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Christmas has with it a special mood attached to it. Either that mood reflects a fantasy-based perspective, or it has a deeply profound and serious one. In the 1970’s an independent French Film Producer by the name of Alexander Salkind in partnership with his son, Ilya, decided to go way bigger in their movie-making ambitions, by financing big film projects in America by taking American staples and making them big budget films.

A special Santa Claus is touching hearts and bringing an extra dose of holiday cheer to children with Down Syndrome in metro Atlanta. Last year, the Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta decided they wanted to give participants at their annual holiday party the chance to see a Santa Claus who looked like them. That's where Bradley Carlisle stepped in. Carlisle, 36, lives independently in an apartment in Dunwoody. Donning the classic red suit and white beard, his debut left some families who attended the event crying happy tears, the nonprofit said. "It was magical," one parent said. "For our kids...

Trump saves Christmas when Santa Claus catches a cold.

It’s easy to be a Scrooge about Christmas movies, especially these days. Streaming platforms have shamelessly muscled into the Hallmark market, churning out quick, cheap holiday romcoms with C-list casts every year, hoping to land on something so irresistibly cheesy it briefly becomes a seasonal phenomenon. Put that cynicism aside, however, and most of us can admit that we all have at least one movie we return to every December – the one that allows us to embrace nostalgia unapologetically and lets us know that the most wonderful time of the year has arrived. It doesn’t have to be schmaltzy...

gThe small town of Colmenar, in the Axarquia region, just 35 minutes from Rincon de la Victoria, probably holds the crown for the most enchanting Christmas towns in Spain. Every December, the Circo Escuela Fantasia of Colmenar trades its year-round circus workshops for a full-fledged “Santa Claus Factory” – a sprawling outdoor Christmas village where children are officially recruited as Santa’s elf assistants for the day. Opened on November 15 and running every weekend and public holiday until December 23, the village turns the school’s grounds into a winter wonderland of wooden cabins, fairy-tale decorations, twinkling lights, and the unmistakable...

More AI humor, but this one is terrific! If you don't like AI humor, don't watch. You've been warned.

Although most scientists have concluded that the mysterious object is comet, NASA's Perseverance rover on the Martian surface sent back photos showing what appears to be a massive cylindrical shape.

Two years ago my 9 year old daughter caught me moving the “Elf on the Shelf” around. So I told her the truth that it has been me. But I asked her would you rather not known the truth and continue to have daddy move the elf? She was thoughtful. Now 2 years later we spent Christmas out of the country and it was too difficult to set up presents for the favorite daughter. So I told Santa could not find us and we’d have to work it out after Christmas. Now it is after Christmas and she’s asking. I...

Merry Christmas FReepers Santa is already is already left the North Pole and is headed for Taiwan in several minutes. Merry Christmas!!

Stone pillars, moon’s 18.6-year cycle and ancient structures tell a story.. The major lunar standstill northern moonrise is visible between Chimney and Companion rocks once per month for a period of about 24 months, every 18.6 years.. To archaeo-astronomers, the stone pillars that give Chimney Rock National Monument its name and the structures there built by ancestral Puebloan people send a message. .... And something did happen at the monument Tuesday night: The moon rose between Chimney Rock and Companion Rock, demonstrating a rare celestial occurrence called the major lunar standstill. The event occurs monthly over the course of about...

I’m an old lady, but I’m still tickled by the NORAD Santa Tracker.They now have a chatbot named ‘Radar’, and the kids can ask it questions (try ‘How do reindeer fly?’ Or ‘How does Santa do it in one night?’)http://www.noradsanta.org/en/As I compose this, we are 1 day, 10 hours, 50 minutes and 57 seconds to liftoff.The story of how the tradition began is fun too:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa

In many shopping malls protesters are staging anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rallies directly targeting Christmas shoppers, but also scaring children who had come to sit on Santa’s knee.In many central shopping areas across Canada, protesters have staged anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies, killing the Christmas spirit and also terrifying kids who had come to sit on Santa’s knee. At a shopping mall in Ottawa, protesters shouted and drummed, and their only response to the parents of frightened children was to point out that „if your children are scared, imagine how the Palestinian kids must feel.” At one point, Santa Claus looks almost just...

What makes this clip particularly moving is that the little girl really was deaf. And she didn’t know that Sir Richard Attenborough (Santa) had learned to sign, just for this scene. So her joyful reaction here is real.

This is one way to make the naughty list. A killjoy Texas “pastor” stood outside an elementary school dressed as the Grinch holding up a sign stating “Santa is Fake. Jesus is Real,” in an attempt to steal the holiday joy from the kids inside. David Harold Grisham posed as the beloved Dr. Seuss character in front of Sleepy Hollow Elementary School in Amarillo, Texas earlier this week professing his belief towards the children and the parents he views as telling a lie The un-jolly man claimed he was assaulted outside the school while the “police showed up in...

Target has come under fire again after reports the retail giant is stocking ‘woke’ Christmas decorations in a number of its stores. Conservative X account End Wokeness was the first to post images of the woke Christmas decorations in Target, which included a black Santa Claus in a wheelchair along with a “pride” hat and a “pride” flag. Podcaster Tim Pool also confirmed that Target made “Santa in Wheelchair” available for purchase. “[O]mg its real,” Pool wrote.

I wrote this four years ago: "On the first of December 1862, with his country torn apart in Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln told America, “In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.” On Christmas Day that year Lincoln visited soldiers in hospitals. Then the president commissioned artist Thomas Nash to create the first modern image of Santa Claus, in the cause of freedom. What a wonderful Christmas spirit that was: visiting those wounded in a righteous cause and creating art celebrating generosity. In the...

There is absolutely no excuse for telling a child about Santa Claus. None. Not one. Let them believe for as long as possible, I say. So what was one grandmother thinking when she decided to come clean about Saint Nick and totally ruin Christmas for her 4-year-old granddaughter? The woman's daughter-in-law (DIL) shared the whole upsetting story in a now viral post on Reddit's r/JUSTNOMIL forum. The Original Poster (OP) really believes this all stems from the fact that her mother-in-law (MIL) doesn't really like her — like at all. "She’s one of the typical moms who doesn’t want her...

Here’s hoping you have a very unhappy holiday! Ukraine is so eager to spite Russia, it passed a law changing when it celebrates Christmas. The country will now mark the holy day on Dec. 25, dropping the Russian Orthodox Church’s tradition of celebrating the holiday on Jan. 7. The bill’s sponsors believe the change will help Ukraine “abandon the Russian heritage of imposing the celebration of Christmas on January 7,” while helping Ukrainians “live their own life with new traditions [and] holidays,” The Guardian reported. The change was passed by Ukraine’s parliament earlier this month and signed into law Friday...

Some families in the U.S. are taking to social media to share their dislike for Santa Claus. Like Sierra McKenzie, who has three children aged three weeks to three years and went on TikTok to exclaim why she is against Jolly Old Saint Nick. McKenzie, 23, had more to say. “Telling kids that Santa is real is a lie, and I don’t believe in building my kids up on a lie,” McKenzie, who hails from North Dakota, told The New York Post. “Your kids can still enjoy the magic of Christmas without believing in Santa,” she said, adding that the...

For those with kids, grandkids - or just the young at heart- here is the official Norad Santa Tracker. At this writing, it will commence in a little less than 11 hours. https://www.noradsanta.org/en/Fun story as to how the Norad Santa Tracker began: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa#History_and_overview