America First Legal is putting sanctuary jurisdictions on notice ahead of the mass deportation operation President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to carry out, beginning on Day One of his administration.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
On behalf of Xavier and Sarcasticat, Osumashi & Black Mamba have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Thank you for being there for Xavier and I.
Me and Mr. Cat will be spending a quiet Christmas at home this year.
Between the BP and the subsequent infection it’s better I stay home and take orders from the cat. Though I must add that everything is well on its way to clearing up.
X and I will enjoy Turkey with all the fixins just a little more slowly than is usual.
And I will be here manning the blog and dashing to the kitchen every once in awhile to prep our Christmas feast!
I hope each of you has a wonderful Christmas day. Please make a memory.
This one’s for Kath.
Federal Government Is Ending ‘Flagpoling’ for Permit Applicants — What Is It?
The federal government has halted “flagpoling” just in time for Christmas, but what is this practice and what are the ramifications of Ottawa’s decision?
Flagpoling occurs when a temporary resident of Canada leaves the country and then re-enters to access immigration services. The practice is used to speed up documents such as work and study permits because they are processed more quickly at the Canadian border than if an individual makes an application from inside Canada, according to a Dec. 23 government news release.
ONLINE STREAMING ACT: What is Bill C-11 and why should Canadians care?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals’ amendment of the Broadcasting Act attempts to classify podcasters and musicians as “broadcasters” and subject them to national broadcast rules.
Bill C-11, or the Online Streaming Act, which has passed through both the House and the Senate and gained Royal Assent on February 2, 2023, will control what content search engines like Google and YouTube recommends to Canadian users.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation in an in-depth analysis on the legislation earlier compared Bill C-11’s censorship to “authoritarian nations like China and North Korea.”
For Syria’s Christians, Christmas is a time to grapple with hope and fear
DAMASCUS — This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city. Yet beneath the holiday cheer lay a heavy sense of anxiety.
Over the past 13 years, many have fled the country, leaving those who remain feeling particularly vulnerable as an Islamist group assumes power. Before the war began in 2011, Syria was home to more than 1.5 million Christians. Today, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church estimates that number has fallen to around 400,000.
The Power of the Christmas Truce of 1914
Barely 180 days into “the war to end all wars,” the European states were deadlocked in a conflict more destructive and dehumanizing than any previous war in the history of the world.
The death toll was already staggering. From August 1914, when hostilities broke out, until December, most of the British Expeditionary Force in France, about 160,000 men, had been wiped out. The French and German armies sustained combat losses of well over 600,000 between them. Nearly 200,000 of Austria’s best troops were dead, another half million wounded. As Christmas approached, Pope Benedict XV appealed for a temporary truce over the Christian holiday. It was soundly rejected by the warring governments and their generals.
Israel, Amos and the Philistines
The Hebrew prophet Amos lived some 2,700 years ago, during the reign of King Jeroboam II of Israel. At the time, the Israelites’ main enemies were the Philistines of Gaza, reputed to be the most menacing tribe in the region and dedicated to the destruction of Israel.
Contrary to today’s leftists, early Christians knew Christ was from Judea, not ‘Palestine’
For leftists, history isn’t a matter of facts from which one learns (or that merely entertain). Instead, history is something to be manipulated to gain and maintain power. Orwell, who saw communists in action during the Spanish Civil War, wrote about the “memory hole” in 1984 based on having seen the communists instantly delete or rewrite past or current events to achieve present goals.
This year, leftists are on fire to rewrite the story of Christ, casting him as a “Palestinian refugee.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
Enjoy
WATCH:
For the first time EVER. All of the billboards in Times Square were shut off & then lit up with the true meaning of Christmas:
The birth of Jesus Christ
The MSM censored this! You know what to do.
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) December 25, 2024
h/t Hermes
Irish Times Op-ed: Christianity is a Hate Crime
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar recently announced the closure of the country’s embassy in Ireland, citing “extreme anti-Israel policies” including Ireland’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state and its support for South Africa’s legal action against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In response, Justine McCarthy at The Irish Times penned an opinion piece defending her country against Sa’ar’s “abominable” accusation that Ireland is antisemitic.
The cult of the keffiyeh
Whatever happened to the sin of cultural appropriation? This ideology of rebuke held sway on university campuses for years. The idea was that no member of the majority group should ever appropriate the cultural habits of a minority group. It’s offensive, apparently. It’s racial theft. It’s parody disguised as authenticity. White men wearing their hair in dreadlocks, white women in kimonos, gay men twerking or using black slang – all of it was damned as ‘stealing’, the co-option of the culture of the powerless by the powerful. And yet today, visit any campus in the West and everywhere you look you’ll see white youths dressed as Arabs.
Christmas revellers descend on Bronte beach in Sydney
I for one am shocked and appalled.
#BREAKING: The riot squad has just been called in to break up a party on Bronte Beach, after hundreds flocked to celebrate at the location with little social distancing in sight. #9News pic.twitter.com/CUKZkkybxE
— 9News Sydney (@9NewsSyd) December 25, 2020
Joe Rogan interviews UFO documentarian James Fox
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Wild video shows ‘UFO’ accelerating instantly as family are left stunned
Footage has emerged of what appears to be a ‘UFO’ hovering in the skies over New Jersey before suddenly accelerating away, leaving onlookers lost for words.
In a short 13 second clip posted to social media, a white light blinks in the sky before suddenly vanishing.
In the footage, which was shot on Sunday night close near Atlantic City, family members are heard discussing what they are witnessing before the object suddenly disappears.
h/t Dana Garcia
BROWN: Trudeau must face justice at the polls — now!
When we here at the National Citizens Coalition launched our leading third-party ‘Fire Trudeau’ election advocacy campaign in the early days of 2024, the messaging we chose was in response to a phrase we heard over and over again from supporters and the public.
Canadian gov’t budget report targets charitable status of pro-life groups, churches
In 2022, I wrote an essay titled “What is coming next for Canadian churches?” In that essay, as well as in my recent book How We Got Here, I noted that as Canada shifted from being a post-Christian society to an increasingly anti-Christian one, Christian churches and organizations will inevitably lose tax-exempt or charitable status…