Believe

As you may know, my young friend Travis was shot accidentally on April 9. He is still in the hospital. I get very little information about him. A privacy law makes it impossible for nonrelatives to get details. His family is not helping us.

Today before 7 a.m., I got a text from someone who is able to get very basic updates on his condition, and he is not doing well today. I am asking for your support in prayer. If you feel like fasting part of the day, that would be wonderful.

I sent the same request out to friends this morning, and so far, 8 are on board.

Of course, I spent a good deal of time praying immediately after getting the message. I was very disturbed. I was concerned by the report, and I was also concerned that worry might hinder my prayers. I spoke defeat to the spirits and microbes that are against Travis. I pleaded the blood of Jesus over him. I spoke healing to his body. I spoke in tongues. I prophesied. I asked God to help both of us, as well as the people who were with us in the battle.

I thought about the revelation God gave me recently, in which he showed me that he was like a mentor-movie figure, standing beside me, waiting for me to ask for counsel and advice so he could advise me and show me how to use his tools and power to lay my enemies low and get victory. I felt an awareness of his love for me and Travis.

Worry left me. After a time, I relaxed and drifted off to sleep. I didn’t fight it. I resisted the temptation to feel bad about being relieved of worry. Worry is evil. Accepting relief from worry is right. It pleases God and hinders Satan. I will not accept false guilt when I am doing what God tells me to do. God never, ever tells his children to worry, but the Bible shows that he tells them not to worry. It’s a recurring theme. Worry is faith in Satan, and faith brings results. I will not willingly have faith in Satan.

If you would like to join us and pray for Travis, I would appreciate it.

Some Things are Worse Than Being Locked Down with Netflix

I don’t read blogs any more. Not even if they’re blogs belonging to people I like. I have no idea what’s happening in the Blogosphere or whether it still exists.

For some reason, I took a look at Chris Byrne’s blog the other day. If you read blogs, you know him as the Anarchangel. Big, strong guy with stronger opinions. Anyway, I was surprised to learn that things were not going well at all. Chris has gone through a pretty miserable experience with recurring cancer, and it has apparently had devastating impacts on his career and marriage.

He wrote a post in February in which he actually celebrated being able to use a Bowflex. That would have seemed impossible in, say, 2005.

I thought I would mention him today in case anyone wanted to get involved in any way. He has a Paypal button, and he is surely in need of considerable prayer.

By the way, his opinion of the global response, including commonly accepted casualty figures, is not all that different from mine.

I don’t plan to resume reading blogs.

You Qualify

I’ve run into an interesting problem when telling people about God. They say they’re reluctant to ask him for things because they don’t deserve them.

This is an extremely destructive problem. It’s rooted in the poisonous teachings of traditional churches. For 2,000 years, preachers who knew nothing whatsoever about God told us we were supposed to look out for ourselves and work really hard. Someone even made up a Satanic saying which many people mistakenly believe is in the Bible: “God helps those who help themselves.” Obama’s press secretary quoted this nonsense and attributed it to the Bible.

God does not help those who help themselves. If you think you can help yourself, you’re completely deluded. You can’t take your next breath unless God helps you. He has been helping you every second of your life. If you think you built your career, your fortune, or your family by yourself, you are disconnected from God. Everything you have is in danger.

The belief that you can help yourself is based in pride. It’s more toxic than hate, lust, greed, or any other fault. If you read the Bible, you will see that the worst evils humanity has suffered were caused by people trying to help themselves. Adam and Eve tried to help themselves by taking a forbidden drug to give themselves the knowledge of good and evil. Read Genesis for yourself. They were trying to improve themselves.

Somehow, Satan has convinced us that pride is a virtue. There are still people who are against other character flaws, but in America, we exalt pride. Some of us even say, “Christian pride,” which is sort of like saying, “Christian rape,” or “Christian abortion.”

I supposed it’s not a coincidence that people who are snared in sexual sin use the word “pride” to label their movement. They’re right. They think they know better than God.

We really need to get this through our heads: God wants us to ask him for things all the time. He wants us to ask for little things, not just big things. You should ask him to help you what you should have for lunch. You should ask him which brand of aluminum foil to buy.

Get over the idea that God is busy. God has never, ever been busy. You can’t be busy unless your a limited being who lives in time. There is no time where God lives. Get over the idea that God does not want to be bothered. He loves us with extreme intensity, and he craves interaction with us. He is full of desire to do things for us.

Stop thinking you’re imposing on God. Everything is easy for him. He has said so. If you ask him for financial help, he doesn’t have to work extra shifts at Target. He doesn’t have to do without. It’s impossible for God to lack. If you ask him for healing, he doesn’t have to strain and pant and work up a sweat. He is not inconvenienced. He sits on the throne of heaven and wields infinite power. He has infinite resources. After he helps you, he still has as much as he had beforehand.

You have to ask for things and give God the glory when things work out. James said you can’t even do normal business without God’s help. Look:

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

In the same chapter, he says God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. When you say you do things so God doesn’t have to, you’re saying you are your own god.

What is grace? Anything God does for you is grace. Some people think grace is a supernatural ability to suffer and live in misery. That’s insane. Here are some examples of grace: miracle healings, the ability to prophesy, supernatural faith, supernatural love, financial success, marital success, and the next beat of your heart. Anything at all that you receive from God is grace.

You have to understand that God is a testator. He is a person who gives his heirs what they have inherited. He is not interested in your hard work. He is not adding up your hours so he can pay you what he owes. He is giving you things you could never earn. You deserve hell and defeat, all the time. God doesn’t owe you one good thing. The reason you’re not in hell right now is that he is patient and full of love.

God never owed you anything except failure and pain on earth and then damnation followed by perpetual agony, and because he didn’t want to pay that debt to you, he paid it to himself.

God gives gifts, not salaries.

It doesn’t matter what your need is. God wants to help you. Turning down his help will not make him happy. Would it make you happy if your son were crippled and he insisted on hobbling his way through life instead of letting you heal him?

I ask God for little things all the time, just for the purpose of nullifying pride. Hamburger or peanut butter and jelly? The grey shirt or the blue one? A lot of the time, I don’t really care what happens. I just want to acknowledge my total inability to do anything without his help. I want his help to keep coming. I want to be used to receiving it.

I want to be pampered by God. Anything he is willing to give me, I will take. I will gladly say I’m his charity case. It’s true whether I admit it or not, and it’s true of you, too.

I wish someone had shown me this when I was a kid. There were a lot of blessings that never arrived, but I was pretty good at receiving curses.

This was on my mind this morning, as was pistol ammunition. I’m trying to get 1250 fps from 180-grain Speer Gold Dots in a 10mm Glock 29. I’m getting numbers about 150 fps lower than expected, with known loads. Frustrating.

Yesterday I started to wonder if my primers were the problem. Back during the Obama ammo panic, I bought several thousand Wolf large pistol primers. I think they were all I could find. I’ve been using them. I’ve learned a few things.

People say Wolf primers are hard and that they are difficult to seat. Put these things together, and you end up with rounds that don’t go off. This is not a terrible tragedy when you’re shooting targets, but it could kill you in a defense situation. I’ve had a bunch of rounds fail to fire, and I’ve also experienced low velocities.

I believe I used CCI and Winchester primers when I made my original defensive ammo, which ran something like 1225 fps in a Glock 29. I have information dating back to my efforts with Wolf, and back then, I noted that they didn’t always go off.

Primers can affect bullet speeds. How much? I don’t know. But when you add the FTF’s in with the low speeds I’m getting, it’s obvious that I need to try a different brand. I have some Winchester large pistol primers, so today I loaded up 6 rounds for test purposes. I’m going to chronograph them.

I hope they perk up. If I can get 1225 or so, good enough.

I don’t see how a primer can knock 150 fps off a round. Maybe I got a bad box.

I have a new powder scale arriving today, so that will make me feel better about things. I may also get a powder trickler so I can load individual rounds accurately. I don’t need it for targets, but I want to be sure my defensive rounds are okay. It would be a real problem to have one get stuck in the barrel during a home invasion.

I’m avoiding looking at the news. That feels nice. I did take the time to check the local coronavirus figure. We are at 181 known cases for the county, even though testing is going on. Restaurants are open now. I am considering getting a haircut.

I don’t think the global or national coronavirus numbers mean anything now. As Trump said, apparent increases we see now are reflections of increased testing. It may not be possible to infer anything about the disease’s actual progress.

I’ve had an uncomfortable thought. What if the lockdowns don’t really hurt our economy that much?

This is an uncomfortable thought, because it could suggest that the lockdowns weren’t as misguided as I thought.

We have heard two very clear messages from the hysteria crowd: 1. we absolutely have to have lockdowns, and 2. we are definitely going to have a depression. I disagreed with the first claim and agreed that the damage due to lockdowns would be very severe.

If the economy isn’t really that bad, the lockdowns may have been worth the trouble, or at least they may not have been a disastrous idea.

T.B. Joshua prophesies that the world’s economy will do very badly and that there will be deflation. Bad if you don’t have cash. He says people need to grow food. Here I am on sand, with squirrels eating my peaches.

I don’t know if he’s right or not. If he is, then the lockdowns will continue to cause much more pain than the virus.

The last time we had a big recession, God told me it wasn’t for me, and I was fine. Hope I get the same grace every time.

I pray for God to create a huge grassroots Spirit-led church and for him to destroy the many big ministries that made people slaves and weaklings. How many Christians are confident about being blessed and protected? Bad ministries helped make them what they are. When times are easy, even people who don’t know God do well, but it’s different in hard times.

This is why the misery at the end of the age is called the tribulation period. A tribulum is a device for separating edible grain from husks. Hard times expose hypocrites.

I’ve noticed that the big charismatic preachers aren’t talking about the end of the church age. Why would they? First of all, they benefit from it by making people their slaves, and second, they have no idea what God is saying, so they don’t know what’s happening.

They must know Spirit-led people have been predicting the end of the church age for a number of years. They probably hate it. No more $7000 basketball shoes.

We need the Holy Spirit pandemic to start. We need to infect each other wherever we are, one on one, instead of counting on buffoons and human traffickers.

KNOCK IT OFF

I have decided to publish an edict. All inhabitants of earth must comply as of yesterday.

Stop hoarding bread flour.

I still can’t get bread flour in my county. I can get all-purpose, which, of course, isn’t good for all purposes. I can get self-rising. I can get White Lily. I can get all types of corn meal. I haven’t seen bread flour in weeks, and yeast is also unavailable.

