Yearly Archives: 2020
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT IS REALLY PAINFUL TO BE RIGHT
I am writing this on Sunday as my wife and I are on our way to Bali, Indonesia to spend Christmas-New Years with our son Jackson and his wife who live there now.
By the time you read this on Monday (12/14), thanks to the Coward Court all the news will be about a Electoral College Vote Fraud making the Dem theft of the presidency official.
Maybe there’s still some hope that POTUS can triumph in the final Electoral vote count by Congress on January 6. Yet many a TTPer has reminded me of what I wrote 21 months ago, in March 2019. It made a lot of people really mad at me at the time, but now, in re-reading it myself, what I feel is real torment, real pain over realizing that I had been right all along when I didn’t want to be.
As we try to figure out where we go from here in a fully lawless land that no longer has courts and a constitution, we’ll step back in time 21 months ago to contemplate the warning that was not heeded.
JUST MAIL IT TO ME
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/11/20
“It is the fundamental problem of rule through force that eventually leads to these regrettable outcomes. No one wants to see policemen, presumably decent men with the right motivations to maintain societal order, stoned in public.But not with rocks – which is all the Argentines have. You know full well what tens of millions of Americans have. At least five Justices must know this themselves – and that the outcome of their decision on Texas v Pennsylvania is binary: ballots or bullets. POTUS understands:
But when people have had their ability to make their grievances heard peacefully taken away from them, they will, eventually, make their grievances heard violently. It’s who we are. It’s human nature.
And the lesson here is for all of these would-be tyrants currently laughing about winning a fraudulent election in the U.S. through changing the rules is that they will face this same moment as these cops did very soon.”
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – YOUNGEST PERSON EVER AT THE NORTH POLE
April 22, 1990. This is my son Brandon, age six, happily atop a small pressure ridge of sea-ice at 90 North Latitude, the geographic North Pole. I started leading expeditions to 90N in 1978. This was my 12th, and the best weather there we’d ever had. A glorious day at the very top of our planet, and a glorious memory for both father and son.
If fortune favors you with the opportunity, have grand adventures with your children or grandchildren when they are young. They will treasure the memories so much they will someday tell their grandchildren about them. Life is short, carpe diem. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #104 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE SUPREME MOMENT OF AMERICA’S FATE
The stage is set. The stakes could not be higher. America has arrived at history’s fork in the road determining its fate.
It’s a true fork, not an intersection leading in multiple directions. Here the road divides in two and two only, an either-or, the choice between them must be made. And very soon.
THE DEPRAVITY OF THE MEDIA’S HUNTER BIDEN COVERUP
The Son of Joe
Imagine for a moment that Donald Trump had won the US election last month like he did in 2016.
Then imagine that just before the election, a major US newspaper had published an explosive story about his son Donald Trump Jr. based around the contents of his personal laptop that revealed extensive dodgy dealings with people from foreign countries, some very unfriendly to the United States, and which even suggested his father may have been involved in some of those dealings? Which the media refused to cover.
Finally, imagine waking up today to hear that rather than Hunter Biden being formally investigated by federal authorities from the Justice Department over his financial affairs, as is the case, it was Donald Trump Jr.
SURREALISTIC ART IN NATURE
We’re now well over 100 Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World since we instituted this daily feature on TTP last July. So to refresh your memory of them, we’ll be sprinkling a recycle of them from now on in the series.
Our very first was Surrealistic Art in Nature, which you’ll find unsurpassed in Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon near Page, Arizona. No artist could paint something more surrealistic than what nature has created here. It’s a photographer’s fantasy land – enhanced by a Navajo Indian guide who knows all the best lighting and perspectives.
You can explore the world to experience the greatest wonders of nature, but they are also to be found here in the American West. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #1 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SKYE’S LINKS 12/10/20
We have just seen a simulated election embedded in a world of simulated economics:
Welcome To The U.S.S.A.'s Banquet Of Consequences
I can hardly believe how pathetically weak this is:
Pennsylvania to U.S. Supreme Court: Texas Guilty of 'Seditious' Behavior
I could not have made this up in my wildest dreams:
George Soros Appoints Chair of Smartmatic Parent Company to Lead Open Society Foundations
This would be a nice solution to the problem, but I don't expect us to be so lucky:
A CHICOM PROFESSOR BRAGS ABOUT CHINA OWNING DC, WALL STREET, AND JOE BIDEN
And now we have the smoking gun, revealed by Tucker Carlson above. Here’s what’s going on.
