Dr. Jack Wheeler
THE MYSTERY OF THE REEF OF HEAVEN
In a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean, off the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia lies one of the world’s great archaeological mysteries: the only ancient stone city built on a coral reef. No one knows who built it or how.
Micronesians say their ancestors called it Soun Nan-leng, The Reef of Heaven. Their name for it today is Nan Madol, the City of Ghosts.
On artificial islets connected by a series of canals are massive walls up to 25 feet high enclosing temples, tombs, ritual centers, and platforms for thatch homes – all made of giant columnar basalt stone. Eons ago, lava flows on Pohnpei cooled into vertical pillars. Over a thousand years ago, ancient Micronesians began hauling these basalt logs miles away to build this stone city. With an average weight of 5 tons, 10,000 pounds – and some up to 25 tons, 50,000 pounds each – how they did this remains unexplained. It lies deserted today, abandoned and lost for centuries.
Paddling a kayak through the canal maze of Nan Madol to clamber over these monumental stone complexes in solitary silence – for visitors are rarely here – leaves you in a state of unforgettable awe. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #6 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/24/20
The Left’s current Hate America mantra is to accuse our country of “systematic racism” – the cosmic irony being that it’s true.
For decades, America’s laws, hiring practices, college acceptances, portrayals of villains in movies, on and on, have been systematically racist: towards Whites, White heterosexual men in particular. Today we have reached the culmination of this pathology: systematic auto-racism.
The most insane thing about the most thoroughly insane period in our lifetimes is the majority of people condemning “white privilege” are whites themselves. But the backlash has finally begun. Here we go with another amazing HFR!
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – GUINNESS AT THE NORTH POLE
April 15, 1981 – this is the exact moment when I landed on the sea-ice at 90 North latitude, the North Pole, to set a Guinness World Record for “The Northernmost Parachute Jump.”
On a Wheeler Expedition to the top of the world, we landed our ski-equipped Twin Otter on a configuration of ice called an “old frozen-over lead” precisely at 90N. My clients got out, we took the fuel drums out, rear door off, took off again with me, the pilot and co-pilot. I had pilot Rocky Parsons go up to 8,000 feet for a mile of freefall, directed him to the spot – tiny black dots of our people on the ice – told him when to cut the engines, and I was out the door.
OMG what a rush, falling straight down on the very top of our planet, a world of ice below – meadows of rubble ice, rivers of open water called leads snaking through the ice, lakes of water called polynyas, pressure ridges of turquoise ice, terminal velocity, back flips, somersaults, fun in the sky. Altimeter shows 2,500 feet, time to go – pull out the hand deploy, see the canopy furl out in full, grab the hand toggles, spin around for more fun, line it up to come in next to everyone, stand-up landing, Guinness Book. Totally cool. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #5 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WHAT WOULD HE THINK OF US?
This Xikrin-Kayapo tribesman and his people live in the deepest heart of the Brazilian Amazon on tributaries of the Xingu River. You wonder what he would think of us as panic, fear, and madness engulfs our civilization. Having spent time in his village not long ago, I’m confident he would simply shake his head in bewilderment and say, “Please just let us live our lives in our forest, that’s all we want.”
True indigenous tribes who keep to their traditional way of life are so rare now in the Amazon or anywhere else where they once flourished. Each one is a precious living cultural heritage of humanity. It is such a privilege when they share their way of life with you. They deserve to have their wish granted, as my tribesman friend would express it. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #4 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE LAND OF NOAH
We all know the story of Noah and the Ark told in Genesis (chapters 6-9). But do you know where Noah’s grave is? You’re looking at it. There is a tradition thousands of years old that he died and is buried here in the Land of Noah – Nakhchivan. [Click on “Read more” for the story]
THE GRAND PRISMATIC SPRING OF YELLOWSTONE
There are places in our world so staggeringly beautiful you have to see them to believe they exist. Yet those people walking along the foot bridge can’t see what you’re looking at. That has to be in the air, hovering from high above in a helicopter. We live in a world of such beauty it really does take your breath away. (photo ©Jack Wheeler)
GLIMPSES OF OUR BREATHTAKING WORLD
[Today we introduce a new feature of TTP – a one-photo glimpse of some breathtaking place on the Earth that is our home. Each photo is taken by (or of) me, with a short description. In these difficult times, it is important to realize how extraordinary is the world we inhabit. We’ll try to make this a daily feature – I hope you enjoy it! –JW]
SURREALISTIC ART IN NATURE. You’ll find it in Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon near Page, Arizona. No artist could paint something more surrealistic than what nature has created here. You can explore the world to experience the greatest wonders of nature, but they are also to be found here in the American West. (Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/17/20
Welcome to “The Insanity Continues Unabated But POTUS Presses On Despite It” HFR.
