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The lawyer representing Luger Luigi is married to the female lawyer representing Diddy.
You cannot make this stuff up.
Democrats plan to arrest anybody who attends, so no.
Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2024 - Part 4 of 5 - Honorable Mentions
Letters To Cleo - "Here and Now" - Aurora Gory Alice - 1993
This one got a lot of play for me this year, appearing on the My Soundtrack playlist frequently as well as on numerous community user playlists that I came across, which is not surprising. If a user playlist is being recommended, it's usually because that person likes some of the same songs that I like. Certain songs appear again and again: "A Million Miles Away" by the Plimsouls, "There She Goes" by The La's, "Dream All Day" by The Posies, etc. Everyone loves those same songs, probably because the algorithm feeds us so many of the same songs. "Here and Now" is another one of those songs that a lot of people like. It's catchy and Kay Hanley is an entertaining singer. She also does a nice cover version of the song "Dangerous Type" by The Cars, and appeared with Bowling For Soup on a song titled "I've Never Done Anything Like This" that got a lot of play for me in 2023. She rattles off the lyrics rapid-fire in this one, to the point that you'll probably have to search for the lyrics online to figure out what she's saying. The only reason that this one isn't in the Top 15 is that I'm pretty sure that I heard it before this year at some point.
Letters To Cleo - Here and Now
ABC agrees to settle Trump's defamation suit for $15 million.
YouTube: When our latest and greatest technological marvel has to rely on antediluvian work around because, like the saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay... at a Holyday Inn.
Revelation 20:15: And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
#BigIfTrue
If you're not paying attention, and you're not, since it's Saturday night ... THE CRISIS IS SPREADING.
What crisis?
The need to regulate drones. So our government is literally scaring the holy bejesus out of people to make it happen.
THE CRISIS. IT. IS. SPREADING.
How do we know it's a crisis? Why, the same way we knew Hunter's laptop was fake ... the government told us so.
$16 million. The lawyers got $1 million.
And Trump is prevented from getting into ABC News' files as part of discovery.
They tricked him by giving him all that he wanted.
And got what they wanted all along in return.
Bwahahahahahaha ......
Trump "won."
Speaking of Songs... I've improved my "Authentically Perfect Christmas Playlist" from a year ago.
1. White Christmas - Bing Crosby - 1942
2. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer - 1949
3. 'Zat You, Santa Claus? - Louis Armstrong & The Commanders - 1953
4. Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley - 1957
5. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee - 1958
6. Winter Wonderland - Johnny Mathis - 1958
7. Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson - 1948
8. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat "King" Cole - 1960
9. Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal) - Vince Guaraldi Trio - 1965
10. We Need a Little Christmas - Percy Faith - 1966
11. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon, The Harlem Community Choir, The Plastic Ono Band & Yoko Ono - 1971
12. Merry Christmas Darling (Remix) - Carpenters - 1978
13. Christmas Wrapping (Single Edit) - The Waitresses - 1981
14. Toyland - Perry Como - 1982
15. Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid - 1984
16. Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea - 1986
17. Last Christmas - Wham - 1986
18. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Pretenders - 1987
19. Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) - The Pogues - 1987
20. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire) - Ray Charles 1994
21. All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey - 1994
22. Merry Christmas Baby (Live from Washington, D.C., December 1998) Sheryl Crow & Eric Clapton
23. Frosty the Snowman - Cocteau Twins - 1992
24. Greensleeved - Jethro Tull - 2003
25. The First Noel - Bob Dylan - 2009
26. It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas - Michael Bublé - 2011
You are correct, There are commenters who drone on and on. Still regulation isn’t the answer.
Newsfeed: South Korea’s president has been impeached.
I can take Christmas music in small doses, such as "Dueling Jingle Bells aaa Rhythm Guitar."
From zero hedge,
X user mcm_ct_usa makes the point the purported drone sightings could be a "psyop against you to manipulate Congress into passing the new H.R.8610 (Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act of 2024) which will include appropriations and enhanced government powers to control you, and they're even going so far as to use it to push for acts of war against other countries."
DRONE MYSTERY SOLVED
The "FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018" expires on December 20th of this year.
