HALF-FULL REPORT 05/17/13

Agent Sadusky (Harvey Keitel): "And what about you?"
Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage):  "I’d really love not to go to prison. I can’t even describe how much I would love not to go to prison."
Agent Sadusky:  "Someone’s got to go to prison, son."
—National Treasure (2004)

"My question isn’t about who’s going to resign — my question is who is going to jail over this scandal?"
—House Speaker John Boehner, May 15, 2013

"A few more days like this, and Obama’s going to claim he was born in Kenya."
— comedian Dennis Miller

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Now, I know you all think that this week, the HFR glass is as overflowing as much as the glass in Ronald Reagan’s favorite Irish joke.  However, after we’ve yelled Bunga! Bunga! a few dozen times watching the news and mooned Zero every time we see his disgusting face on the screen, let’s see if we can’t discuss what’s happening with a smidgeon of sobriety.  I admit it won’t be easy.

To get to the heart of the matter, we start with this question Jim Sensenbrenner asked Eric Holder at the Judiciary Committee’s oversight hearing on Wednesday (5/15):

"Mr. Attorney General, I think that this committee has been frustrated for at least the last two and a half years-if not the last four and a half years-that there doesn’t seem to be any acceptance of responsibility in the Justice Department for things that have gone wrong… so just where does the buck stop in your department’s decision to secretly seize the telephone records of reporters and editors of the Associated Press?"

All Holder could do was to act like a mafiosi on the witness stand and say "I dunno, I don’t know nuttin’."  He feigned ignorance over two dozen times in the hearing, repeatedly saying – as reported by the WaPo’s Dana Milbank — "I don’t know. I don’t know. . . . I don’t have a factual basis to answer. . . . I don’t know why that didn’t happen. . . . I know nothing, so I’m not in a position really to answer."

Eric Holder is toast.  Even the liberal The Atlantic admits this (5/14).  Being compulsive apologists for Dem sins, they begrudge this as only "symbolic accountability."  Libs never demand actual real accountability for their fellow libs.  (Note: the reason for this is that Liberal morality is pure Marxist:  The ends justify the means.  Their moral sense is the opposite of ours.)

Yesterday (5/16), the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Zero will likely replace Holder with Mass Gov. Deval Patrick.  He’s yet another incompetent affirmative action black Zero/Valerie Jarrett crony (like Susan Rice, Zero’s UN Ambassador now tapped to be his National Security Advisor).  When you purposively select your key execs to be only of your own race, it’s hard to argue that’s not racism.

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Sensenbrenner’s question cuts to the chase because everyone knew he wasn’t just asking it of Holder, but of Zero.  Our current Oval Office Occupant is pathologically incapable of accepting any blame, any fault, any responsibility for anything bad on his watch.

This was epitomized in his disgraceful Rose Garden press conference yesterday (5/16).  He actually said, "I offer no apologies" for any of the scandals engulfing him.  But that’s his MO – it’s always someone else’s fault, usually Bush’s or the Evil Republicans.

His Rose Garden cowardice was enormously compounded by his arrogance in treating United States Marines as butlers.  The picture of President Pansy afraid he was going to melt and ordering a Marine to hold an umbrella over him as the Marine stands in the rain not only earned the outrage of millions of vets, but the contempt of many in the media.

The picture of The President and the Umbrella –

— has caused a media downpour of jokes at Zero’s expense.  It’s his becoming an object of ridicule and contempt by his former media worshippers that, combined with this simultaneous Hat Trick of Scandals, make what’s happening a perfect storm engulfing Zero’s ego.

That’s the issue now.  Not his possible impeachment or even imprisonment – it’s way too soon to even begin speculating on that – it’s what this irretrievable weakening and ridiculing of his presidency will do to his narcissistically fragile ego.  He is pathologically incapable of accepting blame, fault, and responsibility because he is a pathological narcissist. 

And that is where he is most vulnerable.  If you’re in a life-and-death battle with a well-armored opponent, what do you do?  Look for chinks in his armor and attack them.  Zero’s biggest chink is the fragility of his ego.  One sure way to shatter it is make him a laughingstock.

By whom then is the key.  Tea Party demos can wave all the ridiculing signs they want, the conservative media can tell all the jokes they want, and he’ll ignore them.  What we have now are the first cracks in the Wall of Worship by his media bootlickers. 

So – anytime you see or hear one of these worshippers finally expressing doubt or criticism or contempt towards The One, thank and encourage him or her.

