HALF-FULL REPORT 11/28/14

It’s so obvious who the HFR Heroes of the Week are that we need to dispense the suspense and laud them right out front. 

They are the six white men, three white women, two black women, and one black man who comprised the Saint Louis County Grand Jury that refused to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson.  We must add to them the St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch, whose statement announcing the grand jury decision on Monday (11/24) is here.

(Note:  the tally of the jurors’ vote – how each specifically voted – is kept secret even from McCulloch; all that’s known is that the minimum number of votes required to indict – 9 out of 12 – was not reached.  The identities of Grand Jurors must be kept secret by law.)

As every trial attorney knows, a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.  The pressure for McCulloch – a Democrat who has been elected Prosecuting Attorney for the county every four years since 1994 to this month (the Nov 14 election) – to gain an indictment was massive, as it was on the jurors.

Yet the physical evidence demonstrating the accuracy of Wilson’s testimony was irrefutable.  All the witnesses who claimed Wilson shot Brown in the back had to deny their claim when under oath and confronted with the autopsy showing he was not.

You know all of this.  The HFR is simply acknowledging the astounding courage and honesty of the Ferguson Grand Jury and Prosecutor McCulloch. 

They all knew their lives could be at stake with the murderous anger and multitude of death threats against them, yet they opted for the truth straight in the face of it.  That’s flat out American heroism.  We owe them a grave debt of gratitude.

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There are good lessons to be learned from this Ferguson Lunacy, and benefits to be gained.

The most important is that it’s such a glaring illustration of how black intimidation and racism-mongering is all the Left has left.  There’s nothing else.  The Democrats have proven an utter failure at creating jobs, more middle class prosperity, more freedom, more domestic tranquility, more national security, more moral decency in our culture. 

The only arrow they and their acolytes in academia and media have got now is to accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being racist, the meme of Racist America.  That’s it.  So if that goes, they go – out of power, influence, and employment. 

The Inner City Black Dependency Culture looks upon the Racist America Meme as a matter of life and death.  Its members are quite sure that if they cannot manipulate or intimidate whites with guilt or fear into giving them an endless supply of something-for-nothing like food stamps, they will starve and die.

Democrat politicians are dedicated to supporting this conviction – and supplying the endless somethings-for-nothing – in order to be supplied with endless black votes that they wouldn’t get elected without.

It was White Guilt that elected Zero – the only reason anyone paid any attention to him was because he was black, for he was a total nonentity of nonaccomplishment otherwise.  

Whites elected and reelected him in a desperate attempt to end the Left’s increasing hysterical guilt-mongering over their alleged racism – which, surprise, surprise, didn’t end it at all but increased it.

For just as Food Stamps mean life-or-death survival in minds of Inner City Blacks, so the Racist America Meme is for Democrats.  Whites cannot be allowed to believe they are not racist, no matter what the evidence is that they aren’t. 

Thus Darren Wilson must be found guilty of murder no matter what the evidence is that he isn’t.  Or George Zimmerman before him.

The Zimmerman fiasco teed Ferguson up.  With Ferguson being burned down in frustration that the innocent are not demonized as guilty (and vice versa, the guilty not sanctified victims), the Left’s Racist America Meme may be on its deathbed.

The Dems and its Academia-Enemedia support system will do whatever they can to revive it – while we must do whatever we can to finish it off.  History may see Ferguson as a key turning point in the future fate of America.  It will be fascinating to see how that unfolds.

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The funniest indication of this unfolding is the parody of the "Hands Up – Don’t Shoot" leftie mantra.  That would be Pants Up – Don’t Loot".   It’s a Twitter hashtag, on t-shirts, bumperstickers, and soon to be a billboard in Ferguson. 

Ridicule is so effective against libtards because nothing gets under their skin more than to be laughed at and not taken seriously.  And when you’re called racist in response – their only response – all you have to do is smile, shrug, and say, "Thank you for sharing."  Drives them nuts.

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There was another major event that rivaled the Ferguson grand jury decision in importance this week.

For background, who is the GOP Congressional Establishment leader you most love to hate?  For me, it’s not Speaker John Boehner.  DC insiders will tell you the guys who really run Congress are the Twelve Cardinals – the chairmen of the twelve subcommittees of House Appropriations.

They have the Constitutional "power of the purse," and get to decide on what your tax money is spent and what it isn’t.  All federalie spending starts in these 12 committees or it doesn’t get started at all.  And nothing starts without the respective chairmen’s blessing.

