THE SIEGE OF MALTA
Valletta, Malta. This small European island country in the Mediterranean south of Sicily and close to the north coast of Africa is where civilization emerged from the Stone Age. It is where Western Civilization was saved from being conquered by Islam. Today, Malta is under siege again, from another horde of Moslem invaders. This time, there are no Knights of Malta to protect the Maltese - almost 100% of whom are Christian Europeans - and the barbarian aliens invading their nation are aided by barbarian liberals within Europe. The story is both ancient and is at the vanguard of the future. Europe's future, America's future, and the future of Christianity vs. Islam.
OBAMA ON AFGHANISTAN: NUTS, STUPID, AND IMMORAL
Just plain nuts: That's the only possible characterization for last night's (12/02) presidential declaration of surrender in advance of a renewed campaign in Afghanistan. President Obama will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan -- but he'll "begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011." Then why send them? If you're going to tell the Taliban to be patient because we're leaving, what's the point in upping the blood ante? For what will come down to a single year by the time the troops hit the ground? Our president is setting up our military to fail -- but he'll be able to claim that he gave the generals what they wanted. Failure will be their fault. He's covering his strong-on-security flank, even as he plays to our white-flag wavers. His cynicism's worthy of a Saddam. This isn't just stupid: It's immoral. No American president has ever espoused such a worthless, self-absorbed non-strategy for his own political gratification.
THE TOTAL WASTE-OF-TIME JOBS SUMMIT
Today, December 3rd, the White House is hosting a "Jobs Summit." What should the attendees be advising the president? Unlike Ronald Reagan, President Obama was schooled in law, not in economics. Thus, he may not understand that there is really no mystery as to why we have our current unemployment, and how we can regain full employment. It would, of course, have been no mystery to Ronald Reagan, who was fond of saying: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." That is, the recipe for more jobs is simple: lower taxes, fewer regulations. Job creation should be at the top of the administration's domestic priorities, because the inability to find a job causes more misery and hardship to far more Americans (and particularly to those who can least afford it) than the lack of health care for the 10 percent who are uninsured or potential global warming ever will. If the president really wants to see employers go back to hiring large numbers of people, the administration will do the following:
$79 BILLION CAN BUY A LOT OF GLOBAL WARMING
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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/27/09
A prefatory note before we begin this Thanksgiving Edition of the HFR: I am celebrating in particular the at-long-last completion of The Jade Steps. The final chapter, the Epilogue, was finished this week. Once the final edit is done, it will be available as an E-Book, and then in a print edition. It is one of history's most epic sagas of heroic love and liberation - and one of the most unknown, misunderstood, and distorted. As I have said, The Jade Steps is a true story. Every principal event described actually happened, every named person really lived and had that name. It all happened almost 500 years ago, but it still remains the cause of the civil war within Mexico's soul. Mexico will never rise out of the Third World and overcome its inferiority complex towards America until this spiritual wound is healed. That is the purpose of this book -- and hopefully, the movie. *** Hear that sound - the wails of fury, the gnashing of teeth of the world's Fascist Left over its defeat by tiny little Honduras?
THE GOOGLE DROID: and Other Thoughts From Scottsdale
Even though I'm on vacation in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona, I can't resist telling you about the latest techie innovations. Recently a new phone was made available to Verizon customers in two models with a new Droid OS from Google. At first look it is quite an impressive smart phone. The two models covered are the Motorola models that flip open to reveal a keypad, and the Eris, which is a touch screen accessible device, similar to the iPhone. The Motorola Droid has a slide out keypad and is presented with 24 bit color ( 16.7 million ) and the Eris has 16 bit colors with ( 65,536 ). The HTC Droid Eris has a 528 MHz MSM7600 processor with 147 MB of memory. The Motorola Droid has the 550 MHz ARM Cortex A8 with 256 MB of memory. It is only a matter of time before different versions of the Droid OS will make it to additional US carriers. Hopefully other carriers will not do what Verizon has handed to their customers.
WANT LESS UNEMPLOYMENT? FIRE GOVERNMENT WORKERS!
President Barack Hussein Obama has little interest in, understanding of, or affection for free markets, so he fails to understand that the fundamental relationship between government and the economy is that of parasite to host. Some functions of government are absolutely essential to a free economy. But though government can consume wealth, and redistribute wealth, it can't create wealth. And unless wealth is created, there is nothing to consume or redistribute. That's why -- even when government is doing something we all agree must be done or most of us want to have it do -- government is a parasite. All it has is what takes from the producers of wealth. A healthy host can support a lot of parasites. A sickly host cannot. So for our sickly economy to recover and to create an increase in overall employment, one necessary condition is to start firing government workers who are parasites on and not producers of wealth.
WHY LIBERALS CAN’T CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING
The reason is history. Not the childish make-believe of your kid's grammar school play of how the noble Squanto taught the helpless Mayflower Pilgrims how to feed themselves. No, the real thing. Here it is. The real history of the Mayflower Pilgrims was recounted by their leader, William Bradford (1590-1657) in his book Of Plymouth Plantation, completed in 1647. It is from Bradford that we learn of Squanto, who did indeed show the Pilgrims how to "set" or plant corn (a new unfamiliar crop for them). Then we learn that the Pilgrims taught the Indians how to grow more corn than they ever had before: "The Indeans used to have nothing so much corne as they have since the English have stored them with their hoes, and seene their industrie in breaking up new grounds therwith." Reading the real history of the Pilgrims is so revelatory that I want you to see it at length. The Pilgrims landed in December 1620, suffered a horrible winter, figured out how to fish and hunt that spring and summer so that there may have been some sort of feast with friendly Indians in the fall of 1621 - although Bradford doesn't recount the incident. But by 1622 they were starving. There was no "Thanksgiving" that year. There was the next - for 1623 saw the Pilgrims in well-fed abundance, and thus was the year of the real First Thanksgiving. What made the difference? Here are Bradford's own words describing Anno Dom.1623:
EPILOGUE
The Jade Steps: Epilogue It was nighttime. Streetlamps spread a mist of light into the Jardin de la Conchita, where Tim and Cindy Jorgensen had been listening for hours to Maria Consuelo tell her story. Now she was finished, and Tim and Cindy were speechless. They sat in stunned silence, until Cindy finally stammered, "That... that is the most extraordinary story I have ever heard - and it is true, it's real history, it all really happened?" Maria smiled gently. "Yes, it's all true. There are witnesses who wrote it down, like Bernal. It is one of the greatest stories of heroism in the history of mankind - and it is the tragedy of Mexicans that they have spit on it." "But how is that possible?" Tim protested. "Why isn't La Malinche worshipped as the great heroine of Mexico?" "She is to us, the mestizos who are her descendants - but not to the criollos, and they have always controlled Mexico."
THE CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY OF GLOBAL WARMING
This is what they did - these climate "scientists" on whose unsupported word the world's classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen. An unelected global government with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights. The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the "global warming" fraud - for fraud is what we now know it to be - tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up.