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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U.S. Taxpayers Giving General Electric $375 Million Worth of Chevy Volts

Does GE really need that money more than hard-pressed American taxpayers?

The Chevy Volt, that little darlin' of the green set, is a four-door hatchback that goes about 25 to 50 miles on a 111 kilowatt electric motor after a 4- to 10-hour charge of its lithium-ion batteries, which are manufactured by a South Korean chemical company. After the battery gives out, or when the Volt hits freeway speeds, the motor switches over to a conventional gasoline engine. In mixed driving, the Volt provides about 31 miles per gallon of premium fuel. Subtract the fuel used by the car heater or air conditioner and the Volt gets about 27 miles per gallon of that ever-pricier premium fuel.

According to the Green Car Book, which judges vehicles on fuel economy, tailpipe emissions, factory pollution, and ease of recycling, the Volt was ranked in 11th place, behind even gas burners like the Hyundai Elantra.  

Consumer Reports doesn't think much of the Volt either:

When you are looking at purely dollars and cents, it doesn't really make a lot of sense. The Volt isn't particularly efficient as an electric vehicle, and it's not particularly good as a gas vehicle either in terms of fuel economy.

Thus, despite Barack Hussein Obama's recommendation to buy a Chevy Volt and a $7,500 tax credit to anyone who purchases one (bringing its price down to $33,500), General Motors has succeeded in selling only 326 Volts in December, 321 in January, and 281 in February.

In one full quarter, GM managed to sell only 928 Volts--less than 1,000.

Could Volt enthusiasts be waiting for optional solar panels?

To the rescue: Jeff Immelt of General Electric infamy who, as chair of Obama's Economic Advisory Board, is one of the CEOs helping the President turn the U.S. into one of Brazil's petroleum customers while simultaneously leading a corporation that paid $0.00 in 2010 federal income taxes on profits of 14.2 billion.

Interestingly, as Forbes.com recently reported:

Immelt announced that GE will buy 50,000 Volts in the next two years, or half the total produced. Assuming the corporation qualifies for the same tax credit, we (you and me) just shelled out $375,000,000 to a company to buy cars that no one else wants so that GM will not tank and [will] produce even more cars that no one wants.

Instant replay: Obama is giving $375 million of American tax serf dollars to his economic advisor to use to buy cars from General Motors, a company that still owes U.S. taxpayers nearly $50 billion.

Of course, Obama does not plan on personally driving a Chevy Volt anytime soon. The presidential state car, known as The Beast, is fitted with assorted weaponry and 5-inch thick armor, making it about as unlikely to be powered by a lithium-ion battery system as Air Force One.

Hopefully, though, we'll be seeing Private Citizen Barack Obama behind the wheel of his very own Chevy Volt in March of 2013.  On family outings, though, the Obamas will have to leave grandmother behind. The Volt seats only four people.
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Bluegrass Hymns Medley - Sherman Mountain Boys

A medley of Jesus Hold My Hand, I Saw the Light, and I'll Fly Away:

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Intermittent Posting & Missing My Blogger Friends . . .

but stretched a bit too thin at the moment to blog.

I'll be back as soon as I can. . .
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Time-Lapse Japan Quake Map

In the last eleven days, Japan has suffered 664 quakes; in the last seven days, 203 quakes.

For a time-lapse visualization of these quakes, click on the image.

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This is the Way We Praise Him - Harlem Japanese Gospel Choir

Near Union Square in New York City, members of the award-winning Harlem Japanese Gospel Choir sang and collected donations for earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan. The cardboard sign held by one of the singers reads: "My family is still taking shelter from tsunami. We Need Your Support!"

The Salvation Army in Japan has three emergency service relief teams working in areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami. One of the teams is assisting people who have been evacuated from areas threatened by the damage of nuclear power plants. To make a $10 donation, text the words Japan or Quake to 80888. (Make sure to respond YES to the "Thank You" message you will receive.)

