HALF-FULL REPORT 08/22/08

We start with the revelation that there is a solid scientific reason for calling this the Half-Full Report.  Psychological researchers have studied silver and bronze medal winners over the last several Olympics.  It turns out that, on average, the bronze winners were happier than the silver.

Those that won the silver were filled with regret that they didn't win the gold, while those that won the bronze were happy they got a medal at all rather than nothing for finishing fourth.

The lead researcher, Dr. Thomas Gilovich of Cornell University, summed up the lesson learned:

"The key to understanding happiness is not to think about it as a trait but as a talent.  Happy people have a talent – they are able to argue that life is a glass half full."

Happy people look at life as a glass half-full.  Yes, that is exactly the purpose of the Half-Full Report!  It's good to have science behind the reason.

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Wasn't it so much fun this week watching Obambi get the crap beat out of him by a woman and an old man?  The HFR's description last April of him as a pussy sure is turning out to be spot on:

It's his ballbreaker wife, Michelle, who has the cojones in the family, not him.  More and more now, it's becoming clear:  Obama is a pussy.

Hillary has just taken over his convention.  She gets to be the star Tuesday night (8/26).  Her adulterous husband gets to be the star Wednesday night.  (Say, wasn't Little Johnnie Edwards disinvited for being an adulterer?  What are we missing here?)  Then she gets to be the star again Thursday when she's nominated and there's a roll call vote. 

Obambi getting the nomination will seem like an afterthought.  What a wimp.

To top this, septuagenarian McCain wiped the floor with him at Saddleback.  It was so bad that Obambi had to whine that Mac wasn't in the "cone of silence" and knew what Pastor Rick Warren's questions were.

As Jack Kelly says, the desperate message of the Dems was: The One could not be bested unless the old white guy cheated.  

Best of all, however, was that Saddleback woke up millions of pro-lifers that Obambi is 100% pro-abortion.  He is the most totally complete pro-abortion candidate in the history of the American presidency.  He will not tolerate the slightest "infringement" on the "right" of women to murder their own babies, even in the act of their being born.

McCain, by contrast, could not have given a clearer pro-life position.  Any hope Obambi had of capturing the "young evangelical" or any pro-life vote was lost at Saddleback.

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Unless, of course, McCain indulges in his compulsion for obtuse perverseness, and picks a pro-abortion running mate.

At Saddleback, Obambi handed the presidency to Mac on a plate.  It would be so like him to dump the plate on the floor just to spite conservatives.  Thus the rumors upsetting a lot of folks that McCain campaign people have been "sounding out" various conservative leaders on if would be okay if he had a "pro-choice" VP.

Mac campaign insiders are laughing their brains out on this.  The purpose of the set-up rumors is to cause a sigh of relief among all conservative leaders, except those that believe it is a Sin Against God if Mac doesn't choose Mike Huckabee, when it turns out to be Mitt Romney.

Maybe it won't be Mitt, but the smart money's on him.  Pollsters John Zogby and Scott Rasmussen both have told Sean Hannity they think he's McCain's choice. Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, James Bopp, Jay Sekulow, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt,
Bill Bennett, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, NRO, Human Events, and the Weekly Standard all think it's Mitt.

So does the Dem National Committee, which has launched an attack campaign against him.  It's never over until it's over, but the odds are increasing that it's a Mac-Mitt ticket.

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I have to admit, though, that I am going to spend the next week not caring. Especially not caring about the Dem Debacle in Denver (8/25-27).  After the TTP Revolutionary Rendezvous in Boston this weekend, I am going to be spending next week scuba-diving with my son Jackson in the Caribbean.

So I will be literally underwater during the Dem convention, blissfully unaware of whatever travesties that may occur in Denver.  It's the last week of summer.  Hopefully most of America will be enjoying itself and could equally care less.

The HFR wishes the same for you.  Spend this last week of summer enjoying yourself with friends and family, doing what you want to do.  Forget about Dem moonbat crazies and the world's problems.  Never forget, we live in the greatest country in the history of mankind.  Life is a glass half-full.  Enjoy every drop, and now.