NPR Takes Much-Needed Step to End Journalism

This one blows my mind.

Everyone knows NPR is way WAY out on the left. The more conservative or religious you are–the fairer you are–the harder it is to listen. No fair-minded person can listen and fail to have the bias jump out at him, like an air horn in an orchestra. It is not reasonable to question the obvious fact that NPR is in the tank for the left.

I guess most conservatives are aware that a CURRENT editor at NPR, a well-regarded employee named Uri Berliner, just produced an essay decrying NPR’s unfairness. Notable fact presented in the essay: NPR has 87 editors, and precisely 0 are not leftists. That’s diversity in Bizarro World. I used to joke that “diversity” meant “getting rid of all the conservative white males,” but my joke has been destroyed in that it has become an objective description of reality.

Thank goodness for the flat Earth conspiracy theory. At least there is one conspiracy theory that won’t turn out to be true.

If you’re here, you have probably read his essay already, so there is no point in going over it line by line. You may also have read the bizarre, emotional, vengeful, punitive, objectively and demonstrably incorrect response written by NPR CEO Katherine Maher. Yes, she’s a woman. She had to be, because she’s white. They would never have hired a white male. Unless maybe he was gay. Or he wore dresses.

In an astonishing display of self-unawareness, in the safety of her bubble, Maher sent a message out to everyone at NPR, and instead of countering Berliner’s facts, she said:

Questioning whether our people are serving our mission with integrity, based on little more than the recognition of their identity, is profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning.

Unbelievable! I thought I was used to the craziness now, but this is like a sharp slap in the face with a large, cold fish. I’m awake again!

1. “Disrespectful.” This means, “How dare you challenge our arrogance? You will pay. You will learn who you are and who I am on the corporate totem pole, little cis man.”

2. “Hurtful.” This means she is angry, not hurt. Someone rolled the rock over, and the biggest bug under the rock is mad because the sun hurt her eyes. Someone put foam sheets on the walls of the echo chamber. She is not “hurt” at all, and neither is anyone else. They’re just furious and ready to dispense payback.

3. “Demeaning.” This is a clumsy libel intended to put a truthful man on the defensive. It’s a deliberate lie intended to shift the blame to the innocent. It’s gaslighting. Berliner didn’t demean anyone. There are meme artists for that.

Based on the facts that he’s a leftist who got along fine with everyone at NPR for years, and that he was advanced to a high position there, Berliner is probably a jerk, but Maher’s attack on him is completely evil and dishonest, and it was intended to help NPR continue to harm conservatives and Christians, so in this instance, we should defend him.

People have a funny tendency to overembrace their enemies when their interests intersect. Right now, a lot of conservatives are saying John Fetterman is a great guy. No, he isn’t. He’s just a Jew who got mad because his pals on the left were assisting in the destruction of Israel. That doesn’t make him Trump cabinet material.

We have to learn to be non-binary. About some things.

I was disturbed by Maher’s insane, retributive message, but today I’m even more disturbed, because she has SUSPENDED HIM WITHOUT PAY.

How much more blatant can the discrimination be? What else do we need? Torches? Pitchforks? A guillotine? A pile of brush and a stake?

A woman in charge of one of the nation’s most prominent “journalism” organizations just SUSPENDED A MAN FOR DOING JOURNALISM.

That is literally his only crime.

He didn’t steal files. He didn’t catch people on hidden cameras. He didn’t lie to anyone. I’m sure he didn’t violate the terms of his employment, unless shilling for NPR no matter what is a term. Until this week, he was an admired employee in good standing. He has done absolutely nothing wrong. To the contrary, risking his job, his financial stability, and the loss of most of his friends, he has done exactly what journalists are required to do. He bravely exposed very damaging corruption at an organization which, as policy, defaults on its obligations of good faith. An organization which does the opposite of its purpose. They’re supposed to disseminate truth, and instead, they fight the truth every day.

Wow. The baseness of the human race could not be displayed more strikingly. It’s like we’re a reality show, and Joseph Heller writes the scripts.

The absurdity of this woman’s response can’t be heightened in any way. She left no room. She has literally punished a man for doing good journalism.

Let’s say he’s wrong. He’s not, but it doesn’t matter. A journalist does not punish another journalist for disagreeing with her. I just don’t have the energy to explain this obvious fact. Everyone knows it’s true.

We should burn the works of absurdist playwrights. Ionesco and Giraudoux, au revoir. Reality has left you in the dust. Every DC comic featuring Bizarro should be destroyed. Comparing Earth to Bizarro World is becoming like comparing Somalia to Switzerland.

Spirit-based delusion is everywhere. People can’t get this stupid without the help of demons. And what did Isaiah say?

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

“Woe” sounds quaint, but it’s not something you want. It means terrible suffering. Like the suffering that will come during the tribulation, which the liars and nuts are hastening with their willful dishonesty and cruelty. Woe means things like starving, dying in nuclear blasts, and watching your crops being completely destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah experienced woe.

I would say this woman should be fired, but what good would it do? If we had killed Hitler, we would still have had Goering, Himmler, and Goebbels. If we had killed Saddam Hussein right away, we would still have had his sons. One person is not the problem. If we kill Kim Jong Un, we will still have to fight his sister, who is said to be worse. The problem is an Earth covered with a stinking soup of Yeshua-haters and truth-haters.

There are at least 86 people at NPR who can probably be trusted to continue doing what Maher is doing. The one who might resist is on suspension.

Not only is humanity getting nuttier; it is becoming immune to embarrassment about being nutty.

Man, I can’t wait for the rapture. I really hope I will be here during the millennium. To all of you who are still mired in blue states and cities, I have to tell you you’re making a mistake that will harm you and your children as long as you persist. You have forgotten what life among normal people is like, and while you may think you’re doing fine because you resist, you’re not.

During the millennium, the whole world will be a red state.

I guess we’ll have fewer guns, but on the other hand, why would we want them in a world ruled by King Yeshua and his obedient children?

Maybe he’ll let us keep Bass Pro. I love that place. When you step inside, it reminds you there are little isolated cysts full of sanity all over America.

I should buy a popcorn machine. Watching this corrupt phase of the world’s existence end without popcorn just feels wrong.

Baldwin Defenses Soon to be Tested

I am reading about Alec Baldwin, who is soon to be tried for manslaughter in the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, whom he shot on a film set along with a hapless director.

I have written about this before. It seemed to me that he had no conceivable defense, and the defenses he was blathering on the web were more harmful than helpful. I guess his ego could not accept the notion that his lawyer might know more than he when he advised Baldwin to stay silent. I’m sure his lawyer gave him that advice, because only an idiot would not.

Baldwin had a firearm in his hand. Not a fake gun. A real revolver suitable for use as a self-defense weapon. The revolver had at least one real round of ammunition in it. Baldwin pointed the gun at two people, and the gun fired. Baldwin says 1) he never pulled the trigger, and 2) he relied on employees to make sure the gun was safe before he handled it.

Assertion 1 is a lie, so there is not much point in elaborating. The gun was designed so it could not be fired without pulling the trigger. This information is in the manual, which you can find online.

Assertion 2 is more complicated.

Baldwin is accused of negligent homicide. In legal terms, “negligence” means 1) you owed someone else a duty of care, and 2) you failed to exercise care.

To determine whether Baldwin owed his victims (he hit two people) a duty of care, you have to come up with a standard. What is the standard of care for a person holding a revolver?

You have to start with the standard of care every responsible gun owner knows. There are four rules.

1. Treat all guns as though they were loaded.

2. Always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.

4. Be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.

There are different versions of these rules, but they all mean the same things.

There is another rule: when you handle a gun, ALWAYS check to see if it’s loaded. Doesn’t matter if your best beer buddy swears he just checked it. You have to check for yourself.

Are there times when you can’t obey these rules? Maybe, if you’re an actor. Actors sometimes have to point props that look like guns at themselves or others. But these days, prop providers have all sorts of props that look exactly like guns on film, yet are obviously not guns in the minds of the people who hold them. There are prop guns that are made entirely of things like rubber and plastic. There are prop guns that have no moving parts.

There must have been many scenes in which actors have pointed clearly-fake props at people. On the other hand, it appears there have been many times when actors have pointed real guns at other people. I’ve seen scenes where actors pulled the triggers on revolvers that were aimed at other people, and the triggers, cylinders, and hammers moved.

Baldwin knew his gun was real, and he still pointed it at another actor. He said he would never do that, but obviously, he did, because if he hadn’t, he would have missed his victims.

Baldwin didn’t treat the gun as though it were loaded, he aimed at a person deliberately or carelessly, and he put his finger on the trigger when he didn’t intend to shoot anyone. He broke three of the basic safety rules. The fourth didn’t apply to him because he didn’t have a target. He didn’t intend to shoot.

What I wonder is whether he can be held responsible for breaking the other rule.

Ordinarily, you have to check to see if a gun is loaded as soon as you take possession. But would that have made sense for Baldwin? What if the gun were ordinarily loaded with dummy bullets that looked like the real thing? If that’s how it worked, maybe it would be unfair to expect Baldwin to check all over again. Maybe as an ignorant actor who knows little about guns, he isn’t qualified to decide whether a round is real or fake.

If that’s the case, then it would make sense to hold the armorer responsible for checking the gun.

So maybe it’s wrong to say Baldwin should have examined the gun before picking it up. Maybe it would have looked the same regardless of the type of ammunition it contained.

Still, though, he broke three of the other 4 rules. You only have to break one rule to be negligent. I’m sure Baldwin’s lawyers will try to make the jury forget that.

If he hadn’t put his finger on the trigger, he wouldn’t have fired. If he had treated the gun as though it had been loaded, he wouldn’t have fired. If he had pointed the gun in a safe direction, he wouldn’t have hit anyone.

His lawyers are going to attack a couple of ways.

They will say the gun could have fired without Baldwin pulling the trigger, and that the state can’t prove otherwise because the FBI damaged the gun while testing it. They will also say Baldwin’s standard of care should be the standard of care movies stars usually employ on movie sets. They’ll say the famous rules everyone else obeys don’t apply to actors because movies hire armorers to make sure guns are used safely.

The argument about the trigger is somewhat ridiculous. I don’t expect it to go anywhere. The gun’s parts still exist. The gun has been repaired. It should be possible to use the damaged parts to show that before they were damaged, the gun would only fire when the trigger was pulled. It will definitely work that way in the repaired state.

It’s an argument designed to appeal to dumb jurors and biased jurors. If Baldwin’s lawyers pick the right jury, maybe they’ll get somewhere, but it doesn’t look good.

As for claiming movie stars live by different rules, it’s a bad argument that should fail. The fact that you’re making a movie doesn’t mean you have the right to loosen good rules that save lives and which everyone else has to obey.

A real firearm on a movie set is just like a real firearm anywhere else. People on a movie set are just people. It may make sense to abandon the rule saying Baldwin had to check the gun, because it may have been impractical and an expert had been hired to do it for him, but the other four rules are personal to the shooter.

He still seems guilty to me. I see no way to raise reasonable doubt. His best hope is a stupid jury or a jury containing a few fans. He needs a jury like the one full of black women who refused to convict O.J. Simpson. Simpson could have set his ex-wife on fire at a nationally-televised press conference, and those emotional, racist women would have sent him home.

My best guess is that he’ll be convicted. He has refused a plea, and it has been withdrawn. Was that his idea, because he can’t believe the minor god Alec Baldwin could be convicted, or did it come from his lawyers? Do they reasonably think they can win? Are they bad lawyers who give bad advice? No way to know, but that plea may look really good to Baldwin in a few months.

The armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was convicted by 7 women and 5 men after only three hours of deliberation. Not a good sign.

I’m assuming Baldwin gets tried on the merits. Guilty people get their cases dismissed all the time, based on government errors and malfeasance. If the state dropped the ball somewhere down the line, the facts and the law surrounding the shooting won’t matter.

Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle With Jesus

Teh crazy lies thickly upon us like a fog composed of atomized PCP.

The left is corrupt and insane. Far more corrupt and insane than the political right. But we are not helping ourselves by failing to acknowledge the nutwads among us.