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NPR Serves 11% of U.S.--"Predominately white, liberal, highly educated, elite"

I notice that Democrats are busy mocking as clownish and inconsequential yesterday's vote by House Republicans to cut public funding for NPR. That's good news, because when the Left mocks, it means they are sweating. And the Left does not sweat about radio propaganda, attitudes, and dollars that are inconsequential to the Democrat Party.

NPR might very well be "better off in the long run without public funding" as its chief fundraiser, Ron Schiller, famously claimed just last month. But the Democrat Party will not be better off without tax dollars devoted pretty much exclusively to NPR's promotion of the Democrat agenda.

Ron Schiller typified NPR's cultural attitude when he branded the Tea Party as a "scary," "white," "seriously racist," "weird evangelical kind of move" made up of people who aren't "just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic."

Schiller didn't make clear how the intense hatred for people of other countries with which he has stereotyped the Tea Party manages to translate into the millions and millions of dollars in aid given by American conservatives to earthquake and tsunami survivors in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand (2004), in Pakistan (2005), in Haiti (2010) and, of course, in Japan.

About the time that NPR's chief fundraiser was characterizing a large percentage of the American public served by National Public Radio as "undereducated," another proponent of public radio, Sue Schardt, was advising NPR's board and execs (perhaps including Ron Schiller) on how to "address criticism that has undercut its case for continued federal aid." According to Schardt, who is the executive director of a group of 800 media makers in 13 countries, NPR has, for 30 years, followed a "very specific methodology," to "cultivate and build . . . a highly educated, influential audience . . . a core audience that is predominately white, liberal, highly educated, elite." An audience that Schardt identified as "11% of America."

Now that many of the remaining 89% of America no longer are inclined to foot part of NPR's bill for their "elite" neighbors, Schardt suggested NPR consider whether or not the franchise of radio stations does indeed "warrant public funding." If not, she suggested, NPR could commit to "serving--truly--and speaking in the voices--truly--of 80 percent or 90 percent of the public." Interestingly, NPR would "set the timetable" for this change in "service."

Thanks but no thanks, NPR. If you and your fellow "white, liberal, highly educated" self-appointed "elite" have finally come around to wanting to "serve" the people whom you scorn--the non-white, conservative, and in your view "under-educated," the supposedly luckless majority who by your definition are "scary xenophobes," I think you should feel free to do it on voluntary donations from your well-heeled "elite" audience. To save trees and energy, you might advise them to skip the middleman and send their contributions directly to the Democrat Party.

Hat tip: How's That Obama Vote Working Out for You???

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John Boehner's House of Wafflers*

Well, the Republican-led House did it again, passing its second short-term budget extender intended to fund the federal government for the next three weeks until April 8. This continuing resolution is much to the Dem-majority Senate's taste.

Altogether, between the two resolutions, the House will have managed to cut $10 billion from the 2011 budget, $4 billion the first time around and $6 billion more this time. That's a mere bag of shells when compared to the enormity of this year's deficit and this administration's backbreaking contribution to the national debt.

Among the many superfluous--and worse--budget items that the House continues to burden America with is the unconstitutional--not to mention repugnant--law popularly known as ObamaCare.

This move by Republicans awards Obama's shameful executive-branch entourage yet more time to weld ObamaCare into our system using the regulatory-power blowtorch that Kathleen Sebelius and other agency administrators picked up at the Little Shop of Congress. If these Obamatons get their way, the regulatory flame issuing from the ObamaCare blowtorch will reduce our precious Constitution to cinders, but hey . . . .

The waffling Republicans who just can't seem to make a decision to defund ObamaCare--despite the overwhelming voter and judicial mandate to do so--manage to remain firm in their conviction to pick up their paychecks, travel vouchers, perks, publicly funded pensions, and ObamaCare-exempt health insurance.

And they are pretty well content to tell the Conservatives and Tea Partiers who worked unceasingly to get them elected to go suck wind.

