Experiencing Horseness

I am manspreading as I write this.

This morning, I felt it was important to come back with more inconclusive, ignorance-based, homophobic, anecdotal evidence concerning my favorite horse medication: ivermectin.

About 24 days ago, in Turkey, I got what gastroenterologists refer to as “the squirts.” I also had nausea. This lasted a few hours. I developed a sore throat and sinusitis, and while the throat problem didn’t last long, the sinusitis is still with me. I also had a couple of days during which my joints hurt every time they took an impact. For quite a while, I had to remove big collections of large, hard objects from my nostrils several times daily, and after that, things tapered off to a mildly runny nose and a general reduction in energy.

Some days are better than others. For about two weeks, I’ve barely been sick at all, but I miss my energy. Usually my energy is at 120%, and it has been more like 90% most days.

Last night, I felt pretty good, but late in the evening, I started having to blow my nose, and I felt like I was on the downward slope again. The thing that really annoyed me was that I could barely taste dinner. It was as though I had been sucking on galvanized nails for a week, and I was trying to taste the food through the zinc.

I had not been sucking on galvanized nails, by the way. I want to stress that. I did take some zinc, but I washed it down as quickly as I could. Don’t suck on nails. I don’t know if anyone is recommending it, but I am against it.

I reached for the ivermectin.

I hadn’t had a big dose in days. I hadn’t felt very bad, and I didn’t know if it was a bright idea to far exceed the usual therapeutic dosing schedule for a patient without hooves. I had decided to let things run their course, but last night I was a little fed up.

I took an amount of horse paste which contained something approximating 12 milligrams of the backward, white supremacist remedy. I swooned briefly, and while I was out, I saw Nathan Bedford Forrest hovering over me, riding Mr. Ed. He said, “You will recover, boy. You still have much work to do, marginalizing disadvantaged peoples and misgendering Hollywood’s anointed. Now give Ed here a squirt of that miracle juice. He’s feeling puny.”

While he was talking, an apparition resembling Jamie Foxx rode in on a horse made by Boston Dynamics and started beating him with a unisex purse. Then the Dukes of Hazzard rolled up in the still-beflagged General Lee, wearing Viking helmets. Nancy Pelosi ran into the scene, carrying St. Fauci like the smirking devil baby in The Passion of the Christ, and well, after that, everything is a blur.

When I came to, lying on the king-size MAGA Afghan I crocheted last fall from wool sheared from genetically modified sheep which were eventually eaten by Steve Bannon, I knew everything was going to be fine.

It’s possible everything I just wrote is untrue, even though I’m not a journalist or famous government doctor.

Anyway, when I got up today, I felt great, but I was curious about something. I had to find out. I went and grabbed a piece of a chocolate bar I had left in the fridge. I could taste it! I ate the rest of it.

I had to be sure. It was for science.

My energy is like 105%, and I feel very good. This is the third time I have had a quick, decisive improvement after taking this discredited, highly toxic, racist, snowflake-triggering, cisgender drug, which has not been proven to not contain xenomorph DNA.

Does it mean it did anything? Of course, I do not know. But for the rest of my life, I am going to take ivermectin whenever I have a viral problem. It might be doing something, and like I always say, the placebo effect is better than no effect at all.

Maybe I have coronavirus, and my negative tests are wrong. Maybe the tests are right and the drug is still making me feel better. Web sources claim ivermectin’s antiviral activity is not limited to coronavirus, so for all I know, it’s helping me with something else. Whatever I have, I am eager to be free of the niggling symptoms that hang on like discredited leftist canards about George Bush. Who didn’t lie about weapons of mass destruction.

The great thing about coronavirus is that it’s like global warming. No one knows the truth, but everyone feels entitled to hate and plot to kill people who disagree with their special, unsupported view of things.

I’m in a great position, because everyone gets to hate me. I say vaccines aren’t the mark of the beast and don’t contain microchips, and I say they seem to work, so conservatives can hate me. I say masks don’t work, the vaccines could be dangerous, and ivermectin seems to help, and I keep pointing out that coronavirus is hitting full-compliance areas hard while near-zero-compliance Zambia is essentially coronavirus-free, so leftists can hate me.

I was capitalizing “Mark of the Beast” yesterday, because there is only one mark, but the Bible doesn’t capitalize it, so I quit today. Maybe I’ll start doing it again. I don’t know.

Hate me, hate me, hate me. Treat yourself. Don’t be left out. You can’t make me feel bad, and if you get within 500 yards of my house, I can kill you and all your friends without walking outside or using up even 1% of my hoarded ammunition, so you can’t scare me. Enjoy looking down on me and wishing me dead. After blogging as a conservative for 19 years and being driven out of two churches, I am used to it.

Of course, you should not hate me, and I am not planning to shoot anyone. I’m just joking because ivermectin and hot chocolate have left me feeling euphoric. Let’s say 110%.

Continuing in my usual end-time-ivermectin-warming-denier-Bible-clinger mansplaining mode, let me discuss the apocalypse.

Last night, I saw Perry Stone talking about the seven seals of the Revelation. In case you haven’t memorized the Bible, a scroll will appear in heaven, and it will have seven seals on it. Jesus will open the seals one at a time, and every time a seal is opened, an apocalyptic stage will begin.

Each of the first four seals releases a horseman of the apocalypse. The first horse is white, with a crown, and he goes out “to conquer.” Then we get a red horse, a black horse, and a greenish horse, and they represent murder, lack, and death by disease and animal attacks and so on. I may have the order wrong.

I think the white horseman is Jesus. First of all, the horse is white, and everyone who claims to have seen God says God is bathed in white light, to such an extent that his hair looks whiter than bleached wool. Also, the white horseman is the only one with a crown, and he is sent out to conquer, which would appear to duplicate the purpose of the red horseman if his intentions were evil. The red horseman brings war, which is how conquest is done. It seems to me that it makes no sense to have two evil horsemen who do the same thing.

Later in the Revelation, Jesus appears again as a rider on a white horse, wearing a crown.

Stone has a couple of objections to my beliefs.

First, he thinks the tribulation has to be in full swing when the horsemen show up. I disagree. If you look at the seals, you will see that things don’t get really bad until number 6 is opened. In fact, 7 is the killer. My impression is that the problems of seals one through 4 can begin before the actual tribulation occurs. They represent stages of the apocalypse, but the apocalypse is not the tribulation. The tribulation is part of the apocalypse. The apocalypse is the entire set of end-time events, from the time the world becomes permanently changed until the end of the millennium.

The word “tribulation” refers to very bad times during which people will feel like bits of grain being crushed between a steel spike on a tribulum and a stone floor. We don’t see those things happening in the present, and we also don’t see them in the Revelation while the first 4 seals are being opened. The tribulation is called the day of God’s wrath, and it isn’t until seal 6 is removed that the Revelation says the day of his wrath has arrived.

It seems pretty clear that the TRIBULATION starts when seal 6 is opened, long after the APOCALYPSE has started.

Second objection: the white horseman wears a crown or crowns in Revelation 6 and Revelation 19, but the Greek is different. Later on, John uses the word “diadema,” which means the sort of crown a king wears. In Revelation 6, he uses the world “stefanos,” which can mean a leafed thing a triumphant athlete would wear. It’s not always a crown of royalty.

Problem for Stone: in Revelation 14, Jesus appears wearing a golden stefanos. That pretty much obliterates Stone’s objection. It’s surprising he hasn’t noticed, because he spends his whole life buried in his library.

Jesus doesn’t always wear the same crown, as the Romans who crucified him could tell you.

The first white horseman carries a bow, which would be consistent with the mission of Jesus. The other three deal with the masses. War, famine, and disease hit nations, not individuals. A bow can only strike one person at a time, just as the Holy Spirit does. Jesus chooses individuals out of families and nations. He doesn’t sweep entire countries into the fold.

Of course, I could be wrong, but Stone is definitely wrong about the crown and the beginning of the tribulation.

Stone believes in a pre-tribulation rapture, and so do I. His belief probably biases him against believing the horsemen have been released, because he thinks their release indicates the start of the tribulation. If they have been released, in Stone’s mind, the tribulation has started. We are still here, so if the horsemen are here, how can there be a pre-tribulation rapture? If, however, the tribulation starts with seal 6, then the horsemen can cause trouble before the rapture without wrecking the pre-tribulation theory.

Stone also says the first white horseman can’t be Jesus because Jesus is in heaven during the tribulation, and the horseman is on Earth. That’s a very weird belief. Jesus has visited me twice, and I have been on Earth all my life. I’m not alone. He visits people all the time. He visited my wife. He visited my last pastor’s father. In fact, in the gospels, he promised he would visit each of us. Also, the Bible says he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and people are baptized with the Holy Spirit on Earth.

Stone thinks people are too upset about the disasters and problems we are seeing. He says there have been disasters before. But were they like the ones we have now?

1. Were they global? Generally, no. For example, the Black Death never reached the Americas. The smallpox epidemics that wiped out American Indians didn’t hurt the Old World.

2. Did they combine hatred, lack, and disease? No. The Spanish flu didn’t make us want to kill each other. The Black Death brought revival and incredible prosperity; look it up. It made tens of millions financially prosperous for the first time. The present day combines disease, lack, and irrational division and hatred on a global scale. When has that happened before? And we are seeing worldwide shortages that are extremely serious and completely unrelated to coronavirus.

3. Did they come at a time when the world’s last great Christian nation had turned away from Jesus, decisively, leaving no remaining haven for God’s persecuted children? No.

4. Did they come right after the sudden restoration of the nation of Israel? No.

5. Did they come during times when complete surveillance and the destruction of free will were right around the corner due to improvements in technology? No.

There has never been a time like the present. Comparing it to eras even as recent as 20 years ago is silly.

There have only been two previous pandemics. I mean real pandemics. No one talks about that. The first was the plague pandemic of 1855, which gets an asterisk because it did not amount to much in many places, and the second was the Spanish flu.

Syphilis and AIDS have been called pandemics, but are they? Syphilis and AIDS don’t affect that many people, and they are hard to catch. Statistics show that if it weren’t for anal sex between homosexual men, AIDS would have nearly disappeared by now. If I were the only person on Earth who did not have AIDS, I would still almost certainly escape infection until I died from some other cause.

You could call the common cold a pandemic if you were really determined. It’s global, all the time. But it’s not serious. You could call herpes or papillomavirus pandemics, but they haven’t put us in masks or caused us to close borders. Maybe we should call our yearly flu outbreaks pandemics, but we take them in stride, and they are not considered disasters.

A real pandemic reaches every continent and causes very serious problems. A pandemic that leaves a hemisphere untouched is a contradiction in terms.

Stone is wrong when he tells us things aren’t that bad now. We are facing extraordinary, unprecedented problems, and we don’t have a reasonable expectation that currently known responses will end them. We have no idea when or if we will be able to fix things.

The troubles of the apocalypse are supernatural in origin, and one of the symptoms of supernatural opposition is an epidemic of stupid decisions. When spirits get to work on people who don’t commune with the Spirit of Holiness every day, those people, who may be otherwise competent, do very stupid things that make their lives worse.

We’ve made a lot of stupid decisions with regard to coronavirus and many other things. We treated the entire population as though it were at risk instead of focusing on the old, the fat, and the sick, as we should have. We destroyed the American work ethic through systematic handouts that caused labor shortages. We elected a senile buffoon who helped create an artificial energy crisis while we were sitting on oceans of oil. A good percentage of us decided panty-wearing men with fetishes were women, and we became firmly convinced that the human anus is a sexual organ. We chose to promote sexual perversion and even to force it on Christian nations at a time when God was clearly not pleased with us.

People are not naturally as stupid as we now seem. We need help to be this stupid. It comes from spirits that talk to us day and night. We should have a constant connection to the Spirit of Holiness, but he’s unfashionable, so substitute deities take his place and convince us to destroy ourselves so Satan doesn’t have to exert himself.

We’re all like teenagers. When your teenager eats a Tide pod or lets a friend with an IQ of 85 give her a genital piercing with a dirty needle, it’s always because she was listening to an idiot instead of her father. The Spirit of Holiness is supposed to instruct us all day. Instead, we listen to morons via Facebook, Tiktok, CNN, and the entertainment industry. We have chosen to be fatherless. Fathers are extremely important. Moreso than mothers. Kids without mothers are much less likely than fatherless kids to be poor or end up in prison.

The other day, I found two dead mice in my traps. I thought about the work of killing and disposing of them, and I thought, “Boy, it would be great if I could get them to kill each other.” If mice were people, I could do it easily. Satan has done it. Mice aren’t as susceptible to disinformation and delusion as we are.

If mice were like people, right now, male mice would be ignoring females and raping each other all day, female mice would be eating their young and feeling empowered because of it, and herds of mice would be assembling in armies and tearing each other to pieces for no good reason. It would be wonderful, apart from the raping.

I could copy Tiktok. Instead of the Tide pod challenge, I’d dare the mice to take the mouse trap challenge, the rat poison challenge, and the slap-the-cat challenge.

I think the four horsemen are loose. Come back and correct me in three months if coronavirus is gone and the world has regained its sanity.

I think my use of the term “regained” is generous.

Plus: How Zambia Ended the Coronavirus Epidemic Ahead of the USA by Doing Nothing

I am a big fan of Perry Stone, the evangelist, but I have learned that he has limitations. He’s great when it comes to putting together the hidden order of the Bible. He sees connections God doesn’t seem to show anyone else. He also promotes Christianity as the supernatural experience it is, complete with miracles and prophecy. On the other hand, he hangs around with money preachers, and he has sunk so low in that regard, he has made repeat appearances with Steve Munsey, a disgraced fraud who teaches lies in order to make himself rich so he can live out his covetous white trash fantasies.

Stone also got in trouble for his behavior with female employees, and that seems to indicate that his relationship with God has hit some bumps. He always talks about the long hours he works. That must be the problem. You have to spend long hours in prayer in order to stay on course. You can’t serve two masters well.

Stone just put up an interesting video. He says he woke up and heard the words, “Their table shall become a snare to them,” referring to Biden and his cronies. Then he quoted Psalm 69, which you should read now. It’s a Messianic psalm, about the Jews who rejected Yeshua. It’s about the cruelty of the crucifixion. It also shows how the enemies of God would go on to persecute God’s children. Stone thinks it’s about David, but that’s not the fundamental meaning.

A person like Biden can’t have colleagues or associates. Just cronies. He’s a career crony, himself.

Stone thinks the word he heard was about Biden underlings who were plotting against us. That sounds likely.

I don’t always pay attention to alleged supernatural utterances, but Stone said something that makes me think this one was genuine. He said it happened when he was neither asleep nor awake.

I have found that visions and audible voices tend to come when I’m waking up or falling asleep. Somehow, the supernatural world is more perceptible at such times. It may be that even demon worshipers have noticed it. The famous witch doctor, Carlos Castaneda, said something that has stuck with me: “The twilight is the crack between the worlds.” I have wondered whether he was referring to the kind of phenomena I have experienced.

I just read that the relationship between Luke Skywalker and Yoda the hairless feral cat, AKA the Grinch’s baby, was inspired by Castaneda’s works. I quit watching anything related to Star Wars because of the occult content, and now I see I was right to do it, although the bad writing would also have been a good reason.

Who is “they,” in reference to the voice Stone heard? Biden and his cronies? Does it include the American people, who are 100% responsible for every evil the Biden regime does? Maybe it’s just people in America who don’t belong to God.

Stone says a table can represent a place where people eat, or it can be a place where people meet to do business. I don’t recall any references in the Bible where a table was a meeting place, like King Arthur’s Round Table or the Algonquin Round Table, or Fonzie’s table at Arnold’s Restaurant. Maybe I’ve missed some things.

Psalm 23 says, “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies,” clearly referring to a place where a person is fed. Another psalm says the children of the blessed will be like olive plants round about his table, and that has to mean a dining table.

It seems to me that the most likely meaning of Stone’s manifestation is that Biden and his pals will go to a table to butcher and eat God’s sheep through predatory legislation and executive action, and it will backfire on them. Whether or not this is what the words meant, they are definitely meeting to plot against us and consume us.

In the Bible, snares often trap the people who set them. The Bible says the wicked are caught in the pit they dig. A psalmist asks God to cause the wicked to fall into their own nets while he escapes. The crucifixion was intended to destroy Jesus, but it saved billions of people, dethroned and humiliated Satan, and cemented Jesus’ position as the ruler of heaven and Earth.

Psalm 9 says this: “The heathen (“goyim,” or “non-Jewish nations”) are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.” Christians are not Jews, but in the current age, real Christians share in their persecution.

Here’s an important question: who did Perry Stone hear? God? An angel sent by God? A demon trying to mislead him and his followers?

