HALF-FULL REPORT 06/03/11

No doubt, this has been the punniest week of modern times.  We’re talking about – of course – Weinergate.

Ask just about any Pub on Capitol Hill who he or she thinks is the most straight-out obnoxious loud-mouthed partisan jerk in the whole of Congress, and even though there’s a lot of competition they’ll invariably say, "Weiner."

Or they’ll simply say his nickname by which he’s known all over the Hill:  "Little."  

Last week (5/26) in The Great Disappointment, we discussed how the most devastatingly effective way to destroy a political opponent is by ridicule.  Turning someone into a joke in the public’s eye is what the Dems strive to do with anyone powerfully against them, such as Sarah Palin. 

The very next night (5/27), ultra-leftie Dem Congresscritter Anthony "Little" Weiner sent a private (DM:  direct message) tweet to one of the many hot young chickadees he "follows" on Twitter that was a pov (point-of view) picture he took of himself from the waist down showing the bulge he had for her in his grey undershorts.

Except he made a mistake.  Instead of pushing the "d" button before the girl’s name so it would go only to her, he pushed the @ button instead, making it a public message sent to all 54,000 folks who follow him on Twitter.  Oops.

After he realized what he’d done, he blurted a tweet to his followers claiming his Twitter had been "hacked."  Too late.  Hacking or breaking in to a Twitter account doesn’t work that way:  Using Twitter just fine, then suddenly the hacker swoops in to send a message using your account, then just as suddenly nothing’s wrong and you can tweet just like before.

Note the silence of Twitter, Inc.  Jack Dorsey (Twitter Chairman) or Dick Costolo (CEO) could easily provide evidence that Little Weiner’s account was tampered with, but have not. 

So now the cocky Congressman has turned himself into the object of ridicule he’s always trying to make of conservatives.  He started out with a small problem but he’s made it worse with a limp defense.  Reporters described his response to their questions as "testy."

He told reporters, "I’m not sure I want to put national, federal resources into trying to figure out who posted a picture… I’m not really sure it rises to that level." (He actually said this.)

The next day, he told reporters,  "I’m sorry I was a little stiff yesterday".  (He actually said this too.)

He’s really bent out of shape.  And now Barney Frank wants to take the matter in hand and examine the Weiner evidence. He wants to make sure the matter is big enough to investigate.  Word is, Barney has called for oral arguments to begin immediately.

Yep, punniest week ever.  The Standing Member of Congress has emasculated himself:  calling a reporter a "jackass," refusing to say if the tweeted picture was of him or if he took it (which means it is and he did), calling the Capitol Hill police to remove a CBS reporter from his office. 

Weiner is total toast, burnt to a crisp.  Say goodnight, Little.  Couldn’t happen to a nicer… what’s the word that begins with "p" and rhymes with "sick"?

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Might as well keep things funny while we can.  Maybe you’ve heard how an Islamic terrorist is like a Chinook salmon – life is good until the Seals show up…

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Or the schadenfreude.  Both of the two anti-Palin books heavily promoted by the enemedia are flops.  Neither HuffPo’s chief Palin critic Geoffrey Dunn’s The Lies of Sarah Palin nor former Palin aide Frank Bailey’s Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin have made it into Amazon’s Top 100, despite every frantic effort of the enemedia.

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Speaking of Sarah… well, actually, I’m getting reluctant to, as I don’t want the HFR or TTP to seem such a cheerleader for her.  The game is the defeat of Zero in 2012 by a conservative with the guts to return us to constitutional government. 

While Palin has the obvious capacity for this, it doesn’t mean there’s no one else.  It could turn out to be Tim Pawlenty, or even Thad McCotter who just hired a very savvy communications specialist (look at his bio) to spearhead his to-be-announced campaign.  It could be Rick Perry, who Monday (5/30) signed into law loser-pays tort reform.

I just want the right person who’ll kick Zero’s butt out of the Oval Office.

That sure isn’t Romney, who licked the boots of Iowa’s corn farmers last Friday (5/27) in pandering support for ethanol subsidies.  That’s more disgusting than even RomneyCare.

Sarah ate Romney’s lunch on this by declaring Tuesday (5/31) that she’s for eliminating all government subsidies for any "renewable energy" scam including ethanol – and cold turkey, not "gradually," as Pawlenty qualified his ethanol stance.

All this week, Palin has driven the enemedia out of their tree by not revealing the stops on her One Nation bus tour, and turning them into paparazzi.  They can’t stand it, for not only does she diss them and refuse to play their game, she is marginalizing them.

Sarah knows what Romney and the rest don’t:  the 2012 campaign is not going to be run by the Old Media, by dead tree newspapers like the New York Times or talking heads on network TV news.  It’ll be run by the Internet blogosphere and sites like Drudge, by social networking like Twitter and Facebook.

Look at it this way.  Palin communicates via Facebook/Twitter, Romney via PowerPoint and scripted staged-for-Old Media speeches. 

The real frosting on this cake, and what really bakes the deal into the cake for me, is how Old Media conservative pundits who represent the Republican Establishment hate and fear Palin as well.  Pompous has-been George Will actually had the indecency to stoop to LBJ’s infamous Daisy ad Sunday (5/29) and sniff that she can’t be trusted with nuclear weapons.  

Palin couldn’t care less about George Will, or Charles Krauthammer, or the whole GOP Establishment.  I don’t know anyone else with the nads to do that, and that’s what we need.  We need someone who can both win the White House and conduct a hostile takeover of the Republican Party at the same time.  Who else but SP?

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Time for a HFR Emergency Alert.  Calling all Texas TTPers!  Immediate action requested!

