and all through the house . . . Well, at least I'm starting to feel a little human again. Whatever flu this bugger is, it's a mean one. On my second day Georgia suggested I ask the doctor if I could get Tamiflu. The doc said it only works against types A and B flu, and asked had I tested. Well, no, but we went to the store and got a test for A, B and Covid. Negative for all three, so we'll just have to wait it out. After a week, Gabby is still getting high fevers and Georgia and I occasionally show low ones. Yesterday, my chest was so sore from coughing I could barely move. Today I feel a lot better, if not really well.
Capt. Ed at Hat Hair says Sacre Bleu! Macron Steams After US Bars Censorship-Happy EU Officials. Althouse, "The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose." "Said Marco Rubio, quoted in "'Witch hunt': Ex-EU commissioner Breton denounces U.S. visa ban targeting ‘censorship'" (CNBC)." Ace, Trump Begins Sanctioning EU Officials For Attempting to Impose Communist/Sharia-Compliant Censorship on Americans "The EU believes it can sanction everyone in the world -- but may not be sanctioned themselves. Their beliefs are gay and retarded." Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne, "Everyone freaking out over European sanctions today simply hasn't done the reading. What is happening now is the resolution of a 60-year-old question that the world has not (yet) answered: in a world where law is confined to borders, who gets to write the laws of the Internet?"
Hat Hair's Beege Welborn says 'All Your Oil Tanker Are Belong to U.S.' CHRISTMAS DAY UPDATE: Bella 1 Belongs to U.S. A third sanctioned oil tanker was captured.
Capt. Ed hears NEW: Zelensky, Putin Inching Up to Possible Deal? Color me skeptical. From Sundance at CTH, Memos of Conversations Between George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin Are Released "I know it’s Christmas, but bookmark or review as time allows, because the content is very interesting and very important. As early as 2001 and 2008, President Putin clearly told President Bush of his opposition to Ukraine’s accession to NATO, along with other key positions."WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela pic.twitter.com/xCJjDP2oY3
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PJM's Stephen Kruiser sees Trump's Economy Delivers Some Early Christmas Joy. Ace, Trump Reaches the 50% Approval Mark in One Poll. "It is very rare for modern presidents to ever have majority support. Even Obama, who the media told me was a transformational figure that everyone loved (Except Racists (TM)) spent his entire presidency at 43-45% approval. Insider Advantage says that Trump's at 50%." Jen O'Connell at RedState has Hot Takes: The Trump Admin's 'Merry Christmas' X Posts Set the Gold Standard on Political Greetings. Don Surber says It’s Trump’s world, we just live in it. "Honduras elects a president endorsed by our favorite American president."
Capt. Ed has Great News: We Have Another Week of Epstein Files Disclosures. Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "Because it’s in the file. They were required to release everything in the file. The fact that there’s garbage in the file is one of the reasons they didn’t want to release it, but it was very important to release everything so this is everything. Glad I could help." Quote Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree "Okay. So then why would DOJ publicly release something that's fake? Your answers please. x.com/TheJusticeDept…" Steven R. Fields@stevenrfields "And the idiot congress critters that sponsored the bill wrote it so broadly that they’ll probably release post-it-notes before this is over. So now the same oxygen thieves (@RoKhanna I’m looking at you) are complaining that they really only wanted certain documents. Theatre." Kurt Schlichter at TownHall thinks Conspiracy Theorists Are Conspiring to Be Stupid "Let’s look at the Epstein files. Does someone think that Epstein sat there and typed up a list of his victims and a monologue detailing his nefarious deeds, like some Bond villain explaining his whole plan to 007 before sending him off somewhere to be killed, thereby facilitating his escape? And does anyone imagine that if Joe Biden’s DOJ had even the hint of Donald Trump mingling with jailbait that wouldn’t have been on the front page of The New York Times in 2015 or thereafter? To even start with the Trump/Epstein conspiracy theory, you must begin by refusing to acknowledge these most obvious and basic facts. It’s not an auspicious beginning, and that’s why no one but fools were shocked that the newly open files were so free of incriminating material on Trump that the nuts and liars had to either start creating incriminating photos or pretending that Trump cavorting with Hawaiian Tropic models was some sort of scandal rather than another reason he’s awesome."
Hans Mahnke at Da Fed thinks that 5 Years Too Late, Fulton County Proves Trump’s Call To Raffensperger Right. "If nothing comes of Fulton County’s admission, the implication will be that election laws can be treated as optional rather than binding." I thought that was already pretty well established by the 2020 election.
