9/11 AND THE RELIGION OF SLAVERY
[TTP: Since 2001 we have posted a 9/11 article to remind folks to Never Forget. New York, itself, seems to have forgotten the horror that was wrought there that day, but our enemies have not changed their intentions, merely their tactics - as we see a communist Muslim running for Mayor there today. So, once again, let us be reminded of the fundamental character of our enemy revealed in this article written in 2017.]
Stefan The Great defeating the Ottoman Moslems January 10, 1475
Zagreb, Croatia. I have just completed my expedition through Hidden Eastern Europe, primarily through much of the Balkans. It has been a historical lesson of sobering immensity.
Today is the 16th anniversary of the most evil attack on America in our history. More morally evil than Pearl Harbor, which was an act of war targeting US military personnel (of the 2403 deaths, 68 were civilians). 9/11, by contrast specifically targeted civilians on purpose. 2,977 innocent human beings were slaughtered by Moslem terrorists, of whom 2,508 were civilians.
The Wikipedia entry on 9/11 casualties states: “The attacks of September 11, 2001, were the deadliest terrorist act in world history.”
If you click on that latter link, up will come a list of 173 of the worst terrorist attacks, starting with 9/11. Scroll down the list and you’ll be overwhelmed at how many are attributed to “Islamic extremism” – 120 out of 173.
The Moslem Atrocity of 9/11 is a trauma America will never forget and never forgive its perpetrators. What Americans should also never forget is its context. Here in the Balkans is where you learn that context in spades.
We suffered one horrific attack of Islamic barbarism. What would it be like to suffer an unending series of slaughters and enslavements for century after century, for four or five hundred years?
THEY MURDERED CHARLIE KIRK AND THEY MUST PAY
This may be the hardest column I’ve ever written, one where I’m so angry that it’s hard for me to put my words into a sequence that’s both coherent and not profane.
They murdered Charlie Kirk yesterday.
They shot him dead because he dared to exercise his right as a human being to speak freely – contrary to what Democrat senators insist, our rights do not come from government but are endowed within us by our Creator.
So, this was not merely a crime against one man, or against his beautiful family, but against both this country and our God.
And it will be righteously avenged.
He’s not going to be forgotten.
They may have killed him, but they’re not going to kill the movement he started.
Oh no, they don’t get to win.
They don’t get to murder their way to victory.
They don’t get to scare us, intimidate us, or decapitate our movement.
We’re going to double down.
No, we’re going to triple down.
THE PAINTED CHURCHES OF THE TROODOS MOUNTAINS
For 500 years, from Ca. 1000 to 1500 AD, the Byzantine Christians on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus labored with love to decorate the interior of their humble churches tucked away in hidden valleys of the Troodos Mountains.
There are a total of 10 such churches which are today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The one you see here is the church of the Kykkos Monastery, with its extravagantly painted vaulted ceiling preserved immaculately for centuries. Christianity remains very much alive in these mountains. Come here to be awed yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #235 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
TIM KAINE’S CONSTITUTIONAL BLASPHEMY
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) this week warned the American people that a Trump nominee for a State Department position was an extremist, cut from the same cloth as the Iranian mullahs and religious extremists.
Riley Barnes, nominated to serve as assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, revealed his dangerous proclivities to Kaine in his opening statement when he said that “All men are created equal because our rights come from God, our creator; not from our laws, not from our governments.”
It was a line that should be familiar to any citizen — virtually ripped from the Declaration of Independence, our founding document that is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary.
Yet Kaine offered a very surprising response in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
“The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes,” he said. “It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia (sic) law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. They do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”
The idea that laws “come from the government” is the basis of what is called “legal positivism,” which holds that the legitimacy and authority of laws are not based on God or natural law but rather legislation and court decisions.
APPEALS BOARD RULES UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS INELIGIBLE FOR BOND HEARINGS
[TTP: This isn’t getting much notice in the press, but it is a YUGE win for Trump!]
A federal immigration board said Friday that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are ineligible for bond hearings while they challenge deportation proceedings in court.
The decision, rendered by Judge Keith E. Hunsucker at the Board of Immigration Appeals, affirms a previous July order from Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who told ICE officers in a memo that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
Lawyers say the policy will apply to millions of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few decades, including under the Biden administration.
THE GOLDEN ELEPHANTS OF DZANGA BAI
Deep in the African rain forest where the Central African Republic, Cameroun, and the Congo come together, there is a swampy clearing of mineral and salt-rich mud where hundreds of elephants come to soak in the mud to absorb the minerals, turning their skin golden. Other forest animals congregate here as well – buffalo, sitatunga and bongo antelope. In the mountains nearby, there are an uncountable number of gorillas. The clearing is called Dzanga Bai by the native Ba’aka Pygmies who live in small encampments in the forest.
