MEMORIAL DAY FLAG SKYDIVE
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 Memorial Day weekend. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #303 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
RONALD REAGAN SPEAKS TO US ON MEMORIAL DAY
To The Point publishes this historic speech by President Reagan on each Memorial Day. r.
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – MONGOL NOMADS ARE OBLIVIOUS TO US
These Mongol nomads in the vast grasslands of central Mongolia milking their goats have a way of life unchanged for centuries. All of our concerns, worries and fears that plague us are totally irrelevant to them. They don’t know about them and wouldn’t care if they did.
Spending time with people such as these gives you an invaluably broader perspective of life on our planet. Our concerns, the issues that dominate our headline news, suddenly seem more parochial and far less important. An evening drinking kumiss (Mongol beer, fermented mare’s milk) in their yurts, telling stories, laughing at jokes – you realize how easy it is to relate to them through the core humanity we all have in our souls.
Exploring Mongolia in this way is a priceless adventure. We’ll be there this June, and again in the summer of 2026. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #9 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/23/25
🚨 JUST SHOWN IN THE OVAL OFFICE: Proof of Persecution in South Africa. pic.twitter.com/rER1l8sqAU
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 21, 2025
Trump’s Oval Office Ambush of South Africa’s leader Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday (5/21) has so many facets it’s a diamond of political exposure. Here are the principal three.
First, what President ever would have stones of steel to do such a thing – point out the evil a country is committing to its leader right to his face, and when he denies it, shows him a pre-prepared video disclosing the evil proving it, huge crowds chanting “Kill the Boer!” (White South Africans)?
How chilling is this sight?.......
Awful lot in this HFR, some of it revelatory, some of it thoughtful and quite sobering, some of it will cause you to fall out of your chair laughing. Get ready for a HFR that’s as fun as it is informing. Here we go…
MONTEZUMA’S CASTLE
When American explorers came upon this extraordinary cliff dwelling in 1860s Arizona, they dubbed it “Montezuma’s Castle” on a whim. The Aztec ruler had nothing to do with it, of course. The Anasazi people built a number of these marvelous structures in the Southwest, high up on cliffs above a river that seasonally flooded.
For hundreds of years the Anasazi flourished, skilled agriculturalists and brilliant at constructing vast irrigation systems. Yet it all came to naught with a devastating megadrought with no rain for many decades, culminating in the collapse of the Anasazi culture and abandonment of their cliff dwellings by the early 1500s.
Another lesson that it is nature that control’s the Earth’s climate, not us. You’ll find Montezuma’s Castle above Beaver Creek south of Sedona. It’s a marvel not to be missed. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #194 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
ARE CHINA’S ECONOMIC FLAWS IRREPARABLE?
China is the original riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. A country striving for modernity but feudal in its treatment of its citizens, Beijing's economic identity is a combination of Communist orthodoxy and crony capitalism.
As you might expect, the two don't work well together.
On the outside of the riddle, China is booming, the people are subservient and happy, and the government is looking to the future with confidence. This is the picture the Chinese Communists paint for the world to see. The reality is much different.
China is being crushed by debt, has become dependent on high levels of debt, and has created a humongous bubble in several sectors, like housing and household goods.
One noted Chinese economist says, “Basically, China’s economy is all built on speculation and everything is over-leveraged.” Yet it's not just the debt that's pulling China down. It’s much worse than that.
FRUCTOSE AND MENTAL FITNESS
TTP’s Live Long and Prosper column is dedicated to the memory of Durk who wrote as Skye on TTP for many years. Here we discuss why Durk and his life-long partner/wife Sandy used fructose – pure natural fruit sugar – in their formulas.
Pure fructose is very different from the abhorrent “high-fructose corn syrup” (HFCS) which is in so many processed foods and drinks. HFCS has a high and unhealthy “glycemic index” of 68, meaning it causes a fast release of insulin. Habitual intake of high glycemic index foods and drinks is a principal cause of diabetes.
Pure fructose, on the other hand, has a glycemic index of 20, lower than lentils at 30. A very healthy sugar!
When formulating Lift™ and Mind™, Durk and Sandy didn’t select ingredients for convenience or flavor—they chose each component based on how it could optimize brain chemistry and energy metabolism. Fructose was no exception.
LAKE BLED
First Lady Melania Trump would instantly recognize Lake Bled, for it is considered the most beautiful place in her home country of Slovenia. It’s a glacial lake up in the Julian Alps near the border with Austria. The small lush island you see has been a pilgrimage site for millennia – first to the Temple of Ziva, the Slovene goddess of love and fertility, then until now to the Church of the Mother of God. For all that time, Slovene couples came here to get married.
There are 99 steps from the rowboat landing to the church, and from ancient times to today, the tradition is that for a happy and long-lasting marriage, the groom must carry his bride up all 99 steps while she must remain silent while he does.
Lake Bled is a place of deep serenity and joyous calm. Come here to experience both. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #178 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
DIRTY COP COMEY
Former FBI boss James Comey posted an image of seashells forming “86 47” but quickly claimed, “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.” The Secret Service has good reason to take it as a threat.
“86” is code for “get rid of,” quite possibly in a permanent way. Comey knew exactly what he was doing, Trump said, that the “dirty cop” was calling for the assassination of the president. Comey was aware that Trump had survived two assassination attempts and was lobbying for another. As the people should know, the FBI is also in the “86” business.
In August of 2023, an FBI SWAT team shot and killed Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker for threats against Joe Biden he allegedly made on the internet. Threats to the president are normally handled by the Secret Service, but this was an FBI operation all the way.
James Comey made no statement or post on the killing that anybody can find. As he had to know, deadly force is a longstanding FBI practice.