Battle for the Planet of the Dogs

The service animal craze is way out of hand. A new story of one man’s “abuse” of a service dog is making the rounds, and as far as I can tell, not one reporter has made any effort to check the facts.

A man named Matthew Silvay was traveling with his pregnant (sigh) girlfriend, in coach seats. They are deaf. They have a gigantic service dog. It’s a great Dane. Seriously. They took a dog the size of a pony with them on a coach flight.

Unbelievably, Silvay had a slim but spurious legal justification. There is a law similar to the ADA, and it applies to airlines. It’s called the ACAA. Airlines have to provide reasonable accommodation for disabled people. The obvious question is this: “Is it reasonable to make airline passengers sit in close quarters with a great Dane when, say, a poodle could do the same job?”

Obviously, the answer is “no,” but airlines are afraid of disabled people and spoiled people who just feel like traveling with pets, so Silvay was permitted to take his pony-sized dog on the plane.

Another passenger says he pushed the dog away. Silvay says he punched the dog. He also claims the man punched his pregnant girlfriend.

There is video. What does the video show? Go look. It’s on Youtube. Silvay stands over the man, punching his own hand, striking the man’s seat (misdemeanor battery), blocking the exit ramp (false imprisonment) and pushing the man onto the ground (also battery). He curses and waves his middle fingers. An airline employee on the scene clearly feels Silvay is the problem. She tries to get him to calm down and knock it off.

At one point, Silvay calls his dog, and it runs away. It seems terrified of him. He has to go after it. What does this tell you? Maybe the dog likes to play tag…or maybe it hasn’t been treated well in the past.

Journalists and people who think their pets are more important than people are siding with Silvay, in spite of the fact that there is no video of the other man, Timothy Manley, doing anything wrong!

Watching Silvay’s violent behavior, I figured he had to have a criminal history, so I Googled. A person named Matthew Silvay has a huge record on the clerk’s website for St. John’s County, Florida.

Is it the same guy? Well, the mugshots look like him, and the age is right. One site says he has a stomach tattoo that reads, “F___ OFF.”

Criminal mischief. Grand theft. Domestic violence (adjudicated guilty). It’s really something.

A website called “Deaf Weekly” writes about a news story involving a Matthew Silvay who got out of his car with a baseball bat and threatened another driver. Maybe it’s another deaf Matthew Silvay.

If there is any justice in the world, Silvay will get in trouble with the feds for his antics in the videos. Maybe Manley did something, too, and if so, he should also face the music. The only evidence so far is Silvay’s word!

What’s happening with journalists? I keep seeing the same kinds of stories.

1. Mom shamed for breastfeeding (i.e. going topless in front of disturbed strangers).
2. Teen shamed for the way she dresses (i.e. exposing herself in order to get attention).
3. Service/”support” dog owner mistreated by evil bully (i.e. person who doesn’t want to pay for restaurant food served close to dog’s exposed anus).
4. Woman fat-shamed (this is apparently fatal in some cases).
5. [Insert name of sleazy female celebrity here] showed more than she should have!

The best fat-shaming story I’ve seen appeared a few days ago. A woman attacked a man online for calling her a “smelly fatty”…in a private text to someone else. The man was sitting in his airline seat, minding his own business, and the woman eavesdropped. She stared at his phone. He had no intention of saying anything to her. She had to invade his privacy in order to see how he felt. And somehow he’s the villain!

You can’t “shame” someone if they don’t know what you’re saying about them. If I pick the lock on your diary and find out you think I’m a moron, you’re not the problem. I am.

It’s as if some nut in an office somewhere made a list of these types of stories and used a mind-control ray to force journalists all over the country to pump them out.

Why are these types of stories so important? Satan has to be involved. Journalists aren’t sufficiently unified to do things like this without external influences. Why does the devil want to torment us with dogs and other animals in restaurants and on airplanes? Why does he want women to be proud of their fat?

Satan likes nudity, and he likes getting people to open themselves up to demons who work in the area of sex, so the stuff about breastfeeding, sleazy celebrities, and teen attention addicts makes sense. I see why he wants it in the news.

Satan also likes feminism. More specifically, he likes emasculation and effeminacy, and he wants to tear down masculine leaders in the home and elsewhere. Satan is effeminate and emasculated, and he wants to spread these problems to others. Yahweh and Yeshua are masculine, and they are the ones who humiliated him and spurned him, so now Satan goes after men, who represent masculine leadership here on earth.

The fat-shame nonsense has to do with keeping men on the defensive and giving women the power to push them around. That’s all it is.

It’s as if Satan were trying to bring back the fat, primitive conceptions of Venus (AKA Aphrodite, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Lilith, the Jezebel Spirit, et cetera) in order to get a cult started. Maybe he is.

It’s funny. A man who, understandably, can’t find it in himself to date an unattractive woman is evil, but women who turn down short men or men who don’t make a lot of money get almost no criticism, and they’re just as shallow.

People don’t have total control over their desires. I can’t force myself to be attracted to a particular woman, and there is no reason I should try. Women don’t owe it to me to be attracted to me, either.

Forcing yourself to accept someone you can’t warm up to is not a good idea. People want to be wanted. A woman you don’t really want will figure things out, and she will resent you. Besides, you would be taking her away from someone who does want her.

A man also knows when a woman has settled for him and feels contempt for him.

I think I know what’s happening with the animal issue. We are losing our position of dominance over God’s lower creatures.

When you’re aligned with God, he makes you the head, not the tail. If you’re a man, your wife and kids will submit. Your dog won’t bite you. Your horse won’t buck. If you’re not submitted to God, creatures that should submit to you will have power over you.

People who pamper and spoil their pets have a problem with authority inversion. Animals are here for our use and benefit, but animal-worshipers have that turned around. They serve creatures that have little importance to God. Animals are like our flesh. We are supposed to rule our flesh, but most of us are ruled by it. When you see someone who carries an annoying dog around and makes everyone else put up with it, you’re seeing inverted authority.

God is supposed to rule me. I am supposed to be over ungodly people. Pets are supposed to be below human beings. When I’m out of God’s will, an ungodly person with a dominant pet will be able to force me to accommodate the pet and whatever demons tell the pet what to do.

When I was a kid, my sister got no respect from animals. I didn’t understand it at the time. I had a big, gentle German shepherd who was submissive to everyone, and my sister was pushy and abusive, but I saw him climb on a couch with my sister and shove her onto the floor so he could lie down.

She had a succession of horrible lapdogs that made everyone suffer. We used to kill her dogs. My mother took one to be gassed. She dropped another at the pound. My dad turned one loose. I took one to be euthanized. I prayed for the last one to die, and it did. That’s how bad the situation was.

My sister had no authority. She was rebellious and emasculating. No wonder she ended up serving animals and making other people serve them. The problem eventually extended to roaches and rats. Her home became a shelter and feeder for them, and she resisted all efforts to fix it.

When you’re on an airplane, and you have to make accommodations for a lower creature, the hierarchy of authority in your life is inverted. It’s a message: you’re the tail, buddy.

America is in rebellion, and we have an authority inversion. Screwed-up people who used to be the tail are now the head, and we run from them. This is why we have Satanic monuments going up in public buildings and on public lands. It’s why foreigners from violent, crooked countries are able to trample our rights and come across the border in droves. It’s why filthy thugs are some of our richest and most powerful celebrities. It’s what made Kim Kardashian rich. It’s why China defeats us in trade wars.

Imagine, running from a violent, tattooed creep on an airplane and having the public take up for him! Amazing.

We have thrown out a gigantic trove of ancient wisdom. We fight with people who are like puppets in Japanese Bunraku plays, instead of their unseen handlers. We mistake the true causes of our problems. We rely on solutions that make things worse. We battle using the flesh, which has very little power, instead of submitting to God and getting him to fight for us.

Have you ever heard a preacher talk about authority the way I do? I’ll bet you haven’t. I never have. They talk about being nice, buying money from God, and building self-esteem. They talk about obeying rules, which is not helpful at all. There must be a few preachers out there saying what I’m saying, but it’s obvious that they are very few in number. The church is extremely ignorant.

Cancer is the result of inverted authority. A disease should not have authority over you. Prison is the result of inverted authority. Felons give the prison system authority over them through rebellion. Being stuck in a bad job is the result of inverted authority.

Think about AIDS. Have people been killed by it? Perhaps some, but mainly, they die from other diseases healthy people can fight off. Almost all AIDS cases are the direct result of rebellion. People who get AIDS die from things like pneumonia and diarrhea, which the rest of us don’t get or shrug off. They die from attacks by creatures that have little or no authority over the rest of us. We all carry at least some of the microbes and fungi that kill AIDS patients.

When an intolerable authority is set over you, it means something is wrong. It’s a message from God. It’s an opportunity to confess and get free.

God can’t give us power because he can’t get us to accept knowledge and wisdom.

We didn’t get America because white people are brilliant and better able to develop technology. We got it because the people who lived here worshiped demons and had no authority.

America wasn’t intended to be a gift to white people. It was intended to be a gift to people who serve God.

Look how old I got before I understood authority. It’s disgraceful. My parents knew nothing, and they taught me nothing. If God himself had taught me 40 years ago, I would have told him he was wrong.

The world will get worse. Cruel, impudent, disgusting people will get more and more power. Animals, vexatious plants, and microbes will find more liberty to cause us problems. We will sink into a pit our pride created as our authority disappears.

A while back, I saw a neat Tom Fischer video about authority. There wasn’t much teaching, but he healed people simply by looking at them with “a look of authority.” I can see why that works.

Authority has a cost. You can’t live your own way. You have to give up pride, hate, lust, covetousness, drugs, drunkenness, and so on. Demons don’t have to obey hypocrites who serve them in private. But the rewards are phenomenal. You have to be irrational not to take the deal.

The older I get, the more I realize I have to defeat demons and the flesh in order to move forward. As disturbed as I am by other people’s behavior, I’m the worst problem I have. If I can get free of demons and stop serving them, and if I can get authority over my flesh and put God in charge, I’ll be fine, even if the world collapses around me. Churches don’t teach this. They don’t know it, and if they did, they wouldn’t talk about it because there’s no money in it.

I wonder what will happen in the service dog case. My guess: the man who was accused will never be able to clear his name, and the sick young man who attacked him will be rewarded. That’s how things work when authority is on the wrong side.

Francis Accused of Endorsing Sin

Can a pope be impeached? I guess not. There used to be popes who had armies they used for conquest. For a time, there were two popes (not counting non-Catholic popes), both of whom could not have been legitimate. Popes have had mistresses and illegitimate children. One such child became a pope, himself! If there were a reset button, someone would have used it by now.

I guess that’s not true. Corruption has never bothered church-worshipers very much.

Let me see. Hmm. Sixtus III was put on trial, but he was acquitted.

The pope is the subject of a fresh accusation: a homosexual who was a victim of priest rape says Francis told him, “God made you that way.” Also credited to Francis: “He loves you just the way you are.”

The obvious question: will the pope back this stuff up, or will he hide behind the curtains and wait for it to blow over?

My charitable guess is that the homosexual who gave the report has twisted the truth to push his own agenda. But the pope has said some stupid things about homosexuality in the past, so maybe the story is true.

Regarding homosexuality, in a book, the pope said, “Who am I to judge?”

Who are you? The pope! Supposedly.

In the book, Francis talks like a man blowing smoke rings. He says things that sound nice but mean nothing. Are same-sex relations sinful? Not clear. Should Christians accept active homosexuals among their ranks? Again, not clear.

It’s sad for a preacher to be in a position where the Bible, which is known for being hard to understand, is more transparent than he is.

Here’s something Jesus (the pope’s boss) said about sexual sin. After discouraging religious Jews from killing an adulterous woman, he told her he did not “condemn” her (not “judge”) and that she should “go and sin no more.”

He forgave the woman, but he also judged her and found her guilty. Is Francis willing to say a lifestyle of continuing homosexual acts is sin? Who knows? Listening to him is like reading greeting cards, zen poems, and fortune cookies. He says whatever will make him look best to the largest number of people, while avoiding all semblance of taking a stand

In the Catholic system, Paul outranks the pope. Here is what he said about judgment:

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

A few sentences later, he said this:

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

There is a big difference between condemnation, which we should avoid, and judgment, which we are obligated to perform. We shouldn’t refuse to let people into church because of past sins of which they want to repent. That’s condemnation. At the same time, we should reject people who have no plans to change. That’s judgment. The church is the church of the submitted, not the rebellious. We are supposed to have salt in ourselves. We’re supposed to be repentant.

We’re not supposed to be yoked with unbelievers.

The same Greek root appears in all these places where judgment and condemnation are mentioned, but obviously, it does not always mean the same thing. If Jesus tells us not to judge on one page, and Paul tells us to judge on another, the word “judge” must be used differently in those contexts. The Greek words in this case can mean “render a verdict” or “to sentence.” It is possible to render a verdict without issuing a sentence.

Paul refers to believers who are “sanctified.” That means their hearts have been cleaned up. It doesn’t refer to salvation, which is justification. We’re not supposed to stop with salvation. We’re supposed to go on and become sanctified through the action of the Holy Spirit.

