HALF-FULL REPORT 01/20/12

Absolutely no doubt who the HFR Hero of the Week is:  Rick Perry, who took a bullet for the team.  He was all set to give an adaptation of a suggested closing statement I wrote for him (appended below) at the South Carolina debate last night (1/19), when he decided that if he continued, the Not Romney vote would remain so split Romney would win.

Now he won’t.  Gingrich will win the SC primary tomorrow (1/21) – despite the Obamamedia trying to take him out with his coyote ugly shrew ex-wife from Hell – thanks to Perry.

That said, there is also absolutely no doubt who the HFR Jerk of the Week is – the schmuck, the phony "social conservative," the corrupt horse’s derriere of the year – who singlehandedly caused Perry to lose the nomination because Perry told him to shove it for soliciting a bribe while Santorum said, "Let’s talk."

We’re talking about Iowa.  By mid-December, Perry had worked his way steadily up in the polls to where he was #2 behind Romney on December 18.  (Note:  the Paul vote was discounted as it was mostly Dems and Indies.)  Predictions were being made by pro psephologists that if Perry came in #2 (or #3 given Paul), he would be the Not Romney everyone wanted who would go on to win South Carolina and the nomination.

Then on December 20, after the board of an influential social conservative group called The Family Leader voted not to endorse any particular candidate, the group’s president, Bob Vaander Platts, personally endorsed Rick Santorum.  The media instantly blared this to the moon:  Vaander Platts Endorses Santorum was the big headline in the New York Times.  It was the lead story on Drudge.

So began the Santorum Surge out of nowhere, which Perry could not overcome.  He was too much of a gentleman to publicly denounce Vaander Platts for soliciting a million dollar bribe in exchange for his endorsement – which ABC News reported he had done with Santorum.  Note how ABC recounts that Santorum told CNN that "What he (Vaander Platts) talked about was he needed money," yet denied he said this to ABC.

Note also ABC, and the media in general, describe Vaander Platts as "a Christian leader."  He has disgraced himself as such. Bob Vaander Platts is a scoundrel who has done enormous damage to his country.

And for what? Santorum was a one-shot wonder in Iowa, knocking out Perry.  He collapsed in New Hampshire, the Texas meeting supporting him turned out be a fraud with charges the vote was rigged, and after losing badly tomorrow he’ll have to drop out.

If Vaander Platts had just kept his corrupt mouth shut, it would be Perry surging against Mittens now.  But he had to get even with Perry for rejecting his bribe attempt.  He deserves our contempt.

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So now we have to make lemonade with the Lemons of Newt.  But you can’t make lemonade without sugar.  Where’s Newt’s sugar?

First, of course, he’s Not Zero.  Then again, so is Romney.  Here’s an example of how much Not Zero he is, nailing a loud mouth Occupier who asks, "What will you do to support the 99 percent seeing as how you are part of the 1 percent?":

Yet Newt is much more Not Zero.  Everyone is salivating over seeing him skin Zero alive rhetorically in a debate.  More importantly, when Zero and his campaign launch the carpet bombing of Newt’s past, you can depend on him to respond by repeatedly and eloquently demanding a full examination of Zero’s past – which as we all know, is unknown.

He’ll avoid the birther thing as that’s radioactive.  But Newt’s demands will be deafening that Zero now release what he has refused to and spent millions on blocking:

His Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passports, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, Illinois State Bar Association records, baptism records and his adoption records.    

None of this is known.  All of it is hidden.  Newt will flush Zero out, showing him up, e.g., as an affirmative action baby with lousy grades, then stick his Communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis and his preacher Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright on him like a ticks on a hound dog.

However, is this jumping the gun?  Here’s what’s likely:

Newt will soundly beat Romney tomorrow, Santorum will drop out and endorse Romney, Newt will then thrash Romney in Florida (1/31), whereupon Romney throws in the towel and Newt’s the nominee.

Yet here’s an alternate scenario that is possible:

Newt and Mitt come out #1 and #2 or vice versa in SC and FL, but no knockouts. Because of their mutual antipathy, they keep slugging it out in a grudge match with neither getting to delegate majority (due to all the proportional primaries) and everyone ending up sick of them both.  That’s a recipe for a brokered convention.

