This video of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing The Little Drummer Boy has always been popular around here. Today it’s been entered into the carol contest by “ridgieandme” (I know who you are!) and “Someone” (I think I know, but better give me your name). Two entries in one–a good start!
Okay, the first two entries are in and the game is under way–our annual Christmas Carol Contest.
The winning entry will be the carol that gets the most views on the day it was posted. This way the lead can change hands from day to day, and we won’t know who the winner is until the last day of the contest.
Ordinarily I don’t tell you who’s leading; but I wonder if I ought to, from time to time, tell you how many views the leading carol has–might make it more fun. I’m open to suggestion, but don’t expect me to make any changes after the first day or two.
Note: We only use carols that celebrate Christmas as the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. You can’t enter the contest with “I Saw Mommy Kissin’ Santa Claus.”
Prizes will be the usual breath-takingly wonderful items.
And here’s the next entry in our carol contest–Angels We Have Heard On High, requested by Katheleen, sung by the Christendom College Choir.
Now I think I’ll have my breakfast.
We’re a little late, so let’s get started! Here’s the first entry in our carol contest–requested by <Thewhiterabbit>, sung by Nat King Cole: O Come All Ye Faithful.
Sometime this morning, once I catch up, I’ll post the incredibly complicated rules of our annual Christmas Carol Contest.
But as of now, I declare this contest open!
Our technology this morning once again got busy biting the hand that feeds it. “Outage!” said Verizon. Hours go by. They’re working on it.
Finally this broke through: Joy to the World, sung by Mitch Miller and his chorus.
There’s a catch, though. We only have volume on the main computer, not the laptop.
Oh, forsooth… let me try to catch up.
Not that a snowman has anything to do with Christmas… but they thought they’d better ban it anyhow: not “inclusive” enough.
The Inclusion Mob is already trying to wipe out this year’s Christmas. “Officials” in the town of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, on Nov. 9 “asked” (!) municipal employees to refrain from putting up any decorations that smacked of Christmas (https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/north/2023/11/15/viral-wauwatosa-holiday-decor-email-wasnt-policy-directive-city-says/71583493007/).
Six days and one social media backlash later, they dropped the ban–which had gone far enough to forbid employees from speaking of “snowmen” instead of “snow people.” The result was “widespread ridicule.”
Why did they do it? As usual, “some people complained.” Nothing happens if we complain about public libraries hosting Drag Queen Story Hour. But complaints about Christmas–well, hell, ban the colors red and green! Yes, that was also part of the plan.
Only “inclusive” decorations that exclude Christians’ Christmas were to be allowed.
We are surely governed by idiots who hate us.
Anyway, Liberty Counsel was all set to sue–so the municipal government rescinded its ban on Christmas. Employees will not be required to pretend they’re pagans. First Amendment and all that, y’know.
These things have been done to us because, living our everyday lives, we weren’t looking when those gonks who despise us set their schemes in motion. We were not as vigilant as we should have been.
Hopefully that’s changing.
Once upon a time, on a 15-minute panel show on our lovely Christian radio station that isn’t here anymore, I heard a woman give advice that I hope I never forget:
When things go bad, she said… “Sing louder.”
Okay! I’ve got Simon Khorolsky, he sings so you can hear it: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. With snow and trees.
Dan Vasc is a heavy metal artist, so of course I never heard of him till now. Boy, can he sing hymns! What a voice.
We’re a little early for Christmas, but let’s not let that stop us–Angels We Have Heard on High, sung with gusto by Dan Vasc.
Is it too early for Christmas hymns? Nah–not around here it isn’t. Presenting Joshua and Jeremy Swanson, with Silent Night and Joy to the World. Here’s praying we all make it to Christmas and beyond.
I’m longing for Christmas this year, can’t come soon enough for me.
Meanwhile, here’s Nat King Cole and Hark the Herald Angels Sing.
God promises us peace and mercy.
From our worldly rulers we get neither.