Sanctification won’t happen to you if you insist on living in sexual sin (including homosexual relations), and according to Paul, you won’t inherit the kingdom of God.

By the way, homosexual behavior is different from other types of fornication. It’s normal for a man to have desire for a woman. Homosexual relations involve an abnormal desire most men do not have.

When I was taking college art classes, I was always on time, because the models were naked women, and I never knew what was in store. When I used to go to a gym and work out, I spent as little time as possible in the locker room with naked men, because locker rooms stink and being around naked men is not particularly enjoyable. It’s wrong for me to sin with women, but I will always have some desire for them, and I’m not accountable for that. Desire for men, in and of itself, would be a problem.

The idea that God makes people gay is abominable. The Bible does talk about God giving people over to homosexuality. but that’s not the same thing as making them gay to begin with. It means he allows them to continue and increase in their error because they don’t listen. It’s like what Paul said about the man who fornicated with his stepmother. He advised the church to turn him over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so he would either repent or go away and be damned.

Homosexuality is one of today’s most destructive sins, so Francis should be confronting it. Instead, he appears to be courting popularity. Nothing new for him. In contrast, Jesus was willing to be unpopular, and that characteristic is a hallmark of his followers. Historically, they have submitted to murder and torture rather than betray God. Jesus said we were blessed when men reviled us. Francis is running for prom king.

It’s important to stand against homosexuality because it destroys human beings. Someone has to point the way to God. Making people comfortable with their own destruction is not kindness. It’s selfishness. The intention is to make our own lives easier instead of helping habitual sinners. We want to avoid confrontation and its consequences.

At least two people who claim to have visited hell say they saw homosexuals (male and female) chained together in a river of fire. I think it’s true. Is that what we want for people? Is our popularity worth that sacrifice?

The Catholic church, like nearly all churches, is powerless. They can’t work miracles. They have no prophets. Healings are rare. They do what most powerless churches do. They deny that power exists. They protect their brand (and the money it brings in) instead of confessing error.

They can’t get homosexuals delivered, any more than they can heal cripples. It makes sense that they would eventually decide homosexuality was normal, especially in an age when it’s increasing like crazy. The church was unpopular when gay marriage was illegal and the rate of homosexuality was down around 1%. Now perversion is becoming more widespread. As the situation deteriorates, popes will be under more pressure to give in. Sooner or later, some pope will probably decide the church has been wrong.

The Anglicans beat them to the bottom. They already have honest homosexuals in robes.

The fact that you fail at something doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Preachers need to understand that. The Jews who ran the temple in the time of Jesus could not heal anyone. They couldn’t prophesy. They couldn’t work miracles. Jesus and his followers did all these things. Did it prove God had suddenly decided to help people? No; it just meant he finally had a few servants who did things right. The success of Jesus and his followers should have motivated the old guard to reexamine their false doctrine and join those who moved in God’s power.

We’re in the same situation today. God does a lot of things outside of respected churches. The pope can’t heal anyone, but like many Christians, I’ve had a bunch of healings. A lot of people have seen miracles. A lot of people hear from God. The Catholic church teaches that all non-Catholics go to hell or purgatory, yet God does a lot of powerful things through people who aren’t Catholic, just as he worked through Jesus instead of Caiphas. The message should be obvious. Help is still available. You just have to look for it God’s way.

We need to get more connected to God’s authority and start delivering people. We are weak, and when people seek God, they want to find strength. No wonder we’re rejected. We have very little to offer. Healings and deliverance should be routine, and they are not. If a homosexual goes to a church for deliverance, the odds are overwhelming that nothing will happen. Who can blame such a person for deciding we’re wrong?

We serve demons, and we try to cast demons out of other people. That doesn’t work. We need to be sanctified. To wield authority, you have to be submitted to it.

It’s sad when churches try to become like the secular world. They become more popular at first, but eventually, people who go to such churches will wonder why religion has to be involved. If it’s all about positive thinking, being nice, running a community center, and singing songs, why does Jesus have to be part of it? Why go to a church for these things when you can get them elsewhere?

Eventually, seeker-friendly churches end up competing with secular establishments which do the same things better. That’s suicidal. We ought to have a franchise, not a commodity. Any corporation can hold meetings and sing songs. Every Japanese carmaker does these things. Only a church can put people in touch with God.

The end of the organized church is coming to an end. Look at the signs. Doctrine is watered down. Greed is everywhere. God can’t penetrate the walls of fables and self-interest in order to get things done. People who don’t belong to big churches are getting revelation and help from God.

We should be glad. Good things happen when preachers aren’t around to relieve themselves on the fire.

Interesting fact: Francis would not be the first pope to endorse homosexuality. Boniface VIII was a pedophile who said sex with women or boys was no more sinful than rubbing one’s hands together.

It will be interesting to see if Francis has anything to say in response.

Mrs. Lanza

Today I am planning to shoot. I don’t know if the weather will cooperate. A highly reliable source tells me Ocala is usually dry in May, but we have had a week or so of rainy weather. It’s supposed to rain like crazy today, but right now it looks okay.

The Santa Fe High shooting is on my mind. I noticed something interesting about the weapons the shooter, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, used. One of them is magical. On the day of the shooting, it was an AR-15 rifle. Later on, it turned into a sawed-off shotgun. After that, it turned into a Remington Model 870, which means it almost certainly was not sawn off.

The Model 870 is a pump gun with a tube magazine. On defense-oriented models, the tube is nearly as long as the barrel. Sawing one off would be pointless and stupid. You would end up with a magazine longer than the barrel. You would gain nearly nothing in maneuverability, and you would expose the magazine to hot gases on their way out of the gun. If the barrel were short enough, it might be possible for pellets to hit the barrel as the pattern opened up.

You can find sawed off 870’s on the web. The magazines are also short. What’s the point of that? A pump shotgun is already a poor home defense weapon because it holds few rounds and is very slow to reload. Why shorten the magazine and make things worse? The Model 870 will hold up to 7 rounds, which is pretty bad. A short version will only hold 5, which is terrible. Cut one down, and you get what? Three rounds? Come on.

My guess: the Santa Fe gun was a legal Model 870 with a pistol grip instead of a buttstock. Journalists are notoriously stupid (and dishonest) about guns, and whoever started the “sawed off” rumor probably didn’t realize “sawed off” only refers to barrels. A true sawed off shotgun has a barrel length below the legal limit. Shotguns also have a minimum legal overall length, but this is not what people think of when they talk about “sawed off” guns.

I am not a great fan of pistol-grip shotguns (except for the great fun you can have shooting watermelons with them). It’s not because you can’t control one. I have been told it’s impossible to control a 12-gauge without shouldering it, but I found that to be untrue in my own experience. I think it can be controlled, but control isn’t the same thing as aiming. The fact that you can keep a gun pointed more or less at an attacker doesn’t mean you’ll hit him. If you didn’t use the bead, you may have been pointing in the wrong direction when you started shooting, so you may be maintaining a bad point of aim as you continue to shoot.

Many people think you don’t have to aim a shotgun. Here is my take on that. I took a Saiga 12 to a gun range, and I fired buckshot at a target 50 feet away, from the hip. It was not hard to hold, and I used a laser, so aiming was not a problem. I made holes around the size of a silver dollar. When your pattern is that small, you need to aim. You can’t just point it in a general direction and expect some of the pellets to hit your burglar. In a bedroom, the pattern would probably be the size of a nickel.

Of course, this was a shotgun with a legal barrel, shooting a type of buckshot that stays pretty tight. Don’t ask me what happens when you saw it off.

It’s actually sad that people think shotguns don’t have to be aimed, because a person who believes that is likely to be killed in a gunfight.

I am not a gun expert, so I may be wrong, but these conclusions are what my common sense provides.

When the shooting happened, journalists were pretty excited. They told us all about the AR-15 Pagourtzis used. Then it turned into a sawed off shotgun, and things got quieter. As a participant on a gun forum put it, the killer used “the wrong gun.”

Are journalists busy retracting the AR-15 nonsense? I won’t check. You can do it if you can. I have my suspicions.

If Pagourtzis used a short Remington 870 and a .38 revolver (the current description of his armament), he had either 10 or 11 rounds in his weapons, maximum, when he started shooting. A .38 can hold either 5 or 6 rounds. Let’s assume the worst: 11 rounds loaded. So he had only 11 rounds to work with, in weapons which are very slow to reload, and he still shot 23 people. Moreover, in spite of not having the supposedly godlike power of the AR-15 on his side, he killed nearly half of his victims.

Shotgun wounds can be extremely damaging. The .38, on the other hand, is not a great caliber for killing. These days, it’s used by old women and people with arthritis. The velocity is low, and the wound channel is not big. Even the 9mm semiauto, which has more energy and whole lot more magazine capacity, is a lot better.

Pagourtzis proved the man, not the weapon, makes the difference. At least when shooting tightly packed, unarmed victims in a gun-free zone.

Press coverage has been relatively muted. RELATIVELY. Obviously, a highly successful mass murderer armed with primitive firearms of types that existed over a hundred years ago does not fit in with the “AR-15 = ‘assault weapon'” mythology. Journalists jumped at the bait, and then they pulled back and decided to reserve their real hysteria for the next AR-15 crime.

Journalists want to go after the low-hanging fruit first, and the AR-15 hangs even lower than the AK-47, which does most of the same things, only much better (face it). They want our revolvers and shotguns, but right now the big focus is on black rifles, which have to be more dangerous, because they look mean.

Journalists have largely ignored another school shooting that took place yesterday. Two people were shot, one fatally, at the Clayton County Schools Performing Arts Center in Jonesboro, Georgia. The shooting took place at a graduation ceremony, following an argument. The graduates were students from the Perry Learning Center, also in Jonesboro. Basically, you can say it happened in Atlanta. That’s the metro area involved.

Why is the Georgia shooting not important? For one thing, no AR-15; not even an imaginary one that later turns into a shotgun. For another…black people. The Perry Learning Center is a black school. Go online and look at the center’s photos.

Most murders in America are committed by black people, and journalists want to keep that quiet, even though most victims of black killers are black. Although they were arrested yesterday, we still don’t have photos of the suspects. When they turn up, at least one of them will be black. In all likelihood, the suspects and victims are all black. Four or more people are involved, and it would not be easy to come up with four white people at an event associated with this school.

No AR-15, no white or Asian shooter…nothing to see here.

Big-time school shooters tend to be white. People who shoot up social gatherings tend to be black. That’s just how things are.

When black people commit sensational crimes of violence, very often, suspect photos take a long time appear. Not true with white criminals. When you Google “graduation shooting georgia suspects,” you get no photos of the suspects, but you do get photos of white Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who wasn’t even there.

On the day of the Santa Fe shooting, I went to town wearing a Smith & Wesson shirt. I was not trying to make a point. I didn’t think about it until the day was over. It just happened to be the shirt I grabbed when I got dressed.

I’m glad I wore it, though, because when you’re right, it’s important not to act like you’re doing something wrong. Conservatives are right about our civil right to own and carry firearms. You shouldn’t hide your beliefs just because an evil person somewhere far away uses firearms to do something very bad.

I used to go to a gun show in Fort Lauderdale. They held it at a building called the War Memorial Auditorium. That gun show is gone now. They have to hold it somewhere else. After the Parkland shooting, near Fort Lauderdale, the organizers of the show agreed to cancel one event out of respect for the victims and their families. Now the people in charge of the auditorium won’t let them return. Is this because the organizers put the idea in their heads with their ridiculous display of submission and false guilt? Could be.

It was the wrong thing to do. If we’re right about 2A before a mass shooting, we’re right while it’s going on, and we’re right the next day. It’s not smart to act like we’re meeting to sell pornography or use heroin. Who will stand up for you, when you won’t even stand up for yourself?

I didn’t shoot up a school. I never will. I’m not the problem. I won’t pretend to be the problem just to make deluded, hostile people like me. Gun-grabbers have already decided to dislike and persecute me. Nothing I can do will change that, but acting guilty can certainly motivate them to keep swinging.

All that being said, it’s time 2A people started pushing people to secure their guns VOLUNTARILY VOLUNTARILY VOLUNTARILY. I use repetition to underscore the point that I am NOT SUGGESTING WE NEED NEW LAWS. In order AVOID NEW LAWS, we should be pressuring each other to keep guns away from nuts and incompetents.

Adam Lanza had a head the size of a grapefruit, his eyes were about half an inch apart, he had full-blown Asperger’s plus unknown personality problems, he had threatened to kill his mother and students at his school, and his mom bought him weapons and stored an AR-15…in a $200 gun “safe” a determined person could open with a spoon. Then she stored it in a computer room next to his bedroom.

I’ll just say it. The Second Amendment is not for everyone. Some people should voluntarily keep guns out of their houses. This woman’s son was very smart, and he was an angry mental defective. When it comes to gun ownership and the Lanzas, the danger to others clearly outweighed the necessity of keeping one family safe. At the very least, she should have had a real gun safe IN HER OWN BEDROOM. Lanza opened her glorified medicine cabinet, entered her bedroom, and put 4 rounds in her skull, long after he had threatened to kill her. There is no way to excuse her irresponsibility.