As we all know, there’s one and only one reason why Governor Nuisance would put California back into a fascist lockdown again – to keep screwing people’s lives, their businesses, their jobs and livelihoods to prevent a V-shape economic recovery before the election.
Keep the fear porn going, keep the schools closed, force everyone – kids under no threat at all, every adult, not just those over 65 who could be in actual danger – to wear a Submission Mask, do everything possible to ruin America so it will ruin Trump on November 3.
Democrats have become a party of criminal insanity, a party of unabashed hatred for America, a party of unapologetic evil. How could they rationally think they could defeat Trump with that platform? How could they possibly be ahead in the polls? What sane decent normal person would vote for them?
Let’s look for what might be answers.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/10/20
Last Friday night, Fourth of July Eve (and after the HFR was posted), at Mount Rushmore our President Trump spoke directly to the heart of every patriotic American.
TTP had both the full video and text the next morning (7/04) of his magnificent speech: July 4, 1776 – The Most Important Day in the History of Nations.
After the speech came the celebratory fireworks show above Rushmore that you see above.
Then came the Demtard-Woketard demented condemnation. As the week progressed, the gap between Light and Dark, Good and Evil, Freedom and Fascism, Prosperity and Impoverishment continued to widen and deepen.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/03/20
The largest monthly jobs increase in US history was announced yesterday (7/02) for June. No wonder POTUS is celebrating:
We should celebrate too, not only this great V-shaped recovery news, but also tomorrow’s 244th anniversary of our extraordinary country’s birth. Let’s start right now.
On April 11, the Opening Day of Major League Baseball in 1994, the Texas Rangers had the world’s most famous classical pianist, Van Cliburn (who grew up in Fort Worth) perform the Star-Spangled Banner. Be thrilled, have a tissue for your tears, and reflect on those days of decency years ago.
THE SULTAN ASTRONOMER
You’re looking at something historically and scientifically astonishing. It is what remains of an astronomical observatory built 600 years ago – in 1420 – by a Sultan in Central Asia who loved science and mathematics more than war and conquest.
Born Mirzo Taraghay, he is known to history as Ulugh Beg (“Great Ruler,” 1394-1449).
Grandson of the nomadic conqueror Tamerlane (1336-1405) who devoted his life to war upon other peoples as did his ancestor Genghiz Khan, Ulugh Beg ruled over Sultanate of Turan, known to the Romans as Transoxiana – the land between Central Asia’s two great rivers, the Oxus (now the Amu Darya) and the Jaxartes (the Syr Darya), from his capital of Samarkand.
It was in Samarkand, the most fabled oasis of the Silk Road, that Ulugh Beg built his circular observatory, three stories high of white marble.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/26/20
The most heinous perversion of symbolic art in world history is that of the Swastika – Sanskrit for “the goodness of existence.” This Roman mosaic in Tarragona, Spain, is 2,000 years old, yet the Swastika is far older – carved onto mammoth ivory by Ice Age hunters in Ukraine 12,000 years ago.
Why from time immemorial has it represented eternity, prosperity, the centeredness of all that is? Look up into the sky on a clear dark night. All people have studied the heavens for eons. You could always know where you were by finding North, for the two front stars of what we call the Big Dipper point to it – always.
The Greeks called it Mega Arktikos, the Great Bear – why we call Far North the Arctic today. The ancients saw the Bear every year rotating around Celestial North – now occupied by Polaris, the North Star – through all four seasons, while all the stars in the sky circled around it every night. What do you see in this depiction of that seasonal rotation?
