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THE VOTER FRAUD CASE THAT COULD OVERTURN DEM CHEAT-BY-MAIL HOUSE RACES

William “Boss” Tweed (1823-1878) was, of course, a Democrat
William “Boss” Tweed (1823-1878) was, of course, a Democrat

Last November, Democrat fraudsters bypassed the presidential race and focused instead on the down-ballot races. In Florida, local Democrat candidates received more votes than either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris at the top of the ballot. Something was definitely amiss.

For instance, Republican Rocky Rochford was running against incumbent Democrat Kathy Castor for the U.S. House seat in Congressional Race 14 (FL-14). The district straddles Hillsborough and Pinellas counties and includes the cities of Tampa and St. Petersburg.

Castor was declared the winner, but Rochford is now contesting the race, claiming voter fraud, primarily by vote-by-mail ballots.

There is deep suspicion that this method of fraud has happened across the country, costing Republicans four Senate seats, about a dozen House seats, and countless local municipal seats and referendums.

A longtime Trump associate, Peter Ticktin, is representing Rochford. The Ticktin Law Group has identified a systematic breakdown of internal election controls that affected the FL-14 race and other races far beyond, those in the Senate and House mentioned above in particular.

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THE KASBAH OF AÏT BENHADDOU

ait-benhaddouAït Benhaddou is a thousand year-old kasbah or fortified village on the ancient trade route from the Sahara to Marrakech in Morocco. It’s constructed entirely of rammed earth, adobe, and wood.

Remember the famous scene in Gladiator where Maximus shouts “Are you not entertained?!” to the bloodthirsty crowd? It was filmed here, as were scenes in many other movies such as “The Jewel of the Nile,” and “The Mummy,” or the series ”The Game of Thrones.”

Yet this is no location set – people live here, scores of families, as they have for a millennium. You’re welcome to come here to see how they live for real – as here Hollywood is far, far away. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #181 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA

sands-of-iwo-jimaThis is the black sand beach the US Marines stormed on February 19, 1945, beginning the legendary Battle of Iwo Jima. Overlooking the beach is Mount Suribachi, where four days later Joe Rosenthal took his iconic photo of six Marines planting the US flag on its summit.

You can come here once a year at a commemoration jointly held by the US and Japanese militaries. Guests of honor are the few Marine veterans of the battle still alive. I attended on the 70th Anniversary of the battle in 2015. To be here on these sands and on the summit of Suribachi, where the memorial lauds them – “On Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue” – with these heroic men is an indescribable privilege. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #23, photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE FOURTH PEARL OF SHING

4th-pearl-of-shingThere is a series of stepping-stone lakes in a hidden valley in Tajikistan known as The Seven Pearls of Shing. This is the fourth, taken at dawn’s early light with the lake a mirror reflecting the sky and surrounding mountains. Each Pearl are of different colors, each of uniquely mesmerizing allure. It is one of the many wonders – natural, cultural, historical – we’ll experience this again soon in our exploration of all Five Stans of Hidden Central Asia. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #52 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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MAGIC MOUNTAINS

mongolian-magic-mountains

In a remote valley between the northern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau and the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia, you find these magic painted mountains of red sandstone created by Himalayan uplift and millions of years of erosion. It’s at the sunrise light of early dawn that the colors are most apparent before they get sunwashed in the bright of day. It takes quite a hike in pre-dawn darkness to get to the right viewpoints at the right time, but certainly worth it. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #261 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 02/14/25

happy-valentines-day-2025Welcome to the 2025 Valentine’s Day HFR!

This is the day that gives us the opportunity to express our appreciation and gratitude to those people in our lives whom we love and value, and by whom we are so fortunate to be loved and value in return.

If we are lucky enough to be blessed with someone who has chosen to share their one life with us, today we devote in particular a special thankfulness to them.

Yet this year’s Valentine’s Day has another blessing, for it enables us love and be grateful for our country once more, in a way we only dared dream of for the last four years of unfathomable degradation.

A beautiful expression of this blessing was provided by Maureen Callahan on TTP yesterday:  Resistance to Trumps Is Dead in Less Than Three Weeks.  So moving it made me cry, and after reading and watching those three Super Bowl ads, you may do the same.

This is another terrific HFR – it will make you happy!  Let’s go…

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NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: ENVY AND BLACK MAGIC

Tiji Chasing of the Demons Ceremony, Tibetan Kingdom of Lo ©Jack Wheeler
Tiji Chasing of the Demons Ceremony, Tibetan Kingdom of Lo ©Jack Wheeler

[This is the next chapter of Part I: Envy of my forthcoming book NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: Key to Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity. Previous sections and chapters can be accessed here. I will really appreciate any feedback you have.]

It took me a year to get the book – the American edition finally came out in 1970.[1]  I immediately recognized it was a work of prodigious scholarship encyclopedic in scope.  Schoeck’s research of anthropological field studies of traditional cultures across the globe was exhaustive.

