Welcome, Friends

If you’re old and moderately good at math, and you know the Holy Spirit, you often know the answers to simple questions other people, oddly, find difficult.

This week, someone asked me if I thought Chinese spies were entering the US under our no-borders policy. I didn’t say I thought they were entering. I said they were, in fact, entering.

Imagine you’re a Chinese official. You want to have many spies in the US. That is not a statement a reasonable person can dispute. You have a choice between working hard to get them in legally, with lots of documentation the US government can rely on to track them, taking a great deal of time, or you can tell them to walk in from Mexico.

What would you do?

I’m sure many Chinese moles are coming in legally. There must be advantages to legal entry in many cases. But the Chinese would have to be morons to refrain from sending people in illegally.

Yesterday, I saw a news item saying Denver police had arrested 50 Al Qaeda members in two months. I can’t promise you it’s true. It comes from a popular Twitter channel. The proprietor says he got the info from a Denver cop who could not allow himself to be identified.

For a moment, let’s forget the question of whether this story is true. Let’s ask ourselves an easier question. Have a lot of Islamist terrorists, from numerous organizations including Al Qaeda, entered the US since we decided borders were racist and promoted global warming and transphobia?

Yes. Of course they have.

There are hundreds of millions of Muslims who want to destroy the US and Israel. There are millions who are willing to get involved personally. They have a long history of violating our immigration laws to enter our country and commit acts of terror.

Why would they choose not to take advantage of an open door policed by a lying dotard who cares a lot about himself and his degenerate children, but very little about his country? There is no plausible scenario in which that happens.

It doesn’t matter whether the Denver story is true, because Islamist savages are definitely coming in. It’s like asking whether fat women will show up if Cinnabon gives away rolls.

If Muslim terror countries let people cross their borders with no vetting, we would be sending people in to undermine them. Why would they behave differently? It’s common sense.

How many terrorists were on the hijacking teams on 9/11? Nineteen. By now, the number of terrorists Biden has let in must be thousands of times that number. If 19 killed over 3000 people in a few hours, what will thousands do?

“DHS will stop them. We have all sorts of top people, using brilliant strategies and great surveillance tools.”

Wrong. That’s not how the government works. That’s how Google and Facebook work, to deprive us of our rights.

We have surveillance and tracking tools that are easy to get around, and they are administered by…government employees and contractors. Chelsea Manning was a government employee. Edward Snowden was a government contractor. They guy who leaked Donald Trump’s tax returns was a contractor. Do I have to go on?

Joe Biden is a government employee surrounded by Secret Service agents, and he threw boxes of classified boxes into his garage and left them there.

It would be so neat if Secret Service agents were like Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard. They’re not. They’re not master martial artists. If a real agent got in a fight with a guy the size of Frank Starr, he would probably get squashed. They can’t shoot a fly out of the air at a hundred yards. They’re not particularly smart. Look at Dan Bongino. Reasonably bright. Not a genius.

Very smart people rarely become law enforcement officers of any kind. That kind of work grinds smart people down.

How many incredibly stupid things has the government done since you were born? Things you, personally, with zero training, would have prevented had you been in charge?

Think about January 6. Eighteen years after 9/11, a bunch of beered-up, unarmed, untrained, disorganized rally attendees walked right into Congress. They could have killed all sorts of legislators had they desired to. That tells you everything you need to know about the security our government provides.

If I were an ayatollah, I would have slapped my forehead on that day. “We plotted and struggled. We shot down complicated plans because we didn’t think they were sure things. We waited and waited, hoping for an answer. We could have just WALKED IN.”

If you think 15 Islamists with AK-47’s couldn’t jump the White House fence and kill the president in 10 minutes, you are way more charitable than I am.

They’re here. Don’t be stupid.

Reagan was surrounded by Secret Service agents, and he still took a .22 to the chest. A mental case with a Saturday night special shot him and two other people before the professionals managed to do anything. I doubt things are much better today.

We rely very heavily on the power of intimidation. We create the false appearance of competence and formidability, instead of taking realistic measures that work. And our enemies consistently fall for it, until they don’t.

You know who we should hire? Casino owners. They’re better at security then the government will ever be. They know when a grandmother from Des Moines is counting cards, and they ban her right away, sending her photos to every casino in America. We let the same deportees come in over and over until somebody gets raped or murdered. The only tools we have that stop illegals are prison and the death penalty, and they’re in the hands of the judicial system and the corrections system, not the State Department or our intelligence or security agencies, which fail every hour of every day.

Well, we have one other tool that works wonders. The Second Amendment.

Illegals swarming the borders remind me of vampires in movies, who have to ask permission to enter houses. If you let them in, it’s on you. It’s our responsibility to keep them out, and we could do it if we wanted. Easily. We have too many DEI concerns to do it right.

The stupidity we are witnessing comes from spirits. We have rejected God so we can have pride and so men can get at each other’s filthy anuses without legal or social impediment. It’s astonishing. It makes no sense. It is literally mental illness. It’s what happens when you get away from the Holy Spirit. You can believe anything, no matter how absurd, and you can think it’s righteous to murder those who tell the truth.

I wish God would end this age and get his children out of here. I feel like I live on the grounds of a mental asylum. No wonder they’re called “asylum seekers.”

Tough Saturday

Slow day today.

My old friend Mike is visiting. We have been providing him with a Florida base while he starts a new business and decides where he will finally live. He sold his home in New Hampshire in 2022.

My wife is starting a long fast. She thinks she will go 21 days. But there is a loophole. She only fasts until 6 p.m.

Mike likes ribs. She likes ribs. I have some ribs I need to get rid of while they still have some flavor. They are in the smoker right now. One rack of baby backs and one rack of real ribs.

I have avoided baby backs for years. They’re small. They seem dry and tough to me. They’re expensive. Spare ribs are big, juicy, delicious, tender, and cheap. I have never been able to see the appeal of baby backs. My feeling is that it’s a gimmick that appeals to women, who always seem to get suckered in by wrong food. Women eat filets instead of rib eyes. That’s all I need to say about that.

It’s small. It’s cute. It’s more expensive. It has less fat. It must be better! This is the kind of logic that drove my mother to pay $18 for one bar of soap in the 1980’s. So today, $100.

I saw baby backs on sale, so I grabbed two racks and froze them. I smoked a rack a while ago. They were okay, and that’s the nicest thing I can say.

I rejoined Sam’s Club a while ago, and they have good prices on never-frozen spare ribs, so I now have even less reason to buy baby backs.

Offering fresh spare ribs to Southerners at good prices is like setting corn out for deer. It’s not fair.

I asked some people what to do with baby backs. Some guy who swears they’re wonderful said to cook them until you’re between 192° and 194°. Go by temperature, not time.

I’m trying it, but it seems ridiculous. If one part of a rack of ribs is at 192°, another part could be at 185°. I’m using a probe thermometer anyway.

Truthfully, I think I should just smoke them until the wood is gone, wrap them in foil, and bake at 200° until edible.

My electric smoker doesn’t produce smoke rings in meat. I am trying to cheat by adding a tiny amount of pink curing salt to my rub, but you can’t taste a smoke ring, so it doesn’t matter.

I’m not making anything exciting to go with the ribs. Robert Irvine’s cole slaw recipe, with small changes. I think he uses too much sugar, and I am too lazy to go out and buy white wine vinegar. We’ll be having roasted Sam’s Club corn. I wrapped it in foil with salt and butter, and I’ll roast at 425°.

My wife might persuade me to make bread for Texas toast. She really hates American factory bread.

I finished making a new stout. I call it Steppe Brother imperial stout, but I may change the name. There are so many breweries now, the good, easy names are all taken. I considered “Moose and Squirrel.” Taken. I’m now thinking “Fearless Leader.” Crazy Ivan is taken. Tsar Bomba is taken. There is no point in even discussing Black Russian. Maybe I’ll call it KGB Boot Polish.

I took my dry stout recipe and increased everything but the water, and I used Kveik Lutra yeast. I took a sample from the fermenter yesterday, and it’s wonderful. Like a dark chocolate milkshake with some vodka hidden in it. I may increase the bitterness a little bit next time.

Most beers get all of their bitterness from hops, but dark beers get part of their bitterness from burned grain. If I make a change, I’ll have to decide which ingredient to increase.

I wonder if dark beers were invented by people who were low on hops.

Some guy on a forum is arguing with me, claiming dark beers don’t rely on roasted grain for bitterness. That’s silly. Burned grain is bitter, like roasted coffee. If you go to sites about brewing grain, you will see that they say dark grains impart bitterness.

Now I’m wondering if the sharp flavors from roasted barley are acidic, not bitter. Anyway, they balance sweetness.

You’re all caught up on the news from the Heavily Armed Gated North Florida Compound. I can only imagine your excitement.

We Found a Good Relationship Coach

I married a foreigner in 2021, and it took my wife until late last year to get here. During our time apart, which was broken up by overseas trips, people asked me how we were doing, and I always said we were doing great. Married life was good. Sometimes they would tell me to wait until we had been married longer. One said we were still on our honeymoon, because we had spent so little time together. Things would get harder.

I feel I should respond now.

First of all, God has made me aware of two dangerous sins: the sin of Job, and the sin of Joseph.

