Dr. Jack Wheeler
CELEBRATING COLUMBUS
Christopher Columbus
October 12 is for celebrating the 524th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America, for on that day in 1492, the Great Admiral landed on Guanahani (now known as San Salvador or Watlings) island in the Bahamas.
We commemorate this as a true discovery in contrast to all the claims of Vikings, Chinese, Irish, and others who supposedly came earlier – for once and only after Columbus discovered America, it stayed discovered.
Unfortunately, Columbus Day is for most Americans just an excuse for a three-day weekend – which is why it’s a holiday today, Monday October 10.
What it should be is a commemoration and celebration of Western Civilization – which is why the Left hates Columbus and his holiday.
So there will be the usual spectacle of American Indians using the holiday to denounce the White Man and his genocidal war-mongering culture-destroying earth-murdering imperialism, blah blah blah – with White Liberals joining in, masochistically condemning their own civilization.
If it’s your misfortune to run into any of these folk bemoaning the nightmare and tragedy of our coming here, you might suggest to them that they abandon every vestige of the civilization they hate as so evil.
Join the forum discussion on this postHALF-FULL REPORT 10/07/16
Ladies – you’re sure to be the biggest hit at your friends’ upcoming Halloween costume party wearing the Sexy Saudi Burka.
Made by the Yiwu Angel Garment Factory in Zhejiang, China, it was available on Amazon until yesterday (10/06), when a firestorm of protests yelling “Racist!” and “Islamophobic!” caused it to be “no longer available.”
That of course is an incentive for TTP ladies to wear it for sure. And since a woman’s best accessory is a well-dressed man, be certain he’s appropriately attired in a kaffiyeh headdress, sports a long black beard, and wears a simulated suicide vest. The Sexy Saudi Burka remains available at foreverfancy.com.
Last week was awful for The Donald. Not this week. Here’s why…
In about 48 hours, we’ll have the Second Debate. In anticipation, yesterday (10/06) the Huffington Post ran a must-read asking “Was the First Presidential Debate Rigged Against Trump?” Yes, HuffPo…
We have fun news breaks, gratifyingly hilarious news, congratulations to Pope Francis, International Heroes of the Week, hope for November – plus one of the absolute best reason to vote for Trump. Here we go…
OPENING THE DOORS OF ISLAM
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The threat of Islamofascism – whether in the form of murderous terrorism by such groups as ISIS, the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the Mullahs of Iran, or invasion of Moslem “refugees” orchestrated to Islamize the West by Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan – has become one of the gravest national security threats to Western Civilization.
Islamofascism is a barbaric ideology, motivated by a fear of the modern world and a desire to return to the medieval Dark Ages of the 7th century. Ultimately, defeating Islamofascism cannot be imposed upon Islam from without. The solution to Islamofascism or “Radical Islam” must be a competing ideology replacing it within Islam itself.
Thus it is argued that what Islam requires today is a Reformation with an Islamic Martin Luther. This is the absolute last thing Islam needs now, the triumph of faith over reason with resultant bloodshed and sectarian slaughter lasting over a century (ca. 1520-1648) and costing the lives of millions. That horror was the Reformation. What Islam needs instead is an Enlightenment. It turns out there is a term in Arabic for enlightenment, for analysis and interpretation through reason, that has an honorable tradition in Islamic jurisprudence and thought. Get to know the word, for it is the salvation of Islam: Ijtihad.
TRUMP WIMPS OUT
As Charlie Brown would say, “Rats!” Now we have to go back to just voting against the nightmare of Hillary.
Conservative pundit John Podhoretz summed it up: “Trump’s Debate Incompetence a Slap in the Face to His Supporters.”
The best editorial page in the country, that of Investors Business Daily, put it this way, “Trump and Clinton Debated, But It’s the Nation that Lost.”
And what’s with all the whining on the right about Lester Holt being pathologically biased? Of course he was – and the sun rises in the east. Trump was surprised by this? He let some hack Clintonista moderator take charge of the debate and steamroller him?
After the debate, Trump tweeted how it was an outrage that Holt didn’t ask about the Clinton Foundation or Benghazi. Say what?? It’s Politics 101 that if you’re asked a question you don’t want by some schmuck reporter, you give the answer to the question you do want.
It's Trump's fault, not Holt's, that there was no discussion of Benghazi, of Syria, of Obamacare, of the Clinton Foundation, of immigration, of the four recent acts of Moslem terror, of the rioting in Charlotte and Hillary's effective endorsement of the rioters.
His new nickname should be “Holding Back” Trump. Last night (9/27) in Orlando, he claimed he was “holding back” because he didn’t want to “embarrass” Mrs. Clinton. Anyone who believes that should be easy to sell a bridge to. Is there a Trump supporter on earth who wanted to see him “hold back” in the Monday night debate and not embarrass her to the moon?
THE WORLD’S OLDEST WAR
Marcus Aurelius – Hapsburg Palace, Vienna
Vienna, Austria. This is a particularly apt place to discuss the world’s oldest war. It’s been continuously running for almost 14 centuries, and it’s getting worse today.
First, however, let us note that Vienna has more history, beauty, charm, class, and friendly people than just about any city in Europe. It leaves Paris in the dust.
