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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/03/09 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
On the eve of July 4th, I've discovered I can't
do what I've done for the past five years:
provide a cheery update for Freedom's Birthday.
Yes, the 4th is a time to feel good about America. But our country is in such extraordinary
danger - more than any time since the Civil War - that just feeling good and
proud doesn't cut it. Especially when
the danger is internal, not foreign.
This example just
appeared in Israeli papers today (7/03):
That Zero intends to block any new sanctions on Iran
at the upcoming G8 summit next week.
Never before in our nation's history have we ever had a
president who hated his country, who by his every action sought to weaken its
national security, destroy its prosperity, and expand government control over
our lives to literally the level of Orwell's 1984.
Thus the phrase you'll hear at many a Tea Party tomorrow:
"To avoid 1984, you have to go back to 1776."
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QUANTUM WEIRDNESS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
The great physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962), who pioneered
the study of sub-atomic or quantum physics, was fond of saying, "If
someone says that he can think about quantum physics without becoming dizzy,
that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it."
The Alice-in-Wonderland
quality of sub-atomic physics is called quantum weirdness. It was in response to such weirdness that
Bohr's contemporary scientist J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) claimed "the
Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can
suppose."
Today, however, the concept of quantum weirdness seems also
to apply to politics in America.
Clearly, we are no longer living in a world of normal
reality. For the first time in US
history, we have a president who hates his own country. A president who is on the side of America's
enemies, not on the side of America.
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THE PRO-DICTATORSHIP ANTI-DEMOCRACY PRESIDENT |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
In Honduras, Mr. Obama is intervening on the wrong
side. But if you take him at his word (a dangerous thing to do), the
wonder is that he is intervening at all. This is the guy, you'll
remember, who was so concerned about being perceived as "meddling" in Iran's
internal affairs that he, alone among Western leaders, refused to denounce the
blatantly stolen election in Iran, or to express support for those who
protested the theft.
Mr. Obama is now doing with regard to Honduras what he has refused to do with regard to Iran: organizing an international coalition to pressure the
country to reverse course.
There is a disturbing consistency to Mr. Obama's
apparent inconsistency on Honduras and Iran. In both the case where he has intervened, and in
the case where he hasn't, he has taken the side of anti-American dictators (in
Mr. Zelaya's case, a wannabe dictator) over the vast majority of their people.
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ARE THEY IDIOTS, OR DO THEY HAVE ANOTHER AGENDA? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
Why did a bare
majority (219-212) of the members of the U.S. Congress vote for the largest tax
increase in American history this past Friday, under the claim it was a vote to
save the climate?
There is
no consensus in the scientific community about how much climate change, other
than the normal cycles, is taking place, nor how severe it will be, and how
much man-made CO2 is responsible.
It is known
that the legislation will have a negligible effect on global CO2 emissions,
particularly since the big polluters, such as China and India, are not playing
ball. It is also
known that the "cap and trade" system that the legislation calls for
has been a failure in Europe.
In sum, serious
people understand the legislation will hurt the U.S. economy, reduce the
standard of living and yet not accomplish its claimed intent; therefore, why
were so many members of Congress willing to vote for it?
Are they idiots, or
do they have another agenda?
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THE VICTORY OF PRESIDENT BUSH IN IRAQ |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 |
Our effort in Iraq
passed a major milestone this week: Our troops are leaving the cities.
Advisers remain in place. Joint patrols will still occur. And our forces
will wait nearby to respond to Iraqi calls for support. But the last of the
bases and US-only outposts within Iraq's
urban centers will be vacated.
Terrorists have already begun testing the new security arrangements. Iraqi
forces won't always pass with flying colors.
Yet this situation seemed a pipe dream not so long ago: Iraq's
security forces, serving an elected government, assume primary
responsibility for the good order of their own country. It is an extraordinary achievement, the credit for which goes to President George W. Bush.
