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)
‘BUSINESS LEADERS FOR KAMALA’ REVEAL THE POWER OF THE ANTI-WOKE RIGHT
Most people have no idea who Alissa Heinerscheid is, but conservatives should send her a big fat thank-you note.
The former marketing VP did more to change the fortunes of consumer activism in this country than anyone ever dreamed.
The moment she plastered Dylan Mulvaney’s face on Bud Light’s blue cans, the entire script from the last 20 years flipped. Suddenly, it wasn’t the cocky CEOs of major brands holding all the power — but an army of Americans who, thanks to that six-pack, have brought the entire landscape of corporate America to its knees.
And this election is proof.
When Democrats pushed out a list of “88 Business Leaders for Harris” endorsements last week, it was meant to give the vice president some credibility on economic issues.
And maybe it was an impressive stat if all people read was the headline. After all, Hillary Clinton had less than 60 of these same corporate backers in 2016.
But what’s extremely revealing about these names, especially the ones attached to popular U.S. brands, is that almost all of Harris’s support comes from former CEOs and chairmen of companies who no longer represent the business.
In other words, these past-tense executives, who make up half of the 88 names, are listed even though they don’t qualify as actual leaders of anything.
Here’s what this should say to every American who’s taken a stand on the extremism of major companies: You’re winning.
OUR OUT-OF-CONTROL FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
In March of this year, Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was killed by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during a pre-dawn raid of his home.
It was an unwarranted and indefensible killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States.
Because we have a media that no longer serves in its traditional role as a government watchdog, this incident was not widely reported.
Because too many members of Congress no longer take seriously their responsibility to protect the rights of those who elect them, the ATF has suffered no repercussions.
How and why did this killing take place?
Dressed in SWAT gear, together with Little Rock police, they showed up in ten vehicles at Malinowski’s house before dawn on March 19.
They cut the power to his house and put a piece of tape over the doorbell camera so that Malinowski couldn’t see who they were.
Less than a minute later, after an exchange of gunfire, Malinowski was dead.
THE BARBARY APES OF GIBRALTAR
These are the only wild monkeys in the entire continent of Europe. Originally from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and named for Moroccan Berbers, they stowed away on various ships of Portuguese, Spanish, and Arabs centuries ago and made themselves at home on the Rock of Gibraltar.
Although locally called apes as they are tailless, they are a kind of monkey called a macaque. There are some 300 living on the Upper Rock today in five “troops.” Originally looked after by the British Army under an Officer of the Apes, their health and population is now managed by the Gibraltar Veterinary Clinic.
They stay contentedly up on the Rock and are rarely seen down in the town below. You can approach them and seem to love to pose for photos, but don’t get too close. These are wild critters and may bite if alarmed. With that caution, you’ll have no problem, and enjoy being around them. One more thing that makes a visit to the Rock of Gibraltar so fascinating. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #245 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
TRUMP-HATING MEDIA BLAMES THE VICTIM
Donald Trump needs to stop wearing those short skirts. Otherwise, he’s going to get himself assassinated.
That seems to be the message of the mainstream media after the second attempt on the life of the former president and Republican standard-bearer.
As sickening as it seems, the reality is right there in front of us: The Democrats’ Leftmedia bootlickers have gone from decrying political violence to blaming the victim for political violence — at least when that victim is Donald Trump.
Trump, then, is the equivalent of a rape victim.
And our vile, loathsome, despicable media is blaming him, saying he asked for it.
THREE TYPES OF ASSASSINATION: THE DESPERATE EFFORT TO ELIMINATE TRUMP
This article is about three types of assassination.
The first, which President Trump has endured nonstop since he first entered the political arena, is character assassination.
The second is legal assassination, sometimes called “lawfare.” The term is appropriate, because it is derived from warfare.
This is the attempt to lawlessly, but under the guise of law, bankrupt, ruin, defame and even imprison a dangerous political opponent.
In extreme cases, this opponent might even face life imprisonment, which is a legal equivalent of the death penalty.
