HALF-FULL REPORT 05/22/15

As Zero sunk further into demented estrangement from reality this week – e.g., claiming that man-made climate change caused draught in Nigeria which caused Boko Haram, when Nigeria has been unusually wet for the last ten years – maybe someone needs to tell him a joke he should listen to:

A large group of ISIS fighters in Iraq are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune. "One Marine is better than 10 ISIS punks."

The ISIS commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the dune where a gun battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes. Then silence.

The voice once again calls out: "One Marine is better than 100 ISIS pussies."

Furious, the ISIS commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence.

The voice calls out again: "One Marine is better than 1,000 ISIS poofters."

The enraged ISIS commander musters 1,000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the dune. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought … then silence.

Eventually, one badly wounded ISIS fighter crawls back over the dune and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don’t send any more men … it’s a trap. There’s 2 of them!"

Last Sunday (5/17), the capital of Iraq’s key Anbar province, Ramadi, fell to ISIS – a city that scores of Marines died to liberate in 2006. In response, President Putz rallies our troops by giving a speech at the Coast Guard Academy (5/20) about the national threat of global warming.

The next day (yesterday 5/21), ISIS took the historic city of Palmyra and now controls 50% of Syria – and at that very time yesterday, Zero gives an interview declaring, "I don’t think we’re losing to ISIS."

If Zero were telling the truth in that interview, what he would have admitted is: 

"I want us to lose to ISIS.  I’m not on America’s side, when are you going to figure that out?  Why do you think I haven’t done anything to help business create more jobs, or stop the flood of illegals, or stanch the tsunami of regulations choking the economy, or preventing Iran from getting nukes? 

And you know what makes me gloat the most?  That Americans are too stupid to understand this and too yellow-bellied to do anything about it if they did.  The Right is always braying about how I’m the "worst president in US history."  Of course I am, for I am on purpose. Yet the latest Gallup poll (5/21)shows my popularity way up now to 53%!  Hahaha…"

Truth hurts, doesn’t it?  Truth is, if we had a president who wanted to wipe ISIS off the face of Iraq, he’d give the Marines carte blanche to do it, forget ROE (rules of engagement), forget embedded journalists, just tell me when it’s over.  Wouldn’t take long, done and dusted.

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Such a president (let’s call him Anti-Zero) would also have the moxie and savvy to deal with Russia’s Putin Huilo.  He’d have a quote of Richard Nixon’s on his Oval Office desk: 

"Communist leaders believe in Lenin’s precept: Probe with bayonets. If you encounter mush, proceed; if you encounter steel, withdraw."

The epidemic of Russian fighter jet and bomber incursions into NATO airspace continued this week, with Sweden having to intercept two Tupolev TU-22M bombers yesterday (5/21).  This has been going on for some time.  NATO conducted over 100 Russian intercepts last year.  Here’s a graphic of just two days of intercepts earlier this month. 

It’s getting so bad you’re seeing articles like this:  Twenty Feet from War.

The claim is that war between Russia and NATO/US was avoided by just twenty feet when a Russian fighter buzzed a US one over the Baltic Sea and almost collided.  President Anti-Zero, however, would realize that not shooting down a few Russian fighters is what will precipitate war.

That is, Putin will keep probing NATO airspace with his airborne bayonets as long as he keeps finding mush.  Once he meets steel – he is informed that the next intercept will be shot down and that’s exactly what happens, the probing will end.

He will roar like enraged Russian bears always do, and all President Anti-Zero has to say is, "You were warned to stop, you found out we weren’t bluffing, so STFU."  It’s the only thing Russians understand and respect.

Another thing a President Anti-Zero will understand about Russia is that it’s dying.  The HFR has said this many times before, but now there’s a fascinating exposition of it by Nicholas Eberstadt, the best geopolitical demographer on the planet.  It’s entitled Putin’s Hollowed-Out Homeland.  You’ll be stunned by how bad Russia’s future is.

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Something else you’ll be stunned by its dying is the Democrat Party.  You read that right.  That’s the conclusion of the editor of the National Journal and no conservative, Josh Kraushaar, yesterday (5/21):  Democrats’ Vanishing Future.

Starting out by citing RCP’s analysis (5/19) that the GOP is the strongest it’s been and the Democrats the weakest since 1928, Josh focuses on the Dems’ "barren bench" of candidates in state after state.

He points out that the ridiculous dearth of Dem presidential candidates contrasted with the plethora of Pubs carries all the way down through state and local races.  The best they’ve got are has-beens.  It will really get you to thinking.

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Speaking of has-beens, the PIAPS had a wonderfully bad week.  Yesterday (5/21), Judicial Watch filed seven lawsuits against her – just over her emails.  On Monday (5/18), their FOIA lawsuit got the docs showing that she knew immediately Benghazi was planned and carried out by Al Qaeda terrorists – proof she was lying through her teeth about some video prompting a spontaneous protest.

And the revelations of sickening greed and corruption involving her and Bill’s crooked Clinton Foundation keep coming.

Yes, but is her gaining the Dem prez nomination still inevitable?  Many seem to think so, like National Review’s Kevin Williamson, who observes: "The Clintons are creeps and liars and scoundrels and misfits, always have been, always will be. They are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of American politics."

