HALF-FULL REPORT 04/03/09

Well, that settles that – he’s a Moslem.  No one, much less a President of the United States, who is not a Moslem would deeply bow to a Saudi Wahhabi tyrant in an act of utter submission.

This is the most disgraceful act of any president in American history.  Wahhabism is the most evil religion on earth, a religion of hate which the Saudi king spends billions promoting around the world.  To bow to its principal proponent is submission to evil, an announcement of one’s true beliefs.

No patriotic American can ever again, upon seeing this picture and understanding its meaning, consider this man to be the legitimate president of his country.

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Tout le monde of the Parisian elite is laughing its collective head off today over Carla Bruni refusing to kiss Zero on the cheek.  They all know how sexually voracious the wife of France’s prime minister is, how she targeted Sarkozy, how she didn’t wait to get out of the limousine on their first date to Monica-consummate their relationship.

And they’re laughing at the polite cheek pecks Mrs. Zero gave Ms. Bruni’s husband.  Sarkozy of course made a play for her because he compulsively makes a play for anything wearing a dress – he leaves Bill Clinton in the far distant dust in this regard.  Mrs. Zero looked down upon him (she’s 5’10" – he’s 5’5") and whispered, "This is a joke, right?  You French have such a sense of humor…")

They’re laughing in Paris but chagrined in England – and not just about the shock of seeing their Queen – about whom centuries of sacred protocol say you never touch –  and the American First Lady hug.  It was the greater shock of seeing how teeny-tiny little old lady small their Queen is, looking like a midget next to the two towering Americans.

The Queen can’t be over 5’2" – and note in the picture how small Prince Philip is.  Always billed as 6’2", he can’t be over 5’6".  Not that they can help it.  What hurts and shocks the British is that the picture visually epitomizes how small their nation has become.  They feel small next to their former colony and now world giant.

No wonder there is more anti-Americanism in England than anywhere else in Europe.

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What is no laughing matter is that increasing the US money supply 5.8 times in the last six months – from $800 billion to $4.65 trillion is only the down payment on Zero’s destruction of the dollar.

This Monday (3/30) Bloomberg added it up:  "After already more than doubling its balance sheet [from $800 billion] to $2.1 trillion, the Fed has pledged to buy $1.25 trillion of mortgage-debt and $300 billion of Treasuries, and finance a $1 trillion consumer-loan program." (Scroll halfway down to "Holdings Surge" for the quote.)

The very next day, Bloomberg ran the numbers again, totaling up everything the federal government has now spent, lent, or is committed to spending.

The number is $12.8 trillion.  Welcome to Weimar America.  After scrutinizing that Bloomberg compilation, you really need to read When Money Dies – see Sandy Shaw’s article about it – to get a gut feeling of what hyperinflation is really like.

It’s not here yet as the money is being pumped into foreign banks and other institutional cronies of the Democrats, so it’s effect will be surreptitious.  If it suddenly appeared in cash, $250,000 in new $100 bills on the kitchen table of every family in America, prices – like chicken at $50 a pound – would instantly go through the roof.

But when Zero talks of "sharing the wealth," he doesn’t mean to all Americans, he means only to Democrat cronies, those who can help him to increase his power.  So the price creep will continue – seen your grocery bill lately? – while the media will deny it is happening.  Yet chicken will cost $50 a pound in the not distant future, and people on fixed incomes will starve.

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Unless they barter.  "Barter System Reborn" ran the headline this week (4/01).  As the Zero Economy has lost two million jobs (663,000 last month alone), with unemployment already at 8.5% and headed to double digits, millions of Americans are bartering for goods and services like they were in the Great Depression.

The funniest part of the story is this warning:  "The Internal Revenue Service considers bartered items as income and expects barterers to declare non-cash exchanges on their annual tax return with a 1099B form."

Sure they will.  If the IRS believes that, it will believe anything.  Someone should explain that it’s not smart for an outfit based on force and fear to announce it is idiotically gullible.

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If you want smart, you’ll have to look for a government other than America’s.  Two examples stand out this week:  Israel and Sri Lanka.

We talked last January about how well the Sri Lankans were doing against the vicious terrorists who call themselves the Tamil Tigers.  The last of the terrorists are trapped in a few square miles of jungle – and they are holding several thousand Tamil civilians as hostages and human shields.

They are calling for a truce.  Governments and "international organizations" are calling such a truce "the path to peace," and demand that Colombo accept it.  Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa has told them to forget it:

"We will not cave into pressures from any international quarters, locally and internationally, and will not stop until the war was completely over."

And what does "over" mean?  For Rajapaksa it means this:  "These terrorist who have plagued our nation for so long [30 years] have only one choice:  surrender or die."

Surrender or die?  When did you last hear the leader of a country say something so courageously unyielding to evil?  And mean it.  And act on it.

The HFR hoists a pint of Lion Lager – appropriately followed by a chaser of arrack coconut brandy – to President Mahinda Rajapaksa!

And a glass of seltzer water on ice – for he’s a teetotaler – to Israel’s new Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu.  Upon taking office this week (3/31), he immediately announced that Israel will not accept "a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs."

He has made it clear that Israel will attack Iran and destroy its nuclear facilities soon.  That is why Ehud Barak continued as Defense Minster and cajoled his Labor Party into joining Bibi’s coalition government.  He has made it clear that he does not need America’s permission, nor logistical (such as re-fueling) support. 

This is because Barak has calculated that 42 Jericho III ballistic missiles with a range of 7,000 kilometers and carrying 1,650lb conventional warheads would be sufficient to wipe out all of Iran’s nuke plants.  No re-fueling, no flyover permissions, no pilots risked, just push the button and there’s nothing the mullahs can do about it.

When appraised of this, I pleaded with one of the Defense Ministry’s main advisors to please make it at least 44 Jerichos – one for the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) HQ and the Presidential Palace.

"You can’t just go for the nuke plants – you’ve got to go for the regime itself.  Make it a decapitation strike," I begged of them.  "And – the sooner you do it the better."

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OK – we’ll close with a bar joke.  One that’s just between us.

Mr. Zero walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder.

The bartender looks up and says, "Hey, where’d you get that?"

The parrot replies, "In Kenya – they’re all over the place!"