I heard a demon a year or two ago. I was sleeping fitfully because of stress, and as I woke up, I heard a snotty female voice say, “See you again soon.” A few days ago, my wife woke up and heard, “October 26th.” We don’t know who that was. A few days ago, she heard a male voice complaining about the continued availability of videos from T.B. Joshua, an evangelist who died in June. The voice asked why videos from a “f___ing dead guy” were still being watched. It was obviously not the voice of God. Rhodah believes she heard an evil spirit yelling at other evil spirits.

Joshua was removed from Youtube because a group of sexual deviants was offended by a video in which he cast out demons of sexual perversion. Not long after, he died suddenly.

My wife wonders whether October 26th is the date of the rapture. Anything is possible. The date was concealed in the time of Jesus, and for all we know, it may not be revealed until the event is underway, but there is no scripture that says God can’t disclose it earlier.

On the other hand, what if Satan wants my wife and me to think October 26th is the big day, so we run around making fools of ourselves, claiming we know the date and laying the groundwork for people to mock God and Christians?

What if it’s about something else? Maybe Satan wants to harm me or Rhodah on the 26th.

Satan can’t predict the future. He has no idea what’s going to happen on October 26th. He isn’t omniscient. He probably gets much of his news from the Internet, like everyone else. That wouldn’t prevent him from making things up, though. If it weren’t for lies, he would have precious little to say.

I still have a little sinusitis, and food tastes odd. What if I have coronavirus, and Satan wants us to think I’m going to die on October 26th?

He is the false god of a burning septic tank which stinks partly because of his presence. He is always sending bogus messages upstairs because hate is all he has.

According to the Bible, Satan will be “canceled.” He has done a great job, removing conservatives and Christians from the public eye and ear, and the same thing will be done to him. He’s just doing what God is going to do to him shortly. After 7 years of tribulation, God will flick him into the pit as you and I might flick a cockroach off a toilet seat and into the bowl, and Satan will be deplatformed for a whole millennium. Assuming President Trump is saved, this may well be the sweetest revenge a human being has ever had. There will be a short war at the end of the millennium, and after that, Satan will burn forever, far away, unseen and unheard.

I am not a big fan of suffering, but death does not scare me at all. It means I get to drop this failing sack of meat for good, along with my reading glasses. It means I get to swim in a sea of love forever, surrounded by people who believe exactly what I do and who think I’m great. Life in the supernatural realm should be a reward, not a punishment. For me, I mean, if I manage not to blow it. For Satan, it’s humiliation and failure, to be followed by agony and obscurity.

If I were going to die from COVID-19, I would want to have a sudden heart attack or stroke, not days or weeks of gasping for breath. I’m not placing an order, you understand. But even an unpleasant illness would be temporary and eventually forgotten, and life in heaven will be eternal.

We don’t know what “October 26th” was supposed to mean, though, and even if it were a threat, it would have come from someone who can’t deliver.

If I had to guess, I would say the message Stone heard came from God, and it means the people who voted against Trump and want to see conservatives, Christians, men, and Caucasians tormented and disempowered will end up suffering the fate they intended for God’s elect. Isn’t that how leftism always works? People who serve the devil try to stick it to the man, and they end up sticking it to themselves. When Lenin and Stalin had their great successes in 1917, I doubt either of them said, “This will lead to a glorious future of poverty, famine, embarrassment, subordination to the West, and terror for all!” That’s exactly what happened, however.

If the czar and his family hadn’t been murdered by leftists, Russia would have evolved quickly, and it would probably have ended up about like England or Canada, only much richer. That would have been wonderful compared to the horror of the successes of socialism. Maybe a strong Russia would have intimidated Hitler and prevented World War Two. Instead, a weak, evil Russia allied itself with Germany and invaded Poland, and in the following years, the bodies of Russians killed by Russia’s former ally piled up.

No one seems to know Russia invaded Poland with Germany. Remarkable. I get tired of hearing people claim Russia deserves more credit than the USA for ending the war in Europe. What if the USSR hadn’t helped Hitler start the war?

Satan lives in a basement, not to mention abasement, and the Romanovs were massacred in a basement. I wonder if that was a message.

If God gave Perry Stone a message, is it really news? It shouldn’t be. Christians who aren’t completely ignorant know leftism is of the devil, and they know Biden is a punishment inflicted on a nation that deserves him. They know God rewards the enemies of his children.

I guess it’s not a big story.

Final, unrelated note: Zambia’s coronavirus epidemic is OVER. It’s done. Almost no one is coming down with coronavirus, and this is AFTER enduring the spike every other country has seen. The current vaccination rate is 2.2%, and Zambians do a terrible job of masking and social distancing.

Zambia’s constitution says Zambia is a Christian nation, and homosexual acts are barred by law there. Meanwhile, the USA is putting up pro-sodomy flags at its embassies and coercing African nations to sin and insult God in exchange for aid.

While all this is happening, high-vax, leftist-controlled places like Minnesota, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Israel are still getting hit hard.

Tell me again about THE SCIENCE.

One More Appalling Threshold

I’m still not over gay Superman.

Ever since I heard about DC’s new Superman’s status as the sort of superhero who lets other men use his tortured orifices for sexual pleasure, I have been texting people, groaning aloud, and complaining to Marvin. How can you respect a superhero who has to have another man get off his back before saving you?

In remarkably timely related news, it looks like archaologists have found Sodom. I don’t mean Christian archaeologists with high school educations. I mean secular archaeologists who rely on traditional scientific methods.

In southern Jordan, to the northeast of the Dead Sea, there is a tel. A tel is a mound where a settlement used to be. The tel is named Tall el Hammam. Scientists have been working it over for a long time. They now say they believe it was bigger and more important than Jerusalem in its time, and they believe it was blown apart and melted in around 1650 BC, putting it in the temporal ballpark with the destruction of Sodom.

Their theory is that a meteor exploded above it, because the city got so hot, there is no other natural explanation. Clay and stone melted. The people of the Bronze Age couldn’t create that kind of heat.

I don’t know why the Bronze Age was called the Bronze Age, when steel was already being produced, but then I am to historians what Joy Behar is to political scientists.

Meteors are interesting because go off like bombs even though they’re made of things that aren’t explosive. They move really fast, and that causes them to blow up. Meteor craters are usually round, even though meteors don’t usually hit the earth head-on. They’re round because they blow up when they hit the earth. Their kinetic energy is so great, when they hit the earth, the energy suddenly turns into immense heat, so a lump of iron and nickel can go off like a cherry bomb.

Nearly all meteors burn up or explode in flight. Friction with the air can heat a meteor until it explodes. It is believed that the famous Tunguska blast of 1908 was caused by a big meteor that exploded before it could hit the ground in Siberia. It blew up with more energy than all but the biggest fission bombs, and it looks like whatever flattened Sodom was even bigger.

The scientists found debris over a wide area, including severed limbs without bodies. They think whatever hit Sodom destroyed some things with heat and others with explosive forces.

Is Tall el Hammam Sodom? The flippant answer to that question is, “No, it’s one of the dozens of other huge cities by the Dead Sea that were blown up and melted in the 17th century BC.” I think it’s Sodom. If not, where is Sodom, and why isn’t Tall el Hammam mentioned in the Bible? I’m going to go with it.

Gays like to say Sodom was only destroyed because the Sodomites were selfish. They like to say that when they’re not saying the Bible is nonsense, I mean. The truth is that homosexuality was a huge factor. Sodom was also destroyed because of greed, cruelty, and selfishness, but the final straw was the attempted rape of the angels by a gang of men, and later in the Bible, the term “sodomite” is used to mean “homosexual,” not “greedy, selfish, cruel person.” The Hebrews became greedy and selfish, but God never called them sodomites because of it. He called homosexuality an abomination. He never said that about greed or selfishness.

Did a meteor hit Sodom? I doubt it. I think it was just God’s power, perhaps wielded through angels. God doesn’t need meteors to get things done. He still does miracles, and they don’t involve obvious natural means. An event which has a natural cause is not a miracle. By definition, an miracle has to defy nature.

Joe Biden has turned America’s troops and diplomats into a legion of homosexuality conquistadors, we’re putting rainbow flags up in countries where same-sex romance is about as welcome as Ebola, Superman’s bodily openings are being used like a girl’s, and suddenly, the location of Sodom has been revealed, confirming the account in Genesis.

It must all be coincidence.

California just passed a law preventing toy stores from having separate aisles dedicated to boys and girls, and it’s also illegal to use pink and blue to distinguish the sexes. Did I fail to mention that? I should have thrown that in.

Over 10% of Americans have the misfortune to live in California, so when California passes a sick law involving products or retailing, companies that have to comply with it are likely to force California’s standards on the rest of us to reduce costs. I wonder if toy stores in relatively healthy states are going to start obeying California’s gendrification law.

It’s horrifying to think that flakes elected by Californians can rule over the rest of us, but it’s true, just as it’s true that extremist Muslim leaders changed the security rules for airline passengers the world over.

I can’t wait to see what happens next. The blessed get more and more blessed, which is wonderful to see, and the cursed get more and more cursed, which is, sadly, interesting because of morbid curiosity. The rapture will be the culmination of a centrifuging process. Nobody will remain where they are. Everyone will ascend or descend.

I can’t relax. I guess I will be wound up for the rest of the evening.

Is This Really Earth?

I feel bummed out today. I can think of three reasons, and one contains a movie spoiler, so don’t read if you like James Bond.

1. I started drinking coffee because I was sick, I got used to it, and today I didn’t drink any. Going off caffeine depresses your mood temporarily.

2. I am sad because of the way computers are taking over the world and turning us into a bot swarm made of tattooed meat. It makes me feel sad for the world, and it makes me feel cut off from my own species.

3. I found out James Bond died, for sure, in the latest movie. Somehow, that seems like the latest in a long series of Satan’s blows at masculinity and America. I realize James Bond is supposed to be a British agent, but be serious. He has always acted like an American, he has always used props England could never afford or produce, and he has always been on our side.

Films like the James Bond series are made pretty much exclusively by Americans, except for the Bond films themselves.

A number of years ago, I said computers would eventually learn things about us before we did, or before we wanted them to be known by others, even if they weren’t programmed to do it. I said people would find out they had things like cancer because their computers would start showing them ads for things sick people buy. It had to happen whether we told computers to do it or not, because life isn’t that complicated. One human being is much like another, and we react to experiences very similarly. If enough people Google chemotherapy drugs AND Hungry Man Dinners AND Air Supply CD’s AND orange socks, sooner or later computers will see the correlations, and they will start recommending things that make unsuspecting Internet users realize they’re sick.

Computers that aren’t necessarily intended to pry into our private business and draw disturbing conclusions about us will certainly do it, because they don’t know any better. They will detect correlations we haven’t figured out, before we do, and they will let us know about them.

Today I found out it had already happened.

The father of a young woman in Minnesota found out she was pregnant by looking at ads Target sent to his house. She was buying things women tend to buy when they’re with child, and Target started offering her other things that were clearly aimed at pregnant women. Her dad got angry and went to Target to talk to the manager. He thought Target was pushing an innocent virgin to get pregnant. Then she told him she was expecting.

If it has happened to one woman, and we know about it, the same type of thing has happened to millions of other people, and in all likelihood, the people who store and weaponize our personal information are usually the only ones who are aware it’s happening.

If there is a mercy in the story, it’s that Target’s computers were helped by a human being. Do computers still need help? I’m sure they need a lot less now.

The Target story came out in 2012. That was 9 years ago. Computers have gotten much sharper since then. I’m surprised we’re not already hearing knocks on our doors. Criminals probably tend to buy certain things, depending on their crimes of choice. Are the cops teaming up with nerds to create pre-crime bureaus?

Of course they are, now that I think about it. We’ve already seen them at work. In 2013, two murderers set off a bomb at the Boston Marathon, and the bomb was made from a pressure cooker. Not long afterward, the husband of then-blogger Michele Catalano got a visit from the authorities. He had searched for pressure cookers online. It turns out pressure cookers are also used to cook food.

The fuss over his search went away, but you have to wonder how many other people are on lists now. The pressure cooker incident drew negative attention to the government. Do you think that made them quit what they were doing, or do you think they just decided to keep it quiet? I’ll bet Edward Snowden knows.

I’m an attorney, so I know a little bit about evidence. If the authorities do something improper to get evidence, the evidence may be inadmissible, and in some cases, they may cause a public stench which is too big a price to pay for a conviction. It would make sense, then, for the authorities to avoid using such evidence in court. That being said, crooked law enforcement people could obtain evidence in objectionable ways, cover their tracks, and then dig up more evidence which can’t be shown to be tainted.

I guess I’m conflating two things. It bothers me that the Internet is developing deductive powers that seem godlike to human beings, and it also bothers me that we can’t prevent the government from using technology to make the Fourth Amendment even more of a fiction than it already is.

There is nothing we can do about any of this. It’s way too late. Technology is too decentralized and too tantalizing to control, and besides, man is just like a monkey. When you give a monkey a stick, it will always look for someone to hit with it.

You don’t have to shop online to end up in a database, by the way. Wal-Mart sends me emails when I shop in person, congratulating me on my newly purchased canned peas and elbow macaroni. I have no idea how they know it’s me. Credit card, I guess.

Both of the grocery stores I use regularly have loyalty programs, so they know what I buy, too. So does CVS.

Today I feel like there is no reason for me to be here. On Earth. I’m being absorbed nonconsensually into an electronically connected, increasingly trashy, authoritarian global family I want nothing to do with. My fellow Americans have gone completely insane, to the point where they try to get people fired for calling men, men. Evangelism is going almost nowhere. Free will is vanishing. It appears that economic disaster is going to hit us any minute now. On top of all this, every time I go anywhere outside my state, I have to wear a mask that does absolutely nothing except for making me very uncomfortable.

What are my wife and I still doing here?

Freedom, order, morality, and prosperity are unnatural. Throughout history, most people have been oppressed, lawless, corrupt, and poor. Like the Chinese. God alone has made a few nations havens where people behaved reasonably well. Now America has fired God.

Yesterday, I saw a fascinating video about real estate. A South African who lived in China said the real estate markets in places like Canada, Europe, and America were being propped up and ruined by the Chinese. He said the Chinese shelter their money in real estate, and many of them want to get out of China. Rich Chinese people show up in places like Vancouver and pay top dollar in cash, driving up home prices. Then they lie and say their income is very low, like under $15,000. China won’t help other governments verify their claims. They end up owning expensive homes in the West while contributing very little in taxes.

He said this is what happens when a low-trust country interacts with a high-trust country. I thought that was brilliant. He gave me labels for characteristics I have observed for a long time. People from corrupt places like China, Mexico, and India move to places like the US, where people are relatively honest, and they bring their dishonesty with them. They use our trust and honest against us. Over time, we become like them. It’s really something.

Christianity made America a decent place to live. In addition to all of our computer-related problems, I think we are becoming a low-trust country. If that’s true, most of the US will start looking a lot like Detroit. Every drugstore will have a bulletproof glass wall we have to shove our credit cards through. Going to Denny’s after 6 p.m. will be like sitting in the front row at a UFC match.

I’m digressing. I started out with technology, and now I’m talking about other things that are making us rot.

Trashy people are like another species. You can’t communicate with them even if you speak the same language. There is never cooperation. There is only detente. I love living in a county where people are good to each other. I don’t know what I’ll do if the disease of trashiness spreads here.

Why hasn’t anyone made a movie about the network of computers turning into near-gods? Of course, they have, but the movies I know about were not realistic. They took place far in the future. They generally featured scary computer systems put in place by malevolent traditional corporations run by white men in suits. They didn’t involve Amazon, Google, and Ebay. They didn’t show people wondering why Facebook knew things about them before they did.

I used to say that TV, phones, and the Internet would eventually be the same thing, and it is now true. No one who has the Internet needs a phone company or cable TV. Here’s another prediction: everything will be the same thing. The online world will be seamless. Entertainment, shopping, socializing, communicating, doing business…you’ll be in the same virtual environment all the time, probably around the clock except for sleep breaks. Banking will be in there, too, and cash won’t exist, so the web’s control over you will be complete.

Buckle up. It’s coming.

Man is too stupid and mean to do this right. It’s not even a possibility. An orange vest from Home Depot will turn most people into tyrants. The ability to control the human race like a flock of pate ducks is a much greater temptation.

I’m going to go pray until I fall asleep. I feel very pessimistic about the world. I think my own future, and my wife’s, are solid. God keeps making things better and better for us. It’s just depressing, thinking about everyone else.

Saturn Munches on his Wokiee Babies

I turned my PC on just now, and I saw Microsoft’s annoying daily photo and question. A question of my own popped into my mind. How long will I continue to have this?

This morning I read that an army of sexually confused people and their supporters were terrorizing a leftist professor in England. Her crime: claiming that “some” so-called trans people, who still had male parts, were actually men. Which, of course, they are, except the word “some” is not helpful.

Human beings all over the world acknowledge that the fundamental purpose of a university is to discover and disseminate truth, and because human beings aren’t sure what the truth is, it is universally accepted that people at universities should be allowed to present their opinions, regardless of what they are, as long as they don’t do things like advocating genocide and so forth.

