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)!
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
— WH Auden
TWAIN IN TESLA’S LABORATORY
from “Chimes of Freedom”
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
The painter stood Before her work She looked around every where She saw the pictures and she painted them She picked the colors from the air Green to green Red to red Yellow to yellow In the light Black to black When the evening comes Blue to blue In the night
To the Stonecutters
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Search American Digest’s Back Pages
Contemplation of the Sword
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms
and counter-storms of general destruction; killing
of men,
Destruction of all goods and materials; massacre, more or
less intentional, of children and women;
Destruction poured down from wings, the air made accomplice,
the innocent air
Perverted into assassin and poisoner.
The sword: that is: treachery and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-torture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man’s forehead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
from Preludes
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
from Canto CXV BY EZRA POUND
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
“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’.”
Ferreya
ARTIST: GIBSON
Edwin Deakin, American
Hillegas
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
from “Chimes of Freedom”
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Gerard Van der Leun
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
The scientists are in terror
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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)!