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PEEKING BEHIND THE “HIRE ACT” CURTAIN

Mark Gilligan September 27, 2010

The HIRE ACT is a law passed by congress earlier this year to create jobs. The original idea on paper has been tweaked by labor unions and large construction companies to create revenue streams, using the newly created W-11 form from the IRS.

The specifics of the law can be found below, however sometimes reality is different than it seems. Here is how it is actually is being implemented, by some unions and construction companies.

Chapter Thirty-Two: “WE HAVE KILLED MALINCHE!”

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 11, 2007

[After an absurdly long bout of inexcusable procrastination, Chapter Thirty-Two of The Jade Steps in finally here. There are only two more chapters to go: The Sowing of the Whirlwind, and La Malinche, followed by an Epilogue. The end is in sight!]

The Jade Steps
Chapter Thirty Two: "We Have Killed Malinche!"

Cortez lay awake in his bedchambers at his headquarters in Tepeaca. He and his forces had returned from Huaquechula in time to celebrate All Saints Day and pray to those who had achieved the beatific vision in heaven that this "ultimate end of human existence" might possibly be granted to them when they die.

That was yesterday. Today, they held the Feast of All Souls Day, to pray for those departed Christian souls being cleansed of their sins in purgatorium. For some reason, he had felt an unusual uneasiness during the prayers at Mass, which he expressed to Doña Marina. Now he was even more uneasy, for where was she? Gone on one of her evening learning expeditions. This one was taking too long. He wished that she was next to him right now.

Suddenly she was. She had burst wordlessly into the room, quickly removed her dress, and snuggled up to him in their bed. A look into Cortez's eyes told her what he had been thinking.

And when he looked back into hers, he knew something was wrong. He waited for her to tell him.

YOUR PRAYERS MAY HAVE WORKED

Dr. Jack Wheeler March 15, 2007

I can't adequately express how appreciative I am for all the prayers by TTP members for me and my family in response to What's Dhimmitude in Russian?

There were even a number of offers to bodyguard my family or provide us with safe houses! It was so very touching I don't have the words. A number of the messages brought tears to my eyes. Thank you all so much.

I also must tell you how much your prayers for Paul Joyal have meant to his family. Paul's wife Liz sends you her deepest thanks.

As of today (Thursday 3/15), Paul is still in intensive care. He has begun to talk, but only physically, not lucidly - he can make sounds but not any sense. To be in this state after two weeks shows how horrible the attack on him was by the Kremlin-hired gunmen.

And now, two weeks later, I know why the Bush White House has been quiet about it.

CLEANING YOUR REGISTRY AND HARD DISK WISELY

Dennis Turner January 23, 2007

I've discussed playing with the Windows Registry in the past. Tweaking the registry is risky but necessary. As a constant reader of what's new on the net, I found a new safe registry cleaner that's easy to use and is free.

For Windows users, there's usually nothing riskier than playing with the all-powerful and awe-inspiring Registry. One wrong move - one incorrect click of the mouse, one letter, number or hash mark out of place - and you can kiss productivity good-bye, as you will be stuck for hours, if not days, reinstalling, recovering and retreading your computer's operating system and hard drive, seeking what once was, but has been lost.

And yet, the Registry needs treatment, once in awhile. A gunked-up Registry can seriously slow down your computer, if not paralyze it altogether. Windows fix-it sites will all give you instructions on what to look for and how to clean things, but you have to be careful - one wrong move, and you know what happens. It takes guts, wisdom and expertise to work the Registry. It's no place to fool around if you don't know what you're doing.

That's why I was so happy to get my hands on a new, easy to use, very safe, very wise and very free Registry cleaner...

SEND SWAYR TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 10, 2005

I received this terrific idea from TTPer Chris Landrum from Kennewick, Washington. It was in response to the No Apology article last week, describing how a number of folks at State and the Pentagon are sick and tired of our kowtowing groveling constant apologies to Moslems. Inspired by John Wayne’s famous line as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon - “Never apologize, son, it’s a sign of weakness” - these folks even sent a DVD of SWAYR to the White House.

Chris Landrum’s idea is to have a SWAYR to the White House campaign - hundreds, hopefully thousands, of Americans ordering the movie at Amazon and having it sent to President Bush at the White House, together with a letter demanding No More Apologies to Moslems.

Want to participate? It’s easy:

WHY IS BUSH ALL HAT AND NO CATTLE IN IRAN?

Michael Ledeen May 6, 2005

President Bush, along with Secretaries Rice and Rumsfeld, has not rallied to the side of the Iranian people, even though the Iranians have abundantly demonstrated their desire to be rid of the mullahs.

Two weeks ago there were massive demonstrations and work stoppages in the oil-rich regions, centering around the city of Ahwaz. The demonstrators called for an end to the regime, scores of people were killed, and hundreds were beaten and arrested. On May Day, workers again demonstrated against the regime, this time in all the major cities. In Tehran, strongman and likely president-in-waiting Hashemi Rafsanjani was hooted down by the crowd, and pictures of him and Supreme Leader Khamenei were torn down and trampled.