Today I started reading an article about the unconstitutional ways Aunt Sam (don’t judge) surveils us these days, and the article said this:

Last August, an FBI squad gunned down Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker, for things he had allegedly posted online. The killing was reportedly under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division, but as of this writing there has been no investigation by Congress. As members may have noted, the FBI now operates along partisan lines.

Sounds bad. Like Ruby Ridge and Waco. I looked it up to learn more about the FBI’s egregious misdeeds.

Turns out this guy was as crazy as a tree full of coons. He was “they-worthy.”

He threatened to murder Joe Biden and Alvin Bragg, and he said he was headed for New York to carry out his plans for Bragg. He went to Truth Social and posted this:

Heading to New York to fulfill my dream of iradicating [sic] another of George Soros two-but [sic] political hach [sic] DAs. I’ll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected. I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!!

BYE, BYE, TO ANOTHER CORRUPT BASTARD!!!

The FBI got a warrant. They showed up at his house with lots of equipment, which was good for him, because the more protection they had, the more likely they were to be able to take him alive and get him the drugs or padded walls he needed.

He cursed the FBI and refused to come out. Shots rang out. They shot him. They tried to revive him. He died at the scene.

Where is the problem here? For once, the FBI did everything right.

This guy had no business owning guns. He needed to be confined. There was a need to figure out whether he needed psychiatric treatment or a prison cell. No doubt about it. The FBI had an obligation to throw a net over him, bring him in, and lock up his weapons.

He’s not much like the kids the bumbling idiot Janet Reno killed needlessly in Waco.

Conservatives choose too many of the wrong battles.

This all serves to illustrate a point: though God is indisputably conservative, conservatism is not holiness, and conservatives–even those who nominal or true Christians–are not immune to the delusions that come from the spirit of antichrist.

You can be a true Christian and not know the Holy Spirit. If that’s you, you are vulnerable to Satanic delusion. If you’re not praying in tongues, you’re not hearing from God, but you are hearing from people and spirits that lie all day. You have no help. You have no source of information strong enough to outweigh the garbage that goes into your head all day.

Robertson was a pagan. Specifically, he was a Mormon. Mormons are not Christians. They believe Jesus is God, but they don’t believe in salvation by faith, and they don’t know the Holy Spirit. They have all sorts of sick, demonic practices. For all we know, Robertson was communing with the white salamander or the demon Moroni or the ghost of George Romney. It wasn’t the Holy Spirit who told him to shoot an admittedly twisted, bigoted prosecutor.

When we start seeing armed battles between trannies, homosexuals, Antifers, and Muslims on one side, and Christian militia nuts on the other, it won’t be because God told the militia nuts to mobilize. It will be because Satan is commanding both sides.

The truth has gotten lost, and while the right has more of the remnants of the truth than the left, there is no shortage of nutty, dangerous conservatives who don’t know God.

But Vivek Ramaswamy is a topic for another day.

Smart Judge Slaps Down Federal Overreach

Well this is interesting.

A Florida federal judge has put an end to the government’s bizarre ban on bringing firearms into post offices.

This law is stupid. I have taken loaded pistols into hospitals and banks, and I have kept guns in vehicles on university property. I have carried in parks where little children play. I carried in church; as a security team member, I was required to carry. I carry in restaurants with big bars. No one cares. It’s legal. Why are federal buildings set apart?

If I were a criminal, I would carry wherever I wanted, unless I were subject to search. Idiotic, inexplicable, arbitrary, pointless laws wouldn’t stop me. Neither would good laws. The ban didn’t stop bad people, but it inconvenienced good people and put them in danger.

We used to joke a lot about “going postal,” but the truth is that a post office is not a very dangerous place, nor is it a place that is especially appealing to criminals. Post offices aren’t full of good stuff criminals want. It’s not like masked collectors in stolen hoopties are storming post offices to get the latest Disney stamps.

Committing a crime in a post office can put the federal police on your back, and they are much worse than state cops. You’ll have the Postal Inspector’s agency and the FBI to deal with, and they don’t have to worry about state lines or extradition.

Here in Florida, under state law, we can carry in banks, churches, and hospitals. There are dangerous restrictions on several types of places and events. Bars, schools, sporting events, career centers (???), polls, government meetings, jails and prisons, police stations, courtrooms, airports, and places that fall into the same big category as whorehouses. There used to be a law saying you couldn’t go into hospitals with certain types of mental facilities, but it looks like it’s gone now.

The post office ban is federal. The state doesn’t care. The ban also applies to other federal buildings.

Let’s start with bars. It’s silly to keep guns out of bars, because bars are places where innocent, sober people are likely to be attacked. There is a separate law banning carrying a firearm while drunk, so if the ban on bar carry was removed, drunks would still have to leave their guns outside.

The ostensible purpose of the bar ban is to keep drunks from carrying weapons in bars, but since that law is redundant, the only effect of the law is to disarm sober people who may be attacked by drunks. Bartenders, waitresses, bouncers who keep belligerent people out, people whose current or former romantic partners may want to barge in and shoot them, and so on.

The unspoken purpose of the law is probably to allow drunks to beat people up, because legislators thought that was better than having righteous shootings in bars. Many people who have an irrational hatred of guns think it’s better for innocent people to be beaten and severely hurt than it is for victims to shoot assailants.

I understand why legislators wanted to keep guns away from professional sports events, because people are idiots about sports. They beat up Little League umpires. But the actual effect of the law is to leave innocent people at the mercy of bigger, stronger people who can’t behave like adults. Seems to me an umpire should be allowed and encouraged to carry.

Why there would be a ban on carrying a gun in a career center is beyond me. I have never seen a career center. I assume it’s a place where people go to find jobs. Googling, I see there are 12 career centers, and they are connected with public universities.

Are people likely to flip out when career advisors tell them they should be in waste management instead of neurosurgery? Has anyone ever heard of a shooting in a career center? Makes no sense to me.

The school ban is just plain insane. High schools and universities are full of women at their peak physical attractiveness, and we disarm them. Brilliant. They should call it the Ted Bundy Law.

The ban doesn’t seem to work well on school shooters, but it makes things a lot easier for them.

Keeping firearms away from polls seems archaic. With the exception of the well-known case of the Pennsylvania New Black Panthers who used a wooden billy to menace whites at a poll while shouting racist remarks and threats, we don’t hear about weapons at polls, or poll violence, any more, even though people are perfectly capable of beating each other up and killing each other at polls without weapons.

Keeping guns out of courtrooms makes a certain amount of sense, because courtrooms host divorces, domestic violence cases, and all sorts of criminal cases. I was in a courtroom when a murderer’s dad threatened to kill a detective. But the restriction should not apply to lawyers or court employees. Judges can carry. Cops and bailiffs carry. Why not lawyers? We’re officers of the courts. A lot of lawyers get attacked by moron clients, and courthouses tend to be situated in high-crime, Democrat-controlled areas.

When I used to practice, courthouses didn’t have gun check rooms. I doubt they have them now. I had to take long walks through downtown Miami without a pistol. The law wasn’t fair to me. It certainly wasn’t fair to all the ladies who worked in the building.

Keeping guns out of government meetings doesn’t make much sense to me. Violence at government meetings is rare.

Prisons and police stations…no complaints from me. The corrections officers and cops are armed. That’s enough. They provide a good deterrent, unlike a 70-year-old judge armed with a 5-shot, sweat-rusted .38 he doesn’t know how to shoot. People have a long history of smuggling guns into prisons for bad reasons, and prisons are full of people who have no civil rights, so we should keep guns out.

I think keeping guns out of police stations is stupid, because no one takes a gun to a police station in order to fight the police–no one a ban would stop–but the law seems harmless because police stations are very safe.

Airports? Why? There are no metal detectors at airport entrances, so obviously, they are already full of illegal guns. Not much happens. You can’t hijack an airport. If you’re going to take a hostage at an airport and use him to get yourself a plane, you can do it from the sidewalk, where guns are allowed. I don’t get it.

I had to stay at an airport hotel once. If I had walked in through an entrance that opened into the terminal, I would have had to leave my gun in my car or put it in a suitcase. Hotels are pretty dangerous. Connie Francis was raped twice in hotels.

The bar restriction has unintended consequences. It means there are a lot of restaurants where you can’t pee. Restaurants with busy bars often put their restrooms in bar areas. I can go to Friday’s with a gun, but I have to sit outside the bar area, and if the can is in the bar, I have to put my gun in my car before I can use the facilities.

That’s really stupid. Even if it were a bad idea to let people carry in bars, it should be okay to let someone zip into and out of the restroom without disarming.

I’ve had to tell hostesses not to seat me in bar areas. I guess they thought I was an alcoholic.

As for post offices, my big problem is that when I go, and I obey the law by putting my Glock and knife in my center console, I forget my weapons are in the car. Then I end up walking around half the day disarmed.

I could just keep my gun and knife on me and go in anyway, because they don’t check. I could have done it already, multiple times, without problems. I could have walked into the area where the drop slots are, fully armed, dropped my envelopes, and walked out. But it would have been very naughty.

Now it’s legal, at least until the decision striking down the law is appealed. And if anyone violated the law in the past, they can’t be charged with anything.

If the post office restriction is gone, then the other blanket restriction on federal facilities is presumably on life support. The same rationale for striking it down applies.

A right you can only exercise in little bits of your state is not much of a right. What if we said blacks could be banned from restaurants within a thousand feet of schools? What if we said you could only object to random searches in a few designated areas? People wouldn’t like these laws much. The right–not privilege–to carry is at least as important as other civil rights. We shouldn’t let tyrants nibble away at it.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll stroll into the Post Office fully armed and buy some stamps. My little salute to Rosa Parks.

Be Vewwwy, Vewwy Quiet

I decided to give myself a nice Christmas present. A silencer.

I took a precision rifle course a few years back, and I noticed a couple of things. I was the only person shooting an AR-platform gun instead of a real precision rifle (the question “Is it deer season?” was heard), and silencers seemed to be everywhere except on my gun’s muzzle.

I didn’t think too much of it. After all, ear plugs and muffs are cheap, and smart people use protection even with silencers. I was also not excited about the extreme cost or the long wait OR getting myself on yet another secret list somewhere. Today I decided to give in. I ordered a rimfire silencer, and I am planning to pick one up for bigger guns.

OKAY, PUT ME ON THE LIST NOW. THANKS.

Why rimfire? Mainly, it was a much easier decision. The world of silencers for bigger guns is more complicated, and they cost more. I still have not figured it out. What kind of muzzle attachment do I want? How will it work with a brake? Lots of questions. With rimfire, you just decide which one you want and order it.

Do I need it? Of course not. Plain old ear plugs are fine for a .22. But silencers are fun.

There are companies that make buying a silencer easy. You can actually have a silencer delivered to your door. You pay. They send you a kit with a government form and an SASE. You fill out the form and mail it. Then Uncle Sam drags his feet for eternity, because it’s a terrible thing when citizens are allowed to protect their hearing, and eventually, the vendor mails you the silencer.

I guess mailing a silencer is okay in spite of the NFA because you can’t actually shoot someone with it. I don’t know, though. I know you can’t have a new pistol mailed to your house.

It’s all pretty stupid. In parts of gun-phobic, herd-mentality Europe, silencers are not regulated. People can order them from websites the same way we order socks from Bass Pro. They’re also inexpensive compared to American silencers. A silencer is a can with baffles in it, so they probably cost about $20 to make. Our bizarre laws somehow make it easy for manufacturers and sellers to jack up the price.

The NFA is stupid, in general. I have learned a little about it. I found out why it bans rifles and shotguns with short barrels.

Once upon a time, our Congress was so stupid, it tried to get rid of all concealable guns. It wanted to get rid of all pistols. Imagine how criminals would have jumped for joy, seeing the rest of us suddently rendered defenseless. Because a short rifle or shotgun could take the place of a pistol, Congress tried to get rid of them, too. Then the pistol prohibition got the axe, perhaps because someone remembered we had a Constitution, but Congress, being stupid, left the business about short barrels in place.

Congress restricted a class of firearm virtually no one wanted or used. Years later, people decided they wanted short weapons for use in close quarters like homes and businesses, so a law which hadn’t been much of a bother suddenly became a major pain to many law-abiding citizens.

