THE FBI WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS WON’T BE MISSED
Current FBI Director Kash Patel is closing down the agency’s Washington, DC, mothership office and moving at least 1,500 employees out of the DC area to regional offices. The decision was not just Patel’s.
During the Biden Administration, it was determined that the 50-year-old Hoover building headquarters was structurally decrepit. More germanely, no prior FBI director had ever explained why nearly a third of the FBI workforce was centered in offices in Washington, far from where most of the serious crime in America occurs.
The news is welcome for reasons well beyond the safety of agents in an apparently unsafe headquarters.
It is no exaggeration to state that most of the FBI scandals of the last decade were born in the Hoover building headquarters, suggesting that the agency had long become top-heavy, politically weaponized, and deeply embedded in and compromised by the Washington apparat. Here is a summary of the last ten years of FBI corruption.
THE INDIA-PAKISTAN AIR BATTLE WHERE NEITHER SIDE SAW THE OTHER
[Deuce has outdone himself with this astounding description of one of the largest air battles in modern history that few understand, Thanks to Deuce, TTPers now do – JW]
India and Pakistan made history this month. With some of the latest fighters and missiles, they engaged in an air battle that was the largest of its kind since the Second World War.
What made this battle even more unique was the fighting happened entirely in what we call “BVR” or “beyond-visual-range” combat.
This form of combat is rarely talked about because a lot of the tactics, techniques, and procedures are secret. Whereas traditional air-to-air “dog fighting” is based on maneuver and bringing the guns or short-range guided missiles of an aircraft to bear on the other first, BVR fighting pits aircraft radars and their guided missiles against enemy aircraft and their electronic counter-measures to those missiles at much longer ranges.
What we know of this air battle is gleaned from publicly available sources. Early in the morning of May 7th, 2025, India launched “Operation Sindoor” in response to a terrorist attack that originated from Pakistani territory and, according to India, was aided and abetted by them. The attack consisted of missile and drone attacks on Pakistani ground targets. As a result of this, up to one hundred and twenty-five aircraft from both sides fought each other in the air for approximately one hour…..
THE LESHAN GIANT BUDDHA
Carved out of a cliff face of red sandstone on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau over 1,200 years ago by Buddhist monks, the 233 ft-high Leshan Giant Buddha is the largest and tallest stone Buddha statue in the world.
I took this picture from a boat on the river that runs past it. As you can see by Buddhist pilgrims working their way down the stone steps on the side and in front carrying umbrellas, it’s raining. Rain is so frequent here that a sophisticated drainage system was incorporated into the statue when it was built. It is still in working order. Behind the Buddha’s head, between his two ears, and scattered throughout his body, there are several hidden gutters and channels carrying out the rainwater that have kept the inner areas dry and prevented the Buddha from eroding since the 8th century.
Knowing this adds to the wonder of beholding this extraordinary achievement. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #268 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE MAHA POPE
In what must be the week's best fun news story, we learn that the new pope, Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, is a fitness fanatic.
His personal trainer and the founder of his gym had details for the Italian press about how then-Cardinal Prevost worked out at their local gym in Rome, running on the cardio machines and bench pressing like anyone else in his plain gym clothes, putting in those hours to keep himself fit, sound mind, sound spirit, sound body, in a piece since picked up by Catholic News Agency:
“The then-Cardinal Prevost — who, as is well known, is also a tennis player — spent his free time on the cardio machines, his favorite exercise. He sometimes also used the stationary bikes and treadmills designed to improve cardiovascular endurance and burn calories.
Omega Gym founder Alessandro Tamburlani related, ‘He was a person like so many other members. He dressed like everyone else, in simple gym clothes’.”
So in other words, he was just a dude, going to the gym to keep fit, same as millions of others do. Pope Leo is MAHA – RFKII should have been with Rubio and Vance when they met him in the Vatican last Sunday.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET TOO CLOSE TO A 6,000 POUND ELEPHANT SEAL
The Antarctic island of South Georgia is one of the most extraordinary places on earth. Square miles of king penguin rookeries, thousands of fur seals, hundreds of gigantic elephant seals amidst a backdrop of massive glaciers and snow-capped mountains.
All of the animals here have no fear of you whatever and ignore your presence – except if you make the mistake of getting too close to a bull elephant seal for his comfort. It’s a mistake I made as you can see. Luckily, with several tons of blubber to carry, this fellow can’t move as fast as me, so I hightailed it quickly. That satisfied him, and all was soon back to placidly normal again. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #62 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WHY DO LIBERALS WORSHIP EVIL?
[This Monday’s TTP Archive was originally published on December 2, 2016. A little over three weeks before (November 8), Donald Trump stunned the world being elected President, and now the Babylon Bee couldn’t help celebrating both that and Castro croaking on November 25. For me, it was an opportunity to discuss why those on the Left so often have a compulsion to worship the worst of humanity rather than the finest.]
It was the summer of 1992. Our youngest son, Jackson, had been born in May, and I was staying put, not traveling anywhere to remain at home to help Rebel take care of him.
A friend of mine named Ray Kline called. Ray was a legendary intel guy in Washington, having been the Deputy Director of the CIA under John Kennedy, and later Director of the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon).