Actually, I believe people are allowed to advocate genocide, as long as they’re Muslims and they’re advocating the destruction of the Jews.

Anyway, university people claim the right to debate is sacred, but we all know it isn’t. When Christians and conservatives show up to speak on campuses, it’s common for them to be driven out and physically attacked, and often, their appearances are canceled for the “safety” of the precious snowflakes their correct ideas might bruise.

The gender-blender patrol is determined to deplatform the lady professor in question, on top of getting her fired, and she’s a leftist! Increasingly, the left is eating its own. The only ones who will be spared will be the most-left, leftiest leftists. Then I guess they’ll eat each other, too.

It was Stalin who had Trotsky murdered, wasn’t it? Saved capitalists the trouble.

It reminds me of a battle royale. If you’re not a wrestling fan, you may not know what that is. A wrestling promoter will put maybe 20 wrestlers in a ring and tell them to throw each other out onto the concrete. In the end, the wrestler that remains is the winner. Who, on the left, is worthy of the prize? How far left can you get?

We like to say there is a political spectrum, like the color spectrum and the tone spectrum. When you go past the color violet, you get into the ultraviolet band, and supposedly, if you could see it, it would start to look red, because the spectrum would repeat. When you go past G on the scale, you hit a new A, and the scale starts over. Is there a weird, primal form of conservatism to the left of left? Maybe the leftmost leftists will start looking like Pat Boone and Charlton Heston.

Diversity is now thoughtcrime. The whole basis of the pro-diversity movement has been called into question. We have been told repeatedly that diversity brings strength, but leftists clearly don’t believe that, because they are trying to increase their strength by doing away with it.

Without realizing it, they have promoted and then denied a Darwinian sort of theory. In the theory of evolution, genetic diversity is important, because when new selection pressures, like diseases, arise, populations that are genetically too similar can’t fight back. Supposedly, you need a variant or mutant or whatever that can resist, in order to preserve the species. Leftists love to tell us diversity is strength, because a country that contains different types of people will have a wider variety of tools, including ideas, to help it survive.

Now they’re telling us diversity is bad. We need a purebred intelligentsia in which every member can be counted on to respond to every stimulus and challenge in exactly the same way, like the genetically similar banana trees all over the planet which are currently disappearing because they can’t respond to a certain fungus.

It’s a bizarre spectacle.

What does genetic diversity really do? Does it preserve species, or does it do away with huge swaths of them in favor of a few special groups?

Incidentally, I don’t believe in diversity. Diversity is weakness. The strongest society is one that adopts the correct ethos, universally. Unity is strength. The only powerful nation is the family of God, and when that family works correctly, there is zero debate, and there are no opinions, only facts. This is why God and his children will always win in the end. My problem with the left’s orthodoxy isn’t that it stifles debate. It’s that it stifles the wrong people; the ones who have the right ideas.

I don’t think diversity of thought is good, but the left’s sick, cruel orthodoxy is still hypocritical and worthy of comment.

I’m using a donated operating system. Microsoft gave us Windows 10 because it figured it would use it to make so much money off of us, it would be more profitable to give it away. Windows 10 was created by people who, generally, would be happy to see me tied to a post and shot in the head. They are happy to tolerate people like me while we increase their wealth and power, but they long for a world free of dissidents who get in the way of their plan to turn man into a big colonial organism that loves perversion and electric cars and hates coal and Christianity.

Whenever Microsoft wants, it can turn off my Windows machines. It can force fatal updates. I compute at their sufferance. How long will it be until they flip the switch?

If you’re like me, they’ll flip your switch, too, even if you have Unix, Android, or Apple. If they can’t brick your computer and phone, they’ll block you from the web. It will happen. Get ready. Right now, we’re useful, like a host organism the parasites aren’t done eating. When they decide the cake isn’t worth the candle, we’ll be discarded.

In the future, a person who isn’t on the web will barely exist. They will be worse than untouchables.

I just remembered something from Orwell: “unperson.” An unperson was an individual who had been disempowered, captured, and killed by the state. Unpeople were also erased from all records. They didn’t just stop existing. They had never existed at all.

That’s us, before too long.

I keep repeating it: one of the biggest Biblical curses is to have your name and memory forgotten. Orthodox Jews call Jesus “Yeshu,” which is a made up name. It’s a series of Hebrew letters that stand for a phrase that mean, “May his name and memory be blotted out forever.”

Leftists work for Satan, and they want to remove the memory of Christians and Jews from the world. It’s an old theme. God wants to purify the world of people who serve Satan.

Look what Psalm 9 says:

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

When you to go hell, God doesn’t just put you in flames, in the hands of tormenting spirits. He takes away your name. This is probably why Satan is generally called “Satan” instead of his given name. “Satan” just means “adversary.”

You can see it in the story of Lazarus the beggar, which was true. Jesus never called it a parable. Take a look.

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:

For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

Lazarus was a real person, and even in death, he had a name. Abraham, though dead, had a name. Moses had a name. What about the rich man in hell? No name. “A certain rich man.” What about his brothers? No names. The prophets weren’t named, but they were too numerous to list.

Abraham called the rich man “son,” to show he was Jewish and that being Jewish was not a guarantee of salvation.

Interesting digression: Abraham said that if the brothers didn’t listen to Moses and the prophets, who talked about Jesus incessantly, they wouldn’t believe one who returned from the dead. This was proven later, in John 11. Jesus resurrected a man named Lazarus, and instead of listening to Lazarus or taking the miracle as a warning, the Jews in charge of the temple conspired to murder Jesus.

We’re all sitting on virtual thin ice, counting on our enemies to continue enabling us. We feel secure, like rich Jews in Germany in 1930. We think our enemies will never cancel us because we’re too useful and too numerous, and because America isn’t like that. We’ll find out we’re wrong, just like the many famous people the social giants have already crippled. When they want, they’ll be able to get rid of us in days, if not minutes, and they’ll do it with eagerness and no hesitation. They probably have lists.

Being deplatformed is a big deal in terms of a person’s power in the natural world. Look what it did to Trump. No one listens to him any more. Few people know how he feels about current events. Random people with Twitter and Facebook accounts reach thousands or millions, but Trump sits in his social media dungeon, coming out periodically for ineffective visits with people like Sean Hannity. He’s like a prisoner in a penitentiary, telling his visitors to pass notes for him.

George Takei is more powerful than Trump, when it comes to shaping opinions.

George Takei is a horrible, bottom-tier actor. Had it not been for Star Trek, which allowed him to become rich, he would have ended up waiting tables or selling real estate. He has nothing important to say. He’s not particularly smart. Still, because of Facebook, he has a bigger voice than our last president.

This morning I watched a few minutes of an Adam Savage video. He was touring the preserved shop of his dead coworker Grant Imahara. He was wearing a shirt that had “#justicenerd” printed on it. That ended whatever pleasure I got from his channel.

I looked the tag up, and it’s about approval-craving nerdy people grandstanding for “social justice.” Presumably, Savage will be fist-pumping when people like me are rounded up by leftist goons. I like watching Youtube partly because it’s an escape from the Beast’s politics, but he even pops up in tool videos. It will be hard to enjoy watching Adam Savage, knowing he hates me.

It’s too bad Christians can’t unplug and go away right now instead of waiting, but where would you go, and what would you do? You would have to pay all your bills using the mail. You would have to go to your bank in person every week. You would have to call or visit people every time you needed to communicate with them. In many areas, people are required to have computers in order for their children to participate in public schooling. What would your kids do? And shopping would be a nightmare. Imagine being limited to the tiny selection of overpriced things local businesses sell.

It would be like having no phone in 1990.

Maybe the Mark of the Beast will be proof you’re entitled to Internet access. That would make a lot of sense. It’s definitely not a vaccine or a tracking chip.

Oddly, Satan’s children are eagerly working to produce a type of outcome God is working to produce reluctantly. In heaven, there will be no protests or sexual perversion. There will be no environmentalist extremists. There will be no one who doesn’t worship Jesus. There will be no socialism or feminism. The works of the children of darkness will not exist, and the children themselves will be locked away forever, without names, never mentioned. Without influence. Irrelevant. Like trees falling in a far-off forest.

There is always symmetry in the supernatural.

If there were an Uber I could call to take me to heaven, I would be on the phone right now. The world will never be any more hospitable to people like me than it is right now. Today is worse than January 1, and the next January 1 will be worse than today.

Sounds Like my TV When Kenneth Copeland is On

Coronavirus is spiking in blue states where Christianity is unfashionable but masks, vaccines, and lockdowns have near-sacred status. What’s going on?

When purple Florida got hit with a big spike, leftists piled on Ron DeSantis, claiming he caused it. DeSantis is a big proponent of vaccines, but he tried to allow parents to opt out of draconian mask laws for schoolchildren. Leftists started claiming, falsely, that he was banning masks in schools. He has also been instrumental in saving Floridians from blue-state-style mask laws and hard core lockdowns for adults.

Let’s go back over some facts. First of all, masks are ineffective as worn by nearly the entire general public, second, children are at very, very low risk of having serious problems if they contract coronavirus, and third, Florida parents have always been free to make their kids wear masks not just at school, but everywhere. Finally, lockdowns and mask mandates have not proven effective; they have often been followed closely by coronavirus spikes, as was seen recently in Australia.

It’s somewhat comical. When Florida spiked, it proved DeSantis, and by extension all Southerners, Christians, rural residents, and conservatives were backward and evil. Leftist journalists could not stop hammering these themes home. When blue states spiked, however, everything went quiet. Well, not totally. Some leftist journalists kept hammering DeSantis, exactly the way they didn’t hammer Cuomo when his isolation orders killed thousands of senior citizens.

People buy into anti-covid measures because it makes them feel better, not because they work. When a stubborn pestilence hits, everyone wants to feel a sense of being in control. When the Black Death hit, Europeans gave huge sums of wealth to the church because they thought God would heal them in exchange for money. Some people attacked Jews, believing they caused the plague. Doctors wore masks outdoors, just like humanists in Boston and New York do now. Many people flagellated themselves with whips, thinking they would beat God to the punch and divert his wrath. Others resorted to aromatherapy, which was just as useless then as it is now.

Lockdowns make us feel like we have control, even though they do not work unless they are extremely, extremely strict. Social distancing doesn’t work at all, but again, it makes us feel powerful. Ivermectin, vitamin D, famotidine, zinc, and azithromycin haven’t been shown to work reliably, but many people take them anyway. No intelligent person wants to die without trying every reasonable, harmless preventative and remedy, if there is any chance any of them will work.

I have taken ivermectin. I’ve tried vitamin D and zinc, but my usage has been spotty. I bought famotidine just in case. I got myself vaccinated, and I even got a flu vaccine because doctors reported that people who got flu shots were less likely to have severe covid. I will go so far as to admit that wearing a mask makes me feel safer, even though I am aware that it doesn’t help. Even pro-mask researchers tell us masks don’t protect the people who wear them; they’re to protect people around us.

I’m not immune to the irrational drive to take measures in which I have little faith, and I admit it, so I don’t feel bad about criticizing other people who behave similarly and refuse to admit they’re deluding themselves.

I’m getting a little sloppy here. Not all anti-covid measures are delusional. Taking things like ivermectin, which are backed by considerable, if inconsistent, evidence, is optimistic, but not delusional. Getting vaccinated is not delusional, because so far, vaccines protect most people to some degree or other. Pinning your hopes on a mask or on the types of lockdowns free societies can manage is delusional. Making people wear masks on jets, where the air is replaced every three minutes, is beyond delusional. Telling small children to wear masks, which don’t work and which will never be worn properly by most kids, is so delusional the word “delusional” is inadequate to describe it.

Anyway, blue state people appear to have way, way too much confidence in the anti-covid strategies which are currently available in America, and they are also way too scared of the disease itself.

A study showed that 41% of Democrats think over 50% of coronavirus patients require hospitalization. The real answer is below 5% and may be as low as 1%. And “hospitalization” is a broad term. My dad spent several days in the ICU because he had a nosebleed he caused with a Q-Tip. I required hospitalization to have a broken arm set. I wouldn’t dream of assuming that everyone who gets coronavirus treatment at a hospital is in serious trouble. In any case, blue state people are clearly SEVERELY deluded when it comes to the danger the disease presents. They think covid is much worse than it is, and they think preventative measures are much better than they are.

Blue state spikes are severe blows to the sense of control blue state people have inculcated in themselves through bias and stubbornness. One wonders how they will feel as things get worse. Last year, they showed themselves extremely fragile in the face of the corona threat. They posted videos of themselves, screaming. They cursed 2020 as though it were a person. This year, they are doing a little better, but their hatred of people who question anti-covid tools is rupturing their relatively calm facades like magma bursting through the earth’s crust.

Joe Rogan chose not to get vaccinated, and when he got covid, he took ivermectin and other remedies and recovered from his mild symptoms in a few days. His colleague and fellow mediocre comedian Howard Stern lost his mind over this. He said people like Rogan should go home and die. He said, “F___ your freedom.”

Here is some of what Stern, who used to hold himself out as a big proponent of freedom, said:

We have no time for idiots in this country anymore. We don’t want you. We want you to all either go to the hospital, stay home, die there with your COVID, don’t take the cure but don’t clog up our hospitals with your COVID when you finally get it.

Stay home, don’t bother with science, it’s too late. … We want you to go away, We want you to leave the country. Go somewhere where they have ultimate freedom, wherever that is, some bizarro world where you don’t have to take the vaccine. … I don’t know when nonsense became such a thing.”

Needless to say, Stern is campaigning for forced vaccinations, using shots which still have not been approved by the FDA.

His language is remarkable. It shows how Beast-think, the mindset of the Antichrist’s children, works. As I keep saying, the Antichrist isn’t just one man. It’s a body of people with one demon-sculpted mindset. It’s a hive mind. Stern doesn’t hesitate to show that he believes he speaks for the masses. “We” don’t want you. “We” want you to die at home. “We” want you to leave the country.

It’s a genocidal mob mindset. It’s about race, which is another way of saying it’s about family.

There are two races of human beings: the children of light, and the children of darkness. Throughout history, the spirits behind each group have been battling to rid the earth of the other group. The children of darnkess like to talk about inclusivity and cooperation, but it’s not what they want, any more than real Christians want to go on living in a world which has gotten too filthy and hateful to tolerate. They want us gone, and we look forward to a world without them. In the future, they will kill us in droves, like their spiritual leftist ancestors who delivered French loyalists, including an anointed king, to the guillotines in carts.

As plagues go, coronavirus is mild. It’s nothing like smallpox or the Black Death. We have to wear masks and endure some other inconveniences, but there is food on our tables, and the government is not nailing our front doors shut. Not in America, anyway. Yet. Look how crazy we are, though. Imagine how crazy we will get if things get significantly worse.

Leftists already fantasize about removing people from the world in order to create a corona-free utopia where everyone uses the correct pronouns. They take pleasure, publicly, when one of us dies. Many of them discuss the prospects of our deaths openly, with joyful anticipation. That’s how it is now, during a lackluster plague. If a new smallpox pops up, we will murder each other like rats. People will barricade themselves indoors with supplies taken from neighbors they have killed.

It’s going to happen. The Bible predicts it. What if it happens sooner rather than later? What if we don’t have to wait for another disease to bring things to a head? What if covid itself gets worse?

Right now, the vaccines are looking pretty good, so blue-staters still have one peg to hang their suggestive pink hats on, but the vaccines disappoint more and more every day, and there is no reason why something can’t happen to make them completely ineffective at preventing coronavirus from coming back like a brand new disease. What will blue-staters do then?

The new blue state spikes don’t seem to make sense. Blue states have higher vaccine rates, and vaccines seem to work fairly well, so what happened?

For a long time, THE SCIENCE has made predictions that haven’t turned out to be right. It looks like that is still happening. High-vaccination states are getting lots of coronavirus, including severe cases. Meanwhile, Zambia, with its sub-2% rate, no lockdowns, and poor social distancing, only had a tiny spike this summer, and it disappeared very quickly with no action at all from the government.

Leftists keep telling us vaccinations will fix everything, but that hasn’t happened in the US. Meanwhile, other countries with low rates aren’t having problems.

Imagine how leftists would be spewing if Florida’s shot rate were under 2%. They would literally froth at the mouth. We would be lucky if they didn’t come down in chartered buses to kill us. They would have to be driven off the streets with water cannons and rubber bullets. Florida’s shot rate is over 30 times Zambia’s.

Maybe it won’t impress leftists to see someone compare Florida with Zambia. How about Zambia and enlightened, far-left Massachusetts? The shot rate in Massachusetts, which is similar to Florida’s, is over 35 times Zambia’s. Zambia has about 3 times the population of Massachusetts. Zambia’s current new case rate is 45 per day, so divide by three, and you get 15. Surely Massachusetts has fewer cases. Maybe one or two per day, right? No. It’s 1539. At its very peak, Zambia never got much above 3500, which corresponds to about 580 for Massachusetts.

