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PIRATES AND PUSSIES |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
The first thing to do regarding these ridiculous Somali
pirates running around the Indian Ocean in these tiny outboard motorized skiffs
hijacking $100 million tankers is read Civilizational
Confidence, written two years ago (December 2006).
It tells the story of how George Washington for the entire
eight years of his presidency paid ransom and extortion money to the Barbary
Pirates along the north coast of Africa. Then how finally Thomas Jefferson as
president sent the Marines "to the shores of Tripoli"
and took care of the problem.
It also explains what is "the key fundamental issue of our
day, the outcome of which will determine our future: civilizational confidence."
And that the collapse of civilizational confidence is suicidal
masochism.
So we have reached the bottom of that masochistic barrel,
with pirates in the ocean and pussies in the White House. Note the latter reference is also plural, for
it's hard to imagine how the future president could be more of a pussy than the
one we have now.
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THE EVIL OF THE FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
The November 4th election is being hailed as
"transformational." It certainly has
been personally transformational for me.
Grocery shopping at the local Giant supermarket is a very
different experience now. As I look at
all the people scrutinizing the fruits and vegetables, telling the butcher what
cut of meat they want, or walking down the aisles pushing their carts with a
list in their hand, they all look so normal, just like before last week.
Yet I know that a majority of them are either suicidally
insane, too stupid to know what they've done to themselves, or crypto-fascists. Before last week, they were all my fellow
Americans. Now I don't really know who
or what they are.
They, together with 60-odd million others, have decided to
lurch America
radically and thoughtlessly to the left.
Collectively, they are a cold-shower demonstration of the
self-destructive evil of the fear of the evil eye.
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DO SVIDANIYA |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
That's how you say goodbye in Russian (pronounced das veh-don-yah). Adios, comrades. Finita la musica. The music is over for Putin and all the other commies in the Kremlin.
Putin's personal fortune and the Kremlin's cash cow lies in Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly that supplies over 20% of the government's budget. Six months ago - last May - Gazprom (GAZP:RU) had the largest market cap of any company in the entire world, US$360 billion. It is now (11/13) $91b. It has lost 75% of its value and so has its share price.
Further, it has made a number of large acquisitions with its stock as collateral. Margin Call City.
That's gas. Let's take oil. The Kremlin says its budget is based on a price of $65 a barrel, while independent analysts think its at least $70. Yet the collapse of benchmark oil prices to below $60 currently masks the fact that Russia sells a lower grade, Urals Crude, than benchmark grades like Brent or WTI (West Texas Intermediate).
Today, Urals crude closed at $48.80.
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THERE'S GOT TO BE AN ELEPHANT IN HERE SOMEWHERE |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Friday, 07 November 2008 |
Ronald Reagan was fond of describing the ultimate optimist
as a young boy happily digging through a huge pile of horse manure while
yelling, "There's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"
So after six weeks in Eastern Europe,
Central Asia, and 7,000 kilometers overland
across Chinese Turkestan, I've returned to Washington
and the biggest pile of political manure in the history of America. I can't help thinking that Ronald Reagan
would say, "There's got to be an elephant in there somewhere."
First, though, let's dispense with two alleged "silver
linings" to this debacle. Both are
stupefyingly naïve.
One is that this election "heals" the wound of racism and
the legacy of slavery, so that nevermore can Sharpton-type race hustlers claim
that America is
an incurably racist nation.
This is delusionary.
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THE END OF THE SILK ROAD |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China.
As you can see from the map, here is where the branches of the Silk
Road came together.
From Dunhuang it was a straight shot through the "Gansu
Corridor" between the snow-capped Qilian (Southern) Mountains and the Gobi
Desert to the first big city in China, Lanzhou, and on to the capital of
ancient China, Chang'an (now called Xian, famous for the Terracotta
Army made for the mausoleum of China's first emperor, Chin Shi Wang
(259-210 BC) - after whom China is named although Beijing insists his name be
spelled Qin).
For the pilgrims, merchants, and traders who brought the
exotic goods of the West to the East, here is where the road ended. Finally they were in China. So it seems appropriate that I am here at the
end of the fabled Silk Road on the day when the American
Road of Freedom came to an end.
This is a day of true historical tragedy, when history's greatest
nation of its own free will decided to commit suicide for no good reason
whatsoever, an act of inexplicable mass insanity.
Yet this is not a time for bitterness or anger. It is, instead, a time to shrug.
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