Snakes Can’t Survive by Eating Their Own Tails

Yeshua, better known as “God,” is the Prince of Peace. So what does that mean?

We tend to think of peace as the sort of ambience we would experience if everyone lived in a big grassy meadow where it never rained, lying in groups among tame animals and fruit trees, loving each other with the kind of love kids try to simulate with MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms. We think of it as an atmosphere of relaxation. These impressions aren’t really correct, though. Peace just means the absence of conflict. Fundamentally, it means order.

Ever since American went hippie, “order” has been a bad word. Leftists, which includes nearly everyone in the entertainment industry, have made “order” synonymous with totalitarianism. Ricardo Montalban, playing sociopathic dictator Khan Noonien Singh on Star Trek, barked that he and his cronies had tried to bring the world ORDER. Whoever wrote the script clearly used the word to make him look ruthless and inclined to bring others unbearable suffering. If he had barked “PEACE,” it would not have worked, but it would have meant the same thing.

Order imposed by tyrants isn’t peace, any more than forced charity through taxation is charity. When order is imposed by tyrants, there is still conflict. The people are in conflict with their rulers, even if they can’t act on it or mention it.

What would life be like in a perfectly orderly society? There would be no violence, including rape. There would be no psychological abuse. There would be no car wrecks. Road rage wouldn’t exist. We would get along with each other. Neighbors wouldn’t fight over parking or boundary lines or noise. There would be no elections. We would agree concerning who our rulers should be.

It would be peaceful.

“Harmony” is another word for peace. If Montalban had declared he had tried to bring the world harmony, Captain Kirk would have looked like the bad guy for letting Spock badger him.

We abuse the words “peace” and “peaceful” now. Leftists like to tell us a riot is a protest, and they have used the term “mostly peaceful” to describe evil riots perpetrated by fatherless idiots, in which people died and buildings burned. “Mostly peaceful” is a ridiculous term. World War Two was mostly peaceful. The fighting was generally confined to a small percentage of the area of the seas and the affected nations. It was still a war.

If I get drunk and run amok in a residential neighborhood, screaming insults into a bullhorn, what will they arrest me for? Not a noise violation; those aren’t arrestable offenses. They’ll get me for disturbing the peace. If I get thrown out of an apartment building for playing my stereo at top volume at 3 a.m., what will the reason be? It will be the right to “peaceful enjoyment,” which is what landlords guarantee their tenants. Somehow, though, we allow leftist crowds to gather at people’s homes and businesses and make deafening rackets, destroying trade and shattering people’s nerves, and we call what they do “peaceful assembly.”

There is nothing peaceful about screaming credible threats at other people through electronic amplifiers and speakers.

I just saw an X video showing a bunch of leftists and Muslims standing outside a Jewish (not Israeli government) business, screaming and blocking traffic. They were using a PA system to yell, “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide! We charge you with genocide!”

The business is a deli in Philadelphia. Someone in the ownership is an Israeli, but that doesn’t mean it is in any way connected with the government of Israel or the IDF. The victims are innocent.

The owners and customers are being persecuted not for anything they are responsible for, but for being Jews. Plain and simple. And the cops are helping the racists who are doing the persecuting.

We now live in a country where obvious, unapologetic mob antisemitism that makes it impossible for innocent people to earn a living is condoned as peaceful assembly.

So what remedies do the victims have? None, I suppose. The police, who should be arresting the perpetrators, are facilitating the persecution, just as German and Austrian police facilitated Kristallnacht.

Who do you run to when your government is against you?

But that’s why Israel exists, isn’t it? Jews were targeted by governments. They had to go somewhere.

The persecutors are showing the world why bombing Gaza is important and right, but they’re too stupid and vicious to see it.

I sat down to write today because I thought it was important to take note of the way leftism inevitably leads to conflict. It is internally inconsistent, unlike holiness, which always brings harmony.

Who are the people persecuting Jews now? Only Muslims? No. Muslims and Democrats. Leftists. The big problem with this is that American Jews are overwhelmingly leftist. They gave Donald Trump only a few more votes than Hitler would have gotten. That is literally true. Trump got about 24% of their votes. Hitler would have gotten under 1%. There are always a few nuts who cast eccentric votes, so some Jews would have voted for him. I guarantee it. So Trump, who supported Israel with tremendous zeal and made the unprecedented move of recognizing its ancient Jewish capital, is only about one third less unpopular than Hitler among American Jews.

There are Jews among the people persecuting American Jews right now. How crazy is that? It’s too bad they can’t go back in time and spend a day riding on cattle cars headed for Auschwitz, with dead, partially-frozen bodies at their feet. It’s easy to be a leftist when you have no real problems. When things get tough, the pretense and buffoonery go on the trash heap in a hurry.

There is a big rift now among American leftists. They hold themselves out as the saviors of the Jews. What a crock. They’ve been antisemitic as long as I’ve been aware of them. They claim they’re the ones who fight antisemitism, but they’re also supposed to support Palestinians unless they want to stop getting invitations to cocktail parties. So they are now forced to take sides.

American leftism is eating itself, in public.

Why is this?

There is always symmetry in the supernatural. God is the father who adopts us and takes us to be with him in heaven. Satan is the fake father who takes people to be with him in the lake of fire. Yeshua is the truth. Satan is the father of lies. Yeshua heals. Satan is the father of disease.

Yeshua is the Prince of Peace, because he annihilates conflict. Satan is the prince of conflict. Satan owns leftism, so it’s only natural that his children–leftists–would eventually start to eat each other.

We are told that the “left” in leftism comes from the French Revolution. French legislators who sided with the revolutionaries sat on the left side of the chamber. Loyalists sat on the right. But leftism itself started with Satan.

Leftism is just rebellion against divine authority. Regardless of the manifestation, that’s all it is. Satan was supposed to submit to God in every way, but in his heart, he said he would dethrone God and take over. When all the spirits were submitted to God, there was order. There was peace. As soon as Satan rebelled, conflict came into existence.

When Satan rebelled, it was a mutiny. What happens in a mutiny? At first, the mutineers unite behind their leader. Once they take control, they do their best to depose him, just as they deposed their rightful captain.

A mutiny leader lacks something a captain has: authority. When Captain Bligh disagreed with a subordinate, he had the might of the British crown behind him. People who fought him would be flogged and hanged. Even if he died, the crown would continue to pursue and punish them.

When Fletcher Christian took over, he had no one to back him up. A mutineer who wanted to take his place didn’t have to fight the crown. The crown didn’t care which mutineer ran the rebel team. A mutineer who wanted to get rid of Christian only had to beat Christian. A mere man.

It is likely Christian was murdered by his fellow mutineers, and now you know why.

Satan is surrounded and served by other spirits who hate him. They hate each other. They hate God. They hate us. They would be happy to throw Satan into the lake of fire without God’s help, if they could. Leftists belong to Satan, and they are just like him and his subordinate spirits. They are envious. They want to replace their superiors and betters, as Satan wanted to replace God.

Under Satan, no one is happy with his proper place. This, not social injustice, is the reason America has become a giant outdoor venue for protestors and rioters.

Satan is the spirit of antichrist. He wants to replace Yeshua, who is God. “Yeshua” means “salvation.” Satan holds himself out to be the one who will save us from disorder and misery. He is doing his best to convince the world Christians and Jews are all that stand between humanity and a golden age of peace, love, and success. He offers himself as a replacement for the Messiah.

Leftists believe that once Jews and real Christians are gone, they will live in a Barbie-pink world of unicorns and lollipops, but the truth is that if we disappeared, things would be worse than ever. Because of the presence and prayers of people who know Yeshua, and because Jews have to be preserved in order to fulfill prophecies and promises made to the patriarchs, God prevents the world from destroying itself. Once Christians and their prayers are gone, things will go downhill very quickly, and the world will be like a horror movie. God will still preserve some Jews, but they will be much worse off than they are now.

Without Christians in the world to stay God’s hand of vengeance and bring down his blessings, leftists–unbelievers–will turn on each other in extreme cruelty. The kinds of things Palestinians did on October 7 will be done all over the world, every day. There will also be pandemics and famine.

Pro-Jewish leftists who are disturbed to find the left is against them should wake up and realize it was never for them. They should ask themselves why the God of the Jews isn’t doing more for them. They should ask why Yeshua’s followers, who disapprove of their leftism, are the only friends they have. Christians who really know the Holy Spirit can’t be antisemitic. Any so-called Christian who hates Israel or the Jews is an anomaly and a disgrace.

Most Jews don’t understand the supernatural, so they don’t understand how crazy spirits can make people. Five years ago, no one would have expected Islam to become fashionable among sexual perverts, but it’s happening right now. The web is full of crossdressing perverts who are talking about their newfound appreciation of Islam, a religion whose adherents like to beat, imprison, rape, torture, and murder them. Male Islamists are known for raping homosexuals in order to punish them, in an astonishing display of inability to perceive irony.

Most Jews don’t understand Islam’s bizarre policy of lying to infidels. If you go look at videos by perverts who have fallen in love with Islam, you will see comments from Muslims, saying Islam welcomes them. They say Allah loves all. And the perverts are so deranged, they believe it. Perverts are supporting Gaza against Israel, even though Gazans have rounded up perverts and thrown them off roofs.

Jews are blind to the insanity spirits cause. Perverts are blind to the murderous intentions Muslims harbor toward them. People can’t see the obvious. If you don’t know the Holy Spirit, you can believe anything, no matter how preposterous.

We have a new word now: “Islamo-leftism.” It refers to people who mindlessly swallow absurd leftist doctrine, while endorsing Islam, which calls for things like rape, the degradation of women, and the murder and abuse of homosexuals. Just about everything leftists do for fun is punishable by beatings, prison, amputation, torture, or death under Islam.

How can anyone see the rise of Islamo-leftism and deny the existence of the supernatural? How could a man not under demonic influence prance around in women’s underwear and gush about a religion which calls for him to be subjected to torment and execution?

Psychologists call harboring inconsistent beliefs “cognitive dissonance,” but they don’t have a good, wholly natural explanation for it, especially when it’s this extreme. A name isn’t an explanation.

Everyone is somewhat inconsistent. Often, we just haven’t thought about our inconsistent beliefs enough to realize we have them. That’s normal. But thinking you should join a religion which calls for you to be raped and beheaded is not ordinary cognitive dissonance. It’s insanity. Like believing you’re Napoleon or maybe a food processor.

Inconsistent beliefs lead to conflict. Conflict is the opposite of peace. It goes against Yeshua and the Holy Spirit, who tell every single person, and help every single person believe, the exact same things.

When conflict is gone, peace resumes, and after that, you get the soothing, calming atmosphere of love and safety. You can’t get a world which is like a huge, unfenced petting zoo until you get rid of Satan, the spirits that serve him, and his children. That’s what the tribulation will accomplish.

Was Eugene Stoner Really on our Side?

While I wait for my wife to emerge from the bathroom, I am making a list of killers whose fun was cut short because they weren’t smart enough to buy AK-47’s.

1. Nikolas Cruz, the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas shooter.
2. Andrew Warrender. Las Vegas Turnberry Towers.
3. James Holmes. Aurora, Colorado.
4. Orlando Harris. St. Louis, Missouri.
5. Caleb Sharpe. Rockford, Washington.
6. Armando Hernandez. Westgate, California.
7. Omar Mateen. Orlando, Florida.
8. Adam Lanza. Newtown, Connecticut.

Man, they keep popping up. This only took a few minutes.

Why does anyone trust an AR-15 for self-defense?

New Blog Post Category: “Apocalypse”

Here’s a short post to help chronicle modern insanity.

Yesterday, I went to Target. There were big photos of women on the walls and displays. Old, homely, and/or fat women. Some in their underwear. Eww.

Guess what was missing. Photos of old, homely, and/or fat MALE models.

