For The Fourth Sunday In Advent

First, read about the Choir of King's College (emphases mine):

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, is one of the world’s best-known choral groups. Founded in the 15th century, it ranks among the oldest of its kind, and, while originally created for singing the daily services in the college chapel, now enjoys an international tour schedule that has seen it perform all over Europe and beyond. Every Christmas Eve, millions of people tune in to watch the choir’s A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s – a service which has been continuously broadcast since 1928.

Recorded in 1994, this reissue joins the group’s already extensive discography of Christmas music – recordings that have enhanced its worldwide fame and reputation. The compilation mixes some of the best-loved traditionals, including Once in royal David’s city and O Come all ye faithful, with more recent repertoire – such as Rutter’s rousing What Sweeter Music and Judith Weir’s striking Illuminare, Jerusalem (specially commissioned by the choir for its 1985 annual service). Also featured are traditional German, French, Dutch and Polish carols (including two settings of Dulce Jubilo) – works which, together with Pärt’s enchanting Bogoróditse Dyévo [meaning Mother of God and Virgin], contribute to a wonderfully eclectic disc that provides over an hour of festive cheer.

This music is an important part of our heritage of Western Culture, of Christianity. Volume up!  The index to the selections is below the video.

 

Track list: 

 00:00:00 Once in royal David’s city 

00:04:41 Rejoice and be merry 

00:06:11 Ding dong, merrily on high  

00:08:19 What Sweeter Music 

00:12:37 O little town of Bethlehem  

00:16:17 A Spotless Rose  

00:19:25 Heer Jezus heeft een hofken (organ variations) 

 00:26:44 King Jesus hath a garden  

00:30:10 The Lamb  

00:33:39 Bogoróditse Dyévo 

00:34:55 Infant holy, infant lowly 

00:36:43 Illuminare, Jerusalem  

00:39:12 While shepherds watched  

00:41:54 Quittez, pasteurs 

00:45:05 In dulci jubilo (organ prelude)

00:48:06 In dulci jubilo  

00:50:46 The First Nowell 

00:56:09 Coventry Carol  

00:59:17 Personent hodie  

01:01:49 O come all ye faithful 

Artist: The Choir of King's College, Cambridge 

Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

For The Third Sunday In Advent

An instrumental feast for the ears! Minimize and listen for a while:

President Trump on the Limbaugh Show

President Trump called into the show last week, on the 30th anniversary date of the Rush Limbaugh Show.


Eat your heart out, you now Never-Trumpers who used to substitute host for Rush!

Lindsay Shepherd’s Attacker Who Labeled her “Alt-Right” Was Ousted from Windsor University Position After Anti-Semitic Scandal

I have not posted on the situation, vis a vis Lindsay Sherherd, at all. Other websites have covered it, and I suspect most news junkies know about it, but I will summarize it this way.

Lindsay Shepherd is a Canadian Teaching Assistant at University of Wilfrid Laurier. As part of a class discussion she played a clip of Jordan Peterson discussing the mandate on using Gender Pronouns.

And:

Shepherd was censured, brought in for a meeting with Laurier faculty who berated her until she broke down in tears. They equated her airing a Jordan Peterson clip in class with playing a Hitler speech. 

Since the audio of her abuse was leaked, the school has issued a retraction, but some of the leftist activists and journalists are coming after Shepherd, and they won’t stop until they have her head delivered on a platter. Mohammad Akbar wrote a smear piece in NOW Magazine claiming that Shepherd is linked to the anti-Semitic alt-right movement.  

The irony is that Akbar himself was himself ousted from a student office at University of Windsor after an anti-Semitic hate crime scandal in 2014. Akbar was the UWSA vice president of external affairs during the time that the USWA passed an anti-Israel bill. 

In fact, as the Toronto Star reported, the bill “sparked safety concerns for some Jewish students on campus, as well as complaints that have prompted an investigation of the vote by the school’s administration.” 

“I think the referendum will just lead to a more hostile environment on campus,” said David, a Jewish University of Windsor student who only wanted to give his first name for safety reasons. 

It didn’t end there, however. The passage of this bill so emboldened anti-Semites on campus that they broke into school buildings and vandalized property with anti-Semitic symbols. 

