Kamala was the first presidential candidate no-show in 40 years. MC Jim Gaffigan, who impersonates Tampon Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live, ridiculed her mercilessly, pointing out that 22% of Americans are Catholic.
So Trump continues to soar while Kamala is simply dissolving. Let’s discuss. Here we go – there’s lots more…
This Monday’s Archive was originally published on October 12, 2006. Today, America faces an existential choice between Patriots who revere Columbus and Western Civilization and their moral opposites who despise both, a choice personified by Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in this short video:
Trump vs Harris on Columbus Day: pic.twitter.com/HFpzFiIfjn
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 14, 2024
You might, then, consider reading what follows below to your children or grandchildren so they may understand the difference in the choice between Columbus Day and “Indigenous Peoples Day” graphically made clear between the painting above and this:
TTP, October 12, 2006
October 12 is for celebrating the 525th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America, for on that day in 1492, the Great Admiral landed on Guanahani (now known as San Salvador or Watlings) island in the Bahamas.
We commemorate this as a true discovery in contrast to all the claims of Vikings, Chinese, Irish, and others who supposedly came earlier – for once and only after Columbus discovered America, it stayed discovered.
Unfortunately, Columbus Day is for most Americans just an excuse for a three-day weekend. What it should be is a commemoration and celebration of Western Civilization – which is why the Left hates Columbus and his holiday.
If it’s your misfortune to run into any of these folk bemoaning the nightmare and tragedy of our coming here, you might suggest to them that they abandon every vestige of the civilization they hate as so evil.
[This is melliefluous standing in for Skye who is under the weather. Send him some love!]
A LOT has happened this week so Jack and I had to arm wrestle over the best stories, but he was a gentleman and just used his pinkie.
We’ll start with the Middle East where the Mastermind of the October 7th massacre finally got his just reward.
Meanwhile, medical Hamas sympathizers and the NYT (but I repeat myself) are trying to frame Israel as child-killers. They seem to be DEI hires, though, with a juvenile idea of “evidence.” The Times has doubled down, so this is a developing story.
Election news ranges from serious to unbelievable to farce. Rasmussen finally asks the pertinent question. Harris offers a mind-boggling bribe to black men if they will just vote for her [insert desperation emoji here]. And the Fox Interview with Harris will probably leave you without words for a bit. Don’t worry, you don’t have to listen to all of it, but you can if you have a few too many brain cells knocking around in your head and you want to rid yourself of them.
Trump and Vance have excelled in many ways this week and we’ll look at a couple of those, and then we have a lighthearted (but real) caution concerning AI image manipulation, then take a few moments to shake our heads at Newsom (Newscum as Trump calls him) because…they’re back.
The best part is at the end: Trump trolls Kamala fabulously. If you’re having a bad day – go look at it first, laughter is the best medicine.
The 2024 race is still close.
But then so was the 1980 Carter-Reagan race at this same juncture.
Indeed, incumbent president Carter was then comfortably up in the last two October Gallup polls—before utterly and suddenly evaporating on Election Day.
But in the last seven days, there seems a sense of panic in the Harris campaign.
How do we know that?
Why are Democratic pundits—from Axelrod to Carville—blasting the Harris campaign and otherwise warning of bad things to come?
Why are some of the once Democrat sure-thing senate races—e.g., in Ohio, Wisconsin, and even Michigan—tightening up?
Pundit poll-watchers are suggesting that Trump is close, even, or slightly ahead in the swing-state polls, suggesting that he is nearing a margin that could cancel out anticipated “ballot irregularities.”
The expected October Harris-Biden surprises—the opportune Fed interest rate cut, the transparently desperate Jack Smith beefed-up re-indictment, the current new Hollywood Trump-hit movie, the desperate Zelensky fly-in to Pennsylvania, the election-cycle customary Bob Woodward unsourced gossip book—seemed so far to have had no effect.
I first heard it, very faintly, in 2017.
At the time, President Donald Trump was accused of spying for Russia. If true, this would have been the biggest act of treason in American history, bigger than Aldrich Ames, bigger than the Rosenbergs, bigger than Benedict Arnold.
The New York Times and Washington Post published long articles that detailed Trump’s treachery, for which they shared a Pulitzer Prize.
Adam Schiff, head of the intelligence committee, stood up night after night on cable news, claiming he had secret “bombshell” information proving that Trump was a traitor.
