HALF-FULL REPORT 10/30/15

Cruz’s detonation of the ludicrously biased 3 main CNBC moderators was the most enjoyable highlight of the debate Wednesday night (10/28). And it will serve a most useful purpose – tearing people’s attention away from the Kim Kardashian of presidential candidates and towards those who actually have something to say.

It may take a while for this to sink in. The Drudge Poll yesterday (10/29) said Trump was the clear winner with 48%, with Cruz at 25% and Rubio under 13%. Let’s be just as clear: anyone who thought Trump won is retarded. Read the debate transcript and see for yourself.

Trump’s closing statement – where the task is to close the sale on his candidacy – epitomized his talent for egomaniacal substance-free meaningless sound bites. You’re supposed to want him to be President of the United States because he got CNBC to reduce the debate time from 3½ hours to 2:

“Everybody said it was going to be three hours, three and a half, including [CNBC], and in about two minutes I renegotiated it so we can get the hell out of here. Not bad. And, I’ll do that with the country. We will make America great again.”

So Trump has got the retard vote nailed down. But for millions of others who were titillated by him as sheer political entertainment, they will “get the hell out” of TrumpkinLand and start to think more seriously about the fate of their country.

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While Trump will be toast in the not-distant future, Jeb Bush is right now. Rubio totally deflated him, leaving his candidacy a lead balloon. The only question is when he’ll drop out of the race, not if. There’s no if with Kasich or Huckabee either – expect their white flags soon.

The New York Times this morning (10/30) advises Christie to do the same: “New Jersey is in trouble, and the governor is off pursuing a presidential run that’s turned out to be nothing more than a vanity project. Mr. Christie’s numbers are in the basement, and he’s nearly out of campaign cash. This is his moment, all right: to go home.” Sounds right.

Forbes advises Rand Paul to stay in, given his great points on the Fed, as well as his frankness on Social Security. But a lot of folks in Kentucky want him to focus on getting reelected Senator instead, especially as he’s at 1% in the prez polls.

It’s likely then that before long we’ll be left with the Final Four: Cruz, Carson, Rubio, and Fiorina. You may be surprised by Fiorina, but she had a great debate – if you rate substance over style and personality games. Here’s one example:

“I would like to start with a basic. Let us actually go to zero- based budgeting so we know where the money is being spent. It’s kind of basic. There is a bill sitting in the House that would actually pass and have us go to zero-based budgeting so we know where every dime of your money is being spent instead of only talking about how much more we’re going to spend year after year after year.”

Or take what she said on Crony Capitalism:

“Crony capitalism is alive and well, and has been so in Washington, D.C. for decades. What’s crony capitalism? Crony capitalism is what happens when government gets so big and so powerful that only the big and the powerful can handle it.

So why are the pharmaceutical companies consolidating? Why are there five even bigger Wall Street banks now, instead of the ten we used to have on Wall Street? Because when government gets big and powerful, the big feel like they need to get even bigger to deal with all that power, and meanwhile, the small and the powerless — in this case, 1,590 community banks — go out of business.

 You see, folks, this is how socialism starts. Government causes a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem. This is why, fundamentally, we have to take our government back.

The student loan problem has been created by government. Government trying to level the playing field between Internet and brick-and-mortar creates a problem. The FCC jumping in now and saying, ‘we’re going to put 400 pages of regulation over the Internet,’ is going to create massive problems.

But guess who pushed for that regulation? The big Internet companies. This is what’s going on. Big and powerful use big and powerful government to their advantage.

It’s why you see Walgreens buying Rite Aid. It’s why you see the pharmaceuticals getting together. It’s you see the health insurance companies getting together. It’s why you see the banks consolidating.

And meanwhile, small businesses are getting crushed. Community- based businesses and farms are getting crushed. Community banks are going out of business. Big government favors the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well-connected, and crushes the small and the powerless.

It is why we have to simplify. It is why we have to reduce the size and power of government. It’s the only way to level the playing field between big and powerful and small and powerless.”

And Carly’s closing statement was a classic:

“You know, every election we hear a lot of talk. We hear a lot of good plans. We hear actually a lot of good intentions. But somehow for decades, nothing really has changed. What we need now is a proven leader who has produced results.

That’s how you go from secretary to CEO. You lead and you produce results. I will cut this government down to size and hold it accountable, simplify the tax code, roll back the regulations that have been spewing out of Washington, D.C. for 50 years.

I may not be your dream candidate just yet, but I can assure you I am Hillary Clinton’s worst nightmare. And in your heart of hearts, you cannot wait to see a debate between Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina. I will tell you this, I will beat Hillary Clinton. And with your vote and your support and your prayers, I will lead with the citizens of this great nation the resurgence of this great nation.”

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The HFR doesn’t think Carly will top the GOP ticket, but odds remain high she’ll be the running mate of one of the Big Three: Cruz, Carson, or Rubio. If she is, and the PIAPS is the Dem pick, then you’ll see the GOP demand for a joint debate with all four candidates instead of separate prez and VP ones. That’s the only way Carly can take on Hillary mano-a-mano, and yes, she’ll eviscerate Her Shrillness.

In addition to the debate, it’s been an excellent week for Cruz. Rush got on Cruz Control saying Ted is the “inarguably conservative thoroughbred” in the race, and that he’s “the one man leading a movement that scares the hell out of Washington.”

Cruz is raising more money than anyone else, according to both the WaPo and Fox.

And the WaPo’s Chris Cillizza explained why Cruz is running the best campaign of any prez candidate, Pub or Dem.