Job’s sin was that he defended himself before God, as though he deserved a perfect life because he was so obedient. This is what God told him off for when he appeared to Job. He didn’t tell him he wasn’t obedient. He criticized Job’s pride because Job thought he could show God that it was wrong to let him suffer.

Everybody deserves to suffer.

Joseph’s sin was that he was proud of favor. His dad loved him more than his other sons, and he gave him a fancy coat. Joseph danced around in the coat before the others. Joseph also had dreams in which his brothers and even his parents bowed before him, and this irked everyone in the family.

Hezekiah committed the same sin. He showed foreigners all the treasure God had give him, and Isaiah came and told him his family was cursed.

We have to testify about God’s goodness, but we aren’t supposed to brag needlessly, so I suppose there has to be some kind of balance.

I don’t want to brag about my marriage in a way that causes my wife and me problems, but I do want to praise God.

The strange truth is that we get along better and better every day. We get along better now, dealing with routine life and its challenges, than we did on fancy trips to exotic lands, where we did little but stuff ourselves with food and buy things we didn’t need.

There were some moments of friction on our trips, but nearly nothing of that sort has taken place here, and we have a fantastic time together. We laugh constantly. We treat each other with honor. We are patient with each other. Each of us does more for the other than is required, and that helps prevents spats.

My wife really loves me. There are things you can’t fake. I didn’t snag a gold digger.

So why are things going so well? Plenty of other people have failed to get along with us, and neither of us can say we were never to blame.

Prayer in tongues is a necessary part of a proper Christian life. It’s not optional or dispensable.

When you pray in tongues, God aligns your heart and mind with his.

Married couples, and friends, and coworkers, and rulers of nations, need to be aligned with each other in order for peace to exist. It’s not possible to make this happen without divine help. If it were, it would have happened already, and it hasn’t.

If your heart and mind are aligned with God’s, and so are your wife’s, you will be aligned with each other. There is no way around it. You can’t be aligned with God and in conflict with each other.

God gives us grace to pray in tongues a lot. We don’t have a perfect record, but he has managed to help us pray enough to make us one with each other.

If you and your wife aren’t praying in tongues, you’re probably working hard on your own to make your marriage work. With this method, success is not always possible.

I sincerely believe the Holy Spirit makes our marriage work, and if we get away from him, we may cease to get along and even divorce. I don’t believe we deserve any credit. It would be dangerous to claim it.

Things are going well, and it’s not because we’re great people. It is pure charity. All we did was stop resisting when God told us to pray in tongues.

This is how I feel as we approach our third anniversary.

Expect Gushing Over his “Brave and Stunning” Backless Vera Wang Gown

When Paul heard that a self-proclaimed Christian was having sex with the wife of his own father, he turned the man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh. Paul said the purpose of doing this was to save the man’s spirit in the day of the Lord Jesus.

It was a curse, but it wasn’t a condemnation to hell. The purpose of the curse was to either wake the man up, through affliction of his flesh, or to make him suffer the permanent consequences. We are often cursed for various reasons. Whether problems turn out to be curses in the long run depends on us. A person who is repentant and close to God can’t really be cursed, in the strictest sense of the word. He can only be afflicted temporarily, because curses can’t stick to those who are forgiven and repentant. If we refuse to repent, though, curses are just curses. They stick forever or until they run their courses.

I was thinking about this world just now, and I realized it’s just like a man. God will pour out the tribulation soon, and because it will be horrible to endure, people will see it as a curse. But the people who repent during that time will be saved and taken to heaven, so to them, it will turn out to be a blessing.

The people who won’t listen will endure it as an unredeemed curse, and they will go to hell and the lake of fire, forever. Thank God for that, because that’s where they should be. The saved can’t be expected to tolerate these people and their abuse forever.

“Tribulation” doesn’t mean “punishment” or “disaster.” It’s a harvesting technique. It comes from farming, like plowing and sowing. God will use the tribulation to help people by driving them into his fold. They will be harvested. He will glean the corners of the field. The rest–the tares–will suffer and burn for eternity. How you respond to the tribulation determines whether it’s a curse or a blessing in the long run.

When ancient farmers used tribulums to separate grain from trash, they didn’t think they were punishing their grain.

T.B. Joshua has been banned from Youtube again.

T.B. Joshua died suddenly and peacefully, living in abundance, with no apparent health problems, in 2021, while my wife and I were in Egypt, on the cruise during which I proposed to her.

This was not long after his first Youtube ban. He had a channel called Emmanuel TV, and it was THE biggest Christian channel. A small but vocal group of sodomites got Youtube to ban him because he appeared in a video, casting demons of perversion out of a man. There was no appeal. It was persecution, plain and simple. Joshua broke no laws. He simply did what Christians are supposed to do. His channel was destroyed because he was a proper Christian.

His church put up another channel, which Youtube tolerated until a few days back.

Recently, BBC Africa put up a disgraceful mockumentary hit piece in which discredited witnesses lied about Joshua, claiming rape, physical abuse, and all sorts of other things. Not all of the witnesses have been discredited, but the process was in the works. Emmanuel TV published videos discrediting them and BBC Africa, and because Emmanuel TV is gone now, the process of discrediting false witnesses on Youtube has been greatly curtailed, so if the job isn’t finished, it’s only because Emmanuel TV has been gagged again. It’s not because the remaining witnesses are telling the truth.

Even if one or two are right, which is unlikely, this man and his ministry did many miracles, not just for people in his presence, but for people far away, like my wife.

Moses was a murderer, as was David. They were still legitimate men of God.

Youtube is openly antichristian. The mask came off in 2021, and now we have been reminded again.

My wife told me about the new ban yesterday, and I said Satan should just appear and talk to people directly. He should have press conferences, complete with the tail and horns. He’s so obvious now. And a big percentage of people would be thrilled to see him. They would see him as their savior. I’ll bet 25% of Americans would gladly worship Satan right now if he appeared on national TV.

I used to think the antichrist–the man–would hide his allegiance to Satan, but now I doubt that. Why should he hide it? People will be fine with it. He can say, “I get my power and great ideas from Satan, who has been slandered by [wait for it] THE JEWS. And Christians. He’s actually wonderful. Christians and Jews, though, not so much. They have to go. They stood between you and your real savior. Jesus is the real devil. He’s a homophobe and a transphobe.”

STEM people already wear T-shirts featuring drawings of Satan, with captions like, “Keep Learning Science, Kids.” People at CERN created and published a video of men in robes offering a naked woman (can’t say “virgin”) to Satan. We have Satanism clubs in schools. Satanists deliver opening prayers at government meetings. Satan is like a wrongly deposed leader living in exile. He can come home now.

Jews used to worship Satan openly. Modern Chasids like to think they carry a perfect, untainted torch, from a religion that never failed God, but that’s a pathetic delusion. There are ancient synagogues in Israel that have two altars: one for Yahweh, and one for “the queen of heaven,” or Ashtoreth/Venus/Aphrodite/Ishtar/Easter. Not only did they worship Satan, they did it in their synagogues.

They had a place in the valley of Gehenna/Hinnom where they burned their babies alive at a statue of Moloch. Jews. Religious ones who went to synagogues and the temple. The did it openly. Close to the temple of Yahweh.

Jezebel was the queen of Israel, she paid hundreds of false prophets to administer the worship of Satan, and she killed the prophets of Yahweh, in public, en masse, with the Jewish king’s eager help.

Jews worshiped a golden cow representing Satan as the Egyptian false god Hathor, while witnessing God’s miracles every day. Anyone who says we would all worship God properly if he were just more obvious is a fool. Just look at the Jews under Moses.

We are no different. Most of us will be happy to worship Satan or Moloch or Vishnu or whatever he calls himself. If he tells us to worship a cinderblock or a pile of manure, we’ll worship that. People have done pretty much the same thing with idols.

I have had it with this place. I wish Yeshua would come right this minute. It’s not going to get better. The world is like a big, painful carbuncle loaded with hot, fermenting pus under tremendous pressure. Yeshua needs to come, lance it, and heal it. Clean bandages for the wounds. An incinerator for the pus.

Evangelization is going nowhere. We don’t see the numbers we saw during the last centuries. We do see an astronomical increase in pride, sin, and blasphemy. Christians who think we’re about to take over the world are out of their minds. Yeshua couldn’t do it. The early church, with all its miracles and prophesies couldn’t do it. We’re much weaker and filthier. How are we supposed to do it? Guitar masses and Christian rap? Be serious. It’s not going to work.

God himself could not do it, so it’s ridiculous to expect us to do it. It’s arrogant. It’s ignorant. The only answer is for God himself, not Christians with AR-15’s, to exterminate and incarcerate the damned intractable and remove all evil spirits from the earth. This is what the Bible says he will do.

Yes They Are

In case anyone is wondering how close we are to the rapture, here is a hint. A CBS affiliate in Albany, New York, just used a woke pronoun for a dog.

How stupid will people have to become before this all ends?

New Recipe in the Can

Today is a brew day.

My last brew was an ale somewhat like an IPA. I ordinarily use a German Braumeister brewing machine, but I lost an O-ring, so while I wait for a new one (and possibly forever), I am doing brew-in-a-bag, or BIAB. This means I put a mesh bag in my kettle, heat water in it, dump in my grain, and mash in the bag. When it’s done, I pull the bag out and wring the wort out of it. Very simple.