Hmm.

Tell the Church to Spread it

It’s amazing that, 2000 years after the crucifixion, virtually no one knows anything about the spirit of antichrist.

God showed me a lot of things about this spirit. If he hadn’t, I, too, would still be wallowing in remarkable ignorance.

Almost everyone thinks the prefix “anti” means “against.” It’s not that simple. It also means “instead of.” Not the same thing.

It makes sense if you think about it. Think of presidential elections. One party nominates a candidate, and the other party nominates an alternative. “Vote for our man instead of the other guy.” If the candidates were simply against each other, they wouldn’t have to run. You can be against a presidential candidate without suggesting an alternative. Lee Harvey Oswald was against JFK, but he didn’t want to be president.

The history of the world has been one long election cycle. There are two candidates: Yeshua (God) and Satan. Most people vote for Satan. As my wife says, “Satan always gets the popular vote.”

Voters are little judges. We sit in judgment, and candidates plead their cases before us. Each of us renders a verdict. This is how it works in earthly elections and also in the election between Yeshua and Satan.

While I’m at it, “election” doesn’t always mean a process by which a group of people chooses a leader. It just means “choice.” When you pick a blue shirt instead of a green one, it’s an election.

What do candidates do in elections? They spread information about themselves and their opposition. Sometimes the information is correct, and sometimes it’s lies.

Yeshua tells us Satan created lying and disease and every other curse, and that he persuades human beings to accept damnation. He tells us we can have salvation, love, peace, joy, victory, healing, and all sorts of other good things if we choose him and the Holy Spirit. Everything he says is true.

Satan says Yeshua doesn’t exist. He says he, himself, doesn’t exist. He says there are no spirits. He says there are all sorts of spirits that are better than Yeshua. He says there is no hell. He says hell exists, but you only go there if you’re a murderer or a rapist or something similar. He says there is no afterlife. He says everyone goes to heaven. He makes all sorts of inconsistent claims, and foolish people choose the ones they like.

It’s very important to realize that Satan says the following things, which are not true:

1. Jews cause all the world’s problems.
2. Christians cause all the world’s problems.
3. The God of Christians and Jews is hateful and cruel.
4. If we get rid of Jews and Christians, things finally be wonderful. The whole world will be like Eden.

When the church was born, Satan told the Jews lie number 2, and their leaders believed it, so they went about imprisoning and murdering other Jews who believed in Yeshua. These were the only “Christians” at the time. Virtually everyone who believed in Yeshua was Jewish. Jews didn’t persecute gentiles. They persecuted other Jews. Gentiles–pagans–were not interested in persecuting believers in Yeshua at this time. That happened later.

Eventually, the knowledge of Yeshua spread among gentiles. It happened because the Jews who made up the early church gave up on convincing other Jews Yeshua was God and the Messiah. Most Jews wanted nothing to do with Yeshua, and their leaders did things like flogging and stoning the Jews who tried to spread the gospel, which was completely Jewish. The Jews who spread the gospel started concentrating on converting pagans.

In time, Jews were outnumbered by Christians, most of whom were gentiles. Satan told these Christians lie number 1, and many of them believed it, so they murdered, tortured, imprisoned, and exiled Jews.

In both cases–antichristian and antisemitic persecutions–the spirit of antichrist was at work. He is responsible for both antisemitism and the persecution of Christians, and if he can get Christians and Jews to do his work, which he often does, it’s just icing on the cake. Nothing is better than dividing your enemies and getting them to kill each other while you take it easy.

Satan wants to get rid of Jews for several reasons. He used to be against them because prophecy said a Jew–the Messiah–would destroy his kingdom. Another reason: God loves Abraham very much, and he promised great things for the children of Jacob. Even if the Jews have rejected the Messiah, they are still important to God, and many of them will turn to Yeshua during the tribulation, so they have an important part to play in the future of the world.

God is against the enemies of the Jews. He says anyone who harms them touches the pupil of his eye. He is against Christians who are persecute Jews, just as he is against anyone who persecutes Christians.

Satan wants to get rid of Christians–real ones–because we spread the gospel and take people out of his hands. We work to destroy his kingdom. Like the Jews, we also appear in prophecies that haven’t been fulfilled yet, and Satan wants to prevent prophecy from coming true.

Right now, we are seeing amazing progress in Satan’s war against good. He is doing extremely well, mostly by lying, because lying is efficient and easy. He is gaslighting everyone who doesn’t know the Holy Spirit, and that probably amounts to over 99% of human beings.

If you don’t know the Holy Spirit, you will persist in believing extremely harmful lies. You may think Yeshua was just a magician, or that he can’t be the Messiah because the Messianic Age is still in the future. You may think Yeshua and Satan are brothers and that God revealed a new scheme of salvation to a charlatan named Joseph Smith. You may believe human beings can choose their sexes and genders. You may think it’s totally normal for one man to have sex with another man’s filthy anus, which is patently ridiculous.

If you don’t know the Holy Spirit, finding the truth is impossible. You may get bits and pieces of it, but you’ll believe things that may eventually destroy you.

The Holy Spirit is the good counterpart of the spirit of antichrist.

The Holy Spirit aligns you with God, regardless of what people around you push you to believe and do. He works in individuals. The spirit of antichrist aligns you with human beings. It works in mobs and nations.

If you crave popularity, you belong to the spirit of antichrist. Real Christians are never popular. If you belong to a huge church everyone loves, you may be going to hell.

The Catholic church is an example of an antichrist church. Describing it can help people understand the concept of antichrist. Catholicism provides false, Satanic alternatives to Yeshua. It promotes the crazy idea that Mary never, ever had sex, even though the Bible shows that Yeshua had at least 4 blood siblings. It promotes Mary as a being conceived without sex, and it tells people to pray to her instead of God. It promotes a lot of other dead people as gods. You pray to their statues to get what you want.

Mary was a sinner, just like you. Just like Moses and Elijah. She had sex. Her parents had sex. She can’t save anyone, because her blood was never pure enough. Only the blood of Yeshua saves, because only Yeshua was subjected to all types of temptation and never sinned.

This morning I realized my aunt has a serious antichrist spirit. She craves admiration. She adores celebrities. Her life is all about validation from other human beings.

I wrote about her this week. I said she liked to make up grandiose lies about herself and her ordinary kids and grandchildren in order to impress other people. She wants to make people feel bad for having less, and she also wants their admiration, which is ironic, since her behavior makes people look down on her.

She went to a Neil Diamond concert. She sat in front. Neil Diamond knelt on the stage and sang to her for a minute. He was sweating. She touched his forehead and then licked the sweat off her hand, showing she put human beings in God’s place of worship. She adored Elvis, who is in hell. She name-drops. These are all symptoms of a spirit of antichrist. This must be why she is so furious at me, and why she refuses to liquidate our family’s real estate 20 years after my last grandparent’s death. The spirit that rules her looks for ways to harass me.

My grandfather was a corrupt judge, and he made tons of money, partly through extortion. For example, he had a sheriff named Deaton block off a road belonging to the Falcon Coal Corporation, and Deaton told the company no coal was leaving until my grandfather got a contribution to his election campaign.

I loved my grandfather, and I was his favorite grandchild. I miss him. He was very good to me. He even bought two ponies I didn’t want, saying it would be worth it if I only rode one once. But he was what he was.

He had a lot of real estate, and people in my family think my aunt refuses to let all of it go because she thinks people admire his dynasty. They think she wants to bathe in his reflected glory, which dissipated 30 years ago. I think this is true. I think she would rather have cancer and be admired than be healthy and ignored.

My grandfather died almost 30 years ago. In all likelihood, most people where my aunt lives have no idea who he was. Doesn’t matter. A tiny percentage of my net worth remains tied up in what appears to be a sort of shrine.

Until today, I never thought about the spirit of antichrist in connection with her.

Antichrist people treat me strangely. Either they kiss my butt, or they abuse me for no reason. Sometimes they start out with the butt-kissing, and then the mask comes off and the abuse starts. My aunt has started abusing me. I have always been good to her, but she feels antipathy toward me anyway. That doesn’t make sense. When human behavior makes no sense, there is a supernatural cause. I think the spirit of antichrist turned her against me.

Should I say these things on a blog where there is some chance they could get back to her? I see no reason not to. I would say them to her directly. I am pretty much over the Southern curses of passive aggression and indirect speech.

Apart from a very short visit for my dad’s viewing, I haven’t been to Eastern Kentucky since 2007. It’s a rural ghetto full of backward racists who can’t control their emotions. It’s a place where anyone who tries to improve himself attracts hostility. There is nothing in Eastern Kentucky for decent people.

A long time ago, my relatives started having Thanksgiving and Christmas without my dad and me. We were not invited. On one occasion, during a phone call, my aunt started telling me what a great Thanksgiving she and my cousins had had, before she realized she was admitting we had been cut out.

I believe she chose money and possessions over me, and I see no hope of reconciliation. She is dying from Parkinson’s, so there isn’t much time for things to change.

I’m a Christian, so I don’t have much in common with her anyway.

She joined the Catholic church, which is not big in Kentucky. I can see why she joined. It’s all about the spirit of antichrist. It’s the “official” church. It has the fancy hats and robes. It has one of the world’s biggest celebrities, the socialist mid-IQ pope. It has the Vatican and the Renaissance art. It’s popular. It’s full of perverts in positions of authority. It promotes leftism. It lures people who crave society’s approval. It discourages contact with the Holy Spirit.

The most wonderful thing about Catholicism is that you can do whatever you want as long as you go to confession. You don’t have to repent. You just have to do penance, which is a joke. You can be a drug dealer. You can be a mobster. You can be in Congress and push for the murder of the unborn, and the pope will let you take communion.

Joining was a pretentious move, probably intended to make her look more sophisticated than the Baptists around her.

My mother was infatuated with Catholicism late in her life. Last night while my wife and I went through old things in order to clear out the house, I found a disturbing idol card featuring some old nut with a tonsure. We found some other idolatrous junk and put it in the trash.

I really hope my mother isn’t in hell, but women love pageantry and stained glass, and boy, do they love those popes. I warned her, but she seemed to have this feeling that the true church had to be the one with the cathedrals and nuns.

I can’t fix what I can’t fix. Once you’re dead, your fate is sealed forever, regardless of the nonsense Catholics teach. I can’t pray her out. I can’t buy her out. If she’s in hell, she belongs there, because she chose it, and there is nothing I will ever be able to do about it.

I don’t worry about it. My life is among the living, and I am trying to secure eternal life among the saved. I hope to see her in heaven, but if I don’t, I’ll still be among the people I should be with.

No one in heaven cries about the lost. Tears are for the earth and hell. Heaven can’t be heaven if the population consists of a tiny minority of human beings, nearly all of whom mourn perpetually for the remainder of humanity. Mothers in heaven don’t cry for their lost children. I guess they don’t remember them.

Things are going well here. My wife and I are having a truly wonderful time. The house is becoming orderly and spotless, room by room. We enjoy meals together. We spend a lot of time praying together. Today I took her to Bob Evans, Rural King, Bass Pro, and Target, so we are soaking up the rural American life. We both love it.

We don’t sit and nurse bitterness toward relatives who haven’t harmed us, or even toward the rest of our relatives, who are, sadly, pretty numerous. We don’t conspire to hold onto other people’s inheritances or bleed them to shore up our own children. We don’t worry about what people think of my obscure, long-dead grandparents or their wealth or legacy. We don’t post stuff on Facebook, hoping random people we have no reason to respect will admire us.

We are busy enjoying each other’s love and building a future.

She feels like she has lived here her whole life. I feel as though she had moved in 20 years ago. I won’t make predictions, but things are great right now.

When our paperwork comes together, we are going to take my grandfather’s last name, and I feel like naming our mixed-race son, if any, after him. I’m glad I won’t be a fly on the wall when certain relatives of mine hear about that.

