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HILLARY TRUMPS DONALD

HillarysMedalsDetermined not to be outdone by her opponent after Donald Trump announced that he had been given a Purple Heart, Hillary Clinton appeared at campaign rally wearing all of the medals she has been given by her supporters.

Thanks to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declaring that the Stolen Valor Act was unconstitutional, Hillary supporters have been able to lavish all types of military decorations on the presidential candidate, including several Purple Hearts, the Congressional Medal of Honor, Victoria Cross, Order of Lenin, and the Knights Cross with Diamonds, Swords and Oak Leaves.

The news media briefly paused from their negative coverage of Donald Trump to state how presidential Hillary Clinton looks with her justly deserved medals.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 08/05/16

We start with a prayer.  A year ago, we learned TTP’s Jack Kelly was diagnosed with multiple myeloma cancer and had but a few months to live.  We asked you to pray for him.  Jack is alive and well today. 

This week we learned that TTPer Edd Forke’s wife Dona has been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer.  You know Edd through his many marvelous comments on the Forum.  He has become a personal friend to many, including me.  Let’s put prayer to work for him and Dona.  You can be sure they’ll read and appreciate any expression of support on the Forum.  Thanks…

Laughter is considered the best medicine, and is also often the most effective criticism.  The Laugh of the Week took place in the tiny hamlet of Arcadia, Iowa – population 460, halfway between Des Moines and Sioux City.  It’s also an exposure of naked vulnerability – that the Lying Swine and the Democrats can dish it out, but they can’t take it…

Yesterday (8/04), NBCNews reported, “Trump Pushes Republican Party to Breaking Point.”  I’ve been privy to private emails between heavy Pub hitters that say exactly the same thing.  These are guys who desperately want Trump to win and prevent a PIAPS Presidency. 

Trump’s behavior is so maddeningly frustrating to them especially now, with the Lying Swine making herculean efforts to magnify every Trump gaffe in order to cover up Obama-Clinton scandals.

The revolting spectacle of Dem operative and Sharia law advocate Khizr Khan, with his wife in a hijab silently next to him like a wooden Indian, was handed to Trump on a platter – as pointed out by USMC vet  Chris Mark in a blistering take down of Khan…

There’s lots more in this HFR, lots of funny stuff too.  And you won’t surprised at all who made our day as HFR Hero of the Week.

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WHITE TRASH AND BLACK GIMMIDATS

Last Saturday (7/30), the New York Post published – next to a side bar with old photos of a naked Melania Trump – Why ‘White Trash’ Americans Are Flocking to Donald Trump.

Two days later on Monday (8/01), the New York Times published Black Lives Matter Coalition Makes Demands.  Treating the OBLM – Only Black Lives Matter – with deference and respect, the libtards at the Times would be horrified at the suggestion their article should be entitled Why ‘Black Gimmidats’ Are Flocking to Hillary Clinton.

“White trash” is a racial slur on a par with the Forbidden N-word. If you Google it, you’ll get over 9 million hits.  You’ll find thousands of articles arguing that Trump’s core supporters are “white trash.”  The term is an overt sneer referring to “poor white people.”

WhiteTrashDefinedOn the other hand, you never see the term “black trash” referring to “poor black people.”  Google has a lot of hits for it, but the vast majority of them refer to buying or supplying plastic black trash bags.  Let’s substitute, then, the term “Black Gimmidats” for the OBLM crowd.

As we all know, from Hollywood movies to television series to books, academia, the media and pop culture, the one group of people it’s politically correct to be racist towards is whites.

So let’s state the obvious:  the greatest and most destructive racial problem in America today is anti-white racism.  Particularly so because of what such racist hatred is doing to whites themselves.  It is causing them – from white limousine liberals to “check your privilege” white college kids to working-class whites who are now dying younger – to be auto-racist, racist towards themselves.

It is hard to think of anything that would improve life in America more than a cure for white auto-racism.

