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ESCAPE FROM AMERICA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 18 November 2010 |
Folks - get ready for
your brain to go on a roller coaster ride. Buckle up...
The best rum punch in the Caribbean
is made by Captain George Clarke, who
owns the Sweetfield Manor B&B in the Barbados. Late last month (October), I was enjoying his
libation while watching a truly glorious ocean sunset when we were joined by a
couple who had just arrived from New York. They looked like they needed a drink.
George poured them each a glass from his ever-full pitcher,
sprinkled a little grated nutmeg on top, and said, "Welcome to the Barbados. What would you folks like to do on the
island?"
They cast a glance at each other. After a long sip and a long sigh, the lady
answered, "Escape from America."
In response to my, shall we say quizzical glance, she held
up her glass and said, "After two or three of these, maybe I can explain." We enjoyed the sunset quietly. I took a picture of it that was so good
George offered to exchange his secret rum punch recipe for it.
There was a rustling in the trees above. "That's a troop of green monkeys," George
explained. "They usually come through
about now. Green monkeys escaped from Africa
on a boat some three hundred years ago..."
George let this comment hang in the twilight air, so I
followed it up with, "For centuries, people have been escaping to America. You folks want to escape from it?"
George poured them another rum punch. The lady wiped a tear from her eye. "Yes, from,"
she answered, "... we can't stand it anymore, we have to get out. What happened to me at the Newark
airport coming here was the final straw."
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LIVE FREE OR DIE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 |
That's the state motto of New
Hampshire - right on NH license plates. Most consider it a rephrase of Virginian
Patrick Henry's immortal "Give me liberty or give me death." That's the personal message. Yet it's also a message to America: if America
ceases to be free, ceases to extol and value the individual liberty of its
citizens, America
as a nation will die.
The voters of New Hampshire
absorbed this message with a vengeance last week. Before then, the NH bicameral legislature - called
the General Court - had a Dem majority of 225 out of 400 in the state House and 14 out of 24 in the state Senate.
Get ready for the new numbers: on Nov 2nd, the Republicans went from 175 to 297 in the House and from 10 to 19 in the Senate. Both are veto-proof super-majorities, which
will come in handy when they repeal the homosexual "marriage" law Dems passed
last year. Dem Gov John Lynch's veto
will mean nothing.
A lot of America
followed NH's lead last week. The GOP gained
675 state legislature seats nationwide, the most since 1928. It will now control Congressional
redistricting for the 2012 election in 13 states with 165 districts - while the
Dems will have four states with 40 districts.
This on top of:
Governors - before
11/02, 26 Dem 24 GOP; now 19 Dem 29 GOP (via cheating by Quinn in IL; MN
undecided)
Senate - before
11/02, 59 Dem, 41 GOP; now 53 Dem, 47 GOP (via cheating by Murray
in WA, Bennett in CO, and Reid in NV)
House - before
11/02, 238 Dem , 178 GOP; now 189 Dem, 240 GOP (via Dem cheating in all close
races; 6 still undecided)
Let's not focus on Dem cheating. That's what Dems do, thanks to their
ends-justify-the-means Marxist morality.
Let's focus on the extraordinary conservative triumph over the
cheating. A great majority of Americans
chose last week to live free and not die.
We really had something to celebrate at the TTP Victory Rendezvous this
past weekend.
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UNLEASHING AMERICA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Tuesday, 02 November 2010 |
I'm sure you're pretty happy today. Not quite as happy as you would be if Little
Harry Reid had lost - but realize that he'll be Senate Majority Leader for only
two more years.
Every two years roughly one-third of the Senate's 100 seats
are up, but the party balance shifts.
This year it was even, 18 Rep and Dem seats up each. In 2012, it will be 10 Rep and 25 Dem seats
up for grabs. The odds for a GOP Senate
majority will be high.
(Note that those 25 Dems include Joe Lieberman and Bernie
Sanders who call themselves "independent," and just-elected Joe Manchin and
Kirsten Gillibrand. Since the latter two
are filling out Robert Byrd's and Hillary Clinton's terms, they have to run
again two years' hence.)
So - taking the Senate was a bridge too far this year. Let's instead be overjoyed at the awesome massiveness of the GOP/Tea Party
victory yesterday and the concomitant obliteration of the Zero-Pelosi Agenda
for the Ruination of America.
And you're asking:
Yes, Jack, I'm happy and drank way too much Famous Grouse in
celebration, but - what happens now?
Good question. Here we go.
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DEMOCRAT KOOL-AID |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Monday, 25 October 2010 |
Georgetown, Guyana. You may think you've never heard of this
place but you have.
The former British Guiana (one of the
three Guianas - the other two being former Dutch Guiana,
now Surinam,
and French Guiana, all on the northeast shoulder of South
America) - is these days visited by folks into eco-tourism. This place has one of the most untouched
rainforests on earth with an astonishing variety of bird and wildlife.
But Guyana
doesn't ring a bell with you because of harpy eagles and howler monkeys. How about Jim Jones and Jonestown? Yes, that
Guyana, where,
on November 18, 1978, over
900 Americans committed mass suicide on orders of their cult leader.
It remains one of the most bizarre events of modern times -
from which the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" originates, meaning blind
unthinking acceptance of a suicidally idiotic set of beliefs.
Yet almost no one knows just what, exactly, were the beliefs
of the "Peoples Temple"
cult created by Jim Jones. Some sort of
weird religion, right?
Nope. Jim Jones calling
his Peoples Temple
a "church" was a tax-avoidance scam as it was purely secular. He admitted in a taped interview, "I'm
an atheist." He was not a religious
leader. He was a Stalin-admiring far
left San Francisco Democrat.
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WILL AMERICA BE A SERIOUS COUNTRY AGAIN? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 21 October 2010 |
Soufriere, St. Lucia.
Thirsty? How about a cool
one? Will this place do?
I'm here on business (along with Chile,
the Caribbean island nation of St.
Lucia has the freest economy and lowest taxes
in the Western Hemisphere), but who could resist taking
a break at this place? Looking out onto
a view like this would certainly, I thought, give my brain a break from anxiety
over November 2nd.
No such luck. Not
even this place will shut my brain up, nor quell the disquiet. I've been going around the world for two
months now - and it's caused me to think more than ever about America
and her place among the nations of the world.
The one question that keeps reverberating in my head is: Will America be a serious country again?
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