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WORSHIPPING THE WICKED

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 22, 2011

You've all seen the news clips of North Koreans in a state of religious lamentation, grieving their guts out over the death of their dictator Kim Jong-il. Cynics who have never been there claim the tears are fake. Nope, the tears are real. And what's more, all those Norks in mourning believe the entire world mourns with them.

They would be stunned literally beyond belief to hear that their Dear Leader was regarded as a little fat nebbish laughingstock for all normal people on the rest of the planet. This was epitomized by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the funniest movie of modern times, Team America (TTP October 2004).

After Kim throws UN nuclear negotiator Hans Blix ("Hans Brix") into a shark tank where he is ripped to shreds, Kim launches into a song: "I'm so ronery... so sadry and ronery arone..." It's the classic portrayal of Kim Jong-il as a joke - yet Kim Jong-il in reality was a hideously evil ogre, not a joke. He caused the deaths by famine of millions of his countrymen, and forced those left to live in impoverishment and the most brutal tyranny.

Why, then, was he worshipped? The answer explains his worship in North Korea, and the electoral strategy of the Democrat Party in America.

RESTORING CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

Michele Bachmann July 12, 2011

I am a constitutional conservative. So what does that mean? I've earned a couple of law degrees, but defining "constitutional conservatism" shouldn't require a legal scholar.

I believe our founders knew what they were doing when they designed a limited government with specific, enumerated powers. I'm also convinced that many of our problems result from the federal government's insatiable - and unconstitutional - grab for power and money.

On issues ranging from light bulbs to bailouts to the Dodd-Frank banking legislation, Washington has been on a destructive spree of bureaucratic empire-building. It's time for that to stop.

Moreover, I believe in the unjustly neglected Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

ALLAH AND SLAVERY

Dr. Jack Wheeler February 15, 2007

As we discussed in The Fragility of Islamofascism a couple of weeks ago, in order to destabilize the frenzy of Islamofascism it is necessary to instill doubt into fragile Islamofascist minds.

One way to do so is in regards to the Koran's Satanic Verses, discussed last week in The Skeleton in Islam's Closet. Now were going to discuss another way - the embarrassment of Allah's advocacy of slavery.

Slavery is no embarrassment to Allah, nor had it been to Moslems who practiced it for 13 centuries. Now it is and we need to take advantage of the opportunity. Instilling doubt can be done with a simple request:

Since Allah sanctions slavery in the Koran, either slavery is right or Allah is wrong. Choose.

THE SANDBOX

ttpn July 14, 2005

In a playground there is one spot that is considered a save haven for kids who get bullied. Where is this safe place? It’s the sandbox - which is in direct sight of the parents.

Ever notice that? Playground sandboxes are usually situated right in front of the benches where parents congregate. Park planners apparently believe that kids who play in sandboxes need to be watched.

Maybe that’s how the term ‘sandbox’ came to be applied to a safe haven in a computer - a place where programmers can experiment with techniques and applications without affecting the operating system.

In the sandbox, you can unleash any application - even viruses - to see what affect it has on a computing environment. Whatever happens in the sandbox stays in the sandbox, to paraphrase a popular ad.

CHAVEZ IN CHILE?

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 23, 2004

This picture of Teddy Roosevelt is a family heirloom. The reason is that the man standing in front of TR is the Chief of the Secret Service Presidential Bodyguard - my grandfather Lucien C. Wheeler.

Lucien was with the Secret Service guarding the lives of four presidents (TR, Taft, Wilson, and Harding). He admired and revered TR above all. While he passed on many years ago, I feel quite sure he would feel the same towards GW. George W. Bush is a man’s president, just like Teddy Roosevelt.

Lucien would also have been extremely alarmed at what happened regarding the president in Chile last Saturday, November 20. However much Lucien would have delighted in GW’s rescuing his Secret Service counterpart from the Chilean police, and laughed over the Chilean newspapers denouncing GW for “behaving like John Wayne” (“Don’t those fools understand that John Wayne is a hero to Americans?” I can hear him asking), he would also have immediately suspected something far more sinister than the puffed-up egos of Chilean security officials.

His suspicion would have quickly zeroed in on Hugo Chavez, dictator of Venezuela.

ONE SINGLE STATEMENT FROM ONE SINGLE PERSON

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 13, 2004

One single statement from one single person would put an end to the threat of a Kerry Presidency.

The question has now become whether a Kerry “victory” at the polls would be more destructive of American democracy than Islamic terrorism. The answer is that it would be greater. Terrorists can destroy physical targets, while a Democrat electoral fraud would destroy basic democratic systems that are the foundation of governmental legitimacy. Such destruction could very well ignite a civil war.