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TWO SIMPLE SECRETS TO A GREAT RELATIONSHIP |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
There are two related things that you can do to make your relationships -
not just your marriage, but all of your relationships - happier, stronger, and
more fun. These are very easy things to
do - if you set your mind to it.
I always recommend doing all the easy things you can do. Sometimes, because
they seem so easy, people overlook them. But it's the easy, simple things that
you do every day that make a relationship strong and happy.
When you have the kind of base that is built by countless friendly, kind,
and playful interactions, then when the inevitable hard conflicts or
misunderstandings come up, they are much less daunting - because they are
exceptions to the overall spirit that you have created between you.
The first is called "bids and turning."
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PARENTAL INTERNET SAFETY – AND QUESTIONS FOR THE 4TH |
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Written by Mark Gilligan
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
TTPer
parents have asked me to comment on children's safety on the internet. There
are some software applications to trace history of web surfing and to prevent violent
or sexual explicit sites from being accessed. I will list a few here that can
be explored by interested parties...
...And
may I suggest that you take a few moments on our Independence Day to read the
entire text of our nation's founding document?
It is not only thrilling and inspirational, but provides a certain
perspective on the present.
How
many of the millions of participants in tomorrow's Tea Parties will think this
description of the British King applies to today?
"A
Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant,
is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
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PRESIDENT MOON PIE |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
Is it no wonder that America's president enjoys our famously yummy snacks so much that his nickname is President Moon Pie?
After all, he's just like them: Chocolate on the outside, marshmallow fluff on the inside...
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HALF-FULL REPORT 06/26/09 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 26 June 2009 |
Naked evil. That's what was on
display this week in much of the world - what could be half-full about it?
The world's scum are all in support of Ahmadinejad's "election." The Red Chinese, Chavez, Putin, et al, are
congratulating the thugs who run Iran on their "exercise of
democracy."
The world's actual democracies are all a-flutter, trying to decide how to
condemn the butchery and kow-tow to the Chicoms and the Kremlin at the same
time. Zero doesn't have the guts to take
the side of the protestors getting butchered and beat up.
What's half-full is that the mullah regime has lost all legitimacy in the
eyes of a majority of the Iranian people. This is a regime with no future. It's worth recalling that the revolution
replacing the Shah with the Ayatollahs did not occur overnight.
The protests started in January of 1978, and succeeded with the Shah
fleeing the country in January of 1979.
During that year, there were many periods of quiescence, when the
protests seemed to vanish and the Shah's rule was deemed secure. Then they would crank up again, and up a
notch.
So this is a marathon, not a sprint.
There is very serious dissention within the mullahs themselves, there is
no longer a center of the regime that can hold.
The protestors are young, determined, and smart. This is far from over, it has only just
begun.
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THE ZERO RESIGNATION CHALLENGE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
To understand how TTP's Jack Kelly used
precisely the right word to describe Zero's policy towards Iran, and indeed the
entire Zero Presidency - obscene-you
should read this horrific
eyewitness description of the mullah regime butchery that took place yesterday
(6/24).
The vice-president of my bank here in DC is Iranian. We have had a running debate about Zero for
at least a year because he's a total Zero-worshipper - but he's my friend so we
keep it polite.
I paid him a visit today to notarize some papers, and we
discussed what was happening in Iran. He looked me in the eye and said, "Jack, I
have to admit - your were right about Obama.
He is an enemy of freedom."
There are millions upon millions of Americans, native born
and naturalized, that are coming to the same conclusion - and their numbers are
growing by the day. The time has come to
issue the Zero Resignation Challenge.
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TO LIVE OR JUST BE ALIVE – THAT'S THE QUESTION |
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Written by Persian Professor
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Sunday, 21 June 2009 |
[An extraordinarily
poignant and vividly powerful eyewitness account of the protests for freedom in
Tehran yesterday, June 20, by a philosophy
professor at Tehran University.]