Deserve’s Got Nothing to do With it

I am now 8 days into my experience as a passport bro whose wife has finally made it to the States.

“Passport bro” has a very loose definition. Fundamentally, it means any American man who passed up American women and married a foreigner, for any reason or combination of reasons. It’s a pejorative term, like “cradle-robber” (also me) and “gold digger.”

If you really want to make American women who don’t know anything about you furious, marry a woman who is younger or foreign. Many American women won’t care at all. The rest will hate you and your wife, as though you were personally responsible for the unfulfilled, much-deserved lives they and their awful friends, sisters, and mothers live.

Total strangers have said my wife was too young and pretty for me. WHOO HOO! I certainly hope so.

One lady who disapproves of us had a great husband she abused and abandoned, and she ended up bitter and alone. As an elderly, lonely leftist who will die single, she still feels qualified to offer marriage advice.

Come to think of it, a lot of female celebrities who tell young women what decisions to make are alone, miserable, whorish, addicted to drugs, and in some cases, mentally ill. “Don’t get married.” “Have kids out of wedlock.” “Make your sons wear dresses.” “Name your kids things like ‘Bronx’ and ‘Maddox.'”

Why do so many people take advice from individuals whose lives are dumpster fires?

Here’s something interesting: men don’t care at all about women marrying outside their countries. We don’t care about elderly women marrying younger, better-looking men, either, not that it happens much outside of Hollywood. We don’t care. We don’t think about it. Why the difference?

Women, on the other hand, get angry when they hear younger, prettier women they don’t know married old men they also don’t know and may not even want.

If any crabby single women I could never have married are reading, it was never a choice between you and someone prettier and younger. The choice was 1. someone I wanted or 2. being alone. If I were willing to marry someone who repelled me in order to avoid being alone, I’d have grandchildren by now.

A Jamaican girl I knew told me about rent-a-dreads. These are gigolos who roam the beaches of Jamaica. Single white women fly to Jamaica to find them, and they pay them for sex. I thought the story was funny, but I didn’t call the women predators or perverts, which is what many rejected women call passport bros.

I didn’t resent Jamaican man-whores for snapping up all the miserable middle-aged white women I didn’t want. Men generally don’t think that way. Black American men tend to be possessive of black women as a whole, but the rest of us are different.

Women are extremely hostile toward each other. That’s the problem. They are incredibly competitive for men and everything else. They have a zero-sum attitude. “What helps you hurts me.” This is why they can’t stand each other. It’s one of the weirdest aspects of human nature.

I’ve noticed that many women get upset when other women do well in any area of life. Women use this trait to torment each other.

I know a single woman who got upset when I mentioned Valentine’s Day and also when I spoke of a male friend who had a new romance. She let me know I was not to speak of these things. That was wild. If she had developed a wonderful relationship and gotten married, my friend and I would have been very happy about it.

Another person’s success isn’t your failure. If another person’s prayers are answered, yours may be answered, too.

I have an aunt who used to give my single sister endless, glowing updates on her grandchildren, all of whom are prodigies and superheroes, much like her son, who had to settle for one of the world’s worst law schools and went on to do mindless work as a low-level prosecutor who refers methheads to rehab all day. My understanding is that he is so lazy, he refused to do anything about the leaking roof on the house she gave him, so she had to have it replaced. Supposedly, she is willing the house to his kids instead of him because she thinks he won’t take care of it. He’s not the guy she held him out to be.

I never thought much about my aunt’s stories, but my sister told me she was telling them because she wanted to make the rest of us miserable. Women understand women. In my sister’s case, it seems to have worked.

When my aunt used to tell me whoppers about her grandchildren, all I thought was, “Wow, this is boring.”

Well, that’s not all I thought. I also thought, “How can she not know I don’t believe this stuff?”

Everyone in her family was the light of the world. Her son was a philosopher and the new Leibniz (a name he would have to look up). Her daughter was going to be Miss Kentucky. Her son-in-law could pick musical instruments up and play them without lessons. Her grandsons had x-ray vision, at least one could fly, and their fingerpainting had attracted the attention of the National Gallery and Livermore labs.

If I had to guess, these kids aren’t extremely bright. They’re probably smart; somewhere in the pleasant intelligence band most lawyers come from. I don’t know them, but I am qualified to guess because I know my aunt.

She told me her son had been admitted by the University of Michigan Law School (top 10), and then I found out it was WESTERN Michigan, AKA the Cooley Law School, generally held to be the single worst law school in the US. No exaggeration. It’s famous. Instead of the top 10, he was admitted to #199 out of 199.

If you can fog a mirror, you’re in. Michael Cohen is a Cooley grad.

If there had ever been any evidence these kids were brilliant or even just Mensa material, I would have heard about it. Early and often. She worked very hard to turn dubious anecdotes into proof of transcendent genius, so if an actual test score had popped up, it would be on a billboard.

She bragged about her daughter’s second husband, the anaesthesiologist. Turns out he’s really a NURSE. She took a respected profession that looks very good to most people and made it look like an utter failure the family was trying to hide. Thanks to my aunt, I never think of him as a accomplished nurse anaesthetist, which is how I would see him had she told the truth. I think of him as a guy who couldn’t get into medical school.

For years, I thought he was a doctor. My aunt used that word.

He’s probably a fantastic person, but his unpaid publicist is not doing him any favors.

She told me her daughter and the doctor lived in a historic mansion among millionaires. One day I was thinking about all the BS I had heard, so I got curious and looked them up. They have a very nice but ordinary house worth considerably less than a million. No NBA star will ever want it; I’ll put it that way. It would seem like a wonderful house to me, except I was expecting Mar-a-Lago.

Her second husband’s granddaughter managed to make it to the first round of one of those talent-search shows several years ago. My aunt got to sit in the audience, so her sans-microphone face was on TV for less than the length of a bull ride. She got to meet Jim Stafford or Shabba Doo or whoever it was that hosted the show. I, a person who hadn’t watched network TV regularly in maybe 15 years, got to hear about that. You would think the entire family had performed a Super Bowl halftime show. My best guess: the girl went back to singing in small bars, like 99% of professional pop musicians.

Let’s see. Just now, I managed to remember enough of her name to find her on Google. Her Instagram fan page has 45 followers. I think you get that many spam followers just for signing up. Last update: two years before coronavirus. So she quit. Well, that’s smart. A lot of stubborn people of modest gifts spend their autumn years playing in roadhouses. Maybe she went to college. And studied nursing. Another doctor in the making.

To get back on topic, men like women. Women like men. Men like men. Women can’t get along with women. This is why lesbians have the shortest, rockiest relationships of any group. It must be hard being a lesbian, because women want long relationships and security more than men, and lesbians fight like crazy and break up over and over.

I guess when there are two people in a relationship, and both give the cold shoulder at once, which is what many women do, it turns into a death spiral. A man will go to an angry woman and try to start a conversation. A woman will sulk behind a locked door until the sun dies.

I had an eccentric history teacher named Morgan Kelly, and he lied all the time, but he told us one thing that was true. He said the Chinese character for “woman” could mean different things. Used once, it meant “woman.” Used twice, it meant “quarrel.” Too funny. The web says modern Chinese people have stopped using the quarrel symbol, which shows the truth hit home in some quarters.

Many women lose their minds when men they used to be involved with date or get married, or even when they just go on with life and enjoy it.

I am enjoying life. I’m not doing it to torment anyone, though.

I say that as a joke, but it wouldn’t be funny if there weren’t some ugly truths behind it. There are people who live to brag, not to make themselves feel good, but to depress and humiliate others. If Americans were anything like the people they pretend to be on Facebook, we could legitimately be said to be the master race.

Now that I think about it, I guess I have hurt some people very badly with my few small successes in life. When something good happens to me, I never think, “This will really break so-and-so’s heart!” But some hearts must have been broken. It wouldn’t necessarily take much. It used to break my middle-aged sister’s heart when I rode in the front seat of the car instead of the back. Made her furious.

Envy is pretty bad. It’s Satan’s sin. “I will be like the most high.” He hates God for being above him. He hates us for being born later, being smaller, weaker, less beautiful, and less intelligent, and being promoted above him while he waits to roast and squeal in the lake of fire. People who are envious wish others ill and try to harm them when those they envy are blameless. Envy is the heart of leftism.

Life as a passport bro is good so far. It’s not like there are any big surprises. Before my wife arrived, we had spent around 6 weeks together abroad, and we had a practice of doing video chat twice a day.

If there is anything disappointing about our new arrangement, it’s that it feels like we have been living here together for decades. You would think we would both be ecstatic because we were finally together in our house, but it was more like a couple who had been married for 20 years came home after separate vacations.

Some changes are requiring mental adjustments. I can’t do everything I used to do. For example, I have been informed I get out of the car too fast. My routine is park, neutral, shut down, open door, jump out. I would guess this takes under two seconds. Now it’s neutral, shut down, stare at wife until makeup is done.

I am also not permitted to wear T-shirts with holes in them. I did not see that coming. And I have to keep an eye on the trash to see which treasured items the wife has thrown out. She threw out the boxes for some cameras and accessories, and I had to rescue them. She threw out my saddle soap!

I’m becoming my grandfather. My grandmother took some of his clothes and put them on a scarecrow, and he drove to the field and took them back down.

My wife threw out some jeans that had bleach spots on them. Who does that?

My beloved queen-sized mattress is on the way out. It’s from Costco. It’s perfect for me. It’s a joy. Back in my fornication days, I never had problems sharing a queen-sized mattress. Now, I am told it’s way too small. Yeah; trying staying on your side. How about that? That’s what I’ll tell her. One of these days.

I fixed a beautiful stuffed turkey on Thursday, and she refused to eat the stuffing. Some kind of mental block I don’t comprehend. I had not been aware that stuffing phobias existed.

You would think affluent people would be more likely to have food phobias because they would be sheltered, but it seems the opposite is true. I’ve noticed that people who grew up poor are more likely to have hangups about food. I dated a girl who could not eat anything resembling a sausage, and she also refused to go near Chinese food.

My master bath was very clean before my wife got here, except the shower needed a good application of scum remover in some areas. She’s in there now anyway, sterilizing the whole room.

On the up side, I don’t do dishes or laundry any more. PASSPORT BRO FOR LIFE!

Also, she is willing to get a recliner couch. That’s every man’s dream. I think they’re a little tacky, but when you sit on one, you forget about all that. I don’t think I would be able to make myself buy one if I lived here alone, because I would think, “God gave you this nice house, and you put a recliner couch in the living room.” But if she’s for it, I think I can forgive myself.

We went to three furniture stores yesterday, primarily to look for a kitchen table that isn’t available at Home Depot. I would guess we saw 200 recliners. I was shocked. I have a couple of recliners already. I got my dad a cheap Chinese lift recliner when he was dealing with dementia, and I got a big Barcalounger for the upstairs rec room. I looked around my area before going online, but all I saw was a disappointing La-Z-Boy store. I didn’t check the regular furniture stores. That’s when I found out how popular recliners are here.

We laugh all the time. We are getting a lot of prayer in. She gets along with Marvin. Things are going to be okay. The rest of my life may be very trying for envious people.

Blessed

My wife and I are waiting for our first Thanksgiving turkey to come out of the oven.

I bone and stuff my turkeys. These days, the nannies of the world frown on stuffing the way they started frowning on non-neutered dogs in about 1980. For centuries, people stuffed birds and baked them, and all was good. Then we started hearing about salmonella and so on.

There are sites that say stuffed turkey is unsafe. Not really true, but making things worse, some also say stuffed turkey doesn’t taste as good. They say stuffing has to reach 165° in order to be safe, and they claim that by the time the stuffing is that hot, the turkey is dry.

Ridiculous.

I’m not sure why so many Thanksgiving turkeys come out dry, but my informed guess is that it’s because most people can’t cook.