On a per-unit-of-population basis, Massachusetts is doing about 2.5 times as badly as a country where people ride around in vans with multiple strangers and almost no one has been vaccinated.

Maybe a leftist will read this and hope I’m cherry-picking. No such luck, chest-feeding comrade. It gets worse when you look at long-term stats. Massachusetts has had 4 times as many cases and 5 times as many deaths. That’s in absolute terms, not relative. Zambia should have had 12 times the cases it has had, and 15 times the deaths, adjusting for population. Throw in the lack of vaccinations and the general lack of a real response, and a good leftist who genuflects for St. Fauci would expect Zambia to have maybe 50 times the cases and 60 times the deaths Massachusetts has had. I would argue that Zambia is doing roughly 50 times as well as blue-state alarmists would generally expect. Or Massachusetts is doing 50 times worse.

It’s not lack of exposure. Zambia has had coronavirus for a long time, including the delta variant. It’s not race. Black people in the US do worse than white people.

I always say this: when something doesn’t make sense, there is generally a supernatural explanation. I think Zambia and similar countries were spared simply because they were not cursed with the same curses Florida, Massachusetts, Hawaii, New York, and other coronavirus hotspots received. What we are seeing appears to be the beginnings of the apocalypse, and God has said that during the apocalypse, human beings will not be able to fix their problems.

Why would God go easy on zany African countries while allowing relatively responsible Americans to be pummeled? I don’t know. I do know that Zambia is a Christian country, as stated in its constitution, and homosexuality is not promoted there the way it is here. Zambians openly oppose it. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Plagues don’t just happen. They are punishments. America has been punished worse than any other nation, including the nation that released coronavirus on the world. Why is that? Could it be our status as the world’s leading exporter of homosexuality and other types of sexual sin? We actively punish countries that don’t go along with our weird new sexual morality, inside their sovereign borders. Africans talk about it all the time. They hate it. The Chinese tell them to side with China because China won’t force perversion on them.

We have done something to bring this on ourselves. That’s certain. We don’t acknowledge it. We don’t have national days of fasting and repentance. That must be why the disease keeps defying logic. Because we aren’t turning back to God, it will surely run its course. Whether that means dying out by an appointed date or clinging to us forever, I don’t know.

Right now, it looks like the current global wave is pooping out. Maybe we’ll never have another one. I hope we won’t. I’m not optimistic. Too many things point to the end of the age.

It looks like waves are hitting something like 8 months apart. If that is true, then it would be a very good sign if we didn’t have another one by the end of May. If something happens anywhere near the center of the interval between August and the beginning of April, it would seem to be a sign that things are worse than we think. If we get hit in, say, January, I will consider it a bad omen.

In unrelated news, today I experienced a remarkable attack on my marriage. I generally expect spirits that influence my wife or me to be the hostile agents. I need to get over that. Experience has taught me that my biggest enemies are Christians who are influenced by spirits.

I was granted persona non grata status at my last two churches because I stood up for what was right. While I served at these churches, nearly all of the people who made my life difficult were pastors and volunteers. No one else bothered me much. Now it’s happening again.

My wife went to church today, and her pastor told her I needed to join a church and start tithing. As if that’s not bad enough, he tried to get her to manipulate me. He tried to get her to stand with him, against me.

He belongs to a group of churches overseen by a man named Oyedepo. Oyedepo is a padawan of Kenneth Copeland, a vile, greedy, hateful liar who destroys people’s lives by sucking up their savings and turning them against God. Oyedepo loves the prosperity gospel. He has 4 jets, which is pretty good for a Nigerian who collects money from poor Africans.

The pastor believes Christians are supposed to tithe, and he believes in “seed offerings.” When you give a seed offering, you pay God to give you more money. You give him a hundred dollars, and soon he turns around and gives you a thousand. The bigger the seed, the bigger the harvest. Kenneth Copeland is very excited about that last bit. People have given him their homes and retirement accounts because they believed God’s big priority was to make them rich, not to transform them and fill them with the gifts and fruit of the Spirit. Generally, people who give such offerings die waiting for God to get back to them, not realizing he already has.

I’ve written about all of this before.

Paul told us the law had been fulfilled and that Christians were not under the law, and people like Copeland repeat this a lot, while insisting we are still under the law of the tithe, which has never, ever applied to gentiles.

I used to tithe and give financial offerings, and I never, ever got a return. I never saw anyone else prosper from tithing. I did see a lot of people lose their jobs and homes while tithing.

Rhodah’s pastor didn’t come to me like a man. He told my wife to teach me bit by bit, to bring me around. He said this to her secretly, sort of like Satan, making plans with Eve while Adam was busy elsewhere.

I don’t think he thought of himself as Satan. I think he has good intentions. I think he’s just ignorant and trapped by the spell of Kenneth Copeland.

The prosperity gospel is a pyramid scheme, and like every pyramid scheme, it turns every hopeful beneficiary into a salesman. Rhodah’s pastor hopes to get rich, so he sells the prosperity gospel to people who will give him money. Some of the people he convinces will surely become preachers, and they, too, will look for potential donors to rope in.

The Bible is very critical of conflicts of interest. Today I looked for verses saying not to take bribes because they pervert judgment, and I thought I would find one. I found a whole bunch. Preachers who hope to become prosperity gospel millionaires can’t think clearly, and God warned us about them.

Last night, before I heard about this, I started thinking about the roles of husbands and wives. I realized I could not think of a single male in the Bible who pleased God by listening to his wife. I could, however, think of a bunch whose wives caused problems.

Adam was cursed for listening to his wife. Go read it. This was the first sin God named. He mentioned the fruit later. Eve was the first drug abuser and pusher. She ate a mind-altering plant and pushed someone else to use it. What she did was very serious, and Adam’s primary sin was going along with it instead of doing his job as a husband.

Job’s wife tried to get him to curse God.

Sarah laughed when God said she would have a son, and she didn’t believe his prophecy. She goaded Abraham into sleeping with a servant and giving rise to a race that still causes the Jews great trouble today.

Lot’s wife didn’t want to leave Sodom. She thought she knew better than her husband, and as a result, he was left without his helper. God killed her. Then his daughters took on the role of wives in her absence, getting him drunk and having sex with him.

Leah deceived Jacob, pretending to be his wife so he would sleep with her. Because of her lie, he was forced to work 7 more years for Laban.

Potiphar’s wife accused Joseph falsely, and Potiphar lost his major domo because be listened to her.

Moses had problems with his wife, who refused to let him circumcise their son. God got so angry, he tried to kill Moses. Only then did the wife perform the surgery herself, to cool God’s anger.

Samson was betrayed by his wife and Delilah, who sided with other people instead of demonstrating a wife’s proper submission and loyalty.

Bathsheba tempted David, leading to the murder of Uriah. His wife Michal ridiculed him instead of honoring him, causing God to curse her womb.

Solomon served his heathen wives instead of God, and he died in disgrace. He failed as a ruler and a father, and he plunged the Hebrews into centuries of bloody division.

Jezebel ruled Ahab and turned Israel into a slaughterhouse for prophets.

Herod’s wife forced him to murder John the Baptist.

It’s a long list, and there are probably other examples. Abigail and Pilate’s wife are the only wives I can think of who had more sense than their husbands.

Rhodah told me about her pastor’s plan on the morning after I thought about these things. God was preparing me.

Rhodah did two smart things. She told her pastor my history and explained that I was not an ignorant person who needed to be taught about tithes, and she also told me everything he said.

I told her to inform him he was not to go through her again. If he had something to tell me, he was to come to me, not my wife. I also told her never to give him any of my money again. Not for prosperity purposes. I said she could give him a few bucks now and then to keep the lights on, but that was it. I said I did not want to be cursed for giving prosperity donations.

It’s surprising that a preacher would not see the problems I identified. You don’t talk to another man’s wife when you can talk to the man. That’s inappropriate. You never try to get a man’s wife to side with you against him.

If he has a problem with this, tough toenails. It would not be the first time I put a preacher in his place and got blowback, so I don’t care. The team is Rhodah and me, not the preacher and Rhodah. If our marriage tanks, he’ll be just fine. He’s not risking anything when he meddles. To me, it’s different. Rhodah is all the flock I have, and she can’t be replaced easily. We have a sacred relationship we are obligated to protect. The relationship between a preacher and a woman who sits in his church is nothing.

It would be nice to go to church, as he suggests, but the age of the church is over, and coronavirus has made attending church impossible. I guess he doesn’t know how things work here.

The more I thought about this demonic attack, the more revelation came to me. I remembered Albert Santiago, the crooked preacher of my last church. A convicted pedophile, he was known for breaking up friendships. If you disagreed with Albert, your friends were told to cut you off, and most would do it. I had another crooked preacher: Rich Wilkerson, of Miami’s Trinity Church. He ruined relationships by turning volunteers into slaves. I remember a sad tale of two young people who had a dream courtship and engagement, only to have it ruined because Trinity’s inner circle pressured the woman not to move to Los Angeles with the man.

Cults interfere with relationships between Christians. Santiago did it. Wilkerson did it. Rhodah’s pastor is doing it. But he is trying it on the wrong couple. He ran into the wrong husband.

Today I prayed for God to destroy and expose Copeland’s and Oyedepo’s foul ministries. I hope Rhodah’s pastor comes around and gives up their poison. I prayed for his correction.

It goes to show how vigilant you have to be. You have to pray in tongues so God gives you revelation, and you have to understand the way the world is supposed to work. God is a father, and one of a father’s functions is to prepare his children to deal with scammers and liars. People who don’t have fathers like that end up buying time shares. Or giving money to Kenneth Copeland.

The Placebo Effect is Better Than no Effect at All

There have been interesting developments in my treatment of my mysterious new disease.

I passed two PCR tests, so I figured the most likely thing was sinusitus. Nonetheless, I put myself through several days of consecutive ivermectin doses, as recommended by doctors in a country where ivermectin is not a politicized drug. I also got myself some amoxicillin and started using it yesterday, figuring it could not hurt.

Yesterday, I didn’t take ivermectin. PCR tests are not accurate by any reasonable definition of the word, but two passed tests told me the odds against me having coronavirus were high. The recommended ivermectin program I was following said it was time to quit, ivermectin was iffy to begin with, and it seemed pretty unlikely that I had covid, so it seemed like I should stop.

Background: the first time I took ivermectin after returning sick from Turkey, it was around 3 a.m. I had just arrived from the airport. I went to sleep an hour later, and when I got up after 4 more hours, I felt much better. My sore throat was not nearly as bad as it had been, and I had a feeling of wellbeing. The drug had been in my system for about 5 hours.

I wondered whether ivermectin could really have done anything in 5 hours. Maybe I was just getting well on my own. Maybe my body was subduing covid, a bacterium, or a virus.

Yesterday, on my first day off ivermectin, I felt good when I got up. I had taken ivermectin every day for the previous 4 days, and while I was still blowing heinous substances out of my nose, I was doing okay. I felt good until mid-afternoon. Then things got worse. I felt feverish, my throat felt sorer, I was very sleepy, and my congestion seemed more severe.

I didn’t know what to do. Based on the tests, it looked like I didn’t have covid, but what if I did, and what if ivermectin had been reducing my symptoms and keeping my lungs clear?

I decided to take a dose before bed. When I woke up later to blow my nose, the feverish feeling was gone, as was the the difficulty of staying awake. My throat was less sore. Once again, I had recovered substantially, several hours after a dose of ivermectin.

So what’s happening? Why did I get worse when I quit? Did I sabotage my recovery by skipping a day of ivermectin, or did I experience a normal fluctuation in the progress of a common non-coronavirus infection? Why did I get well twice, right after taking ivermectin?

Seems like there are four likely possibilities.

1. I have covid, and ivermectin suppresses the symptoms as long as I take it every day.

2. I have something else, and ivermectin suppresses the symptoms as long as I take it every day.

3. I have covid, ivermectin has no effect on it, and the symptoms fluctuate because that’s what covid does.

4. I have something else, ivermectin has no effect on it, and the symptoms fluctuate because that’s what sinusitis does.

If a “journalist” from Rolling Stone were writing this, he would add another alternative.

5. I am slowly dying from ivermectin poisoning, like all those superstitious, flat-earth, Christian sexual conformists who died in the parking lot of that hospital in Oklahoma while misgendering trans nurses.

Whatever is happening, I am now very hesitant to stop taking ivermectin. What if it’s blocking a coronavirus surge? How would I know?

Alternative 2 is interesting. No one ever discusses ivermectin as a possible remedy for viral infections other than coronavirus, but why can’t it be? There are lots of non-covid coronaviruses out there. Maybe they share vulnerabilities with covid, and maybe viruses that aren’t related are in the same boat.

Again, how would I know?

As for amoxicillin, the Internet reading is depressing. A lot of it says bacterial sinusitis goes away after 10 days with amoxicillin treatment, but without treatment, it takes about a week and a half. It looks like doctors are just like me; they prescribe dubious medications simply because they enjoy feeling like they’re doing something.

I really blaspheme doctors. I know that has to annoy people who see them as gods who are much more powerful than they really are. I’m realistic. To me, medicine is no different from shoe repair. It’s something you should evaluate based on logic. To many other people, doctor worship is a religion. Doctors do lots of great stuff, but they are completely useless for many conditions, and because they’re human, they make mistakes and kill a lot of people who show up with things their art can cure.

Can covid cause sinusitis? Yes. Of course not. Definitely. Commonly. Rarely. Never. As usual, THE SCIENCE has no answers, or, rather, it has too many, and all but one, which THE SCIENCE can’t identify yet, are wrong and, in at least some cases, fabricated.

There is one right answer, and we don’t know what it is. We’re like Bruce Lee, kicking mirrors to find out which opponent is real.

I looked at a bunch of non-fringe sites today. Some said sinusitis almost never manifested with coronavirus. Others said there were a few cases, but they were always fungal and found in people with things like diabetes, which I do not have. Others said it was easy to confuse covid symptoms with sinusitis, and the message was that covid sinusitis was common.

It’s amazing how THE SCIENCE is still unable to answer simple, obvious questions after almost two years of the Kung flu, which is, by the way, a CHINESE VIRUS.

I love saying that on a site that hasn’t been censored yet. Chinese virus. Chinese virus. Hong Kong Flu-ey. Flu gu gai pan. Flu shu pork. There are four lights and two genders. Speaking the truth is so liberating in 2021. I think people who haven’t gone crazy yet should get together in rented halls and take turns standing at podiums, saying true things we’re not allowed to say any more. It would be great.

Yes, it’s a Chinese virus. No, you should not hit Chinese people on the subway. Especially if they’re from Taiwan or they were born in the US, or they’re actually Japanese. You shouldn’t beat the Korean deli owner who came into your poor neighborhood and became successful while you didn’t, even though you’re a natural-born US citizen who has been dutifully collecting welfare and waiting for serious wealth redistribution for 60 years. Simple?

We should be able to live by these guidelines. It’s not that hard to acknowledge the origin of the virus and the culpability of the CCP while refraining from racist violence. It’s very important to admit, publicly, that the virus is Chinese, because the CCP needs to be held accountable every single day.

Imagine what headlines about the CCP would look like if the communists were capitalists. “FORCED ABORTIONS CONTINUE.” “CCP REFUSES TO END THE HORROR OF ORGAN HARVESTING.” “THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR SLAVE-MADE PHONE.” It would be wonderful.

I have been going over the symptoms of covid and ordinary sinusitis, and it appears that diarrhea and nausea–my first symptoms–do not occur in sinusitis. Sinus infections also cause headaches and face pain. I have had no face pain, and while I did have a headache, it was so mild there was no point in taking anything for it, although I did, because I was feeling snowflaky.

If it’s true sinusitis never causes gastrointestinal problems, then I must have coronavirus, right?

My insistence that negative PCR’s don’t mean a lot is not fringe stuff or Q Anon drivel. Read and find out for yourself. Even moon-barking, vaccination-Nazi Huffpo published an article by a sick person who got 5 consecutive negatives. People don’t all shed the same numbers of viruses, and virus-shedding varies in different parts of the body and at different times during infections.

I’m going to keep taking ivermectin, because once, I got worse when I stopped taking it, and twice, I got better right after taking it. Maybe it’s chance, but maybe it’s not. I’ll keep taking amoxicillin because there is a miniscule possibility it will cure me of bacterial sinusitis, which I may have, in a shorter time than would be accomplished by doing nothing. I will keep taking guaifenesin every day in order to continue expelling quarts of mucus from my head with minimal difficulty. I will also drink water and take potassium citrate to prevent guaifenesin from giving me kidney stones, because it can do that.