I’m making an imperial stout.

Everyone knows what stout is. The “imperial” in “imperial stout” refers to the Russian imperial court.

For some reason I do not know, Russians used to buy British beer instead of brewing their own. They liked stout. Because beer had to be shipped a long way to get to Russia, the beer had to be tough enough to take the heat and bouncing without degrading. The British found that extremely strong, thick beers held up well. They made very strong stout and shipped it to Russia.

It’s an interesting beverage. It tends to be sweet. It has a ton of aroma from the roasted grains that make it dark, as well as the hops. In terms of alcohol, it’s around twice as strong as most beers. That’s a generalization. Some imperial stouts are a lot stronger.

The stout I’m trying to make is my own recipe. I took my recipe for ordinary stout, which is fantastic, and I simply increased the amounts of everything.

Some people advise brewers not to increase the hopping along with everything else, but others disagree. I asked for advice, and homebrewing celebrity Denny Conn, who is known for making heavy beers, was in favor of jacking everything up together.

I think that’s the right approach. In an experiment, you should limit the variables you change. If I increase everything, the stout may not be what I want, but it should be easy to figure out what I need to change. And it may be perfect without changes.

I’m using East Kent Goldings hops, which are very popular for stouts. I’m going to try Lutra Kveik yeast.

My understanding is that “kveik” means “quick” in Norwegian. Kveik comes from Norway. It’s a yeast that has traditionally been used by rural Norwegians. I guess if you pronounce “quick” like a Norwegian, it probably sounds like “kveik,” which, I am told, rhymes with “shake.” Lutra is just a strain of kveik.

Kveik is, indeed, quick. That’s one thing people like about it. You can make a beer in maybe three days. It also ferments cleanly at high temperatures, so you don’t get toxic heavy alcohols and fruit flavors. Brewers like to use kveik to make beers that are pretty much like traditional lagers. Lagers are generally fermented cold, and they take forever. Kveik lets brewers speed things up, and it obviates the need for fermenter cooling. A regular lager might ferment at 50, but Kveik goes up to 90.

I generally use a yeast called US-05 for stout, but it’s very slow. It’s supposed to be the yeast they use in Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, which is an okay but not really fantastic beer. US-05 is supposed to ferment cleanly at 68.

I am tired of waiting a long time for stouts, and since I’m not looking for yeast flavors, any clean-fermenting yeast will do. If kveik is what they say it is, it ought to be great.

People say you need a ton of yeast for heavy beers. I have only made one heavy beer, and it went like crazy using one packet of dry yeast. I didn’t rehydrate it. I just dumped it in the fermenter. It was done in maybe 4 days. The yeast I used is Abbaye, a yeast taken from Belgian ales. It seems to me that if one vigorous yeast will work in heavy beers without pampering, others will also work.

I think I’ll rehydrate the kveik, but that’s all the work I’m willing to do.

The ale I made a week ago is probably done. It went from 1.056 to 1.013. I fermented at 63 in hopes of reducing the banana flavors the yeast gives off, and I think it worked. The gas coming out of the keg doesn’t smell like bananas. Last night I moved it to 68 to speed things up and get it over with. My understanding is that fruity flavors develop at the beginning of fermentation, so raising the temperature should be safe now.

I used Crystal as my aroma hop. It usually smells spicy. This time, it smells citrusy, which it’s not supposed to do. The samples I took tasted great, however.

UPDATE

The stout turned out to be a job. It did not want to come through the bag. I had to squeeze it ruthlessly. Then I put it on an oven grate on a cooler and pour about half a gallon of hot water through it.

I found myself at 1.115 after the boil, so I had to add a lot of water. I got to 1.085. I believe I have right around 5 gallons.

Now I know how to deal with a big stout and my brewing bag, so next time, the job will go faster. It will also help if my wife doesn’t come in while I’m working and demand a trip to get barbecue.

The fermenting keg is full, and it’s in the pool, chilling. I plan to leave it outdoors tonight because the temperature will be good for fermentation. Maybe I’ll move it inside tomorrow.

I look forward to seeing what kveik can do. It would be neat to have a good imperial stout kegged and carbed in under a week.

Greta Thunberg Should Have to Literally Eat This

I expect a new victory over Social Justice Warriors.

Being dirty is a big part of being a Social Justice Warrior. A lot of their vacuous Hollywood icons (generally white) brag about rarely or never bathing. The SJW’s got our shower heads restricted. They absolutely ruined clothes washers so all new front-loaders make clothes stink of mildew.

Cleanliness is part of white supremacy, even though American black people are generally cleaner than whites. They must be Uncle Toms.

The green goofs have gone after our toilets, too, making sure they flush poorly so we get to spend more time dealing with poo.

When I moved here, this house had three Briggs Vacuity toilets. You would not believe how complex they are. I can’t describe it because I don’t understand it. I can give a couple of details. A Vacuity has an upside-down plastic jug in the tank, with a weird plastic pipe sticking up into it.

A Vacuity uses very little water, which is meaningless to me, because I have a well and a septic tank. Whatever water the toilet uses goes back into my yard and eventually into the water table. I like to think something magical happens to it before it finds its way back to the well, but let’s not discuss that.

The Vacuity toilet is a lot like Al Gore’s curly fluorescent bulbs. It does not work. It makes things worse, not better.

The design is built to fail because there are so many fiddly parts. On top of that, and I just learned this, a Vacuity toilet chokes easily and cannot be plunged. Or snaked. Not kidding here.

If your Vacuity chokes, you’re expected to remove it from the floor and plunge or snake the drain line itself. One guy came up with a plan involving two people, an air compressor, and a towel, and he claims you can plunge the toilet that way, but I’m not going out like that.

Contractors recommend using flimsy toilet paper, and not much of it, when pooping in Vacuity toilets. That’s their solution. It wouldn’t bother me, because I’m a man, and I think Scott toilet paper rocks, but now I have a wife who adores Charmin, so the toilet has COPD.

Oh, I can try the towel trick. I can haul my compressor into the garage and hope for the best. Or I can pay a plumber $350 to fix the can. Or I can get rid of it and put a new one in, for about $260. I’ll never have to deal with it again.

Briggs does not support Vacuity toilets. Not the important, proprietary parts that go bad. That tells you what they think of their own engineering. Briggs is a disgrace to the bowel-movement-movement industry.

Guess what I decided to do.

I ordered a Toto Entrada two-piece john, and the top half arrived yesterday. The bottom half supposedly arrives today.

I replaced my master Vacuity (I make a point of using the word “master” these days) last year. I put in a one-piece Toto Drake. A masterful design, made by slaves to excellence.

Toto makes the best toilets imaginable. They’re Japanese, and the Japanese have a sick fetish about toilet design. They make singing toilets that look like recliners. You can spend Toyota money on a Japanese toilet. Their lower-end sane toilets are great, too. They never break down, and even though they don’t suck much water, they can flush nearly anything. Odd, given the size of the average Japanese.

Some types of green technology eventually work, after two decades or so of horror stories about rushed garbage the government forced on the public before it was ready. Like the current horror stories about washing machines and flaming, subsidized, actually coal-powered Teslas that don’t work in the winter.

I don’t care about the environment, but I don’t mind helping it out when it benefits yours truly. A low-flow toilet takes a shorter time to refill, so you spend less time getting that second round off, when needed.

I’ve had Kohler toilets, which many people recommend. Mine were junk, which is why I know about Toto. The Kohlers failed, and they were designed so stupidly, fixing them was a bad idea.

My Drake cost over $600, which is pretty awful, but that’s because it’s a glamorous one-piece can. They’re cleaner, but they’re more expensive to make and ship, I think. A two-piece has a gap between the tank and bowl, and all kinds of filth and critters can get in there. But you save $400.

I don’t care about the filth and critters. It’s for the guest bath. They’re lucky I don’t make them go outside.

I learned something interesting. Toilets have poo-consumption ratings. They’re called MAX ratings. My new toilet uses very little water, but it has a 1000-gram rating. They measure it using shredded toilet paper mixed with cold peanut butter. Just kidding. They mix some other thing with the paper, but I forget what it is.

If you can manage a kilo, or 2.2 pounds, you’re doing something wrong. That’s Steven Seagal territory. Oprah before drugs.

The old pot is now very clean and virtually empty. Bleached inside out and treated with poo- and urine-eating enzymes. Some of the parts are in the garage. The seat and bidet thing are off. I have to run out and get a foam ring so I can install the new one.

I hope the flange and pipe are lined up better than the last one. I had a wonderful time trying to make the Drake work. I also had to scrape hardened grout off the tiles because that’s what the installer used to shim the bowl. That was stupid. If I have to shim this one, I’ll use pressure-treated wood.

Now my biggest problem is getting the nearest dump to take the toilet. I’m supposed to drive a lot farther. It’s considered construction waste. I’m thinking I’ll bust it with a sledge and put the fragments in boxes. The dump attendants generally don’t care, but I might get a wise guy. I’ve seen them let people throw lawnmower batteries in with regular garbage. Even I felt a hint of disapproval.

Mingled with admiration.

