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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/12/21

This is a Sky News Australia report on FPX’s “scary deterioration” during an announcement on Monday (3/08), when he could not remember the name of his Secretary of Defense (Gen. Lloyd Austin) and worse, could not remember the name of the Pentagon itself.

This doddering senile pedophiliac idiot has become the world’s most terrifying laughingstock – for his child-molesting fingers are the ones with access to nuclear launch codes.

Yet there are solutions to him and to the fascism his election theft has unleashed upon us.  Read on.

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KEEPING YOUR SANITY VIII

Headphones on, sound jacked way up, rock on with a crowd of 50,000 in Leipzig, Germany to the E Street Band improvise Chuck Berry’s classic C’est la vie, it goes to show you never can tell.

Music is a human universal.  There is no human culture known to history or anthropology that doesn’t have it (along with dancing to it, by the way.)  That means it’s genetic, hardwired by evolution into our DNA.    And that means it should be an important part of your life, of your sense of well-being – of your sanity.

Specifically, as TTPer Yasuhiko Kimura advises, listen to music you love.  Be sure and take a break, stop what you’re doing, and do nothing but just listen to a piece of music you really love.

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THE WITCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE

the-biden-campaignThe millions of Americans who were paying attention throughout the 2020 election campaign all became painfully aware of the fact that Joe Biden's cognitive abilities were slipping and slipping fast.

His wife, as the person closest to him, should have been the one to call the campaign quits in order to reduce stress on the man. Instead, so anxious to become the First Lady by any means necessary, Mrs. Biden continued to push her failing husband's campaign forward as if he were mentally qualified.

The woman is egregiously guilty of elder abuse for allowing poor Joe to suffer the indignities of encroaching dementia in public.

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HERD IMMUNITY FOR THE WOKE PANDEMIC

feelings-dont-careThere are tens of millions of Americans who either have been stung, or turned off, by McCarthyite wokeness (and thus have anti-wokeness antibodies). More have been vaccinated from its latest virulent strains by their own values of judging people as individuals, not as racial or gender collectives.

So lots of Americans have developed peremptory defenses against it. The result is that daily there are ever-fewer who are susceptible to the woke pandemic. And it will thus begin to fade out—even as the virus desperately seeks to mutate and go after more institutions.

Peak Wokeness is nearing.  Here’s why.

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CANCELING THE CANCEL CULTURE

cancel-culture-cartoonOn the left, the tumbrels are rolling again, delivering former icons like Dr. Seuss, Pepe Le Pew, and other enemies of the people to the cultural guillotines for immediate beheading.

Their crimes: their decades-old sensibilities are out of touch with those of the seething, humorless and frankly not very bright scolds who currently inhabit the fever swamps of Twitter, Facebook, and the editorial pages of the New York Times.

Go ahead, laugh; what could be more ridiculous than discerning “rape culture” in the broadly drawn behavior of a French striped skunk who’s been looking for love in all the wrong places since 1945?  So here’s how to cancel all this garbage.

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BLUE ANON IS FREAKING OUT THE WOKETARDS

Urban Dictionary definition
Urban Dictionary definition

A new term has entered the political lexicon in recent months, and it appears to have left-wing activists – woketards – sputtering with rage.

Conservatives on social media have been using “Blue Anon” to describe Democrats who believe in various government-sanctioned conspiracy theories, leading some on the Left to attempt to censor the potent term.  You won’t believe what happened next – just over the last few days.

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RUSSIA’S HISTORY AS A MARKER FOR ITS FUTURE

Memorial to Boris Nemstov on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow  assassinated here on February 27 2015
Memorial to Boris Nemstov on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow assassinated here on February 27 2015

Early spring in Russia is a season of awakening from winter slumber—and it is remarkably rich with hopeful historical markers.

The notion of “thaw” is forever connected with the liberating death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953, and the “secret speech” of Nikita Khrushchev to the 20th Communist Party Congress three years later, when the “cult of personality” was denounced.

Today, President Vladimir Putin may be busy building his own cult, but his address to the Federal Security Service (FSB), the organization that inherits the tradition of Stalin’s brutal all-penetrating KGB control, betrayed his fears of uncontrollable shifts in Russian society (Svoboda.org, February 26).

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SKYE’S LINKS 03/11/21

qanon-shamanThe fun has just begun and the sky isn't the limit!  Better watch out or the DMT-smoking QAnon Shaman who is your Facebook friend will get you!!

Far-Left Nation: Your Facebook Friend May Be Next ‘QAnon Shaman’

Something big is happening in Washington DC, even bigger than January 6.  The DC Swamp Dwellers are all nuts.  You'll need to read Eric Frank Russell's "The Space Willies" to understand just how utterly devastating that is. They have no idea what's hitting them, and will continue to hit them.  And they can't stop it...

FNC's Carlson: Lawmakers, Media Hyped Imaginary QAnon Invasion in D.C.

Arizona is serious about the Second Amendment:

Arizona Senate Passes Bill Declaring Federal Gun Controls Unenforceable

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – LIVING WITH HEADHUNTERS

living-with-headhuntersYes, that’s me at 16 (in 1960!) with Tangamashi, a Shuar Jivaro chief who adopted me into his clan. The Jivaros are the only people on earth who make a shrunken head of their enemies killed in battle – called a “tsantsa.”