When I shop for turkeys, I buy whatever the store has. Frozen, fresh, cheap, expensive, organic, chemically-enhanced…whatever. It doesn’t matter. They always come out perfect, so why look for a particular product?

If your turkey is dry, you probably cooked it at too high a temperature. It’s no wonder people do this. The Internet is full of sites mentioning figures like 350° and 425°. I would expect problems, too, if I were crazy enough to cook birds at temperatures like that.

I cook turkeys at 200° to 250°, depending on how I feel. Low and slow cooking doesn’t dry out the meat, and it makes it more tender. I take the bones out, season the meat, sew the bird up so it can hold stuffing, cram the stuffing in, sew it up, season the outside, plop it in a pan on a rack, cover it with foil, and put it in the oven.

When the stuffing gets up around 155°, I remove the foil and turn the heat up to brown the skin.

It works. It’s not brain surgery. Although it kind of is turkey surgery.

I use dental floss and an upholstery needle to do the sewing.

I’m no microbiologist, but I’m pretty sure a turkey’s important bacteria will die at 165° regardless of how long it took the turkey to get that hot. Maybe slow cooking encourages them to breed more energetically during roasting, but if they all die at 165°, what difference does it make?

I slow-cook all sorts of stuff. Barbecue that isn’t slow-cooked is disgusting. It’s like rubber. Barbecue was invented to make cheap, tough meat soft and tasty. The FDA lets restaurants do it. If it’s safe to eat a pork butt that took 12 hours to cook at 225°, it seems to me I should be able to eat a turkey that cooks for 4 hours at about the same temperature.

Anyway, no one has died so far, and a good stuffed turkey is worth a certain amount of gastrointestinal distress. And you have to die of something. Sooner or later.

Listen. They have antibiotics now.

Suddenly things that didn’t cause problems are considered dangerous. Shut up and let me eat my paint chips in peace.

I made pecan pie and sweet potato pie, as I wrote yesterday. I think next time I may add some pumpkin to the sweet potato pie, to get the best of both worlds. I hope I did okay.

I made green beans with homemade salt pork. I cured it and smoked it myself. I simmered the beans nearly to death and then put them in the fridge. They’re always better the next day.

I made cranberry relish. I used to think I used pretty much the same recipe as everyone else, but Googling suggests I do not. I chop the berries up with oranges and pecans, and then I pour in cherry Jell-O and sugar. I also add Grand Marnier. I don’t cook the berries.

It has worked well so far, but I think it’s pretty hard to mess up cranberry relish.

I still have to make mashed potatoes and yams. After that, I am done.

We will be drinking Korbel brut. When I was in college, I considered this my cheap champagne for nights when I was not feeling picky, but it seems like it’s way better now, so I don’t see much point in buying French. I like it better than Cordon Rouge for sure.

The only concern now is whether my wife likes American Thanksgiving food. Even if I make it well, there is no guarantee it will suit her.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that they have as much to thank God for as I have.

Finally, Thanksgiving at Home

We are getting ready for our second Thanksgiving together. Last year, we ate at Lawry’s in Singapore, and it was expensive and not very good. Is this because Singaporeans can’t cook American food, or is it because Lawry’s is a bad chain? I don’t know, but I am suspicious of Lawry’s. They serve steamed peas as a side dish, which makes you wonder if they have read a competing menu since 1938.

They served lumpy creme brulee. It’s not a hard dish to make correctly.

I made a pecan pie, and I have a sweet potato pie in the oven. Why not pumpkin pie, like my mother and grandmother? The simple fact is that pumpkin pie is not as good. It’s exactly the same thing, made with a vegetable that isn’t as tasty.

I don’t really understand why pumpkin pie exists. Think of all the better pies. Apple. Key lime. Cherry. Peach. Blueberry. Coconut cream. Cheesecake is a type of pie. It’s a pie people eat out of a sense of obligation. No one orders pumpkin pie in October.

I would guess that most people who have never had sweet potato pie would think it was pumpkin pie upon trying it. They would think somebody had finally made a good pumpkin pie.

I don’t have my own sweet potato pie recipe, so I found the Libby’s pumpkin pie recipe, substituted yams 1:1, I added a couple of things. I put in a tiny bit of nutmeg, some vanilla, and a tablespoon of butter. Butter should be in everything.

Is it wrong to drink the leftover batter? I’m not saying I would do that. But would it be wrong?

Definitely not saying I just did it.

I use the pecan recipe from the Karo bottle, but I add bourbon. Makes a big difference.

I should make my own pie crusts, but I don’t. Not for obligatory pies.

I think the recipe is too hot. It calls for 375°. At this temperature, your crust will burn. When I saw my crust getting dark, I threw a sheet of foil over it. It stuck in one place, but the pie is okay.

Next time, I plan to watch the pie to see how it’s doing, and I’ll drop the temperature to 300° when the crust starts to scare me. There are really only two things you have to do when you make pies of the custard family: brown the crust and firm up the batter. You can firm up the batter at 200° if it makes you happy. There is nothing magical about 375°. You can make fantastic creme brulee at 205° with no water bath. I think bakers use water baths because they’re in a hurry.

Later, I will be fixing green beans with salt pork. They always taste better the second day. I’ll also put some cranberry relish and cornbread dressing together.

Tomorrow, I have to get up and bone the turkey. Then I’ll cram it full of dressing, throw it in the oven, and hope for the best.

I’ll be using a lot of dry white wine in the food. What a difference it makes. But when I suggest it to people, they wrinkle their noses. People want exactly what their mothers made, no matter how bad it is. My friend Mike eats canned cranberry sauce. Sometimes I miss my mom’s spaghetti, which had chili powder in it.

Thanksgiving will seem strange. For the first time, I’ll be celebrating in an environment containing only Spirit-led Christians who can appreciate the purpose of the holiday.

I don’t know if my wife will get the full benefit of the experience, because she has never had traditional American Thanksgiving food. For all I know, she won’t like any of it. But we’ll be together, thanking God, and we won’t be eating restaurant food that is, objectively, substandard.

She is tearing the house up. The sudden cleanliness and order are intimidating.

It will take time to get used to having someone do things for me, without being resentful or keeping score on me. It feels odd, especially in a world of man-hating feminists who are miserable because they bought into one of history’s great lies. I’m no feminist, but I have nagging feelings: “Shouldn’t I clean that up? Is it really okay to just sit here?” I dismiss them.

My wife didn’t have thoughts like that while I was fixing the sinks. Feminism is a one-edged sword. Men are brainwashed to do what wives used to do, but women are not expected to fix sinks, kill spiders, open their own jars, or shoot burglars.

I have never seen a marriage that was in proper order. I’ve seen whiny, unsatisfied women. I’ve seen self-centered men who were like middle-aged frat boys. I’ve seen Christians repeat Satanic marriage doctrine, speaking of men as though we were somehow defective and in need of a redesign. I’ve seen women who pretended to be glad they were able to live their dreams, working in fungible, modestly-paid positions in Dilbertian cubicles with their forgotten liberal arts degrees. I never saw one who turned out to be Amelia Earhart or Wonder Woman, the way feminists say they will.

“Thank you, Betty Friedan, because I get to sit in a cubicle, living out scenes from Office Space every day! Thank God an unvetted Mexican with a 6th-grade education is raising my kids while I shuffle folders and look for ways to torpedo all the other women at my job! Thank God I aborted the burdensome children I conceived while trying unsuccessfully to convince men to marry me. I’m so glad I will never see them grow up!” No woman who is honest has ever felt like saying that.

I’ve known all sorts of women who saw 30 coming and realized they had blown it. You can see a lot of women like that on Youtube. Search for videos about women “hitting the wall.” They enter the workplace at 22 or 25, and before they get beyond entry-level, they’re 30, and their fertility is tanking precipitously. And they are competing with women the better part of a decade younger.

Men like youth. It’s the best cosmetic. There is no substitute. And the way women put out these days, men don’t have much incentive to marry their old girlfriends. They milk the cow until the wall looms up, and then they bail out and trade up.

Since leaving college, I have probably Googled girls I knew fewer than 5 times, and I don’t mean women I wished I had dated or married, because there weren’t any like that. I just wondered if such women could possibly be married. I found them easy to find. Generally, they still had their maiden names.

I went to Columbia University, where 2020 arrived in about 1975. The women were horrible. Perpetually enraged. Landmines that blew up and spewed sexist hate when men got too close. Now I can Google them and find out how they have done, alone, with no kids, in jobs where their legacies mean about as much as the legacy I leave when I check out of a Hampton Inn.

Sometimes I wonder if any college girl* from the Northeast has ever married (a man**) and had children***.

We have a shot at a normal marriage.

No human being can make a marriage work, so I am doing what I can to turn everything over to God. There is no possibility either of us could make it work on our own.

* XX or “actual” woman
** XY or “actual” man
*** not cats

Plus the End of Candace Owens

In case anyone is wondering how my life is going now that my wife is a resident of the United States, I am here to let you know. Exactly what you would expect is happening. She is in the process of throwing out everything I hold dear.

Slight exaggeration.

Today, she pulled all the drawers out of my awful dresser, and she has been using a HEPA-filter vacuum to suck the dust out of the dresser itself. The contents of the dresser are all over the room. Hope there was nothing incriminating in there.

We went to a ritzy restaurant as soon as we got away from the airport. Of course, I am referring to White Castle. I thought she might be too tired after around 40 hours of traveling, but she insisted. Sadly, it turned out she didn’t like it as much Shake Shack, so we failed to knock off our bag of 10 cheese sliders.

I did my part.

A friend of mine needed a place to stop on a trip to Miami with his kids. His grandmother raised him, and he was on the way to her funeral. They met my wife on the way back. I made pizza both times.

The kids cleaned up my downstairs. I have no idea why they enjoy doing that, but I don’t exactly discourage it.

My wife is finally caught up on sleep, and this is why she is going over the house. I am trying to look involved. I changed the P-traps under two sinks. They were leaking. The character who installed them used something that looked like a combination of plumber’s putty and pipe dope. Here’s what you’re supposed to apply: nothing. I put a little Teflon grease on the threads, though.

I believe he used a pipe wrench to tighten the joints. They’re supposed to be hand-tight. They were torn up, and I had to exert myself to get them off.

I also took one of the horrible Chinese casters off Marvin’s cage and checked the threads. I have 4 much-better casters on the way. If we’re going to fix up the house, we have to fix Marv’s house as well.

We have Thanksgiving supplies laid in, and I am making cornbread for dressing. I’m making a lot of bacon because I need 3/4 of a cup of grease.

She has been tearing strips of bacon in tiny bits and eating them one at a time. Why do women do that? I told her she knew she was going to eat the whole strip, so she should quit fooling herself. She said, “You’re so vicious.” Then she ate more.

Our plan is to fix the bedroom, living room, and kitchen before anything else. My adored queen size mattress may be exiled to a guest room.

We’ll have to hit Orlando soon, because that’s where the real stores are. I hope the spending tsunami starts to abate by New Year’s.

I have been reading the news. It looks like Candace Owens has decided to murder her own career. Is it admirable, because she’s saying what she thinks is true, regardless of the cost, or is it just ridiculous, because she hasn’t spent two minutes verifying the things she says before buying herself a one-way ticket back to nowhere?

She seems to think Israel is an apartheid state, and she made an ambiguous remark about genocide which seemed to be intended to justify criticisms of Israel.

She said something nutty. She said Jerusalem’s Arab Quarter was the place where Arabs were “allowed to live.” Really insane. As a whole lot of other commentators have remarked since she made her claim, Arabs can live wherever they want in Israel. They hold Knesset seats They serve in the IDF.

The Arab Quarter is pretty small. It holds a small percentage of Israel’s Arabs. This is not classified information. How could an otherwise-bright woman fail to check this out before tying an anvil to her leg and diving into the Ann Coulter abyss?

