HALF-FULL REPORT 08/06/10

Relax.  Close your eyes, take a deep breath, then another, think of a beautiful sunset and the smell of an ocean breeze.  If it’s not too early – the sun is over the yard-arm somewhere – pour yourself three fingers of your favorite adult libation.  It’s going to be okay.

True enough,  parts of the world around you went even more nuts this week.  A left-wing looney with contempt for the Constitution became a Supreme Court Justice.  A left-wing limp-wrist judge with contempt for the very basis of what makes us human and for millions of his state’s voters forces his homosexuality upon us all.

There’s more.  On Wednesday (8/04), a story headlined Petraeus Renews Limits on Airstrikes began:

"Afghanistan commander Army Gen. David Petraeus has renewed orders to American troops to refrain from calling in artillery or air power when battling Taliban forces unless they’re certain that no civilians are present."

If you Google "Taliban human shields" you’ll get 124,000 hits.  Petraeus knows full well his policy is an open invitation for the Taliban to make sure civilians are with them at all times.  So instead of being the pro-American hero we thought he was, he turns out to be just another politically correct rectum.

Now his own troops are calling him General Betray-us. 

Time for another deep breath, maybe another three fingers.  It’s still going to be okay. 

First, lots of our commanders in the field are going to say thank-you-for-sharing to Betray-us, and take about ten seconds to make "certain" before they cease to "refrain" from saving the lives of their men.  Any "Afghan security forces" Betray-us insists on embedding with them to approve of the commanders’ certainty who object are likely to get fragged.

Second, while it’s a lot easier to side with Jim DeMint (R-SC), who voted against Kagan’s confirmation than with his state colleague Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who voted to confirm, cut Graham’s rationale a tiny bit of slack.  His real rationale, not the stupid public one that "she’s a good decent person," blah-blah.

Lindsey knows that Kagan is no worse (meaning just as bozo liberal) as John Paul Stevens, so the SCOTUS make up is the same, 4-4 with Kennedy the swing.  Big Daddy is the next vacancy, especially if it’s on our side.  So he’s telling folks privately that by giving the Dems Kagan now (which there really was no way to stop), it makes it much easier to get a more decent non-wacko lib nomination out of Zero next time (and there’s a good chance of that with 2+ years to go), and maybe even a sorta-kinda conservative.

Do you buy it?  Would you buy a used car from Lindsey Graham?  Nonetheless, it’s not entirely unpersuasive.

Third… well, you have to look hard for the silver linings here.  Obviously the homosexual judge should have recused himself due to obvious bias.  But the decision is there, and the only good it will do is enflame voters even further to Wipeout the Dems in November.

That in turn will accelerate and empower the only real solution for this:  the passage of a Constitutional Amendment restricting any form of marriage to one man and one woman.

Rather than discuss this further by referencing previous articles, I’ve decided to put them back up on the home page today:  PHM: The Next Insanity from February 2004, and Marriage and the Missing Link from May 2009. 

The latter asks why the Left constantly wages war against real, not phony-homosexual, marriage, and answers:

Marxists have always hated marriage and the nuclear family, and are constantly  contriving rationales to destroy it because it is an obstacle to state control.  Destroy marriage and you can atomize individuals, making it easier to control them, to switch their loyalty and be more subservient to the State.

Which is why the Left’s entire campaign for homosexual "marriage" has nothing to do with marriage.  It is a political agenda, a subversive attack on the institution of marriage itself for the purpose of expanding government fascist control over people.

I could not urge you more strongly to read them both.

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Enough about bad news – time for some good news, good judicial news.  While Judge "Swish" Walker was emasculating Prop 8, the California Supreme Court upheld Prop 209 – 6 to 1! – this week (8/02) which bans "affirmative action," i.e., preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school admissions, government hiring and contracting.