Here we go with another HFR mind-blow!
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/19/20
Juneteenth, schmoonteenth. The only solace for a week as ghastly as this is comic relief.
Yet this was a week that grief for what has happened to America is washing over any hope for her. Take this heartbreaking story (6/14): Teen Who Makes Teddy Bears for Children of Fallen Police Officers Receives Death Threats for Her Kindness to Police.
This is but one example of so many overwhelming us now that makes it clear: November 3rd is no longer a choice between Republican and Democrat. It is a choice between Decency and Depravity, Freedom and Slavery, Civilization and Savagery. A future or no future at all.
As always, the HFR provides solutions to how achieve the formers and reject the latters.
AFRICAN SUNSET
This really isn’t photoshopped – it’s what a sunset actually looks like on the Luangwa River in Zambia. Best way to enjoy it is with a gin-and-tonic Sundowner with good friends on a dream Africa safari. Zambia is an undiscovered gem, the best safari country in all Africa right now.
Fabulous luxury lodges, iconic animals of Africa in amazing profusion, and much less expensive than the well-known safari regions elsewhere. I told you all about our Africa Dream Safari in January. It filled up fast – but then you know what happened to us and the whole world.
We’ve rescheduled it with new dates, August 1st to 11th. We can now take one, possibly two more couple(s) and maybe one single. Enjoy the description and all the cool photos below, and if you’re serious about joining us, email me at [email protected] for a special discount I may be able to offer you.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/12/20
Evil Eye pendants, Khiva, Uzbekistan, Central Asia ©Jack Wheeler
Welcome to the Root Cause HFR. Libtard Groupthink’s mantra is the demand to solve the “root causes” of what they hate about America. That turns out to be what they call the “systemic racism” hardwired into America’s DNA from the inception, at which they peg the year 1619.
This is going to be a different HFR. Rather than itemizing and discussing the significant events of the week, we’ll be exposing the root cause of the whole dog’s breakfast that’s driving America insane right now – either cowardly or criminally so.
For it turns out that the Libtard DemFascisti are right – the root cause problem is systemic racism, but it is the opposite of what they think it is. Thus here is the explanation of the real systemic racism that is killing America.
Veteran TTPers will be familiar with this, and why it is embodied in the pendants pictured above. Not so much for our newer members. Reminder or revelation, what follows needs to be clearly understood by every American patriot if we are going to cure our country.
WE OWE US – BLACK LIVES MATTER OWES REPARATIONS TO THEMSELVES
He owes $14 trillion to himself
Robert Johnson, notes Wikipedia, is the first Black American Billionaire. He made it on his own. Only in America could he have achieved this. Yet on June 1st, he had the pathological effrontery to spit on his country in order to curry favor with – and avoid the envy of – the racist thugs of Only Black Lives Matter.
On CNBC, he demanded that the US Government – meaning taxpayers like you and me – pay $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to “help reduce racial inequality.”
The incoherent racism of this is testimony to how the fear of being envied can turn even brilliantly successful businessmen’s brains into mush. So let’s straighten Bob out.
We’ve been here before. So much so that in TTP back in February 2004 – yes, over 16 years ago – I wrote We Owe Us: The Real Case for Reparations. We’re going to slightly revise it for today.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/05/20
The irony is almost unbearable – American heroism in space, Anarcho-Fascist violence tearing American cities apart below.
Shortly after witnessing the successful SpaceX launch last Saturday (5/30), the President delivered a remarkable address at the Kennedy Space Center.
I have waited many years for such a presidential declaration. My Aeschylus and America in 2004 expressed it in the section on “Aeschylus and Neal Armstrong” – that we had a failure of nerve in the face of the rest of humanity’s envy for the greatest achievement in the history of mankind, America’s landing a man on the Moon.