I feel bad about all the dead bodies I’ve run through the band saw and disposed of in bags, but what are you going to do? Leave them in the yard where coyotes can grab them and eat them in front of the neighbors, ruining parties and scaring kids away from their still-intact pinatas?

It’s not like I have a crawlspace.

It’s not my fault. My gate has a sign, and it clearly states, “NO PEDDLERS.”

I’m really hoping I can get rid of this green abomination by dinner time. I don’t want to fight with it for two days, and besides, we all know what happens right after dinner.

Trust the Germans to Overcomplicate

I’m brewing today. I was not satisfied with the last batch of Disaster Management Ale I brewed, so I am replacing it.

Ordinarily, I use a Braumeister 20-liter electric brewing machine, made in Germany. I bought it a year ago, when I went back to brewing. Today I’m doing BIAB, or “Brew In A Bag.”

When I started brewing in 2002, I did it the hard way, like everyone else. I mashed in a big pot. I moved the mash to an Igloo cooler with a screen in the bottom. I poured hot water over the mash to get all the sugar out. I moved the wort back to the pot to boil it. I used so many things, the cleaning was worse than the brewing.

I have no idea how I got the boiled wort into the fermenter. I think I picked up the 40-gallon pot with hot wort in it and poured, hoping for the best. I’m not sure.

When I started brewing again, I thought I’d take the easy way out, so I bought the Braumeister. It has a computer, a pump, and a heater. It does all the mashing and boiling for you, but you still have to lift the wet grain out before the boil, which is a pain.

I figured it had to be the best way, since it was the most expensive. I bought my machine used, but a new one runs $3,000. I paid less than a third of that.

A Braumeister is a stainless pot on legs with a heating element and a pump in it. The element and pump are connected to a computer in the bottom. There is a foot-wide stainless tube you stand up in the machine, in the water, and you dump your grain in it. The pump pushes the water through the grain continuously, and the computer keeps the heat where you want it.

It’s a real pain to wash, and you have to have a 220 circuit. It only works for beers under starting specific gravities of maybe 1.085. You have to play tricks on it to get that high.

I thought it would be great, and it works very well, but it has a lot of parts that have to be removed and washed every time I use it. On top of that, the Speidel company, which makes these machines, has a small presence in the US, and they do a poor job of supplying parts.

To brew in a bag, you need…a bag. You get a nylon bag that fits the inside of your pot. You put the bag in, with the mouth fastened to the rim of the pot. You heat water in the pot. You dump the grain in. You control the temperature however you can to mash it, and then you pull the bag out. You put an oven rack on top of the pot. You put the bag on the rack. It sits there and drains the wort back into the pot. You move the rack. You set the bag aside. Then you boil.

It’s a real cinch. That’s what I learned today.

When I was done brewing tonight, the kitchen was less messed up than it is when I make barbecue. Cleaning was quick and simple. I wish I had never fooled with the Braumeister.

Today I brewed Disaster Management Ale. It’s a lot like an IPA in terms of grain, but I use Nugget hops for bittering and Crystal for aroma. My understanding is that this combination is considered classic now, but I was using it 18 years ago.

This stuff should be ready to keg in a week. After that, I may make a stout, to prevent me from running out when the current keg dries up.

Nigerian Preacher’s “Daughter” Turns Out to be Foundling

BBC Africa’s T.B. Joshua hit piece keeps falling apart. It’s astonishing. I am used to watching leftist journalists lie and cover up, but this is a new level. They made no effort at all to uncover the truth. They used already-debunked accusers, and they didn’t vet their claims.

One claim: T.B. Joshua’s daughter Ajoke was abused at his church, the Synagogue Church of All Nations. People insulted and beat her, and Joshua was fine with it.

Problem: she isn’t his daughter.

SCOAN has a sister church in Greece: SCOAN Thessalonica. The leader is a Greek named Harry. He spent 17 years at SCOAN in Lagos, at T.B. Joshua’s side.

SCOAN Thessalonica just put out a video containing old footage of T.B. Joshua discussing Ajoke. He tells the story of taking her off the street and giving her a home. He sent her to a British school in Togo. He complains that she stole money. She caused trouble. The school sent him letters, including a confession she wrote. He found her incorrigible.

He said she taught him a lesson: he should’t try to take in every poor child he met. He said that if he hadn’t suffered with her, he might have adopted a lot of children who would have turned out badly in spite of his kindness and made him miserable.

In the footage, he displays documents proving she wasn’t his daughter. She was found behind the church, abandoned. A man associated with the church found her and took her to the police, and the police asked the church to raise her.

There is even footage of her, shot on the day she was found.

SCOAN has a long history of shooting a lot of video, even behind the scenes. This is why the footage exists.

The footage is real, and it was shot long before the BBC did its hit piece. Unless T.B. Joshua had some reason for doing a hit piece of his own, years before the BBC went after him, it must be reliable.

Maybe some of the accusers are telling the truth, and T.B. Joshua was a terrible person, but based on what I have seen so far, it seems unlikely in the extreme.

Why didn’t the BBC ask for the old videos? Why didn’t they investigate the claim that this woman was Joshua’s biological daughter?

One of the great things about the Bible is that it says all liars end up in the lake of fire. It will be nice to live in a place where I’m not constantly wondering whom to believe.

Leftist lies keep increasing. They rise up to our necks and threaten to drown us. Some day the fog will clear, and a lot of people who are enjoying their cabals and conspiracies won’t be smiling any more.

Smart Judge Slaps Down Federal Overreach

Well this is interesting.

A Florida federal judge has put an end to the government’s bizarre ban on bringing firearms into post offices.

This law is stupid. I have taken loaded pistols into hospitals and banks, and I have kept guns in vehicles on university property. I have carried in parks where little children play. I carried in church; as a security team member, I was required to carry. I carry in restaurants with big bars. No one cares. It’s legal. Why are federal buildings set apart?

If I were a criminal, I would carry wherever I wanted, unless I were subject to search. Idiotic, inexplicable, arbitrary, pointless laws wouldn’t stop me. Neither would good laws. The ban didn’t stop bad people, but it inconvenienced good people and put them in danger.

We used to joke a lot about “going postal,” but the truth is that a post office is not a very dangerous place, nor is it a place that is especially appealing to criminals. Post offices aren’t full of good stuff criminals want. It’s not like masked collectors in stolen hoopties are storming post offices to get the latest Disney stamps.

Committing a crime in a post office can put the federal police on your back, and they are much worse than state cops. You’ll have the Postal Inspector’s agency and the FBI to deal with, and they don’t have to worry about state lines or extradition.

Here in Florida, under state law, we can carry in banks, churches, and hospitals. There are dangerous restrictions on several types of places and events. Bars, schools, sporting events, career centers (???), polls, government meetings, jails and prisons, police stations, courtrooms, airports, and places that fall into the same big category as whorehouses. There used to be a law saying you couldn’t go into hospitals with certain types of mental facilities, but it looks like it’s gone now.

The post office ban is federal. The state doesn’t care. The ban also applies to other federal buildings.

Let’s start with bars. It’s silly to keep guns out of bars, because bars are places where innocent, sober people are likely to be attacked. There is a separate law banning carrying a firearm while drunk, so if the ban on bar carry was removed, drunks would still have to leave their guns outside.

The ostensible purpose of the bar ban is to keep drunks from carrying weapons in bars, but since that law is redundant, the only effect of the law is to disarm sober people who may be attacked by drunks. Bartenders, waitresses, bouncers who keep belligerent people out, people whose current or former romantic partners may want to barge in and shoot them, and so on.

The unspoken purpose of the law is probably to allow drunks to beat people up, because legislators thought that was better than having righteous shootings in bars. Many people who have an irrational hatred of guns think it’s better for innocent people to be beaten and severely hurt than it is for victims to shoot assailants.

I understand why legislators wanted to keep guns away from professional sports events, because people are idiots about sports. They beat up Little League umpires. But the actual effect of the law is to leave innocent people at the mercy of bigger, stronger people who can’t behave like adults. Seems to me an umpire should be allowed and encouraged to carry.

Why there would be a ban on carrying a gun in a career center is beyond me. I have never seen a career center. I assume it’s a place where people go to find jobs. Googling, I see there are 12 career centers, and they are connected with public universities.

Are people likely to flip out when career advisors tell them they should be in waste management instead of neurosurgery? Has anyone ever heard of a shooting in a career center? Makes no sense to me.

The school ban is just plain insane. High schools and universities are full of women at their peak physical attractiveness, and we disarm them. Brilliant. They should call it the Ted Bundy Law.

The ban doesn’t seem to work well on school shooters, but it makes things a lot easier for them.

Keeping firearms away from polls seems archaic. With the exception of the well-known case of the Pennsylvania New Black Panthers who used a wooden billy to menace whites at a poll while shouting racist remarks and threats, we don’t hear about weapons at polls, or poll violence, any more, even though people are perfectly capable of beating each other up and killing each other at polls without weapons.

Keeping guns out of courtrooms makes a certain amount of sense, because courtrooms host divorces, domestic violence cases, and all sorts of criminal cases. I was in a courtroom when a murderer’s dad threatened to kill a detective. But the restriction should not apply to lawyers or court employees. Judges can carry. Cops and bailiffs carry. Why not lawyers? We’re officers of the courts. A lot of lawyers get attacked by moron clients, and courthouses tend to be situated in high-crime, Democrat-controlled areas.

