Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows and our Christmas Day 2008 show, here is our number one Interwebothique Christmas Carol selection for 2008: the King’s College, Cambridge Chapel Choir performing God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (1998, 3:35).
| God rest ye merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ our saviour Was born on Christmas Day To save us all from satan’s power when we have gone astray. Oh good tidings of comfort and joy, Comfort and joy. Oh good tidings of comfort and joy. |
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And for tonight’s flip-side, here is The News Magazine of the Screen‘s
1950 version of Peace on Earth ~ Good Will Toward Men (5:17).
While we’re here, a quick reminder that a set of Christmas Carol Song Sheets, including both the sacred and the secular, and formatted for printing, is available (should you find it useful) at The Sagacious Iconoclast.
From what’s not to like, already?
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Merry Christmas to you Vit. Thanks for the lovely music.
Merry Christmas to Kate and all her friends here at SDA.
Jesus is the Reason for the Season!
Sometimes people go the extra step!
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081224/horse_stranded_081224/20081224?hub=Canada
Big thumbs up to them all. I hope the two horses will do just fine!
Merry Christmas to all SDA readers and to you, Kate.
Merry Xmas to all ye good people at SDA.
Merry Christmas to all at sda, with special blessings to our dear host.
Merry Christmas to all here (left and right) on SDA. Special thanks to Kate for hosting and posting, to ET, Vitruvius, batb, The Phantom, Paul, lance, Kathy Shaidle, hardboiled, and so many others for contributing to some of the best, most thought-provoking discussion on the net today. Not just in Canada, but **anywhere**.
In the language of my ancestors, I say Χристос Раждається!
Yes He is, Johann, or in the language of my ancestors: Христос народився.
Merry Christmas to all ,
and in the language of all of our ancestors
ugga bugga gronk
Or at least to the degree that “ugga bugga
gronk” translates into “Christ is Born” 😉
Merry Christmas to all, and to Kate, Thanks for all you do to keep us all informed and to realize we are not alone!!!
And to finish the greeting, Vitruvius, I say:
Славіте Його!
(ugga bugga this time means “let us glorify Him!”)
And by the way, I think, V., that we are speaking the same language–just 2 different ways of saying the same thing. Us Ukes have to stick together! 🙂
Cheers!
Merry Christmas to Kate,Vitruvius and all at SDA.
As I sit hear in Vancouver looking out at the unusually big dump of snow we’ve had, it reminds me of my youth in Sask. and looks like the pictures Kate posted last year of their big snowstorm.
At any rate it will be a white Christmas and I would like to wish all here on SDA, and especially Kate, a very Merry/Holy Christmas.
Horny Toad
As I sit hear in Vancouver looking out at the unusually big dump of snow we’ve had, it reminds me of my youth in Sask. and looks like the pictures Kate posted last year of their big snowstorm.
At any rate it will be a white Christmas and I would like to wish all here on SDA, and especially Kate, a very Merry/Holy Christmas.
Horny Toad
Merry Christmas everybody – even the trolls, I’d kinda sorta miss you guys – but especially Kate and the heavy lifters (like Vitruvius)here at SDA.
God Bless us Every One! says an agnostic.
Merry Christmas to everyone (I would also say Христос народився). It’s snowing outside and a balmy -15 C in south central BC now which is the way I expect Christmas to be. 25/12 is the first Christmas that I celebrate but also take time out for Ukrainian Christmas on 7-January.
Thank you Vitruvius for finding music on a daily basis and tonights Christmas carol is one of my favorites.
…yup.
“No Matter What Happens, Someone Will Blame Global Warming
Global warming was blamed for everything from beasts gone wild to anorexic whales to the complete breakdown of human society this year — showing that no matter what it is and where it happens, scientists, explorers, politicians and those who track the Loch Ness Monster are comfortable scapegoating the weather.
FOXNews.com takes a look back at 10 things that global warming allegedly caused — or will no doubt soon be responsible for — as reported in the news around the world in 2008.
1. Cannibalism
In April, media mogul Ted Turner told PBS’s Charlie Rose that global warming would make the world 8 degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years. “Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state, like Somalia or Sudan, and living conditions will be intolerable,” he said.
Turner blamed global warming on overpopulation, saying “too many people are using too much stuff.”
Crops won’t grow and “most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals,” Turner said.
2. The Death of the Loch Ness Monster
In February, Scotland’s Daily Mirror reported that 85-year-old American Robert Rines would be giving up his quest for Scotland’s most famous underwater denizen.”
More:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,472084,00.html
BBC 3, right now—here, in Canada, I’m not making this up!
“Once in Royal”, started by a lone treble, is just over.
And, with thanks to our Orthodox brothers and sisters, the fine Christmas greeting:
“V: Christ is born. R: Glorify Him!”
