In which the pond gets in early on the war on Xmas for its Sunday meditation ...

The pond is delighted to confirm, thanks to Fox News, that the war on Xmas is over.

The war on China might have begun, but that great symbol of Xianity, the noble Santa Claus, is safe ...

Now as usual, this sort of loose wording makes the pond wonder what the Donald has against religion?

Does he have it in for holy days, or, if you will, halid daegs?

You can get your etymology fix here,  and in the meantime, thanks be to the long absent lord for the reptiles of Oz playing the same meaningless game down under ...

Say that again?

Di Natale swims against Yuletide

What on earth was Phillip Hudson, or his NZ sub, talking about? This?

Greg Hunt it here - be careful of stray southern walri - as we marvel at the way Phillip Hudson's header means...

"Di Natale swims against the Wild Hunt, the god Odin and the pagan Anglo-Saxon Mōdraniht Yuletide." 

Or some such thing, because it fell to poor old Hudders to have to do the thought police politically correct patrol of the leadership Xmas cards, with nary a thought as to why in this digitally innovative and agile country we still needed to chop down trees and turn them into meaningless gibberish, carried around the nation by hapless postal workers ...

Oh that turtle looks ominous, and as for that the shameless hussy with her "partner", how typical to talk of Oxfam, and charity and all that jazz,  while forcing poor old Malware to fork out some of his own good money to finish the job she started ...

And so, the pond is delighted to report, is the nation's broadband.

Back with Dame Enid's sofa, back where it was in the 1930s, safe in the embrace of Victorian copper ...

But back to the Xmas cards, which, it goes without saying, must be rigorously examined for their political correctness and willingness to toe the Xmas line ...

Oh yes, that passes the test, a solid pass, a Yuletide pass, and not a mention of halid daegs.

Move along, keep the line moving, nothing to see here, but how about that deviant Commie union-loving swineherder?

Merry Xmas added!

Communism defeated, unions rolled, not a solitary mention of halid daegs, just brave British bulldogs and the spirit that defeated the Huns and the EU...

Surely the war on Xmas is at an end. But is there a hold out?

How could you doubt Barners wanting to wish the world a Merry Xmas?

It's only that hold-out greenie with no specific mention of Xmas, but with his talk of whales and turtles and reefs and festive seasons that's a real worry ...

Here for that, but dammit, how did that talk of pertaining to a church feast get into a decent, politically incorrect secular celebration of Saturnalia ...

Never mind, the pond has only got one post in it this meditative Sunday - pressing festival holyday business of the yuletide kind having begun - so for political junkies, it's just worth nothing what's happening amongst the basest of the tabloid reptiles as the war with China begins ...

Yes, it's the Devine launching a particularly scabrous, vile, poisonous, personally offensive attack on a person - well it's Xmas, and that's the way it goes with Xians wanting to celebrate the season ...

It's true that the reptiles decided to leave it outside the paywall, and being free, you pay for what you get and you get what you pay for, and what you pay for it is what it's worth, which is to say nothing ...

But not wanting to go there, even for free, the pond instead decided to select the uplifting moment at the bottom of the Devine's essence of bile as an optimistic sign of things to come in the New Year ...

It almost brought a tear to the eye, the signs of hope that the Devine saw in Sukkar and Angus and the pasty Hastie ... and Cory of course, dear sweet Cory, returned safe from his time amongst the Satanists intent on introducing world government in the guise of climate science, and revitalised by Trumpism, and so ready to join the war on China ...

But what of the Bolter? How was he holding up? Well these days the Bolter is a much reduced blogger in an ill-fitting 'click through'  headline format ....

Clearly the Bolter is much happier on television, and is only keeping it up, because, well, because you never know about getting boned, even on cable, where ratings are meaningless, and audiences are countered in thousands ...

Yes there he is recycling the Terror story about the Uniting Church, which the pond had already thoughtfully recycled, but it's the date on that Hinch story that's the true blogging marvel ...

You see originally the Bolter bit about the human headline came out yesterday, but with a wave of the hand and an update, suddenly December 3rd became garden fresh December 4th, along with a reminder that it's not the Bolter's fault about the moderators, it's the cheapskate Murdochian hunsters ...

Never mind, the pond will now travel back a day to December 3 ...

Yes, it's come to this. 

The Bolter reproduces tweets, and the pond reproduces the Bolter reproducing tweets, and it couldn't get much stranger than that in this haliddaeg season ...

It couldn't get any weirder, could it? The pond wouldn't be reduced to reproducing our Gracie, would it?

Wow indeed ... 

We can but hope, as Henry Rollins recently did, that the war on Xmas and Xians will revive, or return in the coming weeks ... as he urged a war on everything, which surely would include a war on China ...

And if the war on Xmas kicks in, what rich joys will surely follow in the war on Malware in the New Year ...

The pond still has high hopes for the Bolter's campaign to destroy Malware, and give the onion muncher the chance he so richly deserves, to sit in peace on Dame Enid's restored couch in the Lodge where he belongs ... 

Just imagine it, Catholic bums in touch with each other across time ...

With a bit of luck, that will see broadband restored to the days of Queen Victoria, perhaps around the 1890s ...

And so please allow the pond to channel the ancient PC wishes of that ancient onion-munching warrior ...

Mrs Margie? Phew, the pond was immediately reminded of complimentary women ...

Well the books are in the angry Sydney Anglican's new tower of Babel new library, and so is the checkpoint system designed to detect young Xians, the thieving magpies, trying to steal books about creationism, Adam and Eve, the flood, and the rest of it ...

Roll on 11th February and the official opening as the cockroaches swamp north Newtown ...

Oh it's the best of times ...