HALF-FULL REPORT 10/30/09

Have you heard the latest joke in Stockholm?  The Swedes love to poke fun at Norwegians whom they consider their Scandinavian country bumpkin cousins (like Canadians tell "Newfie" jokes about folks from Newfoundland).

The Swedish Nobel Committee awards all the real prizes, while the one in Norway gets to award the Peace prize as a consolation.  So the Swedes couldn’t resist ridiculing the Norwegian committee’s latest lunacy.  "Heard the news?" they’re asking.  "Obama just won the Nobel Fis Prize."

"Fis" is pronounced as rhyming with "peace." It means "fart" in Swedish – a particularly long and odiferous one.  The Swedes find it doubly funny because "fis" has the same meaning in Norwegian.

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Speaking of jokes reminds me of Newt Gingrich.  Sure, he’s still capable of coming up with zinger one-liners, such as:

"As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, but that America gave him the White House based on the same credentials." 

Nonetheless, Newt reminds me of my favorite meta-joke (a joke about jokes):  A blind man, a lesbian, and a frog walk into a bar.  The bartender looks up and says, "Is this a joke?"

Newtie announced this week (10/26) he was considering running for president in 2012.  Is this a joke?  What is he thinking?  Hasn’t it dawned on him that whatever shred of conservative credibility he had left has been torched by his stupendously stupid insistence on supporting Dede Scozzafava?

"Newt has always been a Rockefeller Republican," a Congressman tells me who’s known him since the 80s.  "He’s always been clever at hiding it – but no longer."

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"NY-23" as it’s now known may prove to be a defining moment for America‘s future.  The first time many of you heard of Doug Hoffman and NY-23 was two weeks ago in the HFR of October 16.  The goal at the time was teach the RINO GOP establishment a lesson by defeating their ludicrously liberal candidate. 

The thought back then that Hoffman would actually win seemed preposterous.  Now he may – thanks to two words.  Those two words are:  Sarah Palin.  Her endorsement of him on October 22 brought in such a flood of money and support that he is now leading the polls.

This has caused even the Washington Post to anoint Palin as Number One of the Top Ten most influential Republicans:  Palin is now "the prime mover in Republican politics."

So I want you to be very aware of how she demonstrated her "political genius" (that’s what famous Dem politician Willie Brown calls her) this week. 

Last week – 10/22 – she went rogue against her party, supporting the defeat of a party candidate.  That succeeded in spades, obliterating that candidate’s electoral chances.

This week – yesterday 10/29 – she made an all-out effort to support her party.  In America’s Future and the East Coast, she asks her readers three times to help the Republican Governors Association – of which she was a member – in its efforts to win in Virginia and New Jersey. 

Note that I appended her endorsement of Doug Hoffman to her RGA endorsement so you can compare and contrast them.  She is the Insider and the Outsider while maintaining her principles throughout.  Willie Brown is right.

And note further.  The Prime Mover of the GOP, the Lady-In-Charge, is playing the GOP like a fiddle.  It’s her show now, so she’s not going to have another, i.e., start a third party.  The Rogue Revolution will take over the Republican Party, not secede from it.

(Oh, yes.  As proof, consider that this week the National Republican Congressional Committee’s independent expenditure campaign in NY-23 is running run three TV spots – all attacking Owens but not Hoffman and not mentioning Scuzzy.  NRCC chairman Pete Sessions is now embracing Hoffman.  Yep, Wasilla rules.)

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OK, back to jokes.  One of the more obnoxious members of the California legislature – and that’s quite an achievement – is radical leftwing flaming homosexual Democrat Assemblyman Tom Ammiano.  He had the classless effrontery to yell "Kiss my gay ass" at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger during a talk Arnold was giving earlier this month (10/08).

When a bill sponsored by Ammiano to fund a pet project in his district was passed and sent to Arnold‘s desk, it was vetoed.  Ammiano received this explanation of the veto.  Who knew the Governator was such an agile acrostician?

An acrostic is a message spelled out in the first letters of lines in a text.  The acrostic message in Arnold‘s letter has made Ammiano the butt of a major slapdown. 

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The HFR raises a toast this week to the FBI in thanks for its Halloween present to America:  Gunning down a hate-America thug named Christopher Thomas, posing as a Moslem "imam" named Luqman Ameen Abdullah, and arresting the pro-terrorist members of his "mosque."

Thomas opened fire on the FBI agents and they shot him dead.  Now maybe the same fate can be applied to Thomas’ leader, convicted murderer H. Rap Brown, founder of the Black Panthers in the 60s who now calls himself Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. 

Somehow, Brown manages to run the "Ummah" black Moslem terrorist outfit, to which Thomas belonged, from Supermax – allegedly the US’s most maximum security federal prison – where he is serving a life sentence.  And this is where Zero wants to send Moslem terrorists from Gitmo?

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OK, one more joke:  two thousand pages of PelosiCare.  What a train wreck.  No one I know on the Hill thinks it has a nano-chance of passing.  Just in case, however…

If any of you are involved with the TeaParty activities, suggest to all those who participate that they start bringing their guns, as many as they can strap on or carry, to marches and demonstrations.

Unloaded guns, no ammo, just the guns.  Have a sign saying, "No Health Care Fascism or Next Time We’ll Come Loaded."

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One major Halloween scare story today (10/30) are all the headlines proclaiming a deal has been reached to put Mel Zelaya back in power in Honduras.  Hillary and John Kerry are thrilled.  But not so fast.

Whatever deal has been reached, it has to have the approval of the Honduran Congress first, and that’s after it gets the opinion of the Honduran Supreme Court.  Good luck on that, Mel.

The majority of Congress members despise Zelaya.  It will be easy for them to filibuster and delay any decision until after the presidential elections on November 29 and Honduras gets a new president.  Say goodbye, Mel.  Sorry, PIAPS and F’n Kerry.

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Elsewhere in Latin America – how is it possible for Venezuela, a place of massive lakes and rivers, one of the world’s biggest oil producers, to be running out of water and electricity?  As economists say, if Communists took over the Sahara, there’d soon be a shortage of sand.

But as bad as these shortages are, they are about to get much worse.  Over 70% of Venezuela’s electricity comes from three hydro stations on the Caroni River.  Due to an almost complete lack of regular maintenance for the last ten years, engineers at all three –  the one at Guri in particular – say the odds of catastrophic failure in their turbine halls is rapidly rising.

Should Guri blow, electricity would be a trickle nation-wide, crude oil and petrochemical production would shut down, the entire economy would collapse. Chavez would be toast. Sounds like a job for Mossad.  Just a little eensy bit of sabotage is all that’s needed.

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Have a fun Halloween!  Be sure and wear your illegal alien costume.

And also be sure and register for my wife Rebel’s Choices & Power Plan B Workshop on December 9^th in St. Louis.  Rebel is determined to help TTPers protect themselves from Zero’s economic destruction.  I’ll be there.  I hope you will too.