HALF-FULL REPORT 12/18/09

Wow – look at that vast array of gorgeously wrapped Christmas presents under the tree.  There are so many – which one should we open first?

I’m glad you all liked TTP’s Christmas present to our country:  The Double-D Strategy for Rescuing America.  Up only since yesterday afternoon, it’s already going wildly viral.  I’m especially appreciative of your comments on the Forum, such as this by Mitch Rapp:

Jack,
This is like bringing down the Soviet Union. This is the kind of realistic, practical plan that can work.

TTPers: heed this call. Spread this message far and wide. This is a free article, so send the link to everyone for whom you have an email address. Troll every bulletin board website you know and post the link. Go to your Congresscritter’s homepage and send them the Defund Pledge. Print out a copy and snail-mail it to their office. If they refuse to sign it, they will be run out of office. Go to their local office and hand deliver a copy.

This will work. We must spread the word.

I hope you follow Mitch’s advice.  And I do need to make a clarification.  Yes, I said we "don’t need guns" to effect the Double-D and rescue America peacefully and non-violently.  But we sure do need to keep our guns and have them at the ready so we can protect ourselves from a violent Fascist Left if necessary.  That’s the very purpose of the Second Amendment. 

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Before we start opening presents, here’s a question:  Who knew Copenhagen was in Mongolia?  For the Danish capital is this week the site of one of history’s more gigantic Mongolian Cluster, ah, Foulups…

So – our first present is from Hillary Clinton, who has "electrified" all the warmists freezing in Copenhagen (it snowed several inches there yesterday and temps are at record lows) with her "pledge" of $100 billion in payoffs to Third World beggars.

I swear, reading the morning news these days is so much funnier than any comedy skit on SNL.  Almost every story is so cluelessly hilarious, and the headline on Hillary gets an even bigger belly-laugh than normal.

The press and the beggars hail her as a hero, not reading her fine print.  The offer, you see, is "conditional" upon China accepting international verification of the emission cuts they say they will make.  It’s right out of Reagan’s "trust but verify" playbook.

Hillary knows that Congress will never give her the $100 bil, but she doesn’t care because she also knows China will reject the now famous MRV formula of "measurable, reportable, and verifiable" emission cuts.  So she comes out of the Copenhagen Debacle rose-perfumed, China the spoiler villain, and Zero looking like a failed schmuck yet again.  (Didn’t he learn his lesson when he went to Copenhagen the last time to plead for a Chicago Olympics?)

As her popularity will now soar ever higher over Zero, realize that all of this is by her design.  She has two goals:  either be on the Supreme Court or in the Oval Office.  She knows she has no chance for SCOTUS after 2010, Senate verification being impossible with a Dem minority or much-reduced majority.

She can’t wait for 2016 as she’ll be almost 70, and she can’t keep the public’s attention on her that long anyway.  Nope, folks, she’s going for 2012.  After the Dem disaster next November, she will fix all the blame for it on Zero, resign as Secretary of State, announce her candidacy, beat Zero in the primaries (if he doesn’t pull a LBJ and drop out), and be the Dem nominee.

So the next President of the United States will be a woman – because it will be Sarah Palin vs. Hillary Clinton in 2012.

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Next present – all these moonbat hippie-leftie professional protestors getting the crap beat out of  them by Copenhagen police for violently demanding that billionaire scam artists can continue ripping off the world.

"Carbon credits" is the greatest racket in the history of the world.  It leaves drug cartels and Bernie Madoff in the dust.  Governments who signed on to the Kyoto Protocol (the US is not one) set up a "market" for companies to buy and sell how much CO2 the governments permit them to produce without huge fines.  $126 billion of these "carbon credits" was traded world-wide in 2008.

Participating in this racket is what has made Algore a centimillionaire.  The racket is what the Copenhagen Conference is all about.  It is to keep the racket going and expand it enormously by roping in the United States.  This is what "Cap & Trade" is all about.  This is why Goldman Sachs and all the huge financial institutions of the world are behind "climate change" – so they can gorge themselves on the carbon credit ripoff pie.

They all expect, if Copenhagen and Cap & Trade succeed, for the carbon credit market to soon be worth trillions and for carbon (actually carbon dioxide) to be "the most valuable traded commodity in the world."  Trillions created out of absolutely nothing of real value based on a fraud and a lie.

And to make this possible, to further enrich the ripoff scam-artist crony capitalist ultimate fat cat super-wealthy, anti-capitalist Marxist hippies are willing to get the crap beat out of them.  It doesn’t get funnier than this.

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What could be in this pretty box with such a big green bow?  Why, it’s TreeRingGate!

