HALF-FULL REPORT 06/11/10

Well, hasn’t this been a fun week.  An icon of the liberal media – the execrable Helen Thomas – is exposed as a disgusting anti-Semitic racist and her life career ends in ruins.  Zero exposes himself as a no-class punk president who belongs in Junior High School rather than the White House.

His kick-your-ass taunt is that of some 8^th-grade wimp trying to pretend he’s tough.  All such a taunt gets is derision and ridicule.  It invites the response for which the Brits are applauding London Mayor Boris Johnson  – "Hey, STFU!" 

On both sides of the Atlantic, this summer’s most enjoyable pastime promises to be Dissing Zero.  Kicking things off, America’s favorite Congresswoman, Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) views Zero as "infantile," and "the worst president in US history."  That was followed by the leader of that cabal of America-haters, the ACLU, saying "I’m disgusted with this president."

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More fun.  Every Euroweenie in Old Europe is horrified by the Dutch voting (6/09) in huge numbers for Geert Wilders and his pro-Holland/anti-Moslem immigrant Freedom Party.  "More security, less crime, less immigration, less Islam – that is what the Netherlands has chosen," announced Geert. 

His party’s seats in the Tweede Kamer – The Second Chamber or House (together with the Eerste Kamer, the First Chamber or Senate, comprises the Staten Generaal, the States-General or Parliament) – increased from 9 to 24.  The pro-free market Liberal Party won the most (31), the pro-welfare state Labor Party came next (30), the ruling Christian Democrat squishes got routed with only 21.  The rest of the 150 seats were divided up by fringe parties, including the Partij voor de Dieren, the Party of the Animals advocating "animal rights," which got 2.  The Dutch can be weird.

Now the question is, Who compromises what? to form a coalition government with at least 76 seats.  Wilders was first out of the box.  One kind of freedom his Freedom Party has not staunchly stood for is economic freedom.  But he quickly proposed to abandon opposition to increasing the retirement age, which the free market Liberals want, if they would give up opposing Moslem immigration reform.

Thus one outcome of the Dutch election this week could be more economic freedom, less government welfare, and the de-Islamization of Holland.  There are many other possible outcomes, but at least this is one of them now.  Congratulations, Geert!

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Euroweenies are shocked by Dutch voters because they willfully blind themselves to the culture-destroying danger of the Moslem invasion of Europe.  A perfect example is a BBC news story this week (6/09):  Immigrant Youths Riot in Sweden, Burning Down School.

The rioters are identified as "youths, "first or second generation immigrants" from Somalia living in a slum next to Stockholm called "Little Mogadishu."  The BBC tortuously avoids informing its readers that they are Moslems sponging off the Swedish welfare state as illegal aliens, and perpetrating violence in gratitude.

There are 9 million Swedes.  A few years ago, they decided to show how "tolerant" they were and invited "refugees" from Moslem countries to come and sponge off their welfare state.  Now Sweden has 300,000 Moslem moochers demanding Sharia law – or else. 

In the upcoming elections this September, Sweden may provide the next Euroweenie shocker via the Swedish Geert Wilders, Jimmie Akesson and his Sweden Democrats party (Sverigedemokraterna, SD).  The party’s campaign slogan is Bevara Sverige Svenskt – Keep Sweden Swedish. 

But SD is more than that – it wants to Keep Sweden Christian.  Which is why most Iraqi Christians (Chaldean, Assyrian, and Syraic Orthodox), some 40,000, who have fled Moslem persecution in a country Americans died to liberate, are SD members.

The giant difference is that Iraqi Christians want to assimilate into Sweden, while the Moslems want Sweden to assimilate into Islam.  Oh, yes – SD is also solid free market and pro-small business, plus pro-family and "one man-one woman" marriage.  The HFR is rooting for Jimmie Akesson and his Sweden Democrats on Septemebr 19.

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Speaking of illegal aliens – is it possible to sympathize less with Mexican hypocrites enraged by a US Border Patrol agent shooting a Mexican teen-ager throwing rocks at him?  No, it’s not.  Where’s the apology from Mexicans and their government for the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz on his own property by a Mexican illegal alien?  No Mexican tears were shed for him.

The people, the government, and the president Felipe Calderon of Mexico owe America the apology of the ages for their invasion of our country.  They should be down on their knees in gratitude that their invaders aren’t gunned down en masse the minute they cross the border – and are treated with incredible charity instead.

That Americans are treated with contempt and hatred for their charity by Mexicans and their government is inexpressibly immoral.  It is also a guarantee that this charity and tolerance is coming to an end. 

According to Rasmussen, 67% of Americans support Arizona’s anti-illegals law and want the US military to stop the illegal invasion from across the Mexico border.  70% want criminal sanctions on employers who hire illegals, 58% say no to citizenship for children of illegals born here.  This week (6/09), Rasmussen released a poll showing that 56% of all voters prefer Jan Brewer’s immigration policy rather than Zero’s.

Illegals have been flooding out of Arizona since the passage of the new law.  Watch for them to start flooding out of America after November 2^nd.