By “Ann Coulter abyss,” I mean the hole where smart pundits go when they go off the rails publicly.

Owens appears to think the Arab-Jewish conflict is a spat between two peoples, each of which has major legitimate grievances. She seems to think Israeli’s Jews are foreign oppressors who showed up one day and decided to throw Israel’s bona fide historical occupants out, and she doesn’t seem to have any idea how differently Jews and Arabs in the Middle East have treated each other.

Every adult in the US should read a recent article about the rapes that have occurred since October 7. Muslims have raped girls, women, and old ladies repeatedly in more than one orifice. They have broken pelvises. While one victim was being gang-raped, a Muslim sliced her breast off and took it around for others to play with. One Israeli was raped standing up, and while the Muslim was still inside her, he shot her through the skull.

You can go online and see at least one Jewish captive with huge blood stains on the back of her pants and between her legs.

Close your eyes and try as hard as you can to picture Jews doing this.

Yes, Jews have killed civilians. While trying as hard as possible not to. On the other hand, they haven’t deliberately set fire to living babies. I doubt you will be able to find any stories about Jews cutting babies out of women and beheading them while their umbilical cords still tied them to their mothers, but at least one Muslim did that during the terrorist raid.

Antisemitic Muslims are not like Jews. They have equalled the barbarism of the Nazis and the imperialist Japanese.

I keep calling them “Muslims,” not “Hamas,” because their religion is what caused all this. Islam is a religion of murder, torture, rape, slavery, theft, and pillage. It encourages its adherents to do the kinds of things we have seen them do this year.

If Hamas itself were the big problem, we wouldn’t have a slew of other Muslim terrorist groups, and Hamas would not win elections in Gaza by overwhelming margins.

Islam got its start as a protection racket. It’s a shame people don’t know this. Look it up. Mohammed’s new religion was going nowhere, but one day he decided to tell Muslims they were free to raid the towns of infidels and do pretty much what they just did in Israel. People converted not because God opened their eyes and confirmed Mohammed’s ravings, but because they were terrified of their terrorist neighbors, and also because they wanted to be able to do to others what Muslims had done to them.

On October 7, many Muslims celebrated their religion’s origins.

I have never hopped on the Candace Owens bandwagon. I’m relieved I can say that. I saw her saying things I thought were immature and obnoxious, and after that, I didn’t really care whether she was right on the issues. I saw her as a person I did’t want to endorse wholeheartedly. I liked some things she said, but that was as far as it went.

I don’t see politicians or self-anointed pundits as our saviors. It is often enjoyable to see them put leftists in their places, but conservatism per se is not what the world needs. It needs the unity that comes from the Holy Spirit. Conservatism isn’t the answer to our problems. Holy-Spirit-led Christianity is the answer to our problems, and conservatism is just an essential and natural by-product.

Here is one thing I like about watching Candace Owens out herself: it shows how blind intelligent people can be. Conservatives keep telling themselves that if they out-argue and out-meme the facially idiotic left, eventually enough people will come to their senses to bring us victory in the voting booth. It’s not true. If brains and logic mattered that much, nearly all Jews would believe Yeshua was the Messiah and God.

People are subject to supernatural blindness. Only the Holy Spirit can enable you to know the truth. If you’re not full of the Holy Spirit, you’re full of other spirits, and they deceive. They may give you part of the truth, plus some toxic adulterants, but overall, you will be blind.

Candace Owens doesn’t know the Holy Spirit, so in spite of her intelligence and general knowledge, she believes things so stupid a 5-year-old can debunk them in two minutes.

We are swimming in a sea of demonic deception, and only a tiny number of us are hearing the truth from the Holy Spirit.

Ben Shapiro and David Horowitz are done with Candace Owens. They think she’s ridiculous. She is, but so are they. They can’t figure out who their Messiah is. Who is more blind?

Maybe she got her ideas from other black people. No one is willing to talk about the huge problem of black antisemitism. Who knows what Owens heard from her parents and grandparents when she was young? She used to be a leftist. Maybe she hasn’t rejected all the mythology and libel.

The deception is going to get worse, and it will be everywhere. People need to understand this. You can argue and meme all you want. You might as well try to describe sunshine to a rock.

“Your Package has Been Shipped”

My wife is somewhere over Africa, telling stewardesses they’re too slow with her champagne. I expect to be having burgers and fries with her some time tomorrow.

Things are going quite well here. One of my best friends was raised by his grandmother, and she just passed away, so he and his kids had to spend the night here on the way to her funeral. His kids seem to be from another planet. They’re polite. They don’t break things. I have to keep telling them to talk LOUDER. Also, they cleaned my house.

I don’t know why they do this, but it happens every time they show up. I would be happy even if they came alone and left Dad at home.

I was dreading cleaning up the man-filth in preparation for trying to fool my wife about how neat I am before she takes over. Now I don’t have to do it.

We had a fantastic day yesterday. We hit Sonny’s BBQ and filled up on ribs. Every restaurant has off days, normal days, and on days. Sonny’s had an on day. The ribs were perfect. For dinner, I made two Sicilian pizzas. One cheese and one pepperoni.

I spent a lot of time talking to my friend’s only son. He has a tough life. Three sisters still in the house.

He started telling me how he loved my computer. I know little about it. I decided I wanted to make Youtube videos, so I found a guy online, telling people which parts to buy to build a suitable PC for a reasonable price. I bought the parts and built the PC. That’s all I know.

Evidently, it’s a gaming PC. I did not know this. Gaming and editing video require similar capabilities.

He knew all about the motherboard and graphics card.

It turned out he had a lot of tech interests. I told him about Arduino and Adafruit. I told him about soldering stations and so on. Maybe the next time I’ll see him, he’ll bring a homemade communications satellite.

Very smart kid.

He’s also conservative, which is not something you see a lot in junior high kids. We talked politics, and I told him stuff I had learned about God.

These kids are so quiet, I never know what’s happening in their lives, so it was a real revelation, conversing with him.

Things are going well for me, but America is not merely circling the drain; it already has one leg in it. This week, many Americans are on the web claiming Osama bin Laden, the mass-murdering idiot behind the deaths of over 3,000 innocent occupants of the World Trade Center (including Muslims), was right.

I’ll post more about that later.

I should hear from the little woman after 5 p.m today, and the next window of opportunity will come tomorrow morning. After that, Orlando in the afternoon.

I am not ready to shift into real married life. I have spent about two months with my wife, but we were always on vacation in exotic places. I have become very good at phone marriage and sending money. Having someone here all the time will be different.

The phone, immigration matters, and trip arrangements have been our chief activities for a long time. When she’s here, we can forget all that. So what will we do?

Fixing up the house and my wife’s wardrobe will kill a little time. After that, we will have to deal with freedom.

It’s a good problem to have. Some people have to get up every day and spend 10 hours trying to sell Bud Light.

I’ll continue the post during the next flight so I can express my thoughts about the bin Laden letter.

MORE

My wife had to make a connection in a country that gives Hamas billions, and even though I know that country has no idea who I am or where my wife is, I feel more at ease completing this post now that she is somewhere else.

Bin Laden wrote a ridiculous letter to America, and people are urging others to read it, claiming it proves he was actually a good guy and we were the problem.

Some highlights:

The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its price, and pay for it heavily.

Right away, you can see that this letter is a scary, revealing litmus test. If you agree with bin Laden after reading the above citation, you are a Jew-hater. It’s possible for a person who does not hate Jews to believe Israel has done bad or unwise things from time to time, but if you want to erase the Jewish nation, which is legitimate, and abuse everyone involved in supporting it, you hate Jews.

[Y]ou have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah.

Well, we have the Torah, and it does promise all the land in “Palestine” (a non-historical nation) to the Jews. We have copies that predate the birth of the pedophile rapist Mohammed, who was born in the 500’s. Muslims don’t have a “real Torah” to show us. They do have the groundless ravings that form their own scripture. The same scriptures that mandate the killing of Jews and Christians, not just in Mohammed’s time, but forever.

Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad

Yeshua received worship and said he was the Messiah, so obviously, Muslims don’t “believe in” him. The Old Testament clearly says the Messiah is God, not just an anointed servant, so when Yeshua said he was the Messiah, he was claiming to be God. If you don’t believe this, you don’t “believe in” Yeshua.

When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them.

How did Jerusalem “return” to Islam when it had never been a Muslim city? The Muslims invaded Jerusalem in the same century in which the thief and murderer Mohammed made Islam up. Mohammed’s efforts to create Islam are said to have started in 610, and Jerusalem was invaded and taken over by Muslim imperialists and slavers in 638.

You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque

The Jews held Jerusalem for thousands of years, including times when they lived under occupation. Islam’s claim is based on a dream someone supposedly had about an unnamed mosque in an unnamed location. And Israelis are not planning to destroy the mosque. It will be wonderful when Yeshua finally destroys this den of idolatry, but the Israelis are content to leave it alone.

Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians.

Torture is actually a Muslim thing, just like chopping hands off without anaesthetic, which they do every week. Israelis don’t torture as policy, and soldiers who do it on their own are removed from their posts and sometimes imprisoned, but when Hamas attacked civilians in Israel this year, they printed a torture manual and sent it with their cowardly murderers. As for killing, that’s normal when people are making war on you and rejecting peace offers.

And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.

I think he means, “”whoever has killed our civilians reluctantly and unintentionally, while making a great effort to spare them, at a high cost in lives to their own military, often while we have used our civilians as human shields, then we have the right to kill theirs deliberately, in huge numbers, using means banned by all recognized standards of civilized warfare, and we also get to torture and rape them.”

The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question: Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?

Actually, those questions have been answered about a billion times. We attacked in New York because they tried to blow the World Trade Center up by detonating a huge bomb in the parking garage, hoping to murder as many innocent, defenseless civilians as possible, in conformity with their official policy.

Bin Laden said Al Qaeda was calling victim nations to Islam. Funny how dumb Americans, virtually all of them leftists, are excited about the religion which will execute them SOONER than conservatives.

We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling’s, and trading with interest.

Evidently, people of honor set fire to living babies, and they cut babies out of pregnant women and behead them, without even cutting umbilical cords. That’s Al Qaeda honor. In Gaza, they throw homosexuals off tall buildings, so “Queers for Palestine” must be a base-jumping club.

[T]he Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.

I have no idea what Ben Franklin said. I know my life is not controlled by Jews. Even the Jew I worship permits me to do what I want.

Anyone who thinks there is a big Jewish conspiracy should round up a hundred Jews and try to get them to agree on ONE THING. It’s impossible. If there were a Jewish conspiracy, we would see some sign of it in, hello, the government of Israel, which is constantly plagued by disunity.

The Jewish conspiracy is certainly doing a great job of making the media side with Israel; every day, I see articles blaming Israel for the deaths of civilians Hamas uses as human shields. It’s like the entire press industry has turned into Al Jazeera.

If this is what a Jew-dominated press looks like, what would it look like if Jews backed off? “MATZOH PRICES DROP DUE TO INCREASED AVAILABILITY OF PALESTINIAN BLOOD.”

You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.

So leftists support a guy who wants to ban drugs and alcohol. Try and imagine a world in which leftists could not get these things. The Betty Ford Clinic would have to set up FEMA tents. The entertainment industry would cease to exist.

You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.

That’s a little weird, given the common Muslim practice of marrying first cousins. Bin Laden married his cousin. Incest hasn’t been spreading in America, but give it time. Post-gay-marriage-revolution, some here have noted that there is no biological reason to prevent gay marriages between relatives, and then there are incestuous couples in which at least one partner is sterile. Leftists will be the first to march for the changes, so how can any leftist support a Muslim extremist? They think Mike Johnson is dangerous because he believes the Bible.

You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly.

So leftists, who gave us the term “sex worker” to replace the accurate term “whore,” support a guy who is against making money from sex.

Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.

AIDS came from Africa, and when did leftists suddenly become okay with linking AIDS to sin? I mean, it’s correct, but leftists lose their minds when you dispute the idea that people who got this venereal disease aren’t heroes.

People who did their best to get AIDS got a quilt, but nobody got a trophy for syphilis. Where is the syphilis quilt?

You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war.

Japan was ready to cause the greatest bloodbath the world had ever known, and it was already off to a great start with little projects like the Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March. They taught women and kids to fight invaders with pointed sticks. They were ready to resist down to the last person. When the government decided to surrender, the military tried to stage a coup in order to keep the war going. It took TWO bombs to end the war because Japan kept fighting after one city was reduced to radioactive ruins.

We all know how easy it is to get ignorant leftists to believe fake history, though. They still think white people invented slavery, and they won’t admit most black slaves were bought from black traders. This information has been concealed from them in things called “books.” It’s no wonder they think the Japanese were the good guys.

The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only

We had a black president, we have numerous black billionaires, and Muslims still enslave blacks, but okay. Leftists don’t read, and they discard obvious facts, so no problem.

Regarding nuclear weapons:

Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.

Wow. Wonder why that is. We let you get your hands on two passenger planes, and look what you did. You shouldn’t be allowed to have matches. But leftists who stare at Tiktok all day and think Kim Kardashian should be president believe you.

Tiktokers are claiming we need to read this letter, and they say, “It’s only two pages long.” It’s more like 15 pages long. Who is paying them?

The sudden adoption of hell-resident bin Laden’s beliefs should disturb Americans who aren’t crazy. My fear is that antisemitism has suddenly become fashionable. I think it will be like gay marriage: almost universally opposed one day but coercively, overwhelmingly, oppressively supported the next. I don’t think Jews have years time left to prepare. I think months are all they can hope for, and months aren’t enough. Christians–real ones–will be targeted for genocide next.

The letter is exposing a lot of de facto Nazis of whom we would otherwise be aware.

This is a good time to bring the wife to the armed, fenced Northern Florida compound. I’ll give her a lasered pistol to carry. We’ll get her going with an AK-47 of her very own. I already told her it was hers. We’ll get her a carry permit so she can carry in other states. We’ll pray like crazy and dedicate ourselves to the one who keeps us safe. Maybe we’ll get some dry food. The tiny pawn shop where I pick up guns is selling bagged meals, three for 10 dollars.

I visited the other day, and I have mixed emotions about it. On the positive side, the place was busy handing guns over to people who had had them shipped in, so people here appear to be taking a productive attitude, and that’s reflective of the culture here.

I saw a nice old lady talking about gun classes and various aspects of gun ownership. She was very enthusiastic and seemed to know a lot. The kind of person you would expect to be preparing for Thanksgiving dinner with her grandchildren right now. A guy who worked in the store had a $10,000 M249S on the counter. An old guy from California came and picked up a piece, proving some people have the good sense to leave the state. I was only there about 35 minutes, and I guess 5 guns were picked up.

On the down side, they were selling those dried meals. A sign of well-founded pessimism. Guns can help you prevent disaster. When you’re eating freeze-dried food, disaster has already come.

Another shop I’ve used has a Ma Deuce in the showroom. Probably still ready to rock, full auto. They’re that kind of people. It’s an impressive weapon for a civilian to have. It will lay down a wall of lead, one round will tear a limb off, it’s unusually good for shooting through vehicles, and you can scope it and hit terrorists a very long way off. They splatter. Horrific.

It will be hard imposing sharia law in that shop.

God, not firearms, is my protection, but I don’t see any reason to invite problems through lack of ordinary preparedness. I mean, I own an umbrella. I don’t stand outside in the rain and pray the drops miss me.

The plane is on the way. Before the sun sets tomorrow, my wife and I will be at White Castle.

Mail-Order Bride Shipping Arrangements Made

Thanks, everyone who prayed for my wife to get her visa. They gave it to her this afternoon in Lusaka.

It’s an annoying story. They promised a response within 5 business days and then made us wait two weeks. It’s actually worse than that, because they didn’t do anything at all that we are aware of until she showed up yesterday at the embassy to find out what was going on.

I think they would have let our application go for weeks had she not visited the embassy. I believe we would still be waiting, and I also think she could have gotten the visa last week if she had gone earlier to shake them up.

She had a dream this morning. She was at her grandmother’s house, and a tall Arab dressed in white traditional clothes showed up and bombed the place. Somehow she knew he belonged to her church and attended regularly.

He had arrived on a private plane, and he left on one. He had authority behind him. He was rich.

It sounds bad, but her relatives on her dad’s side curse her and each other all the time. It’s a popular pastime in Zambia. When something good happens to someone in your family, you kill a chicken or whatever and curse them.

The immigration system is weird, as anyone who has seen luxury hotels full of illegals could tell you. I had to pay a new immigration fee today in order to get the green card processed. They should give you a green card when you get your visa, but they make you pay separately.

Looking for flights is annoying. We want her to go business class this one time in her life (until I croak). For $7000, I can get a somewhat better selection. For $5000 or less, I get a research project.

Orbitz offers a bunch of acceptable flights, but when you select one, it disappears or increases in price by a sizeable factor.

Skyscanner is supposedly one of the best flight sites now. We have also used Kayak a lot.

I found an acceptable flight, so we are all set.

Guess it’s time to shop for a turkey.

God Bless the Government

I guess the 4 people who read this blog are now wondering why my wife isn’t here in my house. I wrote some stuff suggesting she was going to arrive a while back.

New immigrants have to get visas in order to enter the US. Unless they’re criminal or terrorists who just walk across the border and then get many thousands of dollars’ worth of our money in order to help them remain here and burden us. Legal immigrants who do everything right have to be interviewed at American embassies or consulates. Generally, they get their visas within a few days of their interviews. Interview Monday, visa by the following Monday.

We were scheduled for an interview that was to take place almost a month ago. Then the embassy fired a bunch of employees for corruption, and perhaps not coincidentally, our appointment was postponed 10 days. She went to the appointment, they asked for a little more evidence to prove we were sincere, and they said they would get back to her within 5 business days of receiving it.

That was over two weeks ago. We emailed to ask if anything was wrong, and we got no answer. Today she went to the embassy to check on her application, and she was told to show up tomorrow at 2 p.m. “for collection.” This presumably means she is to collect her visa and green card, but she didn’t ask for clarification.

Barring the kind of miracle nobody wants, she will be on a plane this week. We are not going to wait around.

I hoped she would be here the first week of this month. Now I’ll be happy if she is here for Thanksgiving.

Of course, flight prices have gone up a thousand dollars. I don’t care any more. She’s not going to sit over there and wait so I can save a thousand dollars.

She got the impression that the people at the embassy had forgotten about her. They had to poke through their computer. Maybe they are having a hard time now that they have a smaller staff. I suppose it takes a while to replace skilled people.

We should have a visa and green card in hand by 9 a.m. tomorrow. We did everything right. We supplied tons of evidence. Normal life should start by the weekend.

After all this, of course, she will have to get familiar with operating the lawnmower and changing my car’s oil, and as for me, I will want a new recliner.

Okay; probably not.

If I never do another video chat in my life, it will be too soon. I look forward to praying with her in person for a change.

I Love You, but Stay Out of my Yard

Last night, I dreamed a blonde woman and her employees were trying to get in my house. I was yelling at them and so on from behind sliding glass doors. I gave her the finger. I opened a door to give her some more, and she somehow inserted a wire in the opening so I could not close the door. I got out a knife to cut it, and I think made a small cut on my left hand.

Anyway, I would have been better off leaving the door shut.

I think obnoxious people in dreams often represent spirits, and we all know spirits try to get inside us, like vampires asking permission to enter houses.

Maybe I am too angry these days, and it gives spirits openings. The cowardly, racist, terrorist attack on Israel, and the terrorist attacks on Jews elsewhere, and the gaslighting and cancel fever among leftists all over the world, have had me thinking a lot about how I hate bullies and liars. I hadn’t thought much about self-defense in a long time, but I started getting back up to speed. I have a wife on the way here, terrorism will definitely reach rural American gentiles, and I can’t play around.

Christians have to be people of love, and we don’t get a break when people start abusing us. That’s the time when we have to be most careful not to fall into hate.

I believe I’m right to arm up, but I also have to prepare my mind and my heart.

I cast out spirits of anger and fear. I asked God to pour his love through me and help me to be rid of adverse spirits. I spent a lot of time praying in tongues. I feel much better.

As I woke up this morning, I heard my wife’s voice say, “Now we can read Hebrews 5:11.” Of course, she is not here, because the consulate is dilly-dallying. I thought maybe I had heard from God. I looked up the verse.

Discussing Yeshua, it says: “Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”

I wondered the obvious wonder: “Am I resisting things God is telling me?” I’m always asking for correction as well as help in accepting it.

I still have lots of rough edges, but I don’t think I’m the main problem here. I think God was telling me and my wife what people are like.

First, Paul (assuming the traditional attribution is correct) says he has many things to say. Of course he did. He spent a lot of time alone with God, and God poured him full of information other people did not have. This happens to everyone who prays in tongues. Sometimes you get so much stuff, there is distress mixed with the pleasure, because it’s just more material you won’t be able to get anyone else to accept.

What if you lived in a country where almost everyone was dying of scurvy, God kept sending you pallets of Vitamin C, and virtually all of it went to sit in a continually-expanding warehouse, where it would never be opened?

The other day I felt like asking God to stop telling me so many things. “More stuff I can’t tell anyone.” But I immediately stopped myself and told him to give me as much as he wanted. Better for a few people to get revelation, and to feel bad about not being able to share it, than no one at all.

Second, Paul talks about how hard it is to say certain things. Wow. I know what he means. God has shown me all sorts of things, and there are pretty much two people on Earth who listen. Other people don’t respect me enough to listen. Some think TV preachers know everything. I get through to almost no one. So yes, it’s hard to make myself say certain things, because most of the time, people who get revelation are around people who won’t listen and would not understand if they did.

Yeshua told us not to cast our pearls before swine. We are his pearls, but the same principle applies to words. The best way to make swinish Christians mad at you is to tell them something God told you.

Third, Paul says the Hebrews are dull of hearing. That is true of most modern Hebrews as well as most Christians. Yeshua is the Messiah and God of the Jews, but Jews continue to suffer more than the should, because they don’t like him, they have no interest in Judaism, or they believe their confused sages have the answers. Israel would be having a much better time right now if most Jews belonged to Yeshua, but God’s help is limited because their ears are closed.

In the Tanakh, problems for Israel always indicated a state of disobedience. Somehow, most Jews think this is no longer the case. Israel is a pure victim, not in need of correction.

No confession, no repentance. No repentance, no relief. See Psalm 32.

If you are not baptized with the Holy Spirit, you are dull of hearing. Only the Holy Spirit enables people to receive truth. Reject Yeshua and you reject the Holy Spirit. It’s that simple.

Communion consists of two things: flesh and blood. The flesh of Yeshua represents his grace. Every good thing God does for you is grace. It’s charity. None of it is earned. The wine represents the sacrifice. If you share Yeshua’s cup, you agree to share in his rejection. You agree to stand up for him and be persecuted.

If you want the grace, drink from the cup. Don’t defend yourself. Don’t say God owes you anything good. He owes you hell. If you want the good, admit you deserve the bad.

Hebrews 5:11 is an interesting verse in an interesting chapter.

The enemies of Israel are in the wrong, but if you want protection from the wicked, you need to know God. America is like Israel, moving away from the one who protects it.

I will try to keep listening to correction I don’t like. I’m taking solid measures to arm my household, but I don’t need to be weighed down by anger. I will keep praying for the vicious, psychotic enemies of Jews and Christians, and I hope God takes us off this planet before I ever find myself in a situation where I have to consider picking up a weapon.

