Yes, I woke on the cheery, upbeat, sparkly side of the bed! You're surprised?
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let’s stop all the fight
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear
~ John Lennon
You’re a bum, you’re a punk, you’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy faggot
Happy Christmas, your arse, I pray God it’s our last
The boys of the NYPD choir, still singing “Galway Bay”
And the bells are ringing out for Christmas Day
~ The Pogues, featuring Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York 
Fight poverty, give to the needy
Don’t be like The Grinch cause The Grinch is greedy.
~ Run-D.M.C. — Christmas Is
No, they don’t have Christmas in Kentucky
There’s no holly on a West Virginia door
For the trees don’t twinkle when you’re hungry
And the Jingle Bells don’t jingle when you’re poor
Let’s drink a toast to Congress and a toast to Santa Claus
and a toast to all the speeches that bring the loud applause
There’s not enough to give, no, there’s not enough to share
So let’s drown the sounds of sorrow with a hearty Christmas cheer
No, they don’t have Christmas in Kentucky
~ Phil Ochs – No Christmas in Kentucky
Have you ever heard Simon & Garfunkel's 7 O’clock News / Silent Night?
In this recording, the nightly news from the summer of 1966 plays under Paul and Artie’s beautiful duet of the carol Silent Night. I was eight years old when it came out. OF FUCKING COURSE I grew up to be an angry, aware, left-wing, misanthropic bitch. It was either that or crawl into a bottle and never come out, eh?
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
. . .Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of
the measure without the votes of their strongest supporters.
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering
discrimination by everyone for every type of housing, but it had no
chance from the start and everyone in Congress knew it.
A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary
Committee.
believed to be an overdose of narcotics.
Bruce was fourty-two years old.
Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an
open housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero.
Cook County sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call of the
March, and the police in Cicero said they would ask the National
Guard be called out if it is held.
King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.
In Chicago, Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses,
was brought before a grand jury today for indictment.
The nurses were found stabbed and strangled in their Chicago
Apartment.
In Washington, the atmosphere was tense today as a special
sub-committee of the House Committee on Un-American
Activities continued its probe into anti –Vietnam war protest.
Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they
began chanting anti-war slogans.
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a
substantial increase in the present war effort in Vietnam, the U.S.
should look forward to five more years of war.
In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in
New York, Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is
the greatest single weapon working against the U.S.
That’s the 7 o’clock edition of the news. Good-night.
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
I hope your day is free from pain, annoyance, misery, and idiots.
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