Whew. That was close. Earlier this week, Hanoi John’s campaign looked like a goner. And then the Gray Lady came to the rescue.
What a fun week. So much fun it's hard to know where to begin? Should we start with Boris?
That would be London's clown mayor, Boris Johnson, who blasted Mitt Romney for saying to the British press all the threatened union strikes (UK Border Police, security guards, London cabbies, etc.) during the Olympics were "disconcerting."
That was last week (7/26). This week (8/01), Boris became an Olympic joke with his Zip Line Fail. Everyone in the UK is laughing at "The Dangling Mayor" now, not our next president...
The fun will continue, but first this truly important announcement. Thanks to TTP's Miko de Great, the dates and venue for the TTP Victory Rendezvous have been set: Friday November 9--Sunday November 11, Key Bridge Marriott, Washington DC.
We'll have details and costs soon, but make your plans to be with your fellow TTPers to celebrate the weekend after Zero and the Dems go down in flames on Nov. 6th. ..
Back to joke politicians. Boris is a buffoon, always has been. Harry Reid has always been a twerp, but this week he became a symptom of Dem derangement. Harry's losing it, as in going wacko, suffering a nervous breakdown, something haywire in his brain circuitry...
Despite the encouraging U.S. jobs-report data last week, the fiscal situation in the United States and most of the rest of the world continues to deteriorate.
The European Central Bank said the eurozone's economy is likely to contract this year. Greece finally formally defaulted last week. The situation continues to get worse, and many observers think Greece will need another bailout within a year. The next time, the world's taxpayers, rather than private banks, will be holding the bag. The situation in Portugal also is getting worse at an accelerating rate.
It's not just the US and Europe that are having problems. Last week, the Chinese reduced their expected growth rate from 8.2 percent to 7.5 percent for 2012. There has been growing political deadlock in India, stopping many reforms, which will negatively impact economic growth. There are indications that Brazil also may be facing an economic slowdown.
A tipping point for the entire global economy may be on the near horizon.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There's hardly a better vantage point to see why Zero's re-election chances are zero than here.
This is a ridiculous place. Humorless, irredeemably boring, five million regimented people living in a desert wasteland that has no excuse for a city other than its rulers have countless billions of our dollars to spend on building it because here is where their fathers and their camels came from.
No one would pay the slightest attention to this place if it weren't for oil - and the hundreds of billions that we pay them, via buying their oil, to spread their Wahhabi religious poison all over the earth.
There are few things a US president could do to simultaneously and substantially improve our economy and our national security than to enable us and the world to be less dependent on Saudi oil by allowing maximal domestic oil & gas production right here in America.
As we all know, Zero is doing precisely the opposite. He is conducting a War on Oil - just ask most anyone in Louisiana for proof - instead. He's also conducting a War on Jobs - just ask anyone unemployed. And a War on Business - just ask any entrepreneur. And a War on the Dollar - just ask anyone who buys food and gasoline.
Yet Zero's War on the American Economy is not his greatest vulnerability - for there is another factor that will play an even larger role in his being a one term president. In fact, it will ensure his failure to get re-elected.
Dear President Obama,
My name is Harold Estes, I turned 95 on December 13 of last year. I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during, and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.
One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes.
I can't figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: " We're no longer a Christian nation," and "America is arrogant." Your wife even announced to the world, "America is mean-spirited."
I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.
So take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man. Shape up and start acting like an American.
As Syria is emerging as the principal facilitator of terrorism in both Israel and Iraq - see “Syria In The Gunsights” in last week’s TTP Weekly Report of April 23 - a Syrian democracy movement has just come in to being.
It is the Reform Party of Syria, dedicated to terminating the Assad tyranny and achieving freedom and democracy for the Syrian people. The RFS immediately recognized that the “terrorist attack” in Damascus earlier this week (April 27) was staged by the Syrian government as a ruse to divert attention from its being wedded to the very terrorists they claimed were attacking.
The RFS report enabled Members of Congress, such as Eliot Engle (D-NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), to denounce the attack as a “charade,” pointing out that it was on a vacant building.
The RFS website is: http://reformsyria.org/
RFS now listed in Liberation Links. If you haven’t explored this feature of To The Point (listed on the left side bar), I invite you to do so. There are many people out there in the world struggling for liberation from Communist, Islamofascist, and other tyrannies. You can find out about a good many of them on Liberation Links.
This has been a very instructive week. We have less than 15 weeks to go to learn if America is going to live or die. With each of them, it will become progressively more obvious that Z2 - a Zero 2nd term - will mean the Death of America. That certainly is true of this week.
On the other hand, each passing week now will alsoprovide evidence that the Left's stranglehold on our culture is coming to an end. We discussed this yesterday (7/26) in Democrat Megadeath, but there are other indications. We could call them "Blooms of Insanity."
So let's talk about mayflies. They remind me of Democrats these days, because they "bloom" - explode in growth swarms, then die out. This phenomenon of efflorescence is common to many types of insects, and now it's happening to liberal intellectuals, journalists, activists, and politicians.
