No Mao ornament. LMAO. What a difference an election makes.
Rob De WittNovember 28, 2017, 11:20 AM
I’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas.
TGTW – Thank God Trump Won
Lance de BoyleNovember 28, 2017, 11:45 AM
The Trump family brings dignity and grace back to the White House. The most recent occupants, unable to spell the word ‘class,’ turned it into a combination McDonalds and whorehouse.
A beautiful display – I hope this makes for a long and happy memory.
EndOfPatienceNovember 28, 2017, 12:17 PM
It is wonderful to have a real lady in the White House again.
BunnyNovember 28, 2017, 12:48 PM
What lovely decorations! Precursors of the Mao ornament on the Obama tree, some very unique ornaments were included, lest we forget, by Hillary Clinton on the Blue Room tree. Here, Salon debunks that “conspiracy theory.” https://www.salon.com/2016/10/24/the-clinton-bs-files-hillary-didnt-decorate-the-white-house-christmas-tree-with-condoms-and-syringes/
The most telling lines in the article are these:
“But expect there to be some kind of Christmas tree-related controversy to be ginned up in 2017, when the Clintons are once again tasked with decorating the Blue Room Christmas tree — presumably with Bill instead of Hillary at the helm this time”
and
“Rudolph only knows what they’ll come up with when Santa comes for a second Clinton administration.”
I guess Santa really does know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. Thank you, Santa.
GuamanNovember 28, 2017, 1:02 PM
Oh my, Christianity again! I love it – the multiculturalism has, at least for the short term, has been purged. This is a giant step in the right direction. The joy that comes from our cultural resurgance literally brings tears to my eyes.
DavidNovember 28, 2017, 1:18 PM
Multiculturalism?
If you are a believing Christian, you would know that Jesus Christ was born for all men, for all times. His message, and the mission of his disciples and later apostles of Christ was to spread the Good News to all men, to all nations.
He was born as the Light of the World. To lift up the hearts and spirits of all men and women everywhere, for all time. Through His life, death and resurrection, are we all saved.
The Good News. The best news for all us.
MWTexasNovember 28, 2017, 2:00 PM
Christianity can be (and has been) integrated into many different cultures – except of course where outlawed. The most glaring hypocrisy to me in the whole “multiculturalism is great” claim is that we must include people from “cultures” which hate/persecute Christians and who would never allow the same thing in their home culture. They want no part of multiculturalism.
kinchNovember 28, 2017, 3:50 PM
Good to see some class and grace again.
However, because some of the Confucian Rectification of Names and all that, one minor nitpick:
“2017 HOLIDAY Decorations at the White House” — The Donald needs to drill down and find the flunky who typed that and eject zhir ass outta there.
bgarrettNovember 28, 2017, 4:18 PM
The most Beautiful First Lady EVER!! Jackie Kennedy would be in second place but she is nothing compared to Melania !!!!
Monty JamesNovember 28, 2017, 5:20 PM
A breathtaking change from having a First Lady who looked like she played college football.
PubliusNovember 28, 2017, 5:22 PM
What, no vajay-jay or hijab diversity ornaments?
PubliusNovember 28, 2017, 5:23 PM
Thank God for President Trump.
MAGA
NoriNovember 28, 2017, 7:07 PM
Our First Lady is genuine. No artifice. She’s brought such beauty, dignity, and grace to the White House. The crystalline decor would have been hailed as FABULOUS if the previous FLOTUS had done it.
jwmNovember 28, 2017, 8:36 PM
I just looked at the Melania Trump Twitter page. It’s infested with twittertrolls. What nasty, miserable people these leftists are. Not a scintilla of grace amongst them.
JWM
TerryNovember 28, 2017, 8:43 PM
Real, honest to God Human Beings in the White House. Fantastic!
James R LundquistNovember 28, 2017, 9:14 PM
Make Christmas Great Again!
Bill HenryNovember 28, 2017, 11:09 PM
Hello Mr. Gass
Island GirlNovember 28, 2017, 11:16 PM
She is absolutely Heaven Sent (as well as her husband on a different Mission) God Bless America.
Bill in TennesseeNovember 29, 2017, 5:30 AM
Every day I give thanks that we are not enduring a 4-year Hillary presidency. Thank you, President Trump, for finally bringing some class and muscle to the White House. I am hoping for more great things in the next 3 years.
RaincityjazzNovember 29, 2017, 2:27 PM
I cried a bit after seeing this brief film. A creche in the People’s House. With bonus grace, class, style, and restraint. All I’ve wanted for years is for America to turn, even the tiniest bit, in the right direction. Here is the evidence that is happening, and God be praised for it! Melania, thank you a thousand times. You are as beautiful inside as out.
DaphneNovember 30, 2017, 2:53 PM
Melania’s creche is the exact same one that adorned the East Room during every year of the Obama administration.
“A long-standing holiday tradition—the White House crèche—graces this room. The nativity scene made of terra cotta and intricately carved wood was fashioned in Naples, Italy in the eighteenth century. Donated to the White House in the 1960s, this piece has sat in the East Room for the holidays for more than forty-five years, spanning nine administrations.”
