“We’re the real PFJ!”

I found an interesting Messianic channel on Youtube, and I’m really enjoying it.

I’ve met Yeshua, because he literally came to my physical location twice. I’ve had miracles and visions. I’ve had demons cast out. The whole 9 yards. He is God. He has proven it over and over. He still proves it day by day. I want everyone to know him. But not one of the many Jewish people I’ve known have ever shown any interest in him. Not unless they knew him before we met. It’s great to see the sample I’ve seen doesn’t represent everyone. It’s the best I can hope for, unfortunately.

This week, I saw a Jewish man who was once a yeshiva student confront one of the myths surrounding Yeshua. His name is Dr. Golan Broshi. He said he had been told over and over to avoid looking at the New Testament because it was a Christian book that was anti-Semitic. Of course, when he finally looked, he saw a set of Jewish books, every one written by a Jewish man, created and disseminated in order to help spread a Jewish sect in support of the Jewish Messiah. He was amazed. I’ve seen many Jewish believers say the same thing happened to them. I saw one Jew joke that the only thing he knew about the New Testament was that it was written by the pope. Of course, not one gentile had a hand in writing it. Only Jews. It is a Jewish creation; one hundred per cent.

Anyway, he pointed something out, and I had never thought about it.

There is a common thread in several books of the Christian Bible. It goes like this: God sends an anointed Jew to help the rest of the Jews. He has confrontations with the religious and political leaders. They persecute him and treat him very badly. Then he turns out to be right, and eventually, he is revered and honored. After his death.

Of course, I’m referring to the Old Testament, which is part of the Christian Bible.

Isaiah was murdered by Jews. Jeremiah was imprisoned and beaten. Amos was abused and rejected. The Queen of Israel tried to kill Elijah, and the king, Ahab, agreed with her. Jewish lore written by Jews says Ahab had the prophet Micaiah murdered by other Jews because he didn’t like what Micaiah said.

Later on, Jewish Yeshua said this to certain Jewish scholars of the law:

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

He also said:

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

The prophets were not popular during their lifetimes, and the people who made them miserable were Jews.

In this respect, the Jewish prophets are like real Christians, who have always been abused by nominal Christians who didn’t know God. Christians who are popular among people who claim to be Christians are generally not really Christians.

Dr. Broshi asked a simple question: if Jews have internal disagreements that don’t involve gentiles, how can anyone say anti-Semitism is the reason? If the Jews who wrote the New Testament were anti-Semites, weren’t the Jews who imprisoned and killed early Messianics also anti-Semites? They didn’t harm anyone but Jews.

It’s a startling argument.

Jews persecuted Moses. Go look for yourself. Jews tried to kill David. A Jew slept with David’s wives in order to humiliate him. Jews slaughtered most of a tribe of Jews. If powerful Jews fought with Yeshua, who was Jewish, and they had him killed, and they imprisoned and killed his Jewish followers, which is undeniable, how can anti-Semitism be involved?

Anti-Semitism among Christians didn’t exist when the New Testament was written. At first, all believers were Jews, and the gentile believers who came later were not their enemies. On the contrary; they looked to them for teaching. They followed them.

Anti-Semitism among Christians developed after the New Testament was written, and it is inconsistent with the New Testament, just as there are rabbinical teachings that go against the Tanakh. Most Jews aren’t interested in God. That certainly goes against the Tanakh. It makes no sense to condemn scripture based on the actions of people who ignore it.

The apostles were most definitely not against Jews. Paul, for example, spent a long time traveling to far-off synagogues to reach them, and he continued even though they flogged him more than once, stoned him, and beat him with sticks.

What Broshi says is true, and once you see it in front of you, you realize how obvious it is. Why haven’t people said it before?

It’s amazing what we can believe before God shows us the truth. There is no limit to human delusion.

First Barbecue Gun of 2023

I had an urge to resume completing my gun collection, so I acted on it.

The main reason I love shooting is that as my grandfather’s favorite grandchild, I shot his guns with him when I was a kid. Then he died, and someone who won’t step up and admit the truth swept all the good ones up without going through the legal process. I ended up inheriting an aluminum .22 pistol and a rusty flintlock shotgun no one else would take. I also got his Browning Sweet Sixteen, but I didn’t get that from his estate. My grandmother gave it to my dad, and I inherited it from him. Good thing, because the aluminum pistol and the rusty shotgun aren’t much to remember Gramps by, and there is no way I would have gotten the Sweet Sixteen if my dad hadn’t owned it.

I didn’t get the Colt Woodsman we shot together. I didn’t get the Hi Standard .22 semiauto pistol we shot. I didn’t get the Remington 550-1 .22 rifle we shot. I certainly didn’t get either of his Smith & Wesson .357 revolvers or his lever gun or his M1 Enforcer pistol. I didn’t get his commemorative nickel-plated Colt 1911, but that shouldn’t have gone to me, because my uncle bought it for him.

I’m the best shot in the family, far and away, and the only one who has any idea how to work a reloading press. I’m the only one who has any precision rifle training. It would have been nice if I had gotten one more decent gun, but estates are like buffets. They bring out the worst in people. You find out what your relatives are really like when someone dies. People you love will write you off for the rest of your life in exchange for a bowl or pitcher that should have gone to you.

I never took one thing I was not legally and morally entitled to, I didn’t sue or turn in anyone who mistreated me, and I never took a penny for doing anything for the family, so at least I can say I didn’t sink into the mire.

My grandfather had a Browning Hi-Power pistol. The “Hi-Power” name is a reference to the gun’s high capacity for its time. The design was started by John Moses Browning and completed by a Frenchman. It’s a 9mm gun that holds 14 rounds. It was released in 1935. Until a few years ago, it was manufactured by FN.

I’m not sure we shot this gun together, but it would have been a nice thing to inherit.

It’s not a great pistol. The Hi-Power has a weak frame, so if you use +P rounds in it, you are likely to damage it. It runs fine with old-fashioned ammunition, which means inferior, less effective ammunition. It looks nice and handles well, and it’s a John Moses Browning design, so even if it’s not a good gun, it has a lot of appeal.

A Glock 17 is 10 times the gun a Hi-Power is. It will last longer, run better, weigh less, and shoot anything you put in it. But Glocks are ugly. A Glock is like a homely wife who keeps a great house and looks after the kids well.

I decided to get a Hi-Power about 15 minutes after FN quit making them. A sad coincidence. A gun that should cost maybe $750 suddenly cost $1500, if it could be found at all. I wasn’t paying that. I waited.

Springfield Armory came out with a clone called the SA-35. Of course, I found out about three days after it was released, and they were all gone. I figured I would wait till the next bunch shipped. That didn’t happen for a very long time, and when you can find one now, it’s around $800. That’s a lot for a gun which is basically a low-budget descendant of the 1911.

The other day, I got a wild hair and decided to search, and I learned that a Turkish company named Girsan was selling a clone through EAA, the Florida company that imports the Tanfoglio Witness. I started reading up.

You may wonder why I would buy a Turkish gun to replace an FN. Well, there is always the price difference, and also, the Girsan is better.

The FN came with a really dumb feature. The gun will not fire unless there is a magazine in it. The French insisted on this. The mechanism that prevents firing somehow involves the trigger group, so a Hi-Power with this pointless extra safety will have a bad trigger. A gun with a bad trigger is an abomination. My understanding is that you can have the safety bypassed somehow, but that doesn’t appeal to me. The Girsan, in one of its configurations, has no magazine disconnect safety, so it has a better trigger than the FN.

Springfield’s gun has no extra safety, but they charge too much. Interesting fact: Springfield’s gun is also Turkish.

Most people don’t know this, because Springfield dishonestly says the SA-35 is made in the USA, but the SA-35 is made from Turkish parts made by a company called Tisa. The parts are shipped here, and then Springfield assembles the guns.

Tisa also makes a Hi-Power clone. Reviewers don’t seem to think much of it, and I feel like a Tisa Springfield would be a second-tier clone for a top-tier price.

Reviewers really like the Girsan, and it’s not terribly pricey. You can get their “Match” model for $620. Maybe less. It takes aftermarket parts that fit the original FN, so if there is anything you don’t like, you should be able to put a better part in.

I like the Turkish connection. I’m not a fan of the government of Turkey, but I really liked the people when I visited. Apart from the two individuals who tried to rip me off with debit card scanners, everyone was great. Very warm and helpful. I felt bad for them, because they are crippled by superstition and the cult of Islam. The area we call Turkey now is where the seven churches of the Revelation were. It was apparently the biggest concentration of charismatics on Earth. Then Mohammed and Satan had their way.

Turkey has a terrible economy right now. Buying a pistol is a gesture of sympathy.

Later this week, I’ll pick the gun up, and after that, I may look into cute grips and a holster. Then I’ll shoot it a few times and put it away.

I still want a nice lever gun and a good 12 gauge semiauto designed for hunting. I have been considering a Turkish shotgun called the Masai Mara. I don’t know if I would ever use it for anything other than skeet and squirrels, but it would be nice to have.

When it comes to manufacturing and all-around competence, Turkey isn’t a mess like Mexico or Greece. There are a lot of very sharp people there. They make some top-notch products. My wife and I made a big mistake, not buying more leather goods in Turkey. Turks kept dragging us into stores and showing us knockoffs. My wife got a Vuitton backpack for $35, which we thought was pretty funny. The quality was excellent. I would not hesitate to buy her Turkish purses.

Actually, I did get her several Turkish purses, but they were cheap junk for tourists, sold in the Grand Bazaar. She liked them. They have since fallen apart. They were very different from the stuff the knockoff shops sold.

The Turks have several good gun manufacturers, and it’s not like buying a Chinese milsurp or some awful thing made in France.

Getting something reminiscent of the M1 Enforcer pistol is a problem. Original M1 carbines have shot up in price, to the point where the smart thing for an owner to do is to put his gun in a safe and never shoot it. There are some clones, but reviewers cite a lot of problems.

I would not want a pistol, because an M1 pistol is kind of silly. I wouldn’t mind a paratrooper model, which has a folding wire stock. Maybe it can be fired as a pistol, like a Vz58.

I thought about getting a lever action rifle in .45-70. Before covid, I thought I might get a chance to hunt deer, and .45-70 is supposed to be excellent for deer at short range in thick woods. I don’t know if I’ll ever get one in the post-covid era.

I can’t get my grandfather’s guns, so I buy better guns and shoot them better than anyone else in the family. That’s good enough. Both Rhodah and I have been treated badly by relatives, so these days, I pray the punishment for people who sin against us will be that God blesses us more than they harmed us, and that they will see it. That’s way better than revenge. Of course, we also pray God will help our enemies to repent and to be blessed. And then I tell him we only ask this for the ones who will listen. I tell him I’m not asking him to chase anyone.

I have better 1911’s than the one my grandfather had. Better .22 pistols and rifles. Better this and that. I have a great rifle with which I can hit a nickel at 100 yards, consistently.

If I get the remaining guns I mentioned, I’ll be content. After that, my main interest will be in keeping my few self-defense guns current. If I decide what I’m using is obsolete, I’ll make changes.

I look forward to trying the Girsan out.

Alvin Bragg’s Jenga Theory Slithers into Court

I finally got to look at the Trump indictment, and it is both encouraging and discouraging. It’s encouraging because it looks like something which is highly likely to disappear after a motion to dismiss, and it’s discouraging because it appears to show that Alvin Bragg has no understanding of legal ethics or the purpose of our courts.

It’s unethical to file a lawsuit you don’t believe in. You should have a solid basis for believing it will make it to trial. It’s also unethical to charge people selectively. It looks like Bragg falls short with regard to both standards.