(Murderers are often given the death penalty or life in prison, which some people say is a fate worse than death.)
And finally, when all else fails, there is actual assassination.
These three types of assassination are connected, and typically one leads to another.
THE DEAD MAN’S HAND
This is where Wild Bill Hickok was shot and killed by assassin Jack McCall on August 2, 1876 in Deadwood, South Dakota.
The No. 10 Saloon is where Hickok had been playing five card draw that day. He was uncomfortable with his back to the bar (the furthest chair in the photo) and asked another player, Charlie Rich, twice if he could switch seats so his back would be to the wall behind – and twice Rich refused (the chair on the left).
A miner who had lost at cards with Hickok so badly that Wild Bill gave him money to eat, Jack McCall, came in, walked to the bar behind Hickok seeming to ask for a drink, and suddenly without warning pulled his pistol shot Wild Bill in the back of the head, killing him instantly.
Four cards in Hickok’s hand were showing – two black aces and two black eights, forever to be known as The Dead Man’s Hand. (The fifth or hole card was down and is not known.)
McCall was hung for the murder, buried with the noose still around his neck. Hickok is reverentially interred at Deadwood’s Mount Moriah Cemetery with a large bronze monument immortalizing the single most renowned man for whom the Wild West was named – James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #227 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE MARXIST-FASCIST HATE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND MEDIA HAS TO STOP
[This is the Address to America that President Trump needs to give now—JW]
As you well know, a second attempt on my life has happened. I would like to explain the cause and what can be done about it.
President Ronald Reagan often said the political spectrum of Left and Right – Communists and Marxists on the extreme left and Fascists and Nazis on the extreme right – made no sense. He advocated instead a spectrum of Up and Down regarding the purpose of government.
Up would be best expressed by our Declaration of Independence – that what comes first is the inherent right of every individual citizen to their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, for which the existence and purpose of government is to protect those individual rights from threats against them, domestic criminals and foreign enemies.
Down at the bottom would be all forms of Totalitarianism, both Fascism and Communism, Nazism and Marxism, which together in common advocate the abolishment of individual freedom.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – ON THE MATTERHORN SUMMIT AGAIN WITH MY SON
When my son Brandon turned 14, he asked me, “Dad, you climbed the Matterhorn at 14. Could we climb the Matterhorn together now that I’m 14?” It was 1998 and I was 54. I didn’t think I could do it, but his request meant more than the world to me, so I agreed. Each with our own bergführer guide, he breezed up, but it was a real struggle for me.
He made it, my guide didn’t think I could, so after summiting, Brandon came back down to get me. We climbed the last 500 feet together. Thus here we both are on the summit of the world’s most famous mountain. There are no words to come close to expressing what this means to each of us. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #35 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WOMAN WHO MADE CAREER SINGING ABOUT HER BAD CHOICES ENDORSES KAMALA
U.S. — A singer who has made her entire career out of writing songs detailing her horrifically bad choices has announced her choice for President: Kamala Harris.
Pop icon Taylor Swift, who has written a veritable library of songs about her being a poor judge of character, made the announcement last night. "I know I'm internationally renowned for regretting every major decision in my life, but this choice will turn out different, I just know it," said Swift. "She's the one!"
A longtime Democrat, Swift's songwriting is known for chronicling how each man she thought would be the one turned out to be a total scumbag, but she was too blind to see it. More recently, her writing has evolved to explaining how she's mentally unstable and makes terrible, destructive decisions about other things in her life outside of romantic relationships.
"Who better than Taylor Swift to decide if a person will work out or not?" said Swift fanatic David Muir. "If you stacked all of her ex-boyfriends on top of each other, you could reach Neptune, okay? That's what we call 'experience'. She's got so much experience making wrong decisions, who better to decide what's right?"
At publishing time, Swift had reportedly begun penning a breakup song after learning that Kamala is really more of a Britney fan.
- Babylon Bee reporting.