HALF-FULL REPORT 08/30/13

As we start Labor Day Weekend, we’ve had the weirdest week of a weird summer.  What’s good about it is that it is shining a klieg light on Zero’s Anti-Midas Touch – that everything he touches turns to merde.

The trigger for this is Zero’s playing Hamlet over Syria.  There is a cacophony of voices on the Left and the Right screaming at him.  Both ultra-leftie Dennis Kucinich and conservative fire-breather Ralph Peters are going apoplectic that he might attack.  The New York Times is advising him, on the other hand, to "Bomb Syria, even if it is illegal."

The most thoughtful and balanced voice is Newsweek’s Ken Pollack, who advises: Go Big or Stay Home.  He dispassionately gives the case for, and for not, intervening.  His conclusion is Napoleon’s: "If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna" – but the odds are high that Zero will do something half-fast, an inconsequential purely face-saving attack that will make the entire situation worse than ever.

The Anti-Midas Touch in action.

My own view is that Assad and his brother Maher – who ordered the poison gas attack – should be specifically targeted by cruise missiles and killed.  I agree with the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens that Zero should target the Assad brothers personally as he did Bin Laden:

"The use of chemical weapons against one’s own citizens plumbs depths of barbarity matched in recent history only by Saddam Hussein. A civilized world cannot tolerate it. It must demonstrate that the penalty for it will be acutely personal and inescapably fatal."

I wish my friends Ralph Peters and Michael Ledeen could have talked before Ralph asked "What’s next?" if we bombed Syria, and assumed the only conceivable answer is an Al Qaeda takeover.  As Michael tells me:

"Look, Langley and MI6 have high level assets in the Syrian military.  We always have a colonel ready to go.  We obliterate the Assads in their bunker, our colonel proclaims that the beast is dead, that the military is now in charge, that they are prepared to call a cease-fire and will negotiate in good faith with legitimate opposition forces. … He asks for a UN peacekeeping force right away, and for the immediate departure of all "foreign forces" from Syria – Hezbollah, the Iranians, the Russians, and the al-Qaeda crowd. QED."

Such fact-based experiential reasoning is why Michael was on Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council but is not on Zero’s.  The real bottom line on Syria is that the Assad regime is Iran’s proxy.  Iran is our Main Enemy in the Moslem world, not Al Qaeda troglodytes, and eliminating its proxy in Syria would do critical damage to it. 

Yet we can trust Zero not to do the right thing.  The good news will be that whatever screw up he does, everyone will be mad at him for it.

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The other event that made this such a weird week was the total racist farce of the "March on Washington" on Wednesday (8/28) to commemorate the 50^th  anniversary of the original in 1963, attended by over 250,000 lining the Washington Mall listening to Martin Luther King’s historic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Organizers expected a crowd to match the original, with the lowest prediction over 100,000.  About 18,000 showed up, and left the Mall a trash dump.  Speakers said stupid things, like Bill Clinton claiming that today it is "harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon."  Not one of the black speakers spoke with the compassion and love for all humanity (including whites) that MLK did 50 years ago.

Melanie Campbell compared conservative Supreme Court Justices to the KKK.  Martin Luther King III disgraced his father’s memory by claiming Trayvon Martin was a "martyr" for black civil rights, that being white like George Zimmerman "remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder" blacks.

Most pathetic of all was Zero.  As he’s supposed to be superhumanly eloquent, it should have been duck soup for him to soar above and surpass MLK.  Yet he delivered an excruciatingly boring dirge on class warfare, blaming all the blacks’ problems on his (Republican) opponents who don’t want them to have voting rights or jobs because they believe in corporate profits more than people.  It was Marxist race-mongering dreck.

Once again, Zero disappoints.  Note the LibMedia’s silence and lack of praise for the speech.  After the event, everyone just shuffled back home, leaving all that trash behind.

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Now, is this an artistic masterpiece or what?

 
That’s Dimitri Medvedev, Putin’s stooge prime minister, in a bra and panties, and Pooty-poot himself in a nightie.  The artist is Konstantin Artunin from Arkhangelsk in far northern Russia.  The painting is the latest in a series entitled "Sacred Monsters," which includes portraits of Czar Nicolas II, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, and Putin as a woman in a bra/panties.  All of these are for sale by Saatchi.

But it’s the one pictured above that caused a furor this week, when Russian police seized it Wednesday (8/28) at an exhibition in St. Petersburg for being "in clear violation of laws against pornography."  Making fun of Putin constitutes pornography in Russia.  Artunin has fled to France.

What’s really making fun of Putin these days, however, is reality.

Eighteen months ago, Russia was on a roll with its GDP over 5%.  For the last six straight quarters since, it’s been all downhill – today barely above 1% and headed straight into recession.  How can this be with sky high oil prices and Russia the world’s largest oil producer (10.7mbd, million barrels per day – the Saudis are #2 at 9.5mbd)?

The answer:  Putinomics, the all-out fascist corruption that is causing domestic money to flee the country and foreign investment to stay out.  FDI (foreign direct investment) has collapsed.  Transparency International ranks Russia #133 in its least-to-most corrupt country list, easily the most corrupt of any major country, and on a corruption level with Iran and Nigeria. 