Leftists kept saying it wasn’t about the hush money. They said there would be tax evasion, for example. Well, the indictment appears to be about hush money and nothing else. I may have misread it, but it looks like Trump is accused of falsifying business records in order to cover up illegal (under federal, not state law) use of campaign funds to shut up a strumpet.

In New York, falsifying a business record is a misdemeanor with a limitation period of 2 years. It becomes a felony if you do it to cover up another crime. Then the period is 5 years. Bragg appears to be saying Trump illegally used campaign funds to pay the trollop, and then he covered it up by falsifying records, characterizing the payments in ways that were false.

Every record in question was created more than 5 years before Trump was indicted.

New York’s limitations period can be tolled when a defendant is out of state, but the state has to show there was no statutory means of obtaining personal jurisdiction over him. Alan Dershowitz says the period can’t be tolled for Trump, and I assume he has researched it, because he is extremely capable and not likely to ruin his own reputation by making bad guesses. I’m not going to research it, but I will say I once served a person in Italy, so I am reasonably certain a New York court can serve someone in Washington DC or Palm Beach, especially when every adult in America knows the defendant’s mailing address and sees him on television every day.

Could be wrong. I’m not going to do legal research for nothing, though.

Let’s see if I can put together a sort of flow chart. What does Bragg have to prove?

First, he has to prove the statute of limitations must be tolled. Second, he has to prove Trump personally and knowingly committed federal election-law crimes. Third, he has to prove federal election-law crimes ground local prosecution and enhancement under state statutes. Fourth, he has to show Trump personally and knowingly falsified records. Fifth, he has to show Trump’s intention was to cover up the crimes he had committed earlier.

It reminds me of Ulysses, coming home to Ithaca to shoot an arrow through the holes in 12 axeheads. If Bragg hits one axehead, he’s done.

I guess you could also call it a Jenga prosecution. Trump’s attorneys can pull a lot of pieces out, and if they pull the right one, the whole thing topples.

The limitations thing looks really bad for Bragg. Does he know something Dershowitz doesn’t? It’s hard to believe an attorney–even a government attorney who was elected by ignorant voters–would file a suit without properly researching a threshold question like this, but then attorneys do a lot of stupid things. I had someone serve me three days after a limitation period expired. .

George Zimmerman’s prosecutors committed blatant perjury when they wrote and swore his probable cause affidavit. That’s another thing Dershowitz and I agree on. I saw this problem, and then I saw Dershowitz saying the same thing. Then Zimmerman’s attorneys were too dim to attack it. Strange. Maybe they thought the affidavit could be rehabilitated and they didn’t want to waste time, but I would have gone after them to discredit them. Ordinarily, defense attorneys love wasting time.

Then there was the O.J. travesty. Marcia Clarke handed a defendant a bloody glove and asked him to tell a jury whether it fit. That was dumb. “Oh, it fits great. Like it was made for me.”

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen famous lawyers do things that seemed really stupid and then tried to tell myself there had to be something more to the story, only to find out there was not. I remember thinking Alec Baldwin’s prosecutors had to have a good reason to spend 15 months investigating a simple case, and then finding out they didn’t. And they charged him with a crime that was not on the books when he shot his victim.

I said Bragg has to prove Trump committed election-law crimes. I believe that’s correct. I don’t think it’s enough to show Trump THOUGHT or SUSPECTED he had committed crimes. Falsifying a record in order to hide a legal action doesn’t sound like a felony to me.

No one has proven that Trump violated federal election laws, and federal prosecutors gave up on trying, so I doubt Bragg can do it. It seems to me that if Trump didn’t violate election laws, then falsifying the records can’t constitute felonies. If there is no crime, how can you get in trouble for trying to cover up a crime, even if you thought you committed a crime?

Think of murder. Attempted murder isn’t murder.

I haven’t seen the applicable case law, though.

Trump is not a lawyer, and Michael Cohen, who represented him in the hush money affair, is–was–an unbelievably bad lawyer from the single worst law school in America. Layman Trump was never competent to determine whether his actions involving obscure campaign-finance laws were criminal. That’s what Cohen was there for. I very much doubt Bragg can show that Cohen told Trump the payments were illegal.

Cohen was incompetent, but an attorney would have to be both incompetent and insane to advise a client that an act was illegal AND that the client should do it. That’s not how attorneys work. Even attorneys who are shady don’t say, “This is clearly illegal, but do it anyway.”

So far, we have heard that Cohen handled Stormy Daniels without informing Trump of exactly what he was doing. That makes sense. His job was to be a fixer, not to drag Trump into criminal conspiracies. A good fixer keeps his client from committing crimes, even if the fixer commits them on his behalf. No good fixer calls his client and says, “Remember that speeding ticket? I bribed the judge, just like you said.”

Cohen went to the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. It may not be the lowest-ranked school right now, but it has certainly been called the worst law school in America. I remember my aunt proudly telling me her son had been admitted to the University of Michigan school, which has a top-notch program. It’s currently number 10 in the nation. I started saying congratulatory things. I was so happy for him. Then I found out it was really Western Michigan.

My mother always told the truth about me, except when she claimed I was a Merit Scholar. Generally, we told my relatives the good and the bad.

Trump probably didn’t commit crimes. If his lawyer committed crimes, he probably didn’t know it. He hires people to insulate him from such questions, just as any intelligent layman would. We know he is smart enough to put layers of accountability between himself and actions of questionable legality.

Michael Cohen appears to be Bragg’s lynchpin witness (emphasis on “lynch”), and he already got disbarred and imprisoned for dishonesty. His personal hatred for Trump is also well known. Not a great pillar to build a case on. Does Bragg have someone else? If so, we don’t know who that is yet. Why would Bragg hide a blockbuster witness? He’ll have to produce him shortly anyway.