From Ace, Over 100 Minnesota Mayors Declare That Tim Walz Has Bankrupted the State With Unchecked Fraud and Rampant Spending; Tim Walz Blames "White Supremacy" "The article says 98 mayors signed up to this letter, but now more than 100 have signed it." RedState's Sister Toldja sees Coal Dumped in Gavin Newsom's Christmas Stocking After Latest Announcement on Eradicating Homelessness. Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton, "“Homelessness is my #1 priority” - Gavin Newsom, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025" The more they subsidize it, the worse it gets. Whoda thunk?
Matt Vespa hears Progressive Dems Don't Seem Eager for Another Government Shutdown...for Now. Because the last one worked out so well for them. Maybe they are capable of turning away from pain, like a flatfish.
At Althouse, "Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer." "Wrote Ben Sasse, quoted in "Republican former senator Ben Sasse says he has terminal cancer/The 53-year-old — who was one of a handful of Republicans to speak out against Trump during his first term — said in a lengthy social media post he has Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and suggested he doesn’t have long to live" (WaPo)." Amy Curtis at TownHall thinks Eric Swalwell Just United the Internet in Hating His Post About Sasse's Cancer Diagnosis. Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell, "How can someone so good like Ben Sasse be stricken with something so bad like pancreatic cancer? Life’s unfair. Terribly so. But that’s why we can’t allow the proposed 40% cut to cancer funding. 2 out of 5 of us will be told one day, “I’m sorry. You have cancer.” Let’s make that not a death sentence, but a chance to live decades more." Frankly, I would have expected worse. Sarah Anderson at PJM wonders Is This the Most Disgusting Thing Alec Baldwin Has Ever Said? It's a high bar, for sure. "What it’s done to my health. I mean, if I told you what my health conditions have been since October 21st of 2021 — it’s taken 10 years off my life," he said. “It’s taken at least 10 years off my life."
News Wax reports US Murder Rate Headed for Record 1-Year Drop.
PJM's Cathy Salgado thinks it's Outrageous: Boasberg Demands Trump Return 130+ Terrorist Illegals to U.S. Shipwreckedcrew, DOJ's "Sand In The Gears" of Judge Boasberg's Planned Hearing To Take Testimony On Alleged Contempt By DHS Sec. Noem "Including a "mini-lawsplainer" on the odd process of a "criminal contempt" trial -- the late Justice Scalia viewed them as an unconstitutional usurpation of Executive power by the Judicial Branch." Matt Vespa sees NBC News Pushes Pity Piece for Judges Who Have Ruled Against Trump. I mean, who doesn't like pizza? From Shooting News Week, DOJ Sues District of Columbia Over Gun Ban in Move to Fully the Enforce the Heller, McDonald and Bruen Rulings.
Jen O'Connell warns Don't Pop the Champagne Just Yet - Bush Admin Alum Warns JB Pritzker Over SCOTUS Nat'l Guard Decision "John Yoo, attorney and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General under the George W. Bush administration, had a possibly different interpretation of this SCOTUS decision. Yoo appeared on Fox News' America Reports and surmised that the decision may not mean what Pritzker and others think it means. "YOO: But the statute says, the President has to be unable to enforce the law with regular forces. What does regular forces mean? We don't know, the Supreme Court has never decided this question before yesterday. The Supreme Court now says, regular forces means you have to try with the regular armed forces first before you bring out the National Guard."" Nick Sortor @nicksortor, " LMAO! The Democrat lawfare against President Trump may now BACKFIRE, resulting in MARINES being sent into Chicago instead of National Guard SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard MARINES are “regular forces” JB Pritzker messed up."
Dept of the Treasury, FinCEN Announces Data-Driven Border Operation to Address Potential Money Laundering “At President Trump’s direction, the Treasury Department is utilizing all tools to stop terrorist cartels, drug traffickers, and human smugglers,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “This sweeping operation will help root out potential cartel-related money laundering from the U.S. financial system.” Leslie Eastman at LI notes California Races to Sign Up as Many Illegal Aliens as Possible for Medi-Cal before 2026 Deadline "The quest for new Medi-Cal participants may prove difficult…as California’s immigration rates have plunged after the enormous success of the Trump administration’s border control efforts." I wonder how much the state of California takes as "overhead." Hat Hair's Dave Strom looks at What the Left Leaves Out When They Call Trump's Policies 'Cruel.'
