Many years ago, a cartoonist shared this bit of wisdom:
Today, despite all the wars going on, few people seem to be growing up. Instead, the wars are excuses for coddling people who should be adults. No, not by age but by attitude.
Yes, age is the standard way of defining “adult” in today’s world. But that makes some very big assumptions about maturity rates, learning, experience, and attitude.
Continue readingThere is a constant drumbeat in the media about certain members of the ever-growing Axis of Evil (TM Pending) nearing collapse. Not always the mainstream media, either. And we here at TPOL admit that some of this info might be true.
Consider Iran as reported in this story. It seems that conditions in Iran are getting worse, and as a result, more and more of its people are rebelling. But the reasons for this are things we need to look at carefully. We are told this is because of the religious tyranny which governs that ancient country. We have been told that ever since the Shah was overthrown. (A topic for another time.)
We can be clear that the word out from Iran for decades makes it clear that yes, indeed, Iran is under a horrible and often murderous religious tyranny. One with different ideas but much in common with the Islamic tyrannies and various non-religious but still tyrannical governments in Arab and heavily Muslim populated regions and countries. This is to be expected in the Ummah – the Islamic world or part of the world. Which is also called the Dar al-Islam (House of Islam or Submission), and the Dar al-Salam (the House of Peace).
And we know (not just are sold propaganda about that) these names are often ironic – for although submission to Allah and to the clerics and secular or religious rulers of the various nations is taught, it is not practices. As a result, the Ummah is anything but a house of peace. And has not been since not long after the death of their prophet: pushing 1400 years.
The rise of the Islamist factions and philosophy in recent years is seen by most Muslims as the equivalent of the Reformation in Europe and the Americas in the 1500s – although viewed as more successful. Regardless, Islam is not a religion which can be considered peaceful or easy to practice.
Nor is it the “historic” religion of Iran (formerly known as Persia). Prior to the defeat of one of the many Persian empires (their tribes seem to have taken turns establishing an empire over several thousand years), it was Zoroastrianism. The last Persian empire, the Sassanian, was conquered by the Islamic Caliphs in the mid-1600s (AD) and forcibly converted to Islam. But Zoroastrianism, which dates back to around 1000-1500 BC, was the religion of Persia for perhaps 2,000 years. It survived as a persecuted minority religion into the 20th Century – but today is nearly extinct. At least in its homeland. Like Judaism (which it may predate), Christianity, and Islam, it is a monotheistic religion, though not a “religion of the book” and therefore even more to be despised and persecuted by Muslims.
For centuries, a corrupted Christianity was rejected strongly in Iran: in part at least because of the corruption and hypocrisy of those who claimed (falsely, IMHO) to follow Christ Jesus. Brits, Russians, French, and then Americans.
But that may be changing: the message of hope, peace, salvation, and compassion in the Bible (both Old but especially New Testament) is being spread and people of this great nation are being converted. And as a result, less willing to be subject to an Islamic (or any other) tyranny.
More later, but consider this current version of a 2,000 year-old conflict of faith.
This cartoon appeared a year ago online. Does it seem to be prophetic?
Sorting through some photos, our staff found this one. We realize we’ve not heard much about Dear Leader or Great President Kim Jong Un recently.
And then, just as this commentary was being written, Great President was in the news again! Obviously North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic) is still an imminent danger to the great American Democracy!
Continue reading… they would not let us have the vote.
Of course, we have to remember words attributed to Uncle Joe (Stalin’s): Я считаю, что совершенно неважно, кто и как будет в партии голосовать; но вот что чрезвычайно важно, это кто и как будет считать голоса.
It translates to: “I regard it as completely unimportant who in the party will vote and how, but it is extremely important who will count the votes and how.”
Those are just a fewof the many, many mainstream media reports warning us against that evil, democracy-hating, fascist, egotistical, convicted criminal that is trying to get back in the White House. At least some people are taking them seriously: another would-be Trump-killer has been arrested in Arizona. We can be sure there are more.
We could also include a long list of talking heads – apparently as of today including RFK Jr – who so very desperately want The Donald back.
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The media is telling us that the 14-day long offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces into Russia itself is a turning point in the war.
Right.
Let us take a quick look.
At risk of antagonizing some readers and reviewers, look at the map very carefully. It shows a big, big blue zone (we are told “not all confirmed”) that the Ukrainian forces have “overrun” in their offensive (incursion) into Russia itself. Wow! But look at the little inset map “Area of Detail” and see that little tiny box that has a tiny little blue dot in it? As compared to the big red area – which is just a part of Russian-occupied Ukraine?
We looked at a half-dozen maps of the offensive and its “tremendous success” which is going to turn the war around and let Ukraine (and its defacto NATO allies) defeat Russia. Virtually every one is a small-scale map that does not allow you to understand a very important fact. This assault and its success (wow – 25+ kilometers!) are a joke. A molehill on Mount Everest.
Compare it to the Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s “Last Gasp” on the Western Front in WW2:
Look at that scale: the German offensive penetrated about 80-90 kilometers – in far more rugged and densely forested terrain, in just 9 days. Oh, dear! A turning point in WW2! The nasty Nazis are going to win – they will drive the Allies back into the Atlantic and no doubt follow them into downtown London!
