Sometimes the Brass Ring is Welded to the Pole

I just saw Megyn Kelly on Youtube, and it made me think about Greg Gutfeld.

As I wrote recently, I learned that Gutfeld was doing very well in the late night wars, and it amazed me. I don’t question his talent, but I question the talent supporting him, he seems to attract guests of a very low caliber, and the only bits of the show I’ve seen were very bad. It was as if Rupert Pupkin had invited his unpopular friends to his basement.

Gutfeld seems extremely angry these days, as though he is trying not to foam at the mouth. I can picture him cheering on a rioting mob. He seems to have been ruined by success.

Megyn Kelly now has a Youtube channel, and it’s somewhat depressing. She was a big name at Fox, and she was lured away to NBC, where she lasted around 14 months. I thought she was making a gigantic mistake because there was no way she was going to avoid being sabotaged at her new workplace. I knew most of the people around her, while trying to appear supportive, would be seething over her defiling presence in the temple of Marx, and I expected her to get insufficient support. My expectations panned out when she was driven out over some harmless remarks that would never have caused a problem for a leftist.

Her ratings were bad. Someone should have told NBC that nobody who could sit through the previous show, Today, was likely to stick around and watch a woman most liberals think is on a moral par with Lene Riefenstahl.

Kelly stepped in it, and so did NBC. For some reason, they agreed to give her a $69 million contract, if sources are to be believed, and when she was driven out, they had to eat that loss. Even after paying a manager, an agent, the IRS, and state taxes, one would expect her to have maybe $30 million in hand, not to mention whatever she amassed as a highly paid Fox personality, so unless she eats diamonds and bakes her bread with gold dust instead of flour, she ought to be set for life. If her net worth isn’t at least $35 million, she has been doing something wrong. She should be in a position to fly first class wherever she goes, and she should be very confident of taking her last breath surrounded by a doting staff with nondisclosure agreements, in a home you could play golf in.

Somehow, with all that money, she still decided to start a Youtube channel. This is not what journalists with booming careers do. It’s like Russell Crowe doing Shamwow commercials, except Shamwow commercials would appear on national TV.

I can’t understand her choice. Why make a desperation move instead of retiring in comfort? Maybe she feels like a failure unless she’s on TV, and she’ll do anything to keep her face out there in order to stir up interest. That would be silly. She didn’t fail. She did great for someone with nothing special to offer. She won the lottery. Twice. Purely by chance, she beat lots of people who could do exactly what she did. Asking for a third win is highly optimistic, especially at her age, with a reputation for costing networks tons of money.

I don’t understand people who have to work or look highly successful in order to be happy. Ambition is mysterious to me, like anorexia, homosexuality, and the urge to watch the Kardashians. I feel more like my aunt, who once told me, “If I didn’t have to eat, I would lie flat of my back and just barely suck wind.”

I wouldn’t want to be inactive, but the idea of getting a job horrifies me. I don’t want to answer to ewokes and Wokandans. I don’t want to call male coworkers “she” and “her” at the point of a human resources gun. I don’t want to be spirited off to woodsy retreats and undergo humiliating group exercises intended to prove that white men, who did more to build civilization than anyone else, are parasites that need to be exterminated. I don’t want to battle sniping, conniving competitors over things they desire a lot more than I do. I’m not the guy who wets the bed because someone else got the corner office.

I don’t care what future generations think of me, or what this generation thinks of me, for that matter. I don’t want my name on buildings. I don’t want a Wikipedia page. When I wrote books and went on radio and TV shows, I only appeared because I wanted to make money doing something fun. I didn’t want to be famous. I wanted my books to be famous so they would be profitable.

As a lawyer, I never had any interest in making speeches or getting on TV. It wouldn’t mean anything to me to be admired as a lawyer, because law was a last resort for me. Becoming a lawyer was embarrassing. I did it because physics didn’t work out. For me, bragging about being a great lawyer would be like bragging about finding a really good brand of adult diapers.

I can’t relate to people who are impressed by lawyers. I have no respect for the intelligence of lawyers, including Supreme Court justices and law professors, so I don’t feel I have to prove I can do what prominent lawyers do. I’m pretty sure no one on the Supreme Court is as smart as I am, because they sometimes say stupid things, and really smart people generally don’t go to law school. Even the people who graduate summa cum laude generally aren’t great lights. Law school is where people who aren’t smart enough to be doctors end up. There is probably no task in law that requires an IQ over 130. If I’m wrong, and, say, Elena Kagan is brighter than I am, I still don’t care. I’m way smarter than I need to be, it’s fine with me if lots of people are smarter, it’s okay with me if people think I’m downright stupid, and anyway, great intelligence isn’t the colossal gift people think it is.

Intelligence is a lot like height. If you’re a man, and you’re between 6′ and 6’3″, you’re advantaged. You’re more likely to get women, jobs, and acceptance letters from good colleges. You’re less likely to be picked on than smaller men. When you start to get past 6’4″, things get worse for you. You can’t find shoes that fit. Your head will hit the headliner in many cars, and you won’t be able to push the seat back far enough. Airline seats, which are unpleasant even for short people, become torture devices. When you’re really tall, women find you less attractive because they’ll look funny standing next to you. You’re also likely to have joint problems. You’ll get injured more, your injuries will probably be worse, and you will take longer to heal.

I think the sweet spot for brains is between 115 and 140 on the IQ chart. Below 115, you’re going to have to work hard to distinguish yourself. As you go above 140, things other people can tolerate start to become boring, and this can have a big negative effect on your performance in school and at work. You may get tired of pre-editing things you say because you know other people won’t understand them. You may start to lose yourself because you get so used to tailoring your conversation for other people. Women will think you’re geeky. When you’re in school, kids will pick on you. They’ll pick you last for sports because they can’t believe smart kids can be strong and fast.

Between 115 and 140, you can be a good, solid professional. You can get into any college if you work, except for places like MIT and Cal Tech. You’re not so smart you can’t stand your schoolwork or your job. You’re gifted enough to be highly successful, but people can still relate to you, and they will be less hostile to you.

This is how I see it, but I’m just guessing based on personal observation.

Biden’s IQ is probably below 105. I see Trump as smarter, but not a great deal smarter.

When I practiced law, I did virtually nothing to promote myself. I didn’t pretend I was in it for the good of humanity, as many ambitious lawyers do. No one is in it to help mankind. I was in it for the money. Law was never exciting, challenging, or mentally stimulating to me, so I didn’t do it for the satisfaction, and I didn’t con people, claiming I wanted to fix the world. If I could have made lawyer money doing something like writing cookie recipes or designing funny greeting cards, or if someone had simply given me a big allowance, I would have quit law in a heartbeat.

I never did pro bono work, which is something ambitious lawyers do to virtue signal, excuse the rest of their mercenary and harmful activities, and raise their profiles. I thought it was insane to spend hundreds of billable hours exposing myself to malpractice liability for nothing, and aside from that, pro bono is properly the province of criminal and family law attorneys. That’s my opinion, anyway. A trained goose can oversee a plea bargain or an uncontested divorce, and criminal and family cases take very little time. My fellow litigators, on the other hand, often put in over a hundred hours on a single case. Think what that adds up to, if your hourly rate is in three figures. You’re tied to a nonpaying ball and chain, who is entitled to sue for malpractice regardless of whether you charge him, while you still have to pay for rent, food, transportation, property taxes, medical care, and so on.

Why should I donate figures like $20,000 or $60,000 in services? Do pharmacists have to do that? Do engineers? Building contractors? Teachers? Plumbers? Architects? Professors? Why lawyers? Once you represent someone, you have a duty of loyalty to that person for life, and clever attorneys have found ways to nail other attorneys for malpractice decades after representations ended and malpractice insurance was canceled. Why should I have to take on commitments like that?

I believe the main reason pro bono exists is the large body of Michael Avenattis and John Edwardses in the legal profession. There are so many slimy scavengers out there conspicuously ruining the lives of the innocent, the public hates all lawyers, so decent attorneys are supposed to play the pro bono game in order to provide PR balance. I say let the bottom feeders do their own remedial PR.

If I were a doctor, I’d be thrilled to do pro bono work. That’s because doctors, unlike lawyers, actually help people. I remember being asked to go to Haiti after the big earthquake, and I refused because, as a lawyer, I had nothing to offer. I said, “What do they need a lawyer for? Am I supposed to sue people for them?” If I had been a surgeon or engineer, I would have been on the first thing smoking. I would have loved that. As a lawyer, I would have been useless. I would have been handing out water bottles or something. There were plenty of people doing things like that already. Haiti needed medical personnel and people who could move rubble, not unskilled laborers. They had all the laborers they needed.

It would have cost me around $1500 to go to Haiti, I would have been of no use to anyone while I was there, and…I would have been in Haiti, living in squalor, counting the minutes until I could go home to my nice bed, kitchen, central air conditioning unit, private shower, and clean toilet. It made much more sense to send money.

I’m really digressing, but the point is that I don’t understand why any wealthy (or even comfortably retired) person would work, unless he had a vital service to provide. That rules me out. I can’t provide any services of real value. Also, I was never defined by law or, before that, physics. I did those things so I would have food and shelter. I love being able to do what I want. I love prayer and ministry. I love using my tools. I love writing. I love cooking. A job would ruin everything.

I don’t owe the world anything, and I am immune to guilt trips about it, because I can’t understand that mindset. I never think of all the sad little potential plaintiffs and defendants out there who have to do without my services. No one goes without legal representation because I retired, and even if they did, in many cases, it would be the best thing for them. I like helping the poor and people who don’t know God, not litigants.

Megyn Kelly must see things differently, unless she binged on Chanel and Prada and ran through her money. No one in the news industry will hire her, but she is still on Youtube, banging away as though she were still a big media figure with a real job. She has turned her life into a long series of auditions.

Is she hoping to become a Youtube star? That’s not going to happen. Youtube is her new NBC. Youtube promotes people who don’t endanger leftist delusions. It suppresses conservatives, and even though Kelly is a sad excuse for a conservative, she is identified with the right and will never get any algorithmic help. On Youtube, not being helped is the same as being actively opposed. The people who get help rise up around you like a flood, and you drown.

If you’re a herd creature in touch with the interests of the undiscerning, you may know who the big, wealthy Youtubers are. If you look them up, you will see why Kelly is digging her mine on the wrong lease. I don’t know much about them myself, but I have seen a few because I researched them.

1. Mrbeast. This is a college-age kid who stages games in which people humiliate themselves to get huge cash prizes. Four days back, he posted a hide-and-seek video with a $1 million prize. Youtube says he has gotten 35 million views. He has 86 million subscribers. Imagine how much Youtube pays him in order to enable him to provide prizes that big.

2. Faze Rug. This is another kid. He has 20 million subscribers. He does things like buying his parents Lamborghinis. His last video went up yesterday, and he has already gotten 1.7 million views. This isn’t that great for a big Youtuber, but it’s probably more views than Kelly has gotten for all over her videos, combined.

3. Like Nastya. This is a 7-year-old kid who posts videos about her toys and her interactions with her parents. She has 84 million subscribers, and her last video, about her Christmas calendar, has received 4.3 million views. Even with the most powerful mind-enhancing drugs known to man, I could never imagine why people would want to see that.

That’s what real Youtube success looks like, it shows how mentally and spiritually stunted the average viewer is, and it also shows how badly Kelly is doing. Let’s look at her stats. She has been around for about two years. She has about 252,000 subscribers, which sounds good, but subscribers don’t always translate to views.

She busts her butt, putting up numerous videos every week. Her last video has received 14,000 views. To provide contrast, my parrot Marvin has a video that got over 200,000. Marvin’s video has been up a while, and Kelly has videos that have beaten 14,000, but generally she appears to get under 30,000. That’s bad. You can’t live on that traffic. It would take centuries to make $69 million on that traffic. She is probably making less than a thousand dollars per month, and since her videos clearly involve the use of a staff, that can’t be profit.

People who claim to know say Youtube pays around $4 per thousand views. I wouldn’t know; I had the opportunity to monetize a video, but I didn’t try it. Too bad. That $12 would have come in mighty handy in my twilight years. One day I might not be able to say, “Supersize that.”

In September, Kelly signed a Sirius deal. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think it will do well. The only site I’ve found that lists Sirius channels by popularity has a top-40 list, and she isn’t on it. For context, I’ll add that Dusty Street and Earl Times made the list. If you have no idea who those people, are, I’m right there with you. I don’t think NBC ever gave either of them $69 million. You would think a $69 million talent would be top 40 in a week.

I see similarities between Kelly and Gutfeld, along with some important differences.

Gutfeld is similar to Kelly in that a Fox time slot and thirsty Fox viewers made him successful in spite of a product that wasn’t particularly good. This is true, although the reasons for their shows’ lack of exceptional quality are different.

Kelly is a commodity. Her work for Fox was fine, but it was crazy to think she deserved $69 million, because she could have been replaced in a few days. There are lots of nice-looking female talking heads who can do what she can does, as well or better. Many are much prettier than she is; she’s 51. If a meteor hit her in the head tomorrow, another woman could step in the day after, and no viewer would miss her.

She reminds me of a former college friend of mine. He went to Columbia to be an engineer, but it turned out he was not smart enough to handle the math and physics. He graduated with a degree in economics. An economics degree, like an English degree or a history degree, is a tacit confession that you couldn’t think of any marketable skills to acquire in college. It’s a way of admitting you’re fungible and that you wasted your mom and dad’s massive investment, which you could have used to start a business.

After he graduated, he wandered the streets looking for work, and he saw an advertisement for a bookkeeping position. He applied in desperation, and he found himself working at an oil-trading firm. He was eventually promoted to a trading job, which amounted to sitting at a computer directing petroleum-product shipments this way and that. Oil traders received gigantic commissions for doing something a third-grader could do, and he became rich. If he had offended his employers and contacts, he would have had to go back to walking the streets, because anyone could do what he did. Nobody needed him per se. They just needed a person who could answer a phone and enter data.

To prove my point, he helped another friend of mine, another engineering defector who was using his Far Eastern studies degree to move furniture, get a job, and that friend got blackballed after a number of years because of his sexual orientation. That friend went from making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to struggling, and he never recovered. He didn’t save or invest, so he was ruined. He spent money on things like polo ponies.

Megyn Kelly is like an oil trader, or, now that I think about it, like Jane Pauley. Remember her? She was a Today anchor, making big money. Debra Norville showed up at her workplace when she was at the top, and Norville allegedly said she was going to take her job, referring to her as “the midget.” Norville was younger and prettier, and before long, she got what she wanted. When Norville didn’t work out, Pauley’s former job went to Katie Couric, not Pauley.

Gutfeld is not a commodity. He has a talent that makes him harder to replace, but his show still stinks because of the writing, guests, and lack of a real studio audience.

The big similarity between Kelly and Gutfeld is that either would almost certainly fail anywhere but Fox. Gutfeld would fail even though he’s capable and more talented than Kelly. He would fail because good writers and guests would still run from him, he would no longer have Fox viewers fed to him, and he would also be undermined by his left-leaning coworkers. It would also be hard to find conservative studio audiences for him in New York.

I wonder if the executives at Fox have figured these things out and used them when negotiating Gutfeld’s compensation. He would be hard to replace, but on the other hand, he has nowhere else to go.

It’s sad to see a person who has gotten his dream job, glowing with animosity, reading mean-spirited material, and pretending to enjoy the company of desperate, entry-level guests who seem to be tolerating him. What is a job worth, if you lose yourself?

I was talking to my wife today. We were discussing unhappy, ambitious people. This scripture came to mind: “Better the little a righteous man hath than the riches of many wicked.” Some people would quote it insincerely as a way of saying “sour grapes,” but it’s completely true. People go after things they want because they think they’ll make them happy, but often, their happiness is the price.

People often end up settling for the appearance of happiness, not happiness itself. For example, I’ve known miserable couples that posted dishonest things on Facebook. “Here we are at Disney World with the kids! So blessed!” “What did I ever do to deserve my precious, godly wife?” A tormented wife who posted nonsense like that sent a friend of mine a text saying her life was hell and that she had to get away from her husband. Another called me to tell me her husband was staying with another woman. What’s the point of lying to people? You just make it harder to fix your situation. You give yourself motivation to stay trapped so people won’t know what a hypocrite you are.

Billy Crystal’s Fernando used to say, “It is better to look good than to feel good.” A lot of people really believe that.

If I say my wife and I are having a great time, you can bet your life on it. I don’t feel motivated to lie.

It’s a huge blessing to be separated from worldly people and the filthy, bruising environment they create. I hope God sees fit to keep me and my wife out of it. It has to be terrible to be a slave to a many-eyed monster that doesn’t care whether you live or die as long as you keep it entertained.

Omicron is Mild. Or it’s Not.

Once again, the news about coronavirus is proving itself unreliable. A study from England says Omicron is no milder than Delta. Scary. But in South Africa, where the Omicron wave started manifesting on tests on about November 22, doctors say the hospitalization rate for Omicron is much, much lower than it was for Delta. The stats also suggest the Omicron wave is already ending. There is a well-defined peak in the curve, and it happened days ago. Since then, the curve has dropped off quickly.

Sometimes coronavirus waves have multiple peaks, so maybe Omicron will rebound in South Africa, but things look good now. South Africa has had three other waves, and for some reason, they don’t have multiple peaks. No idea why that happened.

