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I this age of anti free speech, we may have to get our message out in this manner: Happy Days with President Biden (satire).

Internal Revenue Service employee Mary Maldonado, of Dracut, Mass., center, displays a placard during a rally by federal employees and supporters, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, in front of the Statehouse, in Boston, held to call for an end of the partial shutdown of the federal government. WASHINGTON — Federal workers would receive a 1.9 percent pay increase under language included in legislation aimed at averting a government shutdown, according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. The pay hike would be less than the 2.6 percent increase the military received in legislation that Congress passed last year. President Donald Trump...

Really, does it get any more awesome than this?

The goateed orchestra leader who asked America to Sing Along With Mitch gone at 99. Miller who mocked the 60s with his laid -back style and follow-the-bouncing-ball sing-a-long lyrics died in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after a short illness. Miller had been a A&R exec at Columbia records making sold gold with music luminaries Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett but passed on Elvis and Buddy Holly calling rock "a disease". The Sing-a- Long with Mitch format was first test marketed on LPs and then became a hit NBC series in 1961.

Reuters) - Mitch Miller, the powerful American music executive who guided some of the biggest U.S. pop stars of the 1950s and had Americans crooning with him on the "Sing Along With Mitch" television show, has died at age 99. Miller, who wore a trademark Vandyke beard and had a fondness for cigars, died at New York City's Lenox Hill hospital after a brief illness, his daughter, Margaret Miller Reuther, told the New York Times.

AP) - Mitch Miller, the goateed orchestra leader who asked Americans to "Sing Along With Mitch" on television and records, died Saturday at age 99. Miller was a key exec at Columbia Records in the pre-rock 'n' roll era, making hits with singers Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page, Johnny Mathis, and Tony... Read more: http://www.newser.com/tag/54238/1/mitch-miller.html#ixzz0vTXIpyy6

NEW YORK, (AP) -- Mitch Miller, the goateed orchestra leader who asked Americans to "Sing Along With Mitch" on television and records, has died at age 99. His daughter, Margaret Miller Reuther, says her father died in New York City after a short illness. Miller was a key record executive at Columbia Records in the pre-rock 'n' roll era, making hits with singers Rosemary Clooney, Patti Page, Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett.

Mitch Miller, an influential record producer who became a hugely popular recording artist and an unlikely television star a half century ago by leading a choral group in familiar old songs and inviting people to sing along, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 99. His daughter Margaret Miller Reuther confirmed the death Monday morning, saying her father had died after a short illness at Lenox Hill Hospital. Mr. Miller lived in Manhattan. Mr. Miller, a Rochester native who was born on the Fourth of July, had been an accomplished oboist and was still a force in the recording industry when...