And for your reading, I submit the text of the Christmas story in multiple languages, from Anglo Saxon to King James to Icelandic. I exhort you to read some of the posts cousin Teresa links to in that entry, particularly Jo Walton’s wonderful story of Joseph, the forgotten man of the Bible. May you have …
What could be more appropriate for Christmas Eve than this? From the 1942 recording available at Amazon as an mp3, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas — Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
One step further along toward the United States joining every other industrialized democracy in providing health care for its citizens. Brad DeLong has a nice compilation of reactions from the left side of the aisle.
I finally got my Grinch fix for the season this evening. Missed the last half of The News Hour to do it, but that was a small price to pay for the joys of Mr. Karloff, Chuck Jones’s animation, and poor Max’s facial expressions. From Christmas Songs, The Christmas Song — Mel Tormé (who co-wrote …
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From the hourly NPR newscast: “Why are we voting on this so quickly,” asks Senator Judd Gregg, speaking of the health care reform bill. Er, Senator nitwit? Your party controlled the White House, the Senate and the House from 2001-2007. If you wanted to argue health care reform, you had ample time to do it. …
For a nice Jewish lady, Barbra can certainly sing a good hymn. From A Christmas Album, I Wonder as I Wander — Barbra Streisand:
Once the deals got made to get Lieberman and Nelson on board for the health care vote, some of my lefty colleagues took up arms against the bill, saying it was horrid and gave too much to the insurance companies. Additionally they felt sold out by the Administration because there was no public option and …
I discovered Mary Chapin Carpenter as a result of her 2008 Christmas album. She and Rosanne Cash were my two new favorites of 2009. From Come Darkness Come Light, Bells Are Ringing — Mary Chapin Carpenter:
From a 1979 Christmas special called “A Christmas Together with John Denver and The Muppets,” Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas — Rolf and John Denver:
As expected after Senator Nelson’s acquiescence on Saturday, the Democrats managed to get the health care bill past its first cloture vote at 1:00am Monday morning. . . .the Senate voted on party lines to cut off a Republican filibuster of a package of changes to the health care bill by the majority leader, Harry …
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