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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released his 2023 “Festivus” Report, totaling ~$900,000,000,000 in government waste. Some of the highlights include the National Institutes of Health spending a portion of a $2.7 million grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill and Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds. The Department of Defense ruined over $169 million worth of military equipment by leaving it outside, the United States Agency for International Development spent $6 million to promote tourism in...

Former Attorney General Bill Barr argued Wednesday that Colorado’s ruling disqualifying former President Trump from the state’s ballot will be “counterproductive,” as he is a person who “feeds on grievances” and will use the decision to reinforce his narrative. Asked on CNN for his initial reaction to the ruling, Barr said: “I think this kind of action of stretching the law, taking these hyperaggressive positions to try to knock Trump out of the race are counterproductive. They backfire.” “As you know, he feeds on grievance, just like a fire feeds on oxygen. And this is going to end up...

December 23 may not mean much to you (unless it’s your or someone you love and care about’s birthday, obviously), but to others, it’s maybe the most important and sacred day of the entire year. That’s right, y’all. It’s Festivus. pic.twitter.com/lEPC6T8y5d — no context seinfeld (@casualseinfeld) December 23, 2022 Now, normally, Festivus features a dinner at which you gather your family around, and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year! But what if the people who have disappointed you the most have other plans? We highly doubt that all 18 Republican senators who voted...

No longer do you have to choose between just two man made winter celebration events, now there’ a third. Festivus! Let’s explore why this one may be the right one for you. !. No pressure to buy gifts for anyone. It’s completely optional and not expected. It’s on you. So Festivus is STRESS FREE. 2. No more going to company Christmas parties where the temptation to indulge in too much alcohol and have an inappropriate incident. Remember how Larry got drunk and put his arms around the company President? She didn’t like it and Larry was fired the next day....

FESTIVUS Each year on December 23rd, Festivus commemorates a holiday episode of the television comedy, Seinfeld. In 1997, the popular television comedy brought Festivus to the masses when Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller) explains he invented the holiday in response to the commercialism of Christmas. Its slogan is “A Festivus for the rest of us.” #Festivus Sitcoms often combine holidays and family discord. However, one only has to look to our own families to find a little humor. This holiday reminds us how easily we take things too seriously at times. Politics, traditions, grudges and more lead us down...

I’m posting this helpful outdoor Christmas decorating guide for anyone who STILL has not put their decorations up.Apologies to the blow-up Christmas decoration aficionados among us. I can’t help but think that’s cheating: putting up outdoor decorations should involve ladders, rappelling, superhuman contortions and great risk of bodily harm.Hitting the road bright and early today so perhaps that explains my hum-buggery. Or perhaps I’m just getting a jump on the Festivus celebration this year.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

"Friendsgiving" seems to be the buzz word amongst the liberal crowd these days. Sheesh, a local News 5 anchor, when doing a story about this kept saying "Thanksgiving".

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has got a lot of problems with you people. And today, you’re gonna hear about them. Paul posted his annual online salute to government waste as part of today’s Festivus celebration. He issued a 139-page “Festivus Report” that airs his grievances about $54 billion of federal spending he sees as “totally wasted money.” Festivus, for the uninitated, was a noncommercial holiday made up by Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller) on the classic Seinfeld sitcom. Each December 23, Costanza, rejecting the crass commercialism that has built up around the Christmas holiday, opted for a Festivus...

Several House Republicans attacked House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming for supporting Dr. Anthony Fauci and splitting with President Donald Trump on a variety of issues over the past few months during a conference meeting Tuesday morning, a member who was in the room told CNN. Members including GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Chip Roy of Texas, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Ralph Norman of South Carolina all chimed in to air grievances against Cheney. Gaetz and Massie complained about Cheney supporting a primary challenge...

The latest manifestation of Islamic supremacism, leaching the meaning out of Christian observances, comes from Whitehall Primary School. The outrageous story is here. Children at a primary school have been told not to sing the word ‘Lord’ in the Christmas carol Away In A Manger – so that pupils of all beliefs can join in…. But which is more important: to allow Christian children to recognize Jesus as their “Lord,” as they have for two thousand years, or to change utterly what Jesus signifies, in order to make sure that “pupils of all beliefs can join in”? Since in the...

