Come Holy Spirit - Soulblackout

This Gregorian chant, Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Creator Spirit), has been passed down to us from the 9th century. Thanks to Soulblackout for a very moving performance of this sacred prayer.

Latin

Veni, Creator Spiritus, Mentes tuorum visita, Imple superna gratia, Quae Tu creasti pectora.

Qui diceris Paraclitus, Altissimi donum Dei, Fons Vivus, Ignis, Caritas,
Et spiritalis unctio.

Tu septiformis munere, Digitus paternae dexterae, Tu rite promissum Patris Sermone ditans guttura.

Accende lumen sensibus, Infunde amorem cordibus; Infirma nostri corporis,
Virtute firmans perpeti.

Hostem repellas longius, Pacemque dones protinus; Ductore sic te previo,
Vitemus omne noxium.

Per te sciamus da Patrem, Noscamus atque Filium Teque utriusque Spiritum,
Credamus omni tempore.

Deo Patri sit gloria, Et Filio, qui a mortuis Surrexit, ac Paraclito,
In saeculorum saecula.

Amen.

English

Come Holy Spirit, Creator, come from Your bright heavenly throne, come take possession of our souls and make them all Your own.

You Who are called Paraclete [Comforter, Uplifter, Advocate], blest gift of God above, the Living Spring, the Living Fire, Sweet Unction, and True love.

You Who are sevenfold in Your grace, finger of God's Right Hand; His promise, teaching little ones to speak and understand.

O guide our minds with Your blest light, with love our hearts inflame; and with strength, which never decays, confirm our mortal frame.

Far from us drive our deadly foe; true peace unto us bring; and through all perils, lead us safe beneath Your Sacred Wing.

Through You may we the Father know; through You the Eternal Son, and You the Spirit of them both, thrice-blessed Three in One.

All glory to the Father be, with his co-equal Son: the same to You, Great Paraclete, While endless ages run.

Amen.

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Trivia Pursuit: How Many New Jobs Did Legal Immigrants Absorb in May?

I love me some interesting trivia.

Here's a tidbit you can offer to your liberal friends this weekend, via Mark Steyn:

In May, the U.S. economy added just 54,000 jobs. For the purposes of comparison, that same month over 100,000 new immigrants arrived in America. 

Wait, there's more:

. . . according to an analysis by Morgan Stanley, half the new jobs created were at McDonald's. 

 
McDonalds--that's one of the first companies that got an ObamaCare waiver so it could "create jobs."

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Supreme Court Ruling Orders US Citizens to Move Over for Illegals

Looks like the Supreme Court wants young Americans to stay in their own states--or else pay a penalty for studying in another state. On the other hand, young Mexicans, Somalis, Guatemalans, and Yemenis who are living in the US illegally are welcome to see the USA at American expense.

Interesting.

Stilton Jarlsberg said it well:

On Monday, the Supreme Court upheld a California law that gives the children of illegal immigrants huge college tuition discounts, while denying those savings to those filthy rotten young good-for-nothing citizens who come from out-of-state.

Those U.S. citizens will have to cough up as much as $20,000 more...in part, to help pay for the students who are here illegally.

Remember a long, long time ago when kids were taught "crime doesn't pay" in hopes that fewer of them would grow up to be criminals? Well, those days are long gone. Now kids see illegal behavior being rewarded while those who "play by the rules" are penalized by the system, mocked as chumps, or branded as racists and xenophobes if they protest.

The other eleven states that prefer educating citizens of other countries living in the U.S. illegally to educating citizens of the U.S. whose families helped build the country (and whose family members often died for it) are:  Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.

Si se puede.
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Video: Today's Awe-Inspiring Solar Eruption

From spaceweather.com:

Flares produce a burst of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to x-rays and gamma-rays.

This spectacular event, which started about 3:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time, lasted for about 3 hours. Don't worry, though. It was an M-class flare, which, believe it or not, is considered a medium-sized flare likely to cause only brief radio blackouts in Earth's polar regions.

This particular flare is accompanied by a proton storm also classified as "minor," that is, the radiation might have a minor impact on satellite operations, cause weak fluctuations in the power grid, and affect migratory animals. People in northern Michigan and Maine and points north can expect to be treated to beautiful aurora borealis displays, weather permitting.

Want to know more? Go here.
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30,000 Participate in Fifth Avenue Parade to Salute Israel

From Atlas Shrugs. It's good to see.

In a glorious show of love and affection for the tiny Jewish state, tens of thousands descended upon Fifth Avenue to salute Israel today [Sunday, June 5]. An estimated thirty thousand people took part in the annual Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City, the largest number of participants ever in the parade, which has been held every year since 1964.

Question: How many of these people will support and vote for Barack Hussein Obama in 2012?

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Great is Thy Faithfulness--Fernando Ortega

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You Mean You Can't? Idiot Socialist Pipe Dreams vs. Real World Paychecks . . . .

