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EURIPIDES’ RECIPE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
Last month, Tom "Take ‘Em Out"
Tancredo (R-CO) set off another political tsunami when he proclaimed on a
talk radio show that if Moslem terrorists attacked America with nuclear
weapons, we should respond in kind by wiping out Mecca.
Everyone from the terrorist accomplices at CAIR to the
terrorist appeasers at State was suitably outraged. Which was fine with Tom, for the whole purpose of his remark was
to rattle their cages. And to add a
whiff of substance to the whispers about Project Ultimate Deterrence.
You learned about it almost three years ago (10/04) in Mad in Mecca -- the possibility that there already is
a W-80 warhead from a cruise missile secretly buried somewhere in Mecca and
satellite signal-ready to detonate with enough plutonium to render Islam's
holiest site uninhabitable for several thousand years.
This was further discussed (1/05) in George Bush and the
Sword of Damocles: Why There hasn't
Been Another 9-11.
Yet holding Mecca as a nuclear hostage is not the only
strategy in Ultimate Deterrence. There
is another: Project Jahannam. You learned about it a little over a year
ago (4/06) in No Moslems
Go To Heaven, and again this spring (4/07) in Jahannam in Jolo.
Jahannam is Arabic for Islam's Hell.
It's all part of something called Euripides' Recipe.
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HOW MERV GRIFFIN ENHANCED AND EXTENDED THE LIVES OF MILLIONS |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 16 August 2007 |
I first met Merv in 1977.
Intrigued by my book, The Adventurer's Guide which explained how
regular folks could have great adventures around the world, he had me as a
guest on The Merv Griffin Show.
We hit it off so well that I ended up being a co-host for
his shows featuring famous adventurers and explorers as guests, such as Thor
Hyerdahl, Jacques Cousteau, and Lowell Thomas.
Whenever I got back from my latest adventure, living with
cannibals in New Guinea, skydiving on the North Pole, taking elephants over the
Alps, I'd get a call from Merv asking how soon could I be on the show.
One conversation with Merv, however, ended up affecting the
lives of millions for the better, quite possibly yours. Millions of people in America are alive
today, will live longer, and are in better health because of this one
conversation I had with Merv. It wasn't
on his show. It was in a restaurant at
the Riviera Hotel in Vegas.
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THE BOURNE ABSURDITY |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
I took my sons, Brandon and Jackson, to see the latest
episode of Matt Damon's film franchise, The Bourne Ultimatum. Like its predecessors, The Bourne
Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, it's great edge-of-the-seat
entertainment and extremely well-directed, a first-rate example of action-genre
film-making craft.
For anyone who knows anything about the CIA, it is also
totally absurd.
You probably know the films' premise. Damon plays Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin who
has suffered amnesia due to a botched hit attempt. His efforts to recover his identity and memories arouse the
suspicion of CIA officials running illegal secret programs, who then send out a
succession of assassins to eliminate him.
The term "CIA assassin," of course, will bring an instant
guffaw of cynical laughter to those familiar with Langley. Proof that such folks do not exist is that
Hugo Chavez is not dead.
Movies love to portray CIA "assets" (as the Bourne
films call them) as incredibly skilled and deadly, ruthless professional
Terminators - whose mission is to hunt down either each other or innocent
civilians, never actual bad guys and real enemies of the US.
Why can't Hollywood make a spy-action flick with at least a
semblance of reality to it - say about a super-agent faced with world-class
incompetence and collusion of CIA operatives in Pakistan, who end-runs them and
goes for the villains within the Pakistani government who run both the Taliban
terrorists and the heroin smuggling in Afghanistan?
That's what's really going on - the CIA led around with a
Pak ring through its nose, rather than the movie image of hyper-efficiency and
competence - and Hollywood is as clueless about it as Barack Hussein Obama
Junior.
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THE ARCTIC OCEAN PIE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
While chilling here in Sumatra (see Sumatra Sunrise)
after writing an exposition of one entire ocean (the Indian: see The French Ocean),
I never thought I'd soon be writing about another, and one so far away.
Yet the Russians' stunt of planting their flag on the bottom
of the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole is such a dangerous joke that I'm
compelled to do so. The joke is on the
Russians, for there already is an American flag planted there.
Evidently, the six Ruskie explorers in their Mir mini-subs
didn't look around very much when they reached the sea floor at 14,000 feet
down. If they had, they would have seen
the stars and stripes - or at least what it's encased in.
It's quite a story of how that American flag got there. And it provides quite an opportunity to
create an Arctic Ocean Pie - one that the UN doesn't get a slice of.
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SUMATRA SUNRISE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 02 August 2007 |
It's a funny thing about epiphanies - you never know when or
where you'll have one. This particular
one of mine came appropriately enough in a church - but this was a church in a
village called Tuk Tuk on an island in a lake in Sumatra.
It was the joyous singing of the congregation that triggered
it, a congregation composed of families, of men and women and children of all
ages joined together. The contrast
between this seemingly ordinary Sunday service in a small Christian church with
that of a mosque -men only, chanting like joyless robots, their children not
with them, nor their wives whom they force to hide behind veils and burqas, was
overwhelming.
For these courageous churchgoers live on a Christian island
surrounded by a Moslem sea. Sumatra is
part of Indonesia, a country with the world's largest Moslem population. My heart went out to these people happily
singing and celebrating their faith.
Tears began streaming down my face and they would not stop.
They were tears of gratitude and hope - for I believe these
people will not succumb to Islamization but triumph over it. Here in Sumatra there is a Christian
sunrise.
I am going to encourage you to come here, to Lake Toba, and
experience this yourself. After all, in
what other magical paradise on the planet can you get a good meal for a dollar
and a hotel room for $25? A spacious
room with a balcony that has this view:
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