HALF-FULL REPORT 12/03/10

We open this week’s HFR with a Special News Bulletin from the Associated Press:

In response to the "Cablegate" scandal – the release of a quarter-million classified State Department documents by WikiLeaks – the US Government announced today that henceforth all Top Secret government documents will be placed in an "ultimate" secure location. 

"This location is so secure that even people with the highest of clearances cannot gain access," said R.J. Finklestein, Director of the Federal Document Classification Agency (FDCA) in a press release today.

All classified documents, Mr. Finklestein announced, will now be stored at the same location storing Barack Hussein Obama’s Birth Certificate, College Transcripts, SSN applications, and off-shore campaign contributors list.

"Using our Ultimate Secure Location, we are quite sure that WikiLeaks will never be able to access any more classified documents," noted the FDCA director, "nor will anyone else."

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The economy and stock market is facing a meltdown with the largest tax increase in history unless Zero can get Dems in Congress to abandon their hate-the-rich religion, and today (12/03) he’s in… Afghanistan? 

This guy is the Compleat European:  like most folks in Europe, he doesn’t want to work, he wants to get away from work, to travel and play.  He’s not meeting with Karzai – even with the world knowing the truth about Karzai’s gargantuan corruption thanks to WikiLeaks.  No, he gets to give away medals, be the C-in-C, ride in Air Force One, and enjoy being His Royal Highness while shirking his real job.

Meanwhile, on the ground in Afghanistan, there is wonderfully good news.  In the last 90 days, US and British forces have killed or captured over 3,200 Taliban terrorists, including 387 top-level commanders.  As a British commando reports:

"We are nailing the Taliban. We are killing and capturing them on an industrial scale… This is not a blanket killing, we are specifically targeting the Taliban leadership… (and) if a new generation of radical Taliban step into these dead men’s shoes, they too will be killed."

Way to fight a war, folks.  I especially liked the "industrial scale" part.

(Re Afghanistan, many of you have asked how my son Brandon is doing and when he’s coming home.  He’s fine, he’s proud of the progress his unit has made, and he and his men will be home in a month.  He and our entire family is so very appreciative of your prayers.  They have really sustained him.)

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The entire northern hemisphere is freezing.  People are freezing in Atlanta, there are deaths across Europe from the cold, Britain has come to a halt due to the snow – and in Cancun, Mexico, a gaggle of religious hairshirts from the Church of Global Warming, sponsored by the United Nations, are claiming the world will soon be burnt up, flooded, starving, and broke. 

The world press has been headlining the Cancun Summit on Climate Change’s laughably apocalyptic threats all week:  Climate Change To Push Food Prices 130%, Scientists Call For Rationing in Developed World, 2010 Hottest Year Ever Recorded, blah, blah, apocalyptic blah.

The good news in this is that the more hysterically ridiculous the glowarmer threats, the more normal people in the world ignore them – even the Japanese, who infuriated the Cancun crowd by saying they no longer sign on to the sacred Kyoto Treaty.

Most infuriating of all – because it’s the most consequential – is the Republicans’ eliminating the House Committee on Global Warming created by Nancy Pelosi.  This means the death of any Dem glowarmer legislation or any possibility of the US ratifying any glowarmer treaty.

The Great Watermelon Dream of the Left – green on the outside/red on the inside Warmism being the replacement for Marxism as the excuse for world power – is dying on the vine.  You wonder:  what the Left will dream up next to replace Warmism?

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Then again, the Left doesn’t need any rationale to pursue its Hate-America agenda.  If there’s no persuasive excuse, it just exercises raw power.  The latest example is Wednesday’s (12/01) announcement that Zero is continuing to ban offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for the next five years.

There is no real basis or reason provided for the decision.  That’s because the real actual reason is to further and massively damage the US economy.  This is straightforward on-purpose evil.

You are not going to get a better example of the current President of the United States waging war against his own country.  This is treason.  Let’s hope the Gulf oil and gas workers and engineers whose livelihoods will be destroyed, and who control the critical chokepoints of America’s energy supply, will take appropriate action.

In the words of Charlotte Randolph, president of Lafourche Parish in Louisiana, "Shut the valve!"

(We can trust Citizen K to explain exactly what this means in the TTP Forum.)

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Back in January 2008, I explained why I’m No Paulista, no overall admirer of Ron Paul.  But there are certain things of his that I sure do admire, such as his advocacy of gold money and his hatred of the Federal Reserve. 

