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Christmas Day 2012

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

December 25th, 2012 at 12:01 am

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  1. Merry Christmas all.

    Antipodean

    25 Dec 12 at 12:05 am

  2. Glad tidings to all. Especially my CCC brothers! Rabzie, John C, dd, eb, it’s been great to socialise with all of you. May there be more of it in 2013!

    Skuter

    25 Dec 12 at 12:17 am

  3. Damn so late.

    Merry Christmas All.

    DaveF

    25 Dec 12 at 12:18 am

  4. Merry Xmas all ….. Rest easy in the knowledge that the country is temporarily in the safe hands of Wayne Swan.

    John S

    25 Dec 12 at 12:18 am

  5. Hey, Merry Christmas!

    I’m early, it’s not Christmas Day here… yet!

    kae

    25 Dec 12 at 12:20 am

  6. I have a feeling here in Queensland that very early tomorrow, on Christmas Day, kae will wish everyone here a Merry Christmas – dunno why, it’s just one of those things that occurred to me out of the blue …

    Mick Gold Coast QLD

    25 Dec 12 at 12:41 am

  7. Merry Christmas everyone, even though it’s not ticked over here in Perth.

    Stay safe and have a great time.

    tbh

    25 Dec 12 at 12:49 am

  8. Interesting editorial in the NY Times supporting the then state law referred to the Sullivan Act in 1911 restricting and permitting concealed carry.


    The motivation for passing the law was no secret. During debates leading to the ultimate passage of the gun control law, The New York Times editorialized:

    Such a measure would prove corrective and salutary in a city filled with immigrants and evil communications, floating from the shores of Italy and Austria-Hungary. New York police reports frequently testify to the fact that the Italian and other south Continental gentry here are acquainted with the pocket pistol, and while drunk or merrymaking will use it quite as handily as the stiletto, and with more deadly effect. It is hoped that this treacherous and distinctly outlandish mode of settling disputes may not spread to corrupt the native good manners of the community.

    More at Reason.

    http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/22/gun-restrictions-have-always-bred-defian

    JC

    25 Dec 12 at 1:03 am

  9. But plenty of New Yorkers have chosen to own guns outside the official system. In a city that, as I write, has roughly 37,000 licensed handgun owners and about 21,000 rifle and shotgun licenses, the running guesstimate of illegal firearms stands at two million, give or take a bit. That’s the number the U.S. Department of Justice has used in its official publications in recent years.

    JC

    25 Dec 12 at 1:06 am

  10. Christmas thread JC

    DaveF

    25 Dec 12 at 1:16 am

  11. Oops

    JC

    25 Dec 12 at 1:19 am

  12. Yeah, Mick.

    Merry Queensland Christmas, twenty minutes late now though!

    I’ll be on the GC tomorrow, at Mudgeeraba.

    Probably stuffing my face with nice food and trying to stay awake!

    kae

    25 Dec 12 at 1:21 am

  13. The plan for Christmas day:
    1-5am get woken up by kids, tell them to go to bed.
    5:30 am relent, kids start opening presents
    6:00 am coffee
    7:00 am call family in eastern states
    8:00 am start trying to sync new galaxy tablet to home network
    8:30 am give up, more coffee
    9:00 am start making food for Christmas lunch
    11:00 am load car for in-laws
    11:45 am arrive at in-laws, first beer
    12:00 pm exchange gifts, more beer
    1:00 pm lunch, first wine
    2:30 pm pool time, more beer ( forecast 39 degrees in Perth)
    3:30 snooze
    6:30 dinner ( leftovers), more wine
    9:00 home time

    Antipodean

    25 Dec 12 at 1:37 am

  14. “I’ll be on the GC tomorrow, at Mudgeeraba”

    Onya kae – enjoy, enjoy, enjoy my dear. Today I noticed mad impatience on the roads around the northern (Broadwater) end of the Coast so do be careful on the drive down and back from almost-the-range.

    Haven’t been there for a decade but Woodchoppers Inn at Mudgeeraba used do good Friday lunches, including the occassional gathering of colourful Sydney business identities who had quietly moved north over the years to avoid Plod, which was eventually joined by Plod when some of them retired and also moved north!

    Mick Gold Coast QLD

    25 Dec 12 at 1:59 am

  15. Hope you’re all having a beautiful day. I’ll be at a large family gathering. It’s one day of the year I always look forward to. Happy Christmas all.

    Tom

    25 Dec 12 at 4:41 am

  16. Merry Christmas everyone. Have a great day.

    :)

    Septimus

    25 Dec 12 at 5:04 am

  17. Merry Christmas to all Catallaxians. I hope Santa is good to you all and that you enjoy Christmas with friends and family.