The evidence that Democrats are relying on thugs and cheats to fraudulently “win” the presidential election is massive and mounting daily. Bush-Cheney offices are being vandalized across the country, voter registration fraud is overwhelming registrars in a dozen or more states, tens of thousands of lawyers plan to intimidate precinct workers and launch a tidal wave of lawsuits.

One person can put a stop to this. One single statement by this one single person. A person put on a pedestal by John Kerry. The statement is this:

AYN RAND IN DETROIT

Daniel Hannan August 20, 2013

You thought Atlas Shrugged was fiction?

Look at this description of Detroit from the London Guardian:

What isn't dumped is stolen. Factories and homes have largely been stripped of anything of value, so thieves now target cars' catalytic converters. Illiteracy runs at around 47%; half the adults in some areas are unemployed. In many neighborhoods, the only sign of activity is a slow trudge to the liquor store.

(Of course, as the Guardian is hopelessly Left, it makes hallucinogenic claims that the city will "rise again" to be a "creative alternative to LA or NY.)

Now have a look at the uncannily prophetic description of Starnesville, a Mid-Western town in Ayn Rand's dystopian novel, Atlas Shrugged. Starnesville had been home to the great Twentieth Century Motor Company, but declined as a result of socialism:

HALF-FULL REPORT 01/25/13

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 25, 2013

Ia orana! That's Hello! in Tahitian (ee-ah-rana).

Captain James Cook (1728-1779) made his first voyage to Tahiti in April 1769. Whenever introduced to a chief, he would doff his hat, sweep it before him with a slight bow, and greet him by saying, "Your Honor." Tahitians have been greeting each other by saying how they pronounced "your honor" ever since.

Most all of us dream at one time or another of living in a Polynesian paradise of perfect balmy weather, palm trees wafting in the breeze over soft sandy beaches, turquoise lagoons laden with fish, dramatic mountains covered with fruit-laden tropical forests - something like this, maybe...

I took this on a motu or sand islet on the reef surrounding the island of Raivavae in the Austral Islands of French Polynesia. This is remote or real Polynesia, not the tourist version. No hotels, no restaurants, no air conditioning, no swimming pools (infinity or otherwise), no Internet, intermittent electricity, and what few modern conveniences exist from a cold Hinano beer to a liter of gas are exceedingly expensive.

Which is why there are so few tourists in this "unspoiled" idyllic island, and almost no one comes here to retire. The islanders who live here are wonderfully friendly, Raivavae is breathtakingly beautiful, you'll never forget a visit here - but it won't take long before you want to get back to America.

The current on-going tragedy, of course, is that the America we'd want to get back to seems no longer to exist. Reading every morning's news these days is like reading - and living in - a horror story. When will it end? Will we ever get our country back from the fascist thugs in Washington who have stolen it?

Two events this week suggest we may.

CENTRAL BANKS AND THEIR POLITICAL MASTERS

Richard Rahn September 12, 2012

Central banks are being pressured by their political masters to solve a problem they cannot solve.

On Wednesday (9/12), a German court ruled that the European Central Bank can buy a seemingly unlimited amount of debt from the national banks of the countries in the eurozone without violating German law. By week's end, the U.S. Federal Reserve likely will decide if it is going to engage in another round of massive debt buying.

These are political decisions, irrational and destructive on any sound financial or economic basis. Yet the bankers have been given no choice.

MOSLEMS IN THE NEWS

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 15, 2011

These days, we're constantly being subjected to news reports of Moslem antics in various parts of the world. This steady drizzle increased to a downpour over the past week, a global deluge of Islamic weirdness. Here's a sample of examples:

Gujranwala, Pakistan. (Gujranwala is Pakistan's sixth largest city with 2.5 million.) On December 12, the Pakistan Express Tribune reported that a local villager, Asif Ali Babar murdered his mother for refusing to force her 12 year-old daughter (and thus his sister) to marry his brother-in-law in a "vani" settlement. Vani is the Islamic practice of selling a daughter in a child marriage as a means of settling a dispute between two families.

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Over a million British tourists come to this Red Sea resort a year (and more from other Western countries). Tourism is the only hope for recovery of the Egyptian economy devastated by the chaotic overthrow of Hosni Mubarak last February. Nonetheless, Islamic fundamentalists who are winning political power in the current elections announced today (12/15) that they intend to ban bikinis and booze at Sharm el-Sheikh and other Western tourist watering-holes.

Oh, and the beaches must be separated into men and women only areas. This way, the fundies say, Westerners can "enjoy a vacation without sins." What fun.