Now that the disclosures of the Fed’s secret loans of trillions to foreign banks and entities came out this week, it’s going to be fantastic fun to see Ron Paul chair the House Monetary Policy Subcommittee of the Financial Services Committee.  That’s the committee that oversees the Fed. 

Paul is going to do more than hold hearings and rip Bernanke’s lungs out on the witness stand.  He is going to do everything he can to get rid of the Fed’s ability to print money out of thin air and destroy our currency.

Remember, Paul wrote a best-seller, End The Fed.  He wants the Federal Reserve eliminated, a private banking system in its place, and the dollar back on the gold standard.  I’m a 100% Paulista on these goals.  We should all root for Ron next year.

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"Sarah is a whip-smart, charismatic, articulate, drop-dead gorgeous Ayn Rand pro-American conservative."  That’s from Senate Sitrep way back in August 2009 – and I wasn’t talking about Mrs. Palin.  No, it was about a Senate candidate in Missouri.

She subsequently deferred to Roy Blunt, who obliterated Dem Robin Carnahan on Nov 2^nd.  Smart move.  This week (12/01), Sarah Steelman announced her run against Dem Senator Claire McCaskill in 2012.  Even though she’s Tea Party all the way – the Missouri Dem Party denounces her as "an extreme right-wing clone of Sarah Palin" – she’ll also get the support of Blunt and the Missouri Pub Party.

Steelman is the epitome of a Mama Grizzly.  Find out more about her on the Sarah Steelman 2012 website.  I think a lot of you will simply say, "Wow."

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Everyone’s favorite Mama Grizzly in the House is Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.  She provided a quintessential reason why yesterday (12/02), by saying there should be an "insurrection" against her party’s leadership if they don’t quickly allow a vote "to repeal Obamacare lock, stock, and barrel."

None of this weasel "repeal and replace" garbage your hear from the Pub leadership for Michele – for "replace" means "Obamacare lite," and she wants the whole thing trashed.

But, but, but, the weasels say, we can’t repeal it, for even if we vote to do so, Obama will veto the repeal and there’s no way to override his veto.

That’s a strong argument, not to be dismissed.  Let’s take a closer look, though.  Two-thirds of both chambers have to vote to override a presidential veto, a high bar:  287 in the House, 67 in the Senate.

The 112^th will have 242R/193D in the House, 47R/53D in the Senate – so even if all Pubs vote yes, it will still take 45 House Dems and 20 Senate Dems for the override.  That’s steep.  Yet, yet…

Every one of those 193 House Dems plus 23 Senate Dems will be up for re-election in 2012 – and they all know that passing Obamacare was the single issue most responsible for their demolition on Nov 2^nd.   Voting No to override a Zero veto of Obamacare repeal will doom a lot of them in 2012.  Voting Yes could improve their electoral chances dramatically.

If this case is made strongly, enough of them could be persuaded.  Michele will be pushing the Pub leadership to make the case.

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Now for something astoundingly enjoyable.  It is a video commercial for Johnnie Walker Scotch and it is flat-out fabulous.  It is not just the thought, the talent, the skill and creativity behind it – this is a paean of praise for capitalism.  It is a portrayal of capitalism at its best.

Here’s one commentator’s introduction:  "Rarely is such an ad constructed so elegantly. Go for a stroll with actor Robert Carlyle as he narrates the story of Johnnie Walker in this beautifully shot and immaculately rehearsed single-take commercial, filmed on location in Scotland."

So pour yourself a few fingers of your favorite whiskey (mine, as you know, is Famous Grouse) – and no mixed drinks now, like on the rocks, or the blasphemy of soda water – to sip and enjoy:

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We close the HFR with something truly inspirational, something that will bring tears to your eyes about the beauty of Christmas and our fellow Christians.

Ever hear of a "flash mob"?   It’s a new phenomenon where a group of people (mostly young) suddenly appear by surprise in a public place like a mall or pedestrian downtown area and engage in something startling and off the wall, then just as suddenly disperse.

Most flash mobs are just to have pointless silly fun (there’s a lot to be said for that!), like a pillow fight or walking like zombies.  But last month in a shopping mall in Canada – Welland’s Seaway Mall in London, Ontario (in that neck of land between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario) – the Niagara Symphony Orchestral Chorus gave a Flash Mob performance of Handel’s Messiah.

It’s fascinating – and moving – to watch the joyful and respectful reaction of the at-first startled and perplexed shoppers.  Quickly, everyone, young and old, realizes something particularly wonderful is happening.  Watching it is a great way to start your Christmas season. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah!