Happy Christmas, everyone, and I hope you enjoyed your evening feast, without getting into any fistfights between your various relatives over politics, religion, or vaxx-passes. For the rest of you – well, it’s Boxing Day in PommieBastardLande, and if you know anything about Limey Christmas traditions, this is the day when the Brits turn the leftover turkey into curry.
If this sounds appalling to you, join the club and keep your antacids on hand – you’ll need them. For those left sadly without access to those things, the Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher is here to help your Christmas dinner digest better.
Meanwhile, let’s look at one of the best Christmas stories ever told – Charles Dickens‘s A Christmas Carol:
Charity, faith, hope, compassion, and love – THESE are the true lessons of Christmas, not grubby consumerism and overindulgence.
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Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has been busy despite the Hanukkah festive season. (Oh, yeah, I forgot – chag Hanukkah sameach, bro.) We start with a really-seriously-cool-beans video from Kurzgesagt – in a Nutshell about how to terraform (well, areoform, technically) Mars:
(If you’ve never read Kim Stanley Robinson‘s Mars Trilogy, by the way – highly recommended. Great books.)
Solid jj is back with a take on what happens with the Joker decides to play a joke on an entire city:
Foil Arms and Hog explain what would happen if Santa were captured by the world’s most EEEEEEEVIL people:
Fun fact: the Russians already have their own version of Santa. He’s called Ded Moroz – basically, Grandfather Frost – and he and his lovely granddaughter, Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) go around delivering joy and happiness to children every winter.
Crunch goes into details about some very weird things found in Antarctica:
The more I see and read about Graham Hancock – check out his Netherflix series – the more I am convinced the Book of Enoch serves as an actual historical companion to the Book of Genesis.
Bill Whittle talks about how your trust can be weaponised and used to manipulate you:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice takes a peek behind the curtain at the real wizard:
The dynamic duo over at Redacted are both amused and annoyed by the recent flop-ed from The Washington Compost about how there is “no clear evidence” that the Russians blew up their own multi-billion-dollar pipeline investment:
You would have to be so retarded as to be a danger to yourself and civilised society to believe the Russians blew up NS1 and one of the NS2 strands. All they had to do to cut off gas supplies to Germany was to turn off the spigot at source. That’s all. There was never any need to destroy the pipelines themselves. The only powers that benefit from the destruction are the Pharisatanist death cults that run the USSA.
Jackson Hinkle wonders if there is something wrong with Zelebobik the Crackhead when he says weird things like, “our campaign to liberate Crimea has begun in people’s minds”:
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily, about PATRIOT missiles, and why they are stupid:
Itโs All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran did a superb interview with former neoliberal economist Jeffrey Sachs:
Many Russians loathe Prof. Sachs because of the role he played in the raping of their country in the early- and mid-1990s. After listening to the interview, I think he still has a lot to answer for, but I suspect the destruction of Russia’s economy during that Lost Decade had rather a lot more to do with other people, than with him specifically.
China Syndrome
China Uncensored cannot make up their minds as to whether zero-Coof policies are good or bad – when the West does them, that’s terrible, but when China undoes them, it’s also terrible:
Digging to China wonders – again, from a very pro-Western perspective – whether Xi Jinping can deal with the impact of an unleashed Coof in China:
Look, the Chinese made a HUGE mistake by trying to enact zero-Coof policies. Now it’s out in the open and they have to learn how to live with it, just like everyone else. The bonkers death tolls we keep hearing about in the Western (((media))))))))) are almost certainly going to be garbage. China will be just fine – though they still need to answer for their role in releasing the sumbitch in the first place.
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas dissects the Siege of Bakhmut and what it means:
Semper Fi!
Maj. Scott Ritter talks with Ania K from Through the Eyes of – who is in Moscow, making me extremely jealous – about how Russia is going to win this war:
Warrior’s Rage
Col. Douglas Macgregor did a terrific video with Judge Andrew Napolitano about the serious dearth of firepower the Banderites have to deal with now:
Righteous Rantery
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan talks turkey with Sebastian Gorka:
There are good reasons to be deeply suspicious of Dr. Gorka. All I will say is, he still talks sense about a lot of things. Doesn’t mean I trust him.
