Normally, Mondays would really suck. But this is the Monday just before Christmas – it’s only a few days away. And, as I may have mentioned a few times before, I really love Christmas. It’s my single favourite day of the year. So the usual downbeat attitude to Mondays is somewhat in abeyance for this particular Great Mondaydact Browser Smelter.
That being said, it’s still Monday, which means that we do have to do something to, uh, “celebrate” how appallingly awful this day is. And what better way to denote the awfulness of Monday, in the week just before Christmas, than by taking a page out of the Grinch’s book?
Ah, but since it IS the week of Christmas, let us also remember the true nature and point of this most wonderful of weeks – just as the Grinch did:
This really is the best of weeks. Christmas is a reminder to all of us of the supreme gift given to us by our Creator – the gift, freely given, of eternal salvation, in the form of the Son Incarnate, Christ Jesus Himself.
May the Lord’s peace and blessings be with you all, dear brothers (and sisters), no matter where you are, no matter what your circumstances. Remember above all to have mercy upon those less fortunate than yourself – especially during this week, show them compassion and humanity, and give what you can to those who have little.
For this is the true gift of Christmas – that feeling of shared joy and love for our fellow man, that compassion that fills our hearts and ennobles all of us. Rejoice, brothers! Christmas is nearly here!
Let’s have a little mood music from For King & Country to set the stage:
I really love that song. I played it nearly non-stop last Christmas – the second verse, in particular, really hits the feels hard. The whole thing brings tears of joy to the eyes of even the hardest of men.
#BasedTucker is based:
Even by #BasedTucker‘s high standards, this next rant is EPIC beyond measure:
Lots of good stuff from The Male Brain as we go into Christmas. Let’s start with another great video from Firearms Unknown that works the stupidity of gun control into classic fables:
Cracked continues its quest for rehabilitation with a new Honest Ad about so-called “smart” TVs:
I’ve seen one of those so-called “smart” TVs in action – a big-ass 65″ LG OLED thing, which is VERY good at showing an amazing picture, and very, very bad at keeping a stable WiFi connection. Enough said, really – I’ll stick to an Xbox One connected to my TV to connect to Netherflix and Amazog Prime, if I have to, thank you very much.
Here’s a new channel – Food Theory explains whether you can actually survive on just one food for life:
I’m often accused of having a completely one-track diet, which I fail to see as a problem, given that what I eat amounts to huge amounts of meat, fat, and vegetables, with fruits, cheese, and dark chocolate on the side. However, even though I eat literally the same thing every day for breakfast, I would definitely not enjoy having to eat just one food for the rest of my life.
Insider breaks down the underwater action scenes in various hit films and TV series, and rates them for realism – the Navy SEAL involved here is actually pretty savage about Act of Valor, which involved real-life Navy SEALs in the production:
It’s a damned good movie otherwise, though.
Kurtzgesagt – In a Nutshell explains why looking for aliens is a very bad idea:
This lines up pretty well with the possible solution to Fermi’s Paradox that Greg Bear postulated in the novel, The Forge of God, in which electromagnetically “noisy” civilisations advertise themselves into extinction.
The basic implication of the “Dark Forest” theory is that the Universe is, essentially, an impossibly huge version of Australia – where LITERALLY EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES!!!
It’s been quite a while since we’ve had Felix Rex – aka Black Pigeon Speaks – around here, so let’s have his laconic but rather sobering commentary:
Speaking of aliens – yet again, The Babylon Bee continues to report all the news before it happens:
Mark Dice is vastly amused by Cameltoad Harris’s inability to keep her cool when asked a simple, if irreverent, question:
Jason Siler points out that Sen. Mitch McConnell is really just an old-school Daemoncrat in disguise, and I think he’s right:
Bill Whittle and his friend Alfonzo Rachel pontificate on whether the tide is turning in favour of the Right in the ongoing (and very bloody) culture war, or if it’s just their imaginations:
My view is that they are on to something, but it’s far too early to let off the champagne poppers just yet. We’re in for quite a lot of hardship and pain before the regressive Left gets beaten down to a bloody pulp.
