WHAT IF THE ELECTION AUDITS SHOW TRUMP REALLY WON?
The immediate answer is: We just don't know. The Founding Fathers did not write up a "what if" in the Constitution to make things right. The Founding Fathers wrote up nothing in the Constitution in case mail-in ballots or the internet were used to manipulate the vote.
The scary part is that since the answer to possible election fraud appears not to be in the Constitution, nor in federal law, nor in federal court cases, then the answer-the remedy will come from somewhere else. That somewhere else, we know not. But probably not from the words within the US Constitution.
So much of this is conjecture. Let’s start with what we do know.
HEY JOE! IF THE NEW COVID VARIANTS ARE SO DANGEROUS, WHY HAVEN’T YOU CLOSED THE BORDER?
Joe is worried about the Delta variant of Covid. His health experts tell him it’s more transmissible than the original. Yet he continues to encourage a flood of illegal untested aliens across our southern border.
If Delta is not dangerous, he has an excuse on the border. If it is, he doesn’t. He can’t have it both ways. But then, having it both ways is what Democrats always demand.
MAKING FRIENDS IN ANTARCTICA
This is my wife Rebel relaxing with a native of Antarctica while on a visit to the Palmer Science Station there. Getting up close and personal with Antarctic wildlife is so easy as they have no fear of us at all, be they seals, elephant seals, or penguins.
Better not get too close to male elephant seals in domination combat, however, as they can weigh up to 7,000 pounds. And steer clear of full grown leopard seals, which are apex predators weighing over 1,000 pounds. No worries, though, for Rebel with this young fellow. Experiencing Antarctica is always a memorable adventure. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #94 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE VACCINE VOODOO CULT
Our best minds have spoken
Why is no connection being made between a massive vaccination program intended to reduce or prevent the spread of infections and the fact that cases are said to be skyrocketing. The vaccines are extravagantly touted as reliable antitoxins; at the same time the disease apparently continues to surf from wave to wave and variant to variant.
Because beneath the veneer of civilization, in essence we are as primitive and credulous as our stone age ancestors. Magic, not reason, remains the psychological default.
Amulets and incantations will keep us safe, and the practice of exorcism will banish the evil spirit that has possessed us. We are in thrall to the Vaccine Voodoo Cult.
THE GENESIS OF OUR COLLECTIVE MELTDOWN
This Fourth of July holiday was a time to pause and ask ourselves how we collectively lost our minds over the last 15 months—and are we yet regaining any semblance of our sanity?
To answer, let’s discuss in turn how to go to the chaos of daily living, followed by the madness of Biden policies and politics, and lastly, the joy of our foreign enemies over our madness.
THE HANGING MONASTERY
The architectural wonder of the Hanging Monastery was built on a vertical cliff face by the Tuoba people of Inner Mongolia over 1,500 years ago (in the 490s). Devout Buddhists and brilliant engineers, they defied gravity by inserting huge wooden crossbeams deep into the cliff to suspend the monastery’s temples, shrines, and monks’ living quarters, connected with bridges, corridors, and boardwalks, out into space.
Liao Mongols in the 900s rebuilt and sustained it, and it has been carefully refurbished and restored in the centuries since. While it remains primarily Buddhist with statues and depictions of Sakyamuni (the historical Buddha of 5th century BC) and Maitreya (the future Buddha), the monks welcome reverence to Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (4th century BC), as well as Confucius (551-479 BC). Thus you also see shrines and statues of them like nowhere else.
It is a unique and inspiring experience to be here. We’ll be here again in our exploration of Inner Mongolia next year. ((Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #116 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD INTERVIEW
There’s a Danish fellow named Henrik Jeppesen whose website is EveryCountryInTheWorld.com. Having been to every country himself – defined as all 193 UN Member States – he interviews people who have done so or aspire to themselves.
He recently interviewed me, and I thought you might be entertained by my answers to his questions. This is in lieu of a Keeping Your Sanity column or the next Father-Son Adventure chapter, as I am today on my way to Zambia to take your fellow TTPers on an Africa Dream Safari. Here we go…
IT’S A MATTER OF TRUST
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/02/21
Welcome to the Fourth of July HFR!
What a difference a year makes. Last July 4th, our Real POTUS gave a magnificent speech at Mount Rushmore, commemorating America’s founding and warning us of the grave dangers our nation faced from its enemies within its gates.
This July 4th, all of those dangers have materialized as nightmares becoming real. As a companion piece to this HFR, we are posting the full video and text of President Trump’s Mount Rushmore address of a year ago. Frankly, the comparison with the elation we felt back then and what we are suffering now is painful.
So I might as well get the way I really feel off my chest now. Then will get to the good news, for there’s plenty.
THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONS, JULY 4TH 1776
There could be no better place to celebrate America’s independence than beneath this magnificent, incredible majestic mountain monument to the greatest Americans who have ever lived.
Today we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt.
We gather tonight to herald the most important day in the history of nations, July 4th, 1776.