South African doctors say the measured hospitalization rate for Omicron is 1.7% now, and comparing apples to apples, the rate for Delta at the same point in its wave was 19%. So they’re measuring a 90% drop in severity, as measured by hospital admissions. And the death rate is not going up along with the case rate.

No one can really say how many cases there are in South Africa or the UK, and no one really knows how many are Omicron, but if Omicron weren’t mild, we ought to have some evidence by now.

Who is right? THE SCIENCE in England says we’re all doomed. THE SCIENCE in South Africa says Omicron is about like a cold, and it says Omicron might function as a natural vaccine that will make coronavirus nearly harmless. Sure, England’s SCIENCE is based on a study, but South Africa has had Omicron longer, and its doctors are well able to tell the difference between full ICU beds and empty ones.

I think Omicron is milder. I am perfectly happy to assign my own judgment more value than that of the physicians who did the UK study. Doctors are notorious for being bad statisticians. They have told us no end of stupid things based on bad methodology. They used rabbits to predict that eating eggs caused vascular disease in humans. They did a study on bird owners and determined that parrots caused lung cancer, failing to mention the fact that the overwhelming majority of people in the study smoked cigarettes.

I don’t understand the medical establishment. On the one hand, it does brilliant and truly amazing things every day, but on the other, its stupid mistakes keep piling up, along with the bodies of people who listen to its bad advice.

Right now, it’s the medical establishment that tells people to castrate their sons and turn them into freaks, simply because sexual deviation is now considered chic. That’s something to think about when you read coronavirus news. In response to modern medicine’s insanity, many people have said something like this: “when I was 8, I put on a dress and told my parents I was a girl, and they told me to knock it off and waited for it to pass, which it did.” It’s a lot easier to take a dress off than it is to sew your discarded, incinerated penis back on.

But psychiatrists, endocrinologists, and surgeons are getting their big fees, so there is an up side to all of this. The craziness is helping BMW and Mercedes dealers stay in business.

A doctor who helps a confused boy remove his genitals should have his own genitals removed if the boy changes his mind after surgery. If we made them do that, they would be a lot more careful about their decisions.

Omicron is milder than Delta, with or without vaccination. This is my official prediction, based on news stories and my own hunch. If I turn out to be wrong, it won’t matter, because no one listens to me, but I felt like blogging it before all the news comes in. Let’s see what happens.

If the downward turn in the South African curve is predictive, then a more surprising outcome is on the way. Omicron might only last a month wherever it hits. I mean the first Omicron wave. That would be interesting. I thought it would affect more people.

Here’s something truly weird: Zambia seems to be leveling off. Zambia went from near-zero covid to around 1,000 cases per day, very quickly. Now it seems to be plateauing. My wife shows me stats from inside Zambia, and the infection rate doesn’t seem to be increasing any more. Maybe it’s just a lull, but based on what happened in South Africa, maybe it isn’t.

New York State has the same population as Zambia. New York’s last daily figure was over 28,000. New Yorkers live with oppressive anti-coronavirus laws, and Zambians don’t do a whole lot to protect themselves. Their vaccination rate is tiny. What is the explanation for New York’s higher infection numbers?

Other Christian African countries are still experiencing very low numbers. The USA, which is the world’s most forceful advocate of homosexuality and other sexual aberrations, and which uses harsh economic punishments to coerce Christian nations to follow suit, is still the world’s biggest covid reservoir. Our death number is almost twice India’s, and India has a billion people and a bad public health system.

Maybe it’s a coincidence, but African countries that acknowledge Jesus and discourage perversion, and which have had national days of prayer which were proclaimed by their governments, are still experiencing protection rich, sick America isn’t getting.

They’re telling us the Johnson & Johnson shot, which I received, is no good against Omicron. They’re also saying we shouldn’t take it in the future because of a risk of blood clots. At the same time, the mRNA shots have been found to damage genes in ways that prevent damaged DNA from being repaired correctly. The pro-hysteria press isn’t making much of the mRNA-shot problem. Is it because the damage isn’t harmful, or are we witnessing the usual press dishonesty?

I am no doctor, but how can it be a good thing if damaged DNA puts itself together in the wrong way? When I was young, I was taught that this is how cancer and birth defects were caused. For example, I was taught that some radiation particles sever DNA strands, and faulty repair leads to cancer. Isn’t it important to have DNA in good working order? Various websites say it is. It seems self-evident, but I know nearly nothing about DNA.

I know my wife and I will not be taking mRNA shots. The press has lied to the world over and over, as have governments, as has the medical establishment, and they have also spread misinformation unintentionally. Only an idiot would trust the news without investigating. If billions of people now have genetic damage that prevents proper repair to corrupted DNA, how can it be a good thing? What if a cancer pandemic or a birth defect pandemic is on the way?

When my mother was carrying me, she had morning sickness, so her doctor recommended thalidomide. Thalidomide! Go Google the word and look at the pictures. That could have been me, with one twisted flipper instead of four normal limbs. She had a mysterious bad feeling about it and refused to take it. I have a bad feeling about mRNA shots, but unlike my mother, I have facts to back my feeling up.

Thalidomide was rigorously tested before it was released for sale, but somehow, it didn’t occur to the manufacturer to test it on pregnant women. An American FDA employee, Dr. Frances Kelsey, had a problem with that, so she held up approval and prevented a catastrophe. The mRNA shot hasn’t been tested on pregnant women, either. It was rushed, so we don’t know what the long-term effects may be, and science isn’t advanced enough to let us guess. Most people who have gotten the mRNA shots haven’t had time to get pregnant and have a baby since they were injected, and the vaccines were developed in less than 9 months, so we know Pfizer and Moderna have no data. They’ll have it in a couple of years, though. Babies are being born.

Vaccine recipients also haven’t had time to develop cancer.

Thalidomide was not FDA-approved when my mother’s doctor tried to prescribe it. Nonetheless, for some reason, it was released on the American public for testing purposes, by doctors who were just as serious and highly trained as doctors are today. I guess lab rats were considered too expensive. Over 1,200 American doctors were given thalidomide, and incredibly, they prescribed it even though they knew the FDA had problems with it. They only managed to create 17 deformed living children in America, as contrasted with the 10,000 that were born in Germany. I could have been number 18.

I’m not exactly excited about blood clots, but that ship has sailed. The establishment says the risk passes after 28 days, and my shot was in April, so I’m not lying awake nights, but I am reluctant to take a booster, and my wife flat-out refuses.

The funny thing is, I want to be vaccinated. I sound like an anti-vaxxer, but I was very happy to get injected when Johnson & Johnson’s shot became available. I get flu shots. I tried to get a pneumonia shot, but they wouldn’t give it to me. I’m planning to get a shingles shot. I just don’t want shots that could be more dangerous than coronavirus.

I wish I could just trust the press and my government, but it’s impossible. The press is squashing stories about the big coronavirus riots in Europe, and our government officials aren’t talking about them either. They’ve hidden a huge story from hundreds of millions of people. If they can do that, imagine what else they can do. We wouldn’t know it if women in Europe were giving birth to chickens.

Freedom of information in America is an astounding, facially untenable delusion. Somehow most of us cling to it. Even with the Internet, which was supposed to be a gaping hole in our press’s wall of lies, we still have a hard time getting information about many things, and deliberate obstruction is the reason.

I know a vaccine isn’t the mark of the beast. I know it won’t make me magnetic. I know it doesn’t contain microchips. I’m not a conspiracy nut. I think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, I know the earth is round, I don’t think Antifa rioted at the Capitol, and I am positive Elvis is dead. On the other hand, I recognize a real conspiracy when I’m slapped in the face with it every day, and the unreliability of the carefully-shaped information that reaches us is beyond dispute.

I hope Omicron turns the hurricane of the pandemic into a mild drizzle. I have no doubt that coronavirus is an end-time teaching tool, and overall, I expect disease, hate, and shortages to increase, but that doesn’t mean this particular disease can’t lose its punch.

I think what a month from now, coronavirus will be much less scary than it is now, and it should give me and the wife an excellent opportunity to get together again with fewer rules and neurotic government obstruction. After that, maybe coronavirus may turn into something like a cold, which never disappears but almost never harms anyone. Or we could get a Pi variant which will make the Black Death look like hay fever.

I’m assuming there is no Chinese communist official named Pi. If so, the next variant will be called Ro. The last thing the WHO wants to do is offend the people who released this thing on the world and covered it up.

Chinese virus! Chinese virus! Kung flu! Shanghai shivers! Yes, the CCP has blood on its hands. I love saying it publicly. It’s not racist. The truth can’t be racist. Actually, leftists say math and logic are racist, so maybe the truth is racist after all.

That’s not a problem. We are well on the way to banning truth.

The Strange Schadenfreude of Seeing People Get What You Used to Want

Someone who actually watches his show, let me know: why is Greg Gutfeld doing so well?

Once in a while, probably while scanning Drudge, I have seen references to the success of Gutfeld’s late night show. They seemed bizarre to me, as if such stories couldn’t happen on Earth. I didn’t see how it was possible for a conservative host to do well against leftists who, regardless of how toxic and deluded they may be, attract a lot of behind-the-camera talent and do a very good job. I thought he would get terrible reviews that would poison the audience, and I also assumed he would have third-rate writers.

I remembered Fox’s stomach-cramp-inducing comedy show, The Half-Hour News Hour. If that was the name. It’s what my memory tells me. I’ll Google and make a correction if necessary. Instead of reaching out to new conservative talent like Iowahawk, Frank at IMAO, Scott Ott, or Jeff Goldstein, they hired very weak writers with established connections. They hired a guy named Manny Coto, along with Mike Rowe, I believe. Mike Rowe did a very good reality show, but he’s not much of a humorist. Coto co-created the show along with 24’s Joel Surnow, and they both got credit as writers.

Yeah, I remember all those side-splitting 24 episodes.

Actually, I don’t. I tried watching 24, and I couldn’t take it. How can anyone stand a show where nearly a whole season’s episodes pass with no resolution?

As for The Half-Hour News Hour, I’ll bet it was hard for Coto and Surnow to get their sketches approved, what with them being in charge of the show. There must have been creative meetings where the other writers bit their tongues clean in half.

The show was unbelievably bad, and it tanked. No one could blame liberal network bias, because it aired on Fox. Conservatives preferred turning the TV off to leaving it on and being exposed to the show.

I dumped on the show pretty badly, as did the other conservative humor bloggers of that time. I think I hit at least one nerve. One night, I received an an angry, seemingly drunken comment posted above the name of Manny Coto. I dumped on that as well, because what entertainment professional posts crazy comments on little amateur blogs where his work is criticized? Then a person claiming to be Coto posted a nicer comment, saying he didn’t post the first one. As I recall, the both had the same IP address. I wrote all about that, too, since someone insisted on giving me the material. After that, the comments dried up.

Was it Coto? I don’t know. Maybe his housekeeper got into the cooking sherry and posted strange things from his laptop.

I always had a way of charming people who could have helped me. Inst*pundit, PJ Media, Fox’s “humor” crew…I was exactly the kind of person Dale Carnegie dedicated his life to changing. Of course, none of these people would ever have done anything for me or any other lowly blogger, so it didn’t matter, and I got to be myself, for whatever good that did me. If you’re going to try to be Cyrano, be ready to go out like Cyrano.

I’m glad I didn’t kiss the rings. I would hate to have to recall doing that, especially since it would not have done me any good.

I can’t express how glad I am I never made it. I would be right down in there with the rest of the gladiators, fighting over crumbs. I would have to associate with extremely unsavory people. I’d be battling wokiees on Twitter. People would be encouraging me to cultivate the worst aspects of my personality. I would not know God very well. I would not have my wonderful wife. I would probably be on my way to hell.

What if I had hit the big time, and someone had offered me a job in New York or LA? It’s chilling to even think of it. I’ve never been a suicidal person, but I could see myself heading in that direction after a decade or so in either of those godless, spirit-destroying places. I would probably have jumped at the chance to make money with the cool kids. I seem to have a dim memory of considering a move to LA.

People who do humor for a living are generally terrible human beings, especially when they’re put together in offices and forced to compete. They feed each other’s darkness and become more depraved. I used to be on that path, and if I had made any money, I would have kept right on going. I would have vile friends who weren’t friends at all. I would be in love with cruelty. I wouldn’t know love. I would never grow up.

When I think of it now, a sense of dread envelops me. God has been very, very good to me.

Back when I was still chasing the mechanical rabbit, the conservatives who got somewhere did nothing at all for new talent. I’ll give you an example of how they treated bloggers. Everyone loves Andrew Breitbart, so let me tell you something about him. He knew a humorist I knew. Breitbart controlled Drudge’s site, and a permanent link there could make a career for a writer. It guaranteed massive traffic. Breitbart himself used Drudge links to get traffic for his own site when it was new, and look what happened. Drudge was the stream, and Breitbart was the parasitic waterwheel.

Breitbart used to hint that he was going to give my friend a link, and he pretended to be one of this person’s closest pals. He and a sleazy buddy of his suggested putting suggestive photos up on the blog to increase traffic, which shows what he thought of this person, but he never provided that link, which would have cost him nothing and taken all of 30 seconds. He knew this person really needed a break.

In case you don’t remember, Drudge used to be conservative, his site wasn’t devoted to destroying Donald Trump, and there were permanent links to bloggers. Now his links all go to establishment people.

Next time you put on your Breitbart T-shirt, if you still have it, think about the link story. He was a real jerk. I don’t think he had any principles at all. Readers used to wonder why I didn’t like him. I didn’t like him because I knew more about him than they did, and he didn’t like me, either. He knew I was telling my friend what I thought of him, threatening his influence. For some reason, it was important to him to control a person he had no intention of helping in any way. I believe he wanted my friend to think he was always just on the verge of guaranteeing my friend recognition and an income. It’s clear that he had already made a firm decision not to do it.

Rationed reinforcement combined with insincere promises is a distinguishing tactic of certain types of abusers. They promise wonderful things in order to gain control and make their victims put up with mistreatment. I guess it makes them feel powerful and important.

My friend never got the tiny favor that would have been life-changing. My friend never got a career.

It’s remarkable that so many conservatives defend a man who was largely responsible for creating Huffpo. He knew exactly what Arianna Huffington was. They were two peas in a pod, and she was the smarter pea.

Thinking about the Surnow/Coto shipwreck, I wondered what Gutfeld’s show was like. But I didn’t care enough to watch, because I don’t watch late night TV. I don’t watch any TV unless it pops up on Youtube or I own DVD’s. I don’t have cable or anything similar to it.

Today I saw something on the web suggesting “real” comedians hated Gutfeld’s show. Of course, to liberals, “real” comedians are like “real” women, “real” black people, and “real” actors. “Real” means “leftist.” You can have a penis and be a woman, but you can’t have an AR-15 or realize that socialism is evil and stupid.

This is why Condoleezza Rice is actually a white man.

No, seriously. Try to find a black kid who has been told Condoleezza Rice is a good role model. To the left, she’s just white imperialism in drag.

Although…that would make her a woman, wouldn’t it? Aren’t transvestites women now? It’s so confusing.

I wondered what Gutfeld’s new show was like. I thought there might be something to it. I knew leftist comedians would say it was horrible no matter what. I knew Gutfeld was funny. Certainly funnier than Bill Maher, not that this is a high bar to set.

Today I looked at a Gutfeld monologue from a week or two ago, and it was really bad. There were some very good jokes in there, but overall, it made me uncomfortable. Gutfeld dropped a number of bombs, and he didn’t look confident at all. He seemed to know the material wasn’t good. I’m sure he did. How could he not? He had a group of guests with him, and occasionally, he looked around at them as though hoping for support.

Redeye was often much better, maybe because Andy Levy appeared frequently. I wonder if Gutfeld performed better because there was less pressure in the wee, unwatched hours. Jay Leno instantly became much less funny when he became the star of a big show.

I haven’t thought of Andy Levy in years. He used to comment here occasionally. There’s a guy who never should have taken the bait. He was very good at what he did, but all he ended up doing was wasting years of his life. A Daily Beast piece says Fox never supported him or Gutfeld’s other sidekick, Bill Schulz. I’m sure that’s true; they didn’t seem to knock themselves out promoting Gutfeld. Schulz never had any potential and should have been off somewhere developing a career in something like real estate or teaching, but somebody out there should have given Levy a real platform. I hope Fox and CNN paid him something. I like to think he wasn’t waiting tables and then scurrying to studios to brighten up panels full of airheads.

I also watched a little bit of the show that came after the monologue. Here’s a question: why are the guests so weak? Is it because every big star knows it would be career suicide to appear on Fox? He had a writer I’ve never heard of, a Fox News contributor, a comedian I’ve never heard of, and a former politician, and they were exactly as dull as they sound.

The other hosts banter with actual celebrities. Gutfeld was talking with a politician who had retreated to obscurity, along with three individuals he may well have recruited while standing in the hall outside his office. Isn’t that how he got guests for Redeye? Wait…hmm…it’s actually “Red Eye.”

I never forget how to spell The Jimmy Kimmel Show. Just saying.

It looks like Gutfeld is supposed to be the Bill Maher show with a different set. Is that about right? That makes it a political show, but still, Maher’s show is political, and it gets a much wider range of more-famous guests. I just looked at a list of Gutfeld’s guests (“panelists”?), and it looks a lot like a list of the people who appeared on Red Eye. Is it just Red Eye Prime Time?