The Left took a real hit on this one.  Yet that wasn’t the only one, for on that same day (8/02) the Left suffered a double-whammy when US District Judge Henry Hudson refused to dismiss the State of Virginia’s suit against ObamaCare on the grounds of unconstitutionality.

This, potentially, is a much bigger deal than banning affirmative action.  The Mack truck the Left has used to punch through a giant hole in the Constitution is one single word:  regulate.

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 gives Congress the enumerated power to "regulate commerce… among the several States."  This was to correct a defect in the pre-Constitution Articles of Confederation that allowed one state to set up protective barriers against another.

If, say, South Carolina wanted to sell tobacco to New York, Virginia could place a huge tariff on it so Virginia tobacco would have a protected advantage.

The purpose of the "Interstate Commerce Clause," as it became known, was to disallow this, making the US one big free trade zone.  The language the Founders used to express this was for Congress to "regulate" meaning make regular or uniform trade and business between states.

The Roosevelt Democrats in the 1930s perverted the word to no longer mean what it clearly and constitutionally did, but to mean instead control.  For Democrats, the Commerce Clause reads that Congress has the power "to control commerce… among the several States."

This fascist switch in meaning of this one single word in the Constitution is the single greatest source of federal government expansion and control over our lives.

Ken Cuccinelli knows this.  He’s Virginia’s new attorney general who brought the suit against ObamaCare.  His suit goes directly after the Dems’ interpretation of the Commerce Clause.  If he wins, the whole giant edifice of government laws, regulations, programs, and entire agencies built on the premise that "regulate" means "control" instead of "make regular" comes crashing down.  Big stakes.

Of course, Ken also is fully aware of the stupid hubristic mistake the authors of ObamaCare made:  the 2,000 page bill has no Severability Clause.  Almost always, authors insert this clause into complex legislation as insurance – that if one part of it gets thrown out of court, the rest of it stands.

But no, not the geniuses who wrote ObamaCare.  No severability means if one part fails – such as the individual mandate to buy insurance – the whole fascist mess is null and void.  Ken’s running for the roses.

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Yet that’s not all that makes Ken Cuccinelli the HFR Hero of the Week.  Along with successfully defending his suit against ObamaCare to Judge Hudson, he has issued a directive to Virginia police officers allowing them to determine the immigration status of anyone they arrest, or stop as a motorist.

Is this guy great, or what?  Naturally, he has sent all the pro-illegals and lefties like La Raza and the ACLU up a tree.  It’s really fun to watch how mad Ken makes them.

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There’s another fellow from Virginia we should give three cheers to this week:  former governor Doug Wilder.  Yes, he’s a prominent Democrat, but he’s come up with an absolutely fabulous idea:  that Zero should dump Biden and replace him with the PIAPS in 2012.

You couldn’t ask for a better two-fer.  We’d get rid of both of them at the same time.  Wilder’s an influential guy.  If Zero jumps on this and finesses Hillary into it, she can’t run herself – and she is the only chance the Dems have got to keep the White House. 

Wilder (who is black himself) is whispering that blacks will totally abandon the Dems in ’12 if they dump Zero for Hillary.  So let’s put her on the ticket.  Good luck selling this, Doug.  We’re all for it.

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Last March 21^st, ObamaCare passed by a House vote of 219-212.  Not one single Republican (all 178) voted for it.  All of those 219 who voted yes were Dems, and this week Missouri made most of them very, very nervous.  Actually, nervous is way too weak – try OMG terrified.

On Tuesday (8/03), 71% – !! – of Missouri voters passed Proposition C, which instructs the state legislature to enact a statute to "deny the government authority to penalize citizens for refusing to purchase private health insurance or infringe upon the right to offer or accept direct payment for lawful health care services."

The Dem candidate for US Senator, Robin Carnahan, a big supporter of ObamaCare who urged her supporters to vote No on C, is toast.  Pub Roy Blunt is in like Flynn.  But this goes way beyond Missouri.  Missouri is a "purple" swing state.  It shows which way the national political winds are blowing.