It’s been a good week for Carson as well. Note the slimy CNBC moderators didn’t have the guts to ask Ben about his saying (Meet the Press on Sunday, 10/25) the purpose of the 2^nd Amendment is to prevent tyranny, because government finds it “much more difficult to dominate people who are armed.”

In that same Meet The Press interview, Ben said he wanted Roe v Wade overturned, and compared women who get abortions to slave owners:

“During slavery, a lot of slave owners thought they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave, anything that they chose. And what if the abolitionists had said, ‘I don’t believe in slavery, but you guys do whatever you want’? Where would we be?”

NRO explains why this is exactly right – a “must read” for the week. Carson’s argument promptly sent many a libtard into cardiac arrest. Of course, the CNBC moderators didn’t touch it.

And you know that Carson is wiping out Trump in Iowa polls this week.

As for Rubio – well, he had smooth quick comebacks in the debate, and was very personable. His best applause moment was calling Hillary “a liar.” Aside from that, not much else for the week.

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Let’s get this over with fast. What words can adequately express the disgust we all feel at Paul Ryan’s pathological sellout regarding Boehner’s sellout regarding this insane funding of Zero’s deficit spending for the next two years? And the McConnell Senate then passed it in the dead of night. There is now no debt limit to Zero’s spending for the rest of his term.

Obama Hails Passage of Two-Year Budget Deal is the headline that sums up the total moral corruption of the Republicans in Congress.

And there’s insult to injury: on Tuesday (10/27) the House approved Ex-Im Bank renewal. Ryan’s first name is no longer Paul, it’s Rino – as in Speaker Rino Ryan. But why did the House Pubs bother? Why not just make the head of the Chamber of Crony Commerce and Chief Advocate of Amnesty, Tom Donahue, as Speaker and be done with it?

Crony Capitalists & Amnesty Advocates Unite! It’s the new motto of the GOP under Speaker Rino Ryan.

More proof if you needed more that the only guy with the guts, principles, and smarts to bring a full-stop halt to this is Cruz in the White House.

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Time to get back out into the world. Here’s a fun story on how the IMF says Saudi Arabia will run out of financial assets in five years.

You may also enjoy the question: Will China Repeat Japan’s Economic Fate?

Finally a bit of courage from our British friends: Islamic Group Blocked from Building Megamosque Three Times Bigger than St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Then there’s black singer Mica Paris asking why super-rich super famous black and Hispanic stars like Beyonce, J-Lo, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, along with millions of “women of color” are using skin-lightening creams to look more Caucasian.

“Skin-lightening,” she says, “has become a massive industry. According to a report by Global Industry Analysts in 2012, it was set to be worth $10 billion worldwide by this year.”

Mica needs to read To The Point. In Of All the World’s Countries, Which Is the Least Racist? (April 2012), she’d learn that:

Discrimination by lighter-skinned people towards darker-skinned people is virtually universal.  The phenomenon has been dubbed colorism, resulting in pigmentocracy which is global.

There seems to be no society in which the darker-skinned dominate the lighter-skinned.  Whether it is China, Japan, Korea, Europe, Brazil, Mexico, India, or just about anywhere else, the lighter-skinned have higher social status, the darker the lower.

In Italy, as a European example, lighter-skinned northern Italians look upon darker-skinned southern Italians as “Africans.”  The southerners in turn sneeringly refer to the northerners as “Germans.”

In Idia, the Brahmins at the top of the caste heap are the lightest-skinned Indians, while the Dalits (Untouchables) the darkest.  Almost all of India’s Bollywood movie stars are light-skinned.

You see colorism and pigmentocracies all over Africa.  Ads for skin whiteners are common.  Here’s a typical one I recently saw in Togo:

Something universal in all human societies means there’s a genetic component. Something for Mica to consider.

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As long as were overseas, let’s look at the scam scare story of the week. You may have gotten it your Email Inbox:

Sarah Palin Was Right! Look Where Russia Is Building a HUGE Military Base! Just 300 Miles from the United States!

It’s a shame that one of our great patriots, Allen West, got suckered into running this total BS scare story.

First, the writer can’t do basic math. He says the size of this terrifying base is 14,000 square meters – “that’s large.” Actually, that’s less than 3½ acres. He says this “gigantic” Russian base is on the 80th parallel on an island called Alexandra Land which is located between the Barents and Kara seas, just 300 miles from us.

The island is in an island group called Franz Josef Land – north of Norway, east of Greenland, over 2,000 miles from Alaska.

And it gets worse. The “Arctic Trefoil” base West links to is a story not about the base in Franz Josef Land in Western Siberia, but about a base the Russkies have on Kotelny Island in Eastern Siberia – which is about 1,100 miles from Alaska. Note the claims of a “massive” base replete with “brand new armored vehicles” has no photos of it.

The writer evidently confused this Kremlin media piece with another run by the London Telegraph where a whole 150 soldiers can live.

The bottom line here is that the Russians have no capacity whatever to build and maintain huge military complexes on these Arctic islands. Putin’s media is always sending out propaganda stories about how advanced and powerful the Russian military is. All KGB “Dezinformatsiya” just like the Soviet days, which the stupid gullible Western press – and conservative blogs — run as true.

Another reason you need TTP….

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OK, let’s close with something fun and cool. Below is arguably the best gasoline commercial you’ve ever seen. Ferrari pulled several of their race cars from various ages out of storage, flew them around the world and filmed them running through the streets of Rome, Rio, New York, Hong Kong, Honolulu and Monaco.

No computer graphics, these are the original cars on the original streets. And it ends at a Shell station. Be sure and have your headphones on with the sound at max. Nothing like hearing a Ferrari at 14,000 RPM!