We gather up with my students on Saturdays for a private class. We cook and
eat together, then talk of philosophy. This time there was no class. We only
tried to keep up our morale. We were very determined but scared.
That is how I can describe the most people who came out to attend the
demonstration today. After the fierce speech [by Ayatollah Khomenei] at the
Friday prayers, we knew that today we would be treated differently. We felt so
vulnerable, more than ever, but at the same time were aware of our power,
which, no matter how influential it is collectively, would have done little to
protect us today.
We could only take our bones and flesh to the streets and expose them to
batons and bullets. Two different feelings fight inside you without mixing with
one another. To live or to just be alive, that's the question.
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OBSCENELY PRESENT |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 |
At a news conference yesterday (6/23), President
Barack Hussein Obama condemned the "threats, beatings and imprisonments of the
last few days," but stopped short of criticizing the stolen election that sent
more than a million protesters into the streets, or expressing support for
those protesters.
The president's limited criticism of the Iranian
regime took place a week after the leaders of Canada, France and Germany issued stronger ones. It was prompted, said Andrew
Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times, by Sen. John McCain's "angry Senate speech Monday" (6/22) which made it politically difficult for Mr. Obama to
continue to sit on the fence.
But in the question session which followed his
prepared remarks, the president indicated there is no amount of blood the
regime can shed that will dissuade him from negotiating with it.
This reached macabre proportions when Mr. Obama
indicated his invitation to Iranian diplomats to attend Fourth of July parties
is still open. There are arguments for negotiating with brutal
regimes. But to socialize with the butchers while they are killing their
own people is obscene.
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BRITAIN AND AMERICA COMPETE IN ECONOMIC SUICIDE |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 |
Professor David
Smith, a former Bank of England economist and well-known commentator on the
British economy, has forecast a rise in government spending to more than 53
percent of national income by 2010, financed by deficit spending of 14% of national income.
He argues: "There must be
serious doubt whether deficits on this scale can be financed in a
non-inflationary manner without very large capital inflows from abroad. And it
is hard to see why such inflows should be forthcoming now that the British
economy has become so highly taxed by international standards."
If President Obama
carries through on his threats to greatly increase U.S. taxes on carbon, etc.;
allows the George W. Bush tax cuts to expire next year; and does not begin
seriously to reduce spending, many economists will be able to say the same
things about the U.S. economy next year that Mr. Smith says about the United
Kingdom's economy today.
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THE COST OF DIVERSITY AT ANNAPOLIS |
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Written by Dr. Bruce Fleming
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
The Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced
in Annapolis recently that
"diversity is the number one priority" at the Naval
Academy, where I have been a
Professor of English for 22 years.
The Naval Academy
superintendent, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, echoed him. Everyone understands that
"diversity" here means nonwhite skins.
Fowler insisted recently that we needed to have Annapolis
graduates who "looked like" the Fleet, where enlisted people are
about 42 percent nonwhite, largely African American and Hispanic.
The stunning revelation last week was that the Naval
Academy had an incoming class that
was "more diverse" than ever before: 35 percent minority.
Sounds good, only this comes with a huge price tag. It's taxpayers who
bankroll the military. Yet nobody has asked us if we're willing to pay this
price. Instead we're being told there is no price to pay at all. If you believe
that, you probably also believe in the Tooth Fairy.
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BEWARE THE HAPPINESS POLICE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
Any time somebody gets a bright idea about how things could be better in the
world there can be a temptation to use the leverage and power of government to
make it happen. Through government, people believe that their visions can
become reality more quickly and more broadly than would otherwise be possible.
That temptation has led to some very weird and destructive laws and
regulations, from the Great Society welfare programs (that have
institutionalized poverty), to the California Task Force on Self-Esteem in California
(that has institutionalized all kinds of bizarre ideas in the public school
system here, in order to - in theory - "give" children higher self-esteem).
Now there's a move among some in the field of Positive Psychology to
legislate happiness. Yep, they want the government to be in charge of your happiness -- literally.
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