THE MOST CHRISTIAN ISLAND
Waitangi Bay, Chatham Island. 530 miles east of New Zealand lies an isolated island of windswept rugged beauty that few people have ever heard of. Yet Chatham Island may be an ultimate Christian example of how to prevail over monstrous evil.
In the early 1400s, a Polynesian people calling themselves Moriori sailed from New Zealand across an unknown empty sea to reach an island they named Rekohu, meaning “misty sky.” For 400 years they lived in peace among themselves – and in utter isolation from the world.
But in 1835, another people arrived, and brought Hell with them. They were a group of 500 Maori cannibals from New Zealand determined to take Rekohu for themselves. The Maori killed them like sheep, men, women, children, and babies, and ate them.
The British Governor of New Zealand ignored the Maori Genocide. There were about 2,000 Moriori on Rekohu (renamed Chatham) when the Maoris arrived in 1835. Only 101 Moriori were still alive by 1862. It was Western Christian missionaries who put an end to Maori killing, eating, and enslaving Moriori. Today on Chatham Island there is a Moriori resurgence – but without rancor. The past is past, they say, what counts is the future. Like few other peoples on earth, the Moriori understand the Christian power of abandoning resentment and grievance.
Come to Chatham to experience a unique place in our world, and a people with their souls at peace. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #176 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE BAG OF DEAD CATS
“Disturbing new video obtained by The Post shows demented Robb Elementary School shooter Salvador Ramos grinning as he holds up a bag of blood-soaked dead cats.” New York Post, May 30, 2022As some have argued in response to the relentless push to disarm law-abiding Americans after the mass shooting in Uvalde, TX, things are so much more complicated than just the gun used.
That’s become clear after an unearthed video of the shooter raised every red flag imaginable, showing Salvador Ramos holding a bag of dead cats. If this video was otherwise seen by authorities prior, it’s inexcusable that it wasn’t acted on.
Why wasn’t it?
CAN WE PUT AN END TO GUN-FREE ZONES NOW?
In the aftermath of the massacre of 19 children and two adults at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, all the usual suspects are pushing for more gun control laws. None of their proposed laws will reflect any lessons learned from what went wrong and which cost so many innocent lives.
One reason is that none of them address the vulnerability created for schools and churches by the misguided policy of “gun-free zones.” We need to get rid them, and here’s how.
THE TIGERS OF SAMARKAND
The magnificent Sher-Dor Madrassa, built in the early 1600s, is part of the Registan public square complex of the ancient Silk Road oasis of Samarkand. “Sher-Dor” means “Adorned with Tigers” in Persian – flaunting Islamic blasphemy of living beings in art. Here is the mosaic depiction of a tiger chasing a deer and on its back a rising sun deity with a human face. This is honoring the pre-Islamic history of Samarkand that goes back almost 3,000 years.
It was centuries old when Alexander conquered it in 329 BC. For a thousand years as Central Asia’s great entrepot on the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean, it was a cosmopolitan center for Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Nestorian Christianity. Incorporated into the Islamic world in the 700s, sacked by Genghiz Khan in 1220, rebuilt by the time Marco Polo in 1272 described it as “a large and splendid city,” Tamerlane made it his capital in 1370.
Colonized by Czar Alexander II in the 1860s within the Russian Imperial Empire, and by the Soviets in the 1920s within the Uzbek SSR, Samarkand is flourishing today in independent Uzbekistan. Come with me to explore Samarkand and so many other wonders of The Heart of Central Asia this September. It will be like a dream come true. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #208 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
RONALD REAGAN’S MEMORIAL DAY MESSAGE TO AMERICA
On this Memorial Day of 2022, we need a President Reagan more than ever.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY UNDERSTANDING EXCELLENCE
Air Jordan
What makes the difference between a Mozart or a Beethoven and somebody who can play quite well? What makes the difference between a Michael Jordan and a good overall basketball player?
There is a role for raw talent, of course. You have to be capable of accomplishing such feats as these incredible masters to begin with. There is a role for genius and natural ability. There is also the role played by parents and mentors from an early age, which is usually significant.
But there are plenty of people with loads of talent and ability who never, ever come near their potential. There are a lot of people with very high IQs who never really challenge their mental capacities. Here’s what makes the difference.
WHAT AILS AMERICA
FLASHBACK FRIDAY MEMORIAL DAY 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 #207 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/27/22
“A single death is a tragedy – a million deaths is a statistic” --Stalin
Here are the world’s two most infamous mass-murdering psychopaths of this week. It’s understandable that the shock, horror, and mourning over the victims of the one on the left is now far greater than over those of the one on the right.
You see the pictures of the 19 4th grade children (along with their two teachers) senselessly slaughtered in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday (5/24) and your heart breaks. The only miniscule bit of recompense is that the monster who took their lives got his head blown off as he deserved.
Such a fate should be the least of what the other monster above deserves, since his senseless crimes in Ukraine dwarf those of Uvalde by many orders of magnitude. Yet that is the terrible irony of Stalin’s observation. The crimes being perpetrated on the people of Ukraine are so massive it overwhelms us.
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As Russia continues its slide into collapse, let’s take a look at its big neighbor to the east – China. What’s going on there right now has to be the strangest event currently on earth: Chicom China is in the process of committing suicide.
SKYE’S LINKS 05/26/22
Got food? When up to 700 million people don't next winter, thanks mostly to Putin destroying Ukraine’s capacity to produce and export it on purpose, expect serious unrest and huge mass migrations:
Rickards: "We Are On The Precipice"
Musk versus the woke mob - he knows exactly what he is doing:
Federal Judge Dismisses Fraud And Defamation Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Amid Week Of Controversy
"I am out for blood," says Musk about Hillary disinformation; the man who has put over a thousand satellites in orbit goes nuclear against the Clinton and Twitter cabals: