Gazans Considerably Worse Than Nazis, and Our Kids Wave Their Flag

I thought I already had a very low opinion of Islam and Islamists, but today I found there was still room for deterioration.

I knew Islamists taught young children to hate and murder Jews. I knew nearly everything Hamas and the other terrorist Islamist organizations said was a lie. I knew every person, without exception, who supported Gaza over Israel was a Jew-hater or a fool. I knew all that, but today I watched a Gazan Muslim who converted to Judaism tell about his life, and I found that I didn’t hate Islamism or Islam enough.

I rarely sit through a Youtube video lasting more than 15 minutes. This one is over an hour and a half long, and I couldn’t turn it off.

I strongly recommend the part where he talks about going shopping with his mother and seeing a severed Palestinian head rolling around on the ground, as well as dismembered Palestinian bodies hanging in the air. People thought nothing of it and went about their day. This is what Gazan lives are worth to Gazans.

The man in the video suffered for many years to become a Jew, and he was finally allowed to convert. The sad thing is that he still does not know his God. He hasn’t met Yeshua, and he doesn’t know the Holy Spirit. He thinks he made it into the end zone, but he’s still on the ten-yard line. He has suffered so much, and he has barely gotten anywhere.

He did this interview long after October 7, and he says Israelis are still not taking the threat seriously enough. Because of his realistic views, he is considered an extremist.

Jews always, always help their enemies and fight their friends. October 7 won’t change anything. In November, they will congratulate themselves for voting against conservatives and Christians.

Isaiah 3:4 Comes to Life

I heard a shocking insight on the problem with today’s soft, coddled, narcissistic, sociopathic, ignorant, racist, Jew-baiting younger generations.

It came from a weird source: the TV show “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” In so many words, a character said that that social sites had changed people’s priorities. On social sites, people slavishly compete for “likes.” That’s the basis of the problem. I’ll just post the video here. It’s under a minute long.

The idea is that young people aren’t concerned about being virtuous. All they really want is for other people to admire them, so they say what they think other people want to hear so they will be popular.

As you see in the video, the character used his knowledge to get flighty, conceited, deluded young women to have sex with him. He said things he knew they would approve of, and he soon found himself on top of them, which is all he wanted from the start.

Back when there was a real Blogosphere, which means maybe before 2004, we saw something similar among bloggers. There were a lot of bloggers who would do anything to be linked. They treated website visits as though they were rubies piling up in a vault. A lot of people sucked up to Glenn Reynolds, because a link from his site would generate 30,000 or more visits.

People shaped their writing to please Reynolds and the other link rainmakers, and they formed cliques.

I didn’t get into this because it wasn’t my nature. I liked it when I got traffic bumps, and I hoped I would end up with a steady stream of heavy traffic, but I didn’t care enough about it to become a whore and kiss up to people I didn’t respect or agree with. I remember when Pajamas Media arrived, and I was a huge critic. I realized it would ruin conservative blogging. It was an attempt to put a small cabal in control of other people’s traffic and shut non-favored bloggers out. I offended a lot of people who were too thick to understand the problem. They thought every conservative owed loyalty to anyone who tried to increase the influence of conservative bloggers, but that was as far as their limited comprehension got them. They never tried to understand my objections.

I’m not good at manipulating people, because I hate manipulation. My natural approach to life is to try to get things through my own efforts instead of manipulating others to do my work for me. This is an interesting subject, because it has supernatural roots.

For a long time, I’ve been disgusted by big-church preachers who teach lies, and one day, God showed me the difference between his sons and Satan’s sons, and it made me understand why big-church preachers were so vile. One way to tell a son of God from a son of Satan is that a son of God will use his tools to get what he wants, while a son of Satan will use people. People are his tools.

Leftists are children of Satan. They hate meritocracy. Instead of trying to get things on their own, they use libel to force other people to give them what they have and become their de facto slaves.

The episode from which the video comes aired in late 2021, which was a year after we saw Americans tear each other apart online for things like welcoming Donald Trump’s shots, criticizing the same shots when they were touted by Joe Biden, and refusing to wear masks that didn’t work. Covid showed us how stupid, mindless, vicious, cowardly, and herd-driven Americans really are. It showed us the tip of the iceberg, anyway. We are capable of doing everything the Nazis and Japanese did.

A silly, crass TV sitcom has helped me understand just how lost humanity is. We have never had much character, and now we face attitude-shaping forces we will never be good enough to overcome or even fight. Young people wander through life now with their phones in front of them, competing to see how much they can impress other unthinking children by agreeing with them on X, Tiktok, and Instagram. The punishment for disagreeing is banishment from everyone else’s sight. If you speak the truth, the tech sites shadowban you into digital solitary confinement.

It’s too bad Orwell didn’t foresee shadowbanning. That would have made this century more interesting.

Nobody ever gave humanity a needed breakthrough by agreeing with what other people said. You can’t agree with anything that hasn’t been mentioned before, and by its very nature, a useful new idea can’t be something that has already been mentioned. The kids are just rehashing seductive, pathological errors other kids have already made, and they are actively blocking genuinely progressive thought that would heal society.

We need wise people to bring the world back to reality, but wise people are aging out of the population. They are dying without being replaced. The system shames their replacements out of existence, or at least out of the public eye. Wise young people are few in number, and they are systematically deplatformed. A homogeneous population of self-righteous, nonthinking simpletons is rising up to replace generations that had some hope of self-correction.

People who aren’t smart or very good make up the vast majority of human beings. People should realize they need to be led. Low-intelligence people are constantly reinforced in their delusions of cleverness now, so there is no hope they will realize they need to start listening.

In earlier times, the ratio of fools to wise people didn’t change much from one century to another. Now, because of the social-site feedback loop, the ratio is zooming upward with no brakes. Smart people created technology, and technology is turning human beings into fools.

We have never faced a challenge like this. We’re losing. There is no hope we will pull out of it.

Satan has always loved going after the young. He loves turning them against the old, because the old have all the wisdom. Communists, all of whom served Satan, always took kids away from their parents so they could be programmed without unwanted injections of time-proven wisdom. During the 20th century, Satan used changes in music and entertainment to segregate kids from older people who could save them. He used the arts to convince young airheads that older people were stupid. Now he uses cyberspace to do these things, much more effectively. “Likes” have turned out to be more powerful than drugs.

What do we do about our problem? We post videos explaining why the kids are wrong. We p3n the libs with reasoned arguments. It’s not going to work. If reason mattered to people, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

It makes me sad to see Christians and conservatives proudly filling the web with material they think will solve the problem. A lot of these people will probably be rounded up and killed within 20 years. After they lose. If I’m still here when leftists get what they want, I guess I’ll be right in there with the unpersons in cattle cars, because I have tried to change the world, too.

I feel alienated for many reasons. One reason is that I have never had much motivation to be popular. I can’t relate to the kind of people who run for third grade class president or captain of the pep squad. I don’t understand the desire to be admired greatly by dunces. I understand the desire to be left alone.

I wonder if this is why I have no fear of public speaking. I have never had high self-esteem, I don’t crave attention, I hate fame, and I have always been somewhat shy, but it doesn’t bother me at all to speak in front of crowds. If a van pulled up to my house right now, and I was asked to stand in front of a camera and address the planet for an hour, I wouldn’t be afraid at all, except for the fear–the certainty–that legions of undeveloped people similar to baboons would start harassing me. My lack of fear must be related to the fact that I have nothing but contempt for crowds. I don’t respect them at all.

A crowd voted against Moses. A crowd voted against the Jewish priests and demanded tyrannical and incompetent kings. That was catastrophic. A crowd voted to have the Romans murder Yeshua. A crowd tried to throw him off a cliff. Crowds beat Paul. These were religious crowds, too.

Throughout the Bible, crowds were against God maybe 90% of the time.

Crowds pour into hell all day. Individuals are saved out of crowds.

The Bible tells us not to incline after the majority to do injustice. It doesn’t say anything like that about individuals, because people feel very little pressure to follow individuals. You don’t have to caution people against doing what they don’t want to do.

When we feel pressure to follow individuals, it’s almost always because crowds are already following them.

Here’s something funny: Jewish sages have decided the Bible tells people to incline with the majority, even though the text clearly, indisputably says the opposite. How perverse can you get? The majority of sages must have overruled God.

Things are worse than we thought. They will continue to get worse. There is no collective solution. The only answer is to stay close to God and constantly invite correction. You can’t save the ship, but you can get a seat in the lifeboat.

Spend Big, Pack Big

My wife and I are not planning to travel right away, but I am still obsessed with planning a trip that could materialize later this year. Today’s gut-wrenching decision: carry-on or checked bag?

When we went to Mexico, expecting to stay two days, we took a big checked bag and one small backpack. The low-budget airline we took charged about the same amount for checked bags and carry-ons, and we figured they could manage not to lose our luggage on a nonstop flight, so this is the strategy we chose. It worked.

Other than that, we have always taken at least one big bag each, one backpack for electronics and valuables, and maybe some other small bags. It has worked well for us most of the time.

The only times we had problems, we were part of the chains of failure.

On a trip back from somewhere or other, I failed to collect my checked bag at JFK and take it through customs. I thought it was checked all the way through. The airline brought it to me a day or two later. No big deal.

On a trip back from the mediocre destination known as Ireland, Air France and Aer Lingus stole my wife’s checked bag. They and Heymondo, our crooked insurer, refused to pay. The bag turned up months later, missing several hundred dollars’ worth of possessions, which we had to replace at our own expense. The bag itself was ruined, because, you know, it’s impossible to store a sturdy hard-sided bag on a shelf for several months without ripping it apart. Bags I leave in my closets fly apart all the time.

We checked the bag at a kiosk in Dublin. She had an Aer Lingus flight to France, an Air France flight to Johannesburg, and an Airlink flight to Lusaka. The kiosk printed us a bag tag for Paris. As a result, the airlines took the bag to Paris and left it there.

Not running airlines personally, we didn’t know the airline had made an error. We had this idea that they had huge global computer networks that routed bags to their correct destinations based on passenger names, originating flights, confirmation numbers, and common sense. We didn’t know the final destination had to appear on the tag.

The airlines do this so often, there is a name for it: “short-tagging.”

The airlines screwed up, but if we had been more seasoned and more adept at catching their disgraceful, inexcusable mistakes, we would have gotten the tag fixed in Dublin.

The part where they and the insurer all lied to us for months was not our fault at all and not foreseeable. That’s on them.

Having had these experiences, we have been considering learning to cram all our stuff into carry-ons. Carry-on bags are positively chic now. If you check a big bag, people make fun of you, as though you’re some kind of rube because you don’t want to wear the same pants 8 days in a row.

Pro-carry-on arguments sounded so smart to me, I ordered a really nice carry-on, and it arrived today. I think I’m going to send it back without opening it. This very week, I wrote a piece listing my reasons for wanting a smaller bag. Since then, some things have occurred to me. I’m not saying I was WRONG about anything, because that could never happen. Merely that I may not have been totally 100% correct.

I told MY truth.

1. The rate of truly lost bags is somewhere below 1 in 200. The vast majority of “lost” bags are merely delayed a day or two.

2. You don’t actually have to fill a checked bag with things you can’t stand to lose, and you can put clean underwear and socks in your pockets when you fly, enabling you to survive until your bag arrives.

3. If you take a big bag, you have a place to put things you buy while traveling. If you take a carry-on, you’re going to sit on it and put it in a hydraulic press and do whatever else you have to do to get as much junk as possible into it before you leave. You will not be able to jam souvenirs into it.

4. If you check a big bag, you never have the common problem of suffering with small luggage and also having to check your tiny bag at the last minute because the airline didn’t plan.

5. With a big bag, you can go a week or more without doing laundry. Laundry is expensive, and doing laundry in a bathtub is no fun. People who use small bags often wear things over and over, which is gross.

6. People complain about the time it takes to collect a checked bag. This is silly. If losing 30 minutes is that big a deal, your vacation is too short, and you will lose your mind when you get to customs and immigration, not to mention the lines at places like the Vatican and the Acropolis. Disney World will make you wish for death.

7. Travel is about memories, and if there are no pictures or videos, it never happened. Good camera gear is a lot better than your Iphone. If you have a checked bag, you have more options for carrying things like extra lenses and remote mike sets. These things take up room, and you won’t want to check them. The more junk goes in your checked bag, the more camera gear can go in your backpack or an extra carry-on. If you don’t have a remote mike set, and there is any wind at all when you shoot, and the camera is over a foot away from whoever you’re shooting, no one will be able to hear anything you or your companions say, and you may say very important things. “WHUMP WHUFF WHUMP WHUFF WHUFF love you WHUMP WHUFF WHUMP live without you WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP marry me and make me the happiest WHUFF WHUFF WHUFFITY WHUMP.” Is that what you want to hear 50 years later?

8. I saw a guy complain about moving around with big bags. I have traveled with a huge rollaboard and a backpack that weighed around 20 pounds. No problem. You only have to move your own luggage when you’re between vehicles. Cars have trunks. Buses and trains have racks. Moving your own bags is good for you, and it will help you gain less weight on your trips. Lifting an inadequate 25-pound bag is not much easier than lifting a 35-pound bag that fills all your needs.

9. If you have a big bag, you can dress more appropriately. You can bring two pairs of shoes. You can bring real pants and a jacket. You won’t find yourself at a Michelin-starred restaurant in cargo shorts.

The main problem with a checked bag is that a disgusting pervert who is also a high official in the Biden administration may steal it so he can wear your clothes, but this only happens if you’re female or think you’re female. There haven’t been any cases of confused XX Biden appointees stealing gender-correct clothing from actual men.

I’m starting to think that carry-ons are for short trips to third-rate destinations like Cancun and Miami. You land on Friday night, drunk. You lie on the beach drunk until Sunday afternoon. You fly home drunk Sunday night, thinking about RU-486 and/or penicillin. If you’re flying home from Miami, maybe you’re concerned about a fresh bullet wound. For a situation like that, a carry-on is perfect. For multi-week trips to nice places, a big bag seems to make more sense.

I think I should return this thing. This is what I get for listening to millennials who wear mildew-smelling knee-length basketball shorts everywhere they go.

Feast, my Darlings

Are Italians really as Italian as people think they are?

My wife and I went to Mexico, a place known for emotionalism, tardiness, poverty, dishonesty, and laziness. Our hotel was not perfect, but it was pretty clean, the staff was helpful and efficient, and the security was good. Now we are looking at Florence and Rome. I wasn’t able to find a single hotel that didn’t have scary reviews, so we are shooting for Airbnb instead.

Italians suffer from the same basic stereotypes as Mexicans, except that you are less likely to be kidnapped by the police in Italy. Are the stereotypes justified?

I have traveled a lot over the last three years, and I rely on reviews, for whatever they’re worth. One thing I know is this: if a business has 3,000 reviews and a near-perfect rating, you ignore the good reviews and read the bad ones. Read the ones that start with phrases like, “I can’t understand all the good reviews.” This is what I did while looking for Italian hotels.

I looked at hotels under a certain price. Repeatedly, I saw complaints about bad smells, nonfunctional air conditioning, noise, rude staff, violent staff, dirty rooms, bedbugs, bait and switch games, and elevators that didn’t exist or only went part of the way to rooms. I figured I was being too cheap. I looked for rooms that cost more. Same hotels with the same reviews. I could not find anything that looked acceptable, and I was willing to pay $400 per night.

Here’s the worst thing I saw: hotel proprietors routinely insulted and argued with guests who left bad reviews. Some apologized and said they would try to do better, but many, many reacted like, well, like Italians.

If you’re going to insult and belittle your customers and accuse them of lying on the Internet, where the world can see it, what will you do in private when new guests arrive?

When you look at bad reviews for Swiss hotels, you see a different picture. The clerk didn’t want to provide extra towels. The room was small. The hotel was too far from the train station. No one complains about stained sheets, reservations canceled without notice, or sewage smells.

We went to Egypt and picked a hotel and a cruise ship off the web. The hotel was clean and spacious. The bathrooms were fantastic. They had bidets. The food was pretty good. The staff was nice. There was no noise. The ship was clean. The staff was wonderful. The food was better than the hotel food.

We went to Turkey. The hotel could not have been much better. Everything was spotless. The beds were huge and comfortable. The bathrooms were worthy of the nation that invented the Turkish bath.

Egypt and Turkey. These are not blue ribbon destinations. Egypt is a second world country, and if Turkey is first world, it’s not high on the list. Italy is held out to be a real country, like Germany. How come they can’t run decent hotels?

I considered giving up on Italy, but…it’s Italy. You can’t take the Ponte Vecchio and the Coliseum and move them to a nation where the hotels are clean. Italy was the hub of Renaissance art. The art is still there. If you want to see it, you have to risk sleeping with the bedbugs.

If we go, we will use Airbnb. We’ve had good experiences with apartments in the past. You get to sit at a dinner table. You get to do laundry. You get a real refrigerator. You don’t get drunks screaming right outside your door all night or banging on it by mistake, trying to get inside for sex.

The general, but not ironclad, rule about stereotypes is that they don’t develop in a vacuum. No one complains about the Japanese being overemotional or dishonest. No one crosses the street upon seeing a big male Norwegian approach. The people complaining about Italian hotels surely have good reason for their critiques. Italians are fun people, and they live in a fun country, but if Egypt and Mexico are beating them, they need to shape up.

I did some research and learned that Rome has some excellent pizza shops, so I hope to hit at least one of them if we go.

In a few weeks, we will know if we have a visa.

Visa Attempt Number 42

Having survived Cancun, the wife and I are now making another effort to get to Europe. Like Charlie Brown, running up to kick that elusive pigskin, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment yet again.

A Greek consulate is not far off, so before long, we will be heading there so my wife can be put under a microscope and possibly allowed into Europe.

The Europeans we dealt with in past efforts refused to give us a chance. They thought a woman who had traveled to several countries with her relatively affluent husband, and who had returned from said countries without setting off any bombs or overstaying her visa and becoming a petty criminal, was sure to remain behind and start a human trafficking ring or something. Now we have a green card to bolster our wild claim that my wife wants to return to the US and her big house after our next trip. We hope it will get us some traction.

The Greeks at the embassy seem very nice. They actually called me and talked to me. That was a first. With other countries, I had a better chance of getting a return call from J.D. Salinger, and he’s dead.

We constantly get better at applying and traveling.

The Greeks want us to show them an airline reservation before they will give us a visa. There is no such thing as an airline reservation. I don’t know exactly when airlines stopped taking reservations, but it was probably in the eighties. When we were trying to get my wife visas in Zambia, we got travel agencies to produce ridiculous fake itineraries, which the embassies knew were fake. Somehow, this worked with several countries.

I finally figured out how you deal with the reservation requirement. You buy refundable tickets, which are insanely expensive. You go through the embassy process. If you get a visa, you return your tickets and buy new nonrefundable tickets which are much cheaper.

It’s all a big scam. It seems unfair to the airlines. On the other hand, airlines behave really badly all the time, so it’s hard to feel much sympathy. Air France and Aer Lingus literally stole my wife’s luggage, returned it months later, destroyed, and missing hundreds of dollars’ worth of stuff, and refused to pay us a dime. Airlines steal and break things all day, every day. Since 2001, their waiters and waitresses have gotten really full of themselves. They love throwing people off planes now.

We spent $3700 on tickets we have no intention of using. If we get a visa, we’ll only use our tickets if we can’t get cheaper ones. If we don’t get a visa, we’ll take all of our money back.

I don’t understand how having tickets makes you a better visa candidate. Osama bin Laden could have bought airline tickets legally. I can understand how they would want you to have a return ticket before flying, but that’s completely different. They could approve you before you buy the ticket and then require you to produce it at the gate before your inbound flight.

It would be nice to see Greece again. It’s one of the world’s top travel destinations. It’s not like Cancun, our last destination, where American kids go to practice regurgitation. We have booked a tour of the Acropolis and one for Corinth. We’re also planning to do a food tour.

You can keep the islands, except for Crete.

We’re shooting for Switzerland for the second part of the trip. Aim high when you expect to be rejected, I always say. I want to see Lucerne again. We want to visit the tops of some alps and take boat rides on the lake. We also want to see the Interlaken area. We hope to stay in Wengen, which is what God created while he was working on ideas for heaven.

Switzerland is the most beautiful country. Yeah, yeah, it’s subjective, yada yada yada, whatever. Switzerland is the most beautiful country. It’s more beautiful than any mountainous area anywhere else. North America, South America, the Himalayas…no competition.

There are other places that look good in photos. Go there, get out of the plane, and what do you get? Mosquitoes. Blistering heat. Stifling humidity. Europe is the air conditioned continent. In Western Europe, even the bad days are great by American standards.

The alps have natural beauty plus a population that appreciates it and creates houses and buildings that complement it. Other mountainous areas look like slums in comparison.

Georgia has one of the two highest mountains in Europe. The nearest town looks like mud daubers built it.

Of course, not all of the beauty of the alps is in Switzerland, and Norway has some stunning scenery, but overall, Switzerland IS the most beautiful country. So we are going to try to go there and stuff ourselves with dishes full of potatoes and fried cheese.

The Swiss also have it more together than anyone else. I would put Singapore in second place. The Swiss are rich, they have very little crime, and they seem to do everything they do as well as it can be done. I suppose most of them are godless leftists, but they are extremely capable godless leftists.

If they won’t take us, I guess we’ll have to vacation in Tennessee.

I’m trying to improve my touristing skills. I have always traveled with a huge old bag because I had to bring my wife things. On the way over, the bag would weigh 45 pounds, and on the way back, it would weigh 20. I always had to go through the bag claim. I never knew whether the airlines were going to steal my things. Now I’m trying to work it out so I can take a carry-on.

You would think it would be simple, but it isn’t. Different airlines have different carry-on size requirements. It’s really stupid. I’m trying to find the biggest carry-on around that will make nearly every airline happy. So far, it’s looking like the Travelpro Platinum Elite Rollaboard.

A rollaboard is a bag with two wheels. A spinner is a bag with four wheels. I don’t know why they call them spinners. Maybe because you can spin them on their wheels. It’s a stupid name.

Rollaboards are better than spinners. They’re sturdier. Spinner wheels tend to snap off. Rollaboards also hold more stuff, because the rolling hardware takes up less room.

Some Youtube travel nerd recommends a backpack with no wheels. Sorry; no. My backpack is my personal item. Also, if I have a second backpack on my back, how will I carry the first one? You want one bag on your back and another one on wheels.

When we travel, I take a PC and some camera stuff. That means I have to carry my backpack everywhere. I can’t leave expensive stuff in a $40 hotel room safe, and I can’t travel without a computer and camera.

The alternative is to keep using my giant bag, continue to avoid putting valuable things in it, and hope the airline and TSA employees don’t steal too much.

If I do that, I risk finding myself in a foreign country with no clean clothes. That actually happened to me when I was a kid. My mother had to take me to stores in Luxembourg and buy me tight clothes for European kids with little stick arms and legs.

I am practicing filling my wife’s carry-on with my stuff. If we can work it out so we still have a fair amount of junk with us when we travel, maybe I’ll get a smaller bag for myself.

I want to go to Europe this year because this may be the last time we get to travel without a baby or a heavily-pregnant woman. It amazes me that people manage to travel with babies. I can’t see us doing it in another country. Maybe in the US. It sounds unbelievably difficult and expensive, and no baby is going to benefit from foreign travel. He or she would just make things worse for us. I don’t think travel does anything for kids until they’re at least 8.

Make that 10.

It’s hard enough, slowing down for my wife. We take forever to leave our hotel rooms in the morning. She can’t walk up hills like I can. She has to sit down a lot. Imagine adding two tiny wives that aren’t potty-trained, can’t walk, and can’t read.

I see how being orphans is going to impact our future. If we had parents or even useful brothers or sisters, we could leave kids with them.

Both of us should have Global Entry by the time we try to travel, so there’s that. On the way home from Mexico, I had to wait in the long line with my wife and the suspicious peasants.

It’s all up to the Greeks. Either we’re going to Greece, or it’s, “Hello, Gatlinburg.”

Go Back to Bedford-Stuyvesant and Live the Good Life

Is what I’m about to tell you a testimony to God’s willingness to grant requests? You decide.

Lately my wife and I have been praying for God to move his children to safe places. I ask him to put us in places where we are the dominant culture. I ask him to enlarge the borders of these places so we won’t be crowded. I ask him to take the homes, buildings, businesses, and wealth away from the Yeshua-haters who live in these places, drive them out, and give these things to people who love him. I ask him to keep catastrophe away from these places. I say something like, “If disasters have to come, let them fall on places where you are openly hated.”

Today I saw a really funny article from NBC News, which is under Satan’s control. The headline: “They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.”