Nick Arama at RedState says Cue the Meltdowns: Bari Weiss Dropping the Hammer With Big Changes After '60 Minutes' Story Fiasco and This Disgusting Take on Spiking of '60 Minutes' Story Shows Dems Have Truly Gone Off the Rails. Twitchy, Disgusting: Julie Roginsky Goes Full Hitler on Bari Weiss. Dave Strom thinks Bari Should Fire Them! The Hill @thehill, "Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger cancels Paramount subscription over Bari Weiss, ’60 minutes’ drama." Zough Lina @GodisKing2024, "Hey clowns, he also canceled it back in July ! @thehill is just another propaganda machine for the left. When they don’t have real news, they run with garbage." David Zweig @davidzweig "This fake narrative that Weiss has no journalism experience is what’s “absurd,” Dan. Under her editorship, TFP has published countless straight news articles, including in-depth investigations. The left’s fixation on Weiss is bizarre. It’s like TDS but now WDS." Quote Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer. "Bari Weiss has never really worked as a journalist. She is an opinion writer who runs an opinion Substack. The idea that she has insights that supersede those of the journalists at 60 Minutes is absurd." Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "You don’t need a degree in journalism to do journalism, but it’s worth noting that doing this would violate the first rule you learn in the first class you would take, and I assume many @60Minutes folks took those classes. Just the most basic stuff." Quote Maxwell Meyer @mualphaxi, "The Axios reporting makes very clear that Bari was totally correct in pulling the segment. The hacks who put it together just straight up refused to report what the US Government said in response, and then made it sound like they had refused to comment!" Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "The left will never accept that people they disagree with have earned their success. It's always some largesse from a larger, richer boogeyman that props them up." Quote Ben Rhodes @brhodes "Bari Weiss has made a career out of appealing to a handful of oligarchs by affirming their position and delegitimizing opposition. Perfect for our authoritarian moment." Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger, ""60 Minutes" — Manipulated segment to hide Kamala's unintelligible comments on Gaza days before 2024 election. — Falsely accused DeSantis of "pay-to-play" in 2021. — Falsely claimed Hunter Biden laptop could not be verified days before 2020 election. Adult supervision needed." FrugalBC @BC_Kowalski, "It’s crazy. She’s literally doing an editor’s job. Everyone in media has been through it and yeah, it sucks having a story held. But that’s the job. You act like an adult and suck it up." Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, "It's going to be extremely enlightening to see who out there in media journo land objects to this." Quote "Mediagazer @mediagazer, "Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures (@sarafischer / Axios) https://axios.com/2025/12/23/bari-weiss-cbs-news-60-minutes http://mediagazer.com/251223/p7#a251" Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate, "Big downgrade. With the Gaza war done and a huge drop of Epstein slop, there’s very little content for the grist mill so everyone will have to feign outrage about ‘Bari Weiss’ doing something or other until a better topic pops up." Quote The Atlantic @TheAtlantic, "Bari Weiss has “a curiously narrow definition of free speech”—one in which free speech means whatever conservatives want to say, Adam Serwer argues.3p7"
Driscoll at Insty, GIRLS WILL BE BOYS AND BOYS WILL BE GIRLS. IT’S A MIXED UP, MUDDLED UP, SHOOK UP WORLD, EXCEPT FOR LOLA: Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey, "This man killed both of his parents and then tried to kill his brother. But People Magazine thinks it’s of the utmost importance to use preferred pronouns." Hat Hair's John Sexton hears Blue States Sue Trump Administration Over Gender Affirming Care.
Driscoll at Insty, GIRLS WILL BE BOYS AND BOYS WILL BE GIRLS. IT’S A MIXED UP, MUDDLED UP, SHOOK UP WORLD, EXCEPT FOR LOLA: Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey, "This man killed both of his parents and then tried to kill his brother. But People Magazine thinks it’s of the utmost importance to use preferred pronouns." Hat Hair's John Sexton hears Blue States Sue Trump Administration Over Gender Affirming Care.
Twitchy notices Politico's Even MORE Annoying European Bureau Claims the 'Far Right' Is 'Stealing' Christmas. To be fair the Far Left doesn't want it. And Get Christ Out of Christmas? Atheists Gets Their Tinsel in a Twist When Sarah Huckabee Sanders Refuses.
From Campus Reform, Georgetown professor says he works with 'stupid white people' as undercover video shows "In an undercover video taken by Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, Georgetown University Professor Jonathan Franklin called conservatives like Clarence Thomas and Candace Owens 'c***s.'" Twitchy says They're Coming for Your Kids: MN's New 'Ethnic Studies' Program Is a Woke Indoctrination NIGHTMARE. Amy Curtis at TownHall, A Student Was Killed During Class — Now the School District Is Hiding the Suspect’s Discipline Record.
Still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.24.25 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Stuck In The Ruts up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.
