HALF-FULL REPORT 09/06/13

Might as well start with the belly-laugh of the week.  Who is this?
 

 
It’s the President of France, Francois Hollande.  The pic was taken Tuesday (9/03) during his visit to a school in Denain, a city in northern France, and put online by AFP (Agence-France Presse, the government owned & operated news agency).  It instantly went viral and has all France in hysterics.

AFP pulled it within hours, issuing a "mandatory kill" order to its outlets not to publish it, as it damaged the "dignity" of the president.  Too late.  President Imbécile is now Hollande’s nickname for millions of Frenchfolk.

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Don’t you wish all of America could laugh at Zero that way?  This week we may be on the verge of your wish being granted.  And not just America, but most all of the entire world.

The global humiliation of President Red Line and his arrogant buffoon sidekick, Secretary of State Liar, is a thing a sheer beauty.  Putin is having the time of his life.  Last week (8/26), he had his deputy, Dimitri Rogozin, racially insult Zero by calling him "a monkey with a hand grenade."  This week (9/04), Putin himself called Kerry a liar regarding his Capitol Hill testimony the day before.

And Putin was right, Kerry was lying flat-out, no doubt, when he claimed the Syrian rebels have "increasingly become more defined by its moderation," rather than dominated by Al Qaeda terrorists.  It’s the opposite.

A year ago (8/20/12) at a White House press conference, when asked what level of slaughter by Syria’s Assad it would take for him to militarily intervene, Zero replied:

"We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation."

On Wednesday (9/04) at a press conference in Stockholm, when asked if he was going to attack the Assad regime for violating his red line in using chemical weapons against its own people, "in order to preserve your credibility," Zero replied:

"I didn’t set a red line. The world set a red line… the international community passed a treaty… Congress ratified the treaty… My credibility is not on the line. The international community’s credibility is on the line.  And America and Congress’s credibility is on the line."

Nothing is ever his responsibility or his fault – it’s always somebody else’s.  That the way this guy works.  Sick and tired of it, AP reporter Matt Lee blew up at State Dept. spokeswoman Jan Psaki just after Zero’s weasel words in Stockholm.  

At the end of last week, Zero was giving every signal missiles would bomb Damascus in less than 48 hours.  Then suddenly, no more fierce urgency – Zero would instead fob off the decision for war onto Congress which doesn’t reconvene until next Monday (9/09).  When Zero followed this up with claiming he really didn’t have a red line after all, Matt Lee asked Psaki:

"So was there some kind of, like, group spine removal procedure at the White House over the weekend?"

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There’s massive debate over who sarin poisoned gassed 1,400 Syrian men, women and children on August 21 – Assad or the rebels.  The preponderance of evidence is that it was Assad.  French intel says so,  as does German intel, as do the Brits – it’s not just Zero & Kerry.  All of this is a lot more credible than Putin and his efforts to spread Soviet-style disinformation to protect his buddy Assad.

But in a sense it doesn’t matter who did the gassing, as the Syrians trying heroically to liberate their country from fascist evil have been killed and their cause seized by Al Qaeda.  The time to go after Assad and support freedom in Syria has come and gone.  It’s not white hats vs. black hats – it’s all black hats now. 

Which is one main reason why most everyone across the whole political spectrum is dead-set against Zero making war.  When you have the Tea Party on the right and the rabidly pro-Zero lefties of MoveOn.org both demanding Congress vote No on authorizing war in Syria, then you know Zero is in deep kimchee.

Already you have predictions that Zero’s "Humiliating Defeat over Syria will be a Massive Blow to His Presidency."

And not just for him.  On Tuesday (9/03), John Boehner announced he would support a House authorization for Zero.  Yet as of today (8/06), the latest "Whip Count" of the House is 217 No/Lean No vs. 44 Yes/Lean Yes.  This could be a major two-fer.  Zero would suffer critical damage to his ability to get anything approved by Congress for the foreseeable future – and Boehner would suffer a de facto Vote of No Confidence that could cause him to lose his Speakership.

Zero sidelined and a new Pub quarterback calling the House signals – it’s possible.  It might even be probable.

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If Zero was actually smart – debatable in the extreme – he would redirect outrage away from Assad, as his ploy to snooker Congress on Syria will epically fail, and towards the power behind Assad.  That’s Iran, and he could use the mullah’s threat to rape his daughter Sasha to do it.  She is mentioned by name.

No matter how you feel about Zero, a threat to rape his daughter (as it would be for any father’s daughter) is so unspeakably vile that it has to be eliminated.  Just about everybody in America would stand up and cheer if a cruise missile landed on  home and sent him to his whorehouse heaven.

