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THE CRUISE INTO EXILE

Carnival Dream CruiseCruise of a lifetime!

Carnival Cruise Line announces a once in a life time opportunity: THE CRUISE INTO EXILE

Aboard our magnificent 3,646 passenger liner the Carnival Dream. Travel with a star-studded group of celebrities as they leave our shores for the last time.

In response to the many citizens who vowed to leave the country if Donald Trump were to be elected President, Carnival Cruise lines is providing a unique opportunity to fulfill that pledge in style.

Passengers will have the opportunity to rub elbows with and be entertained by dozens of famous celebrities and performers who are also going into political exile.

Premier Class travelers will be invited to dine at the Captain’s table with honorary captains Jon Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg. Non-denominational religious service will be conducted daily by the Very Reverend Al Sharpton in the Paradise Lounge.  Superstars Cher, Barbra Streisand and Miley Cyrus will perform nightly in the main lounge.

Amy Schumer and Rosie O’Donnell will do stand-up comedy in the Sky Bar. Other featured guests will include Spike Lee, Bryan Cranston, Amber Rose, Samuel L. Jackson, Stephen King, Barry Diller and many, many others… among them, special guest attraction Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/11/16

The Winner

The WinnerThis is a significantly more than half-full kind of week, perhaps “cup runneth over” even.

Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States this Tuesday, along with Senate and House majorities, and absolute blowout numbers at the state level all across America.

He defeated the most corrupt candidate in American history, a woman whom the FBI now tells us allowed classified information to fall into the hands of at least five foreign enemies, and a woman who would have used the Supreme Court to annihilate the First Amendment as well as the Second. As her warm-up act.

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Yes, Donald Trump did exactly what he said he’d do from the beginning: he won legions of Rust Belt working class Democrats.

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By the way, Trump outperformed Mitt Romney with blacks and Hispanics (so much for the RINOs “superiority” in this vein).

And yes, Trump was right: the polls were rigged.

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The inevitable leftist meltdown has been nothing if not entertaining.

It started with Hillary’s refusal to thank her assembled supporters, people who’d worked for years for her, at a packed Javits Center Tuesday night.

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Less amusing are the riots.

 The irony of rioting by people who just told us Donald Trump was “threatening democracy” by not pre-accepting the results is pretty rich, of course.

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As I keep telling you, personnel is policy. What Trump – or any politician – says is a lot less important than who he hires.

The early reports are great.

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Here we go with this week's MORE THAN Half-Full Report!!! Let's Roll! 🙂

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TRUMP IS ELECTED 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE US

Trump WinsThe impossible became possible. Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton and will be the 45th President of the United States.

Saying Trump’s campaign was unconventional is a severe understatement. Every piece of conventional wisdom, every shred of data, ultimately proved to be wrong as we came into Election Day. As the sun rose today, America will face this strange, new reality, and questions will ultimately have to be answered.

After a long and hard fought two-year long campaign the 2016 presidential election finally came to an end with the election of Donald J. Trump as the next president of the United States.

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WHY TRUMP WON

Obama LegacyJerusalem, Israel. The most unhappy person in America as Donald Trump won a remarkable historic presidential election victory was the man on the second floor of the White House.  His legacy is about to lie in shatters.

Obama’s presidency will go down in history as a domestic and foreign policy disaster.

Under Obama, we have witnessed an America too progressively concentrating on changing society for the worse.

Safe spaces got preference over a safe America. Toilets for people who don’t know if they are male or female make the headlines rather than forty million Americans on food stamps. When petty criminals get shot the police are accused of criminality, but murderous illegal immigrants are protected in sanctuary cities.

Trump got it right. The people want to get America back on track, a track based on traditional values, common sense, hard work, security and patriotism. It’s a society based on the same values we love and need in Israel for our welfare and safety. 

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OBAMA ERA IS OVER

Obama in Tan SuitObama and his supporters loved talking about history. His victory was historic. They were on the right side of history. History was an inevitable arc that bent their way.

The tidal force of demographics had made the old America irrelevant. Any progressive policy agenda was now possible because we were no longer America. We Were Obamerica. A hip, happening place full of smiling gay couples, Muslim women in hijabs and transgender actors. We were all going to live in a New York City coffee house and work at Green Jobs and live in the post-national future.

This was Obama's America. And there was no going back.

But there is no right side of history. There is only the side we choose.

The Obama era was permanent. It was history. Now it is history.

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AN ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENCY

Kathmandu, Nepal.  By the time you read this, I’ll be at Mount Everest Base Camp.  I’ll be getting election results by satphone.

If I were a betting man, I’d bet that Donald Trump will win the presidency on Tuesday.

That’s if the election is honest, which it very likely is not.  On Friday (11/04), the famous hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0” reported that software installed in Federal Election Commission computers has been rigged for the Democrats.

This may be done via a technique known as Fraction Magic within GEMS election systems which counts about 25% of all votes cast throughout the US.

So what happens if Hillary wins the presidency illegitimately?  We will have a treasonously corrupt criminal as president, whose chief aide and lesbian lover of 20 years is a Radical Moslem spy for Saudi terrorists.  We will have a Second Civil War.

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THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION OF THIS ELECTION

If you had a son or a daughter who was a member of a school debate team, and you learned that your child was receiving the questions in advance and the other debaters were not, what would you tell your child to do?

Each year there are some sport scandals, usually breaking down into two different types. One is where a player behaves badly, e.g., beating up a girlfriend or robbing a store. The other goes to the very integrity of the game, e.g., a referee receiving favors from an owner, or something like “Deflategate.”

