HALF-FULL REPORT 07/20/12

We might as well start right out enjoying ourselves with the funniest headline in world news this week.  From New Zealand, we learn that Traffic Signs Are Being Destroyed by Prostitutes.

Seems the working ladies use the signs for street pole dancing to advertise, and some of them are "big, strong women."  Since the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act in 2003, all forms of hookerism – from brothels to street solicitation – are legal in Kiwiland.  There’s even a hooker’s union: the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) with its own website: nzpc.org.

New Zealand is ranked by Transparency International as the least corrupt country on earth (#1 on the Corruption Perceptions Index – the US is #24).  The Heritage Foundation ranks New Zealand as one of only five Free countries in the world in its Index of Economic Freedom (the US is #10 in the Mostly Free category).  In the List of Freedom Indices, compiling rankings on political, economic, and press freedom, only two countries receive the highest freedom ranking in all categories:  Switzerland and New Zealand.

So now we have yet another reason to like the place.

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More enjoyable news.  Secretary of State Pantsuit went to Egypt on Sunday (7/15) to talk with the Moslem crazies who now run the country.  Egyptians greeted her warmly – by throwing tomatoes and shoes (the latter being a gesture of utter contempt) at her motorcade in Alexandra.  Even more insulting was the crowd taunting her with shouts "Monica! Monica!" 

The very next day (Monday, 7/16) in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Brett Stephens exploded The Hillary Myth.  "Can anyone name an achievement to justify the adulation of our secretary of state?" he asks. 

It’s a rhetorical question, because no one can honestly can.  Everywhere she’s been a failure, from China to Russia to Syria to Iran to, obviously, Egypt.  Rather than respected, she is, as my friend Robert Agostinelli puts it, "an international joke."

"The notion," Robert says. "that she is Presidential or a viable candidate in 2016 betrays the reality of an also-ran plow horse who is better off following her equally incompetent Democrat predecessor Madeleine Albright and slowly meandering off to pasture."

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In Damascus, Syria on Wednesday (7/18), a bomb exploded in the National Security Building during a meeting of Bashar al-Assad’s "Crisis Cell" inner circle.  It was set off by one of the building’s bodyguards (not a suicide as previously reported) covertly working for the rebel Free Syrian Army.

Killed were Syria’s Defense Minister Daoud Rajha, Chief of Intelligence Hisham Bekhtyar, Army General Hassan Turkmani, and best of all, Bashar’s brother-in-law Secret Police Chief Assef Shawkat.

Old timer TTPers may recall the name. I explained who Shawkat was 7½ years ago (February 2005) in Can Porter Turn Syria Orange? (Porter was prevented from doing so by the CIA’s Rogue Weasels, but that’s another story).  He ran the Mukharabat secret police with tens of thousands of agents terrorizing the Syrian people.  That 2005 article contains this paragraph:

"In 2002, Saddam Hussein paid Shawkat and his wife Bushra several million dollars to hide the WMD technology everyone knew he had. That’s why they’ve never been found – because they’re in Syria, including chemical and biological samples, plus the tools to mass produce the toxins."

All of a sudden this week, there’s a rash of stories worrying about Syria’s chem-bio weapons, such as Israel Considers Strike at Syria’s Chemical Weapons.  Yesterday (7/19), the IBD explained they came from Saddam’s Iraq.  TTPers have known that for over seven years.

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The deaths of Assad’s inner circle is the death knell of his regime.  Russia’s Pooty-poot loses big time, as do the Chicoms, as does Iran and the Hezbollah terrorists it sponsors in Lebanon.  The big question now is, will Israel take advantage of the opportunity?

Israel has been thus far too afraid to intervene, however covertly, in Syria, for fear of getting a worse devil they don’t know (Islamists) for the devil they do (Assad).  So now they have to scramble quickly because Assad is toast.  The situation will move from chaotic to anarchic as the regime collapses, and they move fast to shape the outcome in their interests.  Here are a few examples of what they might do:

*With Hezbollah in turmoil as Assad can no longer be their conduit for weapons and money from Iran, start bumping off every Hezbollah leader possible.  This needs to be done anyway as payback for the Burgas suicide bombing.

*Buy off every Syrian rebel leader than can be bought.  Insure they stay bought by quickly liquidating anyone who doesn’t stay bought.

*Befriend the Kurds.  There are up to three million Syrian Kurds, with large populations in Aleppo and Damascus, and a Syrian Kurdistan in the Qamishli region of northeast Syria bordering Turkey and Iraq.  Make sure they are organized with their own peshmerga armed militia as in Iraqi Kurdistan. Promise them autonomy similar to what the Kurds have in Iraq. See Kurdnas – the Kurdish National Assembly of Syria.

*Befriend the Christians.  Over 10% of the population or 2.5 million are Christian.  Their protection must be assured.  See Syrian Christians for Democracy.