This is my understanding, anyway, and I am too lazy to check to see if it’s right.

While I was taking my class, I observed something I had already heard about, which almost no leftists believe. I noticed how loud “silenced” or “suppressed” guns were. They were very loud. Well able to damage hearing. But they were a lot quieter than unsuppressed guns and therefore less likely to defeat hearing protection.

Leftists think a silenced rifle sounds like a stapler. This idea comes from TV shows and movies, and fictional silenced guns are said to be “Hollywood quiet.” Maybe there is a gun out there that really is that quiet, but the general rule is that they are obnoxiously loud. You can’t run into an airport, shoot 15 people, and run out with no one noticing, regardless of what great geniuses like Whoopi Goldberg and Jake Tapper may think or say.

I don’t expect Hollywood quiet, but I would like to look after my ears reasonably well.

The silencer I ordered is not going to produce the same sad results as silencers attached to high-powered rifles. A .22 round is a lot quieter to begin with, so, if things go as advertised, I should be able to shoot rimfire without ear plugs. Just like I did about 5,000 times when I was a kid. That will be fun.

I only have one .22 which is threaded for a silencer. I guess I can have some other rimfires threaded. I wonder if I should try putting a barrel on the lathe. It would be a good experience even if I screwed up, and barrels can be replaced.

It’s kind of tough to get a silencer for a big gun now. The Obama Effect has not completely worn off. Covid helped keep it going. Many things that were hard to get a couple of years back are now readily available, but many others are still hard to find. The selection of .22 cans is good, but if you have a big rifle, you may have to settle for your third or fourth choice.

The big challenge now is to live long enough to see the paperwork clear.

It’s absurd for our government to hinder and delay the procurement of safety devices which are of no help at all in committing crimes, but we all know how weird the government is.

Speaking of guns and government, I saw Alan Dershowitz say something that wasn’t all that brilliant yesterday.

Dershowitz has a Youtube channel for some reason. He posts videos in which he tries to correct the world. Basically, he can’t adjust to the fact that everyone else is so much less intelligent than he is, so he wastes his time trying to set them straight. I’m sure that will work. Perhaps not the most productive way to spend one’s final days, but he seems to enjoy it.

Ordinarily, I find my chosen profession boring, because it is, but I watch Dershowitz from time to time because it’s nice to see someone with a fairly big platform saying things that should already be obvious to every lawyer in America.

I forget what the video was about, but at the end, he answered a question about the Second Amendment. He said something about how unrealistic it was to hope to fight tyranny with rifles. Apparently, he thinks it can’t be done, so there is no reason to let Americans go about armed.

It was a pretty dumb thing to say, but it goes to show what happens to people when they forget which lane they’re supposed to be in. Dershowitz is great with law, but that doesn’t mean he has any idea how to fight a just rebellion or any other kind of rebellion. It’s the kind of distinction you would hope a top legal mind would make automatically.

Maybe if he were not a leftist, he would have been inclined to do some research. He’s a very fair man, but everyone is somewhat biased.

I will give my take. I’m not a military or political expert, either, but I’m also not a sheltered leftist professor, and I have a little bit of common sense. I’ll post some assertions which may overlap to some degree.

1. Rifles can do wonders when pointed at the right people, so it’s careless to say rifles can’t be used to overthrow a government. Get to the right people, point rifles at them, and a lot of things may start to go your way.

2. Rifles can be used to get bigger weapons. Obvious.

3. If there is ever a just rebellion here, it is a certainty that many cops and military people will be part of it, because they lean right and fascists lean left. Fascist leftists like oppressive government, so they’re not the ones who will rebel. They’d be rebelling against themselves. You can’t fight the establishment when you are the establishment. The rebels would have cops and soldiers on their side, and that means they would also have things like jets, artillery, and tanks. Are tanks artillery? Not sure. Don’t care. Anyway, once the rebellion started, rebels working for the government would provide a lot of larger weapons.

4. In the event of a rebellion, other countries will take a look, and they will take sides. What do meddling countries do in civil wars? They supply arms. Again, the rebels would not be relying solely on duck guns and Glocks.

5. Even if you have big weapons, you still need rifles and people who know how to use them. Obvious? The only way that can happen in a reasonable amount of time is if private citizens are already armed.

6. Guerrillas who started out with small arms have caused a great deal of misery for overconfident superpowers.

7. It’s not easy for a country to fight rebel guerrillas in a civil war. In a normal war, everyone shows up in easily-recognized uniforms, and most of the fighting takes place at well-defined fronts. When you find your enemy, you can usually bomb the daylights out of him, because his people are concentrated and separated from yours. You can even bomb his cities. In a rebellion, people will wear what they wear now. They’ll be everywhere. They’ll be anonymous and under cover. They may work for you by day and kill your people by night. There will be no front. There will be no homogeneous rebel cities for you to bomb. Bomb a city, and you’ll kill your own people. The idea that you’ll be able to release every weapon you have and wrap things up in a hurry is absurd. If that kind of thing worked in civil wars, Vietnam would be a state.

Rebels in America could mount a successful coup, and if that didn’t work out, they would have a very good chance of dividing the country permanently, like Korea. If a rebellion were just, pro-2A people would turn out to be on the right side of history. They would be the people who saved whoever got saved from the tyrants. The founding fathers of Florexas.

8. The Second Amendment is not just about tyranny. It’s also about self-defense, and the best information we have tells us gun ownership and carrying firearms do much more to protect the weak and innocent than they do to empower the cruel. America has a people problem. We have several big demographics that commit a huge amount of violent crime, persistently. Blacks alone commit most murders. There is no hope we can change the population segments that are most prone to violence, so it would be sick and immoral to disarm the rest of us in the vain hope that somehow, disarmament would trickle down to people who never cared about the law to begin with. If Professer Dershowitz ever had to face a loaded shotgun in his bedroom, maybe he would adjust his beliefs a bit.

Ask Professor Dershowitz a purely legal question, and you’re sure to get a smart response. Ask him how guns and wars work, and the situation deteriorates fast. He veers dangerously close to the Behar/Feinstein* Vortex**. You find that he puts his metaphorical pants on one leg at a time, just like lesser attorneys.

Everyone is stupid about something.

He may be uninformed about guns and unaware of his bias, but least he’s not self-deceiving and willfully blind, like most prominent leftists we see commenting on this issue. He tries to be consistent and honest, so he offends just about everyone eventually. That makes him worth listening to occasionally, even if law is boring. Which it is.

*”We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.” — Dianne Feinstein

**”If you shoot with an AR-15, let’s say you shoot a deer, you can’t eat it because you basically demolish the animal.” — Joy Behar

Clues are Wasted on Some People

I saw an interesting story on the web today.

A guy who used to be a Christian conservative Youtuber gave in to the soy and became a leftist. He had a girlfriend who used to date a lunatic stalker. The girlfriend knew the ex-boyfriend was a stalker, because he had put tracking devices in her belongings. The stalker came to the new boyfriend’s apartment to kill him, possibly thinking a liberal male was a softer target than a woman.

While waiting to receive the consequences of supporting a political faction that disapproves of gun ownership, the boyfriend phoned the police, because they are able to arrive instantly and protect us from all threats. He nearly whimpered as he begged. Ugly.

The stalker fired a shotgun offensively at least once and then killed himself. At least one pellet hit the girlfriend. The boyfriend was unharmed.

He is now accused of using his girlfriend as a human shield. I don’t know if that’s true, but she got shot, and he did not. In the video, they appear to be on his apartment’s balcony, and she is between him and the apartment, looking in.

The police arrived during the attack. That’s very unusual. It appears the stalker killed himself because he didn’t want to surrender. He texted the girlfriend before he died, saying, “I should have killed the coward.”

It’s not fair to call a man a coward because he won’t fight a guy who has a shotgun, but maybe that’s not what the shooter meant. He may have been referring to other disappointing behaviors he saw during the attack.

He later denied lacking bravery, saying he simply depended on his girlfriend for situational awareness. That’s one of the worst defenses I’ve ever heard. He’s a man, she’s a woman, and she’s not even married to him, but he depends on her to be his bodyguard. Without weapons.

The whole purpose of not being married is to allow for sudden escape. If you haven’t married your girlfriend, it’s because you think something better, be it a better girlfriend or peaceful solitude, may come along, and you want to be able to hit the silk at a moment’s notice. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. You can’t fault a girlfriend for running off when a mere boyfriend is in danger. She can get another one that doesn’t have holes in it.

I proposed in a hurry. Extremely unlike me. I was certain. My wife wasn’t on probation. There was no free trial period. I knew what I wanted, and I wasn’t hoping someone better would come along.

Note the contrast, ladies. Cold feet aren’t actually normal or okay.

The Youtuber is on Gofundme, trying to get $5000 to pay for moving expenses. The stalker is dead, so insisting on moving seems excessive. He claims he wants to get away from the memories. Doesn’t sound all that sincere to me.

I think he should be trying to get $5000 to pay for rifles, pistols, lasers, ammunition, and optics.

I tried to comment several times, but Youtube deleted my remarks almost instantly. I guess I offended some pink-haired girl who wears plaid shirts and hemp boxer shorts. Or maybe it was a pink-haired computer.

I tried to say the shooting was a great victory for feminism, like dying alone, surrounded by cats. I shouldn’t have said that. The injury the victim received was relatively minor, but it was still an injury, and she had a very bad day.

I tried to remark on the decisions the victims made.

The woman is as much to blame as the man, if it’s fair to blame a victim for failing to prepare to respond to someone else’s bad acts. She chose a man who chose not to be able to defend her or even himself. She also chose not to have a firearm. She did all this, even though she had found Airtags in her stuff and knew who had put them there.

The man chose not to arm himself, and it may be that he chose to put her between himself and the shooter. People are claiming he stayed behind her when he called the cops, and the video, though not conclusive, gives that impression.

They knew she had a crazy stalker. She had found tracking devices in her belongings, and she knew who put them there. The stalker didn’t go John Hinckley Jr. in one day. There is no way she didn’t tell her new boyfriend. They both knew they had a problem. Even if they didn’t think the shooter was going to try to harm them, they knew they lived in a dangerous world. They could have prepared. They decided not to.

I am careful about blaming victims. For example, if you leave your keys in your car, and someone steals it, I’m not going to say you’re to blame for the theft. That’s stupid. The thief is to blame.

On the other hand, I will say you’re to blame for not preparing like a responsible person. You didn’t steal the car, but you didn’t do what any responsible person would do.

If you leave your keys in your car and go around claiming people who don’t are racist, imperialist, performative, sexist, or whatever, you are beyond irresponsible. Many people who are against gun ownership are like that.

The folks in this story are guilty of irresponsibility, and it cost them. Unless they are legally barred from owning guns, they have no excuse.

My situation is a little different. I don’t think anyone is trying to kill me, but I’m prepared anyway.

I bought my first pistol right after my addict sister told me she was going to send her white trash addict friends to take care of me. I didn’t wait around to see if she was serious. If one had shown up, I would have shot him as many times as I had to in order to make sure he was rendered harmless. When you hear a credible threat, you don’t sit around doing nothing until a tattooed miscreant starts banging on your front door.

I keep a lasered Eastern bloc rifle where I can reach it from bed, along with electronic ear muffs and my cell phone. My wife saw the ear muffs and said she wanted some, so now she keeps some handy, too. That’s her attitude toward self-defense. None of that girly business about not having scary old guns in the house. No quietly-held hopes of trying to “fix” me and my attitudes about guns.

The rifle is actually hers. I gave it to her before she even got here. I have another one in the process of being set up, and when it’s ready, I plan to put the first one on her side of the bed.

I also have a pistol with a laser, ready to go in her purse when she learns how to handle it. No permit required in Florida. I want to get her a permit anyway, because there are additional benefits, but she can carry today without being arrested.

If we get uninvited guests, and I am not able to respond, they will have to deal with the wife, and I am pretty sure she will not hesitate to shoot to kill. Everyone thinks they’ll back down when the time comes, but that’s unusual. If you read up, you’ll learn that people who are in immediate danger of being shot or raped are generally very enthusiastic about shooting criminals, regardless of their backgrounds, sexes, or inclinations. Kids shoot criminals. Women shoot them. Old people. Preachers. Liberals. It’s normal. People don’t want to be hurt.

