Harry’s “What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?” was too slow to include in my perfect playlist. I already had a couple slow songs like Chrissie Hynde “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Toy Land” and “The Christmas Song” with Ray Charles. You gotta mix it up between slow and faster than slow.
Merry Christmas. Great music. We're listening to Michael Buble and Diana Krall. Also on the record player: Etta James - Merry Christmas, Baby. And Doris Day. Her "Toyland" is fantastic.
My wife--the Christmas lover of the two of us--has so much to do to prepare for a few visitors that she had to delegate some vacuuming duties to me. It does no good to tell her that our guests won't much notice or care, and I suppose some house-cleaning is due, anyway.
Merry Christmas to all. Say what you want, some holidays are incredibly unifying of a broad variety of people. Even those who might otherwise be enemies.
For me Christmas has always been about family and kids, especially kids. And since the weekend we've had younger son, his lovely wife, and their "three under three" kids. And it's been wonderful! Older son, his lovely wife, and the world's smartest and prettiest granddaughter (not that I'm biased) will show up as younger son and his family leave.
Y'know, 40 years ago hearing someone be contrarian about Christmas and being a scrooge and a grump was somewhat interesting. But after 40 years of hearing it, I'd wish they'd just shut up. There are certain people who think of themselves as "rebels" and "non-conformists" - and they're not. Just pushing the same ol' crap. And conforming to the NYT-Guardian POV.
Koppangen (English version). Anne Sophie Von Otter. Most moving Christmas song by a. Swedish Atheist ever. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_me2sZlpqb8o10eJ277jTPYIMServlGKlA&feature=shared
Today, Christmas Day, is also the First Day of Hanukkah this year. This is a pretty learned group here, so probably most people know the origin of Hanukkah, but if you don't, or want to be reminded, here's a short history lesson by a rabbi that I follow. The first 1 minute and 25 seconds of the video is a fundraising appeal for American Friends of Meir Panim, an Israeli charity that I support, but you can fast forward through it to get to the short history lesson:
Looks like old Santa Joe has left a little something in some corporate stockings this year, for Pfizer and Moderna. The rest of you tightwad pharmas are on your own.....
"A minimum requirement for earning forgiveness is a confession of wrongdoing. The Democrats and their allies are now terrified that they’re going to be held to account for their hideous wrongdoing, but are they admitting that they were wrong? Have you seen any of them concede that maybe it was a bad idea to use the government to censor and oppress their political opponents? Are any of them saying, “You know, it was wrong of us to manipulate the justice system to create two tracks, one for leftists and another for Trump-affiliated defendants, with the Trump-affiliated defendants being denied bail, tortured in jail, and sentenced to lengthy terms based on shaky legal theories, while leftist were not even charged?” Where are the Covid people admitting that they were totally wrong? They aren’t doing that. That’s because they don’t think they did anything wrong."
“The Democrats and their allies are now terrified that they’re going to be held to account for their hideous wrongdoing, but are they admitting that they were wrong?” Did the Democrats ever apologize for supporting slavery? Have they ever apologized for keeping Robert Byrd (a former ‘exalted cyclops' of the Ku Klux Klan - until no longer politically advantageous) a revered member of the Democratic Party until he died in office in 2010? Rather than spending a billion plus dollars on the Kamala Harris campaign, shouldn’t the Democrats have used that money as a down payment on the reparations to the descendants of former slaves?
Trump flipped 54 countries from blue to red in the recent election.
Harris flipped exactly zero. In fact, she may have been the only Presidential candidate in history to not flip a single county.
Note: Numbers might be slightly different now in that it took California took five weeks to count their “ballots” including truckloads that showed up in the middle of the night. My numbers were as of mid November, which were the last ones that Google’s AI could find.
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Merry Christmas! Love Harry Connick.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas to all!
they cut the piano solo a bit short lol. Anyway Merry Christmas
Luciano has one too..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7qmTGuz5A
Greg Lake and Ian Anderson...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-PAKOt7sM
Merry Christmas! May we all (find reasons to) be kinder to others this coming year.
Like the wise Jordan Peterson said - I like it, and I don’t like it.
Best of the Wexford Carol
https://youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc
Merry christmas
Anyone like Ding! dong! merrily on high ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OppQRVsdkNs
Harry’s “What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?” was too slow to include in my perfect playlist. I already had a couple slow songs like Chrissie Hynde “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Toy Land” and “The Christmas Song” with Ray Charles. You gotta mix it up between slow and faster than slow.
Merry Christmas. Great music. We're listening to Michael Buble and Diana Krall. Also on the record player: Etta James - Merry Christmas, Baby. And Doris Day. Her "Toyland" is fantastic.
......................Nah.
Merry Christmas to all! Looking forward to a brighter 2025… one that’s brighter, but not glowing.
My wife--the Christmas lover of the two of us--has so much to do to prepare for a few visitors that she had to delegate some vacuuming duties to me. It does no good to tell her that our guests won't much notice or care, and I suppose some house-cleaning is due, anyway.
But on Christmas morning? Bah, humbug!
