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HALF-FULL REPORT 051608 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
Wasn't it just a couple of weeks ago that the HFR's glass was overflowing? This week the HFR is staring at a glass that's just about empty.
What with the eco-fascists' victory of fraud over science regarding polar bears, the homo-fascists' victory of cultural insanity in the California courts, the Republicans in Congress in full yellow-belly retreat from any conservative principles (e.g., over half of House Pubs voted for $300 billion of pork in the Farm Bill on Wednesday, 5/14), John McCain proving on Monday (5/12) he remains a clueless ignoramus on "global warming," and other such dregs of the week, the HFR has to search hard for a few drops of good cheer.
Should we start with the tabloids? Perhaps you've seen, as have millions of others as they stood in the check-out line at the market, tabloid front pages blaring:
Trashy tabloids like the Globe are not to be taken seriously, of course. Is Obambi bisexual? The HFR has no idea. But what is clear is that...
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THE WAGES OF WHITE HOUSE COWARDICE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
When President Bush condemned the "false comfort of
appeasement" in his speech to the Israeli Knesset, Barack Hussein Obama and the
Pelosicrats promptly went bananas with phony outrage over Bush's statement,
thinking it was comparing their Dem Messiah to Neville Chamberlain.
But the compulsive appeasers Bush was really talking about
were his Secretary of State Condi Rice, his National Security Advisor Steven
Hadley - and, indeed, himself.
If Hussein Obama wasn't such an effeminate metrosexual
pantywaist, he would have brushed off the defensive chip on his padded shoulder
and condemned Bush for embodying such a "false comfort."
Instead, he doesn't have the brains - nor do his Pelosicrat
hysterical defenders - to grasp that his "protest too much" claim of not being
an appeaser only serves to highlight in voters' brains that he is - that he
would be vastly more of a coward in the White House than GW.
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REPUBLICANS DESERVE TO LOSE |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
A message from Mississippi has interrupted the leisurely
cruise Republicans in Congress have been taking up the river De Nile.
Democrat Travis Childers soundly defeated Republican Greg Davis in a special
election in a House district that President Bush carried by 25 percentage
points in 2004.
Mr. Childers' victory completes a trifecta for Democrats in
once heavily Republican districts. You don't need a weatherman to tell
which way the wind is blowing. The Republican brand today is as popular
as Tylenol's was during the cyanide poison scare.
The bitter wind from Mississippi has replaced complacency
with panic, but many Republicans don't know what to do about it. Many blame President Bush, with good reason. But the larger reason for the troubles of
congressional Republicans is that they are viewed (alas, correctly) as being
motivated by little else than self enrichment.
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DEFEATING MOOKIE THE MEDIA HERO |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
Few foreign leaders have received as favorable news coverage
in the United States as has the Moqtada al Sadr, with less factual basis for
it.
Mookie, as our troops call him, is the nominal head of the
Mahdi Army, a radical Shia militia, and of the Sadrist political movement,
which holds 30 seats (of 275) in the Iraqi parliament. His patron is Iran, which provides him with
money, arms and military training.
The last couple of months have been dreadful for Mookie
everywhere except on the pages of American newspapers and magazines.
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ACHIEVING REAL SOCIAL SECURITY |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
Berlin, Germany. If you were asked to name one person who has enabled more
people to gain wealth and security than any other person on the globe, who
would you name?
In 1881, here in Berlin,
Otto von Bismarck started the world's first modern pay-as-you-go social
security system which served as the model for the U.S. Social Security system
and that of many other countries, including setting the retirement age at 65.
No, Bismarck
is not the answer to the opening question.
The answer is a fellow named José Piñera
, for he has made life more secure and prosperous for millions, and with
luck it will soon be billions of people. Here is how.
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THE CURSE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
I have a 10 year old at home, and she is
always saying, "That's not fair." When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're
cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You
were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that
things don't start getting fair for you."
P.J. O'Rourke. The Problem is
Politics
The focus by progressives, liberals, racial hucksters and
demagogues on entitlements, grievances, and "social justice" is a smokescreen
for one of the basest of human motivations: Envy. The effect on those
who seek such leveling by force is as tragic as the effects on the rest of us
for their efforts.