Alleluia! Amen!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, everyone!
BBC 3: Lessons and Carols from Kings College, Cambridge.
(Sorry, I copied an email but the heading was missing!)
Merry Christmas to Kate, Vitruvius, and everyone else at SDA.
And Merry Christmas to all of the SDA regulars – to Kate for this very special and vital blog, and Vitruvius for his music and his extraordinary erudition..and EBD..and lookout and me no dhimmi and batb and so many others. Oh, and in the true spirit of Christmas, to ted and ulianov/lberia and their kind.
Best to all.
Merry Christmas to Kate and Family from the Ratt and Family, yes, I confess, there is a Ratturd, but she told me if I ever called her that again I would have to attend the whole Hannah Montana 2009 Southern Tour.
Good Job Vit, as always.
And from the meek and humble language of my ancesters; Merci Beaucoup Kate !!!
A Merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year to all. Thank you Kate for this essential blog where I have read excellent informed and well reasoned comments, I scan and discard the idiots.
“Christmas made an official holiday in Iraq
BAGHDAD – Iraq’s Christians, a scant minority in this overwhelmingly Muslim country, quietly celebrated Christmas on Thursday with a present from the government, which declared it an official holiday for the first time.
A senior Shiite cleric, Ammar al-Hakim, attended the Mass flanked by bodyguards in a gesture of cooperation with Christians.
“I thank the visitors here and ask them to share happiness and love with their brothers on Christmas; by this they will build a glorious Iraq,” the cardinal said.”
(Excerpt)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154161/posts
Once in Royal Davids City. started by a lone treble.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_Mo2KrIzw&feature=related
Just to show the ethnic diversity of this blog and the season we all enjoy. Nadolig llawen to Kate and everyone else who may happen by.
Happy holidays to Kate and everyone at SDA!!
“‘Santa’ Klaus Takes on Global Warming
Good King Wenceslas walked barefoot ‘midst snow and ice, to bring food and kindling to starving peasants on the second day of Christmas — and lo! — a miracle preserved him and his faithful servant from the bitter cold. Wenceslas — Saint Vaclav in the original Czech — was a legendary Santa Claus figure, a holy bringer of hope and cheer in the darkness of the European winter.
Well, we have our own Vaclav to cheer us up this holiday season; but this one is Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, and a dangerous skeptic on the crusading faith of global warming…”
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com …
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154196/posts
Merry Christmas to all who pass here.
And a happy, healthy and prosperous new year.
“Maybe he did
Messiah (HWV 56) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel based on a libretto by Charles Jennens. Composed in the summer of 1741 and premiered in Dublin on the 13 April 1742, Messiah is Handel’s most famous creation and is among the most popular works in Western choral literature. It includes the very well-known “Hallelujah Chorus”. … It was premiered during the following season, in the spring of 1742, as part of a series of charity concerts in Neal’s Music Hall on Fishamble Street near Dublin’s Temple Bar district. … There is a story told (perhaps apocryphally) that Handel’s assistant walked in to Handel’s room after shouting to him for several minutes with no response. The assistant reportedly found Handel in tears, and when asked what was wrong, Handel held up the score to this movement and said, “I thought I saw the face of God”.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/12/25/maybe-he-did/#comments
Merry Christmas to all espcially christian people
Muslim feel the same joye since we believe Mary’s birth to jesus the same way you belive
while we do not call jesus son of god
we bleive one god but we bleive god able to do any thing god love to do and god is aboslute power
allah or god is one not three
we muslim bleive when world end before jesus will back again
just for your info:
today is not day i like to do any open discusion with you since i know you do not believe what muslim belive in detail
the good thing about muslim we belive jesus but jewish are not believe jesus
the only thing we do not bleive jesus is died and went to cross we muslim belive jesus is still alive and kept safe by god and the person went to cross it was similar look of jesus it was not jesus
we also belive book originally brought by jesus did changed by some pop such as jesus belive fully to Moses since jesus prophet next after
moses therefore what moses said was not rejected by jesuse but also book of jesus is more complete in compare with moses
having said that the book of jesus still did
ban eating pork
sorry guy
i know you like to eat eggs with hams
muslim recently made pepproni or hams for breakfast taste with using veal and beef and mix with chicken we never eat pork or ham but majorit of nonmuslim when eat new items muslim made they love to switch from pork to veal and beef and chicken with same falovr
the only think was baned by mohamd was drinking alcohol while we belive none of prophet drink alcohol at all
please do not drink and drive
we love you jesus we know you still alive
and try to save all people include us from any sin
take care and keep the peace among muslim and christian
happy and merry Christmas to all
today top news from ruters:
://uk.reuters.com/news/video
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to Maz2
when you said
Messiah
i automatically
remember
OBAMA
and I could not laugh
nothing this obama cann’t do it
://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=95953&videoChannel=75&refresh=true
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even made arab drop the shoes to republican
arab man only drop shoes when they are angry to their kids as i used to have one arab neighbors
drop shoes is for just lisen to father and used
for the person never listen
while i donot agree with arab culture in total
and not correct for all security reasons
to do in any guest to your country
://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKTRE4BG2NX20081217
://uk.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUKTRE4BE3F620081216?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=95941&videoChannel=75
as may fuuny for arab and middle east not like by west culture for sure!
