HALF-FULL REPORT 09/02/11

These are the Dog Days of the Democrats.  From the time of the Ancient Greeks, the end of summer has been known as the "dog days," when the heat and humidity caused "the seas to boil, wine to turn sour, dogs to go mad, and men subject to burning fevers, hysterics, and frenzies."

(The origin of the term:  The Greeks called the brightest star in the sky Seiros – the searing, the scorcher – Latinized now to Sirius.  2,500 years ago, it rose at sunrise in late summer – which it no longer does due to the earth’s axial wobble causing equinox/zodiacal precession. 

(Sirius is the main star in a constellation the Greeks called Kyon and the Romans Canis, the Dog, named after the magical dog Laelaps that Zeus gave to Europa.  Laelaps would always catch its quarry, so Europa had it hunt the magic fox of Teumessa which could never be caught.  Zeus then placed Laelaps in Canis Major, big dog, and the Teumessan fox in Canis Minor, little dog, so the chase would continue unresolved for eternity.)

The lectionary (calendar of when certain scriptures are to be read) of the 1611 King James Bible states that the Dog Days begin on July 6 and end on September 5.  But for the Dems, their Dog Days have just begun and won’t be over for a long, long time to come.

Everywhere you look now, you see Dem heads exploding in rage and frustration.  Here’s a sample of hilarious news headlines just over the last 48 hours:

People Are Sick And Tired of Washington Says the White House
Perry Supports Slavery Amendment Says Jesse Jackson Jr
Tea Party Wants To See Black People ‘Hanging On A Tree’ Says Andre Carson
Speaker Boehner Should Resign For His Insult To The President
Opposition To Obama Based On Skin Color
The President Should Tax Gangsta Banks Out Of Business Says Maxine Waters

Maxine – or "Marxine" as she’s called on the Hill – knows all about "gangsta banks."  She and her crook husband and crook grandson run one:  OneUnited Bank of Los Angeles.

She and her colleagues like Jackson Jr and Carson are proof that the biggest racists in America are black Dem Congresscritters, the voters who elect them, and the journalists who support them (try this for an example of the latter).

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Here’s the Dem Dog Days headline of the week:  Obama Caves to Boehner.  So – the derided weepy wimp from flyover Ohio rolls the smartest man in the room.  The Dems can’t stand this – Boehner of all people turns the Won into a Wuss?  Boehner pins Barack the Bozo to the mat?  And the frosting is that Boehner made it look easy – calm, cool, never broke a sweat.

Hey, JB!  You’re the HFR Hero of the Week!

And I bet you’re all just so excited to watch Zero’s phony campaign speech with a Joint Session of Congress as a campaign prop, right?  This speech next Thursday (9/08) is going to be a dog.  A bromide-laced dog’s breakfast of stale rehash – which, of course, nobody is going to watch. 

Everybody’s going to be watching the pre-game show just prior to the Packers-Saints.  Including a number of senators like Jim DeMint, who has asked the White House to send over a printed copy of Zero’s job proposals instead. 

The classic irony here is that Zero is being Alinsky-ized.  Zero’s mentor, Saul Alinsky, preached the politics of personal destruction, and that one of the very best ways to achieve it was through ridicule. 

Alinsky’s 5^th rule in Rules for Radicals is:  "Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage."

Zero is turning himself into a object of ridicule.  He is Alinsky-izing himself.  This is true karma. 

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This is going to get ugly now.  Actually ugly.

In 1960, British writer Leslie Poles Hartley wrote a 1984-type dystopian novel that ridiculed socialism with a reductio.  Socialism, Hartley saw correctly, is an attempt to eradicate envy – and always fails to do so, for no matter how many provocations to envy are eliminated, people will always find others. 

So Hartley described a future socialist society in which no one was allowed to be better looking, more handsome or beautiful, than average.  If you were, your face had to be surgically uglified.  This policy, which provides the title of Hartley’s book, was called Facial Justice.

A reductio ad absurdam is demonstrating the fallaciousness of an argument – in this case, that for socialism – by assuming it to be true then reducing it to an absurdity.  Yet nothing is so absurd to lefties that they won’t advocate it.

So here we have a leftie professor this week (8/28) in – where else? – the New York Times demanding facial justice.  To rectify the "injustice" of being ugly, he demands "legal protections to the ugly, as we do with racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and handicapped individuals."

His remedy is to add ugliness to the list of protections in the Disabilities Act.  I am not making this up.  His argument is refuted of course by the fact that ugly people routinely achieve success in our country.  The ugliest woman in America, for example, is now the First Lady and lives in the White House when she is not enjoying luxury vacations.

The fascism of the left does indeed have no bounds.  The Disabilities Act has already reached unimaginable depths of fascist absurdity, when we learned this week (8/30) it is being used by the Feds to tell a trucking company it cannot fire alcoholic drivers.  Alcohol abuse is a protected disability.

If Rick Perry has the moxie to call Social Security a Ponzi scheme, surely he can call the Disabilities Act an unconstitutional fascist absurdity. 

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Perry was in Iowa last weekend (8/27), where he not only said Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, it’s a "monstrous lie".  Then he touched, at least by clear implication, the real Third Rail of Iowa politics – the sacred right of corn farmers to sponge off taxpayers with ethanol subsidies.

They were outraged when Perry refused to support the subsidies, saying instead that "The federal government doesn’t need to pick winners and losers."  Farmers like Tim Burrack were so mad that he said he’d vote for Zero over Perry – "and I’m a staunch conservative," he claimed.

No, Mr. Burrack, you’re a staunch whore who would sell out your country for a mess of subsidized pottage.  Mr. Perry should wear his scorn as a badge of honor.

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I won’t keep you any longer.  It’s Labor Day Weekend and you’re supposed to be out there having fun.  To add to your fun, consider ordering the We Shall Never Forget 9/11 Coloring Book.

It’s got the sharia jihadis all in an undie twist because it has the inexcusable effrontery to actually identify the 19 terrorists who committed 9/11 as Moslems.  It’s got the libs spasming because coloring in the cartoons "lets kids kill Bin Laden."  I know you’ll want one for every kid you know.

Enjoy your Labor Day!  And enjoy watching Dem heads continue to explode during their never-ending Dog Days……