HALF-FULL REPORT 03/10/17

This just might be the most fun HFR ever.  There’s also a part that could be the scariest.  Might as well enjoy ourselves first.

Let’s start with the prediction in the Inaugural Day HFR of January 20:  “Melania looked unbelievably stunning.  She will now rapidly become the most glamorous and idolized woman on earth.”

This week we could see this becoming true, only far more so.  Yesterday, Fox News reported: “Melania Trump’s Approval Ratings on the Rise.”  They would be far larger except for the deranged Trump-hatred of Moonbat Democrats.

The poll was taken a week ago.  On Wednesday (3/08), the First Lady hosted a White House luncheon in celebration of International Women’s Day.  A quote of hers at the event has quickly gone viral across the planet:

“As an immigrant myself, having grown up in a communist society, I know all too well the value and importance of freedom and equal opportunity.  Ideas upon which this great nation was founded and has continued to strive towards throughout its history.”

Her beauty and elegance are breathtaking.  Yet that is only on the surface.  There is something far deeper.  Look at this picture of her taken at the luncheon.  Look into her eyes.

Her eyes reveal the beauty of her soul.  Her eyes proclaim a serene joyousness in being alive, in being human, in being a woman, in being who she is.  There are no doubts or fears or qualms in those eyes.  There is no anger – there is only love and happiness.

In those eyes you can see why First Lady Melania Trump will become genuinely beloved by the American people and by people all over the world.

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Will her husband?  That may seem impossible now, given that Democrats and their Fake News minions really are as wacko as depicted above.  Yet that too began to change this week.  For starters, what’s giving these kids such a happy surprise?

On Tuesday (3/07), they were part of a White House tour group.  As they entered the Cross Hall of the East Wing, who do you suppose suddenly appears to greet them in surprise?

Everyone cheered and applauded, greeting him like a rock star with screams of joy.  Enjoy the video:

How cool is that?  Note the operative word – these kids think the POTUS is cool.  Legions of other kids are going to feel the same.

Especially when their parents start singing Trump’s praises for getting them jobs.  You can forget all the Lying Swine headlines of the week desperately trying the damage our president.  This is the headline (3/08) that bottom-line counts:  Trump’s First Full month in Office Brings Massive Employment Boom.

Zero spent 8 years stifling the economy to make tens of millions jobless on purpose, so that they’d be dependent on government welfare programs and thus vote Democrat.  Trump is reversing that and fast, making him a hero to those millions.

More proof is Bloomberg’s headline yesterday (3/09):  U.S. Consumer Comfort Just Reached Its Highest Level in a Decade.

This morning (3/10), the Bloomberg headline is: America’s Labor Market Is Getting Better by Almost Any Measure — Payrolls, wages, workforce participation all show improvement.

One clear reason for the optimism, what’s causing both jobs and the stock markets to soar, is Trump’s determination to get the government out of the way.  Thus the headline ereyesterday (3/08): The Biggest News in Washington: Deregulation.

In his first six weeks, Trump with Pubs in Congress have rolled back 90 job-crushing federalie regs, and they’re just getting started.

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You’re not tired of all this winning, are you?  ‘Cause there’s lots more.  Yesterday (3/09), the IBD reported: Trump Is Already Winning On Border Security:

“In February, border agents apprehended just 18,762 people at the U.S./Mexican border, a 40% drop from January, which was itself a 27% decline from December.

In fact, illegal border crossings have fallen every month since Trump won the election. And February’s number was lower than any month in the previous five years, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”

On Tuesday (3/07), Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced a $1.19 billion fine on a Chinese company for export violations – which the company, ZTE, has agreed to pay.

On Thursday (3/09), EPA Director Scott Pruitt publicly declared that carbon dioxide is not the primary cause of global warming – blasphemy that is giving eco-fascists the vapors.  Just compare these two stories, the first an honest one from the Washington Times, the second a Lying Swine one from the Washington Post – with bias so blatant it’s gelastic.

Pruitt Starts Steering EPA Away from Climate Change, More toward Clean Water and Air

On Climate Change, Scott Pruitt Causes an Uproar — and Contradicts the EPA’s Own Website

Actually, Pruitt is just getting started.  Get ready for this.  Did you know that the EPA has an Office of Environmental Justice?  Or that it’s been in existence for 24 years, and for all that time it’s been run by a dreadlocked Black Moslem Social Justice Warrior named Mustafa Ali?

Mustafa Ali

You can’t make stuff like that up.  The cool news is that yesterday (3/09), Mustafa quit, resigned in bitterness over “White House plans to eliminate the EPA Environmental Justice program.”

Don’t worry about him, though – he already had a cushy job lined up.  Get ready for this one too.  The Hip Hop Caucus announced (3/09) that Mustafa is their new vice-president.  Hey, wipe those tears of laughter off your face!  This is serious news here.  Too serious to make it up.