Envy is simply helpless greed. If we think of greed as the
elevation of things over the people in our lives, then envy is that same
sentiment from a passive or helpless position - though the liberal con men and
women on the left make it out to be much more noble than all that.
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THE TALE OF THE ARAB FLIGHT CREW |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
The brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger
airplane ever built, sat in its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single
hour of airtime. Enter the Arab flight
crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on
the ground, such as engine runups, prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu
Dhabi. The date was November 15, 2007.
The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then
they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having read the run-up manuals, they had
no clue just how light an empty A340-600 really is.
The takeoff warning horn was
blaring away in the cockpit because they had all 4 engines at full power. The
aircraft computers thought they were trying to takeoff but it had not been
configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.) Then one of the ADAT crew decided to
pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor
to silence the alarm.
This fools the aircraft into
thinking it is in the air.
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HALF-FULL REPORT 05/09/08 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
The HFR opens this week by celebrating Naqba - that
glorious event the suicidal schmucks of the Arab world, the Palestinians, call
"the Catastrophe." Yes, the creation of
Israel 60 years ago in May of 1948 was a catastrophe for people filled with
envy and hate. But for anyone who
admires triumphs of the human spirit, the existence of Israel is not just
something to celebrate on its 60th birthday, but every single day....
.... From one inspiring story to another. The HFR raises a glass of Chianti to a great
Italian, Roberto Calderoli.
The government of Libya had threatened (last Friday, 5/02)
new Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with "catastrophic consequences" should
Calderoli be appointed to his Cabinet.
That was because in February of 2006, Calderoli, a leader of Italy's
Northern League Party, appeared in an interview on national television wearing
a t-shirt with cartoons of Mohammed - in sympathy with the Danish cartoonists
who drew them....
... The HFR switches to Chablis to look down its nose at all
the white wine liberals in such a tizzy over Hillary Clinton's channeling
George Wallace by saying "hard working white Americans support me." Then her key advisor Paul Begala had the
chutzpah to point out an obvious truth:
that "Obama can't win with just
the eggheads and African-Americans."
So here is the HFR's
prediction....
... We close
this week's HFR with two additional indications of why Obambi Hussein is going
to lose.
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HOW TO BE FREE OF FOREIGN OIL |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
In a speech
last Friday (5/02), President Bush called for increased oil and gas production
"in Alaska and our outer continental shelf."
Nancy Pelosi actually had the Orwellian effrontery to respond:
"Drilling is the failed energy
policy of yesterday that has brought us record gas prices today."
Producing more oil causes higher
prices! How Orwellian doublethink can
you get? She sneered at Bush's policy of increasing production and his promise
to veto her party's attempt to demonize oil producers by calling it "drill
and veto."
If the Republicans from John
McCain on down are too stupid to take the Dems to the electoral cleaners with
that, they deserve to lose.
If McCain & GOPco did have
the brains, we could free of foreign oil, or well on our way, by the end of his
first term. Unfortunately, they don't -
especially McCain. He's so braindead
he's opposed
to drilling ANWR because it would be like drilling in the Grand Canyon.
But if by chance, his economic
advisor, former Senator from Texas Phil Gramm, can persuade him to put national
security over a howling Alaska wilderness, and get him to somehow grasp that
the way to be free of foreign oil is through increased domestic production,
then here's how it can be done.
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THE STUPIDITY OF $4 A GALLON |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
The average retail price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. this
week is $3.61, according to the Energy Information Administration. That's
up 55 cents a gallon from this time last year. Many analysts expect the
price to approach $4 a gallon this summer.
Anticipating this, last month Sen. John McCain proposed
suspending the 18.4 cent a gallon federal gasoline tax between Memorial Day and
Labor Day. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has endorsed the idea. Sen.
Barack Hussein Obama has denounced it.
Sen. Obama wasn't always hostile to such
"gimmicks." As an Illinois state senator, he voted three
times temporarily to suspend that state's gasoline tax. Gasoline
prices then were about $2 a gallon.