*Thanks to Mark Levin (via The Right Scoop) who has proposed a new name for the House of Reps, the "Waffle House."
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Japan: Radiation Leak Upgraded to Level 5 of 7

Three separate explosions in three separate nuclear reactors; fire burns in a fourth reactor:

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Muslims Celebrate Barbaric Slaughter of Israeli Babies in Gaza

Content warning: Graphic images released by the remaining family members:

The baby-slaughterers, anticipating adulation, couldn't wait to identify themselves as members of "Fatah," the most popular Palestinian political party. Hamas called the murder of the three little children and their parents "a heroic operation, and "residents of the Gaza city of Rafah on Saturday poured out on the streets to celebrate the terror attack."

Fatah logo: Two clenched fists holding rifles
and a hand grenade over the State of Israel,
the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip

This attack is being called part of a larger plan by the Muslim Brotherhood. That would be the same Muslim Brotherhood whose identity NPR fundraisers were just last month so blithely willing to "shield" from U.S. government audits in exchange for a $5 million "gift" from undercover reporters posing as representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group promoting worldwide shariah.

Update 3/14, 7:00 p.m.: The Guardian (via The Blaze) has reported that, within 24 hours of the attack, the Israeli government approved the building of 500 housing units in the large settlement blocks that Israel will be retaining under any "peace agreement"

Interior minister Eli Yishai, of the pro-settlement, rightwing Shas party, said Israel should build "at least a thousand new homes for each person murdered".

According to The Blaze, yesterday more than 20,000 mourners accompanied the bodies of the slain Fogel family members to their final resting place.

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Just a Closer Walk with Thee - Ella Fitzgerald

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English and Chinese-Language TV News from Toyko

Other languages too. Here's the link: http://jibtv.com/program/fullscreen.aspx via Business Insider and The Anchoress.

Update 1/12/11, 11:40: The northern Prefecture of Miyagi got hit the hardest by the quake.

This aerial view of Minamisanruriku, a town in Miyagi Prefecture, taken before the quake and tsunami, shows a two-storey City Hall (top) and a hospital (below right).

Now, the City Hall seems to be gone. The five-storey hospital is flooded to the forth floor.

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NPR Offers to Shield Muslim Brotherhood Front Group from Gov't Audit

NPR's Senior Director of Institutional Giving, Betsy Liley, assured reporters posing as representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group that NPR would shield them from a U.S. government by hiding its identity. ("No paperwork in any official place.")

Here's the audiotape:

Not only is the offer on audiotape, Betsy Liley PUT IT IN WRITING! (Click on image to enlarge.)

Interestingly, Barack Hussein Obama, intends to give NPR a raise in this year's budget as the rest of us pull our belts a notch tighter, even after NPR's head fundraiser, Ron Schiller, opined that NPR doesn't need taxpayer funding and would be better off in the long run without it. From The Daily Caller via Yahoo:

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney defended Wednesday President Barack Obama’s request for $451 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides taxpayer funds to National Public Radio (NPR), PBS and a slew of other media organizations.

Update: Following the release of this tape, NPR has placed Betsy Liley on administrative leave.
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Father of Islamic Terrorist Carlos Bledsoe Tells Hearing: God Help Us!

Carlos Bledsoe, aka Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, shot and murdered one U.S. soldier, Pvt. William Long, 23, and wounded another, Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, at a Little Rock, Arkansas military recruiting station in an act of Islamic terrorism on June 1, 2009. What follows is a recording of Carlos's father, Mr. Melvin Bledsoe, testifying at today's Congressional hearing on the radicalization of U.S. Muslims.

It's a heart-breaker.

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Access Denied: NPR's Ron Schiller Scrubbed from New Job

Yesterday, I grabbed the following screen shot from the prominently displayed announcement of The Aspen Institute Web site and wondered how long it would last:

Not long. It was scrubbed today, as was Ronald J. Schiller's name from The Aspen Institute's roster of personnel.

This is all that remains under a search of the site for "Ronald Schiller":



Elsewhere this announcement is still clattering around the Internets, echoing the comradeship felt by Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson for the fallen Schiller:

"Ron Schiller embraces and lives the values that we share as a community . . . ."

Noted.

Remind me not to move to Aspen, Colorado.
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