SKYE’S LINKS 08/26/21
Chilling Pew poll results - 65% of 'Crats now "say the government should take steps to restrict false information, even if it means limiting freedom of information"; 2/3 of 'Crats are now literally un-American enemies of freedom. If you still live in a Blue County, get out before it is too late - to say that this is not going to end well is a horrific understatement:
Pew: Democrats Increasingly Favor Government Censorship of ‘False’ Ideas
One third of Apple's sales and essentially all of their production are in China, hence it is no surprise that Apple has become a lackey of the CCP. Apple sucks up to the Chinese Communist Party and censors words that the CCP don't like in China, Hong Kong -- and even censors those words ib Taiwan:
Report: Apple Censors Anti-Communist Engravings on Products in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Thousands of Americans are trapped in Kabul and the administration has no plans to save them:
"Get Us!" Surreal Footage Shows Trapped Americans Pleading To Be Let Inside Kabul Airport
BIDEN’S BROWN THUMB
To say of someone they “have a green thumb” is to note everything in their garden grows and blossoms. Joe Biden’s thumb is not green – it is brown. Everything he has touched since entering office has turned to feces.
None of his blame-gaming, none of his distortions, none of his fantasies and unreality can mask that truth. Everything from the Afghan Catastrophe, to the Inflation Fiasco, the Border Disaster, to Energy Insufficiency, the Race Calamity, to the Crime Explosion – there are several proposed explanation of his fecal touch.
MY SON THE MARINE
Before my son became a Marine, I never thought much about who was defending me. Now when I see a picture of a member of our military who has been killed, I read his or her name very carefully. Sometimes I cry.
In 1999, when the barrel-chested Marine recruiter showed up in dress blues and bedazzled my son John, I did not stand in the way. John was headstrong, and he seemed to understand these stern, clean men with straight backs and flawless uniforms. I did not. I live in the Volvo-driving, higher education-worshiping North Shore of Boston. I write novels for a living. I have never served in the military.
THE TERRACE OF INFINITY
Over a thousand feet on a mountain ledge above Amalfi on the Mediterranean, you’ll find the Terrazzo dell'lnfinito, considered by poets for centuries the most beautiful view in the world. It is part of the magnificent gardens of the 11th century Villa Cimbrone, in the hilltop town of Ravello, built by the Romans in the 5th century.
The Sorrentine Peninsula is a finger of land south of Naples sticking out into the Med’s Tyrrhanean Sea, off the tip of which is the legendary island of Capri. The main town of Sorrento is on the north side facing Naples and Mount Vesuvius. But it is the steep southern shore of the Amalfi Coast that is our planet’s most spectacularly scenic drive with its ancient ports of Amalfi and Positano.
Exploring this magical part of the world is an ultimate “bucket list” experience. And to top it off, on the way down from Naples, you get to visit Pompeii, the excavated Roman city buried and preserved by the ash of Vesuvius in 79 AD. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #115 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
AFGHAN FUBAR OR TREASON?
As the Afghan Fubar continues to worsen, here’s something to consider. We’ve done this three times since 1975, all to horrific results for those who were left. What is the singular constant of those last 46 years?
Joe Biden was somewhere in the decision tree.
First as a US Senator from Delaware, who along with his senate majority refused to fund military support to the South Vietnamese.
Second came in orchestrating the withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 as O’Bama’s VP. That withdrawal gave us ISIS.
Final withdrawal is from Afghanistan, which is still underway.
FDA VACCINE APPROVAL IS A POLITICAL NOT MEDICAL DECISION
[On Sunday, 8/22, Senator Ron Johnson, R-WI, sent the letter below to the Directors of the NIH and CDC, and the Acting Commissioner of the FDA, explaining why the impending vaccine approval is not justified on medical or health safety grounds, but rather has the “political purpose of imposing and enforcing vaccine mandates.” On Monday, 8/23, the FDA did exactly that, serving to further confirm that the Biden Regime’s agenda regarding the Chinese Communist Virus is to impose further government control over Americans rather than protect their health. --JW]
THE HIDDEN NORTH FACE OF KANCHENJUNGA
This is one of the truly great mountain sights on earth yet never seen – except for professional mountaineers and those on our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions. Kanchenjunga at 28,169 feet (8,586 meters) is the world’s 3rd highest mountain (after Everest and K2), with a drop from summit (the peak on the left in front of the cloud) to the glacier at it base of 12,000 feet straight down.
You can be awed by such a picture, but to actually physically be here, to witness this magnificence personally so that it is forever a part of your life, is to feel a depth of awe that has to be experienced to be understood. Kanchenjunga is part of the Himalayas, now on the border of Nepal and Sikkim, once an independent kingdom now absorbed into India. We fly right up the North Face, and into the Amphitheatre of the Southwest Face as well.
We hope to be here again in early November if Nepal opens up by then; we’ll be here for sure next April. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #31 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
KEEPING YOUR SANITY XXVI
An American and his son had been captured by a Moslem bandit chieftain in Morocco and demanded an enormous ransom. Teddy sent Navy warships, the Marines, and the telegram. Rasuli returned Perdicaris and his son unharmed, and all America reveled in Teddy’s heroism.
The history is a lot more complicated than that, but legendary enough for Hollywood to make a move about it, The Wind and the Lion in 1975 starring Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, John Huston and Brian Keith. Of course it’s Hollwoodized, but the actual history is enough to draw an eerie, albeit grotesque, parallel to the White House, American hostages, and Moslem bandits at this moment today.
THE INSPIRATION OF AMERICA
Next to the entrance of The Red House, the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago in the capital of Port of Spain, there is this marble inscription. It is clear that it is inspired by our 1776 Declaration of Independence and America’s founding principles. Trinidad’s population is 99% either Indian (from India), African, or a mix of the two. 64% are Christian, 21% Hindu, 6% Moslem, others undeclared – and all have these principles as a common bond between them.
Here in the Caribbean’s Trinidad is such a clear example of how America’s founding moral principles are such an inspiration to all humanity, of all cultures, creeds, and ethnicities. They are universal, America’s heritage as a gift to the world. This is the heritage of all Americans – something we need to hold on to and hold dear as we persevere during this current period of our country’s cultural, moral, and political lunacy. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #152, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WOKE BECOMES PASSÉ