Why on earth are people hoarding bread flour and yeast? Who are they fooling? They’re not baking.

Here are some facts no one seems to think about.

1. White flour goes bad in a relatively short time, so unless you can freeze it in an airtight container, hoarding it is likely to lead to substandard bread.

2. Bread is readily available. Stores are packed with it.

3. Bread freezes beautifully.

I don’t have a real problem, because when I saw how things were going, I bought a bag of gluten. I add it to all-purpose flour, and that pretty much turns it into bread flour. Still, I am issuing my edict. I am tired of the nonsense.

I don’t know why corn meal is still available. You can get all the Martha White cornbread mix with Hot Rize your trunk can hold. I had this in mind yesterday when I bought bacon. It’s technically possible to make cornbread without bacon grease, but I hope it never comes to that. It would be disgusting and demoralizing.

People should be thinking about biscuits more than bread. Biscuits are better than bread. Wait! Hold your venom! I will make my case.

It only takes 20 minutes to make biscuits. Furthermore, biscuit recipes tend to be smaller than bread recipes, so you are less likely to make way too much and eat all of it at one sitting.

Not that I know anything about that.

Okay, yes, homemade bread is one of the greatest things ever, but the truth is that it’s too good to keep in your house on a daily basis. If you bake your own bread regularly, you’ll eat 1500 bread calories every day.

Of course, I had yeast before the hype…I mean “pandemic”…started. In fact, I had one more jar than I needed.

I keep laughing when I see how God provides for me. Today I had to make up a batch of my no-scrub shower spray. One of the ingredients is 6 ounces of Dawn dishwashing liquid. In the current hysteria, Dawn is seen as a miracle cure, for reasons I have not been able to determine. Maybe Oprah and Dr. Oz drink it. Most of the time, even here, a trip to the store to get Dawn will be fruitless.

I had about 4 ounces left in the kitchen bottle. Was I concerned? No, because I had a couple of bottles for the upstairs bathrooms, plus one huge jug in the workshop for the pressure washer. But I wondered…had God done it again? Was there ANOTHER bottle under the kitchen sink? I had to look.

There it was. Full. Waiting.

Speaking of Oprah, I kind of wonder when we’re going to start hearing celebrity hoarding stories. They have to exist. Celebrities are generally venal and self-absorbed. They think they’re gods with special importance to humanity, because we can’t get by without their naked Instagram photos and self-righteous Tweets. How did we survive before Chrissy Teigen started telling us what to do? She’s a trained model! Remember Leo DiCaprio flying around on private jets to fight global warming? The stories will come. I’m sure of it.

I had a dream about celebrities last night. I dreamed I was in some venue where Whitney Houston was singing. She was made up beautifully, and she was wearing some sort of partially transparent catsuit. She wasn’t on a stage. She was on a table, on all fours, with her head down near the table top. She was completely engrossed in herself and her singing. Her behind was considerably higher than her face. Her knees were pretty far apart.

Fans weren’t separated from her the way they were during her life. They were walking around the table. Some were touching her. Some were putting their hands between her buttocks, practically committing rape. She was oblivious. She was caught up in her fame and in getting what she had always hoped for: attention and admiration. She felt like a success.

She didn’t look happy. Her expression was like that of an extremely thirsty person who was drinking water. She looked desperate.

I think the dream came from God. It wasn’t a sex dream. It wasn’t exciting for me. I think it was about people who debase themselves in order to become famous. They think they’re in control, but in reality, they are like whores for countless uncaring strangers. They think they’re leaders, but they’re really the worst type of followers. They have no freedom.

Many famous people serve the Beast. The Beast speaks through the mob, and in order to stay on top, celebrities have to obey the mob. We’re in a time when the Beast is training the mob to be more responsive. Celebrities are a big part of it.

Haven’t they always been?

Whitney Houston is one of Satan’s masterpieces. She had everything, and she died naked in a bathtub, in a filthy hotel bathroom, full of drugs, surrounded by takers. She was rich, but she was married to a man who beat her. The Bible says God lifts people up above “the waters.” Whitney Houston drowned in 10 inches of water, on dry land.

Is it me, or are degrading celebrity deaths becoming more common? Michael Jackson, David Carradine, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Prince…seems like there is an increase, and on top of that, we are suddenly seeing male celebrities die naked from hanging, which suggests erotic asphyxiation. Not a flattering way to be remembered. Solo erotic asphyxiation is one of the most narcissistic, selfish, fleshly things a person can do in this life. When physical pleasure becomes that important to you, you have a problem.

The other day I learned that many gays are now injecting their genitals with meth and a Viagra-like drug called Trimix. Former Tallahassee mayor and failed gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was found naked and unconscious at what appears to have been an injection party. Pleasure is nice, and a certain amount is harmless, but you shouldn’t trade your soul for it, especially in a subculture in which a man of 50 is considered too old to socialize with. Sooner or later, you will find yourself deprived of access to the things you built your life around.

I keep praying in tongues and trying to prophesy every day. I don’t want to be without guidance and correction. Look how crazy the world is getting. Without God, I will be as lost as anyone else.

I’ve been trying to figure T.B. Joshua out. He’s a Nigerian preacher I’ve written about. He prophesies a lot. It seems very clear that he is the real thing, but sometimes he and his ministry are disappointing. He said he saw “a woman winning” before the 2016 election, and when Clinton lost, he or his people took the video down. Then later he said he had actually seen the popular vote. Maybe his explanation was correct, but taking the video down was not.

Earlier this year, he said rain was falling in Wuhan, washing the epidemic away. Sure enough, afterward, the numbers in China dried up abruptly. But later he claimed the epidemic would end by March 27, and he didn’t limit it to China. Obviously, the epidemic got worse. Then the video containing the prophesy disappeared. Now they have a video saying he predicted that “the noise” of the epidemic would end, and they’re supporting it with a Forbes article claiming March 28 is the day the acceleration of the contagion rate changed instantly.

I think he’s a real prophet who does not always understand his own prophesies, and I think he is covering up when he gets things wrong. That’s unacceptable.

If it’s true, it confirms what I believe, which is that we aren’t supposed to depend on prophets. We are supposed to BE prophets, as Moses indicated and Joel confirmed.

I am trying to prophesy every day, but I’m not transcribing it and putting it here. I want to see how things come out. If I start to feel secure enough to share things with other people, I will. If I’m not sure, I shouldn’t be saying things that could mislead. My purpose isn’t to tell other people the future, anyway. It’s to connect them with God so he can tell them the future and whatever else they need to hear.

My feeling is that even if you’re prophesying for real, if you’re not experienced, you can end up taking over from God and saying things that aren’t correct. I don’t think the gift is enough. I think a little experience is necessary. We’ll see if I’m right.

Living by prophecy is like climbing a mountain one foothold at a time. Every time you speak about what you should do, you have to establish a new foothold and then jump onto it, abandoning the security of the old one. You need to know the footholds are solid.

That’s all I have. I need to go out and test a few rounds of defensive 10mm. I’m hoping to put an end to my search for a good, solid recipe.

Lock Down Flavor with These Biscuits

I feel like blessing the world with a recipe.

Today I got up and saw how great the weather was, and I thought about all the things God does for me, and I decided to make biscuits.

I think no explanation is needed.

I didn’t have buttermilk. I decided to play around with what I had. I made 7 biscuits around 2″ in diameter. You can scale the recipe up. It’s big enough for two reasonable people.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup biscuit flour
2/3 cup milk
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. cold butter
1 tbsp. cold bacon grease
1/4 tsp. citric acid – I am guessing here. You might start with 1/8 tsp.

Naturally, I had citric acid in my kitchen. This is me we’re talking about. I didn’t have buttermilk, but citric acid is sour, so I used it.

You mix the dry stuff and then cut in the fat. Make sure it doesn’t melt. Mix in the milk, holding some back so you can sneak up on the right amount without making the dough too wet. Roll and fold the dough 4 times, using flour to keep it from sticking to things. I roll the dough out to about 5/8″ high before cutting the biscuits.

Put the biscuits next to each other on the pan, grease the tops, and bake at 450.

I don’t trust Alton Brown, for very good reasons, but he can’t always be wrong, and says to put biscuits close to each other to make them rise higher. I don’t know if it worked, but it didn’t hurt.

I was concerned that the citric acid might make the biscuits heavy or tough, because citric acid is an emulsifier, but they were fine. Very nice. The hint of acidity made the biscuits much better than usual. I think I shouldn’t bother buying buttermilk any more. Citric acid gives me better results. Maybe I could use buttermilk and a smaller dose of acid.

I ate the biscuits with gravy made with country ham fat and bacon grease.

These were tremendous. I’m glad I only made 7.

UPDATE

I made the biscuits again. I believe you need a good solid 1/4 teaspoon of citric acid per cup of flour.

Donate Your Masks and Go Back to Work

If you’re waiting for some great news, apart from the fact that it’s a beautiful Saturday morning, here you go: South Korean scientists have concluded that you can’t be infected with COVID-19 more than once.

In your FACES, doom-mongers.

This is the best news the world has received since we got up on a Wednesday morning and found out Hillary Clinton had lost.

I still remember that day. I felt like crying with joy.

Here is a link to the story about South Korea: LINK.

Some Koreans got test results suggesting they had been reinfected, but now we know that they were actually having relapses. It’s not good that people can relapse, but a relapse is nothing like as bad as a new infection. Once you’re really done with your first infection, it’s behind you for good. If we could be reinfected, coronavirus would continue pummeling individuals over and over until they died or got vaccinated.

We already knew about COVID-19 relapses. Relapse is one of the disease’s known features.

For months, with no apparent justification, people have been telling us the disease was likely to infect us over and over. None of it made any sense. They don’t say that about most other viruses.

The reinfection story was one of the things that made C19 seem so scary. The model was one in which you were very likely to be infected (false), you were very likely to die (false), and even if you got over it, you would probably be infected repeatedly. It was a scenario of hopelessness. No wonder people bought freezers. They actually swallowed the pitch.

Does this mean we can’t get new strains after the virus mutates? I wonder. But even if we can, there will be vaccines, and we will have a lot of experience, so there should be less panic and senseless economic destruction.

It’s very sad that people are afraid to accept good news and that it makes them angry. Neurosis is not a good thing. Neurotics can’t enjoy life. Your irrational worries make it impossible to enjoy the good things you have, and they make it impossible for you to anticipate enjoying the good things in your future. And they make you a giant pain to be around. I do not like having determined pessimists around me.

Worry is faith in Satan, and faith brings results.

