DEPORTED

Something very strange has been happening here at the farm.

I keep waking up and seeing spirits in my bedroom. I can’t see spirits as a general rule, but I have seen a few while wide awake, and I have seen more spirits just after waking up. I don’t know if spirits remain visible until you wake up, and I caught a few that failed to hide themselves quickly enough, or if there is something special about the instant of waking up that permits people to see spirits. Anyway, that’s when it has been happening to me.

One was shaped like a fat man. Sort of like the Michelin man. He was a clear shape, like the predator character in the Schwarzenegger movies. He had projections on the side of his head so he resembled a man in a bowler hat. It didn’t occur to me until just now that his profile was like my friend Travis’s. Travis has struggled with his weight.

Another was just a dark shape in an upper corner of the room.

After that, I woke up and saw a dark male shape in what looked like a black bodystocking. Even his face was covered. There was a bright red patch on his head, toward the left side, near the top. He was sitting on me, trying to kill me. I couldn’t even feel it. He was so weak he couldn’t make me feel a blow.

The last one I saw was shaped like a two-by-six. It looked like a dark grey two-by-six standing upright by the bed.

Spirits do not scare me. I hate them. I yell at them and tell them to get off my property in the name of Jesus. I always tell God I wish he would let me rip them to pieces. I would pull their eyes out of the sockets. I would do terrible things to them. I suppose God feels the same way and created hell for that reason.

Tonight it occurred to me that these might be the spirits that are trying to kill Travis. Maybe they’re coming here because they’re angry at me for frustrating them. Filthy things.

If this is the case, and they’re hoping for a break, they will never get it. I would give them tortures worse than hell if I could, until they were so terrified of me they would never come near me again.

Traditional churches don’t teach people how to fight spirits, but Paul said we were supposed to do it. He said our weapons were not carnal but mighty, to the pulling down of strongholds. “Carnal” refers to squabbling with human beings. “Strongholds” refers to spirit power. He said we don’t wrestle against flesh (men) but “against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” The church doesn’t teach you this. It teaches you to be nice and work real hard. And to hand over your money.

I will never stop fighting these things. I ask God to give me grace to keep it up.

Technology is no Substitute for God

While I am praying and texting about my friend Travis, I am taking a break to post a video. I think people will really like it. It’s about a healing.

I’ve watched a bunch of healing videos on Youtube, and one of the healers I like best is Mark Hemans, the Australian melanoma survivor. He has healed a number of autistic kids.

Autism seems to be everywhere now. When I was 19, I made a friend, and his dad was suspected of having Asperger’s. Before that, I can’t say I personally knew anyone who was autistic or even seemed autistic. Now three of my friends have kids who have been diagnosed, and I don’t have all that many friends.

Is it over-diagnosis? No. I know a fair amount about two of the kids, and they definitely have problems. It’s not imaginary.

People blame vaccines and all sorts of other things for autism. To me, it seems demonic. I don’t see any reason to go beyond that explanation. I think the vast majority of mental problems come from being under the influence of spirits other than the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, you have no mental or emotional immune system.

Mark Hemans is having online meetings because he can’t travel. The other day, a lady asked for prayer for her son. He had a lot of problems. He didn’t make eye contact. He didn’t show affection. He didn’t understand manners. After Hemans prayed for him, things changed. You can watch the video yourself. I can’t imagine how wonderful it must be to have a son suddenly begin communicating and displaying normal emotions.

There are a bunch of videos of kids being delivered from autism. It’s a wonderful thing to see.

Shooting Story Defies Belief

I have a little more information about my friend Travis, who was shot on April 9.

He is on a machine that helps oxygenate his blood. I forget the name. He is sedated. He has had an infection. We are now being told he has had no visitors. I hope that isn’t true. It is not possible to send him anything because the covid rules are far beyond reasonable.

I completely understand that the hospital doesn’t want covid sweeping through the trauma center, but no one is getting covid from cards or flowers. Emotional support is extremely important at a time like this, so depriving patients of contact is very harmful. There has to be a reasonable effort to balance risks. They could at least show patients cards and flowers briefly.

I am planning to send a card even if he can’t receive it. The nurses will see it, and they will know people care whether Travis lives or dies. Hospitals let unwanted people die. This is something many medical people would deny publicly with red, flustered faces, but it’s a fact, and medical professionals are much more open about it in private. Travis is costing the hospital a lot of money, no one is visiting him, and he’s black. Also, he has a gunshot wound, and that surely has to affect the way he is perceived by people who are tired of treating minority members who have been shot because of their own unwise behavior.

I wonder if they know the shooting was accidental.

I’m going to look for a big post card. If I send a card, the nurses will be able to read it and learn that Travis is not disposable and that he has a future.