Why would anyone think shooting was good therapy for an Asperger’s patient who had screaming fits and threatened to kill people?

Shooting is not for everyone. That’s a fact. Ask Chris Kyle’s widow.

You don’t have to do a thing simply because you can.

Nikolas Cruz was another head case. The cops visited him many times before he killed. He put scary things on social media. His guns were taken away. His dad gave them back! Indefensible. What possible excuse could he have had? The danger was clear.

It appears that Pagourtzis was a known nutbar. He went to school every day dressed like a killer from a video game. How could his parents have thought he should be trusted with guns?

Eric Harris, one of the Columbine killers, had a web page where he wrote about killing people. He and his pal Dylan Klebold got guns through private sales, from idiots who didn’t care about their ages.

We pressure each other to stand up for 2A. We pressure each other to vote GOP. We pressure each other to support the NRA. How about devoting a little time to talk to each other about keeping guns away from our crazy relations? A lot of behaviors and beliefs draw heavy criticism in the 2A ranks. We police each other all the time. Somehow, we don’t find time to talk to each other about securing our weapons.

That looks bad. It also invites legislation. If you don’t look after your own house, liberals will come do it for you.

There are lots of people out there who have access to guns in spite of clear signs that they shouldn’t. Parents, siblings, and spouses live in denial. It’s better to have uncomfortable conversations now than to read about our crazy acquaintances on the news.

We worry that the government will pass laws enabling leftist stormtroopers to come in and take guns away from every person who has ever been depressed or suffered from PTSD. Then we fail to deal with individuals we know are dangerous. A person’s personal acquaintances are much better qualified to assess his mental issues than a government goon in a Crown Vic. Why aren’t we trying harder?

Smart people don’t wait for their enemies to address their failings. They get out in front, take over the issues, and decide where the goalposts go. We need to take the gun security issue away from socialists, Wiccans, and ignorant snowflakes.

Will we do it? I doubt it. The NRA would be the obvious organization to put in the lead role, but they would probably see the effort as suicidal.

Anyway, I am going to try to shoot today. If not today, this week. Let’s make hay while the sun shines.

Dreams Shaping Up

Interesting things have been happening lately.

For a long time, I have been frustrated by an incomprehensible problem: I am a Christian during the day, but in my dreams, that is not always the case. I do things in my dreams which I would not do during the day, without hesitation or remorse, and I don’t do things I would definitely do while awake.

How can things like this happen? You would think I would be the same person, awake or sleeping, but I recall having a dream where I did something I wouldn’t even desire to do while awake. I can’t remember what it was. Something that would hurt other people, like stealing.

Over the years, I’ve had a lot of dreams in which I was a Christian. The problem with behaving like an unbeliever in dreams seems to have been worse over the last year.

Last night, I had a dream where I was tempted by women, and I started to give in. For some reason, I stopped and used my supernatural tools. I commanded my flesh not to be interested, and I probably spoke defeat to the women and spirits that tempted me.

I don’t recall what happened after that. I think it worked. I’m just glad I made the effort instead of reacting like Larry Flynt.

I’ve been praying to God to help me to be a Christian around the clock, so I feel what happened to me was an answer to prayer.

I used to feel that all bets were off while I was asleep, and when situations I enjoyed presented themselves, I made the most of them. I conjured women for pleasure, for example; I made them appear. In retrospect, that seems a little bit like rape.

I have lucid dreams very often, and sometimes I have taken charge and forced things I wanted to materialize. I now realize iniquity is more important than sin. In other words, the inclination to do evil is worse than the sins we commit, so indulging it inwardly is not acceptable. It’s bad to fornicate while you’re awake, it’s bad to concentrate on sex while you’re awake, and it’s bad to sin sexually in your dreams.

Before Jesus, Judaism was more concerned with acts than motivation. God didn’t expect people to change their natures all that much. He only asked them to restrain themselves. Christianity requires us to change so we don’t desire to sin. You can’t do that if you sin internally all the time. It turns you into a whitewashed tomb, which is the term Jesus used for some religious Jews of his time. You will appear clean on the outside, but inside, you will be full of dead men’s bones (the spirits of demons).

I’m relieved to get this change. Spirit-led Christians aren’t like dieters who get “cheat days.” It’s not okay to sin on the weekends after being good all week. It’s not okay to sin in your dreams. You’re supposed to get free of the compulsion to sin, and you should never go back to it, because you open the door to fresh bondage.

We don’t fight demons. We pursue Christianity as though it were Judaism. We rely on effort, which doesn’t work. We think what we do matters, and we believe that what we want to do or obsess on doing means nothing to God. God gave us all sorts of power at the crucifixion, and we reject it. We want to earn his help or simply help ourselves. Ridiculous. If we could do that, why would God allow himself to be tortured to death in order to save us?

Gun people like to say a pistol is a tool you use to fight your way to a rifle. That’s because pistols are very poor weapons compared to rifles. Similarly, effort should only be a crutch you lean on until God gives you the ability to walk in his power. We hold onto effort. It makes us feel holy, like we’ve paid our debts to God. What does God say about our effort? In the Bible, he compares it to used menstrual rags. Hmm.

Imagine giving your son power tools, materials, and all sorts of instruction and then asking him to build a bird house. Then imagine he throws the tools and materials away and brings you not a birdhouse, but a pile of used menstrual rags he made with his bare hands. Will you be pleased? Probably not. But that’s SOP for Christians. It has been for centuries. We persecute anyone who teaches us to let God do things for us.

“Cheap grace!” “Word of faith heresy!” The responses are always the same.

Moses parted the Red Sea using words of faith, and God cursed him for hitting a rock with his staff instead of relying on words. As for cheap grace, what’s cheaper than the life of a cow or sheep? If I sin and I then kill a sheep, who suffers? Not me. It almost seems like the sheep should be the one who gets salvation. And killing a sheep doesn’t help the person you sinnned against.

God would rather have a birdhouse he essentially built for you than the nicest pile of used menstrual rags–created without his help–imaginable. He is not looking to outsource to incompetents. He is looking to make us extensions of himself.

Sorry for being gross, but God chooses his phrases for good reason.

If I could earn anything on my own or impress God with my works, I think I would know about it by now.

Rehab fails most of the time. Medicine fails every day. Self-help programs fail. Every February, most people who resolve to start working out quit going to the gym. We diet and get fat again. It’s very hard to change yourself, and if you change in one area, you will fail in others. Yet we still rely on our own effort.

I am glad I did the right thing in my dream.

In other news, I have been going over things God told me in years past. I have a Word document where I store such things, and I have a wrinkled printout for reference. For some reason, I left it in my laundry room for months. Yesterday I finally got up and dug it out. When I read it, I get power, peace, and revelation. I don’t know why I neglected it.

I’ve been going over it again. I’m always surprised to see the soundness of things I said about God long ago. I always expect to see terrible errors, but that’s very unusual. I’m doing much better now than I was in 2011, but the things I wrote back then still work. That proves they came from the Holy Spirit. I wasn’t relying on my imagination or listening to demons, like the authors of the Talmud, the Pope, or T.D. Jakes.

This is a big relief. One of the things God told me was, “I have built on a rotten foundation.” He was talking about my own efforts that preceded my decision to submit to him. I wasn’t supposed to be a lawyer. I probably wasn’t supposed to be a physicist or a humorist. I traveled down blind ratholes because I didn’t have God’s guidance. A lot of me has been wasted. At least I wasn’t wrong when I started writing God’s revelations down. Years later, that foundation is holding up.

The Bible uses “sand” to mean the ideas and ways of men. It uses “rock” to mean the ideas and ways of God. It uses “water,” including rain, to symbolize words and voices. The Bible says God’s voice is like many waters.

When you try to find your own way, you build on sand. Then the waters come from people and spirits, and your work washes away. When you listen to God, you build on rock, and nothing can move you.

To the extent that I have been listening to God and trying to comply, I have been building on rock. I haven’t had to go back to my list and cross things out.

Christians are generally weak. Can’t get a word from God. Can’t get a healing. Can’t get financial help. Can’t beat their enemies. Can’t cast out a demon. They play a game of rules instead of getting in touch with God and listening to him.

In the future, when harder times come, the rule-lovers will be unarmed. They will be like cities without walls. Sadly, many of them will be so in love with pride and martyrdom, they won’t have much desire to change.

It’s fine to die as a martyr when God is in favor of it. It’s a victory. Doing it because of pride is ridiculous and wasteful. It’s a defeat and a disgrace.

God wants to tell you things directly. He doesn’t want you to have to wait for a traveling preacher to arrive in order for you to be healed or to receive prophecy. You don’t have to be ordained. You don’t need a church building. You don’t need a giant hat with jewels all over it. If those things mattered, the Pope wouldn’t be a powerless socialist who spreads nonsense and fights God’s children.

God wants you, not the special people on TV. He wants billions of prophets. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done. He wants every one of us, close to him, like Jesus. He doesn’t want to have to send you messages through other people.

God’s organization isn’t a pyramid. It’s a line, with one level above it. There is God, and on the next level, there are all of us. God doesn’t need to delegate responsibility. He doesn’t need 5 or 6 generals who talk to 30 or 40 colonels who talk to 90 or 100 majors. We’re all supposed to be generals. There are no privates. The Bible says we should be like Christ, not Gomer Pyle. People on TV don’t outrank you. There are people living in trailers who have more power and authority than Joel Osteen will ever have.

If you have to go to church or pay to see a special preacher in order to hear from God, receive help, or get healed, something is very wrong. God is not a respecter of persons. He has no VIP room. We’re supposed to talk to him directly all the time. We don’t have to make appointments with Mary or the so-called “saints.” We don’t have to pay Benny Hinn to ask him for favors for us.

Satan passes power out liberally. He sends lowly, revolting spirits out with the power to make us ill, bend our thoughts, cause accidents, and so on. He gives impoverished people in ghettos and backward nations the power to cast spells and conjure spirits. Yet somehow we think God only works through celebrity preachers and religious bigwigs. Is Satan a more effective manager than God?

The big difference is that Satan’s followers don’t reject his power and persecute everyone who tries to distribute it.

People aren’t listening. Pride tastes like prime steak. Charity tastes like sawdust.

I look forward to whatever God tells me next. There is nothing like revelation that works.

Leftovers Again

I watched the latest Star Wars movie, to kill time while I had the birds out. It was worth the six bucks I paid, but then I’d pay six bucks to watch Steven Seagal beat up Ralph Macchio, so don’t read too much into it.

Macchio is back, by the way. He has a series called Cobra Kai on Youtube. I watched the first two episodes, because they were free. Here is all I’m willing to say about it: it’s nice that he’s working again.

Yes. Nice.

I forgot the name of the Star Wars movie. I think it’s The Last Jedi. Can that be right? I thought Obi Wan was the last Jedi. Then Luke was the last Jedi. Is it just me, or are most Jedis the last Jedi?

My take on the Jedis is that they’re in denial. It’s the least impressive cult in history, unless you count what happened after Kanye West decided to worship himself. Even the Mormons managed to take over one state. At their peak, the Jedis probably had 15 members. The Westboro Baptist Church has that beat. When their entire membership travels, they fill 6 or 7 SUV’s. You could put all the Jedis in one school bus, and I mean a short one (negative connotation possibly intended).

The Jedis need an intervention. They need to lose the robes, run down to their local community colleges, get associates’ degrees, and look for work. In each of their futures, there is a store in a mall somewhere, looking for a management trainee. With luck, they could use their mind tricks to get raises and extra sick days. “You didn’t see Mace Windu driving the company van for Uber.”

The rebels…same deal. They’ve been losing for 40 years. It’s over, people. It’s time to pee on the fire and call the ewok. How many times does your movement have to be obliterated before you get the message? More importantly, when will HOLLYWOOD get the message? I feel like I just ate a plate of hash that was cooked in 1977. It’s okay to let Star Wars go. You let Obi Wan and Yoda die. Now let the series die. Some day someone out there will probably have another original idea. It could happen.

In the latest film, the rebels start out with a few hundred members. Think of that. The galaxy has trillions of people, and maybe 300 aren’t down with the empire. Is that a rebellion or just Occupy Wall Street with spaceships? Crazy thought: maybe the empire is legitimate. Maybe everyone else is okay with the Sith. My suggestion: go to the Jakku DMV, get a government ID, find work, and live as well as you can, under the radar.

It worked for me when Obama was president.

The older I get, and the more I know about life, the harder it is to take movies seriously. It’s twice as hard with Star Wars movies, for obvious reasons. They take place in a galaxy that has incredibly advanced technololgy, yet where soldiers wearing thin vinyl body armor shoot glowing bullets you can easily outrun. A galaxy where the cell phone hasn’t been invented.

They also take place in a galaxy where it seems smarter to cast Carrie Fisher than Harrison Ford.

Harrison Ford looks great. He is totally believable as Han Solo. The late Carrie Fisher looked and sounded awful. She shuffled and spoke haltingly, as though she had dementia. She had a speech impediment because she had bad dentures. Who spends hundreds of millions on a movie and forgets spend 5 grand to have the star’s teeth fixed? And she was, indeed, the star. For lack of competition.

