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ENHANCING AND EXTENDING YOUR LIFE WITH DURK PEARSON

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 2, 2013

A Special Announcement: To The Point is co-sponsoring, along with Life Enhancement Magazine, a Life Enhancement Symposium with Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw in Las Vegas, March 22-24.

Shortly after Merv Griffin, the beloved talk show host, passed away in August 2007, I penned a tribute to him in To The Point, How Merv Griffin Enhanced and Extended the Lives of Millions.

I told the story of how I introduced Merv to one of my dearest friends, Durk Pearson. He was a completely unknown scientist with an IQ so high MIT could not measure it. It was 1978, and Durk was dedicating his IQ to figuring out how to live healthily for a very, very long time. What's more, Durk could explain how to do so with incredible clarity.

35 years have passed since Durk's first appearance on Merv. The amount of anti-aging research, the number of years added and quality of life improved for so many millions of people stemming from it is incalculable. But as Durk and his partner in science Sandy Shaw say, there is so much more to come!

The latest advancements in life extension science are astounding - but how do you learn about them?

To enable TTPers and friends of To The Point learn about where Durk & Sandy's latest research is leading, my wife Rebel and I are co-sponsoring, along with my friend Will Block, publisher of Life Enhancement Magazine, a rare public appearance of Durk & Sandy at a Life Enhancement Symposium in Las Vegas next month.

The length and quality of your life may indeed depend on what you learn at it.

THE BULGARIAN ESCAPE HATCH

Dr. Jack Wheeler August 5, 2011

This is the Rila Monastery, one of the several World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria. Over a thousand years old, its breathtaking frescoes have been immaculately maintained.

Rebel, Joel Wade, Alex Alexiev, and I had such a wonderful time with our fellow TTPers here last June that we're going there again at the end of September.

We discovered so many lucrative opportunities that we called this place The Bulgarian Escape Hatch. As our economy is being destroyed by Zero, assisted by a wimp-out Congress, Bulgaria's is booming. It's as business-friendly as Zero has made America business-impossible. I'd like you to consider joining us.

CRYPTOHIPPIE

Mark Gilligan July 31, 2009

Everyone once in a while during life you discover something new and genuine that is truly a surprise. This week was just one of those experiences and I would like to share it with you.

Amongst our TTPer midst is an entrepreneur who has an amazing company that enhances your personal safety and security. He will remain nameless unless he chooses to reveal his identity to us.

Before I tell you more, here's the background. When you log on to the Internet, you do so via an ISP, an Internet Service Provider, whose servers monitor and record all you do - every email, chat, Web page, everything.

And if the police or Feds tell your ISP they need to see your record of your online activity, the ISP must provide it. Nervous yet? It gets worse.

EVIDENCE THE CLINTONS ARE SCREWING OBAMA

Dr. Jack Wheeler September 15, 2008

To The Point has long maintained that the Clintons will do what they can to make sure Obambi loses in November - for only then does Hillary have a chance for the White House in 2012.

Now there's more evidence.

In a private meeting earlier this month (9/10) in his Harlem office, Clinton met at his request with the publishers of a major online news site. I cannot be more explicit at the request of my source.

After claiming Obama will win because his campaign has registered two million new Democrat voters, Clinton casually mentioned:

"You know, one thing that nobody has really checked out yet is Obama's long-standing and deep relationship with Louis Farrakhan. It's going to really hurt him badly once it's fully disclosed."

Hint: research and reveal Obama's connection with the most rabidly anti-Semitic black racist in America.

CHOOSING A PRINTER

Dennis Turner September 29, 2006

When I moved to Israel years ago, I brought with me all my worldly possessions, among them a 300 dpi laser printer - quite an expensive gadget in those days.

It was so pricey, in fact, that I remember having to leave a huge deposit at the airport; the customs inspectors said that I would have to return with paperwork proving that I needed it for business if I wanted to get my money back.

And now? Printers are practically throwaway items! Actually, there ain't so such animal as a "printer" anymore. Nowadays, the only printers with decent output are part of "all-in-one" machines that include faxes and scanners as well as three- and even four-color printing.

Though printers are more powerful and cheaper than they have ever been, and they come with a raft of features, they are, for the most part, really and truly flimsy.

Compare these printers with the one I brought with me to Israel. It was solid enough to make the trip in an airline luggage hold and survive to tell the tale. I dare you to try that with most of the printers you can pick up in stores such as Office Depot nowadays.

Chapter Twenty-Three: MALINCHE AND MONTEZUMA

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 17, 2006

When they woke up the next morning, Cortez and Malinali bathed in the freshwater pool in their courtyard, and strolled among the sweet-smelling fruit trees and rose bushes in their palace garden. "My captain," she asked him, "you have chosen this day to meet the Great Montezuma and enter Tenochtitlan. What do you call this day and why have you chosen it?"

"This day is November 8^th in the year of Our Lord 1519. There is nothing special about this day - it just happens to be the day we have come here. Why do you ask, my Lady?"

"Because all the people of Tenochtitlan, I have heard, are talking about this day. They went to sleep last night in terror, including Montezuma. For just as you chose to arrive in the land of the Mesheeka in a 1-Reed year, Quetzacoatl's year of return, so now you choose to enter the Mesheeka capital on a 1-Wind day - the one day of the year that bears the sign of Quetzacoatl in his guise of the whirlwind. The whirlwind that brings upheaval and destruction. The whirlwind that brings, the Mesheeka are whispering, the ‘disembowelment of the world'."

"The whirlwind?" Cortez exclaimed with a snap of his head. He stopped, clasped his hand around Malinali's and held them tightly. "Every Christian who reads the Bible knows the story of the prophet Hosea," he told her. "He warned his people of Israel that God would allow them to be conquered for their unfaithfulness to Him. This happened many, many centuries ago[1]. Yet his famous warning seems now to be directed at the Mesheeka:

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the grain shall have no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: and if it does, strangers shall swallow it up.[2]

"The Mesheeka have sown the wind with their evil. I know I am but a sinful man, not this god they confuse me with. But the One True God acted through Hosea, and these constant coincidences between me and these legends of Quetzacoatl are perhaps saying that He has sent us as the whirlwind which the Mesheeka must reap, that we are the strangers who must swallow up their evil."

Malinali's eyes were wide with wonder as they gazed into those of Cortez. "That is what my father prayed for, that is what I prayed for, my Captain, and that is what I now believe. Let us both pray to the Christian God in thanks for this whirlwind."

[1] ca. 750 BC.

[2] Hosea 8:7.

How Can TTPers Help? — and Mormons and Monogamy

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 19, 2004

Our new monthly rate makes it really easy for most anyone to subscribe. If you know of any websites or "blogs" whose readers would be in tune with To The Point, you could suggest that they link to us....

...The schism [between monogamous and polygamous Mormons]will perhaps not be resolved until the LDS leaders remove Joseph Smith’s revelation of July 12, 1843 sanctifying polygamy from the canonized Doctrines and Covenants, one of the four standard books of the Mormon Church.

OFFENDING MOSLEMS IS NOW THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Robert Spencer May 6, 2015

[This is the text of Robert Spencer's address at the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland Texas on Sunday, May 3^rd, just hours before two Moslem terrorists were gunned down trying to murder the attendees.]

A very good friend of mine told me right before I left for this event that - you're just poking them in the eye, you're trying to provoke them. You know, why are you doing that? You're the one that's being offensive. And this was a friend, you know, and I was kind of taken aback. And I had to stop and think - well, what exactly is wrong with that?

And what's wrong with that is that this is only offensive because Moslems have made it offensive.

Okay, so we have to not draw Mohammed, because that'll poke them in the eye and offend them. And then we have to not be Jewish, because that will poke them in the eye and offend them. And then what? Okay, I guess pork and alcohol are out. Okay, and then what?

The Islamic State - the Islamic State is beheading people and taking sex slaves, and subjugating the Christians under the hegemony of the Islamic law. And they're doing it all on the basis of Koranic directives. And so that's all Islamic. So I guess we can't say a word about that. Because that would poke them in the eye and offend Moslems.

You see, step by step by step, we're ending up going in the direction of accepting Islamic law. Let's put it this way: Every Western media outlet that refuses to publish the Mohammed cartoons is accepting Islamic blasphemy law.

I say it's time for a little cultural self-assertiveness.

RATING THE PUB CONGRESS

Richard Rahn March 10, 2015

How would you measure congressional success?

Even though the new Congress is only two months old, there has been much criticism of both the leadership and the members. The Republicans promised to reduce government spending, reform the tax code, and reduce the regulatory burden.

There are objective ways to measure whether they will have reduced government spending.

Total government spending includes the amount state and local governments spend, some of it transfer payments from the federal government, money spent by the federal government on defense, interest, "entitlements," including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and all other federal government programs.

Despite most of the entitlements being labeled "mandatory spending," in fact, Congress can alter these programs and thus can determine how much is spent on them.

In order to measure whether Congress is indeed reducing spending, it is important to establish the appropriate baseline. In this table, I have taken total government spending minus the amount that state and local governments raise and spend on their own.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS AN ANTI-SEMITE

Caroline Glick February 16, 2015

Barack Obama is mainstreaming anti-Semitism in America.