It may well be that everyone at the hospital is pulling for him very sincerely, but when it comes to human nature, it’s generally not smart to assume the best.

I hope the information about visitors is wrong. He has a mother, a sister, and a brother who are perfectly capable of showing up. I would have expected his siblings to make it.

His dad, who is not yet 60, is in a nursing home due to MS. Travis was starting to have great success helping him forgive and turn to God. Now his dad is cut off from that, and he is isolated from an important source of help.

Nothing about the situation makes sense, and no one can do anything to change it by natural means. That means it’s a supernatural situation. The battle is taking place on a higher plane.

Satan hates Travis and wants to prevent him from fulfilling his destiny. Somehow he was able to get him shot and infected, and he has been able to keep him isolated. I can’t tell you exactly what God has been doing. Unlike Satan, he is not predictable. He may be showing Travis just how wretched and toxic his social circle and environment are. For a long time, God has been telling Travis to cut ties. Travis is reluctant to unload people he cares about. He has taught music to a lot of ghetto kids, and he has seen a number of them die or go to prison. He wants to make a difference, and it has been hard for him to admit he can’t. Free will is an obstacle that stops God himself. It’s no wonder the free will of people who don’t listen has stopped Travis so many times.

God is definitely showing Travis who his real friends are. A number of people are praying for him and looking for opportunities to help him. A young lady who graduated before him is doing wonderful things for him. She got his landlord to cooperate. She calls the hospital and updates me so I can report to other people. It’s too bad they’re not married. I don’t think he could do any better. She is very impressive.

When Travis gets out and has a lot of things to get squared away, his family will not participate to any significant degree. He will be helped by friends.

Travis might have to move up here for a while. That’s how badly his life has been shaken up. It would also be God in action. Getting out of Miami is important for Spirit-led people. There are plenty of people who pretend to be Spirit-led there, but the real children of God have been leaving for years.

If God has left you in Miami, it’s probably so you can suffer with the wicked, not so you can change your neighborhood.

I feel very good about the situation during my time with God. I’ll go out on a limb and say it: believe Travis will make it. Appearances don’t matter, because God is able to do anything. I hope the profit Travis derives from this ordeal is tremendous.

More

After posting, I got an unexpected text from Travis’s brother saying Travis was on life support and that they were rushing to the hospital. I texted everyone who is praying for him and gave them the news. I told his brother not to let the medical people give up on Travis.

Afterward, I learned some things from the young woman who is helping Travis.

His brother and mother have not responded to communications for two weeks. At some point, his mother said she was going to take over and didn’t need help. She didn’t put the young lady on the communication list.

The young lady says Travis is still on the same ECMO machine he was on yesterday. For all we know, his brother thinks an ECMO machine is the same thing as life support. That would be a distortion. While they are used to keep people alive, many people are treated with ECMO machines temporarily and then recover. Its main purpose is to assist recovery by taking the burden off the heart and lungs.

It is starting to look like his family got a nasty surprise today because they hadn’t been paying attention. His brother is reacting as though a sudden and likely final crisis had occurred, but it may just be that he is excited because he went a long time without news and then got an update that surprised him.

When my dad died, the ALF called me and said I needed to go to his side. Several hours later he was dead. It wasn’t a big shock to me because I visited him daily. It’s not clear that Travis is in a similar situation. Nothing is clear.

In the midst of the texting that is happening today, a friend of mine who is a nurse said she would be willing to be named as my health care surrogate. That was very touching. I am not afraid of death at all, but I don’t want to be tortured for months by care providers. I may take her up on her offer. She has more firsthand knowledge about looking after dying people than anyone I know.

I certainly wouldn’t want my sister to be named by default. If I become incapacitated, she needs to be as far away as existing technology can put her.

Maybe You Didn’t Have the Flu in December

In spite of the update on my friend’s continuing difficulties in recovering from a gunshot wound, I am continuing with life as I pray. I feel like going over the coronavirus news.

Here’s a nice development: a lot of people are settling on the term “covid” to describe the disease. I like it. “Coronavirus” isn’t a disease. It’s a general term describing a type of virus. There are coronaviruses that cause other illnesses. “COVID-19” is a pain to type. It has five capitals followed by a hyphen and a number. Tiresome. I’ve been calling it “C19,” which is about like “C-19,” a term that has appeared elsewhere on the web. I think “covid” will do very well, and it’s probably what people will call the disease next year.

It appears that the authorities are finally allowing themselves to believe covid was here earlier than originally thought. It’s surprising that they resist. The disease started in Hubei Province (which I have mistakenly called “Wuhan Province” many times), and while it was spreading there, among millions of people, many individuals from the area flew to the US. It would have taken a series of miracles to prevent covid from infecting people here last fall.

