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TRUMP TO COMBAT SENATE DEMS SLOW-WALKING HIS CABINET APPOINTMENTS

Senate Democrats who are considering holding up the confirmations of President Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments might want to rethink that course of action.

The president recently threatened to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for some of his nominees.

This move would be unprecedented and would likely meet with a chorus of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left. However, it appears Trump is willing to make this gambit, according to CBS News.

President Trump is threatening to use his powers to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for at least some of his (more…)

THE REMOTEST CHURCH

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Baihanluo Catholic Church is the remotest Christian Church on earth. The isolated village is in a roadless region high on a Himalayan mountain ridge deep in “The Great River Trenches of Asia” – one of our planet’s most dramatic geological features where four major rivers – the Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze all spill off the Tibetan Plateau coursing south in tight parallel for 100 miles.

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In the late 1800’s, French Catholic missionaries made their way far, far up the Mekong from the French colony of Laos to befriend the Nu and Lisu tribespeople up here. They responded by building (more…)

TIME TO ADMIT IT: TRUMP IS A GREAT PRESIDENT

Back at the Resolute Desk, the President signs Executive Orders
Back at the Resolute Desk, the President signs Executive Orders

[This essay is stunningly remarkable as it is written by the founding editor and global editor-in-chief of one of the most Woke Anti-Trump media outlets in Washington, POLITICO.  It was published on politico.com yesterday (1/21) under his own name.  He is neither groveling nor abusive. His is an honest recognition of reality.  It is stunning nonetheless. –JW]

Donald J. Trump in his second inaugural address was everything his supporters hoped he would be:

Breathtakingly expansive about his intention to reshape the vast federal government around his vision; raucously jingoistic in proclaiming that the country will do whatever it wants to advance its interests around the world; openly triumphal in asserting his belief that his survival from an assassin’s bullet and his victory show he is God’s chosen instrument to lead an American revival.

Trump was also everything his adversaries feared: Messianic in tone; lovingly protective of his (more…)

DONALD TRUMP IS OUR PRESIDENT AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS NO IDEA WHAT TO DO

Democrats are in freefall.

As of Monday January 20, Donald J. Trump is officially the 47th president of the United States. He starts his second term in the Oval Office with a bang – rolling out dozens of executive orders fulfilling promises made to American voters — and more popular than he has ever been.

Democrats have no idea how to respond. Their party is currently earning its lowest approval ratings ever, for good reason. It is guilty of perpetrating the greatest political scandal of our lifetimes  — pretending President Joe Biden was OK to run for another four years. (more…)

FIVE FEET AWAY FROM AN 800-POUND GORILLA

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©2019 Jack Wheeler

You know the adage about the “800-pound gorilla” going wherever he wants to – such as five feet from you in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. It is one of the world’s great thrills to be this close to these giants and feel at ease doing so. They are “habituated” to small groups of people whom they ignore. You of course are very quiet and do nothing to alarm them, just observing the little ones playing, mothers nursing, young ones climbing trees, huge male silverbacks watching over their families.

Gorillas are vegetarians, males eating up to 75 (more…)

PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES VOTERS JUST WHAT THEY ASKED FOR

Donald Trump is once again President – and his second administration promises to be more Trumpian than ever.

Sworn in just after noon yesterday (1/20) – both the inauguration ceremony and his stick-swinging inauguration speech shielded from the cold inside the Capitol Building – he is essentially picking up where he left off. This time, however, Trump & Co have far more experience of how to navigate Washington’s corridors of power. They’re already showing it.

The past few weeks have seen Trump’s transition team prove its deftness in everything from foreign policy – that Gaza ceasefire – to a domestic (more…)

DONALD TRUMP WILL BE NO FRIEND OF THE KREMLIN

Vladimir Putin’s plan to outlast Joe Biden and an exhausted West has run into an unpleasant surprise – Donald Trump is surrounding himself with pro-Ukrainian hardliners.

Trump appears more willing than Biden ever was to throttle the Russian economy, if that is what it takes to force the Kremlin to accept peace on “America First” terms.

