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TIMEOUT FOR STORYTIME |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
It's time to take a break from the wearisome incessancy of
politics and presidential campaigns 24/7.
So gather around, boys n' girls, and let me tell you a story about moral
debauchery during the greatest age of intellectuality mankind has ever known,
about kings and concubines, dukes and adulterers, heroism and war, with an
ending that will change the way you look at the most mundane everyday thing.
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NO PAULISTA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
I might as well confess upfront
- I have misgivings about writing this.
It's because a good number of TTPers, several of whom I've come to know
and like personally via our Rendezvous, are passionate "Paulistas," or
advocates of Ron Paul (R-TX) and his campaign for the presidency.
My misgivings come not from fear
of offending them but my regard and respect for them. They are decent, sincere folks who truly love their country. They are also smart and not easily conned,
politically or otherwise. So there has
to be a lot in Paul's message that's worth their passion.
That said, I'm no Paulista, and
it's about time I explained why.
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WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM MEN IN BLACK ABOUT 2008 |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
Nope, this is not an alien joke like Alien Al, much
less one regarding the PIAPS, who was born only 3½ months after Roswell.
It is about the history lesson taught so arrestingly by
Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K in Men In Black.
2008 is going to be a stressful year for a lot of
folks. The fate of America, the fate of
Western Civilization, the fate of mankind, will be decided this year - as far
as folks who enjoy being Drama Queens are concerned.
As we plunge forward into the fateful unknown of 2008, let
us, then, take a deep, calming breath and listen to the soothing words of Agent
K.
His partner, Agent J played by Will Smith, is freaking out
as a newbie man-in-black, unglued over the alien threat that will destroy the
Earth in the next half-hour.
Agent J: Man, we ain't got time for this... I don't know whether or not you've
forgotten, but there's an Arquillian Battle Cruiser that's about to...
Agent K: Kid, there's
always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an
intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this little planet,
and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they... do...
not... know about it!
Welcome to the history of the
world.
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OBAMA IN KENYA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
Barrack Hussein Obama Junior will not win or lose the
Democrat Party's presidential nomination in Iowa or New Hampshire or elsewhere
in the US. He'll win or lose it in
Kenya.
That he'll lose it there is the fear of his campaign advisors
who wear green eye-shades. That he'll
win there is the hope of his campaign advisors who have both brains and
cojones.
Last week in The 2008 Carpe Diem
Filter, we noted that an ideal presidential candidate would be someone who
knows how to carpe diem - who looks at problems as opportunities, who
would best be able to recognize and maximize the opportunity in a crisis.
Fate has just given Obama such a make-or-break
opportunity. Will he confidently use
it, or will he wimp out, showing the world he's not the hero of his believers'
mythology, but the Obambi phony his detractors claim?
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CHARLIE WILSON AND RONALD REAGAN'S WAR |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
This picture was taken during my wedding on May 25, 1986. The ceremony took place at the villa of a friend of mine in St. Tropez, France. My bride was a gorgeous California redhead named Rebel Holiday (yes, her born name). The dapper gentleman you see between us was serving as my best man. The reason he doesn't look like Tom Hanks is because he's the real Charlie Wilson.
So it was a strange experience for me to see the movie Charley Wilson's War, a movie portraying events I participated in, to see how it was both true and not true at the same time.
Hanks portrays Charlie as the hero he really was. A larger-than-life America-loving Communist-hating true blue patriot who used his power and influence to the max to stick it to the Soviets big time. That Hollywood would make a major motion picture about a genuine Anti-Communist hero, about a noble Anti-Communist triumph over the Evil Communist Empire of the Soviet Union is morally thrilling. The movie is magnificent.
Not taking anything away from the magnificence, it is also ludicrous.
http://www.rebelholiday.com/
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