Bush effigy pelted with shoes
(00:55) Rough Cut
Dec 24 – University students gather in front the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran to support the Iraqi journalist who flung shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush.
Muntazer AlZaidi, an Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes toward the U.S. president during a news conference in Baghdad on December 14, is seen by
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today top news from ruters:
://uk.reuters.com/news/video
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it is good to listen to both sides
not to forbid and ban other part of the story here
it is proof democracy is one way talk for some group in canada as well as middle east see the same way too
“More On Cognitive Dissonance
“The End Of The World Is/Is Not Nigh!”
Throughout history, many competing cults have attempted to predict dire catastrophes for the Earth. With respect to these cults, the key psychological and sociological question is: “What happens when the predictions fail?” Following on from yesterday’s post [see: ‘Cognitive Dissonance’, August 19], in which I analysed the growing gap between a hot media obsessed with ‘global warming’ disasters and a world in which the climate is currently cooling, I thought it might be helpful to explore the phenomenon of ‘cognitive dissonance’ further.
Failed Predictions
During World War I, the official publication of the Assemblies of God, The Weekly Evangel, made a classic doomsday prediction: “We are not yet in the Armageddon struggle proper, but at its commencement, and it may be, if students of prophecy read the signs aright, that Christ will come before the present war closes, and before Armageddon … The war preliminary to Armageddon, it seems, has commenced.” Specific dates were mentioned, declaring that ‘The End’ would come no later than 1934 or 1935. Interestingly, there are parallels here with belief in ‘global warming’, in that it too is seen as being “at its commencement”, and that it is either too late already, or that it will come in its full force within, as some claim, ten years or less.
Such failed predictions comprise the core of the work of New York social psychologist, Leon Festinger (1919 – 1989) [pictured], who wrote a classic book, When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of A Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World (University of Minnesota Press, 1956), with Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter.
This was about a UFO cult who believed that the end of the world was imminent.”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7t5mcl
“Reindeer games are an intrinsic part of reindeer society, and Rudolph’s exclusion from them was painful.”
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“A hearing into the case of Rudolph, a reindeer
In December of 2006, this rights commission was asked to investigate claims of discrimination based on physical disability with regards to a reindeer, Rudolph.
Thanks to the use of anatomically correct dolls brought to life in a stop-action dramatic recreation of the incidents under discussion, as well as at least one version of the events delivered in the form of a ridiculously catchy country western song, the commission has established the following facts:
* Rudolph suffers from a facial disfigurement.
* Rudolph is employed by Santa Claus, the owner and sole executive of a toy manufacturing conglomerate known as Santa Claus Holdings Inc. (herewith referred to as SCHI) and located on or near Earth’s magnetic north pole (herewith referred to as the North Pole). Rudolph works in the delivery department, propulsion and guidance systems.
* In the North Pole, reindeer can fly. No one thinks this is weird.
* Like the lingerie section at department stores, SCHI delivers its entire annual production of Christmas gifts on a single night – Dec. 24.
* The alleged incidents took place in the winter months leading up to Christmas, 2005.
The commission established the following narrative of events:
Rudolph suffers from an unusual swelling and discoloration of the nose.”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/79el49
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“Human rights commission mocked in the Globe and Mail
By Ezra Levant
“You know the mission to denormalize Canada’s corrupt and abusive human rights commissions has reached a certain level of success when the HRCs are the punchline in popular jokes — or, in this humour column in the Globe and Mail, the basis for a whole satirical “human rights” trial: Rudolph vs. Santa. Some excerpts:”
http://ezralevant.com/
I just recieved an e-mail from this ‘care2’ organization which is affiliated with IFAW,an animal welfare group.They have a petition going to stop the seal hunt which they will present to PMSH. Here are a few of the comments.=======”I’m shocked that this still takes place.It ranks right up there with the continued existance of the KKK and Chinas unbelieveable cruelty to animals.Surely,the greatest country on earth can do better than this”.————“It is no different then murdering children who cannot defend themselves. Put yourself in the seal’s position. They deserve to be treated with the same respect and kindness that every living thing on the planet deserves”.——“Someone shouold try killing one of the pieces of s**t that do the killing. I think that would be fair. We are the only ones that can do anything about the needless killing. Why not just blow up all of their equipment. They can’t do it if they can’t get to them!”——
“You should take your wife and children out to the slaughter and show them what you approve of. You could leave a legacy if you stop this insane practice. The fishermen all hate you anyways. They are like Danny Williams, idiots”.——“In protest, I will not stand for ‘Oh Canada’ until this horrific demonstration of what Canada really stands for is stopped. How can you foster kittens and then help(by not stopping this hunt, you are a participant) to beat to death baby seals while their mothers watch?”.And my favourite,because after all ,it is Christmas,—– # 22,836: 9:06 am PST, Dec 24, Linda Gibson, Canada
JUST STOP IT…HUNTS IN GENERAL ARE SICK…BUT SEAL HUNTS TAKES A SPECIAL KIND OF SICK…I KNOW…WHY DON’T YOU GET YOUR CHILDREN A VIDEO TO WATCH AS BABIES GET THIER HEADS BASHED IN WITH A BAT????? HAPPY BLOODY HOLIDAYS . The site is—http://www.thepetitionsite.com/campaign/signatures/553233753/455.