All though this thing, the prophets of doom have been wrong, and those who predicted an easier time have been right. That has to be acknowledged.

If Obama were president, Time and MSNBC and all the others would be giving people hell for panicking. What a different world we would live in. A lot of businesses that have failed because of draconian measures would still be alive.

It’s the only scenario I can think of in which an inept socialist president could be better for the economy than Donald Trump.

Think how this will affect people who have recovered. They will be like superheroes now. They can go back to work. They can go anywhere without masks. I wonder if a positive test will be an asset to a person looking for work this summer.

Things are still going well in my county, although I think we will see cases increase for a while. Unfortunately, C19 has found its way into at least three ALF’s. The news says there are two ALF’s that each have an employee who tested positive, and another ALF has multiple infected staffers and residents. We are now up to 175 known cases.

I hate to say I was right again, but there is another story: over 25% of purported C19-related deaths in the USA occur in what a story calls “nursing homes.” This would include ALF’s. I wrote about this phenomenon after seeing that about half of the deaths in Massachusetts were in homes.

This is bad news for people who are confined in homes, but it should encourage the majority of Americans. Not many of us are cooped up in places where careless workers are our only protection from infection, and most of us will have mild or no symptoms if infected.

The high ALF infection rate appears to be proof that sequestering in buildings with multiple residents makes you much more likely to be infected, and it also suggests that ALF workers in many places do a very poor job of protecting people.

Now that I think about it, I was right about yet something else. People are developing an interest in rural properties. You can read about it online. I predicted this a while ago. C19 is, by and large, a city disease. Also, it’s hard to grow food in an apartment. People are realizing these things.

My guess: leftists will cling to cities, and conservatives will be more likely to move. Nothing new there.

I think a redistribution of the population will be good for the church. Cities are ruled by Satan’s stooges. They are not spiritually healthy places to live.

Christians will be more likely to leave cities, and that means they will get away from megachurch pimps and fabulists. Churches are killing us. It would be great to see toxic people like Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer go out of business completely, but that probably won’t happen, so a significant exodus from cities may be the best thing we can hope for.

I wonder how a conservative exodus would affect elections. I don’t think it would matter in cities, because they are already electing leftists. Maybe it would strengthen certain states and rural counties, though.

Still no major-celebrity deaths. The Baldor bench grinder Ebay poverty index is holding steady in the low 40’s.

Time to move on with my day. I just bought a hunting license online. My new peach tree was loaded with peaches, and now the squirrels here are loaded with peach flesh. Something must be done. The law says I can kill nuisance squirrels out of season, but it’s not all that clear on whether I need a hunting license, so I am not taking a chance. Considering the peaches, the fuel gauge they ate, and all the other issues they cause, I feel that my long truce with the rodents must now end.

The Truth is Inconvenient, so Don’t be Inconvenienced

Yesterday I wrote about the extremely dangerous build-up of hatred on the left, which will eventually lead to mass violence far beyond what we’ve already seen from Antifa and BLM. A reader commented, saying something about leftists hoping conservatives would die from COVID-19. I Googled around, and I found a reference to an article by a “conservative” MSNBC contributor. Can such a person exist? She says COVID-19 will kill more Republicans than Democrats because Donald Trump has fed us lies downplaying the epidemic.

I am not quite sure this lady is conservative. I looked her up, and all I’ve found so far is that she’s strongly pro-Israel and anti-jihad. She has a history of criticizing Trump and his followers, and she has used the words “dog whistle” and “far right” in the same sentence, which is not a great sign. She is pro-abortion, too. She was very upset about Kavanaugh’s nomination because she knew he might turn the Supreme Court against the violent murder of helpless babies God gave us to protect.

It’s revealing that the left tags a person as conservative because she supports Israel. I would call that an admission against interest. The traditional, and facially absurd, leftist line is that Republicans hate Jews. We’re the only people keeping Israel alive, and leftists want to give Israel to the Arabs!

Ask some Israelis how much they like Obama. Then ask about Trump.

Regarding her prediction, all I can say is, “Can she read a map?”

Where is C19 hitting hardest? The Northeast. If you remove the Northeast from consideration, generally, America’s C19 numbers don’t look too bad. The other day I noticed that about 1/3 of the known infections were in New York State. That’s a lot. It’s also hitting Chicago, New Orleans, Miami, Detroit, Boston, DC, and a slew of other leftist strongholds.

Where is the tide of conservative deaths?

Who lives in the Northeast? Is it really a conservative stronghold? When did that happen? Is Chicago packed with red hats? Is Detroit?

She says conservatives are going to gatherings and ignoring the guidelines. What gatherings? Even Tennessee has tightened the leash.

Her prediction is interesting because it’s so insane. It reminds me of the time a liberal friend told me she voted for Democrats because Republicans took prayer out of schools.

Yes, she really said that.

Conservatives like to say leftists are afflicted with cognitive dissonance, which means they are comfortable believing mutually contradictory things. It’s worse than that. They’re comfortable believing things that can’t possibly be true, by any stretch of the imagination.

A long time ago, God showed me that when people don’t make sense, there is a supernatural cause. This is what we’re seeing on the left. They don’t just disagree about things that are legitimately controversial. They believe things no rational person could think were true.

If you can look at the C19 case distribution in the US and conclude that Republicans are getting the worst of it, you are not just wrong. You are supernaturally deluded. There is no limit to what you can believe. You are immune to logic.

I remember Robert Bork’s book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah. It was written many years ago. He wrote about the delusions of the left. He told of leftists who justified their untenable beliefs by saying logic itself was Eurocentric and paternalistic. Look it up. I’m not making it up. They seriously advocated abandoning reason.

When you decide reason is evil, what hope is there for you? You’ve become exactly the kind of person hell is full of. You can’t be persuaded of the truth.

Christianity is extremely logical. It’s sad that people don’t realize this. Many uninformed individuals think Christianity is irrational because it places a very high value on love and compassion, and because it requires people to walk by faith in spite of what their logical minds might conclude given natural evidence. Many people think Christianity is highly emotional, and that it’s about letting your unbridled heart tell you what to do. None of this is correct. Christianity is strongly against emotionalism, and God requires us to rule ourselves with logic.

The Bible calls faith “evidence,” and it calls the things we tell others about our experiences “testimony.”

An unbeliever might say a Christian can’t be logical because it’s illogical to expect God to do something for you when natural circumstances point to a different outcome. For example, Moses led his people to the edge of the Red Sea instead of taking a convenient land route, and he pinned his people between the Egyptians and the water.

Think about it. How was Moses irrational? He knew God was all-powerful and that he told the truth. He had seen the 10 plagues of Egypt. Only an idiot would have disbelieved God. Moses was extremely logical, and the people who told him to give up were unreasoning hysterics who were proven wrong by history.

Faith isn’t illogical. Unbelief is.

Christians are supposed to be completely logical. There are times when we have to accept God’s guidance and do things for which we can’t see the justification, but that just means we have a logical belief that God knows better than we do.

Human beings are supposed to act on the truth. The only way to know the difference between the truth and fantasy is to listen to the Holy Spirit. Leftists and conservative Christians who reject the baptism with the Holy Spirit, tongues, prophesy, the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, discernment of spirits, and the interpretation of tongues are not connected to the only reliable guide there is.

It’s no wonder this lady can’t see that C19 is hitting liberals very disproportionately. She can be made to believe anything.

The facts are obvious. A bold person might even say C19 is primarily a disease of leftists.

Of course, all of the numbers are based on terrible science, so we can’t even be sure the official figures mean anything, but they’re what most people rely on, and they favor conservatives heavily.

It’s very important to realize that the delusion, hatred, and cruelty of the enemies of Christ is without limit. People who stay in left-leaning areas, relying on the restraint of their neighbors, are going to be like Jews who seriously expected the German government to come around and look after them.

The fact that leftists can approve of tearing a baby’s arms and legs off or cutting his spine with scissors ought to tell you that they don’t have all their oars in the water. No reasonable person could support these things.

Let’s not even discuss thinking castrated men are women.

The writing is on the wall, but there are tons of Christians who have no plans of moving. They think God sent them to save places like Baltimore and Dearborn. It’s not going to happen. How many decades of proof do you need?

I’m still waiting for leftists to decide Christians caused the epidemic. They’re already blaming Trump, who has become our proxy in their eyes.

I wonder how he caused the epidemic in Italy.

I just Googled. A liberal extremist blamed Christians in the New York Times on March 27. She said Trump caused the epidemic, and she said “evangelical” (a toxic nonsense term) Christians were to blame, because they voted for him. Never mind the swing voters who actually put him in office.

Nero falsely blamed Christians for burning Rome, and he paved the way for wholesale torture and murder. The left is trying to do the same thing. I wonder if they’ve blamed Jews yet.

I hate the term “evangelicals,” because it includes millions of lukewarm Christians who reject the Holy Spirit. I’m not even thrilled with the term “charismatic,” which refers to Spirit-baptized Christians, because most charismatics don’t speak in tongues daily or listen to the Holy Spirit. There are plenty of charismatics who love abortion, astrology, socialism, yoga, fornication, and drugs. It’s not enough to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. You have to spend time with him every day, and you have to obey him.

There are “evangelicals” who hate Jews and blame them for the decline of America. Nutjobs. They’re a small minority, but the fact that they exist shows that “evangelical” is a term that means nearly nothing.

Evangelicals are doing Satan a world of good. By behaving badly and by living lives that are clearly cursed, they give God-haters ammunition. “Bob is an evangelical, but he’s dying of cancer, he’s a porn addict, and he’s obnoxious and poor.” God-haters use them to “prove” Christianity is a powerless superstition that ruins lives.

Evangelicals have convinced many that you can be a good Christian and murder your own babies one after the other.

The only Christians that have any authority are “Spirit-led.” The Bible confirms this It says the Spirit-led are the sons of God. It says Jesus will drive off many people who merely call him “Lord.”

Before I wrap up, I’ll point out that the major-celebrity coronavirus death toll is still zero in the USA. My personal poverty index, which looks at the number of used Baldor bench grinders selling on Ebay, is stuck at 41. Still waiting for the mass graves and bulldozers. I don’t think they’re coming.

By the way, if you’ve been reading about “mass graves” in New York City, I have disappointing news for you. They have been there for centuries. The city buries the poor in mass graves. Nothing new.

Get in touch with the Holy Spirit, and you will have help when the waters rise. That’s the bottom line.

Plus Christian News

I put up a prayer request for my friend Travis, and people responded. Thanks for the support.