The 5% Illinois state sales tax on gasoline was
suspended, despite Mr. Obama's objection, in June of 2000 for the remainder of
the year. The suspension led to a price decline of three percent compared
to neighboring states.
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BARACK "DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY" OBAMA |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen.
Barack Hussein Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how
little it has been remarked upon. In
defending his stated intent to meet with America's enemies without
preconditions, Sen. Obama said:
"I trust the American people to understand that it is
not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies,
like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."
That he made this statement, and that it passed
without comment by the journalists covering his speech, indicates either
breathtaking ignorance of history on the part of both, or deceit on the part of
both.
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THE GREATEST ENEMY OF MOSLEMS IS SAUDI ARABIA |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
As corrosive as the Saudis have
been for our system, they're far worse for Moslems.
The crucial point you have to
grasp is that the Saudis don't give a downtown damn about Moslems -
flesh-and-blood men, women or children. They only care about Islam.
They'd sacrifice tens of millions of Moslems to further their perversion of the
faith.
I've visited over a dozen Moslem
countries and many more that have significant Moslem minorities. In every case,
I've found the Saudis funding evil.
From Thailand to the United
States, the Saudi goal is to prevent Moslems from integrating into their host
societies. In poor countries, such as Kenya, they pay families to pull their
children out of state schools and send them to madrassahs - where they
learn to recite the Koran, but no career skills.
The Saudis don't mind if Moslems live in poverty and
squalor - as long as Moslems don't identify with the societies around them.
They want strict religious and cultural apartheid.
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TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK IN BELGIUM |
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Written by Mercury Traveler
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
This is a personal story of what it's like doing business in Europe -
specifically a part of Europe called Wallonia, or French-speaking Belgium.
In 1976 Occidental Oil constructed the Claymore Alpha gas production
platform for the North Sea.
The platform had a total steel component of more than 600,000 tons. The
modus operandi was to construct the platforms with prefabricated modules of 500
tons weight max each and put them together module by module. Since the North
Sea only allows a good weather gap of 1 to 2 months each year in summer time,
the costs and time delays were staggering.
A Dutch maritime engineer-pioneer, Pieter Heerema, had the fantastic
idea to start constructing with 5,000 ton modules, ten times as big as before.
He was the first to use an old tanker, welding compartments in it, and with the
help of sensors and computer steering pump with massive pumps seawater in or
out of the different compartments to counterbalance the heavy loads.
But he had a very big problem. I made the mistake of trying to solve it in Belgium.
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TRADE VISION DEFICIT DISORDER |
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Written by Neal Asbury
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
At a time when our country is fixated on a protracted
political process passionately promising to cure all our ills, this would be an
excellent time for our presidential candidates to put forward their vision to
solve the most critical economic issue of our time: our degenerative trade
deficit.
Unfortunately they appear to suffer from Trade Vision
Deficit Disorder (TVDD), or are simply too fixated on more electability issues.
We must take it upon ourselves to provide the remedy.
Unlike other seemingly impossible challenges we face,
our trade deficit is something we can correct in a relatively short period thus
creating millions of well-paying jobs. It is as straightforward as establishing
an environment where American exporters are allowed to compete.
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IF YOU'RE SERIOUS ABOUT SECURITY FOR YOUR DATA |
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Written by Marco the Wizard
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
In this week's
tips, we first talk about a security application that is from the open source
community and is cross platform compatible for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.
The name of this
application is Truecrypt and it
truly is a secure application to store your data.
Say you want to
create a lock box vault on your hard drive for storing critical files. Possibly examples could be taxes, credit
card info, banking or investments and passwords.
Other utilities
can do this, however Truecrypt allows
you to encrypt with several protocols at once. You create a volume of files
that is hidden and invisible on your hard disk and you encrypt it with AES,
Twofish, Serpent and other encryption protocols. Be sure and click on (and read!) the Protection of
Hidden Volumes Against Damage link in Truecypt's left side bar.
No other program
out there will offer you this kind of protection.
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