Stoner was no Browning

Suddenly I’m thinking about firearms and personal protection. I’m thinking about it because I just saw part of a surprising rap video taking up for Kyle Rittenhouse.

One of the many, many lies told about Rittenhouse is that he is a white supremacist. No idea where that comes from. He shot a Jewish pedophile in self-defense, and then he shot two more white people who were trying to harm him. One had an illegal pistol in his hand when Rittenhouse shot his arm nearly off.

Somehow that person, Gaige Grosskreutz, now known as Paul Prediger, never got charged with anything.

Anyway, it surprised me to see a rap song standing up for the victim, Kyle Rittenhouse, because in this country, black people are supposed to be against him for no reason.

A comment beneath the video mentioned something I had forgotten: Rittenhouse’s AR-15 rifle jammed while he was on the ground trying to protect himself.

Rittenhouse did a very impressive job of self-defense. He shot one attacker and then ran to tell the police, which was the correct, lawful, responsible move. Then he was attacked by a lynch mob, and they knocked him to the ground. His gun jammed. He cleared it. Then he shot two people who were trying to kill him, killing one and disabling both. After that, he resumed running toward the police, whom he eventually reached.

He did everything right. He only fired when his life was in imminent danger. He fired effectively, hitting what he aimed at. He stopped firing when the threats were neutralized, so he never crossed the line between self-defense and illegal retaliation. He also cleared a jammed weapon.

He did everything right, except for one thing. He bought the wrong rifle.

If you look at the history of AR-15 shootings, you will notice a common thread: rifles that jammed at critical moments. It has happened to criminals and also innocent people. It has also been a huge problem with the automatic versions of the AR-15 used by soldiers.

Some people get mad if you call an M16 or an M4 an AR-15. It is. It is. Shut up. No one says a semiautomatic Tommy gun is a different rifle from the automatic version. Just shut it.

Here’s a Google search for you.

I saw an Internet commenter saying AR-15 jams had saved countless lives. Pretty funny, but also true.

Try and find similar stories about AK variants or any other commonly-used semiautomatic rifles. Good luck. It won’t happen. There are millions of AK’s out there, and in a giant statistical sample, unlikely things will happen, but there is no long history of AK’s letting people down when it mattered.

Imagine what Rittenhouse went through. You’ve just been attacked by a child rapist who chased you down and tried to take your gun so he could kill you. People are firing shots around you (not often mentioned). They’re yelling, “Get him!” You’ve been knocked to the ground, your chest has been stamped on, and you’ve been assaulted with a deadly weapon (a heavy skateboard). A lowlife with an illegal Glock is running up to you. You’re on your back. And your new rifle is jammed.

It’s a wonder he lived.

I don’t get the AR self-defense craze. They’re all sorts of fun for targets and hunting, but why would you trust a gun which is famous for failure?

People blame the users. “Inexperienced.” “Untrained.” That’s really stupid. If you have to be trained in order to make a gun do what every other gun does for untrained people, you should buy a different gun.

They say poor maintenance is to blame. Good luck, trying to make an AK jam with poor maintenance.

I am an AR owner. Not for survival. Just for fun. I had to buy a special brush to clean the chamber. Never had to do that before. Where is my special AK chamber brush? They don’t exist. No need.

What happens if my AR chamber gets too dirty? It may hold onto a round so tightly it will not come out of the gun without tools. Show me where this is a problem with any other firearm.

I saw a guy on Youtube using hydraulic pressure and a special fitting to force a live round out of an AR-15. He threaded the fitting onto his muzzle, attached a grease gun, and pumped. He was a very knowledgeable guy, and he had tried everything else.

The round finally flew out and dented the wall of his shop.

What are you going to do if this happens to you while undocumented guests are rambling through your house at 3 a.m.? Short answer: surrender and possibly be raped or die.

Maybe you could use the grease gun to shoot the entire cartridge at the burglars.

A standard AR even has a feature that helps you jam it beyond field repair. It has a little thing you push to force stubborn rounds into your chamber. It’s called a forward assist. It was not part of the original design, but the military insisted it be added.

Hello…if a round is too fat to fit, the last thing you want is to force it. The proper thing is to eject the round and throw it out so you never try to use it again. If you use the forward assist, you’ll probably save the 25 cents you paid for the round, but if it gets stuck, you may be murdered by an assailant who realizes you are disarmed. Who bets a life against a quarter?

They should call it a burglar assist.

You can say, probably incorrectly, that your AR-15 will work great because you maintain and use it perfectly, so people who hate AR-15’s are stupid. First of all, you may be overestimating yourself and the gun, and second, wouldn’t you rather have a gun that works even when you screw up? I do. I want a gun I can throw to my untrained wife in an emergency.

The final thing I don’t like about the AR-15 is that it’s usually chambered in a bad cartridge: the .223/5.56. I will treat these calibers as though they were the same, because they nearly are. This cartridge has inferior stopping power compared to the AK’s standard 7.62. When you choose a rifle over a pistol, the single biggest reason is improved stopping power. Why choose a weak round over a strong one?

The 7.62 round is legal for deer hunting, probably everywhere. Go Google and read about deer and the .223. Many states will not let you use it. Why? Because it’s cruel to wound animals without killing them. State governments know the .223 is much weaker than the 7.62. How much more proof do you need?

The AR platform just isn’t very good. No one wants to admit it, but it’s obvious.

Why won’t they admit it?

I know why people continue to insist the AR-15 is a great gun. The main reason is that it’s really neat. It looks great; it makes you feel like a military guy holding a machine gun, instead of a fat Walmart employee with Cheez Doodle particles in his beard. It’s fun to customize. There are a billion parts and accessories you can install on your own.

Products people think are cool are almost always more popular than products that work.

There is also a certain amount of American pride out there. “WE BUILD GUNS BETTER THAN COMMIES!” No, we really don’t. The AK platform is a masterpiece, and the AR platform is a collection of compromises and corrections.

The AR-15 is like the Porsche 911, which was, and still is, a bad idea. Hitler had the VW Beetle designed by Ferdinand Porsche, and Porsche kept the same basic concept when he got into sports cars. Then his company held onto the butt-heavy, hard-to-drive, rear-engine format instead of moving forward like other companies. Just like Americans holding onto the AR-15. The result is that Porsches are still uglier, more dangerous, and harder to operate than other expensive sports cars, and Top Gear’s famous lap time board only has two Porsches in the top 15.

And Porsche is really trying, believe me. They don’t sit in front of the TV in Stuttgart and say, “Ze important sing is zat ve participated.”

People will rationalize in order to justify their prejudices. There are people out there right now telling pollsters Joe Biden is a fantastic president. When people claim the AR-15 is better than an AK, often, they are acting like lawyers. They look for anything they can say to bolster their case, and they forget about the truth.

I got a red dot for an AR-15. I figure it’s better to have it rigged up for self-defense than not, even if it’s my 4th choice. I mean, a golf club isn’t a weapon, but if you have one, you might put it next to the bed anyway.

I don’t have a laser on it. Those are for reliable guns.

I’m honest about the AK/AR debate. I think AR’s are really neat. I wish they worked well. I would prefer to be on the AR side because the primitive bits of my brain like them. But I’m not an idiot.

It’s sad that the AR-15 is so popular for self-defense, because intramural factional violence is going to get worse, and a lot of people who are in the right and who trust unreliable guns are going to get shot needlessly.

Troll Poo on my Shoe

The Internet is like a beautiful bipolar girlfriend who also has borderline personality and perpetual PMS.

I have a problem with my well water; it may affect the quality of the beer I brew. I had the water tested, and it has 0.68 parts per million of iron in some form or other. This is something like a hundredth of the calcium level, but beer likes calcium and hates iron. I have read that iron levels above 0.1 are bad, and I’m around 7 times that.

I started trying to decide what to do. It’s not simple, and I overthink things anyway, so it’s a puzzle.

1. Buy distilled water. This will actually work, but I don’t like the thought of paying $30 for 5 gallons of beer instead of $20. I have a really great homebrew store, so my grain is very cheap. If I buy distilled water, I will have to buy chemicals to add to it, because beer needs certain chemicals normally present in tap water. I plan to get some of those chemicals anyway, and I already have one of them: salt. My well water needs a little salt, epsom salt, and gypsum. I could buy a still and make my own distilled water, but it would be slow, and it would take maybe 20 batches of beer to make it pay for itself.

2. Get a reverse osmosis (RO) filter. This will suck iron out of my water while not harming the other mineral levels all that much. It’s a can of worms, however. I would have to decide whether to mount it under my sink, turning that area into a bigger maintenance and repair nightmare than it is already, mounting it under my laundry room sink, where it will not be much use for anything but brewing, and having some kind of mobile filter I can put away. RO filters often break, and I don’t want to have water gushing out into my cabinets in the middle of the night or while I’m on vacation.

3. Brewtan B. I plan to try this first. It’s some kind of tannic acid product. It’s made for brewers. The maker claims 1/4 teaspoon in 5 gallons of beer will chelate enough iron to protect the beer from off tastes and other issues related to iron. They claim it will not chelate the good metals enough to cause trouble. You can only use it in beers that are supposed to be clear. It will interfere with the production of cloudy beers.

If I use Brewtan B or RO water, I will have to go through the aggravation of testing again. I will need to know what’s in water that has been treated with Brewtan B or filtered. With distilled water, I would know the water only contained minerals I added.

I thought about this yesterday, and I went to the laundry room to look at the cabinet under the utility sink. I wanted to see how much room I had. When I looked, I found a wet cabinet floor with places where the Chinese melamine film had disappeared. There was some swelling, and the sawdust and boogers the fake wood was made from were escaping into the cabinet, making a mess.

I found out the cheap modern plastic pipes were the problem. The genius who installed the sink appears to have put some kind of sticky substance on the joints, and I think he also used a big wrench to tighten the collars. You’re not supposed to do any of that. The joints should be clean and hand-tight.

I had to take the P trap out, clean off the pipes, reinstall them correctly, and clean the cabinet floor. Then I left the cabinet open to dry, and I put a stainless bowl on a folded towel under the P trap. It still leaks maybe 10 drops an hour, but it will be fine until I get pipes that haven’t been abused. It only leaks when I’m using the sink, so it probably doesn’t leak enough to overcome evaporation.

My cabinets are very nice, for modern cabinets. They have wood exteriors, and they look good. The sawdust-product sides, bottoms, and shelves are sad signs of the times, but the cabinets are what would be considered relatively high end. They would not be cheap to replace.

I now have a water-damaged cabinet floor, and the sawdust will continue to get loose and cause problems if I don’t seal it in. Also, I have zero protection from future leaks. I want to fix the floor so it’s tough and waterproof.

I thought I would get some epoxy paint made for garage floors, but I wasn’t sure it would work well in a sawdust-and-melamine cabinet, so I went to a home repair forum to ask what people thought.

Of course, the thing that always happens happened. I was pounced on by a keyboard-raging numbskull.

If you frequent forums or make comments on the web, you will run into keyboard-ragers all the time, and they will be boring as well as annoying, because the stupid things they say all fall into certain well-known categories. It’s like there is one predictable guy out there, making all the stupid remarks, trying to prove his mental superiority but succeeding only in publicizing a screaming case of Dunning-Kruger.

They’re too hostile to leave people alone. They’re too dishonest to admit it when they’re wrong. They’re too stupid to know it.

I got some good suggestions from helpful people, but one guy said I should just get a piece of 1/2″ plywood. He didn’t explain how this would help. I don’t think he understood the situation.

I explained that installing plywood would mean replacing the whole cabinet, and that would mean replacing all the cabinets, and I didn’t want to spend thousands.