The charges were investigated and ultimately dismissed.
Trump was not a Russian agent. He was not working for Putin.
The greatest security threat in the history of the country was -- a hoax.
And then I heard it: nothing.
Very few outlets reported that Trump was innocent, that the attempt to rout him from office had failed.
Schiff disappeared from view.
There were no corrections, no apologies, no firings.
The Times and the Post did not return their Pulitzer Prizes.
“Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime, according to a new investigation,” reports Christopher Rufo. “
The current vice president even lifted material from Wikipedia.” You might say she was “unburdened by what has been” written by other people. Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, has exposed plagiarists before — most famously former Harvard University President Claudine Gay last year.
There’s little reason to doubt his reporting on Harris, especially given “the receipts,” as he calls the proof in his X thread. He further lays out the case in a Substack column [Samples shown in full article.]
Nationalism has become the great bugaboo of global talking heads today. It is discussed in the marbled halls of Western capitals as a scourge that must be eliminated just as swiftly as its equally detested cousin, populism.
Policies that are popular with the people and nation-states that reflect the self-determination of the people cannot be permitted!
Who says? Some very important people who belong to august bodies such as the European Commission, the United Nations, the Bank for International Settlements, the World Economic Forum, and the World Health Organization.
International groups with lofty reputations have no time to trifle with the beliefs and needs of discrete peoples. The globalists are here to save democracy by ridiculing and rejecting whatever the people might want!
Today’s “elites” have global domination on their minds. The concerns of individual nation-states are too petty for those who covet the whole planet.
We used to have a pretty good word to describe an arrangement in which many separate countries are forced to bend the knee and pay tribute to a superior power: empire.
10,000 feet high in the Amazon cloud forests of northern Peru is a mysterious lost city built by an unknown people many centuries before the Incas existed. Known as Kuelap by villagers in the lowlands below, the Incas called the people who built it Chachapoyas, “Cloud Warriors.” I led an expedition here in 1994, climbing high up into the Amazon Andes to come upon gigantic stone walls 60 feet high surrounding hundreds of stone structures. Here you see Rebel among them. We’ll be here again in a year or two in another exploration of Peru. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #153, photo ©Jack Wheeler)
On September 12, 1683, Ottoman Sultan Mehmet IV as the Caliph of all Islam was on the verge of realizing the great Moslem dream of conquering all of Christian Europe for the glory of Allah. The great obstacle in his way – the city of Vienna – was about to be overwhelmed by the Sultan’s gigantic army of 140,000 Islamic Taliban of their day.
On the Kahlenberg hilltop above Vienna, the commander of the Christian forces, King Jan III Sobieski of Poland, gave the order to attack. Twenty thousand armed horsemen galloped down the slopes of Kahlenberg, the largest cavalry charge in history, with the Polish King and his Winged Hussars in the lead. The cavalry trampled the Ottomans and made straight for their camps.
Ottoman commander Kara Mustafa fled out of his tent and barely escaped with his life (it didn’t last long – the Sultan ordered him strangled). With the Christian victory at The Battle of Vienna, the Moslem threat to Europe was over. Sobieski wrote a letter to Pope Innocent XI, paraphrasing Julius Caesar:
“Venimus, Vidimus, Deus vincit” – “We came, We saw, God conquered.”
In turn, the Pope hailed Sobieski as “The Savior of Western Christendom.” Indeed he was, and still is so revered by the Polish people to this day – with no apology.
For the people of Poland stand out among those of all Europe for their pride in being part of Western Civilization – symbolized for them by this statue of their Hero King trampling the Ottomans in the beautiful Royal Baths Park in Warsaw. They will make sure visitors to the statue note that underneath the right forearm of the fallen Turkish soldier is a book – the Koran.
You owe it to yourself to visit Poland and meet the Polish champions of Christian liberty, having freed themselves from the Ottomans, the Russians, and the Soviets. We need more like them today. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #159 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Princess Iparhan, granddaughter of the ruler of the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar, was so famous for her beauty and the intoxicating natural aroma of her body that the Manchu Emperor far to the east called for her. She was 22, the year was 1756. The Emperor became completely infatuated with her, making Iparhan his Imperial Noble Consort, loving her deeply until her death 33 years later in 1789.
In mourning, the Emperor kept his promise to her that her body would be returned to Kashgar and buried in the mausoleum of Apak Hoja, built in 1640 by her Apaki family. And there she rests today. Everyone in Kashgar and beyond, however, knows the mausoleum as The Tomb of the Fragrant Concubine.