    John Comnenus

    25 Dec 12 at 5:09 am

  18. Merry Christmas each and every one!

    Abu Chowdah

    25 Dec 12 at 5:42 am

  19. Have a wonderful Christmas, Cats and Kittehs.

    Thanks for keeping me sane.

    nilk

    25 Dec 12 at 6:15 am

  20. Merry Christmas all. Just saw this via Blazing Cat Fur and thought of you all. Macro Follies Featuring Keynes and all the greats singing their favourite economists carols.

    Chrisse

    25 Dec 12 at 6:42 am

  21. Merry Christmas all, hope you have a splendid day full of love and laughter.

    Helen Armstrong

    25 Dec 12 at 6:57 am

  22. Merry Christmas to all. Food consumed today has zero calories :)

    Gab

    25 Dec 12 at 7:04 am

  23. Have a great day everyone!

    Raise a glass for the Australian school of economics and especially our dean and mentor Sinc.

    Rafe Champion

    25 Dec 12 at 7:06 am

  24. Just quaffed a glass of Bruichladdich Rafe. (11:00pm here).

    Abu Chowdah

    25 Dec 12 at 7:15 am

  25. Yes happy holidays to all Catalliaxians, even those who patronise or otherwise despise me. I do forgive you all.

    I hope next year I’ll see the turning of the tide, and Catallaxy may yet achieve a modicum of decency.

    Good to see so many right wing blogs dropping off the net – Marohasy, Bunyip, Bolt et al. I think it’s because they see the error of their ways.

    hammygar

    25 Dec 12 at 7:17 am

  26. Merry Christmas………..but a holocaust for prawns.

    Alfonso

    25 Dec 12 at 7:32 am

  27. This is why we need semi- automatic weapons.
    The pig will just not sit still ….. and he needs to be slaughtered, bled, shaved, stuffed and in the oven by 9:30.
    Merry Christmas to all at Animals Australia.

    Leigh Lowe

    25 Dec 12 at 7:52 am

  28. Joyeux Noël et bonne année à tous les Catallaxians … même hammygar

    Papachango

    25 Dec 12 at 7:54 am

  29. Happy Christmas to almost all. Anyone know how to fix a spa?

    Pickles

    25 Dec 12 at 8:00 am

  30. Morning All

    Merii Kurisumasu メリークリスマス

    Akemashite omedetou 明けましておめでとう。

    :)

    Carpe Jugulum

    25 Dec 12 at 8:23 am

  31. Merry Christmas all.

    ella

    25 Dec 12 at 8:33 am

  32. Christmas Greetings everyone, hope you have a great day.
    Had my say earlier on Open Forum, not realising this one was to take over.

    blogstrop

    25 Dec 12 at 8:42 am

  33. A safe and happy Christmas to all.

    Steve of Glasshouse

    25 Dec 12 at 9:23 am

  34. Merry Xmas all. Decency is nice Hammy, graciousness is too.

    face ache

    25 Dec 12 at 9:38 am

  35. Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and the greatest ever Australian invention – sparkling Shiraz.

    Have a bonzer Chrissie.

    Infidel tiger

    25 Dec 12 at 10:51 am

  36. Lucky Antipodean in Perth. Wonderful memories of my childhood summers there.

    It’s all rain and thunder here in Sydney.

    Happy Christmas all.

    Viva

    25 Dec 12 at 1:08 pm

  37. What a lovely day, surrounded by friends and loved ones.
    And semi cremated pigs, ducks, geese, and cows.
    The rest of the town has gone down to the creek for a swim, but I’m having a grandpa nap…

    Winston Smith

    25 Dec 12 at 5:04 pm

  38. Happy Christmas from me and da Hairy Ape, who is currently feeling no pain and very cheerful. Like many others, we are with old friends and family. We have been moving around this city of Sydney in a flat spin for the past three days, and continuing tonight and tomorrow and tomorrow night. I love Christmas. Went out walking this morning and in the streets everyone was so friendly, wishing each other Happy Christmas. Hope we never lose this crucial celebration and reminder of our common humanity to each other and that reach back into our religious life with all that it means for so many still.

    Couldn’t let the day get by without saying Happy Christmas to all friends on the Cat, good company to keep at all hours and times. Our Christmas has been full of true joy with little and bigger children, the joy of the world. Hope yours has also been so blessed in some traditional way.

    Many thanks to Sinclair for making the community on the Cat possible and to all contributors for generating such a vibrant meeting place.

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

    25 Dec 12 at 5:42 pm

  39. C’mon dot…give us a grin.

    Alfonso

    25 Dec 12 at 6:04 pm

  40. So I get home from the GC and it’s raining!
    Great Christmas present.

    kae

    25 Dec 12 at 11:28 pm

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