Christmas classics by original artists

0:00 It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas -- Johnny Mathis

2:15 Sleigh Ride -- Amy Grant

5:45 A Holly Jolly Christmas -- Burl Ives

8:00 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! -- Dean Martin

9:56 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year -- Andy Williams

12:29 The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

15:41 White Christmas -- Bing Crosby

18:48 The First Noel -- All Saints Ensemble

21:24 O Little Town Of Bethlehem -- Bruce Mitchell Choir

23:40 I Saw Three Ships -- Norwich Cathedral Choir

25:47 Home For The Holidays -- Perry Como

28:40 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer -- Gene Autry

31:50 I Wish You A Merry Christmas -- Bing Crosby

33:45 Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) -- Trans-Siberian Orchestra

37:07 I'll Be Home For Christmas -- The Carpenters

40:59 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear -- Anne Murray

43:44 Carol of the Birds -- Mannheim Steamroller

45:50 Winter Wonderland -- The Carpenters

51:20 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree -- Brenda Lee

53:26 Away In A Manger -- Kathleen Battle

55:20 Feliz Navidad -- Jose' Feliciano

58:24 Joy To The World -- Jim Nabors

1:00:44 Do You Hear What I Hear? -- Johnny Mathis

1:04:05 Charlie Brown Christmas Music - Vince Guaraldi

1:06:25 Linus - The Meaning of Christmas

1:08:21 The Chipmunk Song -- The Chipmunks

1:10:41 Good King Wenceslas -- The Roger Wagner Chorale

1:13:45 Deck The Halls -- Mitch Miller and The Gang

1:15:32 Carol of the Bells - Traditional (sorry but CD didn't have artist name)

1:16:58 We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Andre' Kostelanetz

1:19:04 Here Come's Santa Claus -- Elvis Presley

1:21:01 Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (TV Show Version)-- Burl Ives

1:22:24 Frosty The Snowman -- Jimmy Durante

1:24:58 The Little Drummer Boy -- Ray Conniff

1:28:20 Jingle Bells -- The Barclay Christmas Orchestra

1:30:06 A Marshmallow World -- Dean Martin

1:32:49 Jingle Bell Rock -- Bobby Helms

1:34:59 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing -- Julie Andrews

1:38:32 O Holy Night -- Andy Williams

1:41:55 Silver Bells -- Elvis Presley

1:44:27 Merry Christmas Darling -- The Carpenters

1:47:32 Angels We Have Heard On High -- Chanticleer

1:49:56 Sussex Carol -- Westminster Concert Bell Choir

1:51:44 We Three Kings -- Dan Gibson's Solitudes Chrismas

1:54:42 Pat A Pan -- Mannheim Steamroller

1:59:48 Hallelujah Chorus -- Huddersfield Chorale Society

2:04:28 The Nutcracker/Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy -- Arthur Fiedler

2:05:59 Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming -- New York Choral Artists

2:08:31 I Wonder as I Wander -- Joel Cohen Boston Camerata

2:11:47 O Come All Ye Faithful -- Al Martino

2:14:16 O Tannenbaum -- Rita Ford's Music

2:16:02 Blue Christmas -- Elvis Presley

2:18:12 Adestes Fideles -- Bing Crosby

2:21:24 The First Noel/What Child is This -- Francesca Battistelli

2:25:35 Twelve Days Of Christmas -- Philadelphia Brass Ensemble

2:29:31 Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) -- Amy Grant

2:34:36 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen -- Kim Hill and Phil Keaggy

2:38:34 What A Wonderful World (Christmas Album Version) -- Russ Taff

2:41:05 We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Home Alone Soundtrack

2:45:16 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear -- All Saints Ensemble

2:47:38 Joy To The World -- Joel Cohen; Boston Camerata

2:49:50 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

2:52:54 Grown Up Christmas List -- Amy Grant (This song has been muted by the artist record label. Sorry)

2:57:55 Christmas Message from Elvis -- Silent Night

3:00:18 Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

MERRY CHRISTMAS  ... HAPPY NEW YEAR

Prince Charles warns rising intolerance risks repeat of past horrors

Prince Charles pleaded for the UK to have a welcoming attitude to people fleeing persecution.

The Prince of Wales has warned that the rise of populist extremism and intolerance towards other faiths risks repeating the “horrors” of the Holocaust.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s religious Thought for the Day slot, the prince delivered an outspoken attack against religious hatred and pleaded for a welcoming attitude to those fleeing persecution.
He said: “We are now seeing the rise of many populist groups across the world that are increasingly aggressive to those who adhere to a minority faith. All of this has deeply disturbing echoes of the dark days of the 1930s.
“My parents’ generation fought and died in a battle against intolerance, monstrous extremism and inhuman attempts to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe.”
The prince did not mention any politicians by name, but his address will be seen by some as a veiled reference to the election of Donald Trump in the US, the rise of the far right in Europe, and increasingly hostile attitudes to refugees in the UK.