Finally, I plan to get out of the house and walk. I have been huddling indoors because it’s hot, not because I feel bad, which I don’t. Turkey ran around 78 degrees while we were there, so now I’m phobic about going outdoors in steamy Florida. I think inactivity makes respiratory bugs worse.

I’m going to order even more ivermectin, while vendors are willing to sell it. Two months from now, we may start seeing stories in which people like Fauci admit they were wrong about ivermectin. Maybe it will turn out to be very useful for certain people. I want to be ready if that happens, and I don’t mind spending a low three-figure sum in preparation. If it turns out to be useless, I can give it away to horse people.

I would like to have maybe a dozen tubes for myself, and just as many for Rhodah. That ought to get us through a number of bouts, assuming the drug does anything. It could keep us alive until THE SCIENCE finally comes up with something that actually works.

I don’t plan to go to a doctor unless I feel bad. I have been to doctors for stuff like this, and they’re always disappointing. Your average doctor is not House, M.D., and he doesn’t have a team of tormented Ivy League overachievers staying up all night using imaginary Star-Trek-grade equipment to find out what’s wrong with you. Most doctors compare limited, familiar lists of symptoms, just as I have, make educated guesses, and prescribe common drugs every layman knows about. Where I live, I’ll get a guy named Pradeep who had to take the US licensing tests three times before he was allowed to practice. He’s not going to pull a miracle cure out of the air. If there are doctors like that, they’re in New York and Boston.

I’m not kidding about the doctors here. American doctors shun rural communities, and our government gives foreign doctors special incentives to work in them. Look it up and feel bad about doubting me.

The harsh reality is that doctors are a lot like the police. When someone steals your TV and tools, the cops come over and write things down, and then they go back to the police station, file what they wrote, and forget all about you. If the criminal is still standing in your yard when they show up, they will probably do something, but other than that, no, you are never going to see your stuff again. They will not try to dig up “leads.” They will not slip twenties to informants. The only way you will get anything back is if someone does the cops’ work for them and basically drags them to wherever it’s located.

These things aren’t just true of relatively minor crimes. Even the families of murder victims can expect to do a lot of their own legwork, if they expect to get any results.

Doctors don’t sit up nights trying to figure out what’s wrong with you. They assume you have whatever common illness comes closest to explaining your symptoms, and they prescribe exactly what other doctors prescribe. If there is anything remotely unusual about your symptoms, expect them to be just as clueless and ineffective as you are. You’re going to need a specialist, and they screw up a lot, too. Medical history is full of stories of frustrated patients who ended up doing their own research and diagnosing themselves.

I started taking ivermectin as a lark. I never expected to be afraid to stop taking it. Coronavirus is an endless stream of surprises, and sadly, many of the people who get surprised the most are doctors the rest of us depend on.

Horse Paste and Pills for Tropical Fish

I’m all excited today because my amoxicillin is almost here.

I got sick in Turkey, and while the symptoms don’t quite fit strep throat, they are not the most typical symptoms of covid, either, so I feel like I should cover all the treatment options. In the case of covid, that means ivermectin, supplements which probably don’t help, and waiting. In the case of strep, it means amoxicillin.

Today I read that it takes people at least three days to feel better after taking amoxicillin for bacterial infections, so in all likelihood, even if I have strep, taking an antibiotic won’t necessarily make a big difference. I am getting better every day, so even if I do nothing, if I have strep, I should be better in three days regardless of what I do.

Maybe amoxicillin won’t help at all, but I like feeling like I’m doing something.

I ordered 300 500-milligram pills, for $34. This is a huge amount of amoxicillin. My wife and I should be covered for several years.

Why haven’t I gone to a doctor? Because I don’t see any point in spending real money on a minor problem which is clearly going to go away soon whether I treat it or not.

Another reason I haven’t gone to a doctor: I have no faith in them. I will explain.

I am old, and when you’re old, you are full of knowledge you picked up from unpleasant experiences. I have learned that doctors are very good at treating highly treatable problems with which they are very familiar. Outside of that set of ailments, they are bumblers, and they often make things worse.

If you have a wart on your foot, or a broken arm, or you need a coronary bypass or a boob job, a doctor can help you out. If you have a collection of symptoms that don’t quite fit any disease you can find on the Internet, your doctor is likely to be stumped, and he will probably fall back on trial and error, giving you one treatment after another until one works, you leave him and go to another doctor, or you die.

Given human nature, this makes sense, and the principle doesn’t just apply to doctors. Today I realized all professionals are the same way. They are used to seeing the same problems over and over, so they are good at doing a limited number of things, but they get confused when you give them new challenges. Take them a few inches outside the box, and they flounder.

Most professionals are mediocre. Your doctor is probably mediocre. You aren’t qualified to say whether he is or not. You like him because he’s nice to you. That’s what we mean when we use the phrase “good doctor.” Unless you’re exceptionally blessed, your doctor will generally screw up when presented with novel tasks, and you won’t figure it out until he has led you around the mulberry bush for quite some time.

I can back my position up with countless tales of botched diagnoses and treatment, and I know you can, too, even if you’re a doctor and what I say makes you mad. Doctors give each other bad treatments, just like they do the rest of us.

I used to get tonsillitis over and over when I was a kid. People, especially doctors, don’t believe me when I say that. They say my tonsils would have been taken out. Sorry, but what I say is true. The doctors I saw didn’t believe in tonsillectomies.

They gave me antibiotics, which probably were not appropriate. One told my mother I had a herpes virus in my throat, and that the way to keep it from flaring up was to force me drink milk laced with bacteria every day. They all had diplomas up on their walls, but none of them ever solved or understood my seemingly simple problem.

Another doctor told my mother I had a cleft palate. I don’t know if he had murdered a real doctor and stolen his diploma or what, but that’s not a mistake a real doctor should make. Of course, he was wrong.

Another doctor used to tell my mother to keep me out of school whenever my temperature was above 99. He didn’t bother telling her many people have normal temperatures that high, so I got very, very familiar with the Mike Douglas Show while we applied his advice. I could turn a minor cold into a two-week vacation.

I feel like I should only go to doctors for problems only doctors have any chance of treating. These ailments fall into two categories: simple minor ones and complicated serious ones. Right now I have a simple minor problem I can handle as well as a doctor, so I’m staying home.

Remember how we respected doctors 60 years ago? We thought they were wonderful. Meanwhile, they were withholding water from fever patients, smoking in exam rooms, prescribing thalidomide, killing pneumonia patients by telling them to lie flat on their backs, and doing countless other things that made us worse off than if we had never seen them. Human beings probably thought just as highly of doctors back when they were doing bloodlettings with dirty instruments and going from surgery to surgery with pus on their hands. The farther back you look, the more physicians look like witch doctors. Fifty years from now, if the world survives, today’s doctors will also look bad. They are today’s witch doctors. I keep that perspective in mind when I think about medical treatment. Often, I tell God, “Please keep me away from the witch doctors.”

If doctors were really all that great, they would have come up with a credible consensus about coronavirus and masks, and they still have not done that. All they have is a party line determined by politics, not science. They wouldn’t have made fools of themselves by saying it was impossible for the vaccinated to have serious symptoms; vaccinated patients are dying all over the world. They still argue about whether it’s okay to eat eggs. They can’t cure cigarette or opioid addiction. They can’t even fix fat people. It’s important to know what doctors are good at and which challenges reveal how far they still have to go.

Enough of that. Back to me.

Today’s new symptom: food tastes funny. Does it mean I have coronavirus? No idea. Coronavirus is commonly associated with the disappearance of the sense of taste and smell, but this usually happens early, not a week into the disease, and I can still taste and smell things. My food tastes funny, and the flavors are weak, but I can taste it. I had hot chocolate this morning, and I would say it tasted like a mouthful of pennies.

Don’t pretend you don’t know what pennies taste like. You were a kid once.

The worst symptom I have is the constant accumulation of thick, chunky mucus in my nose, like rice pudding with raisins. I have to get up once a night and blow it out. I don’t sleep well. But for that, I would not mind being sick. I have all sorts of energy, and when I’m sick, I’m able to tolerate stimulants, so I’m enjoying coffee and chocolate. On the whole, but for the mucus, it may be preferable to being well. I’m looking forward to having a Lindt bar later. Don’t know if I’ll be able to taste it, but I am determined to try.

I say I have all sorts of energy, but that’s not totally true. At around 8 p.m., I start to flicker out and fall asleep wherever I am. I don’t think that’s because of the disease, though. I think it’s because of the lack of sleep. Also, I was going to bed 7 hours earlier last week, so I may not be in sync with Eastern time yet.

I’m not using ivermectin today, because my course of paste is done, but nonetheless, I have three new tubes on the way. I have no intention of running out while THE SCIENCE is still chasing its tail, trying to figure out whether ivermectin works while uninformed and dishonest physicians lie about it to the press. If they decide it works, the supply will disappear instantly. I plan to be ready.

It’s safe to give billions of doses to Africans for worms, but it’s lethal for Americans with coronavirus. Yeah, okay. Makes complete sense to me.

The vaccines have killed a few people, but ivermectin hasn’t, even when self-administered by bona fide imbeciles. Interesting fact.

Two deaths have been “linked to” ivermectin. After a year and a half of covid disinformation, we all know what “linked to” means. If you get a mild case of covid and fall off a ladder, your death is covid-linked. The ivermectin victims probably died in a car wreck.

About 8,000 people are reported to have been killed by covid vaccines. Not that I’m an anti-vaxxer. I’m vaccinated. I’m just pro-truth.

I hate the way the truth has disappeared. I may not say what you want to hear, because I may not have accepted all of your side’s covid dogma, but I strive to strain out the BS and present the truth. Most people are not doing that. They are telling us there are invisible microchips in liquid vaccines that pass through tiny needles, during a chip shortage. They are telling us masks are highly effective when they barely work at all. They are saying vaccines are the mark of the beast when the Bible makes it clear they are not. The Chinese are claiming the Chinese virus started in a lab in America, which is clearly a giant lie. American journalists are still repeating the moronic claim that an Oklahoma hospital turned away gunshot victims because there were so many people showing up with terminal cases of ivermectin poisoning.

I think the best lie is the magnetism story. People are posting videos of themselves with metal objects stuck to their arms. They claim the vaccines made them magnetic, causing things like copper coins to stick to them. Hello? Copper isn’t magnetic. If copper is sticking to you, you need to start using a washcloth, because your body’s own undisturbed grease is making things cling. If you’re dirty enough, I suppose nearly anything will stick to you.

People who can’t hear the truth can’t be helped, and they are very easy to control. The world’s new truth-deafness is being used to make human beings blame and hate each other, and it will form the basis of the murder pandemic predicted in Revelation 6. It’s already happening.

The only people who can’t be deceived are those who hear from the Holy Spirit, and if you’re not praying in tongues, you’re not one of those people. Christians who call tongues “gibberish” are already out there teaching anti-Semitism and preparing misguided militias to take on mirror-image dupes who think white people cause all the world’s problems.

A lot of the people who believe the chip stories are Christians. It’s embarrassing. Can you imagine how hard and expensive it would be to make a radio chip small enough to go through a hypodermic? The only implantable chips that small have to use ultrasound, not radio, and they only started making them this spring, in a university lab, not in factories. Have you been scanned with an ultrasound probe since getting your vaccine? I haven’t. What would be the point? If they can make you sit still for a probe, they already know where you are, right? What would the chip tell them that they don’t already know? Furthermore, I have to ask: are you walking around with a GPS-enabled phone which constantly tells Google your location to within a couple of yards, while whining about an imaginary locating chip?

You’re not magnetic. You don’t have a chip. The vaccines are not the mark of anything, yet. On the other side of the coin, ivermectin is not poisonous and may be helpful, masks don’t work in practical use, vaccinated people die every day, and closing borders no longer serves any purpose whatsoever, except when we do it to keep illegals out.

When you reject the truth and tell the lies one camp loves, you can be sure at least one faction will love you. When you accept truth and reject lies from all sources, people on every side will hate you.

I cannot wait for this snot to go away. My pills are still not here.

I think I’ll go out and kill squirrels out of season. I have nothing better to do, and I have some legitimate scores to settle. I hope everyone who reads this is preparing for the apocalypse, because the mass delusion which is leading us to an orgy of murders is, like coronavirus, untreatable except by divine means.

Glimpses of Reality

I had a supernatural experience last night, so I feel I should testify for the benefit of other people.

I’ll lay some groundwork first.

Sometimes I see strange things at night. Some are clearly supernatural, but I’m not sure about others.

Often, especially when praying in tongues, I see things through my closed eyelids. Sometimes a little flash of light will go off, as though a tiny star were appearing for an instant. Once, I saw something like that heading for me, and it entered me. I saw it before it got to me, and I saw it go in. My eyes were closed the whole time. I saw the object, but I never saw myself or the room.

Manifestations like this are supernatural. There is no room for doubt.

I have also had the sensation I could see things around me in my dark bedroom. I would feel I could dimly perceive my dresser or TV, or the light that comes in through the glass panes on the bedroom door. I thought it was possible there was a natural explanation. Maybe old eyes don’t close as tightly as young ones. Maybe I thought my eyes were closed, but they were slightly open at the outer corners.

Last night, I woke up at 3 a.m. I was lying on my back. I prayed. I started getting the feeling I could see things through my eyelids.

I closed my eyes tightly and moved my hands in front of my face. I could see them. I only saw dark shadows, but I was sure I was seeing them. When I moved a hand from side to side, the shadow moved the same way. When I moved it up and down, so did the shadow.

Maybe I was just seeing shadows because the room wasn’t completely dark and light was coming through my eyelids. I needed to find out.

I put my left hand over my eyes and repeated the test with my right hand. I still saw the shadows. I literally saw through my left hand, over and over, in the dark. It was unquestionably true.

To make things weirder, the ability to see through objects wasn’t persistent. Sometimes it went away for short periods, and I couldn’t see anything.

What was happening?

The Holy Spirit provides gifts, listed in the first book of Corinthians. One gift is discerning of spirits. Many people think this means sensing that a person teaching doctrine is inspired by a false spirit. I don’t think so. There is also a gift called the word of knowledge, and it would cover smelling out false doctrine, so why would you need a separate gift? Also, we know that Spirit-filled Christians often see or otherwise perceive supernatural beings and objects with their eyes, and none of the other 8 gifts listed in the Bible cover that, so it would make sense for discernment of spirits to cover it.

I discerned the shadow of my hand; no doubt about it. “Discern” is precisely the correct term.

A long time ago, I fooled with designing 3D video games. A game called Duke Nukem 3D offered a program that allowed people to build virtual gaming arenas. The game itself contained creatures and objects that looked more or less real, but the design program was not like that. It showed an empty, gridded space, and when a person added things, they showed up as frames that looked like they were made of wire. To see the completed game environment, you had to finish the program, and it filled in the frames.

I think the universe works the same way. The natural world is superimposed on the supernatural world. I believe that if I were blind in the natural world yet sighted in the supernatural world, I would still see people and objects, but I would only see their supernatural parts.

In all likelihood, I saw through the veil of the natural world last night.

I believe a person who prays in tongues grows in the spirit and becomes more and more part of the supernatural world. The natural part of him, and its earthly interests, become less important to him. This is how Christians should be. This is why Jesus criticized Peter for savoring the things of man and not the things of heaven. Peter objected the crucifixion, but Jesus knew it had to be allowed to happen.

In the natural, being crucified was a very bad thing. Natural people love their earthly lives. They say stupid things like “YOLO,” they use juvenile terms like, “bucket list,” and they think the fleeting victories they get here are very important. To such a person, being murdered in early adulthood would seem like a catastrophe.

To a man-God living in the supernatural, familiar with the delights of heaven and well aware of the tawdriness and worthlessness of earthly success, crucifixion would look different. It would look like an opportunity to save billions of beloved children from hell, escaping this unpleasant, disappointing world and the problems of the flesh in the bargain.

I think that because I’ve been watering my spirit through prayer in tongues for a long time, my spirit has been growing and overcoming my flesh, like a tree growing in a crack in a granite cliff. A growing tree can shatter rocks and push them aside. I believe this is why Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven to a tree.

I think I see things through my eyelids because my eyelids are flesh, and my spirit is becoming stronger than my flesh. I can close my physical eyes, but I can’t close the eyes of my spirit.

The veil of the temple represented the flesh. Behind it, the holy of holies, where God was present in great power, represented the supernatural realm. Outside was the natural realm. I think God is thinning my veil.

The veil also represents a woman’s hymen. The earth is God’s uterus. We are his unborn babies. When we die, we do what babies do. We go from a world of darkness to a world of light. Why would a baby have to pass through a hymen? Women who have had sex have no hymens. I suppose we have to go through the veil because we were inseminated by God, not men. In the kingdom of heaven, we are probably virgin births.

We say Jesus was born of a virgin, but that’s an oversimplification. Mary was a virgin with respect to men. She was not a virgin with respect to God. He impregnated her. My dad impregnated my mother, and that caused the birth of my body, but no man could impregnate my spirit. Only God could do that.