When I used to practice, courthouses didn’t have gun check rooms. I doubt they have them now. I had to take long walks through downtown Miami without a pistol. The law wasn’t fair to me. It certainly wasn’t fair to all the ladies who worked in the building.

Keeping guns out of government meetings doesn’t make much sense to me. Violence at government meetings is rare.

Prisons and police stations…no complaints from me. The corrections officers and cops are armed. That’s enough. They provide a good deterrent, unlike a 70-year-old judge armed with a 5-shot, sweat-rusted .38 he doesn’t know how to shoot. People have a long history of smuggling guns into prisons for bad reasons, and prisons are full of people who have no civil rights, so we should keep guns out.

I think keeping guns out of police stations is stupid, because no one takes a gun to a police station in order to fight the police–no one a ban would stop–but the law seems harmless because police stations are very safe.

Airports? Why? There are no metal detectors at airport entrances, so obviously, they are already full of illegal guns. Not much happens. You can’t hijack an airport. If you’re going to take a hostage at an airport and use him to get yourself a plane, you can do it from the sidewalk, where guns are allowed. I don’t get it.

I had to stay at an airport hotel once. If I had walked in through an entrance that opened into the terminal, I would have had to leave my gun in my car or put it in a suitcase. Hotels are pretty dangerous. Connie Francis was raped twice in hotels.

The bar restriction has unintended consequences. It means there are a lot of restaurants where you can’t pee. Restaurants with busy bars often put their restrooms in bar areas. I can go to Friday’s with a gun, but I have to sit outside the bar area, and if the can is in the bar, I have to put my gun in my car before I can use the facilities.

That’s really stupid. Even if it were a bad idea to let people carry in bars, it should be okay to let someone zip into and out of the restroom without disarming.

I’ve had to tell hostesses not to seat me in bar areas. I guess they thought I was an alcoholic.

As for post offices, my big problem is that when I go, and I obey the law by putting my Glock and knife in my center console, I forget my weapons are in the car. Then I end up walking around half the day disarmed.

I could just keep my gun and knife on me and go in anyway, because they don’t check. I could have done it already, multiple times, without problems. I could have walked into the area where the drop slots are, fully armed, dropped my envelopes, and walked out. But it would have been very naughty.

Now it’s legal, at least until the decision striking down the law is appealed. And if anyone violated the law in the past, they can’t be charged with anything.

If the post office restriction is gone, then the other blanket restriction on federal facilities is presumably on life support. The same rationale for striking it down applies.

A right you can only exercise in little bits of your state is not much of a right. What if we said blacks could be banned from restaurants within a thousand feet of schools? What if we said you could only object to random searches in a few designated areas? People wouldn’t like these laws much. The right–not privilege–to carry is at least as important as other civil rights. We shouldn’t let tyrants nibble away at it.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll stroll into the Post Office fully armed and buy some stamps. My little salute to Rosa Parks.

Mark 16:17-18

As I wrote the other day, BBC Africa produced a three-part hit piece on Nigerian preacher T.B. Joshua. He was not known well in America, but he had the biggest Christian Youtube channel, and he had one of the most prominent ministries in the world. He filled Youtube with videos of people being healed and receiving deliverance.

The BBC says he faked his healings, and it presented several witnesses who claimed he raped women. Two of the alleged victims are old news. One is a proven liar. The other appears to be nuts. Another one is a British lesbian, and homosexuals have been instrumental in attacking Joshua’s ministries. Two have close family members who work or worked in the church, and one family member took the time to put out a video saying he never witnessed the kinds of things that have been alleged.

People are coming out of the woodwork to defend Joshua. It looks like the BBC has sparked a backlash, at least on Youtube..

Some comments on the BBC videos:

My Dad also received his healing on the prayer line after been prayed for by Prophet TB Joshua

My sister prayed along with prophet TB Joshua through Emanuel TV in 2012 she fell down started vomiting and was completely delivered from Uterus Cancer which was confirmed by her oncologist. So this man was powerful enough to use technology to heal people world wide.

In 2019 my mother started watching Emmanuel TV and with the teachings of prophet Tb Joshua our life changed in a wonderful way, I was healed from a sickness that I had since I was a child, the grace of Jesus Christ was always in him, thank you Jesus for the life of the prophet Tb Joshua!

I thank God for the life of Prophet TB Joshua. A visit to his church has transformed our lives drastically. My friend who had stage 4 cancer (leukemia) and had few months to live got totally healed, this was over 10 years ago and she is totally healthy today. He led me and my entire family to Christ, today we have over 150 people who gather with us to hear the Word of God and have all given their lives to Christ. It all began with TB Joshua

I went to the SCOAN in 2014 with my uncle who had tuberculosis that the hospitals tried and failed to treat, and he was healed after being prayed for by the man of God, he is still alive and strong today

My cousin who was a chronic smoker went to synagogue church of all nations and after being prayed for he stopped smoking. Its only the power of God that heals, and delivers people from their bondages. We all have our flaws! But doesnt take away the fact that TB Joshua was being used by God.

The yoke of barrenness in my life for almost 10 yrs was broken, after he laid hands on me, continue to rest In peace God’s general! No imposters can bring your ministry down! Your good legacy lives on

We thank God for the live of Prophet TB Joshua. My son was healed of mental disorder at SCOAN. I went to SCOAN in 2019. satan is a loser.

What a Man of God. Delivered many of us through the power of Jesus Christ. My uncle had a damaged liver, he could die anytime. He went to Scoan, hes still alive. Praise be to the God of T.B Joshua

The ministry of Prophet TB Joshua has been a great blessing to me and my family. The ministry healed my wife of a twisted intestine in 2014, delivered my son from delayed speech after my wife visited SCOAN from the UK in 2018, and made me see the practical aspect of Christianity through healing, prophecy and deliverance.

I was delivered from chronic menstrual pain by prophet tb joshua. I was well taken care off while at SCOAN.
He is a genuine servant of God.

I was sick when I went to Scoan, I was always visiting the doctor and being rushed to the hospital emergency section until I went to Scoan and TB Joshua prayed for me and I never ever again fell sick, God completely healed. Tb Joshua reconciled my marriage in Jesus Christ name and it’s been years I’m living in peace and love with my family. Tb Joshua taught us through this acts of love he demonstrated and through the Powerful teachings of the word of God to take care of the poor, orphans, widows, elderly and the physically challenged. We do love charity work because of TB Joshua teachings.
Tb Joshua a good humble man who has lived a life of sacrifice for God and for the benefit of all humanity.

I received my deliverance from smoking for 25yrs in 2014 till now through his touch and when I visited scoan he cared and loved guests wholeheartedly.

They are blaming him for the collapse of a building his church owned. Anyone who has ever paid for construction–a small fraction of human beings, unfortunately–knows that building safety is primarily the responsibility of architects, engineers, contractors, and inspectors. I could sit here and make a list of the faulty and/or dangerous projects my family and I have paid for in good faith. No one ever tried to blame us, but somehow a pastor is responsible when his building falls over.

T.B. Joshue never designed, built, or inspected anything. He relied on people who took his church’s money.

Maybe some of the things accusers are saying will turn out to be true, but the BBC’s methods are slimy and disgraceful.

It’s irritating to see smug cessationists (apostates) criticizing people who tried to get miracles from Joshua. What, exactly, did people do when Yeshua was nearby? Did they hide in their houses saying it was wrong to look for signs and wonders?

Yeshua was speaking in a house. Several men cut a hole in the roof and lowered a paralytic to him so he could be healed. Yeshua was pleased by their faith, and he healed and forgave the man. He shamed the religious Jews who questioned it.

He said, “but that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins . . . I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.”

The rabbis and priests got a humiliating lecture, and the man who wanted a miracle walked away well.

If you get your friends to lower you through a hole in a roof so you can be healed, aren’t you chasing signs and wonders?

Yeshua healed a man who kept his bed by the pool of Bethesda, waiting for a miracle. Why didn’t he get a stick and beat him for chasing Satanic healing?

I chase signs and wonders every single day, and sometimes I get them. Miss out if you want.

I always ask God to keep me away from the witch doctors. I’m referring to MD’s. We think they’re little gods, but people thought the same thing back when they were bleeding people. We were extremely impressed with their technology back when they had no antibiotics and smoked cigarettes while treating us.

No matter how much time passes, we always look down on the doctors of 50 years ago. The doctors of 1974 look like idiots now. I’m ahead of the curve. I’m looking down on today’s medicine, right now. I know it will look stupid in 50 years, if the world continues that long.

It already looks stupid, to some extent. Coronavirus shots cause blood clots and heart attacks. That’s proven. It’s not a conspiracy theory. Social distancing, according to Dr. Fauci himself, had no scientific basis. Masking didn’t work, but we had to suffer very greatly because of it. Doctors pooh-poohed medicines that are now turning out to be at least somewhat effective. They confined old people to small facilities in New York, resulting in increased contagion and the deaths of thousands. They made kids get shots even though their risk of serious disease was about like their risk of being bitten by sharks.

