Something to think about during the holidays

Times haven't changed much . . but I wish they would.

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Simon and Garfunkel's Silent Night - 7'oclock News - 1966. Set to various covers of TIME magazine.
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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.
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This is the early evening edition of the news.

The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing section of the Civil Rights Bill 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.

In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an overdoes of narcotics.
Bruce was 42 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 off the march and the police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to 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 an strangled in their Chicago apartment.

In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-Viet nam war protests.
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 Viet nam, 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,

Goodnight.

:'(

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yes, it is.

We all need to try harder.

Why is it so very hard to love, heal, be kind, give, smile, care?

No theories. No answers. Please.

Just try harder.

Just do it.

<3

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

In Oz, the holidays is about attempting to beat the crap out of both South Africa and New Zealand....

....in cricket...;)

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Whom, of anyone one in the late 50 to 60 age group, could  every forget that version of Silent Night.

If history tells us anything it is that we, as a societ and more speecificly the human race on earth, are forever cursed to repeat the mistakes we have made and continue to make over and over again, my friend.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

WE the people allow our leaders, the ones we elected to serve US, to make the same mistakes, although I doubt the validity of calling them mistakes.  The same things usually happen because they garner more wealth and power for their certain portion of society.  We watch the news every day as billions of our tax dollars are poured into open ended holes with little to no oversite.  What business of two or more people enters into major financial dealings without prior planning?  Of course the United States government.  And what can we ACTUALLY do about it....nothing.

Yes I graduated high school in 1967, so I do remember that period, and the mini-crisis in the early 70's and the recession in the early 80's.  Take the masses to the brink then mullify them with short periods of minor prosperity and then do it all over again.  Nothing will ever change with a two party system in place.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yikes Jafo, I'm in OZ, and thankful I don't watch TV, only DVD's :)

Yes, the news is a horror movie.. to quote the Skyhooks song, that's why I avoid it, because they never seem to show the goodness that IS going on around us.. glass half empty they are.. why not show something inspiring for a change paparazzi! X|

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I don't like to think and I especially don't like to think during the Holidays.  Good day to you sir!