We retreated from space, from Vietnam, from everywhere. Ronald Reagan rescued us, then proceeded to achieve the impossible once again, America ridding the world of the Soviet Union to peacefully win the Cold War. We’ve been retreating from that heroic pinnacle ever since. Until, that is, we rejected retreat and strove for greatness instead as we did with Ronald Reagan, and elected Donald Trump.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/29/20
These two pictures of Memorial Day Commemoration on Monday (5/25) have starkly contrasting messages. The one above projects courage to live without needless fear, the one below projects the necessity of needless fear.
Patricia McCarthy in her The Mask Police of the Left this week (5/27) notes that we didn’t have this virtue-signalling tyranny when the Chicom-Democrat-Media Virus was at its peak. Now that we’re opening up and we know it’s no more or even less lethal than seasonal flu, all of a sudden everyone has to wear a mask. Why? Because:
CDM – THE CHICOM-DEMOCRAT-MEDIA VIRUS
Yesterday (5/27), the Communist government of China ruled to end Hong Kong’s autonomy. It is the latest perfidy demonstrating how the Beijing regime is humanity’s greatest enemy of freedom in the world today.
But only the latest – far from the worse.
Chinese Communist – or Chicom for short – evil is epitomized by its founder, Mao Tse-Tung, being listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Greatest Mass Murderer in human history – and reconfirmed by scholar researchers in Mao’s Great Famine
And today, his political heirs in Beijing have pulled off a feat of utter depravity that would have made Mao proud.
MEMORIAL DAY FLAG SKYDIVE
©Jack Wheeler
My skydiving buddy Chris Wentzel and I made this flag jump on Memorial Day years ago to pay tribute to those in our military who gave their lives for America. I’m on the right, Chris on the left. The jump was performed at the Skydive Perris drop zone in Perris, California. It’s only fitting I post this on TTP in honor of those whom we memorialize in gratitude on this day.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/22/20
We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore is now America’s Response to the Fascist Lockdowns:
How, then, is Not Taking It Anymore being implemented? There are several ways. One of them involves putting Fascicrat Governors in jail.
HOW TO SEND THE LOCKDOWN GOVERNORS TO JAIL
And bankrupt them as well.
You know their names. Cuomo, Newsom, Whitmer, Inslee, Pritzker, Murphy, Northam, Wolf. You know how their psycho lockdowns have ruined countless lives and businesses.
What you may not know is that one particular executive order of theirs has caused the death of hundreds, even thousands in their state – and for each one they can be criminally liable and sued personally.
We’ll start with New York’s Gov. Cuomo.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/15/20
Sorry to have to keep doing this to your rib gage, ladies & gents, but we’re still in OMAS City this week.
We started off the week with Hyperventilation Monday (5/11).
On Tuesday (5/12), we learned John Durham who leads the DOJ criminal investigation of Obama Admin crimes has a new nickname – “Full Throttle – per Fox News: Durham Moving ‘Full-Throttle’ on Russia Probe Review, Top Federal Prosecutors Involved.
On Wednesday (5/13), Chuck Grassley, Chair of Senate Judiciary, released the full list – declassified by DNI Grenell – of 40 Obama officials ordering the “unmasking” of President-elect Trump’s National Security Advisor-designate LtGen Michael Flynn, between Nov 30, 2016 and Jan 12, 2017.
It keeps going… let’s have some fun. And learn one of the key things that makes liberals/lefties/Dems what they are.
HYPERVENTILATION MONDAY
I woke up this Monday morning (5/11) to see this on POTUS’ twitter feed – and instantly began hyperventilating with goosebumps and chills. Because this is just the opening shot – he unleashed a thunderous barrage the likes of which we have never seen. Anyone who thinks he’s bluffing needs to see this:
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/08/20
It’s an OMAS HFR this week. O My Aching Sides – it’s like when Donaldus Magnus warned you won’t be able to stand so much winning. Now you’ll be begging to stop with all that’s side-splittingly hilarious this week, but we won’t stop until your rib cage is in utter agony.
And the HFR has an agonizing choice for Hero of the Week. One of them should have been last week – my bad – and has to be this. A second has to be as well. And a third is pictured above. Hint – he’s not the guy with bug eyes. No use in choosing, has to be all Three Heroes of the Week.
So here we go with the OMAS HFR – you’ve been warned. Let’s start with why we should be smiling along with the guy above.
