HALF-FULL REPORT 06/01/12

Santa Cruz, California.  This HFR will be a bit truncated, as the Seascape Rendezvous begins in just a few hours.  There’s a lot of fun stuff this week, so let’s get started.

The best international news is the impending death of a monster.  It’s from a surprising source – who knew Dan Rather was still functioning?  He’s 80 now and has a news show on a small cable channel called HDNet.  On Wednesday (5/30), he reported that Hugo Chavez was in "the end stage" of metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma.

This is an especially virulent cancer that once it metastasizes (spreads throughout the body) is quickly fatal.  Chavez’s government has been quite secretive about what type of cancer he has, refusing to disclose any details.  If Rather’s source is accurate, Chavez may indeed be dead within a month or two.  And then there will be blood.  Castro will see to that.

Chavez’s oil millions are what keeps Cuba afloat.  If Venezuelan money and oil stops flowing to Cuba, the Castro regime will go belly up.  There are thousands of heavily armed Cuban soldiers and secret police in Venezuela, plus equally armed Chavez militias.  Any attempt by anti-Chavista groups to establish a democratic government will be put down by them with murderous violence.

The military has been thoroughly purged of all officers remotely suspected of not being a Chavista, so any hope that regular armed forces will protect civilians is dim.  The odds are high that Venezuela will implode into bloody anarchic chaos.

Yet that in itself will crimp or shut off the money/oil pipeline to Havana.  Chavism is a one-man band – without him, his successors can’t maintain its fascist control for long.  All those Cuban secret police and Chavista neighborhood watch committee leaders will end up with their throats slit.  As Venezuela regains its freedom, it will be Cuba’s turn to bloodily, anarchically, implode.

All of this will unfold next year.  President Romney better be prepared for it.

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More enjoyable int’l news:  Iran has been Flamed.  On Monday (5/28), the discovery of a massive new computer virus dubbed Flame was announced.  Like Stuxnet only 100 times bigger (20GB vs. 200KB), it targets computers in Iran – and Palestinian Arab computers in Israel’s so-called West Bank.  Flame is not just copying massive amounts of Iranian data, it’s wiping out entire hard drives.

Wonder who could have designed it… that its unidentified programmers did no coding from sundown Fridays to sundown Saturdays in Israel’s time zone might be a clue.

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President Cowpie really stepped in it on Tuesday (5/29).  In announcing the posthumous awarding of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Polish anti-Nazi freedom fighter Jan Karski, he referred to the Nazi death camps in Poland as "Polish Death Camps." 

For Poles, that’s a blood libel, accusing them of holocausting millions of Jews, instead of German Nazis. Auschwitz and Treblinka, for example, were in German-occupied Poland.  All of Poland, from Prime Minister Donald Tusk on down, exploded in outrage.

The Polish government didn’t politely suggest or meekly request an apology – it ordered Zero to apologize.  Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski issued a public statement that said:  "The White House will apologize for this outrageous error… it’s a pity that this important ceremony was upstaged by ignorance and incompetence."

At first, Zero shrugged it off, with one of his flunkies saying he simply "misspoke."  Tusk said no dice. He wanted a formal apology from the President of the United States – and today (6/01), he got it. 

Let this sink in, folks.  A foreign government denounced the American President for his "ignorance and incompetence," demanded a written apology – and Zero backed down and complied. 

No doubt who the HFR Hero of the Week is:  Donald Tusk and the people of Poland.

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Zero’s long list of appropriate titles expanded this week. To President Cowpie, President Evolve, President Fighting On My Behalf, President Pussy Whipped, and Emperor Hussein, we now get to add:  The POT-us.

POTUS (President Of The United States) is the Secret Service acronym for any current Oval Office occupant.  Thus, in honor of "America’s Pothead President," the London Daily Mail now (5/30) refers to him as "The POT-us," in a hilarious story of a Taiwan cartoon animation depicting the recent disclosures of Zero’s being a heavy doper at Punahou School in Hawaii.  

There are plenty of screen shots of the cartoon, but be sure and watch the video at the story’s end. Yet again, more and more, Zero is becoming an object of ridicule.

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When the Grand Master of California Dem politics, Willie Brown, sings B.B. King’s The Thrill Is Gone over Zero, you know The POT-us is in beaucoup deep electoral kimchee.

You don’t get a savvier pol than Willie.  In the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday (5/27), he proclaimed that Zero and his reelection campaign "has lost its mojo."  The grim truth, Willie said, is that:

"Obama was more than a candidate last time out. He was a popular and cultural phenomenon. A rock star. But the trouble with rock stars is that they drop like a rock once fans conclude they are ‘over’."

The curtain is closing on the Nightmare of Zero.  It is far from over yet.  The May jobs report, issued today (6/01) is "a complete and utter disaster for the economy" – and also, it is commented, for Zero’s chances in November.  Romney will have to dig us out of an ever-deepening hole that Zero keeps digging.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will win in a walk next Tuesday (6/05).  Ted Cruz, who spoke at our Rendezvous in DC last November, forced Lt.Gov. David Dewhurst into a runoff this week (5/29).  The WaPo is already saying Ted may be "the next Marco Rubio."  And last night on CNN (5/31), Slick Willie himself lauded Mitt Romney’s "sterling business career," and that there "is no question" Romney is qualified to be president.

We’re going to win this thing, folks.  We have months to go, a long hot summer followed by nasty October Surprises, but we’re going to win.  Which is why you should plan on being at the TTP Victory Rendezvous in Washington DC the weekend after the election, November 9-11.

For now, however, the curtain is closing on this HFR, as the Seascape Rendezvous is about to begin.  I’m looking forward to seeing those of you who are here.  For those who couldn’t make it, I’ll see you at one heck of a TTP celebration in DC.