“That nearly 70 years later we should still be seeing such evil persecution is to me beyond all belief,” he said.
“We owe it to those who suffered and died so horribly not to repeat the horrors of the past.”
Prince Charles said religious hatred was on the increase, leading to a rise in refugees fleeing persecution.
“According to the United Nations, 5.8 million more people abandoned their homes in 2015 than the year before, bringing the annual total to a staggering 65.3 million. That is almost equivalent to the entire population of the United Kingdom,” he said.
“The suffering doesn’t end when they arrive seeking refuge in a foreign land.”
The prince urged listeners this Christmas to remember “how the story of the Nativity unfolds with the fleeing of the holy family to escape violent persecution”.
He added: “We might also remember that when the prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina, he did so because he too was seeking the freedom for himself and his followers to worship.”
The prince recalled meeting a Jesuit priest from Syria. “He told me of mass kidnappings in parts of Syria and Iraq, and how he feared that Christians would be driven en masse out of lands described in the Bible,” he said.
“He thought it quite possible there would be no Christians in Iraq within five years.”
He continued: “The scale of religious persecution around the world is not widely appreciated. Nor is it limited to Christians in the troubled regions of the Middle East.”
He then cited a recent report that found an increase in attacks on minority faiths.
The Labour MEP Claude Moraes, chair of the European parliament’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee, welcomed the prince’s intervention.
He said it was “obvious” which politicians the prince was referring to, “but for protocol reasons he can’t say”.
Moraes told the Guardian: “It was a good intervention I think when the right and rightwing UK newspapers dominate the anti-refugee, intolerance, and anti-EU protectionist narrative.”
The prince was invited to speak as part of BBC Radio 4’s religious programming. It was the third time the heir to the throne had given the address. He first broadcast in the Thought for the Day slot on the anniversary of VE Day in 1995, and did so again in January 2000 to mark the new millennium.
He pre-recorded his message on Monday at his official London home, Clarence House, before it was announced that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh had delayed plans to travel to Norfolk for Christmas, because of illness.
The prince did not mention the health of his parents, But it has been reported that the Queen and the Duke have heavy colds.


And as if to prove what the Prince says is the absolute truth ISIL has just produced a hit list for churches all over the US:
The Islamic State is urging its followers to attack U.S. churches and has published names and addresses of thousands of prospective targets, according to a report in the news website Vocativ.
Messages posted in Arabic to the group’s “Secrets of Jihadis” social media site called "for bloody celebrations in the Christian New Year." The post, under the name Abu Marya al-Iraqi, said the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, hopes to tap lone wolf attackers to “turn the Christian New Year into a bloody horror movie,” Vocativ reports.
The series of messages appeared on Telegram, a messaging app that allows users to send encrypted messages to one another. The group also uses social media to provide instructions on constructing and igniting explosives.
The information on U.S. churches was based on information already available online and includes a public directory of churches across all 50 states, Vocativ said.
Another post urged followers to attack churches, hotels, crowded coffee shops, streets, markets and public places and provided some examples in the U.S. Canada, France and the Netherlands. Happy Holidays.

Even Donald trump did not see this coming

Aired Dec 15th  ..... still like it

Death toll rises in Russia bath lotion poisoning



The labels of the contaminated lotion said the product contained ethyl alcohol rather than deadly methanol



The number of people in Russia who have died as a result of drinking bath oil has risen from 49 to at least 58, local media has reported.

Most of the 37 other people who became ill are still being treated, with some in a serious condition.
The highly toxic hawthorn-scented liquid was consumed as if it were safe alcohol, according to Russia's Investigative Committee.
But it contained poisonous methanol, which can also cause blindness.

Police in Irkutsk have been checking private stores to ensure they are not selling poisonous lotions

This boxed package of hawthorn bath essence was confiscated during an operation checking all private stores selling alcohol in Irkutsk

The Siberian Times said the mass poisoning in Irkutsk "is now the worst such case in modern Russian history".  Fifty eight people are now dead.

Health minister Oleg Yaroshenko said that almost half of those still being treated are not expected to live and others were in critical condition.
"They came to doctors too late.... Only a miracle can save them," he was quoted by The Siberian Times as saying.
The paper said that a doctor and a kindergarten teacher are among the victims and that many of those who died were discovered in their in homes because they did not have sufficient time to call an ambulance.  Most of the victims are reported to be aged between 35 and 50.
One 33-year-old survivor said that he only drank a small amount of the lotion but still woke up blind the following morning. Household products are seen by some as a cheap alternative to alcohol across the former Soviet Union.
Bottles with the lotion normally carry warnings stating they are not to be consumed, but correspondents say that the labels in this case said that the product contained ethyl alcohol rather than deadly methanol.
Analysts say up to 12 million Russians drink cheap surrogate alcohol, including perfume, after shave, anti-freeze and window cleaner. Two years of Western economic sanctions have made the situation worse.
Police earlier uncovered an illicit workshop where the lotion was being made, and arrested its owners.
Vladimir Putin is said to be the richest man in the world. He has been stealing from Russia for many years. And from several sources, I have ascertained that he is in possession of approximately 200 billion dollars....200 billion ! And yet his people are so poor they are drinking anti-freeze and household products for a teaspoon of ethyl alcohol. I don't think it can be entirely blamed on sanctions. Mr Putin doesn't seem to regard human lives as very significant ... not even Russian lives.

