project on Mark Zuckerberg.

      

             

     

YULETIDE IN THE PROZAC NATION

   With Christmas just five days away and an Election officially settled most cultures would be alive with the Spirit of Christ's message. Not so in Postmodern America. Here, where the Seven Deadly Sins are often mistaken for civic virtues; the closer we come to the commemorative day of Christ's Advent the less Christian our culture becomes. The Christmas Season in America begins on Black Friday---basically little more than a Wall-Street sponsored riot---and ends on New Years Eve---basically little more than a Wall-Street sponsored drunken orgy.

      A series of posts today really captured the essence of Xmas-America. Blogger and commenter Insanity Bytes critiqued an editorial which appeared in the Washington Post. The Post, once a great newspaper but now a sleazy tabloid, published a piece titled Our Culture Celebrates the Purity of the Virgin Mary: As a Rape Victim, that Hurts Me. One can more or less surmise the tone of the article from its title. Written by a feminist pastor from a very Left-leaning denomination, the whole thesis revolves around redefining Mary's image to make less 'patriarchal' and offensive.

       It really does take a significant degree of narcissism to complain, as this author seems to imply, that Mary's example is too high a bar for women to emulate. But the 'pastor' misses the whole point. In spirituality we cannot be God and very few can be saints. Yet their attributes are examples that we should follow. Among the Cultural Marxists and their Anarchist camp-followers, the idea that anyone should actually achieve excellence in anything, including spirituality causes them to recoil in horror and wounded pride.

        Not far behind the Left, the Far Right chimed in. Manosphere Red Pill Cult blogger Chateau Heartiste published the first of an upcoming series of articles calling for another civil war. Heartiste's article was praised and widely circulated by other Game Cultists, even though it's arguably one of the stupidest theories that Heartiste has ever suggested. He introduces the article---which is largely a hotchpotch of vulgarity and crackpot-level historical revisionism---by announcing:

      "The best way to think about America, now and historically, is as the battleground between rival White factions, with nonwhites and women as shock-troops ordered to exploit White men's racial guilt and their white knightery. One faction---the Runaway Universalist (RU) Whites---is engaged in biological warfare against the F*** You (FU) Whites, via open borders to the third world."

       To most rational people, the above statement indicates mainly that Heartiste is a full-blown neurotic, and a crypto-Nazi to boot. "The psychological level of the RU Whites' anti-White subversion propaganda was amplified by a tacit alliance between various nonwhite and Middle East/North African-White tribes, most notably the Jews."

       Ethnic Cleansing and Internecine Warfare: about as far from Christianity as one can get; but a prime example of how the Red Pills would spread Christmas Cheer.

       Sadder still, the Cultural Elites are even worse than the extremists. An article in the New York Daily News written by Gersh Kuntzman---who once claimed to have suffered PTSD from visiting a rifle range---praised the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey as a heroic statement against the Russian Government.

       "As Vladimir Putin's man in Turkey, Karloff was the public face of that murderous dictator's war crimes around the globe and of oppression at home," this effete New York degenerate says of the Christian President of Russia, "I, for one, am shedding no tears for Andrei Karloff!"

       Kuntzman not only prances in sadistic glee over a murder that was denounced worldwide, he almost sets a record for telling the most lies in a single paragraph: "Karloff's job in Turkey was to ease tensions over Russia's atrocities in Syria (lie) and its incursions inside Turkey itself (lie)---meaning that his job was to enable and normalize Vladimir Putin (lie). Given that role, he wasn't a diplomat but a soldier (lie), and his death is the same whether it came on the battlefield outside Aleppo or in an art gallery in Ankara (lie)."

        These three articles really sum up what Christmas has come to mean in America. But it wasn't always like this. For the next few days, we'll be running some articles related to the Christmas Season, because it's obvious that the Ameroboobs need a remedial course on the subject.

              

WHACKO LEFT AGAIN DEFEATED BY RULE OF LAW

    After six weeks of withstanding intimidation, harassment, death threats, doxxing, and attempted bribery, the Electoral College did what it always has and confirmed the legally elected President. The final step in all of these arcane processes is for the US Senate to certify the Electoral College results. Fortunately, Senators are typically better-protected than State Electors.

     The Anarchists and their confederates are likely not finished yet. They're already plotting various social disturbances and other crimes up to and including Inauguration Day.

     None of these theatrics will deter Trump from being sworn in, however. It is really time for most of us to begin focusing on the policies and composition of the new administration. Geopolitically, Obama has become utterly irrelevant---as this week's incident in the South China Sea amply proved. On domestic issues likewise, Obama can really do little more than sign or veto legislation passed during the interim Congress.

     Is the Left finished, as we all hope? Sadly, not. The reality is that the Cultural Marxists have become so deeply entrenched in most American sociopolitical institutions that rooting them out is going to be a long and arduous process. If Trump intends to keep his promise about draining the cesspool, this is a project that will occupy much of his entire first term.

      While the new administration needs to clean up corruption, America's social infrastructure is also in desperate need of rebuilding. 30+ years of dumbed-down schools, drug proliferation, radical feminism and homosexual activism have exacted a brutal toll on American social psychology. The government can do some proactive things to reverse these trends as Putin has in Russia; but the speed of their successes will depend upon how deeply the cultural rot has effected us nationally. At this level, the Cultural Marxists are going to be very obstructive; and this is where many of us will have to do our part to encourage needed reforms.

     Economic and physical infrastructure has been so long neglected that this is going to be a major focus of government spending programs. Cleaning up the corruption at high levels may offset much of these expenses; but we are literally talking trillions of dollars in damage that has to be rectified immediately. America's system of river navigation and flood control is on the verge of collapse; and most of our bridges and dams are well past their warranties. Our rail system and public transportation is obsolete; our space program nonexistent; our power grids badly outdated; drinking water contaminated. This is to say nothing of our chaotic airports and healthcare system.

     The Cultural Marxists and their Neocon RINO Republican enablers have brought us to this point. The Trump Administration is going to be a pivotal one and will ultimately determine whether we sink into rogue-nation Third-World status (as we largely already have); or rejoin the Community of Nations and become a net contributor to the world again. Trump deserves a chance and his election may give us, as a society, a chance again.