Gutfeld himself seems to have gotten much angrier since the last time I saw him. That was years ago, apart from brief glimpses while channel-surfing. He said really mean-spirited things about some people. Has he been watching videos of Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes? Back during the Red Eye days, he had the bubbly jocularity of a fun wedding guest on his second bottle of Moet, but now it’s almost like he’s channeling Mel Gibson. I think he really wants to hurt people.

It makes sense. God has released a spirit of murder on the world, so lots of people are revving up for a bloody purge.

Maybe Gutfeld’s show isn’t always this bad, but I have a feeling it is, and I’m not willing to suffer enough to find out.

The comments on the video are complimentary. Gutfeld’s viewers appear to be solidly on board.

I saw all this and wondered what the explanation was. The show seems depressing, as if no one on the set wants to be there. How can so many people like it?

My best guess is that Gutfeld is a success simply because there is nothing else for normal people to watch after the news. The other hosts spend much of their time insulting about half of Americans, driving them away. Gutfeld’s show isn’t much, but for some people, it’s all there is. And Americans love late night TV. There are probably millions of people who still remember Johnny Carson and are glad to see another show which isn’t a string of attacks on common sense.

Sometimes a great time slot is all the help a bad show needs. Look at Tucker Carlson.

If Gutfeld’s weak show is doing well because he appeals to an alienated audience, why didn’t The Half-Hour News Hour survive? Maybe because Americans weren’t trained to watch TV late on Sunday nights. That’s when it aired.

Gutfeld should get some better writers and do something about his four-person laugh gallery. The thin, insincere-sounding laughter makes it sound like he got desperate and forced people who owe him money to sit in the studio. It would be nice to see a conservative continue to win at this game. Not what I will actually see it. That will never happen. I don’t watch late night shows that are actually funny, so why would I stay up late to watch this one?

This stuff isn’t important to me, because politics is a waste of time, but it’s satisfying when a tree grows in Brooklyn.

I don’t know why I would like to see the show do well. I’m wishing Gutfeld a fate I wouldn’t wish on myself. I think he is in deep trouble because he got what he wanted. I guess I don’t care enough about him to worry about it. I have one set of hopes for Christians and another for people I consider lost. That’s something for me to think about.

In other news, some wonderful things happened in my life over the last couple of days. I started asking God to give me more authority. I have had countless prayers answered, I have cast demons out, and I have received a bunch of miracles. I prayed for my wife, and heat went through her, and she got a miracle healing. Still, I was not satisfied. Too many prayers and other supernatural efforts have failed. I have failed to help people who really needed it. I blame that on authority issues.

Jesus had complete authority over everything; demons, matter…everything. When he cast demons out, they left instantly. He raised a dead man simply by commanding him to come to him. When he received supernatural knowledge, he was never wrong.

I already knew that if I wanted the kind of submission Jesus got, I would have to submit to God. But in order to do that, I needed to hear his voice more clearly. You can’t submit if you don’t know what you’re supposed to do, so you need to hear God. I try to submit, but a lot of the time, I’m guessing. Yesterday, I started praying God would teach me how to be Spirit-led. I prayed for very clear guidance along with help in trusting and obeying. It’s not easy to commit to obey someone else.

Of course, as a Christian, I had prayed for such things in the past, but somehow things seemed clearer yesterday. I felt I had new revelation. I felt I had to learn how and when to ask God for guidance, and I needed to be reminded throughout the day, every day, for the rest of my life.

Today I talked to my wife, and she had had a dream. She told me about it before I mentioned my prayers. In the dream, two of us traveled to another country. Someone from that country asked us to make a choice about how we wanted to spend our lives. We could go through life doing what we thought was best and asking God to bless our efforts, or we could do what the Holy Spirit told us to do. Simultaneously, we both said we wanted to be commanded by the Holy Spirit.

Her dream and my prayers were about the same thing. I believe the other country was the kingdom of heaven. Not heaven. The kingdom of heaven. We are supposed to live in the kingdom while we’re still on this planet.

She said she also saw two snakes coiled around her ankles. She pulled them off and flung them on the ground, and I threw fire at them.

I have often told God I would love to go out and do what Jesus did. I would love to heal people. I would love to make missing body parts grow back and work other miracles that would shame medical science. I would love to prophesy accurately and give people helpful information. I would love to cast spirits out quickly and easily. I can’t imagine anything better to do with the rest of my life. I wouldn’t accept money. I would just go where I could be useful, show people God’s power, love, and generosity, and go home. Maybe I would allow people to pay my expenses sometimes, but nothing more.

Maybe God is listening. If he is, it must have been his idea in the first place.

Today we prayed and asked God to help us to be truly Spirit-led. This world has already seen Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Jesus, and the apostles, so there is no reason to think God won’t enable people to do amazing things today. I have seen a number of impressive Christians who did remarkable things, but none of them begin to measure up to the people I just listed, so we must not be living up to our potential.

I thought I would put the testimony about the dreams and my prayers here so people would be encouraged. I hope I can come back later to tell you how God has followed through.

If Hitler had Done it This Way, Israel Would be the Size of Brazil

In a bizarre twist of fate, it looks like Donald Trump and his SNL nemesis, Alec Baldwin, are going down together. The sheriff of the county in which Baldwin killed a cinematographer has gotten a search warrant authorizing the seizure of Baldwin’s phone, and Trump just said several things that will be construed as anti-Semitism.

They don’t seize and search your phone because they think you’re innocent. They’re looking for stuff that incriminates Baldwin and anyone who may have helped him illegally after the shooting. Judging from the way Baldwin has handled things so far, I would guess that he deleted some texts and pressured some people to do things to make him look innocent. Baldwin may get in more trouble for things he did after the killing than the killing itself, which carries a fairly light maximum penalty.

Baldwin forced the cops to get a warrant instead of handing the phone over on demand. This is the first intelligent thing I’ve seen him do. You never consent to a search. A search can always turn out to be flawed, and there are probably tens of thousands of murderers walking free in America because the police obtained evidence through bad searches.

There is no plausible explanation for the killing apart from manslaughter, so I have to wonder about the primary reason for searching the phone. They already know convicting Baldwin is a slam dunk. Maybe their main interest is in the things he did afterward. Or maybe phone searches are standard procedure in criminal law. I don’t know. I’m a civil attorney.

Some “experts” are saying Baldwin isn’t cooperating. They say asking for a warrant isn’t cooperation. I’m not sure what they’re trying to say. You’re not supposed to cooperate with the police or prosecutors when you’re guilty. Cooperation puts people in prison. Generally, your attorney should fight them tooth and nail in order to see to it they get the highest ratio of exculpatory evidence to incriminating evidence possible. This is just common sense.

The police and prosecutors are not your friends. They won’t say, “Wow, he was really helpful, and he made us cookies, so we’ll drop the charges.” They will do their best to get you to drop your guard and help them ruin your life. The police are allowed to lie to you in order to gain your confidence. A lot of people don’t know that. You can’t lie to them, but they can lie to you all day, on the record.

When the cops try to get consent for searches, and people refuse, they like to make things unpleasant. They’ll say things like, “Are you really going to make us wait here for a warrant?”, as if the inconvenience to them will make the charges worse. Conventional wisdom is that you should stand your ground and make them wait, especially if you know you’re guilty. If they find evidence with consent, it’s automatically admissible. If they don’t get consent, there may be a way to exclude it. Also, the police plant evidence sometimes. They can’t do that if they can’t go near your property.

If the police want to conduct a search, your goal shouldn’t be to make them happy, end the encounter quickly, or prevent an arrest. It should be to prevent them from getting admissible evidence, period. If you have to sit in your car or house for a week, waiting for the warrant to issue, it’s worth it, at least according to conventional wisdom. It’s better to sit in your car for several hours than to sit in a cell for 20 years.

This is something gun writer, non-attorney, and former part-time cop Massad Ayoob doesn’t seem to understand. He coaches people on how to prevent arrests. That’s astoundingly bad advice. An arrest is not a big deal compared to long-term imprisonment. The police are not your biggest problem. The prosecutors are.

It’s pretty obvious Baldwin committed involuntary manslaughter, and it will be simple to prove it. He should be careful not to provide material for additional charges. He probably hasn’t been. His ego is a marvel.

These are my opinions, issued in connection with discussion of a news story. They are not legal advice, and I don’t advise you to use them for guidance. If you have a run-in with the police, call your lawyer immediately and do what he tells you to do, not what I tell you to do. I’m not your attorney.

As for Trump, he gave an interview to someone he knew was Jewish, and he said some things leftists are characterizing as anti-Semitic. It’s remarkable that they would have the gall to do that, given that leftists are openly hostile to Israel. Obama was a major threat to the safety of Jews everywhere, and Trump tried to undo a lot of the damage.

Trump restored recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel, and abandoned the anti-Jewish, genocide-facilitating Iran nuclear deal. He supported Israel so strongly he became very popular there. He worked hard on a peace deal and made strides Obama didn’t even try to make. He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

These things being said, Trump’s remarks will probably destroy any hope he has of future involvement in government. Anti-Semitism is a very touchy subject, offense is America’s new national pastime, and leftists are irrational and unfair. Regardless of how good Trump is for Jews and Israel, I expect his political career to end this week. At the same time, most American Jews will continue to have a high opinion of Obama, and they will vote for any leftist who runs in the next presidential election. Jewish voters have a long history of supporting their enemies and opposing their allies.

He said, “There’s people in this country that are Jewish — no longer love Israel. I’ll tell you, the evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country.” This is one of the remarks the left is seizing on.

It’s not anti-Semitic at all to say there are American Jews who don’t care about Israel. It’s true. Jews aren’t monolithic. Their opinions vary. It’s a fair statement of his opinion concerning the sentiments of American Jews, and there is probably a lot of truth to it. Israelis complain about the lack of support they get from American Jews, and many feel American Jews are not very loyal to Judaism or Israel. Pointing these things out is not bigotry. Doesn’t matter. Leftists will use the remark to convince Jews Trump is Hitler.

As for what he said about evangelicals, it may also be true. Evangelicals are extremely zealous about helping the Jewish state. They send many millions of dollars to charities in Israel every year, and, unlike American Jews, they overwhelmingly support pro-Israel politicians. These things are simple, undeniable facts. Evangelicals believe God will bless them if they bless Abraham’s Jewish descendants, and they believe he will curse them if they curse the Jews. According to Jewish sources, around half of the Jewish people are atheists, and very few are devout. It shouldn’t surprise anyone to see that a gentile group that adheres to scripture would be more enthusiastic about Israel than many Jews.

Again, doesn’t matter. Trump Derangement Syndrome can’t be countered with facts.

Trump said this:

It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress. And today, I think it’s the exact opposite. And I think Obama and Biden did that. And yet in the election, they still get a lot of votes from Jewish people, which tells you that the Jewish people, and I’ve said this for a long time, the Jewish people in the United States either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel.

Trump doesn’t speak carefully, as everyone knows. He exaggerates. Obviously, he doesn’t believe Israel had “absolute power over Congress.” He means Congress used to be afraid of going against Israel, and that is undeniably true. Israel has a powerful lobby. It’s also true that as leftists gain power, Israel’s influence in Congress wanes. That’s happening. Democrats in Congress are saying shocking things about Israel, and they get away with it. The press has no problem with it. That is new, and it started happening in the Obama years. Pointing this out is not anti-Semitic. It’s very pro-Jewish and pro-Israel. Trump wishes American Jews and leftists would be more supportive of the Jewish state.

Leftists want us to think Trump is referring to the myth that Jews run the world from behind closed doors. This is something Jew-hating nuts believe. If Trump were a Jew-hating nut, he would be complaining about Jewish influence and exaggerating its present extent, not lamenting its decline.

Doesn’t matter; doesn’t matter. It sounds enough like Jewish conspiracy myths to give leftists an excuse to accuse and convict Trump.

Trump also complained that people who run The New York Times are against Israel, which is demonstrably true and echoes the complaints of Jews who support Israel. Then he said people who run the Times are Jewish. He referred to the Sulzberger family. This turned out to be an opening for leftist spin. One media source jumped on it, saying the current Sulzberger is Episcopalian.

Here’s the thing: the Sulzbergers ARE partly Jewish. The first Times Sulzberger was Arthur Hays Sulzberger, a Jew. He began working for the paper when it was owned by Adolph Ochs, another Jew. He married Ochs’ daughter, making their children Jewish. His son, Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, took over for him. The son married a gentile and produced Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., who ran the Times until 2018. Sulzberger’s son is now in charge. He is 1/4 Jewish.

Punch Sulzberger was an enthusiastic supporter of an anti-Zionist organization, and it looks like his descendants didn’t fall far from the tree.

Okay, Trump wasn’t quite right, and there is an anti-Semitic myth that holds that Jews run the media, but again, Trump was complaining about lack of support for Israel, and he based his criticism on facts no one can dispute. How can that be anti-Semitic?

Doesn’t matter at all. Regardless of what he has done for the Jewish people, and regardless of how his opponents have weakened Israel and endangered Jews, the left’s cognitive dissonance will assure Trump a place in the pantheon of anti-Semites.

Trump complained that Jared Kushner, the Jew who married Ivanka, his now-Jewish daughter, supported Israel more strongly than America. To leftists, this sounded like a common criticism aimed at American Jews. Well, maybe he does favor Israel over America. Not all Americans are loyal. We have many hostile immigrants who came here to make money. We have convicted spies who put our interests last. Sometimes Americans aren’t on America’s side. Immigrants and their children routinely vote for immigration change that harms America. I would be reluctant to side with America over Israel.

Trump knows Kushner pretty well. Why rush to condemn Trump without asking about the basis for his remark?

As for American Jews favoring Israel over America, if that were the case, we wouldn’t have seen about 90% of them vote for a former Muslim (and associate of known anti-Semites like Jeremiah Wright) who was a real threat to the Jewish state. Most American Jews support ceding land to Muslims and watching Israel, their best hope of future security, shrink to insignificance. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, they seriously believe America will never turn on them and that their descendants will be safe here. The key is to keep on appeasing.

None of this will save Trump. He went out and danced on the third rail. He could walk through Israel handing gold bars out to Jews, and he would still be finished. That’s my best guess.

These days, political choices are all about “dog whistles” and “tropes.” Offense is all that matters. Reason is nothing.

The public is like a woman. You can’t tell most women the truth. You can’t say, “Yes, you could lose a few pounds.” You can’t forget a birthday or anniversary. You can’t say vegans are insane or that “organic” doesn’t actually mean anything. You have to walk on eggs. Speaking the truth is like stepping on a land mine. Doesn’t matter if you’re patient and kind. Doesn’t matter what you sacrifice to make her happy. She will prefer the guy who calls her a perfect princess and buys her flowers once a week while spending her inheritance and keeping busy with a stable of sluts.

I think Trump’s interview will be all we will hear about this week, and so many Americans will buy into the smear, he will never recover. If I’m wrong, I’ll buy you a knish.

Trump was a powerful ally of the church, Jews, and Israel. He was a blessing from God, even if he owned casinos, cheated on his wives, lied about inconsequential things, and slept with a film prostitute. We turned him down for silly reasons and chose a shuffling, mumbling, low-IQ dotard who is presiding over the self-destruction of our nation. I believe this latest kerfuffle will do more to seal our fate than Trump’s.

Remember what life was like two years ago, under Trump? Man, I miss those days. I thought things were bad, but I had no idea how bad they could get.

If I’m still on Earth in a year, I expect to say pretty much the same thing.

Fact-Checker’s New Mission: Debunking Reality

I saw something in the news that demonstrates how the truth has gotten lost. The government of Oaxaca, which is apparently part of Mexico, sent a disturbing statue to the United Nations complex, and oddly, it looked exactly like one of the beasts in the book of Revelation. Snopes, a leftist-controlled fact-checking (oxymoronic phrase) website looked into it, applied its staff’s knowledge of Biblical prophecy, and concluded the statue did not, in fact, resemble the beast.

Of course…it does. Why else would I be writing this?

I’ll post a photo of the statue. It’s fair use.

As you can see, it’s a big cat with oversized jaws, wings, and big feet. It’s very tacky. Bad art. Worse than a painting of Elvis hugging Santa Claus on black velvet.

What kind of cat would you say it looks like? A lion? A tiger? A jaguar? The answer is that it could be any of them. The long muzzle makes it look a little like a lion. The long body resembles a lion, tiger, or leopard, but not a jaguar.

It’s supposed to be a winged jaguar. Of course, there is no way to guess that. It’s not shaped like a real jaguar, and the coloration doesn’t help.

Where is a beast like this mentioned in the Bible? You can find it in the Revelation and Daniel.

Here is what the Revelation says, in chapter 13:

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

The statue does not have seven heads or ten horns, and the Revelation beast doesn’t have wings. It does have the basic shape of a leopard, however, and its mouth is somewhat like a lion’s.

Strangely, Snopes doesn’t quote the book of Revelation in its bizarre analysis.

Here is an incredible quotation from a Snopes-employed theologist:

This claim is largely based on a biblical passage from the Book of Revelation in which the prophet Daniel speaks of a vision in which he saw “four great beasts.” Daniel says that the first beast “was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle.”

