James Fulford writes: Last year, December 26 was, in effect a holiday, because Christmas Day was Saturday, and the day after that is Sunday. But in 2022, Christmas Day was a Sunday, and for most Americans, it's back to work on Monday!
That's because Britain's traditional December 26 holiday of Boxing Day (also celebrated in Canada and Australia) has not caught on, perhaps because Americans are traditionally such hard workers. Mark Steyn, born in Canada and educated in England, points out that it's hard to make Americans take off the days that they're entitled to.
In rural states, most Federal holidays—Presidents Day, Martin Luther King Day, etc—go unobserved except by banks and government agencies. It's all I can do to persuade my assistant not to come in on Christmas Day—"just for a couple of hours in the morning in case there's anything urgent," she says pleading
[Happy Christmas Bank Holiday Thursday!, by Mark Steyn,
This cultural difference is why there's an Economist Christmas Double Issue every year. American subscribers, of course, get a holiday double issue, but either way, the Economist's editors aren't even trying to get any work out of their globalist hacks until early January.
Well, as Peter Brimelow says below (and has been saying here since 2015), why not import a global holiday like Boxing Day, instead of Kwanzaa or Festivus?
Part of what the French call "The Great Replacement" of the white nations is the imposition of alien celebrations. The most obvious is Cinco de Mayo, lovingly chronicled by VDARE.com here, exposed as a Hanukkah-style fake by our Allan Wall here.
In this spirit, I (on behalf my fellow immigrants from Britain and the former British Empire) want to propose the importation of Boxing Day, December 26, the day after Christmas Day, equally recognized with Christmas Day as a public holiday in Britain, Canada, Australia etc. Unlike Cinco de Mayo, this would actually be a useful holiday, for example for the millions of tryptophan-trashed Americans faced with the prospect of struggling back to work after Christmas Day.
In Britain in the 1970s,
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VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow and VDARE.com publisher Lydia Brimelow wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas.
As Tiny Tim said in A Christmas Carol:
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2021 Merry Christmas Once Again From The Brimelows And VDARE.com
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James Fulford writes: Last year, December 26 was, in effect a holiday, because Christmas Day was Saturday, and the day after that is Sunday. But in 2022, Christmas Day was a Sunday, and for most Americans, it's back to work on Monday!
That's because Britain's traditional December 26 holiday of Boxing Day (also celebrated in Canada and Australia) has not caught on, perhaps because Americans are traditionally such hard workers. Mark Steyn, born in Canada and educated in England, points out that it's hard to make Americans take off the days that they're entitled to.
In rural states, most Federal holidays—Presidents Day, Martin Luther King Day, etc—go unobserved except by banks and government agencies. It's all I can do to persuade my assistant not to come in on Christmas Day—"just for a couple of hours in the morning in case there's anything urgent," she says pleading
[Happy Christmas Bank Holiday Thursday!, by Mark Steyn,
This cultural difference is why there's an Economist Christmas Double Issue every year. American subscribers, of course, get a holiday double issue, but either way, the Economist's editors aren't even trying to get any work out of their globalist hacks until early January.
Well, as Peter Brimelow says below (and has been saying here since 2015), why not import a global holiday like Boxing Day, instead of Kwanzaa or Festivus?
Part of what the French call "The Great Replacement" of the white nations is the imposition of alien celebrations. The most obvious is Cinco de Mayo, lovingly chronicled by VDARE.com here, exposed as a Hanukkah-style fake by our Allan Wall here.
In this spirit, I (on behalf my fellow immigrants from Britain and the former British Empire) want to propose the importation of Boxing Day, December 26, the day after Christmas Day, equally recognized with Christmas Day as a public holiday in Britain, Canada, Australia etc. Unlike Cinco de Mayo, this would actually be a useful holiday, for example for the millions of tryptophan-trashed Americans faced with the prospect of struggling back to work after Christmas Day.
In Britain in the 1970s,
Earlier: Updated And Complete: A Compendium Of Twenty-THREE Years Of VDARE.com War On Christmas Coverage
VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow and VDARE.com publisher Lydia Brimelow wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas.
As Tiny Tim said in A Christmas Carol:
VDARE.com’s Christmases Past
2021 Merry Christmas Once Again From The Brimelows And VDARE.com
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
Recently I posted here at VDARE.com one of my monthly blogs titled ”From Derb’s Email Bag.” In among the items there I mentioned the widespread failure in the commentariat to note the distinction between a Bill and an Act. That was in regard to what everyone was calling ”the EAGLE Act,” a piece of legislation designed to relax the rules on guest workers. Legislation only becomes an Act, I grumbled, when it’s been passed into law. While going through the legislative process it’s just a Bill.
An old friend of mine who keeps a close eye on Congress as part of his job emailed in to say
Bill? Act? Does anything Congress does matter anymore? As Gibbon wrote: ”The senate of Rome, losing all connection with the Imperial court and the actual constitution, was left a venerable but useless monument of antiquity on the Capitoline hill.”
My friend is a sensible and learned fellow with many years’ experience of Congress-watching. Coming from him, such negativity made a deep impression.
Just a few days after that I read Robert Weissberg’s December 21st essay at American Thinker: ”America’s Growing Political Impotence.” Again, this is not some random commentator in off the street. Weissberg is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science, with decades of teaching that subject in prestigious universities and a shelf-full of books to his name. So again, Professor Weissberg’s essay made a deep impression.
Professor Weissberg’s thesis is the ineptitude and incompetence of our governments, mainly of the federal government, and the consequent lawlessness. He walks us briskly through all the familiar examples:
And so on. Observing all this folly and incompetence of course arouses indignation and embarrassment in patriotic observers.