Watching Carrie Fisher was depressing. Why, then, was she in the movie? My guess, based on old age and knowing a few things: Harrison Ford cost too much. He could probably get $20 million for a Star Wars movie. Carrie Fisher had no career and no prospects. She was no longer able to act. She had to be way cheaper.

Lupita Nyongo is doing well and making money. That probably explains why her character was only on the screen for about 20 seconds.

Look at the other actors and actresses. Laura Dern? What? Who? Has she been in a movie since Jurassic Park? Adam Driver? He didn’t exist until Star Wars found him. The actors who play Poe, Finn, and Rey are in the same boat. The inexpensive boat.

Poe and Finn are played by actors who don’t have a lot of talent. The Finn character is not as good as some of the people I worked with in high school plays (and they weren’t good at all). The Poe actor comes across as whiny and not bright. He’s supposed to be the new Han Solo, obviously, but he can’t carry Harrison Ford’s blaster.

Mark Hamill is not a great actor, but he punched above his weight this time. Not sure why they decided to kill him. Worried about a bigger fee next time around?

Yes, Luke Skywalker, the previous last Jedi, is dead. He evaporated, like Obi Wan Kenobi, on purpose. Like Obi Wan’s, his suicide served no purpose whatsoever. The rebels were wiped out, Luke showed up to save a remnant, and once they got loaded up in the Millennium Falcon, he went “poof.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that desertion? Nice friend.

The rebels are down to like 9 people (literally), they’re on the run in a creaky old ship piloted by a chimpanzee, their enemies are doing everything possible to kill them, and Luke is off gallivanting around the Star Wars afterlife with Count Dooku and Greedo. Is there a point to it? Of course not. Obi Wan’s death had no point, either. The Star Wars people don’t have a plan. They never had a plan. When they made the first movie, there were no plans for a sequel. They make this crap up, day by day.

Here’s the plan: “Make new movie; sell more dolls.” That’s what you’ll find buried under George Lucas’s mall-sized house, on a scroll made from bantha hide.

I guess I sound like I’m knocking the movie. I am. But I paid six bucks to see it, and that low figure has to be taken into consideration. There were a lot of explosions. There was some cool CGI. I was amused. I don’t feel ripped off.

I hope they’ll eventually quit making these things. It’s starting to be insulting.

I choose not to discuss the giant multi-nippled beast that supplied Luke Skywalker with nourishment. No; it wasn’t Chewbacca.

One Bubba’s Experience With the Marlin Model 60

This week’s big triumph: I got my Marlin Model 60 .22 rifle set up so it actually works. I installed an M*CARBO trigger kit, plus sling studs.

I needed the trigger job badly. The Model 60’s trigger is so bad people complain about it all over the Internet. To shoot, you pull it back about half an inch, and then you squeeze like crazy and hope something happens. The factory pull weight is so hard, if you shoot a Model 60 after shooting a normal gun, you may think the safety is on. That happened to me.

When a gun is hard to fire, you will tend to take longer to shoot, and the gun’s point of aim may wander while you’re focused on making it go off. It’s very annoying. I suppose you can overcome it, but who wants a lousy trigger?

There are two outfits that I know of that sell Marlin 60 triggers: M*CARBO and some guy whose Internet handle is Arrowdodger. Mr. Arrowdodger sells the KAT trigger, which is supposed to be the very best. I will never know, because he doesn’t respond to inquiries. I don’t know if he’s ill or what, but I gave up. M*CARBO sells a kit which includes a trigger, a bunch of superior springs that go in the general region of the trigger, and replacement recoil springs.

One of the irritating things about the Marlin 60 is that it is not up to the task of firing hypersonic .22 ammunition like CCI Stingers. It’s 2018, and you would think Marlin would have gotten with the times. They have not. According to M*CARBO, you can shoot Stingers and similar rounds if you use a better recoil spring.

They sell two springs with their trigger kit. One is for hypersonic rounds, and the other is for standard velocity. They claim the hypersonic version will work with standard velocity rounds, so I decided to install it, failing to see the advantage of a weaker spring that only works with one kind of ammunition.

M*CARBO (boy, is it annoying typing that) has excellent videos on its site, telling you how to install stuff. I used the video for the trigger kit, and things went well. One minor thing: you should use plastic tools to remove the E-clips on the gun’s receiver. I used a screwdriver, and now I have tiny scratches in the bluing. These scratches are not visible when the gun is assembled, but still.

I got the gun put together and took it outside. I only fired a few times. I used standard velocity ammunition to make sure the recoil spring worked with it. No problems. The trigger is wonderful. You can tell when the gun is going to go off, and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to shoot it.

Now I can use a wider array of ammunition, and there is some hope that my game will not run off while I’m straining to shoot.

I needed a sling for the gun. It’s annoying, carrying a gun in your hand all day, and without a sling, you have nothing to wrap around your arm to give support when shooting offhand. I had some studs I bought when I got the gun. Studs are little metal things slings attach to. Many guns come with them. The Marlin only cost $170, so you don’t get a lot of frills.

When I bought the gun, I didn’t know it was hard to put a sling on it.

Ordinarily, you run a wood screw into the forward part of a rifle’s stock, or you put a nut inside the stock and use a stud that has a machine screw for a base. To do these things, you have to have some wood to work with. You need maybe half an inch of wood for a wood screw, and in order to use a machine screw and nut, you need to have at least a quarter of an inch of wood clamped between the nut and the stud base.

The Marlin has a tube magazine, like a second barrel, under the barrel of the gun. This takes up room in the stock, and it displaces the wood you need in order to attach a stud. The wood up front appears to be less than 1/2″ thick.

The classic solution to this problem is very bad. You put a normal stud on the buttstock, and you use a special front stud with a ring on it, to clamp around the tube magazine. This puts a lot of strain on the flimsy magazine. It’s a stupid idea. I wasn’t having it. I decided to use the machine screw stud and nut.

The nut on the stud was about 1/4″ tall. That’s too much. I wanted to have at least 1/4″ of wood under the nut after the installation, and I needed the nut to be sunk into the inside of the stock so it would be out of the way of the magazine. I needed a nut somewhere between 1/8″ and 3/16″ tall, and I needed a counterbored cavity inside the stock for the nut to sit in.

I took a belt grinder and thinned the nut down to a little over 1/8″ in height. I didn’t need 1/4″ of threads to make the stud work. It wasn’t going to be under that much stress. What I ended up with was more than adequate.

I used a 3/8″ Forstner bit to start a hole inside the stock. I couldn’t use a drill, because the U-shaped bottom of the inside of the stock wouldn’t permit the bit to rest flat and stay in place. I held the bit in my hand and turned it slowly until I cut away enough wood to get the bit down on the bottom of the interior. After that, I put it in a drill and made a cavity deep enough to sink the nut.

I took a very small drill bit, placed it in the center of the cavity, and drilled through the stock. I put paper towels and a block of wood under the stock to minimize tearout. This gave me a pilot hole for the machine screw hole. I used a bigger bit to enlarge the hole, and I was all set. The nut fit in the cavity, and the stud tightened up in it nicely.

I still had about 1/4″ of excess screw sticking out into the inside of the stock. I took everything to the belt grinder and slowly shortened the screw until it was below the deck. Sweet.

It looks fantastic, and it works perfectly. Much better than yanking on a magazine tube.

The buttstock stud, which should have been easy, was harder to install. The wood used in the stock is very chippy and teary. I knew that from installing the front stud. I had to drill a hole for a wood screw in the rounded bottom of the buttstock, without ripping up the wood.

The directions said I had to create a 1″-deep 5/32″ pilot hole for the screw, and that I had to open the first 1/4″ of the hole up with a 7/32″ bit. No problem, I thought. I drilled a starter hole with a very thin bit and finished with the 5/32″. Then, thinking I was clever, I used a rotary stone from my Proxxon kit (like a Dremel) to chamfer the daylights out of the hole’s opening. I thought this would make tearing impossible. I was wrong. It tore anyway. Now when you look at the stud, you can see a tiny area of torn wood.

This was exasperating. I did my best to prevent it from happening, and it happened anyway. I should have done the entire counterbore with the stone.

I can fix the tearout with filler and stain, and I guess I will. No one will ever see it unless they look at the picture I took. Lesson learned.

Now I’ll be able to carry the gun like a civilized person. I’ll be able to shoot it with a sling. I’ll have a pleasant experience when I pull the trigger.

This gun has really shaped up. It’s going to be superb. Much better than I had hoped. If you don’t mind tinkering with your firearms, you would do well to get one of these things.

In the end, with a sling and scope, it will be about a $350 .22 rifle. That’s not so bad. I felt great about paying almost that much for a .22 pistol with no additional doodads at all.

It’s going to be a real squirrel killer. It may do well on coons and other things, too.

The wood is gorgeous. It has tiger stripes and swirls all over it. It’s so nice, I am tempted to have someone refinish it to bring out the grain. I’m afraid to do it because I am not good with finishes.

I’m no gunsmith, but I had no choice here, unless I wanted to pay a real smith a fortune to fix up a lowly .22. That was not going to happen. I think I did well. A few tiny scratches no one can see, a tiny tear I can fix, and a new and superior method of attaching a sling to a Marlin 60…I’ll take it.

Now that I have a forward stud, I can use a bipod. One of these days I’ll go out back and see what she’ll do. I fully expect 1/2″ groups at 50 yards. I don’t think I can be highly consistent with 3.5-cent ammunition, but I should do well enough to make rodents tremble. That’s all I’m after.

Hope your shooting endeavors are going at least as well as mine.

Tweeting President Opens Embassy in Jerusalem

Trump continues to amaze.

God gave Israel (much bigger than the Israel we know today) to Abraham, and through Abraham and Isaac, he gave it to Jacob. Israel is Jacob’s name. He was named Jacob at birth, but God changed his name later. The Jews are his descendants. Abraham and Isaac gave rise to nations that were not Jewish. Israel did not.

Jerusalem is well within God’s original grant. It is the ancient capital of Israel. The Muslims became attached to it long after God gave it to the Jews. The Koran mentions a mosque Mohammed visited in a dream. It doesn’t name the location. Muslims decided the location was Jerusalem, and they built the Al-Aqsa mosque there, on Judaism’s holiest site.

The Muslims have a thing about taking other people’s real estate and putting mosques on it. It’s a way of marking territory.

The Bible contains a prophecy about restoring Israel in a day. Scoffers thought it was tripe, but on May 14 (today’s date) in 1948, it happened. The UN voted to give Israel to the Jews so they would have a nation and a refuge. Here is the prophecy, in Isaiah 66:8:

Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

The nations of the world have been reluctant to acknowledge Jerusalem because they don’t want to increase the price they pay for oil, and of course, they fear Muslim terrorism. Israel has gone along with this in order to have peace. They put ambassadors and embassies in Tel Aviv, and they allow Muslims to control their holiest site. Jews are not allowed to go there and pray. I can go there and pray, and so can Muslims. Not Jews. They stand outside the Western Wall, which is part of the temple’s foundation.

The Jews have wanted Jerusalem back for a long time. The restoration of Jerusalem and the temple is a recurring theme in the Bible. It’s even in the Revelation. Israelis celebrate a holiday called Jerusalem Day, to commemorate the recovery of Jerusalem from the Muslims after the Six-Day War in 1967. It also commemorates restoration of Jewish access to the Western Wall. Jerusalem Day is marked by the Jewish calendar, so the Gregorian date varies. It starts on the night of Iyar 28. This year, it came on the days of May 12 and 13.

Past American presidents have been too timid to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but now we have Donald Trump, the honey badger of presidents. When he was running for president, he said he would move our embassy to Jerusalem. Being Trump, he tries to keep his promises; he doesn’t know any better! He did what he said he would do.

Our embassy in Jerusalem opened today. It opened during a short period including the sabbath, Jerusalem Day, and the Gregorian anniversary of the reestablishment of Israel. Trump didn’t visit, which seems a shame, but he sent his Jewish daughter and son-in-law. Perhaps that’s appropriate. Israel belongs to Jews, not Christians.

Prophecy watchers must be scrambling to make sense of all this.

Many Christians believe Jesus will come back within 70 years of the reestablishment of Israel. On the Gregorian calendar, that would be today. On the Jewish calendar, the date (Iyar 5) has already passed.

In the book of Matthew, Jesus spoke of a fig tree, believed to represent Israel. Regarding his return and the end of the age, he said, “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.” People take this to mean that the generation that saw Israel’s rebirth would not pass until Jesus returned.

Prophecy students believe that in the Bible, “generation” means 70 years. For this reason, many have concluded that Jesus has to return within 70 years of May 14, 1948. The problem with this interpretation is that he didn’t say he would come back within a generation. He said he would come back before the generation passed. A human being can live to be 120. Maybe longer, as we continue to pervert medical science. The generation that saw the rebirth of Israel should be here until at least 2068.

If he returns tomorrow, fantastic. I don’t think it will happen, though. I believe the rapture comes first, and I think I’m right about the generation math.

