Boo.and merry Christmas.

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Handel’s Messiah from the Sydney Opera House

Recommend scrolling forward 1:30 to start in order to avoid ruining the spirit of the day.

Wishing all commenters and lurkers here at NewCat the very best for this Christmas season. May there be magic. May there be music. May there be many new and lovely memories made no matter how you celebrate the day.

I’m going into my first Christmas Day in 40 years where someone else is decorating, prepping, cooking, serving and cleaning up. It’s going to be epic, and apart from the bill, painless.

Joy to the World, and thanks Dover for your efforts over the year culminating in your truly magnificent choice of artwork for today.

“The chorus of boos tells them loud and clear they’re not wanted.”

But how were they even allowed to get near the stage? Compromised security hamas supporters?

Thanks Tom. And a very merry Christmas to you, in gratitude for your early morning labours.

Please

Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel to all my fellow littermates. It is indeed a cheerful day in Outer Goulburnia. The Grandies sent pix last night of them having fun on the beach and, miracle of miracles! the pups slept through the night and I was able to usher them out before they dropped their loads on the floor. Yay!

Have a blessed day everyone. 😀 😀 😀

ooops from the old thread

Merry Christmas to all gatti e gattine and thank you to dover_beach for this haven of discussion and sanity for the most part — the sun is making a valiant attempt to come out behind the clouds, however, whatever the weather I am celebrating the birthday of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I believe in his goodness and that of
His faithful followers. May his message of truth continue to survive and thrive and to bring light unto a darkening world.

Happy Christmas, Cats and Kittehs.

Meanwhile in Milan…

😀

Dot fyi Stake organizes W8 BEN form for US dividends.

Withholding tax
There is a 30% withholding tax on dividend payments in the U.S. This is reduced to 15% after the completion of a W-8BEN form, which Stake arranges on your behalf when you make your first deposit on Stake Wall St.

Black Ball,
bad luck about the power. Do you have enough ice to keep the booze cold?
Priorities. 😀

Merry Christmas to all Cats! Sadly the news hasn’t been merry, with report of another attempted attack on a cathedral overnight.

Several Suspected Islamists Arrested over Christmas Terror Attack Plot on Cologne Cathedral (24 Dec)

Several suspected Islamist terrorists have been arrested in Germany and Austria over alleged planned attacks during the Christmas holiday season including at the Cologne Cathedral, which was searched by police with explosive-sniffing dogs on Saturday evening.

According to a report from Bild, Germany’s largest-circulation newspaper, police have arrested several suspected terrorists said to be from Tajikstan

Attacks on churches and cathedrals by lefties and muslims seem very likely to continue, so be vigilant and careful.

Merry Christmas Cats and Kittehs!

Hope your power comes back on soon, BB. Bummer, on this of all days.

Looks like a wet Christmas coming up here as well.

That’s a good find milt. I won’t be looking at US stocks for a bit though.

Merry Christmas everyone.

For tradition.

It’s Christmas, the BEST time of the Year. Merry Christmas to all Cats and their families and especially dover- many thanks to for giving us this place.

“What did y’all receive?”

Woke up to the usual tedious ‘acknowledgement of country’. No-one wants it, but the ABC just can’t let it go.

Merry Christmas to all on the Cat, may the New Year bring you good tidings and prosperity.

Ding Dong every one. In case you forgot, ya gotta love those frocks.

At least the power’s still on here- been thinking about a backup lead-acid battery + inverter

Merry Christmas!!

More interesting developments in renewables (spit).

Stop wind farm ‘free-for-all’: Brown (Paywallian, 22 Dec)

Bob Brown has turned on sections of the wind industry, accusing some developers of “profiteering” from climate change and not caring about the planet, while warning the wind rush risks accelerating extinctions.

Federal Judge Sides with Osage Nation, Orders Removal Of 84 Wind Turbines (23 Dec)

The Osage Nation won a massive ruling in Tulsa federal court on Wednesday that requires Enel to dismantle a 150-megawatt wind project it built in Osage County despite the tribe’s repeated objections. The tribe’s fight against Rome-based Enel began in 2011 and is the longest-running legal battle over wind energy in American history.
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Judge Choe-Graves’ decision is a huge win for tribal members like Tommy Daniels, who have long pushed for the removal of the wind turbines. “If I had the power, boom!, they’d be gone,” Daniels said in an interview I did with him last year in Fairfax. Daniels is one of the last full-blood Osages. The wind project “kills birds, like eagles, I don’t like that,” he added.

