HALF-FULL REPORT 04/27/12

Let’s start the week with two inspiring antidotes to black racism.  You are likely as sick and tired of black racist guilt-mongering, grievance, threats, and violence as I am. 

All the Twitter threats of riots if George Zimmerman is acquitted.  The "Justice for Trayvon!" beating of Matthew Owens in Mobile.  The "Empty your pockets, white boy" beating in Chicago.  The  group "Trayvon!" beating that will "permanently disfigure" the victim’s face, and the mob "Trayvon!" stomping of a man stopping a robbery, both in Gainsville.

I keep waiting for these racists to get gunned down by folks who’re packing with concealed carry permits.  That would make my day. Peace through superior firepower. Perhaps we need to come to grips with the reality that "Black grievance will never end," as Selywn Duke argues.  Perhaps you should have "The Talk: Nonblack Version" that John Derbyshire suggests, and which got The Derb into trouble.

Is there a solution?  Here’s one:

Actually, a real one emerged this week.  Maybe two.

The Mayor of Saratoga Springs, near Salt Lake City in Utah, is one of the most successful small town mayors in America. She is a lady with the memorable name of Mia Love.  Last Saturday (4/21), she became the Republican candidate for Utah’s 4^th Congressional District by winning 70% of delegate votes in the nominating convention.  She did so with a speech that will blow you away as much as it did the delegates:

 
I must confess, her speech brought tears to my eyes.  Her parents immigrated from Haiti, legally and with $10 in their pockets.  They raised her well, so grateful to be American.  She is pro-life and pro-gun, advocates the elimination of entire federal departments such as Education and Energy, and has as her basic political principles, "fiscal discipline, limited government, and personal responsibility."

She promises to join the Congressional Black Caucus when elected, and "tear its demagoguery apart from the inside out."  When she wins in November (and she will), she’ll be the first black Republican Congresswoman ever.  Then again, she may have company.

Try this résumé on:  Miss America 2003.  Phi Beta Kappa graduate, University of Illinois.  Graduate, Harvard Law School 2007.  Practicing attorney with a prominent Chicago law firm.  Devout Christian, public advocate of Christian family values, pro-life, pro-gun, firmly believes in "the principles of fiscal conservatism and free-market economics."

She is Erika Harold, and the odds are high that she’ll join Mia Love in Congress this November.  She’s from Urbana, the main town in Illinois’ 13^th Congressional District (the old 15^th before recent redistricting) represented by Republican Tim Johnson since 2001 who is now retiring.  On Monday (4/23), she announced she may run.  Stories about her instantly exploded all over the internet – Google "Erika Harold Congress" and you’ll get over 100,000 hits.  She’ll win in a walk.

Mia Love and Erika Harold are antidotes to the poison of black racism.  They are going to inspire Americans of all ethnicities to abandon resentment and victimization, and embrace personal responsibility instead.  They will do so from the pulpit of Congress.  You couldn’t find two better reasons than them to be hopeful rather than hopeless regarding America’s future.

Erika Harold is an Associate at BurkeLaw in Chicago. You can encourage her to run for Congress by contacting her there at [email protected].

Mia Love’s campaign website is love4utah.  Please consider supporting her quest for Congress.

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As you know, Romney was far from my pick of the primary litter for president.  This week he clinched the nomination with landslide wins in five primaries.  On Tuesday evening (4/24), he gave a victory speech in New Hampshire that floored me it was so good.  Although it’s almost 15 minutes long, it’s really worth watching:

Or, at least read the full text.  I’d give you some key quotes, but frankly, there are just too many.  This speech is a ten-strike.  Now if only Rick Perry, who endorsed Romney on Wednesday (4/25), could convince him to make advocating the 10^th Amendment a major campaign theme.

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Then again, Perry might find it an easy sale.  At a closed-door fundraiser last week (4/15), Romney said he planned to "eliminate" a number of federal departments and agencies, specifically as an example Housing & Urban Development.  Forbes thinks this is a great idea: "Romney Is Right:  Abolish HUD."

The lefties at The Daily Beast, however, are in a tizzy of fear, asking "Can HUD Survive A Romney Administration?"  To which the appropriate answer is, Let’s hope not!