Trump does momentous things. He brought North Korea to the bargaining table (probably with the help of the unexpected collapse of their bomb-testing site), and now he has made the first real step toward restoring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Love him or hate him, he gets stuff done. Can anyone seriously say God isn’t behind him? Obama traveled the world apologizing for America, and he accomplished very little, apart from increasing the burden of American socialism. Trump advocates for America, as an American president should, and his achievements keep piling up.

One wonders what Jews are saying. American Jews hate Trump. They always vote against their friends and appease their enemies. The Jews are the most suicidal race in history. They adore Obama, and he was a huge enemy of Israel. Now Trump has done something many Israeli Jews wanted to see. Will he get credit? Will American Jews start supporting him? No. Of course not. They will look for ways to discredit him. That’s a given. If Moses came down and put his arm around Trump and endorsed him, most American Jews would curse Moses and say he was an impostor.

Trump is catching it for having an evangelical preacher speak at the embassy opening. Papers say he sent a man who says Jews go to hell. Can we be honest? All Christians believe unbelievers go to hell. Jesus said it. I believe it. Are we no longer allowed to pray for the Jews or help them?

Muslim clerics believe all non-Muslims (and many Muslims) go to hell. Hard core Catholics believe Christians who are not Catholic (me, for example) go to hell. Jews believe Christian sinners go to hell. Can we get over it, please? Religions have different beliefs. Is this news? You don’t have to hate someone in order to think they’re going to hell.

I suspect that if the Muslims gave Jerusalem back, liberal Jews would be happy to let Muslim clerics speak at related ceremonies, even though Muslim clerics think Jews are going to hell AND should be exterminated. They believe all non-Muslims should be second-class citizens living under oppressive laws and special taxes. Is it really that big a deal if a man who rejects Judaism yet supports Israel speaks at these events?

Not unless you have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I wonder if liberal Jews excoriated Cyrus for his idolatry when he decreed that the temple would be rebuilt.

There are some good deeds you have to do with no expectation of gratitude. There are good deeds you have to do in spite of a firm expectation of persecution. That’s life. I hope the Jews get all of Israel back ASAP, regardless of what some Jews may say about Jesus. I don’t have to be angry at people who don’t like Jesus. He can take care of himself. And it’s his will that Israel be restored.

Jews in Israel don’t always agree with American Jews (thank God), and they seem to like Trump a lot better. A big Israeli soccer team just put “Trump” in its name. A liberal Jew wrote a piece for an Israeli news site, trying to turn Jews against Trump and claiming he moved the embassy to please Christians. Go look at the irate comments from Israelis. One of them calls American Jews “JINO’s,” or “Jews in Name Only.”

A December poll said 65% of Israeli Jews thought Trump’s decision was good for Israel. Another poll showed that a plurality of Israeli Jews would prefer to see Hillary in office even though those polled thought Trump was better for Israel! Liberal bias dies hard.

I don’t know what will happen. I do know that when Cyrus dispatched Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, the non-Jews who lived there took up arms against the Jews. There is nothing new under the sun. Arabs are already attacking Israeli troops, and maybe a new war will start. I don’t think that will happen, because Israel’s enemies are scared of Israel. If they had the guts to start a war, they would be doing it already. They wouldn’t wait for new provocations.

Maybe we’ll see more rioting and terror inside Israel.

One day Jews will start building the temple, and the mosques that are in the way will be taken apart and dumped in the desert. That will be a great thing to watch. Sooner or later, the trampling of Israel will end. God has never forgotten Jacob’s children.

I wonder what Trump will do next. I never thought I’d live to see a president who does so much.

Tree Rat Feast

I had to fry squirrels again today. I had 5 in the fridge, and they were taking up a lot of room. I had them soaking in water mixed with salt and baking soda. The soda was there to kill any gaminess. It works.

The first time I fried squirrels, I had problems. I used shallow oil in a big pan, and it was not that easy to get the meat to brown correctly because some bits liked to stick up out of the oil. Today I did what I should always do. I used deeper oil. I put maybe 1-1/4″ of cheap olive oil in a saucepan. This allowed me to submerge the meat.

I cut the squirrels up differently. I divided them into arms, legs, and torsos. I kept the ribs on the torsos. There isn’t a lot of meat on a squirrel ribcage, but there is enough to make it worth keeping.

I didn’t soak the meat in buttermilk. I didn’t have enough. I drained the brine off with a colander, and then I tossed the meat in a small amount of buttermilk and drained it again.

I used the following seasonings: salt, pepper, paprika, chipotle powder, and garlic powder. The ratio was about a tablespoon of each per cup of flour, except for the garlic and pepper. I guess I used half a teaspoon of each per cup of flour.

I put 3 cups of biscuit flour (no leavening) in a bag with the seasonings, and I shook it like crazy to mix it all up. As I was cooking, I would throw one batch of squirrel parts in the bag, shake it to coat them, and extract them with tongs. It worked well but made a mess.

I added a tablespoon or so of bacon grease to the olive oil, and I used cheap olive oil with virtually no flavor. I would never fry anything in extra virgin oil or any oil that tasted like olives. It’s the wrong oil for high heat.

I used a thermometer and tried to keep the frying temperature around 350 degrees. This is important because if frying oil gets too cold, breading falls off.

I made buttermilk biscuits. The shortening was half butter and half bacon grease. I added a little cream to the buttermilk, and I put a teaspoon or two of sugar in the flour just for kicks.

After the last batch of squirrel came out, I used some of the oil (plus more bacon grease) to make gravy. I used the seasoned flour from the squirrels. I also added sage, more salt, and more pepper.

How did it come out? It was fantastic. The meat was cooked pretty evenly. The breading stayed on. The seasonings were right on target. The biscuits were perfect. The gravy was exceptional. I poured the gravy on the squirrel pieces as I was eating them. I had gravy all over me, but it was worth it.

The only complaint I have is that not all squirrels are tender. Some cook up like rubber bands. You can still eat them, but you have to work at it.

I can’t tell a tender squirrel from a tough one until I cook it. I don’t know what to do. My plan is to continue eating the tough ones along with the tender ones until I have a solution.

The brining is a great move. The squirrels had no gamy flavor at all. They were better than dark chicken meat. The taste is a little richer, with nutty overtones. Makes sense, considering what they eat.

The sight of squirrels doesn’t bother me the way it did between the end of the season and the day I found out I was allowed to shoot nuisance squirrels. After the season, they paraded around in front of me every time I left the house, as if they were trying to make a point. They ate my blueberries off my only producing bush. I was powerless. Then I got cleared to take them down, and that’s what I did. I took them down to Chinatown. Now I see them as opportunities for hunting practice as well as cheap meat.

I don’t think I’ll work too hard to exploit them for meat, however. They’re a pain to clean, they stink, and cooking them is a lot of work. I will try to train myself to throw their dead bodies out into the woods.

I gave Maynard and Marvin some squirrel arms. I thought they would enjoy picking the meat off the bones, and it saved me the aggravation of heating up their regular food.

The new trigger for the Marlin 60 .22 arrived. I’m going to see if I can install it now. It may turn out to be a much better gun than I had hoped.

I learned something disturbing about the Model 60. It’s hard to install a sling. The tube magazine takes up room in the stock, and that means there isn’t much wood to hold a front stud. You need to start with around 1/2″ of wood when you install a stud. I have about 3/8″. I think I solved the problem. I bought a stud with a nut about 1/4″ in height, and I ground it down to a little more than 1/8″. The screw isn’t very thick, and in order for a nut to work, its threaded height only has to equal the width of the screw that goes through it. I should be able to recess the nut into the inside of the stock and still have 1/4″ of wood below it to provide support for it.

I don’t want to ruin this stock by splitting it. The wood is beautiful for the price. Lots of figuring. Can’t figure out this wood found its way into a stock for a $170 rifle.

I need to make a hole inside the stock, wide enough and deep enough to hold the nut for the stud. The nut needs to fit tightly in it so the knurling on the outside of the nut will hold the nut still while I tighten the screw that goes through it. What I need is a counterbored hole. It has to be 1/4″ wide inside the stock, and then it has to decrease to about 0.090″ across for the screw.

I looked at various solutions for this, and I think a 1/4″ Forstner bit is the way to go. This is a wood bit that makes cylindrical holes accurately centered around a chosen point. I can drill the hole for the screw, put the point of the Forstner bit in it, and open the hole up, to a depth of around 5/32″.

They make sling studs for tube magazines. They have little rings that use the magazines for support. I don’t want that. Tube magazines are weak. They’re not made to hold slings, especially if you wrap your sling around your arm to steady your aim. I want a sling, but I’m not willing to bend the magazine in order to get it.

I’m wondering just how accurate a cheap .22 can be. I was hoping for 2 MOA, but maybe it can do better. We will see. Once the stud is installed on the stock, I’ll be able to use the gun with a bipod, and that will allow me to test its accuracy better than I can right now. It would be a hoot to have a .22 that would hunt at 100 yards.

Squirrels, pigs, and rabbits are the only animals I can hope to cook until the hunting seasons open up again. I could try armadillos, but the thought of handling and eating an animal that may be full of leprosy is not appealing. There are recipes for coyote, but I’m not Korean. I’ve read that bobcats taste surprisingly good. Could I enjoy eating a cat, even if it tasted good? It would be hard to get used to.

My grandmother ate possums. I just can’t. Maybe some day I’ll work up to it.

In the fall, deer season will start. I like venison. I’m not crazy about it, but it’s pretty good.

If I get the new .22 trigger to work, I’ll blog it. I look forward to having a trigger I can pull without wondering if I’m about to break it.

“We’re From the Government, and we Want to Help”

I don’t read the news all that much these days, so sometimes I’ll read a story that interests me, and I won’t be aware of other stories related to it. Last month, I wrote about a story that said online DNA-testing companies were supplying information to law enforcement, but I glossed over the bit about the Golden State Killer.

Who is the Golden State Killer? You probably already know, if you are doing a better job keeping up with the news than I am. He’s a serial killer, serial rapist, and career burglar. Decades ago, he terrorized California.

Here’s what happened to him, or at least to the man the cops think is him. He’s an old man now. He was in his house cooking dinner. The police came in and dragged him away. The basis for the arrest: DNA his relatives sent to testing companies appeared to be related to DNA found at one of the crime scenes.

That’s amazing. This guy didn’t have a DNA test. He minded his own business and laid low, and the cops found him anyway because people who were related to him had THEIR genetic material tested. They used a company which makes results available to the public. Can you believe anyone would go for that?

What this means is that law enforcement may have genetic information about you, even though you’re a prepper or a Jesus freak who would never send DNA to a testing service. When I say they “have” the material, I mean someone else is maintaining the records, but they roll over and hand it to the cops so easily, it’s as if the cops themselves have it.

It’s a fascinating development. Only DNA works this way. The cops can’t tell anything about your bank account by looking at your sister’s account. They can’t tell where you live by looking up your aunt’s address. It’s only in the realm of genetics that personal information about your relatives equals personal information about you. And you can’t do anything about it. You can’t resist a subpoena. You can’t block the testing, the way you can refuse to provide your own DNA. You’re stuck. Exposed. You have no recourse whatsoever.

It’s obvious that I’m not happy about it. Here’s what people will say: “You want to protect serial killers and rapists!”

There are a couple of responses to that.

Here is one response: the framers of the Constitution, our legislatures, our courts, many of our corporations, our schools, and our police protect serial killers and rapists. It’s how America was designed. The framers thought it was better to protect criminals than to subject us to things like at-will searches. Our law enforcement agencies apply the policies of the framers every day. Banks, universities, hospitals, employers, and so on refuse to hand over private information unless they have no choice. Protecting criminals isn’t a new idea I just came up with.

Here’s another response: do you really want to go through life naked, even if it means we arrest more criminals? We’re starting to resemble the Borg. One mind, no privacy, no freedom…it would appear to make the existence of the individual completely pointless, apart from his contribution to the unfeeling colonial organism known as the state.

I’ll give you what I think is the typical answer to my question: yes. Most people would be happy to give up all privacy. Most people don’t know what their rights are and don’t care. Fill their food troughs every day and give them big-screen TV’s, and they will serve you.

One of the big myths about America is that our people love liberty. If that were true, we wouldn’t support socialist politicians. We wouldn’t be so quick to demand that the government regulate our behavior. Whenever something bad happens, news reporters put microphones in the faces of ignorant people, and the ignorant people say we need new laws.

Right now, you can’t sell a hamburger in the United States without putting the calorie count on the menu. That’s because of a law Obama pushed for. Telling people how many calories they’re eating is a great idea. Fast food joints should do it in order to make customers happy. But do we really need to have Congress force them to do it? Should we be threatening people with fines and God knows what else?

Americans generally don’t ask themselves whether laws are the best way to address problems. They assume it’s true, because they don’t care about freedom.

The other day I was talking to someone about this, and I suddenly understood why it was successful men that put this country together and drafted the Constitution. They were more educated than the rest of America. They understood the importance of freedom. Because they had money, they knew how hard it was to gain wealth, and they knew what it was to have something to lose. They understood that there is no freedom without capitalism and private property.

If servants and slaves had written the Constitution, it would have looked completely different. It would have looked like the Democrat platform. “Free” money for everyone. High taxes on people who create wealth. Lots of searches and seizures to make sure the evil “haves” paid what they owed. America would never have become a powerful nation. We would have been a weak, ridiculous country like Mexico or Honduras.

