DEMOCRATS WALLOW IN DENIAL
It’s been three months since Donald Trump and Republicans swept the 2024 elections — and Democrats haven’t learned a thing.
Here are three snapshots of a party wallowing in denial:
When the eight candidates running to head the Democratic National Committee were asked who among them believed that “racism and misogyny” were factors in Kamala Harris’ defeat, all eight raised their hands.
When congressional Dems gathered outside the headquarters of the rogue USAID agency that Trump plans to shrink or close, one of their lead speakers was the antisemitic terror defender and America-hater Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Then there’s New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, who said Saturday (2/01) he was hiding an illegal immigrant in his house and challenged ICE, saying “good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.”
I’ve long believed Trump has a gift for driving his opponents over the edge. Now we know that for sure.
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
Durk Pearson
[Note by Jack: Last November 7, TTPers read Skye, learning of the passing of my dearest friend, Durk Pearson. In the months since, especially in light of all the messages and condolences I received from so many TTPers, I’ve been thinking of how to have a legacy for Durk on TTP.
“Skye” was Durk’s pen name for his TTP column, and when many of you learned who he was, you told his and Sandy’s book, Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach, changed your life for the better. So let me tell you about two friends of mine to whom Durk & Sandy were also dear.
They are fellow TTPers of many years, Greg and Michelle Pryor. Greg was an infielder for the Kansas City Royals when they won the World Series in 1985. Wanting to keep his health after retiring from the majors, he learned about the extraordinary life extension formulas Durk & Sandy were starting to produce. He and his wife Michelle went on to become their principal licensees.
As I have been using their Pearson & Shaw formulas for years now, I have invited them to carry on Durk and Sandy’s legacy with a column on TTP. We decided to name the column “Live Long and Prosper.” As huge fans of the original Star Trek series, any message or book they’d write always ended.
So welcome, Greg & Michelle! From now on, TTPers can look forward to great Pearson & Shaw nutritional information. I’m sure “Skye” would be pleased.]
Like many who have loved and respected Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw over many years, we are sad that they have both passed. We miss our friends greatly.
My wife, Michelle, and I have been subscribers to the To The Point for several years. We were introduced to Dr. Wheeler/To The Point by our friends, Durk (Skye on TTP) & Sandy. In 1994, Durk & Sandy helped us form our company, Life Priority, to offer many of their Designer Food formulas that we had been using since 1991.
It is an honor to be asked to use this space to share the legacy of Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw with you.
THE RED-OCHERED WOMEN OF THE HIMBAS
The Himbas are a tribe of nomadic cattle herders in far northern Namibia. Himba women make a paste of butter fat and red ochre clay called “otjize,” to protect their skin from the burning African sun and braid their hair for beautification.
The Himbas’ exotic practices are not for tourists. This is the way they live as one of Africa’s most genuinely traditional peoples. Living on the move in remote roadless regions, it takes an effort to find them. But when you do, coming with an attitude of respect, you will be welcomed with smiles and hospitality in return. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #66 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
JD VANCE’S SUBLIME TAKEDOWN OF A POMPOUS BRIT ELITIST
An Oxford-educated British elitist picked an intellectual fight with an American “hillbilly” over the weekend, and guess who won? Yep, the “hillbilly”.
It was a showdown between JD Vance, the new American Vice President, and Rory Stewart, a podcaster. It started when Vance gave an interview to Fox News in which he outlined his Christian belief in a hierarchy of love.
With superb haughtiness, Rory took to X to accuse Vance of misunderstanding the Gospel of John. Vance’s order of love is “more pagan tribal” than Christian, he pronounced, like some pope of correct-think.
Vance fired back, and it was glorious.
BEYOND THE CANAL — THE REAL THREAT OF CHINA IN PANAMA
Marco Rubio meets Panama President José Raúl Mulino, Feb 2
Recent statements by U.S. President Donald Trump and Special Envoy for Latin America Mauricio Claver Carone, as well as the trip by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Central America, have focused attention on the risks posed by the activities of China in Panama.
Aside from China’s low key military engagement with Panama, the real issue is the vast scope of its commercial presence there.
Beyond just the ports, China’s economic engagement and development of networks of personal influence and benefit in Panama have arguably facilitated its use of the country as Beijing’s global logistics and financial hub to promote its commercial advance in the region under conditions of limited transparency, with numerous shady dealings.
Further, beyond Panama’s government, virtually all of Panama’s most influential families have business dealings with PRC-based companies. You may be amazed at how deep China’s connections within Panama are.
THE POLYNESIA PARADISE YOU NEVER HEARD OF
Have you ever seen the ocean turn day-glo pink? It does here naturally during a sunset (this is not photoshopped). Between Samoa and Tonga in the South Pacific is a raised coral atoll, 100 square miles of old limestone between 60 and 200 feet high: the island of Niue (new-way), and it’s is uniquely fabulous.