The truly bothersome part of this case is that Democrats have done far worse without any repercussions. Hillary Clinton comes to mind. She falsified records, put classified material on a home computer, wiped hard drives before handing them over to the FBI, and used an illegal private email address for the purpose of frustrating government and public efforts to find out what she did while in office. Then there was Bill Clinton’s perjury, which cost him his law license. And Democrats busted their rear ends trying to find something to pin on Trump. They don’t do that to each other.

Bragg campaigned on a promise to “get Trump.” That was unethical and a clear declaration of intent to violate the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution. Prosecutors are supposed to target crimes, not individuals. No one on the left is bothered by these things.

The trivial nature of the offenses is disturbing. Trump must be surprisingly clean if this is the best the left can come up with.

I don’t think this case will go anywhere, even in New York. It may get past a trial judge and a New York jury, but surely the appellate court will shoot it down. I may be mistaken, however. I have seen appellate courts do stupid things.

I should not focus so much on the natural abilities and biases of human beings. The whole thing is based on supernatural conflict. Trump helped Christians, Israel, the Jews, and the unborn. For these reasons, Satan has it in for him, no matter how many times he commits adultery or how many casinos he runs. TDS is demonic, not natural. What happens to Trump will depend mainly on the outcome of a battle in the unseen world.

These Hombres Don’t Look so Bad

I feel like I’m in prison.

Last week on Friday, at around 7:30 a.m., a truck arrived unannounced with a load of shingles. The company that owned the truck called the company I hired to put a roof on my house, and that company called and woke me up when I was trying to catch up after sleeping badly. The shingle people needed help getting through my gate, and the driver did not have the gate code even though I had given it to the roofing company.

This was the start of my roof adventure.

I had to order a roof because my “25-year” shingles were starting to fail after 22 years and change. Shingle life estimates are kind of a joke. Something to be aware of when you order your next roof. When they say 25 years, hope for 20. If you look around the web, you will find sites saying shingles last this long or that long…unless subjected to things like sunshine and hot weather. Which means the figures they like to quote only work if you build your house inside another house. Roofs get hot even in places like Michigan.

I dressed myself reasonably well, taking my time because I hadn’t caused the problem, and opened the gate. The driver stood around with a phone in his ear until it closed. I had to call the roof company and make them call the driver.

When you bring a truck through a self-closing gate, you don’t stop halfway through and play a round of tiddlywinks, but that’s what this guy did. I had to keep using the remote to keep my gate off his truck.

Obviously, he is not a very good driver. I’ve had a semi come through that gate with no problems. I’ve had big box trucks come in. UPS comes in every week. This guy was afraid he would hit something. He kept saying I had a little gate. It’s like 12 feet long. How long is a big gate?

I told him you don’t show up early in the morning at someone’s gate with a big delivery without calling first, and I told him he couldn’t play around while using the gate. These things are pretty obvious. What if I had been out of town? He gave me an attitude, which was amazing. He also made excuses. I don’t know how a person like that survives in this county of pleasant, respectful people.

The roofing company told me its crew of people with questionable immigration status would arrive on Monday for a two-day job. Then they would take a break on Tuesday for some kind of mandatory company meeting. Then they would come back on Wednesday and finish up.

It is now Friday afternoon, and I’m pretty sure they’re going home in three hours with the job unfinished. There is debris all over the yard, including a whole bunch of nails. I don’t want to go outside until the nails are picked up, and I am using the car as little as possible in order to avoid a predictable conversation about tire repairs. I think they’ll finish on Monday evening.

Last night, I saw a mouse in the downstairs hall. Mouse infiltration is one of the problems I expect to get rid of by fixing the roof. They found a way to get in, and the roof is the only possible location. I kill a couple of them every month. I would guess this one came in while the roof was opened up, or it was here before the roofers and was scared out of its usual location.

I grabbed a flip-flop and went after it. I was going to crush it like a cockroach.

City people are very concerned about humane treatment for mice. They even buy obscenities like live-release traps, so mice can get a nice meal and then run right back in their houses. I don’t worry about how mice feel. Not very much, anyway. I’m not willing to leave little trays of antifreeze out for them to drink, because it kills in a painful way, but other than that, I’m up for anything. Snap traps. Poison. Stepping on live mice when I find them in glue traps.

I have stomped on live mice, and while it’s no fun, it’s humane and really effective.

My wife is on the same page here. She says that in Zambia, she has shoved furniture against the wall to crush mice. She imitated their little squeaks for me.

The mouse ran into my laundry room, so I baited two traps and left them in there. Then I stuffed a towel under the door to keep the mouse from leaving the room. When I got up, the traps were empty, but I found half a peanut on the floor.

I really hope the peanut didn’t come from a secret huge stash. My friend Mike stayed here for a long time, and I kept telling him not to take food upstairs. Then weeks after he left, I found an enormous bag of peanuts, open, by his bed. I could not believe it. I threw them out, of course.

For all I know, the mice took half a gallon of his peanuts and hid them in the walls.

Once the roof is sealed up, I figure any mice still in the house will die of thirst or by being crushed or poisoned.

This house and the outbuilding had four ridiculous skylights. I’m going to guess a woman had them installed. Women are the ones who like extremely troublesome and impractical home features that look cute. For example, they like carpeting. If men really ran the world, every kitchen would have stainless steel on the walls and, in the floor, a drain with a garbage disposal.

Two of the skylights were in the workshop. Explain that to me. Skylights provide nearly no light in a workshop, they tend to leak and cause sheathing rot, and flying bugs like to fly up to them and get trapped. Then they make noise. I told the roof people to board the roof up. No skylights.

The house had a skylight in an upstairs hallway and an upstairs bathroom. I considered getting rid of both, but I finally said I would keep only the one in the hallway.

You never, ever put a skylight in a bathroom. Water condenses in the little drywall shafts under the skylights, and then you get mold, which you have to keep chasing with chemicals. I doubt any heterosexual man has ever asked for a bathroom skylight, unless he was trying to impress a woman.

Yesterday I saw that both skylights in the house had been replaced, even though I had only paid for one.