Just one example. Vienna was founded by the Romans as Vindobona in 15 BC on the south bank of the Danube. On March 17, 180 AD, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was in his ornate tent in the center of the Vindobona fortress, having just won a victory over marauding Germanic tribes.
For many centuries, the street in Vienna along the traditional location of that tent has been called Schwertgasse – Sword Street. That’s because on that day in 180, the Emperor’s son, Commodus, murdered his father with a sword thrust. In the movie, Gladiator, Commodus smothers him – but nonetheless, the movie depicts real history.
Aurelius to this day is revered by Austrians. That’s why there’s a huge statue of him in the courtyard of the Hapsburg Palace or Hofburg in the center of Vienna.
For the next thousand years, the people south of the Danube adopted and lived by Christianity, oblivious to the war that had emerged in the Middle East, Asia Minor, North Africa, and Spain between their fellow Christians and people calling themselves Moslems.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/16/16
Are we having fun yet? You certainly should be so we might as well. Let’s kick this week off with Rick Perry on Dancing with the Stars..
Yes, this was on Monday (9/12). Rock on, Rick. God bless Texas…
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We’re just getting started. Here’s happy news guaranteed to make you smile. On Wednesday (9/14), the New York Times to its chagrin pronounced Hillary’s book, Stronger Together, “a flop,” selling only 2,912 copies in its first week on sale.
What’s freaking out all the libtard presstitutes at the New York Times is that the entire presidential campaign of Illary, HilLIARy, Shrillary, Her Shrewness, The PIAPS, is becoming a flop.
More on that later. Meanwhile, let’s enjoy this news bulletin (9/14): John Kerry caught funneling $9 million of State Department money to his daughter Vanessa. How’s that for a Hahahaha of the week?
And there’s more… so much more.
SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH
His name is Zdenek Gazda. He’s from a small Moravian village called Lednice in the Czech Republic. Twenty-four years ago he emigrated to America and lives in Manasquan, New Jersey where he’s a huge fan of the NHL Devils. Three days ago, completely by accident, he changed history.
Zdenek loves America. On Sunday (9/11) he went to witness the ceremony at Ground Zero, taking selfies, photos, and videos with his cellphone like many others in the crowd. He noticed that Hillary Clinton was suddenly leaving unexpectedly.
Curious, he followed – and of all the pro journalists and tv cameramen, of all the horde of onlookers that follow her around, he happened to be the one guy in the right place at the right time to by chance have his cellphone video on and filming when she collapsed getting into her Caddy SUV.
Somehow, no one else noticed. Not a single reporter or cameraman. It was only when Zdenek posted his 20-second video clip on his Twitter page and began going viral that anyone in the media noticed. Her collapse was filmed and twittered at 11:31am. It wasn’t until 3:48pm that the world knew, via the huge siren-blaring headline on the Drudge Report: HILLARY FAINTS AS SECRET SERVICE RUSHES HER OUT OF 911 MEMORIAL
Without Zdenek Gazda, the Enemedia would have been able to continue their criminal coverup of Illary’s maladies – and their demonizing of anyone who shines a light on them (like Dr. Drew Pinsky). You might consider thanking him on Zdenek’s Facebook page.
It is thanks to Zdenek that, now more than ever, America’s fate rides on what happens on September 26.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/09/16
In the picture-worth-a-thousand-words department, this sums up the stakes in November:
Which brings us to January. No matter what the outcome in November, you want to be at TTP Rendezvous XV in Vegas, January 20-23.
We’ll have a stellar selection of speakers to discuss all the most likely possibilities of America’s future with the next president and Congress. Plus you get to see your old TTP friends and make lots of new ones.
You cannot not be there! To be in Vegas with us, email Miko, [email protected], or call us at 202-656-3008.
Now for the Funniest News of the Week. Hands down it’s this: We now have absolute proof that Zero is a parasitic worm.
TRUMP NEEDS TO KNOW THAT THE KEY TO ECONOMICS IS NOT ECONOMICS
Yesterday (9/07) in Philadelphia, The Donald gave a rousing speech on building up our military. Heavens knows we need that after 8 years of Zero trying to ruin it. But certainly what’s not needed is just more stuff.
Take the trillion-dollar F-35 boondoggle, for example, “the greatest white elephant in US military history.” The good old F-16 eats its lunch. The new innovative technology like General Atomics’ railgun leaves most big-ticket extravaganzas like aircraft carriers and manned bombers in the dust. Manned bombers? How 20th Century can you get?
The military’s resistance to obsoleting innovation is but one example of legions shot through our entire economy. People are afraid of the new. People are afraid of their jobs ending up making buggy whips. People want to stifle competition, demanding a “divine right to stagnation.” People are envious, they want to “eat the rich.”
Trump can talk all he wants about how to make America “great” again, how he wants to create jobs, how he wants better trade deals, how he wants to bring manufacturing back to the US from overseas. Fine, go for it. Almost anything he does will be better – as in gargantually better – than Hacking Hillary who will do her best to make it worse (except for her cronies).
I believe that Trump’s heart is in the right place, while Hillary’s is in a deep dark hideous hole. Nonetheless, there’s something he needs to understand about economics – namely, that the key to it, the key to whether a society prospers or pauperizes, has nothing to do with economics.