With no silty river runoff, the water is incredibly clear – visibility can reach over 200 feet. There are a multitude of chasms through which you clamber to these out-of-a-movie tidal pools perfect for snorkeling surrounded by colorful reef fish. The limestone cliffs encircling the coast are riddled with caves with multi-colored stalactites and stalagmites.
You can snorkel or dive with spinner dolphins and humpback whales. The big game fishing is world class – within a few hundred yards off shore. The Niueans are unfailingly friendly and welcoming, the beautiful Matavai Resort is the best bargain in the Pacific, the food and beer is inexpensive, the weather is balmy. It’s a Polynesian paradise you never heard of. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #48 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
[This is the next chapter of Part I: Envy of my forthcoming book NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: Key to Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity. Previous sections and chapters can be accessed here. I will really appreciate any feedback you have.]
I read a lot. Ever so often, I come upon a book that is seminal for me – profoundly affecting my view of the world.
Reading Richard Halliburton’s The Complete Book of Marvels did that to me when I was 14. Halliburton was a famous adventurer in the 1920s and 30s whom the world had long forgotten when I read a twenty year-old book of his in 1958.
I was a kid in Glendale, California who knew next to nothing about the rest of our planet. Halliburton opened my eyes to see a world of endless wonders and magical experiences. I still see the world in that way to this day.
That’s what motivated me to climb the Matterhorn at 14, live with the Jivaros and swim the Hellespont at 16, and how I found myself in a “mirador” – a small hunting blind of branches and leaves – in the jungles of South Viet Nam at 17 waiting for darkness in hopes that a man-eating tiger would show up.
Tigers leave distinctive pug marks, and this one had killed and eaten at least twenty Co Ho Montagnards in villages near Dalat. My Vietnamese guide, Ngo Van Chi, and I had wrapped a dead and rotting water buffalo to a tree as bait for him. He would come in pitch black night, so we sat in the mirador for hours before when it was still light and waited.
I brought a paperback book to read. Sitting on a bench of rough branches next to Chi with the fading light filtering through the leaves of the mirador waiting for that tiger, my .300 Weatherby with a flashlight taped to the barrel next to me, is where I read George Orwell’s 1984.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: HAVING A GREAT TIME IN ALBANIA
Rebel and I, along with our friends with us, always have a great time in Albania. Here’s a pic she took of me with a stein of delicious Birra Tirana lager. You’re sure to have so much fun yourself by joining us and your fellow TTPers on our Albania Wonderland experience this April. See you in Tirana. The beer’s on me! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #284 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
NOMINEE FOR TOP CRIMINAL JUSTICE POSITION INTERVIEWED BY NATION’S TOP CRIMINALS
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an electrifying several hours on Capitol Hill, a nominee for the nation's top criminal justice position was interviewed by the nation's top criminals.
Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, fielded questions from America's lowest and most despicable lawbreakers ahead of his confirmation vote in the Senate.
"I have serious concerns about your character, Mr. Patel," said Senator Whitehouse, a notorious DC criminal. "Based on things you've said in the past, it seems you want to turn the FBI into a law enforcement agency to be weaponized against criminals. I find this unsettling and deeply disqualifying."
Sources say Patel simply responded with a silent, unblinking stare.
Senator Amy Klobuchar, another dangerous lawbreaker who has thus far evaded capture by police, expressed similar concerns. "EEEEEEEEEEEE!" said Klobuchar in a forceful monologue during the hearing. "EEEEEEEEEEK EEEEEEEEKKKK!"
The rest of Klobuchar's statement was not recorded as technicians mercifully turned her microphone off.
At publishing time, Patel's fate was still up in the air as the gang of criminals deliberated on whether to confirm him.
In a related development, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-BigPharma) paused the hearing of RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary to announce that the next line of questions would be sponsored by Pfizer.
- Babylon Bee reporting
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/31/25
This morning’s (1/31) NY Post Cover story is almost ghoulishly ironic. Analysis by several experts is provided as to the causes, all of whom avoid the obvious – that those in charge of Reagan Airport Air Traffic Control and Black Hawk training flights near the airport were DEI hires.
The Biden FAA Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan 2024 states on Page 7:
“The FAA is fully committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity while maintaining the highest safety standards as outlined in the agency’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan 2021-2025. These principles are supported by focusing and increasing outreach and recruitment to underrepresented communities through intern programs, outreach to colleges, universities, and community organizations.”
While we all know the total dedication of Biden’s Milley Pentagon to DEI that Trump SecDef Hegseth has just begun to root out.Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, brilliant, beautiful, eloquent and unflappable at 27, laid it out for the White House Press Corps.
There’s also the ghoulish timing of the cover this morning, for “Collision Course” can be seen as the collision between the Woke Lunacy of the Democrat Party and Reality – as exemplified by the clown show of Democrat Senators getting humiliated by Trump Cabinet nominees at their confirmation hearings this week.
This is a revelatory HFR! Off we go…
Okay, a tease. Lizzie Warren got steamrollered by RFK2. Warren has been paid off by Big Pharma so much that wags are calling her, not Pocahontas, but Pharmahontas.