Dr. Jack Wheeler
THE ISLANDS OF SERENITY
Mulafassur waterfall below the village of Gasadalur is only one example of the serenity of the Faroe Islands. They’re a self-governing Danish possession in the North Atlantic halfway between Norway and Iceland. You won’t find a place of more captivating serene and peaceful charm.
Warmed by the Gulf Stream, in the summer it’s so strewn with wildflowers the roads are known as “buttercup highways.” At every turn along them you’re stunned by the incredible scenery. The capital of Torshavn is so laid back the Prime Minister’s Office – the Løgmansskristovan – is a wood cabin with a green grass sod roof. Great beer from the Faroes’ two breweries is always flowing in the pubs, where the Faroese islanders welcome you like an old friend.
You can easily fly here from Edinburgh, London, Copenhagen, or Reykjavik, Iceland . A few days here will do wonders for your soul. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #18 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
SHOOT TO KILL
Confronted with anarchic violence in the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination in April, 1968, Daley issued the above directive to all Chicago police officers: they were to “shoot to kill” those perpetrators. The violence ended in less than 48 hours.
In 1968, it was the Black Panthers conducting the violence. Today it is BLM/Antifa. Imagine how our current fascist thugs would fare under Richard Daley.
THE LOST CITY OF DJADO
In the remotest center of the Sahara Desert lies an unknown, unexcavated mysterious lost city known as Djado. No one knows who built it or when. Lying on the ancient Roman trade route from the Saharan salt mines of Fachi and Bilma to the Mediterranean, the Djado oasis flourished for a thousand years (the 1st Millennium AD), but has been forgotten and abandoned for many centuries.
The only people who live near Djado in the vast desert wasteland where Algeria, Libya, Chad, and Niger come together, are the wandering Toubu nomads with no permanent settlements. It is an indescribable experience to explore such a wondrous lost city right out of an Indiana Jones movie that you have all to yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #17, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE WISDOM OF JOHN HOSPERS – A PERSONAL MEMORY: PART THREE
[This is the concluding Part Three of my Festscrifft to the memory of Professor John Hospers (1918-2011), my mentor under whom I gained my doctorate in philosophy, and the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in 1972. Part One was in TTP two Mondays ago (7/27), while Part Two was last Monday (8/10). It will appear entire as a chapter in the forthcoming book, "Libertarianism and the Libertarian Party at 50 and Beyond," edited by Stan Oliver and C. Ron Kimberling.]
PART THREE
Once again, I was gone all that summer – swimming the Hellespont for the second time, then overland through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. When I got back that Fall of ’73, John had a question for me: “Have you ever heard of a fellow named Mike Oliver?”
“It rings some kind of bell,” I answered, playing for time. Finally the bell rang. “Oh, yeah – wasn’t he the guy with that Minerva Reef thing – tried to create a new country in the South Pacific on some unclaimed reef underwater at high tide called the Republic of Minerva until that huge fat king of Tonga put a stop to it?”
It was one of those rare times when I made John laugh out loud. “Well, you might describe it that way. In any regard, I’ve gotten to know him. He’s starting his New Country Project again, and wants to meet you.”
“Me? How come?”
TANTRIC BHUTAN
The most fabulously exotic country on earth is the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. The Bhutanese religion of Tantric Buddhism is here exemplified by a prayer hall wall painting of Yab-Yum – the physical union of Compassion and Wisdom. Male compassion is personified as the deity Samvara with a blue body, multiple faces and arms. He embraces his consort of female wisdom Vajra-varahi.
It is important to understand that Yab-Yum is considered a sacred act as a path to Enlightenment. It is just one example of how Bhutan may stretch our comfort zone to learn ancient ways and practices, giving us a broader perspective on our humanity. For an in-depth understanding of Bhutan’s extraordinary culture, consider joining our Wheeler Expedition to the Land of the Thunder Dragon this November. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #16 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/07/20
Let’s talk about the Four Stages of Drunkenness.
Every drunk guy at a bar starts at the first stage by suddenly believing I’m handsome! After another couple of drinks he’s convinced I’m rich! More booze and he realizes I’m bulletproof! The final fourth stage is the revelation I’m invisible! After which others at the bar prove he isn’t by treating him to a knuckle sandwich.