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/02/16
Pantelleria, Strait of Sicily, Italian Mediterranean. Welcome to Europe’s hidden ultimate hideaway for the rich and famous. No matter who you are, nobody cares. It’s totally laid back. No big fancy resorts, no tourists, no paparazzi, no autograph hounds, you’re left alone in peace, solitude, and private luxury.
There’s just one little problem, right on the horizon you see in the distance. It provides a useful perspective on the main story of the week in America – Trump vs. Clinton on illegal immigration.
This has been a news week of mind-numbing global intensity. There are events you should know about in 15 countries on five continents. Let’s see how many I can get to – starting obviously with Mexico.
The most surprised guy on the planet late last week was Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. He issued a pro forma invitation to both Trump and Hillary for a meeting/discussion as a diplomatic nicety. He got the reply he expected from her office, thanking him, will do our best to rearrange the busy schedule, our people will be in touch with your people, blah blah.
He fell out of his chair with Trump’s reply: Muchas gracias, I’m on my way, I’ll see you tomorrow! You can imagine the freakout in the presidential chambers: “QUE??? Hay-soos Crees-toh!!!” And however you say WTF!! in Mexican.
It was the very last thing he expected. But when the shock subsided, here’s what Nieto told his aides:
HILLARY IS GOING TO LOSE
What does she stand for? What are the genuine accomplishments in her life? What new innovative ideas does she have to change the current direction of the country that two-thirds of voters think is wrong?
Then there are questions of ethics and morality. Ereyesterday (8/28), Roger Simon laid out the stakes:
“The truth about the Clinton Foundation is already clear: a medium to leverage Hillary Clinton's position as Secretary of State for personal enrichment and global control by the Clintons and their allies. To my knowledge, nothing like this has ever been done in the history of the United States government.
This means quite simply, that the United States of America has abandoned the rule of law. The election of Hillary Clinton—our own Evita—will make the situation yet more grave. Consider something so basic as how you raise your children in a country where the president is most probably an indictable criminal and most certainly a serial liar of almost inexhaustible proportions. What does this say about our basic morality and how does that affect all aspects of our culture?”
It’s been a long hot political summer, with the Lying Swine Media in a 24/7 feeding frenzy to demonize Trump and coronate Hillary as having already won before the campaign really begins. As always, summer froth abates over Labor Day weekend, with campaigns beginning in earnest the day after – one week from today, Tuesday September 6th.
So with the LSM predicting the race for the White House is over before it begins, I figure I might as well join in. My prediction is: Hillary is going to lose. She is going to lose, as Dick Cheney would say, “big time.”
Of course I’m going to caveat that big time – I’ve been wrong too many times before not to do that. But let’s set the caveats aside for now. Let’s first count the abundance of ways she’s going down for the electoral count.
HIMALAYA HELICOPTER EXPEDITION
“Scoundrel’s View” of Mount Everest – Tibet North Face on left, Nepal Southwest Face on right
Can you imagine what it is like to actually be at Mount Everest? Or any other Himalayan giant – like Kanchenjunga, Annapurna, or Dhaulagiri – the greatest mountains on earth? To be in the presence of any one of them is a life-memorable experience.
To reach any one, you must trek for many days, over extremely rough mountainous terrain at very high altitude. You must be in exceptional physical condition to do so.
Which is why almost no one, even the most ambitious trekker, has ever been to all of them. Last May, I created an alternative: to the base camps of all eight 8,000 meter peaks in the Himalayas by helicopter, piloted by the most experienced mountain rescue pilots in the world.
Here’s our high altitude AS350 B3 coming in to land at the Khumbu Ice Fall on Mount Everest at 17,500 ft.
What we did in May was so astoundingly spectacular I can’t resist doing it again this November. Would you like to come with me?
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/26/16
Good grief. What a disastrous, horrible, no-good lousy week this has been… for The PIAPS.
I’m sure you need cheering up after this depressing news, and if listening to a masterful British orator won’t do it, nothing will:
Nigel Farage, however, was the least of Shrillary’s worries this week. On Wednesday (8/24), the New York Post’s cover story was A Nation for Sale under Hillary Clinton. But this isn’t a Post scoop – this is an exposé of the Clinton Foundation’s naked criminality by the media’s gold-standard flagship, the Associated Press itself. Every newspaper in the country uses an AP newsfeed. As such, it cannot be ignored by the Libtard Media and it is utterly devastating.
Trump was fully justified to declare that, “It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history.”
Jack Kelly had a marvelous column this week on Journalists as Presstitutes. They are intentionally biased for the left, willful propagandists and shills for the Democrats.
There is another way they presstitute themselves that you should know about, for it will give you a deep insight into how journalism really works. We use a current story about Turkey in the New York Times as a prime example.
How’s this for a headline in this morning’s (8/26) London Daily Express: Favorite to be Next Dutch Prime Minister Vows to Ban the Koran and Close All Mosques. Yep, that’s Geert Wilders. He and his Dutch Freedom Party lead every poll there is by double digits, and the election is soon.
We have the HFR’s favorite judge, favorite Olympian, and Hero of the Week. Here we go.