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WELFARE IS THE NEW WORK

Will-Work-for-WelfareTwo recent news stories highlight how pernicious the welfare state has become in America today.

Fox News reported (7/18)  that food-stamp groceries can be delivered right to a recipient’s door. In New York, the program is being called Fresh Direct – note the website has a convenient En Español button.

Service with a smile. The Obama administration says it is too much of a hardship for those on welfare to actually travel to the grocery store. What’s next? Cooking the meal for them? If only the DMV would do home deliveries for drivers licenses.

The second story is the hullabaloo over a proposal by Maine Governor Paul LePage to prohibit food stamp recipients from using their food aid to purchase junk foods like sugary soft drinks and candy bars. He says that the state has an obesity problem and he will “implement reform unilaterally or cease Maine’s administration of the food stamp program altogether.”

The Obama administration rejected his request and the left activists act as if a welfare recipient can’t stuff themselves with Mars bars and Mountain Dew at taxpayer expense, it’s a violation of civil liberties.  The media in Maine promptly condemned LePage’s “food stamp recklessness” that shows “little respect for Maine’s poor.”

The welfare/entitlement state of mind has spiraled out of control in America. The cost of welfare is now well over $1 trillion a year.

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THE POPE’S WAR

Pope&ReligiousWarIt’s not a religious war, according to His Holiness.  Economic, yes.  Political, sure.  But not religious, because religious people want peace. “It’s not right to identify Islam with terrorism.” That’s what he said to journalists on his plane to Auschwitz.  Really.

Pope Francis is very ecumenical, you see.  And he remembers what happened to his predecessor when Benedict accurately analyzed the differences between Christianity and Islam.  You remember, don’t you?  

He was pilloried by the politically correct crowd.  The Church intelligentsia backed away from the Pope, launched a campaign of ecumenism with the Moslem world, and that was pretty much that.

So we shouldn’t be surprised when Pope Francis says that while the world is at war, it certainly isn’t a religious war.  This just a few days after an elderly Catholic priest was murdered in his church in France, by radical Moslems who were careful to stage it in such a way as to dramatize its religious basis.

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THE EPIC SAUDI FAIL AND THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN INGENUITY

OPEC's worst fears are coming true. Twenty months after Saudi Arabia took the fateful decision to flood world markets with oil, it has still failed to break the back of the US shale industry.

The Saudi-led Gulf states have certainly succeeded in killing off a string of global mega-projects in deep waters. Investment in upstream exploration from 2014 to 2020 will be $1.8 trillion less than previously assumed, according to consultants IHS. But this is a bitter victory at best.

America's hydraulic frackers are cutting costs so fast that most can now produce at prices far below levels needed to fund the Saudi welfare state and its military machine, or to cover OPEC budget deficits.

Scott Sheffield, the outgoing chief of Pioneer Natural Resources, threw down the gauntlet last Thursday (7/28) -- claiming that his pre-tax production costs in the Permian Basin of West Texas have fallen to $2 a barrel.

"Definitely we can compete with anything that Saudi Arabia has. We have the best rock," he said. Revolutionary improvements in drilling technology and data analytics that have changed the cost calculus faster than almost anybody thought possible. 

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PUTIN AND MRS. CLINTON

PutinEmailHackerDid the Russians hack the emails of the Democrat National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton?

The answer is almost certainly “yes,” but that does not mean that the DNC and other emails were released on behalf of the Kremlin to help Donald Trump. The basis for my skepticism of the charge that the email dumps were ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin is as follows.

To begin with, I am no fan of Mr. Putin and the Russian government, as I was subjected to Russian-Bulgarian disinformation campaigns; because of my high-profile work on the economic transition in Bulgaria and Russia in the early 1990s; and my expose of Russia payments to members of the Bulgarian Parliament to support the now-abandoned proposed gas pipeline from Russia to Bulgaria 2 years ago.

