BRITAIN’S ELECTION AND EUROPE’S FATE
Chanceries, political elites and business federations across Europe, regardless of whether they are on the Left or the Right, are hoping the Conservative Party loses today's (5/07) general election. All the better if a motley Labor government is strapped to a bloc of triumphant Scottish Nationalists, guaranteeing a double-lock against any further flirtations with Brexit (Britain's exit from the European Union). Or so goes the argument. They should be careful what they wish for. A Labor-SNP arrangement would be inherently weak and unstable, like the string of Gladstone governments dependent on the swing vote of the Irish Home Rule movement in the late 19th century. A Tory defeat would flush out the last EU dreamers and leave a post-Cameron party with even less tolerance for the posturing of Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, who this week accused the Anglo-Saxon world of trying to destroy the euro and vowed to stop Britain imposing its "exclusive agenda on all the other member states of Europe." In other words, Brexit and the doom of the EU is either on the horizon or just beyond it.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY SHOULD BE RENAMED THE DEMAGOGUE PARTY
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake dawdled while Baltimore burned, let thugs run amok, then apologized for calling them "thugs." She worked harder to protect her image than to protect the law abiding. I didn't think it possible for a public official to demonstrate greater unfitness for office. I was wrong. States Attorney Marilyn Mosby filed criminal charges against six Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, 25, who suffered a severe spinal injury while being transported in a police van. Roughly half of those arrested during a week of rioting were released without being charged. The indicted cops are being "thrown like red meat" to satisfy an angry mob, said Milwaukee County (Wis) Sheriff David Clarke, a Democrat who is black. The Gray family attorney was a major contributor to her campaign, so Ms. Mosby should have recused herself, said the Fraternal Order of Police. Demagogues like the Mosbys want to make what happened in Baltimore all about race. It isn't. Three of the indicted officers are black. So are the police chief and his deputy. So is the mayor.
OFFENDING MOSLEMS IS NOW THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
[This is the text of Robert Spencer's address at the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland Texas on Sunday, May 3rd, just hours before two Moslem terrorists were gunned down trying to murder the attendees.] A very good friend of mine told me right before I left for this event that - you're just poking them in the eye, you're trying to provoke them. You know, why are you doing that? You're the one that's being offensive. And this was a friend, you know, and I was kind of taken aback. And I had to stop and think - well, what exactly is wrong with that? And what's wrong with that is that this is only offensive because Moslems have made it offensive. Okay, so we have to not draw Mohammed, because that'll poke them in the eye and offend them. And then we have to not be Jewish, because that will poke them in the eye and offend them. And then what? Okay, I guess pork and alcohol are out. Okay, and then what? The Islamic State - the Islamic State is beheading people and taking sex slaves, and subjugating the Christians under the hegemony of the Islamic law. And they're doing it all on the basis of Koranic directives. And so that's all Islamic. So I guess we can't say a word about that. Because that would poke them in the eye and offend Moslems. You see, step by step by step, we're ending up going in the direction of accepting Islamic law. Let's put it this way: Every Western media outlet that refuses to publish the Mohammed cartoons is accepting Islamic blasphemy law. I say it's time for a little cultural self-assertiveness.
CINCO DE VERDAD
Today, May 5th, is known as Cinco de Drunko among college kids these days. They know it's nothing more than an excuse to get wasted on Jose Cuervo. Cinco de Mayo is a phony tradition, a joke on los gringos, then exploited as a marketing gimmick by Mexican restaurant chains. So at TTP, our tradition on May 5th is to explain la verdad, the truth. Which is, to begin with: Nobody in Mexico cares about May 5th. Only we, us gringos, pretend to. For if you ask just about any reveler at the nearest Pancho Villa's Cantina or some such Mexican-themed bar anywhere in the US, just what is being celebrated on May 5th, you'll get either a blank stare or "It's their July 4th " ignorance. So first the true history of Mexico. You'll learn more about Mexico's history in ten minutes than you ever did in school or anywhere else. Then the reality today -- the horrific truth of how treasonous Dem fascists and their useful idiot Rino masochists are using Mexico to destroy their own country.
EUROPE NEEDS A HANSEATIC LEAGUE DEFENSE AGAINST RUSSIA
Stockholm, Sweden. Last week, there were reports in the Swedish and Finnish press about what was presumed to be a Russia submarine probing the harbors in both Stockholm and Helsinki. This was not viewed as a serious Russian threat but merely an extension of the general and low-level harassment the Russians have displayed against their European Union neighbors, particularly the Baltic nations. The European Union is not the first free-trade and defense bloc to arise in Europe. Six hundred years ago, the Hanseatic League held both economic and military sway in an area that at its farthest extent went from Novgorod in northern Russia to trade zones near London. The league was centered in the German city of Lubeck on the Baltic. Members of the league included towns and cities in modern-day Germany, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium. The Hanseatic League established free trade among its members, who agreed to a basic charter. It also established its own navy and defense force to protect its cargos, and it succeeded in largely eliminating pirates from the Baltic. The EU had better morph NATO into a modern version of the League to protect itself from Putin's Pirates today.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/01/15
It's May Day. For millennia, this has been a joyful celebration of the end of winter, with flowers and happy festivities. Today, you'll notice news stories like, Oakland Braces for Major May Day Mayhem. It's not May Day, it's Commie Day. How it became that way was told last year (May 1, 2014) in May Day Should Be May Day, Not Commie Day. It's what actually happened, so while the history may make you ill, it really is a must-read... Last weekend was our Vegas Rendezvous, and many attendees said it was the best ever. It really was fabulous. I can't thank all our amazing speakers enough. Most especially, though, I want to express my appreciation to our marvelous TTPer attendees. Personally, it was such a pleasure to see and meet them all... A great tragedy occurred this past week. On Saturday (4/25), a gigantic 7.9 earthquake struck central Nepal. Through my friends there, I expressed my deepest condolences to the Nepalese, and I'm sure you do as well. Nonetheless, the damage is far from total. Much of the country had little damage. Which means that our Lost Kingdom of Lo expedition this August is still on... The protohominid thugs who trashed their own city, Baltimore, this week would have been regarded as good news by Vladimir Lenin and Saul Alinsky. If we wished to be Leninist and Alinskyite, so would we... There's a Thank God Department this week. On Tuesday (4/28), the headline appeared that we've been praying for... Lastly, the HFR Hero of the Week is a 12 year-old kid.