IS GA GOV KEMP ON THE TAKE FROM CHINA TO RIG THE ELECTION FOR BIDEN?
Kemp & Li in the Governor’s office 7/12/10
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp awarded a $107 million contract to Dominion Voting Systems two weeks after he met with the Houston-based Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Atlanta.
Kemp met with Li Qiangmin, Houston Consul General of the People’s Republic of China, on July 12, 2019.
The Secretary of State’s office announced on July 29, 2019 that Dominion’s election services were procured to implement a “verified paper ballot system” in the state prior to the March 2020 presidential primaries. Cost to Georgia taxpayers for the Dominion contract? $107 million. Beyond coincidence? A lot of people think so.
WHAT A REAL CANNIBAL LOOKS LIKE
On the remote north side of the island of Malekula in Vanuatu, there lives a cannibal tribe called the Big Nambas. The men wear a penis gourd wrapped in pandamus fibers, and eat “man long pig,” cooked human enemies. You have to trek over mountains of thick jungle to reach them. When I was able to years ago, there were a few men who continued the practice. This gentleman is one of them. I was in no danger as they were very kind and gracious to me.
That wasn’t the case a century ago when the first explorers, Martin & Osa Johnson, reached them. Their 1918 film, “Cannibals of the South Seas,” made the Johnsons famous, and you can see it on YouTube. Today they are far more benign. It is an extraordinary experience to meet a culture of fearsome reputation and realize they are people like you and me. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #103 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
TEXAS COMES TO AMERICA’S RESCUE
Last night just before midnight (12/07), the State of Texas filed a lawsuit that is far more important than all of the others surrounding the presidential election of November 3rd.
Texas brought a suit against four states that did something they cannot do: they violated the U.S. Constitution in their conduct of the presidential election.
And this violation occurred regardless of the amount of election fraud that may have resulted. The four defendant states are Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Texas filed the suit directly in the Supreme Court. Article III of the Constitution lists a small number of categories of cases in which the Supreme Court has “original jurisdiction.” One of those categories concerns “Controversies between two or more states.” Texas’s suit is exactly that.
The Texas suit is clear, and it presents a compelling case. The four offending states each violated the U.S. Constitution in two ways.
CHINA IS AMERICA’S GREATEST NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT
If I could communicate one thing to the American people from this unique vantage point, it is that the People’s Republic of China poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since World War II.
The intelligence is clear: Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically. Here is how they are doing it.
THE SUPERTREE GARDEN
The world’s most spectacular nature park is the 130-acre Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. In the gigantic greenhouse of the Flower Dome, virtually every rare flower on earth flourishes in abundance, while the Cloud Forest is a wonderland of tropical waterfalls seemingly falling out of the sky high above.
Dominating the park are the 160-foot high Supertrees, towering vertical gardens covered in orchids, ferns, vines, and exotic plants. There are elevated canopies and walkways between them. Exploring the astonishing display of hi-tech botanical artistry and genius that is Gardens by the Bay is absolutely awe-inspiring.
TTPer Cassowary was kind enough to guide me through the park as Singapore is his home. Perhaps he’ll tell us more about it on the Forum. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #102 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
BIRTHPLACE OF A GODDESS
This is the Rock of Aphrodite – where Greek mythology says the Goddess of Love was born fully formed from the sea-foam surging around it – and makes Cyprus the Island of Love. It is south of Paphos on the island’s west coast.
Adjacent is the Temple Sanctuary of Aphrodite, where pilgrims came from every Greek city and kingdom for 2,000 years to worship her. The ancient Greeks prayed to Aphrodite more than any of their other gods, for she was the apotheosis of love, desire, and fertility or having children. Which explains why today couples travel from all over the world to get married here.
Folks have been living in Cyprus for a really long time. So long that they were the first people in the world to domesticate cats over 9,000 years ago. A Neolithic village has been unearthed called Choirokoitia that’s surprisingly sophisticated for being 8,000 years old. In Roman times, after Jesus rose Lazarus from the dead, he went to Cyprus -- there is a beautiful church, the Agios Lazaros, built over his tomb.
