HALF-FULL REPORT 01/27/12

Here’s a quartet of choices for who should be the HFR Hero of the Week. 

When the week started out, the choice seemed obvious:  an extraordinary athlete with the initials of TT.  Not Tim Tebow, however admirable he is.  It’s the greatest hockey goalie on earth, who enabled the Boston Bruins to win the 2011 Stanley Cup (he was named MVP), Tim Thomas.

Even though the Stanley Cup was held last June, Zero finally got around to inviting hockey’s world champions to the White House last Monday (1/23). Thomas refused to attend, and issued this public statement:

"I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government. Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. This was about a choice I had to make as an INDIVIDUAL. This is the only public statement I will be making on this topic. TT"

Tim Thomas is not only a magnificent athlete, he is a magnificent American.  The HFR is proud to salute him. Here he is – and note the Tea Party logo on the back of his helmet.

Then on Wednesday (1/25), two Republican governors came into Hero contention.  First is Arizona’s with a name all tipplers admire, Jan Drinkwine Brewer (yes, Drinkwine is her maiden name and she married a fellow named Brewer:  how can you beat that?).  You’ve all seen the picture of her telling off Zero on the Phoenix tarmac regarding his attack on Arizona’s attempts to protect its border from illegal invasion:

"He’s very thin-skinned," she told Greta Van Sustern, as he couldn’t handle her criticism of him in her book, and bugged her about it.  People approve of her scolding Zero so much that her book has overnight shot to Top Ten Bestseller status on Amazon: Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border.

Keep rattling Zero’s narcissistic cage, Gov.Brewer!

The night before his tarmac scolding (1/24), Zero delivered his pathetic SOTU speech to a bored Congress.  The GOP response was delivered by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.  This is worth reading entire.

He condemns Zero for thinking he "can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars," and warns that, "In our economic stagnation and indebtedness, we’re only a short distance behind Greece, Spain, and other European countries now facing economic catastrophe."  Then these two money quotes:

"(Republicans) do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves."

"The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy. It must be replaced by a passionate pro-growth approach…"

Daniels’ accusing Zero of being a Pro-Poverty President has traction.  It’s going to soundly resonate with millions impoverished by a president whom they know doesn’t want them to prosper.  Daniels is one of the most successful governors in the country – he’s in Rick Perry’s league in terms of proven successful executive governing experience.  No wonder folks like Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol want him as the Pub nominee instead of Newt Romney.

So who could give TT and these two governors competition this week?  We don’t know their names and never will, just that they are Navy SEALs.  Their story is thoroughly thrilling.

About 1am Wednesday (1/25) morning local time, several members of SEAL Team Six (the same unit that took out OBL) made a HALO (high altitude low opening) parachute jump over Somalia.  Landing about a kilometer from a heavily armed Somali pirate camp near the town of Galkayo, they reached the camp to find the pirates stoned-out asleep after chewing qat (see Dylan in Yemen on qat).

As the SEALs initiated their rescue procedures for the two hostages the pirates were holding, American aid worker Jessica Buchanan, and her Danish colleague Poul Hagen Thisted, the pirates woke up and a firefight ensued.  Result: the hostages freed unharmed, nine pirates dead, five captured, no SEAL wounded.  American heroism doesn’t get better than this.

The Navy SEALs – taking nothing away from Tim Thomas, Jan Brewer, and Mitch Daniels – have to be the HFR Heroes of the week.  I’m quite sure the other three would happily agree.

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Honorable mention should also go to Mitt Romney for standing up to envy-pandering and for capitalism last night (1/26) at the debate in Jacksonville (link is to full transcript).  When Gingrich criticized him for having a Swiss bank account, he said:

"I think it’s important for people to make sure that we don’t castigate individuals who have been successful and try by innuendo to suggest there’s something wrong with being successful and having investments and having a return on those investments.

Speaker, you’ve indicated that somehow I don’t earn that money. I have earned the money that I have. I didn’t inherit it. I take risks. I make investments. Those investments lead to jobs being created in America. I’m proud of being successful. I’m proud of being in the free enterprise system that creates jobs for other people. I’m not going to run from that….

So, look, let’s put behind this idea of attacking me because of my investments or my money, and let’s get Republicans to say, you know what? What you’ve accomplished in your life shouldn’t be seen as a detriment, it should be seen as an asset to help America."

No apologies for earning wealth and success.  Ayn Rand would have approved.

Forget, though, all the punditry you may have been hearing about how good or bad any of the four did in Jacksonville.  If you read the transcript entire, you’ll see that any of them would be astronomically better than Zero.  Gingrich summed things up:

"(We must) pose for the American people a simple choice: Do you want freedom and independence and a paycheck and a job, or do you want dependence and big government and food stamps and a lack of future?

I believe, if we have a big election with truly historic big choices, that we can defeat Barack Obama by a huge margin. But it won’t be by running just as a Republican. It will be an American campaign open to every American who prefers a paycheck to food stamps, who prefers the Declaration of Independence to Saul Alinsky, and who prefers a strong national security to trying to appease our enemies."

What really hurt Newt badly this week was Marco Rubio blasting him for his cheesy attack ad on Romney about immigration. Rubio is revered by Florida Republicans, so it looks like Newton will lose the Florida primary next Tuesday (1/31) to Mittens.

