HALF-FULL REPORT 01/16/15

I’m starting this HFR with tears in my eyes.  They are tears of joy and pride.

I just got an email with a link to a story last week (1/05) in the Marine Corps Times.  The story title couldn’t be more uninteresting – Changing Sea Duty – but the first line is not:

"Marines and sailors are at the center of a test that could change naval warfare."

Someone in the USMC came up with a revolutionary way to deploy Marines more effectively and carried it through from conceptual creation in his brain to implementation at sea.

That someone, who has now changed US naval warfare for the better, is my son, USMC Captain Brandon Wheeler.

This was Brandon’s idea from start to finish, which he had to push through many brick walls of bureaucratic "But we’ve never done it this way!" resistance.  The article quotes him extensively:

"Capt. Brandon Wheeler and his Marines were at the center of  the new sea-based tests this summer. The commanding officer of FAST Company Pacific led a small team of Marines on missions launched from three different platforms. Adiutrix Spear demonstrated Marines’ ability to stage, deploy, conduct medical evacuations and resupply from nontraditional ships like a destroyer, cargo ship and an aircraft carrier, he said.

Once aboard and ready, they used MH-60 Seahawk helicopters to fly from the vessels to their missions where the Marines ‘eliminated a threat and performed expeditionary site security,’ Wheeler said."

The story concludes, "The admiral (7th Fleet Commander Vice. Adm. Robert Thomas) who saw Wheeler and FASTPAC in action had a glowing review of the concept."

How proud can a father be?  Semper fi, Brandon.

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From the personal to nationally heart-warming news. 

The Oscar Nominations for the 87^th Academy Awards were announced yesterday afternoon (1/5) – with the voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences proving they are not racists by refusing to nominate actors and actresses just because they are black.

Academy members actually voted on the basis of acting performance, not race.  Libtards everywhere are scandalized – like those at the Hollywood Reporter, aghast that Oscar Acting Nominees All White.

Right on cue, Al Sharpton got his racist undies instantly in a twist.  What is screamingly hilarious is that the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, is black.  She’s the one who announced the Oscar nominations yesterday.  It’s the HFR’s fantasy that she will now issue a simple four-word response to the leader of America’s grievance industry.

The acronym for that four-word response is: "STFU."  Somebody has to say just this to him publicly.  No better person than her right now.

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Sharpton isn’t flying immediately to Hollywood for a protest, however.  Rumor is he’s on his way to Seattle for the Packers-Seahawks NFC Championship game on Sunday (1/18).  He’ll be there to denounce fans as racists for rooting for Packers QB Aaron Rogers, who is white, instead of for Seahawks QB Russell Wilson, who is black.

"What reason other than obvious racism could there be for anyone to root for the white-led Packers against a black-led team?" he’ll angrily ask.  With any luck, Packers fans will toss him into Puget Sound.  And The Pack will thrash the Seahawks.

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Sure hope Wes Pruden is right.  He has the most hopeful read of the week (1/15):  Why Hillary Clinton Won’t Run for President.  As he says, she’s all the Dems have got.  Except for Joe Biden.

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This is absolutely hands down – or is it pants down? – the best headline of the week:  Thief Demands Victim Drop Pants, Victim Kills Him.

The thief, Rontavis Holton (Rontavis? WTF?) pulled a gun on Ron Farmer in a Pompano Taco Bell parking lot on Tuesday (1/13) and demanded he "pull down your pants."  Farmer pulled his own gun out his pants instead and drilled the bastard.  Adios, Rontavis.

And hats off to Papa John’s Pizza in Decatur, Georgia for standing by their delivery lady who opened fire on an armed thug trying to rob her yesterday (1/15).  She shot the thug, Donquaz Stevenson, in the face.  Concealed carry to the rescue! 

But… Donquaz?  What kind of retard parents give their kids names like Donquaz or Rontavis?

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The most gratifying story of the week comes from that ivy-encrusted bastion of politically correct idiocy, Duke University in North Carolina.

Yesterday, straight in the wake of the Moslem Slaughter in Paris last week, the egg-head geniuses there announced that the Moslem call to prayer would be broadcast "moderately amplified" – meaning obnoxiously loud – from the bell tower of the campus chapel, turning it into a minaret.

I kid you not.  The self-lobotomized lady who runs Duke’s religious affairs – her name is actually Sapp, as in what-a- – wrote a local paper op-ed celebrating the use of Duke’s Christian cathedral bell tower "as a minaret," as students hear "the Arabic proclamation, ‘Allahu Akbar!’ which means ‘God is great!’" – the same proclamation made by the Moslem murderers in Paris as they gunned down the Charlie Hebdo staff.

The outpouring of ridicule and denunciation Duke received in response was so fast and overwhelming that this morning – less than 24 hours after the announcement – Duke canceled and retreated.  Campus Moslems are so disappointed.  How heartbreaking.