The Snopes crew thinks the Revelation was written by Daniel. Right away, you can see there are problems with their credibility. As most Christians know, the full name of the Revelation in the King James Bible is The Revelation of St. John the Divine. It was written shortly before the end of the first century A.D. (I love typing “A.D.” instead of “C.E.”)

Daniel was born in the 6th century B.C., and his work appears in the Old Testament, which was completed hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus. Every New Testament book was written after Jesus’ death, which–I can’t believe I have to point this out–occurred circa 30 A.D.

How can a fact-checker not be aware of these things? How can any educated person not be aware? I’m not a Muslim, but I know Mohammed lived in the 7th century. I know the Book of Mormon was written (twice) in the 1800’s. Every American over the age of 12, regardless of religion, should know basic facts about Western history.

Snopes also calls Daniel a prophet. Christians agree with that, but Jews don’t. It looks like Snopes didn’t check.

Here is what Daniel saw, as recorded in the 7th chapter of DANIEL, not The Revelation of Daniel:

The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.

So what do we have here? A beast which is “like” a lion. Not necessarily a lion. And it has eagle’s wings. In other words, exactly like the statue.

Daniel was not a zoologist, and the creature he saw was not a lion, anyway. It was a manifestation of a powerful evil spirit. It looked “like” a lion, so the UN’s beast fits the description perfectly.

Snopes can be wrong. I hate to shock people. Sometimes fact-checking is really fact-shaping, and Snopes apparently has pretty low standards for staff hires.

I’m going to have to rate this story FALSE.

There is more to this. Daniel’s beast loses its wings. That makes it more similar to John’s beast, which has no wings. Maybe they represent the same spirit. I don’t claim to know.

Daniel didn’t say his beast had seven heads and ten horns, and the UN’s beast doesn’t have these features. Of course, if the wings can come off, as Daniel said they did, maybe some of the heads can come off, too. Or maybe Daniel and John were talking about two different beasts.

Snopes, as the authoritative fact-checker, goes on to prove that John’s beast was not really a beast in the Christian end-time sense. It says, “the beast in the biblical passage (which is referred to as a lion, not a jaguar) is generally thought to represent a kingdom.” Here, Snopes sheds its infallibility with two errors. The Bible says the beast is “like” a lion, as I stated above. It doesn’t say it was a lion. Jaguars are like lions. It also presents one interpretation of the beast’s nature as authoritative, which it is not.

Snopes cites a guy named Safwat Marzouk. He studied and served at liberal universities, and he’s a Huffpo contributor. Liberal theologians generally are not actual theologians. A theologian is a person who studies God. Most liberal theologians are just secular scholars who study religion. It’s not like they go around healing people or prophesying. There are atheist theologians.

Here is part of a blurb about one of Marzouk’s books:

Safwat Marzouk offers a biblical vision for what it means to be an intercultural church, one that fosters just diversity, integrates different cultural articulations of faith and worship, and embodies an alternative to the politics of assimilation and segregation.

People who actually know God don’t write books like this. They tell people how to be saved, how to pray, how to be healed, how to cast out demons, and so on. Marzouk is not the kind of person God anoints to interpret scripture. Scripture can only be illuminated by the Holy Spirit, as seen in the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch. The guy who wrote the Snopes article doesn’t know that story.

I assume Marzouk isn’t the authority who told Snopes Daniel wrote the Revelation. Even if his understanding of scripture is carnal and wrong, he must have some idea what the Bible says. After all, becoming a Bible expert is easy. You only have to understand one book. I assume Marzouk knows the Bible from cover to cover.

Snopes also says, “this statue was created to depict a ‘guardian of peace and security,’ not an apocalyptic monster.” This shows that the person who wrote this article is completely unfamiliar with Christianity. The Revelation isn’t about monsters. It’s not Jurassic Park. How could the writer take it upon himself to write something so silly without making even a cursory effort to learn about his subject material?

The Revelation isn’t always literal. Often, the figures in the book represent other things. I don’t think humanity will ever see a giant winged cat pop out of the ocean. No Christian expects that. Maybe the spirit the cat represents actually looks like a cat in the spirit realm, and maybe it doesn’t, but the Revelation doesn’t say anything about actual monsters running around causing physical destruction by physical means. The spirits in the Revelation take many forms, but there is no reason to think they will take those forms in the physical world. For example, Jesus appears as a slaughtered lamb in the Revelation. I very much doubt he will appear on Earth as a sheep.

As for the statue representing a guardian of peace and security, again, the writer has no idea what Christians believe. Just like Jesus, we believe all other religions are evil. The fact that a person of another religion offers us something he claims is some of pagan remedy or protection doesn’t mean we believe what he says is correct.

Yoga is Hinduism. People who push yoga say its purpose is to make us healthier and more relaxed. That’s the pagan claim. The Christian view is that Hinduism was inspired by Satan and that Yoga can lead to demonic oppression and damnation. Jews pay rabbis for amulets and charms to help them with various problems. They’re supposed to help. The Christian view is that demons accompany amulets and charms and bring people curses. I could list more examples, but the point is obvious. A statue that resembles an evil spirit mentioned in the Bible, which comes with a benign alternative explanation provided by people who worship vile spirits, is not a surprise to us. We expect things like that, and we don’t give any weight to claims from people we know to be deluded.

Mexicans who worship evil beings may think the statue represents a benevolent spirit, but to Christians, their beliefs are repugnant and false. A world leader will arise, and the Bible calls him the beast. It makes perfect sense that a statue sent by well-meaning pagans would actually honor Satan and give him a stronger foothold in a complex dedicated to one-world government.

The UN will presumably be the beast’s seat, at least at first. It’s no surprise he would be honored with a statue there. It’s appropriate.

If Christianity is correct, every other religion is a path to damnation, and people of other religions serve Satan whether they know it or not. Expecting Christians to accept the judgments of people we consider demon-worshipers is proof of ignorance.

To me, the statue looks like a threat and a warning. It says, “I’m almost here. You have already lost.”

My wife noted that the statue is decorated with a rainbow of colors. Can that be a coincidence? The beast will love sexual perversion. He will tell the world we don’t need a God who tells kind, loving people what they can do in their own bedrooms. This will be one of the beast’s major appeals. The world is crying out for a god who approves of sexual sin. It’s the main reason people hate the real God.

It’s pretty obvious that Snopes made no effort at all to learn about Christianity or the feelings Christians have about the statue. The mission wasn’t to disseminate truth or debunk lies. It was to discredit Christians and portray us as superstitious rubes. The truth doesn’t matter any more. Oddly, leftists, who are more deceived than anyone, think conservatives and Christians are the worst liars and dupes. In fact, the only people who know or care about the truth are Christians.

I’m not saying most Christians know or care about the truth; just that the people who do are Christians.

The Bible is correct. God is real. Jesus Christ is God. The Holy Spirit and his gifts are real. Miracles are real. Prophecy is real. There are too many witnesses to deny any of these things.

This week, my wife told me about a vision she had. A friend of hers has a girlfriend, and the girlfriend has a younger sister. The friend is a heavy-duty charismatic Christian. He made the mistake of letting the girlfriend and her sister move in with him.

My wife dreamed she saw a woman fighting her daughter. The daughter wanted to do destroy someone, and the mother was trying to prevent her. They were striking each other with some kind of supernatural energy. Both went down, but only the daughter got up. She regained her strength, but the mother didn’t.

After this, my wife saw the mother with her two daughters. They were very young. She was dedicating them to Satan. He appeared as a silver snake with the head of a lizard. He accepted both daughters, but he was more interested in the younger one because he wanted to make her powerful.

Next, my wife saw a notebook with someone’s name on it. She saw the middle initial “M.” When the notebook was opened, she saw a purple flower printed inside it.

She called her friend and asked him a couple of things. She wanted to know if anyone in the house owned a notebook like that. He said the younger sister had one just like it. She then asked what the girl’s middle name was. He said it was Mary.

Their mother doesn’t live with them. She is bedridden, like the mother in the vision.

My wife told her friend the girls and their mother practiced witchcraft. So far, he doesn’t believe her.

My wife hadn’t seen the notebook before, and she didn’t know the girl’s middle initial. She didn’t do a cold reading, either. It’s not like she said something like, “Does the letter ‘M’ mean anything to you?”, and the friend said, “It’s my girlfriend’s sister’s middle initial.”

If you don’t know what a cold reading is, you should look it up. A cold reading can make anyone look psychic to gullible people. You ask vague questions. When you get affirmative responses, you ask follow-up questions. When you get a negative answer, you ignore it and ask a different question. When you hit, you pursue it. Most people will only remember your correct guesses. This is not what my wife did. God showed her the notebook and the girl’s middle initial, not to mention her family’s involvement with witchcraft.

The story shows that the supernatural is real. God and Satan are real, and so are the gifts of the Spirit. Universities are full of people who think they know more about Christianity than actual Christians. They think real Christians are like adults who believe in the tooth fairy. It’s unfortunate their pride is taking them to hell. It’s even sadder that other people listen to them while discounting legitimate testimony from millions of reliable witnesses.

You should never listen to “rational” secular sources when it comes to Christianity. Their nutty theories always fall apart, usually because they are concocted by people who are driven by the irrational, emotion-based urge to debunk Christianity. Example: James Cameron once claimed he had found the tomb and ossuary of Jesus, and by that, he meant an ossuary his bones remained in after he died. An inscription said the ossuary was inscribed, “Jesus son of Joseph,” and other ossuaries in the tomb indicated Joseph’s wife was Mary. Worse, there was an ossuary for the son of Jesus. Problem: other ossuaries with the “Jesus son of Joseph” exist, and Jesus can’t be in all of them. Jesus and Joseph were very common Jewish names in the first century, and Mary was even more common.

It’s as though Cameron were looking to prove an American grave belonging to a man named John Smith, son of Jim Smith and Mary Smith, belonged to a particular John Smith, without any other corroborating information.

Non-Christian Bible scholars have a long history of being proven wrong, but Christians have a long history of being fooled by them.

It may be that spirits influenced the Mexicans who made the trashy statue. Maybe the spirits want to get the UN ready for the beast, and the Mexicans have no idea they’re being used. On the other hand, maybe it’s just an ugly statue that has nothing to do with prophecy. One thing is certain: Snopes is wrong. The statue does look like the creature Daniel mentioned.

And Daniel didn’t write the Revelation.

Where can you find real truth when the people who claim to define it publish fake truth? Snopes isn’t alone. Journalists have become extremely unreliable, and other fact-checking organizations get debunked all the time. The world is sinking in a sea of deception. Paradoxically, we are inundated with more information than ever, but important truths are harder to find than they were in the past, and the falsehoods people believe are less plausible and more tightly held.

I’m glad I know the Holy Spirit. I wonder what absurd misconceptions would be dear to me if I didn’t. Maybe I would seriously believe Chaz Bono is a man. I hope I’m not on Earth long enough to get that crazy.

Time to Buy Mountain Real Estate

Today I learned about the newest imminent threat to human survival: the Thwaites Glacier.

A glacier is a river of ice, more or less. It sits on land, and it moves slowly downhill and into the nearest body of water. The Thwaites Glacier is an England-sized glacier in Antarctica, and it seems to be melting and becoming less stable. I just saw a hysterical news report attributing the melting to global warming and claiming the glacier’s collapse could raise sea levels by 3 meters (10 feet).

The reporter, one Palki Sharma of India’s World is One News service, says this is a “projection,” not a possibility. Unfortunately for her credibility, it is neither.

I own property that is probably less than 10 feet above sea level, so when I saw the story, I (unlike most people) decided to find out what was going on. I looked at Wikipedia, which certainly gets its share of contributions from millennial environment-crazed leftists. No mention of an impending catastrophe. I found a website devoted to the glacier. Still nothing. Finally, I found a BBC report, quoting researchers. Guess what? The actual projection is 65 centimeters, and such a rise is not expected for “many centuries.”

Is the BBC losing its wokeness? Of course not. It’s controlled by leftists. If the BBC is optimistic about any environmental issue, you can bet the scientific consensus is on the same page.

I saw an Internet comment attributing the glacier’s problems to something other than global warming, and I found out the comment was correct. Guess what’s under the glacier? New volcanic activity, along with the heat it brings. This appears to be the main reason the ice is melting.

Someone help me understand how cow flatulence and wonderful Western lifestyles like mine contribute to changes in volcanic activity. I would really like to see the Powerpoint.

Palki Sharma thinks we need immediate action to prevent the world from going under the waves. She wants a drastic cut in emissions. It’s sad that a journalist people listen to is willing to issue opinions concerning engineering and science, which could affect the prosperity of billions of people, without making a responsible effort to learn the truth.

She thinks a disastrous change in the glacier’s seaward end will happen within the next 5 years, so she believes we need to get rid of emissions right away. It makes me wonder what she studied in school. No STEM person with any sense would say such a thing.

Assuming global warming is significant and caused by human activity, which is a huge assumption, if human beings quit giving off CO2 right now, the world’s climate wouldn’t change much at all during the next 5 years. Even wacked-out vegan scientists admit that. They say change takes decades. If the glacier is going to open up within 5 years, there is nothing we can do to stop it.

Why didn’t she look into this? My guess: political science degree. History, maybe. Or, and it pains me to write it, communications. The major people flock to when they can’t wrap their heads around basket weaving.

Her network is all about promoting India at the expense of China, Russia, and America. Why, then, would she carelessly promote a move that would keep India weak and poor? India needs modernization. It’s very backward. It doesn’t even have a good power grid. Indian machine tool companies still make lathes built to run off flat belts connected to overhead shafts turned by steam engines. Everyone else abandoned these maybe 110 years ago. If India can’t make CO2 in large amounts while it steps up its game, it will never be a prosperous modern nation.

Is the goal to bring other countries down to India’s pitiable level?

I’m starting to wonder if World is One News is like the Epoch Times and RT, which are primarily political instruments. Maybe it’s not a journalistic organization. Maybe the whole point of its existence is to spread propaganda to undermine large countries that have interests adverse to India’s.

I have to wonder how many sacred, useless cattle there are in India. Is Palki Sharma willing to have them slaughtered in order to stop climate change? That would go over big.

As for the best-known disaster currently in the news, it’s looking like I may have been right about the Omicron variant. South African scientists say it still appears to be a very mild disease, and it’s so common, it has been found in sewer water less than 100 miles from me, in a little city in Central Florida. If it’s in the sewers of lazy Central Florida, it’s in people all over the world. If it’s this widespread, and the mild symptoms hold up, it will be a huge blessing. Better to get the sniffles and gain immunity to future infections than to get Delta and risk serious problems. Omicron could “vaccinate” millions of people who would otherwise refuse to be vaccinated, and that could be very helpful.

I’ll make another SWAG about Omicron. It will turn out to be much more common than they think it is. I learned that ordinary tests don’t distinguish Delta from Omicron, so presumably, there are a huge number of cases that haven’t been identified. The Omicron wave has already started in America and many other places. It’s not coming; it’s here.

Last week, Zambia was having something like 15 new coronavirus cases per week. My wife in Lusaka says they’re about to tell the world they found 400 today or yesterday. That can’t be the Delta variant, because it has been all over Zambia for months. It came and went. Omicron is the only obvious explanation.

Florida just went from about 1500 cases per day to around 4000. That’s not Delta. No way. Delta peaked in late August, and there is no reason why it should come back. About 2500 of those cases must be Omicron.

To me, it all adds up to a helpful, highly contagious variant that will displace strains that are more harmful, while increasing our immunity.

The big question is what the next variant will be like. Delta was worse than Alpha. Omicron is much better than both. Will Pi be a killer or another coronavirus cold?

As a person who picks up useless trivia, I know that viruses generally become nicer as they mutate, but recent reading tells me they sometimes get meaner.

It looks like scientists are fairly sure of one thing: we will be getting new strains forever, just like we get new flu strains, so repeat vaccinations will be a fact of life unless covid mutates permanently into a series of viruses that don’t make us very sick.

Whatever the future holds regarding new variants, I am pretty pleased with Omicron. Maybe next week we’ll start seeing a lot of deaths, and I’ll be sorry I wrote that.

Final apocalypse-related note: my friend Mike persuaded me to listen to Brian Williams, the NBC journalist who got in trouble for serial lying. NBC didn’t fire him, which is a shame. He kept broadcasting, and as you probably know, he just quit. He made a weird announcement about his concerns for America’s future.

Mike told me to listen to him instead of reading abbreviated quotations, so I gritted my teeth and did as instructed. I still don’t know what Williams is talking about.

He claims he is neither liberal nor conservative, but an institutionalist. I looked that word up, and it means nearly nothing. Something about respecting established forms, especially with regard to religion. Maybe he needs some help figuring out what he is. Here I am to save the day, a la Mighty Mouse: he’s a liberal. Maybe he thinks he’s not because he’s somewhat more certain of his gender than many of his colleagues, but he is. Go read up on his history.

He says politicians want to burn America down with us inside it, in spite of their educations. What does that mean? Mike thought he was talking about the Deep State, implying his hands were tied by it. I didn’t get that sense at all. I assume it will turn out Williams is talking about conservatives who dare to go to rallies and support the Second Amendment and so on. I think he’s still on a January 6 kick. I’ll bet he’s thinking about people like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. I very much doubt he’s concerned about BLM’s riots, murders, and arson, or about Antifa’s, or about the armed gangs of racist looters that are taking over retail areas in leftist-controlled cities. I don’t think he’s concerned about leftist politicians who did away with cash bail, support BLM and Antifa, refuse to prosecute violent thieves, and pretend black-on-corporate looting isn’t happening.

