HALF-FULL REPORT 12/21/12

Welcome to the shortest day of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere – or, as it’s also known this year, Moron Day.  Today, anyone with a three-digit IQ gets to make fun of morons and retards – in particular, all the morons who panicked over Mayan Calendar Idiocy, and all the morons to whom TIME Magazine credits for re-electing Zero.

Actually, though, the End of the World didn’t happen today because that already happened on November 6^th.  At least for America.

What ended in America on Nov. 6^th is any adherence to genuine democracy – i.e., fair and honest elections.  On Nov. 6^th, Zero’s America became a "democracy" on a par with Chavez’s Venezuela or Putin’s Russia. 

Massive vote fraud was committed in plain view – 456,000 stolen votes in just four states alone (Florida 74K/29EV, Virginia 149K/13EV, Ohio 166K/18EV, Nevada 67K/6EV) would have given Romney an electoral vote victory of 272 – yet most Americans either don’t care or shrug their shoulders in hopeless resignation.

Just like Russia, just like Venezuela.  On Monday (12/17), the Electoral College (electors meeting in the 50 state capitols) convened to confirm Zero’s fraud.  No one paid any attention.  So far from a bang of protest, nary even a whimper could be heard through the land – just lights out on American democracy.

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At least there are some House Pubs who aren’t whimpering.  Yesterday, 13 of them pushed Speaker Boehner’s Plan B off a cliff.  This turned even the folks at Fox into Nervous Nellies, blaring Fiscal Crisis Nears As Plan B Fails.  This is a real two-fer. 

First, the quicker we go over this dreaded "fiscal cliff" thing, the better.  No more kicking the can down the road.  Thanks to Congress’ lunatic profligacy (under Bush & Zero), there’s no way to avoid Fiscal Armageddon – not just an eensie little cliff – but going over the falls now might sober up enough folks to better prepare for it.

Second, this vote damages Boehner’s speakership hopefully beyond repair.  All it takes is 17 of the 234 House Pubs to Just Say No to Boehner on January 3^rd, and he’s out.  That assumes that all 200 Dems will vote for Pelosi and none for Boehner – for if he needs Dem votes to be elected Speaker, the revolt against him will be uncontrollable.

John Boehner is a nice, amicable, and competent guy.  But he’s the wrong guy now to be in charge of the only chance we have for fiscal sanity and reigning in Emperor Zero.  There’s a scene in Godfather I that every House Pub should be thinking of now.

Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) has been Consiglieri (chief advisor/confidante) to Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) for years, but now the Don has turned running the family over to his son Michael (Al Pacino), who wants Hagen replaced:

Tom Hagen:  "Mike, why am I out?"

Michael Corleone: "You’re not a wartime Consiglieri, Tom. Things may get rough with the moves we’re trying… You’re out, Tom."

With Boehner, a Republican cave on raising the debt ceiling and endless deficit spending is guaranteed.  With a new Speaker – say, Jim Jordan of Ohio, who’s the leading critic of raising the debt ceiling, or Tom Price of Georgia – we’d have a chance of stiffening Pub spines enough to say No to Zero.

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We know who would have made a great Speaker to replace Boehner but for sure won’t be.  Tim Scott of South Carolina.  Thanks to Gov. Nikki Haley, on January 3^rd he won’t be sworn in as a Congressman but as a Senator.  The irony is excruciating. 

South Carolina is Deepest South, and had been run by a good ole’ boy corrupt GOP establishment clique for years.  For 48 years (1954-2002), the great champion of segregation and Jim Crow laws, Strom Thurmond, was its Senator.  Nimrata Randhawa is the daughter of Sikh immigrants from India’s Punjab.  With her nickname of Nikki, and marriage to Michael Haley, she became Nikki Haley.

She went straight up against the old boy network, who fought her tooth & nail to become in 2010 South Carolina’s first woman governor, the US’ only female Indian-American governor, and the youngest governor in America (she’s 40).

Tim Scott grew up in poverty yet went to college, then started his own successful insurance company.  In 2010, he was elected to Congress – defeating the son of Strom Thurmond, 68-32%.  Tim is black – and you won’t find a more solid Sarah Palin common-sense-conservative.  That’s why Sarah endorsed him, just as she did with Nikki Haley.

On Monday (12/17), Gov. Nikki Haley announced she was appointing Rep. Tim Scott to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, stepping down to be president of the Heritage Foundation. As the IBD exclaims, Great Scott!

Congratulations to two great Americans from South Carolina.

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By the way, whenever will Mexican Nazis be called racists?  Fox disclosed this week (12/17) that the school district of Salinas, California intends to name an elementary school after a murderous 19^th century Mexican bandit, Tiburcio Vasquez.  This is straight out Orwellian Marxist racism, another attempt to portray a murdering thug as an anti-white, anti-America hero like Che Guevara.

So I have a suggestion for TTPers.  That you email or call the hate-America racist responsible for this, John Ramirez, Superintendent of the Alisal Union School District, and politely ask that he stop making his school infamous and an object of ridicule – and instead, name this school after a true 19^th century Mexican-American hero and patriot. 

