Jack a Little too Nimble?

I skimmed the latest Trump indictment, and I was surprised.

I look at things like this as fairly as I can, and there is no doubt that Trump has done at least a few things that could justify some kind of legal response. He’s a bull in a china shop. He says and does what he wants. He’s very careless. He said the prosecutor working on his case looked like a crackhead. That being said, this latest thing looks even weaker than the New York case, which appears to be a complete scam.

Basically, it boils down to this, as I see it: Trump said he really won the election, and he made interference claims that were not true. Somehow this amounts to inciting insurrection. I would be astounded if this case went anywhere. After appeal, I mean. Juries are stupid and dishonest, and if you find the right area of the country, you can convict a conservative of anything.

What if we held leftists to similar standards? Al Sharpton encouraged rioting, and it resulted in the murder of an Orthodox Jew. Maxine Waters encouraged rioting. Celebrities have said stupid things like, “Rioting works.” Our country has been torn apart by riots based on lies that have been thoroughly debunked many times.

Far as I know, Trump always told his supporters to protest peacefully. If a few simpletons got carried away and listened to the beer instead of their common sense, and if they let undercover feds talk them into rioting, that’s not Trump’s fault.

Sometimes I think we could end the rioting problem simply by making the FBI stay home.

The theory behind the FBI agent-provocateur talk goes like this: people protest peacefully and legally, and it irks powerful politicians or swamp denizens because they can’t do anything about it. They send feds to The Gap to buy a bunch of matching outfits, they add masks, and then they merge with protesters and pretend to be on their side. Then they urge the protesters to do stupid things. When the protesters listen, they say, “This is an illegal riot, and we now have the power to arrest people,” and they put people in handcuffs and disperse the crowd.

First Amendment? No longer a problem.

Does it happen? Probably. Is it as widespread as people think? I would be surprised if it were. How can I know? I have no way of finding out.

We know the feds and local law enforcement have been very cruel and unfair to conservatives and Christians. So have corrections officers, who are part of the same organism. I don’t know how low they will stoop.

It’s unquestionably true that many government types hate the Bill of Rights. You can see them slobbering and raving on Youtube. You can read about their backroom discussions. The Bill of Rights means nothing at all to many Americans. Perhaps most. Law enforcement and other types of government work draw bullies and sadists; they always have. Even John the Baptist had to tell soldiers not to terrorize people. No one should doubt the government’s willingness to cheat or the eagerness of many government employees to do great harm to the innocent.

Encouraging people to riot is entrapment, and an entrapped person can’t be convicted or even arrested. Unfortunately, entrapment works, and it can be very hard to prove.

Seeing the shifty and cruel ways of today’s government makes it clear that one of the main purposes of the Second Amendment was to make our keepers afraid of us. They’re supposed to be part of us, but they go native. This country was founded by people who were fighting their own government, and they wanted people who came after them to be better able to do the same thing.

I think Trump will be cleared of nearly every charge once the process has played out. Then whoever is in office will have to decide whether to pardon him of any charges that stuck.

This is a time for Joe Biden to sit down and think about his future. It’s pretty obvious he took bribes and helped his family get rich by selling influence. If he isn’t impeached, it will be a miracle. He could also face criminal charges.

What happens then, if he has lost the election but refused to pardon Trump? What if a Republican is in the Oval Office? If Trump gets convicted of anything before the election, and he’s still polling well, Biden would be smart to give him a break.

I was thinking today that we might conceivably end up in a situation where two presidents who are bitter rivals have to pardon each other in order to save themselves. Biden pardons Trump, who wins the election, and then Trump pardons Biden. That would be funny.

Biden is somewhat stupid, and he is also senile and stubborn, so he may not be able to think clearly enough to consider the consequences of letting Trump convictions stand.

When the Jack Smith stuff started, I figured Smith was just a serious prosecutor who wanted to be thorough. Now he’s starting to look like a corrupt nut. But I could be wrong. Maybe when the evidence will come out, there will be some as-yet-unknown facts that justify blaming Trump for January 6. My bet: it won’t happen.

Hunter Biden Does it Again

So what will have to happen before the leftist press admits there is a problem with the Bidens?

Yesterday’s hilarious revelation: Hunter Biden referred to himself and his friends as “Aryan godlike men.”

“Aryan.”

Try to imagine the array of instruments of torture that would be in preparation right now, had any member of the Trump family so much as said the word “Aryan.”

Here is an excerpt from a Hunter Biden email:

Your question — why does Super Chair love me so much? — is easily answered. It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my last name (and I bring along very handsome Aryan godlike men wherever I go)

I don’t really know what an Aryan is, and I am too lazy to check, but my understanding is that the term is related to “Iranian,” and I believe it has nothing to do with blonde Europeans from countries where humor is believed to be a symptom of mental illness.

Okay, I’ll look.

Wikipedia says it applied to Indo-Iranian people, whatever they were. They are remarkable for not having a noun associated with their place of origin. There are Indo-Iranians, but there is no Indo-Iran.

You know, it’s amazing how smart the Nazis were to settle on that term. Whenever I see video of Indians wandering around in Mumbai or Iranians burning American flags, right away, I wonder if I’m looking at Germany or Austria. It’s nearly impossible to tell Germans, Indians, and Iranians apart. Those square jaws. That fair skin. Those piercing blue eyes.

Shameless liars are trying to get Hunter off the hook by attributing the remark to a Chinese guy. It was Biden that wrote the email, and he doesn’t say he was quoting. There is no reason at all to think anyone but Biden chose the word “Aryan.”

Does it sound like something a serious business contact would say, or does it sound like a snotty, sarcastic, elitist, racist paraphrase from a spoiled rich kid whose life is one continuous toga party?

The words came from Hunter, not a Chinese contact. It’s clear.

As we all know, the Nazis had this idea that there was a race of Aryans who were innately superior to everyone else and destined to rule over other races. To the Nazis, “Aryan” pretty much meant white people from Europe. Officially, it even included swarthy Italians. In modern usage, we all know what it means. It means people who look like Chris Hemsworth and Uma Thurman, except they’re supposed to be intelligent and talented, not actors.

When you use the word “Aryan” in a positive way, to describe the people in your tightly-knit, exclusive work circle, it’s very likely you are something of a white supremacist. A real white supremacist, not the kind leftists keep moaning about.

The term “white supremacist” is thrown around very irresponsibly these days, almost always in a libelous, baseless way, but there truly are wealthy white men out there who think their kind is the acme of creation.

It sounds like Hunter Biden is way too excited about his whiteness, which is funny, because he’s supposed to be part of the political party that has turned whiteness into a bad thing. Democrats are constantly jousting at white supremacist windmills, imagining wrongs that haven’t taken place, in order to get power over innocent people and abuse them, but here is the son of a Democrat president, using the absolute worst kind of white supremacist language–pseudoscientific Nazi jargon–to describe himself and his buddies.

I thought Hunter’s choice of words was interesting, because it reminded me of the privileged Northeastern frat boys I knew when I was in college. Columbia didn’t have much of a frat system because it was dysfunctional. It had frats that were even more embarrassing and silly than real frats at normal schools.

Columbia had a frat which was officially named Delta Psi. It was commonly known by another name, and it was packed with Northeastern kids who looked like Brooks Brothers mannequins. People who went on to join the wealthy elite and glide above the unwashed herd of random riff raff with undistinguished DNA.

For a long time, I’ve referred to frats as “affirmative action for mediocre white men,” and I stick by what I said. The purpose of a fraternity is to promote people who don’t deserve opportunities, over those who have merit but lack connections. Blackball and boost. Shoot the innocent from cover, and promote the undeserving. This is the entire purpose of fraternities. If they didn’t help weak-minded members defeat abler competition, no one would join or pay dues.

My impression is that Hunter and his pals belong to the same social stratus as the Bushes and Romneys. The secret handshake club. The people who belong to country clubs you can’t join. It makes sense to me that they would see ethnicity as one of their unifying and empowering traits.

Donald Trump, in bizarre contrast, the supposed patron of elites and racists, is the son and grandson of immigrants. He’s still kind of an upstart. An outsider who has to be tolerated.

I don’t think the Illuminati exist, and I know the Jewish conspiracy is a myth, but there really is a powerful, secretive guild of wealthy elitist Americans, and Hunter Biden’s remarks seem to confirm that he has made it his business to be part of it.

So, what happens now? I’ll tell you. It will turn out to be perfectly okay for the son of the president to use Nazi terminology, which was a basis for genocide and conquest, in an admiring way, to cast himself and his pals in a favorable light. No problem.

CNN won’t even notice. A royal got in trouble for wearing a Nazi uniform in jest, but Hunter Biden will not be punished for proving he believes handsome “Aryan” men are godlike.

American Jews will stand with Hunter, because they always commit political suicide. They always side with their enemies in American politics. Maybe some Orthodox Jews will get upset, but nobody pays attention to them.

I kind of wonder what Netanyahu will be thinking the next time he has to show up to kiss Joe Biden’s ring.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the human race won’t disappoint me quite as much as it usually does. Maybe someone on the left will start a stampede and hold the Bidens accountable.

I guess it’s a bad sign when you’ve known someone all your life, and you’re still disappointed when they do what they’ve always done. Says something about your ability to embrace reality.

A Computer Said it, so it Must be True

I guess everyone knows Joe Biden has finally acknowledged his illegitimate granddaughter, Navy Joan Roberts. On a Friday. Knowing the story would be buried.

I asked ChatGPT to provide the explanation Biden refuses to give us, and it wrote this:

As the President, it is my duty to address the recent media coverage surrounding my granddaughter, Navy Joan Roberts. I want to set the record straight and provide clarity on the situation. Contrary to the baseless claims made by some media outlets, the reasons for recognizing Navy were entirely reasonable and had nothing to do with negative press coverage.

You see, the whole thing started with a mix-up in our family’s scheduling system. We have a highly sophisticated system to keep track of our family gatherings, which includes all our grandchildren. However, due to a glitch in the software, Navy’s name got lost in the digital abyss, and we were entirely unaware of her existence until recently. It was like she fell into a digital black hole, and we had to send a team of tech experts to rescue her name from the clutches of the cyber realm.

As for the stockings at Christmas, well, it was all a grand experiment, you see. We decided to conduct a social study to assess the emotional impact of stocking numbers on children’s psyches during the holiday season. By hanging only six stockings, we wanted to gauge if the grandchildren would exhibit a heightened sense of camaraderie or, conversely, if any feelings of exclusion would arise. Rest assured, no grandchild was harmed during this audacious psychological study, and we concluded that stockings had little effect on their emotional well-being.

Regarding my son Hunter’s struggles, we couldn’t possibly acknowledge Navy publicly until we conducted a thorough genealogical investigation. Our team of genealogists scoured historical records and even delved into ancient family folklore to confirm the legitimacy of her lineage. It’s not every day that we welcome a new grandchild into the family, so we wanted to be absolutely sure.

Now, as for the bad press, I must say that such an assertion is absolutely preposterous! The media may claim that we were pressured into acknowledging Navy due to negative headlines, but I assure you that our decision-making process is far more impervious to external influences. We make our choices based on the alignment of celestial bodies, the predictions of fortune cookies, and the flip of a well-worn coin.

In conclusion, let me assure the American people that there is absolutely nothing ridiculous about our reasons for recognizing Navy Joan Roberts. Everything was handled with utmost seriousness and precision, from the technological rescue mission to the grand Christmas stocking experiment. And while the media may continue to speculate, our family remains united, our decisions unwavering, and our commitment to serving this nation resolute. Thank you, and may the whimsical winds of fate forever be in our favor.

Looking at this essay, which was generated in around two seconds, I have to wonder why Biden still has that crazy, incompetent girl acting as press secretary.

I also wonder whether anyone under the age of 50 ever writes anything any more, given that ChatGPT is capable of things like this.

What if leftists learn that ChatGPT can write mildly funny prose? They might suddenly become able to meme.

Maybe I’ve posted this before, but anyway, so far, this is the best use of AI I’ve seen:

No Riots, no Burning Buildings, no Pink Hair, no Problem

Rhodah and I are still waiting for our embassy interview so she can be brought to the US. We made the mistake of obeying the law instead of shoving her in amongst a group of military-age Somali males crashing the border in Texas, so we are still not finished.

Looks like we’re going to Hong Kong and Singapore so we can be together. I just bought a new camera so we can finally have a trip where we come back with decent video. It hasn’t arrived yet.

I don’t understand my feelings about Singapore at all. It’s a big city. Not a lot of green space. People generally live in apartments instead of houses. Hot weather all year. Lots of things I would ordinarily hate. Nonetheless, I really like Singapore, and so does my wife. I feel at home there. I wouldn’t mind living in Singapore if I had to.

Things to like about Singapore: minimal sexual perversion and coercion, extremely low crime, high standard of living, all types of goods in great abundance, stability, good food, and nice people. While the weather is hot, it’s not as unpleasant as Florida or Georgia. Mass transit is cheap and safe, and unlike New York’s trains and stations, Singapore’s don’t reek of urine.

There are nearly no bums in Singapore. We saw one lady begging, but she was an outlier.

What can you get in the US that you can’t get in Singapore? Guns are a lot easier to get here, assuming you live in a free state, and you can own them for self-defense and even carry them. In Singapore, you can get a license to keep a gun in your home, but they are rarely granted. Sounds bad, but on the other hand, you’re safer in Singapore without a gun than I am here with one.

Singapore is often called repressive, but whether a repressive government significantly impacts your enjoyment of life kind of depends on what it represses. If government restrictions don’t affect the kinds of activities in which you participate, you’re not likely to be bothered by them.

I think most people who call Singapore repressive are sexual perverts and perversion promoters. If you go online and look up Singapore repression, you’ll see that perversion is the main topic. Singapore only decriminalized sodomy last year. They shouldn’t have done that, and they’ll regret it, but it shows why perverts find Singapore unappealing.

We found the cost of living in Singapore to be reasonable. We stayed in a nice hotel for something like $230 per day. It was somewhat nicer than Hyatts and Sheratons here. We were able to get a lot of great food for between $5 and $10 per meal, and that’s Singapore dollars, which are somewhat smaller than ours. The trains were cheap. Not much to complain about.

Singapore is like a little bomb shelter for conservatives, if you want the truth. It’s not too close to China or Russia. It’s too far away for American perverts and socialists to invade profitably after they take over the US and our military. It’s too far away for social invaders from Central and South America to barge into. It’s not filling up with Islamists. It doesn’t need aid, so it won’t end up like Christian Africa, where we twist arms by connecting charity to filthy sexual aberrations God hates.

Is conservativism really about liberty? I wonder. Maybe it has more to do with safety and wealth. Do I really want a bunch of guns if crime is extremely low and the government stays off my back? I like shooting as a hobby, but I could give it up if the return were worth it.

In America, I have some guns for fun, but I keep others in order to defend myself, my wife, guests, and my property. My government is increasingly hostile to affluent Caucasians who mind their own business, and so are leftists, especially minorities. We also have a problem with crime that is not politically or racially motivated. In other countries, my situation would be different, and so would my attitude toward arming myself.

Here in the USA, we have a big population of blacks and Hispanics, and they commit a gigantic amount of violent crime and property crime. Most crimes of both types are committed by these groups. They have backward cultures that glorify the abuse of innocent people. This is reality, not the woke explanation. Statistics compiled by nonpartisan entities prove these things. White people do bad things, too, but at a much, much lower rate.

Other countries are different. Singapore is around 75% Chinese (non-red), and the rest of the people are mostly Indians, Malays, and Indonesians. Singaporeans like to work and make money. It’s a hard place to start a street gang or do a drive-by. It’s a hard place to riot and destroy homes and businesses. It’s not likely one or two ethnic groups will team up against another, as American blacks and Hispanics have teamed up on whites, and try to take what they have and turn them into milk cows.

We also have a sick government which is becoming more dangerous every month. Professional victims are taking it over. They’re getting rid of cash bail and decriminalizing theft. They are trying to destroy rural areas and suburbs, pushing people into cities where they are easier to control and prey on. It’s not merely likely that sane, decent Americans will eventually have to fight the government. It’s certain. We will see secession and/or guerrilla warfare when things get too hot, and unarmed “haves” will be slaughtered publicly, with their executions posted on social media. We’ve seen the same basic thing in revolutionary France, Cambodia, China, Russia, Cuba, and other places where smelly, ignorant, hateful mobs took over.

In the USA, unless you are willing to trust God and accept martyrdom, it makes no sense to be unarmed, but there are places where arms are a much lower priority.

If you have retirement money, life in Singapore is easy. You just live. You don’t have to endure endless daily bombardments with terrifying news about your once-great nation. “Will the Democrats force my county to put housing projects on formerly-private estates?” “Will the Democrats impose wealth taxes and impoverish me in my old age?” “Will my children be unemployable because they refuse to call male perverts women?” “Will my daughter have to be naked in front of males every day at school?” “Will Antifa/BLM nuts climb my fence and kill and rape my family?” These are things people in Singapore don’t worry about, but they are very real possibilities in the US.

As I’ve gotten older and learned more from God, I’ve become less impressed with the US and democracy. This is not the best country to live in. Not any more. And democracy is overrated. A good king, or “dictator,” as kings are called now, is better than democracy, any day. I’d rather have Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis as a king with a lifetime term than the situation we have now. I’d even take Rand Paul or Ted Cruz.

Democracy is a degenerate system of government, one step above rioting. It puts power in the hands of ignorant, malicious, bigoted imbeciles who have tremendous incentive to loot. Looters have more power than builders, because everyone gets one vote, and looters are more numerous. It also gives too much power to women, who, as a group, invariably vote stupidly.

In the US, we have the idea that it’s sort of illegal or shameful to contemn representative democracy. It’s neither. It’s perfectly acceptable to push for a monarchy or theocracy if you like. You just have to do it without committing offenses like treason and sedition.

I can say these things because I’m not a politician or any other type of person who depends on the love of the mob.

Anyway, America-worship is based in delusion. America is still very high up on the list of desirable places to live, but it’s not the best, and it will eventually become intolerable. Probably before Singapore and even places like Kenya and Uganda.

We are told to be grateful to America for what it has done for us, as though it were person with feelings; a rich mommy that sent us big checks every month. In reality, America never did anything for me. God did. He can bless me anywhere. Look how well Joseph, Esther, and Daniel did under tyrants. Look what he did to Laban because of Jacob. America is just an instrument God used to bless me.

America doesn’t actually care about me. If I died right now, no flags would be lowered. God and certain people care about me.

I’ve done a lot for America. I paid taxes and stayed out of trouble. I submitted to institutionalized racism in the form of affirmative action. I contributed to charities. I registered for the draft, which is a very big deal, at least if you intend to back up your word when called. No entity but America ever asked me to offer it my life and risk being maimed and forgotten.

If I should be grateful to anyone here, it should be the servicemen who fought so I didn’t have to.

I’m extremely grateful for every good thing I have, including the diminished rights I still possess, but I’m grateful to God, not nations. I want to continue to be an asset to America, but if I move to another country, I’ll try to be an asset there, and that country will have whatever loyalty I’m required to extend. I wouldn’t want to be like the disgraceful, parasitic people who become US citizens and then fly flags from their old countries. Dance with the one that brought you, right?

I am censored, libeled, and ostracized from the marketplace every single day, and America’s government–my country’s government–is behind it. That’s really something. I never had these problems during the last century, apart from the time I got desperate and applied for a government job. White people were not the target hiring pool. Other than that, I was nearly a full US citizen.

How grateful should I be for the good things when I’m already fairly well down the Nuremberg rabbit hole, with increased persecution soon to come? Should Jews who were once treated well in Germany have been grateful to their government in 1930? Am I wrong for weighing the very bad along with the good?

These things matter. Losing free speech is not a small thing. Being excluded from economic participation is not trivial.

To get back to travel, we’re only looking at Hong Kong because Rhodah wants to see it. If it were up to me, I would skip it.

I haven’t been to Hong Kong, but I’ve been researching. I’ve been told the people are rude, largely because so many have moved there from the workers’ paradise on the mainland. Funny thing about workers’ paradises; everyone in them always wants to move back to capitalist oppression.

Communism has made or kept the mainland Chinese coarse and selfish, and tourists in Hong Kong have to deal with them because they wait tables and drive cabs. Also, it looks like hotels and other facilities are more run-down in Hong Kong. People are less likely to speak English, even though it’s an official language. Everyone in Singapore speaks English, and they place a high priority on education. They’re not coarse, either. We didn’t see people spitting or littering. Everyone was courteous.

Look, Singapore is better than American cities. Better, not different. Let’s just say it. On average, American city dwellers are inferior to Singaporeans. Inferior. That is the right word. Some people are better than others.

Regarding Hong Kong, I have to say that the food looks very good.

Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Hong Kong Chinese are supposedly more cultured than mainlanders, which is not a high bar to clear. On the mainland, people urinate on the streets and let their kids poop there. Sometimes they pull these stunts in Hong Kong, and it doesn’t fly. Mainland Chinese tourists have terrible reputations in every single country they visit, as do Chinese businessmen.

Capitalism makes people better.

Having lived in Northern Florida, far from abusive, dangerous wokiees, for 6 beautiful, precious years that are like enormous pearls to me, I am disturbed whenever I think about visiting places where people are rude and selfish. I get Miami flashbacks. It’s too bad God won’t evacuate that place and put a fence around it to prevent it from coming back.

Hong Kong still uses the Hong Kong dollar, and I have read that people expect cash, so that’s a drag. As much as I hate the war on cash, electronic money is great for tourism.