This ought to be obvious to anyone. You can’t just turn three screws, remove the bottom from a modern cabinet, slide a new bottom in, and replace the screws. They’re not made to be disassembled.

If I put plywood in the cabinet, I would have to remove the sink, counter, and doors. I’d have to remove the drawers and sides of the cabinet. If, by some miracle, the bottom of the cabinet was still intact and could be removed in one piece, I would have to take it out, cut the plywood to fit, install the plywood, sand the plywood, and seal the plywood with some kind of plastic coating like the garage paint I described above. If I managed to put it all back together, I would then have a cabinet fit for Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber shack. It would be a monstrosity. I would have to remove it entirely and replace it. Then I’d need a new counter and wall cabinets to match. I’d have to paint the whole room.

It’s just a stupid idea. I was nice to the guy who offered it, but it was a really stupid idea, and it’s obviously stupid. This is a nice house. You don’t mend expensive cabinets with Home Depot plywood unless there is some way to conceal the repairs. That’s not possible in this case.

Epoxy paint would be invisible when the cabinet was closed, and it would look good when they were opened. It would look better than a new cabinet. A big slab of plywood would be right out there in view, making the house look like Jethro Bodine’s double-naught spy bachelor pad.

The keyboard-rager could not let it go. He asked how buying a cheap piece of plywood was like buying a new cabinet. Everyone else in the thread understood completely. It’s like saying, “Why would you repaint your car if all you need is a new clear coat?”

If you can’t understand why you would need to repaint the car, you should never try to tell anyone anything about body work, because you don’t know anything.

I think he understood, too, but keyboard-ragers have to do their thing. He wanted me to spend the day arguing with him, so he could dismiss a long series of proofs he was wrong, anoint himself victor, and congratulate himself on his imaginary brilliance.

I told him he was wasting everyone’s time, and I offered no explanation. I should have ignored him, but this stuff has a way of wearing on you.

He picked the wrong day. Earlier in the day, I actually thanked God for creating hell, because I was thinking of all the stupid, dishonest, arrogant, cruel people in the world. Like the people who lie about Israel and defend the Hamas baboons. There are millions or billions of people who are simply intolerable in the long term. I thanked God for creating hell so the rest of us would eventually get a break.

I don’t know if the keyboard-rager lives in a converted chicken coop or what, but he seriously wanted me to write an essay explaining why you don’t use plywood to make a new bottom for an expensive cabinet. I refused to engage. I had a surface I could restore and improve pretty easily. If I went insane and tried to replace it with plywood, I would have a major eyesore, and it would have to be sealed up, just like the surface I have now.

The Internet is as frustrating as the world that created it. The more you engage, the more abuse you have to swallow, for no good reason at all.

Nobody defended the keyboard-rager, even though he has been on the forum longer than I have. That shows what they thought of him. Traditionally, Internet forum members have always attacked newer guys, regardless of who was right. When they let the newer guy win, it means they already think the other guy is a jerk.

I use forums all the time to get good information and save myself research. Sometimes I have good experiences, but every once in a while, I rattle a troll’s cage simply by walking by. One of the great things about heaven is that there will be no Internet there and no trolls.

I learned some good stuff from the forum. They now make silicone mats you can put under sinks. They have vertical edges so a mat will hold a couple of gallons of water if there’s a leak. Some have little gadgets on the front sides that let water run out onto the floor outside the cabinet. This lets you know you have a problem. It’s supposed to keep the water off the bottom of the cabinet, but I don’t think it will work, because it will run down the side of the mat and go under it. Depends on the geometry of the little hole where the water is supposed to come out. It has to project past the bottom of the cabinet without interfering with the door.

Anyway, a silicone mat will probably take care of nearly all leaks your sink develops. The problem, other than the poor protection from really big leaks, is that they start at about $20. I would need 8 of them, I think.

At present, I think it’s a bad idea. I could order a mat and see what it’s like.

Independently, I and a forum guy came up with a great idea: vinyl flooring. It’s easier than applying epoxy. You cut a sheet of vinyl to fit the cabinet perfectly. You stick it to the bottom of the cabinet with 3M 77. You use silicone to seal the corners where the vinyl meets the sides of the cabinet. When water leaks, it can’t get into the sides. It will run out the front, onto the floor. The vinyl will look great and last for eternity. I use vinyl flooring to hold up heavy, oily CA-sized lathe tooling, and it looks new after maybe 10 years.

I think I should put vinyl under all my sinks, and I should also put it in my drawers and on my shelves. I could do the whole house for maybe $150. Beats the snot out of shelf paper, which is worthless and a scam. Home Depot sells vinyl for a dollar a square foot.

Epoxy would work. I’m sure of it. But it would be a pain to apply.

But for the brewing water problem, my sink would still be leaking, so it wasn’t just a curse. I got a blessing out of it.

I have some Brewtan B on the way. Hoping for the best.

Conventional Wisdom can get you Killed

Let’s vandalize some toxic icons.

I wrote about the great news concerning pistol braces. These things are used as rifle buttstocks, to allow shooters to use rifle-caliber pistols just like rifles, held at the shoulder. The rule banning them was just stayed by a federal judge, and it will remain unenforceable for the next few years, barring a miracle no one who can determine his own gender without professional help wants to see. The courts will be very slow to do anything about it, and they will probably leave the injunction in place and do away with the ban.

I wanted to get one of these things for a Ruger 10-22 pistol as well as an AK-47 pistol. The Ruger is for tooling around the farm in my utility cart. The AK would be for protection while on the road. In a small space, it’s a little easier to swing than a full-length AK. Also, with a short AK, you only lose about 10% of your muzzle velocity, so it’s a good trade.

Ed Bonderenka commented:

That’s good news, but my AR pistol is accurate from the hip with the green laser attached. I mean chew up the bullseye accurate.
For me a brace would just make it bulkier.
But is is a big move because of the constitutional issues, particularly standing against the administrative state.
I might buy one just because.

No argument here.

The web is full of people who parrot gun myths as though they came from Jesus himself, and one of the myths says you can’t shoot a powerful gun accurately unless you shoulder it. Total nonsense. They also say lasers are toys that don’t really work. The US military disagrees, but whatever.

I remember writing some stuff about intending to shoot a 12-gauge from the hip, using a laser. A blogger who used to write a lot about guns said he couldn’t control such a gun with his “gorilla” arms, making the obvious implication about my arms and chances.

I bought a Saiga-12 shotgun. I bought a cheap Chinese laser. I went to a gun range. I put a target up at 50 feet. I put shots in a circle the size of a tennis ball, more or less, from the hip. No problem. Child’s play. With my non-gorilla arms.

Maybe my squirrel monkey arms have something his gorilla arms don’t, but I doubt it. If he had tried what I tried, he would have said something completely different. Maybe he didn’t have lasers in mind. I can’t remember.

Interesting fact: a 12-gauge has more recoil than a .30-06, an AK has much less, and an AR is even further down the list. I’m trying to say that a 12-gauge has all sorts of recoil. Worse than most deer guns.

Another interesting fact: when you use a laser, recoil doesn’t matter much.

“Blasphemy! Blasphemy!”, I hear the gun Sadducees shrieking. They are always the last to accept the obvious truth.

Why does recoil matter when you’re defending yourself? A couple of reasons. It may teach you to flinch, and it will also knock your gun off-target, so you have to find the target in your sights again.

When you have a laser, flinching doesn’t mean much. Where is the dot when you pull the trigger? That’s where the bullet will go. It’s that simple. Try it some time. People say it doesn’t really work. It does. It’s impossible for it not to work. Flinch all you want. As long as the dot is on the mark when the trigger is pulled, you win.

When you have a laser, finding the target again, instantly, is no problem. You have a big, giant beam in front of you. Shoot. Put the beam back on the target. Done. Shoot again. Squinting at black iron sights is a lot harder. Reacquiring your target through a scope is also hard, and in many cases, it will be impossible because you won’t have enough light to see through the scope.

People are taught to obsess on iron sights and scopes. You need to be able to use these things. No doubt about it. But teaching people to rely on them is really, really stupid. Why? Because MOST VIOLENT CRIMES OCCUR AT NIGHT.

YOW. Ouch. That stings, if you’re a gun Sadducee. Make a comment and tell us I’m wrong. Tell us your secret method for using iron sights or a red dot in a dark bedroom. I can’t wait to hear.

It’s not just hard. It can’t be done. So people who advise us to rely on iron sights and scopes aren’t just shooing us away from the best optics; they’re teaching us to be totally helpless IN MOST SELF-DEFENSE SITUATIONS.

That’s pretty bad.

When I get up in the morning, I turn the burglar alarm off. Why? Because nobody is going to break in while I’m here and the sun is out. That’s just a fact. They might break in at night even though they can tell I’m here, because darkness and surprise work to their advantage. They’re not going to show up in the daytime, when the police and I can see them clearly.

It’s true that most burglaries take place in the daytime, but the primary purpose of a firearm isn’t to stop burglaries, which most commonly happen when people are at work. It’s to stop home invasions, which are burglaries that take place in occupied houses.

If you ever have to defend yourself from a criminal in your home, chances are, it will be dark out, and your house may be dark, too. Good luck trying to aim at a burglar when you can’t see your sights. You’re going to spray and pray, just like everyone else who took the bad advice.

My carry pistol has a laser that turns on by itself when I pick the gun up. Wake me up, and I can have it in my hand in one second. That’s pretty good. In one second, I can be well-armed while I pick up a rifle and turn its laser on. After that, my house is a really bad place for a burglar to be.

Burglars don’t use good optics. They don’t even learn how to shoot. They generally use polymer pistols they steal from their neighbors, with whatever ammunition was in them when they were stolen. If I have a rifle with a bright green laser, and my guest has a Taurus pistol he got by breaking into a car, who do you think will get shot the soonest and the most?

How much time do you think I’ll spend making sure I have a good sight picture or just the right grip?

“Hold on, Mr. Burglar! I have to make sure my isosceles stance is just right!” “I have to put on my tactical socks and call Massad Ayoob!” I don’t think so.

If you like spending money, you can do even better. You can get night vision plus an infrared laser criminals can’t see. You’ll see the criminal and the big dot of light, and he will not even know where you are.

That brings me to another creaky talking point: “A laser will tell the criminal where you are!”

He’s almost certainly going to know where you are anyway. I admit, it’s great if he doesn’t, but he probably will. And if you use a laser, by the time you light him up, he will not have enough time to do anything about it. He’ll have a pretty good idea where you are, as you shoot him repeatedly.

And you won’t be helpless because you’re trying to find your tiny black sights in the dark.

You don’t have to walk around with your laser on, lighting up the neighborhood like Rudolph the Green-Nosed Reindeer. You can switch it on right before you shoot.

The Sadduccees love to say lasers make you dependent on gimmicks. Isn’t that better than being dependent on sights you can’t use because it’s dark? Either way, you’re going to be dependent on something.

So to sum up, you can shoot a powerful gun perfectly well from the hip with a laser. It will not be the best answer for killing people at long distances, but if you’re shooting people far away, you’re probably what the law calls “a murderer.” If a criminal is so far away you can’t hit him using a laser, he is probably too far away to pose a threat a jury will confirm.

If lasers are so great, why consider a shouldered weapon? Lasers are pretty bad outdoors in bright conditions. Also, they can malfunction. You may be in a situation where you need to be able to use the sights.

A folding weapon with a laser, to me, appears to be the best option for defense outside the home. When it’s folded, you will be able to maneuver it in the car. The laser will be helpful most of the time. If you have to get out of the car for some reason, you can unfold the stock and use the sights.

You can also stick a red dot on a folding gun along with the laser. A red dot is fantastic for shooting a gun you can’t shoulder. You can nail anyone within a hundred feet without too much trouble.

Maybe I should listen to Ed and forget the brace. If I get a braced pistol, I can fool with it and decide for myself.