Continue readingReceived a text message here at TPOL today:
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Thank you,
Marjorie Taylor Greene
On 30 January 2023 – 18 months ago – TPOL published a column entitled “Western civilization is falling. What next?” Since then, we have endured more and more impacts to the civilization and various members (nations) in it. Including the Fifty States. The members of the European Union. The members of the British Commonwealth, and many others. At the same time, those nations not really part of western civilization have also been suffering from various problems.
Of course, there is really no nation on this planet today that is not significantly impacted by this civilization, which certainly has existed for 600+ years. (If not much longer.) That includes Russia – a fringe or frontier member, China, Iran, and even Saudi Arabia Turkey and a whole bunch of little countries still not fully integrated into western civilization. And actually rejecting much of its tenets, despite the impacts, adoption of many, and economic ties.
As we said then: Western civilization is falling. Like Roman civilization before it. And Greek civilization before that. There are many reasons. It may still take decades or even centuries, but as with Babylon, the handwriting is on the wall. (And since events seem to be faster, overall, today due to technology and population, we may not have all that long.) … There will be something replacing western civilization. Sooner or later.
The trends we discussed in January 2023 have continued. Despite some singular successes in keeping or regaining liberty around the world and in the States, the foundation of western civilization is failing. That foundation is human liberty. The birthright of every human: not just Americans. Or Brits. Or any other group – but all humans.
Continue readingSome readers may be familiar with the book by that name, written by Leonard Wibberly in 1955, or at least the later movie.
Well, today’s commentary isn’t about the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, or even the satirical comic send-up of the FedGov during the Cold War. Rather, it is about this tiny little creature.
Meet the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse! He (or she) can jump a full 2 feet above the ground when startled or scared!
Note in particular its size. This picture doesn’t really let you see the tail or its “kangaroo” legs. So here is another one, courtesy of a government-shill website:
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The Price of Liberty 
“I don’t want to hear it…”
No doubt we have all laughed over the situation where someone being told something puts their hands over their ears and tells the speaker, “Nah, nah, nah, TMI.” Too much information!
Well, we are seeing that among politicians around the world but especially here in the States. Not new, of course: we have such common adages as “Don’t kill the messenger” in our language. But is it getting worse?
Consider the wonderful State of Colorado and its fearless leader. Governor Jered Polis has demonstrated his wokeness and allegiance to tyrannical, totalitarian government time and time again. Now he has turned against a fellow Regressive – the Mayor of Aurora, the largest suburb of Denver. Despite video and much other evidence showing that major features of the city have been taken over by at least one Venezuelan street gang, he has said that this situation is a figment of the mayor’s imagination and that gangs do not rule anywhere or anything.
Now, we here at TPOL have other sources of information in various places. And we are told both by people in Aurora and people in Lakewood (the other side of Denver, almost up against the mountains) that it is not just Aurora that is infested by Venezuelan gangs, but Lakewood and other areas. Some of the places taken over by these “private” border-jumper immigrant thugs include upscale apartment complexes and what were once (even five years ago) upscale and middle-class shopping venues. A King Soopers store (part of the Kroger chain) in Aurora on what was once the “main street” of the city (and still is for Denver and Lakewood: Colfax Avenue) has closed because the crime rate is bankrupting the store, and employees and customers are in daily danger of their lives.
But like the Democratic (and some Republican) governors and governments of other States, those in Colorado, including the head Pervert Jared Polis, cannot admit that they are bent on turning their cities and States into just another type of Third World cesspool. Their motive? Their own greed, their own lust, for power and wealth. Their passions control them and encourage them to become parasites on the body politic. Not just ticks, capable of infecting their host with loathsome diseases, but the kind of parasites that ultimately will kill the host.
And that is exactly what is happening in States like Colorado. And Minnesota and California and New Mexico. And Oregon, New York, and Washington.
Is it any surprise that these places have secession movements. And that more and more people are seeking to escape them? But for the most part, only the productive people and companies: the welfare drones (whether corporate or government or the underclass, including more and more immigrants) stay and further spread their poison.
But they do not care, as long as they have their power and wealth – and long term, just their wealth: like kings and dictators before them, they have (or think they have) their hideyholes to retire to when the time comes. The Caribbean, the Riviera, the Gulf, Atlantic colonies, Switzerland, and other locations all have and will have these. Once they have so polluted the Stateside locations, whether we are talking Aspen and Telluride or Jackson Hole or whatever.
Ultimately, self-defense against these evildoers will require going in and sanitizing those places: both inside the Fifty States and around the world. But our first priority is to preserve the small amount of liberty we still have in states like Wyoming and South Dakota and Idaho. And perhaps Texas and Florida and Alaska. And after restoring liberty in those heartland areas, retaking the other States for the cause of liberty. Not just liberating apartment complexes and shopping areas in Aurora and Lakewood from immigrant gangs but from the government goons that infest them and allow the “private” gangs to run amok.
It will and does demand a high price.