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Dec 25 2021
Carol of the Bells
Twitter is a strange place. Depending on who you follow or what you read in the news on the internet that leads you there, it can be informative and educational. A blog post led me to a tweet where I found this tweeted response And Carol of the Bells is based on a Ukrainian …
Dec 25 2020
Carol of the Bells
Twitter is a strange place. Depending on who you follow or what you read in the news on the internet that leads you there, it can be informative and educational. A blog post led me to a tweet where I found this tweeted response And Carol of the Bells is based on a Ukrainian …
Dec 25 2019
Carol of the Bells
Twitter is a strange place. Depending on who you follow or what you read in the news on the internet that leads you there, it can be informative and educational. A blog post led me to a tweet where I found this tweeted response And Carol of the Bells is based on a Ukrainian …
Dec 22 2010
A Christmas Carol: USA vs Canadian Flash Mob
Canadian Christmas Caroling:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Air Canada sponsors a local band “Abandon Paris” to sing at the Vancouver Airport on Saturday, while dancers from the Arts Umbrella Dance Company put on red stocking caps and dance in the airport.
Air Canada Flashmob. Abandon Paris sings “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” at the Vancouver Airport
United States Christmas Caroling:
You remember the Roseville Galleria Mall. https://www.docudharma.com/diar… It was the one a single crazy arsonist set fire back to earlier this fall, on Oct 21, resulting in millions of dollars worth of damage, (partially thanks to the Roseville PD, because the sprinklers were turned off, and they wouldn’t let the Fire Dept into the building because Crazy Pyro Guy had a …. backpack. So they send in The Bomb Finding Robot, the Fire Dept has to use ladder trucks from the outside, a giant hole burns through the roof of the mall, and days later, under the fallen ashes and debris… it was still a backpack. ) and Gov. Schwarzenegger then declaring Placer County under a state of emergency. Well, they got part of the Galleria Mall open for the Holiday shopping season, the Sacramento Choral Society shows up at the Food Court, and….
12/20/10 Auburn JournalPolice reported receiving between 40 and 50 “911” calls from shoppers warning of dangerous overcrowding They dispatched 10 police cars, in addition to the five fire engines, one truck and four ambulances.
From a helicopter, officials ordered people to get into their vehicles or leave the promenade, where many of the singers and listeners had gathered. Joyfully defying officers, the choir members rang out with cries of “O Holy Night,” “We wish you a merry Christmas,” and of course, Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.
A fire department spokesman said mall officials knew about the pending concert and described the movement at the food court as what one might see in a minor earthquake. No injuries were reported.
An estimated 5,000 people had to be evacuated, and it made international headlines. Yay California !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl…
Some Chorus people did not immediately try to leave the mall and contribute to the ongoing massive traffic jam at the nearby 65 exit/entrance ramp, but instead attempted to sing outside. Catch the infamous multimillion dollar Placer County helicopter circling overhead ordering them to leave as they sing “Silent Night” and the kids taking pictures of it with their cameras.
Look, up in the East. Is that the Star of Bethlehem ? No, it’s the searchlight on the Sherif’s Dept Helicopter. Get the **** Out of the Mall, it might fall down !
Your Homeland Security Tax Dollars At Work.
Sample comments under AJ story (remember, this is wingnuttia Tea Party Land)
I hope the cops stun gunned everyone of them
where was mall security? why should my tax dollars be wasted on Westfield ….
the mall should have turned on the sprinkler system…. that’s twice now…
thanks again for the holiday cheer morons. Merry Christmas and a happy laryngitis infection to you all.
all you are asking for is a potential terrorist attack of some kind… The Viet Cong were experts at using big groups…. there are a lot of al Queda wannabees out there
After an inspection, the mall was declared safe to re open today, according to the city and mall engineers. http://www.mercurynews.com/top…
Just don’t sing too loud. We’re not sure about our structural integrity.
Dec 08 2007
Singing songs of peace for the holidays
Mission: Find some antiwar versions of holiday carols to sing at December 21 Iraq Moratorium #4 and other peace events around the holidays.
The call for lyrics or song parodies, with some samples for inspiration, went out a few days ago.
And now Pat Wynne of the Freedom Song Network offers this:
BRING THE TROOPS HOME TODAY
Words By Pat Wynne
(Tune: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)Soldiers resting near an open fire
Generals safe in the Green Zone,
Explosions, shots and unfriendly fire
Arms and legs and bodies blown.Everybody knows
There were no weapons- let’s come clean
Just lies to feed the war machine.
Tiny tots with their homes all aflame
It¹s hard to not affix some blame.They know no Santa’s on his sleigh
There’s just more death and maiming on the way.
And every mother’s son would like to say,
“Just send me home to my family today.”And so I’m offering this simple plea,,
To folks from one to ninety-three,
Peace In Iraq, Stop the war, Let’s all say,
“Bring the troops home today”.
Dec 04 2007
There’s no reason to be jolly; fa la la la la, la la la la
Congress Isn’t Stopping the War
(To the tune of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”)
You better shape up,
You better get tough.
Or this next election
Is gonna be rough
If Congress doesn’t stop the war
We’re watching your votes
We’re taking good notes
Gonna insist on more than good quotes
Congress isn’t stopping the war
We see you when you’re voting
We know when you sell out
We know when you don’t have the guts
To get our troops right out
So you better shape up,
You better get tough
Or this next election
Is gonna be rough
If Congress doesn’t stop the war.
(VARIATION: Substitute Democrats for Congress, with a few word adjustments)
Think that’s bad? You ain’t heard nothin’ yet. Read on …