Our Democrat political, social, business, and media elite are just like that guy – drunk at the bar of fascist power. From Hidin’ Biden in his basement to blue state mayors and governors to Libtard celebrities in super-wealthy enclaves – they are sure of their invisibility to the BLM/Antifa terrorists they’re rooting for to destroy America.
Funny how sobering it is when their invisibility gets a knuckle sandwich of reality. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan was pro-terrorists until they went after her own home.
So enjoy this delightful story of ereyesterday (8/05) from America’s worst-governed city: Crime Soars in NYC’s Wealthy Upper East Side as Democrats Move to Defund Police.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – RETRACING HANNIBAL OVER THE ALPS WITH ELEPHANTS
September 1979 – my Hannibal Expedition took two elephants over the same pass Hannibal used in 218 BC across the Alps to attack Rome. There is only one pass that fits the contemporary descriptions of both Greek historian Polybius and Roman historian Livy: The Col du Clapier on what is now the French-Italian border.
Unrecognized as Hannibal’s Pass in 1979, it is still a roadless trail today crossed only on foot or mountain bike. But since our expedition, there are now signs proclaiming it La Route d’Hannibal, and even a life-size statue of an elephant at the French village of Bramans where the track over the pass begins.
The photo you see is us climbing high above Bramans (I’m the one in front with the red backpack). It took us five days to carefully guide our elephants (from an Italian circus) over Clapier and down to the Italian village of Susa. First time in 2,197 years and never repeated 41 years since.
Hannibal’s crossing the Alps with elephants is one of the most epic events of world history. To retrace it yourself with elephants is to make that famous history a part of your life in the most uniquely powerful way. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #15 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
RUNWAY ABLE
It is a profoundly somber experience to stand here on this abandoned weed-strewn airstrip. For this is Runway Able on Tinian Island in the Northern Marianas, where 75 years ago today, on August 6, 1945, a B-29 nicknamed Enola Gay piloted by Capt. Paul Tibbets took off with Little Boy in its bomb bay bound for Hiroshima – and three days later on August 9, a B-29 nicknamed Bockscar piloted by Maj. Charles Sweeney flew off with Fat Boy in its bomb bay headed for Nagasaki.
This lost bit of tarmac is the most consequential airstrip on earth. Be prepared for a deep complex of swirling emotions if you ever stand here yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #14 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE SANDS OF THE TAKLA MAKAN
When Marco Polo crossed the Tien Shan mountains and reached the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar in 1273, he faced an enormous desert of endless dunes called the Takla Makan, meaning “You go in, you don’t come out.” To avoid this fate, the Silk Road at Kashgar splits in two – above to the north of the dreaded sand sea via the oases of Aksu and Turfan, and underneath to the south via the oases of Yarkand, Khotan, Charchan and Charklik. The two routes came together beyond Lop Nor, the eastern extension of the Takla Makan, at the oasis of Dunhuang.
His father Niccolo and uncle Maffeo had earlier taken the northern route to first meet Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, but now with Marco they took the southern route. They traveled in caravans of two-humped Bactrian camels, often crossing dunes on the edge – just like the photo you see. In 2008, I retraced Polo’s route along the southern route – part of it by motorized hang glider. He would be fascinated, I’m sure, to see what a camel caravan looks like from the air! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #13 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
INSIDE GIBRALTAR
We’re all familiar with the famed Rock of Gibraltar, huge and imposing from the outside – but inside the Rock itself is the enormous St. Michael’s Cave with fantastical formations colorfully illuminated. For millions of years, rainwater created fissures in the Rock’s limestone widening into huge caves with the steady drip of mineralized water creating massive stalactites hanging from cave ceilings and stalagmites rising up from cave floors. A phantasmagorical experience.
Gibraltar has been a British territory since 1713 when Spain ceded it in the Treaty of Utrecht. Thus also high up inside the Rock are the Great Siege Tunnels the British dug then lined with cannon emplacements to defeat Spain’s attempt to seize Gibraltar in the 1780s. Walking through the tunnels, you peer below looking down where the Spaniards and their French allies were vainly dug in – and where there is now an airplane runway stretching across the isthmus.