Reality Check with Bill Burr ....Very adult content ....lots of cuss words



Zsa Zsa - Passed away at 99

Iconic actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has died after suffering a heart attack, aged 99, her husband has confirmed.On the point of tears, Frederic von Anhalt told the AFP news agency his wife had passed away at home, surrounded by her friends and family.

"Everybody was there. She didn't die alone," he said.
Born in Hungary, she emigrated to the United States during World War Two and made her Hollywood debut in 1952. She was married nine times.
She appeared in more than 70 films, but was more famous for her celebrity lifestyle.

She first married at the age of 20 and for the last (and longest) time when she was nearly 70 to Frederic.
By her own reckoning she was only married eight-and-a-half times - she said she didn't really count a Spanish duke in 1982.
Born Sari Gabor in Budapest on 6 February 1917, the future starlet was immediately nicknamed Zsa Zsa by her family.
Though she had initially wanted to be a vet, her mother had other ideas - and her beauty soon saw show business beckon.

A 1950s portrait of the actress wearing a stole shows both her beauty and the lavish tastes for which she was famous

Gabor pictured in 1954, playing the piano with her sisters Eva (left) and Magda

Gabor was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936, but was later disqualified for lying about her age to enter the pageant.
Her credits include a long list of roles in such hit films as Moulin Rouge (1952), Lili (1953) and Queen of Outer Space (1958). More recently, she featured in the Nightmare on Elm Street series and in the Naked Gun spoofs.
In her heyday, Gabor embodied Hollywood's platinum blonde ideal and was famous for wearing lame gowns.
Her only child was Constance Francesca Hilton, her daughter with hotel magnate Conrad Hilton, who was born in 1947.
Gabor was arguably among the first women to be "famous for being famous" - a quality often attributed to her famous great-granddaughter by marriage, Paris Hilton.
She was affectionately mocked for her strong Hungarian accent, in which she called everybody "darling" - or "dahlink" as she pronounced it.
"I call everyone 'dahlink' because I can't remember their names," the socialite once said.
Her mother had reportedly told her: "You don't have to marry every man you sleep with."
Gabor said she did it because she "never stopped being a Catholic at heart".

1989 with her last husband Frederic von Anhalt

In her 1993 autobiography "One Lifetime is Not Enough", she claimed to have lost her virginity to Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, when she was 15.

The tell-all account also referred to romances with screen legends Sean Connery and Frank Sinatra, quite apart from her roster of husbands. She claimed to have turned down John F. Kennedy and Elvis Presley.
Though she spent her life delivering others' lines, Gabor could turn a memorable phrase herself.
Pondering her good relations with her many ex-husbands, she said: "I never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."
She also commented: "I am a marvellous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house."

1989

Gabor was plagued by ill-health in her later years, and was left wheelchair-bound after a 2002 car accident in Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.
She survived strokes in 2005 and 2007, and was left heavily dependent on her husband.
In 2011, she suffered an infection that saw her right leg amputated above the knee to save her life.
Figures from the entertainment world paid tribute to Gabor as news of her death emerged.
Talk show host Larry King said: "There will only be one Zsa Zsa Gabor. And I liked her a lot. Rest In Peace, my dear."
Actress Barbara Eden, who starred in I Dream of Jeannie, tweeted: "Rest in peace Zsa Zsa Gabor. She and her sisters were lovely ladies who were always fun and delightful to be around."
Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie called the socialite "fabulous" and "unmistakable".

British director Michael Winner, who worked with Gabor on the 1976 film Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood, said her greatest role was playing herself.
Speaking before his death in 2013, he remarked: "She played Zsa Zsa Gabor the actress in real life.
"I thought she had great wit and charm. She was a perfectly reasonable actress. Not a great actress - but she was perfect in those early comedies.
"She played a glamorous Hungarian. She wouldn't have been able to play Juliet, or be in Hamlet, but was perfect for those films.
"Her private life is the equal to those characters in soap operas today - but they do not hold a candle to her. Compared to Zsa Zsa Gabor they are just empty shells."
She was one of the old school, Hollywood legends we all loved and laughed with. She was a saucy lady with wit and a tongue in cheek attitude toward life. And she led an enviably glamorous lifestyle and enjoyed every moment.
Farewell my dear. Sleep with the angels.
With love and sadness, Witchy and Genie

The Washington Post certainly has a point of view