We conducted our Gorillas and Pygmies expedition here in 2012. It was an unforgettable experience, never to be repeated. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #278 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE JUDICIAL COUP IS COLLAPSING
Late last week NBC ran a “news” story featuring a dozen disgruntled federal judges whose rulings against various Trump administration policies have been stayed or overturned by the Supreme Court.
These lower court judges, none of whom had the courage to allow NBC to name them in the article, bewailed the failure of SCOTUS to provide sufficient justification for ruling against them.
It’s blindingly obvious, however, that the real issue they are whining about is the Court’s refusal to countenance their usurpation of the President’s Article II powers and frustrate implementation of his agenda.
Upon assuming office, the President signed a number of executive orders involving a variety of issues. Many of these EOs were challenged by lawsuits filed in district courts presided over by activist judges.
Inevitably, these judges issued “universal injunctions” that halted implementation of the EOs nationwide. The administration filed emergency appeals with SCOTUS to ensure these cases received expedited attention.
According to the NBC story, “The Supreme Court has granted Trump administration requests to block lower court rulings in more than 70 percent of cases brought by the administration that were decided via the shadow docket.” [Cue ominous Darth Vader background audio]
THE GREATEST DEMOCRAT FEAR
President Donald Trump’s greatest achievement within six months was simply ending illegal immigration as we had once known it — without “comprehensive immigration reform” or any other rhetorical trickery.
It remains difficult to find, much less deport, the 10 to 12 million illegal aliens who entered in the last four years.
Those who helped break the law, by design or indifference, now believe it was moral to destroy federal immigration law but immoral to uphold it.
And it is still unclear whether former President Joe Biden’s handlers deliberately sabotaged their own border for political and demographic purposes out of sheer orneriness or utter incompetence.
Many of the left’s cherished totems — massive Green New Deal subsidies, the diversity/equity/inclusion industry, biological males competing in women’s sports, and the USAID revolving door — are either comatose or in their death throes.
The historic drop-off in military recruitment reversed shortly after Trump took office.
Republican voter registration is up, and Democratic registration is down.
A KYRGHIZ EAGLE HUNTER
A Kyrghiz eagle-hunter doesn’t hunt for eagles to eat. He hunts with an eagle he has trained from infancy to hunt food for his family.
Female eagles adapt to training the best and are fierce huntresses. Retrieved as a young chick from their mother’s nest when she’s out hunting, it takes one or two years to train them. The eagle the hunter is holding is age six. When they are too old to hunt at around age 20, they are released back into the wild, where they can live free for up to age 50.
That would be among the high rock outcroppings dotting the high grasslands of Kyrghizstan in Central Asia. That’s where the hunter’s assistant (usually his son) climbs up with the eagle gripping his forearm high enough to launch. Upon the hunter waves thee command on horseback, the hood is removed from the eagle’s head so he can see and is released.
Soaring high, the eagle searches for game like rabbits which are plentiful in the grasslands. Upon spotting one, the eagle swoops down to snare it on the run with her amazingly powerful talons. Allowing her to eat a bite or two as her reward, she’s re-hooded and the rabbit soon to be on the family dinner table. If you want to see this for yourself, come with us to Kyrghizstan on our next exploration of Central Asia. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #228 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
LONE STAR AMERICA
[This Monday’s Archive was originally published on December 27, 2006. Our situation is vastly worse now after The Treason of Biden organized an invasion of illegals in the tens of millions, and the Dems with their treasonous judges doing everything to block Trump’s efforts to remigrate them. Here’s a history lesson that couldn’t be more relevant today.]
TTP December 27, 2006
I'm in a small town called St. Francisville in an obscure part of Louisiana. Visitors who come here stop briefly to gaze at the nicely preserved 19th century homes on its main street before hurrying off to the area's principal attractions nearby – magnificent ante-bellum plantation mansions like Rosewood, the Myrtles, or Oakley where Audubon stayed and painted many of his birds.Almost no tourists pay any attention to a flag that flies in front of the courthouse along with the stars and stripes and the state flag, nor have any idea what it symbolizes:
It's the Bonnie Blue flag of the Republic of West Florida, the capital of which was here. In 1810, St. Francisville was the capital of an independent country.
How it got to be, and what it may mean for America's future, is a story that goes from Spanish explorers to American rebels, from Napoleon to the Alamo, from the "Halls of Montezuma" of the Marine Hymn to the current invasion of America by illegal aliens from Mexico.
So curl up and get cozy in your favorite chair while I tell you the story.