The article is a pure propaganda piece, intended to drive people away from Florida. I think the facts asserted in the article are probably true, but there is no effort to present obvious facts which, to many people, would provide incentive to move to Florida.

The unmentioned facts are obviously obvious to many, many Americans, because Florida is filling up very quickly, and the states that send the most refugees are New York and Illinois.

Here is what NBC wants you to think:

1. Floridians are physical threats to black people.

2. Florida schools censor the truth regarding issues like slavery and the pro-perversion movement.

3. Housing in Florida is too expensive for most people.

4. You won’t be able to afford home insurance in Florida.

5. People in Florida argue constantly about politics.

6. Traffic in Florida is unbearable.

7. Because of our gun laws, Florida is full of armed crazies itching to shoot just about anyone, including enlightened newcomers from workers’ paradises like Brooklyn and Chicago.

8. Hurricanes make human existence in Florida unsustainable.

I was thrilled when I saw the article. I hope every leftist who reads it thinks it’s the gospel truth.

Well, that’s not what I hope, because leftists hate the gospel and consider it to be a collection of sexist, racist, patriarchal myths.

They interviewed people who moved to South Florida, of all places. Of course they hate it. South Florida is for Cubans, period. It’s very unwelcoming to people who don’t come from Latin America. Even Cubans complain about this and move because of it. It’s also home to what may be the rudest people in America. New Yorkers seem nice compared to Miamians, and New Yorkers are pretty awful.

In South Florida, you absolutely have to speak Spanish in order to experience the normal benefits Americans expect in other places. The bad traffic has topped national rankings. The politicians are so corrupt, the area rivals Baltimore.

What do you get if you move from good old Queens to Miami? Warm weather and topless beaches. Northerners love beaches. It’s like a sickness with them. When I think of vacation destinations, I think of the alps. I think of Israel and Greece. I think of France and its culture. Northeasterners think about sand, sunburn, and drinks concocted for the effeminate.

Northerners move to Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties, thinking they’ll sit on the beach every weekend, blissfully drunk and stoned, surrounded by loose women. Then they move, and they find themselves in ticky-tacky condos and tract houses miles from the water, surrounded by people who don’t want them there, and when they go to the beaches, they see that New York’s beaches are much, much nicer.

Long Island beaches have cool, crystal-clear water. Everything isn’t flat. The sun is milder. The sand is finer. Most people speak English.

The fishing is better up north because Cubans aren’t constantly violating every fishing regulation known to man. Even Bahamians complain about Miami Cubans destroying the fishing.

They interviewed a guy named Dr. Louis Rotkowitz, MD. Right away, you can see how fair NBC was. They picked a Jewish doctor from Queens. Total DeSantis supporter, that guy.

Rotkowitz is apparently a minor public figure, or at least he wants to be. He has a blog with his name in the URL, and he seems to get interviewed a lot. He has been in other news stories in the past. He calls himself a COVID survivor, which is a lot like saying you’re a flu survivor. Not the kind of thing that gets you a quilt.

Check this out:

Along with the rising costs, Rotkowitz said he generally felt unsafe in the state between the erratic traffic — which resulted in a number of his patients being injured by vehicles — and a state law passed in 2023 that allowed people to carry a concealed weapon without a license.

“Everyone is walking around with guns there,” he said. “I consider myself a conservative guy, but if you want to carry a gun you should be licensed, there should be some sort of process.”

1. The traffic is definitely bad in South Florida, and it’s dangerous largely because there are so many Latins there, but anyone who has been to New York City has to marvel at any person who thinks New York’s traffic is safer. New Yorkers drive like Italians.

2. There was already a law that allowed unlicensed people to carry guns. It’s called the Constitution of the United States of America. Scroll down to Amendment 2. Laws requiring firearm licenses are unconstitutional, and laws banning concealed carry are actually anomalous. And thank goodness no one in New York, Chicago, DC, or Baltimore carries a gun.

3. He considers himself a conservative guy. If so, he’s the only one. A person with his name contributed to a bunch of Democrat campaigns, including that of Bill de Blasio. He reminds me of the liars you see in Internet comments. When a comment starts with, “I’m a lifelong Republican, but…”, you know you’re hearing from a clumsy Marxist mole. Rotkowitz identifies himself on Facebook as an activist, and his wife is a teacher. Do you think he’s conservative? Have you ever met a conservative who calls himself an activist?

NBC posted a quotation from a lady who claimed evil Trumpers stole her Hillary sign in 2016. Does that sound plausible to you? All over the web, you can see videos of Democrats stealing Trump signs. Good luck finding similar videos of conservatives. Such things are extremely rare, and NBC knows it.

I’m going to repost a photo from the article. It’s definitely fair use. You won’t believe it. It was taken at the courthouse where Trump is being tried over classified documents. It shows several non-black people, who appear to be Latins, appearing to menace a black man. Two are wearing evil flag-based clothing. It looks like they’re about to give him a beating (which did not happen). Check it out.

Totally Typical Florida Racism

Wait…is that Rodney King? I thought he died from an overdose in 2012.

It doesn’t show the Antifa people who did beat police in Miami. I wonder why that is. They could have taken a photo in any restaurant in my county and shown the huge percentage of interracial families.

I’m not sure how making Latins look violent aligns with NBC’s anti-white ethos.

The article makes Florida sound like hell, and I could not be happier. I hope a hundred million Northerners forward it to their friends and relatives. I hope every recipient believes NBC and strikes Florida off his list of retirement destinations. Please, please, please. Let it happen.

Christians need a state of their own, and if God will give us Florida or even most of it, I’ll be overjoyed.

Personally, I think a lot about Tennessee, but maybe Florida is the place to be. Only God knows. I hope with all my hoping power that God is the reason leftists are leaving.

It’s hard to describe the pleasure of living in a conservative, Christian-heavy county in a state governed by Ron DeSantis. I’ve told my wife she’s spoiled. She hasn’t seen the real America yet. People here are warm, kind, and patient. They make Texans look like New Yorkers. What a privilege it is to live here.

No, wait. Not a privilege. Definitely not. It’s terrible. Like having shingles. Stay away. They won’t even let BLM block streets and beat motorists here. What kind of state is that? Florida made it illegal to hire illegal aliens. These wonderful, diverse criminals will have to go elsewhere to enrich the culture with burglary, murder, rape, squatting, drug dealing, and kidnapping. It’s appalling.

At least two Florida sheriffs have held press conferences in which they encouraged citizens to shoot burglars. How can we live in a place where burglars have to risk their lives in order to make a living and supply their families with crack and meth? Stay in New York, where you can be viciously beaten by the same mugger twice in one day.

We have a new law allowing sheriffs to arrest squatters immediately. How backward we are. Where are illegal immigrants supposed to stay if they can’t move into our houses, have us arrested for protesting, steal and sell all our stuff, rip out the walls without consequences, and charge us to move out? No, no. New York is where you want to be.

Incidentally, and more seriously, I don’t recommend listening to those sheriffs. They are fine public servants with great attitudes, but you always, always, always let the police do the shooting if at all possible. Hide with your family and some rifles and wait, if you can. The police can kill 50 burglars (or innocent people, for that matter) on your property without exposing you to any kind of liability. If you decide to shoot, you take a chance on being sued or even charged by the feds, who jump for Joe Biden, not your conservative mayor or governor.

Just a tip from a lawyer.

It’s also best to refrain from shooting anyone who has not entered your home. A dead body in your foyer is strong evidence of self-defense. A dead body in your yard could cause you problems.

You do what you can, under the circumstances. It’s always best to run instead of fighting, and it’s better to let the police do the fighting. It’s too bad George Zimmerman didn’t have time to wait for the police. He was completely innocent, but a Florida prosecutor perjured herself in order to railroad him.

Anyway, I support NBC this time. Florida is horrible. Stay away. I encourage Northerners who have been here for decades to pull up stakes and get out while they still can.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord. Please, please continue.

Senile, Pandering President Outdoes Himself

I wrote about Biden and his wife banning religious-themed designs from their silly White House Easter egg roll. Commenter Juan Paxety noted that Biden had also proclaimed Easter and Passover the “Transgender Day of Visibility.”

This year Easter and Passover come more or less at the same time.

So what is transgender visibility? It sounds like perverts are supposed to go out in public and make a show of themselves. If this is the case, then every day of the year is the Transgender Day of Visibility, because perverts love showing off. In fact, many of them get sexually aroused by showing off.

It sounds like a day designed to offend decent people.

Organizations that pretend to be churches are having special events to celebrate sexual perversion today. Who do you turn to when churches belong to Satan?

Fake Christians who support perversion always do what their father does: they make false accusations. “Devil” means “slanderer,” which means Satan is a gaslighter. He wrongs us and then accuses us of being the wrongdoers.

Fake churches are calling God’s clear position on perversion “hate,” and they are patting themselves on the back. “Hate doesn’t live here,” and so on. They are demonizing people who are trying to give self-destructive people the helpful information they need.

“Hate” may keep your confused son from castrating himself and making himself sterile and unmarriageable. It may keep your confused daughter from letting a monster in scrubs slice her healthy breasts off, skin her arm, use the skin to create a fake penis that doesn’t work, and then skin her leg to cover the arm. That’s hate?

Marriage is good. Reproduction is good. Knowing God is good. Let a deranged surgeon mutilate you sexually, and you are likely to miss out on all three of these things.

Homosexual men who call themselves trans women have worse problems than mutilated girls, who can hold onto their uteruses, deliver by Caesarean section, and have relationships with other lesbians. Typically, mutilated men have sick dreams of being wooed and wed by tall, hunky, heterosexual men who look like Chippendale dancers. In reality, heterosexual men find them just as sexually repulsive as they do homosexual men who still have their organs. “Trans women” have to settle for other people who have let Satan turn them into disturbing oddities.

Finding people of your own sex sexually repulsive is not bigotry. It’s not something learned. It’s good and normal. It’s an essential part of heterosexuality. Attraction is not based on decisions. It’s based on natural inclinations with biological causes.

Males treated with puberty blockers also fail to grow to normal adult heights. They tend to be tiny and weak. Smaller than most adult women. Noted hormonal trainwreck “Jazz Jennings” (pseudonym) is about a foot shorter than his normal brothers. He is much shorter than his mother. He has friends in the same boat.

Dating is hard for everyone. Imagine what it’s like when you’re a man with a huge wound where your reproductive organs used to be. You’re only going to attract fetishists. Dream of Brad Pitt and Chris Hemsworth all you want. Fantasize about firemen and lumberjacks. You’re going to get sad kooks with demonic preferences that are all about uncommitted sex and have nothing to do with love. You’re going to end up with rejects, if you find anyone at all.

I know someone who was approached by a mutilated pervert on a dating site. The pervert said he wanted to show this person his “beautiful butterfly,” referring to the grotesque surgical creation between his legs. It’s hard to describe how the phrase “beautiful butterfly” hits a heterosexual man in this context. The revulsion is difficult to put into words.

Here’s something most people don’t understand about disgust. It depends on appeal. For example, not all bad smells are disgusting. The worst ones combine unpleasant odors with odors we find appealing. Human feces smell a lot like food, and that’s why the smell of feces is so repugnant.

A man with a hole carved in his crotch is extremely disgusting because normal men are drawn to female genitalia. A mutilated male combines some of the attraction of female genitalia with the strong sexual repulsion of another man’s naked crotch.

What’s worse? A pile of cat poop all by itself, or a pile of cat poop on top of a beautiful cake?

When I’m out on my farm, I walk by pile after pile of cow manure, and it doesn’t bother me at all. Put one on top of a pizza, and my reaction will be a lot different.

The demoniac who approached my friend was completely unable to empathize with normal men. He could not imagine the bone-deep disgust his filthy remark engendered. He thought he was a big temptation. A seductress. In reality, he made other men want to heave.

If you don’t want to hear more about artificial vaginas, stop reading now. They never heal. They don’t clean themselves. They have to be pried open over and over, because like all unnatural wounds, they try to close up and heal. They fill up with bacteria and fungus, and they stink.

You can find perverts themselves complaining about these things online. This information doesn’t come from the pope or the Southern Baptist Convention.

As for women, they lose all appeal to heterosexual men. They lose their figures. They lose all the sexual functions of breasts. They lose the ability to breastfeed. They look like they’ve been in house fires, because they are covered in skin grafts. If you’re a girl, and you go this route, you face a life of lesbian relationships, at best. If you’ve had a phalloplasty, most lesbians will reject you.