I know for a fact that the 71% rejection of ObamaCare is giving cardiac arrhythmia to scores of Dem Congresscritters all over the country who thought their seats were not in real jeopardy.  Now they are.  Before Missouri, these Dems could still talk themselves into denial.  After Missouri, it’s no longer possible.  Doom and Gloom is settling upon their black twisted souls. 

In a word, they are now desperate, and desperate people do strange desperate things.  It’s going to be quite a sight seeing them go bozo-bonkers over the next 88 days. 

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Equal to this in good news is that the Missouri vote has given a full head of steam to hundreds of Republican candidates for Congress who are now running on an explicit campaign promise to defund ObamaCare.

They all realize Congress can’t repeal it as Zero will veto the repeal – so they are promising voters to defund it and choke the monster to death in its crib.  157 Republican candidates have signed a pledge to Defund ObamaCare now, according to defundit.org – with more signing up by the day.

This is Congress.  But look at what’s happening in the races for Governor.  More governorships are up this year – 37 – than in any single election year in US history.  Karl Rove is now predicting the GOP wave is so strong right now that Republicans could simultaneously win the governorships in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon.

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That GOP Wave could get bigger if the RNC decides to make Alexi Giannoulias the poster child for Democrat-Obama Corruption, and make that corruption a national campaign theme.

Giannoulias is the mob banker running for Zero’s Chicago Mob Senate seat.  This week, while Mrs. Zero was off playing Marie Antoinette in Marbella, Mr. Zero was in Chicago raising $1 million for Giannoulias and telling the world he is "Alexi’s friend." 

America has a Gangster Government in the White House.  Alexi’s friend is the Gangster-in-Chief.    The evidence is overwhelmingly clear and obvious.  The RNC’s job should be easy.

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Feel better now?  OK, time to tell you about Mellie.

Denizens of the TTP Forum are familiar with the charming posts of "Melliefluous."  Those of you who’ve met Mellie at the TTP Rendezvous know she’s impossible not to like.  You’d have to be a Communist not to like her.

Mellie has an announcement.  She has started her own blog.  It’s called Thursday-ish. Mellie loves words and she shares that love with you.  Have fun and enjoy.  Congratulations, Mellie!

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We close this HFR with strict instructions from TTPer Brant to repeat the info from the July 16 HFR on how to send a "care package" to my son’s Marines in Afghanistan.

I know many of you have already done so, and both Brandon and I cannot thank you enough.  Nonetheless, I’m happy to comply with Brant’s request.  Here’s the info once again: 

Go to your local post office and ask for an APO/FPO Flat Rate Box, priority mail label, and custom form.

The box is about 12 inches by 12 inches by 6 inches. Any thing that you can fit into the box is a flat rate no matter how heavy the box is. The price will range between $8-12 depending on where you are sending it from.  Delivery time is 2-3 weeks. You will have to fill out a customs form declaring what you are sending and the value.

Here are some suggestions for what Brandon’s Marines would like to have: 

Beef jerky, tuna pouches (better than cans), energy/protein food bars, nuts, granola, cookies, packets of electrolyte replacement powder, chewing gum, baby wipes, hand sanitizer, toothpaste/brushes, foot powder, socks in various sizes (SmartWool hiking socks, light for summer, are best now), battery fans or other cooling mechanisms, magazines, ziplock bags of various sizes.

Remember, Marines are hungry and thirsty!  So go heavy on food, snacks, and drink packets.  Anything liquid or could spill should be in a ziplock bag.

Don’t put in the box:  chocolate, perishables, anything that melts, alcohol, or cash.

But do put in the box stuff for kids in the villages:  pens and notebooks, coloring books and crayons, individually wrapped candies, small little toys, small American flags, things they can pass out to the kids.

Address the box to:

1^st Lt. Brandon H. Wheeler
2/6 E CO
Unit 76267
FPO AE 09510-6267

Thanks to you all!