Yet no one in the American Government spoke a word of support for the demonstrators, and no one has yet endorsed the one thing that unites the overwhelming majority of Iranians, whatever their political proclivities: a national referendum on the legitimacy of the regime itself. If there were a national ballot on the single question — Do you want an Islamic republic? — the regime would pass into history overnight. But there is silence in official Washington.

HALF-FULL REPORT 06/12/15

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 12, 2015

We'll start the week by going from the ridiculous to the sublimely ridiculous.

The first: Malaysia has turned itself into a laughingstock joke of a country in front of the entire world. All to placate "mountain spirits," in reality the god Malaysians really worship, the god of anti-white racist envy.

For the sublimely ridiculous, we go to Sargodha, Pakistan - but be warned: do not be eating or drinking anything when you read or watch this.

Question: Can we do this with Somali ISIS wannabes in Detroit? Headline, Monday (6/08): In Terror Fight, Australia Debates Revoking Citizenship.

You may think we're losing the Culture War, but on two of its most important fronts there's very good news. Also very good news in the Danger Is Opportunity Department.

And of course, the best news of the week: that early this afternoon (6/12), Obamatrade went down in flames in the House, 302-126. This is a massive defeat for Zero, and for the entire Pub Rino Establishment. The whole thing is a garbage bag of weirdness.

We'll close with a look at who's becoming the most intriguing prez candidate of all.

AMERICAN DARK AGES

Victor Davis Hanson June 10, 2015

History is not static and it does not progress linearly.

There was more free speech and unimpeded expression in 5^th-century BC Athens than in Western Europe between 1934-45, or in Eastern Europe during 1946-1989. An American could speak his mind more freely in 1970 than now.

Many in the United States had naively believed that the Enlightenment, the U.S. Constitution, and over two centuries of American customs and traditions had guaranteed that Americans could always take for granted free speech and unfettered inquiry.

That is an ahistorical assumption. The wish to silence, censor, and impede thought is just as strong a human emotion as the desire for free expression - especially when censorship is cloaked in rhetoric about fairness, equality, justice, and all the other euphemisms for not allowing the free promulgation of ideas.

Welcome to Dark Age America - a Pre-Enlightenment Age when groupthink acceptance of a lie replaces truth on grounds of social utility. When current popular culture is not empirically grounded, but operates on the premise that truth is socially constructed by race, class, and gender concerns. When, in our current Dark Age, logic is ignored in lieu of ideology.

HOW HILLARY PLANS TO CHEAT HER WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE

Phyllis Schlafly June 9, 2015

Hillary Clinton has laid out her game plan for winning back the White House for herself and her husband next year. Let's hope Republicans are paying attention.

Seeing as Clinton won't have the youthful exuberance that propelled Obama to his unlikely double victory, she plans to build a whole new electorate out of people who didn't vote for Obama.

That was the gist of her speech in Houston last week (6/04), which her friends at MSNBC called a "far-reaching vision for expanding access to the ballot box."

Who are the new voters to whom Clinton wants to give "access to the ballot box"? They include felons and noncitizens, along with anyone who can't prove identity, citizenship or residence within the voting precinct.

Though Clinton gave lip service to the notion that "every citizen" should vote, her Democrat allies are in court trying to stop every reasonable means of verifying a voter's citizenship.

That's no surprise because, according to a recent Rasmussen survey (5/29), "Most Democrats Think Illegal Immigrants Should Vote." Of course they do, for that's Hillary's plan to cheat her way into the White House.

NO WAY TO RUN A RAILROAD

Richard Rahn May 20, 2015

If taxpayers suddenly stopped subsidizing Amtrak, what do you think would happen?

Before trying to answer that question, it is useful to review U.S. railroad history. The first railroads were built in the United States in the late 1820s, and by 1900, only 70 years later, almost every town in the country had rail access.

Railroads were high tech, the Internet of their time. The system was built and profitably operated by private companies.

Amtrak and the modern freight railroad companies use the infrastructure that was built long ago. The 180-year-old privately built Canton Viaduct (an incredible stone bridge - see link) in Canton, Massachusetts and the 100-year-old Hell Gate Bridge (the model for the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia) over the East River in New York are still used by Amtrak.

The investor-owned Pennsylvania Railroad built the hugely expensive North River Tunnels under the Hudson River in 1904-1908, which were technological wonders of the time. They are still used by all of those who ride Amtrak from New Jersey to New York.

In this context, it's rather ironic when President Obama claimed that private business only succeeded by using government infrastructure -- "You did not build that" -- when, in fact, government mostly uses privately built infrastructure.

FROM HELPLESS DISASTER TO SOLVABLE PROBLEM

Dr. Joel Wade May 13, 2015

When we approach any problem, how we approach it begins with an idea, a belief, a story about what that problem is, and what needs to be done about it.

To considerable extent, we can choose the fundamental belief or premise from which we approach any problem... and how we frame a problem can be the very key to success or failure.

