HALF-FULL REPORT 05/15/09

Got to be careful today.  So much to celebrate this week that it’s too easy to say "The sun is over the yardarm someplace" and reach for a bottle of Wasmund’s American Scotch (more about that later), rather than soberly wait for the sun to dip below the yardarm here in DC.

For this is the week the Dems have started eating their own – beginning with, glory of glories, the quintessentially most vile, vicious, venal, corrupt, dishonest, hate-filled, anti-American House Democrat of them all, Speaker Pelosi Galore.

After becoming such an object of ridicule that hyper-lib comedian Jon Stewart is making fun of her, she "rented a steam shovel," as TTP’s Jack Kelly says, to dig her political grave at a press conference yesterday (5/14).

Stick a fork in her, folks, she’s done.  Under the Dem bus.  Roadkill.  You can bet on this because so many of her House colleagues actually hate her – starting with Steny Hoyer who can’t wait to replace her as Speaker.

So when she resigns, which could come within days, you might recall that conversation I had with my friend in Paris two weeks ago.  We talked about what a positive development it was that Zero had made Langley his enemy.

The CIA is under attack by the Zerocrats.  Now it has taken down the second most powerful Zerocrat.  The witch hunt begun by Zero’s releasing of classified CIA "torture memos" and conducted by Pelosi at Zero’s command has caught the witch.  Now let’s see how the warlock (a male witch) himself is targeted.

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That targeting will be getting a lot of assistance now from the Moonbat Left, which is in a state of absolute apoplexy over Zero’s reneging on his campaign promises to shut down Guantanamo (he’s not), not have military tribunals for captured terrorists (he will), and not be a warmonger (he is in Afghanistan).

You get good at what you practice, says Dr. Joel Wade, and what the left practices most at is hating.  It’s  a satisfying sight to see the moonbats hating their own champion in addition to us.

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The moral antithesis to the most despicable woman politician in America, Ms. Pelosi, is Real America’s heroine, Governor Sarah Palin.  She provided an example this week by issuing an official statement regarding the left’s attacks on Miss California, Carrie Prejean.  Here it is in full. 

Governor Palin Statement on attacks against Carrie Prejean

May 13, 2009

The liberal onslaught of malicious attacks against Carrie Prejean for expressing her opinion is despicable.

Carrie and I spoke soon after the attacks started; I can relate as a liberal target myself. What I find so remarkable is that these politically-motivated attacks fail to show that what Carrie and I believe is also what President Obama and Secretary Clinton believe – marriage is between a man and a woman.

I applaud Donald Trump for standing with Carrie during this time. And I respect Carrie for standing strong and staying true to herself, and for not letting those who disagree with her deny her protection under the nation’s First Amendment Rights.

Our Constitution protects us all – not just those who agree with the far left.

Governor Sarah Palin

The pathological viciousness of the left (epitomized by its crazed attacks on Carrie Prejean), the bottomless corruption, the coming impoverishment of millions via fascist economics will be generating a monumental backlash against the Dems next year. 

By 2010, America will be more than ready for the next Ronald Reagan to come to its rescue, chomping at the bit for 2012 – and the next Ronald Reagan will be a woman. 

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Speaking of heroes, it turns out that "heroic politicians" is not an oxymoron in Montana.  The state legislature has passed and the governor has signed House Bill 246, The Montana Firearms Freedom Act, that exempts all firearms, accessories, and ammo made in Montana from being regulated by the Federal Government via the Commerce Clause loophole. 

Read the bill and realize that this is now law in Montana.  It is a direct and purposeful 10^th Amendment challenge to Federal authority.  The Commerce Clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3) gives Congress the authority "To regulate commerce…among the several states."  It is the Constitutional rationale, more than any other, the fascists use to acquire ever-more federal control over states and individuals.

Now, Montanans are standing straight up to federal tyranny – and with gun laws!  And get this:  the Governor of Montana, Barry Schweitzer, is a Democrat!  When he signed the bill into law, he said, "I like guns.  I like big guns, I like little guns, I like pistols, I like rifles, and I would like to buy a gun that’s made in Montana."  This is our kind of guy!

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Let’s go far from Montana now to the little-known Italian resort island of Lampedusa.  In the Med between Sicily and the north coast of Africa, it’s a hidden beach escape for the Italian elite:

Recently, however, it’s been a landing zone for an invasion of African illegal immigrants.  The European left says they have rights and must be allowed in, just as our lefties say about Mexican illegals.  Once the Africans are on Italian soil in Lampedusa (only 66 miles from Africa), they get to cash in on the European Welfare State.

Silvio Berlusconi has other ideas.  Italy’s Prime Minister has ordered the Italian Navy to enforce a policy of respingimenti —  refusal by pushing away.  This week, over 500 African illegals were taken off their boats headed for Lampedusa and forcibly returned to Libya.

The UN promptly condemned Italy for doing so.  Berlusconi responded by inviting the UN to jump in the Mediterranean.  The world needs more Berlusconis.

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Since I’ve been to the North Pole 21 times, I’ve been watching the travails of three British "Arctic explorers" who failed this week to reach the Pole.  "Fail" is too weak a word, however, for their purpose was to measure the sea-ice thickness, hoping to "prove" global warming ice melt.

They never made it because it was too cold.  It took these fools over two months to go little more than a third of the way to the Pole.  I’m quite familiar with the route they took, starting from Ward Hunt Island off the north coast of Ellesmere at 83N.  The Pole at 90N is 7 nautical degrees away or 420nm (480 statute).  These guys barely got to 85N before they had to be airlifted out.  Two entire nautical degrees – one degree a month!

A really pathetic performance – plus to their vast disappointment, they discovered the ice was "twice as thick as we expected."  Another bitter loss for the glowarmers.

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All in all, a week nice enough to celebrate with a wee dram or two of Wasmund’s four month old American Scotch Whiskey.  Yes, four months old.  Yes, American.  Yes, it shouldn’t be called Scotch and it’s should be spelled "whisky." 

It’s a true tale of old-fashioned American entrepreneurial spirit and inventiveness.  And it’s better than any 12 year-old single malt you’ve ever had.

Rick Wasmund is a good ole boy from Sperryville, Virginia, who had a passion for Scotch.  He explored most of the distilleries in the US, then moved to Scotland where he worked at distilleries on the island of Islay.  He learned from the masters, then had some brilliant ideas of his own.

Returning to Sperryville, he started the Copper Fox Distillery.  He contracted with a farmer in Virginia’s Northern Neck to provide a special barley, then dried it without peat but with smoke from fruitwood (apple, cherry) instead.  The whisky is double-distilled in pot stills in single barrel batches, then aged in fruitwood barrels.

By putting in toasted fruitwood chips in a cheesecloth bag into the barrel, Rick discovered this accelerates the aging process, turning years into months to reach optimal maturity – and imparting a complex of marvelous natural flavors.

If you’re a Scotch drinker, you will be stunned.  You won’t believe something this amazingly good could be a few months old.  But that’s American ingenuity for you!

American ingenuity is what created the greatest contribution of prosperity mankind has ever seen.  It’s still alive – and if the Zerocrats would just get out of its way, it will flourish throughout our country once more.