Ordinarily, when a person goes into the hospital, his family will keep people informed so they can provide support. This situation is different. The communication is very bad. The only reason I found out about Travis’s setback was that a friend who is bending over backward to help him got a nurse to talk to her today. I’m sure that was a HIPAA violation, but it was helpful.

I texted Travis’s brother, and he sent me a response.

1. Travis went into cardiac arrest last night.

2. He has a lung infection which was affecting the blood supply to his brain.

3. He had an operation to help with the oxygen problem, and it was successful.

4. He is back in stable condition, down from critical.

5. They are testing him for COVID-19, and the tests have been negative.

It appears that the nurse who said he was in critical condition was providing outdated information, or maybe his condition was upgraded after she provided it.

In other news, someone did multiple drive-by shootings at the homes of some of the stars of Duck Dynasty, which has been out of production for three years. A man named Daniel King shot a bunch of .380 rounds from a pickup truck. He claims he was checking the gun’s safety to see if it was on. Not very credible, given the multiple rounds and the fact that shots were fired at two properties. And this is not how you check to see if a safety is engaged.

King had a minor in the truck with him, and he was drinking vodka. It appears that he did not plan his attack or escape meticulously.

He is very lucky to be breathing, as is his unwilling companion. He was using a weak pistol, and he attacked people who have AR-15’s. Phil Robertson says he considered grabbing an AR and confronting the threat, and Jase says that within 10 seconds of the attack, he had a rifle in one hand and a shotgun in the other.

A bullet entered a window in one house. Eight people were in the houses. The attack was not a trivial or harmless thing.

I find this interesting because I think it was a deliberate act directed at the Robertsons because of their image. You don’t just wander around drunk and end up shooting a pistol accidentally, many times, in a gated community, at homes that happen to belong to famous conservative Christians who are members of the same family.

The Robertsons now have restraining orders in place, in case this man is released. His got bail, and it was surprisingly low. Maybe he’ll get out.

I keep telling people leftists and other enemies of Christianity are full of rage and perfectly willing to commit atrocities against us. I say lack of will is not what restrains them. They’re just afraid of being arrested and having their lives disrupted. They are not kidding when they talk about killing us, raping the women, molesting the kids, and mistreating us in other ways. It’s not just talk.

Americans have a hard time making their guts absorb the fact that their neighbors are capable of murdering them, taking what they have, and committing other vile acts that have no place in a civilized nation. When you’re not a vicious person, and you’re used to living in an orderly country, your instincts tell you your compatriots will never jump your fence and drag you out into your yard. But many, many of them would do it in a split second if they expected to get away with it.

Don’t forget what Lot’s neighbors tried to do to him and the angels. Don’t forget that Jesus’ neighbors in Nazareth tried to throw him off a cliff, after a few minutes of provocation. The apostles were beaten by civilized religious Jews repeatedly, and they got similar treatment from civilized Romans and Greeks.

A lot of people think the ancient world was savage and full of anarchy, but that’s a misperception. The Greeks and Romans had very orderly nations for the most part. Unsanctioned physical attacks were just as out of the ordinary there as they would be here. The Romans who beat Paul were terrified when they learned he was a citizen.

I suspect that God is going to use Travis’s misfortune to cut his ties to Miami and put him in a safer place. He might end up here for a while. As America becomes more polarized, God’s people are leaving cities. Cities will not be transformed. They will get worse. Perhaps there are exceptions, but this is the general rule. Christians who think God put them in cities to save them are imagining things.

I don’t know what kind of person Daniel King is or where he lives. Maybe he lives in the country. Maybe he loves Jesus, the Robertsons, and Donald Trump. But generally, cities hold much higher concentrations of people who are dangerous to God’s children.

The homes that were affected by the drive-by are in a suburb. The Robertson rural image is a TV myth. Not all of them live in the woods.

Trump won’t be president forever, and things won’t go our way politically. When Trump leaves office, leftists will be like rabid monkeys that just broke out of containment. They will blame us for Trump and everything else they can think of.

We’re actually seeing persecution ramp up, and very few people even notice.

This is an update on my friend Travis who was shot accidentally on April 9. His recovery has been going well, but right now he is having a setback. I don’t have details because communication is very bad. Prayers would be appreciated.

Plant Closures Threaten Americans with Crippling Flatulence, B12 Deficiencies

The meat frenzy is about to kick into high gear! Get ready for a couple of months of tofu and tabouli. Buy yourself some Beano or get used to driving with the car windows open.

What’s going on? Well, workers at certain meat plants are testing positive for COVID-19 at high rates, and our genius overlords are shutting the plants down.

Here’s the question an intelligent person must ask: what percentage of the C19-positive workers have symptoms? Also, how many have symptoms that aren’t extremely mild? Here’s a really good question: if a big percentage test positive and very few are significantly ill, what does it mean for the rest of us?

I’ll tell you what it would mean: the lockdowns were a bad idea.

C19 has been in the US since December, at the latest. There is no way to deny it. You can’t have an undetected yet vigorous epidemic in China, plus abundant air traffic between China and other countries, without spreading the infection abroad. It’s just not possible.

It’s starting to look like the infection rate in the US is very high, and that the only reason the official numbers are low is that we are very, very bad at diagnosing the disease. If this is true, then lots of good conclusions follow.

One conclusion is that the disease just isn’t that bad. If it were, we would have sick and dying people everywhere, and we don’t.

Another conclusion is that the epidemic is wrapping up due to herd immunity. If, say, 20% of Americans have already been infected, the body of vulnerable people has decreased greatly, and they are also separated from infectious people by a growing buffer of immune individuals. If this is true, the recent collapse of the acceleration of the infection rate is largely due to saturation and herd immunity.

“BUT THE LOCKDOWNS FLATTENED THE CURVE!” Did they?

The shortest likely incubation period for C19 is 3 days, and the average is 5 days. If lockdowns were saving us, the curve would have started flattening 3 days after they went into effect. Did it? Doesn’t look like it. The downturn didn’t even begin until the second week of April. Go look. The influence of lockdowns isn’t even visible on the graph at the time when it should have appeared.

As always, I’m relying on a graph which is based on squishy numbers, but then so are the authorities.

There is no doubt that lockdowns save some people, but then they would also save us from the flu, which kills people in numbers comparable to C19. We don’t have flu lockdowns. We don’t even force people to get vaccinated. We say, “Disease and death are inevitable, and freedom and prosperity are essential, so we accept allow free adults to make their own choices, and we accept some casualties.” That’s what we’re thinking, even if we don’t articulate it.

A cousin of mine is in the food industry, and he says the meat thing will hit hard in two weeks. This morning, after texting him, I felt like I should buy protein. I prayed about it. I was thinking maybe I would get three dozen eggs and pickle them. I thought I might buy 5 more rib eyes and maybe 8 pounds of chicken. I considered getting canned salmon. I like it, and it’s cheap. And almost no one else likes it, so it’s not a big hoarder priority.

I felt like God told me I could get a few cans of salmon and 4 pounds of chicken breast, but that was all. I saw some gorgeous bone-in rib eyes on sale for $5.49 per pound, and the temptation was serious, but I let them go.

I have enough protein to maintain a pretty decent level of consumption for something like 6 weeks. That will have to do. I’m not turning on the spare fridges.

The press is telling us millions of chickens will be slaughtered because farmers can’t sell them to plants. That sounds like a big deal, but we slaughter at least 10 billion chickens per year in the US. Also, chickens grow fast. Guess how old chickens are when we kill them? A year? Six months? Try 7 weeks. If we killed half the chickens in the US, we could be back on track in July.

What about cattle? I can’t speak for everyone, but the cattle on my land aren’t expensive to keep in hot weather. The grass grows, and they don’t require hay or silage. I would be surprised to learn that farmers were slaughtering herds this far into spring. Maybe a reader who knows more can tell me.

I have read that steers are generally slaughtered when they’re between one and two years old, so a panic massacre could presumably cause problems for a year or two.

I don’t think eggs are going anywhere. You don’t have to butcher eggs. Also, if meat production falters, chicken feed will be cheaper. Farmers will need to sell grain.

I was thinking about it today, and I realized the meat problem is not a big deal. I don’t think it will last long, and even if it did, life with a little less meat will not be difficult. Who cares? It’s better to do without than to be a hoarder.

One silver lining behind the meat cloud: squirrels. I have an endless supply, and shooting squirrels is one of the most virtuous things a person can do. They’re destructive and also quite tasty.

Squirrels are out of season here, but I contacted the authorities, and they told me homeowners are free to kill nuisance squirrels all the time. My squirrels are ALL nuisance squirrels. The other day I wrote about losing the fuel gauge on my lawn tractor to a stinking squirrel. I can shoot them whenever I want, legally. Squirrel works just fine in chicken recipes. Kung pao squirrel may be in my future.

Maybe the meat panic will wake people up and make them realize it’s time to go back to work. That would be nice.

In case anyone is interested, this county’s current C19 tally is 151. Barely moving. That may be a bad thing. It may mean we don’t have as much herd immunity as other places. It’s nice for now, however.

This morning at the store, I saw several packages of toilet paper, right out there where just anyone could grab them. I was awestruck. Things are getting better.

I can’t stop writing about coronavirus without mentioning the American major celebrity death toll: still zero. I’m also checking my used bench grinder poverty index. The number of used items that come up on an Ebay search for “Baldor bench grinder” is 39. This is down from 41 but a lot higher than last year. Maybe the economy isn’t as bad as I thought.

In other news, today I watched a video by Messianic rabbi Zev Porat. He interviewed a student of late rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, a revered mystic who died not long ago. Kaduri said he had met the Messiah. He left a note indicating that the Messiah’s name was Yehoshuah, which is the long form of Yeshua (“Jesus”).

Kaduri’s son claimed the note was a forgery, but Kaduri students have come forward and admitted that Kaduri did, in fact, believe Jesus was the Messiah. So much for the forgery claims.

In the interview, the student suggests mainstream Orthodox Jews believe Menachem Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe who died many years ago, is the Messiah. Schneerson was the leader of a big sect called Chabad. Many thought he was a Messiah candidate, but the official hard-line rule was that no one who died without fulfilling his mission could be the Messiah, so Jews with integrity abandoned his candidacy when he passed away.

I already knew that certain Jews thought he was the Messiah, and you can find them online saying they pray to him. They believe he is immortal; a god. Some think he will rise again. It’s a big kerfuffle. Allowing Jews to worship a Messiah could open doors they work hard to keep closed against a certain well-known individual from Bethlehem. Defining Jesus out of monotheism is extremely important in a culture beset by Christian missionaries.