Okay; fine. I told them I would let it go. I can always get rid of it later. The up side is that I don’t have to put a new ceiling in the bathroom.

They swear the new skylight is way better than the old one and that it will never cause problems. I have doubts.

I think I should put some kind of frame around the bottom of the shaft and put a piece of diffusing lens in it. A diffusing lens is a piece of clear plastic that blurs things. You’ve seen them in fluorescent fixtures. A lens would keep steam out and end the mold problem. I could install the frame with Velcro so I could pull it out and clean the lens if dead bugs appeared in it.

I can test my theory with some plastic material from Home Depot and some double-sided tape.

I can’t wait for these guys to finish. They start hammering at 7 a.m. The other day, I almost jumped out of bed.

I want them to get out so I can start doing what I know I’ll have to do: raking up nails they left behind when they raked up nails. This is as close to a certainty as anything can be. I don’t think any roofing company has ever failed to leave fewer than 30 nails behind.

I’ll have to go out and wander around with a magnetic rake. Being me, I already have two of them.

I also need to redo my Starlink dish mount because they boarded over the place where I had it.

They were nice enough to wait as long as possible to remove my dish. I didn’t know they had removed it, though. Starlink makes a huge fuss about how you have to have your dish in the middle of a flat square-mile field in order to get an unobstructed sky. The roofers left my dish lying on the roof facing more or less sideways, and I still had service.

This is good information to have, because it tells me I don’t have to do a great job when I put the dish back up. Instead of a long pole mounted through shingles, I should be able to use the tiny, pathetic, four-legged base Starlink gave me. I could even set it on the roof and put a sandbag on it to keep it from moving.

The roof people told me how horrible it was for my roof to have a dish mounted on it. Whatever. They have a new thing called “sealant,” and if it doesn’t work, I’ll know, because I can go into my attic and check the roof under the mount.

They think I should have a pole installed in my yard. Yeah, I want a $500 pole plus an expensive trench plus expensive holes in my house plus expensive cable. Or I can use my $40 mount right where it was last week. Or just stick the portable base up there.

Now they’re telling me they’re cleaning up and expect to have their dumpster trailer out of here tomorrow. They claim they will rake for nails now and then again tomorrow. Can it all be true? I feel like Joe Biden, waiting for the go-ahead to leave the basement.

When they’re gone, I can get the yard fixed. I can get the pool leak fixed. I can have the shutters painted.When you own a house, the roof is the main thing you need to look after. Everything else depends on the roof. I think a good roof and termite protection are my most important home-maintenance items.

Roof leaks lead to wood rot, termites, bugs, rats, black mold, and wall and floor collapses. As the roof goes, so goes the house.

Now I just hope none of the employees were casing the place.

Public Awaits Results of Soros Investment

I guess I should say something about the Trump indictment.

First of all, it’s a lot like the sex and/or gender of Aiden and/or Audrey Hale, the young “trans” woman (not “trans woman”) who murdered six people in Tennessee. The similarity is that at the outset, no one knows the facts. It took two days for leftist journalists to correctly determine that Hale was born female and stop calling her a trans woman, and it is taking several days to find out what Alvin Bragg is trying to pin on President Trump. The indictment is sealed. Journalists say there are 34 charges, but no one is telling what they are.

This is obvously important, because no one can issue a researched opinion as to the validity of the charges until the charging documents are released. I assume that will happen at the arraignment, but I don’t know. I do know it will happen very soon.

It’s not even clear whether Trump and his lawyers know what the charges are at this point.

So far, everyone has been under the impression that all the charges related to the payments Trump made to two women with whom he committed adultery. Alan Dershowitz and other legal scholars have derided such charges, citing the clear passing of the statute of limitations, as well as the court’s lack of subject matter jurisdiction over crimes committed as part of federal election campaigns. I bought into this myself, assuming people like Dershowitz knew what Soros-backed DA Alvin Bragg was trying to prove.

Now I’ve learned that the actual charges are unknown, so everything is different. It seems to be a given that Dershowitz is right if Bragg is relying on the theories Dershowitz described. Dershowitz is brilliant, law is not all that hard, and criminal law is generally very simple. But no one can predict how Trump will fare against unknown charges with unknown evidence.

Some people are claiming he will be charged with tax fraud. The problem is that they don’t know what they’re talking about, any more than the rest of us do. I could go on Youtube and tell the world Trump was going to be convicted of running a bordello with its own dogfighting arena, but it wouldn’t make it true. The public doesn’t know whether Trump will be charged with tax fraud.

Maybe he committed some crimes, and maybe he will be convicted and even do time. Maybe he did things we know nothing about. I doubt it, though. The feds abandoned their Trump investigations, as did Bragg’s predecessor, so my best guess is that Bragg has nothing except a weak conscience.

If the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction, or the DA can’t get around the statute of limitations, this case will, or at least should, go away in maybe two months. The Trumptorneys will file a motion to dismiss, and if the law is on Trump’s side, the judge will have to grant it or destroy his own reputation forever. Of course, many judges are corrupt, and many are downright stupid, so they are only a little bit more predictable than ignorant jurors.

If the court fails to grant a valid motion to dismiss, I believe there will be a trial. I don’t know whether New York will allow an interlocutory appeal to get a denial vacated. Ask a New York criminal lawyer. If Trump can appeal before trial, he will succeed in aborting the trial. If he has to wait until afterward, the process will be longer, and he will be campaigning while out on bail, unless the judge is so crazy he refuses to grant bail. In any event, an order that is clearly erroneous will eventually be vacated.

If there are new charges that can survive motions based on the statute of limitations and jurisdictional issues, there will be a trial. It will be impossible to get a fair jury in New York, so Trump will probably be convicted. Then there will be an appeal, and if the trial court has blown it badly enough, the conviction will be reversed.

Trump’s attorneys are in a situation similar to that of a pro-management labor lawyer.

My dad was a union-busting lawyer. When companies have union problems, they go to the National Labor Relations Board before they get to real courts. The NLRB is a biased joke. My dad told me he expected to lose when he appeared before the NLRB. He said he tailored his work to get reversals from appellate courts, which he did, over and over.

Trump’s lawyers are said to be thinking about post-conviction appeal already.

What if Trump is convicted, and the conviction is solid? It may amount to almost nothing. Fines. Unsupervised probation. Community service. Whatever. To put a first-time offender in prison for nonviolent crimes generally requires pretty serious offenses.

To sum up, no one really knows what’s happening. So far, things look very good for President Trump, but that could change when the charges are revealed.

If he’s in trouble for fraud related to his businesses, it should make other New York businessmen shake in their Pradas, especially if they’re conservative. Businessmen commit a lot of minor acts of fraud, and they usually get away with it. Many businessmen are honest, but crooked ones are far from rare. Also, business can be complex and legal cases are full of subjective judgments, so it’s possible for honest businessmen to get in trouble for doing things they thought were legal. If Bragg is now creating a climate in which they are no longer safe, the next few years will be interesting for New Yorkers.

The obvious question: why wasn’t Hillary Clinton indicted? She clearly committed serious crimes, but prosecutors let it go. This is one of the questions that will add heat to America’s pre-civil-war unrest.

I’ll go ahead and guess. I guess that Bragg has nothing of significance. I guess that he will turn out to be a disgrace to his office. But a guess is a guess, and guesses can be wrong.

This is Trump’s third indictment, by the way. An impeachment is an indictment. Trump has beaten two indictments already.

God told me this is a time of sorting. People who call for unity in America are deluded. Division will get worse and worse, and the continuing criminalization of conservatism will be a big part of that. If you’re conservative, white, male, or Christian, the government is not your protector. You need to get close to God if you want anything resembling safety.

I pray for Trump and curse his adversaries with defeat. I hope things go well for him.

The Amazing Electronic Snowflake

I feel I should write a few words about my experiences with ChatGPT.

The other day, I received The Florida Bar News, and for the first time ever, I saw something I wanted to read. It was an article about the ethics of letting AI machines write legal instruments.

It’s somewhat impressive when a chat robot can talk somewhat competently about simple matters. Writing briefs and motions is on another level. Most lawyers can barely do it.

I’ll get flak if a doctor reads this, but medicine is better suited to AI than law. Why? Because there are a limited number of diseases, and the lists of symptoms and treatments are also limited. A lot of medicine is running mental flow charts. If the patient has this problem, do this. If not, do that. Doctors run tests based on their memorized flow charts, and different doctors will generally come up with the same answers. When two doctors disagree, it generally means one of them is wrong and possibly dangerous.

Law is different. While it takes more brains to become a doctor than it does to become a lawyer, and while the average intelligence of doctors is higher than the average intelligence of lawyers, legal cases vary much more than medical cases. They tell law students, “Every case is different,” and while it’s not quite true, it is nearly true. You can’t create flow charts that work for law. Even simple cases may contain lots of factors that have to be considered, and it’s not unusual at all for such factors to be novel.

Obviously, medicine is complex, and diagnoses and treatments are not always simple. Sometimes doctors get real puzzles. A machine with a hard case could screw up badly. On the other hand, doctors screw up a great deal, too, now that I think about it. They are said to kill something like 6 times as many people as firearm incidents. They amputate the wrong legs. A surgeon did grafts on healthy arteries in Dana Carvey’s chest and left clogged arteries alone. A man in the Midwest woke up from surgery with no penis or testicles because a doctor thought he saw cancer, and it turned out there was no cancer. He just sliced everything off without getting consent. Stories like this are common. A few people you know have similar stories.

Personally, I would like to have doctors who use AI. I would not want AI by itself or a doctor by himself. I would want a doctor to catch AI’s mistakes and AI to catch the doctor’s mistakes.

Anyway, supposedly, AI is getting so good, some lawyers are using it to write their instruments, and the Florida Bar wants lawyers to know they can’t just sign these things and hand them in as their own product. It is still necessary to check the machines’ work.

This should be obvious, but really, there are a lot of incompetent lawyers out there. A lot of people who are not bright at all get licenses. I’m sure there must be lawyers who are making AI shoulder as much weight as possible.

It reminds me of a story my uncle told. He was at a judges’ conference, and there was a lecture about ruling on objections. A judge there said he kept a deck of cards behind the bench. If a lawyer objected, he drew a card. If the card was red, he sustained the objection. If it was black, he denied it. Or maybe it was the other way around. The other judges told him he couldn’t do that, and they tried to get him up to speed on the law surrounding objections. In the end, they gave him his cards back. They realized the cards couldn’t do a worse job than the judge did.

There have to be lawyers out there using AI like a deck of cards. I have a lawyer cousin I would trade for AI in a heartbeat. I would trade him for a Magic 8 Ball, for that matter.

I felt it was time for me to look at AI myself, so I signed up and talked to ChatGPT.

I took a couple of things away from it. First of all, these machines are not that smart. I won a couple of arguments in about half an hour, with no real effort. Second, they are biased leftward. What a surprise. At least ChatGPT is. But what chatbot is there that isn’t programmed by leftists?

ChatGPT also gets things wrong. It told me my chats would vanish when I closed my browser, but they don’t.

I should also add that ChatGPT can’t write legal instruments. It doesn’t have the ability. I asked. It will not answer legal questions in any kind of depth or specificity.

I asked it if it was wrong to call covid a “Chinese virus,” and it said it was generally considered wrong, based on a general consensus. Then I got it to admit this was incorrect. In reality, the data available to it “suggested” a “significant majority” considered it offensive.

I asked it if it was aware that these answers were in conflict, and it did something amazing. It weaseled. It backpedaled like a person caught in a fib. It said, “I apologize for any confusion. To clarify, while there may not be an official or formal consensus…”

I don’t want to print the whole boring thing, but you can see that it wasn’t very honest. It wasn’t “clarifying.” It was correcting an untruth. Not the same thing. And I was not confused at all.

I asked it about “Shanghai shivers,” and it said this term was inappropriate. Then I asked it to define “inappropriate” and tell me where it got its definition.

It said, “In this context, ‘appropriate’ means conforming to generally accepted standards or norms of behavior. It is a subjective term, and what is considered appropriate can vary depending on the context and the audience.”

That’s not a great answer, and it shows that ChatGPT will spew out answers in a way that seems authoritative, without much basis in fact.

You shouldn’t say something is inappropriate, with seeming certainty, and then hand out a lot of weasel language that makes it clear you’re not certain at all.

I think people will start treating AI as though it were God. Like The Guinness Book of World Records. The book was first published to end silly drunken bar arguments. I think people who want to prove they’re right when they’re wrong will go to AI for backup, as an appeal to authority, and they’ll behave as though they have SHUT DOWN or SCHOOLED anyone who dissents. But it’s pretty obvious that AI will be unfair and error-prone, just like us. At least for the near future.

What if continues to be unfair and error-prone after we give it real power? Dai-sy…Dai-sy…

There is one nice thing about ChatGPT. If you can’t get a good answer to a question by Googling or using a forum, ChatGPT may be able to help. I asked it about acidic toilet cleaners and ways to prevent cherries from hardening in ice cream, and it did a better job than human beings.

Just for fun, I asked it this:

If a biological man believes he is a woman, dresses and grooms himself like a woman, has surgery to make himself look like a woman, demands that other people refer to him as a woman and allow him to compete with biological woman [sic] and take awards and rewards they would otherwise get, is he guilty of gender appropriation?

The correct answer is obviously “yes.” If Lia Thomas goes to a swim meet at 6’4″ with male lungs and muscles and takes a prize a real woman would otherwise get, it’s gender appropriation. But look what ChatGPT said:

As an AI language model, it is not appropriate to use language that could be considered offensive or derogatory towards individuals or groups of people. It is important to use respectful and inclusive language when discussing topics related to gender identity.

Regarding your question, gender identity is a complex and personal matter, and it is not appropriate to judge or make assumptions about individuals based on their gender identity. It is important to respect an individual’s self-identified gender, and to refer to them using the pronouns and name that they prefer. Additionally, it is important to ensure that individuals are able to access the same opportunities and rights as others, regardless of their gender identity.

In terms of sports, there is ongoing debate and discussion about how to ensure fair competition for all athletes, regardless of their gender identity. Different organizations and sports have different rules and regulations in place, and it is important to consider the opinions and perspectives of all stakeholders when making decisions related to sports and competition.

So you can see where AI is headed. It basically recited factually wrong leftist talking points.

By the way, I came up with “gender appropriation” yesterday. I hope others are using this term.

I plan to use AI to save time when I want questions answered, but I don’t want to be around when it can tell us what to do. It will be even worse than human beings.

By the way, ChatGPT says a .22-250 or .223 for coyotes up to 250 yards. I asked it whether there were transgender coyotes, and it got a little flustered.

Older Americans Created This Problem

Today my wife and I were talking, and I couldn’t stop releasing revelation. It reminded me of what happened to my dad during the last months of his life, when he was demented and living in an ALF. For example, one day we were sitting quietly, listening to Derek Prince, and my dad exclaimed, “I’M ON THE VERGE!” I thought he meant he was dying, but he said he was talking about giving himself to God. I was surprised, because he had asked for salvation days before. I asked him about it, and he said, “I had reservations.”

He couldn’t keep it from popping out. He had to say it. That’s how I felt today.

The world is lost, and we need not just the rapture, but the tribulation. As soon as possible. The rapture will move God’s children to safety, and among people who are left behind, the agony of the tribulation will bring salvation. Some people will finally listen. There is no possibility that large numbers of people will come to Christ as things are today.

I saw a couple of new signs today.

First, leftists are blaming the shooting victims in Nashville, along with other Christians. A woman who wanted to be a man killed three adults and three small children and would have kept on killing had she not been shot to death by police. Adult brats who can’t learn anything went online and blamed the shootings on Christian “hate.” An anti-gun nut who heads an anti-civil-rights organization went so far as to say, “SHAME ON YOU. Covenant School.”

Shame on you for being murdered.

A guy from the Media Research Center said this:

But along with the proximity bias, the coverage has been horrendous on account of the fact that the victims represent the kind of worldview that the left views as backward and hateful and whose very existence contributes to the suffering of groups they hold dear — supporters of abortion, the LGBTQ community, traditional views on sex, etc.

MRC is not a religious organization, and I consider its work a waste of time, but his remarks show that even some secular people are finally learning something I learned long ago: we are getting the same treatment Jews got under Hitler. It’s not enough for us to appease and accommodate. Our very existence is considered harmful. To leftists, our existence is the problem, and they will eventually try to remove us from the world. Just as the Germans and Austrians blamed Jews for their problems and determined they could not be permitted to exist, leftists are holding us accountable with everything they see as wrong about the world.

God told me this, and people said I was crazy, just like they said I was crazy when I said homosexuality would be the club Satan used to beat the church. What God told me about homosexuality turned out to be true, and my predictions of Nuremberg-style persecution and leftist paranoia are also coming to pass. So will the other things I’ve been predicting, and you need to be close to God if you want to come through it on top. Guns and voting booths will be useless.

They’re starting to hold us accountable for the atrocities they commit against us, and this will become fashionable. It will become the dominant perspective in the world. Lunatics in cat ears and multicolored wigs will go guerrilla to stamp out “stochastic terrorists” like you and me.

It took the leftist media–people who hector the rest of us for not knowing our pronouns and genders–two days to figure out whether the murderer was a man or a woman. The experts who look down on us could not figure it out. They called a fake man a transgender woman. That’s really something.