Russia’s economy is a one-trick pony of oil & gas.  There’s not much else.  Can you recall ever buying something that said "Made in Russia"?  And don’t say Stoli.  Stolichnaya vodka is made in Latvia. 

Today (8/30), the foreign policy journal The Diplomat has a story entitled Putin’s Russia: The Pretend Great Power.  It makes the case that Putin’s pretensions to Russia being treated as a superpower are a phony façade – because it has neither the military power nor the wealth, "concrete resources that cannot be faked," required.

It’s good that a prestigious journal finally is pointing out that Emperor Putin has no clothes.  And just as enjoyable that an artist painted him that way.

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Is this a funny story?  Israeli news agencies reported on Tuesday (8/27) that a portion of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem has collapsed.  It may now be only a "matter of time" before the entire platform of the Mount collapses – and with it the Moslem sacred structures of the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque.

How the invading Moslems seized Jerusalem in the mid-7^th century and claimed its Temple Mount was somehow sacred to them is told in Moses in Mecca (December 2006).  The whole gig is totally contrived, made-up.  Yet people will die for their myths.  Maybe some will laugh if the Moslems’ "Noble Sanctuary" collapses into a pile of rubble – but it will drive Palestinians, Arabs, and millions of other Moslems berserk with rage.

The Israelis had better start bribing a lot of Imams to say it’s the will of Allah, Allah’s punishment for his believers not living up to him or some such that Arabs will swallow.  For if Al Aqsa crumbles, this is going to be seriously unfunny.

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Here’s a story that is flat-out funny, ROTFLMAO hilarious.  Students in Kentucky are telling the First Witch who has foisted her eating demands upon them that, "Michelle Obama, your food tastes like vomit."  Mrs. Zero told the Ag Dept to force schools around the country to provide school lunches she thinks are healthy.  They have, and now the kids are rebelling.

A schoolkids’ rebellion over food that tastes like vomit seems like a perfect launching pad for the Revolution of Disobedience we talked about in yesterday’s How Do We Fix America?  What Mrs. Zero and the Ag Dept are doing is unvarnished fascism.  The federal government has absolutely no enumerated Constitutional authority to do this.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul should stand up for his kids against Food Fascism.  He could support a kids’ and parents’ rebellion against it across the country.  I encourage any KY TTPers to get behind this and bug Sen. Paul about it.

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A number of folks on the Forum have agreed that state governments and governors can be pivotal leaders in the Revolution of Disobedience.  The WaPo provided a perfect example this week (8/28) with its story:  States Find New Ways to Resist Health Law.

You’ll enjoy it for not only learning about the clever ways states are sabotaging Obamacare, but also for the snarky contempt the WaPo’s libtard writer has for them.  It will bring a smile to your face to see how she just can’t stand how "Republican-led" states are leading a "campaign" to "undermine" and "thwart" her messiah’s sacred health-care law, that they may succeed in their Satanic plans to "gum up the works."

She may think she clinches her argument by quoting a state legislator she is sure her WaPo readers will look down their sophisticated noses as a paleolithic redneck, but we know he’s hit a bull’s eye:

"State Sen. David Sater (R) said the legislature is simply reflecting the will of the people of Missouri, who have expressed through ballot amendments and polls that they do not want the health-care law.  ‘They don’t want it, so we are just following what our citizens want,’ he said. ‘It’s federalism. It’s the federal government trying to tell us whether we can go to the bathroom or not. It’s ridiculous’."

Exactly. 

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Before we close, a curious story popped up in the WaPo last night (8/29) about a group of key RINO Senators selected by Zero to negotiate the GOP’s capitulation to his budget demands giving up and refusing to talk to him and his staffers anymore.

This could be really good news.  The best thing that could happen is for Congress to refuse to raise the debt limit, forcing the federalies to live on what they have after October 1^st.  Note WaPo’s canard in claiming that if the debt ceiling is not raised, it risks "potential default on the national debt."

This is a scare-mongering lie – federal receipts easily cover debt service, plus Medicare, Social Security, Veterans & the military, and other basics.  It’s all the other unconstitutional garbage that would get screwed – just what we want and what the Dems need to pay off their mooching constituencies.

This game will be fun to watch as it unfolds.

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We’ll end with the best news of the week, and believe it or not, it comes from Harvard University.  On Tuesday (8/27), Breitbart ran this story:  Harvard Study: No Correlation Between Gun Control and Less Violent Crime.

The exhaustive study, "Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?", published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, after comparing gun laws and murder rates throughout Europe and the US, concludes that it is a myth, a "mantra that more guns mean more deaths and that fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer deaths."

You may be saying, "Well, it’s about time – if only we had had this evidence years ago we could have prevented all the anti-gun hysteria of the gun-control freaks we’ve been suffering."

Better be sitting down.  Have at least two fingers of Famous Grouse to calm you down before you get this news flash.  It’s great that Breitbart uncovered this study – but it’s from Volume 30 Number 2 of the Harvard-JLPP – Spring 2007.  2007!!  Six bloody – very bloody – years ago!!  It’s been hiding in plain sight all this time.

The truth often hides in plain sight.  The LibMedia and Zerocrats consider it their job to ignore and deny its existence.  Yet it exists.  It’s our job to proclaim and celebrate that it does.

Have a great Labor Day holiday, y’all.