THE SEASON’S UPON US

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Posted on 24th December 2012 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

Nothing like an Irish Christmas song to get you in the spirit.

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  1. dilligaph says:

    my new Christmas favorite!

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    24th December 2012 at 10:01 pm

  2. AKAnon says:

    Thanks Admin, that put a smile on my face. So much fun I had to listen twice-may have to pick up a disc. I caught Flogging Molly a few months back-that was a fun show.

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    24th December 2012 at 11:48 pm

  3. crazyivan says:

    Like Ann Barnhart, this is strangly comforting.

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    24th December 2012 at 11:58 pm

  4. AKAnon says:

    OK, maybe 3 times. Good stuff.

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    24th December 2012 at 12:05 am

  5. Bowie says:

    Classic

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    24th December 2012 at 12:30 am

  6. T4C says:

    Makes me proud of my Irish DNA

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    24th December 2012 at 1:13 am

  7. Novista says:

    I wish I’d heard that in the supermarket last week.

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    24th December 2012 at 6:32 am

  8. TeresaE says:

    This is classic, I’m loving it.

    Sadly, it isn’t available at Amazon :(

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    24th December 2012 at 10:34 am

  9. KaD says:

    OMG, this is so good!

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    24th December 2012 at 4:04 pm

  10. Mary Malone says:

    Great stuff – Disfunctional Irish family Christmas Carol. Gotta love it!

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    24th December 2012 at 9:14 pm

  11. AKAnon says:

    My 4th listen brought back some holiday memories I must have repressed. A few years in a row, we couldn’t get through a Christmas without a fistfight between at least two of my three sons. The worst was when my oldest gave his own daughter (then about 3) a black eye when his younger brother ducked a punch and she wound up the unintended recipient of his fist. I guess she literally “should have ducked”. I had to institute a ban on liquor at holiday get togethers after that. But we all know how effective prohibition was. If it makes any difference, the boys have more than their share of Irish DNA.

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    24th December 2012 at 2:15 am

  12. AWD says:

    Santa’s ipad was hacked,

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    24th December 2012 at 4:46 pm

  13. backwardsevolution says:

    Yeah, instead of INTJ, let’s check out how many of us are Irish rogues.

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    24th December 2012 at 7:32 pm

  14. harry p. says:

    Backwardesevolution,
    I’m both

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    24th December 2012 at 7:37 pm

  15. Anonymous says:

    “Dropkick Murphys” – … http://youtube/3FaFWkqz2pY

    ” This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group”. Sorry about that.

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    24th December 2012 at 8:39 pm

  16. Stigmation says:

    Watch and learn hoe they mock us

    http://vimeo.com/25741586#t=38

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    24th December 2012 at 10:20 pm

  17. Nonanonymous says:

    Try this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx-sdR6Yzk

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    24th December 2012 at 7:17 am

  18. Administrator says:

    New video posted.

    The Christmas eve party at the Quinns will resemble this pandamonium.

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    24th December 2012 at 9:37 am

  19. avalon says:

    Video is funny. I cant wait for Christmas Eve, love seeing all of my family! And its really all about family (and Jesus), not the presents, right Jim? Heheh

    Btw, I dont know why, I am not even Irish, but I tear up whenever I see little Irish dancer girls. They are just precious!

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    24th December 2012 at 10:38 am

  20. AWD says:

    It’s never an Irish Christmas until there’s a drunken brawl (or so I’m told). Happy holidays.

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    24th December 2012 at 11:34 am

  21. AWD says:

    Santa’s little helper

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    24th December 2012 at 11:38 am

  22. AWD says:

    The season’s upon us,

    Ramadan,
    Quanza,
    TET,
    Hannikuah,

    I hear the girls get kind of friskie around Ramadan time….

    18000

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    24th December 2012 at 5:32 pm

  23. flash says:

    Before the malls, fast food, strip malls and cookie cutter consumerism, there was a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ and family .

    jesus-in-the-manger.jpg

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFxxQnhT5XQ

    Sunday, December 23, 2012
    The loneliest time of the year
    A female commenter at Alpha Game describes how Christmas can be hard on the lonely:

    This is my second Christmas with no family and no friends, and I’m at the point where I’d lay down my life for someone who made me feel like he or she cared.

    This is one of the downsides of the secular aspect of Christmas that stresses holiday togetherness. It can be very hard on those who don’t have friends and family to witness the merriment of those who do. However, it is important to remember that in some cases, the apparent happiness is a mirage, or at least, a collective self-delusion.

    When I was in college and for several years afterwards, my family had literally picture-perfect Christmases. As the White Buffalo, an occasional guest at our Christmas Day dinners, once commented, the experience like living in a Christmas commercial for Neiman Marcus. From the moment that the guest arrived in the beautiful white marble foyer amidst the softly falling snow and was immediately handed a hot buttered rum by my grandfather, to the postprandial arrival of Big Chilly and his family to partake in the devouring of the pumpkin and pecan pies, everything was aesthetically perfect and utterly enjoyable.

    Those gorgeous images are now pleasant memories. But the family is as dead as my grandparents, fractured by lies, greed, deceit, and sociopathic self-interest.