I should have bought a better camera sooner. In fact, I did. I tried, I mean. I started Youtubing unsuccessfully in around 2016, and I have bought two unsatisfying action cameras. The latest, in 2019, was a Gopro. The cameras haven’t worked out. You really have to control them from phones in order to get them to function, and they’re very hinky. They turn on and off without warning. They refuse to connect to my phone and tablet. They change video modes unexpectedly. My Gopro ruined a video I made in Turkey. It’s just voices and a still photo. Unacceptable, when so much is at stake.

Phones are fine for photos, but I want something dependable for video, and it has to work without a phone.

My phone cost $750, and it does a ton of things. Oddly, the camera I bought costs about $150 more, and all it does is shoot photos and video.

I had a hard time choosing. I finally went with a Sony ZV-1 II. This is considered a point-and-shoot camera, although you can mess with a lot of settings, including the f-stop. I also considered the ZV-E10, which is similar but allows you to change lenses.

The ZV-E10 is more of a grown-up camera. No doubt. You can travel with a standard lens for vlogging and a zoom lens for versatility. Also, the sensor on the ZV-E10 is better. Thing is, it costs a lot with an extra lens. A good zoom lens will run around $650. Maybe I should have sprung for it, but the trip itself is not cheap, and I’m in the middle of Florida’s homeowner insurance explosion crisis, so I’m not feeling like this is the time to throw cash around. Although it probably is.

Our lives are great, but the rapture can’t come soon enough. I can’t wait for the day when I find myself looking back at Earth the way I now look back at the open latrine known as Miami.

Curses, all Around

I’ll tell you what. Satan gets bolder and bolder as the rapture approaches.

His latest trick: getting people to pretend two movies are really one, in order to make it look like a movie he hates is not doing as well as it is.

As we all know, Sound of Freedom is a gigantic hit, and that is in spite of studios refusing to release it for years. Sound of Freedom is about the buying and selling of children, who are enslaved for all sorts of purposes, from prostitution to serving as camel jockeys in Muslim countries. Slavery is still big among Muslims.

Two other movies just came out: Barbie and Oppenheimer. Totally different movies. The industry, in a move that has never happened before, is calling them “Barbenheimer.” The idea is that people are supposed to go see both on the same day, which no one in his right mind would ever do, because they are very different. The news is full of stories saying Barbenheimer is a huge hit.

Sound of Freedom is extremely popular with Christians, and it’s not popular in Hollywood or among perversion enthusiasts on the left. The press has repeatedly attacked the movie. One national news outlet actually hired a reviewer who appears to be a defender of pedophilia and, if smoke means fire, a pedophile, himself.

Hollywood preys on children. Everyone knows this. Greedy, stupid parents shovel their kids into Hollywood’s maw every day, and the ones that get jobs are used and abused. Many are raped, and that includes boys, because Hollywood is so gay-friendly. These things also happen to men and women, as Harvey Weinstein could tell you. The last thing Hollywood wants is exposure. Entertainment people are busy virtue-signaling with one hand while destroying lives with the other.

Corey Haim and Corey Feldman were raped. Michael Jackson raped kids. Erik and Lyle Menendez were raped by their Hollywood dad. Even Shirley Temple was raped, back when Hollywood did a better job of hiding perversion. Errol Flynn committed statutory rape. Then there are Jeffrey Jones, Kevin Spacey, R Kelly, Roman Polanski, Kirk Douglas…I don’t want to spend the rest of the day typing names. Brooke Shields had to do full-frontal nudity when she was 11, in a movie about child prostitution, and somehow no one got arrested. I saw the movie when it came out, and it didn’t even get an X rating.

Here’s what I think. People in Hollywood are very, very unhappy about the success of Sound of Freedom. Actually, that’s a fact, not my opinion. They’ve been criticizing the film ever since it came out. It seems obvious that because of their anger, some people got together and hatched a plan to steal the spotlight. This has to be why “Barbenheimer” is now a word.

It’s not going to work. Sound of Freedom has made over $100 million already, and Elon Musk is going to put it on Twitter, or X, as he now calls it. Go figure Elon Musk.

It’s never going away, and its success could actually spur the production of more shows and movies. As much as Hollywood hates exposure, it also loves money, and loyalty is not in the Hollywood dictionary. If the numbers look right, someone will make films.

Anyway, as God has told me repeatedly, when things don’t make sense, you look for a supernatural cause. In the case of Barbenheimer, it’s obvious. Satan motivated his faithful Hollywood slaves to minimize the impact of a film exposing one of his favorite things.

If you need more proof, consider the fact that Tom Cruise made a point of appearing before the press, buying tickets to both movies on the same day. Cruise is the quintessential Hollywood drone. He has no soul left. And he pushes Scientology, a cult known for human trafficking. When Scientologists or their family members misbehave, they risk being put in a private prison and forced to do slave labor.

They say the Church of Scientology uses confidential information to control actors, so it may be that Cruise himself is, in a way, being trafficked. When you join, they hook you up to a proprietary galvanometer, and you have to tell them about every sexual experience you’ve had.

I used to think God was against the death penalty because it prevented people from receiving salvation, but I don’t feel that way any more. A lot of people need to be executed in order to protect the rest of us. Kidnapping and child rape should be capital crimes, period. Pull the switch and put them down. Some crimes are so outrageous, the continued existence of the perpetrators is not acceptable.

Join me in cursing the entertainment industry, including sports, every day. Fighting these spirits and people with argument and political maneuvering won’t work. We need the power of God on our side. We know this age will end with a Christian-free world completely ruled by Satan, but that doesn’t mean we can’t lay down harassing fire while we’re here.

Maybe Success Doesn’t Look the Way we Expect

I keep getting revelation these days, and I don’t know what to do with it. It’s like receiving so much money, you can’t spend it. I’m glad I get it, and I share it with my wife, but I always think about the billions of people out there who aren’t getting it.

I often feel discouraged because so few people listen when I pass things on, but today I was thinking about it, and it occurred to me that I was probably reaching all the people God expected me to reach.

I’ve written a lot of stuff here. I’ve joined churches and tried to tell people things. I used to have social media accounts, and I used them as well. I’ve used Youtube. I have never gotten a big response. The churches were run by crooks and an arrogant child rapist, and the leadership saw me as a threat instead of an asset.

The other day I thought about these things, and I wondered what would have happened to me had I gained a big audience. Things would have been monetized. Parasites would have popped up and started giving me “advice” about the things they could do to “help” me get God’s message out, in exchange for advancing their own selfish goals. A lot of leftist nuts would have discovered me, and they would have tried to make my life miserable.

I would have faced all sorts of temptations, and I would probably have given in a lot. I might have ended up as useless as Benny Hinn.

Christians tend to respond to worldly success with self-destruction.

More positively, it occurred to me that what was happening to me was what I had predicted years earlier. I said God was giving up on big churches, and he was starting a true grassroots church in which each person would reach a few other people, outside of organizations and church buildings.

If I was right, then I’m just one of a great number of obscure people, each of whom who reaches a few others, and things are going as well as they can, in a world where most people hate God’s ways and are heading for hell with great determination and enthusiasm.

Years back, I heard God say, “One of many.” I knew what it meant. It meant I was one of many people who were being corrected and informed. It made me glad, because I didn’t want to be on my own or part of a tiny group shouldering a lot of weight. I also did not want to be well known.

Looks like things are going as God said they would, so I shouldn’t be discouraged. I am probably accomplishing more or less what I’m supposed to. After all, Jesus did his job perfectly, and when the day of Pentecost came, there were only 120 people in the room. When Joel Osteen, a teacher of lies and fables, sneezes, more than 120 people say, “God bless you.” A big audience is generally a sign of failure.

Lately God has been showing me more about the symmetry of the supernatural realm. It never ceases to amaze me. God and Satan. Yeshua and the Antichrist. Heaven and hell. Grieving the Holy Spirit and casting out demons. The body of the Christ and the body of the Antichrist. Elijah and the Antichrist’s prophet. For everything in the kingdom of God, Satan has a counterpart.

I was thinking about the polarization of the world the other day. I often say the world is being centrifuged instead of using the term “polarized.” A centrifuge separates things. It acts like a filter. Increasingly, we see the world divided into two camps. On one side, leftists who hate Christianity, and, by extension, Yeshua. On the other side, conservatives who are more or less on the side of God.

If you think leftists don’t hate Yeshua, remember: they now call us “Christofascists.” That’s about as blasphemous as you can get.

The sifting of the world is not a purely political sifting, because there are plenty of antichristian conservatives who think guns and rallies, not supernatural warfare, will save the world. Those people work for Satan regardless of what they think. Still, while not all conservatives are with God, everyone who belongs to God is conservative. For the left, it looks better to attack conservatives as a whole than to single Christians out, so Satan goes after the entire political right.

When Paul’s ship sank, it was because he was aboard. It had nothing to do with the heathens who were with him, but Satan was willing to kill them anyway in order to get Paul. Same with Jonah. Christians are on the conservative ship.

What God has shown me about the world’s state of hate-based division is that it comes from the spirits who control most human beings. Satan, fallen angels, and demons have become much more effective at transforming and controlling leftists. “Radicalizing,” if you prefer.

The rapture, tribulation, and millennium are coming soon. To a lot of Christians, that sounds great, because it means we get out of this trashy world where creatures are at each other’s throats around the clock. But consider it from the perspective of evil spirits. Satan has had thousands of years in which to enjoy tormenting people and convincing them to go to hell. In a few years, that will come to an end. After the tribulation, he and the spirits that serve him will be chained in hell, and they will stay there for a millennium. After that, they will be released briefly, be thoroughly routed, and then be dumped in a lake of fire, to thrash in agony, forgotten, forever.

Obviously, they are not happy about this. What we are seeing is a cascading proliferation of tantrums from the spirit world.

War in the spirit world is about to flare up like never before, so things are going badly on Earth, and division is worse than ever. The insanity and hatred of the left are reflections of the feelings and beliefs of the spirits that control leftists.

It’s kind of funny. Leftists are now telling just about all successful people they live on stolen land. That’s how evil spirits see us, too. They used to have bodies, and they were the ruling class. Then God humiliated them and gave the planet back to normal human beings. The spirits don’t accept the fact that they were always slum-class usurpers.

God showed me something else the other day. He explained why Satan is willing to fight him, even after spending so much time in the throne room. Satan has seen God’s limitless power, so why fight?

First of all, he has nothing to lose. He can’t be forgiven, so he’s going to burn. Second, he is literally insane. You can see this insanity mirrored in his children. The kooks with Seventies-throwback multicolored hair who can’t figure out what a woman is.

Sane people keep scratching their heads, wondering how anyone can swallow notions that are indisputably wrong and absurd. It’s not hard. You just have to be separated from the Holy Spirit.

Back to symmetry. Only the Holy Spirit prevents delusion and teaches truth. Studying the Bible won’t do it. Neither will praying with your unaided mind all day. You have to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and then you have to pray in tongues a lot every day. You have to spend time submitting to him. Then he will teach you through revelation.

Judaism and most churches promote ridiculous lies no adult should be able to believe, and it doesn’t matter how smart their scholars and clergymen are. It doesn’t matter how much they study. The mind can’t understand the supernatural without help. Only a small percentage of people are taught by the Holy Spirit, and only they are truly sane and informed.

