THE FATHER-SON ADVENTURE: BRANDON AT THE NORTH POLE
Brandon at the North Pole
April 1990
It seemed like we were the only people on the face of the Earth. Just eight of us – Brandon, me, my four client-friends, our pilot and co-pilot – flying a few thousand feet above an endless expanse of sea-ice.
It had been a little over an hour since we had flown past Cape Columbia, the northernmost point of land in Canada on the tip of Ellesmere Island to head straight north over the frozen Arctic Ocean.
I got down next to Brandon. “How are you doing, buddy?”
“Dad, this is so awesome! Wow, the North Pole! But…” he looked out the window… “how does Santa live up here? How does he feed his reindeer? There’s nothing for them to eat in all that ice!”
DYING TO VOTE
What’s dying is the Dem chances for passage of their HR1 Vote Fraud bill. It went down in flames on Monday (6/21), the Senate is on July 4 Recess until the 11th, shortly after comes the August Recess, then comes the Raise the Debt Ceiling cat fight. There’s hope for a honest ’22 election yet.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/25/21
Instantly, all over the Internet the Man from De Mentia has a new nickname: Creepy. Twitter is reporting #creepyjoe is trending worldwide. Google Biden+creepy+whisper and you’ll get over 800,000 hits and climbing.
Mind you, this was on top of his getting confused the day before (6/23) on gun control, and ended up essentially threatening people opposed to him with “F-15s and nuclear weapons”.
He, the Dems, and Woke Elite are losing it while we are winning. This HFR explains how.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – DIVING IN A GALAPAGOS FISH BALL
Galapagos Islands – November 2015. In the waters here, enormous schools of striped mullet swim together in one huge swirling ball by the tens of thousands.
One of the more astounding experiences a scuba diver can have is to swim far below one of these rotating living balls, then slowly rise straight up into it. The fish do not scatter, but merely create an empty column or vertical tunnel for you – so you float inside the ball with countless thousands of calm unperturbed fish circling around you and your dive buddy (who took this picture of me).
I’ve had the good fortune to go diving all over the world for the past sixty -plus years, and this experience is surely one of the most memorable of all. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #140 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SKYE’S LINKS 06/24/21
This could be a tipping point for the corrupt FBI: the NSA is releasing all data on the improper FNI surveillance of 16,000 Americans! If this is a power struggle between the FBI and the NSA, I'd place odds on the No Such Agency.
NSA Agrees To Release Records On FBI's Improper Spying On 16,000 Americans
Glenn Greenwald on the FBI's involvement in America's Reichstag fire of 1/6:
Questions About the FBI's Role In 1/6 Are Mocked Because The FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media
WHY ARE THEY WOKE?
Woke BLM ladies are so oppressed
There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession, and rioting of 2020.
Wokeism was never really about racism, sexism, or other -isms. Instead, for some, it illustrated a psychological pathology of projection: fobbing one’s own concrete prejudices onto others in order to alleviate or mask them.
Joe Biden about every two weeks lectures America on its racism. And he unleashed the bureaucracies of the federal government to root out mythical white supremacist conspiracies.
No Washington politico has compiled a longer record of racialist put downs than Joe Biden. So apparently, the more Biden hunts for a white racist under every bed, the less necessary it becomes to look in his own mirror.
SLOVENIA’S VINTGAR GORGE
In a hidden corner of Europe, the Radovna River pours off the Julian Alps to carve out the Vintgar Gorge with crystal clear water. A mile-long walkway with towering limestone cliffs on either side is your access.
Nearby is the gorgeous Lake Bled, with Bled Castle suspended atop a shoreline cliff. The medieval village of Piran, built on a spit of land projecting into the Adriatic Sea and encircled by a white sand beach is a short drive away. Ljubljana is one of Europe’s most utterly charming capital cities.
Most people have only heard of Slovenia as the birthplace of First Lady Melania Trump, but those who have been here understand it is one of the most entrancing countries on the European continent – pristine beauty, spotless environment, friendly and hospitable people, safe and very well-run. Whenever your next visit to Europe may be, try to include a few days or week or so here. You’ll never run out of fascinating things to do. A stroll through the Vintgar Gorge is an example out of so many. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #19 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WOKE INC. – HOW CORPORATE AMERICA IS POISONING OUR COUNTRY
[Note: Vivek Ramaswamy is an American-born self-made biotech billionaire at age 35. What this American patriot has to say is true must-read.]
I used to think corporate bureaucracy was bad because it’s inefficient. That’s true, but it’s not the biggest problem.
Rather, there’s a new invisible force at work in the highest ranks of corporate America, one far more nefarious. It’s the defining scam of our time — one that robs you of not only your money, but your voice and your identity.
Here’s how it works: Pretend like you care about something other than profit and power, precisely to gain more of each. All great magicians master the art of distraction — flashing lights, smoke, beautiful women on stage. Today’s captains of industry do it by promoting progressive social values.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A BLUEPRINT FOR TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK
Lenin’s 1902 pamphlet
“What is to be done?” That’s been the cry of revolutionaries from time immemorial: the malcontents, the aggrieved, the misfits, the morally wretched.
As we sit here, six months into the disastrous Biden administration, the question is finally becoming evident to even the most politically disinterested American.
The very fact that you still must wear a slave muzzle to enter a federal building is a visible sign of your continuing humiliation and subjugation. Proof once more that tyranny is about insisting that you conform to the most picayune and counter-factual ukases, just to illustrate your powerlessness.
So, what is to be done?
THE EMPRESS WHO LOVED ACHILLES
On a mountain top on the island of Corfu in 1890, Empress Elizabeth of Austria built a magnificent marble palace called the Achilleion, dedicated to her hero, the legendary Achilles of Homer’s Iliad. Here she retreated from the world, amidst the palace’s gorgeous gardens overlooking the Mediterranean abundant with larger-than-life statues of her ideal man, “who despised all mortals and did not fear even the gods."
All of Europe knew her as Sisi. Adored by her husband Emperor Franz Joseph I, renowned as the most beautiful – and most beloved -- woman of her time, she was Austria’s Empress for 44 years. Her life ended tragically, murdered at random by an anarchist who wanted to “kill a royal.”
The Achilleion today is maintained immaculately in all its original glory as a museum you can visit. Don’t pass the chance to see it for yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #76 photo ©Jack Wheeler)