You heard about the famous "hide the decline" Climategate email.  But the decline of what?  Turns out it’s data from tree rings. 

The basis of the glowarmers’ argument rests on the dry-labbed (faked) Hockey Stick graph of "climate researcher" Michael Mann with a secret algorithm he won’t disclose.  The UN glowarmer IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) has used it as its gold standard for "settled science" since 2001.

Mann could eliminate the Medieval Warm Period and smooth out other factors so that various types of measurements showed this huge recent spike in global temperatures – except for the tree ring data, which showed a precipitous drop after 1960.  So here’s how his hockey stick "hid the decline":

Global Warming is the greatest scientific fraud in history.  No wonder the greatest ripoff racket in history is based on it.

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What’s this?  Another graphic with a nice bow on it?  Turns out the Chinese have been keep weather records for 3,500 years.  The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong compiled the amazing climate history of China, showing how China flourished during warm periods and suffered disaster during cold periods:

You can see why the Chinese are fans of global warming and don’t want to do anything to prevent it.

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And what do we have here?  Another huge gift from Mongolia?  Something must have happened in the shipping, though, ‘cause it’s really been trashed.  Why, it’s what’s left of ObamaCare!

This is excruciatingly funny.  Screaming Howie Dean, the moonbats at Daily Koss, and talking airhead Keith Olberman are now saying kill ObamaCare as it’s not fascist enough.

But you know there’s no "it," right?  There is no Senate bill.  The dog’s breakfast is being agglutinated together in Reid’s office but no one knows what’s really in it.  So the libs are going apoplectic over legislative vaporware, while Jim DeMint and other Pub senators are promising to use every procedural gambit in the Senate Rulebook to torpedo the sinking ship to the bottom.

What a fantastic Christmas present for America:  the failure of ObamaCare and the collapse of Copenhagen climate change – back-to-back!  A double-whammy, a one-two right cross-left hook  knocking Zero and the Dems on their keesters.

It hasn’t happened yet.  But the odds look good.

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Since TTP is a family-friendly publication, we can’t put up the funniest put down of "save the planet" enviro-kooks ever as it’s so expletive-riddled.  But we can link to George Carlin.  If you don’t mind the language, enjoy…

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Yet we certainly can put up this marvelously inspirational performance by Lloyd Marcus singing, to the tune of "New York, New York" – Take Back America in 2010…

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The main reason there is so much hope for America in 2010 is that Americans are coming back to their senses.  We all have the capacity to go bananas and do really dumb self-destructive things.  The real test is having the guts and sense enough to get ourselves out of the jam we got ourselves into.

Americans went weirdo in the last election.  They won’t in the next.  One powerful bit of evidence is this.  The endless and unavoidably ubiquitous propaganda of every major media outlet for global warming has failed.  The best pollster in the business, Rasmussen, yesterday (12/17) released the finding that 50% of voters "believe that global warming is caused primarily by long-term planetary trends," while only 34% think it’s man-made.

Let’s give our fellow Americans – or enough of them to make a voting difference – credit for having the plain common sense smarts not be swept away by the torrent of climate alarmism.  The common sense decency and intelligence of our countrymen has come back – which means America is going to come back.

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Emblematic of Common Sense America is Sarah Palin.  So there’s no resisting making sure you see her slice-and-dice put down of glowarmer fanatic Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Arnold picked the fight when he loudly and smirkingly criticized her op-ed on Climategate in the Washington Post (12/09).

Here’s her response.  Watch how the little lady from Wasilla terminates the Terminator:

Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation’s only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change.

While I and all Alaskans witness the impacts of changes in weather patterns firsthand, I have repeatedly said that we can’t primarily blame man’s activities for those changes. And while I did look for practical responses to those changes, what I didn’t do was hamstring Alaska’s job creators with burdensome regulations so that I could act "greener than thou" when talking to reporters.  – Sarah Palin

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It’s time to wish you all a Merry Christmas.  Christmas is a celebration of Providence.  It’s a celebration of man’s capacity to take the deepest days of dark cold winter and turn them into a joyous occasion of love, friendship, and family.

It’s also time to let you know that TTP is taking a Christmas Break.  We’ll be back up a bit before New Year’s with the next Half-Full Report and Weekly Report.  Until then, I and TTP wish you and your loved ones the very merriest of Christmases.

To help it be so, here are two classics of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.  First the original, from the 1942 movie Holiday Inn, by Bing Crosby – still the single largest-selling recording of all time. 

Second, the doo-wop version of The Drifters.  Take your pick, or enjoy both.  A Joyous Christmas to you all!!