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What’s truly heartbreaking is the horrific evil of Moslem Misogyny in Pakistan as reported by the London Daily Mail.

Which is why Cosmopolitan Magazine is being applauded for its latest cover depicting a Pakistani girl being suffocated in a Moslem "honor" murder.  At last, some feminists are denouncing medieval Islamic fear and hatred of women.

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That’s something Zero is both too pro-Moslem and too cowardly to ever do.  And also at last, some prominent liberals are noticing.

One of them is Leslie Gelb, an ultimate Washington foreign policy elite insider – he’s President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.  On Wednesday (1/14), he called for Zero to fire virtually his entire national security/foreign policy team – including "foreign policy guru without portfolio Valerie Jarrett" – in This Is Obama’s Last Foreign Policy Chance.

Every diplomat and foreign policy specialist in town is reading it – and nodding their heads.  Zero will ignore it, of course – particularly the call to fire ValJar.  Zero’s Lady Rasputin has him way too tightly by the huevos, as she knows every dirty secret there is about him, for him to ever break away.

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On Monday (1/12), New York Magazine produced a must-read for you:  Why History Will Eviscerate Obama.  Written by Chris Caldwell, editor of The Weekly Standard, it’s no rant – it’s just calmly and dispassionately devastating.

We can have no doubt that generations of future historians will puzzle over the masochistic lunacy of Americans in electing a man who hates them and their country.  Meanwhile, however, we have to deal with the damage he continues to try and inflict upon us.

On Wednesday (1/14) on the House Floor, Speaker Boehner gave some hope that he just might stand up to Zero’s intimidation with his "Enough!" speech, quoting all 22 times Zero has said he doesn’t have the authority to declare amnesty for illegals.  The House then passed the DHS budget 237-190 defunding any implementation of the amnesty Zero said he couldn’t do.

The bill now goes to the Senate where there are more yellow-bellied Rinos than in the House, all cowering in fear of Zero’s dreaded Veto.  Yet the Senate is irrelevant – the House calls the shots on spending, and if they defund neither the Senate nor the White House can put the money back in. 

And Zero’s veto threat is empty – for the House will have voted to fully fund DHS except for amnesty implementation, making Zero wholly responsible for any DHS shutdown.  Time for Boehner to prove what he wants to – that’s he’s not "spineless" after all.

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Helping Boehner with his spinal problems is the HFR’s favorite Congressista, South Carolina’s Trey Gowdy – who to the rousing applause of his colleagues said "it’s about damn time" the House uses its power of the purse to reign Zero in.  This guy is fabuloso:
 

 
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The HFR’s favorite Senator is, of course, Ted Cruz.  He showed why again on Monday (1/12) when, at the Heritage Foundation, he called for Congress to "abolish the IRS."  After Zero’s "weaponization" of the IRS, this has become a necessity.  The link has a clip of this. 

If you have 43 minutes on how he’d run the Senate (eliminate regs that stop job growth; repeal ObamaCare; secure the border; stop amnesty; stop radical judicial activists – especially unelected judges overriding elections in 33 states to ban same-sex marriage;  end corruption of corporate welfare – the Cromnibus bill was one big pile of it; audit the Federal Reserve; reduce the power of Washington across the board), watch the full speech here.  His call to abolish the IRS comes at minute 23.

Cruz is the man we need to cut the Federal Monster down to size – to eliminate not just the IRS, but the EPA, the Dept. of Education, and the entire Administrative State smothering our freedom and prosperity.  Either in the Senate as Majority Leader or a President, he’s our guy.

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OK, time for the HFR weekly tip on Health & Fitness.  The subject this week is sleeping, how to make the most of it.  I take two nutritional formulas developed by my genius friends, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.  The first is SleepScape. It is not designed to put you to sleep, but to enable you to sleep more efficiently.

One of the worst sleep problems is waking up in the middle of the night, your brain starts ruminating about problems, and you can’t shut your brain up and go back to sleep.  SleepScape provides your brain with nutritional support to prevent this.  It does a lot more for your sleeping brain to "navigate nature’s restorative sleep pathways."

In addition are their Serene Tranquility formulas.  For sleep, you want either Night with Tryptophan, or Night with 5-HTP – see the links to determine which may be best for you.

I’ve been using SleepScape for a while now, and it works really well.  Combined with one of the Serene formulas, even better.  All of Durk & Sandy’s formulas are produced by my friend (and TTPer!) Will Block’s company, Life Enhancement Products.  

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Time to go.  Be sure and root for the Packers on Sunday.  TTP’s Fairy Godmother, Mae, will really appreciate it.  Be sure and read Your Adventurous Year and let me know if you can go to Hidden China with me.

And while you have an infinite number of better things to do next Tuesday night (1/20) than watch Zero’s SOTU lies, be sure and watch Joni Ernst give the GOP rebuttal.  Make him squeal, Joni!

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