I’ve had doctors tell me very stupid things. They told my mother she couldn’t have carpets or curtains because I had a dust allergy I didn’t have. They didn’t tell her to quit smoking 50 cigarettes right next to me every day. I had a doctor recommend cholesterol-reduction measures when I was 27, because my GOOD cholesterol was on the high side. A doctor told my mother I had a cleft palate. This is the kind of thing people notice, when true. I was told my repeated bouts of tonsillitis were caused by herpes, which wasn’t true. I had a big kidney stone, and a doctor sent me home on a Saturday morning with enough painkillers to get me through 24 hours.

I caught norovirus and stupidly went to a doctor. He did a blood test, which is ridiculous. He called later and said my bilirubin was high. He said I needed more tests. I asked him what could cause a high bilirubin level. He said sometimes viral infections caused it.

Viral.

My mother’s doctor tried to give her thalidomide for morning sickness, and she turned it down. Said something felt wrong.

Doctors and dentists gave my sister something like 100 painkillers a week, based solely on her word, and some of them knew she was lying.

Doctors have also told me over and over that they couldn’t do anything for me. They have never cured a viral infection for me, and like you, I’ve had dozens. When I was a kid, I got diarrhea when I was stressed. They couldn’t fix DIARRHEA. I have a congenital skin problem they can’t fix. They can’t fix my age-related farsightedness. They can’t prevent gallstones or kidney stones. They can’t cure arthritis, so when my hands bothered me, I didn’t bother them. The problem went away on its own. I was treated for depression in college. No effect. They treated me for ADD, but the treatment was worse than the problem.

There is no treatment for most types of dementia, which is extremely common. Think about that. They have pills that don’t work very well, and you can take them, but they won’t fix you.

They’ve been working on AIDS for 40 years, and they can’t cure or prevent it. They can’t even make a dangerous mRNA vaccine.

Doctors decided sexual perversion was healthy. They decided it was okay to castrate confused young men and skin young women in order to cobble pathetic fake penises together. They amputate healthy breasts. They put Caitlyn Jenner’s genitalia in an incinerator. They give puberty blockers to kids, resulting in permanent, devastating damage.

A doctor killed Kanye West’s mother by giving her a whole bunch of unneeded plastic surgeries all at once. Doctors amputate healthy legs and leave cancerous ones attached. They cut Dana Carvey open and bypassed healthy arteries, leaving the blocked ones in place.

Doctors did lobotomies and useless shock treatments.

Having doctors is much better than not having them, but let’s not kid ourselves. They can’t do what God does, they do a lot of harm, and God should be our first resort.

When I have to go to a doctor, I consider it a personal failure, because God has healed me so many times. If I can’t get a miracle, it has to be because I am doing something wrong.

I do not believe God created doctors to heal us. A lot of Christians say that, but it’s a cop-out, like saying, “God finally healed him,” when your dad dies from cancer. I don’t think there would be any doctors if we were doing things Yeshua’s way, because we wouldn’t need them. When you go to a doctor, you’re giving up. You’re not getting God’s best solution.

Yeshua and the prophets never sent anyone to doctors. Think about that.

To get back to T.B. Joshua, my faith isn’t based on watching his videos. It’s based on things that happened, and happen, to me, personally. When no one is around. I hope all the BBC attacks turn out to be lies, but whether or not they do, I will still know miracles and deliverance are real, and I will still know the BBC is evil.

Living on Charity

I feel so blessed.

Far from crowds. Far from turmoil. Best wife possible. Two prayer sessions a day, with my wife and the most wonderful God anyone could ask for. Funny little bird by my side watching me type. Excellent strong wheat ale from a recipe I wrote in 2004, improved by using Bergamot hops.

I hope everyone reading this gets close to God and receives the desires of their hearts.

Tunneling Jews Battle NYPD for Unknown Reasons

The apocalyptic weirdness keeps on coming.

This week’s weirdness: Orthodox Jews who may possibly worship a dead rabbi, fighting the NYPD over a secret tunnel they dug under a sidewalk. They built a tunnel and a secret room, and the tunnel was full of junk including a stained mattress and a baby stroller. When the cops came, some of the Jews stood in the secret room and had to be dragged out. There was a small riot in the main area of the synagogue. The movement the synagogue belongs to has thanked the police and disavowed the actions of the tunnel builders.

Can it get any weirder than this? You don’t often see Jews fighting the police. It’s almost refreshing.

I didn’t understand the story at all when it broke. I didn’t understand why religious Jews would dig a tunnel connecting a synagogue to a mikveh. I didn’t understand why they put mattresses in it. I could not figure out why some of them would fight the police when they showed up to address the problem, which could have led to dangerous structural failures.

I didn’t understand why the story was such a big deal. Okay, it’s news, but not major news.

I think I have a better understanding now.

The people involved belonged to Chabad, a very strange–is “demonination” the word? Do Jews have denominations? Anyway, Chabad is a super-Orthodox group, and they follow a guy they call the Lubavitcher Rebbe. When one Rebbe dies, a new one is chosen. But this process hit a snag in 1994.

The then-current Rebbe was a man named Menachem Schneerson, and he had his followers very excited, because a lot of them thought he might be the capital “M” Messiah. The guy who would defeat the enemies of the Jews and usher in an era of peace and so on. Rebbe Schneerson disappointed a lot of people by dying of a stroke and failing to return from the dead.

Now there is conflict in Chabad. Some members worship Schneerson and say he will be resurrected when he’s ready. They pray to him. Others say he never died, and he’s waiting somewhere, possibly with Elvis and Tupac Shakur, until the day he chooses to come out and reveal the prank. These are supposedly fringe positions. The official position of Chabad is that Schneerson hasn’t been proven to be the Messiah.

The issues here are obvious to anyone who knows anything about Jews.

One of the big Jewish objections to Yeshua is the claim that he doesn’t fit into a monotheistic religion. Yeshua, like Yahweh, is God. Mainstream Jews don’t believe in the Trinity. They think it’s polytheistic, like worshiping Zeus and Apollo.

The Trinity is clearly mentioned in the Old Testament. Genesis says the Holy Spirit is God, for example. Right away, that gives you two thirds of the Trinity. Then there is Isaiah 9, which clearly says the Messiah is “almighty God,” completing the package.

Another objection is that mainstream Jews say the Messiah isn’t divine. They say he will be an anointed leader like David, but not a deity. This conflicts directly with Isaiah 9, but whatever.

Now we have certain Chabadniks praying to Schneerson. If they’re praying to him, it certainly looks like they think he is God. So if the Messiah is not God, and Schneerson is the Messiah, why would monotheistic Jews pray to him instead of, or in addition to, Yahweh?

I don’t know if any of this is related to the illegal hole, but it’s interesting.

While I was reading about the hole, I saw a shocking photo of the inside of the Chabad synagogue in question. It shows what appears to be the synagogue’s shul, or main congregation area. There are two huge banners there in Hebrew and English, and the banner written in English says, “Master, Teacher, & Rebbe King Moshiach Forever.”

So what’s up with that?

The hole was supposedly dug by some nutty young bucks who don’t represent the movement. Video shows them standing in the secret room as it is dismantled, refusing to leave. As noted above, Chabad says it is not involved in the tunnel scheme. Did the tunnel boys put the banners up recently, suggesting they are rebelling against Chabad’s position on Schneerson, or have they been up a long time, suggesting Chabad is now a full-throttle Messianic movement, with a dead Rebbe as its Messiah?

If a Rebbe is “Moshiach Forever,” doesn’t that mean he’s God? Men don’t live forever.

From the appearance of the banners, it’s clear they are not new, and it seems unlikely that rebels could have them printed and hang them up, during a tunnel crisis, over the furious objections of, well, everyone else.

Could it be that Chabad’s official but secret position is that Schneerson is God and the Messiah? It sure looks that way. Could it be they are concealing this because they don’t want the embarrassment of having to drop two of their objections to Yeshua?

This would mean nearly nothing to Christians, but it would be a big story among Jews.

If Schneerson can be God, so can Yeshua. If Schneerson and Yahweh can be God, so can Yeshua and Yahweh.

Are they just saying Schneerson is A messiah, and that he remains one forever, even in heaven? If so, that’s pretty disrespectful to the current Lubavitcher Rebbe, if one exists.

I’m checking, and I can’t find any reference to any current Rebbe, so apparently, a dead man is still in office. In the past, they replaced dead Rebbes right away.

Why hasn’t Schneerson been replaced? It has been nearly three decades. The Lubavitch movement got its first Rebbe in 1775, and for two centuries, they managed to find new ones quickly. What happened this time?

None of this has any relationship to the popularity of this story. It looks like the story’s huge web presence is due to a familiar problem: antisemitism. Nuts are suggesting the presence of a dirty mattress and baby paraphernalia is related to activities like the sacrifice of infants. The blood libel is topping the charts again.

It’s actually true that Jews used to sacrifice babies. Their own. This is documented in the Old Testament. Jews who worshiped false gods burned their children alive in Jerusalem, in the area of Gehenna, as sacrifices to Moloch. This was a widespread practice in the general area of the Middle East. Archaeologists have found jars with tiny skeletons in the walls of houses. Sacrificing your firstborn son was like joining the Freemasons, Skull and Bones, the Church of Scientology, or a fraternity. It was a way of selling out in order to secure success.

