HALF-FULL REPORT 06/18/10

Do you hear that music?  Sure sounds beautiful.  As the Left becomes more disenchanted with Zero, folks inside the Zero White House are leaking what’s going on to leftie blogs.  Here is a compilation of those leaks that is appearing all over the liberal-left blogosphere. 

Disturbing and mesmerizing whispering that the Oval Office is the scene of stormy and romantic melodrama between POTUS and his most senior and trusted advisers. Whispering that POTUS is sleeping poorly and is much aggrieved at slights, shortfalls, interruptions. Whispering that POTUS is vulnerable to jet lag. That POTUS has returned to chain-smoking. That POTUS hesitates to heed his advisers, because POTUS frets that he is being sand-bagged by experts, allies, confidantes. Whispering that POTUS frailties most in display in West Wing settings. That POTUS evidences a Nixonian persecution mania. Can any of this be confirmed? Not easily. Less detailed, POTUS is said to express his opinion to pals in Chicago that he dislikes his job. Wilder whisperings that some pros are now weighing that POTUS try an LBJ exit after one term – rather than face a Carter collapse.

What music to our ears. 

You may recall this from The Zero Resignation Challenge from a year ago (June 2009):

Zero’s job approval numbers will keep heading downhill along with the economy.  This is a doomed presidency.  So doomed that I think the issue is not whether he will be re-elected in 2012 but whether he will run at all – like Lyndon Johnson who overwhelmingly defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964, and had become so overwhelmingly unpopular that he didn’t run for re-election in 1968. 

Now even the left is comparing Zero to LBJ.

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Speaking of music – and the most obnoxious antithesis to it imaginable – you can’t get a clearer example of Euroweenie pathological multiculturalism than its praise of vuvuzela horns at the World Cup as South Africa’s "cultural heritage."

The claim that these plastic horns originate from a kudu antelope horn "traditionally used to call people from long distances" is drivel.  They are less than ten years old, first made by a South African company called Masincedane Sport in 2001, based on a horn made of tin in Mexico.

Producing a sound like a giant swarm of bees at 127 decibels, vuvuzelas can cause hearing loss within minutes – and soccer fans blare them continuously for the 90 minute length of a match.  Blowing them results in droplets of spittle sprayed onto spectators – that contain flu or infectious disease bacteria the blower may have in his lungs or throat.

Calls to ban them at the World Cup come from players, coaches, fans, broadcasters, and journalists.  But as the president of FIFA (the international soccer outfit that runs the World Cup), Sepp Blatter, is the quintessential Euroweenie, the vuvuzelas cannot be banned as, in Blatter’s words, "they are ingrained in the history of South Africa."

To which comedian Dennis Miller responded, "South Africa, this is your one big chance on the world stage and the only piece of your heritage worth putting on public display is a $2.99 transmission fluid funnel?"

The literally ear-splitting horns epitomize the disaster of liberal politicizing sports in general, soccer in particular, and the World Cup specifically.  Blatter couldn’t stand it that countries actually capable of holding a World Cup got it, like Germany last time in 2006.  So he insisted that only African countries could bid for 2010, and anyone objecting was a racist "colonialist."

Crime, riots, strikes, massive traffic gridlocks, and vuvuzelas are making this World Cup a nightmare farce.  And isn’t that what liberalism always is – a nightmare farce?

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The good news in Europe is that more and more folks there are getting tired of Euroweenies.  Last week’s HFR discussed Geert Wilders’ victory in Holland.  This week (6/14), voters in Flanders chose to, in effect, break Belgium apart.

Belgium (from the Roman province of Belgica after the tribe of Belgae) is a forced marriage of the northern Dutch-speaking half of Flanders (Flandria from the German flauma, flooded) and the southern French-speaking half of Wallonia (from Walha, Strangers, the Belgae term for people who adopted Roman Latin-speaking ways).

Brussels is in the middle, mostly Wallon French, and is the capital of Belgium, of the European Union, and of Euroweenia.