Merry Christmas Dr. Althouse and Meade, you still are my first stop in the moring.
Merry Christmas to all. Say what you want, some holidays are incredibly unifying of a broad variety of people. Even those who might otherwise be enemies.
For me Christmas has always been about family and kids, especially kids. And since the weekend we've had younger son, his lovely wife, and their "three under three" kids. And it's been wonderful! Older son, his lovely wife, and the world's smartest and prettiest granddaughter (not that I'm biased) will show up as younger son and his family leave.
I'm in heaven
Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage
Before we were married my now wife put together a Christmas album with some originals and some classics: Merry Christmas, Althousia!
Y'know, 40 years ago hearing someone be contrarian about Christmas and being a scrooge and a grump was somewhat interesting. But after 40 years of hearing it, I'd wish they'd just shut up. There are certain people who think of themselves as "rebels" and "non-conformists" - and they're not. Just pushing the same ol' crap. And conforming to the NYT-Guardian POV.
So, Merry Christmas. And shut up.
Fortunately, the "As an Athiest...." crap seems to have died down and so has the "Achually, Christmas is a ......."
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Professor! Best damn blog in the universe!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqGlEAX80UM&t=96s
Yeah. Meanwhile the Times os featuring Kwanzaa, a made-up holiday by cop-killing radicals that embarrasses most black Christians.
A very Merry Christmas to this salon. And to our proprietors Ann and Meade. Best wishes to all
Koppangen (English version). Anne Sophie Von Otter.
Most moving Christmas song by a. Swedish Atheist ever.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_me2sZlpqb8o10eJ277jTPYIMServlGKlA&feature=shared
Today, Christmas Day, is also the First Day of Hanukkah this year. This is a pretty learned group here, so probably most people know the origin of Hanukkah, but if you don't, or want to be reminded, here's a short history lesson by a rabbi that I follow. The first 1 minute and 25 seconds of the video is a fundraising appeal for American Friends of Meir Panim, an Israeli charity that I support, but you can fast forward through it to get to the short history lesson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBFuWlBYddE
Looks like old Santa Joe has left a little something in some corporate stockings this year, for Pfizer and Moderna. The rest of you tightwad pharmas are on your own.....
I know this is not in the spirit of Christmas, but go fuck yourself.
What is the matter with you RC? That is really fucked up.
Merry Christmas!
Our area is thriving with Central American cleaning ladies. I believe nobody cleans their own house down here north east Georgia.
And casting doubt on Marys purity and Jesus nature by proxy
How dare we speak Merry Christmas!
Reddit: I thought it was an Asian woman that was burned alive in the NYC subway
my assumption may have been spawn by the anti-asian wave in NYC a few years ago.
YouTube: An exploration of whether mass extinction events lead to a higher likelihood of intelligence and complexity of life on earth and exoplanets.
YouTube: Dillon Explains 'The Costco Family'
"They bring the boom" 😆
Speaking of the drones, John Michael Godier has a perfectly reasonable explanation for the drones: The Last Days of the Drone Flaps
RC, a few individuals have an inner need to be despised by others. Are you one of those?
I already have "Toyland" and Buble in my mix, but I hadn't heard the Etta James. Added. Wonderfully jazzy.
Back to reality...
"A minimum requirement for earning forgiveness is a confession of wrongdoing. The Democrats and their allies are now terrified that they’re going to be held to account for their hideous wrongdoing, but are they admitting that they were wrong? Have you seen any of them concede that maybe it was a bad idea to use the government to censor and oppress their political opponents? Are any of them saying, “You know, it was wrong of us to manipulate the justice system to create two tracks, one for leftists and another for Trump-affiliated defendants, with the Trump-affiliated defendants being denied bail, tortured in jail, and sentenced to lengthy terms based on shaky legal theories, while leftist were not even charged?” Where are the Covid people admitting that they were totally wrong? They aren’t doing that. That’s because they don’t think they did anything wrong."
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/12/26/since-when-did-we-republicans-start-being-against-punishing-criminals-n2649448
“The Democrats and their allies are now terrified that they’re going to be held to account for their hideous wrongdoing, but are they admitting that they were wrong?”
Did the Democrats ever apologize for supporting slavery?
Have they ever apologized for keeping Robert Byrd (a former ‘exalted cyclops' of the Ku Klux Klan - until no longer politically advantageous) a revered member of the Democratic Party until he died in office in 2010? Rather than spending a billion plus dollars on the Kamala Harris campaign, shouldn’t the Democrats have used that money as a down payment on the reparations to the descendants of former slaves?
Fun fact of the day:
Trump flipped 54 countries from blue to red in the recent election.
Harris flipped exactly zero. In fact, she may have been the only Presidential candidate in history to not flip a single county.
Note: Numbers might be slightly different now in that it took California took five weeks to count their “ballots” including truckloads that showed up in the middle of the night. My numbers were as of mid November, which were the last ones that Google’s AI could find.
Thank god that's over.
I tried posting last night but blogger was being an ass.
While I'm happy to pay someone to do my yardwork, my wife is too embarrassed by the mess (and too cheap) to hire cleaners for the house.
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