You can see the dilemma. Anti-missionaries have objections to Jesus. One is their belief that the Messiah can’t be a god. Another is that he can’t die before fulfilling his mission. If a strict Orthodox Jew says Schneerson is a god and admits he died, what happens to two very strong objections to Jesus? POOF.

Anti-missionaries dismiss the miracles of Jesus as magic, and they say you miracles don’t prove someone is righteous or approved by God. But Schneerson’s worshipers say he worked miracles and cite them as proof of his Messiah status. Problem.

The official Jewish posture is that if you believe Jesus is the Messiah, even if you were born Jewish and continue practicing Judaism, you are no longer a Jew. Just like that. But what if you accept Schneerson? How does one rid the faith of followers of one putatively false Messiah while embracing others?

Schneerson denied that he was the Messiah. I don’t think he can be blamed for what happened after he died.

There are followers who claim he did’t die. That’s really something. He had heart attacks. There were witnesses. A doctor signed a death certificate. The body was seen. It’s in a hole right now.

Christians admit Jesus died, so our situation is different. There is no body. There are no bones. There never was any physical evidence that he remained in the tomb. The Gospels say the Romans put soldiers around the tomb to prevent his followers from stealing the body, but it vanished anyway. The penalty for the soldiers was death. You can look that up. I did. It’s not like they would have taken their job lightly.

I didn’t realize how big Schneerson Messianism was. I thought it was a few fringe characters. Now that I’ve seen the video with the Kaduri student, I realize it may be a much bigger movement than I thought. I looked around online, and it appears to be a major phenomenon.

What will the repercussions be? Will the Schneerson movement make more Jews open to embracing Yeshua? Will it make them more determined to exclude Messiah impostors? Will it lead to the termination of the Jewish status of Schneerson worshipers?

My guess is that they will refuse to confront the issue. I think it’s a can of worms they will run away from. That appears to be what’s happening now. I don’t think they’re ready to expel thousands of Jews. I think they want to hang onto all the religious Jews they can get. They worry about numbers. It’s a very big issue with them.

Is this a double standard? I don’t know enough to judge. It doesn’t look too good.

It’s very interesting how the policy of expelling Messianics has made Jesus seem like a huge problem. If Jews don’t expel them, then Messianics can be seen as annoying Jews who are still brothers. If Jews expel them, their conversions become reductions in the total number of Jews, and conversion, which would otherwise be a mere nuisance, becomes an existential threat. Suddenly, Jesus isn’t just a Messiah pretender. He’s a potential end to the existence of the Jewish people.

It looks like the rabbis have chosen the threat of annihilation over the possibility of tolerance.

If they don’t expel Schneerson worshipers, in the minds of reasonable people, the Messiah contest may come down to a competition to see who has the best candidate. That will be weird.

I guess it’s a good thing they don’t stone people any more. Walking in Mea Shearim would be like crossing an asteroid field.

It will be interesting to see if the Schneerson faction gains ground. I think it’s certain the Kaduri faction will be unpopular for the foreseeable future.

While I’m writing about God, I should mention a testimony I just got from my friend Mike. I had the honor of baptizing him last year.

I didn’t know he had serious arthritis in his neck. He couldn’t turn it normally without pain. Last week, he was in bed, and he started praying in tongues. He raised his hands, and he felt a sudden sensation in his neck. As soon as it passed, he was able to move his neck without pain. He said he has 90% of the motion he had before arthritis set in. He is completely freaked out. Overjoyed. Really nice.

I have my own testimony, as always. I believe it was last year that I wrote about a growth on my hand. It had a funny color to it, so immediately I thought of melanoma. I decided to take the Christian route. I did not go to a doctor. I prayed, and I cast things out and so forth. I spoke healing to myself.

I will not lie. I did a few other things after praying for permission. I put hot sauce on it, because hot sauce and other things like curcumin and green tea have made growths dry up in the past. For a brief time, I also applied a prescription drug that belonged to my dad. These things didn’t seem to help. I threw the drug out. On a lark, I also tried fenbendazole, which is an interesting deworming drug that people are using to fight cancer. I gave it up, too. Didn’t seem to do anything.

I don’t have worms. That’s for sure.

I forgot about the growth for several weeks. The one day I remembered it and checked. There wasn’t much going on.

Right now, it’s not easy to see where the growth used to be. There was a pronounced raised place, and it was getting bigger. Looks like it’s history.

One less thing to worry about, as Forrest Gump would probably say.

God always tells me, “None of the things you worry about will come to pass.”

I’ll take that.

Not the Way to End Your Political Career

Somehow or other, when I looked at my phone this morning, I came across something about Andrew Gillum. It led me in some interesting directions.

Gillum was nearly elected governor here in Florida. He is a Democrat. He was seen as the big hope of Florida leftists.

Gillum has a wife and three kids, but he’s some type of homosexual. I’m not sure which letters are supposed to be attached to him under the left’s guidelines. L, G, B, M, F, R, Pi…not my area of expertise.

In March, while many people, especially leftists, were screaming that we should stay home, Gillum traveled to Miami and joined two other homosexuals in a room at the Mondrian Hotel on South Beach. Everyone knows this now. One of the men, a homosexual escort, started behaving as though he had overdosed, and the third man called for help.

The cops came, shot video, and took photos. This is one of the unintended consequences of the body cam craze. If you call the police these days, make sure you’ve showered and dressed and put on clean underwear, because you may end up on video, and it may be available to the public on request.

Gillum and his friends did not put on clean underwear or anything else. They were naked when the police arrived. The lucid one who called them was naked. He answered the door that way.

As a result of the call, the public now has video and photos of the event, including a nude photo of Gillum lying on the floor on a vomit-covered towel. His lawyer admits it’s him.

Unbelievably, the cops released photos of drugs found on the scene. One was an injectable called SB-4. Another was Gabapentin, a seizure medication. Another was an anti-anxiety drug similar to Xanax. The final drug: crystal meth. The police did not test the substance they thought was meth. They merely expressed an opinion. Based on decades of collecting crystal meth from innumerable crime scenes. The alleged meth was impounded, so presumably, it could still be tested if anyone claimed it was baking soda or table sugar.

Gillum behaved predictably after he had regained consciousness and realized his reputation had taken a hit. He said he had never used crystal meth. He said he had had too much to drink. He said he had been in town to attend a wedding. During the coronavirus panic. He said he had a drinking problem. He went into rehab.

I looked at these facts and wondered what they weren’t telling us. What questions were journalists not asking?

First, why did he travel while so many people, especially leftists, were shrieking for a lockdown? That’s weird. Why would you have a wedding with guests?

Next, why would you travel 400 miles to attend a wedding without your wife?

Next, why would a person answer a hotel room door naked?

Finally, what was the purpose of the strange drugs found?

I don’t think it takes a genius to figure out why Gillum traveled alone. The cops were called at 11 p.m., so it’s not like Gillum went to the hotel briefly to say hi to a couple of friends before running back to his wife’s side at another establishment.

As for answering the door naked (and subsequently showing no interest in dressing), my best guess is that this was a thrill for the man who answered. Many gay men have a thing for cops. The man who answered the door was probably exposing himself because it excited him.

Now. The drugs. I looked this stuff up.

The injectable drug was labeled “SB-4,” but to gay men, it’s better known as “Trimix.” It’s a mixture of three drugs, and it’s used to force men’s private parts to render themselves ready for sex, if you get my drift. Sort of like Viagra. To use it, you have to inject your genitals. It’s very popular among homosexuals. You can read about it online.

Meth is also a sex drug. I didn’t know this until today. It increases desire. It prolongs sex and enhances the culmination. Gay men inject it into their private parts.

Put it all together, and you have a picture. A homosexual rented a hotel room in gay mecca South Beach. Another homosexual went to the room to rendezvous with him. A homosexual escort was engaged, and he showed up. Performance-enhancing drugs were procured and injected into the genitalia of one or more of the men. They performed sex acts on the bed, leaving it stained, two of them lost consciousness, and at least one threw up. The least-incapacitated member of the group called for help, and the cops showed up and shot video and took pictures.

After that, incredibly, sensitive photos and video were released.

The thing most Americans don’t understand is that this was not an unusual night by homosexual standards. They think gays are just like the rest of us, except they prefer to have sex in a different way. It’s not true. A huge percentage of them are completely obsessed with pleasure and sex, to a degree that exceeds even the standards of heterosexual athletes, actors, and rock stars. Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby were underachievers compared to many ordinary gays.

Drug and alcohol abuse are huge among gays. So are diseases the rest of us don’t get very often, like syphilis, gonorrhea, and AIDS. Many lead utterly empty lives. Their lives are centered on the pursuit of fleeting pleasures.

It’s revealing that there is a culture in which injecting Trimix and methamphetamine into one’s genitals is so prevalent everyone knows about it. How many heterosexuals know about this stuff? I’ll bet you didn’t. I’ll bet Harvey Weinstein doesn’t.

The press and the Democrats shoved Gillum in our faces and told us he was a warm-hearted family guy who cared more about the poor than the evil DeSantis. Imagine Florida right now under Gillum. He’s a train wreck. He’s vulnerable to blackmail. He’s depraved. His soul is rotten. The idea of letting him lead us through a pandemic, or anything else, is mortifying.

DeSantis has turned out to be a big blessing. He’s on the right side of the issues, and he resisted the coronavirus hysteria longer than other governors. Under Gillum, we might have Whitmer-style totalitarianism and shuttered gun stores. I plan to run errands all over town today, without a mask and without asking permission. Under Gillum, I might have to pass police checkpoints and provide justification. Fully clothed, of course. I would be like a Schindler Jew, trying to leave the Krakau ghetto for Schindler’s business. “Please, sir. I want to buy an apple.”

God was really looking out for his children in Florida.

It will be a big surprise to me if they catch DeSantis in a room with a bunch of naked men and a hypodermic. I’ll say that.

Gillum’s depravity is disturbing, and it’s instructive to think about it.

What does the Bible say about homosexuality? In one instance, it says that when people rejected God with sufficient finality, he turned them over to homosexuality. Does that mean God makes people gay? Of course not.

When a person proves he is impervious to instruction and reason, the correct thing to do is to let him go. You can’t carry people for eternity.

I have a sister who is depraved. She has had over 60 years of chances. The family used to spend money on her and clean up her messes, and she never stopped biting the hands that fed her. She punished us over and over and vilified us for the things we did to help her. God told me to cut her loose, and I did. He said I was not even to pray for her. I routinely pray he will keep her out of my life from now on.

