December 24, 2023

None of this matters....

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It ain't over 'til it's over....

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One day you're here...

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And the next day you're gone...

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57 comments:

Flat Tire said...

Merry Christmas to Ann, Meade and all their followers. You all mean a lot to me.

Aggie said...

A Very Merry Christmas to you and yours Ms. Althouse and many happy returns for 2024.

Dave Begley said...

Merry Christmas to each and every one of you!

“The Boys in the Boat” is the perfect underdog movie. And almost entirely true. 10/10

The script is better than my “Frankenstein, Part II.”

Congrats to director George Clooney. A triumph!

Bunkypotatohead said...

I was born there but have never been back.
All those pics you've been posting look like a city in decline.

Scott Patton said...

Merry Christmas

Old and slow said...

Some days are worse than others. I wish all of you the best.

Mike of Snoqualmie said...

Merry Christmas to Ann, Meade and all of the althouse commenters!

Drago said...

From X:

"An Arab blogger @hodajannat writes:

- Suddenly we discovered that Gaza, which is inhabited by 2 million people... has 36 hospitals
There are Arab countries with 30 million citizens and do not have this number of hospitals.

- Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was getting water, electricity, gas, and fuel for free from Israel.
Of course, there is no Arab citizen who does not pay water, electricity and fuel bills.

- Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was receiving $30 million a month from Qatar alone
And $120 million a month from UNRWA
And $50 million a month from the European Union
And 30 million dollars a month from America.
There are Arab countries drowning in debt and cannot find anyone to help them, even with one million dollars.

- Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was not besieged, and all goods were entering it, as were foreigners and people of foreign nationalities. Its residents were traveling to Egypt and from there to the rest of the world, and Fafo is the biggest example.

- Suddenly we discovered that Gaza was living better than many Arab countries...and its people were living better than many Arab peoples.

- Suddenly...we discovered that our minds were besieged by a programmed lie...by the (Muslim) Brotherhood media."

Joe Smith said...

'And the next day you're gone...'

YOUR GONE.

Didn't you just want to get a Sharpie and fix it?

TickTock said...

Merry Christmas all, and to all a goodnight.

Jupiter said...

Now your smile is wearing thin.

planetgeo said...

Merry Christmas to everyone here at the best blog in the still best country in the world.

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Merry Christmas to Althouse and her family and to all who stop by here.

Kate said...

Merry Christmas!

Also, why do Jesus' hands look sudsy?

wendybar said...

Merry Christmas everybody...I'll just leave you with this thought....

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

What kind of monstrous dictatorship bans a candidate who wants to seek office from appearing on the ballot?

I shudder to think what it must be like to be a citizen of such a country.



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4:17 PM · Dec 23, 2023

rehajm said...

All those pics you've been posting look like a city in decline

I have to agree. Less like a city where there’s vibrancy and investment and the advancement of human culture and more….immature, like school kids built a fort…

rehajm said...

Happy Christmas even if you hate it…

mezzrow said...

Merry Christmas to our gracious host and those she loves, as well as to the menagerie that gathers here to vent and spew.

May you all continue to receive fruits and nuts in an endless procession.

typingtalker said...

Art!

I suggest making large archival photographic prints. Then you and/or your heirs can have a big travelling show so the next generation(s) can learn about us. Or some of us.

typingtalker said...

One day youre here and the next day your gone.

Proving that the apostrophe is overrated.

wendybar said...

"The state" owns your children...

KEY POINTS
Key Quotes from Lashuana, Managing Director of Planned Parenthood, Kansas City, Missouri

"We never tell the parents anything.”

“They will bypass without the parents. You just have to make sure you tell them that when you call.”

“And we can cut off our letterhead, so it doesn't even say where she was.”

“Trust me, this is not our first rodeo.”

“We could give the doctor's note to where the school, it doesn't matter if the school agrees or not, we say that she was at the doctor. They have to take it.”

“They have people that'll come pick them [minor] up. They have people that will pay for the whole thing.”


https://www.projectveritas.com/news/planned-parenthood-part-one

Breezy said...

Merry Christmas!!

Kevin said...

Also, why do Jesus' hands look sudsy?

Purell.

Humperdink said...

Did anyone see President Biden's Christmas message? I must have missed it. Maybe KJP will read it from her binder later today.

wendybar said...

Humperdink said...
Did anyone see President Biden's Christmas message? I must have missed it. Maybe KJP will read it from her binder later today.

12/25/23, 6:22 AM

He's too busy with Hunter and his family in St Croix at some rich donors mansion to care about America. Another vacation for the grifters in the White House.

lonejustice said...