This is what I feel is coming to me at the moment, so I haven’t sat down and tried to find fault with it.

For years, I’ve felt that my mind was in conflict with the Holy Spirit, striving for control of me. For example, when I’m enjoying the presence of God, it’s hard for me to remember words and use the full power of my reason. I have to stop to think clearly. I suppose it makes sense that if the mind of my spirit would battle my natural mind, the eyes of my spirit would try to subordinate my natural eyes.

I don’t know what the purpose of the gift is. I hope it increases so I can see things clearly instead of looking at shadows.

I suspect that visions take place when our spirit eyes take over. My visions happen when I’m waking up or going to sleep, when my flesh isn’t ready to resist. At such times, it must be easier for my spirit to take control.

I had a vision the other day. My wife and I were in bed. I had been telling her I felt she needed to stop looking at Facebook so much. Everyone knows what it is to feel rejected when a companion chooses to Facebook for long periods instead of talking to the person he or she is with. My wife has looked at Facebook for periods as long an hour when we were in the same room, on our honeymoon.

The vision came as I started to fall asleep. I saw my wife dressed for bed, walking away from me with her back turned to me. She was standing in the bed, but her feet were on the ground. She passed through the bed as though it weren’t there.

Days later, she was in bed with me, dressed the same way. I started caressing her arm, expecting to talk and share affection, and instantly, she sat straight up and started staring at her phone. It was as though she had instantly forgotten I existed. My hand fell off of her. I realized it was exactly what I saw in the vision, except that she was not standing. She was in the same place, facing away, wearing the same things.

I think I may have seen my wife’s spirit in the vision. In real life, her body stayed beside me, but in the vision, her spirit went away from me.

The vision was helpful because when I told her about it, things changed. She started leaving her phone in the hotel when we went out, and it made a tremendous difference. Before she cut back on Facebook, I felt like Patrick Swayze in Ghost, trying to get Demi Moore’s attention.

I know God wants her off Facebook, because he gave her a dream which made it clear, and he gave me a vision. I got off in 2015, if memory serves. Never missed it once. Satan uses Facebook to manipulate people and keep them in his herd.

Before television, people talked to each other, and when television arrived, many people complained bitterly about the way it killed human interaction. Smartphones are much, much worse. No one ever walked down a busy sidewalk, holding a television and staring at it, ignoring friends and loved ones. Go to Youtube. Pick a video of a busy street scene. Choose it at random. You’ll see dozens of pedestrians walking while glued to their phones.

Anyway, it was startling to have a vision and then see it come true the same week.

I guess it will be hard to get to sleep for a day or two, because I will lie in bed covering my eyes and trying to see my hand in front of me.

Make Sure You Wear Your Mosque

I am getting comments from concerned readers. I better tell you what happened.

As some of you have guessed, I poisoned myself while ingesting the dangerous horse medicine ivermectin, washed down with entire six-packs of Pabst Blue Ribbon. I became quite ill and rushed to the hospital, where they were unable to treat me or even get to me. They couldn’t climb over the dunes of dead, maskless, red-hatted bodies that cluttered the grounds.

I had brought my My Pillow with me for comfort, and I rested my head on it in the parking lot and used a Confederate flag for a blanket. I was so sick, it was all I could do to raise my head every fifteen minutes or so to shout racial slurs, vaccine misinformation, and baseless claims of election fraud.

After several hours, I died, but not before giving a blockbuster, amazingly unwitnessed interview with Bob Woodward, who has an uncanny knack of showing up unnoticed at the deathbeds of conservative figures who can’t stand him yet call on him to come hear them refute everything they have ever said and stab everyone they know in the back.

Sobbing, I told him how much I regretted refusing vaccines and encouraging everyone else to do the same, based on my belief that the vaccines were created by Louis Farrakhan in an effort to make white men impotent. I said I regretted these things even though I hadn’t actually done either of them, and I also let him know I had personally shot video of underage Russian prostitutes relieving themselves on mattresses as Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz looked on while sucking on crack pipes.

Before dying for good, I coded briefly, visited heaven, returned, and gave confirmation to Woodward: God had assured me that all he really cared about was social justice and environmental extremism, and he said everyone who didn’t support Antifa, BLM, and sexual perversion was going to hell. He also said no one would be allowed into heaven without a mask, a vaccine passport, and carbon credits.

This could all be true, or maybe I just spent a couple of weeks in Turkey on my honeymoon.

Rhodah and I stayed in the Sultanahmet area of Istanbul, and we also visited othe seaside city of Kusadasi, which we used as a base for a guided day trip to Ephesus. We enjoyed Turkey a great deal. The Turks turned out to be charming, friendly, helpful people, even when they were not trying to sell us things, which was not much of the time. The food was pretty good, the exchange rate was excellent, the hotel where we spent most of our time started to feel like our home, and by the time we left, we had made a whole bunch of quasi-friends from among the neighborhood entrepreneurs who accosted us regularly.

I’m too sleep-deprived to write much. I left my hotel at 4 a.m. Eastern time on the 24th, and I got to my house at 3 a.m. on the 25th. Since then, I have slept 4 hours.

I also have some sort of respiratory illness. Covid? Who knows? About 5 days ago, I started feeling nausea, and then things progressed to diarrhea and a sore throat. Eventually, I had bone aches, a slight headache, and a stuffy nose. The final insult was the production of large quantities of disgusting substances inside my nose, which had to be harvested several times a day. I am still not completely done with that.

I also had a low fever, but I will never know the temperature, because I could not find my thermometer to pack it. I know I had a fever because I stopped sweating, and then one night I woke up and saw I had started again. That meant the fever had broken.

Of course, I wonder if coronavirus is the problem. I’m having nearly the same symptoms I had early in 2020 after meeting with a bunch of maskless, pre-vaccine, hands-laying Europeans at a religious event. I feel better this time, and I have been spared vomiting, conjunctivitis, and bottomless watery nasal discharge, but other than that, it’s very similar.

Trying to diagnose myself on the web, I can’t find any other diseases that fit the symptoms. Colds, the flu, and strep throat are out.

Just like last time, the digestive problems only lasted a few hours and submitted right away to loperamide pills. Thank goodness for that. Nothing is worse than using public toilets in foreign countries.

Well, actually, that’s probably wrong. America has some of the filthiest toilets on Earth. Georgia and New York, in particular, stand out in my experience. I’ll bet Toilet Duck doesn’t even have brand reps in those states. It would be like paying people to promote pork in Mecca.

In order to reinfiltrate the US, I had to take a PCR test about 3 days back. I was concerned that I might get stuck in Turkey, but I passed. Suspicious, I Googled. I read that for tests performed during the first few days of infections, the false-negative rate is about 2/3. Information like this helps explain why I believe so little of what our overlords and THE SCIENCE tell us. How can tests be useful when they are USUALLY wrong, in the most harmful way possible, when administered during the time when most patients choose to take them?

Incidentally, a PCR test costs $19 in Turkey, and they come to your hotel. Try getting one that cheap in America.

It’s amazing, the transparent idiocy they shovel at us. Here’s another example: we need to wear masks on planes. Ignoring the fact that masks do virtually nothing as worn by the majority of real human beings, why do mask Nazis never mention the constant replacement of airline cabin air? Every time I get on a plane, I am told it’s nearly impossible to get coronavirus while flying. They say all of the air in a plane is replaced every three minutes, so the viruses get shot out into the sky. If that is true (which I doubt), how can an uncomfortable, irritating mask provide an increase in safety which is worth the misery it causes?

United Airlines says the likelihood of getting covid on a plane is something like 0.003%. Or maybe it’s 0.0003%. I forget. Anyway, it’s basically zero, according to them. THE SCIENCE says a real-world mask worn by a typical person may reduce transmission by something like 15 percentage points, meaning the mask reduction is barely perceptible statistical noise compared to the ventilation reduction.

Imagine this. The government says air bags reduce critical accident injuries by–wild guess–75%. Then some scientist finds out placing live scorpions in your underpants raises the protection to 75.02%. Would you pass a law forcing people to use the scorpions?

We have a couple of problems. First, the data THE SCIENCE provides is clearly bogus a lot of the time. For example, a person who falls off a cliff while sick with covid may get put in the “coronavirus death” tally. Second, the policy makers who use THE SCIENCE to tell us what to do are too stupid to understand and make good use of data, even when it isn’t bogus, and they’re also too biased and dishonest to make intelligent rules even when they understand things correctly.

I really hate wearing a mask on a plane. The mask starts to stink before two hours are up, hot air roasts my face, and more hot air shoots upward under my reading glasses, which makes my eyes hurt. The hot air also fogs my glasses, making reading difficult. On a flight that lasts over 10 hours, it’s like one of those loophole torture methods countries use to abuse prisoners of war without violating the Geneva Conventions.

I have learned how to cope. I buy the flimsiest, least effective masks available. I keep an eye on stewardesses, and as soon as they turn their backs, I pull my mask down below my nose. When I see them coming my way, I pull it back up. I think they know I’m doing it, but after dealing with people like me all day for months, they don’t want to get into it with me. When they offer food and drinks, I put them on my tray table and eat and drink unbelievably slowly with no mask. Sometimes I’ll go half an hour, lifting a cup of warm ginger ale to my lips and pretending to sip while my mouth is closed. When that gets dull, I may get up and go stand in the bathroom for 5 minutes with my mask in my pocket.

I learned the slow-eating tip from my friend Mike, who flies more often than I do. Genius.

Another helpful move: taking that darned mask off and fiddling with it for several minutes because it’s just so hard to adjust so it fits the way Papa Joe wants it to.

When all else fails, there’s always, “Mask? Oh, sorry!” Like you didn’t realize it was under your chin. Pull it back up and then wait for your next opportunity to grab more air.

Only amateurs fight with stewardesses. A real master doesn’t resist. It’s like aikido. You look at the natural motions of your attacker and use them against her, to your benefit. You yield and pretend to comply, and by the end of your flight, your face, or at least your nostrils, has been tasting that sweet cabin air at least half of the time.

If you resist, some snippy steward who has a makeup channel on Youtube will smirk and prance while the police drag you down the aisle at his command. You don’t want to go out like that. Remember Ferris Bueller. What would Abe Froman do?

Am I a bad guy for cheating? Well, not according to THE SCIENCE.

A) Everyone on the plane has been tested very recently, assuring that very few infected people are aboard. I am probably not capable of spreading viruses.

B) Everyone on the plane has either been vaccinated or has recovered from coronavirus, and either type of person has a low probability of being infected anew, MULTIPLIED by a sub-1% chance of having severe symptoms.

C) The airlines claim the chance of being infected regardless of immunity and masking is so low it’s essentially zero.

D) Everyone on the plane risks infection every single day, and all of them risked it getting to the airport and breathing the airport’s filthy air and touching its nasty surfaces. Sitting near a vaccinated, tested person with no symptoms should, if THE SCIENCE is to be believed, be one of the least-risky things a traveler will do during his day of flying.

I would also add:

E) General principles, et cetera, et cetera.

All this being said, I do take the disease seriously. I got the Johnson shot. I got a flu shot because I read it was associated with milder covid symptoms, and I tried to get a pneumonia shot for the same reason. I wash my hands all the time. I try not to do anything stupid. I’m not against intelligent precautions. It’s the other kind that get my goat.

Today I got another PCR test. I don’t trust the test I took in Turkey, and if I’ve been infected, the knowledge could be useful. Proof of surviving covid gives you added social credit which might be helpful in some situations. Israel supposedly gives survivors better treatment than vaccine recipients.

Finding out I’m positive would be better than finding out I’m negative. It would tell me I beat covid, and that would make me feel better about possible future bouts.

I just found out antibody tests are available. If I can get one, and if it won’t be skewed by my status as a vaccine recipient, I plan to take one. If there is any possibility I have had covid, I want to know.

Incidentally, I intended to take ivermectin in Turkey, but I didn’t do it. I told Rhodah to bring some pills for me, but she misunderstood, so she left them at home. Because I thought she was bringing them, I didn’t bring my horse medicine. I really missed it when I started getting sick.

Last night, before going to bed at 4 a.m., I took a dose. When I woke up 4 hours later, I felt much, much better. It was remarkable. I was surprised. Was it the ivermectin? Did God heal me? Was it my body overcoming a disease that wasn’t that tough to begin with? I don’t know, but there is a ton of evidence suggesting ivermectin has helped many people, so maybe it helped me, and I plan to keep using it.

Although I’ve been ill, I haven’t felt very bad. I have felt tremendous enthusiasm for getting out and walking. I felt a strong drive to get out and walk several miles a day in Istanbul. I preferred it to taking trains. I felt sleep-deprived because the sore throat interfered with sleep, and I felt a little worn-out on the nights of high-mileage days, but I didn’t feel fatigued during the day, except when watching my wife try on shoes. I’ve felt lots of physical strength. My worst problem was joint pain that popped up after a day or two. When I walked, I felt like I had mild arthritis. Every time a foot struck the ground, I felt a little pain.

I’m afraid I overworked Rhodah. She was happy to get exercise, but there were times when she wanted to sit down and rest. Even though I was sick, I was usually the one who wanted to keep going. She got short of breath a few times, but I didn’t.

I lost weight while eating baklava and cake. I went down a belt notch. If Rhodah had been as gung-ho as I was, I would have walked more and lost more. I don’t think she was ready for what I kept telling her was “old man strength.”

I hope she starts to have the same feeling. It would be very helpful to her to develop an urge to walk. Apart from the health benefits, it’s a very beneficial urge for a traveler to have, and Rhodah likes travel.

I thought I didn’t feel like writing, but I’ve written a lot.

I plan to go buy Mucinex and soak in a tub of hot water. Hopefully I can expel some of the horrible stuff that is coming loose inside me. Maybe tomorrow I’ll write a little about Turkey.

Trust the People who Lie to You to Your Face

Today, for fun, I told friends I was taking ivermectin. One sent me a link to a ridiculous anti-ivermectin news story. My wife says Facebook, or as the French call it, Fesse-Livre, is full of stories criticizing Southerners and implying we’re so stupid we can’t tell the difference between horses and people.

We are also being criticized for trusting God more than yankees and not being as scared of death!

What a world we live in. The gloves are coming off. People from godless areas are finally admitting they hate Christianity and consider it a barrier to progress.

The Church of Satan just came out against the new Texas abortion law. Too fitting, and long overdue. Will leftists be shocked and outraged? Bet not. Why should anyone pretend leftism and Satan aren’t inextricably joined?

I can’t believe the disinformation that’s out there. I’m not calling it misinformation, because misinformation can be unintentional. What we’re seeing now are deliberate lies. Let me list a few.

1. Ivermectin is a horse medicine. No, it’s a Japanese drug, invented for human use in the 1970’s. It’s discoverer, Satoshi Omura, received the Nobel Prize for giving the world ivermectin. It is credited with helping billions of people, and many Africans take it year after year for periodic deworming. People came first. Horses came later.

2. Horse paste and other veterinary preparations contain “different forms” of ivermectin, compared to human medications. No, there is only one form of ivermectin It’s a combination of two nearly identical compounds. Different preparations contain other ingredients that vary. Fried chicken and chicken soup are different dishes, but there is only one type of chicken.

3. Horse paste is “toxic” to humans. No, it isn’t. It comes in relatively large portions meant for 1500-pound animals, but it’s not toxic. If you take a dose for a horse, you might have digestive and central nervous system symptoms, but that’s because you took too much, not because the drug is toxic. The web says ivermectin is well tolerated even in tenfold overdoses. If you’re taking enough ivermectin to harm yourself seriously, you were probably going to die soon anyway, because you may not be bright enough to look after yourself.

4. Ivermectin is a sketchy, risky drug that may have unanticipated effects in people. No, it has been approved by the FDA for decades. The coronavirus vaccines, though blessed by Saint Fauci, are not FDA-approved.

5. Ivermectin overdose cases are flooding hospitals, and a hospital in Oklahoma had to turn away gunshot victims because people with ivermectin tummy aches were filling the ER. The Oklahoma tale is so facially absurd, it’s amazing anyone bought into it. That being said, it was first vetted and published by Rolling Stone, the same magazine whose editors thought Hunter Thompson, who never broke an actual news story, was a journalist. The short version: the doctor who made the claim lied. The whole story is a fabrication, and the hospital in Oklahoma has disavowed it. Leftists keep referring to it on social media anyway. There are no hospitals anywhere filling up with ivermectin overdoses. It’s just too hard to overdose with ivermectin. Hospitals never turn gunshot victims away. Why would anyone think that was even possible? Haven’t people heard of lawyers?