God didn’t make her what she is, but he gave her over to it, and so, on his orders, did I. We simply let her go, to do what she already wanted to do.

This is how sexual perversion works. God doesn’t make people perverted. He just stops trying to help them. Satan, on the other hand, never gives up. When God gives up on you, you’re not just without help. You’re still overwhelmed by attacks. There is nothing to balance the evil influences. This is how gay men end up eating excrement and smothering each other. It’s as though the tribulation were taking place inside them. For the most part, God’s help and correction are gone.

The tribulation will be possible because there will be no faith-filled believers on earth to pray for God to show mercy. Everyone here will be past the point where showing patience is profitable.

I think we also see depravity in heterosexual sex scandals. More than once, we have heard that celebrities were discovered hanging by the neck, naked. We’re told they committed suicide. Why would you strip naked to kill yourself? It’s not typical.

Asphyxia increases sexual pleasure. It’s very common for people to hang themselves while indulging in self-stimulation. You’re not supposed to kill yourself in the process, but it happens.

If you’re hanging yourself in order to get sexual pleasure, your life is not going well. It’s not healthy or normal. You have descended into a very deep pit. Spirits are telling you to do what you’re doing, and not one of them is the Holy Spirit.

Depravity in all areas of life, not just sex, is extremely common in today’s America. On the left, it has been mainstreamed. The political right is headed the same way, because while we are more likely to acknowledge God, many conservative Christians reject the baptism with the Holy Spirit and prayer in tongues. If you want to be a leader, you have to be in communication with your superior, and most of us are not.

I think about my own ugly drives as I write this. Andrew Gillum, the shining liberal knight, is a destroyed human being, and if I had had my way, I might be in similar condition. You don’t have to be gay or attracted to kids or animals to have sexual depravity in your life, and depravity isn’t always sexual.

The future is extremely filthy and coarse, and if you don’t know the Holy Spirit, you can expect to be part of it, because you lack the only antidote. It’s very important to try to escape.

And now I have to go get a magnetic broom, a tube of graphite powder for reloading cartridges, and maybe some beef. Thank God I don’t live in Michigan.

Is it Already Over? The “Experts” Really Don’t Know

The coronavirus news never stops changing.

For some time, people have been saying they thought COVID-19, which I have just decided to call “C19” because it’s easier to type, had shown up in America much earlier than the authorities were telling us. Now even the New York Times is getting in on the act. It says we now know that an American death in early February was caused by C19.

Want better evidence that the disease has been here a long time? A test of random people in New York City supermarkets came up 21% positive. An expert is trying to dismiss it as the result of false positives, but like many experts, he doesn’t understand math. The false-positive rate, if the Chinese are to be believed, is 40-80%. Even if the real positive rate in New York City was 4%, allowing for the worst possible rate of false results, it would still be much higher than the official rate.

The people who were tested were out shopping. They weren’t sick people hooked up to ventilators. What does that tell you?

I think about my own mystery illness. I got sick in January. I had conjunctivitis, a runny nose, a cough with chest pain, and body aches. I also had nausea and diarrhea. These are all C19 symptoms. The illness lasted longer than a typical pink eye case, and there was no pink eye epidemic in my area. Pink eye is extremely contagious; much worse than the flu or C19. You don’t get it all by yourself.

My disease was mild, like C19. It took a long time to come and go, like C19. I had a dry cough with chest pain, like a C19 patient. I had a virus, not bacteria. Bacterial conjunctivitis comes with pus and different symptoms. I was sick in the winter. Viral conjunctivitis peaks in the summer.

How could I get C19? I live in the woods by myself. I have an answer.

Early in January, I traveled to North Carolina for a Last Reformation event. Most people there had traveled a long way. There were many Europeans there. One prayed for me, and I spent a lot of time with him. People were laying hands on each other. We got close to each other. I would have returned here on about January 6. I noticed I was feeling funny during the days preceding January 20.

The incubation period for C19 is now known to run to 24 days in some cases, and I was exposed to a lot of people from distant locations around 10 days before I got sick.

When I realized I was ill, I stayed away from people, including my barber. My hair was out of control. I went to buy groceries and so on, but I didn’t have guests or visit anyone. In other words, I did exactly what every contagious person should do but generally doesn’t.

So. Did I save my county from coronavirus? Wouldn’t surprise me at all, if I were the only person who had it, but in all likelihood, a lot of people had it and weren’t diagnosed.

In order to believe C19 wasn’t a problem in the US until late January, you have to believe some unlikely things. You have to think there was a serious outbreak in Wuhan in late fall, that thousands of people traveled between Wuhan and the US before the disease was identified, and that somehow, the infection didn’t spread in the US until January. The first three things are undeniable facts. The fourth is so unlikely it should be considered impossible.

If C19 got here earlier than we think, why is there a big medical crisis now?

Is there really a medical crisis? The stories of hospitals filling up with the dead and dying still aren’t true. Only a tiny percentage of Americans have been diagnosed, meaning not many are significantly ill. The death toll is comparable to that of the flu, and many so-called coronavirus deaths will turn out to be flu deaths because of false positives and provider bias. We’re hearing about shortages of certain medical items. Were those shortages caused by sick patients or by providers scrambling to get more equipment than they needed? People talk of a ventilator shortage, but in reality, it’s still not here. There is only an ANTICIPATED shortage.

We’re having a lot of problems due to C19, but are they generally medical problems? No. They’re hysteria-related problems. We can’t work. We’re struggling financially. We can’t get haircuts. We can’t travel. When you’re caught up in panic and deprivation, it’s easy to confuse your problems with medical problems.

If everyone in your city is hoarding toilet paper and going around in masks, it doesn’t mean there is a major illness problem. Healthy people can do those things.

C19 hits very old people very hard, and it’s a real scourge when it hits old folks homes, which is what happened in Massachusetts, but the rest of us are generally fine. Even the sick.

I am no expert, which means I am not part of a group of people who indisputably got nearly everything wrong, but if I had to make a guess my life depended on, I’d say C19 has swept most of the nation already. I think I already had it. Maybe you’ve had it, too.

It’s amazing how unreliable experts and authorities are. This is one of those things you have to be old to understand. The natural thing is to trust people in power and people who have credentials, but the older you get, the more you will find that you are often better off figuring things out on your own. There are a lot of mothers out there who have had to tell incompetent doctors what was wrong with their kids. There are laymen who have been executed who would have been better off representing themselves.

The more experts and authorities let you down, the more firmly you will believe you have to do your own thinking. You have to do your best to decide which things you can figure out and which things you have to put in other people’s hands. When you rely on other people, you have to watch them. They will let you down in ways that will astound you.

Right now, the new-case graph is still oscillating. I thought it would peak more sharply, but a lot depends on physician bias and the availability of tests. A sudden increase in testing will drive the graph upward even if the actual numbers are plummeting.

Guess how many major celebrity deaths America has, as of today? Not one. Still.

How many major celebrities are there? Let’s look at football. There are 1700 players right now. The average career is 3.3 years. That means there are tens of thousands of retired players. Many are famous. None have died. Now throw in baseball, basketball, and hockey. Throw in college athletes, past and present. Where are the deaths? We have Tom Dempsey, but most people have no idea who he is.

Trump-hating journalists are still falling back on Mark Blum and Joe Diffie. When you have to reach for poor examples to prove your argument, something is wrong.

In other news, my new propane cooker is working out great. I did okay with the smaller one, but even when it did a fairly good job on steak, it wasn’t on the level of a 200,000-BTU unit. The crust and charring on steaks weren’t as good.

Yesterday I threw a Walmart cowboy rib eye in the skillet with butter. It was magical. I was stunned by how good it was. Two hours later, I was still pausing to think about it. You really have to be nuts to cook a steak any other way.

I need a big griddle. This cooker has a huge burner, so heat rises all around it. I have to use long tongs to avoid being burned. I’m pretty sure I removed all the hair on the fingers of my right hand yesterday. Walmart has a nice big griddle for around twenty bucks.

One of the best things about the cooker is not having to clean the kitchen or open windows to let smoke out. The cooker is on the patio, where it belongs. It can’t stain my ceiling with condensed grease. And it’s not just good for steak. I could put a wok on it. I can’t do that on my stove. I could use it for big pots for gatherings.

One of my favorite meals now is a rib eye plus a microwaved russet potato. The oven is better for potatoes, but when you’re alone and you just want to get dinner on the plate, a microwave will give you 85% of what you want in 8 minutes. I would never use it if I had guests, but for me, it’s excellent.

I found a bag of small russets. Big ones are just TOO big, and small ones are better anyway because they have a higher ratio of skin to starch. I wanted to buy a single potato, but Walmart’s single russets are disgusting. They had some overpriced nuke-ready potatoes for a dollar each. Forget that. For $5, I got maybe 10 pounds of beautiful little potatoes that weren’t covered in hoe marks.

I have to go to Walmart for chlorine, so I should grab a griddle. Home Depot is out of chlorine. Apparently, people are washing their food in it. I am not kidding. It’s a legitimate news story you can look up. I wondered where the bleach had gone. People are poisoning themselves and ending up in hospitals.

Life is good. Don’t fall for the panic. Unless you enjoy it and get angry at people who are relaxed. If that’s you, you bring it on yourself, so swim in it. Eat it. Drink it. Just don’t bother me with your manipulation and guilt trips. I plan to savor the good times with which I have been blessed.

Let’s not Put Ourselves Out

My friend Travis was shot accidentally on April 9, and I haven’t written much about it. The reason I don’t write about it is that I don’t get much information.

I managed to get in touch with his brother, whom I also know, but the brother has not always responded when contacted. When he does respond, I get vague answers. All I know is that the injuries aren’t life-threatening and that Travis is still in the hospital. I can’t communicate with him directly, and he doesn’t call people, although he can talk. There are a lot of problems because of quarantine protocols.

I decided to let it go. I pray every day, but I don’t chase Travis’s family, trying to get news. It seemed to be pointless. It seemed to me that if things were going badly, I would likely be notified, so my hope was that no news was good news.

Yesterday, things changed. A young lady Travis knows contacted me, and we started exchanging information. She got to work, and we established a collaboration. I learned some things.

I learned that Travis’s belongings have been sitting in his apartment, waiting to be stolen, for over two weeks. I learned that no one had done anything about maintaining his relationship with the University of Miami, where his absence has probably been noticed by instructors by now. His refrigerator must be appalling.

When you hear things like this, you don’t know what to say. My family, as messed up as it was, would have been all over these things the day after the event.

