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Continue reading “Eight in a series”

Reading about the Ford Motor Company caving into the Mullah Dobson and withdrawing ads from gay-friendly/advocacy publications, I saw a mention of this book: The International Jew, the World’s Foremost Problem.
I didn’t know that Henry Ford Sr was such a bigot. It was more common/acceptable at the beginning of the last century, but I didn’t realize he had bought a newspaper expressly to disseminate his anti-Jewish rants.

Further Google searches on the title displayed a result from the Klan. That Klan, the cowards in the pointy hoods. I’m not surprised that they have a website — as you’re reading now, any fool can do this — but I just didn’t think it would be so open. No links. Find it yourself if you need to. I’m trying to forget I saw it, even though it was just a page of text.

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Spent some time over the past few days putting together a holiday gift CD.

This is how it turned out. I published it as an iMix at the iTunes Music Store if you want to add any of this to your own collection.

I tried to mix up the styles a bit without dipping into the overly familiar (no Bing Crosby or Little Drummer Boy, though I did find a version by Hendrix that might have suited). And I have included an after dinner joke story to help with digestion. But once more I realize the time to think about this is in the heat of summer if I want a good selection of material to work with.

• A Christmas/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Chanukah/Ramadan/Boxing Day Song/Christine Lavin • The Runaway Christmas Tree
• ‘Zat You, Santa Claus? • Louis Armstrong & The Commanders • 20th Century Masters – The Christmas Collection: The Best of Louis Armstrong
• Welcome Christmas (Reprise) • Boris Karloff • How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Christmas Time Is Here (Vocal) • Vince Guaraldi Trio • A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Must Be Santa (Polka) • Brave Combo • Must Be Santa! The Rounder Christmas Album
• O Holy Night • Rickie Lee Jones, Suzie Katayama & The Chieftains • The Bells of Dublin
• Gaudete • Mediaeval Baebes • A Winter’s Night
• The Nutcracker Suite • The Brian Setzer Orchestra • Boogie Woogie Christmas
• The Rebel Jesus • The Chieftains & Jackson Browne • The Bells of Dublin
• Coventry Carol • Suzanne Vega • Celebrate the Season
• The Bricklayer’s Lament • Gerard Hoffnung
• Jingle Bell Rock • The Ventures • The Ventures’ Christmas Album
• Rusty Chevrolet • Da Yoopers • Culture Shock
• Christmas Wrapping • The Waitresses
• Thanks For Christmas • Three Wise Men (XTC)
• Merry Christmas Baby • B.B. King
• Happy Christmas (War Is Over) • U2 • Live on RTE, 1988

I hope you find some things to listen to, either new and refreshing or familiar: we need both, I think.