I still maintain that 1/6 was a much smaller deal than it was made out to be. Leftists love to say it was an insurrection, as though we nearly saw overloaded helicopters ferrying survivors off the Capitol dome. An insurrection is the attempted replacement of one government with another, and it requires a plan, armed troops, and a lot of support. January 6 was a bunch of unarmed halfwits who got excited about election fraud and decided they could do what leftist rioters had done elsewhere without consequences. January 6 was the political equivalent of streaking at the Super Bowl. They thought they could protest inside a building belonging to the federal government and get away with it. They didn’t bargain on Congress’s horror at seeing its lax first-stage security overrun and exposed, or on the difference between occupying a federal building in Portland and occupying the one Congress uses, or on the pro-left bias of the courts.

They probably thought they could briefly interrupt the processing of the election results, but there is no way they could have believed they were going to undo the election or mount a coup.

No one–not even a truly stupid individual–could expect to overthrow the government by having a few giddy, selfie-taking protestors run amok in the Capitol. D.C. has a police force armed with machine guns. We have an army, too. Everyone knows these things.

The violence and casualties of the riot were grossly overstated. If you died from atherosclerosis during the riot, two blocks away, you were considered a casualty. It didn’t begin to assume the same scale as mostly-peaceful violence perpetrated by leftist groups.

Let’s see what Williams is saying a month from now. I think “institutionalist” will turn out to mean something a lot like “socialist.” Place your bets.

Of course, if you live near the ocean, you may not be around to see what happens. Not if Palki Sharma is right.

I feel that the end of the age is closer than ever. I wouldn’t be surprised if God took his people away by Christmas. Insanity is the norm now. Demonic activity is off the charts. I don’t think anyone still expects life to return to normal. We have the feeling we’re waiting for something else, but most people don’t know what it is.

Keep Your Presidents; I Want a King

It’s very confusing, distinguishing apostles from nutbars.

A year or two back, I came across a guy who was healing people on Youtube. He wasn’t faking it. He didn’t take money for what he did, and he healed pretty unlikely people. He healed Muslims, for example.

I thought he was a good guy to keep an eye on. Then he started saying Donald Trump was going to be reinstated this year. He claimed Trump had dissolved the government, and somehow, he had concealed it from everyone. Biden, in particular, seemed to be unaware of the news.

Now he says God is going to bring Trump back as a king.

I think when you make an extremely confident prediction, and it goes nowhere, you should sit on the sidelines and try to figure out what’s wrong. You shouldn’t fire up your Gopro and make new predictions.

It’s strange that a person who is clearly deluded can also use God’s power to heal.

The bizarre thing is, he’s right about some things. He said some things I agree with. He says God doesn’t like democracy.

I used to think democracy was great. I know we have a republic, not a democracy, but let’s not be pedantic. I thought it was obvious that the people should be able to determine the course of their nation. I had that idea hammered into me from day one, and I didn’t question it, any more than I questioned the assertion that America was the greatest country in the world.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve soured on democracy. It’s a form of government not much unlike allowing small children to decide who gets to drive the school bus. Most people are too ignorant, unfair, and selfish to vote correctly.

A quotation from an unknown author reads, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largesse out of the public treasury.” That’s a little over the top, or at least it was, before America lost its collective mind, but it’s correct in principle. Way too many people vote for their own short-term, narrow interests. This has always been true, but as we descend into childishness and spite, it is becoming more true than ever.

As people who read this blog know, I believe the Antichrist will have a body, just like Jesus. The body of Jesus is supposed to be a large group of people guided by the Holy Spirit. The Antichrist’s body is a group guided by the flesh, the Internet, and, ultimately, Satan. Anyone who isn’t ruled by the Holy Spirit is ruled by Satan. The body of the Antichrist is a mob, ruled by the lowest, most immoral people in the world.

The body of the Antichrist has the appearance of a democracy, because it has a grassroots look to it. We are told it’s democratic. We are told the poor and the voiceless have come together and worked it out so their movements carry out the orders of the masses. This isn’t true, however. Satan rules demons. Demons rule people who are controlled by the flesh. When those people get together and vote on things, they’re not really trying to impose their own will. They’re doing what Satan has told them to do.

When a nation allows every adult to vote, it gives Satan power. It allows demons to shape election results.

In the Bible, we see mobs voting for evil, over and over. Before Noah, a mob of angels came down, conspired against God, and impregnated women, and the world became so corrupt, God killed the human race. In Lot’s day, a mob of homosexuals surrounded Lot’s house and tried to gang-rape two archangels, as well as Lot himself. In Exodus, a mob defied Moses, who was God’s representative, and chose to worship an idol. A mob voted for Israel to be ruled by kings instead of priests and prophets, and as a result, Israel was put under Saul, a man who lost his mind along with God’s favor. The Hebrews ended up with a divided kingdom, lost tribes, and a long succession of feeble, crooked kings who brought them defeat, captivity, the diaspora, and the Holocaust.

A mob in Nazareth tried to throw the Messiah off a cliff for announcing his arrival. A mob in Jerusalem tried to stone him to death. Another mob voted for his murder and got the Romans to do what they couldn’t do. Various mobs tormented the apostles. At least one apostle was killed to please the masses.

God lets people vote, but it doesn’t mean he supports democracy. It means he supports free will. He lets us choose to destroy ourselves and our nations, but he wants us to let him rule us.

After I watched the Youtube guy, I got some revelation.

If a nation has to vote in order to decide what to do, it means its people don’t know the truth. If they were hearing from God, they would be in one accord. They would hear his truth and know what to do. Voting is conflict resolution. It shows a nation is in conflict; a house divided. No one establishes a method of conflict resolution unless there is conflict. Jesus said, correctly, that a house divided could not stand. It can’t survive forever.

Jesus is the prince of peace. Peace is nothing but harmony born of agreement. Agreement only comes through the Spirit of Holiness. All other forms of agreement are faulty. Many people think Satan’s kingdom is united, but that isn’t true. Satan is a mutineer. Mutineers never have peace. Those under them always strive to supplant them, because mutineers don’t have authority or the fear it commands. The spirits that serve Satan aren’t loyal. They hate him and want to take his place. The Bible says, “The wicked flee when none pursue.”

The Youtube guy pointed out that God is a king, not an elected leader. He said we pray for God’s kingdom to come, not his democracy. The Bible calls Jesus the king of kings, not the king of presidents. The Bible says God’s children are a nation of priests and kings, not prime ministers.

The Bible says there will be a thousand-year reign on the earth after the tribulation. During that time, Jesus will be here in person, as both God and king. He will have believers ruling under him, and they will also be kings. They won’t be elected by ignorant mobs who only think of themselves. They’ll be anointed by God himself.

We should have theocracy, guided by the Holy Spirit. God offered us that, and through the Jews, we turned it down. After that, they got the second-best form of rule: kingdoms. God anointed kings to rule. Eventually, human beings started killing their kings and giving power to elected legislators and executives. It was a step backward.

“Democracy” means “rule by the people.” That, alone, should convince us it’s a bad idea. It shows the hand of the Antichrist at work, but almost nobody understands how his kingdom works, so Americans think it’s smart to be ruled by our people.

We still have a king. Unfortunately, his name is Satan. The monarchical system can’t really be escaped.

Democracy is leftism. American conservatives don’t like to hear that, because they think they own democracy, but it’s true. American conservatives are really leftists in history’s long view. Three hundred years ago, few questioned the legitimacy of monarchy as a system of government. The people who brought the kings down were leftists. They were “progressive.” Real conservatives believed their kings were anointed by God, so they tried to keep them in power. They thought leftism was rebellion against God himself, and it was.

Now when a nation like America selects rulers, the candidates have to pander to absolute idiots who have no idea how the world works. They have to pacify socialists, anti-white racists, women (who vote for chaos all the time), perverts, and even those who want to let unvetted aliens come in and take what we have. A king would not have to be so accommodating.

The American Revolution was a huge mistake. We like to think it was about the crown’s abuses, but the British were also abused back in England. For example, the British Navy was made up largely of white slaves who were hanged if they tried to escape. The British forced people to go to America as indentured servants. The British lived in terror of the royals. The punishments for treason were the stuff of horror movies. The British were still burning criminals alive after our revolution.

The American Revolution was about money and power. Let’s be honest. America was rich in resources, it was full of slaves who provided free labor, and it presented a great opportunity for people who were not nobles or able to serve in Parliament to form their own nation and occupy high office.

Canada and Australia didn’t fight the British. They ended up prosperous. We could have gone the same way.

If we hadn’t rebelled, slavery in America might have ended in 1833, when it was abolished in England. We might never have had the Civil War, which caused the deaths of around 700,000 Americans. We might not have had the North’s abuses during the postwar era. We might not have had the South’s reprisals against freed slaves, which still contribute to racial friction. The South might have been just as prosperous as the North, and today, we might not have the strong North/South antagonism that is working to fuel a second civil war.

If the colonists had stood by their king, the empire might have remained united and powerful much longer. Maybe America and Canada would have remained parts of the UK. If that had happened, would it have been necessary for the US to enter World War Two? Hitler wasn’t afraid to invade England, but would he have felt that way had England had well over a hundred million subjects across the ocean, in a country full of factories, farms, oil, coal, and other resources?

Maybe the combined might of Great Britain, North America, and Australia would have discouraged him.

If we had stayed together, we would have had a gigantic internal market with no trade barriers. Wouldn’t that have made us wealthier?

Maybe George III really was anointed by God. If he was, we should have worked with him.

I’m all done with democracy. I will take part in it because I want to be a good citizen and because I have no choice, but it’s a stupid form of government, and it’s destroying us.

If we absolutely have to have elections, women should stay home, and the right to vote should be limited to intelligent, informed, law-abiding people who have assets. You should have something to lose so you can understand how important government’s actions are. If you’ve never been anything but a burden, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote for the government to give you other people’s wealth.

I hope my understanding of prophecy is right. I hope the rapture and tribulation will be followed by a millennium during which Earth will be ruled by a perfect, omnipotent king. The Biden disaster serves to sharpen the yearning.

Let’s not Let 10,000 Dead Bodies Ruin a Good Grift

Let’s recap. What are the three hostile spirits that will be released before the tribulation? Death, famine, and murder. They cover a lot of ground. Death includes disease and wild animal attacks, for example.

What are we going through right now? A global pestilence, shortages, and an astounding outpouring of hatred and crime.

Today, newspapers (Is that term appropriate any more?) are reporting that 12 big American cities have record murder rates. Not records for this decade, century, or millennium. All-time records.

Let’s look at the list, which comes from the notorious right-wing smear outfit, ABC.

Albuquerque: 82
Austin: 60
Baton Rouge: 137
Columbus: 179
Indianapolis: 246
Louisville: 175
Portland: 72
Philadelphia: 523
Rochester: 71
St. Paul: 35
Toledo: 62
Tucson: 80

This is a misleading list, because it only includes all-time records. Chicago is leading the country right now with 753 murders, which, remarkably, is not a record. New York is at 443. It’s also misleading because the year isn’t over yet. We have about three weeks to go, and it’s looting season because Christmas is coming up. Finally, the list doesn’t include smaller, but still large, cities.

The New York Post notes that all of these cities have leftist mayors. That’s pretty shocking. Who would have guessed?

What they’re not telling you: for the most part, this is an epidemic of murders committed against black people. Most American homicides (a term which includes killings that are not murders) are committed by black people, and black people who murder overwhelmingly choose other blacks as their victims. Cities have big concentrations of black people. It’s also important to note that black women are more likely than anyone else to be murdered.

Oddly, no one is marching or painting streets over this. There is no movement called “Black Women Matter.” We have people wearing shirts that say, “All Cops are Bastards,” but we don’t see, “Civilians who Murder 10,000 Black People per Year are Bastards.” No one on the left cares much about black women or black murder victims in general. They’re just enjoying pushing the police around.

Fewer than 1 in 40 of the roughly 10,000 black homicide victims 2021 will produce will have been shot by the police, and nearly all of the police shootings will turn out to be justified, even in the eyes of black witnesses. Strangely, the police are perceived to be the problem.

Human beings are amazing. “Never mind the floods and landslides. My faucet is dripping.”

For some reason which is subject to debate, societal ills tend to hit black areas first and then spread to the rest of America. I think the spirit of murder will work this way. Americans are already filled with partisan hate, and leftists, in particular, are more than willing to rise up and kill the rest of us. The Internet is like a virtual hell, in which people vomit up their vilest expressions of loathing and cruelty, and when people let hate drive their speech, they are likely to let it drive their behavior later. I expect large armed skirmishes to start popping up before long, and after that, we can expect a state of guerrilla warfare, at least in cities and suburbs; every area near a leftist-dominated city. Leftists will form mobs to punish the “privileged,” and everyone else will respond in kind, having no choice.

I have been wondering why leftists congregate in cities, and I think it must be because life is so easy in cities. Cities hand everything to you. You have no yard to maintain, you never have to travel far to get food, and there are all sorts of people who dedicate their lives to helping you. In the country, you really have to know what you’re doing. No one is going to come take care of you.

Leftists feel everyone else owes them a lot, so it’s natural that they like cities.

I think there are more demons on earth than there were a few years back. If God has released three great spirits to hurt us, then those spirits have other spirits working for them. Demons spread delusion and anger, among other things. I think demons are what cause people to believe the facially absurd myths they subscribe to now. You can’t think a man is a woman without supernatural help. You can’t think a few unjustified police shootings are a big deal, while completely ignoring thousands of murders, unless something external has warped your perception.

I no longer have any doubt that the apocalypse has started. The Bible shows that it starts before the rapture and tribulation. The apocalypse is a process involving multiple events.

I don’t think hate and murder are going away. I am confident covid is here to stay as well, although the Omicron variant’s characteristics make me wonder if covid will continue to be a major threat to life. Maybe a worse disease will hit soon, or maybe there will be a much nastier variant of coronavirus.

Shortages are now routine, and they seem to jump out of nowhere to bite us. I have no reason to think they’ll get anything but worse.

Speaking of men who are alleged to be women, I read that a man on a women’s college swim team has been setting women’s world records. I guess I should grieve, but I can’t help finding it funny. You can’t grieve continuously. A guy named Lia Thomas, at an Ivy League school where everyone else swims slowly, is rewriting the books. He beat a competitor by 38 seconds, which is, I am sorry to say it, hilarious. He literally had time to get out of the pool, dry off, grab a Gatorade, take a seat, and watch the real girls finish the race.

This news is upsetting a lot of people, but I say may he go to the Olympics and sweep the golds in every event he can manage to participate in. Let’s not even stop with swimming. Let’s put him on the women’s track team. Let’s have him box. He might do really well. May others like him obliterate every women’s sports record. I look forward to a day when every women’s UFC competitor is a man, and actual women are afraid to compete.

Why would I say these things? Because the pimple needs to come to a head. Leftism bears putrid, diseased fruit, and society needs to see it. Also, I dislike spectator sports because they are destructive to Christianity. No one seems to understand the hostile relationship between spectator sports and Christianity, but it has a very long history. I’d love to see every spectator sport destroyed. More steroids! More cheating! More eunuchs! Let’s get this over with.

Where are the tennis eunuchs? Serena Williams needs to be exposed as a fraud. I guarantee you, there are male athletes out there who are willing to take hormones and drive her off the court. I want to see them get out there. What are they waiting for? They could become millionaires instead of settling for jobs as low-paid club pros. Castration can take you from mediocre male to world-class female, and no one can stop you if you want to do it. The courts will protect you. Fans will cheer you; even the ones who secretly feel sick to their stomachs. They will be too afraid not to.

There are no known pro tennis eunuchs on the tour now, but people my age recall one. His name is Renee Richards. He was a journeyman male pro in the 1950’s. Then he must have listened to too many Helen Reddy records, because he had himself castrated and started competing with female tennis pros.

You may think he proves eunuchs won’t ruin women’s tennis, because Renee Richards didn’t become a Wimbledon champion. Of course they will. Richards competed as a woman two decades after he competed as a man! He was over the hill, and he still made it to the women’s doubles final. He was ranked in the top 20 when he was middle-aged.

Richards himself now admits it isn’t fair for eunuchs to play women. He has said,””Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I’d had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I’ve reconsidered my opinion.”

I can’t wait to see more men out there. The truth needs to be made clear.

In other news, I succumbed to temptation and got myself a used Ronco Showtime rotisserie oven. I found it on Ebay. It looks like it has never been turned on.

I couldn’t restrain myself. I started thinking about rib roasts. The one thing a non-rotating oven can’t seem to match is the crust a rotisserie puts on all sides of a roast. Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like the $70 I’m betting is a reasonable risk.

I could have bought a new Showtime, but they just don’t sound good. They turn too slow, and people say they’re flimsy. The old ones are Korean, which says a lot for Ron Popeil, who could have gone Chinese right from the start. The South Koreans make wonderful things. The new ovens are from China, so no one should be surprised if there are issues.

I’ll probably use it about once a year, but it will be a good tool to have on those rare occasions when a rotisserie is the best option.

I think I can quit adding food equipment for a while. My kitchen isn’t perfect, but you can make nearly anything in it without wishing you had one more tool.

