HALF-FULL REPORT 03/14/08

This week's HFR is way, way more than half-full – it's overflowing. 

The delicious destruction of a Democrat fascist is so orgasmic it can't be confined to an HFR blurb, but deserved its own article:  The Real Spitzer Scandal.

The Hillary-Obambi Destruction Derby keeps getting better.  But as we enjoy Obambi having to fire his Israel-hating/Palestinian terrorist-loving advisor Samantha Power for calling Hillary a "monster" (you mean she isn't?  who knew?), and the PIAPS having to fire her advisor Geraldine Ferraro for pointing out that people pay attention to Obambi only because he's black (when everyone knows he's only half-black) – let's focus on the real cause of the mud fight:

There's no substantive difference between these two moonbats in terms of political principles or ideology or Big Brother/Big Government programs they both advocate.  Thus the only way to create a difference between them is through personal invective, attack, insult, and smear.

So far, even though Her Thighness had to grovel yesterday (3/13) to blacks in apology for Ms. Ferraro's telling the truth, Obambi has definitely been more damaged in the fight so far than she.

As the HFR has noted, Obamamania is a frenzy, and all frenzies are inherently unstable which can quickly dissipate.  Ferraro spoke truth to mania – an obvious truth which she made more so by candidly admitting that she was named Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984 only because she was a woman.

Then right after she does, ABC uncorks an explosive story yesterday (3/13) on how Obambi's minister, who married him and Michelle and whose church and sermons they have been attending for 20 years, is so filled with pathological hate for our country that he sings not "God Bless America" but "God Damn America."

Obambi's oily rhetoric and phony charisma is not going to let him slither out of this.  Millions of Americans will be saying in response to this revelation:  God damn Jeremiah Wright, and God damn Michelle and Barack Obama.

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Glowarmers took almost as big a hit as Hussein Obambi this week as NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) announced that this winter is the coolest, both in the US and around the globe, since 2001, and a world-renowned climate physicist declared that equations for greenhouse gases used to prove runaway warming are "totally wrong."

That comes on top of the announcement by University of California researchers that China's greenhouse gas emissions will soon be greater than those of all Kyoto Treaty signatory countries combined.

Since China refuses to sign Kyoto, it makes all efforts by Kyoto-signing countries utterly useless.  This is a bitter pill for the governments of the EU trying to impose climate fascism on their citizens and demanding it of us Americans.

It was made even more bitter by a speech last week of the president of an EU country, the Czech Republic.  Vaclav Klaus denounced "climate alarmism" as the latest version of totalitarianism, the left's substitute for Soviet Communism in its "megalomaniacal ambitions."

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Last weekend (3/7-9), I attended the New Orleans meeting of the Council for National Policy (CNP, to which I have belonged for 25 years) to hear John McCain speak and see the future of the Republican Party.  Those two are not the same thing.

McCain opened up with praise for the primary opponents he vanquished.  Mitt Romney is "a class act who has a great role to play in the future of America."  Fred Thompson is "a beloved friend."  Rudy Giuliani is "a true American hero." 

As for Mike Huckabee?  The best McCain could admit to is that he "has a great sense of humor."  It was a clear message to all the rabid Huckabee fans in the audience that they could forget about their boy being a VP running-mate.

He gave a standard stump speech which said good things – promising to nominate "strict constructionists" to the Supreme Court and other judgeships, and to solve economic problems not with big government but through "unleashing America's entrepreneurial spirit."

He also said some incredibly dumb things, like arguing that even if global warming turns out to be wrong, we should act as if it is because we'll still get a cleaner environment – a total misunderstanding of glowarming fascism.  He needs to talk to Vaclav Klaus on his trip to Europe next week.

The giant letdown for CNP was when someone asked him to explain his faith in God.  He told this story about being tied up and tortured by the Vietnamese and how one guard was nice to him and drew a cross in the sand.  That was it.  Everyone was expecting him to say something about finding his own faith in prison – but no, he just talked about the faith of some guard.  What a downer.

The majority of leaders of the conservative movement belong to CNP and were there in New Orleans.  They came away no more enthused about McCain than before but agree the Democrat alternative necessitates their doing all they can to elect him.

Who they did come away enthused about, who they did see as the future of conservatism and the Republican Party, is someone else, who spoke to us for an hour with such passion, eloquence, and unapologetic commitment to the American values of individual life, liberty, and responsibility that he would blow Hussein Obambi out of the water in a head-to-head match-up.

That someone was the newly elected 36 year-old governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal.  He blew us away.  Wow.

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Every day now, it seems, we hear about yet another capitulation to the Islamification of England.  The HFR's Hero of the Week award thus goes to Maryam Namazie, who has founded the Council of Ex-Moslems in Britain (CEMB).  She has launched a campaign against the imposition of Moslem Sharia law in her adopted country.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to take such a stand.  She receives constant death threats, for apostasy (being an ex-Moslem) is punishable by death in Islam.  Let us salute her, and wish her success – and a long, long life.

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The HFR is meant to provide an optimistic outlook amidst all the gloom out there.  So I'd like to tell you about a secret or a trick I use whenever I get overwhelmed by the darkness of the morning paper's headlines.  (Especially those of the business section now – but next week we'll be discussing the coming collapse in commodities prices.  How ‘bout that for a teaser?)

There's a refuge I go to whenever I want a double-shot of cheerful, uplifting, inspiring news – science news websites.

Two keys:  don't worry about not understanding a lot of the science, the math and jargon; and be selective, ignoring in particular glowarming advocacy.

With this in mind, go exploring in Physorg.com or ScienceDaily, and you're sure to soon find some amazing demonstration of human intelligence, ability, and ingenuity.

Here's a story about a sub-femtosecond stop watch that can measure time in quadrillionths of a second. Again, you don't have to understand the science in order to marvel at it.  Thus I confess, I find this achievement thrilling.

Or here's one about a new method to remove radioactive material from nuclear power plant waste.  Think of what could mean for the ability to build more such power plants.

Or how about the discovery that giving your young child Vitamin D supplements can protect him from getting type 1 diabetes later in life?

On any subject or realm of science you can think of, you can find what the latest discoveries and developments are.  If you're selective and follow those two keys above, you're almost certain to find something mind-blowingly fascinating, and come away mentally refreshed, energized, and more optimistic about the human spirit.

At least that's my secret.  I hope it works for you.