Jews got this practice from Gentiles, who outnumbered them by a large factor, and it was never approved in Jewish doctrine. It’s kind of strange that baby sacrifice isn’t associated with Arabs, given that their ancestors came up with it.

There is no evidence that Jews sacrificed Jewish or Gentile babies after Biblical times, and for that matter, Gentiles have generally given the practice up, just as most of us quit eating each other when Judaism’s offshoot, Christianity, reached our areas. But somehow, the libel keeps coming back to life, unlike false Messiahs. And it’s never about Gentiles, who sacrificed more babies than anyone.

Christians and other Gentiles still sacrifice babies at clinics all over the world, but Orthodox Judaism forbids convenience abortion.

Fortunately for the children of the Antichrist, who are the persecutors of Jews and Christians alike, facts don’t matter any more than black lives do. To the children of Satan, black lives only matter when non-blacks take them, and the truth about Jews has never mattered. They will keep believing whatever seems to rationalize their hatred of people who are precious to God.

We are entering an age of cruelty that will make horror movies seem mild. People on the left are being pumped full of rage, and when they are released, the demons who drive them will make every day like October 7, everywhere. Ideas like ACAB, Black Lives Matter, the problem of whiteness, toxic masculinity, and pervert pride will motivate the troops to commit atrocities on a global scale, every day.

A man named Bill Wiese claims he spent 23 minutes in hell, in a vision. I think he is probably telling the truth. He said he thought he was condemned. He was put in a cell with two huge beings. They had claws. They looked like reptiles. They sound like millennials who did too much body modification, which comes from demons driving people to adopt their appearance. Each being had a thousand times Wiese’s strength. They picked him up and ripped him open for fun, and he couldn’t do anything about it.

I believe spirits like that will be running things when God releases the tribulation on the world. It should be no surprise that Arabs could slice a woman’s breast off while raping her, or that they shot women in their vaginas and disobeyed Mohammed by raping Jewish men and boys. When demons convince you you’re the victim of bullies, you will naturally feel a desire to inflict unspeakable suffering on the people you think are your tormentors.

It will be interesting to see if we get more news about Chabad. It would be weird to have two types of Messianic Jews in the world.

Jews say other Jews who accept Yeshua cease to be Jews. Wonder if that will happen to those who worship Schneerson.

Kings 1 21:9-10

I wrote about the BBC’s T.B. Joshua hit piece, which came out this week. Since then, I’ve learned some things.

As far as my wife and I can tell, there are 9 women who have accused Joshua of sexual abuse. Yesterday, I thought it was 16 because of what I had read. It’s not good to have 9 women accuse you of rape, but it’s better than 16.

It turns out many, if not all, of these women have raised their claims in the past.

One is South African. She claims that late in their relationship, Joshua told her he was surprised she wasn’t Nigerian. She has a strong South African accent, so there is no way she’s telling the truth. He knew as soon as he met her. If she would like about this, what else would she lie about?

Another has been on Youtube many times, making her implausible claims. She comes across as crazy and desperate for attention. I can’t believe a person like that without physical evidence, of which there is none.

Another is an angry lesbian. Lesbians and other homosexuals have been making coordinated attacks on Joshua for years. A small group of them got his channel removed from Youtube because he posted a video in which he cast demons of homosexuality out. His channel was the single biggest Christian channal on the site, and they got it pulled in one day, with no appeal. I don’t believe her.

Another accuser has a brother and sister who are still in ministry and who continue to endorse T.B. Joshua. The brother has a Youtube channel in which he perpetuate’s Joshua’s teachings and heals in his style. We are supposed to believe the siblings are continuing to support a man who raped their sister, or, alternatively, we should believe she never told them. No. That’s not credible.

There are no witnesses to any of the alleged assaults. One guy said he saw a woman’s feet under Joshua’s bedroom door. That’s about it. There is no physical evidence for any of the cases.

The details about the accusers are even worse than I’m making it seem. I don’t plan to spend a week researching this and writing about it, but you can find out for yourself if you want.

A man who accuses Joshua of corruption was, himself, dismissed from the ministry for corruption and abusing women sexually. He left, accused Joshua of various things, and then returned and recanted. You can find him online, testifying about the wonderful things God did for him through Joshua.

He was thrown out again, and now he’s talking to the BBC. As a news organization, the BBC is supposed to tell us about the credibility issues of its sources, but there is no such material in the documentary.

The documentary has been out about two days, and it’s already falling apart. What will things look like after a month?

SCOAN (Joshua’s church) has exposed some of these people in the past, long before the BBC encouraged them to tell their stories. The BBC should point this out. You can find videos SCOAN produced.

Here’s something else which wrecks the BBC’s credibility: they play horror-movie music in the background of their videos. Who does that? Imagine even a hack outfit like MSNBC filming the Trump White House and putting spooky music in the background. You could put that music behind video of happy baby ducks playing in a pond, and it would make them look like demons. It’s unethical. It’s not just a bad idea. It’s a total breach of established journalistic ethics.

Imagine you’re on trial for something you didn’t do. Every time the prosecutor questions a prosecution witness, he plays spooky music. Do you think the judge would stand for that for one second? They didn’t do that for Ted Bundy or Adolf Eichmann, who were guilty as hell.

All sorts of people are coming forward to tell of their miraculous experiences that involved T.B. Joshua. As I said yesterday, my own wife was healed instantly and permanently of an eye condition, after applying his blessed “Morning Water.” People who worked in the ministry are coming forward and saying they never heard of or saw the things the accusers claim happened.

Here’s the weirdest claim the accusers make: one of them says Joshua hated white people and made them his slaves out of pure sadism. He says Joshua was mad because white people enslaved his ancestors, and in his youth, before his ministry went anywhere, he said he would get revenge by enslaving white people.

Nigerians were not enslaved by white people in Nigeria. Slaves were moved from Nigeria to the New World. They were also sold to other Africans. T.B. Joshua’s ancestors were more likely to have sold slaves than to have become slaves.

I looked into visiting SCOAN. I dropped the idea because it was such a pain in the butt. You have to ask for permission. It takes a long time to get approval and arrange things. They drive you to the church from the airport in an armed caravan because Nigeria is full of violent Muslims. You have to stay at the church because Lagos is not safe.

If Joshua wanted to enslave white people, why did he make it so hard for them to visit? And where are the rest of the white slaves? He had white people high up in his organization, helping him run things. He had white ministers who appeared on camera. He had a few disciples, only a couple of whom claim they were enslaved. Where are the rest? When you look at videos of the church, you see very few whites. If Joshua was collecting white slaves, he did a really poor job.

If I were a Nigerian, and I wanted white slaves, I would invite them to visit. I would tell them they were welcome any time. I would tell them Nigeria was dangerous so they would take precautions and make it to my church alive, but I wouldn’t force them to show up in armed convoys or make them stay in the church. I’d convince them they were as free as birds, and then I’d start closing the trap. Joshua didn’t do any of that.

The whole business is like what happened to Torben Sondergaard from The Last Reformation. The Danish press made an extremely dishonest documentary about him and even passed a law intended to ban his type of ministry. They made it appear he was involved with strangers who ran corrupt ministries. The public ate it up. It was all a lie.

I’ve been to several TLR events. It’s not a cult. You come and go as you please. They don’t ask for money. They don’t tell you what to do. There is zero pressure of any kind.

Torben eventually spent more than a year in prison over bogus immigration problems, and then he was deported. A nutcase who used to work with him joined forces with a rich foreigner who hates him, and they got it done. Torben obeyed the law, and he would have been a wonderful addition to our citizenry. The other two seem like better candidates for prison.

Maybe Joshua will eventually be proven guilty of something. It hasn’t happened yet. I don’t know if we will ever know what really happened. The BBC is full of liars. Many of the accusers are proven liars. On the other hand, ministers and their minions lie like crazy.

I’m sick of this world of lies. It seems like everyone is a lawyer now, interested in winning arguments but uninterested in arriving at the truth. The deception is insurmountable. It’s impossible to prove anything these days. The liars will not shut up, and people believe them.

I completely understand why God burned the Sodomites alive and told Joshua to kill Canaanites of every age. I understand why the Jews were commanded to kill every single Amalekite. Humanity is disgusting and beyond redemption. Only a few here and there will make it. The rest are just the placenta. They serve a purpose here, but they will be discarded once they’re not needed. The rapture can’t some soon enough.

In closing, here’s a great video to give you comfort about the future. These are the people Satan is waiting to unleash on you.

I’m Still Standing

Last night I heard surprising news. Nigerian preacher T.B. Joshua (deceased, June 2021) had his own BBC documentary. It just appeared. Sixteen women have accused him of things like repeated rape and kidnapping.

CORRECTION: it appears I was misled. Not unusual when the BBC is involved. By my wife’s count, there are only 9 women who accuse Joshua of sexual abuse.

The BBC’s ad copy refers to him as one of Africa’s richest preachers. Africa is full of crooked charismatic preachers who teach Satan’s prosperity gospel.