That would be Romualdo Pacheco (1831-1899) – the first and to this day only Hispanic governor of California.  He had an extraordinary career as you can read in the link – being, just for example, one of the first politicians in California to denounce slavery, and the only California Governor to have roped a grizzly bear.  Not even Ronald Reagan can claim that!

Strangely, not a single California school has yet been named after him – although the Governor Romualdo Pacheco Elementary School in Indio (near Palm Springs) is scheduled to open next year.

The Salinas Peace Officer Association has condemned Ramirez’s honoring a murdering bandit, while the Monterey County Deputy Sherriff Association has expressed "extreme disappointment."  You could contact them as well with the suggestion of Gov. Pacheco.

So Superintendent Ramirez, by making his decision immediate, could be the first to honor California’s only Mexican-American governor – and be praised instead of denounced and laughed at.

There is however an important connection between Gov. Pacheco and the bandit Vasquez.  When Vasquez was finally captured and found guilty of murder by trial jury in January, 1875, he was sentenced to death by hanging.  In early March, he appealed to the state’s new governor, who had just taken office on February 27, for clemency.  The appeal was denied, and on March 19, 1875, Vasquez was hung.  The governor who denied the appeal was Romualdo Pacheco.

Ps:  the story of Mexican Nazis is told in TTP, May 2005.

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OK – we have two candidates for HFR Hero of the Week.  One of them is French.  Actually, the very symbol of France, the quintessence of Frenchness, idolized by many millions of his compatriots.  And he’s renounced his French citizenship, turned in his French passport, moved to Belgium, and told the French government to go to l’enfer. 

He’s Gerard Depardieu, France’s most revered actor, who is rebelling at being called one of the "greedy rich" by his socialist government, and has moved his residency to Belgium.  When the French Prime Minister called him "pathetic," he turned in his passport. It is in protest over the Socialist government’s new confiscatory tax rate of 75% on the "greedy rich."

In renouncing his citizenship, he said he refuses to be loyal to a government that believes "success, creativity, and talent should be punished."  The reaction among his former countrymen?  Depardieu is a hero for rebelling.

Now, where in Hollywood is there a major film star who will do the same to Zero?  And where in Washington or any state capitol is there a politician willing to condemn "greedy government" instead of the greedy rich?

Well, you might find one in Columbia.

Not the country (that’s Colombia), but the capital.  Yes, we’re back in the Palmetto State, as South Carolina has yet another hero to focus on this week.  He’s a farmer from Spartanburg named Bill Chumley.  He’s also a member of the state legislature.

In that latter capacity, he along with several of co-sponsors is the chief sponsor of a bill entitled The South Carolina Health Care Freedom Protection Act.  Better sit down when you read the bill text, as it will blow your mind.  First, try these two "Whereas" clauses on:

Whereas, Article I, Section 1 of the United States Constitution provides in pertinent part that "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States"; and 

Whereas, the judicial decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" directly contravenes Article I, Section 1 of the United States Constitution because, in upholding the law by re-characterizing the Act as a tax even though Congress specifically refused to identify it as a tax, the United States Supreme Court legislated new law in violation of Article I, Section 1 of the United States Constitution;

Then move on to these two sections of the legislation itself:

The General Assembly declares that the federal law known as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, is not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and violates its true meaning and intent as given by the Founders and Ratifiers, and is invalid in this State, is not recognized by this State, is specifically rejected by this State, and is null and void and of no effect in this State.

An official, agent, or employee of the United States government or an employee of a corporation providing services to the United States government who enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule, or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this article is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

In other words, Chumley’s bill would not only nullify Obamacare and the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Obamacare, it would arrest and imprison any federal (or state) official attempting to enforce it in South Carolina.  That’s cojones!  Big time.

America needs more Bill Chumleys!  So we’ll let Depardieu be a "heroic exile" to his own people.  No doubt – Bill Chumley is the HFR Hero of the Week.

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We close this HFR with a message of Christmas joy.  For, as Jack Kelly says, "There is no happier day."

If you’d like to take a break from the hecticness of the coming days, and if you’ve ever wondered what a Christmas carol about partridges in a pear tree and eight maids a-milking have to do with the birth of the founder of Christianity, you’ll enjoy The Twelve Days of Christmas. 

Christmas is the day to honor the true meaning and origin of Christianity.  It is the day to honor our loved ones with gratitude.  It is the day of squealing delight of little children when we give them presents from Santa.  And it is a day that expresses one of humanity’s most profoundly admirable abilities.

Christmas originated in the Northern Hemisphere where it is winter in late December.  It is dark, the hours of sunlight are few.  It is freezing cold, the skies are gray and gloomy, there can be blizzards and snow and ice. All the leaves are gone, nature is hibernating.  It is the lousiest time of year.  Yet we humans choose to make this a time of glorious joy, a magical time of love and celebration.

How extraordinary.  How extraordinarily admirable that we have this capacity to do such a thing.  Christmas is, then, the most appropriate time to reflect upon and be grateful for the goodness that Providence has bestowed upon the human soul.

Merry Christmas to you all.