HALF-FULL REPORT 02/27/09

The bartender here in the HFR Saloon always eyes me warily when I say off-the-wall things like, "It doesn’t matter how much I drink today because I’ll still stay sober."

He refused to serve me anything but soda water until I explained myself.  "Well, nothing could be more sobering than what happened to America this week.  You know how they say that in Chinese, the word for ‘danger’ or ‘crisis’ is the same word for ‘opportunity’?"

He nodded, I continued.  "One thing this entails is that the bigger the danger, the bigger the opportunity.  I’m not sure I can imagine a bigger danger to my country than its president purposefully planning to destroy it – and with the political power to do so."

"The opportunity on the other side has got to be amazingly big to match that," he noted.  "What is it?"

"To get rid of all this liberal-commie anti-American fascist Big Brother crap once and for all.  To replace the Moocher America we have now with a Free America, a Constitutional America."

His brow furrowed.  "So you’re saying that having a president out to destroy America is what it takes to wake people up and get them to save America?  Does that mean you’re glad to see this guy in the White House?"

I winced.  "Ouch.  Let me think about that, man.  I better stick to soda water today, huh?"

"Good idea," he observed.

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If you Google "Obama" + "Anti-Christ" you will get 2,300,000 hits.  Evidently a lot of folks believe the two are one and the same.  If you Google "Obama" + "Hitler" you will get 7,640,000 websites comparing the two.  And if you Google "Obama" + "Big Brother" you get 6,930,000 websites arguing that Zero is the incarnation of George Orwell’s fascist dictator of 1984.

One can dismiss these comparisons as hyperbolic, yet these website numbers are sure to balloon.  For yesterday (2/26), all doubt was removed that the goal of Zero’s presidency is to destroy – no hyperbole, actually destroy – America’s prosperity and national security. 

His 2010 Federal Budget is Orwellian in name and detail.  The title, repeated on every page, is classic Orwellian newspeak/doublethink:  "A New Era of Responsibility," with the subtitle: "Renewing America’s Promise."  It is rather, an era of irresponsibility and the destruction of America’s promise.

A trillion dollars in new taxes, trillion dollar deficits forever, purposefully devoid of any incentives for business growth and wealth creation – one could list the examples of political depravity here all day long.

There is, however, a silver lining – which is why my glass of soda water is half-full.  This budget is final confirmation that Zero has abandoned the strategy that has enabled the Dems to slowly and steadily erode our freedoms for years and years:  the strategy of Boiling the Frog.

If you put a frog in a pot of cool water and heat the water slowly enough (0.002°C per second in experiments), the incremental rise in temperature stays below the frog’s threshold of awareness all the way to boiling and it dies.

The Democrats have been using this strategy to steadily implement fascist control over our lives incrementally, slowly enough so Americans don’t jump out of their pot – all the while keeping the pot full of free food and goodies so they want to stay.

With the most radical leftist president in history and in full control of Congress, the Dems can no longer exercise the patience required to steadily boil American freedom to death.  They’ve turned up the heat way too fast.

The first frogs to jump out will be the ones the Dems are most depending on – the rich 2% Zero intends to bilk to pay for his budget.  They are outta here.  $1.7 trillion deficit?  In your dreams, Zero.  It’ll be double that, easy.

This means that those Chinese frogs that discovered they are also in the pot after buying all those Treasurys will be saying zai jain, we’re outta here too.  Zero can forget about the Chicoms (or anyone else like the Euroweenies or Japanese whose governments are more broke than ours) buying his worthless T-bills.

But what about all the vast millions of American frogs too scared, too complacent, too blind, and too dependent on the free goodies to jump out before it’s too late?  What about the Republican frogs in Congress?

They don’t have until 2012 – they’re cooked if they wait that long.  They and all of us have until 2010.  If the GOP has a net gain of 40 seats in the House and 5 in the Senate (the gains in 1994 were 54 and 8), elected on a Prosperity Revival platform, then Zero’s plan for America’s doom can be thwarted.

The Prosperity Revival would consist, at a minimum of:

• Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley (including mandatory mark-to-market accounting)
• Eliminate all taxes on capital gains
• Reduce corporate taxes from 35% (the world’s highest) to 20%
• Allow full expensing for business purchases including real estate

Plus declare "man-made climate change" to be a hoax, that the world is in a carbon dioxide deficit  such that we need more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not less.  With this in place, an economic boom would be initiated.

But right now, we all have to work on devising an "Obama-Proof Portfolio" for our investments, and how best to physically protect ourselves while the American economy is driven – on purpose – straight off a cliff by Zero. 

Next week, we’ll have our first two articles in a TTP series on both these issues.  In the meantime, all doubts, if there were any before, are now gone.  No if, ands, or buts.  The President of the United States is consciously determined with malice aforethought to destroy his own country.  If this isn’t treason, nothing is.

Care for a glass of soda water?

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There’s got to be somebody we can toast this week, though, even with only soda water.  How about the Chinese?  They are investing $35 billion in new energy projects:  gas pipelines, petrochemical refineries, coal mines, LNG facilities, etc.  Read the linked article and you’ll see not the slightest mention of "alternative energy" or "green projects" or other eco-twaddle.

The Chinese are serious about energy, as serious as Zero is not.

Who else can we toast?  How about the Swiss?  They are not going to put up with the US’s attempt to destroy their economy, built on banking secrecy.  The Swiss understand clearly that the DOJ’s demand for tens of thousands of account holders’ identities and bank records is a pure fascist fishing expedition.

They know the US government, in its desperate effort to steal as much money as possible from those trying to protect themselves from such theft, want to destroy them.  The Swiss courts and largest political parties are not going to let them get away with it.  

So here’s to the Swiss.  We wish them luck – and advise folks to never put their dough in a foreign bank, Swiss or otherwise, that has branches in the US.

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We can also toast a high school kid, 15 year-old McKay Hatch, a sophomore at South Pasadena High in southern California.

The most foul-mouthed people in the world today are American teen-agers.  Every second word they utter is a swear word.  (The first words are either "like" or "you know".)

Sick and tired of this, McKay organized a No Cussing Club, with the motto, "Don’t cuss if you want to hang with us."  He was laughed at and mocked (with a torrent of four-letter words), a few kids joined – and it grew.

Today the No Cussing Club has 30 chapters around the US and overseas, with 20,000 members worldwide.  You can learn more on the club international website, nocussing.com.

This is a thrilling story about the future of America:  kids who have the courage to be moral heroes.  We raise a glass of soda water in gratitude to McKay Hatch.