Plenty of substantive criticism to made of Obama, why believe easily disproved lies?
Scratch that question, I already have the answer.
You’re Trump voters.
Melania ENDURED the fell reign of Communism in her native Slovenia.
Her labors to make the WH a visually attractive Christian bastion are most admirable.
Make Advent Gracious Again (MAGA)!
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the light was spoken.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
April is over. May moon.
How many more for my regard,
hundreds, a handful?
Better not trouble the dark water due north of north.
Better to concentrate on something close, something small.
This stick, for instance. This word.
–Charles Wright
ARTIST: CASEY KLAHN
Song of Myself
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
The shattered water made a misty din.
Gerard Van der Leun
April is over. May moon.
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No Mao ornament. LMAO. What a difference an election makes.
I’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas.
TGTW – Thank God Trump Won
The Trump family brings dignity and grace back to the White House. The most recent occupants, unable to spell the word ‘class,’ turned it into a combination McDonalds and whorehouse.
A beautiful display – I hope this makes for a long and happy memory.
It is wonderful to have a real lady in the White House again.
What lovely decorations! Precursors of the Mao ornament on the Obama tree, some very unique ornaments were included, lest we forget, by Hillary Clinton on the Blue Room tree. Here, Salon debunks that “conspiracy theory.”
https://www.salon.com/2016/10/24/the-clinton-bs-files-hillary-didnt-decorate-the-white-house-christmas-tree-with-condoms-and-syringes/
The most telling lines in the article are these:
“But expect there to be some kind of Christmas tree-related controversy to be ginned up in 2017, when the Clintons are once again tasked with decorating the Blue Room Christmas tree — presumably with Bill instead of Hillary at the helm this time”
and
“Rudolph only knows what they’ll come up with when Santa comes for a second Clinton administration.”
I guess Santa really does know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. Thank you, Santa.
Oh my, Christianity again! I love it – the multiculturalism has, at least for the short term, has been purged. This is a giant step in the right direction. The joy that comes from our cultural resurgance literally brings tears to my eyes.
Multiculturalism?
If you are a believing Christian, you would know that Jesus Christ was born for all men, for all times. His message, and the mission of his disciples and later apostles of Christ was to spread the Good News to all men, to all nations.
He was born as the Light of the World. To lift up the hearts and spirits of all men and women everywhere, for all time. Through His life, death and resurrection, are we all saved.
The Good News. The best news for all us.
Christianity can be (and has been) integrated into many different cultures – except of course where outlawed. The most glaring hypocrisy to me in the whole “multiculturalism is great” claim is that we must include people from “cultures” which hate/persecute Christians and who would never allow the same thing in their home culture. They want no part of multiculturalism.
Good to see some class and grace again.
However, because some of the Confucian Rectification of Names and all that, one minor nitpick:
“2017 HOLIDAY Decorations at the White House” — The Donald needs to drill down and find the flunky who typed that and eject zhir ass outta there.
The most Beautiful First Lady EVER!! Jackie Kennedy would be in second place but she is nothing compared to Melania !!!!
A breathtaking change from having a First Lady who looked like she played college football.
What, no vajay-jay or hijab diversity ornaments?
Thank God for President Trump.
MAGA
Our First Lady is genuine. No artifice. She’s brought such beauty, dignity, and grace to the White House. The crystalline decor would have been hailed as FABULOUS if the previous FLOTUS had done it.
I just looked at the Melania Trump Twitter page. It’s infested with twittertrolls. What nasty, miserable people these leftists are. Not a scintilla of grace amongst them.
JWM
Real, honest to God Human Beings in the White House. Fantastic!
Make Christmas Great Again!
Hello Mr. Gass
She is absolutely Heaven Sent (as well as her husband on a different Mission) God Bless America.
Every day I give thanks that we are not enduring a 4-year Hillary presidency. Thank you, President Trump, for finally bringing some class and muscle to the White House. I am hoping for more great things in the next 3 years.
I cried a bit after seeing this brief film. A creche in the People’s House. With bonus grace, class, style, and restraint. All I’ve wanted for years is for America to turn, even the tiniest bit, in the right direction. Here is the evidence that is happening, and God be praised for it! Melania, thank you a thousand times. You are as beautiful inside as out.
Melania’s creche is the exact same one that adorned the East Room during every year of the Obama administration.
From the 2015 White House archives (pick any year you like from https://obamawhitehousearchives.gov/the-press-office):
“A long-standing holiday tradition—the White House crèche—graces this room. The nativity scene made of terra cotta and intricately carved wood was fashioned in Naples, Italy in the eighteenth century. Donated to the White House in the 1960s, this piece has sat in the East Room for the holidays for more than forty-five years, spanning nine administrations.”
Plenty of substantive criticism to made of Obama, why believe easily disproved lies?
Scratch that question, I already have the answer.
You’re Trump voters.
Melania ENDURED the fell reign of Communism in her native Slovenia.
Her labors to make the WH a visually attractive Christian bastion are most admirable.
Make Advent Gracious Again (MAGA)!