Churches dumped the Holy Spirit very early in their history, so we have been flying blind for a couple of millennia. The Jews have no guidance, either. They haven’t had a prophet they accepted for about two and a half millennia. They had habits of murdering prophets and worshiping fallen angels, so God gave them a drought of prophecy. This is stated in the book of Amos, not the New Testament. It’s not an antisemitic myth.

This is why Catholics literally pray to saints and figurines and Jews pray to their ancestors. It’s why healings and miracles are uncommon in Judaism and old churches. It’s why we now have proud perverts, including women, running churches and even Orthodox synagogues.

If you don’t learn from the Holy Spirit, you die in ignorance and error, and it can be really profound.

Here’s the interesting thing: this applies to spirits as well as people.

We know that angels dwell around the throne in heaven, and evil spirits don’t. The Bible shows that Satan sometimes appears before God, but he and his minions aren’t allowed to dwell there. Spirits that serve God are welcome to stay there and bathe in correction and every other good thing that comes from God’s presence.

Satan and the other evil spirits have been starving for God for thousands of years. During that time, they have become more and more insane, because there was no Holy Spirit among them to keep them rational. Satan is literally deranged. He probably thinks he can win.

God is righteous, and “righteous” simply means “correct.” Look it up. The less time you spend with God and his children, the less right you become. “Right” and “rational” mean the same thing, and the insane are irrational.

I could write about this stuff all day. The manifestations of supernatural symmetry are everywhere. Whenever you see something that belongs to God or Satan, look for a homologue on the other side. You may learn something new.

Pray Your Way Out of Here

I believe I got a revelation from God the other day, and while that happens all the time, I think this one will be very useful to other people, so I am writing about it.

The tribulation is coming. The Bible makes that clear. During the tribulation, life on Earth will be more miserable than ever. People, trees, and fish will be killed off. Animals will kill people. Plagues will abound. Starvation and lack will sweep the world. Nobody in his right mind would want to be here while all this is happening.

Before the tribulation, the rapture will come. People who are close to God will be taken to heaven alive, to celebrate the wedding of Yeshua. The Bible says the church is his bride. The tribulation and wedding will last 7 years, and whether you experience it as a time of horrible suffering or a big party will depend on where you are.
So how can the tribulation happen if people are praying for the world? Won’t God listen to them?

God grants our prayers. Christians know this. He doesn’t grant every request, because we pray incorrectly most of the time. We ask for stupid things, or we ask without faith or love. We ask while we’re immersed in sinful behavior that blocks the answers. But when we ask correctly, we get what we want. It would not make sense for the tribulation to take place while a lot of people are praying. They would pray for God to mitigate it.

God has to remove people who are close to him from the world before the tribulation can happen. This is why the rapture comes before the tribulation. He won’t want us here asking him to show the world mercy. In addition, he will not want us to be here to suffer with people who rejected him. Plagues are not for the righteous.

What else do we know about God? Here’s one thing: we are supposed to love him. This is the most important commandment, according to God himself. Yeshua, who is God, said it. He even put it above obedience.

We are supposed to be grateful to God, and grateful children show their love for parents by doing things for them. But how do you do things for God? He isn’t hungry. He doesn’t need shelter. He has no diseases. He can defeat all of his enemies.

Yeshua made it clear that when we do things for others, we do them for him. We show our love for him by doing charity. If you give money to a poor person to pay his light bill, for example, it’s as though you took pity on Yeshua himself.

Of course, churches barely mention this. The dead churches are too busy embracing perversion and teaching rules. The Holy Spirit churches are too obsessed with taking people’s money.

They don’t teach us how to obey the most important commandment. It’s astounding, if you think about it.

Intercession is one form of charity. You take time out of your day to pray for God to help other people, expecting him to grant your requests. It’s not a small thing, regardless of what leftists like to say on Twitter these days. It’s more powerful than direct action, by far.

We are told to intercede not just for people we like, but for people who are hateful. Jesus himself did this as he was being crucified.

So, if you add it all up, you get this: if you’re a prodigious intercessor, God will want you off the earth before the tribulation. If you’re down here showing your love for God by praying for both nice people and the obstreperous and vile, you are using God’s power to hold back disaster. The tribulation, which has to come, can’t come while intercession is blocking it.

For these reasons, I believe that if you make a practice of interceding a lot every day, you are likely to be taken in the rapture.

Interceding has other benefits. God blesses people who do what he tells them, and also, it appears that when wicked people can’t receive the blessings you ask for, they go back to you. Interceding makes you more like God in your heart. It also helps you enter and stay in his presence.

I am trying to put this revelation to work every day. Hope it works for everyone who reads this.

Oh, Boy! Fetch the Condiment Sommelier!

We live in a time of bizarre and unpredictable shortages. A week or two ago, a new one popped up: sriracha sauce.

When I was young, sriracha was just something you expected to see on the table during rare visits to Thai restaurants. No one was excited about it. It went well with Thai food, but it wasn’t that great with most other things.

At some point, hipsters discovered it, and for no good reason at all, they developed a sriracha obsession. They use it inappropriately on all kinds of things, including tacos and something called avocado toast.

Don’t get me started on avocados. They shouldn’t even be called fruit. They’re okay in guacamole, but you could just as easily make it from something like zucchini or yellow squash, because avocados have nearly no flavor. When I was a kid, there were two avocado trees in my yard, and I can’t recall eating a single one. I let them rot on the ground.

It’s bizarre to me that women love avocados so much. It’s like eating thick green water. And mashed avocado looks exactly like baby poop.

The web says a lot of implausible Paltrowesque things about avocados. It claims it gives women shinier hair, clearer skin, better vision, lower blood pressure, smaller waists, bigger bustlines, more hits on Instagram, and a higher chance of landing rich boyfriends.

I made some of those up.

In my defense, the ones I made up are probably just as valid as the others.

I guess I’ll take heat for this, but fooling women is just about the easiest way there is to get rich. My mother once paid $18 for a bar of soap. She had it for years. I think she was afraid to use it.

If it weren’t for female gullibility, the Mormon church would still be meeting in people’s living rooms in upstate New York.

I don’t know why pretentious millennials got so excited about sriracha, but they seem to have very empty lives. I guess they’ll jump at anything that gives them a reason to celebrate.

Anyway, there is a big ol’ American company that makes what is probably the best-known sriracha. The familiar one with the rooster on the bottle. The company is called Huy Fong Foods, Inc. It’s in California. I don’t know too much about what hipsters like, but it appears they think Huy Fong has no equal. An article I saw said Huy Fong used to buy peppers in the US, but they started buying in Mexico.

Hmm. Things are going so well in California. I wonder why anyone would decide not to buy California produce and to outsource to Mexico. Yes, it’s a real puzzle. We should assemble a think tank.

Mexico’s pepper fields are doing poorly due to drought, which is caused by global warming, Donald Trump, and misgendering. As a result, Huy Fong has cut production back. People have started putting Huy Fong sriracha on Ebay, and some have paid $70 for a single bottle. Right now, Amazon’s cheapest bottle is $25. The next-best deal is about $43. That’s a big bottle, though; 28 ounces. Normal bottles are not available from Amazon.

When I saw the story, I wondered how stupid millennials were, so I looked around the web to see if anyone was selling Huy Fong sriracha at the regular low price, and I didn’t see any. I didn’t want it, because I still have about 7/8 of a bottle I bought years ago. This stuff lasts forever. I was just curious, and I thought it would be funny to find a $5 bottle on the web while men who were allergic to testosterone were paying 14 times that much.

While I was thinking about this, I remembered a long-abandoned quest. The quest for Shark brand sriracha.

I used to live in Miami, and Miami has lots of Thais. It has great Thai restaurants. While I was there, I learned to love sriracha, but it was not Huy Fong. It was Shark brand. A local joint served it.

Shark sriracha is sweet and has a complex taste. You can literally pour it on white rice and enjoy it. I like dumping it on Thai food in restaurants, but I can’t do that where I am now, because they don’t have it.

While I was thinking about Huy Fong, Shark came to mind, and I decided to make another effort to find it. I succeeded.

I found an Asian grocery site, and I ordered two bottles. I got two because they had both medium and hot sauce. I didn’t know which one I liked. I was giddy to find there were different grades. They sell for about $13 and $16, respectively, and the bottles are huge: 25 ounces.

I spent a little, it’s true, but I wasn’t buying something I can ordinarily find at Publix. I have never been able to buy Shark locally. I would have had to pay a lot to get Shark even without a shortage.

My sauce arrived today. I just tried it.

This stuff is wonderful. Both grades. I would not buy the hot version again, however, because it tastes almost exactly like medium, and it costs three dollars more.

I guess this will irk any hipster who reads this, but Huy Fong is American, and Shark is made in Thailand. Hipsters are all about being authentic and original, while aping each other’s tattoos and wearing old people’s discarded clothing, so you would think they’d be all over Shark.

Googling around, I see some people agree with me. Serious Eats had a sriracha contest, and Huy Fong was beaten by Polar brand and Shark. Huy Fong is very good, and I’m not knocking it, but Shark is better.

Interesting note: sriracha is easy to make at home, so anyone who blew $70 on a bottle is either rich or foolish.

Huy Fong makes one pepper product I can’t live without: chili garlic sauce. This is a thick sauce made from vinegar, chilies, salt, and garlic. It doesn’t scream “ORIENTAL” when you use it, so it’s versatile. I love it in hummus, and you can use it to heat up nearly anything.

I wonder what it costs right now. I used to go through a lot of it back when I was hitting the hummus hard.

The Asian site I went to for sauce had a lot of other interesting stuff. I popped for some red curry sauce. I have a tendency to assume Asians make everything from scratch, but on the web, I’ve seen them pouring all kinds of stuff out of cans and bottles. I want to see if I can make a decent red chicken curry with packaged sauce as a base ingredient.

It’s very hard to stop collecting hot sauces. I have Crystal, Frank’s, two kinds of Huy Fong, three kinds of El Yucateco, two kinds of Shark, and sometimes I also keep two kinds of Matouk’s.

I hope this blog post is useful to you. Maybe someone whose handlebar moustache is drooping from sriracha deprivation will see this, try Shark, and never look back.

Enthusiasm Outpaces Skill

Yesterday I fired up the new Walmart pizza oven and made a Neapolitan-style pie. I am here with the results.

After reading about Neapolitan pizza and consulting experienced people, I decided to use these dough ingredients:

INGREDIENTS

100 grams Primo Gusto high-gluten flour
60 grams water
0.75 teaspoons salt (supposedly 3 grams)
1/8 teaspoon yeast

When you bake like an intelligent person, you weigh everything carefully, and you list the weight of each ingredient as a percentage of the weight of the flour. I was told that Neapolitan pizza requires a dry dough with 60% hydration, meaning the water should weigh 60% as much as the flour. The ideal salt percentage is said to be 2.5-3%, which is common to a lot of breads. I use measuring spoons for yeast because I’m not going to sit around weighing tiny amounts of leavening. It’s not critical.