A lady named Patricia Dowd died on February 6. The official conclusion is that she was infected in early January, but the nature of her physical problems suggests that it was earlier than that. Her family says she was ill in early January, meaning she was probably infected in December.

An article about Dowd, who worked in an area with ties to Wuhan, suggests covid could well have been here in November.

It seems undeniable that covid was here much earlier than we have been told. Why, then, didn’t we see a major epidemic during the winter?

It certainly looks like covid spreads much more slowly than the flu. People say the opposite, but the numbers are what they are: 650,000,000 cases of flu, most of which occurred during a short period in the case of a widespread vaccination campaign, compared to 1/200 as many covid cases since last year. How can you reconcile those figures without admitting that covid is less contagious? The best explanation would be that it hit a great number of people, but it’s generally too mild to be noticed.

The Chinese did everything wrong, and they didn’t have a flu-sized epidemic.

Or maybe they did, and it wasn’t noticed because the illness isn’t that bad. Maybe we have had a big epidemic, too.

It’s confusing. If we had a big epidemic, where are the pre-March deaths? Why did deaths ramp up in March? Were these people who got sick much earlier? Were many of them really flu victims?

I am told that reporting deaths as covid-related brings big money into hospitals. Are care providers above fudging their data? Of course not. People are people, and hospitals are always hungry for money. Also, and perhaps this is most important, biased people do dishonest things without realizing it.

Doctors screw up very, very often, and they lie a great deal. Don’t bother contradicting me. I have a sister who is an opioid addict. People like her don’t have to go to illegal pushers. They walk into doctors’ offices and say something hurts, and they get what they want. They just have to know the right doctors, and drug addicts tell each other which doctors are easiest. They network. I’ve seen it personally.

Right now, doctors in America are prescribing marijuana, in a smokable form that damages lungs and gives off secondhand smoke, for people who show up and say they’re nervous or have headaches. They know they’re enabling addicts and abusers. They know what they do is dishonest.

If you want proof that drug users network and keep track of crooked doctors, just watch Drugstore Cowboy, a movie about a group of users who travel around in search of drugs. It was based on the actual experiences of a drug user. The phenomenon is nothing new. Many decades ago, celebrated addict William Burroughs wrote of compliant doctors, whom he referred to as “croakers.” Burroughs, an exceedingly evil and depraved individual, actually appeared in the film.

In addition to dishonesty motivated by financial concerns, doctors are also susceptible to political bias, and they overwhelmingly lean left. There is a longstanding leftist campaign to hype the epidemic in order to hurt Donald Trump. It’s a bad idea, because it appears to be driving people to him, but the campaign unquestionably exists. No honest person could deny it.

It seems like the conclusion best supported by the facts is that covid deaths are grossly overreported, and it may also be that they were underreported early in the year. If you put these things together, and you add increased testing in March, you end up with a graph that humps up suddenly during that month, and that’s what we got.

All I can do is guess. You have to take the known facts and make the theory fit them. You can’t make up your own reality to fit your theory. Unless you’re WHO or the CDC.

In my county, there were 193 known cases as of last night. Oddly, a bunch of local artists took the time to create sidewalk art nearly deifying medical workers. That’s delusional, given the extremely low risk these people face, not to mention the special benefits they and their families enjoy. They still have high-paying jobs, they got things like masks, alcohol, and hand sanitizer when the rest of us were barred, and very few of them have even seen a known covid case. This isn’t New York.

Weird. It seems consistent with the delusion that has overtaken the country as a whole.

Medical workers here have it great. They are extremely privileged. Still “heroes,” however.

I am now eligible for testing, and I’m thinking of doing it. They’re testing anyone who shows up. I would love to know whether the mystery disease I had in late January was covid. I don’t have a lot of faith in the tests, though, and as I have said before, if there is one good way to get covid in this county, it’s by going to a hospital unnecessarily.

Imagine getting tested, feeling great about a positive result and the attendant immunity, and then getting covid for real.

It is simply amazing how wrong and useless our medical and political establishments have been. Is this just my impression? On the one hand, Satan is definitely using this disease to train us to obey the Beast and worship our keepers, but on the other, look how incompetent they are.

Reuters says covid is helping Trump. It says people don’t think Biden will handle covid and the economy as well. I think Biden is hindered by two other facts: he is holed up in his mansion like the Omega Man, and he’s sinking into dementia.

No matter how you slice it, hiding in a bunker is not the way to make people believe in you. Trump’s approach is completely different. He still won’t wear a mask. He projects confidence and power. He’s on television all the time, taking punches and giving back better than he gets. Biden is only seen as a lonely, distant face, in basement-based TV interviews and depressing Youtubes no one watches, denying he’s a rapist.