To the tune Jingle Bells:
Nuke the whales skin those seals
Shoot those lousy wolves
I don’t care ’bout Love Canal
Cause it’s not on my mind
This will be my last post from the seal hunt files(unless I find another really good one). Anyways,a true lefty has signed in with her take on Harper’s brutality—-“I suffer from depression because I cannot and will not grasp the ways of human life and their excessive creulty and wasteful life styles”. WOW,that is freaky. On the bright side though,if anyone needs a date for New Year’s,I’ll bet she is available.
I thought this guys little ditti was perfect for the season. Especialy in India, Sweden,Afganistan & many other Nations under Islamic assult.
Allah hates you this I know
For the Koran tells me so
Infidels Christians and Jews we bomb
They are weak but we are strong
Yes Allah hates you! Yes, Allah hates you! Yes, Allah hates you,
The Koran tells me so.
Allah hates you, you will die
Blow your ass up to the sky
Preach to the dhimmis on British TV, chop off head,
Eat falafel, go to bed.
Yes, Allah hates you! Yes, Allah hates you! Yes, Allah hates you!
The Koran tells me so.
Aleph on December 24, 2008 at 8:31 PM
At Hot Air
Edi morphy movie is funny but it is true
why food broker are not trustable people
or we can say most of broker job in west!
://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74qrOyJJv4
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is this safe to send your innocent daughter to made money for their parents to involve in film singing career and any kind of celbrity and
super model or star !!
i mean security drugs wearing cloth not proper and viloence or lead to mental health and deal with stranger
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAufRfxKqtU&feature=related
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WTMESWDWMA
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_(film)
://elvispelvis.com/selena.htm
://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20105524,00.html
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4ePVyOsUw&NR=1
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R7QO1lO_9I&feature=related
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1hGXxMB4PY&feature=related
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1hGXxMB4PY&feature=related
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxWL00GW-M&NR=1
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5cVmV_SZho&NR=1
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all is culture differnce more than relgion differnce i believe
middle easter are good to each other not with other culture
is this hard to deal with spanish because they are too much emotion attached not acceptable with other culture i mean in general may deal with italian and portegese and mexican and scilian and spanish in general need to deal with them different
it is also seen similarity between russian and romanian and turkish and romanain and east europe and azarbagian has same culture while they can talk together understand each other well
we can say some times is is next to impossible to expect all culture like or able to work together easy for their differnces!
what is solution to link them
may be we need to made international new culture and teach peopel to be one together to get seperated through communication
need innovate one unique culture like english is language most people are talk together
need one formula to creat among all to made people united but how? what is human right really
new,
Thanks for your Christmas wishes.
However, as with all Muslims you misunderstand the Christian belief.
God is one. Yet he manifests himself in three ways. And if, as you believe, he’s all powerful, then of course he can do this if he so chooses.
As well, Christ had to die on the cross for the atonement of man’s sins. If, as you believe, he didn’t, then Christianity is worthless. Yet the sheer numbers of Christians say otherwise.
The Muslim Isa is not Jesus Christ. In Arabic, Isa means Esau. Which is just one of hundreds of illogical and unhistorical assertions made in the Quran.
Perhaps the most illogical assertion is that Mohammad, a gentile, is a prophet of the same God as the Jewish prophets. This is absolutely ludicrous.
Even more ludicrous is the fact that Mohammad hated Jews to the point of commanding genocide.
You might want to investigate beyond the mohammad-come-lately ideology.
Greetings from our house to yours!
http://digitalsmiles.com/greeting.html
New:
Thank you for the Christmas wishes, all the best to you and your family for the New Year
To all other heavy handed posters above – lighten up!
I really enjoy coming here and reading things – I don’t want to drop this from my list of things that help keep my sanity
God jul everyone!!