They inhabit the Amazon rain forests of the Ecuador-Peru border; living with them was the first adventure I had by myself alone. Tangamashi accepted me, taught me how he made a tsantsa from an enemy’s head skin, took me blowgunning monkeys with curare-tipped darts, and introduced me into the Jivaro spirit world with a tea they called “natema” from the Banisteriopsis vine – a very colorful experience. How cool can you get for a 16 year-old kid?

It set me on a path of an adventurous life from which I have never wavered – and there’s no slowing down now. Another great adventure always awaits. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #25, photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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CLIMBING JACOB’S LADDER ON THE ISLAND OF SAINTS

jacobs-ladderJamestown on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic is two blocks wide and a mile long in a narrow deep ravine. One of the world’s longest straight staircases, Jacob’s Ladder, was an original way to get out – 699 steps each 11 inches high – and it’s a workout.

People who live here call themselves “Saints” and pronounce their island “sent-uhl-LEEN-ah.” It’s famous of course for where the Brits exiled Napoleon after Waterloo. His residence and gardens on a high promontory, Longwood House, is preserved with original furnishings and his death bed. Dying in 1821, he was buried in a beautiful peaceful glen nearby (in 1840 he was reinterred at Les Invalides in Paris).

After climbing the Ladder and visiting Longwood, you’d want to refresh yourself at one of Jamestown’s pubs, where local Saints will be happy to hoist a pint with you. And don’t pass up a visit to the Saint Helena Distillery, the world’s remotest distillery, to learn how Head Distiller Paul Hickling makes his memorable Prickly Pear Whiskey, White Lion Spiced Rum, and Jamestown Gin – all in unique stepping stone bottles in honor of Jacob’s Ladder. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #46 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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A SULTAN’S ARABIA

nakhal-castleNakhal Castle, Oman.  If you want to see an ultra-rich Arab sheikdom with exotically designed skyscrapers, you go to Qatar or Dubai. But if you want a more genuine Arabia of Sultan’s palaces, of forts and castles perched on rocky crags, of traditional villages tucked away in mountain fastnesses, of rock pools and grottoes gushing with spring water hidden in secret valleys, a place out of Arabian Nights rather than one of garish ostentatiousness – then you come here to the Sultanate of Oman.

Omanis are a polyglot people from all over Arabia, Persia, and India who’ve lived here for millennia, creating a cosmopolitan trading society that adheres to its traditional culture.  There are fabulous hotels with great bars, concerts by the Omani Philharmonic Orchestra, and once outside the capital of Muscat, an Arabian wonderland so exotic it seems out of a movie.  We’ll be here in the Spring of ’22. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #119 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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MAYA RUINS AND STAR WARS

maya-ruinsThis is Temple IV at the ancient Mayan capital of Tikal, now in northern Guatemala.  It was from the top of Temple IV that the shot in the original 1977 Star Wars movie was filmed of the Millennium Falcon landing (at 44 seconds) near jungle temples (Temples II and III) at the Rebel Base on the moon of Yavin 4.

Built in 740 AD, at 230 feet it is the tallest pre-Columbian structure in all the Americas.  While Tikal’s earliest buildings date to the 4th century BC, it was from 300 to 800 AD that Tikal flourished as one of the Mayan Empires most powerful kingdoms.

Then decline set in, with drought, deforestation, overpopulation, and constant warfare with rival kingdoms. With Tikal abandoned by the end of the 900s, it remained covered by rainforest jungle for over a thousand years. American archaeologists began excavations in the 1950s. Today with its major temples restored, Tikal is the most impressive example you can visit of Mayan civilization.  (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #118 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE ITCHAN KALA OF KHIVA

itchan-kalaThe inner town (Itchan Kala) of the ancient Silk Road oasis of Khiva has been unchanged for centuries.  Surrounded by 40ft-high snake walls that writhe around the city, its labyrinth of narrow lanes adorned with blue and aquamarine tile mosaics is a living museum for you to explore.

On the Oxus or Amu Darya River in deepest Central Asia, Khiva was ancient when Alexander the Great seized it in 329 BC.  It survived the depredations of Arabs in the 7th century, Mongols in the 12th, Tamerlane in the 13th.  The Khanate of Khiva continued to flourish on the Silk Road until conquered by the Russians in the 19th. Today in Uzbekistan, it remains as the best-preserved of the ancient oases of the Silk Road, yet unknown to the outside world.  We’ll be here once again this coming September.  (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #118 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 03/05/21

Gotta love MTG!

For two days in a row this week (3/02-03), TTP’s favorite Congresslady Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) spoke on the floor of the House wearing a “THIS MASK IS AS USELESS AS JOE BIDEN” face mask, denouncing Dem behavior and bills, then twice forced immediate adjournment “so that Democrats have time to reflect on their actions.”

The Dems have dumb as a stump AOC, while we have sharp as a whip MTG.  That mask message is a brilliant two-fer – the senselessness of mask mandates and China Joe mental deterioration.

Brilliant timing as well.  Lots of good and important news in this HFR – here we go!

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