Why are people saying “assault” instead of “rape”? What he’s accused of is rape. The fact that he is accused of using his hand doesn’t matter.

His Youtube channel is so unpopular, it comes up 8th in a Youtube search for “Biden.”

His latest video, uploaded yesterday, has 10,000 views. At the top of the Youtube “Biden” search list, there is a video from The Today Show. The title: “Michigan Governor Talks Reopening, Joe Biden Sexual Assault Allegations.” You have to see that headline before you can scroll down to Biden’s video. The video about Whitmer and rape has 44,000 views. You also have to pass this headline from The Hill: “Krystal and Saagar: Obama team SOUNDS ALARM on Biden’s failing basement campaign.”

“Basement campaign.”

That one has 419,000 views, and it was released within 24 hours of Biden’s video. The people in the video are liberals who think Biden can’t win.

I subscribe to a lot of Youtube channels. One of them put up a video today. It’s not as old as Biden’s video. The title? It’s “1000cc Trophy Kart Build Pt. 3 | Mounting the Rear Axle.” It has 1.5 times as many views as Biden’s video.

Go-karts. No kidding.

I don’t even remember why I subscribed to that channel.

A channel called SeekingWisdom Ministries [sic] has a video newer than Biden’s. “Final Countdown! True Disciples Rising!” This…I am not making this up…is a kid who makes Christian videos in his bedroom. It’s literally like Wayne’s World for Christians. I’m not knocking him. I subscribed. But what I say is true. He has 11,000 views. Biden is eating his dust.

Take a look.

Here’s something interesting I learned from a professional Youtuber. Subscribers mean absolutely nothing. You can have 10 million subscribers and still have an unsuccessful channel. Views are everything. Even if subscribers mattered, this kid still beats Biden handily. He has over 62,000 subscribers. Biden has 49,000.

Am I crazy, or is this news? It seems like a big deal to me.

Biden’s comments are turned off.

If you don’t know what that means, I’ll tell you. Turning off comments is something Youtubers do when they’re in big trouble. If comments are good for your channel, you leave them on.

Case in point: a few weeks back, a very angry young man with a gun channel attacked Paul Harrell, who is one of Youtube’s top gun gurus. This young man was on a firearms reality show, and he has won some prizes shooting revolvers. Harrell has won more prizes than he can carry, and he has great credentials unrelated to competition. The young man disagreed with Harrell’s ideas about defensive revolver shooting, which is something professional speed shooters don’t necessarily know anything about. In his attack, he said a lot of things that were very clearly wrong, and he did it in a very nasty way, calling Harrell at least one profane name.

Harrell put up a calm rebuttal video which was the equivalent of nuking the other guy from orbit. Harrell has 10 times as many subscribers, and a whole bunch of them went to the other channel to post vicious, yet often accurate, comments. Suddenly, the comments disappeared, as did the little graphics showing how many people liked and disliked the video.

It was, and still is, a sorry spectacle. Anyway, it helps to show why a channel would disable comments. It’s not a sign of confidence.

In that respect, it’s like hiding in your basement when you should be making campaign speeches.

Can’t he leave? Isn’t campaigning an essential business?

The White House has a channel which, effectively, belongs to Donald Trump. Comments are enabled. Donald Trump has a personal channel. Comments are enabled.

It looks like these two channels get relatively little traffic for famous channels, but they feature pretty boring content. Footage of rallies and so on. Trump’s channel gets considerably more traffic than Biden’s, however.

Biden should bail out and get treatment. Maybe doctors can do something for him. In a world that made sense, I would expect him to be removed from consideration, but this is not that world. Maybe he’ll make it to election day. What a mess that would be.

The election is 6 months off. Biden will probably be considerably and obviously worse than he is now. His dementia is not one of the slow kinds.

Maybe the DNC can’t get rid of him. After all, he is protected by the Constitution and the election laws. I suppose they don’t have the power to force someone to step down. If they did, they would have done it to Bernie instead of killing his campaign through sabotage.

So we have a demented, arrogant, extremely driven candidate who is the only person who can end his own campaign. That’s really something.

He backed down in 2016 because of pressure from Democrat bigwigs. Maybe he won’t do it twice. I think he lives in a Biden-centric universe, and he will probably insist on having his turn.

Obama came out and backed him. That would be hard to retract.

Interesting.

If he were elected, he would be the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the presidency, except he would have a lot more power, and he would be much harder to control. How would we address the problem? Many dementia patients become combative and paranoid, and Biden is already showing signs of both problems. They also exhibit profound denial. He might have to be forced from office.

It’s an engrossing puzzle, but the bottom line is that whatever America’s problems are, we need to repent and pray. Our disease and leadership problems are the result of sin, period. If we want things to get better, we have to go out the same way we came in: via the supernatural route.

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.