HALF-FULL REPORT 09/05/08

To call this a half-full report this week would be ridiculous.  Even an "overflowingly full report" wouldn't come close.  Think of that famous picture of the Spindletop oil gusher, only it's a gusher of good news.  That's more like it.

First, however, since I was underwater on a dive trip last week immediately following the TTP Revolutionary Rendezvous, I need to brief you quickly on what we learned in Boston.

Jack Kelly explained why he still thought Sarah Palin would be McCain's best VP choice.  Joel Wade explained the importance, in politics and life, of coherence of character ("authenticity") – and why Dems like Obambi just don't have it.  In addition, a number of TTP'ers shared their knowledge with us.

Jerry Finn, for example, whose machine tool company does business all over the world, told us that Japanese and Taiwanese businessmen are pulling their investments (which are enormous) out of China now, and putting them into India instead.  Horrific environmental degradation in China is one reason, rule of law is another (India has a lot more of it than China).

Dick Omohundro, who runs a large offshore investment fund, explained why he thought the euro is headed down to at least $1.20.

There was so much else, and we all had such a great time – so plan on being there for the next Rendezvous, February in Phoenix.

It couldn't have happened without TTP General Manager Miko Reyes and a host of TTP volunteers.  Special thanks goes to Dan Barak with his amazing skill using Google Earth to focus in on any place in the world that I was talking about.  I don't know how I'll ever give my Map of the Future talk again without Dan!  Many, many thanks to you all.

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Now, on to world events, starting with the world's most famous woman.  Mark this week as when Omania fizzled out.  O stands for Over.  There's little to add about Sarah right now except to stand back in awe, and contemplate the blessings of Providence upon America.

That, and order a case of Alaska IPA, a great beer brewed in Juneau within sight of Governor Palin's office. 

There's two months to go, and that's an eternity in politics.  The Dems and the Moonbat Media will not fight fair, as they have so revoltingly proven.  The odds, however, are that both will destroy themselves rather than destroy Sarah and McCain. 

Pretty soon the Dems will be worrying about losing House & Senate seats rather fantasizing about massive gains.  It won't be long before House & Senate Dem candidates will be running away from O and Joe, and disinviting them to their campaign rallies.

When they finally realize disaster is upon them, they will turn against themselves.  On November 5, it will be Morning in America again.

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Another nail in Obambi's coffin was placed this week by my friend Ken Timmerman, who has unearthed how O got into Harvard:  with the help of a hate-America Black Moslem and a Saudi millionaire.

If you haven't got the article in your Inbox, read it via the link then consider sending it out yourself. 

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Onto Russia.  While Euroweenia is proclaiming Czar Putin to be the world's most powerful man, smart folks here in DC are examining his many vulnerabilities. They start with an ethnic map of the Caucasus:

As you can see, the Ossetians and Abkhaz aren't the only folks in the area.  Putin uses both of them against Georgia, but it turns out that a number of other peoples in the Caucasus hate the Russians.  The Ingush of Ingushetia are now in a state of near all-out rebellion against Russia now.  People in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria are as well.

Even Chechnya is rumbling, even though it's ruthlessly run by a thug warlord bought off by Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov.  Chechens bitterly oppose South Ossetian/Abkhaz  "independence" after Putin perpetrated genocide upon them for wanting the same thing.

There are all kinds of places in Russia that have little love for Moscow and its control over their lives.  A region between the Volga River and the Ural mountains called Bashkiria is demanding virtual freedom from Moscow. 

No governor of any region of Russia is elected.  They are all appointed by Putin, and many of them are extremely unpopular, such as in the Siberian regions of Sakhalin and Kamchatka, or the enclave of Kaliningrad sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland.  Calls for autonomy in them is starting to crescendo.

Russia needs to be broken apart like the Soviet Union.  It's clearly doable.  It could be a major foreign policy objective of the McCain-Palin White House. 

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For three years – since September 2005! – you've known why man-made global warming is a myth.  Solar Warming explained the mechanism of warming, of how the sun's magnetic activity (of which sun spots are a sign) effects cloud formation on earth.

The bottom line is:  no sun spots mean a cooler earth, lots of sun spots mean a warmer earth.

This week, astronomers announced that for the first time in 100 years, an entire month has passed without a single sunspot.  This is bad news for advocates of the glo-warming religion, and thus good news for advocates of freedom from fascist control over our lives.  But it's also bad news for our planet.

Cold kills, much more than heat.  It's silly to start predicting another Ice Age, but not at all to start preparing for a freezing winter this year. 

So it seems appropriate to raise a glass of Fossil Fuel Beer brewed with 45 million year-old yeast extracted from ancient amber to acknowledge the shifts in the earth's climate that have been occurring from time immemorial – and the staggering stupidity of anyone who could believe one of the shifts is caused by them.

Global Cooling may be upon us.

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But don't let that cool off the excitement and passion and joy we all feel this week.  Revel in it.  There will be bumps and jolts and outrages in the next 60 days, but it looks like it's going to be pretty much a downhill ride.  Victory is nigh – and thanks to Sarah Palin, a real victory, not just the defeat of moonbat evil.  A New Dawn of Freedom may be breaking upon America.