It’s a wonderfully romantic legend, and even though there are several conflicting versions, let’s hope this one is true. Regardless, a visit to this peaceful shrine is certainly memorable. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #54 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Song Kul. Kyrgyzstan. Here, 10,000 feet high along the shores of Lake Song Kul, Kyrgyz nomads play buzkashi, where men on horseback fight with whips, fists, elbows over a goat carcass (simulated for us in a heavy canvas bag) weighing some 40 pounds. There are no rules. Whoever gets the carcass to the goal line and drops it into the circle there, scores.
This ancient game has been played for thousands of years by the nomads of Mongolia, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. The nomads who encamp at Song Kul are playing fiercely but actually having a lot of fun – laughter abounds. After the game, we had a cup of kumiss, slightly alcoholic fermented mare’s milk, with them. An experience never to be forgotten. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #281 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Yesterday, I found this religious decoration on the outer wall of an old mosque in the three-thousand year-old Silk Road oasis city of Bukhara. I’ve seen it in many places throughout the world, such as ancient ruins of India and Rome. Yet this is far older – it was carved onto mammoth ivory by Ice Age hunters in Ukraine 12,000 years ago.
From time immemorial has it represented eternity, prosperity, the centeredness of all that is. Why? Look up into the sky on a clear dark night. All people have studied the heavens for eons. You could always know where you were by finding North, for the two front stars of what we call the Big Dipper point to it – always.
The Greeks called it Mega Arktikos, the Great Bear – why we call Far North the Arctic today. The ancients saw the Bear every year rotating around Celestial North – now occupied by Polaris, the North Star – through all four seasons, while all the stars in the sky circled around it every night. What do you see in this depiction of that seasonal rotation?
Yes, a Swastika -- Sanskrit for “the goodness of existence.” The most heinous perversion of symbolic art in world history was to take the symbol for the goodness of existence used by people for a dozen millennia – and still revered by Buddhists, Hindus, Moslems and many others to this day – and twist it into a symbol of horrific evil. It’s an informative lesson of history. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #225 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
U.S. — After watching Kamala self-immolate on national television, Democrats have begun wondering if it's too late to just go back to Joe Biden.
"He was at least able to answer some questions, occasionally," said strategist Neil Massey. "I mean Biden was like Winston Churchill compared to this word salad of vindictive psychopathy."
At publishing time, Democrats had decided that Biden was indeed too senile, but checked to see if perhaps Jimmy Carter was interested in a second term.
– Babylon Bee reporting
No wonder at all that that this past week is being called “Kamala’s Worst Week Ever.” Some samples why:
Sky News Australia explained with actual and edited versions: 60 Minutes Blasted After Replacing Kamala Harris’s ‘Word Salad’ With Polished Answer…
So much more good news to come – here we go!
[This week’s Archive was originally published on July 11, 2008. As you know, today, October 7, is the anniversary of the Nazis of Hamas’ slaughter attack on Israel one year ago. You would think it would cause a wave of sympathy for Israel. Instead, an explosion of anti-Semitism was unleashed, with Nazi protestors on colleges all across America chanting “From the river to sea,” meaning exterminate all Jews from the Jordan to the Med, the borders of Israel. Please feel free to share this history of how Israel was created with those you think are in need of it. Note that it contains links to five previous TTP articles for background in greater depth. Enjoy all the photos!
TTP, July 11, 2008
All photos by Jack Wheeler
You're lazily swimming in the Mediterranean Sea just off a beautiful beach. The beach goes on for miles, lined with resort hotels, and it's crowded with people. Young fit men playing volleyball, beautiful bikini-clad young women sunbathing, families relaxing under umbrellas, children making sand castles, multitudes of folks peacefully enjoying themselves in the sun, the sand, and the gentle sea.
You swear you're at one of Spain's great beaches, like Valencia, Marbella, or Barcelona. But you've noticed that a small light plane has flown along the shoreline several times. Your son asks, "Dad, why does that plane keep flying by?"
"It's an IDF spotter plane," you tell him. "Watching for a boatload full of Arab terrorists who might land to machine gun to death as many Jews on this beach as they can. Stuff like that can happen here anyplace, anytime. That's life in Israel."
Nope, we're not in Valencia. We're in Tel Aviv.