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The big story of the week, however, is the rise of Conservative Republican Powerhouse Women.  Say Adios to Liberal Feminism, say Good Morning! to Conservative Feminism.  Carly Fiorina & Meg Whitman (remember hearing about them in Senate Sitrep 2010 way back in August 2009?), Nikki Haley (bless the gallant South Carolinians who slapped down the white trash slurs), Sharron Angle (who just may fry Dirty Harry’s bacon) – all of a sudden Sarah Palin has a lot of company.

Sarah calls them "Mama Grizzlies" – and her description is spot on, for they are going to make lunch out of liberals.  Their numbers will grow.  One you may not have heard of – "another hot Republican babe" as TTP’s Jack Kelly puts it – is Kristi Noem.

South Dakota has only one seat in Congress (the whole state is the district), which is currently held by a pro-abortion Dem, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin.  One issue Kristi is hammering Sandlin on shows what an advocate of the Defund Strategy she is (paying attention, Mitch?)

After Sandlin voted No on passing ObamaCare (3/21), Kristi asked if she would vote to repeal it.  Sandlin said she wouldn’t.  Kristi’s response:

"Stephanie Herseth Sandlin can’t have it both ways. If the healthcare bill was not good enough to vote for, then she should be working to repeal it or at least defund the parts that are so terrible for South Dakota taxpayers."

Yep, she’s a mama grizzly.  Expect Sarah, and SD Senator John Thune (whom many of his colleagues look upon as presidential timber) to campaign hard for her.

As for Sarah – you may have heard the latest liberal media flapdoodle about her having breast implants.  Maybe, maybe not, although the HFR considers breast implants to be one of the greatest contributions of science to humanity.  The only response from Sarah was this classic from one of her staffers:

"If only liberals could have brain implants, soul implants and heart implants, they’d be human."

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Two more good news items. 

First, Jack Abramoff was freed from prison this week.  He’ll be spending the next several months at a half-way house, then be really free in December.  Jack is a huge fan of TTP.  Every week, his wife Pam prints up the TTP Weekly Report and takes it to him.  Now he’ll have access to the Internet, so if you want to wish him well, please do so on the Forum.

Second, we have the gift of new life.  TTP’s one and only Miko was blessed with a son this week!  Baby Miguel is doing fine and so is his Mom.  Congratulations, Miko!

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We close the week with a HFR bonus feature, an analysis of why we Americans are not infected with the current mania sweeping the globe.

Maybe you saw the big banner headline on Drudge yesterday (6/10) Everybody… but America – meaning the whole world has come to a screeching halt and can focus on nothing else but the World Cup soccer games, while we stupid pitiful gringos in America couldn’t care less.

Which gives me ample opportunity to explain why Americans don’t care about soccer and never will.  Why, for Americans, the game should more appropriately be called bograkab – which stands for bunch-of-guys-running-around-kicking-a-ball.

Billions of people all over the planet think soccer is the most exciting game to watch there is – but very few of them are Americans.  Both of these facts should be acceptable to all.  But for some reason, global soccer fans become infuriated and incensed that we think their game is excruciatingly boring.  Here’s why.

Run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball – never score.  Run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball – never score.  Run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball – never score. 

That’s pretty much it for Americans.  Once in a blue moon, someone does manage to score, and everyone runs around with berserk-o excitement as if they won a Gold Medal at the Olympics.

In other words, Americans don’t get it.  Why don’t they get it?  Because, for them, there’s no pace, there’s no drama.  Soccer fans will sneer and shout of course there is – but that’s true for them, not Americans.

There’s no doubt that high-level soccer players are amazingly skilled athletes in amazingly good condition.    But it’s still drama-less bograkab for Americans, because they prefer a far different kind of drama.

Compare the drama of football – real football, American football, not futbol as soccer is also called – to bograkab.  There’s an incredible amount of complex skilled action compressed into a few seconds, then the action stops – and while the players are regrouping and figuring out what’s next, so are the fans. 

The drama, the anticipation, builds.  It’s 3^rd and three.  Will they go long or just try and punch it through to grind out another first down?  Every play is like this.  Over and over again.

The drama and pace of this compressed action/no action-analysis-regrouping cycle is completely different from the drama and pace of endless bograkab – and thus, no matter how dazzling the athletic performance, it remains unappealing and boring to Americans.

The other thing that’s such a turnoff about soccer is that it’s so infuriatingly phony – watching skilled athletes in great shape at the slightest interaction with opposing players fall down and writhe around the ground in ersatz girlie-man agony.  If the ref doesn’t call a penalty, the fans go berserk in anger.

Can you imagine the level of contempt Americans would have if they saw NFL players pretending to be girlie-men in order to get a foul called on the other team?

So –now you know.  And now you know why American kids, who love to play soccer because kids love to run around and kick a ball, have been growing up for decades and end up football, not soccer fans.  For 40 years I’ve been hearing how soccer-playing kids will grow up to be soccer fans.  Not gonna happen, not in America.