There's nothing like a huge excess supply of labor due to rampant unemployment and a shift in hiring from good-paying construction and manufacturing jobs to lower-paying social work and nursing home jobs to put a damper on employed Americans' chances of earning more money this year (in terms of buying power) than 10 years ago.

Even during the Great Depression, Americans who had jobs and kept them managed bigger real wage gains, on average, than their counterparts today. (H/t: Investor's Business Daily.)

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One of these riders is not like the others . . .

And that's the one currently representing the power and prestige of our beloved United States of America.

(Courtesy of that intrepid observer and patriot, No Sheeples Here.)
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Climategate Fallout: VA Court Orders University to Unbury "Research"

The University of Virginia sure doesn't want to reveal what Michael Mann was up to while he was at their institution collecting beaucoup Federal dollars to show policymakers everywhere that Planet Earth is experiencing unprecedented catastrophic warming caused by human activities, such as using Edison light bulbs, driving motor vehicles, heating water for coffee and bathing, etc., etc., etc. Mann, the author of the notorious hockey-stick temperature graph that conveniently ignored previous global warming episodes caused entirely by Nature, used science fiction instead of hard science to fuel global warming hysteria.

The University has used standard ploys to subvert attempts by law enforcement and private citizens to access the taxpayer-supported research materials that constitute the history of Mann's development of the hockey stick graph, including court appeals to stop Virginia's Attorney General, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, from seeing Mann's research; failing to respond to Freedom of Information requests by investigative researchers; supplying unrelated materials or materials in indecipherable formats; erecting bogus financial barriers; etc., etc. The university claims that it doesn't want to "chill" academic research by permitting taxpayers and law enforcers to get a glimpse of the stuff we paid these academics to do. The university doesn't want to get chilly, but if the rest of us carbon-based life forms freeze our buns off next winter because we can't afford fuel because of policies based on fraudulent research findings, well, that's our problem.

On May 16, the Environmental Law Center of a new think tank, the American Tradition Institute:

asked a Prince William County judge, under the Commonwealth’s Freedom of Information Act, to expedite the release of documents withheld by the University of Virginia that pertain to the work of its former environmental sciences assistant professor Dr. Michael Mann.

The judge gave the university until September 21st to show the American Tradition Institute Michael Mann's global warming correspondence and other information. Meanwhile, Virginia's Attorney General awaits a decision by Virginia's Supreme Court on whether he will be permitted to subpoena Mann's research materials to determine whether Mann "violated Virginia’s fraud laws in seeking state funding for research."

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In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

~Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
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Psalm 66 - Kashif Chohan

A psalm of praise, beautifully sung by Christian singer, Kashif Chohan, in (I believe) the Punjabi language, which is spoken in Northern India and Pakistan.

Enjoy.

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Punjabi lyrics

Sareyo loko saday rab nu dhan dhan akh key gao (2)
Ohdi ost dey vich sabho khush awaaaz sunao(2)
Saadi jindari nu hayati (2)
App atah farmaway (2)
Saday pairaan nu khudawand tilkan toon bachaway (2)
Ay khudawand tu tey sahnu (2)
Api hai azmaya (2)
Taya tu ehjeya sahnu jeyoon roopay nu taya
Sareyo loko saday rab nu dhan dhan akh key gao
Paani aag vich paaye asi sab (2)
Par khudaya tu ee(2)
Sahnu kad key changey thaan vich app poohnchaya tu ee
Sareyo loko saday rab nu dhan dhan akh key gao
Ohdi ost dey vich sabho khush awaaaz sunao


Psalm 66:

2 Shout joyfully to God, all you on earth; sing of His Glorious Name; give Him glorious praise.
3 Say to God: "How awesome Your deeds! Before Your great strength Your enemies cringe.
4 All on earth fall in worship before You; they sing of You, sing of Your Name!" Selah
5 Come and see the works of God, awesome in the deeds done for us.
6 He changed the sea to dry land; through the river they passed on foot. Therefore let us rejoice in Him,
7 Who rules by might forever, Whose eyes are fixed upon the nations. Let no rebel rise to challenge! Selah

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Farther Along - Brad Paisley

One of my all time favorite gospel songs, sung by West Virginia native, Brad Paisley:

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Psalm 113 - Cappella Clausura

Cappella Clausura is an ensemble of sopranos, altos, and early music instrumentalists who research and bring to light works written by women, especially concentrating on repertoire by women in the cloister, or in clausura, during the Italian baroque period. This astonishingly beautiful piece, performed by Cappella Clausura, was composed by a Benedictine nun of the 16th century, Chiara Cozzolani. The performance begins about 15 seconds into the video.