*Do what is necessary for the new government to grant Syrian citizenship to the 400,000 Palestinian Arabs held hostage in permanent "refugee" status for generations.  They are Syrians, no longer Palestinians waiting for the "right of return" to Israel.

*And of course, do what is necessary to prevent being caught in a vise between a Moslem Brotherhood-run Egypt and a Moslem Brotherhood-run Syria.                                                                                         

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OK, let’s come home.  This has been a good week for America.  Good enough to start awarding HFR Hurrahs.

The first is Hurrah for Senator Jim DeMint for killing the Law of the Sea Treaty.  This turkey is belly up. 

The second is Hurrah for fracking.  Besides being the salvation of America’s economy, it’s driving the Greenies up their trees.  Fracked natural gas is causing a massive drop in CO2 emissions, obliterating the Greenie argument that Big Oil & Gas is destroying the environment and humanity via man-made CO2 caused glowarming.

Third and biggest is Hurrah for the Boy Scouts for maintaining their ban on pederasty.  Finally, a major organization in America that has the guts to stand up for what they believe no matter how hysterical liberal anger is directed at them.  God Bless the Boy Scouts!

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From Hurrahs to the HFR Hero of the Week.  We have three contenders.  We report, you decide.  In random order, they are:

*Dan Cathy, President/CEO, Chick-fil-A.  On July 2, he gave an interview to the Biblical Recorder regarding his Christian values. Here is an excerpt:

Some have opposed the company’s support of the traditional family. "Well, guilty as charged," said Cathy when asked about this opposition.
 
"We are very much supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.  We operate as a family business … our restaurants are typically led by families – some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that," Cathy emphasized.

When the BM lib press got ahold of this, there was an explosion of rage.  Chick-fil-A President Opposes Gay Marriage the Atlanta Constitution blared in outrage.  Note that the words "gay," "homosexual," or "same-sex" nowhere appear in the Cathy interview.  Yet the entire media machine of Homosexual Fascism has descended upon this decent Christian man.

Fortunately, Cathy is standing his ground.  Me, like millions of others, I’m going to be eating a lot more at Chick-fil-A.

*Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Cold Case Posse of Maricopa County. On Tuesday (7/17), Arpaio’s investigators offered definitive proof that Zero’s birth certificate – the long form provided by the White House in April 2011 – is a computer-generated forgery.

Jeff Kuhner at the Washtimes is claiming this is a "bigger scandal than Watergate."  Maybe.  But he’s assuming that Zero is covering up something that would make him constitutionally ineligible for president.  It could be he’s hiding something embarrassing, like the Commie, Frank Marshall Davis, knocked up his mother, not Obama, Sr. The irony in this is that Davis was fully American so Zero would be fully eligible.

Who knows?  What we do know is that a forged BC is a felony committed by Zero, and that Sheriff Joe is a hero with brass cojones.  Thanks, Joe.

*Samuel Williams, poster senior citizen for concealed carry.  At about 10pm last Friday (7/13), 71-year old Sam Williams and his wife were at the Palms Internet Café in Ocala, Florida.  Suddenly, two masked and hooded thugs burst in, one brandishing a gun, the other a baseball bat.  Watch the video as Sam pulls out his concealed handgun (a .380 semi-auto) – for which he has a permit – and guns the two thugs down.

Thank heavens a surveillance camera caught the scene (from three angles) – or else Sam might be condemned as a racist and prosecuted for attempted murder like George Zimmerman.   

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We end with the week’s best news – that would be Mitt Romney going lex talionis.  

We’ve been waiting, praying, dying for this, folks.  In 2008, little Johnny McPain, the great war hero, was a total limp-wristed wimp out wuss who didn’t have the gonads to kick Zero in his.  All of us have been begging for Romney not to be the same.  This week we saw he’s not.

Romney Campaign Decides to Take the Gloves Off is the headline on Buzzfeed (7/18).  Romney Lays the Wood to Obama, is Powerline’s (7/18).  Romney Hits His Stride as Obama’s Options Dwindle, is the Boston Herald’s (7/20).

Lex talionis it is:  an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, call me a liar and a felon, Zero, and I’m going to rip your guts out.  Want my tax returns for the last umpteen years?  Where the heck are your college transcripts, you C-average affirmative action fraud.  That’s what’s coming.

This is great timing, just when it turns out that the latest CBS/NYTimes poll on Wednesday (7/18) shows for the first time (Zero has always been ahead before) a Romney-Zero dead heat – after Zero has spent $100 million over the last several months in attack ads savaging, insulting, and demeaning Romney.  That’s $100 million down the drain, blown, gone with the wind, with nothing to show for it.

Maybe summer will be fun after all.  Meantime, have a great summer weekend, y’all.