Merry Christmas!

A very merry Christmas to all. May all your prayers be answered.

To my Democrat Friends:

“Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and /or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

To my Republican Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

I will have to admit there many fine renditions of that music , but for my money the Christmas CD solo on violin by Manheim Steamroller is just plain awesome.

It is one of those tracks that will just send chills down your spine.

I’ve never heard that version and just listened to it for the first time.

Wow!

Here is a light show to it on YouTube. Excellent.

Right now I am streaming Christmas music off a college radio station for background that tends toward older classic Christmas music mostly big band style and older groups.

Right now Gene Autry is doing Here comes Santa Claus

WKTZ

4:29:36 pm - DAVID ROSE, XMAS WALTZ
4:32:53 pm - LIVING STRINGS, MEDLEY: WE 3 KINGS-O HOLY-
4:37:50 pm - AL CAIOLA, XMAS CARD
4:40:26 pm - STEVE & EYDIE, HAPPY HOLIDAY
4:42:46 pm - KELLY YOST, GESU BAMBINO
4:45:47 pm - LIVING VOICES, MEDLEY:JINGLE-RUDOLPH-WISH
4:50:02 pm - LIBERACE, MEDLEY: HERE COMES-IS COMIN
4:51:58 pm - JAMES LAST, HAPPY XMAS EVERYWHERE
4:54:50 pm - SINATRA, HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
4:57:12 pm - NAT KING COLE, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN/RUDOLPH
5:00:15 pm - ANDRE KOSTELANETZ, Christmas CHOPSTICKS
5:02:44 pm - GENE AUTRY, HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS

I’ll meet you over there Mike, some Champagne sounds good!

Gonna have to try that recording on the surround sound on concert hall delay. Never done that before.

Curt I don’t know how familiar you are with that group, but go here and then click each sample in windows media so you can sample the CD…you will probably be hunting for it in after Xmas sales.