I usually go with 67% hydration, a small amount of sugar, and a little oil (except for Sicilian), so the dough I made for Neapolitan was pretty stiff.

Unfortunately, the grams-to-teaspoons conversion I used for salt appears to have been wrong, so I may have used about 50% more salt than I should have. Salt slows fermentation, and too much salt ruins the flavor of bread.

I let the dough rise for two hours at room temperature, and then I refrigerated it. Early the next day, I set it out to ferment at room temperature again. I got these instructions from the web.

When the oven was hot, I didn’t have a lot of time to wait for the dough. Late in the afternoon, I took it out to shape it, and although it had doubled in size, it was awfully hard compared to my usual dough. I stretched it anyway.

I made a small pie because I don’t have a peel the right size for this oven. It’s on the way. I have a peel 9″ wide, so I sized the pie to fit it.

For sauce, I pureed Cento San Marzano peeled tomatoes. They were really sour. They say you shouldn’t put anything but salt in Neapolitan sauce, but I was the one who had to eat it, so I left the salt out and added a little sugar and pressed garlic.

Pizza without garlic is a missed opportunity.

I also mixed a little fresh basil into the sauce. A lot of people dump fresh basil on finished pies or bake it on top of the sauce and cheese. Those people are nuts. Fresh basil is not tasty at all, and baking it on top of everything can burn it. I think they do it for the sake of appearance.

A destructive obsession with presentation is one of the hallmarks of bad cooks. The world is full of bad cooks, including cooks with degrees, who proudly present beautiful bad food, thinking they’ve done something wonderful.

For cheese, I tore up about 2 ounces of Belgioioso fresh mozzarella and dumped them on the sauce.

I did something I should not have done. I decided to try my usual method of loading the oven. Most people put corn meal or semolina on their peels to make raw pizzas slide off. I don’t, because it’s a dumb thing to do. It makes a mess, and often, it doesn’t work. I put a sheet of nonstick foil on my peel. I slide the foil and pizza onto my steel, and two minutes later, I pull the foil out. Works great for New York style pies.

Looks like it does not work for Neapolitan, however.

I put the pie in the oven, gave the hot stone some time to dry up the underside of the crust, and tried to pull the foil out. It hung on something, and when it came out, it had a little hole in it. I don’t know if it stuck to the pie or what.

Neapolitan pies in cheap ovens cook quickly on one side, so you have to turn them. When I tried to turn the pie, it resisted. Turned out there was a tiny hole in it, and sauce had gone through and hit the stone, gluing the pie down in one spot. I broke it free, but by the time I got it moving, one side of the pie was black.

When I took the pie out, it had problems.

The dough was underfermented, which is one reason it was hard. This prevented it from blowing up properly, so the pizza was somewhat heavy. It also tasted salty. Finally, the bottom was undercooked. It should have been partially charred. I think the foil did me in. I’ll post pictures.

I think this oven will make good pizza if I get things right. Today I’m making another pie, fermented overnight at room temperature. It should be much poofier. I’m also going to use the hated corn meal.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to make big pies, because the heat is so intense near the back of the oven. The bigger a pie is, the closer the rim will be to the heat.

The sauce was surprisingly good. I make a more flavorful sauce for New York pies, and I’m sure it would be better than yesterday’s sauce on Neapolitan pizza, but it was okay.

The cheese was also surprising. If you put fresh whole milk mozzarella on a New York pie, it shrinks and shoots water and grease onto the pizza. In yesterday’s pie, it just melted and spread out. No problems at all.

Will I continue and then move on to an expensive gas oven? Can’t say, but so far, the results are encouraging.

Over Over Over

I believe God is preparing people to be raptured, by making them want to abandon this world. I keep seeing disgusting things in the news.

Today I saw stories that reminded me how much I wished the rapture had already happened.

I think the worst story was about a young child whose pediatrician asked him if he was a sexual pervert. Maybe you’ve seen this. The kid wants to play football, so his dad had to get him checked out. The doctor asked the boy whether he was non-binary, gender-fluid, or otherwise counted among those who practice abomination.

We used to be upset because doctors were asking patients whether they owned guns. It was a remarkable effort to propagandize and establish a non-governmental watch list of gun owners. Now that they’re alerting small boys to the wonders of sodomy, the gun questions seem pretty innocuous.

The story made me very angry. I can understand how a father would want to punch a doctor in the face. If the creepy bachelor next door, who has a really neat electric train set, asks your young son whether he’s a pervert, the natural response is to want to punch him in the face, and it would be tough to get a jury to convict a parent who obeyed the urge. It’s no different when the person who defiles your kids wears a stethoscope.

I don’t want to be angry at anyone, and that is especially true of those who deserve anger. I don’t believe anyone should use violence unless there is no other choice. It’s not right to punch creepy doctors. I’m just saying it’s natural to be enraged when an idiot contaminates your child.

I also read about two new black mass shooters, one of whom is swishy. I’ll just say “swishy.” I’m tired of trying to find polite terms.

A man named Kimbrady Carriker shot a bunch of people in Philadelphia. He used a semiautomatic rifle. Internet detectives Googled social media photos of him wearing women’s clothing, including a brassiere and fake breasts. Conservatives are calling him “trans,” and leftists are calling them bigots because he has not expressly labeled himself trans.

Look, you can’t have everything your way. You can’t have 597 different genders and expect the rest of us to guess which one applies. Things are so confusing, the last trans shooter was “misgendered” by leftist journalists for two days. Even they couldn’t figure it out.

You don’t need a title in order to belong to the tranny camp. Richard Speck, the nurse killer, was trans. There is a grotesque video of him in prison, prancing around in women’s underwear, topless, with huge breasts produced by injections.

A whole lot of violent criminals in prison are trans, and prison isn’t always what makes them that way. For many, it’s just a safe place where they can express themselves. I don’t think homosexuality makes you a violent criminal, but from history, it seems obvious that violent criminals are more likely than normal people to be homosexuals.

A man who wears dresses and false breasts is definitely trans-something, whether leftists would call him transgender, transsexual, transvestite, or transistor radio. He’s effeminate. He is perverted. He is an alphabet person. The LGB’s own him, regardless of whether he has chosen a label. He’s not a normal heterosexual man.

Anyway, that’s not the most interesting thing about him to me. I find him interesting because he’s black. We keep seeing minority mass shooters in the news. For decades we were told only white men do mass shootings, but now, whenever I see a mass shooting headline, I think, “black,” because we keep seeing black and Hispanic shooters in the news.

So, what’s happening? Has it always been this way, or is mass shooting among minorities become a new trend? It’s hard to say, because the press has a long history of suppressing news about black crime. When you get to know a few black people, they will open your eyes by telling you how things really are.

Now for the other shooter I read about. In Queens, a nut named Thomas Abreu rode around on a scooter, shooting random people. He killed an old man. He’s black. You can look at his last name and say he must be Puerto Rican. Well, Puerto Rico is an island, not a race. He’s black. Look at the pictures.

He appears to be a non-effeminate male, but the way things go these days, that conclusion could change at any minute.

The last big shooter in Baltimore was black, too. Then there was the Mexican guy who shot people in Texas.

Maybe the problem is that “mass shooting” has been redefined. If I recall correctly, you used to have to shoot quite a few people to be called a mass shooter, but now they’re including characters who shoot 4 victims. Most homicides in the US are committed by black people, and the lower the number of victims a shooter needs to be on a list, the more black people will make the cut. My guess is that we are now counting a whole lot of lesser mass shootings, and those often involve black shooters.

I don’t know, though.

Anyway, the stories are discouraging because they seem to show how minority communities are collapsing. And they go hand in hand with the shoplifting stories.

Blue cities are going the way of Detroit because of theft and other crimes. In San Francisco, normal retailing is rapidly becoming impossible. I saw a video of a Safeway supermarket in San Francisco. It’s like airport security. Metal fences everywhere. Receipt scanners. Exits permanently locked. Makes me wonder what will happen when fires–I mean “oxidizing protests”–break out.

When I was young, someone who was inexplicably proud of having moved to California told me the rest of the US got things 5 years after they did. I think there is truth to that, and it’s not encouraging.

I don’t understand why people from Southern California are arrogant about living there, as if they were a higher form of life. In order to qualify, you just show up. Charles Manson lived there. So did Harvey Weinstein.

What do suburbs have in great abundance, compared to cities? Caucasians and Asians. The shoplifting epidemic is largely black. It’s like the actual witches who run BLM have convinced a substantial percentage of black people they already own whatever is on store shelves, so when they take it, it’s just an advance on reparations.

What’s going to happen to America if black areas destroy themselves entirely? What if they become like Somalia? They were awful before this business started. I don’t know how families will survive when life becomes one continuous riot.

The increase in black crime is going to make it harder for black people who want to leave. When they show up in the country and in suburbs looking for housing so they can raise normal children and not be shot at twice a month, people will find ways to avoid renting and selling to them. They already do. Housing discrimination is very hard to prove. The reparations/victimhood mindset is going to turn many black people into prisoners of ghettos.

I also saw a bunch of headlines about states banning “gender-affirming care” for minors. There is so much wrong with that phrase. I don’t need to read the stories to be disheartened. The headlines themselves show that mainstream America is dead.

First of all, they’re not “affirming” anything. You can’t affirm a delusion. The term “gender-affirming” was crafted by pro-perversion people to move the goalposts and make it seem like the claimed genders of confused people are indisputably correct. They make it sound like settled science. That’s not true at all.

An enormous percentage of people who let doctors hack them up and fill them with hormones and hormone blockers later realize they were going through temporary phases or pressured by stupid parents who wanted to use their children as virtue-signaling accessories.

The other problem with the phrase is the word “care.” Castrating your little boy is not care. Slicing your little girl’s breasts off is not care. Skinning her arm and leg, destroying her genitals, and crafting a hideous, non-functional imitation penis from the scraps is not care. Reinforcing damaging delusions is not care.

What do you do now if you want to raise a normal child who is not sexually perverted, has a good relationship with the Holy Spirit, and isn’t convinced white people and capitalism are evil? Not just homeschooling; you have to find a doctor who isn’t nuts. How do you do that? Will they put little decals on their office windows?

What’s life like for normal people in San Francisco? You get up in the morning and get your kids together for prayer. Then you get started on their homeschooling. Then you go to the grocery alone so they won’t see nude men strolling down the sidewalk. Then you enter the store through the one unlocked exit, buy your food, put it in ridiculous paper bags that rip, and go through a security checkpoint. Then if your kids have to visit the doctor, you go in and sit beside them, holding your phone up to record everything in case the doctor or a nurse with purple hair commits a verbal molestation.

Then if your wife divorces you and decides your son is a girl, you may get in trouble with the government if you try to prevent her from castrating him.

We are done here. We need God to come and get us.