CINCO DE FARSA – THE FIFTH OF FARCE
Today millions of us gringos will celebrate May 5th. Yet Cinco de Mayo is a phony tradition, a joke on los Norteamericanos, then exploited as a marketing gimmick by Mexican restaurant chains as an excuse for us to get wasted on Jose Cuervo.“You’ve got to be careful drinking tequila, son.
You drink too much tequila, you can fall down and hurt your back.”
John Wayne’s advice to a young Jack Wheeler in 1966
We’ll have to have our own parties this evening however, as most restaurants won’t let you have one with the added farce of current lockdowns. Yet before you get lost in Margaritaville, welcome to TTP’s May 5th tradition.
That is to explain la verdad, the truth, so you’ll understand why it should be called Cinco de Farsa, The Fifth of Farce. This is history that you should have been taught in school but never were.
Which is, to begin with: Nobody in Mexico cares about May 5th. Only we, us gringos, pretend to. For if you ask just about any reveler at the nearest Pancho Villa’s Cantina or some such Mexican-themed bar anywhere in the US -- if you can find one open – just what is being celebrated on May 5th, you’ll get either a blank stare or "It’s their July 4th " ignorance.
So here’s the true history of Mexico. You’ll learn more about Mexico’s history in ten minutes than you ever did in school or anywhere else.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/01/20
Welcome to the May Day HFR!
In much of the world, today is Commie Day. The link is TTP’s real history of the Left’s perversion of today:
“For millennia, especially here in Europe, the First of May was a happy, joyful celebration of life after winter, with dancing around a Maypole and crowning a pretty girl with flowers as Queen of May.
I grew up in California. When we were kids, my sisters would always get up early to pick flowers, and leave them in a basket at the front door for Mom, our family’s Queen of May.
Today is a national holiday in Germany, as it is in over 30 other countries in Europe and dozens of other countries around the world. But not as May Day.
Instead, it’s called International Workers Day. Since it was the invention of Communists in 1889, it should be called Commie Day. Only Communists could take an innocent celebration of springtime and turn it into celebration of murder, terrorism, hate, and envy. Here’s the story.”
But not for us! We should mark today as Liberation Day, an Anti-Communist, Anti-Fascist recapture of our most basic liberties the Left has attempted to steal from us with the excuse of a flu bug hysteria.
THE ADDRESS TO THE NATION PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD DELIVER ON MAY 1ST – BUT WILL HE?
My fellow Americans. I have said repeatedly during the terrible ordeal our country and the entire world has been enduring, that “the cure cannot be worse than the disease.” Now at last we have convincing evidence that has been the case.
I have come to the conclusion, along with a substantial number of medical researchers, that the lockdowns of our society have been a gigantic mistake – rather than preventing the spread of the Covid-19 virus, they have prevented the virus from dying off in what is known as “herd immunity.”
The evidence of numerous antibody studies in state after state and in other countries that test if one has already been infected show clearly that the number of reported or confirmed cases is only a small fraction of actual cases.
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/24/20
Yes – on Tuesday (4/21), the most lovable, the most colorful, the most spectacularly talented touchdown-scorer in the NFL, the Giant with the Velvet Hands, Rob Gronkowski renounced his “retirement” to join the greatest quarterback in football history bidding the Pats goodbye to play for the Bucs next season. Party time in Tampa. Florida here we come.
Of course, it’s also endearingly cool that he’s life-partnered with a gorgeous and fun supermodel – Camille Kostek.
Colin What’s-his-name and his fellow kneelers are so yesterday. As are lockdowns and panic-mongering by Dems and the Enemedia. We are ready for some football this fall!
THE MIRACLE VIRUS! COVID19 CURES HEART DISEASE!
Brazil President Bolsonaro leads anti-lockdown protest in Sao Paulo (4/20)
Sao Paulo, Brazil is one of the largest cities in the world, clocking in at close to 22 million. Thanks to its state governor, it is in lockdown quarantine for all “non-essential” businesses, and Paulistanos are sick and tired of it.
Thus the most popular joke among them now is – “Have you heard? No one dies of heart disease in Brazil anymore.”
