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This is the Half-Full Report, and I mean to keep it half full. If you hate Donald Trump, consider what I’m saying anti-Clinton. If you love Donald Trump, consider it a relief.
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Jack Kelly makes a strong case for the anti side in this week’s “The Tragedy of Trump”, posted here yesterday. That’s the case for half-empty. It may be entirely right. I make no promises.
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So can Trump still win this? I think the question is silly. As all of us over the age of 3 have seen, a week in politics is an eternity. And Hillary becomes a riper target by the day.
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The week began with Julian Assange fingering the Hildebeast for the murder of 27 year old DNC data analyst Seth Rich. Assange strongly implied that Rich was Wikileaks’ source for the leak of 20,000 DNC emails that took down Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and exposed the DNC’s plotting against Bernie Sanders.
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Syrians are forcing Christians to hide their Bibles and hold worship services in secret amid Muslim death threats.
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this Saturday is the 495th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan (today’s Mexico City) to Cortez. Dr. Jack tells the story of Cortez in Mexico in a perfectly wonderful historical novel, The Jade Steps. It’s an engaging read, but you’ll also learn a lot.
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Put down that TV remote, cuz here we go with this week's HFR!
At the DNC Convention, Michelle Obama put on her victimhood hat one more time and declared, “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.”
But that’s too past tense. Michelle’s house continues to be built and maintained by slaves. Her lavish lifestyle of endless vacations, parties and public appearances is funded by millions and millions of slaves.
Michelle Obama lives a life that is vastly more lavish and luxurious than that of any plantation owner. She has 26 staffers that are part of a White House staff of thousands. That’s more than many crowned heads of state. Compare that to 12 servants for Thomas Jefferson.
Michelle’s house, her luxurious lifestyle, is built by taxpaying slaves who are forced to turn over their money to fund her pleasures. She spent more money on one night in Morocco than the average American family will see in five years.
The Obama lifestyle is just the tip of the iceberg. Tens of thousands of more modest government plantation owners cling to their skirts living off the stolen toil of the government’s slaves.
Government, like slavery, is an institution. Like slavery, it claims to civilize its dependents. In reality it exploits them. It promises them security in exchange for freedom. It takes away the products of their toil and then tells them that they didn’t build that. It claims a false moral authority to exploit them.
A Donald Trump presidency would be way more beneficial to the environment than a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Trump really needs to mention this point at his rallies, not just for the trolling, but also because it happens to be true.
Consider just one example: the hundreds of thousands of rare birds and endangered bats slaughtered in the US every year by the wind farms that Hillary Clinton applauds (and will no doubt go on subsidizing) and that Donald Trump loathes (and will no doubt starve of subsidies and cause to become as extinct as the Dodo).
As the Daily Beast recently noted, Trump’s hatred of wind farms is probably the most consistent and long-standing of all his political convictions.
Donald J. Trump Verified account @realDonaldTrump "@noturbine: @realDonaldTrump Wind turbines kill up to 39 million birds a year, Industry hides evidence of kills http://www.cfact.org/2013/03/18/wind-turbines-kill-up-to-39-million-birds-a-year/ …"
Trump does have a point. If you care about flying wildlife, bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco-crucifixes really are about the most pointlessly destructive form of power generation there is – as a series of recent studies show.
On Sunday (8/07), the Iranian regime unexpectedly announced it had executed its former nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri. As reports of Amiri’s demise make clear, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton may very well be partially to blame for his death.
Although deeply significant, Amiri’s execution was “the other Iran story” this week. The main story was Wall Street Journal’s revelation that on January 17, the day the US’s nuclear deal with Iran came into force, the US sent an unmarked cargo plane to Tehran loaded with $400 million cash.
Five US citizens held hostage by Iran were released that day.
In a press conference last Thursday (8/04), Obama dismissed the clear implication that the cash payment was ransom. But his statements were exposed as a lie by former hostage Pastor Saeed Abedini.
Obama and Clinton choose lying as a strategy because it works for them. The influential media outlets barely cover their lies. Indeed, they often go out of their way to cover up their misdeeds.
On Monday (8/08), British Prime Minister Theresa May announced what is being called the “Frackpot” – to redirect some of the future profits of shale gas production to households, rather than councils.
[Note that in the UK and most countries, unlike the US, the government owns the mineral rights under a landowner’s land. Note also that – surprise – British environmentalists are denouncing May’s policy as a “bribe.” – JW]
After leaving the European Union, Britain will have to be quicker to adopt new technologies, the better to create wealth in the knowledge economy. For me that’s the biggest opportunity of Brexit.
But to grasp it we must find a way to persuade people to be more ready to embrace innovation and less suspicious. A country that can work out how to do that is going to steal a march on its rivals.
Innovation is the source of virtually all prosperity. It is the reason the average person now lives longer, feeds better, travels farther, is better entertained and sees more children survive than even a monarch did four centuries ago. A glance back through history shows that innovation nearly always does more good than harm.
So why is innovation so fiercely resisted?
Which presidential candidate’s policies are likely to cause higher growth?
Did you know that at an average economic growth rate of 2 percent it takes 35 years for incomes to double, while at a 4 percent growth rate it only takes 17.7 years for incomes to double?
At the moment, the United States is only growing at a rate of about 1 percent, and if no improvement comes it will take another 69.7 years — or a little less than one lifetime for incomes to double. At a growth rate of 4 percent, incomes will increase more than fourfold in the average lifetime.
Without moderately high rates of growth, there is no chance of reducing the debt, maintaining even a modest safety net, including medical and retirement programs, and creating more jobs at higher real wages. The good news is, in the absence of destructive economic policies, capitalist economies tend to grow rapidly.
There is extensive empirical evidence (and theory) of what works and what doesn’t. Let’s review it from Reagan to Obama.
Determined 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.
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.
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.”
On 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.
Two 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.
It’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.
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.
Did 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.
News Alert:
An Islamophobic study finds that howler monkeys scream louder when they have smaller testicles
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:
