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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/20/09 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
Perhaps you've enjoyed reading about how Israel
has "brushed
off" Zero's demands for no more Jews in Jerusalem. Zero has now stamped his foot and claimed it
was "dangerous"
for Israel to ignore
him and build more homes for its citizens.
Israel
shrugs.
It is becoming blindingly obvious that Zero's antipathy to Israel
is due to his being a Third World America/Israel-hating Moslem at heart. There couldn't be clearer evidence for this
than his appointing radical Moslems to key positions in the Department of
Homeland Security.
We
should not be surprised that someone who bows to the King of Saudi Arabia would
do this. What did America
expect by electing someone with three Moslem names and attends a church that
prays for God to damn America?
Zero's
election is an ultimate object lesson regarding the masochism of the fear of
envy.
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THE DOMINO OF HONDURAS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 |
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. It is an overwhelming, inspiring experience
to be here. There are no people in the
world more worthy of our admiration and respect right now than Hondurans.
For the initial background on the situation here, see The Bravest Country
In The World from last July. This is
what's happening now.
First, the description of Honduras
in the State
Department Travel Warning is a lie.
The US
ambassador, Hugo Llorens, is the most despised man in Honduras
for his bootlicking of Mel Zelaya, and insists on warning Americans not to come
here.
This country is at peace.
There are no roadblocks, no problems of any kind that I saw. Everything is normal. There are no demonstrations. I went to all four entrances to the Brazilian
embassy where Zelaya is holed up. They
were blocked by concrete barriers and armed police guards - who couldn't be
more bored for there was absolutely nobody, not one single lone demonstrator
for Zelaya to be seen.
From taxi drivers to businessmen to shoppers in the malls to
folks on the street, Hondurans are extremely proud of how their country stood
up to the bullying of the world. "We are
the little country that could," is an expression you hear often.
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WE'RE NOT OUT OF ACES YET: or The Apple Farmer, The Gambler, and Chicken Little |
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Written by Rebel Holiday
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
People often ask me what it's like being married to Jack Wheeler. One interesting aspect of all these 26 years
talking with Jack is that he is Mr. Macro, Mr. Global, Mr. Big Picture
Philosopher.
By contrast, I am Ms. Micro.
Naturally a people-person, my career has involved working with individuals mostly in business since
1997, before that training men and women in effective change in their lives
since the 1980's. While I was focusing
on how individuals and businesses change and make things happen, Jack typically
thinks about how America
and other countries change.
Influenced by Jack's macro interpretations of what America is going through,
it seems to me that America has been living like that Kenny Rogers' The Gambler. Perhaps in more ways than we care to face.
The song admonishes, "You never count your money when you're sitting at the
table," which may also turn out to be one of America's
mistakes.
The Gambler continues, "I can see you're out of aces..." and for America
that could be a grim reality or possible future. This is a lot of what we hear lately on the
news, and for good reasons. But there's only so much value in seeing the down
side. And we're not out of aces yet.
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AMERICA HAS A HUMILIATED FOOL FOR A PRESIDENT |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
President Obama took his massive ego and sparse
historical knowledge to Asia last week. The results were so ugly even the New York Times took
notice. Obama's Pacific Trip Encounters Rough Waters was its headline
over a news analysis yesterday (11/19).
The humiliation began in Singapore,
continued in Japan
with his now-infamous bow to Emperor
Akihito, and climaxed in China where his communist hosts made
an utter fool of him.
Throughout it all, he remained cluelessly oblivious to his
humiliation.
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IS OBAMA CAMPAIGNING TO BE A ONE-TERM PRESIDENT? |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
What were President Obama and
Attorney General Eric Holder thinking when they decided to try Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, the chief architect of the 9/11 attacks, and four other al Qaeda
bigwigs in a civilian court in New York City?
From the standpoint of politics,
this decision makes no sense. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp.
poll released Monday (11/16), only 34% of Americans support the decision to try
the al Qaeda bigwigs in a civilian court. 64% say they should be tried by
a military commission, as the Bush administration was planning to do.
The decision is unlikely to grow
more popular with time. At a minimum, a highly publicized trial will
remind Americans of the 9/11 attacks, something Democrats have been encouraging
us to forget.
The potential consequences for the United States of extending to these terrorists the
constitutional rights afforded U.S. citizens in a civil trial are grave. And should the terrorists walk due to legal technicalities, Mr. Obama's presidency will be in the grave.