I don’t pretend to be brave, but I certainly hope I will be out in front if we are attacked. It’s my plan. I can say that much. If I have an attack of cowardice and hide behind my wife, I won’t make ridiculous defensive remarks about situational awareness.

Owning firearms isn’t a guarantee that we’ll be okay, but it’s a hell of a lot better than doing nothing whatsoever while pretending our dumb choice is virtuous and smart, insulting people who have the good sense to do the right thing, and striving to take away their civil rights.

It’s terrible that this lady was shot. Fortunately, her injuries aren’t very bad. I hope she and her boyfriend rethink their leftist notions, and I hope their story helps others to drop the insincere virtue-signaling and get back to ideas, like gun ownership, they know really work.

Leftism is a luxury. When things get really bad, no one will care about pronouns or sorting trash that can’t actually be recycled. People will fall back on the mindset that worked for earlier generations. Smart people don’t wait for a wake-up call in the form of buckshot. They face reality without being slapped in the face by it.

Was Eugene Stoner Really on our Side?

While I wait for my wife to emerge from the bathroom, I am making a list of killers whose fun was cut short because they weren’t smart enough to buy AK-47’s.

1. Nikolas Cruz, the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas shooter.
2. Andrew Warrender. Las Vegas Turnberry Towers.
3. James Holmes. Aurora, Colorado.
4. Orlando Harris. St. Louis, Missouri.
5. Caleb Sharpe. Rockford, Washington.
6. Armando Hernandez. Westgate, California.
7. Omar Mateen. Orlando, Florida.
8. Adam Lanza. Newtown, Connecticut.

Man, they keep popping up. This only took a few minutes.

Why does anyone trust an AR-15 for self-defense?

“Your Package has Been Shipped”

My wife is somewhere over Africa, telling stewardesses they’re too slow with her champagne. I expect to be having burgers and fries with her some time tomorrow.

Things are going quite well here. One of my best friends was raised by his grandmother, and she just passed away, so he and his kids had to spend the night here on the way to her funeral. His kids seem to be from another planet. They’re polite. They don’t break things. I have to keep telling them to talk LOUDER. Also, they cleaned my house.

I don’t know why they do this, but it happens every time they show up. I would be happy even if they came alone and left Dad at home.

I was dreading cleaning up the man-filth in preparation for trying to fool my wife about how neat I am before she takes over. Now I don’t have to do it.

We had a fantastic day yesterday. We hit Sonny’s BBQ and filled up on ribs. Every restaurant has off days, normal days, and on days. Sonny’s had an on day. The ribs were perfect. For dinner, I made two Sicilian pizzas. One cheese and one pepperoni.

I spent a lot of time talking to my friend’s only son. He has a tough life. Three sisters still in the house.

He started telling me how he loved my computer. I know little about it. I decided I wanted to make Youtube videos, so I found a guy online, telling people which parts to buy to build a suitable PC for a reasonable price. I bought the parts and built the PC. That’s all I know.

Evidently, it’s a gaming PC. I did not know this. Gaming and editing video require similar capabilities.

He knew all about the motherboard and graphics card.

It turned out he had a lot of tech interests. I told him about Arduino and Adafruit. I told him about soldering stations and so on. Maybe the next time I’ll see him, he’ll bring a homemade communications satellite.

Very smart kid.

He’s also conservative, which is not something you see a lot in junior high kids. We talked politics, and I told him stuff I had learned about God.

These kids are so quiet, I never know what’s happening in their lives, so it was a real revelation, conversing with him.

Things are going well for me, but America is not merely circling the drain; it already has one leg in it. This week, many Americans are on the web claiming Osama bin Laden, the mass-murdering idiot behind the deaths of over 3,000 innocent occupants of the World Trade Center (including Muslims), was right.

I’ll post more about that later.

I should hear from the little woman after 5 p.m today, and the next window of opportunity will come tomorrow morning. After that, Orlando in the afternoon.

I am not ready to shift into real married life. I have spent about two months with my wife, but we were always on vacation in exotic places. I have become very good at phone marriage and sending money. Having someone here all the time will be different.

The phone, immigration matters, and trip arrangements have been our chief activities for a long time. When she’s here, we can forget all that. So what will we do?

Fixing up the house and my wife’s wardrobe will kill a little time. After that, we will have to deal with freedom.

It’s a good problem to have. Some people have to get up every day and spend 10 hours trying to sell Bud Light.

I’ll continue the post during the next flight so I can express my thoughts about the bin Laden letter.

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My wife had to make a connection in a country that gives Hamas billions, and even though I know that country has no idea who I am or where my wife is, I feel more at ease completing this post now that she is somewhere else.

Bin Laden wrote a ridiculous letter to America, and people are urging others to read it, claiming it proves he was actually a good guy and we were the problem.

Some highlights:

The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its price, and pay for it heavily.

Right away, you can see that this letter is a scary, revealing litmus test. If you agree with bin Laden after reading the above citation, you are a Jew-hater. It’s possible for a person who does not hate Jews to believe Israel has done bad or unwise things from time to time, but if you want to erase the Jewish nation, which is legitimate, and abuse everyone involved in supporting it, you hate Jews.

[Y]ou have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah.

Well, we have the Torah, and it does promise all the land in “Palestine” (a non-historical nation) to the Jews. We have copies that predate the birth of the pedophile rapist Mohammed, who was born in the 500’s. Muslims don’t have a “real Torah” to show us. They do have the groundless ravings that form their own scripture. The same scriptures that mandate the killing of Jews and Christians, not just in Mohammed’s time, but forever.

Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad

Yeshua received worship and said he was the Messiah, so obviously, Muslims don’t “believe in” him. The Old Testament clearly says the Messiah is God, not just an anointed servant, so when Yeshua said he was the Messiah, he was claiming to be God. If you don’t believe this, you don’t “believe in” Yeshua.

When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them.

How did Jerusalem “return” to Islam when it had never been a Muslim city? The Muslims invaded Jerusalem in the same century in which the thief and murderer Mohammed made Islam up. Mohammed’s efforts to create Islam are said to have started in 610, and Jerusalem was invaded and taken over by Muslim imperialists and slavers in 638.

You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque

The Jews held Jerusalem for thousands of years, including times when they lived under occupation. Islam’s claim is based on a dream someone supposedly had about an unnamed mosque in an unnamed location. And Israelis are not planning to destroy the mosque. It will be wonderful when Yeshua finally destroys this den of idolatry, but the Israelis are content to leave it alone.

Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians.

Torture is actually a Muslim thing, just like chopping hands off without anaesthetic, which they do every week. Israelis don’t torture as policy, and soldiers who do it on their own are removed from their posts and sometimes imprisoned, but when Hamas attacked civilians in Israel this year, they printed a torture manual and sent it with their cowardly murderers. As for killing, that’s normal when people are making war on you and rejecting peace offers.

And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.

I think he means, “”whoever has killed our civilians reluctantly and unintentionally, while making a great effort to spare them, at a high cost in lives to their own military, often while we have used our civilians as human shields, then we have the right to kill theirs deliberately, in huge numbers, using means banned by all recognized standards of civilized warfare, and we also get to torture and rape them.”

The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question: Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?

Actually, those questions have been answered about a billion times. We attacked in New York because they tried to blow the World Trade Center up by detonating a huge bomb in the parking garage, hoping to murder as many innocent, defenseless civilians as possible, in conformity with their official policy.

Bin Laden said Al Qaeda was calling victim nations to Islam. Funny how dumb Americans, virtually all of them leftists, are excited about the religion which will execute them SOONER than conservatives.

We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling’s, and trading with interest.

Evidently, people of honor set fire to living babies, and they cut babies out of pregnant women and behead them, without even cutting umbilical cords. That’s Al Qaeda honor. In Gaza, they throw homosexuals off tall buildings, so “Queers for Palestine” must be a base-jumping club.

[T]he Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.

I have no idea what Ben Franklin said. I know my life is not controlled by Jews. Even the Jew I worship permits me to do what I want.

Anyone who thinks there is a big Jewish conspiracy should round up a hundred Jews and try to get them to agree on ONE THING. It’s impossible. If there were a Jewish conspiracy, we would see some sign of it in, hello, the government of Israel, which is constantly plagued by disunity.

The Jewish conspiracy is certainly doing a great job of making the media side with Israel; every day, I see articles blaming Israel for the deaths of civilians Hamas uses as human shields. It’s like the entire press industry has turned into Al Jazeera.

If this is what a Jew-dominated press looks like, what would it look like if Jews backed off? “MATZOH PRICES DROP DUE TO INCREASED AVAILABILITY OF PALESTINIAN BLOOD.”

You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.

So leftists support a guy who wants to ban drugs and alcohol. Try and imagine a world in which leftists could not get these things. The Betty Ford Clinic would have to set up FEMA tents. The entertainment industry would cease to exist.

You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.

That’s a little weird, given the common Muslim practice of marrying first cousins. Bin Laden married his cousin. Incest hasn’t been spreading in America, but give it time. Post-gay-marriage-revolution, some here have noted that there is no biological reason to prevent gay marriages between relatives, and then there are incestuous couples in which at least one partner is sterile. Leftists will be the first to march for the changes, so how can any leftist support a Muslim extremist? They think Mike Johnson is dangerous because he believes the Bible.

You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly.

So leftists, who gave us the term “sex worker” to replace the accurate term “whore,” support a guy who is against making money from sex.

Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.

AIDS came from Africa, and when did leftists suddenly become okay with linking AIDS to sin? I mean, it’s correct, but leftists lose their minds when you dispute the idea that people who got this venereal disease aren’t heroes.

People who did their best to get AIDS got a quilt, but nobody got a trophy for syphilis. Where is the syphilis quilt?

You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war.

Japan was ready to cause the greatest bloodbath the world had ever known, and it was already off to a great start with little projects like the Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March. They taught women and kids to fight invaders with pointed sticks. They were ready to resist down to the last person. When the government decided to surrender, the military tried to stage a coup in order to keep the war going. It took TWO bombs to end the war because Japan kept fighting after one city was reduced to radioactive ruins.

We all know how easy it is to get ignorant leftists to believe fake history, though. They still think white people invented slavery, and they won’t admit most black slaves were bought from black traders. This information has been concealed from them in things called “books.” It’s no wonder they think the Japanese were the good guys.

The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only

We had a black president, we have numerous black billionaires, and Muslims still enslave blacks, but okay. Leftists don’t read, and they discard obvious facts, so no problem.

Regarding nuclear weapons:

Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.

Wow. Wonder why that is. We let you get your hands on two passenger planes, and look what you did. You shouldn’t be allowed to have matches. But leftists who stare at Tiktok all day and think Kim Kardashian should be president believe you.

Tiktokers are claiming we need to read this letter, and they say, “It’s only two pages long.” It’s more like 15 pages long. Who is paying them?

The sudden adoption of hell-resident bin Laden’s beliefs should disturb Americans who aren’t crazy. My fear is that antisemitism has suddenly become fashionable. I think it will be like gay marriage: almost universally opposed one day but coercively, overwhelmingly, oppressively supported the next. I don’t think Jews have years time left to prepare. I think months are all they can hope for, and months aren’t enough. Christians–real ones–will be targeted for genocide next.

The letter is exposing a lot of de facto Nazis of whom we would otherwise be aware.

This is a good time to bring the wife to the armed, fenced Northern Florida compound. I’ll give her a lasered pistol to carry. We’ll get her going with an AK-47 of her very own. I already told her it was hers. We’ll get her a carry permit so she can carry in other states. We’ll pray like crazy and dedicate ourselves to the one who keeps us safe. Maybe we’ll get some dry food. The tiny pawn shop where I pick up guns is selling bagged meals, three for 10 dollars.

I visited the other day, and I have mixed emotions about it. On the positive side, the place was busy handing guns over to people who had had them shipped in, so people here appear to be taking a productive attitude, and that’s reflective of the culture here.

I saw a nice old lady talking about gun classes and various aspects of gun ownership. She was very enthusiastic and seemed to know a lot. The kind of person you would expect to be preparing for Thanksgiving dinner with her grandchildren right now. A guy who worked in the store had a $10,000 M249S on the counter. An old guy from California came and picked up a piece, proving some people have the good sense to leave the state. I was only there about 35 minutes, and I guess 5 guns were picked up.