Bart De Wever, whose New Flemish Party won solid control of Flanders, refers to the Wallons as "dependents" sponging off the thrifty Flemish who provide all the welfare and social security the Wallons live off.  Thanks to Wallon profligacy, the public debt of Belgium is $378 billion – 99% of its $382 billion GDP.  De Wever wants an end to this, for the Flemish to pay for their spending and the Wallons for theirs.

Elio de Rupio, whose Socialist Party won solid control of Wallonia, wants "solidarity," meaning continued Flemish subsidization.  He wants increased social spending – and price controls on 200 items including bread and milk.  De Wever says, fine, no problem – just pay for it yourselves, we’re outta here.  Here’s The Economist cartoon on Flanders/North vs. Wallonia/South in Belgium:

Remind you of any other country – like the one we (or most of us – hi, Julius) live in?

Bart De Wever would make a great TeaPartyer.  Actually, he is, part of a Tea Party movement spreading into a number of European countries.  There’s now one in Israel – israelteaparty.com (scroll down past the Hebrew to the English), in Russia – moscowteaparty.com (click on the British flag for English), in Italy – teapartyitalia, and more are popping up all the time.  All of them sport the Revolutionary War "Don’t Tread On Me" flag and the motto, "Give us liberty – not debt."

There’s even talk of a big one forming in Germany led by current German Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor Guido Westerwelle.  This could be serious.  Guido is the leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Germany’s 3^rd largest with 93 seats in the Bundestag.  The FDP is straightforward "classic liberal," meaning Austrian laissez faire free market.  Suffusing the FDP with TeaParty passion could be a revolutionary development.

Meanwhile, Barcelona, Spain’s largest city after the capital of Madrid, has banned the burqa in municipal buildings, and the Spanish government may well extend the ban to the entire country.  Yes, there is hope for Europe and Western Civilization.

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Now for biggest deal of the week.  As Jack Kelly explained, Zero’s Oval Office speech Tuesday (6/15) was a wonderful failure.  The purpose of the speech, aside from shifting the blame for the Gulf Oil Spill to everyone (including all Americans for being so energy-greedy) and away from him, was to use the spill disaster to get the Fascicrat glowarming bill passed in Congress.

Sorry, Zero, this Kerry-Lieberman turkey is going down for the count.  Zero invited Scott Brown to shoot some hoops so he could sweet talk him into voting for it, and Brown said, "gee, this is fun, thanks – but my vote’s still no."

But it’s not the Pubs who are sinking the bill, it’s Dems from coal states like Jay Rockefeller (WV) and oil states like Mary Landrieu (LA).  Looks like we can say goodbye to cap & trade, carbon taxes, and other no-energy perversions.

And last night (6/17), another Dem perversion flamed out.  All 41 Pub senators (plus 2 Dems) – note no RINOs for this vote – blocked the $120 billion "Jobs Bill," which of course creates not a single job and just keeps millions on unemployment benefit welfare through the November election to bribe those millions to vote Dem.  Didn’t work.  Another big failure for Zero.

The HFR two weeks ago (6/04) proclaimed that "the disintegration of the Zero Presidency has begun."  Sure looks that way.  Rasmussen today (6/18) reports 41% approval for Zero vs. 58% disapproval – "the lowest level of approval yet recorded for this president," and the highest level of disapproval.  As Al Jolson might say, "Zero, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet."

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We did, however, see something praiseworthy by a number of Dems this week.  In a Capitol Hill press conference (6/16), Dems like Shelley Berkley (NV), Gary Peters (MI), Gary Ackerman (NY), and Adam Schiff (CA) joined a number of Pubs in denouncing Turkey for being responsible for the nine deaths on a Turkish-flagged ship in the failed "Gaza flotilla" on May 31.

They further denounced Turkey for forming an anti-West alliance with "terrorist Iran," and for its "gross hypocrisy" supporting Palestinians while they massively violate the rights of their Kurdish citizens. 

The Dems were so upset that they threatened to vote for a resolution recognizing the mass killing of Armenians at the end of WWI as a Turkish-perpetrated genocide.  Berkley was so ticked that she said Turkish representatives were no longer welcome in her office.

Turkey has become more rabidly anti-American under the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan (air-doh-wan) – and it’s good to see Congressistas of whatever persuasion not putting up with it.  What a refreshing sight – pro-America Democrats.  It would be nice if it were a trend rather than an anomaly.