PJW is severely unimpressed by the latest woke dogpile on top of Ye Greateste Livinge Englisheman:
Dr. John Campbell discusses the myocarditis issues we keep seeing with the not-vaxxes:
Warriors of Faith
Whaddo You Meme has some sage advice for one of the biggest twats on TEH YOOTOOBZ:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms shows how Izzlamists debate (i.e. very badly) when presented with the serious contradictions in their own Standard Izzlamic Narrative:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Adam Seeker drop some serious guided truth-bombs about Izzlamist views on women:
Islam Critiqued unpacks the silliness of the Izzlamic Echo Chamber:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp makes you think just before the festive season:
Joker from Better Bachelor is not happy about Johnny Depp‘s settlement with Amber Turd:
Mark Rober came up with a truly SPECTACULAR final form of the Glitter Bomb:
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge wonders whether Avatar 2 is going to do anything useful for the House of the Devil Mouse:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock tries to figure out who is to blame for the disastrous reception to James Gunn‘s planned reboot of the entire DCU:
Gary from Nerdrotic documents, in excruciating detail, the colossal failure of Dem RANGZ O’ Powah!!!!:
Ryan Kinel writes Hollyweird’s obituary after a disastrous 2022 box office;
The Drinker watched Avatar 2 – doubtless with several bio-breaks in between, given its bladder-shredding length – and has both good and bad things to say about it:
While on the subject of Avatardation, let’s revisit the Robot Chicken special on the movie from way back when:
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and discusses an important theory about glaciation:
The snowball Earth hypothesisโthat a runaway ice-albedo feedback can cause global glaciationโseeks to explain low-latitude glacial deposits, as well as geological anomalies including the re-emergence of banded iron formation and โcapโ carbonates. One of the most significant challenges to snowball Earth has been sedimentological cyclicity that has been taken to imply more climate dynamics than expected when the ocean is completely covered in ice. However, recent climate models suggest that as atmospheric CO2 accumulates, the snowball climate system becomes sensitive to orbital forcing. Here we show the presence of nearly all Milankovitch (orbital) cycles preserved in stratified banded iron formation deposited during the Sturtian snowball Earth. These results provide evidence for orbitally forced cyclicity of global ice sheets that resulted in periodic oxidation of ferrous iron. Orbital glacial advance and retreat cycles provide a simple mechanism to reconcile both the sedimentary dynamics and the enigmatic survival of multicellular life during snowball Earth.
Here’s a video to explain the concept of Milankovitch Cycles:
Your long read of the week is also from The Male Brain, and talks about how wokeness destroyed comedy, and how to get past the problem:
Frank Drebin, the detective played by Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun movies, is not some made-up character. He is me. Iโm the guy who ran out of electricity in my experimental electric car 30 years ago with a newspaper reporter in the passenger seat. I stopped the car at a motel and plugged it into the nearest outside outlet, which immediately blacked out the entire building. Angry residents poured out, yelling. It made for an interesting Los Angeles Times story the next day.
Iโm the guy who, on a soundstage, yelled, โWhoโs blocking the camera?! I canโt see whatโs on the monitor!โ The assistant director replied, โItโs you, sir, youโre standing in front of the lens.โ And Iโm the guy who, on the same stage at Paramount, tried to find the menโs room through the maze of movie sets, went out the wrong door, and found myself locked out on Melrose Avenue. I was forced to reenter the studio gates with a tour group, while the entire production wondered what had become of its director.
Circumstances like these are a daily occurrence in my life, not only because Iโm naturally inept, but also because somehow, abnormal seems to find me. During the great pandemic of 2020, I managed to quarantine with my ex-wifeโs current boyfriend, my ex-girlfriend who teaches meditation, the guitarist for the โ80s rock band Ratt, and the reigning Miss Utah USA. My life could easily be a sitcom, except no one would believe it.