Lesbians have bad relationships. I should add that. They have the highest rate of domestic violence of any type of couples. They break up frequently. Their relationships are usually short. Women don’t get along well with each other, and lesbianism doesn’t change that.

All these things are true, yet today, a president who lies and says he’s a Christian used two events that are sacred to Christians and Jews to encourage sick people to taunt normal people with their revolting and tragic mental problems.

God hates homosexuality. He calls it abomination. He doesn’t call rape or murder abomination. Think about that. It’s a very serious thing.

He also calls pride abomination, along with lying and rebellion.

Leftists who hate Christianity keep trying to give Christians Christianity lessons. They keep telling us it’s all about being nice and refraining from calling out sin. Not true. Jesus hit people with a whip. He called religious leaders children of Satan. He called them snakes. He criticized sinners in public.

Telling your effeminate son he’s wonderful and dressing him up as a Disney princess is not love, any more than telling a heroin addict he’s wonderful, and giving him more heroin, is love. Having your daughter’s breasts cut off because she’s going through a short phase is not love. It’s abomination. It has consequences.

This stuff doesn’t work. It doesn’t actually prevent suicide. It makes it more common. It doesn’t lead to fulfillment. It leads to loneliness and rejection. It ruins people’s relationships with the Holy Spirit. It takes people to hell if they never repent.

Nonetheless, our senile, malicious, spineless, corrupt, greedy, unintelligent, lie-loving president is using our White House and two sacred holidays to promote it.

What comes after this? What is worse? Will he have naked trans nuts sacrifice pigs to Baal in the Rose Garden on Christmas Day? It will be hard to top this. If we’re not at the end of the age, we must be very, very close, because Satan is running out of gimmicks.

What other days will Biden proclaim? National Incest Day? National Stealing Day? I forgot…now that Democrats don’t prosecute thieves, every day is National Stealing Day.

I’ve said this many times: if it’s this bad today, what will it be like in 6 months? It’s like there is a Moore’s Law for abomination and pride.

Uncle Sam’s Brief Tryst with God Comes to an End

Easter should be the biggest holiday of the year, and it should not be called “Easter.” “Easter” is the name of a false goddess, which means it is named after an irredeemable creature that will end up in the lake of fire, which is the spirit world’s toilet. Easter is really Passover, and we should call it that.

We get all excited about Christmas, when we celebrate the birth of a person who had done nothing yet to save us. If Yeshua had ascended to heaven as a baby, everyone reading this blog would be on the way to hell. We should celebrate the day when he allowed blaspheming Jewish leaders to have him murdered by godless pagans. That’s when everything changed.

How do Christians celebrate Passover? On the wrong day, we feed our kids chocolate rabbit idols and give them dyed boiled eggs which aren’t good for much of anything.

One of the childhood memories which most reminds me of the love my mother felt for me involves Passover. When my sister woke up on “Easter” Sunday, each of us would find a basket full of synthetic grass, containing lots of candy. It was a wonderful gesture in some ways, but it’s sad that the celebration was so soiled with paganism.

At our White House, presidents acknowledge Passover with an egg roll. Not the good kind you eat with duck sauce and Chinese mustard. The kind that involves rolling dyed boiled eggs around on the grass.

I don’t know much about egg rolling. I didn’t hear about it until I was an adult. Maybe it’s a Northern thing. It seems really stupid.

This year, Joe Biden and his “doctor” wife, who has the same weak doctorate Bill Cosby has (Ed.D.), are hosting an egg roll that comes with an egg-decorating contest. Kids are encouraged to send their designs in, and winning designs, which will probably feature homosexual themes and themes supporting invasion by illegal aliens, will be painted on real boiled eggs by “artists.” I put “artists” in quotation marks because we’re all familiar with the type of people leftists honor as artists.

If Michelangelo were alive today, he would be doing commercial illustration. The art world would crush him.

Notably absent from the egg art submissions: Yeshua and all mention of religion. Joe and Jill have banned religion from the event. An event which exists only because of Yeshua.

To me, this looks like the day. It looks like the day our leftist establishment signs the papers divorcing America’s left from the loving God who rules the universe and who let his innocent son be tortured to death by blasphemers in order to save leftists and everyone else who applies.

Why hasn’t the tribulation already started?

Biden is still supporting Israel, so we can’t say nothing he does pleases God, but he is supporting Israel reluctantly while excoriating Israel’s Israel-first Prime Minister behind closed doors. Biden is sending Israel limited amounts of weaponry in order to keep Jewish donations flowing into his campaign and prevent Jewish voters who are still deluded by left-wing propaganda from voting for the party that actually supports them.

I hate this place. I hate the world. My life here is very, very pleasant, but I feel like I vacationed in a nice resort in Mexico and then wasn’t allowed to fly home.

I am in a tiny minority of people who know the Holy Spirit. I am surrounded by bona fide mental cases who pushed us to the point where Victoria’s Secret stores put up huge photos of male perverts in ladies’ underwear. I have a demented, warlike, unintelligent, utterly dishonest president who is immersing us in a war between two far-off nations involved in a dispute that has little to do with America and which is likely to blow up into a global war. A huge percentage of the youth of my once-Christian nation are soft, self-obsessed, mindless perverts who think Christianity is the world’s greatest problem. The streets of cities around the globe keep filling up with proud Jew-haters, and Israel is being tarred as genocidal after being attacked by murderous sexual deviants who fired guns and shoved knives up the vaginas of Jewish women and raped and castrated Jewish men.

I would like to be elsewhere.

Insanity used to be exceptional. Now most people are insane. I live in a world where I have to humor nearly everyone. I have to be careful about choosing the people to whom I tell the truth. It’s like living with my dad while he was dying from dementia, except there are billions of demented dads.

My dad used to get angry and rant after his mind started to fail. He did this when he was young, too, but when he was young, he had a better understanding of what he was saying. When my dad started losing his faculties, and he made wild, irrational remarks, I told friends it was like being rained on. You don’t get mad at the rain. You don’t argue with the rain. You keep your mouth shut. You wait for the rain to stop. When the rain stops, you move on with your day. These days, reading news sites and watching videos of famous people who are generally regarded as competent is like enduring brief rain showers. They can’t be corrected, so there is no point in responding. Their inane babbling can’t be taken seriously. You endure it or get away from it, and you move on.

When my dad said nutty things, he could not help it. I tried not to take it personally. The leftist kooks who rage these days don’t have the excuse of deteriorating gray matter, but I still try not to take their ravings personally, because taking them personally serves no purpose.

Jon Stewart just did a show in which he accused Donald Trump of fraud because Trump said his properties were worth a lot, while Letitia James noted that Trump’s estimates far outstripped government tax assessments. Stewart really did this, even though every person who owns a house or building knows that tax assessments are about taxable value, which is totally different from market value. Blogger Tim Pool noted that Stewart asked for, and received, over $17 million for a condo with a taxable value of under $500,000. Stewart’s response was to flip out and mention Trump’s other alleged misdeeds, which are unrelated to James’s frivolous, soon-to-be reversed case. He didn’t even try to be rational, because, as Pool says, “Orange man bad.”

Without reaching the question of why we look to professional clowns for serious political analysis, I have to note that this is the kind of sophistry we have to listen to now. We get it from overpaid TV jesters, and we also get it from judges, prosecutors, and pundits who know better.

Trump was convicted of a crime for negotiating. He negotiated legally. Every appraisal ever done in the history of the world was subjective. There is no such thing as an objectively correct value for anything. Like all borrowers, Trump gave optimistic appraisals to banks, and he invited them to do their own due diligence, which they all did, confirming that his assets were valuable enough to serve as collateral.

Every person who has ever paid capital gains on the sale of inherited property has given the IRS a subjective appraisal of the value at the time the property was obtained. There is no other way to do it. Every person who has had a property appraised before buying it paid for a subjective appraisal. Every person who has bought a property has given the seller a subjective evaluation in the form of an offer. This is how commerce works. There is no way around it.

Steward is too crazy now to see the obvious, and he is too small to admit he’s wrong. Worst of all, these days, these flaws make him normal.

The James case is exposing a lot of celebrities as financial imbeciles. They come by money very, very easily, so apparently, many of them never learn how to manage it. They say Floyd Mayweather put $27 million in his checking account and left it there. Apparently, Stewart and many other celebrities who back James are about as sophisticated as a barely-literate boxer.

People and nations are now calling Israel genocidal based on “facts” cited by Hamas, a known terrorist organization which has done nothing but lie since before it was created. Can we get any crazier? Hamas says tens of thousands of civilians have been killed by the IDF. This is the same organization that begs for ceasefires as soon as it starts to lose, receives them, and violates them almost immediately. The same organization that puts paramilitary installations in hospitals, schools, and mosques, claims they aren’t there, and then calls Israel genocidal when it takes them over, goes inside, and shoots video that proves Hamas lied.

When hundreds of millions, or billions, of people believe Hamas without investigating, and they persecute Jews who are not Israelis or IDF personnel, you know the world has gone insane. When Ivy League schools, which have historically been criticized as Jew-dominated because Jews have done so well in them, are aiding in the libeling of Israel and the persecution of paying Jewish students, you can’t reasonably say we live in a world that is substantially different from a mental asylum.

Last night my wife dreamed she was in Zambia. The skies were full of fighter jets and some kind of advanced craft that was much faster and more powerful than jets. The jets and spacecraft were destroying houses. They were ripping corrugated metal roofs off.

My wife and her relatives had a house of thick concrete or stone, including the roof. The jets and spacecraft couldn’t damage it much.

We both saw it as a Passover dream. God was releasing his vengeance on the world, and only a few people had protection.

Demons and fallen angels aren’t the only spirits that kill people and destroy. God sometimes sends his own spirits to punish human beings. The big difference is that you can’t fight spirits sent by God. They’re not under our authority. We can’t cast them out or bind them.

I wish God would go ahead and pop the boil. Let’s get it over with. I want anyone who can be saved to be saved while we wait, but this world is nuts, and I don’t want to be here when I’m 90.

Dental Work or Dental Work Plus New Furniture; Your Choice

I wrote about my wife’s dental issues and the likelihood that we would visit Cancun to get them fixed. Here’s some news: we made the trip, and we returned yesterday. My friend Mike was going because he had a freshly-shattered tooth, so we tagged along.

Things went very well, depending on what “well” means to you.

We took the cheapest flight we could find, which was not cheap at all. We went during the spring break rush, so we paid about twice what we would ordinarily have paid. We flew Spirit Airlines, which is famous for thin seats that don’t recline.

Spirit looked like a pretty good deal up front because the fare was relatively low, but they did a good job of catching up to real airlines. The fees were beyond belief. I paid over $80 each for our carry-on and suitcase. We also took a $100 hit, more or less, to be seated in the same row. Then Spirit tried to sell us wifi and bigger seats.

Here is what Spirit doesn’t know: my wife and I have made 5 other overseas trips since the start of 2021, and after multiple ordeals lasting more than 30 hours, neither one of us is impressed by problems that last two. I could stand in the aisle for two hours. It would mean nothing to me.

I should also add that while the seats were fixed in place, they seemed to lean back more than ordinary airline seats do before reclining. For two hours, they were not all that bad.

Spirit is a somewhat annoying airline to use, but it seems to work well for people who know what they’re doing and don’t need help.

Cancun hotels can be both affordable and reasonably pleasant. It looks like the key is to avoid the main tourist area. Our first room was included with our flight bundle, so it’s not possible to say what it cost, but Expedia listed it for $84 per day, so figure $100 after all the hidden stuff is added in. Again, spring break prices. We had a guard gate as well as a card that got us into and out of the hotel and the adjoining mall, so we felt pretty safe.

The hotel could have been cleaner. I saw the maid “washing” our used glasses and cups, and all she did was rinse them with hot water from the bathroom sink. Disturbing. The towels didn’t smell all that fresh, possibly because the hotel used some kind of greenie washing machines that harbor mildew.

At first, we stayed in a simple room. It was a little smaller than a typical Holiday Inn room, but it had a big balcony with a hot tub we didn’t use. We had access to a weird LG washing machine with no English instructions, and it didn’t work very well.

Later on, we moved to a suite for maybe $150 more, total. We had to extend our stay, so we moved in order to get more room and our own washer.

The staff was very nice. They weren’t always able to give us what we needed, but they did try.