6. Poison control hotlines are being flooded with overdose calls. Not even close to true. The number of people who are calling hotlines about ivermectin is considerably higher than it was before COVID, but if you look at the actual numbers of 2021 calls, they look like 13 and 23, not 15,000 and 50,000. I have never managed a poison control hotline, but I am willing to guess that even the most backward state can handle a couple of dozen calls in a year. Notable: leftist journalists who are making the hotline claims are carefully avoiding claiming the callers have overdosed or required treatment. In all likelihood, nearly all of the calls are from nervous people who just want to be reassured. “My idiot husband wants to take KILLER HORSE MEDICINE!”

7. Ivermectin has lots of dangerous interactions with other drugs. Misleading. You can look this issue for yourself. Ivermectin has a bunch of possible, non-significant interactions, plus one interaction which could be serious. The big concern is interaction with certain blood thinners. It’s not like you’re going to combust spontaneously if you try ivermectin on the same day you take Ex-lax or Claritin.

To sum up:

1. Ivermectin is an old, commonly-used drug.
2. Ivermectin was created for use in humans, and the creator won a Nobel Prize for improving treatment of infectious diseases.
3. Ivermectin has been used to treat human parasitic infections billions of times.
4. Ivermectin is FDA-approved, unlike COVID vaccines.
5. The ivermectin in horse medicine is the same as the ivermectin in every other type of ivermectin preparation. There is only one ivermectin.
6. It’s hard to overdose on ivermectin, and the symptoms are generally mild and short-lived.
7. The non-ivermectin ingredients in horse paste are harmless.
8. Africans take ivermectin routinely, and they buy it over the counter.
9. Poison control call centers are not being swamped by ivermectin overdose calls.
10. Hospitals are not filling up with people who overdosed on ivermectin.
11. Ivermectin interacts with a few drugs, but most interactions are not significant. Blood thinners are the main problem; they may work too well in the presence of ivermectin. If you’re taking other medications, maybe you should avoid ivermectin.

I’m not playing doctor. I don’t recommend you try this stuff, nor do I know whether it helps people beat COVID. There is a reason why they make doctors study for 10 years. They know things the rest of us do not. Maybe there is a reason why you shouldn’t take ivermectin. I’m just criticizing outright lies that should not be appearing in major news outlets. I’m not a doctor, but if someone says penicillin causes herpes, I’m more than qualified to say it’s a lie.

Here’s a question: if the social imps are hellbent on banning misinformation, why aren’t they banning lies about ivermectin? You can be suspended from Twitter for saying masks don’t work, which is essentially true. Why are the ivermectin lies still published on Facebook? I wonder how drug companies that sell this life-transforming antiparasitic drug feel about that.

Answer: it was never about truth or protecting the public. It was always about controlling the human race and limiting our information so we could be steered to the left. America is turning into North Korea. Leftists have certain misguided views about the world, and they are using any excuse they can to censor opposing viewpoints without regard for their validity.

We don’t actually need information censorship. It’s Un-American, and it’s dangerous. We should let Nazis and anti-vaxxers and Antifa thugs and Christians say whatever they want online, as long as their words don’t fit into traditionally recognized types of legitimately dangerous language. It’s okay to prevent pedophiles from running forums where they exchange tips on abducting kids, and it would be okay to prevent Antifa from using Facebook to organize the violent gatherings for which it is so well known (fat chance), but we don’t really need Uncle Zuckerberg to boot people for promoting drugs that may or may not work, or for saying coronavirus is a hoax.

We don’t need protection from each other. We need protection from tyrants like Uncle Zuckerberg. We used to consider that self-evident. Our Declaration of Independence actually uses the term “self-evident” to describe our rights.

What’s self-evident to people of quality is imperceptible to idiocrats.

Consider the terrible things that might happen if we let people go on social media and say what they wanted about election integrity, coronavirus, and so on. We don’t have to wonder what would happen, because people used to do things like that all the time, and the world kept turning. We used to permit a thing we called “debate,” and we counted on it to lead us in the direction of truth. Remember that? Now a bunch of young nerds open and close the valve, determining what the public gets to see. We have wanton prior restraint, and “prior restraint” is a phrase that describes a great evil courts interpreting the First Amendment have worked to restrict. Every court in the land agrees that prior restraint by government is evil, yet somehow it’s okay when a pimply kid who watches too much science fiction does it from a cubicle in Palo Alto.

Leftists are still allowed to disseminate misinformation and disinformation, but now the opposing voices that countered their craziness are muffled. That’s dangerous. Social media sites are becoming like North Korean rallies. You know how tht works. “What did you think of the Supreme Leader’s speech?” “I thought it was simply fantastic! Everyone here agrees!”

Nitpickers may say it’s okay to restrain speech on the web, because the First Amendment only prevents the government from doing it, and we are still relatively free to say things elsewhere, including the real world. That’s stupid. Social media sites are BECOMING the real world. They are the places where most people have the most power to express themselves effectively. We are almost constantly plugged in. We post photos of our lunches so billions of people can see them. The things we say in the real world, in contrast, are heard by nearly no one.

A right that can’t be exercised effectively is a fiction. It’s a gun filled with blanks.

The tech kidz are working day and night to amplify the voices of individuals, beyond what anyone could have imagined 30 years ago. Trouble is, they’re only doing it for the voices they like. And the people doing the judging are maladjusted, unethical, ignorant, and utterly without compassion and humility. The tech companies aren’t hiring 50-year-old tongue-talking Christians from South Dakota. They’re not hiring NRA members. They’re not hiring history professors. They’re hiring sexually confused young people with day-glo hair and lots of stylish hardware inserted in their faces and genitalia. They’re hiring people who grew up inside their smartphones. A typical 25-year-old has spent so much time looking down, it’s a wonder any of them can raise their heads.

What good would the First Amendment have been to any of the Founding Fathers had their enemies been given free publication and distribution of their ideas while they, themselves, were denied access to printing presses and even town cryers?

It’s an interesting thing. Satan has taken another of God’s ideas and copied it.

Think of this. You have never really seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted the world. Everything you perceive is inside your head. You are perceiving information carried to your brain by nerves made of meat.

Your brain, where all your perceptions actually are, is blind and deaf. It’s in a dark cavity covered with bone and flesh. Light and sound can’t get to your brain. Let’s say you think you see a tree. It’s not a tree. It’s your brain’s best effort at showing you the tree, based on the photons that bounce off the tree and reach your sensors. You’re seeing your brain’s representation of photons that came to you from the tree.

Light doesn’t go through your optic nerves. If you could put little cameras in your head and film your optic nerves, you would see they’re dark. They’re not lit up by light as it passes through. Light stops at your retinas.

What you perceive is really a bunch of interpretations. Your body interprets stimuli and presents its interpretations to you, so you “see” what you think is light, and you “hear” what you think is sound.

You’re not able to perceive the world. You perceive representations of the world through a complicated piece of wet electronic machinery.

Phones work the same way. They are little machines that allow us to look into a man-made realm. We even treat this realm as though it were a place. We call it things like “cyberspace” and “cyberia.” It’s not a real place. It has no dimensions, so it’s not a space at all. It doesn’t have a temperature or an atmosphere. It has no physical existence.

Through the flesh machine God gave you, you can perceive things that happen in the real world. Satan has used computers and phones to put a layer of filtering between the machine and the world. Thanks to him, increasingly, you are only able to perceive part of what’s happening. You’re looking through screens that filter out a lot of things Satan doesn’t want you to be aware of.

Before we started relocating to cyperspace, there was a limit to how much Satan could restrict your awareness of things that happened in the real world. Now that there are filters between you and the world, he has much more control.

God gave us 5 physical senses, three dimensions to live in, and two dimensions of sight. Satan gave us two cyber-senses and only the two dimensions of sight to live in, and we are coming to prefer these to the 5.

Our electronic screens and speakers are choke points through which many of our perceptions have to pass. The greater the percentage of our perceptions that goes through them, the more our perceptions can be censored and shaped.

You can’t read Donald Trump’s tweets. There are a lot of videos about coronavirus which you will never be allowed to see. The most popular preacher on earth can only be seen on Youtube through a tiny number of videos, because Youtube didn’t like it when he showed he believed God was against homosexuality, following a fundamental tenet of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. On the other hand, you can read that Pete Buttagieg and his anal sex partner adopted a pair of unfortunate twins. You can read that white people are evil. You can catch up on the Taliban’s tweets, even though they just went into a church in Kabul and murdered the Christians. Even though they recently punished a homosexual by gang-raping him.

It’s as though we lived in Plato’s cave, and Satan and Keith Olbermann were standing outside making shadow puppets.

The dissemination of lies and the suppression of truth have become so brazen, it seems there is not much further for us to fall. It should have been expected. This is exactly where control of speech leads. A bunch of men who had no smartphones and no thought leaders knew this in 1776, but 245 years later, we can’t figure it out.

I’m planning on taking more ivermectin, and I pray for the rapture to come soon every day. This world needs a good pressure washing.

If the CDC is Right, I Should be Dead by Sunset

Trump won the election, the earth is flat, and I just took ivermectin.

Well, I’m not too sure about those first two assertions. The earth is LOCALLY flat. I know that because I have not fallen off of it.

I guess I should say this: IVERMECTIN IS A DEADLY POISON, AND IT WILL SURELY KILL YOU. DO NOT TAKE IVERMECTIN JUST BECAUSE A GUY WHO WRITES A BLOG TOOK IT. I AM NOT A DOCTOR. YOU CAN TELL I’M NOT A DOCTOR, BECAUSE I DRIVE AMERICAN CARS. BEWARE OF IVERMECTIN! DR. FAUCI SAYS NOT TO TAKE IT, AND HE KNOWS EVERYTHING!

I don’t know if it’s safe to take horse medicine. If you take it and die, don’t come running to me.

I did take it, though.

I went to my local Tractor Supply and saw they had a big new box of syringes. When I took one to the register, the cashier said, “Please don’t tell me you’re going to take it in the car.” I said, “No comment.”

I had read that the per-pound dose for people was the same as it was for horses. The plunger on the syringe has little marks on it so you can measure out the right amount. I took it with water but no food because I had read that this was the right thing to do. Then I got on the web and read that it was actually better to take it with a meal, so I ate a big slab of London Broil and some Toasty Cheez-Its.

Rhodah also bought ivermectin. African pharmacies sell it over the counter for worms, and everyone there takes it. I thought it would be good to get some pills so I could quit eating horse paste, so I told her to buy two courses for me and one for her. This was before I learned Tractor Supply had ivermectin.

Now we have way too much ivermectin, at least for the near future.

They have jacked up the price in Zambia. They know what people are using it for. The pharmacist asked her if it was for a COVID patient.

I don’t know if ivermectin will prevent or treat COVID, but I do know a couple of things.

First, it’s not “horse medicine.” It was developed for use on human beings, and it has served that purpose for over 30 years. Animals don’t get by on huge catalogs of medicines that can’t be used to treat people. Many medicines are used on a wide variety of creatures. Obvious. Everyone knows this. I’ve taken my parrots to vets more than once, and they always received medications that were also popular for treating human beings.

Second, I know manufacturers are not putting poison in horse paste just because it’s not for human beings. If a horse can eat a tablespoon of horse paste with no ill effects, surely I can eat half a teaspoon. The CDC is trying to convince us that veterinary preparations are poisonous. That isn’t true. Do I have proof? No, but I’m not an idiot.

Is there anything a horse can eat that a human being can’t? I’ll bet there isn’t. Human beings are omnivorous, and horses are not. I can eat any animal that walks the earth. I can eat almost any fish. I can eat bugs. I can eat an enormous variety of plants. I can eat things that kill dogs and parrots. What is the likelihood that horse paste makers managed to find something only horses can tolerate AND put it in a product they know may find its way into people? Not high.

If horse paste is poisonous, where are the deaths? There are none, of course. Why is the CDC spreading scare stories? Is that how “THE SCIENCE” works?

Huffpo, which, of course, sides with the CDC, says, “improper use of the drug can lead to nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension, decreased consciousness, confusion, hallucinations, seizures, coma and death.” Similar things are true of beer, aspirin, acetominophen, PEZ, and tap water. Improper use of a stapler can result in blindness. Improper use of safety scissors can cause male sterility. If you’re taking a horse-sized dose of nearly any medicine, you should expect problems. As Paracelsus more or less said, “The dose makes the poison.”

The CDC’s condescending, elitist, dishonest approach reminds me of the gold watch story.

As recently as the 1980’s, doctors were telling ignorant people their dead relatives had complicated, expensive gold machines in them. They did this to justify autopsy requests. They would say, “When we were trying to save Uncle Sol, we put an extremely costly device inside him, and it’s made of pure gold. Now we need to find it and take it out because the hospital needs it back.” This standard fable was known as the gold watch story. You can probably look it up.

Why not just tell the truth? They could say, “Horse paste is extremely safe if you take the correct dose, but we don’t think it works, and you may make a mathematical mistake and get sick. Also, it interacts with a few other drugs, which may cause problems”?

I understand why doctors themselves are reluctant to give it to people (although many are). Medicine is a science-based art, and one of the big challenges is to advance knowledge by increasing the science and eliminating the art. When you’re looking for ways to treat a disease, you want good, solid studies. You don’t just throw different drugs at people and hope some of them get well. You might cure some people, but you won’t learn much that is useful for the treatment of others in the future.

Medicine is not just about treatment. It’s about accumulating knowledge. Adding variables without good reasons will make data hard to interpret.

Thing is, this is a concern for doctors, not lay people. I don’t really care if my worm paste leads to better treatment regimens for other people. I am not qualified to do research or even hand out sore throat lozenges. I just want to keep my wife and myself alive. Anecdotal evidence has done me a ton of good in the past, even though none of my positive experiences have advanced medicine or helped other people. I plan to keep listening to it.

It may not improve medicine if doctors give ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID, but it might be a huge help to me if it works, and the down side is that I might spend a hundred dollars on something useless.

What if I get COVID and land in the hospital? My ivermectin use will be helpful, because it will prove doctors don’t need to give me more ivermectin.

I have frozen skin growths with computer duster spray, and they went away. I have gotten rid of them with capsaicin. I’ve taken bigger and smaller doses of some medicines than was recommended. I took a splint off my hand days before I was told to, because I could tell I had healed. I’ve done a number of weird things doctors don’t recommend, with tremendous success. I have never harmed myself with my efforts. Ivermectin won’t harm me, either.

The vaccines are not looking good. Their effectiveness rates are dropping, they were never all that high to begin with, and it appears I took the worst one offered in America. Masks simply DO…NOT…WORK unless you do an extraordinary job using the very best masks, and no one does that, because it’s unbearable for more than 15 minutes. Social distancing doesn’t work unless it means staying very far from people; 6 feet won’t do it. You pretty much have to stay in your house, alone. If ivermectin doesn’t work well or doesn’t work at all, it won’t be much worse than some of Dr. Fauci’s approaches.

Please remember: Fauci is still completely unable to recommend anything that isn’t pretty likely to fail to prevent contraction of COVID, and he is also unable to recommend a single thing that cures it or even allows nearly all sick patients to remain alive and live with it. Preventative measures have a gigantic failure rate, and so do medical treatments.

Vaccinated people are not just getting sick but dying all over the world. About two months ago, they told us this was impossible. Not unlikely; impossible. Google it. Vaccines are reducing transmission and fatalities, but a lot of vaccinated people are still getting sick, having severe symptoms, and dying. Medical science has some very helpful advice, but Fauci and his colleagues haven’t come close to doing what other doctors have done with diseases like polio, smallpox, rickets, and scurvy.

There are people dying in spite of taking ivermectin, so it’s obvious that even if it’s helpful, it’s not a top-notch cure. It may be true that it fixes some people, but it clearly lets at least some patients die. On the other hand, there is evidence that ivermectin is very good at preventing contraction of the disease, and it’s impossible to measure whether it’s preventing transmission to people who are taking horse paste without a doctor’s involvement. Maybe it is. I think it’s worth trying.

If I can prevent the disease from taking hold, who cares if ivermectin will cure it? A disease you don’t have doesn’t need a cure.

It’s all very interesting, but I must stress this: IVERMECTIN IS MORE POISONOUS THAN CYANIDE. PEOPLE HAVE DIED JUST FROM LOOKING AT THE PACKAGING. DO NOT TRY IT.

I’m musing on its possible benefits for my sake, not yours, based on zero medical education. For all I know, you might take it and drop dead an hour later, along with your worms.

I have a good feeling about ivermectin’s preventative powers. There has to be a reason maskless, unvaccinated, socially proximate Africans aren’t dying in droves. Maybe it’s ivermectin, or maybe it’s a supernatural reason. It’s not a race thing. Blacks in America have been hit hard.

When my wife wants to go somewhere in Zambia, she gets in a jitney and rides with a bunch of people sitting shoulder to shoulder. She goes to markets where people shout and stand close to each other and don’t mask properly. The vaccination rate in Zambia is under 2%. Where is the COVID?

Zambia’s spike pretty much coincided with Florida’s, but it ended very quickly. Why?