Bob Brown has also been concerned about eagle deaths from the Robbins Island project, which he has been opposing. All in all it’s nice to see this issue starting to be taken seriously, since the hypocrisy of the windmill proponents has been gob smacking. If they got fined for bird deaths the way oil companies do the entire wind industry would be ended overnight. Whereas oil companies have been cleaning up their acts there’s no way to stop the carnage either, the problem is inherent in wind turbine technology.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-says-army-will-soon-end-ground-operation-3rd-phase-war

“The Israeli army is preparing to move to the third phase of the fighting in Gaza in the coming weeks,” the Israeli broadcaster said. This is to involve “ending the ground operation in the Strip, reducing forces, and demobilizing reserve forces.”

If this is true, then as predicted, Hamas will have won by outlasting the will of Israel. It will still exist in Gaza, which is the definition of victory for insurgents, and Israel will have ‘gone home’ which is the definition of failure for governments.

And what will have been achieved? – Massive destruction and death in gaza, which will have birthed many more insurgents, and a concomitant drawdown of Israeli good will around the world.

In a written complaint against the airline, the independent MP said he was angered to hear no holiday music with faith-based messages while sitting in a Qantas Club during a flight delay.

Not surprising really since Qantas is fully woke. There’s less and less tolerance of Christianity by progressives.

Carry On Carolling! Why Bizarre Warnings About Christmas Customs Should Be Ignored (25 Dec)

In November 2017, a CBS News story began with, “Christmas music may take mental toll, psychologist says.” Within days, a Fox News report echoed, “Christmas music is bad for your mental health, British psychologist says.”

The same irrational warnings have been repeated year after year. In 2019, a Fox 32 Chicago headline read, “Christmas music can negatively impact your mental health, psychologist suggests.” … A January 2022 Psychology Today column by London-based psychiatric consultant Rafa Eufa led with: “Christmas Is Over. What a Relief!
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It’s clear that Christian customs have become less welcome in the public square, and the left has developed a particular dislike for the celebration of Christmas.

Well if you don’t like Christmas, woke peoples, all I can say that I detest Lenin’s Birthday oops Earth Day likewise. And that wretched stuff is being shoved down our throats every single day of the year, not just one day of it.

Did the French honour export contracts [Dijon] over domestic suppliers perhaps?

Made in China.

Thanks Roger- fascinating

Merry Christmas to all the cats, kittehs and lurkers. Hope Santa brought you everything you wanted.

Special thanks to Dover for maintaining the blog, and to Tom for the cartoons.

will have birthed many more insurgents,

so all those peaceable happy moslems will turn into murderers, torturers and rapists?

ya think?

That’s right, will. They were going to be birthed, anyway. It’s the Pallie way.

https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/580618/Victorian-Renewable-energy-zones-development-plan-directions-paper.pdf

Vicco , what’s left after the windzones are built out?

ABC Perth office vandalised by pro-Palestine activist after Antoinette Lattouf sacking
ABC Radio’s Perth headquarters has been vandalised by a pro-Palestine activist after the shock axing of presenter Antoinette Lattouf.

Grandson has an eye for a bargain. After Christmas last year, he picked up packets of 8 Christmas crackers for the vast cost of $0.05 each!

A greater Melbourne bursting to the seams with migrants and third world infrastructure to make them feel at home.

Yes indeed Roger.

I’m retiring in a couple of years and intend to resettle somewhere in the Vic countryside so finding a pretty, peaceful yet well situated (to decent facilities) locale is my mission. That map helps narrow it down somewhat.

To all those budding pali insurgents, form an orderly queue to the left, the IDF will get to you shortly as they’ve run out of raisins. The 72 raisin packaging factory was closed for Hanukkah and someone forgot to order more. Do not worry needlessly as we have some coming from Iran, they didn’t want you to miss out failing life once again. These will be provided free of charge instead of rockets.

Written in 1949 by Vermont Royster this is posted to WSJ’s opinion pages every year.

In Hoc Anno Domini

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.

Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there was stability, in government and in society, for the centurions saw that it was so.

But everywhere there was something else, too. There was oppression—for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar. There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people. There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses. There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed. What was a man for but to serve Caesar?

There was the persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was everywhere a contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world?

Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.

And the voice from Galilee, which would defy Caesar, offered a new Kingdom in which each man could walk upright and bow to none but his God. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. And he sent this gospel of the Kingdom of Man into the uttermost ends of the earth.

So the light came into the world and the men who lived in darkness were afraid, and they tried to lower a curtain so that man would still believe salvation lay with the leaders.

But it came to pass for a while in divers places that the truth did set man free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light. The voice said, Haste ye. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you, for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Along the road to Damascus the light shone brightly. But afterward Paul of Tarsus, too, was sore afraid. He feared that other Caesars, other prophets, might one day persuade men that man was nothing save a servant unto them, that men might yield up their birthright from God for pottage and walk no more in freedom.

Then might it come to pass that darkness would settle again over the lands and there would be a burning of books and men would think only of what they should eat and what they should wear, and would give heed only to new Caesars and to false prophets. Then might it come to pass that men would not look upward to see even a winter’s star in the East, and once more, there would be no light at all in the darkness.

