HIDDEN CHINA II
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/06/13
Christmas is less than three weeks away, and the HFR is here with the solution for what presents to get for your friends and loved ones. What could be better than 50% off on a Gift Yearly Subscription to To The Point? Yes, from now until New Year's (01/01) you can give anyone you know the enlightenment of To The Point for an entire year at half-off. How can you beat that? You'll be thanked for it every week from now to next December. And, if you want something gift-wrapped under the Christmas Tree, give them a copy of The Jade Steps: The Story of the Liberation of Mexico by One of History's Most Heroic Women - by, ahem, yours truly. America gave itself a huge Christmas present this week: the Gallup poll released yesterday (12/05) on Zero's job approval. Study it carefully, it will blow you away. Gallup headlines the 23% drop in Hispanic support, from 75 to 52%, which is an eye-opener especially given his desperate pandering to Hispanic illegals. But he's down by double digits across the board - nonwhites, unmarrieds, all age and income groups, churched or unchurched, men or women. So it's not just the young ‘uns who've soured on Zero, it's most everyone. An there's good news elsewhere, including an astounding discovery regarding the world's most vital resource -- water.
THE PRESIDENT MUST RESIGN
Enough is enough. I want this lying corrupt fascist out of the White House, and I don't want to give him 38 months to leave - 38 months in which he will relentlessly continue to destroy our economy and put our national security in gravest danger. Fortunately, I am far from alone in this desire. Scores of millions of Americans feel the same way. And now, more have arrived on the battlefield. The Millennials are joining us. This week, Millennials have taken over the headlines with news of their rejection of Zero's Sleaze Presidency. Millennials Abandon Obama is a headline denoting a generational tsunami. It takes a while for kids to grow up, as we know from personal experience. Now they've started to, and their teen-age crush on The Won is over. This is a signal moment. When Harvard University reports that 47% of young Americans between 18 and 29, and 52% between 18 and 25 want to "recall" Zero - as in resign, quit, step down, get out of here and go away - you have a real turning point. The question now is, how do we max this turning point out? How do we take the best advantage of this moment?
THE POTEMKIN PRESIDENCY
"Healthcare.gov No Longer a Complete Fail" was the headline on the story in Time Magazine Dec. 2 on the rollout of the "new, improved" version of the Obamacare web site. It's hard to find a better illustration of the expression: "to damn with faint praise." To hide from Catherine the Great the squalor that existed in the Crimea, Gregory Potemkin allegedly erected pasteboard "villages" along the banks of the Dnieper. Actually, the villages were real and Potemkin was smeared - Jack Wheeler recounts the true history in Potemkin America (June 2009). Yet though "Potemkin villages" is a myth, it's still a common metaphor for the fake. Thus, regarding healthcare.gov, the Obama administration "has erected a Potemkin village online - a façade that temporarily conceals the lack of architecture behind it," said Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin. Indeed, the metaphor applies to the entire Obama Presidency.
OBAMA’S BACKDOOR GUN CONTROL
I am one who steers very clear of tinfoil hat conspiracy theories. I often believe liberals/progressives plant stories in order to distract and disrupt, enabling them to pursue their true goals and objectives. That's why I stress the importance of staying focused on the modern liberal socialist policies of the Obama administration, not the sideshow antics. However, as a former combat commander, I have been trained to look for trends. And I believe we've found a very disturbing one. it seems that back door gun control is in full effect in the United States. Why? Thanks to Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we can no longer smelt lead from ore in the United States. What this all means is that after December 2013, any ammunition that will be available to US citizens will have to be imported, which will surely increase the price and possibly come under government control. Welcome to Obama's backdoor gun control.
THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF
Adding straws of scandal — Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the Associated Press monitoring, the IRS fiasco, and the NSA spying — on any presidential back except Barack Obama’s would have broken it long before his serial lying on Obamacare. Further, well apart from scandal, the perception of presidential lying usually ends presidential agendas. Richard Nixon resigned after never telling the truth about the Watergate cover-up. “Read my lips: no new taxes” cost George H.W. Bush his reelection. Yet Obama has lied repeatedly throughout his presidency, not just about Obamacare. In addition to his multiple scandals and serial lying, the public is also indifferent to his incompetence. We have a president more dishonest than Richard Nixon, more corrupt than Bill Clinton, and more incompetent than Jimmy Carter, yet he continues to be worshipped like JFK. Why?
NEVILLE OBAMA
The attention of Americans understandably is riveted on the Obamacare fiasco. But the harm done by Obamacare can be ameliorated fairly quickly by repealing it. There is no simple way to repair the damage that could result from Mr. Obama's mammoth foreign policy blunder regarding Iran The U.S. and allies will lift economic sanctions on Iran, in exchange for the mullah's promise they'll stop work on a nuclear bomb, the Obama administration announced Nov. 24. That'll give Iran a cash infusion of at least $7 billion. We get...bupkes. Mr. Obama is taking the mullahs' word for it their nuclear research is for peaceful purposes. You'd think a president who lies as often as he does would be more skeptical. This "is the worst deal since Munich," said columnist Charles Krauthammer. It's worse than Munich, said Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal. Neville Obama indeed.
OUR GOVERNMENT IS NOW NOT A PROTECTOR BUT A DESTROYER OF LIBERTY
Have you noticed that many government regulations are so complex and vague that it is impossible to know if you are in compliance? Examples are the 70,000-plus pages of Internal Revenue Service regulations and the reported 30,000-plus pages of Obamacare regulations. Who do you think has a self-interest in all this complexity and vagueness? The Food and Drug Administration was set up to protect us from consuming bad food or drugs. It has morphed into an agency that keeps potentially beneficial drugs from us, and now is even banning our ability to know what diseases to which we may be prone, and thus, blocking our ability to take potential corrective or preventative action. The FDA has gone from being a protector to a destroyer of health and liberty. Other overreaching government regulators are also squeezing liberty out of existence. Here are some examples.
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/29/13
Well, so much for Papal Infallibility. Jorge Bergoglio spent his 77 years devoted to his religion, which is a fine thing, but in so doing he learned nothing about how business and capitalism actually works - living his life until recently in autocratic anti-capitalist Peronist Argentina. Last March, he was elevated to the papacy. This week (11/26), as Pope Francis I, he chose to issue an Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, that very unfortunately contained a collection of thoughtless socialist bromides condemning capitalist "greed" and "inequality." The Global Enemedia had a field day. "Pope Francis' Stinging Critique of Capitalism" was the WaPo's celebratory headline. As the IBD explains, it is incredibly ignorant to argue that the free market is a "new tyranny... that rules instead of serves." Rush thinks "it's sad because this pope makes it very clear he doesn't know what he's talking about." Instead of reciting memorized Marxist slogans of his teachers in Buenos Aires, he could have thought for himself and identified just what is the most powerful institution of greed in the world, composed of the greediest and most selfishly profligate people on the planet who demand to live like royalty and treat those who support them like slaves.... ....A Marxist Pope makes the world a more dangerous place. And there was a lot more bad news creating a lot more danger this week as well. ....But is there any good news around here? Yes! Here's the question. What do Dennis Rodman, Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, Miley Cyrus, and Anthony Weiner have in common with Zero?
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DREAM THERE HAS EVER BEEN
On October 28, 2001, as America was trying to cope with the shock of September 11, Game 2 of the World Series began with Ray Charles singing America the Beautiful for 50,000 attending the game and millions via television. To this day, it's hard to watch without tears pouring down your face: {youtube}1OTRRzSuWro{/youtube} America is the most beautiful dream there has ever been. On this Thanksgiving Day, let's reflect on why, and what has happened to it.