We used to have mainly capitalist immigrants. Boy, has that changed. Now we have a certain number of immigrants, but mainly, we have invaders who come illegally. They show up and start looking for welfare offices. They come across the border pregnant so they can force us to pay for their deliveries and coerce us into giving citizenship to their babies. We don’t get to check their criminal backgrounds. We don’t get to ask if they have money, education, or skills. We’re importing hordes of people who want to impose socialism on us.

We are moving toward a future in which rights are not sufficiently important to us to keep our system going. Statists care about unimportant rights, like the rights to smoke weed, engage in various sexual perversions, and have “slut walks,” but the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments mean nothing to them. America is filling up with ignorant, gullible, arrogant flakes who spend their time thinking about things like Snapchat and the Kardashians. They get their political opinions, which are nothing more than sound bites, from trashy, poorly educated entertainers. They are too stupid to protect themselves from tyranny.

Here’s what I think will happen, either not long before or soon after the rapture. We will have a big DNA database, and everyone will be in it. Social media will be compulsory. The Fourth Amendment will be repealed or whittled down to nothing by legislation and court opinions. The Second Amendment will go away. Government agents will be able to enter our homes and look at all our records at will. Almost all transportation will take place in self-driving vehicles which are tracked around the clock.

I don’t know whether we will be microchipped, but if we’re not, the government will have other ways to track us, with identification, 24 hours a day. They’re already doing it with our phones. The information is collected and stored by private companies, but Uncle Sam can get it.

The destruction of freedom will be wonderful, as far as the ignorant are concerned. Crime will barely exist. Our streets will be safe. Everyone will be vaccinated. Poverty will be greatly reduced. Traffic accidents will be rare. Things will look great on the surface, and most people will be content. This will be disastrous.

The disaster will be that human beings will think they’ve eliminated the need for God and obedience. We’ll be a big colonial organism that seems to do very well without divine help. We’ll have no dignity, but that’s okay, because human beings don’t really care about dignity as long as they get fed. Oppressive regimes aren’t always unpopular. Sometimes they have overwhelming support from the people. I believe that’s how it will be after we cut God out of the picture.

Christians and Jews will not be factors. We will be seen as infectious agents of discord. “The cause of all the world’s problems.” In the eyes of the somnolent sheep of the Beast, exterminating us will be like killing zombies who carry the plague. God will pull Christians out of the world, because leaving us here will no longer serve any purpose.

Once we’re gone, all hell will break loose, literally. Misery and pain will be everywhere, because the presence of believers is what restrains Satan and prevents God from releasing his wrath.

The Beast may be a man, but he will also be the hive-mind populace, which obeys him in a feeble parody of the body of Christ. The world will be united against God. Mankind will be like a tower of Babel built from human flesh. People themselves will fight God openly. Spirits will have convinced them they can win.

I enjoy the toys of Satan. I enjoy the information age. I like computer programs and the Internet. I like depositing checks using my cell phone, instead of driving to the bank. I’m not blind, though. We’re seeing the beginnings of a technological Goliath with 10 billion brains, held together and coordinated by the Internet.

Tech experts are very stupid. Perhaps “stupid” is the wrong word. They are not perceptive. They have very little insight. They have a very poor record of predicting how the world will react to technology.

No one understood how the Internet would change us in 1995. No one understood how smartphones would change us in 2005. Today, no one understands how total connectivity, including the Internet of Things, will change us.

We can’t resist candy and shiny things. I’m not descended from a monkey, but maybe my flesh is. Unsupervised, it thinks and acts like a monkey. I’m not my flesh, and through the Holy Spirit, God is giving me control over it. Most people are not heavily influenced by the Holy Spirit, and they don’t want to be. The monkey runs things, and spirits that hate humanity control the monkey. We grab at the pretty toys technology offers us, and we are too dumb to understand the cost.

Arthur Koestler compared the growth of the human forebrain, over centuries, to the growth of a tumor in a body. He said our mental abilities had grown, while our character had not. Basically, we have the same urges crocodiles have, controlling powerful human intelligence. He was wrong about evolution, but he was right about our problem. We are smart enough to get ourselves in trouble with technology, and we are too evil to fix the trouble.

Look at the nuclear arms race. Disarmament has never been possible, because there will always be a few countries that resist in order to gain an advantage, and they force the others to stay armed. Think of the danger we face. We can vaporize hundreds of cities, plus the ground under them, and the threat, which couldn’t be any worse, isn’t sufficient motivation for us to do the right thing.

Socialism sounds great on paper, but it doesn’t work, and the reason is human nature. People will not work hard if they’re not rewarded. Socialists are lazy, weak, and unproductive. Capitalism works because it harnesses self-interest. Capitalists work hard because they are compensated for it. Socialism would be wonderful, if we were good. We wouldn’t mind doing our best and seeing other people get the rewards. It will never happen, because we can’t change. A world of powerful technology looks great on paper, too, but it causes problems for the same reason as socialism. Our monkey nature causes us to misuse technology, and we will never stop unless we are deprived of free will.

Socialism will finally sweep the world when technology takes away our privacy, and therefore, our free will. Technology, with its constant surveillance and total control of wealth and movement, will make us slaves, and only slaves can make a socialist state work.

I doubt any of my close relatives have used DNA-testing services. They don’t seem like the kind of people who would do it. I’m not sure, though.

I have cousins who are caught up in the Mormon cult, and genealogy is one of their obsessions. Do Mormons do DNA testing? Could be. I doubt it, though, because DNA testing disproved the nutty Mormon belief that American Indians come from Israel.

I haven’t committed any crimes that involve DNA, so I’m not in danger of being hauled away at the moment. What if relatives of mine have done bad things no one knows about? My dad is 86. He has been around a long time, and he has done a lot of things. What if someone made a false police report in 1952 and didn’t name a suspect, and the cops kept evidence with DNA on it? What if he was present when someone else committed a crime, and he cut himself at the scene? What if he walked by a place where a child had been raped, blew his nose on a napkin, and threw it on the ground?

If you’re reading this blog entry, do you feel confident that no one close to you has a secret DNA could bring to light? Are you sure you won’t lose your inheritance after a midnight raid on a parent’s house? Is it possible your grown daughter might show up broke, with her kids, after the feds drop by and take your son-in-law away?

Crimes from the past are being dredged up after decades of hibernation, and the exposures won’t just harm the guilty. They’ll hit the people around them, too. Even when statutes of limitation have passed, disgrace, civil liability, and financial ruin will be on the table.

Someone in Hollywood should make a movie.

Here’s a fun question: what if you have a hereditary weakness, and it pops up on DNA tests? What if you apply for a job, and your employer’s investigators run a check with a DNA-testing company? What if you’re 60, you really need a job, and three of your grandparents died from severe heart disease in their fifties? What if one of your parents had Huntington’s Chorea?

In the past, once you got away with something without being identified, you were generally in the clear. You could repent, build a decent life, and move on. Now old misdeeds are bursting out of the grave to torment people.

Rebellion and lack of prayer create and feed disasters that grow out of our sight and then jump out and attack. It’s as though we were feeding monsters that live just below the horizon, like the monsters kids hear breathing under their beds. Repentance and prayer shrivel these things and neutralize them, and they create blessings that come to us and surprise us. There is always symmetry in the supernatural.

As our legal protection from disaster wanes, it is wise to increase our supernatural protection. Sow blessings in your future and pour Roundup on the problems you inseminated in the past. Legal protection was always an illusion, anyway. The only safety comes from God. Escape prosecution, and Satan will take it out on you some other way.

The world is getting tiny. Internet companies collect my secrets. Our neighbors watch us with drones flying over our yards. Government and private security cameras film us all day. The dragnet is closing on all of us, and many of us can’t survive the scrutiny. Sooner or later, the ubiquitous, perpetual observation will be like a thick, heavy body cast with a tiny straw through which we suck air, and the government will keep its thumb on the end of the straw, opening and closing it at will. We will try various reforms, but while they may delay the inevitable, they won’t keep it from happening.

The age of technological nudism has begun. Shade will be scarce, and there will be no sunscreen.

Experience is Not the Best Teacher

It is impossible to go hunting without learning something new. Unfortunately, sometimes the tuition comes in the form of animal suffering.

Yesterday I sat down to cull the squirrels around my house. After a while, some showed up. They were closer than usual, and I was using a rifle sighted in at 50 yards.

I have been trying to shoot squirrels in the head. The idea is to kill them humanely and to avoid ripping up the meat. I tried this on the first squirrel yesterday, and he went down, but he wasn’t dead. I figured I had the answer, because I was prepared. I had a pistol with me. I walked over to him and shot him in the head again, and he still kicked. I shot him a third time. Finally, I crushed what was left of his head with my boot.

Lesson: a squirrel’s brain is tiny, and you can shoot one in the head and not kill it. I should be shooting them in the upper body.

I don’t think most hunters care about this, because head shots are commonly used. If they are shooting squirrels in the head all the time, they’re having the same problem I had. You don’t see them on the Internet complaining about how long it takes squirrels to die, so my assumption is that they aren’t concerned about it.

A second squirrel got close to me, and I missed him. The problem was my scope. He was so close, the scope’s zero didn’t apply to him. I shot at him twice, and he ran up the tree.

Lesson: I have to get a target and shoot at various distances to find out how to adjust my point of aim when squirrels are too close.

I found blood on the tree the squirrel was standing on, so I regret not checking the rifle’s trajectory before sitting down to shoot. This is not what I set out to do.

I feel like the best thing is to go for the lungs and heart from now on, even if it ruins meat. It’s not like a fried squirrel is a treasure I can’t afford to miss out on. I can always throw them over the fence and let the crows have them.

The main goal is to thin them out around the house. Meat is just a bonus.

I don’t want to make a big deal out of how unpleasant it was to deal with these botched shots, because I’m not the one who really suffered. I’m not the victim. I caused the problem.

My experiences show how important it is to teach kids to hunt. I shot a few rabbits with my grandfather, but they died quickly, so I didn’t learn much about humane hunting. If I had had someone to show me how to do it right, I wouldn’t be learning things now in unpleasant ways.

I don’t know if he would have taught me anything, had we hunted more. Mountain people from his time were hard on animals. They saw animals as survival tools, so empathy was just an open door to feelings that made the things they had to do with animals more difficult. They kept their dogs outside in winter, and they didn’t hire veterinarians to look after livestock. My grandfather used to shoot his bird dogs in order to train them not to run after rabbits. Nonetheless, there must be a lot of dads and granddads and uncles out there who know how to hunt humanely, and kids who hunt with such people probably avoid a lot of painful mistakes.

I have some fragmenting .22 rounds on the way, and they should dispatch squirrels much more quickly. We’ll see how it goes.

We Have to Call off the Hunt! The Cocoa is Cold!

Because the state of Florida gave me the go-ahead to kill nuisance squirrels near my house (in writing!), today I went out and sat in the blind and dispensed frontier justice. I nailed three of the mangy thieves from something like 40 yards.

This is the right way to hunt! I’m 50 feet from a house with a toilet and refrigerator. I have a nice plastic Adirondack chair under me. I have a cold beverage. I’m sitting in a shady blind under shady trees. The squirrels don’t make me chase them. The present themselves for execution.

The Marlin 60 Remington sent me as a replacement for the one that shot like a musket is wonderful. It has a nicely figured stock, and it shoots great. I used a rimfire scope today, and I popped two of the squirrels in the head. The other one got it in the shoulders. My story is that he moved. You can’t prove me wrong. I killed the only witness.

The trigger is awful. I was trying to shoot today, and for a minute, I wondered if the safety was on. No, that’s just how bad the trigger is. I ordered a trigger kit from an aftermarket company. When I get it installed, this gun should be a prizewinner.

I baited the yard with Mike-Sell’s Puffcorn Delites, which are like Cheetos, only a thousand times better. The squirrels didn’t go for them. I thought it was worth a shot.

I learned something today. You can’t hunt without learning something. I learned I really need to carry my .22 pistol when I hunt.

The third squirrel I shot did not die right away. He was scampering around, so I got up to kill him at close range. When I reached him, I remembered something important: you can’t focus on a squirrel using a rimfire scope if you’re 4 feet away. This was a bad situation. I don’t want game to suffer, and I couldn’t see to shoot this squirrel. I couldn’t use the sights because the scope blocked them. I had to wait until he held still, and then I was able to hold the gun pretty close and finish him off.

I’m sorry it happened, but I don’t feel guilty, because hunting is a good thing, and I did my best. It was a noob mistake. Next time, I’ll have the pistol.

There have been a lot of shots I wouldn’t take. I want to be sure the squirrels drop and die fast. I’m not going to take unnecessary chances on wounding them. But no one is perfect.

I ordered a holster for the pistol, and it arrived this week. Looks like a quality item. I’ll wear it next time.

When you shoot a squirrel through the head, you may think you only winged him. They kick for quite a while after they die. That surprised me.

I got to use one of my hunting knives for the first time. I used my Entrek Beaver. It was not as great as I had hoped. The knife seems like a quality item, but the factory edge doesn’t seem up to the task of slitting squirrel hide. It will do it, but you have to apply pressure and go back over cuts. I will have to see what I can do about putting a better edge on it.