Far be it from me to criticize a person based solely on their looks but have you ever seen 3 such goofy looking academics in your life?Like I said though, it’s not just their mugs. If central casting called for 3 pompous, supercilious professors with daddy issues, here’s your final cut. They landed the lead roles in the yesterday’s retelling of the Festivus story - brought to you by Little Jerry’s Deli.In the original version Festivus is celebrated on December 23, begins with the raising of the aluminum Festivus pole, followed by a nice meatloaf dinner and only then do...

Whether you believe the reported corruption of Eve in the Garden, in Genesis, was a literal account of an actual event, or an allegorical demonstration of human frailty; it captures the essence of a technique by which demagogues (the grievance mongers & "Community Organizers," in every age) market their deceptive wares to create animosity between definable groups. Persuading those targeted to focus on assumed "grievances," whether real or imagined, they divert attention from both constructive pursuits & quiet enjoyment of life's Blessings.

WASHINGTON -- President Trump issued a statement today sending "greetings to all those observing Kwanzaa," a weeklong African cultural heritage festival that begins today. Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by California State University, Long Beach, Africana Studies Department chairman and professor Maulana Karenga, in response to the 1965 Watts riots and drawing from traditional African harvest celebrations.

hose who are around my age woke up one December and discovered that the “holiday season” of Christmas and New Year’s became a trio, with the addition of something called Kwanzaa. Oh, sure there were rumblings of a new holiday. But strangely in this country where political correctness is on overload, a day invented in 1966 by a rapist who ran a Black separatist group is considered by some as a holiday on par with Christmas, or New Year’s. Kwanzaa is exclusively an American holiday and is not celebrated in any other part of the world (including Africa). The name...

"Happy Festivus" is the traditional greeting of Festivus, a holiday featured in the Season 9 episode of Seinfeld named "The Strike", which first aired on December 18, 1997. Since then, many people have been inspired by this zany, offbeat Seinfeld holiday and now celebrate Festivus as any other holiday. According to the Seinfeld model, Festivus is celebrated on December 23rd.

Hillary and the DNC are late in their celebration of Festivus - at least the part about the airing of grievances. The airing of grievances are manifest in the recent "Kitchen Sink" lawsuit against any and all perceived reasons Hillary lost, except of course to the weak, weakened, and un-electable candidate selected by the DNC. The more recent excuse should trigger a class action suit against all MEN since it was men, according to Hillary, who followed their spouses, sisters, daughters, and female co-workers into the voting booth and forced them to vote for Trump. When will THAT be filed?

"Happy Festivus" is the traditional greeting of Festivus, a holiday featured in the Season 9 episode of Seinfeld named "The Strike", which first aired on December 18, 1997. Since then, many people have been inspired by this zany, offbeat Seinfeld holiday and now celebrate Festivus as any other holiday. According to the Seinfeld model, Festivus is celebrated on December 23rd.

The decorations on the Vatican Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square this year are devoid of Christian religious symbols, a veteran Vaticanist reports.  "Look," a friend of Dr. Robert Moynihan pointed out to him. "There are peace signs, and the oriental yin-yang signs, but no angels, no depictions of the Magi, no images of Mary, nothing but universal symbols.”  "We have not seen a single religious symbol, not a single Christian symbol, on the tree." Close up of the 2017 Vatican Christmas tree showing a yin-yang symbol. Dr. Robert MoynihanContinued Moynihan: “And I too saw that there seemed not to...

Festivus was created by Reader’s Digest editor and author Daniel O’Keefe in response to family tension. One of its central practices is the “airing of grievances.” It was first celebrated in February of 1966 but later was recognized as it is now, on December 23 in honor of O’Keefe’s first date with his future wife. The Seinfeld episode was written by O’Keefe’s son. The Festivus pole is an unadorned aluminum pole displayed in the home. In the O’Keefe household, there was no Festivus pole, but instead, a clock was placed in a bag and nailed to the wall. •Festivus dinner...

Let the Festivus Silly begin...