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FORT HOOD AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN TERRORIST |
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Written by Alex Alexiev
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
Much has been written already
about what happened at Fort Hood last
week but precious little as to why it happened. To understand why it happened
it may be useful to start by reminding ourselves again that the mass murder at Fort Hood was the
first act of suicide terrorism on American soil by a homegrown Islamic
extremist.
To come to this conclusion we
do not need to know what motivated Major Malik Nidal Hasan, but only that he
was a Moslem and that he was on a suicide mission. There is no doubt about the former and little
doubt that somebody embarked on mass murder in a military base had much hope of
coming out alive.
The real question then, is not
what made Major Hasan commit mass murder, but how he became a terrorist. It is
a question of seminal relevance given the strong probability that homegrown
terrorism might well be a greater threat to homeland security in the future
than foreign jihadists.
To understand the nature of the
problem a quick look at the origins and evolution of Islamic extremism in America and
its sponsors is essential.
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CLUELESS, DESPOTIC, OR BOTH? |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
Do you think people who refuse to (or cannot for whatever
reason) purchase health insurance should be subject to a $250,000 fine and/or
five years in jail?
Well, a slim majority of the U.S. House of
Representatives seems to think such a draconian (and probably unconstitutional)
measure is just fine because that is one of the provisions of the health care
reform bill they just passed.
A person, or group of people, who are unable to think
through the consequences of their actions and often resort to oppression of
others are either clueless or despotic. Thinking
and compassionate people, by contrast, understand that there may be many good
reasons why people do not buy, or do not wish to buy, health insurance.
The health care bill is Exhibit A to demonstrate that a majority of Congress is now
clueless/despotic when it comes to economic sense or understanding about how
the U.S. Constitution was designed to protect individual liberty. Then there are Exhibits B, C & D.
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IS THERE ANOTHER GOVERNOR LIKE SARAH PALIN? |
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Written by Dewey Whetsell
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 |
The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial
fishing town in Alaska. I
understand Alaska politics but
never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the
breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about
persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never
mention the things that I'm about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as
soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and
tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt
Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing
in State housing and wearing orange jump suits.
The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing
confetti and singing "la la la la" (well, you know how they are). Name another
governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. But while you're
thinking, I'll continue.
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THE SIGN OF THE YEAR |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/13/09 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
Roatan, Honduras. It's far easier to get from the US
to here than from Tikal, Guatemala.
It took me an entire day. You can fly from Houston (Continental) or Atlanta
(Delta) nonstop in less than three hours.
Roatan is the largest of the Bay Islands off the Honduran
Caribbean coast, 37 miles
long and five miles at its widest, home to 30,000, some 3,000 of whom are
expats from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.
Increasing numbers of Americans are figuring out that this
is the tropical paradise they've been looking for as a safety escape while
Hurricane Obama passes by. I'll have
lots more to say about it in my report on Honduras
next week.
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I just learned from TTPer Paul Rosenberg, developer of Cryptohippie,
that I am a character in a libertarian video game called 2011: Obama's
Coup Fails. It posits that after the
Dems suffer devastating losses in the 2010 elections, Zero suspends Congress
and rules by executive decree. An armed
rebellion breaks out.
The player (you) joins the leaders of the rebellion, known
as The Founders, in combat against the crumbling Marxist forces of Obama's
loyalist Black Tigers, the Islamic fundamentalist Nation of Malsi, and The Cong
- a group of de-elected Democrats.
Evidently, I am one of The Founders. In the Breaking News section of the game, a
news bulletin entitled "Hillary Clinton Finally Captured," dated March 15, 2011, begins:
"Upon receiving an anonymous tip, the forces of Jack
Wheeler, Ollie North, and the CIA were able to track down and capture former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."
I don't know the game designers, and just found out about
this from Paul. But it's cool, don't you
think?
That's the fun news.
Now for the ominous news.
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THE APOCALYPSE OF 2012 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
Tikal Mayan Ruins, Guatemala.
I just got a wonderful birthday present from my wonderful wife. Knowing that scuba-diving is my favorite
outdoor activity, and that I've dreamed of diving the famous Blue Hole in
Belize - that's what I got for my birthday.
It was incredible.
Just across the border in northern Guatemala are the
gigantic Mayan ruins of Tikal, so I
caught a bush plane over to here, and after exploring the ruins am now
ensconced in a lodge where I have an internet connection so I can write this -
while being serenaded by roars of howler monkeys and barks of toucans in the
surrounding jungle.