It’s sad that people don’t realize the nuts have won. There are people who think the Bud Light disaster proves there is still hope. That’s wrong. One of the curses of godless people is that those they hate rule over them, even as minorities. Read the Bible and see. It doesn’t matter that most Americans quietly disagree with the loonies. Satan gives them power over us because we turned away from the Holy Spirit.

You have to remember the symmetry of the supernatural. One person accompanied by the Holy Spirit can defeat 10,000 heathens. Similarly, one heathen can defeat 10,000 Christians who abandoned the Holy Spirit and followed the world.

We’re not seeing a fight between solid Christians and the godless. We’re seeing a fight between the openly godless and a nation of fake Christians who made themselves their own gods. Both sides belong to Satan.

Back when I was attending worthless Trinity Church in Miami, I thought I was surrounded by Christians. At first. Then I saw all the Obama stickers in the parking lot. I saw Oprah’s magazine on a coffee table in the pastor’s son’s office. Oprah is openly against Christianity. Then I saw the children of prominent church members on Facebook, sassing adults who criticized homosexuality.

I watched Rich Wilkerson, the head pastor, lie to crowds of poor people to get their money. He told them to pay him before paying their utility bills. He said God would reward them with money, which did not happen.

I used to think the people he lied to were victims, but that’s not really true. He told them what they wanted to hear. “Keep doing what you’re doing, and God will save you anyway.”

This was his own plan for life, and he spread it to them. He was giving “doctrine affirming care.”

Most Christians around the world are like the ones I knew in Miami. The rapture will come, and they’ll still be here, among their real brothers and sisters, in a world ruled by their real god.

I want this mess to end soon. My wife and I are in little safe cocoons, enjoying ourselves, but the barbarians are taking more and more ground around us, getting closer every day. Sooner or later, they’ll be in my yard, and the government will be on their side. They’ll be the government. I’m not going to join the dupes who plan to fight them. I just want God to evacuate us.

Not Sure This is Pizza

So much has happened in the last few days. With the sound judgment for which I am so widely known, I bought a pizza oven, and I also decided to take another shot at making a bread starter.

There are two kinds of pizza that really float my boat: New York Style and Sicilian. I make good New York pizza, and I make the best Sicilian imaginable. I make both in a plain old wall oven. So why mess with success?

Can’t really answer that.

For years, I’ve been reading people’s impassioned words about Neapolitan pizza, and I haven’t paid much attention. It’s made in special high-temperature ovens, a lot of people claim you have to use 00 flour, it sounds like a pain in the butt, and the only two allegedly Neapolitan pizzas I’ve had weren’t good.

I ate at a chain called Anthony’s Coal-Fired Pizza near Hollywood, Florida. The pizza had very little sauce. It had some kind of meat on it, and it seemed greasy to me. The crust was sort of flat and useless. It wasn’t mediocre. It was a step down from that.

I ate a weird pizza at Mozza in LA, and it was like a bowl-shaped cracker with arugula and a fried egg on it. Two things that shouldn’t be anywhere near pizza.

Neapolitan fans rave about the crust. They say it’s puffy and delicate and crispy and so on. I haven’t seen that yet. It all seemed like crackers to me.

Nonetheless, curiosity overwhelmed me, and I started looking at pizza ovens. I learned that Walmart had released a really cheap one that works very well. I don’t want to blow hundreds or more on a big oven when I don’t know if I like Neapolitan pizza, but I am willing to spend a little on a small trial oven, and that’s what I did. Yesterday.

The Walmart Expert Grill 15″ charcoal-fired oven costs $117, and it takes about 20 minutes to put together. Hard to beat that. People say it will do the same thing a $700 oven will do.

They call it a 15″ oven, but there is no way you can get a 15″ pie in there. I think 14″ might be managed, but I have doubts. This type of oven heats more from the side than the top, and you have to keep turning pizzas in order to get every side evenly done. The bigger a pie is, the closer the rim will be to the hottest part of the oven, so it seems to me a big pizza will burn at the edges before the middle gets cooked. But I don’t really know.

The flames you see in the photo are not from charcoal. I dropped a couple of pieces of oak on the charcoal to see what would happen. People say a little wood adds flavor and heat.

I’ve gotten expert help, and I’ve learned some stuff.

First, the dough can’t have any sugar or oil in it, and the flour can’t be malted. Sugar and oil will burn. I don’t know what malting does. One reason people use 00 is that it’s not malted. I am told that any unmalted white flour will work, though, so I’m trying to make my first pie with Gordon Food Service Primo Gusto high-gluten flour, which I already had here. The text on the bag doesn’t mention malt. If I can make it work, I can avoid expensive flour.

Second, you’re supposed to use whole milk mozzarella. The squishy stuff. This type of cheese is completely hopeless in other types of pizzas. When you make a New York pie with it, the cheese shrinks, and all the water squeezes out onto the pizza, along with a lot of grease. I’m told this is not a problem at Neapolitan temperatures. I am also told that Belgioiso cheese is excellent for Neapolitan pizza, and that’s great, because it’s available everywhere.

Third, you’re not supposed to use pizza sauce. You use mashed-up peeled San Marzano tomatoes. I had no luck with these in New York pizza, but everyone says they’re what you need in Neapolitan. You mash the tomatoes up and add salt if you want.

Fourth, you want to let the dough rise at least overnight, and you may want to get fancy and use a starter to add complexity or whatever. I have found that starters are of no use whatsoever for New York and Sicilian pies.

Fifth, you want 60% hydration in the dough, which is a low for other types of pizza.

I fired my oven up today to burn the Chinese industrial waste out of it. The highest temperature I measured on the stone was 588°, and that disappointed me. Maybe I can fiddle with it and do better. I found out my infrared thermometer only went up to 600°, so I can’t do much research until a better one arrives.

As for starters, I have made them before, but they always grew so fast they got away from me, and they turned black and so on. Reader LauraW mentioned starters in a comment, and I started reading about them, and I learned that it’s normal for starters to get disgusting when they run low on flour. I also learned that you don’t need to buy bacteria or strange flour to make a starter. Plain old all-purpose flour works.

I got my new starter going about three days back. I used 100 grams of flour and the same weight of purified water. I didn’t want my well’s bacteria in there. As of today, the starter really stinks. Sort of like cheese. Sort of like feet. The web says this is okay, because it’s going through a phase. I hope so.

The starter should be ready to use in about 4 days, so I’ll try it in a Neapolitan pie if I haven’t given up on the oven yet.

My plan is to use fresh mozzarella and San Marzanos, along with some fresh basil. That’s all. I have a feeling I’m going to be disgusted, since these ingredients sound bland. That won’t matter as long as the crust is good. If the crust is worth all this effort, I can put real pizza ingredients on top of it eventually.

I have no interest in becoming a purist. If I stick with this, I want to be a guy who makes phenomenal pizzas with real Neapolitan crusts, no matter how much I have to bastardize the cheese, sauce, and toppings. If I like the traditional stuff, whoopee, but if I don’t, I won’t let it stop me.

If I get heavily into this, I’ll spring for a real gas oven and add it to my patio arsenal. I don’t want to keep dealing with lump charcoal until I die.

You’ll Have to Build Your Own

Today and day before yesterday, I used my new tractor fork to move a 70-foot oak. I feel like it’s safe to say this invention is a huge success and a giant improvement over what most people use.

The tines on the fork used to be 4 separate attachments. Each one had to be fastened to my tractor’s bucket with a chain and turnbuckle. They moved around when I used them, and I had to get on and off the tractor to put them back in place. When I tried to lift heavy things that were only a little wider than the gap between two tines, the tines would open up and drop the item. The chains were slowly destroying my bucket. It was stupid.

I hacked up the tines, discarding maybe 70 pounds of steel, including the chains and turnbuckles. I made a frame from heavy tubing, and I welded the tines to it. I made two plates that would connect to a quick attach adaptor, and I welded them to the frame. BANG. New fork.

If you look at it in a picture, it appears to be weak. You would think a heavy load would bend a tine downward. It looks like a blow to the side of a tine would bend it inward. No chance. I can stand on the end of a tine and jump up and down, and nothing happens. It’s much stronger than it looks.

A few days back, I was fiddling around in the woods, and I saw that a very tall tree had fallen across the dirt road that goes down the middle of the lot. It was stuck in another tree, so it leaned at about a 60-degree angle.

I had to move it. The road was unsafe with a big tree waiting to collapse on it. The cattle were in danger. Also, I didn’t want the leaning tree to destroy the tree that was holding its weight.

I went out with only a few tools. I had a hatchet, a tow strap, and an 18″ Makita electric chainsaw. Within about 90 minutes, the tree was flat on the ground, and I had moved about 15 feet of the trunk to the burn pile. By that time, the chainsaw batteries were dead, and I was dehydrated, so I quit.

Today I spent maybe two more hours, and I brought a timberjack so I could roll logs onto the fork. Now just about all of the tree is on the burn pile.

I had no problem lifting a 40-foot log that was about a foot thick on one end and 5″ thick on the other. This is the kind of thing buyers of $5000 grapples think is impressive. It’s like they have no idea a cheap, simple fork will do the same thing. I held the log up and sawed 5-foot lengths off each end until I had something I felt would be easy and safe to dump on the burn pile.

I could have carried the whole log to the pile, but that would have been dumb. Long objects can turn a tractor over if they’re not balanced right, and they can do funny things when dropped on a pile from 8 feet off the ground. Cutting the log up added maybe 10 minutes to the job, and it left me with a safer load.

I found something else the fork will do. If you lift the fork high and push it against a tree that’s rotten or just small, you can push it right over. No stump. The inner two tines prevent the tree from sliding out of the fork. The only problem is that the fork tends to slide up the tree. I can fix that by welding a piece of serrated steel to the frame to catch on tree bark.

I considered welding a hook to the frame in the same place, for chains and straps. I can’t do that if I put the log-catcher there. I can still put a hook on my bucket, though, and since I have a quick attach adaptor, switching to the bucket is fast and easy.

I’m thinking of things to do to my ballast box. This is a heavy steel box on the rear of the tractor. I put sand in it. It counteracts the weight of stuff on the front end loader and takes weight off the front axle. It’s not quite full of sand, and I can put a chainsaw and a few other things in the top.

I need more storage, however. I’m considering getting a Harbor Freight hitch cargo carrier. This is a cheap steel platform that goes in a trailer hitch receiver, like the one on my box. There are a couple of problems with these things. First, they are nearly bottomless. The bottom of a cargo carrier is just a few steel tubes several inches apart. I guess I could put expanded metal or plywood in it. The second problem is that cargo carriers can wobble around in receivers. I don’t know if that would bother me or not.

Right now, I have a big steel hook in the receiver. The purpose is to let me connect a strap, brush grubber, or chain, so I can do light pulling. I don’t think it’s a great idea to pull really hard on a ballast box receiver, but removing shrubs and little stumps should be no problem at all. If I don’t use the hook, I have to run the strap or whatever under the box to the tractor, and that’s kind of a pain.

