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THE HORROR MOVIE DETOUR ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

detour-filmYou know the plot point in the horror film where the highway is blocked and a detour sign directs the car full of naive teens off onto a rutted track into the wilderness?

We're right there in the narrative of "The Road to Recovery": the highway that Democrat Wall Street and Media promises would be smooth and wide open is about to be detoured into a rutted track that peters out in a wilderness without any lights or signage.

You know the rest: the naive, trusting teens are picked off one by one in the most horrific fashion. Substitute naive punters in the stock market and you have the script for what lies ahead.

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THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE OF TYRANNY

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Normal Americans have been puzzled and, in many cases, chagrined by the current flurry of executive orders, ukases, policy prescriptions, social proscriptions, vengeful rollbacks, and other government meddling in the lives of our citizens.

Woke hall monitors must screech like Donald Sutherland at the end of the 1978 version “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” whenever they see a constitutionally free and unmasked citizen daring to appear in public without a slave muzzle.

It’s a mad scramble for a Year Zero to rival those of the French and Bolshevik revolutions—the dawn of a new age of tyranny masquerading as compassion.

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THE UNIQUE BEAUTIFICATION OF KAYAN WOMEN

kayan-womenThe Kayan tribal people live in a remote roadless valley in the Shan Hills of Burma. Kayan women practice their tradition of beauty starting at age five. The young girls have a few brass coils placed around their necks, adding to them progressively as they grow until in older adulthood they are wearing as many as two dozen – becoming what the world knows them as Giraffe women. (The Shan people call them "Padaung" meaning "long-necked," but they call themselves Kayan.)

We are not here to gawk. We are here to make friends, treat them respectfully, and learn about their traditions. It is an intensely memorable experience to meet these ladies. We’ll be here again in early March next year. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #58 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY XI

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Commander Adam Khan

Ghazni, Afghanistan, August 1984.  With my beard, turban, and shalwar kameez tunic and trousers I looked like just another Afghan guy walking with my Mujahaddin friends into the city.  We were scouting out how the attack, led by commander Adam Khan, would be made that night on the Soviet high command atop the Bala Hissar fortress in the city center.

It was risky for there were Soviet and Communist government lookouts and guardposts everywhere – and I was in serious trouble.  I felt weak, confused, on the verge of falling down, and knew I would jeopardize my life and those with me if discovered.  I realized what was wrong.

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AFRICA SUNSET

african-sunsetThis really isn’t photoshopped – it’s what a sunset actually looks like on the Luangwa River in Zambia. Best way to enjoy it is with a gin-and-tonic Sundowner with good friends on a dream Africa safari. Zambia is an undiscovered gem, the best safari country in all Africa right now.

Fabulous luxury lodges, iconic animals of Africa in amazing profusion, and much less expensive than the well-known safari regions elsewhere.  We’ll be here in July.  If you’ve always dreamed of a real Africa safari once in your life, now is the time. Let me know if you’d like to be with us: [email protected](Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #122 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – CLIMBING MOUNT OLYMPUS

mount-olympusAugust, 1971. Here is where the Ancient Greeks believed their 12 Olympian Gods lived, on the summit of the highest peak of Olympus – Mytikas at 9,571ft/2,918m. There are 52 jagged prominences of Olympus, but if you want to commune with Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite, Athena and the rest, this is where you go.

It takes just two days: morning drive from Athens (4 hrs) to Litochoro, then the roadhead at Priona (2,500ft). Afternoon hike of some 3 hours through pretty pine forests to the comfortable Spilios Agapitos refuge (6,700ft) for dinner and a bunk bed overnight. You’re up at dawn for a strenuous but not technical climb up to Skala peak at 9,400ft. In my photo, you’re looking at Mytikas from Skala. It’s a Class B rock scramble – no ropes or gear, but this shouldn’t be your first mountain rodeo. Be careful!

I was by myself at the Mytikas summit and no selfies in those days, so I said my greetings to the gods, and I was back down at the refuge by lunchtime. You’ll be back at the Plaka below the Acropolis in Athens for ouzo and dinner. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #45 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/26/21

trump-the-great-at-47Are you ready to rumble?! POTUS sure is. He is going to take care of business for ’22 and ’24 like you can’t imagine – until you read below. Here’s the teaser – he’s going to save America and Western Civilization by becoming the wealthiest man in the entire world.

First, however, he’s going to follow Napoleon’s advice to never distract your enemy while he is occupied destroying himself.

Like FPX’s dumpster fire of a press conference yesterday (3/25), with cheat sheet notes to read answers from prescreened journos – he had a picture/name list of who to call on. Here’s how pathetic it was:

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HAS THERE EVER IN US HISTORY BEEN A MORE PITIFUL CABINET

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Richard and Rachel

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have once again betrayed the American people and voted to confirm one of the most insidious persons ever nominated to a Cabinet position, Richard "Rachel" Levine.  He will now be the assistant secretary of health.

(Yes, the photos above are of the same person.  Richard was married with children until he decided at age 52 to pretend he was a woman named Rachel.  He is now 62. – JW)

The question of the day is, why have any Republicans voted to confirm any of Biden's Cabinet appointees?  Every one of them has been chosen not for their expertise in any sphere of influence, but for their radicalism; the farther left these people are, the better in Biden's (?) view.

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