Last week (2/09), apropos of seemingly nothing, in an interview with Mathew Yglesias from the Vox.com website, Obama was asked about terrorism. In his answer the president said the terrorism threat is overrated. And that was far from the most disturbing statement he made.

Moving from the general to the specific, Obama referred to the jihadists who committed last month's massacres in Paris as "a bunch of violent vicious zealots," who "randomly shot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris."

In other words, Ahmedy Coulibaly, the Moslem terrorist at Hyper Cacher, the kosher supermarket he targeted, was just some zealot. The Jews he murdered while they were shopping for Shabbat were just "a bunch of folks in a deli," presumably shot down while ordering their turkey and cheese sandwiches.

Obama's statement about the massacre of Jews in Paris is notable first and foremost for what it reveals about his comfort level with anti-Semitism. The bottom line is that he is embracing anti-Semitism and Islamic fascism more nakedly by the day. Let us count the ways.

THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 22, 2015

Ceuta, Spanish Morocco. The Greeks called them "The Pillars of Hercules," pushed apart by their legendary hero to link the Atlantic with the Med on his way to perform one of his Twelve Labors. A monument here commemorates the myth.

From here you can easily see the famous Rock looming across the straits even through the fog.

That was where the Moslem invaders from Africa aimed for in the year 711, led by their general Tariq ibn Ziyad. Their invasion successful, the invaders named the Rock Jebel Tariq - the Mountain of Tariq - in his honor. When the Christian knights of Castile finally kicked the Moslems out in 1462, they gave the Rock its Spanish pronunciation, Gibraltar.

The great historical irony is that The Moslem Conquest of Spain - which could have been the Moslem Conquest of All Europe had not Charles Martel defeated the invaders at the Battle of Tours in 732 - was made possible by a Christian traitor, the ruler of Ceuta at the time.

9/11 AND THE 10TH COMMANDMENT

Dr. Jack Wheeler September 11, 2014

Any adult in America knows where they were 13 years ago today.

In the days following the Moslem Atrocity of 9/11, if someone had predicted 13 years hence that instead of having wiped Islamic Terrorism from the face of the earth, we'd still be cowering in fear of its threat, they would have been thought deranged. Yet we are.

How is this possible?

Let's ask another question. In his TTP column this week, Richard Rahn contrasted "aspirational societies" where productive work and success are not punished, with societies consumed by envy. He sums up America's crisis with one devastating observation:

"The United States used to be an aspirational society, but has increasingly become an envious society."

How did this happen?

It turns out that these two questions - among the most critical questions we can ask of our country today - have the same answer.

The answer starts with our society's failure to follow the 10^th Commandment of Exodus 20:17 -

TIME WELL SPENT

Dr. Joel Wade June 26, 2014

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past.
- T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton"

Time is a continuous, objectively measurable forward movement. We measure it with the rotation of the earth, the orbit of the earth about the sun, and the tilt of her axis relative to that sun as we make our way about it, seen through the changing seasons.

While the mechanics of time in a basic way are well understood, our experience of time and our relationship to time is complex, and can hold the key to our experience of life itself.

Phil Zimbardo, professor emeritus of Stanford and author of The Time Cure, (famous also for the Stanford Prison Experiment, a classic study in our susceptibility to the abuse of power), describes six different time orientations. Our happiness is dependent to a large degree on our relationship to them.

UNDERSTANDING OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY

Michael Ledeen February 18, 2014

I don't think it's hard to understand Obama's foreign policy. Although there's a lot we don't know about him, his basic impulses are clear enough. He's told us what they are (although, to be sure, he often misleads and obfuscates), and his actions are in keeping with his announced impulses.

Furthermore, there's nothing unique or surprising about them - you can hear them in our classrooms and our college dorms, and read them in the establishment press every day. He's an establishment member in high standing.

Voilá: He believes that most of the serious problems in the world are the result of past American actions. Call it imperialism. Call it meddling. Call it arrogance (as the Iranians do). Whatever you call it, it means that pre-Obama policies were bad.

Ergo, it's mostly Bush's fault. (Shorthand for "before me, they didn't understand. Anything.") It follows that the single most important action to ensure good policies is...

TIME FOR HAPPINESS

Dr. Joel Wade August 29, 2013

Time is a continuous, objectively measurable forward movement. We measure it with the rising and setting of the sun, the orbit of the earth about the sun, and the tilt of her axis relative to that sun as we make our way about it, giving us the changing seasons.

While the mechanics of time in a basic way are well understood, our experience of time and our relationship to time is complex, and can hold the key to our experience of life itself.

It turns out that we all have a relationship with time and our life that is very personal, and over which we have a good deal of control, which can change our experience of life and our level of happiness dramatically.

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