Someone suggested I connect a short chain to the tractor’s drawbar. I guess I’ll do that. I will then be able to connect things to the chain without getting between the tractor and box. I’ll be able to rest the chain on the box or something when I’m not using it, so it will be handy.

I have considered buying or making a chainsaw holder. When I put a chainsaw in the box, I have to keep a scabbard with it. I have to make sure the scabbard is on the saw when it’s in the box so the chain doesn’t gouge things. Putting the scabbard on and taking it off gets to be inconvenient.

A company called Sawhaul makes a polyethylene saw holder you can mount on any flat piece of steel. It looks fine, but the price is insane. They want $150 for something that should cost $50, and people say the polyethylene gets torn up and has to be replaced. I’m thinking I might be better off making something from pressure-treated wood. I’m not sure. If I get a cargo carrier, a chainsaw holder will be pointless.

I’m also thinking of making a hook for my subsoiler. A subsoiler has a single bar of steel that goes down in the ground, and it has a flat blade attached to it. The bar has about a 45° bend in it. You can use the subsoiler to dig shallow trenches in a hurry. It’s also useful for lifting stumps, but because the bar has such a wide bend in it, it slips off the stumps. If it had a 90° bend, it would hold on and lift better. This would give me 3300 pounds of lift, concentrated on a very small area.

Stumps need vertical lift. They don’t resist it very well. They’re great at withstanding sideways force. Obviously, a 3300-pound lift will do more than a much smaller force applied at 45° from vertical.

A lot of guys use something called a stump bucket to remove stumps. This is a thing that looks sort of like the lower jaw on a tyrannosaurus. It goes on a front end loader. It has serrations where the dinosaur’s teeth should be, to prevent stumps from sliding off.

It’s a great tool. For a skid steer or track loader. A skid steer will lift several times what a tractor will, so the bad leverage you get from a long bucket out in front of a front end loader is not a problem. Stumps come flying out. A tractor can’t lift nearly well enough to make a stump bucket work well, unless the tractor is enormous. There are Youtube videos of skid steers and tractors using stump buckets, and the difference is disturbing, if you own a tractor. Guys on tractors have to nibble and nibble and nibble.

Tractor:

Skid steer:

A subsoiler with a hook would be very different from a long stump bucket. It would be right under the 3-point hitch, so no lifting power would be lost. If the tractor can lift 3300 pounds, I’ll get 3300 pounds of lift at the stump. I think it will work.

A guy in the Netherlands has a tiny Kubota with a front end loader attachment which is a single piece of plate steel on a quick-attach mount. The piece that does the work has a profile like a rhino horn. It seems to work much better than a stump bucket, probably because a bucket is a foot wide and spreads force out over a huge area. If he can do great things with a single piece of plate on a weak front end loader, I should be able to do much better with a subsoiler hook.

I bent my subsoiler working on stumps, so I welded gussets in and replaced the little lower pins with a solid bar of steel about three feet long. It should be way harder to bend now. If it does bend, I’ll reinforce it some more. Welders don’t have to put up with any BS from steel tools. It will do what I want, or I will add steel until it does.

Anyway, the fork is a total success. Wish I had had it 5 years ago. When you need the right tool, just buy it or make it. Don’t cuss and do nothing while life passes you by.

The Country That Put a Man on the Moon Still Can’t Make Good Cheese

Pizza is like golf. You always think you’ll do better the next time you do it. It’s full of variables, so you’re never really sure you’re doing it as well as possible.

Actually, this is not true. I make Sicilian pizza perfectly. I should have said “thin New York style pizza is like golf.” It’s very different.

In my pizza quest, which got going in earnest in about 2009, I have tried a zillion different things. Every flour known to man. Lots of cheeses, including Grande, which a lot of pros love. Many different tomato products. I baked with a stone. Then I moved to a steel. I baked at varying temperatures. I’ve tried everything except for a special pizza oven, which is not needed if you make New York style pizza.

I thought I was sure of two things: Sicilian pizza could be made well with any flour, but New York style worked best with bread flour. Now I question myself.

My friend Mike taught me how to make pizza, and he uses AP flour. I tried it in the past and didn’t like it. Then after I moved to the farm, I found out I had been using way too much yeast in my pizzas. This put me back into research. Change one thing, and you have to go back and look at everything else. I looked at flour again.

If you want to make pizza dough in the morning and have pizza later the same day, you need about 1/8 tsp. of instant dry yeast per 100 grams of flour. You can go higher for more speed, but as you cross the 1/2-teaspoon threshold, the flavor of the dough starts to suffer. There is really no reason to use a lot of yeast. If you want to speed up fermentation, you can make your dough with warm water and let it rise at 100°.

I used to use several times as much yeast as I needed.

By the way, there is nothing wrong with instant dry yeast. It’s more reliable than active dry yeast, and you get the same results. I’m not sure why people use other yeasts. You can always get fancy and make a live starter you feed every day like a pet, but if you’re satisfied with yeast, instant is the way to go.

Lately I’ve been using AP flour in thin pizza, and I have no complaints. I don’t think I’d use it for garlic rolls, but they’re not quite the same as pizza.

I used to be obsessed with crusts that were somewhat hard and chewy. In recent months, I’ve been more interested in softer crusts. I had tremendous success making hard crusts with high-gluten flour and little or no oil. To get a softer crust that isn’t like Wonder Bread, I am now using AP flour and about 3% olive oil. The percentage is figured in relationship to the weight of the flour. I like pies made with 180 grams of flour, so I use around 1.25 teaspoons of oil. The actual number for 3% is 1.16 teaspoons, but I’m not going to be that picky.

I’m also trying to process the dough as little as possible. Overkneading can increase toughness. I “knead” using a food processor, and it’s really fast, so I have to watch it carefully.

Cheese continues to be a challenge.

When I started, I figured whatever they had at the grocery store was fine, and then I learned it’s generally too dry or too oily. The shredded stuff is nearly always very dry, and they coat it with potato starch and/or tiny fibers of wood cellulose to keep it from caking. I think the cellulose turns the cheese into a hard composite, but I don’t know. Anyway, dry cheese gives you a texture like vinyl, and it burns fast.

I used to live near Costco and Gordon Food Service, and I found I could do very well with a 50/50 combination of Costco bagged mozzarella and GFS sliced provolone. Now, these stores are over an hour away.

Back when I was in Miami, I also tried a bunch of Grande products. They melt really well, but I thought they were a little bland. Not long ago, I was at the GFS in Orlando, and I saw they stocked Grande. On a lark, I bought a bag of East Coast blend, which is half part-skim and half whole-milk. It’s shredded, but they don’t put paper mill waste on the shreds.

For some reason, I like this cheese much better than I used to. Next time I’m in Orlando, I’ll get more.

I used to be frustrated by food service cheese because it came in big packages which got moldy in a hurry. Internet pizza nuts have shown me the light, however. Cheese companies say mozzarella should not be frozen, but the pizza nuts swear it does no harm, so I plan to buy a block, cut it up, and freeze one-pie portions.

The nuts say freezing block cheese is better than freezing shredded.

Because of my location, I have done a lot of testing to find better cheese locally, and one answer was Boar’s Head mozzarella from the Publix deli. It’s a low-moisture cheese, but it’s made from whole milk. It works, but it’s very greasy. It also costs nearly $11 per pound, which is more than twice what top-grade restaurant supply cheese costs.

I found a restaurant supply place near me, but they didn’t have any highly-regarded cheese. They had shredded Roseli cheese, part-skim. It’s made by U.S. Foods, a respected cheese supplier, but this particular product is made with wood dust, and it’s also too dry to make a good pizza. I know, because I bought a bag.

I was thinking of throwing the Roseli cheese out, but I got a wild hair and decided to try mixing it with Boar’s Head. Today I made a 60/40 blend, and it was not bad at all. It melted well, and it wasn’t greasy. It was slightly dryer than I wanted, however, so I think the key is to go 70/30.

It’s annoying that virtually nobody makes a proper shredded pizza cheese for consumers. Anyone who buys grocery shredded cheese knows it doesn’t work. It turns brown in a hurry, the top turns into leather, and it gets grainy. How is it that companies like Kraft and Sargento have been making pizza cheese since the dawn of time and haven’t noticed the problem? They’re not even trying.

The sauce problem is just as bad. I have to buy huge cans of Stanislaus Saporito sauce and freeze them in board-shaped portions I can cut up as needed. You would think there would be one really good national brand of pizza sauce or tomato paste, but there isn’t. I’ve done okay with Glen Muir organic paste and Winn-Dixie paste, but if I want a home run, I buy Stanislaus.

I have like 60 pounds of it.

Anyway, the big message I wanted to convey today is that you can make a pretty good pizza if you get Boar’s Head mozzarella and cut it with a little shredded low-quality cheese. It’s a pain, because you have to shred the Boar’s Head yourself, but you do what you have to do.

I should also say I found a pretty good pizza cutter. I have a big stainless rocking cutter, and most people love those. I don’t think much of it. I like 4″ wheels. I had one made by OXO, and I thought it was great until the hollow plastic handle came off and poured dishwater on my cheese.

It was surprisingly hard to find anything better. I decided to check sites that supply pizzerias, since they have to sell things that actually work. I found a Winco 4″ cutter with a solid plastic handle. So far, it works fine, and it can’t hold water. Winco is a well-known restaurant equipment company. I have their stainless bowls.

The Winco cutter is NSF certified, and it doesn’t seem to mind the dishwasher at all.

So, to sum up all the useful info:

1. AP flour works fine for New York Style pizza. I would stick with High-gluten or bread flour for garlic rolls.
2. Use very little yeast if you want a good pizza crust.
3. Instant yeast is preferable for people who don’t want to deal with starters.
4. Roseli shredded mozzarella is too dry to be any good, but if you mix it into Boar’s Head, which is too oily, you get a pretty decent pizza. This may also work with nasty shredded cheeses sold in grocery stores.
5. Grande makes hassle-free pizza cheese, both shredded and block.
6. Freezing mozzarella won’t hurt it, and you should probably stick with block cheese when freezing.
7. OXO 4″ pizza cutters have hollow handles that collect dishwater, so try a Winco.
8. If you like a softer crust, add more oil, use AP flour, and go easy on the kneading.

Carlson Harder to Find than El Chapo

I keep feeling like I woke up in a reboot of The Twilight Zone.

Today I came across something about Tucker Carlson, and I decided to see what was going on with his career. When he got booted from Fox for some pretty uninspiring behavior, I predicted he would fade away.

I don’t think he’s very good at what he does, as I said back when they made the mistake of giving O’Reilly’s golden spot to a person who had been failing at other jobs for years. I think the time slot is what makes 8 p.m. Fox hosts great.

He’s gone. Not just from Fox. Gone, period. The web says he started a Twitter show called Tucker on Twitter, which sounds like a confused man trying on bathing suits. I can’t find it. I can’t find his Twitter page, which is supposed to be at Twitter etc. TuckerCarlson.

What happened?

I know Fox sent him a cease-and-desist. The idea is that Carlson is still under contract to Fox until December of next year. The month after the next presidential election, I should note. That will sting, if Fox gets its way. “It’s me, Tucker, back with a bottle of Ensure and my take on the election I missed.”

