Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami

NY Times  Move the slider to compare satellite images, taken by GeoEye, from before and after the disaster.
Spectacular photography. Hat tip to Clark Best, Tillamook County, Oregon.

Let's Make Obama King

Powerline  "Last night Col. Ralph Peters was on Bill O'Reilly's show, talking about Libya. Peters thinks we should act on behalf of the rebels there, but he expressed skepticism that President Obama will ever do anything. "Obama loves the idea of being President," Peters said, "but he can't make a decision.""

Obama’s incredible lack of leadership  "The reason Obama can’t make a decision is he can’t reason like a leader must.  He has no experience.  And he doesn’t understand the decision making process as practiced by a leader.  He’s never really had to make leadership decisions. So he simply tries to avoid making them.  One way he does it is to ignore the problem.  Another way he does this is to appoint commissions and panels concerning problems the country faces in order to defer the problem (and decision).  He also like to defer to the “international community” on foreign policy or the Democratic leadership in the legislature on domestic things.  Again, the avoidance of decision making."

Palestinians Hand Out Candy After Murder of 5 Israelis in Their Sleep

  Gateway Pundit  "A Palestinian terrorist stabbed five family members to death in the settlement of Itamar early Saturday morning; three children, including baby girl, among victims. Later that day Palestinians handed out candy to celebrate the mass murder."

"YNet News reported:"...

ABOMINABLE MURDER IN ITAMAR  "5 family members were murdered in Itamar, Israel, stabbed to death by a terrorist who managed to get through an electrified fence. Do I need to continue with that part? What I can say is that, as the article tells, Fatah's al-Aqsa Brigade has claimed responsibility."

What Kind Of Person stabs a three-month old infant to death? "Children have been killed in war before, unfortunately.  But the thought of the person or people who stood over her, and what was going through their minds as they cut her, is just unimaginable."
In Gaza, they celebrated the Itamar terror attack

"To expect a meeting of the minds with those who take delight in the death of Jews is an obscenity.
"Words fail me.... that picture illustrates more than all the words in the world why peace with the Palestinians will not be attained in our lifetime."  From the comments in this post.

Japanese Government Confirms Meltdown

STRATFOR  "..."the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core, Japanese daily Nikkei reported.

Caliphate, Jihad, Sharia: Now What?

Raymond Ibrahim  "A jihad-waging, sharia-enforcing caliphate represents a permanent, existential enemy — not a temporal foe that can be bought or pacified through diplomacy or concessions. Such a caliphate is precisely what Islamists around the world are feverishly seeking to establish. Without active, preemptive measures, it is only a matter of time before they succeed."

Krauthammer Asks Totenberg: 'Why Does NPR Have to Live on the Tit of the State?'

Newsbusters "Well, all I would say, I mean I don’t want to rehash all the grounds, it obviously is a liberal organization. Obviously what you're getting is a taste of what people say to each other internally. Everybody knows that. But I have no objection to liberal news organizations. I read the New York Times. The difference between NPR growing, Fox growing, is that Fox is not holding out a tin cup for taxpayer money. I want NPR to thrive, but not on my dime."

Bosch Fawstin: Why We Fight

http://fawstin.blogspot.com/

Libya: O's urgent inaction/ what was the point of that press conference?

John Podhoretz  "The White House is worried: The Libyan crisis and the general instability in the Middle East have led to spiraling gas prices. The president wanted to show the American people he knows it's a problem.
"So he staged a press conference yesterday, and he basically said he's going to do . . . nothing."

Life Without America "Libya is turning out to be an interesting test case about how the world can get by without we damned Americans taking the lead and mucking things up."


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Obama Bets on Gadhafi  from Le Figaro, France.  "That the Americans have not even interfered with communication across the Libyan territory — something that would have been a nonviolent way to aid the rebel forces — is telling of the White House’s intentions."

Wisconsin Protesters Surround Bus With Republican Senators, Bang on Windows and Doors

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion  "After the vote passing the budget repair bill, Republican Senators were led from the Capitol through a tunnel, and then onto a bus, where protesters surrounded them and chased the bus, as reported by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel."

Obama's Long Nose On Energy

 Powerline Blog   "The President's anti-energy policies are a man-made disaster. Try as he may to deflect responsibility away from his own policies, President Obama can't escape from the simple fact that the actions of his administration have dramatically slowed down domestic energy production. As a consequence, his policies are directly responsible for increasing gas prices."

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Those Japanese nuclear reactors

Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant   "A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown."   Plus this.

Officials Claim Positive Signs on Japanese Reactor   "New developments at Japan's earthquake-damaged nuclear reactor may suggest positive signs for authorities' efforts to contain the problem." This and nunerous related links from STRATFOR.

Tsunami hits Kona side of the Big Island. "This video shows the tidal surge, 100 photos taken over a 45-minute period, from the Royal Kona Resort:"...

Japan Nuclear Plant Explosion "An explosion at a nuclear power station about 160 miles north of Tokyo Saturday tore down the walls of one building and caused a radiation leak of unknown proportions."

More updates here   Or "upadates" as it is spelled here.

Tensions High At U.S. Congressional Hearing On Muslim Radicalization

GlobalSecurity.org  "Others who testified, however, gave personal accounts of Muslims who had become radicalized, and said their experiences justified the hearing.

"Melvin Bledsoe told lawmakers how radical imams in his home state set his son on a path to terrorism and led him to move to Yemen.

"U.S. officials say Bledsoe's son, Carlos, has admitted to killing a U.S. soldier outside an army recruiting station in Arkansas.

"When asked by a member of the committee whether the U.S. imams that allegedly helped radicalize Carlos knew what they had done, Bledsoe said: "Sure, they know. They're waiting around to do it again to someone else's child. That's why I'm here today, hoping that the American people are listening. I hope you hear me. I hope you learn something from this. I don't think that any other child or any other parent in America should have to go through what I'm facing today.""

Rep. Peter King is being demonized for holding hearings on a problem that Attorney General Holder says “keeps me up at night.”   "If King had convened a hearing on the threat of salt to our health and lives, committee Democrats no doubt would have pored over every variant — refined, unrefined, iodized — of the damnable substance. They can’t summon the same feeling for investigating Islamic extremism, considering such an inquiry an offense against multiculturalism. The Democrats made King’s first hearing a circus. He nonetheless achieved an important, if inadvertent, success: exposing his critics as hysterical fools."  Rich Lowry

It’s Not Just Al-Qaeda "Rep. Peter King...did not call these hearings because he thinks most Muslims are terrorists. He called these hearings because he would not be doing his job if he failed to investigate the means by which some Muslims — and some mosques — are being radicalized. “I strongly believe that there is a concerted effort by al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda affiliates to recruit young Muslims living legally in this country,”"