WHERE THE SOVIET UNION STILL EXISTS
Tiraspol, Transnistria. Lenin lives. At least he still does here in the strangest country in Europe, as it insists on pretending it is a part of the Soviet Union.
We are in a landlocked and isolated sliver of Moldova that wanted no part of the breakup of the USSR in the wake of Berlin Wall falling in November 1989.
This is where the Soviet Union still exists – and where the people consider themselves Soviet citizens. They idolize Putin – and thus idolize Trump for being Putin’s friend.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/19/16
He did it again! Just last night!
Yesterday (8/18) in Not Never Trump, I described three game-changing events this week providing positive reasons to be for a Trump Presidency rather than merely being against the nightmarish evil of a PIAPS Presidency.
Now there’s a fourth. In Charlotte, North Carolina last night, Trump delivered what is being called his New American Future speech. (The link is to both the full text and full video.)
It is no accident, comrades, that we are witnessing the transformation of Daffy Donald into Presidential Donald before our very eyes this week. Who else but Kellyanne Conway could have effected this?
Meanwhile, our current Pathetic POTUS was playing golf with some comedian yesterday. He interrupted his Martha’s Vineyard vacation to do a fundraiser for Hildebeast, but wouldn’t for the devastated people of Louisiana.
So where will both Trump and Pence be today? In Louisiana while Zero laughs through another 18 holes. Even the Associated Press (see the link) couldn’t ignore the brilliant (for Trump) and ghastly (for Zero) optics.
And where is Hillary? Not in Louisiana nor anywhere else public. She’s, ah… resting. Poor old gal runs out of gas easily these days.
Evidently it’s much worse than “exhaustion” from the brutal pace of campaigning. Her coughing fits, seizures, and bizarre behavior are now at a point where it’s legitimate to question her physical and mental fitness for office.
On Wednesday (8/17) at Trump campaign headquarters in the Trump Tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, campaign policy director Steve Miller convened a round table of 16 folks to discuss how to defeat political and terrorist Islam. I wasn’t there as I’m in Sofia, Bulgaria this week with my family.
Kellyanne was there, and let’s suppose – just suppose, for this is only a thought experiment – that she asks me to attend the next such meeting. What would I say?
NOT NEVER TRUMP
All TTPers know that I am not Donald Trump’s biggest fan. That I think he’s a seriously flawed candidate and that primary voters had some kind of mental breakdown choosing him over Scott Walker or Ted Cruz.
Now it’s time for the other shoe to drop. I am not a NeverTrumper. The principal reason, at least so far, is this bottom line: whatever his flaws, Trump is not evil, and Hillary Clinton is.
Trump has no lengthy history of espousing conservative principles with which to govern so we don’t know what he’d do as president. But we do know what Hillary would do – and that it would be vastly worse for America. The odds are very substantial that whatever Trump would do, it would be vastly better than what she would do.
Which means that I have no choice but to want him to win in November. My fear is that he won’t for three reasons: his flaws as a candidate, the overwhelmingly massive bias of the Lying Swine Media against him, and equally massive Democrat voter fraud. That’s a triple whammy which may prove impossible for him to overcome.
Nonetheless, we must soldier on and hope he wins, but I must admit such hope for me was – until this week – without enthusiasm. That is, I want a candidate for whom I can be passionately for, like Ronald Reagan. Rather, his opponent is someone I am passionately against, thus he’s the only alternative.
Suddenly that has changed. Within the last 72 hours, three events occurred providing reason to be positively for a Trump Presidency.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/05/16
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.
WHITE TRASH AND BLACK GIMMIDATS
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.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/29/16
So it’s come to this. The most powerful, the most moral in its founding principles, the most prosperous and successful nation in the history of humanity has to choose between an egomaniacal buffoon and an evil crook to lead it.
Kafka himself couldn’t dream up the irony. We are forced to choose between two lunacies and it’s a no-brainer. We have to take a chance with the buffoon in order to stop the evil.
Just how evil is the person who has so justly earned the sobriquet of PIAPS – Pig In A Pants Suit? Let me tell you a story….
The bottom line here is that Trump is an amateur, a piker, a nobody in the scandal department compared to Hillary. No matter how much dirt she and the media dump on him over the next three months, it’s a molehill next to the Mons Olympus of Clinton Corruption.
There’s Benghazi-gate and Email-gate among so many others, but the real jaw-dropper is the Clinton Foundation combining treason and greed to a level beyond belief. Here’s a summary from Wednesday (7/27) on the current IRS investigation of the Clinton Foundation….
In my Stillicide article yesterday (7/28), I pointed out that “the best thing Trump has going for him is a lack of fear of envy.” That’s why he’s not intimidated by guilt-mongering and doesn’t pay obeisance to political correctness. It’s the most necessary, albeit not fully sufficient, condition for standing up to the Left.
And Islamofascism. On Tuesday (7/26), two piles of Islamic excrement butchered a Catholic priest in his church in Normandy, France in the name of Allah. In response, French President Hollande vowed to “wage war by every means” upon the Moslems of ISIS. With a Moslem population of 10% (6.3 million out of 63 million) in France, brave words by lily-livered French weenies mean nothing.
It’s worse in Germany because Angela Merkel is the world’s poster child for the fear of being envied. Elsewhere in Europe, however, a revolt against Islamofascism is growing. You’ll be stunned by this photo-essay depicting it…
We close with the morally magnificent achievement of our Hero of the Week.