That’s just a glimpse of what to discover visiting Gibraltar, as there’s so much more! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #12, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE WISDOM OF JOHN HOSPERS – A PERSONAL MEMORY: PART TWO
[This is Part Two of my Festscrifft to the memory of Professor John Hospers (1918-2011), my mentor under whom I gained my doctorate in philosophy, and the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in 1972. Part One was in TTP last Monday (7/27). The concluding Part Three will be next Monday (8/10). It will appear entire as a chapter in the forthcoming book, "Libertarianism and the Libertarian Party at 50 and Beyond," edited by Stan Oliver and C. Ron Kimberling.]
PART TWO
Entering [Dr. Hospers’] office beaming, I cheerily said, “Hi, John!” to the august professor at his desk. “Welcome!” came his reply. “You look happy.” I gestured with my thumb back towards the door. “Yes, so happy to be here – and I love your cartoon!”
He bade me sit down, and after a while he said, “Let me ask you something – have you heard of what’s being called “anarcho-capitalism”?
HAWAII IN EUROPE
Equivalent to the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific are the Azores in the European Atlantic. You’re looking at Lagoa das Sete Cidades (Lagoon of the Seven Cities), an example of the Azores’ astounding beauty. As Hawaii is a part of the US, the Azores are a part of Portugal – since the 1430s first discovered uninhabited.
Everything grows here, cedar forest to giant tropical tree ferns, fruit from citrus to tropical, plants from corn to taro. Flowers are riotously everywhere. The sea swarms with fish being on the main Atlantic migration route for whales and dolphins. The islands are immaculately cared for by Azoreans, no pollution, air sparkling clear, weather in the 60s in winter, 70s in summer, so peaceful they are virtually crime-free.
Azoreans love drinking parties, cheerful festivals, and bright colors – with their charming homes painted the color of key lime pie, raspberry mousse, or oceanic blue. They love liberty so much they’ve had this motto emblazoned on their coat of arms for centuries: “Antes morrer livres que em paz sujeitos”—" Rather die free than live in peaceful subjugation.”
This is one of our planet’s truly magical places. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #11 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/31/20
This is no hyperbole. Calling someone a “Nazi” is, along with “Fascist” the most ignorantly over-used hyperbolic insult the Democrats can hurl at anyone they hate.
Like the insult “Racist,” they have divested these insults of meaning, as are schoolyards taunts, “You stink!” or yelling “Boo!” and hissing at a referee’s bad call at a football game.
To call someone a Nazi for real is serious business. It’s accusing them of wanting to commit genocidal slaughter of fellow human beings on a massive scale. It’s accusing them of advocating a politics of criminal insanity, of being irretrievably evil and criminally insane themselves.
Yet that is what the Democrat Party has become before our eyes in broad daylight. The clinchers came this week.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY — “THIS IS YOUR LIFE”
June 15, 1961. It was quite a shock to me when I was the surprise guest on Ralph Edwards’ famous television show. My “Life” at age 17? How could that be? The show’s producers were intrigued by a recent Life Magazine story of my swimming the Hellespont as did Leander in Greek mythology (December 12, 1960 issue) that also had photos of me on top of the Matterhorn and with a Jivaro headhunter.
Without my knowing, they flew my guide for the Hellespont swim, Huseyin Uluarslan, from Turkey to LA, the same for my guide on the Matterhorn, Alfons Franzen, from Switzerland, to be on the show. Most amazing of all, they got the Chief Prefect of Police for Ecuador, Jaime Duran, to pick up Tangamashi (the Jivaro who adopted me) and his brother Naita by helicopter from their Amazon encampment, then fly them from Quito to LA.
I was dumbfounded. So there we are in the photo, left to right: Ralph Edwards, Jaime Duran, Tangamashi, Naita, a very young yours truly, and Ralph Ferguson, son of medical researcher Dr. Wilburn Ferguson who translated for Tangamashi. Quite a moment for a 17 year-old boy – and no doubt for Tangamashi! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #10)
MONGOL NOMADS ARE OBLIVIOUS TO US
These Mongol nomads in the vast grasslands of central Mongolia milking their goats have a way of life unchanged for centuries. All of our concerns, worries and fears that plague us are totally irrelevant to them. They don’t know about them and wouldn’t care if they did.