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You also need to see the Romney Campaign’s Memo issued today (4/27):  An Incumbent With No Rational For Candidacy. Here’s an excerpt:

"The Obama campaign is like one of those gyrating, intermittent lawn sprinklers, spewing out attacks in seemingly random directions, hoping to get somebody wet somewhere but hoping even more to talk about anything but the unemployment rate, federal debt, gas prices, or rising health insurance premiums."

Jack Kelly urges you to read it entire, for it’s "a thing of beauty."  He’s right.
 
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Time for the Laugh of the Week.  That would be Zero.  In Denmark, there is a popular television news show called Detektor, hosted by Thomas Buch-Andersen. Here is what he has to say about our president:

Now, that’s funny… So, is this funny or sobering?  It’s acknowledged that the current occupant of the Oval Office is a narcissist of the highest order.  "Narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, low empathy, and entitlement," say psychologists, and Zero has all three in spades.

Recently, a group of clinical researchers published a study in a peer-reviewed journal, Expensive Egos: Narcissistic Males Have Higher Cortisol.

Cortisol is the "stress hormone," elevated levels of which increase the risk of heart disease and stroke by 500%.  Stress Hormone Predicts Heart Death is how medical researchers put it.

Putting these two studies together equals a pessimistic prognosis for the Punahou Kid.

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Here’s something that’s not funny at all.

Argentina is run by a fascist bitch named Cristina Kirchner Fernandez.  In October of 2008, her government was out of all the money she spent on dependency programs for her supporters.  Her solution was to seize all private pensions.  That amounted to $30 billion.

The next month, Zero was elected, and folks began wondering if what his Argentine political soul-mate had done would give him ideas.  Wonder no more.  On Saturday (4/21), the New York Post confirmed that Zero and the Dems are firmly fixing their greedy gaze upon the $18 trillion Americans have saved up in their 401(k)s. 

This has prompted a reworking of Stephen Foster’s 1849 classic, Camptown Races:

Pension seizure’s coming to town, doo-dah, doo-dah
Pension seizure’s coming to town, all the live-long day
Gwine to steal all night, gwine to steal all day
I’ll bet my money on my Glock 38, don’t nobody bet on the thieves

It’s Romney in November, or it’s lock and load…..

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Will somebody write these guys and ask, what’s up with the wimpy half-measures?  Congressmen call for EPA official’s head over ‘Crucify’ comments is the big headline.  The problem is not this one little schmuck, who’ll be scapegoated so the EPA can then get on with its fascism.  If these Congressistas had any cojones, they’d call for the elimination of the entire EPA.  Someone needs to tell them that.

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You gotta love Spirit Airlines.  You can’t beat their fares, and you can’t beat their sense of humor.

As they fly from Miami to Cartagena, Colombia, site of the Secret Service Prostitution Scandal, they simply couldn’t resist a flight promotion that declared More Bang For Your Buck – Upfront Payment Is Required.  They had to pull it at the request of the Bogota government.

During the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal last year, Spirit ran a promotion called "The Weiner Sale, With Fares Too Hard to Resist."  Then there was the Many Islands Low Fares promo to the Caribbean (note the acronym), and the Many Unbelievably Fantastic Fares to, ah, diving spots in the Caribbean (acronym alert again).

The Spirit folks have to be conservatives, since Jay Leno explained to David Gregory on Meet The Press Sunday (4/22) that Republicans have a better sense of humor than Democrats.

This is in line with the finding of Pew Research, released on Sunday (4/22), that "Republicans More Open-Minded, Better Informed Than Democrats."  You can take Pew’s NewsIQ Test yourself and see.

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Let’s close this HFR by celebrating the on-going flame-out of Campaign Zero.  The New York Times headlines, "Obama Sees Steep Dropoff In Cash From Major Donors."  The Huff Post reports "Younger Voters Shift From Obama".  Commentary describes how "Obama’s Recovery About To Disappear."

It’s not going to be long until we kiss these last four ghastly years goodbye.

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Ps:  Just one month to go until RXII, the Seascape Rendezvous in Santa Cruz, June 1^st-3^rd.  I promise there will be at least one bombshell revelation on America’s future, and I’m working on more.  You have to call Miko now – 703-992-4529 – so you can be with us.  No more hesitating.  Be sure you’ll be there!