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In other You-Can’t-Make-This-Up-News this week, Pelosi Galore (aka Bela Pelosi) on Tuesday (3/07) proclaimed that Trump “has created nothing but chaos.”

You won’t get a better example of Libtard Democrat projection than that.  The entire Dem agenda now is to offer nothing constructive whatever, and do everything they can to cause chaos.  Chaos is all they do with lies, raging anger, obstruction, and Fake News.  Luckily, no one listens to Senile Nancy anymore outside her echo chamber.

Actually, Senator Di-Fi tried to one up Nancy in egregious projection.  In a Senate Judiciary Hearing on Tuesday (3/07), she had the jaw-dropping chutzpah to say she was worried that the Trump Justice Department “could become politicized.”

This from a Dem who never over eight years objected to the most corrupt, crooked, perverted, politicized Justice Department in history under Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.

But you know what a female dog Karma is, right Di-Fi?  Obamagate At Last on Wednesday (3/08) talked about the Mother of Democrat Pandora’s Boxes:

“Unless the Schumer-Pelosi Democrats, Zero’s Deep State Embeds, and the Fake News Lying Swine surrender and cease their treasonous subversion, it will be open season for Sessions Justice to prosecute all of Zero’s betrayals of America.  Fast and Furious would make a good start.”

And guess what Attorney General Sessions said the very next day, yesterday (3/09):  that he would be open to the appointment of an outside counsel to review actions taken by the Justice Department during the Obama administration.

The purpose of such a special prosecutor would be to examine the grounds for criminal charges against Obama Justice regarding Fast & Furious, the IRS’ treatment of conservative groups, whitewashing Hillary’s email scandal and so much else.

The Dems have been warned.  They better start being oh-so-nice good little boys and girls from now on – especially since Wikileaks blew their Trump-colluded-with-Russia-to-rig-the-election smear to smithereens.

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This is going to get scary now.

The Vault 7 bombshell that blows up the Dem narrative is that the CIA stole Russian malware to misattribute its attacks to the Russkies.  Obamagate At Last discusses why this could be “Watergate on steroids” for Zero.  Let’s hope so.

Now the hunt is on for the “CIA mole” who leaked “the entire hacking capacity of the CIA” to WikiLeaks.  Who could that be?

Vault 7 knocks out tens of $billions worth of Langley’s SIGINT capacity – hundreds of millions of line of code that took around $100 a line to write and debug.  The report is that Langley was stupid enough to let as many as 5,000 cyberagents and contractors have access to it.

But all of this vast hacking capacity was compartmentalized, with different and very secure passwords for each compartment.  No one “mole” or even a group of them would have access to all the passwords.  Who would?

You know it’s not the Russkies nor the Chicoms, for spycraft never works that way.  Something that valuable you never tell the world about it.  For a clue to who – or what – is the culprit, let’s look at what US Army military intelligence officer Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, now retired, told Sean Hannity on Fox News Wednesday evening (3/08).

The Dem narrative is that Russians colluding with Trump hacked into DNC computers, and gave what they found to WikiLeaks to ruin Hillary.  What actually happened, according to Shaffer, is:

“The DNC hack was carried out by former NSA officials who wanted to expose Hillary Clinton, but then it was made to look as if the Russians were responsible.  Sean, we did it. Not me, but our guys, former members of NSA, retired intelligence officers used these tools to break in there and get the information out.

 

That’s what the Democrats don’t want to talk about because it doesn’t fit their narrative… the evidence is not that the Russians did it, the evidence is that a Russian tool was used — concerned Americans fed up with the Clintons doing things I think were the ones who actually got in there and broke the information out and gave it to Wikileaks.”

Here’s the video.  Shaffer starts his explanation at 4:40.

Whoa, Nellie.  That’s a bombshell.  Which leads to another.  Here is what I’ve been told by friends who know the US intelligence community very well from the inside.

The rivalry between the NSA and CIA has reached civil war levels with Zero giving vast billions to Langley to encroach on the NSA’s job of signals intercepts.  SIGINT is the NSA specialty, that’s all it does – it has backdoors, for example, in the core routers of the internet backbone like those of Cisco and Juniper.

Langley is supposed to handle HUMINT and all other intel activities, leaving the NSA alone to its job.  But it didn’t, metastasizing into a competitor threatening to destroy the NSA by stupidly giving thousands of CIA contractors the keys to the entire intel hacking kingdom.

The result is the NSA deciding to take its competitor out with a Pearl Harbor attack on Langley.  It will take Langley years to recover from this Vault 7 catastrophe, while the NSA is now free to resume its SIGINT monopoly.

That’s what I’m told.  My sources are now exceedingly worried what the DO boys at Langley might do in revenge.

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The HFR is getting a bit long here, and I know you have a ton of questions about other stuff this week – particularly McConnell’s asinine claim yesterday that tax reform would have to wait until after Congress’ August Recess.  Today Trump had Sean Spicer correct Mitch, saying in so many words that, oh, yes, tax reform will be completed before the Recess or there won’t be a Recess.