Spending time with people such as these gives you an invaluably broader perspective of life on our planet. Our concerns, the issues that dominate our headline news, suddenly seem more parochial and far less important. An evening drinking kumiss (Mongol beer, fermented mare’s milk) in their yurts, telling stories, laughing at jokes – you realize how easy it is to relate to them through the core humanity we all have in our souls.
Exploring Mongolia in this way is a priceless adventure. We’ll be there again in the summer of 2021. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #9 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
In these trying times, it’s important to appreciate the beauty of America – both the physical beauty like here at the McWay Waterfall in California’s Big Sur, and the moral beauty of America’s founding principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Driving through all 50 US states as I have done with my sons gives you an awareness of the astounding beauty you discover, together with the cheerful friendliness you’re met with, in every state. They overwhelm whatever ugliness and unfriendliness you may chance upon.
Studying American history in an unjaundiced way gives you an awareness of how a moral foundation of every individual American’s inalienable right to their own personal life and liberty and the pursuit of their own personal happiness has enabled the creation of the most successful nation ever to exist – a success of widespread freedom and prosperity that overwhelms the multitude of imperfections afflicting our country.
Earth is not Heaven, humans are no angels, America is far from perfect – and we must never let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It is only with love and respect can we help America strive towards what Aristotle called the Kalon, the morally beautiful. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #8, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
ELEPHANTS IN THE SAHARA
10,000 years ago, the Sahara was green, with lakes, rivers, and such an abundance of animals it was a hunting paradise for people who lived here. You’ll find their petroglyphs carved on to rock outcroppings like this that my son Jackson and I found on a Trans-Sahara Expedition in 2003.
The Milankovitch astronomical cycles that drive Earth’s climate produced a West African monsoon that greened the Sahara back then. When the cycles shifted ending the monsoon, the Sahara turned dry desert as it remains today. Political cycles that permitted a peaceful crossing of the world’s greatest desert have also shifted, making this too dangerous now.
A Trans-Sahara Expedition is one of the world’s great adventures. Hopefully, one will be possible again in the not-too-distant future. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #7 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE WISDOM OF JOHN HOSPERS – A PERSONAL MEMORY
[Last year I was asked to contribute a chapter for a Festschrift -- a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar – as a memorial to Professor John Hospers (1918-2011), my mentor under whom I gained my doctorate in philosophy, and the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in 1972. As publication has been delayed due to the current flu bug panic, I thought TTPers might find it interesting. Too long for a single article, it will be presented in three parts on Mondays. Feel free to comment on the Forum!]
PART ONE
It began on a beach in Malibu. It was the spring of 1966. I was in a crummy mood, reading this beat up paperback book only because a friend insisted. I wasn’t paying much attention for it was a beautiful sunny day and the waves were perfect for body surfing. Also, the book was massive, over a thousand pages long, and after slogging my inattentive way for over 300 pages I was about to give up.
Then I read these words: “So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Aconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money?”
THE MYSTERY OF THE REEF OF HEAVEN
In a remote corner of the Pacific Ocean, off the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia lies one of the world’s great archaeological mysteries: the only ancient stone city built on a coral reef. No one knows who built it or how.
Micronesians say their ancestors called it Soun Nan-leng, The Reef of Heaven. Their name for it today is Nan Madol, the City of Ghosts.
On artificial islets connected by a series of canals are massive walls up to 25 feet high enclosing temples, tombs, ritual centers, and platforms for thatch homes – all made of giant columnar basalt stone. Eons ago, lava flows on Pohnpei cooled into vertical pillars. Over a thousand years ago, ancient Micronesians began hauling these basalt logs miles away to build this stone city. With an average weight of 5 tons, 10,000 pounds – and some up to 25 tons, 50,000 pounds each – how they did this remains unexplained. It lies deserted today, abandoned and lost for centuries.
Paddling a kayak through the canal maze of Nan Madol to clamber over these monumental stone complexes in solitary silence – for visitors are rarely here – leaves you in a state of unforgettable awe. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #6 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/24/20
The Left’s current Hate America mantra is to accuse our country of “systematic racism” – the cosmic irony being that it’s true.
For decades, America’s laws, hiring practices, college acceptances, portrayals of villains in movies, on and on, have been systematically racist: towards Whites, White heterosexual men in particular. Today we have reached the culmination of this pathology: systematic auto-racism.
