Brothers From a Different Mother

What with all the fuss lately, I thought I'd better do some reading about Muslims and Islam and the whole business. I learned that all Muslims believe in the concept of Al-Qadar, which means Divine Predestination. This includes four basic ideas: 
1. God knows everything: He knows what has happened and what will happen.  
2. God has recorded all that has happened and all that will happen.  
3. Whatever God wills to happen happens, and whatever He wills not to happen does not happen.  
4. God is the Creator of everything.

Just what is Santa reading?

This reminded me of something, and for a while I was stymied as to what it was. Then it hit me. Following are the lyrics to Santa Claus is Coming to Town:

You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town

He's making a list
And checking it twice;
He's gonna find out
Who's naughty or nice
Santa Claus is coming to town

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!

The song, written by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie, made its debut on Eddie Cantor's radio show in November 1934. It became an instant hit with orders for 100,000 copies of sheet music and more than 30,000 records sold within 24 hours. Meanwhile, Al-Qadar dates back to the 7th century, making it pretty clear where they got their material.