Massive downtown Nashville explosion: Dire warning came from RV, Human remains found
Nashville authorities believe an explosion that occurred in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning was an “intentional act” and sparked by a vehicle blast.
Police came across a suspicious RV parked outside a nearby AT&T building near Second Avenue and Commerce Street before 6 a.m., when initially responding to calls of shots fired in the area, said Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron.
There was no immediate evidence of any shooting but officers alerted the department’s bomb squad, which was en route when a “significant explosion” happened about 30 minutes later, Aaron said.
Just before the blast, witnesses in the area report a dire warning coming from the RV: “Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode.”
BREAKING: This is the RV that exploded on 2nd Ave N this morning. It arrived on 2nd Ave at 1:22 a.m. Have you seen this vehicle in our area or do you have information about it? Please contact us via Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463 or online via https://t.co/dVGS7o0m4v. @ATFHQ pic.twitter.com/JNx9sDinAH
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) December 25, 2020
Reader Fave Christmas Carols… Christmas Day Part 1
Enjoy! Part 2 will be showing up later tonight.
From Norman – Sing Along With Mitch (12/21/61)
From Grainger – Papa St Nick
From Norman – Apollo 100 – Joy
From Laura – Bishop Boychoir
From Bargogx1 – Dropkick Murphys – “The Season’s Upon Us”
From James – Chris De Burgh – A Spaceman Came Travelling
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Christmas All Over Again”
From John – “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses
From Frances – Celtic Thunder – ‘Christmas 1915’
From Surele – Carol of the Bell – Hillsong London Carols
From Norman – Tchaikovsky Flashwaltz at Hadassah Hospital
PHILIPPINE MADRIGAL SINGERS – ANG PASKO AY SUMAPIT
From Canminuteman – The Pretenders “2000 Miles”.
Christmas in a Dark Time
Meaning and meaninglessness, and a year of trials
Scrooge will still send the goose around to the Cratchits, but the boy who delivers it will be wearing a mask. I imagine the nephew has called off his party, so that Uncle Ebenezer will not perform his usual Dickensian frolic (the geezer’s dance of grace and redemption). Instead, he will make the best of a bad time, sitting alone in the cold house and waving at his relatives through the Zoom lens.
California Lawmakers Want Wealth Tax That Will Follow Taxpayers When They Inevitably Move to Cheaper States
As people leave the State of California in record numbers, Progressive lawmakers in that state are moving ahead with plans to enact a wealth tax that will tax a person’s net worth and even follow them out of state should they move.
Brexiteers, we did it: Against all the odds, the British people have struck an extraordinary blow for democracy and freedom.
They really did think they could stop Brexit. They genuinely believed they had the right – conferred on them by their superior station and education – to overturn the 17.4million votes to leave the European Union. That is the loud, clear and chilling message of the Remoaner hissy fit that has greeted today’s announcement of a trade deal being struck between Brexit Britain and the European Union – that even now, four-and-a-half years after the people expressed their Eurosceptic will, the Remainer wing of the political and media elites thought that none of this would actually happen; that we would remain tied to the EU forever; that the wishes of the pesky plebs would never really be acted upon. Perish the thought.
🤣 Hitler finds out Brexit Got Done 🤣pic.twitter.com/UsgkEeqsys
— Happy Harry (@HappyHarryMedia) December 24, 2020
Progressives have made a mockery of the slogan ‘listen to science’
Behold science, the sword and the shield of progressivism.
Over the course of the pandemic (and before that, in debates over climate change, stem cells, etc.), liberals have insisted that we must listen to science and heed the scientists. It was a cornerstone of President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign and a constant refrain of President Trump’s critics.
‘This is really going to blow up’: Giuliani predicts election challenge triumph after Christmas
… In a video posted to his YouTube page on Wednesday afternoon, Giuliani claimed that legislatures in several battleground states that went for Biden, including Arizona and Georgia, will be reviewing their decisions to certify the election results “based on newly discovered evidence” during the period after Christmas. “Starting after Christmas, this is really going to blow up,” he pledged.
War on Christmas? Biden’s Ag Sec Once Tried to Tax Christmas Trees
President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Agriculture tried to put a tax on Christmas trees the last time he was in charge of the agency.
Tom Vilsack (D.), a former Iowa governor who was agriculture secretary when Biden was vice president, implemented a 15-cent tax on each live Christmas tree in the United States in 2011. His attempt ultimately fell short: Facing widespread criticism, the Obama administration paused the tax just one day after it went into effect and abandoned it altogether the following week.
WORST OF 2020: The Media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
This week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2020.
On Monday, we presented some of the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons; on Tuesday we looked at the year’s most horrendous examples of the media playing politics with the pandemic; and yesterday we highlighted the most rancid quotes attacking Republicans or conservatives NOT named Donald Trump, but who dared to support him.
Republican lawmakers push Trump to pardon Edward Snowden
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are pushing President Trump to grant clemency to whistleblower Edward Snowden amid a blitz of pardons during his final weeks in the White House, according to a new report.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), as well as recently pardoned Trump associate Roger Stone, have all asked the president in recent days to drop the criminal charges against the former National Security Agency contractor, Politico reported Thursday.
Reader Fave Christmas Carols – The Novelty Edition
Enjoy!
From Osumashi – Behind Bob’s Burgers – The Spirits of Christmas
From Reader – Christmas time in Hell
Joe Diffie – Leroy The Redneck Reindeer
How The Grinch Stole Chanukah
Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
From sanmarten – Little Drummer Boy – Walk off the Earth
From Frances – Grandma Got Run-over by a Reindeer
From kkruger71 – PC Christmas Carol 2
Eight Times the UK Govt and Its Scientists Tried to Ruin Christmas
With the UK under some form of lockdown or restrictions since March, many Britons had hoped for a return to normality by Christmas.
However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s reported plans from as early as September to let Britons have a day off from a long-impending second lockdown for Christmas did not augur well for the festive season ahead. And since October, government scientists have threatened death and further waves of lockdown if citizens tried to enjoy the holy season too much.
Liverpool star Mo Salah bombarded with hate-filled replies from fellow Mohammedans after posting family Christmas message
Liverpool and Egypt forward Mohamed Salah has been subjected to online anger from fans unhappy that the Muslim star shared a Christmas message with his family.
Salah, 28, posted images to his social media following of more than 50 million featuring himself and his family dressed in festive attire sitting in front of a Christmas tree, adding two emojis and the hashtag #MerryChristmas.
Then there’s this crank… Bryant Jennings: Wishing Muslims Merry Christmas ‘Idiocy‘, ‘Disrespectful‘