HALF-FULL REPORT 06/13/14

Windhoek, Namibia.  A merry Friday the 13^th to you from the cleanest, friendliest, most pleasant capital in all of Africa.  The best pub with the best beer and the best steaks in all Africa is here as well – Joe’s Beerhouse – which makes Windhoek especially enjoyable.

I’m here a day early for my Hidden Africa safari so I can pen the HFR.  So much has happened this week with events continuing to unfold that there are more questions than answers. 

For example:  How come a ragtag bunch of jihadist loonies naming themselves with cosmic irony after the Mother Goddess of Ancient Egypt – Isis – i.e., the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria acronymed ISIS, is suddenly on the verge of taking over Baghdad but not Damascus?

Until about a year ago, the outfit styled itself simply ISI – the Islamic State of Iraq – run by an Osama-wannabe, Ibrahim al-Badri (nom de guerre: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), upon whom the US has placed a $10 million reward since 2011.  He expanded across the border into eastern Syria last January, seizing the town of Raqqa.  He has some 10,000 or more fighters, roughly one-third Iraqi Sunnis, one-third Syrian Sunnis, one-third foreign jihadi Sunnis from Chechnya, Morocco, Tunisia and elsewhere.

He and his followers are true Stone Age Sunni crazies, slaughtering however many Shias, Christians, and Sunnis who don’t agree with their imposition of Total Sharia as they can.  Their current success can be almost totally blamed on Zero. Almost, as he had several accomplices.

By the end of 2011, American armed forces in Iraq had virtually eradicated ISI by capturing or killing its leaders (unfortunately save for al-Badri), and by creating a 100,000-strong Sunni militia called Sahwa (Awakening) who hated ISI terrorism.  Then Zero completed the US withdrawal from Iraq, whereupon Iraq’s Shia prime minister Nouri al-Maliki – a stooge of the Shia regime in Iran – promptly disbanded the Sahwa militias, and threw out Sunni leaders in his government.

The ISI moved in, taking over the Sunni cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, and setting off bombs almost daily in Baghdad.  They were assisted by Turkey’s Recip Erdogan to help his fellow Sunnis, and by Syria’s Bashar al-Asad, who wanted them to fight other Syrian rebel groups who hate ISI terrorism as did the Sahwa.  Such assistance prompted the ISI to rename itself ISIS.

On Tuesday (6/10), ISIS seized Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, with the Iraqi government soldiers running away, along with 500,000 civilian residents fleeing.  ISIS is now threatening Baghdad, the entire country is falling apart, the Maliki government is crumbling, with Maliki begging for both America and Iran to militarily come to his rescue.

This is a monumental disaster laid directly at Zero’s feet.  Are there any silver linings, other than it will increase the loathing and contempt millions of Americans are feeling towards him?  Yes, there are several.  First is it helps the Kurds.

Yesterday (6/12), Kurdish Peshmerga forces finally took control of Kirkuk. There are ten or twenty times as many Peshmerga as ISIS Jihadis, who are also far better fighters.  There is no chance the latter will take over Iraqi Kurdistan.  Maliki thwarted every attempt to at least share the wealth of the Kirkuk oilfields, and now they all belong, as they should, to the Kurds.  This is a welcome step towards the creation of an independent Kurdistan.

Second is that most Iraqi Sunnis have no desire for Stone Age Islam.  ISIS is winning now with its crazed brutality, but this cannot last.  They may think Mosul will be their capital, but Erdogan has now sealed the Turkish border from them, Asad will do the same from Syria as they are now a threat, the Kurds will kick their jihadi tails, Iraqi Shias will fight to the death against them, and their support from Iraqi Sunnis will wither away.

Third is that the ISIS threat will remove the hated Maliki government from power, with Iraq standing a chance to get a more inclusive government.  Maybe not, but there’s now a better chance than before.  And no thanks to Zero.  But if Iraq breaks apart in a maelstrom of Sunni-Shia civil war, Iraqis will have him to thank.  Hope they’re grateful.

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Here’s another question of the week:  Has Mexico declared war on America or has Obama?

The answer is Yes.

As we all know, illegal alien children are flooding across our open border with Mexico.  Most of them are from Central America – Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, where they are being encouraged to do so.  The driving distance from Guatemala to the overwhelmed McAllen, Texas Border Patrol Station is well over 1,200 miles – through Mexico.

The only way these illegal alien children can get from Central America to the US border through Mexico is with the active support of the Mexican government.

This is an act of war by Mexico upon the United States – unless it is with the active collusion and support of the US government.  This is why Federal Judge Andrew Hanen and Congressman Paul Gosnar (R-AZ) are accusing President Obama of mass felonies regarding human trafficking and child smuggling.

Tragically, Zero will never be put behind bars for this.  America is being destroyed before our eyes in full bright sunlight.  The only silver lining is that it provided the tipping point for voters to dump faux-conservative pro-amnesty Eric Cantor this week (6/10).  Or as the Forum’s RonG pictures it:

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Tuesday proved to be interesting not only in Virginia.  In Nevada, the winner of the Democrat primary for governor was – get ready for it – None of the Above.

No wonder Dirty Dingy Harry Reid is selling his home.  And cashing out.

Mike Rounds looks likely to pick up a Pub Senate seat in South Dakota, as does Steve Daines in Montana.  Add to that Iowa’s Sarah Palin, Joni "Make ‘Em Squeal" Ernst.

