HALF-FULL REPORT 12/30/11

Happy New Year! 

You may be wondering how to cheerfully greet the coming darkness of 2012.  Sounds like the folks getting crucified by the Romans singing Always Look On The Bright Side of Life in Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

Well, screw the darkness.  Screw Obama and his fascist minions, his fascist regulations, and his fascist enemedia lapdogs.  Life is about rising to the challenge, and that’s what we’re going to do in 2012.

Other people are.  Like in Syria, where Bashar al-Assad has had his goons gun down Syrians by the thousands, yet the Syrians keep fighting for their freedom.  They are not giving up.  Each day Assad gets weaker and they get stronger.  Next year, they will win, with Assad ending up in a coffin or exile.

Over 100,000 Russians peacefully assembled in downtown Moscow last weekend (12/24) to demand an end to Putin’s mafiacracy.  Their hero is Alexei Navalny, who has gained an enormous following on the Russian Internet and Twitter.  He told the crowd Putin is "a little sneaky jackal," whose United Russia political party should be known as "The Party of Crooks and Thieves."

The crowd thunderously applauded when Navalny said:

"There are enough people here to seize the Kremlin. We are a peaceful force and will not do it now. But if these crooks and thieves try to go on cheating us, if they continue telling lies and stealing from us, we will take what belongs to us with our own hands."

Another Russian Revolution brewing?  Maybe.  What we need is to have the Tea Parties invite Navalny to speak to a similar-sized rally on the Washington Mall, and help spark another American Revolution.

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2012 will be, indeed, a time that tries men’s souls.  It is a time to take the words of Thomas Paine’s The Crisis, written in December of 1776, into our hearts.  I’d like to suggest you read it entire as we enter the coming year.  It starts with the famous lines:

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

Then there are his denunciations of Tories, Americans who sided with Britain and not with their country fighting for independence.  He condemns a Tory innkeeper with a young daughter who desired "peace in my day" – for a father who truly loved his little girl would have said, "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

Substitute the word "Democrat" for every mention of "Tory," and you can see how timely Paine is today.  When he refers to King George III, he could be talking about Zero:

"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man."

Above all, these are Paine’s words that should speak most to us now:

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto the end of his life."

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This is all in the abstract.  What can each of us do in specific action?  One suggestion is to stop tolerating any form of political correctness exhibited in your community.  You may not affect things on a national scale, but you can locally, particularly if you form a band of squeaky wheels with others.  Tea Partiers are perfect for this.

Here are three guidelines: 1) think out of the box, 2) be on the lookout for opportunities, 3) have and poke fun instead of being angrily confrontational (although be so when you have to).  Let’s put these into practice.

You’re probably outraged by the ongoing Dhimmi submission to Sharia by the increasingly spineless brass at the Pentagon – the latest example being the announcement by the Islamofascists of CAIR announcing just before Christmas (12/22) that girl Moslem JROTC cadets can wear a Moslem headscarf or nijab.  Note CAIR’s fig leaf of including turbans for Hindus.

Don’t get mad – have fun.  Nijabs and turbans, oh boy!  Ever hear of Pastafarians?  A kid in Austria was so annoyed at special religious headgear rules for Moslems, he formed a "Pastafarian" church using a pasta strainer as religious headgear – and it passed the rules.  So if there’s a high school in your area that has a JROTC program with a Moslem nijab-wearing cadet, it shouldn’t be hard to find a cadet willing to say she’s converted to Pastafarianism and insist on her right to wear her religion’s sacred headgear.  Guy cadets too.

These are high school kids, up for making fun of Sharia stupidity.  Have fun with them and make Islam look ridiculous.  And here’s another reason why this shouldn’t be difficult.  Look at the latest Gallup poll on Religion in America (12/23).  Note that one-half of one percent of Americans are Moslems.  We don’t have to put up with their demands that we be their Dhimmis.  Period.

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Another effort to consider is to join organizations practicing conservative aikido politics:  using the rules and regulations of the fascisti against them.  Such an outfit is American Stewards of Liberty.

They have figured out how to use a primary weapon of enviro lawyers – the National Environmental Policy Act or NEPA – to stymie endless Luddite lawsuits.  See their Three Reasons To Like NEPA.  Using NEPA, they blocked the Trans-Texas Corridor, and are doing the same to the multi-billion dollar California High Speed Rail boondoggle.

Their key is to work with local people and groups to thwart federal violation of their property rights.  So you can work with them in your community.

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Ready for the best news of the week?  Believe it or not, Congress actually did something really worthwhile, albeit by not doing something.  When it adjourned last Friday (12/23), it failed to renew federal ethanol subsidies. Unless renewed by December 31, they die, and Congress won’t back in session until mid-January.

Thus the ethanol scam that has poured $45 billion in taxpayer subsidies into the pockets of corn farmers and ethanol companies is dead.  There’s little excuse now for Congress to finish the job and end the ethanol mandates requiring ethanol be mixed with gasoline.

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That’s good news for the country but bad news for Iowa.  More bad news will come Iowa’s way after its dog-and-pony show next Tuesday (1/03).  Ron Paul’s winning or near-winning will deservedly delegitimize it – never again will it have the hype its had.

It evidently will take the punditocracy, dense as it is, a while to figure out the hype of "It’ll be over early" nonsense.  Here’s a typical expert (whom I know so I won’t name him) pontificating:

"If Romney does capture Iowa, he’ll head into New Hampshire, long his political stronghold, with a chance to become the first non-incumbent GOP presidential candidate ever to win the first two primary contests – a back-to-back triumph that would all but secure the nomination."   

This is jaw-dropping clueless.  As explained in The Year of Now Or Never, not a single delegate will be chosen in Iowa on January 3, while only 12 delegates (a RNC 50% penalty from 23 for a too-early primary) chosen in New Hampshire on January 10.  What’s more, those 12 don’t all go to the winner but are divided up proportionally among the candidates.  So if Romney triumphs with say, a third of the vote, he gets all of 4 delegates. 

4 out of the 1,143 delegates he needs.  Yeah, that wraps it up for him, no doubt.  By the end of February, less than 200 delegates will have been chosen – but not really, since some states hold non-binding caucuses (like Colorado) which don’t obligate a delegate to vote for a particular candidate at the national convention.  And in any regard, those 200 are again divvied up proportionally, as are they all from every primary until early April.

Only Perry and Romney have the money, organization, and determination for such a marathon.  We won’t know who will come out on top for months.

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Meantime, you’ve all heard about Robert Reich’s prediction that Hillary will be Zero’s running mate in 2012, with Biden being SecState if Zero-Piaps wins.  This is not only possible, it is entirely probable.  Such a prospect should seriously sober up Pub primary voters as to who their choice better be.

Here might be a clue:  Texas Tops Nation In Five Year Growth.  And another:  Houston and Austin Have Created The Most Mid-Skilled Job In The Country.

Then there’s this clue:  Romney Considers VAT Tax.

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Only a few hours left for 2011.  Time to have fun and kiss this year goodbye.  We can start girding our loins next week.  Break out the Famous Grouse and the Bubbly.  Enjoy your friends, family, and loved ones, and tell them how much they mean to you.  Drive carefully.  Remember, we are going to rise to the challenge next year. We are going to kick 2012 in the teeth.

Happy New Year!!!