@MrWebster

yeah, it's kind of funny that with the thousands of christmas songs (and versions thereof) that have been recorded, radio stations seem to pick about a dozen to play over and over.

go figure!

have a great evening!

Every year now for awhile a number of radio stations go 24/7 with Christmas songs. One starts the day after Thanksgiving. The songs are a list of songs that Burl Ives probably put together for his grandchildren. After a while if an alien came down they would think that the god of humans was a fat man using magically flying deer. And his partner was a snowman. And extremely rare any song considered religious. I should write these stations and give a link to this posting.

Also had to mention. One of thee best Christmas TV shows (really of any kind) was written by Rod Sterling called "Night of the Meek". Cannot find a free version of the segment.

@snoopydawg

"President Biden has built the most significant legislative record of any president since Lyndon B. Johnson."

how did this not get flagged for misinformation? even nixon had more significant legislative achievements than biden.

maybe that kitten has a little tiger in it.

that last one has a lesson in it, never get between a pack of dogs and their playground fun.

have a great evening!

President Biden has built the most significant legislative record of any president since Lyndon B. Johnson. pic.twitter.com/1WL9JUW9k1

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 26, 2022

I had Sam watch this video…

This kitten RUNS into the ocean to swim with her dad pic.twitter.com/wSfzSEjiiR

— The Dodo (@dodo) December 20, 2022

Watch till the end

now this is cinema pic.twitter.com/PAcVTgeeQ2

— and action... (@AndersonVilien) March 10, 2022

@enhydra lutris

you're welcome as always. this year i found several new tunes between the two evenings, so that was pretty cool.

anyway, have a great evening!

Thanks especially for the tolerable xmas tunes after weeks of the air waves filled with unlistenable variations of terrible tunes. And the Moonglows;,Renee and Georgette Magritte must be Loving it.

be ell and have a good one

@soryang

i saw the same story from a different news outlet earlier tonight. they said the crew of the south korean plane managed to eject before the crash.

i wonder if the drone event was north korea paying back for the assorted military exercises that the south and the u.s. have run in the near past, playing a game of nerves, or if it's a matter of probing the south's defenses. maybe both?

whatever it is, it looks like kim is determined not to fade from memory.

thanks for the news, have a great evening!

SEOUL/HOENGSEONG, Dec. 26 (Yonhap) -- Five North Korean drones intruded across the inter-Korean border with one of them having flown over northern Seoul on Monday, officials here said, prompting South Korea to send its own unmanned vehicles into the North in a "corresponding" step.

The South's military detected the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in border areas of Gyeonggi Province from 10:25 a.m., according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The UAVs were 2 meters wide or smaller.

The vehicles flew across the Military Demarcation Line separating the two Koreas, and were spotted flying in those areas in Gimpo, Ganghwa Island and Paju, leading to temporary suspensions of civilian flights. It marks the first such intrusion in five years.

One of them flew all the way to the northern part of Seoul, while the others hovered largely in and around Ganghwa Island, west of the capital, in what officials here view as a move to cause "disruption" to the South.

The South issued warning messages, fired warning shots, and scrambled fighters, attack helicopters and other warplanes to remove them, while it remained unconfirmed whether the vehicles carried any weapons, the JCS said.

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20221226007055325?input=tw

The North Korean drone incursion into South Korean airspace apparently went on for hours. According to a South Korean independent journalist's commentary (언론 알아야 바꾼다 youtube), President Yoon apparently didn't even convene a security council meeting but had time for a publicity shot after he came to the office with a dog. (One wonders whether this is another effort at poorly conceived Sa gwa (apology) politics as previous unpopular acts by the president were parodied by private pictures from Yoon's home on social media by Yoon's wife, sending the message "even my dog likes apples." Sa gwa is also a homonym for apple. The Yoon administration is currently under fire for austerity moves, including proposals to reduce government agencies personnel levels while at the same time reducing corporate taxes.

Apparently, the military response of the South was directed by an assistant National Security Adviser. One of the prop driven fighter aircraft launched to respond (an hour after detection) crashed with both aircrew surviving. As the article notes the episode was a violation of the bilateral Military Agreement between the North and South signed during the Moon administration. There had been no such drone incidents since 2107.

Peace on Earth

@on the cusp

that's a hard song to belly dance to, i bet.

it was a good day. it got up to almost 30 degrees here and i went outside and got a little exercise. it doesn't appear to have killed me or made me stronger, nietzsche notwithstanding.

have a great evening!

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" around the world.
On river boats in Europe, in hotels in China and Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.
Add to the mix, last time I traveled overseas, it was Christmas in Morocco.
The song blared in the hotel, in the bar. That is, after the belly dance performance!
Glad you are enjoying your holiday, that your cold is blowing over, and that you are taking a bit of a break from the doom and gloom of the path this world is walking. Hopefully, not running.
Get all well, my friend!