THE BLAME FOR BALTIMORE LIES WITH DEMOCRATS
"I think we, as a country, have to do some soul searching" about the rioting in Baltimore, President Barack Obama said Tuesday (4/28). Bunk. "We, as a country" are not to blame. First and foremost, blame resides with the racist thugs who looted stores, burned buildings and automobiles, assaulted police officers, shopkeepers, and white people who crossed their path. Next in order of culpability are the politicians whose belated and timid response allowed the thugs to run amok. The conduct of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has been especially appalling. Ms. Rawlings-Blake is a Democrat. So are all 15 members of the city council. Baltimore hasn't had a Republican mayor for 48 years, since Theodore McKeldin left office in 1967. Maryland has had just two Republican governors since 1969. Democrats have controlled both houses of the legislature since 1992. "The system" that has failed poor blacks in Baltimore was designed, and is administered, exclusively by Democrats. Ms. Rawlings-Blake is black. So is the president of the City Council, a majority of its members, and the States Attorney. Blacks in Baltimore aren't oppressed by The Man. In Baltimore, politically connected left wing Democrat blacks are The Man.
LIBERALS AND BALTIMORE
Amazing scenes from Baltimore: rioters throwing bricks at police, looting and burning down a CVS pharmacy and other stores, stomping on police cars and setting them on fire. The rioting followed the funeral of Freddie Gray on Monday (4/27), a black man who died in police custody in uncertain circumstances. The next day (4/28), National Guard in camouflage patrolled the streets, and a curfew was imposed. The rioters also burned down a housing project for seniors and a community centre, a $16million investment by the Southern Baptist Church that was due to open in six months. It was meant to be a sign of hope in a blighted area. And yet, despite the evident self-destructiveness, some were claiming that the rioters were "uprisers" that represented a "rebellion". Morehouse College professor Mark Hill Lamont told CNN that the turmoil in Baltimore was "resistance to oppression" rather than rioting. Salon commentator Benji Hart called the rioting a "legitimate political strategy" But there was nothing "political" in the rioting and looting. In fact, in political terms, destroying one's neighborhood is a big setback for those who want to have legitimate concerns about policing addressed and effect other changes. Liberals seem to not care less.
A BOMBER PILOT FOR 2016?
Bomber pilots in World War II knew they were over the target when they began taking FLAK --the German acronym for Flugzeug Abwehr Kanonen" (air defense artillery). So hold your course steady, Scott Walker. You've frightened them. By "them," I don't mean just Democrats and leftist ideologues. Big business and establishment Republicans are terrified too. The flak they've fired at Wisconsin's governor for what most Americans regard as uncontroversial remarks indicates "terrified" isn't hyperbole. "The next president and the next Congress need to make decisions about a legal immigration system that's based, first and foremost, on protecting American workers and American wages," Gov. Walker said on Glenn Beck's radio program April 20. Gov. Walker is "far right," "anti-immigrant," "xenophobic," wants to end legal immigration, said many on the Left. Lying and name-calling are the Left's idea of "debate" on most issues .But establishment Republicans piled on too. All this flak means Walker is bombing a bullseye on the most serious issue regarding America's future. Is he the bomber pilot we need for 2016?
WHY DO THE GREEN TALIBAN WANT AFRICA TO STAY POOR?
In what is probably the silliest comment on climate since Harry Reid blamed global warming on the Koch brothers, a green journalist opined of the refugees currently dying in the Mediterranean: "This is what climate crisis looks like . . . We know there is evidence that the violence triggered by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were in part fuelled by protests over soaring food prices." The soaring prices were actually exacerbated (as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN confirmed) by the diversion of much of the world's farmland into making motor fuel, in the form of ethanol and biodiesel, for the rich to salve their green consciences. Greenie climate policies were a far greater contributor to the Arab Spring than climate change itself. Without abundant fuel and power, prosperity is impossible. Nearly 700 million Africans rely mainly on wood or dung to cook and heat with, and 600 million have no access to electric light. As the International Energy Agency recently put it in a recent report, "increasing access to modern forms of energy is crucial to unlocking faster economic and social development in sub-Saharan Africa". Africa is awash with fossil fuels - but not the capital to build plants to turn them into electricity. Greenie activists and politicians in the West -- what I call the Green Taliban -- are determined to deny them that capital. Why?