The most insane thing about the most thoroughly insane period in our lifetimes is the majority of people condemning “white privilege” are whites themselves. But the backlash has finally begun. Here we go with another amazing HFR!
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – GUINNESS AT THE NORTH POLE
April 15, 1981 – this is the exact moment when I landed on the sea-ice at 90 North latitude, the North Pole, to set a Guinness World Record for “The Northernmost Parachute Jump.”
On a Wheeler Expedition to the top of the world, we landed our ski-equipped Twin Otter on a configuration of ice called an “old frozen-over lead” precisely at 90N. My clients got out, we took the fuel drums out, rear door off, took off again with me, the pilot and co-pilot. I had pilot Rocky Parsons go up to 8,000 feet for a mile of freefall, directed him to the spot – tiny black dots of our people on the ice – told him when to cut the engines, and I was out the door.
OMG what a rush, falling straight down on the very top of our planet, a world of ice below – meadows of rubble ice, rivers of open water called leads snaking through the ice, lakes of water called polynyas, pressure ridges of turquoise ice, terminal velocity, back flips, somersaults, fun in the sky. Altimeter shows 2,500 feet, time to go – pull out the hand deploy, see the canopy furl out in full, grab the hand toggles, spin around for more fun, line it up to come in next to everyone, stand-up landing, Guinness Book. Totally cool. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #5 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WHAT WOULD HE THINK OF US?
This Xikrin-Kayapo tribesman and his people live in the deepest heart of the Brazilian Amazon on tributaries of the Xingu River. You wonder what he would think of us as panic, fear, and madness engulfs our civilization. Having spent time in his village not long ago, I’m confident he would simply shake his head in bewilderment and say, “Please just let us live our lives in our forest, that’s all we want.”
True indigenous tribes who keep to their traditional way of life are so rare now in the Amazon or anywhere else where they once flourished. Each one is a precious living cultural heritage of humanity. It is such a privilege when they share their way of life with you. They deserve to have their wish granted, as my tribesman friend would express it. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #4 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE LAND OF NOAH
We all know the story of Noah and the Ark told in Genesis (chapters 6-9). But do you know where Noah’s grave is? You’re looking at it. There is a tradition thousands of years old that he died and is buried here in the Land of Noah – Nakhchivan. [Click on “Read more” for the story]
THE GRAND PRISMATIC SPRING OF YELLOWSTONE
There are places in our world so staggeringly beautiful you have to see them to believe they exist. Yet those people walking along the foot bridge can’t see what you’re looking at. That has to be in the air, hovering from high above in a helicopter. We live in a world of such beauty it really does take your breath away. (photo ©Jack Wheeler)
GLIMPSES OF OUR BREATHTAKING WORLD
[Today we introduce a new feature of TTP – a one-photo glimpse of some breathtaking place on the Earth that is our home. Each photo is taken by (or of) me, with a short description. In these difficult times, it is important to realize how extraordinary is the world we inhabit. We’ll try to make this a daily feature – I hope you enjoy it! –JW]
SURREALISTIC ART IN NATURE. You’ll find it in Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon near Page, Arizona. No artist could paint something more surrealistic than what nature has created here. You can explore the world to experience the greatest wonders of nature, but they are also to be found here in the American West. (Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/17/20
Welcome to “The Insanity Continues Unabated But POTUS Presses On Despite It” HFR.
As we all know, there’s one and only one reason why Governor Nuisance would put California back into a fascist lockdown again – to keep screwing people’s lives, their businesses, their jobs and livelihoods to prevent a V-shape economic recovery before the election.
Keep the fear porn going, keep the schools closed, force everyone – kids under no threat at all, every adult, not just those over 65 who could be in actual danger – to wear a Submission Mask, do everything possible to ruin America so it will ruin Trump on November 3.
Democrats have become a party of criminal insanity, a party of unabashed hatred for America, a party of unapologetic evil. How could they rationally think they could defeat Trump with that platform? How could they possibly be ahead in the polls? What sane decent normal person would vote for them?
Let’s look for what might be answers.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/10/20
Last Friday night, Fourth of July Eve (and after the HFR was posted), at Mount Rushmore our President Trump spoke directly to the heart of every patriotic American.
TTP had both the full video and text the next morning (7/04) of his magnificent speech: July 4, 1776 – The Most Important Day in the History of Nations.