NO RETREAT FROM THE RISE OF FREEDOM

Tim Pawlenty June 28, 2011

[This is the full text of Tim Pawlenty's address today, 6/28, to the Council on Foreign Relation on American policy towards the Middle East. ]

I want to speak plainly this morning about the opportunities and the dangers we face today in the Middle East. The revolutions now roiling that region offer the promise of a more democratic, more open, and a more prosperous Arab world. From Morocco to the Arabian Gulf, the escape from the dead hand of oppression is now a real possibility.

Now is not the time to retreat from freedom's rise....

[For example] it is not wrong for Republicans to question the conduct of President Obama's military leadership in Libya. There is much to question. And it is not wrong for Republicans to debate the timing of our military drawdown in Afghanistan- though my belief is that General Petraeus' voice ought to carry the most weight on that question.

What is wrong, is for the Republican Party to shrink from the challenges of American leadership in the world. History repeatedly warns us that in the long run, weakness in foreign policy costs us and our children much more than we'll save in a budget line item.

America already has one political party devoted to decline, retrenchment, and withdrawal. It does not need a second one.

WITH THE PESHMERGA

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 3, 2006

The moon was a little over a quarter full. It would be setting in an hour or so, leaving us without its meager light. I longed for night vision goggles, but the men I was with seemed to have no need of them and moved confidently in the dark. They were Kurdish guerrilla fighters known as Peshmerga, "Those who face death."

We were armed, but not heavily. Holstered on my belt was a Webley Mark IV .38 revolver, and slung over my back was an AK-47 Kalashnikov, Type 2 with a wooden stock. The famous banana clip only holds 30 rounds, but I had no vest for extra magazines. One of the men showed me he was carrying eight and motioned for me not to worry.

The Peshmerga were all carrying AKs of course, with vests for extra magazines and pouches for hand grenades. But that was it - no RPGs (rocket-propelled grenade launchers), no heavy machine guns. We were traveling light, as this was an insertion team. The mission was to insert me into Iran.

TO THE BIG HOUSE INSTEAD OF THE WHITE HOUSE?

Dr. Jack Wheeler November 10, 2005

That the Washington Post is traitorously on the side of the Jihadi terrorists and against America was further demonstrated on November 2^nd when the paper ran the front page headline story, CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons.

To disclose supremely classified information that the CIA operates a number of prisons for Jihadis in Eastern Europe is an unbelievable compromise of national security. The WaPo reporter who wrote the story, Dana Priest, should go to jail for treason, along with the WaPo editors who approved it.

The CIA has requested a formal Justice Department inquiry into the source of the classified information to the press. The House Intelligence Committee has announced it will hold hearings to investigate the leak. This is infinitely more serious than the Plamegate farce.

Note, however, that the Senate will not, as of yet, hold hearings. That’s because the leak to the WaPo has been traced to.....

FIGHTING THE COOKIE MONSTER

ttpn June 10, 2005

I’ve begun protecting my files with a great application I’ve discovered, one that will enable you to keep any secret exactly that - a secret, one that no prying eyes will be able to get at.

Keeping my notes, charts, databases, development projects and contacts to myself is essential. You never know who is watching - whether on a network or over the Internet.

With all the sophisticated search tools today, it’s a simple task for a programmer to write a script to search for data, whether text or otherwise. There is one sure way to keep prying eyes off your files, and that’s to encrypt them, with the strongest most invulnerable encryption possible.

You can do it for free. Here's how.

A CALIFORNIA HISPANIC EARTHQUAKE?

Dr. Jack Wheeler October 20, 2004

The military leader of the Contra anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua back in the 1980s was Enrique Bermudez. “003” as he was code-named, arranged for me to cross into Nicaragua from Honduras a number of times with Contra groups. I came to have tremendous admiration for his extraordinarily courageous struggle against the Soviet and Cuban take-over of his country, and the Communist tyranny established by the Sandinistas. I also came to have a great affection for him personally, as a man of unpretentious warmth and straightforward integrity.

Enrique was assassinated in 1991 on orders from the head of the Sandinista Gestapo, Tomas Borge, but the US left-wing Sandinista-sympathizing media assassinated his character way before then. The smears were unending as the left spared no effort to demonize him and the Contras. Now the left is busy doing the same to Enrique’s daughter.

Claudia Bermudez was born in Nicaragua, grew up in San Francisco, and while her father was fighting for freedom in Nicaraguan jungles, she was in college in Hawaii. She clearly has her father’s moxie - because she’s running for Congress on a boldly conservative platform as the Republican challenger of the most left-wing House Member there is, Barbara Lee, in the most left-wing Congressional District in the country, California’s 9th centered on Berkeley and Oakland.

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