Try the joke on to people you know and see if they get it. TTPers do, but Brazilians know the China Virus Hysteria Scam much better than most Americans. No one dies of heart disease anymore in America now, as in Brazil – unless it’s a younger person with a special heart malady – because the deaths are attributed instead to Covid-19.
Same with diabetes, high blood pressure, emphysema, pneumonia, seasonal flu – just about anything old people die of, they don’t anymore. COVID-19, the Miracle Cure! Who knew?
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/17/20
America is back! That is the thrilling message of this week. After all the stories we’ve been hearing about Americans meekly submitting to lockdown tyrannies with state and local fascisti arresting, fining, and abusing them for trying to behave normally, we get this from millions of us announcing WE WILL NOT COMPLY.
How American can you get? Standing up for freedom. Standing up to tyranny. We are witnessing the emergence of a Great American Revolution against fascist government control of our lives. It doesn’t get better, more hopeful, more optimistic for our future as a people and as a nation than this.
It dashes the dreams of Democrats to use the virus pandemic they created as an excuse to destroy our economy and replace it with a Marxist-Leninist system in which they give the orders and we must obey. Sorry, Leninistas, we will not comply.
YES IT IS
The story goes that early one evening after dinner in one of New York City’s best restaurants, Mark Twain was waiting outside underneath the awning over the entrance waiting for a hansom cab to take him back to his hotel. A distinguished-looking man and his wife were waiting for their cab as well.
“Do you think it will stop raining?” the man asked Twain. Arching his famous eyebrows, Twain looked at the man and replied, “It always has.”
Well, finally the downpour has ended. The worst is over – yes it is. It’s still drizzling, but soon the clouds will part and it will be blue skies again.
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/10/20
Welcome to the Good Friday HFR!
Although in truth there is nothing “good” about an innocent man subjected to a horrifically primitive death punishment, which this day commemorates. It is only good in an older meaning of the term, which is “holy” – so let’s use that: Welcome to the Holy Friday HFR.
It is a day for somber reflection on the evil that humans are capable of inflicting upon each other. On this particular Holy Friday in 2020, we are all in the grip of a masochistic mass hysteria perpetrated upon us with malice aforethought.
We must now quickly resurrect ourselves from this hysteria before the doom is irreparable. One way to do so is to take the lessons of history to heart. The mortal danger our country is in did not pop out of nowhere. So let’s review the historical highlights of the primary group of perpetrators creating this danger.
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/03/20
ENOUGH!! NO MORE!!
SHUTDOWN THE LOCKDOWNS, MR. PRESIDENT, NOT THE ECONOMY
Working together, the Communist Party of China, the Democrat Party of the United States, and the Left “Mainstream” Media plus Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Google’s YouTube) engineered a trap for President Trump, and now the trap has sprung.If he kills the economy by continuing the lockdowns, he will get total blame for the ensuing Great Depression of the 21st Century.
If he shuts down the lockdowns to get people back to work and save millions of businesses, he will get total blame for the thousands of deaths from COVID-19.
This Catch-22 is no accident, comrades – it’s on purpose. The goal is a two-fer: Ruin Trump’s reelection so he loses like Hoover did to FDR in 1932, which enables the completion of a Police State Fascist America as we’re well down that path already due to the manufactured coronavirus hysteria.
Here’s how it worked.
IS THE MEDIA ABOUT TO MAKE TRUMP THE UNBEATABLE HERO OF THE CHINA VIRUS CRISIS?
On March 18, one of the world’s most respected science journals, Nature, published this article: Hydroxychloroquine, a less toxic derivative of chloroquine, is effective in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro. (Note: SARS-CoV-2 is another name for COVID-19, the China or Wuhan virus.)
“In conclusion, our results show that HCQ [hydroxychloroquine] can efficiently inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro. In combination with its anti-inflammatory function, we predict that the drug has a good potential to combat the disease.”
President Trump’s medical advisors quickly brought the article to his attention. The very next day, March 19, at his White House press briefing, he brought the world’s attention to the promise of HCQ (watch starting at 2:20):
White House researchers soon discovered studies were being done on HCQ and the China virus from Bahrain to South Korea. One in particular caught their eye.