Just to explain the term.  The purpose of a primary is to select a slate of delegates obligated to vote for a particular candidate at the party’s national nominating convention.  In a proportional primary, a candidate gets only the number of delegates proportional to the percentage of votes he got.  In a winner-take-all primary, the candidate with the most votes gets all the delegates.  All Pub primaries prior to April 3^rd (27 states in all) are proportional.

The key is that delegates won by a candidate are obligated to vote for him on the first ballot only.  If no candidate gets a delegate majority (1,144 out of 2,286) on that first ballot, delegates are free to vote for whoever they want – and that situation is called a "brokered" convention, as delegates and candidates are horse-trading all over the convention floor.

It may take several ballots until a delegate majority makes its choice – who could be Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, or someone out of the wild blue yonder as it’s deuces wild.

So – the order of probables right now is: Newt as the nominee, followed by Romney, followed by a brokered convention.  I’d like Door #3.

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Runners-up as Heroes of the Week are all the SOPA/PIPA boycotters such as Wikipedia, with its 24-hour blackout causing 18 Senators to withdraw support for the Protect IP Act, and SOPA’s main sponsor, House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) to postpone a vote on it.  Great news, as SOPA/PIPA is the equivalent of smashing the Gutenberg Press.

Of all these folks, though, the ones we should cheer the most are the hackers of Anonymous.  As punishment for the DOJ and FBI for shutting down a popular file-sharing site called Megaupload and charging its founder for violating piracy laws, they proceeded to shutdown yesterday (1/19) the websites of:

The Justice Dept. and the FBI, RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), Universal Music, and a number of others.   

These guys shut down the FBI website!  It’s back up now – but this is a very sobering lesson for the federalie fascisti not to make any fast fascist moves on the Internet.  Hurray for these guys.  They are conducting their own "personal revolution" against Leviathan.

Another way to look at the SOPA/PIPA imbroglio is that’s it’s a wonderful cat fight between the lefties of Hollywood and the lefties of Silicon Valley, with Zero caught right in the middle. 

Just like the Moguls of Hollywood tried to get the government to protect them from VCRs (remember them?), now they’re trying to get the government to protect their once-more obsolete technology from the Internet.  Because Zero won’t take their side, staying on the sidelines while a number of White House officials are on the Internet side, we get the most thrilling headline of the week:

Hollywood Moguls Stopping Donations to Obama

They are canceling their participation in any Zero fund-raisers, including a major one with the First Angry Black Lady (her Secret Service acronym is now FABLOTUS) in Beverly Hills on January 31^st.  "Not a dime more," they are saying.  How great is that?

The only thing greater would be for Zero to infuriate his other major cash cow – labor unions – as much as Hollywood.  Oh, wait, he did that too this week!

Zero’s cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline on Wednesday (1/18) means the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the construction industry where unemployment is currently at 16%.  The head of the half-million member construction worker union LIUNA (Laborers International Union of North America), Terry O’Sullivan, is only one of a legion of union leaders outraged at Zero’s siding with Luddite eco-freaks over workers:

"The score is Job-Killers, two; American workers, zero. We are completely and totally disappointed. This is politics at its worst. Once again the President has sided with environmentalists instead of blue collar construction workers – even though environmental concerns were more than adequately addressed. Blue collar construction workers across the U.S. will not forget this."

It gets better.  Not only do we now have a war between labor unions and enviros, the Pubs get to side with "jobs and workers" while economists like Bob Samuelson are describing Zero’s rejection of the Keystone Pipeline as "an act of insanity."

Yes, one of the world’s most respected economists in the pages of the Washington Post has called the President of the United States insane.  That should make your week.

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Speaking of oil and gas, take a look at what’s happening in Central Louisiana in this story on Monday (1/16). 

Not only is fracking enabling one single well to produce hundreds of barrels of oil a day (plus lots of wet gas for petrochemical feedstock) – which will expand to hundreds if not thousands of wells producing up to a million barrels a day – but not a single state boundary or federally regulated pipeline has to be laid to get it to market.