Paul Ramsey takes a good hard look at the data concerning migrations and movements of Whites within America, and draws some grim (and entirely warranted) conclusions:
PJW notes that everything we know about the Moronica Strain thus far, is GOOD news:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey examines the long-held mantra of “safe and effective” when it comes to various medicines and treatments:
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan unleashes an epic rant about the stupidity and nonsense behind the not-vaxx “mandates” issued by the Fake President:
The major flaw in Razor’s logic lies in the fact that companies have not waited on the courts to do the right thing and disembowel the ridiculous, extralegal mandates themselves. They have gone ahead and enforced them by proxy anyway – which was the entire point. Biden’s handlers knew all along that the EOs had no authority whatsoever
Joker from Better Bachelor examines an unusual and rather tragic case of a doormat of a woman who lets her boyfriend walk all over her, and manages to muster up some sympathy for her:
The Dizzle can’t quite contain his mirth at the results of his attempts to break Sunnah.com‘s search engine:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his German friend Thomas Alexander synthesise the French and German schools of historical criticism of the Koran:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Dr. Jay Smith unpack another critical textual difference between the Hafs and Warsh Korans:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined explains the true meaning of Christmas:
And Melissa Doherty explains why reincarnation is totally incompatible with Christian theology:
China Uncensored is rather amused by the cynical way in which the Chinese government is exploiting Big Tech against the Pharisatanists – though, of course, they don’t phrase it in quite that manner:
America Uncovered shows that, if you legalise criminal behaviour, you end up getting more crime, not less:
Jared Taylor from American Renaissance points out the fundamental truth that Western “liberal” governments that tear down ancient statues, are every bit as bad as the Taliban:
Terrence Popp holds something of a morbid interest in the southernmost and coldest continent:
Also, if you happen to be one of the world’s most famous PR0N actresses, and you made quite a decent chunk of money banging men (and probably women) on camera, and doing all of the most degrading and disgusting acts imaginable for the pleasure of horny men, and you did it ALL voluntarily, then please don’t waste our time complaining about how hard your life is when you can find any thirsty Beta to knock you up and put a ring on your finger:
Midnight’s Edge break down the reasons why Netherflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation failed so utterly and spectacularly:
When you piss off the extremely loyal fanbase of a relatively obscure but hugely influential phenomenon, then you really have no way to recover from that mistake. This is what doomed Netherflix, and if they don’t learn that lesson, they will keep repeating that mistake.
Admittedly, they do appear capable of making good video game and comic adaptations – Henry Cavill’s work in The Witcher series is testament to this. But they did that by basically casting a nerd, who happens to be a gym beast, into the main role, and by hiring decent writers who RESPECT THE LORE AND THE FANBASE.
By and large, though, Netherflix can’t do adaptations very well, because they keep trying to “improve” on the original. This never works, because “evil cannot create, only corrupt” – as The Master himself once said. And, sadly, we live in a time when The Master’s own work is now being corrupted by Amazog.
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock goes full QAnon in breaking rumours (and possibly wind) that Han Solo might just be making a new appearance in the upcoming series, The Book of Boba Fett – which would spell the death of Queen Karen Kennedy’s evil reign at the House of the Devil Mouse:
Gary from Nerdrotic cannot contain his glee at the way that the latest Spiderman film has exposed the corruption and weakness of the M-She-U:
The Drinker erects the tombstone over the Cowboy Bebop live adaptation, in signature Drunken Scotsman fashion:
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and concerns how much oxygen is actually present within the Lunar soil:
The Moon’s regolith is made up of approximately 45% oxygen. But that oxygen is tightly bound into the minerals mentioned above. In order to break apart those strong bonds, we need to put in energy.
You might be familiar with this if you know about electrolysis. On Earth this process is commonly used in manufacturing, such as to produce aluminium. An electrical current is passed through a liquid form of aluminium oxide (commonly called alumina) via electrodes, to separate the aluminium from the oxygen.
In this case, the oxygen is produced as a byproduct. On the Moon, the oxygen would be the main product and the aluminium (or other metal) extracted would be a potentially useful byproduct.
It’s a pretty straightforward process, but there is a catch: it’s very energy hungry. To be sustainable, it would need to be supported by solar energy or other energy sources available on the Moon.
Extracting oxygen from regolith would also require substantial industrial equipment. We’d need to first convert solid metal oxide into liquid form, either by applying heat, or heat combined with solvents or electrolytes. We have the technology to do this on Earth, but moving this apparatus to the Moon – and generating enough energy to run it – will be a mighty challenge.
Earlier this year, Belgium-based startup Space Applications Services announced it was building three experimental reactors to improve the process of making oxygen via electrolysis. They expect to send the technology to the Moon by 2025 as part of the European Space Agency’s in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) mission.