Consider that the Clintons have been covert financial allies of Mr. Putin for a number of years.  They are allies in environmentalism’s war on fossil fuels (the more expensive oil is, the more billions he makes).  Consider the New York Times front-page story of April 23, 2015: Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal.

So here are some questions to ponder.

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ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE AMAZON

News Alert:

An Islamophobic study finds that howler monkeys scream louder when they have smaller testicles

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A group of bigoted "biological anthropologists" from England’s Cambridge University have recently come up with a study comparing the size of a howler monkey's vocal tract and the size of his testicles.

To wit, pictures of howler monkeys must have been specifically selected to remind viewers of news footage taken at Moslem Brotherhood rallies and protests. Additionally, the researchers' snide comments further reveal their Islamophobic bias:

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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/29/16

So it’s come to this.  The most powerful, the most moral in its founding principles, the most prosperous and successful nation in the history of humanity has to choose between an egomaniacal buffoon and an evil crook to lead it.

Kafka himself couldn’t dream up the irony.  We are forced to choose between two lunacies and it’s a no-brainer.  We have to take a chance with the buffoon in order to stop the evil.

Just how evil is the person who has so justly earned the sobriquet of PIAPS – Pig In A Pants Suit?  Let me tell you a story….

The bottom line here is that Trump is an amateur, a piker, a nobody in the scandal department compared to Hillary.  No matter how much dirt she and the media dump on him over the next three months, it’s a molehill next to the Mons Olympus of Clinton Corruption.

There’s Benghazi-gate and Email-gate among so many others, but the real jaw-dropper is the Clinton Foundation combining treason and greed to a level beyond belief.  Here’s a summary from Wednesday (7/27) on the current IRS investigation of the Clinton Foundation….

In my Stillicide article yesterday (7/28), I pointed out that “the best thing Trump has going for him is a lack of fear of envy.”  That’s why he’s not intimidated by guilt-mongering and doesn’t pay obeisance to political correctness.  It’s the most necessary, albeit not fully sufficient, condition for standing up to the Left.

And Islamofascism.  On Tuesday (7/26), two piles of Islamic excrement butchered a Catholic priest in his church in Normandy, France in the name of Allah.  In response, French President Hollande vowed to “wage war by every means” upon the Moslems of ISIS.  With a Moslem population of 10% (6.3 million out of 63 million) in France, brave words by lily-livered French weenies mean nothing.

It’s worse in Germany because Angela Merkel is the world’s poster child for the fear of being envied.  Elsewhere in Europe, however, a revolt against Islamofascism is growing.  You’ll be stunned by this photo-essay depicting it…

We close with the morally magnificent achievement of our Hero of the Week.

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THE LEFT’S STILLICIDAL STRATEGY TO DESTROY AMERICA

OBlackMattersLet me introduce a new word into your vocabulary, a word that encapsulates the Left’s strategy to demolish every institution of American culture and the traditional values of American society. 

The word is stillicide.  The dictionary definition has nothing to do with politics, nor does it refer to some form of killing like suicide, genocide, homicide et al.  It refers rather to a physical process derived from the Latin stillicidium: stilla, drops, plus cidium, a declension of cadere, to fall.

Stillicide, stilliciduous, stillicidal thus refer to “a continual dripping of water falling in drops.”

How about that for a light bulb going on in your head?

It sure explains, just to take one example, why race relations in America have gotten worse, far worse, after Zero’s election in 2008. 

Why have Zero and his minions in the media done everything they could to divide us on race instead of uniting us, culminating today in the fascist thuggery of Only Black Lives Matter and the murder epidemic of white cops?

Because the hideous secret hidden in every Leftie soul is….

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OBAMA’S WAR ALLIANCE WITH IRAN EXPOSED

US&IranAllianceFor those who thought that America was stealthily pulling out of the Middle East in pursuit of a policy of gradual disengagement pursued by Obama, a shocking truth is beginning to unfold. Far from disengaging, the Obama administration has for some time now actually been forming a de facto alliance with Iran in its war against the Sunni Arabs.

