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INDIVIDUALISM AND ACCEPTANCE |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
[TTP'ers: This is
a masterpiece. I could not encourage
you to read it more. I have made it
free access so you may encourage your friends - especially those who are
liberal - to do so as well. ---Jack Wheeler]
One of the things that I noticed over the years working as a
psychotherapist, is how so many of my colleagues who were so compassionate and
caring on certain levels, could be so rigid and judgmental when it came to
differing political ideas.
Most of my colleagues have been politically to the left to
one degree or another, and I often found it odd and irritating how harshly
critical they could be of conservatives, while holding a stance of
unconditional acceptance toward their clients in general.
I have not found the same dynamic to the same degree with
people on the right. Sure people have strong opinions, and sometimes the
discussions or arguments can get heated, and I have certainly seen examples of
rude and spiteful behavior from a few conservatives here and there, but this is
not usually conservative style.
From the right, in general, there is usually a more
respectful tone than from the left. How
come?
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GLOBAL WARMING AS AN INTELLIGENCE FAILURE |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
What
do you think was the most costly intelligence failure of all time? No, was is not the world's leading
intelligence agencies' failure to notice that Saddam had few, if any, weapons
of mass destruction.
It was
the failure of many leading climate model builders to be modest enough about
their predictions, and the politicians' and media's failure to ask the tough
questions of these climate experts.
As a consequence of what we now know was an
overblown global-warming scare, everyone on the planet is paying substantially
more for food and fuel than is necessary. And Democrats in Congress are doing everything they can to keep it that way.
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OUR HATEAMERICA MEDIA HATES OUR WINNING IN IRAQ |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Do we still have troops in Iraq?
Is there still a conflict over there?
If you rely on the so-called
mainstream media, you may have difficulty answering those questions these days.
As Iraqi and Coalition forces pile up one success after another, Iraq has
magically vanished from the headlines.
Want a real
"inconvenient truth?" Progress in Iraq is powerful and accelerating.
But that fact isn't helpful to
elite media commissars and cadres determined to decide the presidential race
over our heads. How dare our troops win? Even worse, Iraqi troops
are winning. Daily.
You won't see that above the
fold in The New York Times. And forget the Obama-intoxicated news networks -
they've adopted his story line that the clock stopped back in 2003.
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DOING BUSINESS WITH GERMANS |
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Written by Mercury Traveler
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Forty years ago I found out what it's like to do business with
Germans. The lessons learned, I've
discovered since, can apply to dealing with businessfolk in general who don't
play fair.
During my stay as a director in a Belgian steel mill I was in direct
competition with the biggest steel mills of Germany. I was the first to export
our special steels to Germany, something like selling sand to the Arabs.
When I started travelling to Germany I found a closed market from the heavy
steel industry down to the smallest distributor. They had one price list
and the biggest buyers, the German coal mines, still had to buy rigidly from
the local distributor. The mines bought thousands and thousands of tons per
week and the local distributor got rich while asleep. It was an ironclad
market, completely locked up. When I visited the distributors they laughed me
out of town.
So I went to the German coal mines and the German ship yards with
impossibly low prices. What I expected happened, those consumers called their
distributors, who called the big steel mills. Within a couple of weeks I was
called out of the blue by a "Herr General Direktor Wolff" who from
very high in his steel blue sky ordered me to cease my foolish interference in
the German market or else!
I told him politely that I was going into the
German steel market no matter what...
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UPDATING YOUR SECURITY |
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Written by mg
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
If you run
Windows OS software on your computer I kindly ask you to read the article
linked below for your personal protection. My "Wizard" predecessor Dennis
Turner and I have mentioned some of the items listed below, however this is a
pretty complete documentation on how to be safe in a dangerous world.
How
to Secure Your Windows Computer and Protect Your Privacy
Last week, Microsoft
released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for its Macintosh 2008 Office suite. It has a
variety of fixes and changes that have promised to improve performance and
security to the suite of apps that closely parallels the Office Suite for
Windows users. You can read about it here ... Description of Office 2008
for Mac Service Pack 1 (12.1.0)
And download it
here... Microsoft Office 2008 for
Mac Service Pack 1 (12.1.0)
If you work in
an organization, you may be surprised to find out that the most important
factor in attaining organizational security is you. Do you know what
your local IT policies or where your IT policies can be found?
You can find out, and learn how to be part of
the solution rather than any problem by reading: Attaining
Organizational Security.
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YES, THE MAGIC FASCIST REALLY SAID THAT… |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
...at a Portland, Oregon rally on May 18. The media showed pictures of a vast crowd of
over 70,000 and called it the Obama Mass.
What the press didn't report is that what drew the crowd was a free
concert by a local rock band, wildly popular in Portland, called The Decemberists.
So of course, the commiespondents didn't report that the
band is so pro-Communist it opened its act at the rally as it does at all its
shows by playing
the Anthem of the Soviet Union.
Maybe that should be Obambi's campaign theme song.
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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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