THE LEFT’S STILLICIDAL STRATEGY TO DESTROY AMERICA
Let me introduce a new word into your vocabulary, a word that encapsulates the Left’s strategy to demolish every institution of American culture and the traditional values of American society.
The word is stillicide. The dictionary definition has nothing to do with politics, nor does it refer to some form of killing like suicide, genocide, homicide et al. It refers rather to a physical process derived from the Latin stillicidium: stilla, drops, plus cidium, a declension of cadere, to fall.
Stillicide, stilliciduous, stillicidal thus refer to “a continual dripping of water falling in drops.”
How about that for a light bulb going on in your head?
It sure explains, just to take one example, why race relations in America have gotten worse, far worse, after Zero’s election in 2008.
Why have Zero and his minions in the media done everything they could to divide us on race instead of uniting us, culminating today in the fascist thuggery of Only Black Lives Matter and the murder epidemic of white cops?
Because the hideous secret hidden in every Leftie soul is….
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/22/16
Back in the HFR saddle again. I can’t thank Jack Kelly enough for his great HFRs while I’ve been gone. Thanks, Jack!
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One takeaway from the GOP convention – Donald’s speechwriter sure is a lot better than Melania’s. It was delivered strongly with every word clearly articulated, and hit a lot of good notes. The best line was contrasting Hillary’s slogan for her followers, “I’m with her,” with his “I’m with you.”
Here’s the full text as prepared for delivery.
The trillion-dollar question is, Can we trust him to keep all the promises he made – especially when he provides no specifics on just how he’s going to achieve them?
Reuters is reporting that Trump is considering Harold Hamm as his Energy Secretary. Finally, a positive reason and a very good one to vote for Trump, rather than just as a vote against Hillary. Trouble is, there are almost no others. Here are two immediate examples…
Thus it should come as no surprise to you who the HFR Hero of the Week is…
The 2016 Republican Party Platform is 66 pages and worth reading. It even says the Ninth and Tenth Amendments are “the foundations of personal liberty” (p. 22). What Trump needs to pay laser-focus attention to is “Honest Elections and the Right to Vote” (p. 23)…
Libtards never cease to amaze with yet another example of looney tunes fascism. On Wednesday (7/20), we saw the emergence of their latest cause: use government guns to force us to eat less meat, with the audacity to blame our obesity epidemic on it instead of garbage sugar foods…
We close with the Question of November millions of voters must answer for themselves. And then, an enjoyable Best News of the Week.
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
This is the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone. It’s not in some exotic remote place in the world, but right here in America.
You don’t get this view of it from the walkway along side. I was able to take it from a helicopter. Such a view helps you realize how beautifully spectacular America is. It’s that view I’d like to give you now, away from being flat on the ground surrounded by all the garbage of the latest newspaper headlines.
I’ve been asked by a friend whose kids have been raised in Europe to show them the American West, about which they know next to nothing. Their view of the US has been limited to places like downtown Manhattan and Palm Beach. My friend wanted them to experience the staggering grandeur of the West, its extraordinary history – plus the thrilling patriotism and cheerful friendliness of the people who live there.
The kids had the time of their lives, with an appreciation and love for America they’ll never forget. I’d like to share what we saw with you. It will refocus on what America really is – as beautiful, as glorious, as historical, with as decent a people, as any country that has ever existed in human history.
We have every right to be proud of our country, to be proud to be Americans. Let’s experience this together. Enjoy.
DRAKE AND THE SULTAN
Ternate, Spice Islands of the Moluccas, present day Indonesia. I am here in the place that started the Western exploration of the world.
The Spice Islands
It was the goal of Columbus in 1492 to get here – which of course he never did with the American continents getting in the way. Vasco da Gama decided to try the other way around Africa – which he did, reaching the southwest coast of India in 1498.
By 1512, Vasco’s fellow Portuguese made it all the way – to the fabled Spice Islands, the only source on earth for nutmeg, mace, and cloves. Since the Middle Ages, they were esteemed by Europeans for their medicinal and culinary properties.
As such, they were fantastically expensive, especially because the Arabs had a monopoly on the overland trade routes. Breaking the monopoly with sea routes meant unbelievable profits. So the Portuguese cashed in. A pocketful of nutmeg seed pods could buy you a home. Imagine what an entire shipload was worth.
Ferdinand Magellan convinced Portugal’s rival, Spain led by Charles V, that he could break the Portuguese spice monopoly by sailing west – for by now (1518) everyone knew there was an ocean on the other side of the Americas but no one had crossed it. Magellan did it, but was killed in the Philippines in 1521 before he got here.
So the Portuguese got to keep the Spice Islands, where they built their first fort – called Kastela – here on Ternate in 1522. The Spanish found there were almost unimaginable amounts of gold and silver for the taking in their new colonies along the west coast of South America and forgot about the Pacific Ocean.
Fifty years later, history was about to shift.
A BORNEO FOURTH
For me, this is an exceedingly cool way to celebrate the Fourth of July – handing a banana to a wild orang utan along a river in Borneo.
I’ve been on a houseboat on Borneo rivers for the past few days. This photo was taken earlier today.