Thank God I don’t like high-temperature hipster pizza, which requires a special oven. If I did, one more expenditure would be imminent.

The World Prefers the Disease to the Cure

It’s surprising how hard it is to find out where the Omicron variant has taken hold in the US. I had to do several searches and compare results. Here is the most up-to-date list of states I was able to locate:

California
Colorado
Connecticut
Georgia
Hawaii
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Utah
Washington
Wisconsin

I’ll save you some trouble: the number of states is 17. And as you can figure out for yourself, that’s almost exactly one third of our states. Since California, New York, and Pennsylvania are on the list, it’s a large fraction of our population.

Here’s a question to which I have not seen the answer in the press: how good is the world’s ability to test for Omicron? How can we know where it is if we can’t test for it?

It has been less than two weeks since Omicron was reported to WHO (Should I call it “the WHO”?), so can it be possible that every nation in the world now has test kits that distinguish Omicron from Delta?

Another question: does Omicron show up at all on tests that detect the more-familiar variants?

If the old tests don’t pick up Omicron, we may have Omicron all over the place and not know it, especially if it’s mild. A lot of people would get false negatives, and if they weren’t very sick, many others wouldn’t bother getting tested.

If Omicron testing isn’t available everywhere, and Omicron doesn’t show up on the old tests, then a lot of Omicron cases are hidden. If Omicron testing isn’t available everywhere, and Omicron does show up on the old tests with no indication that it’s Omicron, then who knows how many Omicron cases are misidentified as Delta?

You could go nuts listing different factual scenarios and trying to figure out the consequences.

Our leaders, scientists, and journalists are completely incompetent when it comes to presenting facts that help the public understand what’s happening. I assume scientists are thinking about the important questions, because they would have to be really stupid not to, but their logic is not filtering down to you and me. Politicians are generally not smart enough to figure out what’s important, and journalists are even less bright.

Let’s look around the web.

Wikipedia has the answer, or maybe it doesn’t. It says existing PCR tests are able to “detect the variant.” That’s not the answer we need. We don’t just need to know if the tests detect the variant; we need to know whether they distinguish it from other variants. When you say a test detects a variant, you’re not making it clear that it can discriminate. Maybe the old tests tell us coronavirus is present, without saying which kind.

It’s safe to draw a few conclusions. It’s clear the public has no way of knowing where Omicron really is, how many cases there are, and how bad the symptoms are. Science doesn’t know these things yet, so neither do we.

Nothing much is happening in Zambia with any strain of coronavirus. The country is a car ride away from South Africa, but Zambia’s daily case count runs around 1/100 of Florida’s, for about the same population.

The Bible says that if God’s people will pray and repent, he will heal their land. I keep saying I think this is why Christian Africa is doing so well. Their leaders–political leaders, not just preachers–called for prayer. Joe Biden would sooner let Sean Hannity give him a polygraph than tell Americans to pray, especially in the name of Jesus Christ. It will never happen. It would be political suicide. The Democratic Party is firmly against Jesus.

I agree with preachers who say Christians ruined America. I tend to get angry at non-Christians who abuse and slander us. They have taken over our country, and they have made public life disgusting in many places. Still, as I have said before, the primary responsibility is ours. God says he will heal nations if his people pray, not if every citizen prays. We’re not doing it. Even our church leaders aren’t calling for prayer. They refuse to say sin caused the pandemic, which is unquestionably true. They’re terrified of becoming less popular and losing income and power.

We’re not confessing that we caused the pandemic, and we are not repenting and praying as a body. We have been failing in the areas of confession, repentance, and prayer for decades. That’s how we got here.

The church is weak and blind. When people consider coming to us for guidance, what do they see? Christians who can’t prophesy and tell them what their problems are. Christians who can’t heal their diseases or rid them of their sexual aberrations. Christians whose prayers for them don’t produce results. They also see Christians who are more interested in arguing with them and criticizing them than helping them meet God.

We ended up with a homosexuality epidemic because Christians couldn’t help homosexuals change. They couldn’t cast out the spirits involved. There was a time when everyone realized homosexuality was sick and destructive, and people who were suffering from it wanted relief, but we couldn’t do anything for them. No wonder they decided their affliction was natural and normal and that we were the problem. We definitely weren’t the answer.

We ended up with racial and class friction because our churches didn’t connect people with the Holy Spirit, who takes people of different races, nationalities, classes, and religious backgrounds and turns them into brothers and sisters.

I feel I got a revelation about my own relatively inconsequential problems. God told me something I knew already, and it applies to all Christians. We should be harder on phony Christians than we are on people who don’t know God at all. We fall into the trap of focusing on the unpleasant things nonbelievers are doing to us, and we behave as though they’re the big problem. They’re not. We cause our own problems by failing to submit to God. Hostile nonbelievers wouldn’t be able to touch us if we were truly transformed by the Holy Spirit.

We are our own worst enemies, literally, and after that come antagonistic spirits. Human beings are farther down the list. God once told me all my problems were caused by lack of prayer. He didn’t say “heathens.” He didn’t even say “Satan.” He didn’t blame my dysfunctional upbringing in a house of abuse and despair. Lack of prayer was number one. Since I chose not to pray enough, saying lack of prayer caused all my problems implied I caused them myself.

I have to quit letting my annoyance with people who hate Jesus and Christians divert my attention and move me to misplace blame. I have to stop saying things unnecessarily that will drive nonbelievers farther away.

I should be critiquing myself and making a point of laying into horrible, toxic clergymen. People who lie about doctrine and make up testimony in order to get rich need to be exposed. They know exactly what they’re doing, so they don’t deserve patience or mercy. Christians should be telling other people Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, and the other usual suspects are crooks.

I believe God is showing me that the reason I still have nagging sins I sometimes fall into is that I am overly critical of people who are no worse than I am. My failures are intended to remind me that I didn’t save myself. I was contemptible and determined to hold onto my faults. I would have been happy to sink farther into sin, die in blindness, and go to hell had God not intervened and fought with me.

I am too hard on people who don’t know God at all, and I am not hard enough on liars who pretend to know him in order to bleed those who come to them for help.

I believe these things are correct, so I will try to change my behavior. I think this will bring me breakthroughs and make me more useful in helping others. We shall see.

I’m sure I will fail a lot, but my course is more important than my location. Falling isn’t a big deal as long as you continue moving in the right direction when you get up.

Next Step: Prohibiting Masks?

We’re in the second week of the Xi Unicorn Omicron variant crisis, and so far, things look pretty good. By pandemic standards. A low bar to clear.

Is it okay to joke about coronavirus? There must be someone out there who is making a career of being offended by covid jokes. There has to be a “coronavirus community.”

So far, covid hasn’t turned out to be like AIDS. You can joke about cancer, diabetes, blindness, amputations, and all venereal diseases other than AIDS, but AIDS jokes are like people who won’t wear masks; they do not fly. AIDS sufferers are treated like heroes, and they even have a strange monument in the form of a quilt, but if you get herpes, people just make fun of you. We live in a world where humor related to a behavior-driven venereal disease is treated like blasphemy, but actual blasphemy is a staple of celebrated comedians.

“MY GRAMMY DIED FROM COVID! SHAME ON YOU!” Hmm. My mother, uncle, and aunt died from cancer, my sister and dad survived cancer, and I still make cancer jokes. Other people’s cancer jokes don’t offend me at all. I knew a guy who was dying of cancer, and he made cancer jokes during the process.

I haven’t noticed much sanctimony related to covid humor. I hope my perception is correct, but even if it’s not, I plan to keep my sense of humor while respecting your right to choose not to have one.

“Respect” is not really the correct word.

Let’s see. Omicron is spreading quickly, and scientists expect it to overtake Delta. So far, only mild cases have been recorded. That sounds like good news. We have been cautioned not to assume Omicron is milder than Delta, but within two or three weeks, the truth will be obvious. Here’s hoping we don’t see death spikes.

I saw that about 100 kids in South Africa had been hospitalized. That sounded bad. In the US, covid barely affects kids, and hospitalizations are very rare. Today I read that the South African children have mild cases. Why are they being hospitalized? Beats me. Quarantine? An abundance of caution? Anyway, the mild-symptom theory is still holding up, but it looks like Omicron doesn’t spare children the way Delta does. It appears lots of kids will catch it and become symptomatic, but we shouldn’t expect severe cases in children.

Hope that’s right. Imagine what life will be like if we start seeing waves of children with tubes down their throats.

It has become obvious that vaccines have no or nearly no effect on Omicron. Omicron is causing high-percentage transmissions among groups with high vaccination rates. That can’t happen when vaccines work. Maybe science can produce an Omicron vaccine, but until it does, don’t expect your old shot to do anything except, perhaps, make your symptoms less severe. Given the facts we have heard so far, with Omicron, such help may not even be needed.

Idiotic travel bans are still increasing. Zambia is now in the crosshairs. Countries that have thousands of cases per day are afraid to admit citizens of countries that have one or two dozen per day. Rhodah and I were hoping to go to France and the Netherlands, but France just slapped a quarantine mandate on Zambians, and I believe the Netherlands is currently banning them.

Day before yesterday, I mentioned the then-little-discussed possibility that Omicron might turn out to be nature’s vaccine, infecting huge numbers of people with a mild illness that would prevent them from having serious cases of a dangerous variant. Now another interesting thought has occurred to me: if Omicron turns out to be a godsend that prevents millions of deaths, will countries start imposing Bizarro travel bans? Will they start asking people from Omicron areas to fly in and spread the helpful variant? Will masks be outlawed?

It might be a great idea. Many people hate vaccines, human beings may never comply in numbers that make sense, and vaccines work poorly against Delta and show no sign of preventing Omicron infections. On the other hand, anti-vaxxers can’t prevent themselves from getting Omicron, which may act as a vaccine against severe covid. Vax-worshipers might start to see Omicron as an ally that can accomplish what their hysterical, irrational, fact-ignoring authoritarianism can’t do: it could sweep through countries and give just about everyone helpful antibodies.

If Omicron can do what St. Anthony of Fauci can’t, why not encourage the spread? It would save a large number of lives while restoring peace. Without a scary variant to be afraid of, the mask and vaccine Gestapo would no longer have any reason to torment people, so the anti-fascist movement (the real one, not Antifa) would have less motivation to protest.

It looks like a moot question, because Omicron doesn’t look like it will pay any attention to our plans. It appears to be poised to spread regardless of what man chooses to do, so my best guess is that by mid-January, we will know whether Omicron is a friend or enemy. By then, it should have spread so well we should have all the data we need.

Whatever happens, we know one thing for sure. Chris Cuomo won’t be reporting on it. I am taking the high road with regard to Corleone jokes.

I would say I was shocked that someone with Cuomo’s intellectual and ethical deficits was ever hired, but that would be ridiculous. This is the press we’re talking about. If government vans ever go around kidnapping brilliant people to crack Chinese codes and improve hypersonic technology, you will never see one stop in front of CNN, the big three, or Fox.

I was surprised to see CNN’s harsh report on Cuomo. After covering for him, they changed course and let him have it. They didn’t mince words. A conservative couldn’t have done better.

It makes sense, though. Why did CNN hire him in the first place? Because they thought he was the next Edward R. Murrow? Of course not. They knew he was inept even by journalist standards. Like Don Lemon, he was hired for what he was, not what he could do. He was the son of a governor and the brother of a governor. He was a nepotism hire. Either his brother and dad pressured employers to advance his career, or companies hired him to curry favor with his family and reward the Cuomos for being politically correct.

People who work with nepotism hires build up resentment, even if they support their hiring in a sort of realpolitik way. It had to burn a lot of CNN staffers, seeing Cuomo prove over and over again that he was incompetent while raking in millions they would never have the chance to earn. Once Andrew was gone, they must have realized they no longer had to maintain the farce. Some of them must have seen Chris’s fall as a welcome opportunity to toss an embarrassing son of privilege.

Now CNN can gain social credit while disposing of an embarrassing mishire and, in all likelihood, promoting someone who will be better for their ratings.

Cuomo’s Twitter account still boasts that he’s a CNN anchor and promotes the show he used to host back when he was employed. Wonder how long he’ll take to change it.

Speaking of social credit, it looks like AOC can’t get enough. She made a bizarre, mysterious remark to the effect that the flash looting epidemic didn’t seem to exist. Her claim was so crazy, the Walgreen’s corporation used its Twitter account to debunk it. That’s really something.

Ordinarily, corporations want to seem as hyperwokeded as possible. For some reason, they labor under the delusion that catering to far-left extremists will please the public. Half of America voted for Donald Trump, so I question the logic. Anyway, somebody at Walgreen’s must be getting tired of seeing minority-area stores close due to unprofitability caused by looters.

I always talk about the Jewish legends of Sodom and Gomorrah, which say the cities were known for shoplifting mobs. Here is a passage from Legends of the Jews, a book which contains the material I refer to:

The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah and the three other cities of the plain were sinful and godless. In their country there was an extensive vale, where they foregathered annually with their wives and their children and all belonging to them, to celebrate a feast lasting several days and consisting of the most revolting orgies. If a stranger merchant passed through their territory, he was besieged by them all, big and little alike, and robbed of whatever he possessed. Each one appropriated a bagatelle, until the traveller was stripped bare. If the victim ventured to remonstrate with one or another, he would show him that he had taken a mere trifle, not worth talking about. And the end was that they hounded him from the city.

This stuff comes from ancient Jewish writings which are known to contain gossip and untruths, but even histories which are largely corrupt usually contain a lot of accurate information. Think about it: even the most dishonest CNN story is probably 90% true. A lot of the Koran is probably true. I think the passage above is true. The parallels to our time are too strong to be coincidental.

The same book says the Sodomites eventually passed a law saying all visitors were to be gang-raped. There are American and Canadian cities where such treatment doesn’t seem impossible. They already have parades featuring completely nude men, and sex acts take place in the streets. The jump to raping strangers isn’t that big, and as a group, sexual deviants have a massive victim complex. Historically, such complexes have been used to justify horrific cruelty. It looks like a guy in Wisconsin just used one to justify killing 6 people with his car.

The book says the angels God sent to examine the city were inclined to recommend sparing it until the rape gang mustered. It also mentions gang looting as one of the sins that provoked the flood.

My personal take on AOC is that she is severely demonized. Her election was improbable, given her background, and it’s hard to find a natural explanation for the speed of her rise to power. Apart from that, she has those crazy eyes. She even looks demonized.

Things look bad for the world, but I’m not worried about myself. I keep getting indications I will be fine. Example: my wife just had a dream. She was walking north on a road, and she was with a lady who prays for people and prophesies. A group of black-and-white spotted cattle came walking down the road from the north. They were large, fat, healthy cattle. One of them broke from the herd, ran ahead of it, hugged the lady my wife was with, and then hugged my wife. It was thrilled to see them.

In the Bible, a pharaoh had a dream about fat cattle, and they represented years of prosperity. The coloring of the cattle in my wife’s dream suggests they were dairy cattle, not beef cattle. I never thought about it until today, but there aren’t any major beef cattle breeds that generally have black and white spots. You can only kill a beef cow once, but dairy cattle are reliable long-term providers. They would seem to represent sources of help that provide continuously. A cow gives milk every day.

The pharaoh also dreamed of skinny cows that represented years of famine. My wife didn’t see any of those.

Maybe the cattle represent the years of the tribulation, during which certain believers will be in heaven celebrating the marriage of Jesus.

I look forward to having my curiosity about the Omicron variant settled. I hope travel restrictions loosen soon, but humanity is not known for its collective common sense.

Illness or Nature’s Vaccine?

Bad news. My modified squirrel trap has not attracted any visitors.

Fed up with the continued destruction of my property by worthless rodents, I took a badly-designed trap and made some improvements. It has been in action for about 18 hours, and nothing has happened. I placed an order for a Squirrelinator, which is a factory-made trap dedicated to, well, you can guess. It should be here in the middle of next week.

I took a chunk of neurotoxic rat bait, smeared it with peanut butter, and put it in my chicken house, which the squirrels have turned into a resort. Later today, I’ll see if they’ve eaten it. I’m going to do whatever has to be done until I have a decent body count.

I have excellent rat baits made with an anticoagulant, but I was afraid to put them in the chicken house because I didn’t want hawks and owls to eat poisoned rodents and die. I’m reading up on it today. It looks like the Audubon Society recommends the anticoagulant as safe for predators, so maybe I should start using it.

In other news, I see another prediction of mine has come true. It’s not a big surprise, because I try not to predict anything that isn’t obvious. The Omicron variant has been found all over the place. Hawaii, New York, California, Colorado, Minnesota…it’s doing the blue state tour.

When we first heard about Omicron, which my wife inadvertently dubbed “the Unicorn Variant,” journalists and even scientists voiced “concern” that it “might” pop up in new places. I’m no epidemiologist, but I said that if you find one case, there are dozens of others you don’t know about. I said Omicron was already everywhere except places like Australia and New Zealand, which have sick, authoritarian rules. I was wrong about Australia, however. Omicron has been found there.

Australia is actually an Omicron hotspot, with more identified cases than America. Maybe arresting people and putting them in concentration camps isn’t working as well as they expected.

Of all the people on Earth, you would think Australians would be reluctant to put people in prison. You would think they had had their fill already.