I learned that the Jivaro belief that death is always murder was in no way unique – a lack of the concept of natural death, that death was always malevolently perpetrated by demons, sorcery, or physically for real, was prevalent among the majority of traditional cultures, whether in the Amazon, Africa, or the Pacific.

It’s commonly understood that the lives of people in traditional or peasant societies everywhere is suffused with superstition.  The world for them is teeming with demons, spirits, ghosts and gods, all of whom are malicious, dangerous, and must be placated.

But why are they so malicious?  Why are they out to get us, instead of being on our side?  Why do they have to be constantly appeased?  Let’s go to a remote Tibetan Kingdom to find out.

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RESISTANCE TO TRUMP IS DEAD IN LESS THAN THREE WEEKS

The resistance is dead — in less than three weeks.

We are, as Trump promised in his inaugural address, entering the 'golden age' of common sense. And there's no going back, not anytime soon.

Just look at three of the biggest ads during the Super Bowl 59 — an event at which Trump, as the first sitting US president to attend the game, was cheered, while Taylor Swift, who wholeheartedly endorsed Kamala Harris, was booed.

The culture has gone full MAGA.  Brad Pitt, as you saw above, starred in a nearly five-minute long Super Bowl ad for FOX Sports and the NFL, extolling national unity and pride. There was no irony, no winks to a liberal agenda or racism or the 'threats' to so-called marginalized communities.

Nope, just a full-on ad for American exceptionalism — a phrase and a concept that hasn't been part of the lexicon since the 1980s.

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HOW TO COMMIT DEMOCRAT PARTY SUICIDE

The Democrat Party is polling about 31 percent approval, a near-historic low.

Democrat self-destructive obsessions with DEI/woke racialism, bi-coastal talk-down elitism, boutique transgenderism, and nonstop America Lastism all came to fruition during the Biden years. A shameless conspiracy to use an enfeebled John Biden as a prop to masque an otherwise unpalatable radical, neo-socialist agenda ensured the MAGA counterrevolution.

But instead of postmortem autopsy and introspection, since Election Day, the Democrats have doubled down on their veritable collective self-destruction.

Given that collective meltdown, what would a sane Democrat Party do?  Evidently, that question has not even been asked, much less any attempt to answer it.

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HOW PAIN IS COMING FOR THE DEMOCRATS

Early in Donald Trump's second term, reforming the bureaucratic state has become job number one. That's not surprising given the weaponization of government that personally targeted the president for years on end, doing everything it could to prevent him from ever returning to the White House.

Enter Elon Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency has been hard at work uncovering the waste and abuse of taxpayer funds.

Unsurprisingly, that has sent Democrats into an apoplectic rage. That's because when they lose elections, they aren't supposed to actually lose.

With their power structure now being threatened, Democrats are lashing out, and unsurprisingly again, some lower-court judges are more than happy to play along with their gambit.

We'll see where this goes, but I'm going to make a prediction: Pain is coming for Democrats.

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NO, TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE TO ABIDE BY A MYTHICAL ‘JUDICIAL SUPREMACY’

It’s an old story: When people are allowed to get their way for too long, when they’re never told “No!”, they may get too big for their britches.

They may develop a sense of entitlement and even become narcissistic. And proving that judges are no exception to this reality are a number of recent court “opinions” designed to scuttle President Trump’s agenda.

There is a real solution to what we have now, a kritocracy, a dictatorship of judges.  It’s that federal and state officials take an oath to uphold the Constitution. They do not take an oath to uphold judges’ opinions.  What are the consequences of this?

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MYTHOLOGIES ABOUT MUSK

Here are some of the untruths told about Elon Musk and DOGE.

 

“Musk has no right to cut USAID.”

Elon Musk and his team are not cutting any federal programs. They are auditors. They were given legal authority under a presidential executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Ultimately, Musk can propose program cuts, but Trump holds the authority to approve or reject them. He may or may not act on all, some, or none of the DOGE recommendations.

 

“No one elected Musk.” 

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TAKE THEIR DEUCE TO COURT

deuces-courtsLet the January 6th Lawsuits Begin!

In my career I have done a lot of law enforcement jobs, some of which involved jail time – not for me, of course, at least not in the way that is usually understood.

I started working at “intake,” where a newly-arrested person came in, and later I helped to run a jail in Texas.  That experience gave me an overview not only of what goes on in a jail, but also the liabilities for the ones running it.

In Texas, every jail must comply with the standards of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, which has a detailed list of the rights of prisoners and the responsibilities of those guarding them based on Federal and state law.

Inspectors show up and do compliance inspections—some announced, and some not, depending, and they have the authority to decertify and close jails that are out of standard.

In addition, staff members can face civil and criminal liability for things done, or not done, concerning these inmates.

Other jails in other states and jurisdictions have their own, similar regulatory systems and agencies.

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