HALF-FULL REPORT 03/28/08
One of the coolest guys on the planet has been a friend of mine for thirty years - Col. Robert K. Brown, publisher of Soldier of Fortune Magazine. We've had various adventures together, like being shot at by Soviets in Afghanistan, and please don't ask him how he got the nickname "Bob Ka-bab," or else he'll tell you about "Snuffy Jack." Thus the first item on the HFR agenda this week is to tell you how you can participate in Bob's Stir The Chicom Pot Contest... ... If done right, efforts to sabotage the Chicom Olympics may reach a "tipping point," turning them, as the Washington Post just noted, into a "politically toxic showcase of repression." Another tipping point was reached this week in the debate on "climate change"... ... Additional happy news on the enviro front comes from the Bush Administration... ... And we can be more than half-full grateful that the Roberts Court this week decided 6-3 for American sovereignty, humiliating Condi Rice in the process...
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRISTIANITY VS. ISLAM
This past Sunday, March 23, 2008, was the most extraordinary Easter we may see in our lives. To begin with, we'll never see an earlier one. Because Easter is dated via the ancient Hebrews' lunar calendar used to identify Passover, it is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox of March 20th. This year, the moon reached full one day later, March 21st, which happened to be a Saturday. Thus Easter was the next day. You can't have an Easter much earlier than March 23rd. One day earlier, in fact, March 22nd. The last time Easter fell then was 1818; the next time in 2285. The last time Easter fell on March 23rd was in 1913, and the next time will be in 2228. So unless you are at least 95 years old, you've never seen an Easter as early as last Sunday, and unless some Durk Pearson life extension technology keeps you around for another 220 years, you'll never see another. So this Easter was chronologically special - but it was also special for a far deeper reason than that. In fact, it is the combination of two specific events taking place during this Easter Week that may well signify the resurrection of a dormant Christianity and its resultant defeat of militant Islam.
THE REVOLUTIONARY RENDEZVOUS
Get set for a Revolutionary TTP Rendezvous this summer! The dates are Friday, August 22 through Sunday, August 24 - the weekend before Labor Day weekend. The place is where the American Revolution began - Boston. First we'll go to where America began* -- Plymouth Rock. Then to North Church from whose steeple the signal was given for Paul Revere's ride, and follow his ride to Lexington. From Lexington Green we'll go to Concord and North Bridge, where the Revolution started with "the shot heard ‘round the world." We'll host many a lager at the Green Dragon Tavern where Sam Adams and his fellow revolutionaries conspired and plotted against the British. Revolutionary good cheer will also be had at the Bell In Hand, and every Irishman's favorite Boston pub, Dooley's. With the help of our members in Boston like Marco the Wizard and the Dynamic Blonde Duo of Maureen Bowen and Eileen Corcoran, we're putting together a package of hotels, venues, and activities that you won't want to miss at a price you can afford. Details will be forthcoming - but in the meantime, mark your calendar and plan to have a revolutionary good time with your fellow TTP'ers. Boston, August 22-24. [*That's not to forget where America also began - Jamestown, Virginia. Right nearby is Yorktown where the Revolution was won. Obviously a site for a future Rendezvous.]
GOT A QUESTION FOR ME?
Thanks to TTP'er and entrepreneur Eric Martell, we're pleased to announce The TTP Teleconference. It's a sort of "mini-rendezvous" using an interactive format based on a web-site where you can ask questions and a teleconference call where I can answer them. We're now ready to try our first free teleconference. It will be on Monday, April 7th at 9:00PM Eastern Time. The way it will work is simple.
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THE DEMS, THE DEVIL, AND THE DEEP BLACK SEA
Could the Democrats' dilemma possibly get any funnier or more entertaining? It's still March, we've got seven more months to election day, and the way things are going, it's going to take a cross between Einstein and Houdini to prevent a McGovernesque disaster. Even weirder, it's beginning to look like they want such a disaster. So weird that maybe their Bureau of Propaganda - otherwise known as the "mainstream media" - wants it too. Dem leaders know Hillary can't win against McCain. They know Obambi can't win against McCain. Yet they would far rather give it to Obambi - for they fear black envy and racist hatred more than they fear destroying their party. They would rather appease the former than avoid the latter. That's masochism, big time.
THE ANTI-SEMITIC COMPANY OBAMA KEEPS
Egyptian pop singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim, famous for his songs attacking Israel and praising Osama bin Laden, plans to release shortly a new song endorsing Barack Obama for president. Though Shaaban Abdel Rahim is wildly popular in Egypt, I doubt very much that Sen. Obama has ever heard of him. And I'm sure Sen. Obama wouldn't agree with Mr. Rahim's take on the 9/11 attacks (Hey People, It Was Only a Tower) or the Mohammed cartoon controversy. But why is Mr. Rahim so fond of Barack Obama? It could be the company he keeps.
FROM APPEASING NAZIS TO APPEASING MOSLEMS
Adolf Hitler realized the importance of having a good press. In Nazi Germany with its press censorship, it was easy for Hitler to have a good press. However, during the 1930s the Nazis also tried to control the media in the neighboring European countries that Hitler was planning to invade. The Nazis bullied the democratically elected governments in these countries to censor everything that resembled what today might be called "Naziophobia" - criticism of Nazism. A number of bullied governments gave in to the Nazi intimidation rather than back the few courageous individuals who spoke out against totalitarianism. Today, we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Islamist extremists want a good press. They do not tolerate criticism. Even cartoons are deemed offensive. They warn those who criticize them "to consider the possible consequences" of Islamophobia.
TAXATION AS LEGALIZED ROBBERY
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said, "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society," while his predecessor on the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall, also correctly noted, "The power to tax is the power to destroy." The American Founding Fathers, in the Declaration of Independence, state as one of their grievances against King George III, that he imposed "taxes on us without our consent." "No taxation without representation" was a rallying cry of the Revolution, and from that time it has been widely agreed that imposition of a tax without the consent of the governed is a form of tax tyranny. President Calvin Coolidge stated it succinctly, "Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." (Ronald Reagan admired Coolidge so much he had Coolidge's portrait hung in the Cabinet Room of the White House.) So at what point does taxation move from that necessary for proper government to tyranny?
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/21/08
We should call the HFR this week The Toast Report, because that's what so many folks on the dark side have become in the last few days. Let's start with Obambi. This is going to be like watching one of those spectacular crash-explosion movie disaster scenes shot in agonizingly slow motion. One month from tomorrow (April 22) is the Dem primary in Pennsylvania. Obambi's worshippers in the media will be the guys in the movie scene reaching out in slo-mo and shouting noooooo!, knowing all the while they can't prevent the inevitable. He is going to be destroyed by Mrs. Clinton in PA. Blue-collar Budweiser Democrats will not vote for someone who takes his kids to a church that goddamns America. The same is going to happen to him in the North Carolina primary on May 6, except for his winning the huge black vote there. Then it becomes obvious the Clinton-Obama race is about nothing but race, with Obambi only having the black vote. At that point, the Dems realize they are truly, truly - in Daniel Henninger's delightful term - Mamet-worded.