When a Dana Milbank calls Zero "President Passerby," a Jon Stewart hammers and mocks him for incompetence and cover-ups, or a Chrissie Mathews sings in effect the thrill is gone from tingling his leg, send him a congratulatory email.  The smart way is to lie, to say you were an Obama supporter too, just like him, but now you’ve become so disillusioned, so thanks for his courage in seeing Obama clearly as he has given you the courage to do the same, etc. 

Psyops.  That’s the way to shatter Zero’s ego into shards.

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One last word on all of this before we move on – believe it or not, other stuff happened this week.  That word is:

OBAMAGATE

As my friend Quin Hillyer reminds us, Zero has presided over a Gangster Government from the get-go.  This latest scandal trio is typical, not exceptional.  Which means the real scandal is not Bengahzi or the IRS or the AP.  The scandal is Obama himself.  The essence of his gangster presidency is scandalous and morally contemptible.  This presidency has to be consigned to history.

Someone will indeed be going to jail over one of these Zero-mandated atrocities – most likely an IRS official, and hopefully, lots of them.  Enough scapegoats will be offered up to satisfy a public blood-lust for sacrifice.  Will one of them implicate Zero in a plea-bargain – or will they maintain an Omerta (as has Blago, his Chicago crony now in federal prison)?

We can hope, but don’t bet on it.  Let’s hope instead that the Pubs have the patience to drag this out slowly, drip by drip, steadily ruining the Zero Presidency until they can take the Senate in November 2014.  Then talk about impeachment, resignation, or even prison might begin.

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Of course, you like everyone else on the planet, know of Angelina Jolie’s revelation on Tuesday (5/14) that she underwent a "preventative" double mastectomy.  She had learned after genetic testing that she had a mutation, most likely inherited from her mother, that, she said, put her at an 87% risk of getting breast cancer.

Was she wise to do something so radical at age 37 or was she being paranoid?  After all, she had no sign whatever of any cancer, and her mother died not of breast, but ovarian cancer.  Did she do something very brave by telling the world, or was she being a grandstanding movie star?

The answer is, she did the right thing.  She has a rare mutation on her BRCA1 gene. The mutation in no way directly causes cancer – but most certainly can indirectly.  That is, BRCA1 is a gene that codes for DNA repair. 

Our DNA is constantly being damaged by a long list of insults – free radicals generated by normal metabolism, cosmic ray and ultraviolet radiation, smoking, booze, on and on – to the extent of one thousand to one million "molecular lesions" per cell per day.  Without genetic repair mechanisms, structural damage to the DNA throughout our body would quickly render us susceptible to any number of diseases, physical breakdown, and early death.

BRCA1 is one of these genetic repair mechanisms, specifically coding for a protein required for repairing DNA damage in the cells of breast tissue.  The mutation Jolie has impairs the ability of BRCA1 to produce this protein.  Thus the DNA damage to her breast tissue will steadily increase, resulting in a very high probability of her dying of breast cancer if nothing is done.

She has brains and a lot of moxie.  Brad Pitt has every right to be proud of her bravery.  The caution is that, while her telling the world will encourage many women to seek genetic testing, her mutation is rare.  Most mutations are not nearly as serious.  They don’t code for things as fundamental as DNA repair, and only increase susceptibility to a disease to a degree that life-style changes can suffice (don’t smoke, lose the gut or big hips, easy on the booze, exercise, use sunscreen – you know the drill; plus medication or advanced dietary supplementation).

Jolie went radical because her situation was radical.  Most of us don’t need to.  But getting genetically tested, like by 23&Me, is a good idea – and good for her in making all of us aware of it.

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These three words are guaranteed to make your day:  "Senator Sarah Palin."  According to a poll just released, Sarah leads other GOP candidates for the 2014 Senate race ( the incumbent is Dem Mark Begich).  It would be, well, totally awesome to see Mama Grizzly in the US Senate.  She hasn’t committed to running, but the Alaska Tea Party is all out trying to draft her.  Go Sarah.  Palin 2014!

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The grisly good news of the week is that the sub-human monster named Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder in his Philly "house of horrors" abortion mill.  Unfortunately, he didn’t get the chair, but three life sentences so he goes to prison.  Odds are high, however, that he won’t last long.  Convicts have a certain moral code, which includes doing lethal things to child molesters and baby killers.

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The funniest international news of the week has to be what’s happening in Venezuela.