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Who should be the HFR Hero of the Week?  We have a trio of candidates.

First would be the folks on the student affairs disciplinary committee at the University of California at Irvine for suspending – throwing off campus – the terrorist/sharia-supporting Moslem Student Union as it was "guilty of disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities, furnishing false information and other violations of campus policy."

Of course, the campus Moslems bitterly complained, saying it would have a "chilling effect" on their activities.  Let’s hope so.

Second is Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal who defied the Federalies and ordered his state’s shore protected from the oil spill regardless.  The story has an evil twist now, as you know, for yesterday (6/17), Zero ordered the Coast Guard to shut down Jindal’s barges that were sucking up thousands of gallons of oil off the coast.  Let’s hope Bobby has the moxie to prevail.

Third – well, it has to be retracted.  It was to be Joe Barton of Texas, who "spoke truth to power" (isn’t that what liberals always say they admire most?) in describing Zero’s demand that BP fork over $20 billion to him for a Dem slush fund as a "shakedown."

A shakedown is exactly and precisely what it is, but the outraged stuck-pig outroar of Dems and the OPM, the Obama Propaganda Media, made Barton wimp out.  Most disgusting of all, the Republican "leadership," including John Boehner and even Eric Cantor, joined the Dems and threatened Barton with his committee chairmanship if he didn’t apologize.

Instead of standing his ground, and using the megaphone the media provided him to pin the label of Shakedown Extortionist Chicago Thug on Zero ever more firmly, he caved, becoming a pussy instead of a hero.  What a tragic farce.

A tragic farce – it’s the story of the Republican Party. 

But not all of it – for there’s a fourth candidate:  New Jersey’s amazing Chris Cristie, who triumphed yet again this week.  The headline (6/17) is thrilling:  Democrats Surrender to Christie.  He’s an HFR Hero, no doubt about it.  The clamor for him to go for the gold in 2012 is growing.

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Let’s end the week with something funny – like the uneducated racist buffoons at Essence Magazine infuriated this week (6/14) that "another white woman" – Angelina Jolie – is going to play Cleopatra in a new movie.  Obviously, for the Essence idiots, Cleopatra was an Egyptian, which means she was an African, which means she was black, which means the role should go to a black actress.  Natch.

Trouble is, as we learned in Cleopatra Was A Blonde (March 2005), the famed Queen of the Nile and seducer of Julius Caesar was Macedonian Greek, with blonde hair and blue eyes like Alexander the Great and common to Macedonians.

There wasn’t a drop of Egyptian blood in Cleopatra (69-30 BC), who ruled Egypt as heir to the Ptolemaic Dynasty founded by Alexander’s general Ptolemy (367-283 BC), who so rigidly maintained the purity of their Greek blood that they often married their siblings (Cleopatra herself married two of her own brothers).  They ruled from Alexandria, a Greek city of Greek culture.

Even the name "Cleopatra" is Greek, the name of the daughter of the Greek god of the north wind, Boreas, borne by Orithyia, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens.

So, yes, Angelina Jolie would make a perfect Cleopatra.  And someone needs to give a history lesson to the folks at Essence – plus have them attend a mandatory Racial Understanding and Prejudice class, from a rational non-racist perspective.

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This has been a mixed bag of a week, a half-full week.  Zero is flailing, the Zerocrat/Fascicrat agenda is disintegrating.  Most everything is stalled until the July 4^th Recess (6/29-7/12), the Dems won’t be able to get much done by the Summer Recess (8/09-9/12), and by mid-September when they reconvene they’ll be so freaking-out focused on the November elections their agenda is toast.

In other words, the opportunity to repair the nightmare damage done by the Dems and provide for America’s future is being handed to the Pubs on a golden platter.  That’s the good news.  I don’t have to explain to you the bad.  Just look at Joe Barton.

Ps:  I got a message from Jack Abramoff.  The well-wishes so many of you expressed in the Forum brought him to tears.  He wants you all to know how much he appreciates them.  With any luck, we may get approval for him to attend the Victory Rendezvous in Washington DC November 5-7.