    And yet, there is still no shortage of joy. We have new traditions, with new family members who have never known what they are missing. There is no snow; the grass is green as I look outside the window today. Instead of the dulcet strains of Handel piped throughout the vast house, I hear Maddens on the PS/3 in the next room. There is no one to serve hot buttered rum and no one will drink it. No one will arrive after dinner, their eyes bright with anticipation and their cheeks red with the cold outside.

    But the ham will arrive, massive and steaming and looking like something out of an Asterix and Obelix comic. The wine will flow, white and red, and the egg nog will beat its predecessor hollow. A dash of kirsch will enliven the fondue and if the presents are not stacked halfway to the ceiling, the good cheer of the recipients will be in no way diminished, not even by comparison.

    And yet, these new traditions too are an illusion. The children will grow. The butcher will retire. One day I will follow in the footsteps of that smiling server of hot butter rum.

    The only thing that will remain, one thousand years from now, is the original reason for the celebration. It is the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we celebrate; that fact will remain as true tomorrow as it is today and as it was yesterday. And no celebrant of that holy birth can ever be alone, because she is bound into the great shining web of believers, past and present.

    So don’t allow yourself feel alone this Christmas season because you are not. Buy some toys and sweets and bring them to a shelter. Join the Salvation Army and help them feed the homeless. Go to one of the midnight services that will be held around the world on Monday, preferably at a strange church where you know no one, and permit yourself to be engulfed in the worldwide joy at Jesus Christ’s birth. Even if you have no hope, remember that the Word became flesh in order to bring hope to the hopeless.

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    24th December 2012 at 5:36 pm

  24. Omar the ayatollah says:

    I hereby declare a fatwah on the infidel AWD. Seventy near virgins will be the reward for he who serves me his head on a platter.

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    24th December 2012 at 5:38 pm

  25. flash says:

    link…http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-loneliest-time-of-year.html

    and another for balance.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1TtJqHY_s

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    24th December 2012 at 5:39 pm

  26. AWD says:

    Obama Saves Earth From Apocalypse: What’s Next?

    As we celebrate our narrow escape from the Mayan-Republican Apocalypse of December 21, 2012, the American media is living up to its reputation as the people’s fearless truth-teller, by correctly attributing our miraculous collective salvation to Barack Obama. The consensus among the media experts and celebrities can be best expressed by this unbiased quote from CNN: “If you don’t think Obama is god, you’re just stupid.”

    According to an ancient prophecy, the Mayan calendar would end on 12/21/2012 with a big comet (or other large-caliber assault weapon that the NRA protects from government control) falling off a physical cliff and striking the United States in karmic retaliation for Bush’s tax cuts and suppression of undocumented Mayan voters in swing states. Some experts estimated that, in addition to total death and destruction, this could result in the loss of all accrued Social Security benefits and free government-mandated health care, as well as a severe climate change as the planet would burn to a crisp.
    ~
    As the dreaded date approached, the media downplayed the Doomsday prediction as some authentic New Age gibberish propagated by people using medical marijuana for non-medicinal purposes. Such moral and intellectual guidance helped to stave off panic among the middle class working families, which could lead to a scarcity of wait staff at bistros that media personalities patronize. Privately, however, they realized that the prophecy was true and that we were all doomed.

    But, as members of the fourth estate heroically passed their final hours feasting on wine and cheese while cursing people who disagreed with them on Twitter, something wonderful happened: NOTHING! It was like the fiscal cliff negotiations writ large.

    Suddenly, as if by magic, all top-shelf, professional, state-accredited journalists across the nation knew the truth: the reason for both nothings were the actions of president Obama.

    As skeptics and other racists predictably question Obama’s divine intervention, the media’s answer to their conspiracy theories is clear: it’s December 22nd and we are all here, aren’t we? The world, including GM, is still alive – and Bin Laden is still deader than the majority of Chicago voters. What more proof do you need?

    The fact that Obama single-handedly delivered us from the eternal abyss is consistent with his prior unprecedented accomplishments.

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    In the past four years, Barack Obama repeatedly saved the U.S. economy just by being himself – not to mention his generous spending of trillions of dollars in virtual public money on unsustainable energy projects, Chinese contractors, Finnish automakers, Brazilian oil rigs, Mexican drug cartels, Arab Spring rebels, and international labor unions – as well as multi-million dollar vacations at taxpayer expense in Spain, Hawaii, and other economic disaster areas.

    Obviously, if Bush were still president, the world would have ended on December 22nd and nothing could have saved humanity from certain ruin.

    Now that Mr. Obama has outdone himself by saving the planet, it boggles the mind to think what he might do in the next four years of his historic presidency.

    Obocalypse-Now.jpg

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    24th December 2012 at 5:41 pm

  27. Novista says:

    http://vimeo.com/33803455

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    24th December 2012 at 7:10 pm

  28. flash says:

    I’m dreamin….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddVZOK_9UUI

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    24th December 2012 at 8:03 am

  29. flash says:

    for the micks..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

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    24th December 2012 at 8:07 am

  30. CT-Hilltopper says:

    Love this song. Thanks for posting it!

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    24th December 2012 at 10:36 pm

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