That's why we should look at all these LibDem spasms of outrage, intolerance, and rabid fascism as "blooms of insanity." Another way of looking at the Dems is that the 20th Century is finally ending, the Fin de Siècle at last.
Most people intuitively understand that job creation requires capital investment, but many in the Obama administration and in Congress seem to have missed this basic fact of economic life.
As the late Jack Kemp used to say, "How many truck drivers would you have if nobody had money to buy trucks?" There are numerous studies that try to measure the cost of the average job, but a figure of $225,000 on average is in the ballpark.
There has been much discussion in the press about all of the new job-killing environmental regulations coming out of the administration, such as the restrictions on coal plants and oil and gas drilling. The press has been less focused on the job killing that stems from all of the new financial regulations, which may end up eliminating tens of millions of jobs.
An exaggeration you may say, but think about the following:
Mr. and Mrs. Zero visited Westminster Abbey on their trip to London this week (5/24), and signed the guestbook. Mrs. Zero just signed her name. Mr. Zero wrote a message - "It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice" - then signed and dated it: 24 May 2008.
Yes, 2008. You can see for yourself. There's no way around it. This is a teachable moment that goes far beyond pointing out what massive ridicule would have befallen George Bush or Sarah Palin had they made such a stupid mistake, yet is ignored and brushed aside by the OPM - Obama Propaganda Media - and the worshippers of the Cult of Zero..
There are two lessons to be taught and learned, one about Zero himself, the other about his followers.
What a ridiculous situation "women's rights" groups are getting themselves into now with their protest of CBS airing a pro-life ad during the upcoming Super Bowl game.
The ad will feature Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mom, and they'll speak to the sanctity of life and the beautiful potential within every innocent child as Mrs. Tebow acknowledges her choice to give Tim life, despite less than ideal circumstances.
Messages like this empower women! This speaks to the strength and commitment and nurturing spirit within women. The message says everything positive and nothing negative about the power of women - and life. Evidently, some women's rights groups like NOW do not like that message.
President Bush scored a triple whammy with his meeting with Ariel Sharon, announcing that the Palestinians can forget about the so-called Right of Return and seizing all of the so-called West Bank.
We might as well start right out enjoying ourselves with the funniest headline in world news this week. From New Zealand, we learn that Traffic Signs Are Being Destroyed by Prostitutes.
Seems the working ladies use the signs for street pole dancing to advertise, and some of them are "big, strong women." Since the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act in 2003, all forms of hookerism - from brothels to street solicitation - are legal in Kiwiland. There's even a hooker's union: the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC) with its own website: nzpc.org.
More enjoyable news. Secretary of State Pantsuit went to Egypt on Sunday (7/15) to talk with the Moslem crazies who now run the country. Egyptians greeted her warmly - by throwing tomatoes and shoes (the latter being a gesture of utter contempt) at her motorcade in Alexandra. Even more insulting was the crowd taunting her with shouts "Monica! Monica!"
And the week's best news - that would be Mitt Romney going lex talionis.
How many lawyer jokes are there? Only three. The rest are true stories.
I used to think this was just another lawyer joke. But now we are watching the classics of this genre come to life in the spectacular meltdown of New York law firm Dewey & Leboeuf. For this is a true story.
"Size, in and of itself, gives you greater flexibility in key markets," Dewey & LeBoeuf's former chairman Steve Davis boasted in 2008. "You're taken more seriously when you have 500, 600 attorneys in New York." Yes, and what do lawyers and bullfrogs have in common? Both have a big head that consists mainly of mouth.
Mr. Davis had just completed a merger, creating a financial mess of 1,300 overpaid attorneys in a dozen countries. He did this just before one of the worst financial downturns in history. What can you say about 1,300 lawyers buried up to their necks in cement? Not enough cement.
Fed's Sole mission should be maintaining value of currency
All of the Republican presidential candidates have called for getting rid of Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, but only Rep. Ron Paul has advocated abolishing the Fed. Mr. Paul wants to return to a gold standard. There are pros and cons of going back to gold, but, short of that, there are a number of constructive things that can be done.
One reason Fed policy is so confused and conflicted is that the Fed has been given multiple targets and tasks, some of which, at times, conflict with one another. The Fed is supposed to maintain not only price stability but also full employment. In addition, it is supposed to make sure the banking system is sound. The Dodd-Frank bill gave it the additional task of consumer financial protection.
To understand the problem...
I just got this email from an attendee at Rendezvous X at the Platinum Hotel in Las Vegas last weekend:
"The weekend was really over the top - but it was almost impossible to pick only one favorite speaker. The range of topics was so varied and we found every one thoroughly engrossing. Of major importance for us right now was Hank Brock. But Ralph Peters was amazing, Dave Janda was amazing, as was Alex and Joel and Skye and Mike Kelly and Congressman McCotter and... well, even you were amazing, Jack!This is a sample of how overwhelming has been the response we've received from the attendees. I frankly am still in a state of overwhelm over the experience itself - from the camaraderie and seeing TTP friends to the deluge of insightful information imparted by our speakers.:-) :-)...
...anyway, I just wanted to let you know that both my husband and I were so glad we came. Keep this up and I'm afraid we just might have to make every one of them from now on....."