I can’t find any stories explaining why Carlson is gone. My guess is that he and/or Elon Musk took his account down in order to minimize their exposure until the dispute is resolved one way or the other.

Why not tell the world what’s happening? It’s a bad idea to comment on potential lawsuits, but you can at least say there’s a potential lawsuit and that you are exercising caution.

I can’t find anyone talking about Carlson’s disappearance. That’s even weirder than the disappearance itself. Hasn’t anyone noticed?

We don’t even know what’s in Carlson’s contract. There must be some kind of non-compete clause or some other language granting Fox exclusive rights to his content. There are little snippets out there, but I haven’t seen anything really helpful.

I learned a little bit about non-compete clauses in law school. Courts do not like them. They stifle competition. They keep prices high. They starve people. In order to make one work, an employer has to make sure it’s reasonable. The duration and geographic scope have to be reasonable, for example. You can’t tell a barber who worked for you in Alaska that he can’t set up shop in Florida for 300 years.

The only kind of non-compete clause I know about kicks in when an employee leaves. Carlson, however, seems to be a current Fox employee. They’re claiming his contract has over a year left to run, so maybe Fox is still paying him, and he has no post-employment non-compete obligation. In that case, it seems reasonable to require him not to work anywhere else.

Another possibility is that the press has things wrong, as usual. Maybe when they say he’s “under contract,” they really mean he IS fired, he’s NOT getting paid, and he has a normal noncompete agreement and maybe a severance package.

I don’t know what’s happening. I can guarantee you Carlson’s lawyers are trying to fix it, or maybe Musk’s are, or both, or maybe Carlson and Musk are fighting over who has to hire lawyers and pay the bill.

I don’t think Twitter is liable for anything, but Musk and Twitter have lots of money, so that makes them seem liable to opportunistic attorneys willing to roll the dice.

I think what’s happening is very bad for Carlson, because as people get used to not watching him, they may start to realize he’s not very good and not particularly smart. They may even start to think rationally about his bad behavior (alleged alleged alleged infinity no tags back) at Fox.

While he’s gone, Jesse Watters is filling the Fox Spot. Another great Fox move, right up there with The Half-Hour News Hour and hiring Rachel Marsden. Watters is smug and annoying. He also lacks O’Reilly’s gift for showmanship. He seems to share Carlson’s maturity issues. Will viewers want to watch him smirk every night for a whole hour?

Maybe they will. That time slot is really something.

I still think Carlson is headed for platform miniaturization, like Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly now airs his views on Youtube. His videos are getting numbers like 7,000, 20,000, and 169,000. I watch a random guy who does things like covering steaks with Kraft macaroni and cheese sauce and cooking them, and he gets something like 10 times O’Reilly’s traffic. He just flew himself and his wife to Japan first class, at $25,000 per ticket. Of course, I’m assuming he paid. The airline may have given him tickets to get him to do a video.

I don’t think anyone will ever pay O’Reilly $50,000 to review a product. My bet is that he pays for everything now and has to wait in line at restaurants.

Are you still wondering who Rachel Marsden is? Should I have not mentioned her? You probably don’t remember.

Her career pretty much ended over a decade and a half ago. To me, she was a conservative cross between Mary Katharine Ham and the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction.

I think people have been watching Carlson on Twitter just to feed the delusion that they’re punishing Fox. I believe they have the same kind of enthusiasm you had the last time you started a diet on January 3rd. February will probably be a very cold month in Carlsonland.

Well, it already is, since Carlson is deplatformed. But I think it will continue to go badly for him.

I pushed the metaphor too far.

Maybe Carlson should pay Dylan Mulvaney to say he hates him. Mulvaney has incredible power to shape consumer behavior, and the Mulvaney Effect seems to have a very long half-life.

Maybe there never was anyone named Tucker Carlson. Maybe there was, in a different reality, but Joe Biden put on a shiny brass gauntlet, snapped his fingers or had someone snap them for him, and made Carlson vanish from the past, along with his memory. Carlson’s memory, I mean. And I was shielded from the effects by my backyard rifle berm.

Now it’s my fate to roam the world with a shaggy beard and long toenails, insisting Tucker Carlson existed.

He’s in the Phantom Zone, with Rachel Marsden and Brent Spicer. Sean Spicer, I mean. See?

When Carlson got the boot, conservatives put up all sorts of gloating memes. Carlson got tons of traffic on Twitter, so people concluded that he had totally 3wned Fox. Talk about celebrating early. Will people want those memes online a year from now?

I don’t care too much who does what at Fox, since I rarely see Fox material, but it would be neat if they gave the golden spot to someone smart and reasonably mature.

Clarence Thomas has an Heir

One of the things I hated about practicing law was watching lawyers rationalize.

People say lawyers lie all the time, and it’s not true in the way they mean it. They think lawyers lie to judges, juries, other lawyers, and opposing parties all day, as a matter of routine. This is untrue. Lying to a judge is a serious offense. Where I live, it can get you disbarred. Lying to opposing counsel will also get you in trouble with your bar association. If you lie to a jury, you can pretty well expect your opponent to have something to say about it, right then and there.

When lawyers deceive, they generally deceive themselves, their co-counsel, and their clients, about the facts and law surrounding their cases. Their untruths usually aren’t plain old lies. They are rationalizations. Things they can’t be punished for saying.

Example:

Lawyer Bill: So Tom, when you were driving home from the bar and plowed through the rec room of an old folks’ home, would you say your head hit the steering wheel?

Drunk Bob: Well, I think it may have brushed against…

Lawyer Bill: I’m sorry, did you say it DEFINITELY SLAMMED FORCEFULLY?

Drunk Bob: Well…

Lawyer Bill: Because if it did, then when you were found staggering around by the police, it may be that you were ADDLED by the blow and not stinking drunk on two-for-one margaritas.

Drunk Bob: Oh, it was forceful, all right. It’s amazing I didn’t get a concussion!

Lawyer Bill: Where did you go to medical school?

Drunk Bob: You mean before beginning my career hauling manure?

Lawyer Bill: Because if you’re not a doctor, you can’t possibly know if you had a concussion. So shut up about that. We will let my friend Prescription Factory Ben decide if you have a concussion. Let me get him on the phone. Ben, you’re on speaker. We need you to look at my client Drunk Bob and see if the steering wheel…

Prescription Factory Ben: Way ahead of you. Concussion for sure. Of course, I’ll have to examine him for the bargain price of $5000.

The unfortunate thing is that many lawyers actually buy into their rationalizations, so when they present them to finders of fact, they can’t really be accused of lying. And when rationalizations are being crafted, you don’t want to be the only one in the room who raises his hand and ruins everything.

I think about these things when I watch the nuts on the left, spewing their insane theories about victimhood and so on.

Today I saw a white girl say all white people are racist, without exception. When I say “white,” I don’t mean she was 100% white. She had olive skin, and she clearly had a few drops of black blood. But she was not nearly dark enough to be half black. She was white. Call it what you want, but if she has kids with a white man, it will probably be impossible to see any African influence in them.

She started talking about racism, which means animosity based purely on race. The definition of racism is old and correct, and I just gave you the whole thing. There are no asterisks. “It’s not racism if this.” “It’s not racism if that.” No. Doesn’t matter what the other facts are. Doesn’t matter whether the person with the animosity is white. Doesn’t even have to be a person. A dog can be racist.

She had a look on her face like she just figured out the cure for AIDS, and she started saying racism was about power. She said white people’s existence is racist because it supports a system that supports white supremacy.

She had convinced herself this was a brilliant revelation, but it was neither brilliant nor original. You can find all kinds of idiots on the web saying the same thing.

Today I feel very discouraged about humanity, because I am being reminded that there are billions of people out there who, when it comes to the capacity to admit error and improve, might as well be tree stumps. There is literally nothing you can say to these people, no matter how obviously true, that will change their corrupted, dishonest, arrogant, hateful minds. They start from anger and a desire to control and murder the rest of us, and that, not reason, drives their rationalizations. You can’t get rid of the lies because the hate which is their root can’t be pulled up.

The tribulation will be God’s last effort at evangelism prior to the millennium. He will not use gentle words or miracles. He will burn people with fire. He will starve them. He will let them torture and murder each other. He will give them agonizing diseases they can’t contain, mitigate, or cure. He will destroy their environment. He will even send animals to tear them up. The tribulation will be characterized by the harshest type of evangelism there is.

The Bible says stripes, meaning wounds from flogging, are for a fool’s back. It says, “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.” If you listen to counsel, you don’t need to be flogged, so you are spared. If you think you’re always right, get ready for the lash, because it will come, and if you’re lucky, it will only come in this life.

Satan is gaslighting leftists, and they are gaslighting everyone who doesn’t hear from the Holy Spirit and pray in tongues. Many people think Christians are protected from deceit, but that’s not true. If it were, Christianity would not be disappearing, and it is.

Only Christians who are guided by the Holy Spirit every day will avoid being persuaded to join the body of the antichrist. Christians who are complaining about perversion today will be waving rainbow flags next year.

I come here and write this stuff, and maybe 5 people believe it. I feel like holing up here with my wife and baking cookies until Yeshua comes to extract us, because trying to help people is like trying to befriend rabid dogs. Yeshua said such people were swine, and they would turn and tear us up. It’s happening every day, so when do you know it’s time to throw in the towel and avoid them?

I feel like every Christian who knows the Spirit will eventually have a Scott Adams moment, but unlike Scott Adams, they will identify the hate group correctly. It’s not black people. It’s people who aren’t Spirit-led. It’s a big group.

If you’re tired of secular gaslighting, I have a resource you might enjoy. The other day, my wife and I discovered him independently. I saw him on Youtube, and she saw him on TikTok. He’s a Nigerian named Frank Stephen. He puts up brilliant videos debunking leftist gaslighting. It’s hard to stop watching him, because it’s so weird to have someone tell sane people they’re right.

Example: a morbidly obese singer named Lizzo is whining because people pick on her for being enormous. In her act, she wears things like thongs. It is almost horrifying. She is physically grotesque, she insists on displaying as much flab as she can, and leftists keep telling her she’s gorgeous.

Frank Stephen points out that there are a whole lot of really fat celebrities out there, and they are not crying about being persecuted. Maybe the difference is their choice not to put naked blubber in front of the camera and tell people they’re beautiful.

In case you want to check him out, I’ll try to embed a video, but Youtube is persecuting him dishonestly by age-restricting his material, so you may have to click a link instead.

I’ll embed it anyway, since it is just barely conceivable Youtube’s propaganda/censorship squad might make a mistake and remove the restriction some day.

My wife says she has been binge-watching him. He reminds me of Trump’s Twitter glory days. No one tweeted like Trump. Set up, debunk, accuse, withdraw.

Secular material isn’t always helpful, but God is being attacked via secular arguments, so I believe Frank Stephen is a healer. The left throws sand in our eyes, and he washes it out.