I am here doing what I’ve loved to do my whole life – explore and have adventures in remote places in the world. I’ve been able to do this because I’m an American.
Sure, people from other countries are able to have the life they want, including one devoted to adventure – but it’s more difficult to do so.
It’s easier to do so in America than any other place on earth – because of the founding principles of our country that we celebrate today. Thus today for me is a celebration of the moral essence of our existence as Americans.
THE DEMOCRAT DEATH CULT
Tana Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
There couldn’t be a more appropriate and exotic place to discuss death cults than here. In the distant highlands of central Sulawesi undiscovered by any Westerner until little over a century ago, are a people called the Toraja who take propitiation of their deceased ancestors to a limit unmatched anywhere else.
Yet most interestingly, the Toraja have combined their ancestor worship with a devout Christianity. Tana Toraja (the Land of the Toraja) is a Christian haven within the world’s largest Islamic population. Churches here are as plentiful as mosques elsewhere in Indonesia, while a giant statue of Christ towers above Tana Toraja high on a mountaintop.
The Toraja are a people with deep pride and confidence in the worth of their culture. If there were anyone among them who lacked that pride and confidence, who felt ashamed and apologetic of their culture, they would be despised. If that someone felt so ashamed and apologetic that they wished and worked for their culture’s destruction, they would be regarded as demented.
There are such people among us, among our fellow Americans. There is a name for these people: Democrats. And it is critically important to understand something fundamental about them.
IDYLLIC ISOLATION
Kanton Atoll, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean. You don’t get more isolated than this. The nearest inhabited island is over 1,000 miles away. The only visitors are via a private yacht about once a year or so or a Kiribati patrol boat bringing supplies once every six months.
We are the first private plane (our chartered King Air) to land here in years. 30 Kantonese islanders live here. You can imagine how happy they are to see us.
Neither you nor I could imagine living here. There is no radio, television, internet or cell phones, and hardly any electricity – a diesel-powered generator is fired up only occasionally. The only water is rainwater caught in cisterns. They subsist on fish, crabs, and coconuts, plus rice and other staples the patrol boat brings which has to last for six months or more.
They live in disintegrating ramshackle homes amidst colossal rusting wreckage – for this was once a flourishing airbase built by the US government during WWII and subsequently by Pan American Airways in the 50s. The base has been abandoned since the 70s, collapsed, rusting and forgotten.
So here we are, in a King Air 200 I managed to charter, all by ourselves with a handful of Kantonese in their utter isolation and what we would consider utter poverty. You’d think they would be full of anger and resentment for their lives – like so many Inner City Americans who enjoy a prosperity unimaginable to Kantonese – but the opposite is true.
The people here are genuinely and truly happy. Here’s how and why. And yes, with photos.
LOST IN FUN
Funafuti, Tuvalu. Welcome to FUN.
As you most likely know, airports around the world have a three-letter code in capital letters. Los Angeles for example is LAX, while Istanbul is IST. This place has the best airport code on earth: FUN. I’m lost in it again.
You first learned about Tuvalu (too-vah-loo) back in October 2013: Serendipity in the South Pacific, which I hope you can take the time to read again.
You learned how Tuvaluans persevered over incredible British vindictiveness, while maintaining a wonderful cheerfulness, rather than succumbing to anger and bitterness.
They still have that positive attitude, they haven’t succumbed, and they are still getting screwed. Here’s the situation – and the lesson for Americans.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/03/16
What was it that Henry Kissinger said about the war between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran (1980-1988)?
“It’s a pity both sides can’t lose.”
That’s exactly the way I and millions of my fellow Americans feel right now. We want a pox on both the Pub and Dem parties – and their voters insistent on shoving the two worst presidential candidates of our lifetimes down our throats.
The only time either His Hairness or Her Shrillness ever tell the truth is when they are lambasting each other – as they did yesterday (6/02).
I remain convinced there will be what Jack Kelly calls today the Biden Switcheroo. He has his doubts, while I have far fewer. You may be surprised why.
We have the pathological madness of the week, the headline laugh of the week, a startling Hero of the Week, and we end with marvelously good news that’s thanks in large part to TTPers. Here we go….
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/27/16
It’s good to be back in the HFR saddle again. I’m so appreciative of the wonderful job my buddy Rod Martin did in my absence. Thanks, Rod!
I have to admit I’m writing this with a huge smile of gloat. For a year now – since the HFR of May 22, 2015 – I’ve been predicting the Dem nominee will not be The PIAPS but SloJoe Biden. What makes this prescient are two bombshells that dropped this week.
On Tuesday (5/24), Zero gave a speech in Hanoi, Vietnam (full text in the link). You only wish he’d praise capitalism, entrepreneurship, and economic opportunity for Americans as he did the Vietnamese. All in all though, it was a very good and important speech. Here’s why.
There are new reports on Russia. TTPers on the Forum are asking what this might mean militarily. It means, frankly, that Putin is all hat and no cattle. Let’s take a look at Ukraine to see why.
The real threat to America is not external, but internal. Every day now our country becomes more insane. Not metaphorically but literally, actually, clinically for real insane. This week we couldn’t have two clearer examples. Is there any sanity to be found amidst this? Yes.