Petrochemical plants in Lake Charles, and all along the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans are all within the state.  No federalie approval required.  The same goes for Texas, such as the giant fracking site of Eagle Ford. 

Both Texas and Louisiana are going to be producing enormous amounts of oil and gas, much more than even now. Zero’s fascisti can do little about it and both states have governors determined to keep it that way.  Jobs galore in both.  Something to consider.

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It’s going to continue to get worse for the US economy this year, bright spots like Texas, Louisiana, and North Dakota (Land of the Bakken) aside.  We’ll be exploring how to deal with this at RXII, but one opportunity I and a number of TTPers are already involved in is in Bulgaria.

Our Bulgaria Agriculture Project is being led by Alex Alexiev.  It is in operation, and thanks to Alex and his team we are already one year ahead of where we planned to be when we started last summer.  Bulgaria is the Land Without Famine.  The opportunities are extraordinary – and Alex is positioning us to take outstanding advantage of them.

Alex will be giving us an update on our progress this Sunday – January 22 – at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern time.  You are welcome to join our Land Without Famine Conference Call to learn for yourself.

All you have to do is call 218-339-4600.  When you hear the automated voice, enter 1017673# (you have to add the # symbol, then enter "1" to confirm).  It’s best to call 2 minutes or so early so we can start on time.  Again, that’s this Sunday the 22^nd at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern.

I’ll be on the call, as will my wife Rebel and Joel Wade.  We all can’t wait to hear what Alex has to report.  I hope you’ll join us.

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We’re going to be sailing through rough seas in 2012.  But we’re going to sail through them together. 

Most voters have little awareness of  how rough it’s going to get – which is one reason Perry’s message of 10^th Amendment urgency didn’t register.  People just want to be entertained by debate fireworks. All many seem to care about is "Who can beat Obama?" They give little thought to how a given candidate will actually govern, and whether or not he has the skills and track record for it.

I wish Americans would have had the chance to listen last night to the words below.  These 440 words might have opened eyes and made a difference.  Now they won’t be heard and we’ll never know.  Well – unless there’s a brokered convention!

Suggested closing statement of Gov. Perry for January 19 South Carolina debate 

Newt is a brilliant debater who knows his stuff and is very entertaining to boot.  We all love to imagine him and Obama in a debate – he would wipe the floor with Obama, it would be wonderful to see.

But, folks, this is not about debating skills.  This is about the presidency of the United States, about placing the fate of your country in the hands of a president who has to rescue America from the incredible damage Mr. Obama has done to it. 

It is simply necessary for this new president to have prior executive experience – a solid record of proven successful governing experience – for him not to fail as Mr. Obama has. 

Mr. Obama is an incompetent failure as president not only because he is a Marxist ideologue.  He is an incompetent failure because he had no prior executive experience of any kind whatever, much less successful governing experience.  He had zero, absolute zero.   America literally cannot afford to make such a mistake like that again.

I submit to you that my record of proven successful governing experience leaves everyone else on this stage in the dust.  That’s not a boast.  It is an obvious fact. 

I am the most successful governor in terms of creating jobs and a prospering economy in the country, and I have been for years.  I am currently the longest serving governor in the country -and not of a small or mid-sized state, but the second largest in the nation with the 13^th largest economy in the world.

Think about that.  There are only twelve countries -countries – in the world whose economy is bigger than Texas by itself.  As your president, I will do for South Carolina and every other state in America what I have done for Texas.  No one else on this stage has proven they are capable of doing this.  I have.

Certainly, for example, you would not want Governor Romney to do to America what he did for Massachusetts during his one and only term of office.  You want for America what Texas has enjoyed during my three terms over the last 11 years.

Everyone on this stage is a good and decent person who has America’s best interests at heart.  Any one of us would make a far, far better president than Mr. Obama.  But, folks, that’s a low bar.  ABO – Anybody But Obama – is too low a bar.  Our economy is disintegrating, and quickly.  Only someone with proven successful governing experience and solid conservative governing principles is capable of rescuing it.  I am that someone.  I submit you cannot afford to take a chance on anything less.