On the down side, they were selling those dried meals. A sign of well-founded pessimism. Guns can help you prevent disaster. When you’re eating freeze-dried food, disaster has already come.

Another shop I’ve used has a Ma Deuce in the showroom. Probably still ready to rock, full auto. They’re that kind of people. It’s an impressive weapon for a civilian to have. It will lay down a wall of lead, one round will tear a limb off, it’s unusually good for shooting through vehicles, and you can scope it and hit terrorists a very long way off. They splatter. Horrific.

It will be hard imposing sharia law in that shop.

God, not firearms, is my protection, but I don’t see any reason to invite problems through lack of ordinary preparedness. I mean, I own an umbrella. I don’t stand outside in the rain and pray the drops miss me.

The plane is on the way. Before the sun sets tomorrow, my wife and I will be at White Castle.

I Love You, but Stay Out of my Yard

Last night, I dreamed a blonde woman and her employees were trying to get in my house. I was yelling at them and so on from behind sliding glass doors. I gave her the finger. I opened a door to give her some more, and she somehow inserted a wire in the opening so I could not close the door. I got out a knife to cut it, and I think made a small cut on my left hand.

Anyway, I would have been better off leaving the door shut.

I think obnoxious people in dreams often represent spirits, and we all know spirits try to get inside us, like vampires asking permission to enter houses.

Maybe I am too angry these days, and it gives spirits openings. The cowardly, racist, terrorist attack on Israel, and the terrorist attacks on Jews elsewhere, and the gaslighting and cancel fever among leftists all over the world, have had me thinking a lot about how I hate bullies and liars. I hadn’t thought much about self-defense in a long time, but I started getting back up to speed. I have a wife on the way here, terrorism will definitely reach rural American gentiles, and I can’t play around.

Christians have to be people of love, and we don’t get a break when people start abusing us. That’s the time when we have to be most careful not to fall into hate.

I believe I’m right to arm up, but I also have to prepare my mind and my heart.

I cast out spirits of anger and fear. I asked God to pour his love through me and help me to be rid of adverse spirits. I spent a lot of time praying in tongues. I feel much better.

As I woke up this morning, I heard my wife’s voice say, “Now we can read Hebrews 5:11.” Of course, she is not here, because the consulate is dilly-dallying. I thought maybe I had heard from God. I looked up the verse.

Discussing Yeshua, it says: “Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”

I wondered the obvious wonder: “Am I resisting things God is telling me?” I’m always asking for correction as well as help in accepting it.

I still have lots of rough edges, but I don’t think I’m the main problem here. I think God was telling me and my wife what people are like.

First, Paul (assuming the traditional attribution is correct) says he has many things to say. Of course he did. He spent a lot of time alone with God, and God poured him full of information other people did not have. This happens to everyone who prays in tongues. Sometimes you get so much stuff, there is distress mixed with the pleasure, because it’s just more material you won’t be able to get anyone else to accept.

What if you lived in a country where almost everyone was dying of scurvy, God kept sending you pallets of Vitamin C, and virtually all of it went to sit in a continually-expanding warehouse, where it would never be opened?

The other day I felt like asking God to stop telling me so many things. “More stuff I can’t tell anyone.” But I immediately stopped myself and told him to give me as much as he wanted. Better for a few people to get revelation, and to feel bad about not being able to share it, than no one at all.

Second, Paul talks about how hard it is to say certain things. Wow. I know what he means. God has shown me all sorts of things, and there are pretty much two people on Earth who listen. Other people don’t respect me enough to listen. Some think TV preachers know everything. I get through to almost no one. So yes, it’s hard to make myself say certain things, because most of the time, people who get revelation are around people who won’t listen and would not understand if they did.

Yeshua told us not to cast our pearls before swine. We are his pearls, but the same principle applies to words. The best way to make swinish Christians mad at you is to tell them something God told you.

Third, Paul says the Hebrews are dull of hearing. That is true of most modern Hebrews as well as most Christians. Yeshua is the Messiah and God of the Jews, but Jews continue to suffer more than the should, because they don’t like him, they have no interest in Judaism, or they believe their confused sages have the answers. Israel would be having a much better time right now if most Jews belonged to Yeshua, but God’s help is limited because their ears are closed.

In the Tanakh, problems for Israel always indicated a state of disobedience. Somehow, most Jews think this is no longer the case. Israel is a pure victim, not in need of correction.

No confession, no repentance. No repentance, no relief. See Psalm 32.

If you are not baptized with the Holy Spirit, you are dull of hearing. Only the Holy Spirit enables people to receive truth. Reject Yeshua and you reject the Holy Spirit. It’s that simple.

Communion consists of two things: flesh and blood. The flesh of Yeshua represents his grace. Every good thing God does for you is grace. It’s charity. None of it is earned. The wine represents the sacrifice. If you share Yeshua’s cup, you agree to share in his rejection. You agree to stand up for him and be persecuted.

If you want the grace, drink from the cup. Don’t defend yourself. Don’t say God owes you anything good. He owes you hell. If you want the good, admit you deserve the bad.

Hebrews 5:11 is an interesting verse in an interesting chapter.

The enemies of Israel are in the wrong, but if you want protection from the wicked, you need to know God. America is like Israel, moving away from the one who protects it.

I will try to keep listening to correction I don’t like. I’m taking solid measures to arm my household, but I don’t need to be weighed down by anger. I will keep praying for the vicious, psychotic enemies of Jews and Christians, and I hope God takes us off this planet before I ever find myself in a situation where I have to consider picking up a weapon.

Stoner was no Browning

Suddenly I’m thinking about firearms and personal protection. I’m thinking about it because I just saw part of a surprising rap video taking up for Kyle Rittenhouse.

One of the many, many lies told about Rittenhouse is that he is a white supremacist. No idea where that comes from. He shot a Jewish pedophile in self-defense, and then he shot two more white people who were trying to harm him. One had an illegal pistol in his hand when Rittenhouse shot his arm nearly off.

Somehow that person, Gaige Grosskreutz, now known as Paul Prediger, never got charged with anything.

Anyway, it surprised me to see a rap song standing up for the victim, Kyle Rittenhouse, because in this country, black people are supposed to be against him for no reason.

A comment beneath the video mentioned something I had forgotten: Rittenhouse’s AR-15 rifle jammed while he was on the ground trying to protect himself.

Rittenhouse did a very impressive job of self-defense. He shot one attacker and then ran to tell the police, which was the correct, lawful, responsible move. Then he was attacked by a lynch mob, and they knocked him to the ground. His gun jammed. He cleared it. Then he shot two people who were trying to kill him, killing one and disabling both. After that, he resumed running toward the police, whom he eventually reached.

He did everything right. He only fired when his life was in imminent danger. He fired effectively, hitting what he aimed at. He stopped firing when the threats were neutralized, so he never crossed the line between self-defense and illegal retaliation. He also cleared a jammed weapon.

He did everything right, except for one thing. He bought the wrong rifle.

If you look at the history of AR-15 shootings, you will notice a common thread: rifles that jammed at critical moments. It has happened to criminals and also innocent people. It has also been a huge problem with the automatic versions of the AR-15 used by soldiers.

Some people get mad if you call an M16 or an M4 an AR-15. It is. It is. Shut up. No one says a semiautomatic Tommy gun is a different rifle from the automatic version. Just shut it.

Here’s a Google search for you.

I saw an Internet commenter saying AR-15 jams had saved countless lives. Pretty funny, but also true.

Try and find similar stories about AK variants or any other commonly-used semiautomatic rifles. Good luck. It won’t happen. There are millions of AK’s out there, and in a giant statistical sample, unlikely things will happen, but there is no long history of AK’s letting people down when it mattered.

Imagine what Rittenhouse went through. You’ve just been attacked by a child rapist who chased you down and tried to take your gun so he could kill you. People are firing shots around you (not often mentioned). They’re yelling, “Get him!” You’ve been knocked to the ground, your chest has been stamped on, and you’ve been assaulted with a deadly weapon (a heavy skateboard). A lowlife with an illegal Glock is running up to you. You’re on your back. And your new rifle is jammed.

It’s a wonder he lived.

I don’t get the AR self-defense craze. They’re all sorts of fun for targets and hunting, but why would you trust a gun which is famous for failure?

People blame the users. “Inexperienced.” “Untrained.” That’s really stupid. If you have to be trained in order to make a gun do what every other gun does for untrained people, you should buy a different gun.

They say poor maintenance is to blame. Good luck, trying to make an AK jam with poor maintenance.

I am an AR owner. Not for survival. Just for fun. I had to buy a special brush to clean the chamber. Never had to do that before. Where is my special AK chamber brush? They don’t exist. No need.

What happens if my AR chamber gets too dirty? It may hold onto a round so tightly it will not come out of the gun without tools. Show me where this is a problem with any other firearm.

I saw a guy on Youtube using hydraulic pressure and a special fitting to force a live round out of an AR-15. He threaded the fitting onto his muzzle, attached a grease gun, and pumped. He was a very knowledgeable guy, and he had tried everything else.

The round finally flew out and dented the wall of his shop.

What are you going to do if this happens to you while undocumented guests are rambling through your house at 3 a.m.? Short answer: surrender and possibly be raped or die.

Maybe you could use the grease gun to shoot the entire cartridge at the burglars.

A standard AR even has a feature that helps you jam it beyond field repair. It has a little thing you push to force stubborn rounds into your chamber. It’s called a forward assist. It was not part of the original design, but the military insisted it be added.

Hello…if a round is too fat to fit, the last thing you want is to force it. The proper thing is to eject the round and throw it out so you never try to use it again. If you use the forward assist, you’ll probably save the 25 cents you paid for the round, but if it gets stuck, you may be murdered by an assailant who realizes you are disarmed. Who bets a life against a quarter?

They should call it a burglar assist.

You can say, probably incorrectly, that your AR-15 will work great because you maintain and use it perfectly, so people who hate AR-15’s are stupid. First of all, you may be overestimating yourself and the gun, and second, wouldn’t you rather have a gun that works even when you screw up? I do. I want a gun I can throw to my untrained wife in an emergency.

The final thing I don’t like about the AR-15 is that it’s usually chambered in a bad cartridge: the .223/5.56. I will treat these calibers as though they were the same, because they nearly are. This cartridge has inferior stopping power compared to the AK’s standard 7.62. When you choose a rifle over a pistol, the single biggest reason is improved stopping power. Why choose a weak round over a strong one?

The 7.62 round is legal for deer hunting, probably everywhere. Go Google and read about deer and the .223. Many states will not let you use it. Why? Because it’s cruel to wound animals without killing them. State governments know the .223 is much weaker than the 7.62. How much more proof do you need?

The AR platform just isn’t very good. No one wants to admit it, but it’s obvious.

Why won’t they admit it?

I know why people continue to insist the AR-15 is a great gun. The main reason is that it’s really neat. It looks great; it makes you feel like a military guy holding a machine gun, instead of a fat Walmart employee with Cheez Doodle particles in his beard. It’s fun to customize. There are a billion parts and accessories you can install on your own.

Products people think are cool are almost always more popular than products that work.

There is also a certain amount of American pride out there. “WE BUILD GUNS BETTER THAN COMMIES!” No, we really don’t. The AK platform is a masterpiece, and the AR platform is a collection of compromises and corrections.

The AR-15 is like the Porsche 911, which was, and still is, a bad idea. Hitler had the VW Beetle designed by Ferdinand Porsche, and Porsche kept the same basic concept when he got into sports cars. Then his company held onto the butt-heavy, hard-to-drive, rear-engine format instead of moving forward like other companies. Just like Americans holding onto the AR-15. The result is that Porsches are still uglier, more dangerous, and harder to operate than other expensive sports cars, and Top Gear’s famous lap time board only has two Porsches in the top 15.

And Porsche is really trying, believe me. They don’t sit in front of the TV in Stuttgart and say, “Ze important sing is zat ve participated.”

People will rationalize in order to justify their prejudices. There are people out there right now telling pollsters Joe Biden is a fantastic president. When people claim the AR-15 is better than an AK, often, they are acting like lawyers. They look for anything they can say to bolster their case, and they forget about the truth.