We close with our Hero of the Week. Forgive me, but it’s personal.
TECTONIC EUROPE
Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska. Welcome to a country you never heard of. It’s a Christian country in Europe – and proudly so, unlike those Euroweenie countries like Germany busily Moslemizing themselves.
The churches and cathedrals here are magnificent –
It’s a peaceful, prosperous place – and great for having a beer inside a medieval fortress overlooking a beautiful river…
Problem is, it’s at the center of Tectonic Europe, where two geopolitical plates have been grinding against each other for centuries and still do today. It could get terribly worse. Here’s why.
THE REAL ATLANTIS
Knossos, Crete. Welcome to Atlantis. This is what it looked like. And this:
More nonsense has been invented about Plato’s myth of Atlantis – mentioned briefly in his Timaeus and Critias and nowhere else by anyone else in antiquity – than any other legend you care to name.
Yet like many myths, it was constructed out of something that really existed. Here’s the story and the lesson to be learned.
A YOUNGER AMERICA
[This is the speech I would have liked to have seen Ted Cruz give]
I want to talk today to the young people of America – to Americans who are young in age, to Americans who are still young at heart, and to Americans who want to feel young again.
I want a younger America, not an infantilized America.
An America young in spirit like it used to be and can be again, an America of opportunity and optimism – not an America old and tired in spirit, an America of opportunism and pessimism.
An infantilized America is what Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Socialists like Bernie Sanders, and Demagogues like Donald Trump want. All three preach the politics of subservience.
Hillary and Bernie want you to be subservient to the state. Donald wants you to be subservient to him. He has no politics other than Himself, no policies other than whatever will get people to worship him like Juan Perón or any other Banana Republic Dictator.
So let me ask you – do you want to be subservient or do you want to be free?
Which is it? If you want the former – well, be my guest, be a Clinton or Sanders or Trump acolyte.
If you want the latter, I ask your support in helping me getting rid of what I think is America’s Number One Problem.
AN OPEN LETTER TO REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN REINCE PRIEBUS
Dear Chairman Priebus,
Last Friday (4/22), Politico ran a story headlined: Delegates Face Death Threats From Trump Supporters.
Such threats are becoming commonplace throughout the country. This is criminal activity, not political. Perhaps the most revealing line in the Politico article is: “The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.”
By not making any effort to ensure this criminal activity conducted by his supporters ceases and desists, Mr. Trump is aiding and abetting it, thus becoming an accomplice to the crime.
Trump supporters issuing threats of violence are neither conservatives nor Republicans of any stripe. They are thugs. Pure and simple. They are not engaging in democratic political activity. They are attempting to replace our democracy with a thugocracy. This can not be tolerated.
One of the more prominent examples of this is a Trump supporter named Gary Forbes, publisher of “Trump Magazine.” He’s compiling a database of photos of GOP convention delegates and their families, and overtly threatening them with “an extremely vicious response” should they vote for Cruz on a second ballot.
What follows is a quote directly from Forbes’ website. He has a very large following of thousands of Trump supporters all over the country. This is what he is explicitly advising them to do regarding a contested convention (underlining mine, italics his):
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/22/16
Sorry to start this with a bummer, but this is a stupid evil day. April 22 is the birthday of one of the greatest monsters in the history of human depravity -- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, born in 1870, who adopted the pseudonym “Lenin” after the Lena River in Siberia.
It’s appropriate that Lenin’s birthday is the holiest day of the year by the world’s eco-fascists, which they celebrate as “Earth Day” – otherwise known as “Let’s-Return-to-the-Stone-Age-and-Live-in-a-Cave-Day.” I just wish they’d all do that and leave the rest of us alone.
On to something far more pleasant. You may have noticed the new Wheeler Expeditions link on the TTP home page. The site just got started and will see significant improvements in the next month. You may note that the first one offered is Hidden Pacific II. That’s because Hidden Pacific I got sold out before we could put it up.
The same with my Himalaya Helicopter Expedition, also sold out (scroll down on the “Upcoming Trips” page to see it). This is to reach the base camps of all the great Himalaya giants 8,000 meters or 26,000 feet high by helicopter – never been done before. So I leave for Kathmandu in just a few days.
In my absence, I’m happy to announce that my buddy and true Renaissance Man, Rod Martin, will once again be manning the HFR helm. Rod’s HFRs were really popular with TTPers while I was in India two months ago, and I know they will be again. Thanks, Rod!!
Ok – ready to laugh your head off? And have your jaw drop? And to side with the Mafia over Moslems? And to know the Hero of the Week? Here we go….
TRUMP, TREASON, AND THE TALIBAN
No, this is not to accuse Donald Trump of treason. But it sure is regarding who’s running his campaign now – Paul Manafort.
No one who reads Michael Isikoff’s report for Yahoo News on Wednesday (4/18), Top Trump Aide Lobbied for Pakistani Spy Front, and who has an accurate understanding of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) can conclude otherwise.
The man who hired Manafort, Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, went to federal prison. According to the FBI Report on Fai’s guilty plea (Dec. 2011):
“For the last 20 years, Mr. Fai secretly took millions of dollars from Pakistani intelligence and lied about it to the U.S. government. As a paid operative of ISI, he did the bidding of his handlers in Pakistan while he met with U.S. elected officials, funded high-profile conferences and promoted the Kashmiri cause to decision-makers in Washington.”