The usual suspects also said they were worried the vaccines wouldn’t work well against Omicron. I wasn’t worried about that, because I already knew they wouldn’t. They don’t work well against any variant! Why would Omicron be different? The Dutch found 14 infected airline passengers, and today they’re telling us all 14 were vaccinated. If this surprises you, you should go in for cognitive tests and be very careful climbing airplane stairs.

A failure rate of 100% in 14 patients seems pretty bad to me, but then I am no doctor. I am no statistician, but it sure seems like the results could not have been worse. I can’t help feeling there just might be some predictive weight to this data.

I keep hoping Omicron will turn out to be a blessing. So far, there are no news reports suggesting the symptoms are anything but mild, but scientists say Omicron is extremely contagious compared to Delta. Put those things together, and Omicron might be the inoculation man couldn’t create. It might displace the nastier variants and give us resistance to them which would provide either immunity or safety from severe symptoms. It could turn coronavirus into the new common cold. Ineradicable, but not dangerous.

It may turn out to be the Omicron VACCINE.

Or it may kill a whole bunch of us.

We’ll know by the end of the month. That’s my new prediction, and like the others, it’s obvious. Omicron will hit thousands of people this month, if it hasn’t already, and it will have enough time to start producing deaths. If Omicron goes viral metaphorically as well as literally, and waves of deaths don’t materialize, sell your stock in mask manufacturers.

Now if we could just pay the Chinese to create a killer bug that only hits building contractors and tort lawyers.

And CCP members.

One thing is certain: if Omicron saves the world, the CCP will start pressuring smaller countries to call it the Xi Variant.

My understanding is that new diseases tend to become less severe as they mutate. Hope that’s correct. Didn’t pan out with smallpox, though.

If I get sick, my first move will be to blow my nose on my squirrel baits.

It’s amazing how dumb our statist overlords are. Why would anyone think it was smart to enact travel bans AFTER a new virus hit several countries? How badly did you have to do in elementary school math to think that was intelligent? We never find covid variants before they go around the world. By the time they’re detected, they’ve been carried all over the globe. Travel bans just add economic distress and feelings of powerlessness to our problems.

Speaking of feelings of powerlessness, I have realized they may be the worst consequences of covid. It has taught us man is weak and can’t fix his own disasters. It has taught us our governments have way more ability to control us than we had allowed ourselves to think. It has turned many of us into shuffling shut-ins who lack confidence in their ability to change their lives for the better.

It’s very important for people to think they can affect their circumstances. Take that away, and they develop what psychologists call “learned helplessness.” This is one of the reasons welfare states get worse, not better. People start sucking up government money, and they become convinced they need it. They believe going to school and applying for jobs won’t change their lives much.

When you pay someone so much for doing nothing he can’t significantly improve his lifestyle by going to work, he is likely to choose to stay home and make excuses. That’s exactly what’s happening right now. It’s turning America into a much more socialist state, and socialism is authoritarianism. Authoritarianism brings dystopia.

I believe feelings of powerlessness also breed hatred and resentment. If you’re helpless and someone else is responsible for your happiness, you will feel entitled to make that person miserable when things don’t go your way. This is one explanation for the intense anti-white racism in America. Blacks and Hispanics are taught that whites, Asians, and Jews cause them to live in squalor and crime through racism, but paradoxically, many think the people who caused their problem are the saviors who can fix it. They believe the rest of us have special powers we’re not using.

It’s crazy, believing a certain class of people is evil and responsible for your problems, yet running to them over and over again, expecting them to make things right at their own expense.

Why would you expect a malicious enemy to save you?

The rest of us didn’t cause the problems, we’re not malicious, we are not good enough to devote our lives to making things better for you, and even if we were, we couldn’t do it. You have to do some things for yourself.

Anyway, I’m convinced the pandemic has made things worse.

Maybe Omicron will save us from the pandemic. The apocalypse is a delivery process with labor pains, and labor pains come and go. Maybe we’ll get a few years of rest. I wonder. I tend to doubt it, because I have reason to think the rapture is imminent.

One nice thing about proof the variant has spread is that it should convince the nations of the world to drop recently-imposed travel bans. Rhodah and I were planning to visit the Netherlands, and they have an Omicron ban. Maybe they’ll show some common sense and relent.

As for the rapture, I had a disturbing dream last night.

For years, I’ve had dreams about airports. There are things about airports I don’t like. When you’re in an airport, you’re not where you want to be. You want to be somewhere else, which is why you went to the airport. Airports, then, are inherently representative of not having arrived.

Also, airports are dirty, the food is bad and overpriced, and while you’re in airports, you are subjected to degrading control through unreasonable rules.

At least the Hare Krishnas moved out.

Last night, I dreamed I was in the imaginary airport again. My second-oldest friend had been there, but he had left. His family was still there. He had gotten on an elevator to turn himself in.

In the dream, Nazis were in power. My friend and his family are Orthodox Jews. The Nazis were allowing people to turn themselves in. In the dream, you could get on an elevator, and as soon as you got to the bottom, you would be in Auschwitz. You would go through the death camp process and be killed and incinerated. By the time you turned yourself in, you were doomed. There was no way to change your mind and go home, and no one could rescue you.

I couldn’t believe what my friend had done. Why did he trust the Nazis? Even though it wasn’t possible, I tried to help. I saw another Jew, and I ran up to him and tried to tell him what had happened. I wanted to know if he had any idea what to do. He thought I was Jewish and that I was asking him to help me.

Nothing was done. It was already over when I asked for help. I knew my friend was somewhere down below, beyond help, regretting his choice.

I now think the airport I dream about represents the earth. You spend time here on your way to heaven or hell. You get routed one way or the other depending on what kind of ticket you chose. This place isn’t your permanent home.

I don’t know if my friend represented himself, someone else, or a class of people.

The Nazis were the state-worshipers and man-worshipers of the Earth. The beast’s troops. The vaccine-lovers and distancing freaks. People who are willing to give up all their rights because they’re terrified of death. They say, “Trust us, and everything will be fine.”

If the airport represents the earth, then there must be departing flights. You can either go up or down. That seems to be a very Jewish idea. Moving to Israel is considered a move upward, and people who leave are called “yardim,” meaning they descend. The name of the Jordan River comes from the same root.

That’s it for today. Two containers of maple syrup have arrived, and I need to test them. I might skip dinner food and make waffles.

That Foot is Me

It has been a while since I had an interesting project. I started a new one today. I am determined to rid myself of excess squirrels, so I came up with a new trap design.

Actually, I’m fixing an old design. Not long ago, I found that squirrels were chewing on my expensive aluminum gate, so I went to Tractor Supply and bought a copy of a Havahart live trap. This is a box made from wire. It has a door that falls down when an animal enters and stands on a plate where bait is kept.

The name of the trap maker is a comforting fiction intended to deflect criticism from enraged wokiees. Sure, it traps things alive. They’re alive until you get there.

The door was originally installed so the upper hinge attaching it to the top of the cage was pretty far inside the cage. When tripped, the door would fall so its lower end fell close to the end of the cage. In this configuration, a strong squirrel could lift it just by trying to get out. The natural result of pushing outward on the door was to lift it. The door had a spring-loaded bail to swing out and brace against the top of the trap to prevent this from happening.

I remember thinking this was a stupid design for small animals. The triggering mechanism was complicated and not very sensitive. Because of the spring, the mechanism was under a lot of pressure when loaded, and that created friction that made it harder to spring the trap. I thought a squirrel would have to go in and jump up and down on the trigger plate to make the trap work.

My suspicions turned out to be right. The trap turned out to be a pretty good squirrel feeder. It would not trip for squirrels even after I adjusted the trigger mechanism.

I was afraid bigger vermin were stealing the bait. I must have found the trap tripped yet empty; I don’t recall. Anyway, I had some reason to think bigger animals were ruining everything. I bought a bigger trap just like the little one, hoping it would nail not only squirrels but their larger accomplices. I caught a coon in it right away. I shot it in the head and threw it over the fence.

I never caught any squirrels, though.

Yesterday I saw that squirrels had eaten through the backwash hose on my pool pump. Add that to the long list of things they have destroyed. I got mad and decided to get back to killing them. I have been shooting them, but that’s a slow process. I needed something better.

They squat in my chicken house, so I thought about throwing some rat poison in there. I haven’t done it. I have two kinds of rat poison. One is plain old anticoagulant, and the other is a neurotoxin. The anticoagulant could conceivably harm anything that eats a dead squirrel, so I have been reluctant to use it. The other poison lacks this drawback, but it has another one: it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work on mice, anyway. I had high hopes for it, but they came to see my blocks of rat poison as free buffets.

I started researching traps, and I found some neat ones. I started wondering…why didn’t anyone make a trap with a door that moves in the opposite direction compared to my worthless live-catch trap?

I thought it would be smart to have a simple trap with a door that fell behind a squirrel after it entered, with the bottom of the tripped door toward the inside of the cage. A squirrel would have to figure out how to lift the door while shoving himself under it. His natural efforts to get out would push the door down instead of opening it.

Lo and behold, I learned that such a trap exists. It’s called the Squirrelinator. It’s just a wire box with a door that falls so the lower edge faces inward. Reviewers say it’s great.

I thought I should get one. Then I thought…why not make one?

I grabbed my useless live trap, removed the door, removed all the mechanical garbage attached to it, and reinstalled the door backward. Now if a squirrel goes in, the door will fall behind him. If he turns around and tries to go out the door, his weight will close it tighter.

A squirrel genius could learn to lift the door before trying to escape, but squirrels are stupid, and even a smart squirrel would need time to figure things out. I think I can prevent that by checking the trap at short intervals.

It’s pathetic that they call traps “live traps.” What kind of fool releases a live squirrel? I’ll bet nearly everyone does what I do. The old point-blank .22 shot. When you release a squirrel, it just plagues someone else. Releasing vermin on other people’s property should be a crime. Probably is.

My uncle used to do it, however, He would trap squirrels, paint their tails orange, and turn them loose at a nearby airport. Not sure what the point of that was.

He was not a tree-hugging vegan whiner. He let my cousin raise a calf as a pet, and then he slaughtered it without warning her and served its flesh to her for dinner. He refused to let her leave the table until she ate it. I don’t know why he was more merciful to arboreal rats.

I put my modified trap under the bird feeder, which is already known to the squirrels. I took some of Marvin’s seed-heavy bird chow and sprinkled it around the trap. I put a generous smear of peanut butter on the now-disconnected trigger plate, which makes a handy bait tray.

We shall see what happens. If it doesn’t work. I’ll pony up $80 for a Squirrelinator, or maybe I’ll get a roller trap.

A roller trap is pretty brilliant. It’s a rolling-pin-shaped object that rests on top of a bucket or garbage can that has enough water in it to drown rodents. The thin ends function as an axle. You put peanut butter on the thick part, and rodents climb out to get it. The assembly turns, and they drop in the water, dying instantly.

Well, okay. Not instantly. They drown. I don’t like it, but I am tired of paying for squirrel-destroyed items. I’ve prayed about it, and my belief is that God has no problem with people who drown rodents.

You can make a roller trap from a pop can and a piece of thick wire. You need a fairly tall receptacle to prevent squirrels from jumping out. Or maybe you just need to make the water too deep for them to touch bottom.

Here’s another neat trap I just learned about: a bowl of oil.

You get yourself a large bowl and pour half an inch of oil in the bottom. Rodents will smell the oil and jump in. Then they can’t jump out, even if the bowl’s edge is low. Why not? Because you need traction in order to jump, and the oil kills traction.

If you go to Youtube, you can find videos where people get up in the morning and collect bowls full of very distressed mice that can’t get away.

You would need a pretty big bowl for squirrels, but it seems brilliant for smaller pests.

I thought about getting some of those black poison stations you may have seen around dumpsters. They make them in different sizes for both rats and coons. The problem is that bigger animals will tear them up, and, again, I don’t think the poison works well.

It doesn’t take the squirrels long to find stuff near the bird feeder, so I hope to have some answers today. If my trap doesn’t work, the Squirrelinator should, but I will probably try a roller first. I’m also going to put a roller trap in the workshop for mice.

I may put the bigger trap out, too, baited with meat. It has proven effective with coons, and it should also work with possums. It could hold a determined coyote. That would be great. Hunting is inefficient. So much easier to stroll up at your leisure and pop vermin with your favorite pistol.

I’m going to get a gopher trap, too. There are big hills in my yard.

No more Mr. Nice Guy. The day of vengeance is at hand.

This isn’t Happening

The wife and I are riding out another wave. The Xi Omicron variant is threatening to keep her in Zambia.

The name of the variant is one of the most interesting things about it. As you probably know, right-wing morons and conspiracy nuts have suggested coronavirus is a politicized disease. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s purely coincidental that the World Health Organization went through the Greek alphabet and chose the letter omicron, skipping the designation Xi, which JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE NAME OF CHINA’S SLEAZY PREMIER.

Personally, I call him Chi Penguin. Don’t ask me why.

Yes, when you’re concerned about the perception that wealthy, corrupt nations and business leaders are controlling the flow of information and spinning things so severely no one really knows what’s happening, the best way to build trust is to show you’re terrified of offending a slimy despot who is responsible for organ harvesting, slave labor, forced abortions, political censorship, political imprisonments, and the spread of coronavirus to the rest of the world.

I guess it’s a good thing the Greek alphabet doesn’t contain a letter called Joe.

As of this minute, several developed nations have banned travel from countries in southern Africa, where the virus was first detected. Zambia, miraculously, has been spared so far. Only the UK has banned Zambians, which is okay, because who in his right mind wants to visit England in the winter?

Rhodah and I are hoping for France and the Netherlands. I believe we just lost the Netherlands, but France still has not surrendered. Uncharacteristically.

I preferred to stay in France anyway, but Rhodah is still in that stage of life where she wants to cram as many countries as possible into every trip.

South Africans are mad because they’ve been banned. They say they’re being punished for discovering the variant, which was actually found first in a person from Botswana. They say it makes no sense for covid infernos like the UK to ban South Africans, who currently live in a not-too-disastrous covid area.

They seem to be upset because of the stigma as well. With regard to that, I think they’re whiners. Getting your lingerie in a knot over the fear that other countries may think a disease variant started in your country is silly. They start where they start. The Spanish flu started in the United States. Doesn’t bother me if people say so. I have to admit, though, we must have had a good PR team, hanging the pandemic around the neck of a country 3000 miles away.

At first, I thought Omicron was a bad thing, but now I’m wondering if it’s really a blessing. To the world, I mean. Not me and the wife. For us, it’s a royal pain.

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, the lady who informed South Africa’s government about the existence of Omicron, says every case she has seen has been very mild. I’m no epidemiologist, but…what if this is a milder variant that displaces the one that suffocates people?

What if Omicron infects a big percentage of the world, makes very few people seriously ill, and enhances their immunity to real coronavirus? That would be pretty cool, by 2021’s admittedly pathetic standards.

Edward Jenner, the man who first vaccinated people against smallpox, and who, as far as we know, never had his genitalia sliced off or insisted people pretend he was a woman, found that if he infected people with the mild illness cowpox, they became immune to smallpox. He found this out using a brilliant strategy. He infected a lower-class 8-year-old boy with cowpox, waited until he recovered, and exposed him to smallpox. The boy didn’t die, so they probably gave him a dose of the belt and put him back to work in the arsenic mine.

I guess guinea pigs were expensive back then. No use wasting money.

It would be nice if Omicron circled the globe and made us all resistant to real covid. That would be better than killing millions of us and making our vaccines look even sillier than they do right now.

Where will we go if France doesn’t work out? Turkey is still on the table, as one might expect two days after Thanksgiving, and because the lira is worth about as much as a MAGA hat in Detroit, everything in Turkey is very cheap.

Mexico is a possibility, but I am still detoxing after many years in Miami, and Mexico might activate my PTSD. If Miami is smallpox, Mexico must be cowpox.

I really don’t want to go to the Bahamas. If you don’t want to sit on the beach, fish, get drunk, or engage ladies of easy virtue, a Bahamas vacation basically amounts to 10 days of room service in a badly-cleaned room, cooked by some of the least-enthusiastic hospitality employees since The Shining. The people on some islands are nice, but we would probably have to go to Nassau, where I always got the impression that when restaurant and hotel workers saw me and my wallet walk in to pay their bills, it ruined their day.

When I was in Nassau, staying in a marina on PI, the whole area smelled like poop, flies were a big problem, and it was not unusual to see large pieces of excrement floating by with the tide. Trying to get people to wait on me made me feel like Patrick Swayze in Ghost.

All this being said, I would go almost anywhere to be united with my bride. Well. Not Miami. Not until I’ve ruled out destinations like Somalia, Antarctica, Pyongyang, and the active crater on La Palma.

Today I thought about visiting Zambia. The problem with that, apart from the obvious fact that I would be in Zambia, is that our president’s advisors or his certified nursing assistant might tell him to ban flights from Zambia, and then I would be stuck there until Kamala Harris, AKA The Girl with Colonoscope Eyes, took over and revisited America’s paranoia settings.

Here’s hoping that through Omicron, our kind and patient God accomplishes what man hasn’t been able to do in two years: flattening the curve.

No Comment

It looks like Youtube is deleting my comments. I knew they deleted videos, but I didn’t realize comments were on the beast’s radar.

I watched a video by an obscure Christian. His stuff typically gets a few dozen views. He was talking about coronavirus, which he chose not to call by name.