After the speech came the celebratory fireworks show above Rushmore that you see above.
Then came the Demtard-Woketard demented condemnation. As the week progressed, the gap between Light and Dark, Good and Evil, Freedom and Fascism, Prosperity and Impoverishment continued to widen and deepen.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/03/20
The largest monthly jobs increase in US history was announced yesterday (7/02) for June. No wonder POTUS is celebrating:
We should celebrate too, not only this great V-shaped recovery news, but also tomorrow’s 244th anniversary of our extraordinary country’s birth. Let’s start right now.
On April 11, the Opening Day of Major League Baseball in 1994, the Texas Rangers had the world’s most famous classical pianist, Van Cliburn (who grew up in Fort Worth) perform the Star-Spangled Banner. Be thrilled, have a tissue for your tears, and reflect on those days of decency years ago.
THE SULTAN ASTRONOMER
You’re looking at something historically and scientifically astonishing. It is what remains of an astronomical observatory built 600 years ago – in 1420 – by a Sultan in Central Asia who loved science and mathematics more than war and conquest.
Born Mirzo Taraghay, he is known to history as Ulugh Beg (“Great Ruler,” 1394-1449).
Grandson of the nomadic conqueror Tamerlane (1336-1405) who devoted his life to war upon other peoples as did his ancestor Genghiz Khan, Ulugh Beg ruled over Sultanate of Turan, known to the Romans as Transoxiana – the land between Central Asia’s two great rivers, the Oxus (now the Amu Darya) and the Jaxartes (the Syr Darya), from his capital of Samarkand.
It was in Samarkand, the most fabled oasis of the Silk Road, that Ulugh Beg built his circular observatory, three stories high of white marble.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/26/20
The most heinous perversion of symbolic art in world history is that of the Swastika – Sanskrit for “the goodness of existence.” This Roman mosaic in Tarragona, Spain, is 2,000 years old, yet the Swastika is far older – carved onto mammoth ivory by Ice Age hunters in Ukraine 12,000 years ago.
Why from time immemorial has it represented eternity, prosperity, the centeredness of all that is? Look up into the sky on a clear dark night. All people have studied the heavens for eons. You could always know where you were by finding North, for the two front stars of what we call the Big Dipper point to it – always.
The Greeks called it Mega Arktikos, the Great Bear – why we call Far North the Arctic today. The ancients saw the Bear every year rotating around Celestial North – now occupied by Polaris, the North Star – through all four seasons, while all the stars in the sky circled around it every night. What do you see in this depiction of that seasonal rotation?
Here we go with another HFR mind-blow!
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/19/20
Juneteenth, schmoonteenth. The only solace for a week as ghastly as this is comic relief.
Yet this was a week that grief for what has happened to America is washing over any hope for her. Take this heartbreaking story (6/14): Teen Who Makes Teddy Bears for Children of Fallen Police Officers Receives Death Threats for Her Kindness to Police.
This is but one example of so many overwhelming us now that makes it clear: November 3rd is no longer a choice between Republican and Democrat. It is a choice between Decency and Depravity, Freedom and Slavery, Civilization and Savagery. A future or no future at all.
As always, the HFR provides solutions to how achieve the formers and reject the latters.
AFRICAN SUNSET
This 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. I told you all about our Africa Dream Safari in January. It filled up fast – but then you know what happened to us and the whole world.
We’ve rescheduled it with new dates, August 1st to 11th. We can now take one, possibly two more couple(s) and maybe one single. Enjoy the description and all the cool photos below, and if you’re serious about joining us, email me at [email protected] for a special discount I may be able to offer you.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/12/20
Evil Eye pendants, Khiva, Uzbekistan, Central Asia ©Jack Wheeler
Welcome to the Root Cause HFR. Libtard Groupthink’s mantra is the demand to solve the “root causes” of what they hate about America. That turns out to be what they call the “systemic racism” hardwired into America’s DNA from the inception, at which they peg the year 1619.
This is going to be a different HFR. Rather than itemizing and discussing the significant events of the week, we’ll be exposing the root cause of the whole dog’s breakfast that’s driving America insane right now – either cowardly or criminally so.
For it turns out that the Libtard DemFascisti are right – the root cause problem is systemic racism, but it is the opposite of what they think it is. Thus here is the explanation of the real systemic racism that is killing America.