I got a red dot for an AR-15. I figure it’s better to have it rigged up for self-defense than not, even if it’s my 4th choice. I mean, a golf club isn’t a weapon, but if you have one, you might put it next to the bed anyway.

I don’t have a laser on it. Those are for reliable guns.

I’m honest about the AK/AR debate. I think AR’s are really neat. I wish they worked well. I would prefer to be on the AR side because the primitive bits of my brain like them. But I’m not an idiot.

It’s sad that the AR-15 is so popular for self-defense, because intramural factional violence is going to get worse, and a lot of people who are in the right and who trust unreliable guns are going to get shot needlessly.

Conventional Wisdom can get you Killed

Let’s vandalize some toxic icons.

I wrote about the great news concerning pistol braces. These things are used as rifle buttstocks, to allow shooters to use rifle-caliber pistols just like rifles, held at the shoulder. The rule banning them was just stayed by a federal judge, and it will remain unenforceable for the next few years, barring a miracle no one who can determine his own gender without professional help wants to see. The courts will be very slow to do anything about it, and they will probably leave the injunction in place and do away with the ban.

I wanted to get one of these things for a Ruger 10-22 pistol as well as an AK-47 pistol. The Ruger is for tooling around the farm in my utility cart. The AK would be for protection while on the road. In a small space, it’s a little easier to swing than a full-length AK. Also, with a short AK, you only lose about 10% of your muzzle velocity, so it’s a good trade.

Ed Bonderenka commented:

That’s good news, but my AR pistol is accurate from the hip with the green laser attached. I mean chew up the bullseye accurate.
For me a brace would just make it bulkier.
But is is a big move because of the constitutional issues, particularly standing against the administrative state.
I might buy one just because.

No argument here.

The web is full of people who parrot gun myths as though they came from Jesus himself, and one of the myths says you can’t shoot a powerful gun accurately unless you shoulder it. Total nonsense. They also say lasers are toys that don’t really work. The US military disagrees, but whatever.

I remember writing some stuff about intending to shoot a 12-gauge from the hip, using a laser. A blogger who used to write a lot about guns said he couldn’t control such a gun with his “gorilla” arms, making the obvious implication about my arms and chances.

I bought a Saiga-12 shotgun. I bought a cheap Chinese laser. I went to a gun range. I put a target up at 50 feet. I put shots in a circle the size of a tennis ball, more or less, from the hip. No problem. Child’s play. With my non-gorilla arms.

Maybe my squirrel monkey arms have something his gorilla arms don’t, but I doubt it. If he had tried what I tried, he would have said something completely different. Maybe he didn’t have lasers in mind. I can’t remember.

Interesting fact: a 12-gauge has more recoil than a .30-06, an AK has much less, and an AR is even further down the list. I’m trying to say that a 12-gauge has all sorts of recoil. Worse than most deer guns.

Another interesting fact: when you use a laser, recoil doesn’t matter much.

“Blasphemy! Blasphemy!”, I hear the gun Sadducees shrieking. They are always the last to accept the obvious truth.

Why does recoil matter when you’re defending yourself? A couple of reasons. It may teach you to flinch, and it will also knock your gun off-target, so you have to find the target in your sights again.

When you have a laser, flinching doesn’t mean much. Where is the dot when you pull the trigger? That’s where the bullet will go. It’s that simple. Try it some time. People say it doesn’t really work. It does. It’s impossible for it not to work. Flinch all you want. As long as the dot is on the mark when the trigger is pulled, you win.

When you have a laser, finding the target again, instantly, is no problem. You have a big, giant beam in front of you. Shoot. Put the beam back on the target. Done. Shoot again. Squinting at black iron sights is a lot harder. Reacquiring your target through a scope is also hard, and in many cases, it will be impossible because you won’t have enough light to see through the scope.

People are taught to obsess on iron sights and scopes. You need to be able to use these things. No doubt about it. But teaching people to rely on them is really, really stupid. Why? Because MOST VIOLENT CRIMES OCCUR AT NIGHT.

YOW. Ouch. That stings, if you’re a gun Sadducee. Make a comment and tell us I’m wrong. Tell us your secret method for using iron sights or a red dot in a dark bedroom. I can’t wait to hear.

It’s not just hard. It can’t be done. So people who advise us to rely on iron sights and scopes aren’t just shooing us away from the best optics; they’re teaching us to be totally helpless IN MOST SELF-DEFENSE SITUATIONS.

That’s pretty bad.

When I get up in the morning, I turn the burglar alarm off. Why? Because nobody is going to break in while I’m here and the sun is out. That’s just a fact. They might break in at night even though they can tell I’m here, because darkness and surprise work to their advantage. They’re not going to show up in the daytime, when the police and I can see them clearly.

It’s true that most burglaries take place in the daytime, but the primary purpose of a firearm isn’t to stop burglaries, which most commonly happen when people are at work. It’s to stop home invasions, which are burglaries that take place in occupied houses.

If you ever have to defend yourself from a criminal in your home, chances are, it will be dark out, and your house may be dark, too. Good luck trying to aim at a burglar when you can’t see your sights. You’re going to spray and pray, just like everyone else who took the bad advice.

My carry pistol has a laser that turns on by itself when I pick the gun up. Wake me up, and I can have it in my hand in one second. That’s pretty good. In one second, I can be well-armed while I pick up a rifle and turn its laser on. After that, my house is a really bad place for a burglar to be.

Burglars don’t use good optics. They don’t even learn how to shoot. They generally use polymer pistols they steal from their neighbors, with whatever ammunition was in them when they were stolen. If I have a rifle with a bright green laser, and my guest has a Taurus pistol he got by breaking into a car, who do you think will get shot the soonest and the most?

How much time do you think I’ll spend making sure I have a good sight picture or just the right grip?

“Hold on, Mr. Burglar! I have to make sure my isosceles stance is just right!” “I have to put on my tactical socks and call Massad Ayoob!” I don’t think so.

If you like spending money, you can do even better. You can get night vision plus an infrared laser criminals can’t see. You’ll see the criminal and the big dot of light, and he will not even know where you are.

That brings me to another creaky talking point: “A laser will tell the criminal where you are!”

He’s almost certainly going to know where you are anyway. I admit, it’s great if he doesn’t, but he probably will. And if you use a laser, by the time you light him up, he will not have enough time to do anything about it. He’ll have a pretty good idea where you are, as you shoot him repeatedly.

And you won’t be helpless because you’re trying to find your tiny black sights in the dark.

You don’t have to walk around with your laser on, lighting up the neighborhood like Rudolph the Green-Nosed Reindeer. You can switch it on right before you shoot.

The Sadduccees love to say lasers make you dependent on gimmicks. Isn’t that better than being dependent on sights you can’t use because it’s dark? Either way, you’re going to be dependent on something.

So to sum up, you can shoot a powerful gun perfectly well from the hip with a laser. It will not be the best answer for killing people at long distances, but if you’re shooting people far away, you’re probably what the law calls “a murderer.” If a criminal is so far away you can’t hit him using a laser, he is probably too far away to pose a threat a jury will confirm.

If lasers are so great, why consider a shouldered weapon? Lasers are pretty bad outdoors in bright conditions. Also, they can malfunction. You may be in a situation where you need to be able to use the sights.

A folding weapon with a laser, to me, appears to be the best option for defense outside the home. When it’s folded, you will be able to maneuver it in the car. The laser will be helpful most of the time. If you have to get out of the car for some reason, you can unfold the stock and use the sights.

You can also stick a red dot on a folding gun along with the laser. A red dot is fantastic for shooting a gun you can’t shoulder. You can nail anyone within a hundred feet without too much trouble.

Maybe I should listen to Ed and forget the brace. If I get a braced pistol, I can fool with it and decide for myself.

Rodent Ragnarok

Every so often, our government does something helpful. Today there are two pieces of good news.

First, it is now, once again, effectively, legal to put braces on pistols. Nationwide.

A brace can be pretty much the same thing as a buttstock. Some can be used to hold a pistol up to the shoulder to be fired like a rifle. There are also pistol braces that allow handicapped people to strap pistols to their arms so they can hold them more effectively.

The truth is that braces are popular because they allowed people to have short-barreled rifles without informing the feds. A brace can be used to turn an AR-15 or AK-47 into what is, all but legally, a rifle.

Joe Biden decided to forget about the Second Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act and order the ATF to come up with a rule banning pistol braces without expensive permits that take a year to get. To get a permit, you also give up your privacy. The feds keep a record so they can come get your guns later when the country devolves into utter chaos.

All sorts of legal tussling has taken place, and limited injunctions have been issued against the ATF. They helped some people, but not all. Yesterday, however, a Texas judge enjoined enforcement of the rule everywhere in the US.

What does this mean? It means the rule is gone for good. Probably. The injunction only applies while the case is being resolved, but the judge has made it clear he’s going to block the rule permanently. He has all but sworn it. After that, it goes to the 2A-friendly 5th Circuit. That will take a long time, and the 5th Circuit will very likely affirm. After that, the ATF will shoot for a Supreme Court review. They may not get it, and if they do, we have at least 5 justices who are usually pretty good about defending our civil rights. Some of our civil rights.

I suppose the ATF will file some kind of interlocutory appeal right away, but it probably won’t go anywhere, because the 5th Circuit will be the appellate court.

I’d say there is a 95% chance the rule will be dead for a couple of years. It should take that long for it to make it to the Supreme Court, which may or may not review the case. I’m afraid to guess how likely it is the Supreme Court will review the case or affirm. If they refuse to look at the case, it’s over. If they look at it, the odds of affirmation are definitely above 50%.

If the rule is dead for two years, it should be the end of it, because we are overwhelmingly likely to have a Republican president by then, and he will tell the ATF to let it go.

How important is this case? Probably not too important. To me, it means I can have a shouldered AK-47 6″ shorter in my vehicle. That’s great, but to be truthful, I doubt a 10″ barrel is much more likely to save lives than a 16″ barrel.

Still, the almost-certain end of the rule is a nice change. It means I can have the 10″ barrel, and I can also keep a short .22 rifle (oops–shouldered pistol) in my utility cart when I’m out and about on the farm.

And I won’t have to worry about going to prison over a gun part that has zero upward impact on crime rates.

Is it true to say using a brace is legal? I guess not, since the rule is still on the books. But if they can’t enforce it, who cares? In the unlikely event the rule survives, the ATF won’t be able to do anything to people who bought braces under the injunction. Before dusting off the jackboots, they’ll have to give everyone a chance to comply.

Now people have to ask themselves whether they should buy braces today or wait to see if there is an interlocutory appeal. You don’t want to spend $200 today and then have to discard the brace in two months.

Here is the second great thing the government is doing: they may drop the seasonal part of the squirrel hunting regulations on private land. Which is where I live.

Squirrels are horrible, and they are horrible all year round. They eat vehicle wiring. They eat patio furniture. They eat fruit and nuts. They give me dirty looks. I should be allowed to kill every squirrel I see, all the time, with anything short of an atom bomb. They are no better than rats. I should be allowed to kill a hundred a day and leave the bodies for the crows.

It is not unusual for me to look out the window and see 6 squirrels at once. This area is crawling with them. It’s infested with oaks, so it’s squirrel heaven. It’s too much. They need to go.

I haven’t been shooting them for a while. I’m a Christian. We’re supposed to be people of love. I don’t know if it’s good for me to sit in a tent and pop squirrels with a scoped rifle all day, given that I do it partly in anger. I really should start shooting them again, though. My truck won’t start, and I’m pretty sure they did it. I have a productive peach tree, and I’m lucky if they let me have three peaches a year.

I shoot them out of season, because the wildlife people told me it’s legal if they are menacing my property. This only applies near the house, though. I should be allowed to shoot them anywhere. I should be given a bounty every time I run over one.

I wish God would send a plague and make the hair on their tails fall out. Then they would look like rats, and people wouldn’t think they were cute. Animals that aren’t cute get a lot less legal protection.

