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h/t Maz2
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our final Twelve Days of Christmas show for 2008 (our Boxing Day 2008 show), here is the St. Paul’s Cathedral choir performing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (3:32). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Mr. Mario Lanza performing We Three Kings of Orient Are (1951, 3:05).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
And To All, A Good Night
“Rudolph suffers from a facial disfigurement.”
First Christmas In Iraq
The Iraqi government has declared Christmas an official holiday.
Y2Kyoto: Mysterious Plastic Fragments Discovered By Researchers
El Guardian, Monday, 22 December 3208 – Researchers in Greenlandistan have discovered something unexpected during a detailed analysis of six ice cores retrieved during study of rapidly growing ice fields that began began advancing about 1,200 years ago.
“We were surprised to find small chunks of primitive plastic material imbedded within the cores, some of them microscopic, others nearly as large as a human thumb. Most of the fragments are yellow, although one of the larger pieces has been nicknamed by our researchers as “the duck’s beak” due to its orange colour and unusual shape.” a spokesman said.
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Merry Christmas
To you all, and thank you for the kind notes and well wishes.
Hope Santa was good to you – have a wonderful day, wherever you may be!
Reader Tips
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.
Highway Of Heroes
For those families with empty chairs at the table this Christmas.
Hallmark Reinvents The Laser
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Is Reuters A Reeking Swamp Of Bias And Incompetence?
A Headstone For Aqsa
Pamela Geller has taken up a collection to provide honor killing victim Aqsa Parvez with a headstone — at present Aqsa lies in grave #774 in Meadowvale Cemetery in Brampton, Ontario.
Pamela and I have been in touch with the cemetery, and they have just sent us this draft of a headstone. We have signed off on it. My heartfelt thanks to all who donated for your kindness and generosity: you have made it possible to honor this poor girl in this small way.
Reader Tips
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 Eve 2008 show, here are the Vienna Boys Choir performing Silent Night (1998, 3:14). For tonight’s flip side, here is Linus explaining The Meaning of Christmas to Charlie Brown (1:18).
And for tonight’s Reading the Classics tip, here is Mr. Benjamin Franklin‘s Autobiography (1771, 1784–5, & 1788), which is I find a much easier read than wading through Descartes was.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“It used to be, you know, a baseball mitt and a puppy.”
ht Orville.
My Working Life
“It’s simple. Just list all the jobs you’ve had in your life, in order. Don’t bust your brain: no durations or details are necessary, and feel free to omit anything that you feel might tend to incriminate you. I’m just curious. And when you’re done, tag another five bloggers you’re curious about.”
I’ve been tagged by Damian Penny, so here goes, though it’s pretty boring;
– pedigreed seed bagger, grain truck driver, tractor jockey*
– figure skating coach
– show dog handler
– self-employed commercial artist
And I now hand the task off to:
Cjunk
Robert Jago
Edward Michael George
Leftdog
The Anchoress
Huh. Show off.
The NDP Finally Embrace Baby Jesus And His Birth
Not to nitpick here, but I would have expected “All I Want For The Holidays” from the NDP. Maybe under Jack’s leadership, they’ve turned a spiritual corner.
Well, there goes the LGBT, atheist, and Wiccan support for the coalition…
God Bless us everyone!
The Top Ten Leg-Tingling Media Quotes
Y2Kyoto: The Commute Of Ms. Jane Lubchenco
The renowned climate-change crusader and professor of marine biology is Obama’s choice for administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
[…] In the e-mail, [her husband] is enthusiastic about the appointment, but he also mentions the “the hardships it will impose on us and our academic family.” Their solution? “The plan is for her to be in WDC and me to remain in Oregon at OSU, with frequent weekend trips back and forth…”