Your long read of the week is also from Dawn Pine, and looks at a rather critical question from the Israeli point of view:
The problem is that this US assistance will not go to the “Palestinian people”, but to the Palestinian Authority — which will doubtless use a significant portion of it to finance more terrorism. The PA still continues to finance terrorism, through a program often nicknamed “pay for slay“. On May 10, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America published a text explaining that “By Renewing Palestinian Aid, America Is Funding Terrorism”.
Part of the US aid money will go to Gaza, hence to Hamas, still officially designated as a terrorist organization by the State Department. Blinken, bizarrely, seems to see no contradiction between helping an entity governed by a terrorist organization and contributing to its purported “peacebuilding programs”. UNWRA, despite effectively being an employment agency for Hamas terrorists, will thereby again receive US assistance. Many of its premises serve as arms depots for Hamas, but apparently that inconvenient fact has been set aside.
When, in May, the leaders of Hamas, apparently certain that there would be no American reaction, raised tensions in Jerusalem, incited riots on the Temple Mount, and launched a massive missile attack on Israel, the Biden administration for two days did not say a word. On May 13, answering a journalist, Biden simply said, “Israel has a right to defend itself”. The next day, he added, “Palestinians — including in Gaza — and Israelis equally deserve to live in dignity, safety and security”. He did not condemn Hamas, which, by firing on densely populated civilian areas, was committing a war crime; instead, he disingenuously put Hamas and Israel on an equal footing, with no distinction between the aggressor and the victim of that aggression.
On May 17, Biden asked Israel’s Prime Minister not to “destabilize the region”, as if it were Israel that had been guilty of initiating the violence and had no right to defend itself. Hamas and Biden both asked for a cease-fire; however, on May 20, as soon as one was in place, Biden, while quickly reaffirming that Israel did have a right to defend itself, immediately promised to “provide rapid humanitarian assistance and to marshal international support for the people of Gaza and the Gaza reconstruction efforts” — without ever mentioning the damage suffered by Israel.
Since then, the guideline followed by the Biden administration towards Israel appears not to have changed.
Linkage is good for you:
- Ron Unz has a lot of good things to say about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s new book on Anthony Fraudci – I hope I get a chance to read it sometime soon;
- The Kiwi gubmint says that you can have an orgy with up to 25 people – but apparently, once you add a 26th, that becomes unhealthy, somehow…;
- Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan notes that Russia’s ultimatum to the Fake President is not a laughing matter;
- The F-35 Turducken Plane has failed so hard, and so expensively, that the USAF is crash-developing a “Next Generation Air Dominance” fighter to replace both it and its big brother, the F-22 (which actually works);
- This story about an OnlySimps “content creator” who has made millions from thirsty suckers just goes to show that THOT GONNA THOT, no matter how old and wrinkly and disgusting she gets;
- The “Great Resignation” is spurring employers in the West to rethink ways of engaging with their serfs – uh, I mean, employees – and not all of them are too terrible;
- Max Verstappen pipped “Sir” Lewis Hamilton, the Knight of Wokeness, to the F-1 championship in a finale worthy of a TV drama – and it might just have been scripted, too;
- OK, who had “mysterious new disease coming out of the Dark Continent that kills indiscriminately” in the Doomsday Apocalypse Bingo Sweepstakes for December 2021?;
- Google, perhaps the biggest and most culpable pusher of not-vaxx misinformation, is set to fire thousands of its own employees for refusing to get the not-vaxx – how’s that for irony?;
- Some pop-tart named Billie Eilish has made the belated and momentous discovery that AKSHULLY, TEH PR0N is really bad for you – whodathunkit?!?!;
- If you’ve ever dreamed of living in Tokyo, but can’t afford the eye-watering rents involved, then IKEA has a solution in mind for you – though you may not necessarily like the amount of space you get in the process;
- I think that marathons are for masochistic idiots – and this story of a woman who LITERALLY CRAPPED HERSELF and carried on running, just proves my theory;
- The Z-Man is rather amused by the persistent whining and gamesmanship of the cuckservatives who just can’t stand the fact that their movement has been “hijacked” by Hard Right types who reject their core non-values of universalism;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Anyone who has lived in the Ring of Fire can relate to the terror and destruction caused by active volcanoes – unfortunately, they are rather a fact of life out there;