It was Ray Kline who, in the fall of 1962, drove down the George Washington Parkway from Langley CIA headquarters to the White House, entered the Oval Office, and placed the satellite photos of the Soviet missile emplacements in Cuba on Kennedy’s desk to personally explain them to the President of the United States.
That’s how the Cuban Missile Crisis began.
Ray was calling to tell me about a 30th anniversary conference of the veterans of the Crisis he had just come back from. The conference was in Havana, Cuba.
“You went to Cuba, Ray?” I asked, amazed. “Jack, the Soviet Union has vanished off the map [December 1991] and a lot of Castro’s people are nervous” he replied. “They are trying to convince him to make his peace with the US. They even asked me if I knew of a conservative organization that would send a delegation to Havana and talk to them.”
Ray paused for effect. “I suggested you and your Freedom Research Foundation.”
DEMOCRATS CONFUSED BY LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO LOVE AMERICA
U.S. — Democrat onlookers were baffled at the unusual sight of a group of immigrants arriving in the United States legally while waving patriotic American flags.
A group of 59 Afrikaners escaped persecution in South Africa and arrived in Washington this week. Upon touching down, they were seen celebrating with American flags and big smiles. Sources confirmed they have no plans to destroy America.
"Wait, I'm confused. They don't hate America?" said one Democrat immigration activist. "Why are we even letting them in? This is weird."
"Wait. They don't actually love America, do they? Oh no..."
After further research, it was confirmed that the newly arrived migrants were neither Mexican cartel members nor Jihadis sworn to wage holy war against the United States, but instead mostly middle-class families escaping persecution in South Africa.
"This is a blatant misuse of America's immigration system," said another Liberal. "America will never be destroyed at this rate. This proves once and for all that Trump is Hitler."
At publishing time, Democrats found themselves even more confused after ICE deported several hundred illegal immigrants who hate America.
~ Babylon Bee reporting
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: ASTRIDE WHERE AFRICA IS SPLITTING APART
It looks like a crack in a road, but this is in the Afar Triangle of Djibouti, where a triple junction of tectonic plates is tearing Africa in pieces. Plates spreading apart is called a Rift. I’m standing over where three gigantic rifts – the Red Sea that has split Arabia and northern Africa in two, the Gulf of Aden that will split off Somalia from the rest of Africa, and the Great Rift Valley of East Africa currently ripping Africa itself asunder – originate. Here the once intact Africa Plate began to tear in three directions.
Ironically, here is where humanity did the same. Genetic scientists have determined that some 60,000 years ago a small band of Africans (less than 200) rafted from what is now Djibouti to what is now Yemen in Arabia – and that incredibly, every human on earth today except for those who stayed, is descended from them. That means, e.g., all Europeans, Chinese and Asians, Australian Aborigines, North and South Native Americans, descended from those 200 people long ago.
Two amazing facts from this tiny country. There’s a third – it’s the best place in the world to swim with whale sharks, an unforgettable experience. All in Djibouti! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #238 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/16/25
Yesterday (5/15), former and fired-by-T45 FBI Director James Comey posted on Instagram this photo of a “cool shell formation” which he made himself. A Director of the FBI has overtly joined the Assassination Culture of the Left.
Immediately across the Internet, Comey’s post was recognized as a call to murder the President of the United States. Comey is treasonously evil but he is not stupid – he just expects every Dem politician and media propagandist to pretend to be stupid and argue that “86” innocently means “to throw out or remove.”
Even Mirriam-Webster is playing this game, in a long, long definition of “86” as “1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out” – then finally weasel-wording what everyone knows:
“Among the most recent senses adopted is a logical extension of the previous ones, with the meaning of ‘to kill.’ We do not enter this sense, due to its relative recency and sparseness of use.
‘I hate to see the guys always getting eighty-sixed,’ she said, using military jargon for killed in action’ — John Kifner, The New York Times, 3 Feb. 1991.”
Right. Since 1991, 34 years ago, is too recent to acknowledge. Bottom line – there is simply no way Comey can believably plead he did not know “86” means to kill. Here is why it is crucially important for Comey to be imprisoned.So much more in this HFR – jump on in.
THE OLD MAN OF STORR
Enter “The Old Man of Storr” in Wikipedia, and it wants to talk about the steep rocky face of the mountain in the background called “The Storr.” Google or Duckduckgo the images and you’ll get all these photos of rocky pinnacles and spires. So where’s the Old Man? It’s the most famous feature on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, yet you never see the Old Man himself. Well, here he is.
Look at the three sections of rocks in the foreground. They form a man sleeping on his back. In the first section on the left, you can see in order his forehead, eyebrows, large nose, both lips open snoring, and chin. In the third section on the right, you see his feet with his toes sticking up. In the middle section – well, now we know why he’s embarrassingly renowned, for there is the Old Man’s manhood standing tall and proud.
Ask any Scottish friend of yours if he knows why the Old Man of Storr on Skye is so-named. Then send this to him. He’ll no doubt say, “Well, laddie, this calls for a wee dram or two for us to properly toast the Old Man!” (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #297, photo ©Jack Wheeler)