Latin
1 Laudate pueri Dominum laudate nomen Domini
2 Sit nomen Domini benedictum ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum
3 A solis ortu usque ad occasum laudabile nomen Domini
4 Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus super caelos gloria eius
5 Quis sicut Dominus Deus noster qui in altis habitat
6 Et humilia respicit in caelo et in terra
7 Suscitans a terra inopem et de stercore erigens pauperem
8 Ut conlocet eum cum principibus cum principibus populi sui
9 Qui habitare facit sterilem in domo matrem filiorum laetantem


English
1 Praise, children of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD both now and forever.
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting let the name of the LORD be praised.
4 High above all nations is the LORD; above the heavens God's glory.
5 Who is like the LORD, our God enthroned on high,
6 looking down on heaven and earth?
7 The LORD raises the needy from the dust, lifts the poor from the ash heap,
8 Seats them with princes, the princes of the people.
9 The LORD makes a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

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Be Not Afraid - John McDermott

One of the most significant features of John Paul II's papacy was his battle against communism, which he conducted not only as a church leader in communist Poland, where he exhorted his fellow Poles to "Be not afraid" in their resistance to communist oppression, but also later as pope.

In a tribute to John Paul II's message promoting freedom and liberty, this hymn was sung at his beatification today. Here the hymn is sung by Celtic tenor John McDermott.

Lyrics

You shall cross the barren desert,
but you shall not die of thirst.
You shall wander far in safety,
though you do not know the way.

You shall speak your words to foreign men,
and and they will understand,
You shall see the face of God and live.

Refrain:
Be not afraid,
I go before you always,
Come follow Me,
and I shall give you rest.

If you pass through raging waters
in the sea, you shall not drown.
If you walk amidst the burning flames,
you shall not be harmed.

If you stand before the pow'r of hell
and death is at your side,
know that I am with you, through it all.

Refrain

Blessed are your poor,
for the Kingdom shall be theirs.
Blest are you that weep and mourn,
for one day you shall laugh.

And if wicked men insult and hate you, all because of Me,
blessed, blessed are you!

Refrain

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Hawaii Coughs Up "Long Form" Birth Certificate

Heh, heh, heh.

Seems like it was getting a little hot in the kitchen.

Live stream of Obama's teleprompter reading on the topic at 9:45 ET at The Blaze.

Daddy's little boy.

H/t: Legal Insurrection

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Anarchy Alley & The Little "Red" Church: Obama's Roots, Investigated by Bill Whittle

Hoping to gradually return to regular posting. Starting out with this amazing piece of research by Bill Whittle (via The Right Scoop):

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Thine be the Glory - George Frideric Handel

In 1884, Edmond Budry wrote new words for Handel's "See here the conqu'ring hero comes," which depicts the triumph of the Jewish warrior, Judas Maccabaeus, over enemies attempting to destroy the Jewish religion. 

Happy Easter! Have a wonderful day.

Hymn Lyrics

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;
Endless is the victory, Thou o’er death hast won;
Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
Kept the folded grave clothes where Thy body lay.

Refrain: Thine is the glory, risen conqu’ring Son,
Endless is the vict’ry, Thou o’er death hast won.

Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb;
Lovingly He greets us, scatters fear and gloom;
Let the church with gladness, hymns of triumph sing;
For her Lord now liveth, death hath lost its sting.

Refrain

No more we doubt Thee, glorious Prince of life;
Life is naught without Thee; aid us in our strife;
Make us more than conqu’rors, through Thy deathless love:
Bring us safe through Jordan to Thy home above.

Refrain

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Were You There? - Johnny Cash & The Carter Family

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Psalm 130 -- Martha

From East Africa comes this interpretation by Gospel singer, Martha, of Psalm 130, Verse 6: "I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning."

English

My soul waits for the Lord more than guards wait for the morning.
(Repeat)

Chorus: More than guards wait for the morning, my soul waits.

Those who wait for the Lord shall have renewed strength of life.
(Repeat)

Chorus

All those who wait for their God shall have renewed strength of life.
O sister, waiting for the Lord shall renew your strength.
(Repeat)

Chorus

The Lord will renew the life force of all who wait for Him.
(Repeat)

Chorus

Kiswahili

Nafsi yangu yakungoja Bwana
Kuliko walinzi wangojavyo asubuhi
(Repeat)

Chorus: Naam, kuliko walinzi wangojavyo asubuhi Nafsi yangu yakungoja
(Repeat)

Wale wote wamgojao Bwana
watafanywa upya Nguvu zao Maishani
(Repeat)

Chorus

Womgojao mungu wao,watafanywa upya
Nguvu zao maishani,wale wote eehee
Ewe dada ukimgoja bwana,
Utafanywa upya nguvu zako maishani
(Repeat)

Chorus

Wale wote wamgojao Bwana
watafanywa upya Nguvu zao Maishani
(Repeat)

Chorus

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The Lord's My Shepherd -- Guitarboy

Psalm 23 put to music in a version by Stuart Townsend, performed by Guitarboy:

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