Veteran TTPers will be familiar with this, and why it is embodied in the pendants pictured above. Not so much for our newer members. Reminder or revelation, what follows needs to be clearly understood by every American patriot if we are going to cure our country.
WE OWE US – BLACK LIVES MATTER OWES REPARATIONS TO THEMSELVES
He owes $14 trillion to himself
Robert Johnson, notes Wikipedia, is the first Black American Billionaire. He made it on his own. Only in America could he have achieved this. Yet on June 1st, he had the pathological effrontery to spit on his country in order to curry favor with – and avoid the envy of – the racist thugs of Only Black Lives Matter.
On CNBC, he demanded that the US Government – meaning taxpayers like you and me – pay $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to “help reduce racial inequality.”
The incoherent racism of this is testimony to how the fear of being envied can turn even brilliantly successful businessmen’s brains into mush. So let’s straighten Bob out.
We’ve been here before. So much so that in TTP back in February 2004 – yes, over 16 years ago – I wrote We Owe Us: The Real Case for Reparations. We’re going to slightly revise it for today.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/05/20
The irony is almost unbearable – American heroism in space, Anarcho-Fascist violence tearing American cities apart below.
Shortly after witnessing the successful SpaceX launch last Saturday (5/30), the President delivered a remarkable address at the Kennedy Space Center.
I have waited many years for such a presidential declaration. My Aeschylus and America in 2004 expressed it in the section on “Aeschylus and Neal Armstrong” – that we had a failure of nerve in the face of the rest of humanity’s envy for the greatest achievement in the history of mankind, America’s landing a man on the Moon.
We retreated from space, from Vietnam, from everywhere. Ronald Reagan rescued us, then proceeded to achieve the impossible once again, America ridding the world of the Soviet Union to peacefully win the Cold War. We’ve been retreating from that heroic pinnacle ever since. Until, that is, we rejected retreat and strove for greatness instead as we did with Ronald Reagan, and elected Donald Trump.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/29/20
These two pictures of Memorial Day Commemoration on Monday (5/25) have starkly contrasting messages. The one above projects courage to live without needless fear, the one below projects the necessity of needless fear.
Patricia McCarthy in her The Mask Police of the Left this week (5/27) notes that we didn’t have this virtue-signalling tyranny when the Chicom-Democrat-Media Virus was at its peak. Now that we’re opening up and we know it’s no more or even less lethal than seasonal flu, all of a sudden everyone has to wear a mask. Why? Because:
CDM – THE CHICOM-DEMOCRAT-MEDIA VIRUS
Yesterday (5/27), the Communist government of China ruled to end Hong Kong’s autonomy. It is the latest perfidy demonstrating how the Beijing regime is humanity’s greatest enemy of freedom in the world today.
But only the latest – far from the worse.
Chinese Communist – or Chicom for short – evil is epitomized by its founder, Mao Tse-Tung, being listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Greatest Mass Murderer in human history – and reconfirmed by scholar researchers in Mao’s Great Famine
And today, his political heirs in Beijing have pulled off a feat of utter depravity that would have made Mao proud.
MEMORIAL DAY FLAG SKYDIVE
©Jack Wheeler
My skydiving buddy Chris Wentzel and I made this flag jump on Memorial Day years ago to pay tribute to those in our military who gave their lives for America. I’m on the right, Chris on the left. The jump was performed at the Skydive Perris drop zone in Perris, California. It’s only fitting I post this on TTP in honor of those whom we memorialize in gratitude on this day.
HALF-FULL REPORT 05/22/20
We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore is now America’s Response to the Fascist Lockdowns:
How, then, is Not Taking It Anymore being implemented? There are several ways. One of them involves putting Fascicrat Governors in jail.
HOW TO SEND THE LOCKDOWN GOVERNORS TO JAIL
And bankrupt them as well.
You know their names. Cuomo, Newsom, Whitmer, Inslee, Pritzker, Murphy, Northam, Wolf. You know how their psycho lockdowns have ruined countless lives and businesses.
What you may not know is that one particular executive order of theirs has caused the death of hundreds, even thousands in their state – and for each one they can be criminally liable and sued personally.
We’ll start with New York’s Gov. Cuomo.