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/27/20
You know the ancient proverb’s warning: “Be careful what you ask for – because you might get it.”
The Dems and Libtard Enemedia, after trying every scam they could think of up to a Shampeachment against Orange Man Bad decided on one last desperate Hail Mary – generate a tsunami of Fear Porn over a flu virus from China that would wash away Trump’s economy, blame him for it, and watch his reelection go down in flames.
They got their Hail Mary fully launched into the air, receivers racing downfield for a game-winning TD – when all of a sudden linebacker Trump intercepts the ball and is running full tilt towards the Dem end zone with no one in the way.
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/20/20
©Jack Wheeler
Welcome to the Springtime HFR! Yes, when you woke up this morning, Spring or Vernal Equinox had already happened. From space.com:
“Astronomers can calculate the moment of the vernal equinox right down to the nearest second. This year it will occur on Thursday (March 19) at 11:49:28 p.m. EDT (0349 GMT on March 20). At that moment, the sun will appear directly overhead about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Gorontalo, a province of Indonesia — often referred to as the "Emerald of the Equator" — on the island of Sulawesi.”That happens to be adjacent to Tana Toraja, the land of the Toraja people who practice one of the most exotic cultures on earth. They live in extraordinarily dramatic and beautifully decorated thatch homes, and bury their dead in vertical cliff cemeteries, adorned with painted wooden effigies of those entombed.
Exotic to the max, even macabre – but it sure is a better way to show respect for those passed on than to engage in the greatest global insanity the world has ever known.
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/13/20
We’ve known, or at least suspected, this for a long time. This is the week those suspicions were confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt.
On Wednesday evening (3/11), President Trump addressed the nation in calm and straightforward terms about the Wuhan Virus. At the close, he made a passionate heartfelt plea:
“We are all in this together. We must put politics aside, stop the partisanship, and unify together as one nation and one family.”
Who of right mind and moral decency could not agree? The leaders of the Democrat Party, that’s who.
Immediately the next day:
THE LAND OF NOMADS
A select group of TTPers will be joining Rebel and me this coming May for our third exploration of one of this world’s most spectacular and fascinating yet mysterious and unknown regions – all “Five Stans” of Western Turkestan.
Here we will find the ancient cities of the Silk Road still in all their splendor, and one of the glitziest cities you’ll ever see built yesterday in the middle of nowhere. Here we will find the Mountains of Heaven, the Door of Hell, and the Seven Pearls of Shing.
For seventy years, Moscow kept one of humanity’s most glamorous and historical regions hidden from the world, reducing it to a forgotten and impoverished backwater. With the thankful death of the USSR in 1991, all five stans were quick to declare their independence.
It has been a long and haltingly-trodden road ever since to their political, social, and economic recovery. Nonetheless… I was first able to travel through the region in 1963 – 57 years ago at age 19 – and the differences between then and today are staggeringly exciting.
To personally encounter that excitement is one of the most profound travel experiences our planet has to offer – for there really is no place like it, historically, naturally, culturally, on earth.
This is the first of a series of introductions for you to each of the Five Stans. We begin with Kazakhstan -- the Land of Nomads.
THE ONLY THING TO FEAR
FDR was right. The only thing we have to fear is… fear itself.
It’s a genetic predisposition for many if not most people to be paranoid about something. And if that something isn’t real, then folks make something up or hyperbolize it to the moon.
Everyone laughs at the streetcorner kook in a hairshirt and beard down to his knees carrying a sign warning, THE END IS NEAR.
But how different is the actual behavior of millions of Americans at this moment emptying out supermarket shelves of toilet paper? (Do they think a respiratory virus causes dysentery?) Or investors who have caused the Dow to lose 5,800 points in the last 30 days?
Gotta love the Dems, though. On Saturday (3/07), Bolshevik Bernie held at rally in Chicago for 15,000 Bernie Bros. Dems cheer – then demand that POTUS stop holding his rallies because of the C-virus. Dems have a neurotic compulsion to be hypocrites – and to be blind to it.