They resist trapping. I’ve set various types of traps, and I’ve only trapped one squirrel. The best trap, supposedly, is a PVC pipe over a bucket of water. You provide bait, the squirrels slide down the pipe, and they drown. I don’t want to drown anything. I don’t want to sit in my living room wondering if a small animal is struggling for life in a bucket of water.

I’ve used Conibear traps. These are like little versions of the bear traps in old Warner Brothers cartoons. They crush squirrel’s heads or necks, depending on the breaks, putting an end to them fast. But squirrels avoid these traps.

I hope they make this rule change, and I also hope they grow spines and legalize bear hunting. I don’t care what anyone says; we don’t actually “need” 500-pound predators in our backyards. There is a reason why we killed them off in the first place. Every once in a while, a Florida bear kills and/or partially eats someone, and we are reminded how it feels to be prey.

We always hear the same thing. “If we kill off the grizzlies/black bears/wolves/lions/cockroaches/whatever, our ecosystem will suffer a devastating blow from which it will never recover.” What a load. The chestnut trees that used to cover the country died. Things are still fine. We got rid of wolves in most places, and it made life better. The passenger pigeon is gone, but the world keeps turning. Things would be fine if every black bear in Florida disappeared.

The same leftists that killed bear hunting also feed bears and God knows what else, teaching bears that people are food. Amazing.

I like bears, but we need fewer of them, and I will quickly dispatch any bear that bothers me whether or not I think the government will approve. Better to pay a lawyer than several teams of surgeons or a funeral home.

I’d kill Lassie if I thought she was going to bite me. I’m not going to lose the use of a hand so a dog can have a second chance. I was created in the image of God, and dogs were not. One of my hands is worth a whole lot of collies.

Me first. Those are the rules. I guess it’s only one rule. Anyway, me first. I’m more important than an animal. If Commander Biden had attacked me in the White House, they would have found him in a heap with a fractured skull. I don’t have a Secret Service career to worry about.

There are certain animals in my area that should always be killed on sight. Squirrels, rattlers, water moccasins, big alligators, squirrels, coons, bears, possums, armadillos, squirrels, bobcats, hogs, mice, coyotes, all dogs whose owners paint their toenails, and squirrels. That’s just reality.

I quit eating squirrels because they’re tiny and hard to clean, but I may resume once my wife is here. She’ll eat anything. She’s an African. She eats giant maggots called mopane worms.

Let’s segue into a criticism of the leftist media.

Right now, a bunch of people are fighting anthrax in Zambia. A story says 335 people got it. How? They ate hippo meat. Apparently hippos get anthrax.

What did NPR say about this? They claimed it was about African poverty, most of which is caused by me, personally, because I’m white and can tell I’m not a woman. My colonialism and transphobia are at the root of the problem.

NPR started out its stupid story with the claim that Zambians were so poor, they had to eat hippo meat. Instead of tofurkey meatloaf and Starbucks lemon cake like everyone else.

Poverty caused by white Steve causes anthrax epidemic among POC! Get the pitchforks and carbon-neutral torches!

The big problem with this claim is that hippo meat is expensive. It’s better than beef. Zambians love it. Stores can charge a lot. The people who got anthrax got it from a luxury product they could apparently afford. It infected affluent Zambians.

Doesn’t matter. It was my fault. Put me on the scale and find out if I weigh the same as a duck.

I don’t know if I’ll resume shooting squirrels or not, but I hope other people take it up. Hateful things. Worse than anthrax.

The Behar Doctrine Will Age Poorly

Still no word from the State Department regarding my wife’s visa. We figure they will give up tomorrow.

We are both tired of waiting. When you start the process and you know it will be a long time before it’s over, you don’t feel so bad. When they tell you they’ll give you an answer in 5 business days and they don’t come through, it’s worse. You feel like your life has a pause button. You don’t want to do much of anything until the wait is over. The wait absorbs your attention.

While I wait, I am watching the astounding blossoming of antisemitism across the globe. For the first time in my life, Jewish Americans are besieged right here in the country where most of them were born. That’s really something. Immigrants see America as a place of safety. Would they feel that way if they knew their American grandchildren would have to run from the same human filth that tormented them in their home countries?

I guess there must be a lot of Jews who don’t take it seriously, not realizing how terrorism works. It’s a sporadic phenomenon. They attack here. They attack there. Time passes between attacks. Things feel normal almost all the time. It doesn’t mean you’re safe. It just means you’re relying on the odds to protect you. If you’re not taking measures to protect yourself, you’re like a sheep who hopes the wolves will eat other sheep first.

Something like 100,000 Muslims and Islamist allies marched in Washington. If I were a Jew, I’d be flipping out. We will never see that many people march there in support of the Jews.

We are seeing antisemitic protests that are of the same order of magnitude as the Nuremberg rallies, and they’re happening in countries that supposedly support the Jews. Imagine 100,000 Nazis having a rally in Washington in 1942.

Well, we pretty much just saw that. And give the Nazis credit; before they decided genocide was the answer, they tried to ship Jews to other countries. For Muslims, genocide has always been Plan A.

Some Arab nut in Indianapolis just drove a car into a school building she thought belonged to Jews. Indianapolis! Not Riyadh. Not Nuremberg. Not even a city popular with Jews. The weirdest part of the story is that the building belonged to the Black Hebrew Israelites, a wacky cult that says the Jews are really Eastern European impostors who stole their heritage. They’re among the worst antisemites.

Yes, we all know the ancient Jews were actually black people from West Africa. It makes total sense. That’s why the Bible says David had red hair. Like all West Africans.

The Black Hebrew Israelites used to murder people in Miami. The cult was a gang. Their leader was a moron whose birth name was Hulon Mitchell. He called himself Yahweh ben Yahweh. “Yahweh the son of Yahweh.” In Miami, we used to call them the Yahwehs. They still have a headquarters on 2nd Avenue in the 441 Building. They assemble in the parking lot in their weird costumes and practice martial arts moves.

They’re preparing to face imaginary enemies, and the Jews are doing little to prepare to face real ones.

I wonder what I would do if I found out tens of thousands of people with no loyalty to the US had assembled in the capital city to call for my death. I guess I’d move to a conservative county in the country. I’d move into a home with a lot of land, a fence, a gate, conservative neighbors, and a 2A-loving police force. I’d buy a lot of guns and ammunition. I’d also weld up a bunch of target stands with steel gongs, and I’d practice with them erected next to my own berm.

Oh, wait. I already did all that.

I did most of it because I like shooting, not because I was anticipating an invasion, but the end result is the same. I’m safer than most people.

Every day, thousands of military-age single male Muslims enter the US without background checks, and most American Jews are sitting around thinking, “We’ll never be safe until we take Glocks and AR-15’s away from rural Protestants.” They’re letting Joy Behar set their priorities. Wonder if she’ll change her tune when they come for her.

New York contains the largest collection of Jews outside Israel, and in New York, body armor is illegal. ARMOR, which can’t hurt anyone. It boggles the mind. Are the delis really that good? Is it really that important to live near dozens of glatt kosher restaurants?

California, which is number three after Israel, has a similar ban in the works.

Let’s do it right. Make it illegal to take cover behind furniture.

California and New York have enormous Muslim populations, and because Jews insist on living in cities, terrorists in these states will not have to travel far to commit crimes.

If you put 10,000 armed Jews in an enclave in rural Tennessee, it would take the US military to defeat them. No one else could do it. Crazed Uber drivers and falafel-stand proprietors from Dearborn in rented vans wouldn’t stand a chance. And most of their gentile neighbors would jump at the chance to defend Jews. And they would know how.

If you can hit a deer 600 feet away, you can hit a terrorist whose parents are first cousins, fumbling with a cheap AR-15. And a lot of guys in the South can hit a man half a mile away.

Rich gentiles are buying homes built into missile silos in the wilderness. Rich Jews are more concerned about Trump resuming power and making more mean tweets.

My guess is that we are about to see an explosion in antisemitism. Right now, we may be looking at a lit fuse and mistaking it for the bomb. I think many millions of demon-controlled people are about to come out and say it: it’s not Israel’s policies. It’s the Jews. They have to go. And it will eventually become the policy of the majority.

After the Jews, Christians will be the targets. Not gay-church universalist “Jesus is just like Buddha” Christians. Actual Christians.

As the Muslims say, “First the Saturday people; then the Sunday people.”

The people who will be against us won’t just be Muslims. Leftists will join with them, as they are already doing.

Christians are doing a good job already, abolishing real Christianity from the world. When the violence becomes overt and sanctioned, I’m sure many of the people who kill us will identify as Christians.

What do the rest of us do when pogroms become normalized in our cities? Do we get in our trucks and go shoot antisemites? I haven’t thought about it before. Do we stay home and say, “Let the dead bury the dead,” as Yeshua did?

I don’t think God will want Christians to send armed convoys to cities, no matter what happens to urban Jews. It just doesn’t sound like Yeshua. He generally stays out of squabbles among people who don’t listen to him.

I guess I’ll sit back, watch people wait for it to blow over, and then observe their disappointment when it gets worse. My wife and I will continue to pray for Israel every day. There isn’t much more we can do.

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Wow. This is interesting. The crazy young female man-wannabee who shot up a Christian school in Nashville had a manifesto, and Steven Crowder has it. He will be reading it online. Here is the first page:

That’s for the Sunday people.

You can find more photos on the web.

There is no Mammad like Yeshua

The spirit of antichrist continues to energize his shock troops.

I have to wonder what Jews are saying in private these days. Beginning at the age of three, I found myself surrounded by Jewish friends and acquaintances, and that continued for over three decades. These days, I don’t get to interact with Jews, so I have to get information from the media. Jewish people have traditionally been somewhat reluctant to tell the world everything they’re thinking, for obvious reasons, so I can’t say I know exactly what’s happening.

What I wonder is whether they’re sitting around their dining room tables asking each other whether a new holocaust is here. The answer to that question is “no.” The old Holocaust never stopped. It just went into remission.

You know how remission works. Whenever you hear a sick person say, “They told me I’m cancer-free,” you know that person will probably be dead within 10 years. “Cancer-free” is a lie. It just means they can’t find it at the moment.

Muslims in Paris just performed a little terrorist raid. They vandalized Jewish homes at least 857 times, painting the star of David on them. You can say it’s not terrorism because vandalism isn’t violent, but that isn’t true. Threats are terrorism. The word “terrorism” means trying to achieve goals by instilling terror. It’s not necessary for violence to occur as long as people are terrified.

Remarkably, Berlin has a Jewish community. It’s not large, but it’s there. Berlin Jews are now experiencing antisemitic vandalism. Muslims are tearing mezuzahs out of their doorframes.

Of course, we already know about the Jewish students who were terrorized at the Cooper Union in Manhattan, and the mob attack in Muslim-dominated Dagestan, a Russian republic. Hundreds of Muslims swarmed an airport, accosting people and asking if they were Jewish. They said they wanted to lynch Jews.

I just read a wild article under the heading “The Volokh Conspiracy.” The article appears at Reason.com. I guess Eugene Volokh moved? No idea. I have only looked at his blog a couple of times in two decades because I have zero interest in law. Funny thing for a lawyer to say, but it’s a fact. For me, it was just a way to get money, like working for Domino’s or Uber. Not the most challenging, fulfilling, or interesting job there is.

The article quoted another article, written by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. You can find it without a paywall on the site of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

It’s amazing that a Jew smart enough to be the law school dean at Berkeley would be foolish enough to take the job, but this is how things are. Overwhelmingly, Jews support and associate with their worst enemies.

Chemerinsky says, “I am a 70-year-old Jewish man, but never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism of the last few weeks.” How deep in the sand has his head been? I’m a Gentile. I live in relative safety. I had no reason to keep tabs on anti-Jewish sentiment, but he did. I knew things were bad years ago. Why didn’t he?

He was surprised when he found out he had students who supported the Hamas attack. Surpised? How is that possible? I went to Columbia about a billion years ago, and there were already punk dime store revolutionaries, including Jews, wearing khaffiyahs.

He still says, “I strongly oppose the policies of the Netanyahu government, favor full rights for Palestinians, and believe that there must be a two-state solution.” What? Is survival of no importance to this man?