Currently, the widely accepted premise is that psychological problems - depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addictions et al - are abnormal phenomena.

They don't belong here. They were brought to us by some unfortunate circumstances - an unhappy childhood, a personal weakness, a society that's sick. They're polluting the system, like a harmful bacteria or virus, and we want all trace of them eliminated immediately.

What if that premise is wrong?

I've been working with people as a teacher, a marriage and family therapist, and a life coach for 35 years now. I started with that premise of problems as aberrations - the "disease model" of psychology. I don't buy it anymore.

Let's explore a different premise, and see where it takes us. The explorations starts with asking certain questions.

THE LESSON OF CHATHAM

Dr. Jack Wheeler April 16, 2015

Waitangi Bay, Chatham Island. If you want an ultimate of remote and rugged isolation constantly swept by storms and gale-force winds of the Roaring Forties, here is where you come.

And if you want to know how an unknown genocidal atrocity can teach us how to better deal with liberal guilt-mongering, well, here too is where you come. Believe it or not, it's in Polynesia.

THE LOST KINGDOM OF LO

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 5, 2015

If you're like me, we have to take a break from the current torrent of treason pouring out of this pestilential presidency or we're going to lose our minds.

So let's take that break and visit a magical unknown corner of the world behind the Himalayas so hidden away its people neither know nor care who infests the White House. Our journey will be with photos. If you want to go there with me for real - well, that can be arranged.

It's been called The Last Forbidden Kingdom - and soon it will be lost forever.

It's the Tibetan Kingdom of Lo in a remote region of Nepal called Mustang right on the border with Chinese-Occupied Tibet. Remote because it's on the Tibetan side of the Himalayas, hidden behind the giants of Annapurna (10^th highest mountain in the world at 26,545 ft) and Dhaulagiri (7^th highest at 26,795 ft).

It was closed to all foreigners until recently, and even then only trekkers could get there, walking on yak trails at 12,000 feet for two weeks.

Tibet under Chinese control has been converted into a military garrison and a theme park for Chinese tourists, obliterating Tibetan culture. The Tibetans of Lo-Mustang allowed themselves to be incorporated into Nepal to protect themselves from that fate. As such, they retain the last vestiges of traditional Tibetan life on earth, unchanged for centuries. But not for long.

THREE GURUS WHO STILL DON’T GET IT

Michael Ledeen January 28, 2015

The real threats to us, and how to deal with them, that is. Lots of well-known former foreign policy/national security officials don't, or feel obliged to appear "realistic" (diplospeak for "don't do anything, keep talking").

Some former military officers do, although only up to a point.

Three duly respected policy professionals, Denis Ross (Obama's - and plenty of others' - Middle East guru for a few years early on), Eric Edelman (Bush's under secretary of defense and earlier ambassador to Turkey), and Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations tell us it's Time to Take It to Iran (1/23).

But it turns out they really don't get what the "It" really means in their own title. We need to explain it to them.

THE MYSTERY ADVENTURE

Dr. Jack Wheeler September 15, 2014

This is a first. An opportunity for an extraordinary adventure has just arisen. Ordinarily, I'd tell you all about it. But I can't - that's what makes this a Mystery Adventure.

I can tell you the dates: November 7 to 19. That's leaving the US and return, door-to-door. I can tell you the cost: $6,650. That's everything except international airfare.

But I can't tell you where. Except to say that when you get back, it will blow your every friend's mind. "You went where!?" they'll all ask in jaw-dropping amazement.

I can't tell you the itinerary. Except to say that once you see the pictures, you will be astounded that these places exist.

I can tell you that we'll be safe and secure. I can tell you that there is now a window of opportunity during which the welcome mat has been laid down for us. This is why we must carpe diem, seize the day and opportunity, for who knows when it might arise again.

Thus far, I have only told a few friends about this who have traveled with me often before. They understand why I cannot make this public. Yet, being TTPers themselves, they have suggested that I tell all TTPers about it, however elliptically.

This is because I have three spaces left and I'm running out of time. There are no special requirements, as the Mystery Adventure is not physically rigorous, you only need normal good health. There is no camping -- we'll stay in the best hotels and dine in the best restaurants in the country. It is for men and women, couples and singles.

This is an adventure of thousands of years of culture and history, and as timely as current events get. It is one of breathtaking natural beauty and eye-opening wonder at how friendly and pro-American people on the street are. It is an experience you will never ever forget.

Here's the deal. I'll send you a Powerpoint PDF of the Mystery Adventure - it's a big 5.8MB file due to the photos - if you personally request it and provide your TTP bonafides. Like how long you've been a TTPer and why. Frankly, I have to be very sure of who I bring with me.

Let me know at jack@tothepointnews.com or Miko at miko@tothepointnews.com.

Please, though, don't make the request unless you're sure you can make the dates - November 7-19 - and the cost -- $6,650. Yet if you can handle both, better let me know right now. There's no time to spare.

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