A new mood of relief – not yet optimism – is taking hold among Volodymyr Zelensky’s advisers in Kyiv. Europe’s diplomats are starting to wonder whether a Trump 2.0 presidency might not be such a bad outcome after all, at least when it (more…)

THE ISLAND OF LANCELOT

lanzaroteLanzarote, Canary Islands. How, you may ask, did the most famous knight of King Arthur’s Round Table, Sir Lancelot du Lac, end up in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco? Well, he didn’t. It was an Italian explorer named after him, Lancelotto Malocello, who became the first European to reach this island in 1336, where he lived for 20 years.

Lancelotto called himself Lanzarote (lan-zah-roh-tay), and map-makers used it. The island along with the rest of the Canaries was colonized by Spain throughout the 1400s, and prospered with its (more…)

DONALD TRUMP INAUGURAL ADDRESS AS 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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“Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts, justices of the United States Supreme Court, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, President Biden, Vice President Harris and my fellow citizens:

The golden age of America begins right now.

From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation. And we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.

 

During every single day of the Trump administration, I will, very simply, put America first. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety (more…)

NO FEAR OF THE EVIL EYE: PART I – ENVY AND SHRUNKEN HEADS

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©Jack Wheeler

This is a human shrunken head.  It was given to me by the man who made it, the curaka or chief of a clan of Jivaro headhunters in the Amazon.  His name was Tangamashi.

The Jivaro were the first tribe I stayed with. I was 16 years old, soon to be a freshman student at UCLA as an anthropology major.  There are many tribes around the world who are “headhunters” from the Amazon to Africa to New Guinea and elsewhere, but they all collect the skull of an enemy they kill.  Only one tribe on earth shrinks an (more…)

THE LOST CITY OF DJADO

city-of-djadoIn the remotest center of the Sahara Desert lies an unknown, unexcavated mysterious lost city known as Djado. No one knows who built it or when. Lying on the ancient Roman trade route from the Saharan salt mines of Fachi and Bilma to the Mediterranean, the Djado oasis flourished for a thousand years (the 1st Millennium AD), but has been forgotten and abandoned for many centuries.

The only people who live near Djado in the vast desert wasteland where Algeria, Libya, Chad, and Niger come together, are the wandering Toubu nomads with no permanent settlements. It is an indescribable (more…)

GEN Z UPSET ABOUT TIKTOK BAN FOR 4 3 SECONDS WHICH IS THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF TIME THEY CAN FOCUS ON SOMETHING THANKS TO TIKTOK

U.S. — After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ban on the Chinese social media platform TikTok, Gen Z managed to stay upset about the ban for a full 4.3 seconds, which is the maximum amount of time they can focus on anything thanks to TikTok. The nation braced for a groundswell of outrage from millions of TikTok users, but the outrage died out almost as soon as it began.

“I’m furious. I’m outraged about this. I’m — hey look! Nintendo Switch 2 is coming out!” said Mavryyck Dixon, a former Gen Z TikTok user. “I can’t believe they would (more…)

HALF-FULL REPORT 01/17/25


Time to ROCK AND ROLL, boys and girls.  Time for the most fun HFR ever.  The countdown to the demise of America’s Bad Biden Dream is down to hours now — about 64 or so if you’re reading this Friday evening Jan17.

We’ll start the festivities in Schadenfreude City.  We can have a chuckle over the Daily Mail’s gossip this morning (1/17):  What IS Going On With The Obamas’ Marriage? But then again, why should we care?  They’re Old News history.

Still, it is fun to enjoy how bitter (more…)

THE ISLANDS OF SERENITY

mulafassur-waterfallMulafassur waterfall below the village of Gasadalur is only one example of the serenity of the Faroe Islands. They’re a self-governing Danish possession in the North Atlantic halfway between Norway and Iceland. You won’t find a place of more captivating serene and peaceful charm.

Warmed by the Gulf Stream, in the summer it’s so strewn with wildflowers the roads are known as “buttercup highways.” At every turn along them you’re stunned by the incredible scenery. The capital of Torshavn is so laid back the Prime Minister’s Office – the Løgmansskristovan – is a wood cabin with a green grass sod (more…)

HOW TO TREAT DEMOCRAT CHILDREN PROPERLY AT A SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING

 


Now that is how a BOSS treats unruly children.  Pam Bondi deftly handled all the Dem nincompoops as she did Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA).

Several of Donald Trump’s most important cabinet nominees have now undergone confirmation hearings. I have watched them live in bits and pieces as I have (more…)