He quotes other professors who have publicly threatened Jews in the US. He’s in the US. Do you think he has any idea how to operate a semiautomatic rifle? Do you think he has taken the sane precaution of taking his wife or children to gun ranges? Probably not. He’s a gun-confiscation nut who opposes carry rights. You can look that up.

Maybe he’s a hypocrite. I hope so. Maybe he’s like the leftists who scream for high taxes and then hide money illegally. Maybe he has machine guns in the trunk of his German luxury car.

What’s he going to do when a demonized student wearing Palestinian colors puts a knife to his throat? Offer to debate him? Ask for a continuance so he can submit a brief?

What does it take to convince a leftist he needs to arm himself? I mean Western leftists who live in comfort, not the millions of leftist who have already armed themselves and killed their betters.

Were there Jews like this under Hitler? Did they go around saying it was wonderful to see the German working class challenge the wealthy? Did they blame their own people for the Versailles treaty? You have to wonder.

At least one Jewish woman in Israel had her baby cut from her belly and beheaded, with the umbilical cord still attached. This is what antisemitism looks like in 2023. Kristallnacht looks pleasant by comparison. And journalists don’t care, because they’re in the tank for Islam. Journalists called the Dagestan attack a protest. It was a pogrom. Are pogroms protests now?

Atrocities can happen here. Don’t think the threats are empty. Human beings are no damn good, as my mother always said, in total agreement with the Bible. When conditions are right, they are capable of deeds that would make demons puke. If they can burn babies to death and cut people’s feet off in Israel, they can do it here. They’re not inhibited by empathy or shame. They’re just waiting to feel sufficient support from the mob.

It may be that the prediction of Zechariah 14 is just about here. The prophet clearly stated it would happen when the day of the Lord came, and the day of the Lord is the tribulation.

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

This hasn’t happened yet, so it can’t be about the past.

Over the last half-century, hatred of Israel has become fashionable among leftists. It has built gradually. Many Jews joined right in, because the general tendency of Jews is to curry favor with the left. Our universities have been instrumental in driving the hate. Somehow, Jews either failed to notice or got on the bandwagon.

One of my former college friends is a pro-Palestinian activist. He married a gentile, and my impression is that he turned the pants over to her. When I knew him, he really disliked Arabs. He called them “rabhabs.” No idea what that meant. He started taking a few measures intended to make it look like he kept kosher. He sang prayers over meals sometimes. He supported Israel. He refused to marry the love of his life because she was Catholic. His family was against the marriage. His second wife was born a gentile, but she converted in what was probably a reform synagogue. Possibly conservative. Not Orthodox.

Reform Judaism is the branch that brought the world the first proud lesbian rabbis. You get to eat anything you want, you can be an atheist, and it’s okay for your rabbi to invite Muslim clerics to speak on Saturdays.

He’s a far-out leftist today, if he’s still alive. I wonder what he thinks about taking that path now. Muslims and other antisemites are not going to listen when he says he’s on their side. If violence comes to his door, they’ll do him and his wife just as they would do Benjamin Netanyahu.

Having known a lot of Jews, I know two things. They are the smartest and most talented people on Earth, and they are also ruled by emotion, not reason. Intelligence doesn’t help if you can’t rule your biases and the herd instinct. If you have to vote for Biden because your great-grandpa voted for FDR, you are not listening to anything above the brainstem.

Ultimately, rejecting the Messiah and the Holy Spirit caused the problems we are seeing today. The Tanakh makes it very, very clear. When Israel, meaning the body of Jews throughout the world, pleases God, things go well for Israel. When there are problems, it means investigation and repentance are in order. Something is clearly wrong when the Promised Land has been in gentile hands for nearly two millennia and one Austrian nut can stir Europeans up to kill something like a third of Israel in one decade. This is not how blessed nations live.

If this is God’s favor, what does his displeasure look like?

I challenge anyone to read the Tanakh and find periods where Israel endured major, prolonged conquest and subjugation while the Jews were pleasing God.

It’s not because people are eating shrimp or going without hats. It’s because they missed the Messiah. They missed unity with others who know God. They missed out on power and victory.

Same thing is now happening to Christians. God put up with a lot of terrible behavior from nominal Christians over the centuries, but now the stronghold is falling, and the world’s most powerful Christian nation is turning into a second-world country dominated by alien invaders we actually pay to come here. We are being dominated by men in dresses and women who have had themselves skinned so they can sport artificial penises. We are being overrun by socialists. A sick minority rules us with ease.

If you are blessed, one of you will put 10 thousand to flight. If not, it’s the other way around.

A lot of people have said the word “Babylon” refers to the Catholic church in eschatology. I feel it refers to America. Babylon is a whore. In the Bible, whores and adulteresses are pretty much the same thing. See Hosea. America was established by Yeshua, and we were made powerful and rich, but now America is a whore for Satan. Paganism, promiscuity, obscenity, pride, perversion, materialism…we decided we had created our own ascendancy, so we are abandoning God on the assumption that we can restore our country.

It will never happen. Our lifestyles are deteriorating. Unless you are blessed by God, your kids won’t own a nice house. They won’t live well on one income. They’ll always work long hours. They’ll see their country pushed around in international squabbles. They’ll live to see the dollar replaced in international business, and that will destroy their savings. They’ll have to bend the knee to the same kind of filthy mob that rounded up decent people in Cuba and Cambodia, took their homes, imprisoned them, tortured them, raped the women, and piled bodies on the ground.

If you forsake God, your sons will cut their penises off. Your daughters will grow beards. Your grandchildren will grow up in rented apartments. They’ll be indoctrinated by force. You will have nothing to say about it.

If you accept Yeshua, get baptized with the Spirit, pray in tongues, repent, confess, and grow as God’s child, you will eventually have peace, abundance, protection, and dominance. Your blessings will be separated from the curses on America. You can do well while your country is destroyed.

America is begging for a whore’s reward, and it’s already rolling in. God really hates unfaithfulness. It’s worse to be an adulteress than to be a stranger.

My wife and I have been praying for Israel every day ever since we started praying together. We pray for God to open the eyes of the Jews and show them how the rabbis have lied to them. We pray he will show them that Maimonides is in hell along with the other sages who kept them in the dark. We also pray he will defeat their enemies and give them victory. The problem is that blessings will always be connected to Yeshua, so there is a limit to what our prayers can do. There are some blessings God simply will not give to people who are against Yeshua.

Barring accepting the perfect solution, I suppose getting serious about self-defense is the best Band Aid.

It’s a terrible scenario. Many Jews knew antisemitism would prevent them from being safe in gentile nations, so they pushed for the restoration of their rightful homeland. According to Zechariah, they are going to find out they’re not safe even there. If the world rejects you, and your homeland–your mammad–turns out to be a house of straw, where, exactly, do you run?

Hamas Fans Protest Jewish Occupation of Manhattan

I’m brewing (wheat ale with bergamot hops), so I have to hang around indoors for a while. Might as well write.

We have a new thing in America. Jews cowering in terror in a university library in a major city while antisemites threaten them with big sticks, combined with an inability to get uniformed police to show up.

At first, the story was that the police refused to come, but now we are being told there were plainclothes detectives in the library.

A person called Chief of Patrol John Chell said, “There was no direct threats.”

The police must not be hearing the same things law students hear. When I was in law school, I was told that threatening a person with a weapon, while you were close enough to use it, was assault. A crime. If you look at video of the incident, you can see a moron with two big sticks, banging them together while staring at students protected only by glass and two doors the police say were not locked.

I know a little bit about Florida law. Here, if you make me mad while I’m driving, and I pick up my gun and hold it so you can see it, I commit a felony that carries a lot of prison time. I guess brandishing weapons that can easily crush skulls is no problem in New York.

People keep saying you can disagree with things Israel does without being antisemitic, and that is true. Protestors like to claim they’re against Israel, not Jews. If that’s the case, why did this herd of mouth-breathers go to NEW YORK and threaten AMERICAN Jews?

I’ll set the question apart in its own sentence.

If you’re against Israel but you have nothing against Jews, why wave weapons at Jews who are not Israelis, 5600 miles from Israel?

This happened in New York, a place where Jews feel safe. After Israel, New York has more Jews than any place. Jews love New York. Many identify with it more than they do with Israel. This happened in what may be the favorite city of more Jews than any other. More than Jerusalem. And our government did nothing.

University president Laura Sparks, clearly a crazy lady, called the event a “peaceful protest.” Waving big sticks at defenseless minority members is now a peaceful activity. Try it at a Biden press conference and see if the Secret Service thinks it’s peaceful.

Sparks comes from the same wacky leftist segment of society that says words are violence. So words are violence, but big sticks aren’t. If I remind Dylan Mulvaney he’s a man, it’s a crime of violence, but if I wave a big stick at an elderly rabbi, it’s expression. It’s beautiful. It’s “my truth.”

Here you see the political suicide of Jews at work. They chose this. They are overwhelmingly leftist. They helped create a climate of antisemitism in the world, by supporting leftism. They helped make New York City what it is. A lot of them are still marching with the pro-Hamas nuts.

They helped create a city where a person who behaves more like an ape than a human being can threaten them with weapons, but they can be imprisoned for carrying firearms. And most of them want nothing to do with firearms to begin with. They think the state will protect them. Like all the other gentile governments that have been so loyal to them.

Yesterday I read that a poll said 48% of younger Americans support Hamas over Israel, and 26% think ending the Jewish state and giving it to Arabs is the way to solve the problem. This is what happens when you embrace leftism. It infects future generations. How can American Jews be leftists? It’s astounding.

The good news is that American Jews will vote conservative, overwhelmingly, in the future. They’ve come to their senses.

No, they haven’t! They’re going to keep feeding the hand that bites them. Some will come around, but generally, they’ll continue assisting in their own destruction and punishing their friends.

My wife and I intercede for Israel and the Jews every day, but because a lot depends on their cooperation, I have extremely low expectations. I expect a majority of Jews to go down with the leftist ship, while loudly defending their stubbornness.

I think we’re seeing the Thirties all over again, and the windows of escape are slamming shut, after precious few people used them.

Because things are getting so weird, I’m considering going back to keeping a rifle in the car, along with several loaded magazines. It’s legal, and these days, it’s smarter than ever. This is an era of mob crime, and mob crimes call for rifles and lots of ammunition, as lynching victim Kyle Rittenhouse could tell you.

I’m trying to catch up on AK technology. I would never rely on an AR-pattern gun for self-defense, except as an emergency backup. AR’s are not reliable, period, and they are inferior for use at distances typical for self-defense. If you’re shooting at people beyond the range where an AK-47 is sufficiently accurate, you’re almost certainly trying to commit murder. It would be pretty unusual to find yourself in a situation where you reasonably feared great bodily harm from someone that far away.

It would be good to have a short folding AK in the car. They have new variants now, though, and it’s confusing. They have a thing called an AK-103. My understanding is that it takes optics better.

In recent years, it became possible to put a rear stock on an AK pistol without committing a crime. That would be great for a vehicle gun. Sadly, Biden ordered the ATF to ban “pistol braces” on unregistered AK pistols. He says they’re short-barreled rifles, which have to be registered. Common sense says he’s right, but legally, he’s wrong. It’s bizarre.

A case is going through the federal courts, addressing the pistol brace question. There is already an injunction that prevents the ATF from going after certain owners of braced pistols. It looks like the ATF is going to lose, big time. We’re not there yet, however.

I want no part of the coming violence, but I would also prefer not to be dragged out of my car and beaten to death, and I would like to be able to protect my wife instead of crying and shaking and wondering why the government hasn’t sent anyone to help us. A lot of Jews have suffered that fate recently, and many would have been fine–and able to kill terrorists–had they been armed instead of relying on an unrealistic conception of their government’s abilities.

Look what happens in a world where people reject Yeshua and the Holy Spirit. You have to buy products made to harm other human beings, or you have to choose to risk martyrdom.

If people were praying in the Spirit every day, God would fill them with his thoughts, emotions, and desires, and he would rid them of the Satanic excrement that drives them now. If two people are aligned with God, they are also aligned with each other. It’s axiomatic. This is why Yeshua is called the Prince of Peace. He owns it. There is no other source.

Unfortunately, Islamists and Jews believe Christianity is idolatry, and leftists prefer self-worship, government-worship, and paganism, so the situation will continue to deteriorate.