CORONAVIRUS CORONAVIRUS CORONAVIRUS. CHINESE VIRUS. CHINESE VIRUS. CHINESE VIRUS. KUNG FLU. KUNG FLU. KUNG FLU.

I just felt like saying those things on a site Youtube doesn’t control. I’m sure the beasty boys will delete this blog eventually, however.

Is Youtube using speech-to-text software to check videos for the word “coronavirus”? Wouldn’t be surprising. Speech-to-text should be a gigantic concern for people who love freedom, but for some reason, it is not. Speech-to-text allows our slavedrivers to have machines go through all our digital audio, turn it into text, identify things they don’t like, and allow our words to be used to turn us into unpersons.

Yes, I am still reading 1984.

Speech-to-text has a horrifying potential for abuse, yet conservatives don’t even talk about it as an issue! How can that be? It’s so obvious.

Anyway, I wrote a comment pointing out that Christian African nations had astoundingly low covid rates (in the area of 10 cases per day per nation) and noting that the blessed countries were did better than “gay-friendly”nations like South Africa, which has a big covid problem. Later on, I looked for my comment. The video’s stats still said there had been three comments, but mine was hidden. The creator didn’t do it.

We have a new variant and a new game. The variant is called “Omicron,” or, by some sources, “Nu,” because we haven’t run out of Greek letters yet. It has been found in South Africa, Botswana, Israel, and Hong Kong. For some reason, scientists suspect it developed in an immunocompromised person. It has lots of mutations, so it may render vaccines even less effective than they are now. They’re saying it’s likely it was an AIDS patient in South Africa.

This is all fascinating to me.

Covid seems to spare Christian African countries where the consensus is that God is against homosexuality, and here we are, looking at a new bug science thinks may have from from a person infected with a disease that required homosexuality in order to spread around the world. Anyone can get HIV, but virtually everyone who is infected is a homosexual man, a woman who had sex with a homosexual man, or an intravenous drug user (whose infection has a homosexual man in its lineage). It’s almost impossible for a heterosexual man to get it through normal sex. Were it not for sodomy, AIDS would never have left the place where it arose.

Given that all this is true, is it possible these two plagues will turn out to work together to create a genuine catastrophe? That would certainly reinforce the idea that sexual perversion is one of the things for which God is punishing the world.

Talking about plagues related to sin will get you relegated to the kook bin in a hurry these days. Most Americans are either non-Christians or nominal Christians, so they don’t believe in plagues.

Nominal Christians are remarkable. They claim to worship someone who said almost nothing they agree with! Among their patently non-Christian beliefs: all religions lead to God, everyone goes to heaven, hell doesn’t exist, Satan doesn’t exist, and miracles don’t happen. Believing things like these and calling yourself a Christian stretches the envelope of cognitive dissonance.

To believe these things, you have to believe Jesus was wrong. He contradicted these beliefs many times. To be a Christian, you have to believe Jesus is God. You can’t believe Jesus is God and think he’s wrong!

If you think God is wrong, especially about critical issues, you have a pretty funny definition of the word “god.” A god who lies or suffers from major delusions is no god. Worshiping such a god would be like worshiping a mental patient who runs around claiming to be Genghis Khan or even a Waldorf salad.

One of the weirdest nominal-Christian beliefs is that Satan and hell don’t exist. Jesus went on and on about Satan and hell. He claimed he met Satan personally. If you think you’re a Christian, and you think Satan and hell don’t exist, you must also think Jesus was deranged.

Female nominal Christians are especially likely to say Satan and hell don’t exist. Their reasoning? “God is love!” So in their view, God is love, but he lied about Satan and hell, or some kind of mental illness or fraudulent argument convinced him, falsely, that they existed.

If God is wrong about Satan and hell, why do you think he’s right about anything else? Why believe him when he says he is love?

Actual Christians know two things: plagues existed in Biblical times, and they will occur at the end of the age. The Bible describes all sorts of ancient plagues, including plagues of hemorrhoids and snakes. It also says pestilence will hit the earth as part of the apocalypse. That means plagues aren’t just for the ancients. If God could send a plague to David, he can send one to us today.

In short, pestilence is still caused by sin. Every bad thing is caused by sin. There has to be a relationship between coronavirus and sin. People and animals reward good with evil, but God does not. We are not good. We deserve hell, so we certainly deserve coronavirus.

Overall, countries that promote homosexuality seem to be getting hit harder than others. Islamic countries and countries that oppose Israel aren’t doing well. Christian countries where leaders called for national days of prayer seem to be faring conspicuously better than most.

There are countries that don’t fit these patterns. My impression is that most do well because they turn their citizens into prisoners. Imprisonment is also a curse, so they’re still suffering.

Israel has not done well. Per capita, its case numbers are about like Florida’s, although the death rate is a lot lower. The Orthodox got hit very hard, suggesting their religion isn’t helping them get divine assistance.

It’s not possible to say this many people got infected in this place because of this sin, or that many people got infected in that place because of that sin, and the patterns are not rigid, but the trends are undeniable.

The world’s nations should be turning to Jesus, confessing their sins to him, repenting, receiving salvation, and praying. These actions would solve the problem, along with humanity’s other problems. It’s not going to happen. The human race thinks disease is a random thing that hits the just along with the unjust.

I didn’t think covid was a big deal when it showed up in 2020. I underestimated the US death toll (which may be grossly overblown due to financial and political incentives). I thought it could become a major problem, though, given the possibility of mutations. That hasn’t happened yet, but the Omicron variant might be the beginning of a true plague.

Some scientists are concerned that the new variant could be 500 times as contagious as the old ones, and that vaccines may not deter it. Wouldn’t that be something? If it’s already loose in a bunch of countries, they’re not going to stop the spread, any more than they stopped the original virus. Are we headed for a huge pestilential iceberg?

I believe there are only two possibilities. Either humanity will turn to Jesus (not just “God”) and get help, or the disease will run a course determined by God, and that course might include a never-ending pandemic that continues mutating as long as mankind exists.

In the Bible, some plagues were limited by God regardless of how people responded, and others continued unabated until people repented and prayed. We don’t know which kind covid is.

We already have punishment diseases we can’t get rid of. We can’t get rid of AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, or herpes. It shouldn’t be a surprise to receive a new one. The big difference is that covid is much easier to transmit and affects more people.

Youtube is tightening its coils. That’s the main thing I wanted to point out. The journey to unpersonhood is well underway for genuine Christians. Satan and his children don’t want God’s children or his help. They would rather stumble around in the dark, relying on science, than change their attitudes or their behavior.

I just put a test comment up on one of my own videos. I want to see what Youtube does.

Interesting thing: Youtube tolerates a user named “Deport the Jews,” and a video about an anti-Semitic black celebrity claiming blacks are the real Jews has lots of comments like this one: “The truth is so hurtful to Satan’s children.”

The other day I speculated that God was deliberately humiliating scientists because they worship a false god. I didn’t go far enough. People also worship government. They’re not just relying on shots and distancing, which were given to us by science. They’re relying on government coercion. God is humiliating man for worshiping himself. That’s why the virus keeps defying man’s reason. It doesn’t matter whether the measures we take make sense. Even if they do, the pandemic will be here as long as God wills it.

By writing this blog, I have destroyed any future hope I had of fitting in with the combine’s thralls. I have set myself up for arrest, imprisonment, violence, impoverishment, and execution. Many millions of other people are in the same boat. The Internet doesn’t forget, and the beast’s children don’t forgive.

Hope I’m right about the rapture. Reading 1984 is fun, but I don’t want to live it.

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Busted.

I went to a couple of videos and posted comments I thought Youtube would not like. They vanished quickly. It’s confirmed. Youtube is killing free discourse. Not a big surprise.

I read that it was not possible to comment on BLM violence or terror, so I wrote a comment saying it was unfortunate BLM’s violence and terrorism were being used to displace repentance. Not a racist comment. Not misinformation. What I wrote was completely true, and it was a valuable contribution to public discussion. It expressed important ideas.

Doesn’t matter. Youtube hates free speech, so my comment is gone. Meanwhile, “Deport the Jews” still has an account.

Have Fun Making Your Elders Miserable

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all, and please remember: today we celebrate genocide, white privilege, colonialism, and the cruel consumption of meat.

This is the day when families all across America will get together to eat canned cranberry sauce and curse at relatives who voted for Donald Trump. It used to be about loving each other and thanking God, but we have evolved.

Today I glanced at the news and saw that leftist media outlets were including helpful edwokational mini-lectures with their Thanksgiving articles and recipes. Nothing makes yams taste better than feeling you are personally responsible for the deaths of countless little brown people.

What is there left that leftism can’t ruin? It even ruins leftism. They take over countries and turn them into elite-ruled concentration camps where everyone is afraid of each other.

I saw so much startling news today, I felt bad for saying there wasn’t much yesterday.

Let’s see. The article about how Thanksgiving is a celebration of hate came first. I also saw that a Catholic university let a campus organization put up a painting of an African Mary cuddling a George Floyd Jesus. That was simultaneously disconcerting and entertaining. I had no idea George Floyd had done so much for humanity.

I saw an article about a school system that insists on putting books that are essentially gay and pedophile porn on its shelves. Did I wake up in a movie? Can this be real? Or was I wrong to think it was possible to educate children without providing them with erotic homosexual fiction?

Another article says the mass killer Darrell Brooks, who murdered 6 people and injured dozens in a few seconds, was granted bail. Bail! A man who calls himself a terrorist, who is unquestionably guilty, and who has tremendous incentive to flee!

He’s already a proven bail-jumper. Hello?

“It’s just like Kyle Rittenhouse.” No, not even close. One of the considerations a judge makes when granting bail is the likelihood of conviction. The evidence in the Rittenhouse case supported acquittal, not conviction, even at the start. Brooks is just plain guilty. Even major leftist news outlets are omitting “alleged” from their stories. This guy is never going to sue anyone for defamation. Not even Gloria Allred would go there.

His bail is set at $5 million, which is actually attainable in the era of crowdfunding. The only question is whether other racists and terrorists will be generous enough to help. Someone had the gall to put up a Gofundme page asking for bail money. Even leftist-controlled Gofundme wasn’t having that.

Another great story: the Levis company, a leftist organization that makes expensive low-quality jeans that fall apart in a hurry, whose management discourages people from washing their smelly worn clothing, has provided facilities to help employees who have been “traumatized” by the Rittenhouse verdict.

They’re afraid their snowflaky minions are so allergic to truth that they require psychological treatment in order to heal scars caused by the acquittal of a man who was always clearly innocent. Imagine what would happen to one of these sissies if something that was actually bad happened to him.

We also have a new strain of covid. Huzzah! Somehow, it has appeared in two places that are very far apart: South Africa and Hong Kong. Scientists are afraid it will spread fast and overcome vaccines. They speculate that it developed in a person with HIV; apparently, such people get chronic covid, and that somehow increases the likelihood of mutation.

Coronavirus and HIV live together in perfect harmony…it’s like the old song. It’s a synergy we did not need.

South Africa is a gay-friendly oasis for coronavirus. “For,” not “from.” South Africa is surrounded by Christian nations where covid is basically gone. Coronavirus is treated badly in places like Zambia and Tanzania, but South Africa gives it a warm refuge.

It would really be something if it turned out sodomy was somehow turning out to make the pandemic worse. Like we needed more evidence that covid is a supernatural plague.

I wouldn’t worry. If it turns out to be true, any scientist who suggests it will be burned at the stake before the information has any impact. I doubt we have to be concerned about troubling stories. We’ll probably go on in blissful ignorance, wondering how such an awful disease happened to our wonderful, innocent race.

These days, all science news has to pass through a filter. Every mainstream disseminator has to ask, “Would Karl Marx kill this story?”

One more story comes to mind, but I read it last night, not today. A gang of black kids on dirt bikes attacked an old man in Boston, ruined his car, and beat him until he had to be hospitalized.

This story was disappointing for several reasons. First, it was probably “revenge” for a just acquittal. Second, it showed that mob crime is gaining traction. Third, it was remarkable in that it covered a long-existing phenomenon the MSM will not discuss.

Black males on illegal dirt bikes have been wreaking havoc in cities for years. You probably didn’t know that, because it’s something Karl Marx wouldn’t want printed.

As readers know, I mentored Travis Quinn, a young black man who was attending the University of Miami. He told me things most white people don’t get to hear. He said Martin Luther King Day was extremely dangerous. People waited for MLK Day to settle grudges and even kill others; they knew law enforcement was always lax on that day. He said his father used to stay home and arm himself on MLK Day. He said gangs of black males on dirt bikes celebrated by zipping around ghetto neighborhoods committing crimes.

This was a black man telling me this. A Kaepernick fan. I didn’t hear it from Dan Bongino or Sean Hannity.

A dirt bike is very empowering for a criminal. Dirt bikes don’t have license plates and they are extremely mobile. A gang of men on dirt bikes can’t be chased or identified. Dirt bikes are also much cheaper than street bikes.

It may be that dirt bike criminals are figuring out they don’t have to confine their activities to ghettos. That will be bad for the rest of us. In a world where dirt bike gangs run around lynching people, citizens will have strong motivation to keep rifles in their cars. A Glock 17 is not adequate when several dozen racist assailants surround you. We may end up with states where keeping an AK or AR on board is a popular and wise option.

We could see a lot more Rittenhouses created, or we could see a tide of dead non-black bodies, or both.

Black neighborhoods typically punish people who inform, and the police have longstanding practices of letting crimes go investigated and unpunished in these places. The authorities have been afraid of being called racist, and they probably thought black crime wasn’t a big deal unless it escaped into majority areas. Journalists suppressed the news about dirt bike gangs. Now we see what happens when we let crime fester.

God bless America. What a country.

I was praying last night, and as usual, I asked God to rapture his people quickly. This planet is outliving its usefulness. I was thinking about sudden freedom from hate, disease, and lack. I was picturing a world free of horrible suffering, which is what we have always had. I had the idea that God would be as relieved as rapturees were. Then it occurred to me that I wasn’t thinking about the tribulation.

When the rapture comes, the world’s problems won’t go away. They’ll get much, much worse. People and animals will suffer a lot more than they do now, and it will go on for years while rapturees are enjoying a party in heaven, secure in the knowledge that they will never have problems again.

I still want the rapture to come soon, but thoughts of the tribulation take some of the shine off of it.

I am still reading 1984, going through a chapter or two per night. Last night, I got a new revelation of the similarity between the outlook of characters in the book and people living in 2021.

The lovers the book is about are named Winston and Julia. They both hate the authoritarian state. They find it ridiculous. They consider its doctrines lies. They are forced to pretend they are rabid supporters of the Party, but inside their own minds, they have created refuges of sanity and rebellion. The Party can’t touch those refuges at first.

Winston and Julia know they will be caught, because the Party catches everyone who disagrees with it. They know they will be arrested, tortured, released, rearrested, forced to make false confessions, and executed. They know there is no possibility a resistance movement will change society and save them.

I realized Rhodah and I are like Winston and Julia. Things are going well for us now, but we live in a deranged world where we can’t have the kind of future we want. The American Dream is no longer possible. We may be able to have kids and live well for a while, but our family’s lives will never be normal, and America will get crazier and crazier, assuring people like us never fit in. Sooner or later, if we remain here long enough, the Thought Police of modern America will breach our refuge and “correct” us.

Perverts, POC racists, statists, and pagans will get more and more powerful, as will foreign enemies. Freedom will disappear even more completely than it already has. The Constitution, if it still exists, will mean nothing. We will be expected to become part of an electronically-curated global hive being; a disgusting, computer-tamed artificial family that shuts God out.

Winston and Julia were waiting for something. They were waiting for the Thought Police to discover them and bring about the inevitable: defeat. Rhodah and I are different. We live in victory, so we are waiting for deliverance. Both couples are subject to alienation, persecution, and rejection, but one is guaranteed an escape followed by glorious eternal life in God’s presence, while the other is guaranteed torture, humiliation, loss of self, death, and erasure from history.

Winston and Julia give me an insight into the grey, mildewed minds of people who don’t know God and fear death. Orwell’s lovers hate their lives, but they have no reason to anticipate anything better. They are cynical and carnal. They think fornication has value because it lets them rebel briefly and forget about the Party. Julia revels in her sluttiness, saying the men she has had may run to three figures. Winston fantasizes about spreading syphilis to the ruling class. That appeals to him as a legacy.

They’re like Satan himself. He knows he will spend eternity in agony, humiliated, surrounded by beings that hate him, so his only pleasure comes from fighting the system. Satan can’t build a future for himself, so he finds pleasure in destroying the futures of others.

Here in the real world, not every godless person hates life. Many get what they want here on Earth, at least for a fleeting moment. But they tend to be cynical and, in the long view, hopeless.

That’s why they love phrases like “bucket list,” “best life,” and “YOLO.”

I feel that God led me to read the book, to show me how different my experience is from that of a person who thinks the supernatural doesn’t exist. The sad thing is that those people are denying the existence of something other people know to be real. Know, not just believe.

People reject sound, credible testimony from reliable individuals because they’re in love with homosexuality, fornication, marijuana, or something else God won’t let them have, or sometimes because they’re angry at God because he let someone die or because bad things have happened to them. The truth is the truth, though. You have to acknowledge it and act on it. Not liking it won’t change it, and if you don’t accept it, there will be terrible consequences.