First, a country that has one of the largest oil reserves in the world and is (or was) a major oil producer, has to import gasoline, import more than they are producing.  The Chavistas are trying to blame it on a refinery fire.  Yeah, right.

Second, inflation is three times as high than in the rest of Latin America, over 30%, especially with food prices.  It won’t be long until a lot of Venezuelans face outright starvation.

Third – get ready for it – Venezuela has run out of toilet paper.  Doesn’t all of this just break your heart?

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For international prescience, let’s go the city of Kiruna in Lapland, far northern Sweden.  This week, an organization composed of countries with territory north of the Arctic Circle, known as the Arctic Council, met there to vote on letting other countries join their club.

Members are Canada, the US, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia.  On Wednesday (5/15), they voted to let China join them with Permanent Observer status.  Note in this Wall Street Journal story. Russia was opposed.  China had lobbied and bribed really hard to join, and Russia said okay, but only if Japan, South Korea, and India could join too.

Why is this interesting?  Read Chinese Siberia from November 2006.  The Kremlin knows very well that Beijing has its eyes on Siberia – and now, being on the Arctic Council if only as an Observer, the Chinese camel’s nose is under Russia’s Arctic tent.

In addition to the massive reserves of timber, water, minerals and other natural resources of eastern Siberia – not to mention millions of square miles of uninhabited land – there are vast oil and gas reserves in the Arctic Ocean.  But only a country that borders that ocean can make a claim to it.  Here are their claims:

 
Note the largest claim is Russia’s and that China is so far away it’s not even on the map.  China intends to be on that map with a legit claim – and there’s only one way to do it.  Chinese Siberia, here we come.

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Early last year, I ran my Gorillas & Pygmies Expedition.  It was an incredible experience for all of us.  When I got back, I wrote about it here with pictures.  If you click on that second link and scroll down to the end, you’ll see pictures of silverback gorillas high in trees, and a place called Dzangha Bai, that has the greatest concentration of elephants in the jungles (not bush or plains) of all Africa.

That was last year.  Today, all those elephants are dead – slaughtered en masse for their ivory by poachers, and killed for their meat by the jungle bunny soldiers of a rebel army that has just taken over the Central African Republic (CAR).

You probably heard about the seizure of Mali in Africa by Moslem crazies, and the French sending in their special forces last January to kick them out (it took them less than three weeks).  But most likely you haven’t heard a word about the tragedy and terror going on in the CAR.  And that’s strange, because it’s a Moslem terror being perpetrated on Christians.

The rebel group calls itself Seleka ( "Alliance" in a tribal language).  The leader is a Commie Moslem thug named Michel Djotodia.  The vast majority of people in the CAR are either Christians or traditional animists.  What few Moslems there are are concentrated in a region that borders Moslem Sudan.  That’s where Djotodia comes from.

Born in 1949, when he was of college age in the late 60s, a time when the Soviets were recruiting Africans, he got a scholarship to study in Moscow, where he became a Marxist ideologue, got fluent in Russian, married a Russian woman, had kids, and lived there for years, until the Kremlin sent him back to the CAR to work in various ministries during the 80s.

In the 90s, Djotodia tried organizing groups of rebels to seize power, and became successful a few years ago by attracting Moslems in the north where he grew up.  As a Communist, he was an atheist, but he was happy to pretend to be a fervent Moslem, to quote the Koran and chant Allahu Akbar if it got him recruits.

By last December, his Seleka thugs had taken over much of the country, and on March 24, they marched into the capital of Bangui, while the president, impossibly corrupt Francois Bozizie, fled.  Djotodia immediately declared himself president, and his thugs went on a wild looting and raping spree.

This story in today’s (5/17) edition of Christian Today details the suffering of Christians at the hands of Djotodia’s Moslem jungle bunnies.  Note that the story reports that Seleka’s stated intention in its documents is to convert the CAR into an Islamic Republic ruled by Sharia law.

Where are the French paratroopers?  Why Mali and not the CAR?  People are starving in the capital, Christians are being raped and killed and looted.  Why doesn’t the world know of this?  At least now you do.

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OK, folks, that’s it.  Back in Washington, the circus is just beginning.  Stock up on popcorn and beer, ‘cause the show is going to last for a while.  As Peggy Noonan says, "This is no ordinary scandal."  This is not going away.  This is not Clinton with some bimbo.  This is not even Watergate.  This is Obamagate.  Someone’s gonna go to prison, son.  Who will it be?