Here is a Court Order issued by Federal District Court Judge Fred Beiry against a Medina Valley High School in Castroville, Texas (a community west of San Antonio and Lackland Air Force Base.  Specifically, Judge Beiry orders that:

"students, and all other persons scheduled to speak during the graduation ceremony, shall be instructed not to present a prayer, to wit, they shall be instructed that they may not ask audience members to "stand," "join in prayer," or "bow their heads," they may not end their remarks with "amen" or "in [a deity’s name] we pray," and they shall not otherwise deliver a message that would commonly be understood to be a prayer… this injunctive order shall be effective immediately and shall be enforced by incarceration or other sanctions for contempt of Court if not obeyed."

What an opportunity!  This punk judge is begging for these threatened students to shove his fascist order up his nose, to disobey it clearly and repeatedly.  Any kid actually arrested and jailed will be a hero across the entire country.  This would be real Pro-American Civil Disobedience.

Texas TTPers:  if there is any way you can contact families of kids at Medina Valley, or if your kids can contact MV kids directly (Facebook!  Twitter!), do your best to persuade them to disobey the judge.  Ask them to have the courage to stand up for American freedoms, to take a stand against outrageous un-American judicial tyranny. Any and all kids who have this courage will gain the respect and appreciation of millions of Americans. 

And they’ll get more donations to their legal defense fund than they’ll know what to do with. 

Medina High School graduation is tomorrow, June 4^th.  Any contacts you may have must be effected now, today.  You have your assignment.  Good luck!

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At Rendezvous X in Vegas last month, we were privileged to hear from Navy SEAL Capt. Larry Bailey.  As are we all, Larry is deeply concerned about anti-American mis-education in the US schools.  Now Larry has come up with a very clever way to do something about it.

He calls it a Contest for Constitutionalists.  Here’s how it would work.

Under the aegis of a respected conservative institution such as The Federalist Society, and funded by private donations, conduct an annual essay competition – one for high school, one for college – based on how our culture/civilization/technology/economy might have developed had the government not been involved, i.e., had it remained in its constitutional role.

Larry gives these examples:

*What sort of transportation system might we have had transport been left in the private sector?

*What kind of banking system might have evolved had it been an all-private endeavor (with a couple of constitutional exceptions)?

*What kind of medical system might we have had if government had not inserted itself in approving medications and licensing drugs?

*What would we have now if the government had not taken it on itself to regulate the use of alcohol and harmful drugs?  And so on.

Larry believes "this would encourage original libertarian thought among young people like nothing else on the scene."  He’s on to something.  Thanks, Captain Bailey!

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Have you seen these stories on China’s Blue Army waging cyber-warfare against us?

I happen to know a company with the capability of wiping out, down to burning out the routers and requiring the entire replacement of physical systems, the computers of any Chinese hacker, including those within the PLA (Peoples Liberation Army).

The company’s owner is a personal friend.  He is a rock-solid pro-American good guy.  The Pentagon and the intel guys know what he can do – but they won’t greenlight it.  He’s frustrated, he’s furious, and he can’t do a thing until they give him the hacks so he knows what to trace and who to go after.

Are our Pentagon and intel folks such pussies they’re afraid to teach the Chicoms a lesson?  Or are there other plausible explanations?

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Who should be the HFR Hero of the Week?

We mentioned Texas Gov. Rick Perry above.  How about Florida Gov. Rick Scott?  Tuesday (5/31), he signed legislation he championed through the legislature that requires drug testing for any adult applying for welfare.  Anyone who tests positive doesn’t get any moocher money.

Read the linked story, and you’ll laugh your head off at the howls of Dems denouncing the new law.  Just hilarious.

So, kudos to Perry & Scott.  Nonetheless, the Hero of the Week Award goes to Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada.

The past week has been a reminder that it was no historical accident Nazism was invented in Europe.  It wasn’t some special perversion among Germans.  Anti-Semitism is deeply embedded into many European cultures, and is rising to the surface in a number of them today.  Thus Spain announced Monday (5/30) it intends to recognize an independent Palestinian state with the 1967 cease-fires lines as its border. 

Last week, leaders of the G8 –  France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Russia, Japan, Canada, and the US – held a summit meeting in Deauville, France.  At the meeting’s end (5/27), they issued a number of statements – one of which was the leaders’ request for a resumption of "peace negotiations" between Israel and those Arabs who call themselves Palestinian.  

All the leaders were in agreement that their statement include Zero’s demand that Israel return to the 1967 cease-fire lines and give the rest to the Arabs.  All the leaders, that is, except Stephen Harper.  He balked, said he would not sign the statement if it included this demand, and when his European counterparts (Japan stayed out of the argument) tried to bully and browbeat him, he stood his ground.

And so it was in Deauville that the Euroweenies, and Zero, caved to Harper.  The hate-Israel demand was deleted.

Canada has a hero for a leader.  It is so painfully tragic that America has an anti-hero instead.

Earlier this week, you saw Canadian MP (Member of Parliament) Dean Allison’s Canada Is Open For Business.  Dean is a special guy and we’ve become friends.  That’s one reason for this announcement.

For some time now, I, along with a growing number of TTPers, have wanted an International Rendezvous, one outside the US.  It can’t be far away like Europe or South America, much less Asia.  It sure can’t be Mexico! The Caribbean is expensive. Canada seems best.

Julius will be disappointed it’s not Vancouver, for as wonderful as it is, that’s west and we need east this time.

So – Rendezvous XI will be in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada from Friday November 4^th to Sunday November 6^th.  Flights to Buffalo are cheap, and so will hotels at that time of year – which is beautiful in the fall. Dean Allison, whose district or "riding" includes Niagara, will be a featured speaker.

This is a heads up so you can plan for it.  I sure hope to see you there.

What a pun week! The Twit really hit the fan. Wonder what next week will be like…..