Perhaps I attract these situations to myself because Iโm a middle child and need constant attention, or maybe itโs because Iโm a perpetually frustrated person whoโs annoyed and bored by the dullness that everyone else seems to tolerate so easily. I have a rage against mildness, against playing it safe, against political correctness. And to make matters worse, Iโve never been afraid of saying outrageous things, in private or in public. Jokes are my defense against normalcy, and as a comedy writer, if Iโm not teetering on the edge of offending someone, then Iโm not doing my job. Because I know that people get themselves stuck in a rut when they take things too seriously.
On the other hand, when weโre willing to lean into comedy, it has the power to shake us out of our complacency.
Linkage is good for you:
- The deputy head of Crimea notes the region now has enough waster reserves for 18 months, which is quite an achievement if you know about the history of the area;
- The damage done to Mariupol’ in the early stages of the SMO was shocking, but the stories from its residents are even more so;
- Ukraine’s corrupt and Nazified leadership has declared all-out war on the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine – the whole story is like that old Monty Python skit about the Judean People’s Front, but really horrible;
- The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian military, Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov, notes the exceptional capabilities of the Kh-47M2 Kindzhal hypersonic missile in 404;
- Col. Douglas Macgregor authors an excellent piece about the evil manner in which the West continues to prolong 404’s agony before its final collapse;
- Larry Johnson unpacks The Economist‘s interview with Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, and comes to some rather sad conclusions about the future awaiting Banderastan;
- Bernhard from Moon of Alabama talks about the joint military exercises between Russia and Belarus as they secure the Union State;
- Helmholtz Smith asks simple questions about what comes next in the 404 War, and comes to some uncomfortable conclusions;
- The God-Emperor’s oldest son calls Bellendsky exactly what he is – the biggest welfare queen in American history;
- Just when you thought mosquitoes couldn’t be any more irritating, they have found a way to develop an immunity against common pesticides;
- Robert Bridge explains why the establishment (((media)))))))))) hates #BasedTucker, even though they can’t beat him;
- Not like anyone reading this needs to be told, but it turns out the not-vaxx comes with serious potential heart complications – now can we start holding public trials already?!?!;
- Chris Woltermann looks at the history of the Crusades that you weren’t taught in school, which is rather different from the standard narratives about racist bloodthirsty invading warmongers;
- UFC legend Stephen Bonnar has died – from sepsis, NOT the not-vaxx – and that is a very sad piece of news indeed;
- An 11-year-old kid rips off Picasso and makes bank doing it;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Parents want their kid to leave a horndog husband who keeps cyber-cheating on her, but they are going about it entirely the wrong way;
- Reason looks at the sheer waste and nonsense in the Pentagon’s latest budget – all US$858 BILLION of it, which will go to buying weapons that are ridiculously expensive and ineffective;
- The Israeli intelligence complex has come to the same conclusion the rest of us have, a few months late – the world is on the edge of a cliff, and it won’t take much to push us all right over;
- Yet another teacher bangs yet another student – the sadly defunct and very much missed Chateau Heartiste would have had a field day unpacking this one;
- A very attractive and fit woman who covered her body with tattoos demonstrates to the world exactly why adding a tattoo to a sexy woman’s body is like adding defoliant to a verdant forest;
- How much does an EV truck actually weigh? Load an F-150 with concrete, and you’ll have a good idea;
- In Australia, where EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES!!!, you also have to wait up to 20 years to get your money back from your douchebag neighbour;
- Germany used to be synonymous with military and manufacturing efficiency and quality – nowadays, it is synonymous with stuff breaking down and being totally inadequate for the task at hand;
- The appeal of the so-called “FAANG” companies is well and truly gone, as many Indians are finding out very much the hard way;
- The Babylon Bee reports all the news that is fit to misprint – and they are hugely amused by the fact that whorenalists hate it when rules are applied to them;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar talks frankly about Russia’s consumption of ammunition in the Banderastan War, and compares its and 404’s military-industrial complexes:
The usual pack of useful idiots has used this clip to claim Russia is running out of ammunition (again), and therefore Russia will lose the war.
