HALF-FULL REPORT 01/08/10

OK, folks, time to get serious – The Remember the Alamo Rendezvous in San Antonio is three weeks away.  You really really do not want to be square and not be there. 

This is your opportunity to help launch the Defund & Disobey Revolution of 2010.  Your opportunity to revel in fellowship with other members of the TTP family.  You owe it to yourself, you owe it to America.  I’m counting on seeing you there.

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They sure know how to party in Louisiana, don’t they?  The party of the year is shaping up there – a Recall Party!  Turns out Louisiana law allows for a recall election to throw an elected official – including a federal one (except for judges) – out of office.  This most specifically means Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu.

The bar is high.   A Recall election requires a petition signed by 33% of the registered voters at the time of the targeted politician’s election.  In Landrieu’s case, the magic number is a little under 982,000 – and not just Louisiana residents but registered voters.

The effort is being organized by moveonmary.org.  They need volunteers, they need money.  Mary Landrieu stole the election from Woody Jenkins back in 1996 and was bribed with "the Louisiana Purchase" to vote for ZeroCare.  She was re-elected in 2008, which means Louisiana (and America) is stuck with her until 2014 – but now there’s a chance to throw her out on her tush this year.  We should all pitch in.  Let’s party!

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Will there be a freedom party in Massachusetts on January 19?  It’s almost too much to ask, Scott Brown beating Dem Maria Coakley for Teddy Kennedy’s Senate seat, isn’t it?  That he’s got any chance at all, that the Dems are freaking out in fear, is amazing by itself.

After losing the governorship of New Jersey, after the Dorgan bombshell (Dodd retiring was expected, but Bryan Dorgan’s hit the Dems with a shovel), Coakley losing could cause the entire Dem party – certainly in the Senate – to implode.  Which is why she’ll be elected the Landrieu way.  Whatever dirty tricks and smears, however many stuffed ballot boxes are required, that’s what’ll be done.

Scott Brown is fighting with a knife in a gunfight.  It’s the Republican way.

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I’m freezing.  Aren’t you?  The whole country is an icebox – which is where Cap & Trade glowarmer legislation is too.  I say we go someplace that’s warm – like Iceland.

Icelanders sure know how to heat things up, and not just with their hot springs.  They’ve decided not to immolate their livelihood on the altar of British and EU banks – so they’re defaulting on their international debt.

Three Iceland banks tried to play the global hedge fund game, British and Dutch banks put in billions in the scheme, and when the October 2008 crisis hit, there was no money and the Iceland economy went into meltdown.

Britain went into gunboat diplomacy extortion mode, listed the Iceland central bank as a terrorist organization along with Al Qaeda, and used an anti-terrorist law to freeze Iceland assets.  Iceland caved and signed a promise to cough up $5.5 billion to Brit banks.  But President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson balked at the deal and is demanding a referendum, scheduled for March, so voters can say yea or nay.

You can bet the farm they’ll say nay.  Last year, little Honduras stood up to the world and its threats.  Now it’s Iceland’s turn.  Default – we could learn a lesson from Iceland.

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Want some place warmer?  How ‘bout Greece?  It’s so hot there it may blow up the European Union – or at least the Euro.  Greece’s debt hole is about a half-trillion dollars deep thanks to its bottomless payoffs, pensions, and subsidies to the public workers’ unions.  At any whiff of a hint their gravy train might be slowed down just a teensy bit, they riot, vandalize, and threaten murder-mayhem.

The solution is expected to be as it has always been – Germany bails them out.  Maybe, maybe though, Angela Merkel will say no – as she’s being backed up by European Central Bank board members Jürgen Stark and Ewald Nowotny who are demanding no bailouts.

They realize that if Greece is bailed out, then the rest of the PIGS in the euro monetary union – Portugal, Italy, and Spain – will soon follow.  The only way to save the euro, they figure, is to throw Greece out of the euro club as a salutary lesson for the others.  The resultant gravy train wreck will bring massive violence – making Greece a place to steer well clear of during any summer vacation you may be planning.

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However, if you want evidence that there’s still plenty of life left in Europe, that the new generation of European kids are not ready to capitulate to Islamization and convert their land into Eurabia, then watch this astounding performance by the new European mega-rock band Globus, featuring a 100-piece orchestra, a 70-piece choir, and lyrics that will overload your synapses.

Shortly after 9-11, I wrote an action report for my friends in Congress that became quite infamous, as it was entitled Nuke Mecca.  I argued that the only deterrent sufficiently persuasive to dissuade Moslem crazies from attacking us was our capacity to completely obliterate their holy of holies forever.  We targeted Moscow during the Cold War.  Why shouldn’t Mecca be similarly targeted during the War on Islamofascism?

Globus gets the point.  Listen and watch – and be prepared for the last two lines. 

(Thanks to TTPer Joe Katzman, editor of Winds of Change!)

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Remember the old joke that if communists took over the Sahara there would soon be a shortage of sand?  How about if communists took over a country with one of the world’s largest supplies of oil and hydroelectric power – there’d soon be shortage of energy, right?

Yep, that exactly what’s happening to Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.  Draconian energy rationing was forced upon Venezuelans this week, due to an "emergency situation" announced by Chavez’s electricity minister, Angel Rodriguez. 

That situation would be the Guri hydroelectric dam, one of the world’s largest, that provides 73% of the country’s electricity.  As noted in the HFR of last October 30, due to an almost complete lack of regular maintenance for the last ten years, the odds of catastrophic failure in Guri’s turbine halls is rapidly rising  and that "should Guri blow, electricity would be a trickle nation-wide, crude oil and petrochemical production would shut down, the entire economy would collapse."

Just what Venezuela deserves for tolerating Hugo Chavez.

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And what does America deserve for tolerating President Zero and the Fascist Democrat Party?  One hell of a tea party this November 2^nd .  For an inkling of what’s coming that day, here’s something to enjoy.  It’s called America Rising.