“Mele Kalikimaka,” written by Robert Alex Anderson, recorded by Honolulu-born Bette Midler, 2006. Originally recorded by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950. The title phrase first appeared in 1904 as a Hawaiian-ish pronounciation of the English phrase “Merry Christmas.” You can wish people “Hauʻoli ʻahaʻaina” (“happy holiday”) if you prefer.
More:
“Is ‘Mele Kalikimaka’ Really the Thing to Say on a Bright Hawaiian Christmas Day?” Blair Mastbaum, Atlas Obscura
Since World War II, the U.S. Navy has used the Hawaiian island of Kaho‘olawe for bombing practice, though native Hawaiians venerate it as a kinolau (body form) of the sea god Kanaloa, and it had many fishing shrines. The island was returned to Hawaii in 1996, and has been undergoing restoration since then. A Vox video by Ranjani Chakraborty.
Josh Tatofi (vocals), Dustin Park (guitar and vocals), Kapena DeLima (drums and vocals), Lilo DeLima (bass and vocals), Kalena DeLima ( keyboard and vocals), Isaiah Pamatigan (keyboard). This the the second generation of the band.
“Smoldering Drums,” featuring Princess Leilani, with Alex McAngus, for Scopitone. These short films were back-projected on a small screen mounted on a “visual jukebox.”
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Speaking on Mark Levin’s radio show, Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressed Hawaiian Federal Judge Derrick Watson’s order blocking President Trump’s latest ‘Muslim ban”:
“I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and Constitutional power.”
“… Hawaii is not only a series of islands in the Pacific, but it is the least white and most ethnically and racially diverse state in the country. That probably has at least a little to do with why a white conservative man from Alabama named after the former president of the Confederacy and the man who fired on Ft. Sumter doesn’t think it’s a legitimate part of America.”
— “Sessions Suggests That Hawaiians Aren’t Real Americans,” Martin Longman, Washington Monthly
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