That’s not the worst consequence, though.
The worst consequence, says Prof. Weissberg, is that as public confidence in the Government’s ability to carry out basic executive functions drains away, the government loses its legitimacy. And when constitutional government loses its legitimacy, the door is left open for un-constitutional solutions. We enter into a zone the good professor calls ”the politics of exasperation.”
Sixty-seven years ago a British journalist named Donald McLachlan coined the phrase: ”the smack of firm government.” In a constitutional republic
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Since I wrote Yes, Virginia (Dare), There Is A War On Christmas—Here’s Twenty Years Of Proof! with 356 items in 2019, we’ve added an additional 59 items, making at total of 415. It’s appended below and I’ve put the entire list on a separate page.
What I’d like to point out today: the War on Christmas is simply part of a much larger War On White America. Not only Christmas but all symbols of white, Christian America are under attack—statues, songs, memorials, even graves:
What kind of enemy is so depraved that they would dig up the bones of your ancestors and heroes only to desecrate them?
— Jason Kessler (“Happenings”) (@TheMadDimension) December 14, 2022
No Russian would do this. No Iranian, or Chinese.
And yet we’re supposed to call these monsters our ‘countrymen’.https://t.co/QsapyxPHuY
Here’s another example—in 2005, Ann Coulter was interviewed by the New York Observer as she was spending Christmas in New York. The quote below was noted with much disapproval by Media Matters:
[Coulter] Oh, it was so much fun this year, because saying ”Merry Christmas” is like saying ”F—k you!” I’ve said it to everyone. You know, cab drivers, passing people on the street, whatever. And they come up with the ”Happy holidays.”
”Merry Christmas. I mean, it really is an aggressive act in New York.
[Coulter 2005, New York Observer, January 9, 2005]
Now comes Kate Cohen in the Washington Post saying the same thing in reverse—to her, “Happy Holidays” is an aggressive act—a “battle cry” in the War on Christmas she denies waging:
When I wish strangers “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” it’s a battle cry.
I’m not waging a war on Christmas. I like Christmas. But I am declaring my allegiance to one idea of America that opposes another: inclusive vs. exclusive.
In one recent skirmish, residents of exclusive America crowded a Tuscumbia, Ala., City Council meeting to protest a forthcoming Festival of Yule, which its organizer designed, she said, “for everyone to enjoy this time of year that is winter’s solstice and also an awareness of the origins of this holiday season.”
Opponents declared it, rather, “a sort of twisted anti-Christmas celebration” that threatened the city and the children. Speaker after speaker denounced the festival as a perversion of a holiday that was supposed to honor Jesus Christ, not the devilish Krampus.
Toward the end of the public comment period, a lone voice politely ventured, “I’m not sure that it’s the City Council’s job to enforce Christianity,” and offered advice for citizens offended by the Festival of Yule: “If you don’t agree with it, you don’t have to show up.
Everyone ignored this suggestion. Clearly the problem wasn’t that they would be forced to attend or even that the festival replaced the traditional Christian one; the 12th annual It’s a Dickens Christmas Y’all would occur the following week. The problem was the very idea of inclusion.
[The war on ‘Happy Holidays’ isn’t about Christmas, by Kate Cohen, December 19, 2022]
What is “inclusion” to Ms. Cohen?
Well, it’s things like turning The Little Mermaid black, fake meat at Cracker Barrel, and lots of gay and trans stuff—check out this image of the isolated Christian with his actual Christmas tree with the multiracial people skating around the “Holiday Tree under a Gay rainbow:
What do the Festival of Yule, Impossible sausage, and Disney's newest Ariel have in common? I guess you'll just have to read this to find out . . .
— Kate Cohen (@KateCohen92) December 20, 2022
with many thanks to @hemantmehta for his reporting and to @lyzl for her thoughtful words. https://t.co/fPZAcYPpYX
What’s not inclusion, to Cohen,
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Well, the January 6 committee has produced its long-awaited report. In a surprise move, the committee referred former President Donald Trump for criminal prosecution, accusing him of inciting insurrection, among other crimes.
In fairness, January 6, 2021 was the day that Trump announced he would open our southern border and allow nearly 5 million unvetted illegal immigrants into our country, whereupon they would be flown to various cities around the U.S. and given full access to all our welfare programs.
Obviously, this constitutes insurrectionary behavior. The committee had no choice but to demand criminal charges.
LATE BULLETIN: It was NOT the former president who did this, but the current president, Joe Biden. In another development, it turns out that engineering a foreign invasion of our country has been redefined as a “humanitarian mission.”
When will this “humanitarian mission” end? Apparently, never—not until all 7 billion humans living in places less luxe than America have moved here, at which point America won’t be so hot anymore, so no one will want to come.
Thus, the New York Times quoted Jennifer Quigley [Tweet her] of Human Rights First, saying of our intervention in Afghanistan: “We can’t claim mission accomplished. There are still too many vulnerable people abroad.”
After spending billions of dollars trying to build a semblance of civil society in that stone-age culture, evidently now we’re supposed to open our doors to everyone who lives there. Even granting that absurd notion, I can’t help but notice that Quigley seamlessly shifted from ”Afghanistan” to “people abroad.”
So we have to take in every “vulnerable” person who doesn’t already live in the U.S.? Is there any other way to interpret her statement?
CNN demands that we fly Afghans here directly, not content to wait for these future Nobel Prize-winners to take the air-land route from Afghanistan through Central America into our country—which they are also doing.
For the last few weeks, CNN has aired a story almost every hour about how Afghans “risked their lives” to
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