I improved my squirrel-skinning technique. When you have three animals to clean, you learn more than you would if you only had one. I learned the techniques I’ve seen on Youtube won’t work on the local squirrels. The skin is too tough, and it sticks to the squirrels too hard. I wonder if the squirrels north of Florida have looser skin. When you skin a Florida squirrel, you can’t just make a cut above the anus, step on the hind feet, and yank the tail. Nothing happens. You have to make cuts down the legs, shove your thumbs under the hide, and loosen it around the thighs.

Another thing: you don’t want to gut a squirrel before you clean it, unless you have to. When you gut it, poop is likely to go everywhere, and various types of goo will coat the fur and make life difficult. You skin the squirrel first, and then you cut his head off with poultry shears. You shove the shears up the servants’ entrance and cut him all the way to the neck, and then you pull the guts out and throw them as far as possible.

Shears are even better than a cleaver for cutting away all the nasty bits in the crotch.

I plan to kill the bejeezus out of these things until I quit seeing them around the house. They’re terrible. City people think they’re cute. They’re not cute when they’re eating your fruit or ripping the insulation out of your attic. It would be lots of fun to feed them and give them names and keep track of their offspring through the years. And live in a fantasy world. Unfortunately, squirrels don’t know how to behave, so it’s breading and hot grease for the lot of them.

It’s great to learn these skills. Nothing is worse than an urban pansy who can’t do anything. And it’s terrible to live in a state of delusion about wildlife. Most people in America get their knowledge of wild animals from Pixar. You come to see animals differently when you have to fight with them all the time. Life in the country will turn a vegan into a stone-cold killer. Well. A SANE vegan.

Oxymoron?

I have to kill mice. I have to kill squirrels. I have to kill coons. I have to kill coyotes. I have to kill moles. I have to kill gophers. I may have to kill crows. I may have to kill pigs. I have to kill these things just to be considered responsible and not helpless.

Butchering warm-blooded animals is disgusting. I need to get over that. Butchering fish always made me hungry. Squirrels feel sort of like puppies, and they exude a musk which makes the whole animal smell like a huge crotch. When I cut them up, part of me wonders if what I’m doing is normal behavior. It’s irrational, but it’s hard not to feel a little bit like Hannibal Lecter. It’s healthy, though. I’m more in touch with the reality of predation. This is where all meat comes from. Animals don’t unzip big pockets in their sides and hand us steaks.

It has never bothered me to cut on raw pigs or poultry, but they always arrived cold and hairless!

I used standard velocity ammo today. The nominal speed is 1070 fps, I think. Anyway, it’s subsonic, so it’s not as loud as regular .22 ammo. I thought the neighbors might like it. I ordered some ammo which is even slower: CCI Quiet segmented ammo. These are very slow, very quiet rounds that fly apart inside squirrels and kill them fast. They’re supposed to be very accurate, although the low velocity limits the range. CCI claims you can use them without hearing protection. That would be great. We’ll see how they work. They’re twice as expensive as regular ammo, but I wouldn’t expect to use a lot of them.

If the Quiet rounds work, I will have to consider selling the air rifle. I won’t need it. It’s nice to have something that shoots 3-cent ammo, however.

I used Primos shooting sticks today. These are sticks joined at one end. You cross them and put their tips on the ground, and they form a bipod. Much more stable than a monopod. They’re also very compact when you fold them up. I like it.

I will clear the yard of squirrels, or they will reproduce so fast I will have squirrel meat all the time. Either way, I will be happy.

“You Named it After WHO?!”

I just don’t know what to say about this. The mayor of Jerusalem has announced that a square near the new US embassy will be named for Donald Trump. He’s the one who caused the embassy to be built there.

Are they TRYING to make people’s heads pop?

Jews hate Donald Trump. They really hate him. Maybe one in ten voted for him. As a nation, Jews are suicidal. They believe in appeasement and retreat. “You want land? Here’s some land. Are you done killing us? How about some more land?” Trump is ruining their determined secular efforts to give away their capital. Maybe when they’ve given every other piece of land away, the survivors can huddle in the square and chant curses at Trump.

The square is kind of disappointing. It’s small. Still, for many Israelis, it will have to sting, walking by the square and seeing that sign.

I wonder how American Jews will react. I should check Twitter.

Incidentally, I just found out how informative Trump’s Twitter feed is. I should have realized this, since about half of American news stories are based on his tweets. When you read his tweets, it’s like you’re reading the news a day in advance. Because you are.

God is going to preserve Israel regardless of how hard the Jews try to give it away. Leftist Jews won’t take it very well. I think they’re better at being victims than victors. It’s what they’re used to. They’ve trained for it. I assume right-wing Jews will be considerably happier. They’re much less suicidal.

Can’t wait to see the stories about the dedication ceremony. This will be interesting.

Except for Me

An interesting thing happened last night. I wrote about demons yesterday, and I saw one in my bedroom later.

I was sleeping, and I woke up and saw a tall, skinny female figure at the foot of the bed. Its head was maybe 7 feet off the floor, so it had to be hovering. I believe it was trying to look taller and more intimidating.

It had a shag hairdo that went down past its shoulders. I could not see its face. It was black, its gown or robe was black, and the room was dark. I could see light around its hair, as if light were illuminating it from behind.

I hate having my sleep interrupted by bad dreams and creepy experiences. It’s exasperating.

I got very angry and told this thing to get out of my house, and then I went back to sleep.

It seems like we have demons who are closely associated with us, like evil reflections of the guardian angels people talk about. I think that when you cast these things out, they act like jilted ex-girlfriends who can’t handle denial. They come back, like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, trying to make you think you can’t get rid of them and hoping you’ll let them stay.

Demons and angels appear to have careers, just like us. They have assignments. Being cast out must be like being forced into retirement. It must be a disgrace that comes with consequences. I can’t imagine Satan being an understanding boss. He is too much of a diva. Letting him down must be like working for Diana Ross and being too slow to bring her her bottle of ionized water. It must be like standing too close to Patti Labelle’s luggage at the airport.

I think Satan is effeminate. It’s a feeling I can’t shake. He acts like a woman. Jealousy, spite, deceit, revenge, bitterness, an obsession with destroying those who reject him, combined with a sick craving to be with them…these are not masculine traits. A masculine spirit would come to you face-to-face and break your arms.

The feminine approach makes sense when your power is limited. When you don’t have brute force on your side, you have to weasel and plot. When you get more power, you can take a more direct and more masculine approach. In his book 23 Minutes in Hell, Bill Wiese said he was imprisoned with two demons who simply walked up to him, grabbed him, and tore him to pieces. Satan has more power in hell than he does here, so he doesn’t have to be coy. Up here he has a vigorous sales campaign going on, so he probably has to be careful not to queer it.

Satan attacks people when they’re asleep. Boy, is that a feminine tactic. Ask John Bobbitt and the other guys who share his fate.

I can’t swear the thing I saw was real, but I was definitely awake.

I can’t stand these things. I wish God would give me the power to twist their heads off. I wanted to get up and crush this thing’s skull. If I could, I would seek demons out and shred them alive, 24/7. Nothing is worse than a bully you can’t hurt. I truly hope they suffer when they’re cast out.

It’s interesting that the spirit and its clothing were black. Black is a very hot “color” among God’s enemies, the leftists. The townspeople in Sundance call the film industry folks who crowd the place every year “the people in black” because that’s what they wear. Black clothing symbolizes arrogance, power, and danger, and it has an anti-Christian feel to it. It seems like the more toxic and lifeless a religion is, the more likely its officials are to wear black.

Satan does a lot of work on the black side of the earth. Half of the earth is always blackened because it faces away from the sun. That’s where demonic activity is highest.

I have two relatives with serious demonic problems. Left to themselves, they close windows and keep their homes dark. They don’t clean. They make houses stink like crazy. Turn on a light, and they turn it off. Open a window, and they close it. Strange.

Christians don’t take demons seriously at all. I don’t take them as seriously as I should. I’m surrounded by these pathetic, poisonous things, like a man swimming in a tank full of sharks at night. I ought to be focusing more on fighting them and cutting off their food.

How many people do medical research every day? Millions, maybe? How different the world would be if we had that many people working to become supernatural warriors.

In related news, I’ve had a new development in my relationship with God. I seem to be able to get into his presence at will, instantly. I keep trying to remember to do it. I stay in his presence as much as I can. It’s a problem when I do it in bed, because I generally fall asleep in a few minutes. I can’t focus on God and also exert effort to stay awake.

One of the things I pray for is for God to help me and my friends stay in his presence as much as possible. I also pray for him to minimize the presence of counterproductive spirits and people in our lives. I believe he is giving me what I ask for.

I can’t say amazing things happen when I’m in his presence. I get huge waves of faith, and I feel very peaceful, but it’s not like lights shoot out of my head and dramatic background music comes on. The fillings aren’t falling out of my teeth and being replaced with enamel. I’m a real person, not an actor in a ridiculous catsuit in a Marvel Movie. Still, I want God’s presence. He makes good things happen whether I feel them or not. I’ve spent a gigantic amount of time in the presence of evil beings. I need to make a switch and stick with it.

The other day, counterproductive thoughts came to me. I heard some kind of filthy joke in my head. I shut it down instantly. I was not having it. Then I realized something: my mind is very clean now, compared to the mind I had even 5 years ago. I was amazed. I used to think trashy thoughts were just fine, and I didn’t think I had an obligation to do much about them. I didn’t think I had much control. How different things are now. We are responsible for our thoughts and feelings, and God would not hold us responsible if we didn’t have the power to change them.

Our filthiness grieves the Holy Spirit. He doesn’t want to be around dirty jokes, lustful conversation, hatred, and so on. Those things make demons comfortable. It makes sense that a person whose mind is cleaner would have more of God’s presence within him.

This new cleanliness is something I’ve been praying for. I knew I was grieving the Holy Spirit, and I wanted to stop. The Holy Spirit cures diseases. He teaches us things. He guides us to victory and success. He’s not merely an option; his presence is necessary. I wanted his help, and he only gives it on his terms. A man of God wouldn’t move into a filthy shack full of meth-addled bikers, yet we expect the Holy Spirit to move into us and share quarters with demons.

The world is nothing like the picture our corrupt, blind society paints. It is very different from our popular conceptions. The supernatural is what matters. Hard work and pride will get you nowhere. You can’t trust your heart. You don’t have what it takes to succeed. You shouldn’t follow your dreams. We don’t know how to live correctly. We are only familiar with the counterproductive crutches and Band-Aids we’ve been taught to use. Carnal tools are just crude compensation for the lack of Holy Spirit power. We don’t know how to live, because we’ve never seen anyone live the way God designed us to.

I look forward to being on the other side and seeing the truth clearly. I want to see the vile things that work against us. I want to know all about their organization. I want to talk to God face to face. I want to hear him confirm the things he has told me down here. When everything is revealed, a lot of people who ridiculed Christians are going to be put in their places. There will be a feast of crow. We’ll see people who laugh at God down here, talking very earnestly about demons and angels.

If things aren’t working out for you, you are probably using the wrong weapons and fighting the wrong enemies. Something to think about while you still have time to change.

Government Signs Off on Squirrel Blitzkrieg

I have wonderful news. A stinking squirrel cleaned the blueberries off my blueberry plant.

Why is this great news? Here’s why:

You may shoot the following species of animals on YOUR private property as long as you check with you local law enforcement agency (Sheriff’s office or Local Police Department) to make sure its lawful to discharge a weapon in the area prior to shooting. Raccoons, Armadillo, Opossums, Most snake [sic], Foxes (during daylight hours only) Wild hogs, Coyotes, Bobcats, Skunks, Beavers, Otters, Gray Squirrels.

That squirrel just signed its death warrant. In blueberry juice.

That block quote comes from a response to a question I asked the Fish and Wildlife Commission, about nuisance animals. It has the force of law. I am now licensed to kill squirrels at will, by the government of the United Nations. Like Carl Spackler.

My friend Amanda graciously brought me a medium-sized blueberry bush, complete with berries. I planted it by the pool. The berries got bigger and bigger. Then they vanished down the unworthy gullet of a predacious rodent. Was I supposed to take that lying down? Oh no, my friend. I’m going all Walken on his behind.

The key to responding to aggression is to turn it into a blessing. That stupid squirrel didn’t realize it was dealing with a lawyer who knows how to read a statute. It thought I had to wait for squirrel season, and then it was going to hide out in the woods and laugh at me. No such luck, you vile aboreal rat. Your butt is MINE now.

It’s even better than I’m making it sound. I can shoot foxes! I just have to find a way to turn them into a nuisance. Maybe I could train them to play loud music while I’m trying to sleep.

I think you pretty much have to have chickens in order to claim foxes are a problem. Would it be unethical to buy a couple of fat, slow chickens solely for the purpose of drawing a foul? It certainly sounds like it’s worth a try.

Amanda has three boys. I wonder if they would be willing to wear chicken suits and sit in the yard. After all, it’s for science.

