HALF-FULL REPORT 06/25/10

Good grief, what a weird week.  Which headline is more bizarre – the one in Cincinnati, "Naked Man Arrested With Stolen Cheese At Library," or the one in Portland, "Al Gore Accused Of Being A Crazed Sex Poodle"?

We all know, of course, that Algore’s former boss is a serial rapist.  But Mr. Save-The-Planet?  Goodnight, Al, and take your warmism with you.  At least now, folks will think that Global Warmism means Rape-The-Planet with lunatic Marxist Fascism.

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Meanwhile, Zero’s unconstitutional fascism gets more grotesque by the day.  Reports that he intends to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens by executive fiat have prompted a number of Senators (all R’s) to sign a letter to the president (dated 6/21) requesting he deny the reports.

Like you, I have this little devil who resides on my left shoulder whispering off-the-wall provocations in my ear.  Right now, he’s saying he hopes Zero goes through with this.

First, its legality would be challenged, morphing into a challenge of the constitutionality of all such "Executive Orders."

Second, the resultant firestorm would supercharge the Defund Strategy across the board.  Defunding Homeland Security (the implementing agency for the amnesty EO) would be the wedge for defunding unconstitutional government.

Third, it would catalyze the Impeach Obama movement.

If you Google "impeach Obama" you’ll get a quarter-million hits.  Zazzle offers a selection of Impeach Obama T-Shirts.  There an Impeach Obama Store.  There’s a host of websites like impeachobamacampaign.com.

All of this is fringe-y so far.  Something so over-the-fascist-top outrageous as Amnesty by EO could make it mainstream, a rallying cry for the Tea Party, op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, a national cause.  The frustration, disgust, and anger against him is building.  The dam would burst with an Amnesty EO.

You and I know that our country may not survive 2½ more years of this man in the White House.  With an Amnesty EO, all America will know it.  He has to resign.  He has to leave office – either voluntarily or by legal removal.  The words of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) to corrupt Members of Parliament on April 20, 1653 apply to Zero:

"You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately … Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

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Times like these make you wish we were more like Oz – that’s as in Australia – oz-trial-yah – with a parliamentary system that can toss a leader out on his ear in an eyeblink.

While Aussies were having their morning coffee yesterday (6/24), their government exchanged their left-wing crybaby leader, Kevin Rudd, for a left-wing bottle redhead (often it’s a bright shade of mercurochrome), Julia Gillard.  As a friend of mine in Sydney tells me:  "Different gender, different hair, same lefty agenda."

She’s a pro-abortion, pro-tax, anti-business, big government crypto-socialist just like her predecessor but with a "nicer" personality – so Labor (the ruling party) dumped Rudd, and in a matter of hours yesterday, Australia had a new Prime Minister.  Amazing.

One catch is, there have to be new elections within a few months. October at the latest.  If the Aussies have any brains, they’ll realize it’s a no-brainer to choose the opposition candidate to Gillard.

His name is Tony Abbott, leader of the "Coalition" (of the Liberal and National Parties), 53, college boxing champion, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, triathlon athlete, solid family values (once-married with three children; Gillard, 49, never married, childless, lives with boyfriend), anti-abortion, thinks climate change is "absolute crap," anti-sharia/Moslem immigration, pro-business, pro-small government, articulate, handsome, charming, and feisty as hell for conservative principles.  He is our kind of guy.

One story highlights the difference between Gillard and Abbott.  In an interview to a woman’s magazine, Abbott said he told his daughters that "virginity was a gift not to be given away lightly."  Gillard condemned him for this, accusing him of "lecturing to women."

Doesn’t that just sum it all up?  Let’s hope it does for Aussie voters.

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Here’s a trio of notes on what else is happening in the world this week. 

Geert Wilders in the Netherlands has Euroweenies and Arabs in an uproar for blabbing an unmentionable truth:  that "Jordan is Palestine."  Changing Jordan’s name to Palestine "will end the conflict in the Middle East and provide the Palestinians with an alternate homeland."