And who in Washington arranged those meetings with elected officials, those conferences, and those promotions to DC decision-makers? Paul Manafort. He doesn’t belong running a presidential campaign. He belongs in jail with Syed Fai.
Here’s the background on just how evil the Pak ISI is, and how treasonous was Manafort’s work for it.
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/15/16
I love this guy. So do the 6,000 people he was talking to, who stood up and cheered when he said, “I’m deeply committed to taking Hillary Clinton from a pantsuit and putting her into a bright orange jumpsuit.” It was one of many standing ovations.
This speech of Darryl Green enabled him to win going away being on the GOP ballot in June to run for the US Senate. Those 6,000 people wildly cheering for him are the ones Trump viciously condemned for “rigging” the delegate vote against him in Colorado – who are getting death threats from Trumpistas.
But before we get into the weeds of the week, I think we all need a break from the weirdness engulfing America that’s beyond Franz Kafka’s wildest imagination. So here’s something completely out of the blue to make you laugh like you haven’t in a long, long time.
OK, into the weeds. Here’s my prediction for what’s going to happen regarding the rules and delegates at the GOP July convention. Feel free to lampoon me if I’m wrong – but not until July.
We close with the latest news from the Putin Café in Russia. I guarantee you’ll enjoy it.
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/08/16
Of course you know that Wisconsinites are affectionately called “Cheeseheads” because they make the best cheese in America. Thus NBC News chronicled Ted Cruz’s “Top 5 Cheese-Related Moments” while campaigning.
How can you not love a guy who can think on his feet this fast with a sense of humor this good?
Monday, April 4. As Ted Cruz was walking out the door at Glorioso's Italian Market in Milwaukee, he was asked: "Should we arm the cheese curds?"
He responded: "Now that's funny. Alright you convinced me, yes, we need to arm the cheese curds, and you know if we send the cheese curds into ISIS, it'll fatten 'em up and they'll go down immediately ... Maybe if they get enough cheese curds they'll just decide they don't need this whole jihad thing, and they should just happily eat cheese curds and live in peace with their fellow man."
No wonder he won Wisconsin’s primary by a landslide.
We have news about the Kurds – we were talking about them, weren’t we? – Kim Kardashian believe it or not, Israel, the Chicoms, the worst scumbag in Congress getting his, and the upcoming contested convention. Not the one you’re thinking of – the other one.
We close with something that will make you cry with tears of… well, you decide.
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/01/16
Welcome to the April Fools’ HFR! Let’s get started with Being Clean Inside and Out with Royal Orchard Fruity Soap.
We also have April Fools’ suggestions for you.
The internet is awash with speculation on Trump’s campaign and Trump himself falling apart this week. I discussed it in The Trump Titanic yesterday. This morning, Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal had a very insightful and compassionate observation about Trump supporters.
This hard fact, however, has now emerged: Trump will not get the GOP nomination. You can take that to the bank.
Going geopolitical, you may want to secure an adult beverage because this is going to get engrossing. An intriguing connection between Vladimir Putin and Indiana Jones arose this week.
After the HFR Hero of the Week, we close with the funniest – and most revealing – April Fools’ story of the day
HALF-FULL REPORT 03/25/16
What do you see here? A group of Moslem “refugees” walking in a snowstorm headed for the German Welfare State?
Well, yes – but look more closely. There are seven men and one woman – and the woman, unlike the men, is barefoot. What’s more, she is carrying two children – and not one of these seven men is lifting a finger to help her.
This encapsulates the incapacity of a culture that looks upon and treats women as sub-human to adapt to the moral norms of Western Christian Civilization.
That Europe would allow people in the millions from such a culture to flood their shores is suicidal. The horror of Brussels on Tuesday (3/22) should not come as any surprise in the slightest. This is what being suicidal begets – you become prey for the predators.
This is a teachable moment. It is prime time to learn – or relearn as TTP has been teaching this for years – the root cause of the West’s and America’s suicidal inability to defend itself from foreign threats, be they Moslem terrorism, tsunamis of illegal immigration, or an America-hating president.
EUROPE HAS A NEW LEADER
In May of 1989, I had a cup of coffee with a young man in a café in Nickelsdorf, Austria.
In his mid-twenties, he had crossed an unguarded section of the border with Hungary just two hundred yards away to meet me. There was mud on his shoes from the fields he had crossed.
He was a founder of an Anti-Communist freedom movement in Budapest called Fidesz (the Hungarian acronym for Alliance of Young Democrats). Since 1983, I had made it my business to meet people such as him.
For six years, I had been spending time with armed guerrilla movements fighting wars of liberation within Soviet Third World colonies – in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique and elsewhere. Now, with Soviets defeated in Afghanistan (February 1989), it was time to focus on the new democracy movements in Eastern Europe.
The young man explained in halting English what Fidesz stood for and what they wanted to accomplish – liberation from Soviet tyranny by peaceful means, real democracy with all the freedoms considered normal in the West, to rejoin Western Civilization again.
The more I listened, the more he answered my questions clearly and without guile, the more I was impressed. He was serious, committed, and very smart. I made my decision.