And so Paul, the apostle of the Son of Man, spoke to his brethren, the Galatians, the words he would have us remember afterward in each of the years of his Lord:

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Cassie, I saw a leftist protester in Israel calling for peace and blaming Bibi for all this mess. No doubt she has lost no one to the scum hamas. I really couldn’t believe it. I’ve refused to look at any of the videos of the atrocities for my own sanity. Did this woman refuse to believe all the evidence? How can people like this exist. Do they not realise how close they are to islam ideology. These people are as dangerous as they are amongst us. Have they not heard of “Never Again”? Israel will prevail.

Merry Christmas to all here with special thanks to Dover and Tom.

A great place for different views and updates on the latest news from many sources.

Cheers Roger.

You are seriously over egging it. Hamas is not the Red Army or the Wehrmacht.

Correct, Hamas is better compared to the Taliban, or Viet Cong, both of which defeated modern mechanised armies by outlasting them, irrespective of the amount of destruction wrought by their (largely) US opponents……

FFS, fired up BBQ and down she comes. Red and yellow blob over the whole of the district. Memories of cyclone Tash on Christmas day coming back.

Mass held in the old church this morning, no AC and ceiling cyclones at full blast.

Rufus – 17/6
Thank you for your educational comment re solar and wind. I looked up SF6 and from what I read it seems to be a useful and harmless compound.
There was one article which stated it traps more carbon in the atmosphere than fossil fuels.
From what I can remember 3200 parts per million as opposed to a few hundred parts per million for fossil fuels.
Please educate me further.

Hamas is better compared to the Taliban, or Viet Cong

Not really. Hamas has enraged an Israel that is fighting for it’s existence on home ground with almost total citizenry support. Entirely different from the US involved conflicts in Afghanistan or Vietnam.

Barking Toad

Dec 25, 2023 1:43 AM
“The chorus of boos tells them loud and clear they’re not wanted.”

But how were they even allowed to get near the stage? Compromised security hamas supporters?

Look at the first names of the security contractors in Australia, and you’ll work out who they work for, then look at the weapons registry and you’ll find out we’re all outnumbered in the arms department.
It almost looks deliberate.

Rufus – 17/6
Thank you for your educational comment re solar and wind. I looked up SF6 and from what I read it seems to be a useful and harmless compound.
There was one article which stated it traps more carbon in the atmosphere than fossil fuels.
From what I can remember 3200 parts per million as opposed to a few hundred parts per million for fossil fuels.
Please educate me further.

From what I remember during my apprenticeship, we were given classes on it where they told us that it was an inert gas that is heavier than air.
We use it in gas insulated switchgear (GIS)

It was also amusing when they tried to tell us that an inert gas that is heavier than air is somehow destroying the ozone layer…

The gas itself is no issue.
The breakdown of the gas due to circuit breaker operation is what releases all manner of nasty gases that are damaging to the environment.

World public opinion will not allow the Gazans to be starved for much longer –

I think those that lead Govts are getting tired of the perennial Palli problem. I see now EU leaders (who hold purse strings for Gazan support) are now openly stating Hamas can no longer govern Gaza and advocating for their exile somewhere.

The Hamas barbarity of Oct 7th is cutting through the Palli bs at the level where money for Gaza is decided.

World public opinion will not allow the Gazans to be starved for much longer

Duk – There appears to be a rising sense of apathy about the Gazans, which I’ve been feeling from the lack of coverage. Even the pro-Hamas protests feel limper than they have been.

Some aid has been getting in, and even though Hamas has been stealing a lot of it Israel is allowing it. Likewise Egypt.

The crunch is the request overnight from the IDF for the Egyptian Army to move back from the border so that the IDF can take and establish a buffer zone at the Gaza-Egypt border. We’ll see if Egypt cooperates. I suspect they will since Sisi is no friend of the Muslim Brotherhood. So long as the Gazans aren’t evicted from Gaza in his direction I think Egypt will continue to quietly support the IDF’s strategic operational plans.

So I am not seeing any real pressure against the Israelis. It’s all for show (eg. in the UN). We’ll see if the Iranians back off from their current brinkmanship in the Arabian and Red Seas. They seem peeved no one is supporting Hamas much (without their arms being twisted eg the Houthis).

Indeed Blinken yesterday was wondering why no one in the MSM is calling on Hamas to surrender. That’s quite an insight into what the WH Administration is thinking. They probably regard the feral left as unhelpful for their 2024 plans, which it is.

flyingduk

“Gaza hasn’t been ‘home ground’ for Israel for nearly 20 years.”

Where this started on 7October is “home ground”. Perhaps a declaratory policy that “no prisoners” will be taken on Israeli territory would be a start, and another of immediate bombing of rocket launch sites in Gaza Strip or West Bank?