Of the 12 current chairmen (obviously all Pubs), only two – Jack Kingston (GA) and John Culbertson (TX) have an ACU rating of over 80% conservative voting.  Ten of the Twelve Cardinals are Rinos.  The ratio stays the same for the 114^th Congress next year with Georgia’s Tom Graves replacing Kingston.

The Chairman of House Appropriations, as head of the entire committee, is the most powerful cardinal of all, at least as powerful as the Speaker if not more so.  He is Hal Rogers of Kentucky, who’ll be 77 next month, has been in Congress since 1981, and should have been put out to pasture long ago.

Rogers has a lifetime conservative voting record of 83 but has been steadily descending into Rinoville over the last several years.  Last year it was 72 and is currently 63.  For me, Hal Rogers is the #1 Rino Rectum in Congress.

Which is why I so much enjoyed his getting skewered this week in the most delightful way.

The only way to stop Zero’s Executive Amnesty is by Congress – quite specifically House Appropriations – prohibiting any funds spent to implement it.  That would entail defunding the implementing agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).  But woe is me, says Rogers, there’s nothing he can do:

"This agency is entirely self-funded through the fees it collects on various immigration applications. Congress does not appropriate funds for any of its operations, including the issuance of immigration status or work permits, with the exception of the ‘E-Verify’ program. Therefore, the Appropriations process cannot be used to ‘de-fund’ the agency."

Senator Jeff Sessions (Rogers’ counterpart as Chair of Senate Appropriations) thought he smelled a Rino rat, so he asked Congressional Research if this were true.  On Wednesday (11/26), the CRS definitive report concluded that Rogers is dead wrong:

"Funds available to the agency [USCIS] through fee collections would be subject to the same potential restrictions imposed by Congress on the use of its appropriations as any other type of appropriated funds."

The bottom line is that Rino Rogers no longer has any excuse for not defunding Zero’s Executive Amnesty. 

Congress will be back in session on Monday (12/01).  It has until the following Thursday (12/11) to pass a CR (Continuing Resolution) to short term fund the government until a budget is passed by the next (114^th) Congress. 

It’s going to be fun to watch Rogers squirm and squawk until he’s forced to defund USCIS in the CR.

It will be even more fun to watch conservative congressistas take advantage of the opportunity and demand that implementation of all 3415 new Zero regulations be defunded as well, most especially including the EPA’s latest fascist gambit on ozone emissions.

Congress next week will be a better fireworks show than the 4^th of July.

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Let’s take a break to look over the horizon.  The London Daily Mail has a cool story this week (11/23) about British SpecOps Hunter-Killer Teams wiping out ISIS nests in Iraq.

I can relate to this because it’s exactly the same technique used by Soviet Spetsnaz teams – albeit with updated technology – to defeat the Afghan Mujahaddin in 1986.  I saw the defeat with my own eyes – by August the Muj had given up.  But the next month, we finally got Stingers into their hands, and by taking the Shuravi (Soviets) out of the air, it was game over.

That’s not going to happen in Iraq.  Latest news (11/26) is that the marvelous A10 Warthog is back in action and will clean ISIS clocks.  Combining the A10, rearmed Kurds, Brit hunter-killers and the like, ISIS territory is becoming a killing ground and its future is looking bleak. 

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The DM also has a devastating story yesterday (11/27) on how the Putin Huilo is turning Crimea into a prison cell. 

Meanwhile, OPEC’s failure to cut output yesterday (11/27), as Venezuela, Iran, Angola and others were demanding, is devastating to the Russian economy.  Russia is getting under $70 a barrel now and it needs over $100.  The ruble has fallen off a cliff, over 50 to the dollar and over 62 to the euro.

There is no way Russia can avoid a severe depression now next year. 

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And on that happy note, we’ll close to let you enjoy the rest of Thanksgiving Weekend.  Speaking of next year, however, both of our adventures-of-a-lifetime, Hidden Burma and Hidden China III, are just about full.

We had such an extraordinarily memorable time in Hidden Persia this month, and I know many of you regretted not joining us.  Don’t regret any further!  We only live once and the clock is ticking.  Such opportunities must be seized or lost.  Carpe diem!

If you think you might be able to join us, call Miko at 202-656-3008 or email [email protected] to schedule a call with me, as I’ll be happy to talk to you about either hidden adventure.  Please don’t let this pass you by.

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