The anatomy of a christmas standard

86-year-old composer Hugh Martin, occasionally active as a pianist with religious ministries since the 1980s, wrote an entirely new set of lyrics to the song with John Fricke, “Have Yourself a Blessed Little Christmas”, a religious version of the secular Christmas standard he wrote for Meet Me In St. Louis.

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THE TIGER AFFAIR, QUEEN OF BLOGS, ANOTHER 9 YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN?

These days, Tiger is being chased out of his mansion by a golf-club wielding jealous wife. How far the mighty have fallen.

Are most of the 112.8-million-blogs turned out by bloggers, well-meaningful or not, irrelevant if few people read them? Or if only 500-people-a-day read them? Is blogging, which takes an extraordinary amount of time, an excercise in futility?

For U.S. forces in Afghanistan, meanwhile, the expected troop surge can’t come fast enough.

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Obama- It’s the economy, stupid! Turkey pardon, Black Friday, Un-friend

SNL Rips Barack Obama on Excessive Spending, Debt, Jobs, Stimulus, Obama care, Cash for Clunkers ……

Kennedy did not pardon the creature presented to him in the Rose Garden on 1963; he merely announced he didn’t plan to eat the bird.

Black Friday 2009 is a “make or break” year. With retail bankruptcies Christmas 2008 and dismal sales for most of 2009, for many of America’s retailers …..

why did Good Morning America see fit to use Chris Parillo’s face as the one to illustrate “Un-friend?”

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Oprah to end show in 2011, Hire Me! Will Work For Minimum Wage, Hollywood Collapse, Palin Going (Not So) Rogue

After 25 seasons, the self-anointed high priestess of the religion of Oprah ………………….

Of the recent movie 2012 film-critic Richard Roeper had only this to say about it, “WHEN IS THE F—— MOVIE GOING TO END?!?!?!?

Once again demonstrating her incapability for becoming or running for president in 2012, disgraced Republican Sarah Palin said this week …………………..

Facing pink slips, repossessions, foreclosures, and a sinking economy may force some of us to take on any job available.

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THE BOAT THAT ROCKED, DENVER BEARS, OPRAH STILL IN THE CLOSET, PALIN GOING VOGUE, DOBBS TAKES A HIKE and 2012

There is an old saying that says, “If you can remember the ’60’s- you weren’t really there ….”Pirate Radio” is staid and stolid and plays fast and loose with the actual facts in the case.

With exactly 8 minutes left in the fourth quarter on MOnday Night Football aganst the Pittsburg STeelers, the 2009 Denver Bronco’s season died.

It’s not a new rumor that Oprah and her BFF/editor-at-large of O Magazine Gayle King are lesbian lovers.

Co-anchors of the WBBM-Channel 2 10 o’clock news, they were No. 1 in the late 1970s to mid-1980s, two legends in Chicago broadcasting were re-united for a one-night only broadcast on WBBM-TV (Channel 2) news

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The tough new “un-employment”

Being unemployed for any length of time is not a good idea and can lead to frustration, anger and depression. The online job-sites like dice.com, hotjobs at Yahoo, monster-jobs are an exercise in futility. Most of the people they have reviewing your resumes are right out of Junior College.

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Bankruptcy- it’s a gas, complaining Bears, Bronco horseshit, unclassic Halloween, Xmas 2009, Pizza Wars, Global Cooling and the H1 N1 scare

Already well into a four-year Obama presidency, Americans are at the breaking point. They hear that the economy is recovering but continue to see jobs disappear. Americans have always equated a healthy economy with lots of jobs everywhere …

finding fault with every little thing has become a Chicago habit.

In my Chicago suburb, Comcast, the local cable provider with over 200 channels to choose from, did not have one decent Halloween movie on. What happened to all those Halloween comedy’s they used to show?

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THE KING OF NOTHING, POTHEAD COUNTY, WELCOME TO COUGARTOWN, BRONCO FEVER AND OTHER MUSINGS

Once his biggest supporter during the presidential primary with Obama making several appearances on SNL, even Saturday Night Live has of late, begun lambasting Obama as a “do nothing” president

This is not the “ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH” that John Denver had in mind.

Cougar Town has the potential to be more than a one-joke affair, although Courtney Cox hitting on high-school boys is not exactly ha-ha funny

Bronco Fever is a highly contagious non curable condition that creates severe dependencies in certain individuals. Loss of balance in life is known to occur.

40 percent of the U.S. population will be infected with the H1 N1 virus over the next two years.

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Exposing the secret agenda behind today’s obsession with “Global Warming”

Many Americans are doing what they can to contribute to a “greener” America by recycling, planting trees, monitoring electric and water consumption but do we face a crisis as Obama claims? I think not. I

One thing is for sure, Al Gore belongs to the Liars Club along with Rush Limbaugh and other’s. He promoted a “fear agenda” in promoting “global warming” to line his pockets with millions of “green” dollars. In fact, I suspect this whole “green movement” is just a scam to line the pockets of those who own “green businesses” or promoting “green technologies.”

Global problems, real or conjured up, require global governmental solutions. As Whistleblower explains, environmentalism is nothing less than the global elitists’ replacement ideology for communism/socialism and we all know that Obama has a “socialist” agenda, not only with “Climate Change” but health-care, and Wall Street.” Is Obama just turning out to be a grey-shade of Al Gore?

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HARRY POTTER – A SOCIAL EVOLUTION

The HP series has gone through a lot of evolution in the past 12 -years. Dumbledore as portrayed by the late Richard Harris in thefirst two films was passed on to actor Michael Gambon upon the death of Richard Harris. During the 9-movie deal a host of Oscar winning actors/actresses would portray many of the characters, Maggie Smith, Oscar winning British actress would play Professor McGonagall, Alan Richman, the bad guy in Die Hard would play the severe and brooding Severus Snape. Other award winning actors like Shakespearean actor/director/producer Kenneth Branagh, his Oscar winning wife Emma Thompson, Helen Bonham Carter, Miranda Richardson, Gary Oldman, Seldom has so much acting firepower been assembled in a single film – or series of films. In addition to Smith, we’ve seen Emma Thompson (five Oscar noms and two wins), Kenneth Branagh (four Oscar noms, including one for directing), Julie Christie (four noms and one win), Julie Walters (two Oscar noms), Irishman Richard Harris (two noms), Ralph Fiennes (two noms), John Cleese (one nom), Helena Bonham Carter (one nom), and Imelda Staunton (one nom). This month’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince also introduces 2002 Oscar winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) to the cast.

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