One thing that surprised me was the wind noise at the hotel. There are times of year when the wind blows constantly in Cancun, and where we were, it made loud whistling noises as it hit our windows and balconies. You really need ear plugs and a white noise machine when it’s windy.

The noise from bars full of drunks was also bad. Nothing happens in Cancun until the afternoon. Before that, it’s like the whole place has a “Do not disturb” sign on it. I think all the tourists are drunk, hungover, and/or nauseous in the mornings. At night, horrible dance music starts blasting from every bar, at levels which definitely damages people’s hearing. It goes on until at least 4 a.m. Thankfully, while our hotel was not built to kill wind noise effectively, the sound from bars was blocked pretty well.

If you decide to get dental or medical treatment in Cancun, I would suggest using a hotel attached to a mall. The mall was a huge help. There was a big, clean store similar to a Walmart, and there were food options that weren’t too bad. Of course, the fast food was cheaper than it is in America, because Mexico never had the insane minimum wage revolution that resulted in hordes of American burger-flippers being fired and replaced by electronic kiosks.

The dental clinic provided “free” shuttles for trips among the airport, the hotel, and the clinic itself, so that saved us a lot of money and aggravation. We tipped the drivers something like $2.50 per trip anyway. They didn’t expect it. Other Americans jumped out of the shuttles and took off without looking back.

Digression: twice, we shared shuttles with an entire family that was there for dental work. There was a son who looked to be around 14. Very pale and thin, with long, twig-like arms. He had short hair, cut with clippers. He had tattoos, now that I think about it. Strange thing to do to a child.

The second time we saw this family, the son spoke. He had a wispy, high-pitched, feminine voice. I’m pretty sure he was a girl. I looked at her arms, and they hadn’t yet been skinned to make an artificial penis. I hope these people come to their senses before having their child mutilated beyond repair.

The clinic itself was slightly run-down, but at the same time, it had equipment worthy of NASA. They had machines I had never seen before. They had my wife put her head in a machine, and it created 3-D x-rays. That was amazing to me. My American dentist has nice x-ray machines, but he can’t take 3D models of my teeth and rotate and magnify them on a screen.

On the first day, we got her examined and x-rayed, and they gave us a plan. It all happened very quickly. I had been hoping for a single $1500 implant, but she needed an implant, at least two crowns, extractions for three impacted wisdom teeth (muelas del juicio), and a bunch of fillings. I’m not sure, but I think that during her childhood in Africa, she brushed her teeth mainly with grape soda.

She also needed a sinus lift. This is a procedure where they stick material in the floor of a sinus in order to build up the bone for an implant.

In the US, an implant alone is about $5000, and a sinus lift will run you at least $1500, so $6500 at best. A crown will cost $1500 or more. Pulling the wisdom teeth would have cost nearly $2000. Overall, treatment in the US would probably have cost us $15000. They told us we were on the hook for $5850, and I jumped at it.

Sadly, we had to extend our trip. We were hoping to be there for under three days, but because of the unexpected issues, including an infection that had to be killed with antibiotics before the sinus lift, we had to stay nearly a whole week. At first we were in a room, but we spent our last three days in a suite with two bedrooms.

I will be honest. I think the people who worked on my wife are much more able than every dentist I’ve seen in America. They have more experience. They do major procedures all day, 6 days a week. No one goes to Cancun for a cleaning; they go because they have big problems. The Mexicans have oral surgeons in their clinics, full time. How many implants does your dentist do? Maybe three a week? How much oral surgery does he do? Probably not much, and maybe none. Practice makes perfect, and the dentists and oral surgeon we saw get tons of practice.

They did a fantastic job with medication. When I got my wisdom teeth pulled in Miami, they sent me home with a prescription for Vicodin and wished me luck. In Cancun, they prescribed tramadol and ketolorac for pain, dexamethasone for inflammation and swelling, azithromycin for infection, nasal spray for congestion, and a special mouth rinse to prevent problems after the procedures. They gave us detailed, printed instructions to guide my wife during the recovery process.

My wife had no real pain during her visits, and the drugs kept her happy back at the hotel.

Mexican pharmacies are really interesting. They will give you nearly anything without a prescription, and the medicines are real, made by reputable companies. On top of all this, they don’t keep prescription slips, so if you want, you can fill your prescription more than once. This would be very, very useful if you lived in a place like America, where doctors treat all people in pain like criminals, and you wanted to keep painkillers on hand for future emergencies. You could get a prescription filled more than once, use the pills you needed, and take the rest home to save for a bad day. Of course, I would never do anything like that. But you could.

You probably don’t need a prescription for ketolorac or tramadol in Mexico, though.

They will also sell you steroids. In fact, they will try to get you to buy them even if you don’t want them. Steroids and Viagra. Steroids and Viagra. Step right up. Buy all you want. I considered getting some deca durabolin in case I needed to have the wife move some downed trees.

We didn’t buy anything the dentists didn’t prescribe, but I might get some stuff next time. Efudex is a good thing to have if you live in Florida. I already have some tubes Mike brought me from Cancun. If you get a bump you think could be a precancer, you slap Efudex on it, and it goes away, even if it’s already cancerous. You can’t use it for melanoma, but it kills the other types of skin cancer. Much better than being sliced up for nothing.

The food in Cancun was acceptable. That’s all I can say. We went to a seafood place on the beach between appointments, and I had some tacos featuring tempura-style fish that tasted sharky. We also hit some American fast food places in the mall, along with some Mexican food court joints. We ate at an Italian restaurant and a place that served Mexican food to locals.

Some of the food was downright bad. Most was okay. The Mexican place, Flor de Lis, served authentic food, which is a little different from American-style Mexican. The flavors were more subdued, but everything was good. I would go again.

We found an Indian place that was very good. Not the best we’ve ever had, but well worth visiting again. The name is Patravali.

I learned a lot of Spanish in the few days I spent in Cancun. More than I learned in decades in Miami, to be honest, perhaps because I had a natural desire to be a good guest. In Miami, I always felt, correctly, that Americans should never feel obligated to learn Spanish in order to live in America among ungrateful and thoughtless immigrants. In Mexico, a lot of sentences surprised me by emerging from my mouth. My wife thought I spoke Spanish.

Immersion really works. This is something leftist can’t learn. They waste billions of tax dollars enabling Latins who don’t want to learn English. They could be helping them learn by cutting off the coddling.

I never enjoyed trying to speak Spanish in the past, and I never had any real enthusiasm for it, but while I was in Mexico, it was more appealing to me.

Leave me there for a month, and I’ll be a Spanish speaker. I won’t be ready to teach Spanish in a university, but my Spanish will be adequate. I will do what many immigrants in the US are too sorry to do.

Mexicans themselves were helpful and polite, and that includes the ones who weren’t getting our money. Strangers helped us all the time. They translated for us. They gave us information. Everyone said the Spanish versions of “thank you” and “excuse me.” They were much, much nicer than people are in most of America. That doesn’t include the county where I live.

On the down side, three American girls were held prisoner and robbed at gunpoint by Mexican cops while we were there, so even though people were polite, Cancun is still Mexico.

Three young women were on the beach. They were approached by several men, some of whom were wearing police uniforms and holding machine guns. They told the girls they were trespassing and demanded $300 to let them go. One girl was released to go to their hotel for the money. Once the bribe was in hand, the girls were allowed to leave.

The news said the thieves were dressed like police. Um…no. They were police. No one in his right mind would dress as a cop in Cancun and wander around in the open with a machine gun. The real cops are also there, carrying machine guns.

The Mexicans we saw really hustled. At their jobs, they never stopped moving. They accosted people outside of restaurants and handed them menus. When our drivers got out to open doors for us and get our luggage, they practically ran.

It was sort of the opposite of the Bahamas, where it’s hard to get people to take your money or do anything. I remember pulling up to a fuel dock in Bimini, in my dad’s boat. We needed about 700 gallons of diesel, so my dad was going to spend a lot of money. There was a light sprinkling of rain. The attendant refused to come out of his enclosure until he was sure it was over. That was not an unusual experience.

Overall, Cancun was a lot like America, except where America deserves B-pluses, Cancun generally deserves C’s. The mall was okay, but not quite up to par. The taxis were okay, but they were tiny, cramped, and old. The rooms we rented were okay, but the hygiene was off, the washers were puzzles, and little things were lacking. We had an oven, but it didn’t work, and there were no oven pans. We had a dishwasher, but there was no dishwashing powder. We had towels but no washcloths. We had split AC units, but big chunks of ice fell out of one of them.

My wife said Mexico was like an America that had gone to a bad public school.

The clinics themselves didn’t look great. We only went inside one, but we saw the others from outside, and they looked worse. The cabinets and furniture looked like they were 20 years old. Some of the equipment didn’t look all that new. Still, the personnel made great impressions on us, and nothing looked like it would cause problems. And they had all that tech stuff American dentists don’t have. They put the money where it mattered.

Would I go back for dental or medical care? Most assuredly. I wouldn’t let them give me a heart transplant, but I would let them do dermatology or a root canal. Most medical and dental work is simple and routine, and it’s not like American doctors and dentists have made a great impression on me. Also, based on my own experiences, I believe foreign doctors are much less likely to overtreat. An American urologist once told me to get a $5000 CAT scan for a simple kidney stone that only needed oxycodone and lots of water, and he never told me about potassium citrate, which prevents kidney stones.

Would I go to Cancun as a tourist? Only if I had some reason to hide away for a while in a fairly cheap place where I would not be disturbed. Even then, the Bahamas would be better.

I wouldn’t go to Cancun for the beaches, the ocean, the food, the culture, or the scenery. Cancun is too seedy, the tourist culture revolves mainly around fornication and throwing up in hotel toilets, and I’m not willing to spend 12 hours on the road, traveling in a run-down minivan, to see a couple of dumpy pyramids where demon-worshipers cut the hearts out of living children. If I want to visit places where children are mutilated and killed, I can go to almost any big American city and visit an abortion mill or a hospital that does gender surgery.

It will take around 6 months for my wife’s bones to be ready for the completion of her implant, so we will be returning to Cancun at least once. We will pay a lot less for our flight because spring break will be in the past. We’ll know where to stay and what to eat. I’ll have my 75 Spanish sentences to get us by. After that, it should be many years before either of us need any more major dental procedures.

Now I have to face my American dentist and tell him we went to Cancun. He’ll probably understand. He’s a very nice guy. If not, we’ll go to the dentist next door.

Business is business, or as I like to say, “Negocios son negocios.“

Great Work on Reducing Medical Costs, Uncle Sam

Looks like the wife and I will be going abroad again this year, but not for fun. She is missing a molar, and we are going to fly to Mexico for an implant.

I have never wanted to visit Mexico. I have spent many years in Miami, and Latin culture has worn me down. The emotionalism. The celebration of immaturity. The tedious machismo. The horrific corruption. It’s a lot like my own culture, with which I am equally tired.

Miami culture is mainly Cuban, and however tiresome it is, it’s easier to deal with than Central American culture. You don’t have to be afraid of Cubans. Their neighborhoods aren’t dangerous. They don’t have much interest in gangs. They tend to be successful. They prefer tax evasion and violating environmental laws to stealing children and holding them for ransom.

Right now, a law school friend of mine is in the process of being taken apart for alleged corruption. She’s a government lawyer, and her husband is in real estate. They are accused of snapping up properties belonging to abandoned old people, getting accumulated government fines removed, and reselling them for big profits. They were supposed to be looking after helpless people who had no one to take care of them.

I hate to say it, but it really looks like they’re guilty.

I would never have expected this to happen to her. I knew her as a sweet, kind person. She was Iron Arrow in law school. Iron Arrow is an honorary society somehow related to the Miccosukee tribe, which now runs profitable casinos in South Florida. If you’re inducted, Miccosukees show up at the University of Miami and give you a multicolored jacket assembled from many pieces of cloth. You get Iron Arrow for being committed to public service and having upstanding character.

I’m sure the character stuff involved with Iron Arrow is complete BS, like most character endorsements in legal circles, but it does show she was involved in matters of public interest, and I doubt any of us thought she had character issues at the time.

I have read about her problems, and it’s hard to see any way she and her husband could have ended up in this pickle without doing what they’re accused of. Very sad. I hope there are factors I don’t know about.

To get back to Mexico, I don’t like hot weather or beaches. I don’t care if I never go fishing again. I haven’t been in a bar since…I don’t remember the last time I was in a bar. Maybe 2010? I don’t speak Spanish. I have no interest in learning. I don’t like visiting places where kidnapping is a major industry and the police are criminals.

