"I don't want a lot for ChristmasThere is just one thing I needI don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas treeI just want you for my ownMore than you could ever knowMake my wish come trueAll I want for Christmas is youYeah"
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The song is about longing. Most popular Christmas songs are.
Maria Carey and Walter Afanasieff produced a holiday themed studio album in 1995. "All I want for Christmas is you" was an immediate hit. It is the number one song on the music charts in late November for the past five years.
The song is a mix of upbeat seasonal joy plus longing and heartache -- the magical combination for a Christmas song. As the Hallmark people know well, there is deep sentiment about Christmas. Be home for Christmas, if only in one's dreams. In Hallmark Christmas movies, the dream comes true.
Irving Berlin's White Christmas won the Academy Award for best song in 1942. Bing Crosby released the song as a single in 1947 and it became the largest selling single record ever sold. World War Two separated people from home and family. Crosby dreamed of a Christmas "just like the ones I used to know."
As a young child I learned the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and sang the song Gene Autry made popular in 1949, when it was a number one hit. Playmates can be cruel. They might not appreciate a reindeer child. But then Christmas magic: When others discover the little reindeer is special after all.
Robert Wells and Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song in 1945. The song is better known as "Chestnuts Roasting over an Open Fire." Nat King Cole sang it in 1946. His versions remain the gold standard. It is a list of sentimental touchstones: Chestnuts, yuletide carols, turkey, Santa, mistletoe, and tiny tots with eyes all aglow.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is not a Christmas story, but he captured Christmas sentiment of longing for a remembered past. Christmas is a happy time for children. But then we grow up and realize that the past is unrecoverable. That longed-for past of real and imagined Christmases elude us, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther, until, maybe, one fine morning -- one fine Christmas morning.
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Today the world celebrates the birth of Jesus,
who was executed for spreading his woke ideology.
Imagine all the people living the spirit of Christmas,
giving and forgiving in peace and love.
What a wonderful world it could be.
Merry Christmas
Some people can’t take even one day off of their ideological fixations to enjoy a child-oriented holiday. The spirit of The Grinch is strong in them…
All was not calm or bright on Donald Trump‘s Truth Social account this Christmas, as the former president raged against his treatment by the Biden administration — and predicted that he would be the victim of “illegal election interference.”
The 77-year-old told his followers on Monday morning that “2024 will go down as the year of great and fully coordinated illegal election interference by Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt president in the history of the United States, the DOJ, FBI, A.G.’s, & D.A.’s [sic], throughout the country[.]”
Trump then turned hopeful, writing: “But despite it all, in the end, there will be a big and glorious victory for those brave and valiant patriots who want to make America great again. Merry Christmas to all!!!”
The 45th president has long claimed without evidence that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen” from him, getting himself into legal trouble in the process.
A plethora of polls show him edging out Biden in the national popular vote with a little over 10 months to go before Election Day.
Hamas rejects Egyptian proposal to end war with Israel, refuses free elections in Gaza
"Some people can’t take even one day off of their ideological fixations to enjoy a child-oriented holiday."
The nerve of some people, making a political statement on a political blog. Of all the gall!
Merry Xmas, everyone…
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