The Painted Churches of Troodos are adorned with magnificent medieval art. The ruins of a Crusaders’ fortress inspired the fairy tale castle of Walt Disney’s Snow White. I hope Cyprus’ inspirational history will inspire you to explore it someday. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #101 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – SWIMMING THE HELLESPONT
July, 1973. The Hellespont is the famous strait separating Europe from Asia, where the Black Sea after flowing through the Bosphorus at Istanbul and a widening called Marmara empties into the Aegean Sea of the Mediterranean. One of the great stories of Greek Mythology is Leander swimming the Hellespont to tryst with Hero, the woman he loved but was forbidden to see.
Thus he swam at night, and she lit a torch for him to swim to. One night a storm blew out the torch and the strong currents swept Leander onto the rocks to drown. So I first swam the Hellespont at night in 1960 and almost drowned myself (LIFE Magazine, Dec. 12, 1960, pp 91-94).
This was the second time, swimming from Leander’s village site of Abydos on the Asia side to Sestos, Hero’s village site on Europe’s. Here I am having reached the Sestos shore.
The Hellespont is where the Trojan War was fought, where the Persians crossed to lose against the Greeks at Marathon and Salamis, where Alexander crossed to conquer the Persian Empire. Lord Byron swam the Hellespont in 1803 to make all the legends and history a part of his life. I was determined to do the same, twice to make sure. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #100 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE DREAM OF AMERICA’S ENEMIES — FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
HALF-FULL REPORT 12/04/20
Stop the Steal Rally at Michigan State Capitol Building, Lansing
This is the Down to the Wire HFR. The Stop the Steal war is being waged on two fronts, with state legislatures and with SCOTUS.
Next Tuesday (12/08) is Safe Harbor Day when state legislatures must appoint Electors. This week, Giuliani and his legal team presented their case why they should vote to either decertify Biden Electors or appoint Trump Electors instead.
In Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia, in Arizona -- here are clips of each.
Remember how HFR 11/07/20 4 days after the election began with The Map That Can Save America? It was of a map of state legislature control by party, noting that all contested swing states have GOP control – which is exactly why Giuliani spoke to them this week.
So now we wait until next Tuesday to see if they have American spines or those of jellyfish.
THE AVIGNON PRESIDENCY
The late
Middle Ages were a time of great political and cultural turmoil in the West. One of the greatest upheavals occurred within the Catholic Church of that era. It was called the "Avignon Papacy" resulting in the Great Schism of the Church, lasting 108 years from 1309-1417.
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes. America is not merely divided, as many of today's political commentators claim, but it's in the midst of a Great Schism as the church was in Avignon.
If Trump is ultimately denied the presidency, he will not drift off into irrelevancy as his detractors hope. Quite the contrary:
Losing this way despite massively growing his appeal among voters compared to 2016 will only make Trump stronger in the hearts and minds of his base. He will become a living martyr — something even more powerful than a president in some ways. It may even be known as his Avignon Presidency.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/03/20
First, items on Election Megafraud:
Busting the 2020 election megafraud: This man is hiring the right type of people to perform an existentially important job:
Former Overstock CEO Paying 'Team Of Hackers And Cybersleuths' To Prove Trump Won Election
What’s that godawful smell?
20 Alleged Election "Facts" That Don't Pass The Smell Test
Spineless Barr caves to the judgement of Deep State DOJ attorneys and FBI officials - all of whom have received liberal and legal educations at left wing brain washing laundromat universities:
Barr Says DOJ Has Not Uncovered Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud
ADAM AND EVE AND AMANITA
Our last Glimpse (#98) was the back panel of the Painted Monastery of Voronet. Here you see a side panel fresco of Adam and Eve tempted by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Startlingly, however, the couple is not eating an apple at the serpent’s behest but a hallucinogenic Amanita muscaria mushroom – recognizable as the classic Disney cartoon mushroom with the red cap and white spots. Sounds hard to believe but there it is, 532 years old. It’s the center panel of a triptych, the left panel has Adam and Eve each grasping an Amanita stalk, the right panel knowing they are naked covering themselves with fig leaves.
In all three panels, the Garden of Eden is an Amanita garden. This is devotional art by deeply devout Christians over 500 years ago. What’s going on? Amanita muscaria is commonly found in the Carpathian forests to this day. Did the Voronet painters engage in Amanita ceremonies giving them visions they used to paint their churches? Did those visions make them decide it was Amanita and not an apple that Eve ate?