Last January my wife and I spent a week in Bogota, Columbia. There are many amazing and beautiful street murals in parts of the old city where we stayed. You can google them.

Well, it's Christmas morning now, so I'll just leave you with a quote:

“Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!” – Dr. Seuss

Humperdink said...

"Proving that the apostrophe is overrated."

I agree, but I prefer to call it efficiency.

Lilly, a dog said...

Merry Christmas to all of you wonderful people.

I'm watching "A Karate Christmas Miracle" on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYj4nZE89ww

It's #6 on the Bad Movie Bible's Top 10 Good Bad Christmas Movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkNX8ByXCps

The Crack Emcee said...

Xmas (Another Year Without The Birthday Boy)

The Crack Emcee said...

“When 2.5 million people live in a closed off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will be even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.”

- Arnon Soffer (2006) Haifa University demographer, also known as 'Arnon the Arab Counter' for his obsession with the 'demographic threat' supposedly posed by the births of Palestinians. (His last name, soffer, means 'someone who counts' in Hebrew.)

Humperdink said...

How was the US able to grow and flourish for 200+ years or so without hate crime (read: thought police) legislation?

The Crack Emcee said...

Humperdink said...

"How was the US able to grow and flourish for 200+ years or so without hate crime (read: thought police) legislation?"

It abused blacks at will.

narciso said...

I dont think we'll make it as far as Rome did about 300 years

Tank said...

Merry Christmas to all!

Rusty said...

Merry Christmas! Ann and Meade and your families. I hope you are all together and enjoying each others company.

Drago said...

I couldn't help but notice that Hamas 7th Century Deathcult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y has failed to provide an update on his interactions that he claims to have had each year at a local synagogue where he claims he is a volunteer.

Naturally, my assumption is that Li'l Crack-y is not quite at the "choose suicide vest as your clothing item of choice for your next "visit the Jews" event" stage of his conversion....yet.

So an update regarding this years Li'l Crack-y / Synagogue members discussions should be fascinating!

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

If you Deny Oct 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorist massacre ... you must also deny the holocaust.. right?

btw- the death cult Hamas filmed their brutality on Oct 7th. It's all there to watch if you can stomach it. We suppose the Hamas supporters deny this as well.

Crack - please go back to your white left Biden plantation. Biden deserves your support.


Dude1394 said...

Austin is two cities, the old town, downtown and Austin proper where it strives to be "weird". The phrase keep Austin weird is taken kinda seriously. Then there is the Austin metro area that is literally blowing up. It is now pretty much a solid town from Austin to San Antonio. Nothing in decline about it.

Blogger Bunkypotatohead said...
I was born there but have never been back.
All those pics you've been posting look like a city in decline.

12/24/23, 8:31 PM

"The current metro area population of Austin in 2023 is 2,228,000, a 2.39% increase from 2022. The metro area population of Austin in 2022 was 2,176,000, a 2.79% increase from 2021. The metro area population of Austin in 2021 was 2,117,000, a 3.12% increase from 2020."

tim in vermont said...

they have a plan to control everything we are allowed to know: https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/1739330172430475456

The Crack Emcee said...

I stand w Isreal. Leftists, Mullahs, Hamas-Palistinian terrorists can suck it said...

"If you Deny Oct 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorist massacre ... you must also deny the holocaust.. right?"

You're engaging in pretzel logic. Plus, nobody denies Oct 7.

"btw- the death cult Hamas filmed their brutality on Oct 7th. It's all there to watch if you can stomach it."

I've watched everything, and nothing is as you and other Zionists say - and you've provided nothing to substantiate it.

"Crack - please go back to your white left Biden plantation. Biden deserves your support."

More pretzel logic: how does standing against Zionism equal supporting Biden - Zionism's Best Friend?

Fanaticism makes you goofy.

MadisonMan said...

That "your gone" painting would bug me to the extreme. I'm glad I don't have to see that every day.

narciso said...

https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1739362934088732775

MadTownGuy said...

Kate said...

"Merry Christmas!

Also, why do Jesus' hands look sudsy?
"

The original artwork was Dürer's "Praying Hands" - said to have been sketched from his brother's hands, and used in a tryptich of an apostle.

To me, it's a commercial for the COVID ritual hand washing, akin to the mandatory face coverings prescribed by St. Fauci.

Mason G said...

"The phrase keep Austin weird is taken kinda seriously."

Strive to conform to weirdness? How revolutionarily counterculturish can one city be?

narciso said...

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/hamas-rejects-egyptian-ceasefire-plan-requiring-relinquishing-gaza-control-sinwar-says-crushed-idf/

mikee said...

Six of my Austin house builds in East Austin were accomplished within about a mile of that giant Hello Kitty in Tatsuya Ramen restaurant lobby. And I enjoyed eating there, and recommend it highly to any Austin visitors.