Fans, players, owners and the league usually act rapidly to mitigate the latter type of offense, because they know, if it is allowed to persist, it undermines the integrity of the game, and, if not quickly corrected, the whole sports enterprise will lose and could even fail.

What is true for sports leagues is also true for political and governmental systems.

Countries can still survive and partially prosper even if they have bad policies on tax, trade, spending, regulations, monetary policy, abortion and gay rights.

However, they cannot prosper and ensure liberty for long if they do not uphold the rule of law and have institutions with people who insist on playing by the rules, even when they have other personal preferences.

So we come to the most important question to be answered on this election day.

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THE BEST TRUMP ADS ON HILLARY

For your enjoyment on election day, we present this 10 minute 44 second compilation of The Donald’s best campaign ads exposing The PIAPS’ plethora of flaws.

 

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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/04/16

"It ain't over till it's over."

How long have we heard that Donald Trump was not only doomed, but 30-points-down doomed? Done deal. Hopeless. Not even worth talking about. I'm not telling you he'll win today. But I am telling you he can win.

In a race between the two most hated people in the history of major party nominees, the one who can drive the other's negatives higher is going to win.

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Comey's bombshell re-opening of the FBI's case against Hillary Clinton -- as a result of the discovery of over 650,000 previously undisclosed emails on a computer owned by Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner, under investigation for child porn -- is, of course, the impetus for the transformation in Trump’s fortunes.

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So let’s come full circle and look at the polls.

Trump is now beating Clinton 53-43 among voters who’ve made up their minds. That’s a very, very big deal

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This is the week's HFR leading up to the Presidential  Elections! You can't miss this!!!

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WHO’S PUTIN FOR?

Vladimir PutinI keep wondering why so many smart people believe Vladimir Putin is doing everything possible to win the election for Donald Trump. 

If I were Putin, I’d prefer Hillary. Bigtime.

Putin’s got a lot going with Hillary. His pals donated more than a hundred million dollars to the Clinton Family Foundation while she was secretary of state, and they gained ownership of twenty percent of America’s uranium supply. 

If Putin were really trying to elect Trump, he’d be leaking the details of that relationship.

Plus, if I were Putin and really wanted Hillary elected, I’d be inclined to openly endorse Trump, on the theory that most U.S. voters would reason “if Putin likes the guy, we’re better off without him.”

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CHECKMATING OBAMA AT THE UN

CheckmateIn one of the immortal lines of Godfather 2, mafia boss Michael Corleone discusses the fate of his brother, who betrayed him, with his enforcer.

“I don’t want anything to happen to him while my mother is alive,” Corleone said.

Message received.

The brother was murdered after their mother’s funeral.

Last week it was reported that the Obama administration has delivered a message to the Palestinian Authority. The administration has warned the PA that the US will veto any anti-Israel resolution brought before the UN Security Council before the US presidential elections on November 8.

Message received.

Open season on Israel at the Security Council will commence November 9. The Palestinians are planning appropriately.

Israel needs to plan, too. Israel’s most urgent diplomatic mission today is to develop and implement a strategy that will outflank President Barack Obama in his final eight weeks in power.

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THE WORLD RUNS OUT OF DOLLARS

RunOutofDollarsSurging rates on dollar Libor contracts are rapidly tightening conditions across large parts of the global economy, incubating stress in the credit markets and ultimately threatening overvalued bourses.

Three-month Libor rates – the benchmark cost of short-term borrowing for the international system – have tripled this year to 0.88% as inflation worries mount. 

Fear that the US Federal Reserve may have to raise rates uncomfortably fast is leading to an acute dollar shortage, draining global liquidity.

 “The Libor rate is one of few instruments left that still moves freely and is priced by market forces. It is effectively telling us that that the Fed is already two hikes behind the curve,” says Steen Jakobsen from Saxo Bank.  “Something more fundamental is at work. The cost of global capital is going up, full stop.”

“This is highly significant and is our number one concern. Our allocation model is now 100% in cash. This is a warning signal for the market and it happens extremely rarely,” he says.

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CORRUPTION AND PROSPERITY

Grandma in PrisonWhat is the single most important determinate as to whether a country is rich or poor? It is not the level of government spending, taxation, regulation or monetary stability — even though those factors are very important. It is the rule of law, whereby the rules are known and fair, equally applied to all, and where corruption is not tolerated.

The end of great countries and empires was most often caused by internal decay, not by foreign enemies — ancient Greece and Rome being prime examples.  History’s lesson is:

When the rule of law is lost, even great nations disintegrate.

Today, only those who are willfully ignorant fail to recognize that parts of the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department, as well as other government agencies, have not only become partisan but also deeply corrupt.

When evidence is destroyed after having been subpoenaed by appropriate congressional committees and private organizations under the Freedom of Information Act, and no action is taken to punish those responsible, it becomes the very definition of corruption.

There are many other examples, but what is disturbing is the extent to which so many journalists have gone to cover up and defend inexcusable behavior.

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WHAT MEMORY IS AND IS NOT

This immortal scene of Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold in the 1958 movie Gigi is so endearingly charming because Chevalier is so good-natured about his misremembrance. 

It’s often difficult, however, to be that way regarding our memories. 

Understanding what memory is – and is not – can do wonders for our relationships, our self-awareness and our peace of mind.

Sitting at the table at Thanksgiving, a family member might recount a memory of an event from your childhood, talking about what you experienced as if his perception of your sentiments on the subject is a fact.

How does that make you feel? Probably at least a little annoyed. He, after all, did not have your memory. He had his memory.

You were both there in the same place at the same time, but you were having your experience of the event and he was having his. The two experiences could be worlds apart.

We’ve all had those arguments where one of us remembers things one way, and the other remembers it differently. For instance…

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