From time immemorial, people have used hallucinogenic plants to commune with the spirit world. Researchers have shown that Soma, the god instantiated on earth in the earliest Hindu texts, is Amanita muscaria. And they’ve made another connection. Google Amanita muscaria + Santa Claus to find out. Better be sitting down. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #99 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
A PANDEMIC OF DELUSIONAL PSYCHOSIS
How have we come from "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" to "Fear is virtuous...and mandatory?"
From the beginning, fear has driven the government response to the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have been told they should be afraid. More important, they have been instructed that expressing fear, through the wearing of masks and self-isolation by the healthy, is their moral duty.
For the first time in United States history, fear is no longer seen as an emotion to overcome, like jealousy or greed, but rather as one to embrace. We should be proud to be afraid, we are told, and we should call out anyone who isn't. In fact, any act of courage must be condemned as immoral as well as illegal.
As a practicing psychiatrist, I believe people are suffering from delusional psychosis — a fixed false belief contrary to reality.
WILL BADGER STATE GOP REJECT THEIR STATE’S RIGGED ELECTION?
Nearly 7 million absentee votes were cast, mostly for Joe Biden, in the three states responsible for his presumptive win; a mere 250,000 votes now separate Biden from Donald Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Only 20,000 in Wisconsin.
The three pivotal Rust Belt states have something else in common: according to state election laws, mail-in ballots cannot be processed prior to 7 a.m. on Election Day. (Michigan has a slight caveat for larger cities, which allows ballot inspection to begin the day before.)
It’s clear that Pennsylvania election officials violated the law by alerting voters to correct mistakes on or “cure” their mail-in ballots days before Election Day. This means not only were election workers inspecting mail-in envelopes in advance of the legal deadline, the unlawful pre-canvassing occurred without observers present, another obvious violation.
THE SISTINE CHAPEL OF THE EAST
The Painted Monastery of Voronet was built by Romania’s national hero Stefan the Great in 1488. A UN World Heritage Site, Voronet lies in a remote Carpathian mountain valley in the northeast corner of Romania. The entire church is covered in brilliantly painted scenes of Christian reverence.
The frescoes, with the famous “Voronet blue” made of crushed lapis lazuli, have withstood over 500 winters of wind, snow, and rain. The extraordinary back panel of the Last Judgment is renowned as the East’s Sistine Chapel (as in Eastern or Orthodox Christianity). It’s one of Romania’s many wonders. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #98 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HOW SPINELESS AND TRAITOROUS ARE GOP SURRENDER MONKEYS?
"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy — hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny." —Frederick William Robertson
Add cowardice to Robertson's words.
By now it is abundantly clear to any American paying attention that the Biden campaign/Democrat machine set out to guarantee that Donald Trump would not, could not, win the 2020 election. They cheated seven ways to Sunday!
I hope that the truth will out, despite the Left's operatives in Congress; the courts; the state legislatures; the FBI, CIA, and DOJ; and all those weak-kneed Republicans who are terrified to rock the establishment boat.
What is so shockingly infuriating to the millions of people who voted for President Trump is the abject cowardice of most Republicans in Congress and in those state legislatures. It is as though they've been gelded.
THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON BIDEN, NOT TRUMP
On Friday (11/27), President Trump tweeted something important. He asserted that Biden must prove that his votes did not result from fraud.
Cynics scoffed, but as a practical matter, Trump is correct. Here is why.
THE LESSON OF RABAUL
The small black mountain in front of you is a volcano called Tavurvur on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. In 1994, Tavurvur erupted, covering New Britain’s beautiful capital Rabaul in ash. The entire area is volcanic, including the hot springs where I’m standing to take this picture. Tavurvur is very much alive and smoking today – starkly beautiful and dangerous.
History can be like this – beautiful and peaceful, then without warning it explodes in violent destruction. The lesson then is how to overcome, rebuild, and avert its repetition.
It’s an obvious lesson to learn right now, with the destruction of our economy by the Chinese Communists unleashing their virus, and the current attempted theft of the presidency and our entire electoral system by the Democrats. We must overcome these twin evils, and we must make extremely sure that we never allow such travesties to threaten our country ever again.