As for Austin being a city in decline, the pictures on which you base that are taken in sections of the city undergoing gentrification, with a change from small stores and 900sqft family houses to new restaurants and 2500sqft new houses, with a 1100sqft ADU out back (Additional Dwelling Unit, where an old worn out house is demolished, the lot is split in 2, and two houses are built, each with its own property lines and separate utilities. Gentrification gets more people noticing the places that were in a poor section of town, and if those places look like they are in decline, that is because they are ready for replacement.

Go drive through Baltimore. That is a city in decline. Try to avoid carjackers and gang shootings.

Static Ping said...

Merry Christmas, Ann.

Drago said...

Hey Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y, where is that update regarding this years Li'l Crack-y / Synagogue members discussions?

Since you have declared you "dominate every thread" that you participate in at Althouse blog in true Dunning-Kruger fashion, I cant wait to hear how you transformed all those Zionists into pro-Hamas warriors!

Dont hold back out of humility now! (Wink wink) Give us all the details!

The Crack Emcee said...

Drago said...

"Hey Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y, where is that update regarding this years Li'l Crack-y / Synagogue members discussions?"

All of my friends know where I stand, so I don't know what your sick mind's imagining. A few days ago, after complimenting my album, a Jewish friend mentioned I now live near "Yo-semite-y" - and I replied, "Jew Betcha" - then we laughed. And that's been the extent of our "discussions." That's how civilized people get along.

But you baby killers wouldn't know anything about that.

Drago said...

Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y: "All of my friends know where I stand,"

LOL

Yes, I'm sure you showed all your jewish "friends" all of your psycho pro-Hamas posts from Althouse blog, didn't you?

Just who do you think you are fooling?

Too funny.

The Crack Emcee said...

Drago said...

"Yes, I'm sure you showed all your jewish "friends" all of your psycho pro-Hamas posts from Althouse blog, didn't you?"

You seriously think this is the only social media outlet I use? What's wrong with you? I not only have Jewish friends but I also have a blog and everybody knows it. And do you seriously think other people are racist freaks, like you, constantly goading and degrading one another? No, that's just here, and how you are, when in the presence of your backwards, racist white baby-killing friends. (I'm sure you'd change your tune, and would be a lot more polite, around more blacks - who do you think you're fooling?). I'm a public person without much of a filter. No matter who I talk to. You have a reputation for lying - or are you going to produce that evidence of me saying I know about Command and Control Centers? That's the difference between us.

Merry Christmas.

The Crack Emcee said...

Drago,

Here's my Christmas Day blog post featuring the Chief Spokesman for Hamas. If I'm trying to hide my sympathies from anyone, I'm not doing a very good job of it.

Now - seriously - what's your problem? Why do you constantly suspect me of something? Why do lie on me? Why shouldn't I call you a racist in the face of your behavior? I've never done anything to you. Wouldn't know you from Adam if you weren't so obnoxious. So the question is why? What isa major malfunction? Why can't you leave me alone? Why can't you ever give me the benefit of the doubt? Why must I liver under your tutelage? We don't agree - why can't we not agree and you go with your life? Why am I such a focus for you when you ain't shit to me? I don't know you. I don't respect you. I don't like you. Why am I burdened with you?

You seriously atrike me as a sick and troubled individual.

Drago said...

Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y: "You seriously atrike me as a sick and troubled individual."

Being called "sick and troubled" by a Hamas Fanboy who claimed slavery, murder and lying (yes, lying!) were "invented" by white people is a badge I am happy to wear with honor.

There is someone "sick and troubled" here alright....

BTW, did you tell your Jewish "friends" they are Zionist murderers and that Israel is a failed, white, colonial effort?

LOL

You know you didnt!

Drago said...

Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanboy Li'l Crack-y: "I'm sure you'd change your tune, and would be a lot more polite, around more blacks - who do you think you're fooling?)..."

LOL

I dont think a scrapping Vallejo boy like myself needs any racial lectures from frisco wuss wuss laddies like you.

Too funny. Look at you, working so hard to put everyone into categories your little Hamas suckup brain understands and you think gives you some sort of morale high ground.

No wonder you bit so hard on the Hamas hook. You are just as big a sucker as every New Ager that ever lived.

Drago said...

And by the way Li'l Crack-y, Vallejo has long been identified as one of the most diverse cities in the US.

So you can also shove that little factoid up your moronic west bay arse as well.

The Crack Emcee said...

Drago,

We're done.

Drago said...

Hamas 7th Century Death Cult Fanbou Li'l Crack-y: "Drago, We're done."

LOL

Nope.