Then of course there’s Ryan’s Obamacare 2.0 or “Ryancare.”  I had a long talk over a cup of coffee with Mark Meadows (R-NC), Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus opposing it.  First you should know, he’s a terrific guy, simply rock solid and whip smart on conservative and constitutional principles.

He explained there are “Simply not enough votes to pass (Ryancare) as is.  We have to get rid of all the insurance regs and mandates that were in the Affordable Care Act in order to drive premiums down.  So I’m confident, after speaking with President Trump about this, that we’ll be able to put in correcting amendments in the Rules Committee markup.”

This is a story to be continued…

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We’ll close with a trio of stories.  First is about the marvelous  dinner that Ted Cruz and his family had with the President and the First Lady at the White House on Wednesday evening (3/08).  As a treat, Trump took the Cruz kids to the Oval Office so they could have a picture at the Resolute Desk:

The Fake News Media played it up like this was some kind of “make nice” dinner after Trump’s mistreatment of Cruz in the primaries.  They did that a long time ago.

Exactly one week after Trump’s election, Tuesday November 15, Cruz met Trump in his Trump Tower Penthouse in Manhattan.  What they discussed has not been disclosed – until now.  Multiple sources close to both of them have confirmed to me that Trump offered Cruz to be Scalia’s replacement on the Supreme Court.

Cruz was so taken aback he asked for time to think about it.  He took too long.  By the time he went back to Trump saying Yes, he accepted, Trump told him Too late, already picked Gorsuch.

“It’s for the better,” Ted told Trump.  “Neil will be much easier to confirm than me, and I’m really having too much fun in the Senate to leave now.  I hope you’ll keep me in mind when the next vacancy pops up, though!”  Trump’s reply:  “You got it.”

That’s not what they talked about at dinner, however.  Actually, it was mostly the Cruzes and the Trumps enjoying being with each other.  Ted did get in a few words about Obamacare Repeal, and Trump was all ears.  Those words are in the must-read of the week: Cruz’s The Right Way to Repeal Obamacare.

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Our second story is about the Azure Window.  In December 2009, I wrote about the heroic history of the Maltese in The Siege of Malta.

I included plenty of pictures I took, including one of the amazing sea arch on the island of Gozo called The Azure Window:

At 9:40am Malta time on Wednesday (3/08), after a raging storm had been pounding the sea cliffs relentlessly, the iconic great arch collapsed – and not just the arch but the stacks holding it up.  There’s nothing left now, as if it never was.

The lesson for us all is carpe diem – for if you don’t it will be as if it never was.

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The third is even more personal.  As you can imagine, I was pretty wild when young.  In my 20s I lived in Hawaii, where one day my Hawaiian girlfriend Vonnie Brenno – who is now a famously accomplished artist – and I were having fun jumping off the small 20 foot sea cliffs called the China Walls.

Some other guys were there, one of whom pointed to this enormous cliff next to us about 100 feet high, and said he could jump off it.  Below were these two giant coral heads, with waves thundering between them to crash into the cliff with this massive ka-WHUMP sending ocean spray 50-60 feet high.

When I was skeptical, he proceeded to scamper up the cliff, stood on a ledge at the top, and leapt into space.  He popped out of the water, scrambled back to me with a gloating smile – whereupon I immediately asked, “Could you show me how to do that?”

We climbed the cliff together, got on the ledge, he showed me how to position myself so I’d land between the coral heads, and off he went.  With his head bobbing in the water below waiting to see if I’d really do this, I lined up.

If you’ve ever tried anything like this, you know that 50 feet is a long ways down.  Each 10 feet more ups the anxiety level dramatically – 60, 70, OMG 80.  90 or 100 is just off the chart.  But I wasn’t thinking about that – just how to line it up right.  Off I went.

What a rush, like this bolt of joyous electricity went through my body.  I knew how to hit the water right so it was no problemo.  From then on, whenever friends from the mainland came to visit, Vonnie and I would include my jumping off the 100 foot cliff for them as part of our island tour.  I did this for Nathaniel Branden.  He was in state of shock afterward.

Why am I telling you this?  Because on Tuesday (3/07), there was a big news story: Teen SURVIVES 90ft face-first plunge off Hawaii’s ‘Leap of Faith’ cliff into the sea.

Turns out that my cliff jump has since become known as “The Leap of Faith.”  It’s past Diamond Head and Hanuama Bay before you get to Sandy Beach – on the back side of Eternity Cove (aka Halona Cove where Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr had their famous love scene with crashing waves in From Here to Eternity).

The lesson is:  We are all lucky to be alive.  Tomorrow is undetermined, it may never come for any of us.  What is to be treasured is that we are here, alive, on earth, today.  We’ve made it this far.  That is an accomplishment to be celebrated.  Let’s all appreciate it.