So the Federal Government is literally using a terrorism psyop against you to manipulate Congress into passing the new H.R.8610 (Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and… https://t.co/4to0q3xx15
— @mcm_ct_usa (@mcm_ct_usa) December 14, 2024
It's coincidental that last week, a Homeland Security joint subcommittee held a hearing on H.R.8610, the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act. This bill would renew and reform counter-UAS legal authorities and strengthen the FAA's oversight powers of drones.
FYI: https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/drone-mystery-solved-u-s-military-naval-air-warfare-center-aircraft-division-nawcad
Wait! Where is that great classic “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” - Elmo & Patsy - 1979?
Kudos for including the Cocteau Twins. I don't think I know the Pogues' song, so I'll check it out.
And only Doris Day can sing Toyland. It's a Christmas Rule.
And thanks for including the Vince Guaraldi Trio. I'm partial to Linus and Lucy
I would add Ingrid Michaelson - "Mele Kalikimaka (Feat. Allie Moss & Bess Rogers)" from 2018
and a version of "Santa Baby," either the original by Eartha Kitt from 1953 or this version from 2022: Laufey - Santa Baby (Official Music Video)
Note that the Laufey video was made this year, but I think the song may have been recorded originally in 2022. The holiday EP on Amazon Unlimited shows as 2024.
Where is Silent Night???
Others I'd add -
Rudolph
Scarlet Ribbons - Jim Reeves
I Saw Mommy Kissin' Santa Claus - Jimmy Boyd
Little Town of Bethlehem - l' Angelus
Koppangen (English version) - Anne Sophie von Otter
Need a couple of 'downers' for the list?
Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas - John Denver
River - Joni
If We Make It Through December - Phoebe Bridgers
I don't speak French, but I dig this 1963 hit by the Singing Nun: Dominique
Duke Ellington, The Nutcracker Suite
Bing's great but I like the Drifters even more: White Christmas
Need to add Bing’s “I’ll be home for Christmas.” 1943. Best of them all.
I am sure it was just an oversight, but you forgot "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."
From the comments over there: @nikitapichugin1897 • 12d ago
“Imagine being a guy who had a legit reason to exercise the right to be forgotten, and then ChatGPT's robotic mental illness backfires and makes you famous across the world. That's a whole new level of the Streisand effect”
Oh my. I’ll check out those suggestions. Thanks.
AHEM... Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano
Ruth Marcus recognizes that Trump voters voted for disruption, but wonders out loud whether we signed up for this much disruption.
Ruth, sweetie, we signed up for more. You earned it.
https://x.com/ShoahUkraine/status/1868008310341063136
Presidents with commas in the number of pardons issued: LBJ, Obama, Biden. Presidents approaching five figures, well the "Great Pardoner" Joe Biden stands alone.
Hunter's phone is ringing off the hook right now, in the last grift.
Brad Paisley - Jingle Bells
Nancy Pelosi's crash has one silver lining for her. The publicists get to spread her self-proclaimed "Speaker Emerita" trashy title. "Speaker Evita" is closer but "Speaker Eviscera" might also apply. Ex-Speaker is the best.
Bit of a zinger, Eva Marie. Nice!
Yes, it's especially cold this year because of all the global warming ...
Saint Croix, thanks for the Christmas list. Regarding the "Blue Christmas" by Elvis, instead of the official version, I recommend you find the live-recording version he sang in Germany while stationed there. In the middle of that version there's a backup singer soprano that starts singing so loud and so passionately that Elvis starts cracking up uncontrollably. The soprano continues even louder and totally oblivious to what's happening. Elvis barely, barely keeps it together to the end of the song. Funniest Christmas song ever.
Re Christmas carols, a little different from songs, I nominate In the Bleak Midwinter, by Gustav Holst, using the poem by Christina Rossetti. King's College Singers the version I've heard most, but any choir should do the job. Very restrained beauty. Apparently many pop stars have recorded this too, as I see James Taylor, Allison Krauss, and a couple other names on youtube.
Well, that's the beauty of climate change (yes, I know... it was global warming before, and global cooling before that)- doesn't matter whether it's hot or cold or somewhere in between, it's happening. And it's catastrophic. So give the government more money and power.
Another great pick, Clyde. I had such a crush on Kay Hanley back in the mid-90s.
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