Incidentally, Florida’s spike is ending. Its back was broken a few days back. Journalists love to hype it, just as they love to ignore spikes in leftist strongholds, but you can look at the graph yourself. No amount of hatred for Ron DeSantis can turn that graph into a continuing increase.

Liberal journalists should be hesitant to throw stones. The reality is that we don’t know where the next spike will be, because we can’t control coronavirus. Far-left Hawaii is in trouble right now, and we don’t know which state will be next.

The population of Hawaii is about 1/16 of the population of Florida, Hawaii has 1/17.67 of Florida’s new case number, and Hawaii’s graph is still very, very bullish. It’s getting worse at great speed, and Hawaii will pass Florida shortly. Hawaii may do worse than Florida overall, on a per-capita basis. If DeSantis is the problem, how did this happen? Did he vacation in Maui?

When leftist areas were full of COVID and conservative areas were doing very, very well, journalists never said leftism was the problem. When conservative areas did worse, they immediately squawked about Republicans, Donald Trump, global warming, Confederate flags, God, and other things leftists hate.

Anyway, places like Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana are doing poorly, too. If I were a lefto-pundit, I would be cautious right now.

Humanity does not understand coronavirus. We have some feeble tools that are somewhat helpful, but we still do not know what’s going on. We don’t know why one area spikes and another does not, our preventative measures are ludicrously weak, and our doctors have a very spotty record when it comes to saving the seriously ill. We don’t have the fundamental data or the cleverness to make sound judgments about what has caused the numbers we have seen so far or to predict what the numbers will look like in the future. We don’t even know if the epidemic will end.

My feeling is that COVID is the new AIDS. We will never get rid of it, but it will probably become something we can live with. The infection and death rates will become tolerable. Then something worse than COVID will come along because we didn’t repent and pray when COVID showed up.

This is just my feeling, based on my observations of the way the world works. Tomorrow, I might see it differently. Maybe a new COVID variant will show up and make things so much worse we won’t need any new diseases to finish up the apocalypse.

Negotiating the Pre-Travel Obstacle Course

I am wiped out. I haven’t done anything but work on travel plans today.

It’s a shame countries and airlines don’t do a better job of laying things out for travelers. It would be simple to post comprehensive lists of entry requirements, but instead, you see one rule here and another rule there. Surprises keep popping up just when you think you’ve got things covered.

Today I found out Rhodah and I have to fill out health certificates before we enter Turkey. That was news. I found a Turkish site and filled out the forms, but they require you to do it right before you travel, so today’s forms will not be acceptable. I filled them out just so I would have the required information handy when I have to do the job over.

What do the forms say? Nothing, really. They tell who we are and which hotel we’re using. Not sure why this is helpful. I’m also not sure why these forms can’t be filled out at the Istanbul airport. I’ll bet they can.

I had a scare over Rhodah’s tickets. She is required to use an approved Turkish air carrier when she arrives, and I had her coming into Istanbul on Turkish Airlines. Today I realized she would actually enter Turkey on another airline and then switch to Turkish Airlines for a final leg to Istanbul. I thought I was going to have to cancel her flight and mine and go through the horror of trying to find new bookings that worked. That would have sent well over a thousand dollars down the chute.

I called Turkish Airlines, and they told me there was no problem. What matters is where she goes through immigration, not where she physically enters.

I have had excellent experiences with Turkish phone and email help. The Turkish government responds in minutes, and they are extremely polite. Turkish Airlines will put you on the horn with a very capable non-Indian human being in a few seconds, and their reps actually know the answers to the questions you ask. I don’t know why Americans make support such a bad experience.

Sometimes I want to find the lady who recorded all the American phone system messages that lead me in circles and give her a piece of my mind. You know her. “For English, press ONE.” She must have hung up on me ten thousand times.

You can actually see her on Youtube. It’s almost scary hearing that hateful voice coming out of a real human being. Her name is Elita Bradley.

I really hate talking to machines. I didn’t realize that until today, when I considered the issue. Being forced to talk to a machine is degrading. It tells you you’re not important enough to talk to a human being. It tells you no one cares about your problems, even when you’re paying their bills. Often, machines tell you there is literally no way to make yourself heard or stand up for yourself. It is disempowering.

When I got the arrival question answered, I moved on to another crisis. My airline has suddenly decided to impose draconian mask rules. More degrading than mask rules were to begin with. I have to wear a real mask or something that looks like one. They require N95, KN95, FFP2, or surgical masks. Last time I flew, I bought special flimsy masks that don’t work, so I could fly with as little breathing resistance as possible. I must have spent an hour and a half today, trying to find something new that would pass muster with the COVID Luftwaffe. I came up with a couple of things, but I think I’m in for an unpleasant flight to Istanbul.

I had to look at every layover location and make sure neither of us needed transit visas. I confirmed it. I wrote a long document containing that information, along with flight details and other important facts. I listed the contact numbers for all of the airlines. I listed the hotel’s address. I found out how we could get COVID tests before leaving, and I included the URL of a company that will test us at our hotel.

Neither of us has to be tested on the way to Turkey, but both of us have to be tested on the way home. Rhodah has to take a real test. The USA will let me get by with a quick antigen test. Should I do it? Antigen tests are fast, and they have the benefit of generating more false negatives. A false negative could prevent me from being trapped in Turkey. I don’t want to spread coronavirus, though.

I’m so used to resisting hysterical anti-COVID measures, resistance is my natural response. I have to remember not to resist measures that have some basis in reality.

I had to find out how to get us our tickets and boarding passes. This is a confusing area now. Near as I can tell, some airlines don’t provide tickets. They send receipts, and you can check in and get boarding passes a few days before your flight takes off, but they don’t send you anything that says “e-ticket” at the top.

Remember when you could call an airline and make a reservation without paying for it? Remember when they would mail you real tickets long before your trip? Yeah, I do, too. I remember having stewardesses tell me it was fine for kids like me to bring their pocket knives onboard.

I did all this stuff, and then I found out Turkey had just put out a new list of coronavirus restrictions. I mean within the last two weeks. The restrictions are very bad. People have to have PCR tests to travel between cities, go to crowded events, and so on.

I was pretty upset. We would have had to take at least three tests each, and what if either of us had failed one?

Then I saw this, on our State Department’s Turkey page: “The COVID-19 related restrictions apply to all citizens and residents of Turkey. Tourists are exempt from COVID-19 restrictions.”

Thank God for that.

I think I can relax now. My hope is that no new landmines will go off before the trip. I’m extremely glad we can go to Turkey without being tested. I would rather be stuck in Turkey in a nice hotel with Rhodah than stuck here without her.

Rural Citizens Falling Back on Horse Sense to Defeat Coronavirus

I learned something fascinating about the coronavirus saga today.

People keep telling us we have to trust “the science.” It’s not “science” any more. It’s not “medical science.” It’s “THE science.” Somehow seems more reverent.

The sad thing is, THE science keeps turning out to be wrong. It leads us down the primrose path over and over, only for us to find that the conclusions in which we had put our trust were erroneous.

Example: over 100 years of THE science said masks didn’t prevent the transmission of viral respiratory diseases. Then, suddenly, THE science said they did. Now there are studies saying they really don’t, unless you have a great mask, you keep it clean, and you fit it perfectly. Even then, they’re not very good. And nobody does all those things.

Example: lockdowns were the way to stop coronavirus. We bought into that, and then we saw coronavirus statistics that showed that some places with lockdowns had terrible infection rates, while others that did not fared much better.

Example: our dubious new vaccines would prevent a high percentage of coronavirus infections. Later, we found out the percentage wasn’t nearly that high, and then we learned the percentage would drop with time.

Example: even if our vaccines let some people get infected, those people would not develop serious symptoms. Unfortunately, a large percentage of people who are being hospitalized have been vaccinated. The vaccines seem to be helping a lot, but the doctors who said it was essentially impossible for a vaccinated person to be seriously ill look like morons.

They did say that, by the way.

Now THE science is telling us not to use ivermectin, a deworming drug which has been associated with reduced infections and quick recoveries. Some studies seem to show it doesn’t work, but others suggest it does. A few Americans who are bad at cross-multiplication have made themselves somewhat ill by consuming overdoses of horse dewormer, so the CDC is telling the rest of us to avoid ivermectin. We might get tummy aches.

Guess what I found out today? Africans take ivermectin.

My wife is African. I mentioned the ivermectin controversy to her today. I was thinking maybe I should take a tube of horse medicine to her. She said deworming drugs were available over the counter in Africa. She, herself, had been dewormed many times. It’s a normal thing over there because worms are a problem in Africa. They deworm babies, and people deworm themselves every so often in order to keep from developing serious infestations.

Time to mention a related fact: Africa has a relatively low coronavirus rate. Vaccinations, right? Of course not. The vaccination rate is very low; it’s under 2% in some countries. Many Africans have serious hygiene issues, and they’re doing a poor job of social distancing and wearing masks. Still, things haven’t been that bad there.

When I heard my wife say she had been dewormed more than once, I wondered whether ivermectin was lowering the African coronavirus rate.

I took a look online, and sure enough, there are studies suggesting ivermectin is the reason Africa has done so well.

I don’t know whether ivermectin works or not, but I know it’s considered harmless, and I know my vaccination won’t necessarily prevent me from getting sick or dying. I also know masks don’t work, and I don’t wear one anyway. Why not take ivermectin? It won’t hurt me, it might prevent me from getting sick, it might cure me if I do get sick, and for all I know, I may have a few worms.

The web is full of stories about individuals who died while using horse paste. The writers seem to be gloating breathlessly. “Trump-Supporting Anti-Vaxxer Dies of COVID While Taking Horse Dewormer!” Oddly, these stories are touted much more loudly than the thousands upon thousands of stories about masked, vaccinated, socially isolated people who have died.

I live in horse country. I can hop in my car and bring home a tube of horse paste in 15 minutes. I see no reason not to do it. I think I’m good enough at math to tell the difference between a human dose and a horse dose, and if I get a bad old tummy ache and throw up a couple of times, well, that’s exactly what happened last year when I had coronavirus or something like it. Not a big deal. I’m not scared of nausea. When I was in college, no weekend evening was complete until I had thrown up.

I got myself vaccinated, and I try to use common sense. No one ever invites me to parties, but if they did, I think I would decline. I’m not that far out on the fringe. Still, it seems to me I should make some effort to avail myself of remedies supported by strong anecdotal evidence and some of THE science.

Coronavirus came from sin, so I am hoping my increasing efforts to stay close to God will keep me safe. I see zero hope for humanity as a whole. There is still no widespread call for repentance and prayer, so there is no reason for God to help humanity. When plagues come and people do not repent, things are supposed to get worse, so that’s what I expect. Coronavirus, shortages, and hatred will increase, and we will probably see other epidemics that are considerably worse. At least we don’t have to worry about having our feelings hurt by “victim-shamers.”

Panic among godless people will increase, too, and that will insure a continued curtailment of our liberties. Even though doctors have admitted vaccinated people are dying and spreading disease, hatred of the unvaccinated and unmasked is being fanned to a white-hot rage. People are being fired from jobs. The panick-stricken godless are talking about imposing economic penalties on the unvaccinated, depriving them of the ability to buy and sell. They’re completely serious, and they will be even crazier soon.

When the vaccines came out, some people thought vaccination was the mark of the beast. I said that was impossible. The timing was wrong, a shot isn’t a mark, and the beast’s mark has to be on the forehead or right arm. I said the shots were not the mark of the beast, but I also said they were probably being used to train people to accept the mark. I still say that.

We have put up with gigantic infringements on our freedom. They started small and ramped up. Now a large segment of the population will do almost anything Dr. Fauci says, with no hesitation.

Fauci isn’t mentioned in the Bible, and he’s not forcing people to worship Satan, but he and his coreligionists are applying powerful training pressures to the general population. They are teaching us to submit quickly to crazy demands without questioning.

When the mark finally arrives, we’ll be conditioned to jump on command. Nearly everyone will run to get it. The people who force it on the world will surely have a pretext that sounds important. Maybe it will be a new variant of coronavirus with a high death rate. Maybe it will be a worse disease. The mark will be connected to some worldwide problem people will be ashamed not to fight. “If you don’t take the mark, you’re killing children!” We’ll hear things like that. We already hear them, literally, about masks and shots. Shame and peer pressure will send people to hell.

In other end-time news, Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans about as hard as possible, and there is flooding. I wrote about this the other day. I think the floods we’re seeing all over the world are messages from God.

New Orleans is like Las Vegas. It’s a hub of unrepentant sin. Voodoo is big there, and drunkenness and fornication are pretty much the only reasons people visit, unless you count gluttony. I saw a Youtube advice video for New Orleans visitors, and the man in the video advised people to expect to have to step over vomit in the French Quarter.

When Katrina hit, Christians noted that the storm’s name comes from the same root as “catharsis,” which means, “cleansing.”

I have been wondering how Ida would affect Biden’s reputation. I thought there would be a lot of news stories after the storm, but there are not. It’s nothing like the post-Andrew or post-Katrina news cycles. Why is that? A major American city is without power and running water, and Ida stories are relatively few compared to Andrew and Katrina stories.

Wild guess: our leftist press wants a break from the public disintegration of their demented savior. Also, they probably want to keep attention off of the poor preparedness of a mostly black area controlled by leftists, as well as any bad behavior that may follow the storm.

After Katrina, we learned that most of the drowning victims and displaced people were black. We also learned that many stayed home, below sea level, because they were afraid to miss their welfare checks. We saw endless photos of black people looting stores, stealing things like electronics and beer, which were unrelated to survival. Then there was the Superdome. Mostly-black survivors were housed there and given benefit cards. They filled the stadium with filth and litter, a seven-year-old girl was raped and killed, there were beatings and other murders and rapes, and when the time came for people to go home, many of the survivors refused to leave.

The press doesn’t want to see such scenarios splashed before the public eye again, especially not when Biden’s dementia is manifesting itself in his mishandling of Afghanistan and America’s energy needs.

If things go really badly in Lousiana, the press will have to find someone to blame. Will they go after the black female leftist mayor, LaToya Cantrell? Will they go after the male leftist governor? Will they blame Biden? No matter what, they’ll have to attack a target who belongs to the protected class of leftists.

I’m sure they’re already looking for ways to blame Donald Trump.

Russia, Thailand, Mexico, Spain, and Cambodia are among the last week’s flood locations, and the American Northeast may be next. Ida is headed there, and the ground is already wet, so it can’t absorb a lot of rain. I wonder if we are going to see floods continue through the fall and winter.

I feel like I am glued to a bench after being taken out of a game, watching my team get destroyed while I am unable to participate. But is humanity my team, when most people are against God? I am reminded of something God said in Psalm 110: “Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.”

That Psalm is about the tribulation. Here it is:

The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

The day of God’s wrath is the tribulation. The things mentioned in the Psalm have not occurred yet. It can’t be about past events.

God once gave me this phrase: “I am no man’s enemy,” so I don’t think I’m supposed to fight people. If I belong to Jesus, though, I should share in his destiny, and I should sit while God makes the enemies of Jesus his footstool. God may have said I was no man’s enemy, but it’s unquestionable that many people are enemies to me and my kind.

I hope the rapture is close and that I’m not going to have to go back out into the cursed world. I’m very happy living as I do. I don’t want to wear a mask all day, work so hard I have no time for God, and call men Zoe and Isabel.

Isabel is a real person, by the way. He works for a brokerage where I have an account. I called them, and a deep voice said, “My name is Isabel.”

I can’t tell you what to think about ivermectin, but I thought I should say what I know, so I’ve done that. If you try it, I hope you don’t get coronavirus and your worms die most miserably.

Thanks for All the Help, CDC

I am posting this because it is helpful information most people don’t know about: reputable online sources say people who have not had recent flu shots are something like 3 times as likely to have severe coronavirus cases. For some reason, the flu shot is reducing the severity of coronavirus problems for many people.

I learned this on my own. It just popped up while I was Googling around.

I have slacked about getting flu shots for about 5 years, but I have an appointment on Tuesday. I just made it.

I also scheduled a pneumonia shot. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common bacterium that causes bacterial pneumonia in coronavirus patients. It’s not unusual to have both diseases at once. The web says there is evidence that the first pneumonia vaccine people are instructed to get (there are two) appears to reduce the severity of coronavirus attacks.

Other sources say things like varicella, the chickenpox virus, can cause pneumonia in coronavirus patients. Maybe I should see about a vaccine. I had chickenpox when I was a kid, and I’m sure I’ve been vaccinated on top of that, but varicella also causes shingles, and the web says chickenpox will not give you immunity to shingles. I have no idea whether the shingles vaccine prevents varicella pneumonia, but I don’t want shingles. A cousin of mine had it, and it was so painful, he couldn’t stand to wear clothes and decided to wander around his house naked.

I don’t know why our keepers aren’t telling us these things. It’s not tinfoil-hat nonsense. It’s coming from real researchers.