Exploiting the conflict against Daesh (ISIS) as an opportunity to ethnically cleanse the Sunni Arab population of al-Anbar and other provinces in Iraq, the Iranian regime has poured military personnel and resources into the sixty separate and predominantly Shi’ite militias operating in that country.

These militias, commanded by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Qods Force leader – General Qassem Soleimani – have arrested, tortured, butchered and beheaded many thousands of innocent Sunni men and even boys, during their fight to ‘liberate’ the Iraqi cities of Tikrit, Ramadi and Fallujah.

The next target for the Iranian-backed militias is Mosul, Iran’s second largest city and home to over two million Sunnis. American airstrikes have already begun around the outskirts. An unprecedented human catastrophe will quickly develop unless the West wakes up and exposes Obama’s duplicity.

The only way to combat Daesh (ISIS) is to recruit and engage the Sunni tribes in Iraq. They are best placed to root out the Daesh terrorists who have occupied their homeland for the past two years.

But the Sunni tribal leaders have good grounds to believe that America has now joined forces with Iran to wage war on the Sunni Arabs and they will be reluctant to help a coalition that may inevitably lead to their own destruction at the hands of sectarian Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias.

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OIL IS HERE TO STAY AND SO IS THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

OilinTexasOil rigs in the Permian Basin of Texas are still being built even at $45 oil, defying shale skeptics

Oil prices have tumbled to a three-month low as surging supply once again exposes the chronic global glut and threatens to perpetuate the energy slump for another year.

US crude contracts crashed through key technical barriers to $42.40 yesterday (7/26) before recovering slightly in late trading on profit-taking. They have fallen by 9% over the last four sessions.

Speculators have given it an extra push. Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the US shows that 52 hedge funds have taken out large short positions, betting that the summer sell-off still has a further leg to run.

Prices are unlikely to re-test the February lows of $26 when asset prices were tumbling across the world and markets were in a full-blown ‘China panic,’ pricing in a global recession that never happened. 

The latest oil tremors reveal little about the underlying health of the global economy, which has so far shrugged off Brexit fears and may be accelerating.

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A REGULATORY PLAGUE – IN TEXAS??

Texas-flagAll plagues, whether they are biological or destructive policy ideas, begin at some specific place and time. The city of Austin, Texas, is now the place of origin of what could be a very costly experiment.  (Yes, Texas – which is a Red State overall, but the people who run Austin, like Houston, are Hyper-Blue  –JW.)

Unneeded and ill-considered regulation is annoying, costly and damaging, and it fuels corruption. Those in the political class love to regulate. They love the power regulation gives them over their fellow citizens.

They love the fact that the threat to regulate causes the potentially affected to make campaign donations, or provide speaking fees or gifts to avoid having the regulation imposed.

They love the fact that promising to maintain or “enhance” a regulation causes the beneficiaries (often big business) to keep the payoff money flowing to them.

Those who have jobs in regulatory agencies have many incentives to keep the number of regulations ever-growing as a way of obtaining more job security, status and power. In sum, much of the regulatory apparatus is fundamentally corrupt and destructive.  This is what’s happening in Austin.

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THE ADVENTURE OF EMPATHY VS. THE FAILURE OF CURIOSITY

Within each of us exists a deeply personal, subjective inner experience. We each have our own DNA, our own history and our own very personal experiences.

We have the stories we’ve created that hold the meaning of our experiences and the feelings that flow from those stories.

We have the choices and actions that have formed our character – and the people, opportunities and relationships that have influenced us, blessed us and challenged us.

Within every person is a world, and our personal worlds are more unique, strange and magnificent than most of us realize. Grasping this can turn our relationships from stale melodramas into rich adventures. 

In my work with couples, the most common source of trouble is not grasping this, the cause of which I call a failure of curiosity.

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