The Tikal temple
complex was built by an impressive and successful culture that flourished from
400 to 900 AD. Then it died. It wasn't conquered. It just collapsed, died, and vanished from
history, leaving behind only the extraordinary ruins overgrown with jungle, and
the Mayan people mired in subsistence poverty, totally ignorant of the great
achievements of their ancestors.
Sure sounds like a possible future for America,
the future the current White House occupant seems determined to have for
us.
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A "DO OR DIE" MOMENT FOR AMERICA |
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Written by Rebel Holiday
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
Veterans Day reminded me of how when I was a very little girl, my father, a WWII veteran, used to sing me patriotic songs from the 1940's. He particularly loved George M. Cohan and one song I remember vividly was, "Yankee Doodle Dandy." He would sing the lyrics of, "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy... a Yankee Doodle, Do or Die."
I thought it was a cute way of saying, "I'm an American, No Matter What," but now I recognize the message in the words, "Do or Die." This brings tears to my eyes because this is a "Do or Die" Moment for America.
Yesterday I completed an intense 27-day whirlwind tour in North America that took me to 14 cities in the U.S. and Canada, ending with an international business conference in Mexico. I can't even quite count the airports now as they all blur together. One of my intentions was to gain a better understanding of "where things stand" since we're going to discuss "what to do" on December 9th at the Plan B Conference in St. Louis.
So after this much time on both coasts and in-between I have a clearer impression of the situation. This is my Situation Report and Analysis.
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THE PASSIVIST LEFT |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
No, that's not a typo for "pacifist." I mean passivist.
One of the distinguishing strategies of the left is that its leaders use the
passive voice for many of the actions
and events that we as conservative/libertarian/classical liberals see as
volitional behavior.
This passive voice is what underlies
the entire progressive agenda. Through the progressive lens, people are at
the mercy of events beyond their control, so it is the government's job to
control and direct the actions of people, so that they behave properly, in
"their own best interests." It just so happens that it is the progressives who
believe they can decide what those interests should be.
As I wrote
last week, this is the same linguistic twist that criminals often do to
disassociate themselves from their crimes.
Criminals don't take a bit of responsibility for they do. Their violent
actions are usually stated in the passive voice: "The knife went in,"
instead of "I stabbed him," so there is no owning of the act, no
sense of agency for the results of their behavior.
The left does the same thing. A perfect example is their reaction to the Moslem terrorist massacre at Fort Hood.
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COURT-MARTIAL THE OFFICERS WHO IGNORED MAJOR HASAN |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
Major
Nidal Malik Hasan has shined a spotlight on the intellectual and moral
shortcomings of America's self-anointed elite.
Journalists
and Obama administration officials say they are unable to identify a motive for
Maj. Hasan's murder spree at Fort Hood. This is much more than a failure to connect the
dots. It is like looking westward from Denver on a bright and sunny day, and claiming to be unable to
see the Rocky Mountains.
Maj.
Hasan produced a pro-jihadi slide show which he inflicted upon his fellow
physicians at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He had "SoA," an abbreviation of Soldier of Allah,
printed on his business cards. He attended mosques where radicals
preached, and he tried to get in touch with al Qaeda. As he was gunning
down the defenseless soldiers around him, he was heard shouting Allahu Akbar (God is great.)
His Moslem
motive couldn't be more clear.
Worse
than the willful blindness with regard to his motives were the efforts by some
to make excuses for Maj. Hasan's behavior. Especially those in the Army who ignored his behavior.
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HEAR, SEE, SPEAK NO MOSLEM TERRORISM |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009 |
As President Obama belatedly appeared at Fort
Hood today (11/10), he did not dare
to speak the word "terror." He
did not use the word "Islamist." He did not even mention Islam at all.
We've already learned that Islamist terrorist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
attended the Northern Virginia mosque of Imam Anwar
al-Aulaqi, a fiery al Qaeda supporter who later fled the United
States.
We know that Hasan's peers, subordinates and patients repeatedly raised red
flags that his superiors suppressed. We know he was a player on
Islamist-extremist Web sites. The FBI's uncovering one extremist link after
another.
But to call this an act of terrorism, the White House would need an
autographed photo of Osama bin Laden helping Hasan buy weapons in downtown Killeen,
Texas. Even that might not suffice.
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