The main reason for her coronation is the Dem’s pathetic absence of any bench.  Who else but the PIAPS?  Fauxcahontas?  Some guy named O’Malley from Maryland?  Some decrepit socialist from Vermont named Sanders?  Who?

I’ll tell you who.  I’m all in for Joe Biden – he’s my guy.  I’m definitely maxing out donating to Draft Biden 2016.  I’m putting a I’m Ridin’ With Biden bumper sticker on my car.  I mean, he looks so cool with the shades, behind the wheel of a Corvette.  So it’s Go SloJoe! for me.

He’s dying to run.  He refuses to say he’s not running.  As US News says, "Biden is biding his time," waiting for Hillary to sink in her cesspool of corruption. And indeed, the news yesterday (5/21) is that Hillary is less popular than any time since 2008.

Frankly, it’s hard to imagine anything more politically fun than to have SloJoe as the Dem nominee.  It would be a gift from Valhalla.  It’s not at all impossible.

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Here’s a great good-news story from Monday (5/18) written by an idiot AP reporter:  States Saying No to Cities Regulating Businesses.

All over the US, city councils run by fascist Dems are banning all kinds of things, like plastic bags at markets, toys in fast-food meals, or not having a drive-thru lane at a restaurant if it doesn’t accommodate bicyclists.  Businesses are now countering this in states run by Pubs, getting the state legislature and governor to pass legislation banning the bans.

The AP reporter is incensed:  "It seems no issue is too small for businesses to take to capitol halls" of state governments.  No, you toad-brained anti-capitalist:  No issue is too small and petty for little fascists in city councils to ban and meddle with.

By contrast, also on Monday, the Washington Examiner carried a similar story with a different perspective:  California Bans Bags, Arizona Bags Bans.  While Governor Moonbeam got plastic bags banned statewide, his counterpart in Arizona next door, Doug Ducey just signed a law stripping municipalities of any regulatory authority to ban them.

You’re going to see a lot more banning of bans by Pub state governments now.

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The ban we need most of all, however, is a House ban on government spending.  No money can be spent by any branch, agency, department, or program of the federal government until and unless the House passes an authorization for it.  This is the Constitution’s Power of the Purse given exclusively to the House.

If only the Pub Congresscritters had the cojones to use it. 

But… lo and behold, look what happened on Wednesday (5/20): Republicans threaten to cut off State Department funding in response to foot-dragging on Clinton’s Benghazi emails. 

Let’s do everything we can to see that this catches on.  Every day, we need to see a new headline how the Pubs threaten to or actually do cut off funding for yet another federalie fascism or one of Zero’s pet scams. It’s a start. 

Let’s bug them to make their next target the EPA.  Or the IRS. Or the DoEd.  Especially the money to implement Zero’s Executive Orders.  It’s a target-rich environment.

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Before we close, here’s a delightful story for the ladies living in concealed carry states.  It’s the Flashbang Bra Holster, enabling you to get out a .38 auto and unload on a molester in less than 2 seconds.  How cool is that?

 
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We close with the HFR Hero of the Week.  It requires a context.  As noted above, the Russian bear is dying – and a dying wounded bear can be exceedingly dangerous.

This morning (5/22), Breitbart had this story:  Finland May Conscript 900,000 Men Into Army As Russian Threat Escalates.  Finland is preparing for war with Moscow once again.

Seized by Czar Alexander I in 1809 and incorporated into the Russian Empire as the Grand Duchy of Finland, it declared its independence in 1917 as did many other republics during the Bolshevik Revolution. 

One by one, Lenin’s Red Army forced them all back into Soviet Russia’s clutches – except Finland.  The Finns fought so ferociously they defeated the Reds.

Stalin tried again to seize Finland in 1939.  The Finns fought Stalin’s armies for five years, losing 93,000 soldiers, but in 1944, Stalin gave up.  If the Finns could successfully fight off Lenin and Stalin, they sure can fight off Putin.

The people with the most to fear from Putin right now are those in the small Baltic states directly south of Finland.  Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were captured by Stalin and remained a part of the USSR until its dissolution in 1991.  Putin wants them back, just like Ukraine.

Putin knows how difficult, maybe impossible, it will be to take Finland.  He knows he can take any of the Baltics easily.  It takes, therefore, tremendous courage for any of the Baltic peoples to stand up and tell him he is evil. 

Last Friday (5/15) in Riga, Latvia’s capital, an anonymous artist erected an artwork next to the old headquarters of the Soviet KGB.  It depicted Putin being crucified, with nails driven through his face, hands and feet.  The Kremlin went batguano crazy.  Ooooh, they were just so mad. 

On television Saturday (5/16), a Latvian government spokesman said, yes, the artwork was officially approved – but it wasn’t Putin at all, just an Italian businessman that cheated the artist out of a commission.  The Italian just happened to look exactly like Putin, that’s all – and that it was next to the old KGB building while Putin was a KGB officer – well, that’s just a coincidence.

The Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians laughed and cheered, for the artist was their hero.  And so he is to the HFR.  I’ll be in Riga sometime this summer.  And when I do, and if I’m able to find out who he is, I’m going to buy him a drink.

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