Travis has a married sister whose husband does well. His mother is able-bodied. Where are they?

Imagine getting shot and then coming home from the hospital to find the keys changed and your belongings gone. You would probably not be very happy with your family.

The young woman who is now helping Travis got things fixed with the University, and she got his mother to agree to get his house keys. She found people who will keep his valuables. It only took a day. It’s not like she did something other people couldn’t have done. Why wasn’t it taken care of sooner?

I hooked her up with a friend who can help move things if needed. There was some talk of me driving to Miami, but you have to have a signed letter from the pope to get a hotel room in Florida right now, so I have been spared. I would have had to drive 300 miles down and 300 miles back on the same day, with no shower or change of clothes, and I would also have had to move his stuff, resulting in a 12-plus-hour day of pure joy.

If you want to understand my feelings about visiting Miami, read the book The Man Who Broke a Thousand Chains. It would be like breaking back INTO prison.

One annoying thing about all this is that Travis has a billion Facebook friends and numerous real-life friends. They are nearly useless. They always have been. He knows all sorts of people who act like brothers and sisters and play up their deep, special connection until someone needs to borrow five dollars or hitch a ride. Then they disappear like illegals in an ICE raid.

I really hope he shot himself, because if the friend who called me to tell me about it did it, and then he didn’t take care of Travis’s needs, well…not good.

I recall Travis telling me a story about walking a long distance in the rain, carrying musical instruments, and being passed by friends in a car. They waved and kept going.

He had a real crisis a few years back, and a guy from the church we attended told him not to worry; he would take care of everything. No problem. This was a very bad situation that needed immediate attention by a certain day in order to prevent terrible consequences that would affect the rest of Travis’s life. The friend bailed out with no warning, too late for Travis to come up with a new plan. Never explained. No apology. I guess it just felt good to say he would help.

It’s very important to limit your dependence on people who aren’t really your friends. If you don’t do it while things are going well, events will do it for you. When times get hard, you will call on them, and they’ll show you they were never really your friends. Might as well figure out who’s who right now. Why wait to be left in the lurch?

One day you might put your foot down with confidence and fall through the ice.

God puts the solitary in families, according to his word. That doesn’t just mean he takes lonely people and finds them husbands and wives. It also means he takes people who think they have good friends and families, shows them what they really have, and gives them good Spirit-led friends who can be counted on. It’s something we should all ask for. You can be surrounded by friends and be the loneliest person in the room. Julius Caesar could tell you all about it.

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I got more information just now. Apparently, Travis is not able to talk right now. I don’t know why his brother said he talked with him. Maybe things were different at the start. Anyway, it’s good to know he has a good reason for not using the phone.

New York is the New Wuhan

Is it time to stop talking about coronavirus numbers? The new infection rate is still dropping, and it’s not going to stop. Repeating this every day doesn’t make it interesting or illuminating.

I guess I can report something of special relevance to me. The known-case number in my county seems to be frozen. It barely moves. We’re still stuck under 130 cases. Days ago, we were at 121.

But that doesn’t mean I’m safe at the grocery, because of all the unreported cases, right?

I don’t think it works that way here. If we had a lot of unreported cases, we might still have a low number of reported cases, but we would have a high transmission rate. People who didn’t know they were sick would be infecting others. A low transmission rate, when coupled with a low known-case number, seems to indicate a low actual-infection number.

I think we simply don’t have many sick people here. Don’t ask me why. I don’t think the sparse population is the entire answer. Maybe it is, but there are rural counties that have done worse.

It’s funny how the disease is distributing itself. It’s really not a big deal in most places. If you remove New York State from the USA total, the numbers drop by about a third, and New York isn’t as populous as you think. COVID-19 is much more common there than in most places, and it’s also more common in Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, and New Orleans. Other places that may make the list: Cleveland, St. Louis, DC, Baltimore, and Kansas City.

Should we call it the Chinese virus or just the Democrat virus? Very strange.

L.A. isn’t too bad, though, and San Francisco is doing well.

It’s important to note that COVID-19 isn’t “common” anywhere. It’s not like the flu. It’s “more common” in some areas, but it’s not common by cold and flu standards. When New York City (not State) has well over a million cases, you can say it’s more common than the flu in that location. At least 10% of Americans get the flu every year, so you would expect nearly a million obvious cases in New York City. The lab-confirmed rate is much lower than 10%, but the CDC doesn’t limit itself to tested patients when compiling flu statistics.

I wonder how COVID-19 will affect rural home prices. I hope they go sky-high so I can make a profit when I sell this place, but I hope they stay really low so I can get a great deal when I buy another one.

I’ll bet it won’t help property values in New York City. If people leave, I hope they go to California, which is already destroyed. Please, God, keep them out of the South. If they ruin the South, there is no place left to go.

The bias of the press is still astounding. I saw an article saying what you buy these days depends on how you vote. It said Republicans were more likely to buy guns while Democrats were more likely to buy toilet paper. It said Democrats were rationally preparing for lockdowns and time at home.

That’s so idiotic, it hurts to think about it. How can anyone try to rationalize selfish, senseless, destructive hoarding of a product that is in no way related to the disease? How does “time at home” relate to a need for 300 rolls of toilet paper? There was never any danger, real or perceived, that we would not be allowed to buy toilet paper. It was an absurd Satanic mass delusion.

If they were worried about being stuck at home, they would have hoarded canned goods, but they have gone much easier on canned goods than toilet paper. If they were worried about being stuck at home, they wouldn’t have hoarded bottled water in the beginning, but they did. The water supply, which doesn’t depend on bottles, was never in doubt.

Hoarders can’t be excused. What they did is utterly nonsensical. The person who wrote the article was just trying to make leftists look better.

As for guns, a whole lot of non-conservatives have been trying their best to get them. It’s not just right-wingers. Coronavirus converted a lot of gun-haters. I still don’t understand why a Democrat or anyone else would think an epidemic would make a gun more useful. I suppose a gun may help you if you live in an area where they’re releasing criminals and refusing to send cops to crime scenes.

There have always been big buyers on the right. Some are profiteers. Some are irrational hoarders. Some are preppers. Some are just getting ready for the banning of lead and our leftist future without easy access to guns. Then there are people like me who like to buy ammunition in bulk to save money.

Things continue to go well here. Life is easy. I’ve made lots of ammunition. I must sound like a scared pandemic prepper, but I was already at work before the hysteria started. I think my Hornady Lock-n-Load AP press is finally working correctly.

This press is like a Chinese lathe. Basically, there is nothing wrong with it, but the factory didn’t finish manufacturing it. It came with a lot of rough edges. They say a Chinese machine tool is really a kit. When it arrives, it may be unusable, but after considerable work and study, it will do just fine. Same thing with the Hornady press.

Here’s something that plagued me. The press refused to prime brass. Every so often, a shell would go through with no primer. This allowed powder to leak out onto the press. As a result, the press’s column was generally coated with grey residue, and I had problems with gummy crushed powder clogging things up.

It turned out the base plate the shell plate sits on was too thin. I’m only writing about this in case some Googler has the same problem. The spring-loaded punch that seats primers screws into the base plate. The top of the punch should be level with the top of the plate or slightly lower. My punch protruded through the plate. The primers are loaded by a slide that moves back and forth over the punch, so because the punch protruded, it caught the slide and prevented primers from loading.

The simple answer was to Dremel material off the bottom of the slide so it could pass over the punch.

It was annoying to find that this problem existed, because manufacturing a flat piece of steel to a desired thickness is a very easy task for a machinist. There is no excuse for getting it wrong and then passing the product on to a consumer. If the base plate were 20 thousandths thicker, the primers would always have loaded correctly.

I know that was boring, but someone on the Internet will eventually need the information.

I’m expecting 3,000 more rounds of .22 LR to arrive today. This will bring me up to over 9,000 Mini-mags. It’s not enough for a lifetime, but it’s enough to sit back on while I wait for prices to drop so I can accumulate a final stockpile at relatively low prices. As I’ve said earlier, I would have left it for other people to buy, but they were ignoring it, so too bad.

I have to make defensive ammo for the 10mm pistols. I’m not really that interested in self-defense these days, but I am interested in tools, guns, reloading, and shooting, so I want to do things right. I’m planning to load 180-grain Hornady Gold Dots to about 1200-1250 fps. That ought to be fine.

I don’t want to kill you, but I do want to be able to kill you. Not because I like killing people, but because I don’t like getting involved with firearms and then making bad ammunition choices. I guess I’m like an old lady who puts plastic covers on furniture she never lets anyone sit on. Shooting people isn’t the point. I just enjoy learning about guns and ammo and trying to do things well. The fact that I don’t want to use my carry gun doesn’t mean I don’t want it to work correctly.

Ammunition technology keeps improving. The .40 S&W has started to look a lot better. You can get very good performance with the same Gold Dots, with a little less recoil and weight. Makes me wonder if buying another 10mm was the right idea, but I know it will work. I can get 1200 fps from the 10mm, compared to maybe 1100 from the .40, without over-driving the 10mm. That can’t be a bad thing. I still think .45 ACP is a great option.

If I didn’t make my own ammunition, I wouldn’t go near the 10mm. Hot factory ammo is just too overpriced.

I’m enjoying life and continuing to improve. I don’t know God’s plans for me, but I am content to putter around and have fun until I find out.

Let’s All Play Trivial Pursuit on Zoom

The coronavirus curve looked really good last night. It continues to oscillate, but if you do what math people do, more or less, and draw a line through it to approximate its basic direction, you will see that it points downward.

This is somewhat startling, because testing is ramping up. Yesterday, I read that a test of Los Angeles jails revealed 200,000 cases, generally asymptomatic. Did I read that right? That’s a lot of cases. If testing is getting better and more widespread, and the curve is still dropping, then things are even better than they seem.

Maybe one of the upward spikes was assisted by this event.

The press is still deluded. I saw an article claiming Kentucky cases had spiked two days after anti-lockdown rallies. Ridiculous. Coronavirus has an incubation period longer than two days. There is no connection. Of course, whoever wrote the article didn’t point this out. He probably didn’t know it. It’s probably some snowflaky millennial who maxed out with Algebra I and has to call his mom to change a flat tire.

It’s very unfortunate that journalists are so…I will go with “unintelligent,” since it’s not a term created in order to insult. I will steer away from harsher terms. It’s a pity there is nothing like an LSAT for journalists. It would be a First Amendment problem, but think how much better life would be while it was going through the courts.