Meanwhile, things are looking bad for incumbent Dem Mark Udall in Colorado – and really bad for Dem Senate candidate Natalie Tennant in West Virginia, as she’s been found accepting anti-coal money.  Oops.

Most polls are now showing solid odds for GOP senate pickups in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, and North Carolina.  Add those to the above five and you get nine total – without one GOP incumbency in any real trouble.  Six seats are needed to overturn the Dem’s current 55-45 majority.  Nine would make a 53-47 GOP majority – and a world of grief for Zero in 2015.

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The HFR’s position is: bad news for Zero is good news for America.  The same holds true for the PIAPS.  It’s been a lousy week for Hillary "Dead Broke" Clinton.  On Wednesday (6/11), she gave an interview claiming she and Bill left the White House in 2001 "dead broke." In that year, they made $12 million. 

Even Rahm Emanuel is laughing at her for such a brain-dead gaffe.

She’s hustling her ghost-written book, Hard Choices, which Business Insider reports is being "destroyed by critics."  E.g., the lefties at Politico describe it as a "newsless snore."

What’s worse, everyone’s laughing at the title, since it’s taken from a 1987 triple-X porn flick:

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Speaking of gaffes – how’s this for weird?  Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran – who is a runoff election with Tea Partyer Chris McDaniel to be held June 24 – joked at a fundraiser that as a kid, he engaged in "all kinds of indecent things with animals." 

Let’s hope that enough voters will recognize such a comment as a clear sign of senility to put McDaniel in the win column 11 days from now.

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Speaking of sanity… Last week (6/03) on Fox News, psychologist Dr. Gina Loudon stated regarding Zero’s latest actions such as trading Taliban terrorists for a traitor:

"I am very, very concerned about the mental stability of this President at this point. Some of his behavior seems irrational to me. It seems beyond that of just a typical narcissistic, arrogant, sort of, ‘I’m a leader of a big country and I feel tyrannical at the moment’ kind of attitude. It really seems to me like this President is demonstrating behavior that is not only anti-American, but irrational and erratic and perhaps not exactly what we might want to deem sane."

Doubts about Zero’s sanity were amplified this week when he declared on Tuesday (6/10) – the day Jihadi terrorists seized Mosul, with 90 million Americans not working and veterans dying without VA care, etc. ad infinitum – that his "biggest frustration" was not getting gun control legislation.

"With the news from Iraq, Zero’s plunge into political isolation has begun in earnest.  So many policy failures that are so big, so obvious, and so harmful are piling up so fast it’s overwhelming the president’s pals in the news media," Jack Kelly tells the HFR. "This week, all but the most total tools have stopped trying to cover for him."

Especially with this bombshell dropped yesterday (6/12):  Benghazi Attackers Coordinated Attack with State Department Cell Phones.

Kelly concludes: "With Iraq, Bergdahl, Syria, Libya, etc., this couldn’t be happening at a worse time for Zero. He’s going down for the count. PIAPS will be sucked down by the undertow. The odds we may be rid of Zero next year may soon exceed 50-50."

Or as leftie Politico asks plaintively:  Will Obama Ever Be Popular Again?  The answer they give is No, not bloody likely.

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We’ll conclude this edition of the HFR with even more good news.  Showbiz Magazine is reporting: "Rap Is Dead."  The reign of the most obnoxious, foul, disgusting, arrhythmic, anti-melodious fraud in the history of music is over.  And who killed it?  Millennials.  "Crap Music," as I prefer to call it, was smart-ass Xer music.  Xer’s are now in their 30s and 40s and have finally outgrown it, while young Millennials can’t stand it.

This is big news, because the predictions made ten years ago (February 2004) in The Curse of the Xers are coming true:

"Over the coming years, young Millennials (or Generation Y as some insist on calling them) will be pouring out of their teens and into their twenties to seize control of popular culture away from Xers.

Say goodbye and good riddance to crotch-grabbing it’s-cool-to-be-a-smartass sleaze. Say hello to music you can actually listen to (i.e., that’s actually music), TV shows you can let your kids watch, and baseball caps worn normally.

Trust me on this. American culture has not disintegrated, we’re not going to keep heading down into a bottomless cultural barrel.

We’re in the bottom of a generational cycle that our country has gone through before and will again. Our nightmare of degeneracy will come to an end."

But realize also, the every generational type has great assets as well as liabilities:

"Xers are a generation of edges, of extremes. Like other Reactive generations, they are the heroes and the bums. They are the George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons, and Benedict Arnolds; the George Pattons and Al Capones; the Special Forces teams fighting in Afghanistan, and crap singers on MTV."

Xers are growing up, Millennials are coming on board.  America’s Post-Obama Future is on the way.

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We can’t end however without disclosing the HFR Hero of the Week.  She’s Dana Loesch, who has written a new book, Hands Off My Gun:  Defeating the Plot to Disarm America.  As she explains:

"Gun control is the ultimate war on women. Firearms are the equalizer between the sexes. Sam Colt made us equal, indeed. This book explores that, the racist roots of gun control, and debunks the biggest arguments made by anti-gun extremists. The AR is on the cover because it is the most vilified, misunderstood rifle in America, responsible for the fewest crimes. Education is the antidote to ignorance. Consider this book the medicine."

Here’s the cover.  It will drive the anti-gun libtards crazy.  Oh, by the way – she’s 35, which means she’s an Xer.

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