The history of Jordan, and why Winston Churchill created it, is told in East of the Dead Sea (July 2008).  The last thing Jordan wants is an influx of Hamas/Fatah/Islamic Jihad crazies from Gaza.  Yet over 70% of Jordan’s population right now is Palestinian Arab.  Jordan’s secular freedom and policy of zero tolerance for Islamic radicalism has transformed Palestinians into Jordanians who always smile and say "Welcome" when you tell them you’re from America.

So Geert is on to something with his provocation – but he could learn a lot by traveling (preferably incognito) around Jordan and getting a better understanding.  He may soon be a partner in a new Dutch government.  It’s an understanding he needs…

…Onto great news in Colombia, where the defense minister responsible for defeating the FARC commie-narco guerrillas, Juan Manuel Santos, has been resoundingly elected president.

Santos is far more than a military hard-nose.  He has three master’s degrees:  from the London School of Economics, Harvard, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.  He’s a solidly successful businessman, pro-American, and is despised by Hugo Chavez. 

The sun is rising on Colombia – and setting on Venezuela.  It doesn’t get more bitterly funny than this:  tons of rotting food in government warehouses while government goons raid private markets accused of "hoarding." 

Venezuela is the epitome of the adage that people get the government they deserve.  They won’t take Chavez out, so they starve.  You can’t have any sympathy for such folks.  Soon enough, Chavez will threaten war again with Colombia.  Santos, the HFR is told, can hardly wait.  His message to Venezuelan generals will be clear:  Arrest Chavez and establish a new government or the Colombian Army will.  It’s an offer the generals can’t refuse…

…And my old friend Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tells me the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has determined that French and German banks have $958 billion in exposure to Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, in mortgage, company, and sovereign debt.

No wonder the banks are telling Greece to sell their islands.

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Now if only someone would tell Uncle Federalie to do the same.  There is no constitutional authority whatever for the US government to own 650 million acres, 30% of the entire land area of the US.  But it’s necessity that will drive the issue here.  Just as Greece must of necessity sell its assets to pay off its debt, so must the Feds. 

How much is that 30% and its mineral assets worth?  Certainly more than the trillion dollars it’s claimed of Afghanistan.  Up on the auction block it all should go.

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The HFR Hero of the Week?  No doubt about this:  Federal Judge Martin Feldman, who overturned Zero’s drilling moratorium and has refused to reinstate it.  Note the evil of the left in its attempt to demonize him.  The OPM (Obama Propaganda Media) blares that Feldman "has investments" with oilcos – when he had sold them well before his decision.  He doesn’t own a dime of such stock.  Then there are the death threats.

There couldn’t be a greater contrast between the reasoned courage of Judge Feldman and the fascist thuggery of Zero’s minions.

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Now let’s go to South Carolina.  Yes, Sarah Palin continues to prove she’s the King/Queen Maker of US politics, with her endorsed candidates, Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, winning big.  But the mega-story here is what Sarah is just a part of:  a deep tectonic shift in the political landscape.

You couldn’t get a more classic example of the entrenched political establishment in South Carolina than a Southern aristocrat incumbent Congressista named J. Gresham Barrett.  Yet he winked at the white trash smearing of Nikki Haley – and Haley trashed him Tuesday (6/22) 65% to 35%.  Now soon-to-be Governor Haley is going to clear the field of the good ‘ol boy establishment in Columbia.

Actually, Paul Thurmond, as the son of Strom Thurmond, would be a better establishment example.  He was going to use election to Congress as a stepping-stone to be a Senator like his dad.  Then Sarah endorses an unknown black conservative named Tim Scott because she can spot talent.  On Tuesday, Scott cleaned Thurmond’s clock.

It’s not Dem vs. Pub anymore, it’s Court vs. Country.  Both establishments of the Dems and Pubs are being overthrown.  This is real change, real  hope.  America is rescuing itself.

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We’ll end this week’s HFR on that high note.  I was going to add a bonus feature in light of a demented development in New York – but it turned out better as a separate article:  Crack Nicotine.

So okay, let’s end with a fun kick in the pants of all slimy politicians:  Clint Webb for Senate.  Jack Kelly says it’s the political ad of the millennium.