HALF-FULL REPORT 12/28/12

Happy New Year! 

As 2012 staggers off today’s stage and into history as the most bewildering year of modern times, and 2013 will be fascism on steroids for America, how is it possible for conservatives to wish their friends a happy new year?

It’s not going to be easy, but this final HFR of 2012 will show you how.

The first step in solving problems is not to sugarcoat the problems.  We can play the Glad Game of Pollyanna Whittier, and look for something to be happy about in any situation – but that runs the risk of ending up like the guys in Monty Python’s Life Of Brian singing, "Always look on the bright side of life" while being crucified.

It’s little wonder there’s a headline story this week (12/26), Public Turns Gloomy, Fearful As 2013 Approaches.  That part of "the public" who were idiots enough to vote for Zero will stay gloomy and fearful, as they won’t own up to their responsibility of being the cause of what they are gloomy and fearful about.

But we don’t have to be gloomy and fearful, and that gives us a distinct advantage over those who are.  Being gloomy and fearful doesn’t solve anything.  Most often, it makes things far worse.  The last thing we should fall for is fear-mongering – and be especially wary of it when it comes from our side. 

Take, for example, this article from yesterday’s Canada Free Press, December 27, 2012: The Day Freedom Died in America.  This is seriously dumb.  Because some ditzy Dem senator says she’s going to drop a bill that has no chance of going anywhere in either the Senate or the House, it’s The End?  Nonsense.

DiFi’s bill will be strangled in its crib by Red State Dems like Joe Manchin (WV).  It’ll never reach the House.  It’s an act of grandstanding desperation, made clear by Kurt Schlichter (12/26) in Liberals Panic As They Lose The Gun Narrative.

Additional evidence is the enormous backlash against the Brit anti-gun nut Piers Morgan, and the Journal News in White Plains NY that published the names and location (with Google Maps) of 44,000 gun owners in its area.

Those backlashes are harbingers of 2013.  They are the opportunity 2013 gives us to have a happy new year.

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Christopher Fountain is a real estate agent in Greenwich CT.  Bored for something to say on Christmas Eve in his blog, For What It’s Worth on the Greenwich real estate market, and offended by the Journal News’ conflating legal gun owners among his neighbors (White Plains is across the CT/NY border from Greenwich) with a madman in Newtown, he posted Sauce for the Goose – the names, addresses, and personal contact info for the Journal News’ publisher, editor, and staff writers.

Fountain’s exposure has gone wildly viral, with the Journal News people living in Backlash City, deluged with denunciations about what slimeballs they are.

For Tom Lifson over at AT, these backlashes show what he calls the Rise of the Alinskyite Right.  Conservatives, he predicts, will be using social networks to end-run the CommieMedia and apply Alinsky’s Rules to libtards – endlessly make them live up to their own rules and ceaselessly ridicule them.

There will be a super-abundance of opportunities next year to do so.  So many that 2013 is going to be The Year of the Backlash.

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There are two primary reasons for this.  First is overreach – epitomized by the DiFi bill.  Democrats from Zero on down will be exposed as Naked Marxists whose greed for power can never be satisfied.  Take the coming regulatory tsunami about to wash over the economy – thousands of new rules and regulations swamping most every kind of business activity.

As Charles Krauthammer notes, what Zero is doing is both "illegal and unconstitutional" – as if President Hussein gives a hoot about either.  Yet this metastasizing of the Bureaucratic State does have a silver lining.  Since no small business can afford to obey all the new rules, or even afford to pay lawyers to find out what the new rules are and how to obey them, they will be obliged to either ignore them or willfully disobey them.  Thus the backlash against Zero’s fascist federalie rules will be gargantuan.

Second is that Zero’s strategy of destroying our economy in order to expand his power over it – then place all the blame on the House Republicans – is going to fail.  For the first four years of his failure, the Moron 47% and the CommieMedia let him blame Bush.  For the next four years, he plans to blame the Pubs.