Mexico, however, has a remarkable feature: excellent, inexpensive healthcare for people who can pay.

My buddy Mike has terrible teeth. They started to fall apart when he was in his fifties. He needed at least one implant. When he found out that implants ran $4500 and up in the US, he looked for options, and he discovered Cancun. In Cancun, a basic implant costs $1500, start to finish.

He found a very fancy clinic with US-trained dentists. He raves about it. He has been there several times. They have a magnificent website. They have incredible reps who correspond with potential customers via email, in flawless English. They pick you up at the airport for nothing, saving you $200. They can give you appointments with less than a week’s notice.

He says the clinic is wonderful. He loves his doctor. He’s friends with the other employees. He knows them by their first names.

I checked this place out, and I was extremely impressed. At first I was interested mainly in saving a ton of money, because my wife’s problems will cost at least $5000 to fix here. After I researched the place, I wanted to take her there mainly because the clinic seemed vastly superior to anything I had ever seen in the US. If the cost were the same, I would still want to take her there. If I ever have real dental problems, I want to go there myself.

We are not the first people Mike has recommended the clinic to. He knew a lady who had a $27,000 bid from an American dentist. She went to Cancun and paid $6,300, and she may have gotten superior work.

I don’t know how you damage your teeth to the tune of $27,000, but apparently it can be done.

The only down side to using the clinic is that you have to go to Mexico.

Apart from the diversions I mentioned above, the only attractions Cancun has are some heathen pyramids. Maybe I’m wrong, but this is what I’ve been told. Mike said he saw them. He said it was an all-day affair, and it wasn’t that great.

I asked my wife about the pyramids, and she does not want to see them. She would rather spend an entire day in our hotel room, praying and sitting around. I wholeheartedly agree.

When I go abroad, I use Viator to book tours and so forth. If you look at Viator’s Cancun offerings, you will see how pathetic they are. Pyramids. Zip-lining.

Zip-lining may be the biggest tourism hoax in history. It doesn’t matter what the location is. Let’s say you’re in a dump like St. Louis. You find two trees, put up a wire, and advertise on Viator. Instant attraction. Ridiculous.

Why ruin a foreign trip, in a place where your medical insurance is no good, with a silly activity you can do 5 miles from your house?

If you don’t insist on a hotel on a beach, you can get a decent room in Cancun for $30 per night. I insist on hotels that are NOT on beaches, so this works out great for me. We wouldn’t go for a $30 room, but an $85 luxury room would be perfect.

Mike recommended hotels in a shopping area. He knows where the good food is. You get your teeth fixed, get a free ride back to the hotel, and then walk to get good food and good prices. Perfect.

I don’t know what kind of shape my wife’s teeth are in. Dentistry is a real mess in Zambia. We tried to get her top-notch treatment there, but it turned out it wasn’t available. She needs one implant, and she has one tooth she knows is in trouble. It seems crazy to go to my American dentist and risk getting a $15,000 estimate before we know what’s what.

My only–ONLY–concern is that my American dentist will be offended and drop us. I really like him. He’s very pleasant, and he has never tried to do anything except x-ray and clean my teeth, so he must be truthful. I would love to use him for all our work, but let’s be honest; this is business. A friendly business relationship with a very nice dentist is not worth $10,000 to me. This county is full of dentists. If there is a tearful breakup, we can find a new one.

I wouldn’t buy a Home Depot refrigerator for $9,000 if I could get one in Mexico for $1,000, even if the employees had been inviting me to their company barbecues and sending me pictures of their kids.

I liked my dentist in Coral Gables. I think he filled tiny cavities that didn’t need filling, though. When the tooth I used for opening beer bottles gave out, I looked at the web at the time and saw that a crown typically cost $600, so I let him fix it. I got a bill for $1750.

Today this guy would probably charge $2500. In Cancun I would pay $450. Add $600 for a flight and hotel, and I’m still over a grand ahead, and I get to get out of the house for a few days. How can you beat that?

I liked my dentist in Coral Gables. We used to have conversations about politics and tools. He was setting up a shop. He had a great hygienist who didn’t beat me up. I would have dumped him for Cancun, though, had I known about it. He didn’t have any reluctance to overcharge and possibly overtreat me. He didn’t worry about my emotions. Why should I have worried about his?

Business is business. You never make friends with a business contact, and you never do business with a social contact. Americans violate these rules all the time. I do not. I have done it in the past, and it has cost me dearly. I am done.

My closest neighbor seems like a great guy, and he has a bunch of land-clearing machines on his property. He uses them to make a living. I need some work. There is no way in hell I would hire him. What if I had to sue him? There he’d be, in my face, a few hundred yards away, year after year, fuming. What if we needed to cooperate because of a storm or something? No, no, no. If I get the work done, I’ll hire someone else.

Some time this year, we will accompany Mike to Cancun for a few days. Then I will deal with my dentist. Maybe he won’t care.

People who vacation in Cancun anyway should use the clinic. They should make their dentally-challenged kids visit while on spring break. It’s strange they’re not already doing this.

It’s best to avoid Cancun during spring break. Fares drop by a third or more, and while you’re there, you are less likely to step in vomit.

While in Cancun, you can also load up on cheap prescription drugs. You can just walk into pharmacies and buy them. I got fluororacil this way, via Mike. It’s the real thing, and it’s excellent for little spots you think might eventually turn into skin cancer.

It’s illegal to bring prescription drugs into the US this way, but the government doesn’t really care, as long as you’re not opening a business. They’ll let you bring it.

I hope the tamales are good in Cancun.

Bad Advice as Common as Horse Manure

It’s so hard to know whom to trust in this world. Dunning and Kruger have done great damage.

I own a gas-powered EZGO dump cart. I refuse to spell “E-Z-GO” correctly because it’s a pain. It has a 350-cc Subaru Robin motor. The cart is a 2000 model. I got it over 6 years ago, when I moved to this house. I’m not sure what I paid for it, because I got the cart and two tractors for a combined sum. I know I got a deal, because if I had only gotten the bigger of the two tractors for the same amount, I would still have been getting a tremendous bargain.

I first used the cart before I moved here. My dad and I were looking at properties, and we visited this one. The owner told the realtor to turn us loose with the cart so we could see everything.

I drove all over the farm. Slowly. The cart had no pickup, and it moved at a walking pace.

After I bought the cart, it continued to disappoint. I fiddled with it and got it to go somewhat faster, but it was slow to start, it didn’t always make good speed, and sometimes it died after it got hot. I found out it used a lot of oil. One day I checked the dipstick, and the crankcase was nearly dry.

I was afraid I had ruined the piston rings. I also wondered if the previous owner had ruined them and kept it to himself.

The cart produced blue smoke. I can’t say for sure whether it started doing this before or after I ran it with low oil, but I thought maybe I had run it long enough to cause damage.

I went to a forum and asked for help, and I got some good advice and a lot of really bad advice.

A guy who was regarded as a major guru on the forum told me the only way to be sure what was wrong was to tear the motor down. People said I should rebuild it myself. You can do this with a $400 Chinese kit or an EZGO kit that costs way more and can only be bought at a dealership.

Rebuilding requires removing a 100-pound engine and lifting it onto some kind of workbench. Then, of course, you have to reinstall it. The space it goes into is cramped and low to the ground.

While all this was going on, I tried to fix the OEM carb, assuming it, like every other OEM small engine carb on Earth, couldn’t handle low-grade gas with ethanol. I also stopped putting ethanol in the cart. I bought ethanol-free gas. I treated my gas with Biobor EB, which is supposedly the best additive for gas that sits around.

While I was playing with the carb, I broke a little pot metal post that held the pin that held the float. Having nothing to lose, I used JB Weld to put it back together, and it lasted over a year. Finally, I bought a Chinese carb. The forum people said it would never work, and it wasn’t perfect, until I put the jet from the old carb in it. After that, the carb was not an issue.

The cart has been very useful to me. Over the years, in spite of a lot of down time, I’ve done a great deal with it. It’s great for collecting and dumping weeds. I load saws in it and cut up problem trees. I use it to spray the yard. If it had been more dependable, I would have gotten a lot more done with it.

At some point, the cart became useless. I could not trust it to get me around the yard, let alone the farm. I had to find out what was wrong and make a decision: rebuild or repower.

I found a Youtube video by a young black man. He said it was rare for these engines to put out blue smoke because of bad rings. He said the cause was nearly always bad valve seals.

Valve seals are little ring-shaped things that sit on top of cylinder heads. The valve shafts go through them. As the valves to up and down, the seals keep oil from going into the cylinders around the shafts. They wipe the oil off. The seals should be tight.

Unlike a quality engine, the Subaru Robin uses cheap seals that wear out fast. The openings enlarge and can become egg-shaped. Then oil goes into the cylinders and out into the muffler. It can actually accumulate in the muffler so you get burning oil every time the exhaust heats up. I have read it can block the muffler, but I wonder if that’s really true.

In the video, the mechanic said you rotate your cam until the pistons are at top dead center. This holds the pistons up against the valves so the valves can’t fall into the cylinder. Then you take off the valve cover, remove the cam, remove the valve springs (he uses a trick involving a 3/4″ wrench), pull out the seals, put new ones in, and do everything in reverse.

You also have to loosen a couple of covers on the sides of the engine to do all this. It’s a pain, but it’s way easier than removing the engine, which others say is the right way to do it.

I did all these things. I also did some stupid things that didn’t work, but I’ll focus on the things I did right.

The forum guys said to jam rope into the cylinders to keep the valves from falling. I saw someone providing a ridiculously difficult method to get the valve springs out.

When I put the valve train back together, I had to adjust the valve clearance. If your valve clearance is too small, your valves will never close all the way. I didn’t know that, but I knew the clearance had to be adjusted. Ordinarily, you measure the clearance with a feeler gauge.

I found another Youtube guy, and he said to forget the feeler gauge. He said to bottom out the valves and the back off a quarter of a turn.

Screws can be used to make very precise adjustments, so it sounded reasonable. I tried his method.

While this was going on, I received a compression gauge I had ordered. I checked my compression and got 35 psi. You want at least 130. I figured the engine was done, so I started gathering information about repowering.

The best option I found was an Amazon Duromax 440-cc engine with a kit from a company called Vegas Carts. Total cost around $1600.

I thought this was better than buying a rebuilt engine of mysterious origin for over $800. The original engine, at its best, is underpowered, and with no factory support, it’s not easy to keep them running.

You can get a 670-cc V-twin from Honda or Harbor Freight, and it will give you 22 horsepower and a dangerous top speed, but it’s way more than the cart needs, and it’s expensive. A 440-cc engine will spin the rear wheels in dirt.

I learned about repowering before I got the compression gauge. I mentioned the bad result on the forum, and someone said I should make sure my valve clearance was right. This was the first time I became aware that valve clearance could affect compression.

I had already used the quarter-turn folk wisdom method to ajust the valves, but I figured I should do it right, so that’s what I did. I put the gauge on a cylinder, expecting 35 psi, and I got 150.

Leaving the bad old gas in the tank, I got in the driver’s seat and tried to start the cart. It fired right up. I took it out and drove it all over the farm. I gave it plenty of time to heat up. No blue smoke. It didn’t stall. It was still wimpy off the line, but that was normal.

My cart was fixed.

I didn’t have to remove the motor. I didn’t have to shove rope in the cylinders. No rebuild. No new engine. If I had fixed the seals in 2017, I would never have thought I needed a new carb.

Finally, I have a cart that actually works.

With the compression I’m getting and the amount of time I put in driving the cart, I should be able to go 20 years without any more problems.

So how did the forum gurus turn out to be so wrong? How did they manage to be outsmarted completely by a young man with an obscure Youtube video? He knows more about the cart’s problems than they do, even though some of them have worked on many, many carts. He knows how to repair them better than they do.

There must have been a million EZGO carts made over the years. A lot of them must have had Robin engines. My engine hit the market at least 30 years ago. How can it be that people who should know how to fix them still give incredibly bad advice?

I used to treat the cart with indifference, because I thought it wasn’t worth much, and it seemed to be in bad shape. Now I feel like sprucing it up and spending money on it. As it sits, it may be worth $5000. It’s hard to find good information about the value. The forum people say the value doubles when the original engine is included. I would like LED lighting to replace the feeble headlights, and I could use some kind of hooks to hold my pole saw.

I wonder how many engines have been discarded or rebuilt needlessly because of bad advice from mechanics and people on forums.

