प्रतिक्रिया / Reaction – Kaushal Kishore

 

आप क्या चलाते हैं करती है प्रतिक्रिया इसपर निर्भर,

एक पत्थर कुत्ते पर फेंको, एक मधुमक्खी के छत्ते पर…

पत्थर रहता वही है, उसकी ताकत भी वही रहती है, 

लेकिन लक्ष्यानुसार दिखता है, अलग अलग असर…

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The reaction depends solely on what you drive.

Throw a stone at a dog, another at a beehive…

The stone’s the same, its force’s the same,

But the outcome differs, based on its aim…

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–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: प्रतिक्रिया / Reaction – Kaushal Kishore

🎄 Feliz Navidad 🎅 | Filosofa’s Word

♫  Feliz Navidad ♫

This song is written and sung by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano, a favourite of mine.  Feliciano says he recorded the song while feeling homesick at Christmas, missing his family in New York City and his extended family further afield as he sat in a studio in Los Angeles. He remembered celebrating Christmas Eve with his brothers, eating traditional Puerto Rican foods, drinking rum, and going caroling.

“It was expressing the joy that I felt on Christmas and the fact that I felt very lonely. I missed my family, I missed Christmas carols with them. I missed the whole Christmas scene.”

The lyrics are in both Spanish and English, because as Feliciano said …

“If I had left in Spanish only, then I knew the English stations might not play it, so I decided to write an English lyric, ‘I want to wish you a merry Christmas.’ And then there was no way the stations could lock that song out of the programming.”

The song has been covered by a number of artists including Michael Bublé and Celine Dion, but I’ll stick with the original on this one.  It’s a fun holiday tune, a toe-tapper, that charted at in the U.S., in the UK, and played fairly well all ‘round the globe!

Feliz Navidad

José Feliciano

Source: 🎄 Feliz Navidad 🎅 | Filosofa’s Word

Songs I Like (97) | beetleypete

A Scottish band named after a Steely Dan song, Deacon Blue had success in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. They are still performing today, and though they have not remained in the music charts, they have a very loyal following of fans.

This was on an album of theirs that I bought in 1989, and it was also released as a single. All these years later, I still like to play the song a few times a year.

Source: Songs I Like (97) | beetleypete

House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of ‘regularly’ paying for sex – Los Angeles Times

The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs — all while the Florida Republican was a member of Congress.

The 37-page report by the bipartisan panel includes explicit details of sex-filled parties and vacations that Gaetz, now 42, took part in while representing Florida’s western panhandle. The findings conclude that he violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office.

“The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” the report states…

Source: House Ethics Committee accuses Gaetz of ‘regularly’ paying for sex – Los Angeles Times