I applied my prediction equation last night, to see how it was doing. Wonderful result. The equation’s prediction was about 47% high. The reported numbers adhered very strictly to an exponential equation for weeks, and that’s over with. A figure of +47% is still remarkably accurate, but it does indicate that the disease is petering out. Not that you need it, because official sources say the same thing.

People want to go back to work in order to save the economy, but will it work? No. I think it will be very helpful, but it won’t be anything like a true recovery. Americans have been conditioned to believe the following falsehoods:

1. COVID-19 is extremely contagious.
2. COVID-19 is a severe disease.
3. COVID-19 is very dangerous for all demographics.

Taken together, 1 and 2 are not true. Number 3 is not even close to true. The disparate impact of COVD-19 is one of its remarkable features.

Regarding contagion, either the disease is not very contagious, or it is generally extremely mild, or both. If it were contagious and severe, we would have something like a billion known cases, as we do with the flu, every year. If it’s very contagious, it is generally extremely mild, because severe cases are obvious, and we only know of about 2.7 million cases. As for severity, we know how severe it ISN’T, because we have seen 2.7 million purported cases, and something like 85% were mild or asymptomatic. That puts an upper limit on the average severity. We don’t have a lower limit, but the Los Angeles testing suggests the actual infection numbers may be very, very high, and that would prove the disease is generally barely perceptible.

As for COVID-19 being very dangerous for all demographics, we already know this isn’t true. If you’re under 50 and healthy, even if you get a symptomatic case, you’re very unlikely to get really sick or die. If you’re considerably younger, the odds are worse than those of going to Las Vegas with 20 dollars, playing roulette, and driving home in a Bentley.

Well, maybe not that much worse. But a lot worse.

There probably billions of young, healthy people who think they’re facing a high risk of severe illness if they go back to work or mingle with other people in public, when in reality, they’re much more likely to die from the flu or in a car wreck.

My guess is that this belief will continue to kill restaurants and other businesses involving gatherings for at least 6 months. And it will be hard on people like performers, ticket agents, event organizers, venue owners, mall owners, and so on. If you’re a musician, your parents were right. Get a haircut and apply at Walmart. On the plus side, touring makes a lot of money for people who are very corrosive to our morals, so maybe rappers and rock stars will be less powerful and annoying. Many famous performers don’t make much money from royalties. Imagine a future with less Lady Gaga. Nice.

Plagues really scare people. Even when they’re not plagues.

By the way, this epidemic will be the final blow to many familiar chains and businesses. It’s a big step in the direction of a future where a huge portion of the things we need have to be bought electronically. Daddy Beast likes.

Will the pandemic come back? I’ve been thinking about it. Here is my answer: no.

How can I say that? The “experts” say it will always be with us. The explanation is simple.

From now on, we are going to test like crazy. Everyone who so much as coughs will be tested. Big Sister will work hard to gather data, and what will she do when a local outbreak occurs? She will put the boot on it, fast and hard.

COVID-19 can’t just appear everywhere, all at once. It has to start in identifiable, discrete locations. We can address that, and we will. Any place where a case is detected will be locked down. Patients will be quarantined. It will be much harder for the disease to spread next time.

We will also have a vaccine pretty soon, and believe me, we will take it. The pressure will be overwhelming. Even anti-vaxxers may be forced to submit. There may be arrests for people who refuse, even though no one cares if you get a flu vaccine. The flu just isn’t glamorous. Tom Hanks didn’t get it.

I think COVID-19 will pop up here and there, and it won’t get much traction. But the news will still cause hoarding, so buy stock in Georgia Pacific. They make toilet paper. Still the only known cure.

Maybe when people realize the flu was worse, they’ll force us to be vaccinated for that, too. The implications are disturbing. Auntie Sam may be extremely powerful and personal next year.

I wonder about our current status as rights-deprived subjects. Will that continue? Leftists will argue for it, because they always do. They have always been against any civil right not protecting sexual sin, the murder of the unborn, crime, obscenity, or recreational drug use. They love gun control, restraint of free speech that isn’t obscene, the forced purchasing of insurance, over-regulation of commerce, and all sorts of other dangerous infringements.

They routinely advocate for the restriction of political speech, which is the type of speech the First Amendment was written to protect. It wasn’t written for Hugh Hefner, who surely regrets what he did in life.

It’s bizarre how they characterize themselves as proponents of freedom, because they adore government and cede their rights to it eagerly in order to obtain a false sense of security.

Leftists may not realize it, but most would be happy to live in government-financed cages, eating Soylent Green, as long as they got to sin all they wanted and didn’t have to pay for medical care.

We already have those cages. They’re called “housing projects” and “rent-controlled apartments.”

The idea that human beings love liberty is a myth. Generally, we love security, and we will debase ourselves all day every day to get it. People who really love liberty are anomalous. It’s remarkable that there are so many of us in America. It’s probably not sustainable. The pet hamster mindset tends to prevail when times get hard.

We’re looking at a scenario in which we have to balance our natural cowardice and love of security against our knowledge that we will be poor if we aren’t free. I hope the desire for a decent lifestyle will prevail, because it will tend to preserve our freedom.

If you want to be lifted above this mess, get to know God. Pray in tongues every day. Repent. Spend time with him. Let him change you. Your happiness and success depend on your relationship with God, not on what happens around you. Think about Daniel in the lions’ den. Think about Noah. Think about Jesus, walking away unseen in the midst of a crowd of friends, relatives, and neighbors who were trying to throw him off a cliff.

Think about Passover.

The fact that most Christians have lived in defeat for centuries doesn’t mean Christianity doesn’t work. Think of the horrible doctrine that held them down. You don’t have to believe that garbage.

I should talk about masks. The “experts” keep leading us in circles. They said masks didn’t help, perhaps in order to discourage sales so they could funnel them to care providers. Now they’re saying they do help, and in some places, you have to wear one or you can be kept out.

I believed the “no work” line, except that I thought a mask might help a person not to touch his face, and I thought it would reduce sprays of things like snot and droplets. Now the consensus, which seems somewhat more sound this time, is that masks are helpful. So I think I was mistaken.

I can get quality masks from my friend Mike, but I think they should go to people who really need them. Like people who are financing their retirements by selling them for a hundred bucks each.

In other news, I’m afraid I turned my reloading press into a bomb.

I was running my Hornady Lock-n-Load AP some years ago when I noticed that the plastic restraint on top of the primer tube was not reliable. It’s supposed to hold the tube and primers in place. It kept coming loose. I blamed Hornady, and I believe I was correct, but recent research suggests I can make the plastic cap work if I do little things to fix the press’s fit and finish.

Anyway, I turned on the lathe and made myself an aluminum primer tube cap. I’ll show you a photo. It’s basically a counterbored tube with two set screws to fasten it to the primer tube. I don’t use the lower screw. It’s not needed. The cap does a great job of keeping things together.

The primer tube on this press is a skinny aluminum tube, and there is a steel outer tube around it. I thought the steel tube was there to hold it up. This is true, but yesterday I learned that it’s also a shield. On very rare occasions, primers inside tubes have exploded.

The force of a primer explosion is small, but you can put 100 primers in a tube, one on top of the other. They can set each other off, and then you have a bigger explosion. How much bigger? I don’t know. Not big enough to blow a shield apart. The gas exits upward.

Problem: my cap is firmly attached to the shield, and it only has one small hole through which gas can escape. Also, it’s heavier than the stock device. What happens if the primers blow up? Will the cap’s restriction force the exploding gases to blow the shield open? I would not like that. It would be bad, and because the shield is next to a big container of powder, it could lead to even worse things.

Now I see why Hornady gives you a rubber cap to cover the top of the powder measure.

It pains me to give up my beautiful aluminum cap, but I may do it. And I’m going to wear eye protection from now on. And I’ll put a fire extinguisher in the gun room. What a pain.

I’ve had a few issues since beginning to reload again. I found a great series of videos from a guy who really knows how to set this press up. They’re a bit long-winded, but I’m going to watch all of them. You might like them, too.

Hornady provides an inadequate manual along with the press, and there is no way you can make it run using only this tiny amount of information. You need more sources.

I’m thinking that in the future, I will do my best to manufacture all of my own ammunition. I won’t do rimfire because I can’t. I may or may not exclude shotgun shells, because I don’t use many. Not sure. But I want to make my own pistol and rifle centerfire ammo. I can make exactly what I want, and in many cases it will be a lot cheaper than factory stuff. In the case of all-lead bullets, I will even be able to make the projectiles themselves, and they will cost almost nothing.

They’re going to take factory lead ammo and bullets away from us before too long, so if you want to keep shooting lead, you’ll want some bullet molds. Either than or buy bullets this year.

I probably have 30 pounds of lead. I saved some downrigger weights from my dad’s boat. It’s not hard to get free or cheap lead from other sources.

One benefit of reloading is that when people panic, factory ammo sells out faster than reloading components.

I’m hoping supplies of everything will open up during May, and then I can start laying things in. If I have to spend a couple of thousand dollars, so what? It’s important. It’s better than paying for car and home insurance. I’ll have something permanent I can keep.

I’m not one of those nuts who wants a pile of lead so he can shoot it out with the feds when the familiar substance hits the fan, but I don’t want to be an 80-year-old man who polishes his empty guns and misses the days when he could actually shoot them.

I hope to crank out maybe 200 rounds of target 10mm today, and I’ll also create an ample number of defensive rounds. I may as well accept the fact that I’ll need more 10mm brass. You have to practice with your carry gun.

I don’t know if 10mm was the best choice, because .45 ACP is very, very good, and it’s easier to shoot. I can always get a Glock in .45 if I change my mind. Maybe I should look for an alternative brand which is just as good or better. Glocks are wonderful tools, but carrying one is like marrying a homely woman who makes great pies and changes her own oil.

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I don’t know where my brain was this morning. I read a story about a big number of positive COVID-19 tests in L.A. County jails, and, later, I posted what I thought I remembered. I said 200,000 inmates had tested positive.

I always write and then go back and check to see if anything I wrote was incorrect, but somehow that system failed to engage today, as did common sense. As bad as L.A. is, there is no way it could have 200,000 inmates (unless you consider all Californians inmates), let alone 200,000 who have coronavirus.

I must have been distracted. It’s amazing that I could have written something that stupid and then let it make it to the blog. Thankfully, a reader has used a comment to point the problem out.

My best guess is that I saw a story which mentioned the jail test in addition to the fact that 200,000 people go in and out of jails nationwide every week. Either that, or I need to stop drinking so much hand sanitizer.

Anyway, I hope the rest of what I wrote was reasonably lucid. I will check.