You can climb to the rocky rim of Tavurvur to stare down into its smoking caldera. There’s fabulous scuba-diving along the coral reefs offshore of Rabaul, and upon sunken Japanese battleships from World War II. It’s a worthwhile experience to come here as you learn the Lesson of Rabaul. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #97 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
AMONG A MILLION PENGUINS IN SOUTH GEORGIA
The Antarctic island of South Georgia is home to a million King penguins, plus countless fur seals, gigantic elephant seals, staggering numbers of seabirds such as albatrosses, amidst a backdrop of towering mountains with massive glaciers spilling off them.
Nothing can prepare you for the incomprehensible size of the penguin rookeries here, densely packed as far as the eye can see (all those white dots on the hills behind are penguins). Nor for the size of bull elephant seals weighing up to 8,000 pounds, especially when they rise up and crash their chests against each other in mating challenges emitting deafening bellows. Nor being surrounded by a thousand fur seals unafraid of you. The density of wildlife combined with the magnificent beauty of the island is completely overwhelming.
Here also is the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken where the heroic explorer Ernest Shackleton is buried. You can only get here by expedition cruise ship. South Georgia is one of the great experiences on our planet. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #96 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SURE THING
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/27/20
Last night I gave a call to a friend who’s been in Congress for many years and asked for his assessment. He was upbeat. In his words…
I asked him about Roberts as he’s known him personally for years…
The favor I asked him was to check with Giuliani (whom he knows) to make sure this point is included in his case…
He said he would.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – AT THE NORTH POLE WITH MY 10 YEAR-OLD SON
April, 2003. On my 21st expedition to 90 North, the geographic North Pole, I took my son Jackson. He was nine, but handled it like a trooper. And no wonder – it was his third time! The first was when he was just six, following his brother Brandon whom I had taken to the Pole back in 1990.
We landed our ski-equipped Twin Otter on the sea ice – and as it’s featureless with the ice slowly moving on the Arctic Ocean surface, nothing stays there for long. So if you want a physical candy-stripe North Pole, you have to bring your own! It is so indescribable to actually be on the very top of our planet that it has to be experienced to be understood. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #95 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE REAL FIRST THANKSGIVING
Intro note by Jack Wheeler:
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans gather with their family and friends to celebrate the blessings that Providence has bestowed on their beloved country.
A deep appreciation of these blessings involves understanding that they were earned. It is to understand the awesome truth of how “God helps those who help themselves” applies to the Mayflower Pilgrims and their First Thanksgiving at America’s birth.
This is an appreciation and understanding of which those on the Left are incapable – for it would mean celebrating the capitalist freedom that made that original Thanksgiving possible. That made America possible.
Thus they must distort history instead. The distortion starts in Kindergarten, with the childish make-believe of your kid’s school play portraying the noble Squanto teaching the helpless Pilgrims how to feed themselves. So let’s drop the curtain on the distortion and watch the real thing. Here it is.
The real history of the Mayflower Pilgrims was recounted by their leader, William Bradford (1590-1657) in his book Of Plymouth Plantation, completed in 1647. It is from Bradford that we learn of Squanto, who did indeed show the Pilgrims how to “set” or plant corn (a new unfamiliar crop for them).
Then we learn that the Pilgrims taught the Indians how to grow more corn than they ever had before:
“The Indeans used to have nothing so much corne as they have since the English have stored them with their hoes, and seene their industrie in breaking up new grounds therwith.”
Reading the real history of the Pilgrims is so revelatory that I want you to see it at length. It is as effective a refutation of socialism and affirmation of capitalism as there has ever been.
THE PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION ON THANKSGIVING DAY 2020
On Thanksgiving Day, we thank God for the abundant blessings in our lives. As we gather with family and friends to celebrate this season of generosity, hope, and gratitude, we commemorate America’s founding traditions of faith, family, and friendship, and give thanks for the principles of freedom, liberty, and democracy that make our country exceptional in the history of the world.
This November marks 400 years since the Mayflower and its passengers faced the unknown and set sail across the Atlantic Ocean. Propelled by hope for a brighter future, these intrepid men and women endured two long months at sea, tired and hungry, to arrive in a new world full of potential.
