HOSEA’S PROPHECY FOR THE DEMOCRATS
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. " Hosea 8:7
What’s the moral of Joe Biden’s and the Democrats’ current troubles? From the Bible and the Greeks and throughout the Western tradition, there is a constant refrain of being wary of hubris, the lying and arrogance that are innate to it, and the divine power that ultimately levels things out.
Biden and the Left so despised Donald Trump that they lost all sense of moderation, of proportion, of logic itself. Thus, they find themselves in the current ridiculous situation of suffering the consequences of their own unhinged rhetoric and actions.
For this irony of blindly speeding over the cliff to one’s own destruction is not limited to Mr. Biden, but explains the self-implosion of Hillary Clinton, our Woke Military, Black Lives Matter and so much else afflicting the Democrats.
TASMANIA’S MOUTH OF HELL
On the south coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania, there is a huge sea cave the aboriginal Tasmanians called The Mouth of Hell for the shrieking and moaning the waves and wind made emitting from it. Boatsmen prefer to enter it to this day protected by a cross on their fishing boat’s bow.
The wild beauty and mystery of Tasmania is absolutely extraordinary. At 35,000 square miles, it is the size of Maine with a population of less than half a million. Towns like Hobart and Launceston are charming, but the magic is in the uninhabited wilderness that makes up much of the island as a hiker’s paradise. That and a momentous coastline almost beyond belief.
If you’re ever in Oz, especially Melbourne, don’t miss the chance to explore Tasmania. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #150 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
KEEPING YOUR SANITY XXXI
Jack Wheeler on the Matterhorn, age 14, 1958
To keep your brain young, alert, and energetic you need novelty – learn new things, have new experiences, always be exploring and curious about our world.
Making this a habit is one the absolute best ways to keep yourself sane today. I’ve been trying to do this all my life.
My wife and sons want to make sure I don’t stop. They have convinced me that I need to write another book before I complete The Father-Son Adventure. An update to my first book written in 1976, The Adventurer’s Guide. It’s long overdue, they say, over 40 years overdue.
But way too much has happened since them to compress in a book. Okay, they riposted, how about taking just, say, the Top Twenty Adventures you’ve had? Yes, I could do that, I agreed. So I got started yesterday. I recorded for transcription how I got started on a life of exploration and adventure.
GRAND ESCALANTE STAIRCASE
As you can see, this place is aptly named. It is simply phantasmagorical – nature on LSD. Then again, so much of southern Utah is too, for close by Escalante are the Vermillion Cliffs, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, Monument Valley and a lot more.
The entire area is Navaho country, so it is no surprise their native religion is based on peyote, a cactus containing the hallucinogen, mescaline, with the Navaho belief that nature surrounding them was designed by the Peyote Bird.
However, it is not necessary to take any hallucinogen to achieve a sense of ecstasy being here – just a deep appreciation of what a wondrous world – a breathtaking world – it is that we are all privileged to be alive in. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #180 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
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Join the forum discussion on this postHALF-FULL REPORT 12/24/21
Welcome to the Christmas Eve HFR!
Let’s put aside the Woes of 2021 in order to celebrate the joyous day of Christmas. It is a sacred day for over one out of every three people on Earth, for they are Christians. Christianity is far and away the largest religion in the world at 2.4 billion adherents, with tens of millions more uncounted in the underground Christian churches in China.
And of those 2.4 billion Christians worldwide, over one out of every ten is American. At 250 million, the US has the largest Christian population of any other country. Christianity is clearly the world’s, and history’s, greatest religious success story, and it is America’s as well.
That is certainly something to celebrate on Christmas. Further, in addition to the sacred, Christmas is also a time for cherishing traditional family values. It is a time of practicing normalcy.
Our country’s ruling elite dominating all our major institutions, being Marxist, anti-Christian, and anti-family, do all they can to denigrate normal and family values, but they are failing – as the joyous celebration of Christmas by 80% of Americans today and tomorrow demonstrates.
So much so, I believe it shows that this domination of our ruling elite embodying abnormalcy will soon come to an end. That’s why the Branco cartoon above is not an expression of Trump nostalgia, but of a growing public desire to see POTUS return to sweep away the lunacy of this last 12 months and Make America Sane Again.
This HFR explains how this may happen.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/23/21
More data on Omicron being very mild:
South Africa: Only 1.7% Hospitalised From Omicron
Medicine circling the Woke toilet:
23 'Crat House members - so far - have announced that they won't be running for re-election:
Pelosi’s Majority: Three Democrats Announce Retirement Within 24 Hours
Fauci and Collins ROYT - Rats of the Year. Read on…
AMERICA’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT IS A NIGHTMARE CHRISTMAS FOR HATE-AMERICA DEMOCRATS
I love the smell of Joe Manchin in the morning … it smells like … victory.
If you survey the charred ruins of the progressives' hopes and dreams, you will need to have a heart of stone not to burst into hysterical laughter at their pain.
They were so close, so very close, and their heart's desire was ripped from them by a senator from a sane state who had zero desire to commit ritual, political suicide to please the brother-marrying likes of Ilhan Omar.
Cue the gif of a team of Joes carrying a coffin to that catchy EDM song.
MYSTERY LAKES OF THE GOBI
The southernmost portion of the Gobi Desert is called the Alashan in Inner Mongolia. Traversed by Marco Polo in 1273 on his way to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, he said it contained a “mystery.”
For in the hidden center of the Alashan is an area known as Badain Jaran, “Mystery Lakes” in Mongolian. There are some 140 of these small lakes surrounded by enormous sand dunes. The photo you see is of one of these lakes, taken in late afternoon on a windless day, with the giant dunes above reflected on the water.
We were there in October 2017. We will explore Inner Mongolia and the Gobi again in October 2021. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #32 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – WITH THE ANTI-COMMUNIST GUERILLAS IN CAMBODIA
July, 1984. The KPNLF – Khmer People’s National Liberation Front – was the Anti-Communist guerrilla movement fighting the Soviet-backed Vietnamese Communists in Cambodia. When I was first there in 1961, Cambodia was then a land of serenity, with a gentle and tranquil people who were at peace with themselves and the world. Now it was a land of indescribable Communist horror.
It was such a privilege to be with these brave men willing to wage war against that horror and bring freedom to their country. I told their tale in Turning Back the Terror, the February 1985 cover story for Reason magazine. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #20 photo ©Jack Wheeler)