It’s amazing how little a person’s reputation means. So often, people with lofty reputations turn out to be useless and chronically wrong.

I appreciate the effort to help. I truly do. I don’t want to be an ingrate. But I am still puzzled by the difficulty I had, getting the right information.

If you have a Robin engine that doesn’t work right, change your seals before you do anything else.

Baldwin Defenses Soon to be Tested

I am reading about Alec Baldwin, who is soon to be tried for manslaughter in the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, whom he shot on a film set along with a hapless director.

I have written about this before. It seemed to me that he had no conceivable defense, and the defenses he was blathering on the web were more harmful than helpful. I guess his ego could not accept the notion that his lawyer might know more than he when he advised Baldwin to stay silent. I’m sure his lawyer gave him that advice, because only an idiot would not.

Baldwin had a firearm in his hand. Not a fake gun. A real revolver suitable for use as a self-defense weapon. The revolver had at least one real round of ammunition in it. Baldwin pointed the gun at two people, and the gun fired. Baldwin says 1) he never pulled the trigger, and 2) he relied on employees to make sure the gun was safe before he handled it.

Assertion 1 is a lie, so there is not much point in elaborating. The gun was designed so it could not be fired without pulling the trigger. This information is in the manual, which you can find online.

Assertion 2 is more complicated.

Baldwin is accused of negligent homicide. In legal terms, “negligence” means 1) you owed someone else a duty of care, and 2) you failed to exercise care.

To determine whether Baldwin owed his victims (he hit two people) a duty of care, you have to come up with a standard. What is the standard of care for a person holding a revolver?

You have to start with the standard of care every responsible gun owner knows. There are four rules.

1. Treat all guns as though they were loaded.

2. Always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction.

3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.

4. Be sure of your target and what’s beyond it.

There are different versions of these rules, but they all mean the same things.

There is another rule: when you handle a gun, ALWAYS check to see if it’s loaded. Doesn’t matter if your best beer buddy swears he just checked it. You have to check for yourself.

Are there times when you can’t obey these rules? Maybe, if you’re an actor. Actors sometimes have to point props that look like guns at themselves or others. But these days, prop providers have all sorts of props that look exactly like guns on film, yet are obviously not guns in the minds of the people who hold them. There are prop guns that are made entirely of things like rubber and plastic. There are prop guns that have no moving parts.

There must have been many scenes in which actors have pointed clearly-fake props at people. On the other hand, it appears there have been many times when actors have pointed real guns at other people. I’ve seen scenes where actors pulled the triggers on revolvers that were aimed at other people, and the triggers, cylinders, and hammers moved.

Baldwin knew his gun was real, and he still pointed it at another actor. He said he would never do that, but obviously, he did, because if he hadn’t, he would have missed his victims.

Baldwin didn’t treat the gun as though it were loaded, he aimed at a person deliberately or carelessly, and he put his finger on the trigger when he didn’t intend to shoot anyone. He broke three of the basic safety rules. The fourth didn’t apply to him because he didn’t have a target. He didn’t intend to shoot.

What I wonder is whether he can be held responsible for breaking the other rule.

Ordinarily, you have to check to see if a gun is loaded as soon as you take possession. But would that have made sense for Baldwin? What if the gun were ordinarily loaded with dummy bullets that looked like the real thing? If that’s how it worked, maybe it would be unfair to expect Baldwin to check all over again. Maybe as an ignorant actor who knows little about guns, he isn’t qualified to decide whether a round is real or fake.

If that’s the case, then it would make sense to hold the armorer responsible for checking the gun.

So maybe it’s wrong to say Baldwin should have examined the gun before picking it up. Maybe it would have looked the same regardless of the type of ammunition it contained.

Still, though, he broke three of the other 4 rules. You only have to break one rule to be negligent. I’m sure Baldwin’s lawyers will try to make the jury forget that.

If he hadn’t put his finger on the trigger, he wouldn’t have fired. If he had treated the gun as though it had been loaded, he wouldn’t have fired. If he had pointed the gun in a safe direction, he wouldn’t have hit anyone.

His lawyers are going to attack a couple of ways.

They will say the gun could have fired without Baldwin pulling the trigger, and that the state can’t prove otherwise because the FBI damaged the gun while testing it. They will also say Baldwin’s standard of care should be the standard of care movies stars usually employ on movie sets. They’ll say the famous rules everyone else obeys don’t apply to actors because movies hire armorers to make sure guns are used safely.

The argument about the trigger is somewhat ridiculous. I don’t expect it to go anywhere. The gun’s parts still exist. The gun has been repaired. It should be possible to use the damaged parts to show that before they were damaged, the gun would only fire when the trigger was pulled. It will definitely work that way in the repaired state.

It’s an argument designed to appeal to dumb jurors and biased jurors. If Baldwin’s lawyers pick the right jury, maybe they’ll get somewhere, but it doesn’t look good.

As for claiming movie stars live by different rules, it’s a bad argument that should fail. The fact that you’re making a movie doesn’t mean you have the right to loosen good rules that save lives and which everyone else has to obey.

A real firearm on a movie set is just like a real firearm anywhere else. People on a movie set are just people. It may make sense to abandon the rule saying Baldwin had to check the gun, because it may have been impractical and an expert had been hired to do it for him, but the other four rules are personal to the shooter.

He still seems guilty to me. I see no way to raise reasonable doubt. His best hope is a stupid jury or a jury containing a few fans. He needs a jury like the one full of black women who refused to convict O.J. Simpson. Simpson could have set his ex-wife on fire at a nationally-televised press conference, and those emotional, racist women would have sent him home.

My best guess is that he’ll be convicted. He has refused a plea, and it has been withdrawn. Was that his idea, because he can’t believe the minor god Alec Baldwin could be convicted, or did it come from his lawyers? Do they reasonably think they can win? Are they bad lawyers who give bad advice? No way to know, but that plea may look really good to Baldwin in a few months.

The armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was convicted by 7 women and 5 men after only three hours of deliberation. Not a good sign.

I’m assuming Baldwin gets tried on the merits. Guilty people get their cases dismissed all the time, based on government errors and malfeasance. If the state dropped the ball somewhere down the line, the facts and the law surrounding the shooting won’t matter.

Illegal Aliens Always Come First

The Italian Embassy in Zambia’s capital is pretty bad. Europe discriminates against honorable African tourist-visa applicants while, bizarrely, allowing itself to be overrun by undesirable African illegal immigrants who stay and commit crimes. Italy is totally on board with the mindless discrimination.

It’s a little weird when an African drug dealer or terrorist can travel to Italy without permission and be welcomed, while respectable people are barred. This is exactly what happens, however.

Back when my wife lived in Zambia, we wanted to visit Europe, and the lady in charge of visas told her she could not apply for a tourist visa until she had bought, not merely chosen, a flight to Italy. She also told her she would be granted a visa if she did this.

We bought tickets and submitted an application. Nothing happened. Long after the usual amount of time required for a decision had passed, she went to the embassy. The lady didn’t even meet with her. She yelled at her through a doorway and told her she was rejected. She was very rude, and she denied that she had ever promised us a visa.

We lost hundreds of dollars on my wife’s ticket, which had to be cashed in. United Airlines gave me a credit for mine. I still have not used it. It’s time to use it or lose it, because the deadline is three weeks off.

Now we have to choose: do we go to Mexico and get my wife some dental care, or do we go to Greece or Switzerland, where we would actually enjoy ourselves?

Mexico is a hot destination for Americans who need pricey dental work. My friend Mike has been there several times. There is an extraordinary clinic staffed with American-trained dentists, and they charge so much less that American dentists, you can pay for a trip and still come out far ahead.

It’s not a run-down place with prostitutes lingering outside the front door. Patients rave about it. It’s a seamless, professional operation. Having investigated it, I would rather have my teeth fixed there than here in Florida. I don’t have any real dental problems, so I’ll keep going to my local dentist, but if I did, I’d be on a plane.

I don’t want to go to Mexico. I think it’s a destination that appeals to the shallow. Most visitors go to beaches. I have never understood why beaches appeal to people. You fry in the sun, doing absolutely nothing, bored out of your skull. You can fish if you want. Afterward, you go to bars and get drunk on Corona and tequila, one of the lowest forms of alcoholic beverage. You’re constantly in danger of being robbed or worse. The police are just organized criminals, and government officials are pretty much the same thing. The cultural scene is awful. You can go see a couple of pyramids where they used to tear people’s hearts out, and that’s about it.

Contrast this with Paris. Paris has the Louvre, the Beaubourg, fantastic food, spectacular European weather, Versailles, the Eiffel Tower, what’s left of Notre Dame after restorers burned it down, walks by the Seine, Montmartre…I could spend all day writing about it. Sure, there are ghettos full of vicious Muslim thugs who are extremely dangerous and beyond the control of the police, but you don’t have to go to those places.

That’s just Paris. All over the world, there are other great destinations that beat Mexico to death.

Mexico is only appealing because it’s cheap. No one ever said, “I have more money than I know what to do with, and instead of Florence, I’m going to Mexico this year.”

Mexico is not a place I have ever wanted to visit, but my wife has a missing tooth. We can get that replaced for $1500 in Mexico. It would cost at least twice that here, and we wouldn’t even be able to say we saw a pyramid.

Why am I mentioning Paris and Greece as places to go? Because European nations make it very hard for green card holders to get visas. They seriously expect them to apply in person. Here are lists of countries and the places where they expect you to apply:

Austria – VFS Houston, Miami, DC
Czechia – DC
Denmark – VFS DC
Finland – DC
Germany – VFS Miami
Italy – VFS Miami
Luxembourg – DC
Netherlands – VFS Miami
Norway – VFS DC
Poland – DC
Sweden – VFS DC

Belgium – Atlanta
England – VFS Atlanta
France – VFS Atlanta
Greece – Tampa
Switzerland – Atlanta

VFS is a company that processes visas.

I broke this into two lists because there is zero possibility we will ever apply at the locations in the first list.

I would not go to Miami again unless Yeshua himself told me to meet him there. I literally–not figuratively–feel a little sick just thinking about it. I don’t like driving to Orlando and Tampa because when I do, I keep seeing signs showing I’m getting closer to el infierno pequeño.

Forget it, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Washington D.C. is not even worth talking about. I’m not going to take a $1500 trip just to find out if the Europeans there are as bigoted as the ones in Africa.

Atlanta is doable. It’s about a 6-hour drive. The countries that operate out of Atlanta are good destinations, although Belgium is only good because if you’re in Belgium, it’s a short train ride to somewhere else.

Greece makes more sense than any other country, because Tampa is not far away, and once you’re in Greece, you can go anywhere you like in the Schengen area.

England is probably a good destination. Great history. For me, the appeal is weak because the British have changed. Seems like every third word out of their mouths is something filthy, and the problem extends to educated people. Americans used to admire their manners. The way things are now, forget that. I’m afraid that if we go over there, we will be subjected to a constant torrent of sex-related and scatological slang.

I rarely hear profanity from human beings (not screens) where I am. Generally, I hear it when I drop something or injure myself.

When I was a kibbutz volunteer, I arrived shortly after the departure of a bunch of British kids. Relations between kibbutzniks and volunteers were very bad. I don’t know what the problem was, but the British kids had shaved their heads to remind the Jews of the death camps, and one of them attacked the old man who managed the volunteers, beating him over the head with a soccer cleat. That memory makes me less inclined to visit England. Guy Ritchie movies don’t help.

We’ve been to Ireland, which is a lot like England. The cities were dumpy and something of a downer. The food was bad. Even the Irish food was bad. The people were great, except for the scary gypsies who lurked on O’Connell Street and attacked tourists. I have this feeling that England will be similar, except that the people in the cities will probably be less nice.

My take on Ireland, as I have said before, is that it looks like a nice place to live, but I wouldn’t want to visit.

If you live in Ireland, you can cook for yourself. Tourists are not so blessed.

I think the best thing to do is to forget Mexico and see what Greece will do for us. The food is great there. The history is unexcelled. The people were very nice when I visited. And we could leave after a few days and go to countries that won’t let us visit directly.

I’ll contact Greeks and see if they will do the right thing instead of putting on a virtue-signaling show and then turning us down without actually reviewing our application.

Satan’s Children Project as Well as he Does

Sometimes when I make predictions, I am proven wrong, or it turns out the bad things I predict are not as bad as I thought. For example, I was convinced that when Bush and Obama printed money with no basis in real wealth, our economy would quickly experience a disastrous crash. It didn’t happen, although it looks like we are experiencing monstrous inflation as a delayed effect. And young people can’t buy homes or survive as one-income couples, the way couples supported by factory jobs did when my dad was young.