The scandal was so bad that even though Mohommad Akbar ran unopposed in the election, he received more “no” votes than “yes” and was ousted from office. Maclean’s reports: Mohammad Akbar, the rejected candidate for president, was on the executive that allowed the [BDS] vote to go forward last month. “Voters who had been paying attention would have noticed that.” 

So, Akbar is using the classic tactic of, “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” While Akbar is leading a smear campaign against Lindsay Shepherd for supposedly making students “unsafe” at Wilfrid Laurier, he himself was involved in a scandal that actually endangered Jewish students at Windsor University.

Sometimes it seems like there is a Muslim at the bottom of incidence of fascism in the West.

Here we have a Muslim criticizing a Classical Liberal for not being inclusive enough.

What would Mohammed Akbar think of Saudi Arabia killing a Transgender man for being a "homosexual"?

Because that is likely what would happen.

No one in the West is advocating murdering Homosexuals, or those who consider themselves to be a gender other than what they were born.

In the West we say, "Live and Let Live", and we tolerate those who are different. We include them in our lives.

That being said, we do not have to act like everything everyone does is normal. And we will not be forced to change the way we use words, or the way we understand Biology, just to appease those who are different.

Peterson, being an intellectual, has woven the Transgender issue into a much larger body of ideas, many of which are compelling. But as the crux, all this is about is, "Do we change Language, and do we re-write the science of Biology, to suit those who say their penis does not mean they are a male?

Answer = No.

And a Muslim decides to play that he is inclusive. He is absolutely ok with those with penises going into female bathrooms and taking showers, or pulling out their penis to urinate. He is absolutely ok with that.

Or at least he is absolutely ok with fostering more enmity between the Infidels.

Right?

Trump Camp Posts Leaked Audio of Hillary Clinton Slamming Second Amendment Rights

Leaked audio of Hillary slamming the Supreme Court on your #SecondAmendment rights- at a private NY fundraiser. #2A https://t.co/KSz0wKU3OK

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) May 19, 2016

Not surprising at all, right? But that's a hell of a gotcha.

Audio and Video of Attack on Lars Vilks - Photograph of Attacker

BBC: Danish shooting: Audio of moment gunman struck in Copenhagen cafe 





BBC: Eyewitness Dennis Myhoff-Brink told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: "We heard ...20 or 30 shots...and a person yelling something in Arabic"(audio clip)


Updates via UK Mirror: 
5:32 pm The suspects in the cafe shooting are Danish-speaking, according to tabloid newspaper Ekstra Bladet.
6:07 pm Cafe event was held to mark the anniversary of the fatwa against controversial author Salman Rushdie
7:15 pm 'Free speech must be protected'
Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive of Index on Censorship, condemned today's attack.

"It would be terrible if violent acts such as that in Copenhagen shut down free speech even further."

"The ability to express ourselves freely, to attend meetings and debates without fear of violence, is fundamental to a free society. 

"Free speech must be protected."

8:12pm 
According to Danish journalist Morten Frich, the cops are searching for an Arab-looking male, aged 25-30 years old, of athletic stature who is 180cm tall.

He has a "light" skin tone and black hair.

Danish police have released a full description of the Copenhagen shooting suspect.

He is male, 25-30 years old, around 185cm tall, athletic build with an Arabic appearance but with lighter skin than normal and with black, slick hair. 

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8:29 pm 'The reason for the attack is to shut down any conversation, any open discussion in an open society like Europe'
Polish artist Agnieszka Kolek told ITV News: "The reason for the attack is not just to kill us, it is also to shut down any conversation, any open discussion in an open society like Europe," she said.

She added that those who said the event should never have taken place was a "bigger threat to us than anyone coming and waving a gun"


10:10 pm"After the shooting subdued everyone started to come together. "We decided to continue with the presentation.

"Everyone thanked us that we continued. "We will not surrender; they cannot kill all of us."

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Additional enhanced photos of shooter at ekstrabladet.dk

Google translate from comments at above link:

Emergency services arrived in Borgervaenget where the alleged offender left the getaway car. According to Ekstra Bladet troops on the ground, it appears that the armed bomb experts are ready to examine the vehicle for explosives.

Divers jumped into the water at Kildevaeld Sea. Presumably to look for a weapon