WITHOUT COMMON SENSE IN GOVERNMENT, CIVILIZATION CANNOT CONTINUE
If you call 911 in a large American city, there is no guarantee that anyone will answer promptly and send out police to aid the endangered. So gun sales have soared. Some people who never before owned weapons, or who even opposed the use of firearms, are now terrified to remain unarmed.
Large swaths of the American West are now charred by out-of-control wildfires. Some governors and many federal bureaucrats blame the conflagrations on “climate change.”
But those who actually live within forests, or on mountains and foothills, that are historically vulnerable to wildfires know that the epic droughts of 2013–15 killed or dried out millions of acres of trees and vegetation.
Yet most of these decaying trees were never removed by authorities. They now predictably provide the fuel for the current wildfire Armageddon.
THE ROCK SELLS HIS SOUL TO CHINA
“The Rock” – the man Forbes magazine lists as the world’s highest-paid actor, Dwayne Johnson, has just endorsed Joe Biden for president.
In a seven-minute video pinned to his Facebook profile, “The Rock” explained, “In this critical election, I believe Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the best to lead our country, and as my first ever (public) presidential endorsement, I proudly endorse them for the presidential office of our United States.”
From reading through what are now over 100,000 comments in response to Johnson’s Facebook post, it’s clear at once that Johnson’s endorsement backfired. There are almost no comments supporting his decision. Roughly 95 percent of the comments are expressions of anger and feelings of betrayal.
Perhaps Johnson has laid an egg. Perhaps he didn’t know his fans at all. Or perhaps he didn’t care about his American fans.
THE FOURTH PEARL OF SHING
There is a series of stepping-stone lakes in a hidden valley in Tajikistan known as The Seven Pearls of Shing. This is the fourth, taken at dawn’s early light with the lake a mirror reflecting the sky and surrounding mountains. Each Pearl are of different colors, each of uniquely mesmerizing allure. It is one of the many wonders – natural, cultural, historical – we’ll experience next May in our exploration of all Five Stans of Hidden Central Asia. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #52 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: The Fascist Metaphysics of Marxism
Seventh installment: Chapter Seven of Part I: Envy. I’m really looking forward to your Forum comments on this one.
THE FASCIST METAPHYSICS OF MARXISM
We have now learned of the extent to which tribespeople in a tribal culture suffuse their lives with superstition, witchcraft, sorcery, voodoo, "black magic," the "evil eye." The world for them is teeming with demons, spirits, ghosts and gods, all of whom are malicious and dangerous — in a word, envious.
A principal reason why tribal and traditional cultures remain non-dynamic, unchanging and static for centuries and even millennia is the dominance of envy and envy-avoidance. As anthropologists call it, institutionalized envy, or the envy-barrier.
At first glance it may seem that an ideology that argues for a "revolutionary society" would not have much in common with societies that revere stasis and are fearful of change. The Marxist sees himself as being in the progressive vanguard of modern, sophisticated "social science." But Marxism really is nothing but an atavism, a regression to a primitive tribal mentality.
What Marxists call "exploitation," the anthropologists call "black magic."
THE DEATH OF PAN
At the foot of Mount Hermon in northern Israel you find the Grotto of Pan, the Greek God of Nature, where pilgrims came from all over the ancient world to worship. Remnants of the huge Temple of Pan are here, together with the cave grotto where he lived when not at Olympus. The spring that gushes forth from the grotto is one of the sources of the Jordan River.
If Pan was ever disturbed, he would groan so loudly it would cause anyone who heard it to “panic” (panikos in Greek) – the origin of the term. Loudest of all was his last. The legend is that with the advent of Christianity replacing belief in the Olympian Gods, Pan died for lack of worshippers, emitting a death groan of agony from the mouth of the cave you see here so loud and terrifying it was heard throughout the Mediterranean. It’s a beautiful and peaceful place today. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #51 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
INSTANT KARMA OF THE WEEK
A woman driver infected with TDS got so outraged a Trump MAGA rally on a street corner, she not only flipped them off, but leaned out her window for a double flip-off while screaming obscenities at them. In so doing, she took her foot off the brake, thus crashing into the car in front of her.
Not her lucky day, a police car was behind her. To the hoots and laughter of the MAGA folk, two policemen came to ticket her. Instant karma!
HALF-FULL REPORT 09/25/20
Not only is he a master showman with dragon energy, he is a master achiever for America that no one in our history has come close to in his first term – as you saw in TTP on Wednesday, the incredibly long list of The Accomplishments of President Trump.
Meanwhile, there’s today’s (9/25) New York Post cover:
So how is Hiden Biden going to hold up in the most-watched debate in world history next Tuesday (9/29)?
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – SLEEPING IN AN IGLOO
April 1990. When our oldest son Brandon was six years old, I took him with me to the North Pole. It was my 14th expedition there, and as always, we stopped to visit friends at Canada’s northernmost community, the Inuit hunting village of Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island. Brandon thought it would be cool to sleep in an igloo, which the Inuit do only when they’re hunting seals or walrus far out on the ice.
So the villagers happily complied, showing him how they built one, carving out blocks of wind-blown snow, shaping and placing them in an inward-sloped spiral with one block on top, and packing snow as mortar between the blocks. When it was bedtime – still daylight with 24-hour sunshine by April – they lined the inside with caribou skins, which shed like crazy with hairs everywhere but sure are warm. Snuggled into our arctic down sleeping bags, we slept like stones.
It was an experience both of us will never forget. Never pass up an opportunity to have an adventure with your kids they’ll always remember. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #50 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE TRUTH EMERGES IN LOUISVILLE
[Note: TTP has appended to Andrea’s article the letters of Louisville Police Sergeant Jon Mattingly and his wife]
The truth has finally emerged about Breonna Taylor’s death this past March. It turns out (surprise!) that the Democrat party – in Congress, in the media, and on the streets – has been lying.
Taylor was not a complete innocent whom racist police slaughtered in her bed during a no-knock raid. Instead, she was the victim of her poor choices in men: Her friendship with a local drug kingpin justified the raid and her boyfriend’s decision to open fire on police who had knocked and identified themselves led to her shooting.
That certainly doesn’t mean she deserved to die, but it explains why she did (more – and very interesting explanation below).
SKYE’S LINKS 09/24/20
What will be happening during the next four months: A Textbook Case Of Treason
Original source document - please read!
Using the excuse of the China Virus, the November 3 election has already been irreversibly disrupted and turned into a late September through 8 December fraudulent ballot chase election. It is going to get a lot worse. Be prepared. There will be far more violence in urban areas. This is a coup.
Yes, it really is rigged:
Bokhari: Big Tech Prepares the Public for a Rigged Election
Facebook Says It Will Restrict Posting if Elections Cause 'Unrest'
Russia, Russia, Russia, without end. Isn’t there a clinical name for the neurotic obsession to keep beating a dead horse?