It would be incredibly easy.  The mouthpiece of the mullahs who issued the threat is Alireza Forghani, the former governor of Kish province in southern Iran.  Kish is actually an island in the Persian Gulf.  It’s right across from Bahrain, about 150 miles, where the US Navy’s 5^th Fleet in based.    Forghani lives there.  No es problemo. 

Zero would be a hero for standing up like a man for his daughter and focusing attention on the real Terror Masters, those of Iran.  The Syrian black hats will be left to kill each other.  If Zero takes the fight to Iran, like a man and a real president, he’ll recover and do the world a gigantic favor at the same time.  He’ll be such a hero to the entire Sunni Moslem world – the vast majority of Moslems and Arabs – statues will be erected of him.

Is he smart enough to do this?  Don’t bet your beer money on it.

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Enough of Syria.    Let’s talk about Oz.  Something truly interesting will happen there tomorrow.  Oz – how the first syllable of Australia is pronounced in Strine – is about to regain its sanity after a bout of self-induced stupidity.

We first talked about Tony Abbott in an HFR back in June 2010.  He was challenging a pro-abortion, pro-tax, anti-business, big government crypto-socialist glo-warming nutcase named Julia Gillard to lead Oz.  In contrast, he’s:

"Tony Abbott, leader of the ‘Coalition’ (of the Liberal and National Parties), 53, college boxing champion, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, triathlon athlete, solid family values (once-married with three children; Gillard, 49, never married, childless, lives with boyfriend), anti-abortion, thinks climate change is ‘absolute crap,’ anti-sharia/Moslem immigration, pro-business, pro-small government, articulate, handsome, charming, and feisty as hell for conservative principles.  He is our kind of guy."

Yet, Oz voters were idiotic enough to not vote their looney-left PM out of office.  By a one-vote majority, they kept her instead of replacing her with Tony.  (Oz has the Brit Parliamentary system, where there is no President, only a Prime Minister who’s the leader of the majority party or party coalition – if we had it, John Boehner would be running our government.)

The weirdest thing is that just before the 2010 election, the leftie Labor Party (like our Dems) exchanged their left-wing crybaby leader, Kevin Rudd, for a left-wing bottle redhead (often it’s a bright shade of mercurochrome), Julia Gillard. Suddenly, Oz had a new Prime Minister. 

Believe it or not, by this past June, Julia had screwed up things so much and become so unpopular that the Labor Party mandarins dumped her, replacing her with… you guessed it, Kevin Rudd.  Yes, since June, he’s been Oz’s Prime Minister again.  But Oz voters realize Labor was just replacing deck chairs on The Titanic. 

So tomorrow, Australians will have a leader determined to lead them into a pro-freedom future.  Every indication is that it will be a landslide.  Let’s wish Tony Abbott every success, and pray America finds the sanity to follow in his footsteps.

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The Article of the Week to read?  You’ve heard of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez, and maybe Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Utah’s Mia Love, but how about Martha McSally, Beth Fukumoto, or Erika Harold? 

They are tabbed on Tuesday (9/03) by Newsweek as among the Nine Women Remaking the Right.  You go girl!  These ladies are a cure for the cynicism that America no longer has a future.

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And the HFR Hero of the Week?  Ever driven Route 66 from LA to Chicago?  Then you’ve been to Tucumcari.  It’s the town in eastern New Mexico on your way to Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.

There’s a small outhouse next to the Tucumcari Tractor Repair, on South Lake Street just off Historic Route 66 (now Tucumcari Blvd.)  The owner of that outhouse has erected a sign above it, clearly visible to all tourists getting their kicks on Route 66, designating the outhouse as:
 

An Albuquerque TV station, KOAT, interviewed the man who put the sign up but chooses to remain anonymous.  He said he could care less about any criticism: "I’m not even certain he (Obama) even deserves that level of respect" of an outhouse.

And of course, should anyone avail themselves of the outhouse, it’s equipped with the appropriate brand of TP:

No doubt, this anonymous owner of the Obama Presidential Library and Outhouse in Tucumcari, New Mexico, is the HFR Hero of the Week.

In closing, the famous song, Get Your Kicks on Route 66, was composed in the late 1940s and sung by Nat King Cole.  You’ve heard it, I’m sure.  But you may not know that the Rolling Stones sang it as well.  It was their ode to the joyous freedom of the American road and American hot rods.  Enjoy.  It just makes you feel cool to be American,