This will fail because the economy’s disintegration will be too widespread and massive for him to escape blame.  The opening example – of which this is just the beginning – was provided yesterday (12/27) by CNN’s Candy Crowley.

A card-carrying member of the CommieMedia, she nonetheless was exasperated by Zero’s refusing to compromise with Boehner to solve the "fiscal cliff."  She closed her segment by acidly noting that Zero’s attempts to blame Boehner and avoid blame himself will fail:  "No one remembers who President Herbert Hoover’s Speaker was."  Ouch.

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As an aside, there’s an exceedingly simple way to squelch the "unlimited power" of Zero’s federalies that the IBD (see "tsunami" link above) fails to mention.  Federalie regs may exist as blobs of ink published in the Federal Register, but the only way they exist in reality is if they are enforced – and that takes money, lots of money for offices, phones and equipment, federalie salaries and expenses, etc.

There’s only one source for that money – a House Appropriation.  All that needs to be done to change the regulatory tsunami to a slight ripple in a pond is for the House Appropriations Committee to refuse to authorize the money for it.  Just Say No.  Finita la musica fascista.

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Now we come to the HFR Hero of the Week, a fully appropriate one for the end of 2012 and harbinger of 2013.

On Wednesday (12/26), Justice Sonia "Wise Latina" Sotomayor refused to block the contraception mandate in Zerocare.  That this is clear-and-present-danger evidence the Supreme Court has become a political institution that has abandoned any adherence to the Constitution, such that there is no longer any rule of law in America, is the subject of future discussion.

The point at hand is the plaintiff, the arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby, in response yesterday (12/27) told the Supreme Court to go to Hell.  Facing a fine of $1.3 million a day, Hobby Lobby has announced it will willfully refuse to obey the Zerocare contraception mandate.

This is heroic.  The HFR is proud to salute Hobby Lobby and its Founder/CEO David Green as the Hero of the Week.  May this company be the first of vastly more with the courage to disobey Zero’s Fascism in 2013.

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One topic we’ll be following closely in 2013 is the Mongolian Cluster Foul-up of American foreign policy under Zero and John Three-Phony-Purple-Hearts Kerry.  It’s droll that Senate Pubs put a hold on Lurch’s confirmation until our missing Secretary of State testifies on Benghazi. 

But the problem isn’t an Anti-American SecState like Lurch, it’s an Anti-American President like Zero.  For the next four years, we face the prospect of an American government refusing to protect or being insouciant towards American interests.  That means countless countries will be on their own cowboying it.  Israel will have to take care of Iran.  Japan’s new government led by Shinzo Abe is going to risk straight-out war with China over rocks in the East China Sea.  I could go on and on with dozens more examples. 

So next year, I intend for TTP to be the go-to source on what’s actually going on in the world.  I’ll be most of 2013 in all seven continents, and reporting to you. 

One place I won’t be is the African hell-hole of the Central African Republic.  Last March as you may recall, I ran a Gorillas & Pygmies Expedition to a remote corner of the CAR – the pictures are here.  Today (12/28), the State Dept. announced it was evacuating the US Embassy in Bangui as the latest group of Jungle Bunnies With AK-47s are poised to seize the capital.

Instead, I’ll be running a Hidden Africa Safari (Namibia & Zambia) in May, and maybe one in Mozambique. There’ll be Hidden Montenegro and Albania in June, the Hidden South Pacific in August and Hidden China in October.  Next month, there’s Remote Polynesia, in March and April the Hidden South Atlantic, and in between (February), an ultimate cojones-to-the-wall experience in Mogadishu.

Here’s the bottom line.  I am not going to let some narcissistic anti-American dirtbag presidency-stealing fascist prevent me from having an extraordinary 2013 – and neither should you.  Commit yourself now to having an amazingly productive and memorable 2013.  Screw Zero. 

We can do this. We can figure this out.  2013 is going to be the Year of the Backlash, the Year of Failure for President Hussein.  We are now freedom fighters deploying a Reagan Doctrine for America.  We have a lot to look forward to in 2013, individually and as fellow TTPers.  Happy New Year – for it will be.