Not just due to Rubio, of course. As Rush pointed out yesterday (1/26), the entire conservative establishment – Drudge, National Review, Fox, Krauthammer, Bob Tyrrell, on and on – launched a coordinated attack on Newt this week to destroy him, and with lies, like Newt was anti-Reagan. 

The irony is excruciating, with the conservative establishment joining forces with its alleged enemy, the K-Street Country Club Republican Establishment, to kill Newt’s campaign and pave the way for a Massachusetts moderate who wants a VAT tax and won’t repeal Obamacare.  Ann Coulter exemplifies this sell-out. 

Yet we should cheer for Romney to beat Gingrich in Florida.  That way, a luta continua as the Renamo guerrillas in Mozambique said, the struggle continues.  Gingrich has casino mogul Sheldon Addelson’s money to keep him going strong in all the proportional primaries until April, denying Romney enough delegates to secure the nomination. 

As Jack Kelly advises, "Since Newt has risen more often than the Undead in a horror movie, the GOP establishment better stock up on garlic, wolfsbane and wooden stakes."  Besides, these two beating each other up to a draw is the path to a brokered convention.

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Another Florida bottom line.  Even though Rick Santorum was really impressive in Jacksonville – he schooled Romney on Romneycare, and took Paul apart on his Blame America First appeasement of Castro – he’ll come in a distant third next Tuesday, and, with no more money or real campaign organization, drop out soon thereafter.

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Jacksonville last night was the 19^th debate between Pub candidates, and it brought to mind the recent Newsweek cover story, Why Are Obama’s Critics So Dumb?, by gender- and integrity-challenged Andrew Sullivan.   For all of them — all the candidates and all the members of the RNC — really have been dumbfoundingly dumb to agree to an endless debate series moderated by enemedia putzes.

It is in fact idiotic of them to agree to this.  Why haven’t we had a debate – much less all the debates – with at least one of the moderators one of our guys, like Rush, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, Mark Steyn, Michael Barone, Charles Krauthammer, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, or Mona Charen?

How much more fantastically informative, interesting, and entertaining would these debates have been if structured this way?  Just asking the question makes you realize how the GOP’s being known as The Stupid Party is so apt.  And that applies to all the candidates, every one.  They all agreed to the enemedia debate schedule. None of them balked and refused to participate unless our guys got to moderate.

Just think of what it would have been like if they had a moderator who wrote this?

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It’s stifling in here.  How about getting out in the world for a quick look-see?

Anyone see anything in common with these two stories?

Moslem Men In The Maldives Demand Women Be Genitally Mutilated

Ultra-Orthodox Men in Israel Violently Attack Woman

Islam is essentially a Jewish heresy.  Some lunatic hears voices in his head, goes to the local Jews and says "God is talking to me and says I’m the Messiah."  The Jews say, "Thank you for sharing."  So he declares himself Messiah anyway, copies a whole bunch of Jewish stuff like don’t eat pork, says the voice in his head is the Arab moon god Al-lah (The Moon), and tells his Arab followers the Jews are evil for not worshipping him.

This catches on when he says heaven is a whorehouse just for his followers, and killing unbelievers – meaning people who won’t worship him – is the way to get there.  But what’s up with the fear of women? 

Why are both Moslem and Jewish fundies so scared of them?  Is it because Moslem fundie men have little zibbs and Jewish fundie men have little schwantzes?  What kind of man is it who is so unconfident of his manhood he is terrified of treating women as human beings?

These "ultra-orthodox"or Haredi Jews are the bane of Israel.  They demand to be subsidized by the government so they don’t have to work for a living and instead spend all their time memorizing the Torah, they’re exempted from military service and never lift a finger to support Israel’s defense, their numbers are exploding because all their women are good for (in their view) is breeding more haredim, and their political parties are so powerful Bibi Netanyahu has to kiss their rings.

And they treat normal Jewish women as unclean, and attack them with violence and disgusting insults.  No Israeli politician of stature has the courage to take the haredim on.  Any supporter of Israel should be concerned.

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In the you-think-you’ve-got-problems department, to put America’s economic/financial woes in context, take a look at Egypt.  The Land of the Pharoahs, and now the Moslem Brotherhood, is facing a disaster of biblical proportions according to "Spengler" – and he’s right.

Anyone with any money is getting it and themselves out of the country.  Starvation is already starting in the remoter villages.  When places that tourists flock to (or used to) like Luxor – Luxor! – have bread shortages, you know the situation is dire.  It’s going to get more so.

Egypt is on the brink of a maelstrom of bloody starving disintegration.  Millions of Egyptians may be about to die.  The largest Arab country in the world, the oldest country in the world, may soon cease to exist.  Our problems are small compared to Egypt, the most screwed country in the world.  So much for the Arab Spring.

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Not that our problems aren’t deep and pervasive.  Put all the hysterical condemnations of Voter ID laws by Dems together with the story yesterday (1/26) that the Zero Justice Dept. is planning to give ACORN $335 million with which to commit voter fraud this November.

Meantime, Zero is raising hundreds of millions from the crony capitalist elite to keep him in power and keep their corruption going.

We are heading towards the crookedest, sleaziest, most corrupt, dishonest, and physically violent election campaign America has ever seen.  Time to gird our loins, and take these scumbags on.  We can’t afford to be depressed, to form circular firing squads aimed at our own.  America is worth fighting for.  Lock and load.