Generally, I turn out to be right, and the weird thing is that it always shocks me. It amazes me that what I expected has happened.

Unfortunately, the things I’ve predicted about antisemitism are coming true, faster than I expected.

Antisemitism is now acceptable and considered virtuous by perhaps 60% of the population. And the change has been like the changes we saw regarding acceptance of homosexual pseudomarriage and the sudden decision that a Confederate flag was no different from a swastika. It’s not taking a decade. It’s happening in a much shorter period. This indicates a supernatural cause. Entire populations can’t change their minds that fast without help from spirits.

People are talking about the “Flour Massacre” now. Hamas, an organization made up of lying, raping savages, says the IDF fired into a crowd rushing a truck delivering food, and of course, they say there was no provocation.

1. “Flour Massacre” will stick. You watch and see. Even when Israel’s defenders talk about the event, they will call it the Flour Massacre. Hamas always wins the PR battles, no matter how obvious the truth is.

Satan really does rule the mainstream media, and it controls the thoughts and opinions of most people. That will not change. Only the Holy Spirit can fix this problem. Most churches teach rejection of the Holy Spirit, and only a tiny percentage of people hear him.

2. The IDF says troops were helping with food distribution, as they had on several preceding nights. They say there was a panic and stampede, and many people were trampled to death by fellow Gazans. They say a few menaced the IDF and had to be shot as the IDF retreated. This explanation is being characterized as military propaganda from a guilty state.

3. Why would anyone believe Hamas over the IDF? How many lies does Hamas have to tell before people stop listening? Hiding a terrorist facility in a school, mosque, or hospital is a lie. Calling a dead terrorist in civilian clothes a civilian is a lie. Calling for a ceasefire you know you will violate shortly is a lie. Blaming the IDF for the deaths of civilians you hold as human shields is a lie. Calling Israel an apartheid state when Muslims can be generals, cops, judges, and Prime Ministers is a lie.

Known, proven savages are lying. The Jews, who have a great reputation for struggling not to hurt civilians, are correcting the lies. And people are listening to the savages.

Someone needs to explain why the IDF would help with food distribution for several consecutive nights and then suddenly perform a massacre the next night. It’s not credible.

Here’s an important point: if you are presented with two stories, one from the IDF and one from Hamas, and you choose to believe Hamas, knowing what Hamas is, how do you explain your decision if you’re not antisemitic? Can you point to a long history of Hamas telling the truth and Israel lying? Do you think the incessant stream of lies that has characterized the public pronouncements of Palestinians for almost 80 years should be ignored for some reason? What reason is that?

The explanation is that you don’t like Jews. An opportunity came up, and you were given the choice between believing Jews and believing filthy, raping, burning, looting, mutilating, torturing, lying savages, and you decided, without evidence, to believe the savages. You are an antisemite.

People are claiming they disagree with Israel but are not antisemitic. They say disagreeing with Israel is not antisemitism. There are serious problems with these claims.

Israel does wrong sometimes. Every nation, even if generally guided by good intentions, does wrong. Israel is a nation generally guided by good intentions. It is exemplary in this regard.

It’s fine to say you think this or that action by the Israeli government is wrong, if you have good reason. It’s not fine to blurt out your accusation without evidence or any effort to learn the truth. Going to nutty leftist websites is not a credible effort to learn the truth.

It’s okay to say Israel needs to make something right. It is NOT okay to say Israel should be abolished because of its government’s actions. Saying Israel should be abolished is always antisemitism. Always.

Israel was reestablished fairly. The events of the last century (and the last year) prove the Jews are not safe without a homeland. There is no other piece of land available for them. Without Israel, Jews will be abused and murdered wherever they go in exile. Real genocide, not the absurd imaginary genocide claimed by uncountable Muslims, will happen.

It’s also wrong to attack random Jews because you disagree with Israel.

In many places around the world, Jews are now being attacked because of the Gaza war, which Gaza started for no reason. Not Israeli officials. Not IDF officers. Business owners. Random pedestrians. College students who have to cower behind locked doors while pro-Gaza animals try to get in to beat them. Jews who are against Zionism and support Hamas.

That’s antisemitism. Hatred of Jews for being Jewish. It’s everywhere now.

If you’re not against Jews for being Jews, and you are only against Zionism and the Israeli government, why would you attack individual Jews who don’t appear to have any connection with the government of Israel and whose positions you don’t know?

I feel safe in making more predictions. Things will get much worse for Jews, very quickly. It will be worse for Jews than Christians because Jews are fewer in number and have generally rejected their Messiah.

Many leftists and Muslims, along with phony Christians who reject the Holy Spirit, have been looking to the left and right, at other people, trying to find out what kind of antisemitic language and behavior are tolerated and encouraged. They’ve been quiet because they’re cowards and herd creatures, and until recently, the herd wasn’t telling them it would protect them and join with them. Now the herd is changing direction. As soon as these people think they’re in a safe majority, they will spring out and go after Jews very openly.

We are not supposed to look to the left and right to find out what is correct and moral. Other people are evil, and they have no authority. We are supposed to look up to God and do what he tells us. But very few people do this.

We will see mainstream Jews, not just a few early birds, openly looking for options. We will probably see a big increase in things like gated communities. Maybe there will be a wave of people moving to Israel, figuring it has to be safer than any country full of treacherous gentiles.

We are already seeing changes in Jewish attitudes. Some are buying guns. Some are abandoning leftism and the fashionable two-state solution. These changes are coming too late, so they won’t do much good. The time to buy guns, move to Israel, partner with conservative Christians, and drop leftist fantasies came maybe 20 years ago. Jews are changing too slowly, as they did in Europe, so a new shoah will start. They will not be ready.

One strange thing about all this is that religious Jews like Islam better than Christianity, the religion of the Jewish God. They say Christianity is polytheistic and Islam is monotheistic. They think Allah is Yahweh. They say a Jew who becomes a Muslim and kills Jews is still Jewish, but a Jew who accepts Yeshua and serves quietly in the IDF is a gentile.

The world is a big lunatic asylum now. Everyone believing a thousand impossible things before breakfast.

Is there anything Christians can do to help Jews? Can we shelter them? I have always hoped so, but it didn’t work well in Europe, and how do you hide people in the age of the Internet?

Israel is winning a war of bullets and bombs, but it has already lost the more-important PR war. Israelis are smart and tough, but they are few in number, and unless God himself protects them, they can’t survive without help from other nations. Israel is entering permanent pariah/scapegoat status.

Israel is getting what Hamas deserves.

It looks like Zechariah 14 is starting. If that is true, the remarkable protection Israel has experienced since 1948 is going to end quickly, and we will soon start to see scenes from Israel resembling the destruction in Gaza.

There is nearly nothing I can do about any of this. All I can do is observe and tell the truth. I can pray and donate, and maybe I can help a few individuals, but prophecy can’t be changed, so the overall picture is very bad.

The Constitution Never Promised You the Rose Garden

We now live in a country where there really, truly are political prisoners and one famous political defendant. No reasonable person can look at what has happened to Donald Trump, the Trump periphery, and the J6 people and not conclude that there have been many, many unconstitutional selective prosecutions based on people’s political leanings.

We have a Constitutional right to Equal Protection, and while judges and lawyers don’t like to talk about it, it can, and should, be used to bar selective prosecution. Corruption is the reason why this defense is rarely used. The people who run the system want to be able to let people they favor go. This starts with cops and runs through prosecutors all the way up through the levels of the judicial system.

“He’s a good student who got a little rowdy, and she was a slut anyway.” “He comes from a good family.” “Our university’s football team really needs him.” “His dad was the Vice President.” “We are prosecuting too many black men.”

“Trump committed more crimes than he did.”

I’m not making this defense up. I discovered it while doing legal research on a case here in Florida.

If we started focusing on Equal Protection in the courts, the system would explode. A lot of rich white kids would go to prison. So would a lot of minority defendants from blue cities. A lot of cops would go to prison for beating their wives.

Male athletes…forget it. The NFL and NBA would be full of Jews and Asians, and people in hell would be wearing mittens.

Abuse of discretion is not going away, because the people who run the system like it. It gives them power they were never intended to have. For this reason, Equal Protection will continue to be denied.

Given that this is true, I am thinking about the pain leftists will probably have to endure over the coming year. They have extremely low pain thresholds, losing their composure and having full-blown fits over minor and even fictional suffering, so when a year of real misery caused by multiple collisions with reality starts to unfold, the perpetually pampered class may give us a spectacle future generations will find hard to believe actually happened.

I’ll explain my thoughts.

Biden is just about certain to lose. He is almost certain to be the Democrat candidate. He is too powerful to be pushed out of the race, and he is too crazy, mean, and conceited to bow out willingly.

If Biden loses, obviously, Trump will win, and Trump will bring a Vice President who has agreed in advance to pardon him.

If Trump is inaugurated, he will pardon himself when needed. If he is not able to pardon himself, his VP will pardon him. These things are given.

If Trump self-pardons, there will be a battle to determine whether his action is legal.

If the courts say he can do it, he will remain in office without problems. If the courts disagree, his Vice President will take over and pardon him.

Here’s the question no one is asking: if Trump’s Vice President pardons Trump, can Trump resume office? Is it possible a Vice President would have to step down after pardoning Trump?

The Constitution hasn’t given us the best guidance.

It’s pretty clear a president can’t pardon himself if he is convicted by the Senate after an impeachment, because it would serve no purpose for the Constitution to provide for impeachment and trial if the president could just pardon himself. It’s not clear that he can’t pardon himself if he is convicted by a court.

Can he be impeached after a pardon, because he has been convicted of a crime? I assume so. If that’s true, Trump could be run out of office regardless of a preexisting pardon. That would require a different House and Senate, though.

Congress is not part of the court system. It would be odd if Congress were barred from impeaching a person the president had pardoned, simply because of the pardon.

Double jeopardy wouldn’t be a problem. The Double Jeopardy Clause only applies to cases where a person can be subjected to certain punishments, and being thrown out of office is not one of them.

Impeachment and Senate trial were conceived with second prosecutions in mind.

I believe a Biden victory is the only hope of preventing hundreds of millions of leftists from foaming at the mouth and rolling on the ground in public. They clearly agree, whether they have thought about it or not, because on news networks and websites, they are constantly reacting to a potential Trump win as though it were a requirement that they all be boiled in oil.

Another question: how do leftists expect to prevent Trump from assuming office in the first place? They can’t keep him off the ballot. I may be wrong, but I believe all that leaves is impeachment and Senate trial. I don’t see any way for leftists to prevent Trump from being inaugurated. I don’t even know if it’s possible to impeach a president-elect.

The Bragg case is garbage and will not succeed on appeal. Same for the James case. The Georgia case is looking bad for the prosecution. The Florida document case is a great example of selective prosecution, but it may result in some kind of conviction, and it will definitely have to go through a long appeal process.

I think they’ll have to let him assume office.

Sooner or later, a big percentage of leftists will realize Biden is going to put Trump in office. He is repeating the selfish choices of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turned out to be a savior of the much-hated unborn. What will they do? I’m sure they will react with maturity and great respect for the legal and democratic processes. As always.

Obvious humor aside, it seems likely they may go after Biden with their usual infantile shenanigans. Raising hell at his rare, scripted appearances. Lying down in front of his motorcade. Picketing his beach house. Maybe a few will set themselves on fire outside the White House.

When I was a kid, my poisonous leftist teachers taught me that Henry David Thoreau provided us with justification for civil disobedience. That was stupid. Civil disobedience made sense in Tianenmen Square, but here in the USA, we have things called voting booths, and we should be extremely, extremely reluctant to sidestep the process we all pretend to revere.

Civil disobedience is not noble or admirable. It’s disgraceful and very dangerous. Civil disobedience is the voting booth of the unprincipled brat who doesn’t respect anyone else’s rights. Naturally, leftists are addicted to it. Their addiction has caused a lot of riots, deaths, and arson during the last few years.

They are conditioned to rage and pout, and their conniptions vary in proportion to their always-hyperbolic outrage, so if they go after Biden, we should expect some remarkable and groundbreaking menacing of a sitting president and his family.

This world is a barrel of gunpowder waiting for a spark. It’s too bad there is no reasoning with leftists. Instead we will just have to hope they don’t turn our entire national landscape into one big teen takeover.