Okay, okay. I won’t bend the law just to shoot foxes. But the squirrels near the house are in very serious trouble. Finally, the air rifle will earn its keep.

Is it weird to put a blind on your home’s front porch? I don’t care. I am not giving the vermin the fruits of my labor.

I have a few blackberry patches. Will the squirrels eat those, too? If so, I know where to put the blinds. Oh, yes. I do.

I don’t know if I’ll accomplish anything. This area is filthy with squirrels. Maybe they’ll reproduce too fast for me to kill. That’s not so bad. Worst case scenario: I get really good at killing squirrels, and I have a good supply of free meat.

It’s a great day to be alive (for me). I can’t tell you how annoying it is to see those smug squirrels mincing around the yard all day, full of food I paid for.

I will eat my blueberries one way or the other. If I can’t have them in blueberry form, I’ll take them in the form of squirrel meat.

I am Godzilla. Squirrels are Japan. Deal with it.

Supernatural Blindness is the Rule, not the Exception

One of the main symptoms of demonic control–surely the most common one–is an inability to perceive the truth.

People think they believe what logic tells them to believe. The most emotional, least logical person I know loves to say, “I am a slave to logic.” This is a person who has excelled in a profession where the use of logic is key, so you can see why it would be easy to convince him all of his thinking makes sense. People think they draw conclusions through reason, but in reality, we believe what we want to believe, and demons have a lot of power over the desires, and therefore, the beliefs, of people who are not connected with the Holy Spirit.

Some conservatives like to say liberalism is a mental illness. This is true. Leftists are able to believe all sorts of inconsistent things; it’s why the left has so much internal conflict. Leftists think they are driven by compassion and other noble motives, but of course, anyone who knows their history knows they are angry people who turn sadistic and murderous when they get enough power.

Most conservatives are sick, too, and some of us are completely off the wall. There are conservatives who conflate conservatism with what they think is righteous racism. Conservatism has nothing to do with racism, but white racists tend to be conservative, just as non-white racists tend to be fervent leftists.

There are conservatives out there who still believe the birther theory, and some go father, claiming Obama was a left-wing plant, groomed from day one to assume the presidency in spite of his Kenyan citizenship. The state of Hawaii confirmed his place of birth, his mother was a citizen, and a 1961 Hawaiian newspaper had a birth announcement in it, but facts don’t matter to people who listen to demons. They will never believe Obama is a citizen.

Why am I writing about this? Because I just saw a news story so unreasonable, it made me think about demonic deception. A journalist named Greenblatt wrote a book about tyrants, and he compares Donald Trump to Shakespeare’s Richard III.

The story of Richard III is simple. He was not in line to wear the crown, so he killed everyone who stood between him and the throne. He was a completely evil person. He had no remorse or compassion. He came across as calm. He didn’t seem like an exceptionally angry person. He just wanted the crown, so he did whatever seemed likely to put him under it. His problem, more than anger, was an absence of love.

He was a bad person, but I don’t know if I would consider him a good example of a tyrant. A tyrant isn’t just driven by a desire for power (as Richard was); he is also driven by a desire to micromanage the lives of ordinary citizens. I don’t see that in Richard. Sounds more like Stalin or Castro to me.

No person with clear vision could fail to see the perversity of comparing Trump to a tyrant. A tyrant is a person who believes in all-powerful government. Trump is weakening the government and giving power back to individuals and states. He is against tyranny, although perhaps not sufficiently so to please libertarians. It’s impossible to be in your right mind and not see this.

1. Trump lowers taxes. Tyrants are known for increasing them or, in the case of leftist tyrants, confiscating some or all of the people’s property.

2. Trump is trying to reduce the government’s infringement of our Second Amendment civil rights. Tyrants take arms away from people and curtail their rights.

3. Trump is in an open war with the deep state, an ossified, securely entrenched complex of unelected bureaucrats who have tremendous power over us, and whose interests conflict with those of the nation and the administration which is supposed to manage them. Tyrants don’t get rid of oppressive bureaucrats. They multiply them. Think of Goebbels and Beria.

4. Trump made a rule that the government can’t add new regulations without getting rid of old ones. What kind of tyrant does a thing like that? Picture the Sheriff of Nottingham pulling a move like that. It would ruin the Robin Hood myth.

People have pointed out that Robin Hood was conservative, by the way. He robbed tax collectors and gave back to the taxed.

5. Trump instructed the IRS to stop enforcing the Obamacare tax, destroying the extraordinary, tyrannical new power Obama gave that agency.

I feel like I could go on all day.

You have to wonder what acts Trump has committed that could ground a charge of tyranny. My best guess is that the simple act of taking office suffices to stir up the libel. Accepting his Constitutionally sanctioned office after a reasonably fair election, and requiring enraged leftists to accept his authority, must be tyranny.

The anti-Trump character who wrote the book says Trump’s insistence on loyalty makes him a tyrant. That’s crazy. Tyrants insist on loyalty from every citizen. Trump merely demands loyalty from his underlings. That’s just a management style. It may be an excess, and it may be caused by a character flaw, but it’s not tyranny.

Is he saying Trump, who is clearly a champion of liberty in his professional life, is a tyrant solely with regard to those close to him? That doesn’t seem to be true. He has great relationships with his kids, and they would be the first ones to turn on him if he were a tyrant in his personal life. He’s an adulterer, sure, but that’s not tyranny.

If you want to see a politician with a truly tyrannical mindset, you have to look no further than Barack Obama. He forced us to buy medical insurance. He armed the IRS. He pushed socialism, which is inherently tyrannical. He wanted to take away our civil rights in the area of gun ownership. That’s classic tyranny. He did more to gut the Fourth Amendment–an anti-tyranny law–than any president in history. He sanctioned the killing, without trial, of American citizens by our military. He tried to prosecute at least one journalist. Where are the leftist journalists his tyranny upset? A few exist, but they have been marginalized.

It’s remarkable that conservatism has become associated with fascism, which has traditionally been the hallmark of leftist regimes. Communism is fascism, and it’s a leftist system. It infected about half of the world. It still controls China, where you can’t open a church because the government has taken over the religion business.

Doesn’t anyone remember the USSR? People couldn’t travel inside the country without permission. They couldn’t leave without permission. The state murdered them and turned them into slave laborers for doing things like writing pamphlets. How about Cuba? In Cuba, you can go to jail for buying or selling a steak. Slavery is still practiced in Cuba; the state makes slaves of dissidents and forces them to do disagreeable labor. Every neighborhood has government stooges who keep an eye on everyone and turn them in when they violate Cuba’s fascist laws.

Many people think the word “fascism” only applies to right-wing regimes. That’s crazy. Look it up. It’s an extremely ill-defined word. It means “authoritarianism.” It’s not tied to any particular system.

The definition may change to favor the leftist interpretation. Dictionaries used to be useful reference tools, and that’s still true if you use dictionaries written decades ago. Lexicographers used to find out what the correct meanings of words were and record them so we wouldn’t stray. Now they look around to see what ignorant people are saying, and they change legitimate definitions to match our errors. Merriam-Webster just changed the definition of “assault rifle” to include semi-automatics. Try selling a semiauto to any military organization on earth. They’ll laugh you out of the room. They’re strictly civilian weapons, and civilian weapons are not assault rifles.

Perhaps liberal scholars who edit dictionaries are changing the definition of fascism, but in the world of 2018, what’s in the latest dictionary and what’s correct are two different things.

Trump bears little resemblance to tyrants. Obama and Hillary Clinton are much more tyrannical, and Bernie Sanders is definitely a tyrant. Yet Trump, the person who moved our embassy in Israel to the ancient capital of Jerusalem, is the one who gets compared to Adolf Hitler.

Christians have ruined the world. We had a powerful supernatural religion which connected people to God and brought them wisdom, healing, love, provision, and safety, and we exchanged it for Catholicism’s ridiculous system of life-sapping, pathological rules. We turned Christianity into a game with a scoreboard. All that mattered to us were our violations and our forgiveness. We threw away real power, and we threw away the God-given ability to perceive the truth.

If we were still pursuing the Holy Spirit and the inner transformation he brings, we would be able to see the truth, and we would be able to help others see it. You can’t see the truth without supernatural help, because the forces that prevent you from seeing it are supernatural. If people were Spirit-led, they would agree about everything. God is consistent. He tells everyone the same things.

We’re supposed to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and that’s a baptism which doesn’t necessarily occur at salvation or during water baptism. We’re supposed to pray in tongues every day. We’re supposed to live in a state of confession and cast demons out of ourselves and each other. Every single one of us is supposed to hear from God. We’re not supposed to rely on ignorant old men in bizarre costumes, mumbling through lifeless rituals in gaudy cathedrals.

Our leaders should be setting us free, but they put additional chains on us. The Pope doesn’t know anything about God. T.D. Jakes doesn’t know anything about growing in Christ. A few lost people make their way to the top of corrupt human organizations, and suddenly we think they must know something. The high priests, who are probably in hell, taught in a big shiny temple, and the public adored them. Jesus didn’t spend much time there. He had to teach in streets and in people’s houses.

Most Christians don’t believe in demons. Most Christians who believe in demons think they’re rare, and that they only appear in crazy people. Many Christians think it’s an insult when other people suggest they have demons. We don’t admit we are controlled by demons. We think we’re too good. Because we don’t acknowledge the spirits that run us, they get a free pass to remain in us and invite friends. We develop sick lifestyles in which we share ourselves with them, like roommates sharing apartments. We get sick and die from things caused by spirits that should be cast out easily. We get worse with age instead of better.

I love it when God tells me I’m infected with a demon I didn’t know about. It’s an opportunity to be free of a problem I didnt’ recognize. I don’t find it discouraging or insulting at all. I wish he would give me a typed list of all of them, along with a list of things I need to do to get rid of them permanently. There is nothing like the feeling of relief when one of these things leaves.

Another problem: Christians think a demon only has to be cast out once. Completely wrong. They come back. The Bible calls Satan the Lord of Flies. What do flies do when you shoo them away? They leave for a while and come back. Because we don’t understand this, we get set free, and then our demons return, and we think we’re still delivered. Sometimes we have attitudes and behaviors that keep letting them back in.

Do you think the Pope is telling people about this? Of course not. He has no idea. He’s too concerned about spreading socialism and weakening our objections to poisonous habitual sins. Fighting fallen angels and demons is his job. It’s the sole reason for his office to exist. He has no clue.

Have you ever taken a problem to the government? Sometimes they help, but often they do virtually nothing, or they make things worse. Asking the government to solve a problem can be like adopting a leopard to get rid of your mice. That’s what taking your demonic issues to most preachers is like. They are useless or worse. They work for demons, themselves. How can they be expected to know how to fight their masters?

Priests will actually tell you to pray to saints, which is prayer to evil spirits who hate you. They’ll give you medals to carry. These are idols, and they are connected to demons. No wonder miracles are so rare in the older churches.

You can’t get anywhere with God if you’re relying on help from a Mary action figure on your dashboard.

Christians are obese. We are addicted. We are unable to stop sinning. We are filled with lust and hate. We are mentally ill. We are unsuccessful. We are worried. We are diseased. We are deformed. We lose battles with wicked people who don’t have God’s favor, every day. Somehow, we manage to reconcile our lifestyles of utter defeat with the victorious path the Bible describes. And we think we’re the ones who know the truth!

Prayer in tongues changes things. Like the rudder of a ship, which keeps it on course, a Holy-Spirit-guided tongue guides us out of error, ignorance, and slavery.

Most of us can’t or won’t pray in tongues. We think it’s demonic or that God decided to quit helping us 1700 years ago. Some of us think it’s optional, as if we get to decide which parts of God’s program we should accept. Some people know prayer in tongues brings us closer to God, and they reject it because they don’t want to be that close. They enjoy carnality too much, and they’re afraid God will take control away from them and change their lives in ways they won’t like.

We love struggling and suffering. We love thinking of ourself as shining martyrs whose failures are actually victories. God told me this: “We become proud through struggling in the flesh.”

When you tell God you don’t need his help, or that you don’t want his charity, you might as well be spitting on him and telling him you want Satan to win. God is a rich father, and he wants heirs who receive fortunes they did nothing to earn. No one has ever earned his help, and he is willing to give it to the lowest of the low. Pedophiles, rapists, Satanists…to God, they are not disposable trash. They are prime targets for redemption. The first person he saved was a criminal hanging on a cross.

God wants to cleanse us miraculously and to live inside us and communicate with us. He wants to heal us physically and give our minds rest and peace. We aren’t receiving these things because we rejected his system. People who accept the system have lives that are very different from those who think they have to earn everything.

The world is insane these days. People can believe anything. We fine people for refusing to say men are women. Many Americans think we shouldn’t screen people who enter the country, which is so absurd it shouldn’t even be considered debatable. We have socialist priests, in spite of socialism’s long history of hostility toward God. We have Jews who vote for liberals and rail against conservatives who are their only friends. Craziness is everywhere, and it will get worse. The only people who will have any immunity will be the Spirit-led, and everyone else will do their best to silence us and kill us (as they always have).

The Holy Spirit is the only protection we have from a complete loss of reason, and it doesn’t look like many of us are going to get to know him.