When a man is accused of rape by one woman, it means nothing whatsoever until there is corroborating evidence. When 16 women make an accusation, it’s different, because the likelihood that 16 people will tell the same lie is much smaller than the likelihood that one woman will make a false rape accusation, which is extremely, extremely high.

A relative of mine has made three false accusations that I know of. She’s not unusual.

In writing about this, I will not trouble myself to type “alleged” over and over, so insert it yourself where appropriate.

Joshua was born in poverty in Nigeria, and he ended up with a church called SCOAN, the Synagogue Church of All Nations. He performed all sorts of miracle healings. He and his followers blessed tap water and sent it out as “Morning Water,” and people who used it claimed they received healings. He cast demons out in front of crowds. He did all sorts of works of philanthropy.

His church never had a scandal while he was alive. Leftists, who hate him because he cast demons out of perverts, claim it was a scandal when a building that belonged to SCOAN collapsed and killed people, but that isn’t true. Anyone can buy a building that has been designed negligently. If you want to see a real scandal, look up Peter Popoff, Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, or any of thousands of priests who have been caught with boys.

He ministered for something like 40 years. He was only married once. He never divorced. He did not charge for water, and he refused to sell it, but he did limit distribution to people who paid small fees to become members of his ministry.

My wife was healed instantly, using this water. She had eye problems, and she gave Morning Water a try. This was years ago. She was healed immediately and permanently, in the privacy of her home.

Other ministries trace their roots to SCOAN. A New Zealand businessman named Bill Subritzky traveled to SCOAN and learned from Joshua. He started a ministry based in his own country, and he did the same things Joshua did. He was very wealthy before he started his ministry. He was a real estate developer. He didn’t teach the prosperity gospel or beg people for money. He died without scandal.

Mark Hemans, an Australian, has an active ministry. He travels constantly, doing what Joshua did. You can see him on Youtube. He does not teach the prosperity gospel. He does not ask for money, and he rarely mentions it, except in cases where people are under financial curses.

I have not drawn any conclusions about the BBC’s claims, but I know a couple of things.

A few years back, a Nigerian lady claimed Joshua had abused her sexually. I looked into it. She seemed crazy to me. Not credible. She seemed to be a nut who wanted attention. You can find videos of her on Youtube. See what you think. I didn’t pay any attention to her.

One lady who accuses him now is a homosexual, so obviously, she is not right mentally. Lesbianism is a mental abnormality, and it may come with other problems. She claims she went to Joshua to be delivered. I am skeptical because perverts have worked very hard to destroy Joshua’s ministry. Before he died, a small group of angry perverts got his Youtube channel removed overnight, because he was shown delivering a homosexual man.

It’s easier for me to believe that a mentally-disturbed person belonging to a group known to be hostile to T.B. Joshua, and known for spreading lies, would lie than it is for me to believe Joshua raped her. Maybe he did, but she is not a convincing witness.

Now I’ve learned about problems with a third witness. My wife explained something to me. A lady claims Joshua raped her over and over. She also says that late in their relationship, he told her he was surprised to learn she was South African. She claims he thought she was Nigerian.

South Africans are very easy for Nigerians to identify. My wife explained it. They have a very distinct accent. My wife heard her and knew instantly that she was South African. In Internet comments, other Africans have said the same thing. Clearly, she lied about what Joshua said, so why trust her accusations?

She has also claims other men believed to be prophets raped her. Men from other organizations. The obvious question: how many prophets have to rape you before you quit bothering prophets? It’s not credible. If I got raped every time I went to the dentist, I would quit going. Wouldn’t you?

These are my opinions.

Out of 16 accusers, I discard three. That leaves 13. And I only learned about this mess last night. The other 13 may have equally serious credibility problems.

Will the others fall as well? Impossible for me to know. If the evidence of any accusation turns out to be solid, I’ll believe it. If not, why should I?

The BBC loves to call Joshua one of Africa’s richest preachers. That’s dishonest. It makes him sound like Kenneth Copeland, a true snake who feeds on the poor and makes them poorer.

Joshua was adored by hundreds of millions of believers. If he had loved money, he could have taught the prosperity gospel, and he would have become a billionaire. He chose not to do this. Why not? He would have to have been stupid not to. Other African preachers get away with it.

Joshua lived in a crummy little house. You can look it up. After he died, people criticized his house because it was so cheap. If all he cared about was money, and his personal fortune was so great, why did he live in a dump on a dirt road?

If he was so wicked, why didn’t anyone credible come forward during 50 years of ministry?

If the BBC deceives people about Joshua and greed, won’t they lie, and encourage others to lie, about everything else?

I am more inclined to believe the new stories about T.D. Jakes. I may as well confront the question of whether I’m being fair. If I am skeptical because the Joshua stories came out so late, why not give the same benefit to Jakes?

Joshua is accused of nonconsensual acts. That’s the difference. If dozens of men have penetrated Jakes’ anus with his consent, they have nothing to be angry about and every reason to keep quiet. We don’t see dozens of men claiming Jakes raped them, years after the fact.

Also, the people exposing Jakes are purported witnesses, not victims. The “victims,” or consensual partners, if they exist, are presumably distraught about the new revelations.

When a black man “on the down low” sodomizes another black man who is eager and willing, it is usually kept quiet. Dozens and dozens of rapes, on the other hand, would ordinarily be exposed in a timely manner.

Maybe Jakes is innocent, but he looks guiltier than Joshua.

The accusers can’t claim they were scared to talk. They weren’t all trapped where Joshua could harm them. They were free to travel later. You can’t tell me a woman in a far-off country was afraid a preacher would send men to beat her up or kill her. It’s not credible.

Another important thing to know is that African preachers are libeled all day, every day. It’s a national pastime. There is tremendous infighting among African Christians. They call each other filthy names and threaten violence. I have seen a huge number of libels directed at Joshua, so new ones would just be par for the course.

I don’t claim anyone involved in the Joshua and Jakes stories is guilty or innocent, and I don’t claim to know whether any accuser or witness is truthful. For now, I insist on seeing some really good evidence before drawing firm conclusions.

The good thing about seeing ministries attacked like this is that it may help some people understand the problem with worshiping men.

I have had Catholic friends. Although perfectly happy to avoid church and sin at will, they had no sense of humor about priests or the popes. They revered them mindlessly, in spite of their obvious and very great shortcomings.

I have had many Protestant friends. Many attached themselves to ministries and followed men as though they were Yeshua himself. They disdained people who followed other men.

Many people treated Joshua like a god, whether or not it was his fault. They thought his ministry was perfect and unassailable. Now Joshua is accused of committing countless rapes and faking miracles, by a huge news organization.

What happens now to people who treated Joshua like Yeshua?

The challenge to their faith is very serious, because they based their faith largely on their opinions of a man. If he raped women, and he seemed so righteous, what else was he wrong about? If he faked miracles, are all miracles fake? If God permits this kind of thing, is he even there? If we are so easily fooled, is there no hope we will ever know the truth and be saved?

People can be driven to atheism and paganism by questions like that, unless they build their faith on the Holy Spirit, not men.

Long before I had any idea who Joshua was, I saw spirits. I received miracles. I had visions. Sorry; take down every preacher on Earth, and I will still know God is real and works miracles. I will still know Yeshua is alive and that he is God, because he visited me twice.

If you’re trapped in the thrall of a man you think is holy, snap out of it. You’re not helping yourself. The big problem with an organization that follows a man as a god is that all Satan has to do is take down the man. He no longer has to work hard to get at all the followers. They fall like dominoes once the man is caught stealing or found in bed with the wrong person. If you worship men, you are setting yourself up for a fall into bitter atheism.

The people at the BBC want to end Christianity. Let’s just admit that and confront it. England is a pagan country, like most European nations. It’s full of atheists, Muslims, wiccans, Yoruba practitioners, astrology slaves, and other types of heathens. Christianity pretty much ended in England in the 19th century.

The BBC wants homosexuality to cover the globe. They see people who believe the Bible as superstitious idiots who…let’s all say it together now…CAUSE ALL THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS. Like they privately say about the Jews.

The BBC has lied to us over and over and over. It has been wrong so many times, no one could count the instances. It promotes leftist falsehoods every day. No reasonable person would consider the BBC trustworthy. They’re dishonest about little things like the weather. You can’t expect them to be truthful about people they hate.

I don’t trust the BBC about anything significant. Not automatically.

I hope the T.B. Joshua story collapses, but if it doesn’t, I will be fine. I will still watch Mark Hemans, unless he gets taken down, too. I will continue praying and blessing and cursing. I will continue speaking in tongues a great deal. I can’t go backward now. God built my house on the rock of revelation, so the rains don’t mean anything to me.

For a long time, I’ve been praying for God to destroy and expose evil ministries, whether they be Christian, Jewish, pagan, or secular. My wife and I pray for it together every day. Maybe the recent news stories show that God is listening to people like us. On the other hand, maybe the hit on Joshua is Satan’s way of putting good people in the path of friendly fire. I don’t know. I can be fooled. It has happened before. Whatever the truth is, I hope God will continue exposing the snakes.

A while back, God told me the truth had gotten lost. These days, it is impossible to determine the truth about anything important. God. Coronavirus. Elections. The climate. You have to have the Holy Spirit at your side, telling you the answers. If not, you are in big trouble already.

See Psalm 32:6.