SKYE’S LINKS 11/26/20
Neither I nor they believe in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy either:
Nolte: Only 3% of Trump Voters Believe Joe Biden Is Legitimate Winner
China's CCP already emboldened by Biden:
Watch this one; social media Section 230 case asks SCOTUS for cert:
Facebook Censorship Case Hits Supreme Court Docket
Google's thumb on the scale:
Robert Epstein: Google Shifted a 'Minimum' of 6 Million Votes in 2020
MAKING FRIENDS IN ANTARCTICA
This is my wife Rebel relaxing with a native of Antarctica while on a visit to the Palmer Science Station there. Getting up close and personal with Antarctic wildlife is so easy as they have no fear of us at all, be they seals, elephant seals, or penguins.
Better not get too close to male elephant seals in domination combat, however, as they can weigh up to 7,000 pounds. And steer clear of full grown leopard seals, which are apex predators weighing over 1,000 pounds. No worries, though, for Rebel with this young fellow. Experiencing Antarctica is always a memorable adventure. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #94 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE FATAL FLAW IN THE DEMOCRATS’ MARXIST NAZI FASCISM
Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, Stalin, Lenin
Let’s be clear: The Democrat Party has gone full Marxist Nazi Fascist.
They mean to eliminate our Constitution and Bill of Rights, such as the freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion. They have already eliminated due process, free and fair elections, and the democratic legitimacy of government in America.
They mean to impose upon all Americans a totalitarian submission to them equal to that of Soviet Russia, Communist Cuba, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Communist China. They mean to commit genocide upon “white supremacists” – meaning all whites but themselves.
Yet there is a fatal flaw in their plan. Here’s the thought experiment to expose it.
FIVE FEET AWAY FROM AN 800-POUND GORILLA
You know the adage about the “800-pound gorilla” going wherever he wants to – such as five feet from you in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. It is one of the world’s great thrills to be this close to these giants and feel at ease doing so. They are “habituated” to small groups of people whom they ignore. You of course are very quiet and do nothing to alarm them, just observing the little ones playing, mothers nursing, young ones climbing trees, huge male silverbacks watching over their families.
Gorillas are vegetarians, males eating up to 75 pounds of vegetation a day – thus they spend most of their waking hours chewing! The biggest silverbacks never get anywhere near 800 pounds by the way – 450 to 500 pounds at most (like the fellow in the photo). Big enough, believe me.
Rwanda is one of the best-run countries in all Africa. President Paul Kagame deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for healing his nation after the genocidal horrors of the 1990s. That’s far in the past now in this beautiful, peaceful land. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #93 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
ARE WE DAVID TO THE LEFT’S GOLIATH?
We are at war with enemies of liberty, domestic and foreign. Domestic enemies are now pressing relentlessly. Why shrink from the word “enemy,” the simple definition of which is “one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent.” Who other are these warmakers?
This war is much more than disputes over fraudulent elections, though that would be cause enough. The Democrat Party is a means. The new war has been imagined, developed, and phased in over decades by the Left. It’s unconventional, asymmetric, and cunning.
What would follow Leftist consolidation of power in the United States is the hoped-for realization of the Leftist-globalist dream of a “Great Reset,” whereby the United States is subsumed in some oligarchic-Marxist transnational utopia.
It is this Goliath of the Left against which the Davids of American Patriots are destined to fight.
PLEASE, MR PRESIDENT! EXPLAIN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT SURVIVAL OF THE REPUBLIC IS AT STAKE
Karl Marx, the avatar of modern evil, liked to say that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. As another cliché has it, history doesn’t repeat but it sometimes rhymes. But there is nothing farcical about the American political situation at the moment, nor anything particularly lyrical.
President Donald Trump and the forces of real change in contemporary politics are now locked in a death struggle with the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party, the unholy alliance of radical Democrats and milquetoast Republicans who have profited mightily from the business-as-usual of Washington practically since Eisenhower left office in January 1961.
Very simply, if Trump wins, the American Republic survives. If he does not, it does not.
HOW HAPPY CAN A YOUNG BOY BE?
And his father too. I started taking my son Brandon on expeditions with me at age five. Here we are in the Serengeti during the Great Migration. He saw three lion kills happen yards away, a baby born in a Masai hut – he’s never forgotten his first great adventure to this day, over 30 years later.
I encourage you in every way to take your children, grandchildren, nephews or nieces on an exploration of one of our planet’s many wondrous places when they are young. It will be formational for them, a founding experience of awe for what a magically extraordinary world they are privileged to live in. And your seeing it through their eyes will be a shot of youth elixir in your veins. It will be a life-memorable bonding experience for you both. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #92 photo ©Jack Wheeler)