- The Hilldebeast really is like herpes – no matter what you do, you just can’t get rid of her, or her daemonic visage;
- Apparently this woman who wants to cheat on her disabled husband forgot the part in her wedding vows about “in sickness AND in health” – she needs help, not cock;
- OK, who has “massive Solar storm that cripples global communications and infrastructure networks” in the Doomsday Apocalypse Bingo Sweepstakes for January 2022?;
- Just in case you thought Congress wasn’t childish enough, the Gatestone Institute is now offering 10 students a chance to win $10,000 each to write an essay explaining America’s epic debt crisis;
- Dawn Pine would be laughing hysterically at this story about how the Israelis have belatedly realised that the Coof doesn’t affect kids very much, if it weren’t for the fact that it’s HIS country in question;
- It’s not always good to keep things in the family, when “things” means “cock”, and “in the family” means “your sister” – just mentioning that kind of thing is disgusting, seriously;
- Jason L. Riley wrote a biography of one of the greatest living Americans, Dr. Thomas Sowell, and apparently it’s really rather good;
The Neo-Tsar has a lot of very sensible things to say about the current state of globalist corporatism that masquerades as “capitalism”:
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is none other than General George S. “Blood & Guts” Patton, who died this week:
HALO Infinite appears to be very much living up to its stated aim of restoring faith in the franchise:
And here is the original HALO theme, sung by really-for-real Gregorian monks – this is perhaps the best version of the theme ever recorded, it sends real chills down your spine because of the power and beauty of the music:
Now let’s watch Mint Blitz do his thing:
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Pics, guns, girls, starting with a meme from The Male Brain that will get us Hard Right Christians severely cheesed off, in a good way:
Onward:
Headlines of the week indicate that most men have their priorities QUITE straight:
Your “Thong Song” moment of the week:
Your “That Explains A LOT About British Politics” moment of the week:
Your “Serves Remoaners Right” moment of the week:
Your “Excuses, Excuses” moment of the week:
Your “Deadly Serious” moment of the week:
Your “I Yam Wot I Yam” moment of the week:
Your “ROLL TIDE!” moment of the week:
This next one strikes me as an eminently sensible solution looking for a problem:
Your “Munching the Munchies” moment fo the week:
Your “I SAID GOOD DAY, SIR!” moment of the week:
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
Gym beast props this week go to Russel Orhii, again – because the way he trains is BADASS:
Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster has some rather interesting thoughts to add on the back of Julianna Pena‘s huge upset win over Amanda Nunes:
Jesus loves knockouts:
#HeavyMetalLullaby
And after all of those shots, here’s the final chaser – your Instathot to get the week off to a good start. She is Olga De Mar, or, to use her actual name, Olga Marackovska, age 30, born and raised in Latvia and now based in Milan. She is a legitimate model with quite a solid portfolio of advertising shoots for brands like Calvin Klein and Barbachowski, and magazines like ELLE Bulgaria. (Blessed if I know the first flippin’ thing about what any of that means.) She appears to be quite multilingual, judging by her fluency in Russian – likely a legacy of Latvia’s occupation by the Russians during the USSR period.
OK, chaps, that’s it, back to work, enough lollygaggin’. We’ve all got a whole lot of crap to shovel this week – though I have to say, I’m delighted that Christmas is just around the corner – so let’s put the work in now and avoid having to deal with the stench later on, when we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour.
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I’m a filthy Papist (except that I hate our current antipope with a fiery burning passion, since he’s just another Marxist wearing the church as a skinsuit while demanding respect), and one thing they say at Mass during the consecration has been bugging me lately. The priest will call Jesus a “spotless victim.” Spotless I agree with, but “victim” implies a harm done that was unexpected or unwanted. In the sense that he probably would have preferred to NOT have been crucified, Christ was indeed a victim. But he knew damn well what was going to happen to him, and he went through with it anyway for all of our sakes. To me, those are the actions of a HERO, not a victim. I wouldn’t consider a soldier who fell on a grenade to save his buddies’ lives a victim, and I don’t consider our Lord one either.
Also, the word “victim” has become a loaded term in our glorious modren age. I don’t like associating Christ with the same kinds of people who freak out about microaggressions.
You should check out Dan Vasc’s version of the witcher’s theme song ‘toss a coin to your witcher’
Friggin awesome. Dan Vasc puts about ten times the soul and energy into his singing of anyone else I’ve seen. Super talented, and he seems to enjoy it too.