My answer to them is very simple: DO THE MAFF, YOU MORONS!!!
Russia is consuming 40-50K artillery rounds EVERY SINGLE DAY. That amounts to anywhere between 1.2 and 1.5 MILLION artillery rounds EVERY SINGLE MONTH. Yet they STILL have not run out, and are not about to run out anytime soon, because their MIC is fully capable of producing more than that.
The entire combined West, meanwhile, can barely produce a million rounds A YEAR.
And that is before we get to the Russian MIC’s ability to produce tanks, missiles, ships, aircraft, and all of the other relevant supplies necessary for warfighting.
The simple fact here is that Russia invested heavily in spare capacity and manufacturing capability for war over the past 30 years. The West did not. It is not difficult to figure out who wins a long drawn-out war.
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is General Nathanael Greene:
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz takes on an actual competitive HALO player – guess what happened:
Learning at the Master’s Feet
Nerd of the Rings looks at the history of the Shire:
Bring on the Grimdark
The Remembrancer, uh, remembrances one of the more notorious Blood Angels:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Meme Warfare
We start with a compilation of memes related to our Science Corner this week, courtesy of our good friend, Dawn Pine:
On the other hand – a few tens of millions of years have a point
Onward:
This next one will traumatise dogs and small children, and result in violent stomach upsets for many of you. I warn you – BRACE YOURSELVES.
Hey, I DID warn you.
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:
Yes, those are Russians, keeping a cheetah, in winter.
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to Shane Hunt:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Shuffle Off
Jump-Starts
Great smile, really fit body, SERIOUS talent…
Garbage taste in music.
Oh well. Nobody’s perfect, I suppose.
Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
And here’s your very last Monday Instathot of 2022. This, apparently, is Shania Kelly – no idea who she is, what she does, or how old she is, but hopefully she makes your post-Christmas indigestion slightly better.
OK, that’s it, boys, back to whatever you do the day after Christmas – sit around and pop antacids like Skittles, presumably.
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For those who asked:
Chronicles of Alandia: Murderhobo’s apprentice (Rated PG)
https://www.amazon.com/Murderhobos-Apprentice-Chronicles-Alandia-Book-ebook/dp/B0BQG9WVWS/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1B4D1NZVM0LAZ&keywords=bb+shelbie&qid=1671989041&sprefix=%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-3
The Proteus Legacy Book 1: They call me the Alchemyst (Rated VERY R. Like romance novel R)
https://www.amazon.com/They-Call-Me-Alchemyst-Proteus-ebook/dp/B0BQFVG71M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1B4D1NZVM0LAZ&keywords=bb+shelbie&qid=1672089945&sprefix=%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-1
The Proteus Legacy Book 2: Power always has a price (Also very Rated R)
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Always-has-Price-Proteus-ebook/dp/B0BQFTFK9K/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1B4D1NZVM0LAZ&keywords=bb+shelbie&qid=1672089991&sprefix=%2Caps%2C107&sr=8-2
Bear in mind, they both have some racy scenes. Feel free to skip them, but the books are very red-pilled.
Proteus Legacy book 3 (Memoirs of a midlevel Mook) Will be coming out very soon (January) and is a different character. unlike alchemist and power, it is rated PG, but would be tough to understand without reading the prior versions of the book, but I am seriously considering cutting the steamy scenes in 1 and 2. I am not sure they actually improve the book.
After that, in February Chronicles of Alandia book 2 will be coming out.
I am still looking for a decent publisher to help me edit and advertise, but most of them won’t touch litRPG despite it’s popularity.
You may have noticed, but I just saw Lavrov referred to Ukraine as the 404.