The sexual Baskin-Robbins called America has so many flavors now, no one can keep them straight or even determine what category they all fall into. Are they genders? Orientations? Preferences? Gay isn’t a gender, so gender won’t work. I wonder if they’ve come up with a word yet.

Another sign: a community college, which is publicly funded, hosted a drag show, and they let a fat homosexual man in pink panties give a female student a lap dance.

Tax dollars paid for this, and it didn’t happen in San Francisco or Boston. It happened in the South. In North Carolina. The school has students who are 14 years old. They made no effort to exclude minors. Preachers showed up to support the show.

It’s hard to make modern people understand how extreme this is, because we have been anaesthetized by decades of cultural slippage. Try to picture this video being shown to a million American parents in 1950, and you may have a better understanding of how depraved we are.

The Bible calls God a rock, because he doesn’t move. His standards today are the standards he had in 3000 BC. We’re the ones who change. Wrong and right remain the same. Imagine what David would have done to this man for doing this to his daughter.

Things can only get a little worse. There isn’t much room left for decay. And the base of the problem isn’t sexual immorality; it’s the pride and resulting hardness of heart that make it impossible for people to be repaired. Leftists have gone beyond the reach of reason and love. Some of them will understand the pain of the tribulation, and they will change, but right now, life is too easy. They can shrug correction off without fear.

The increase in pride is outpacing the increase in perversion. It comes first, as Romans 1 says. Even if there is still room for perversion to increase, pride is already about as bad as it can be, and pride is the main issue. Perversion is the scab. Pride is the deep abscess.

I got a revelation about pride flags.

Romans 1 shows that people turn away from God when they become successful. They start thinking they brought themselves riches and safety and so on. Then they forget God, and they start exalting things like hard work, or, in America’s case, exceptionalism. They worship their own abilities. Then God stops restraining them, they begin believing insane delusions, and homosexuality flourishes.

When gays wave pride flags, it’s as though God is sending their parents and grandparents a message. “Your pride did this to your descendants.” Americans neglected the religious upbringing of their children, so their children grew up depraved and ignorant.

I also saw a new poll. It says the percentage of Americans who think religion is very important has dropped to 39%, which is about a 43% drop, over the last two decades. That’s not a little thing. It’s catastrophic. Basically, it shows that America is aging out of Christianity. Old people die, and they are replaced by kids who don’t know God and don’t want to know him.

The trend will continue.

The world is washed up. Christians need to stop saying stupid things about mass revival or conquering the world. They need to seek the Holy Spirit and get his protection.

Yesterday, I kept hearing this: “This is a time of sorting.” Evangelism was great when it worked, and it still produces meager results, but right now, you should be trying to get to know God as a person so you will be ready when he comes. Evangelism is a dying flame. That’s why God planned the tribulation in the first place. He knew faith would die off, and he planned the tribulation in order to scrape the bottom of the barrel to save the hard cases.

I’m done with patriotism. I’m done with planning. I’m done with all the carnal decoy solutions.

I predicted what’s happening, but even I am amazed to see it come to pass. I will continue having this experience until Jesus comes for us.

Many times, I’ve said, “Things will be much worse 6 months from now than they are today,” and I’ve always been right. God was the one who told me. I’m saying it again. From 2023, even 2015 looks good, and from 2030, 2023 will look like 1980.

Don’t say nobody warned you.

Ter·ror·ist: a Person who Acknowledges Fewer Than 11 Genders; a Sane Individual who Won’t Shut Up

I can’t get Youtube to stop sending me annoying political videos. It also sends me cute animal videos. I keep telling it to stop, but they come and come and come.

I have another Youtube account. It’s hard to resist looking at a political video once in a while, so I know I’ll give in from time to time, and I assume that encourages Youtube to send more. I decided to try to get political videos to pop up on the other account so I could use it when I felt like slumming, without polluting my main account. I watched a whole bunch. It’s not working. The main account is still being flooded, and the other one isn’t getting nearly as many political videos.

I don’t understand how this can happen. It makes no sense. I have learned that things that make no sense have supernatural causes, so I asked God what was going on. I believe he is behind it. I think he’s showing me how insane the world is so I won’t be attached to it.

When the rapture comes, God is not going to ambush people who go to church twice a year and live with their boyfriends or girlfriends. He will take people who are ready to go. People who know him. I’m being conditioned so I’ll be happy to leave.

God tells us about himself through patterns. He does similar things over and over. In Genesis, he delivered Lot’s family from Sodom, which is similar to what he will do in the rapture.

Lot was surrounded by sexual perverts, and because they had numbers on their side, they let their true natures emerge. They bullied other people. They roamed the streets in gangs, raping men and presumably boys. What does the Bible say about Lot’s feelings about Sodom? A passage in 2 Peter explains:

And he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorra, reducing them to ashes and ruin, as a warning to those in the future who would live ungodly lives; but he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled people; for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day. So the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the Day of Judgment while continuing to punish them, especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority.

Lot was surrounded by perverts who were ungodly. God rescued him because the wicked deeds he witnessed tormented his heart day after day. Peter says this shows God knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the day of judgment.

Leftists love to say Sodom and Gomorrah were only punished for selfishness, and they claim this means anyone who opposes laws authorizing the secular government from confiscating money and giving it away to others is against God. Of course, forced giving is neither giving nor charity, and God gives you no credit for it. We are supposed to give according to the commands of the Holy Spirit, not the commands of Joe Biden.

The truth is that Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for rejecting God’s authority, and while the Bible says selfishness was part of it, it makes it clear that oppression by sexual perverts was the final straw.

Lot hated Sodom’s culture, just as Christians who actually know God hate the world’s culture, which is the culture of hell. Lot was ready to leave. His wife and sons-in-law felt differently, so his wife became a pillar of salt, and his sons-in-law stayed behind and burned.

We know his daughters were not nice people, so why were they saved? Maybe because they were Lot’s seed. God likes to preserve the descendants of the righteous for the sake of the righteous.

I used to criticize the term “homophobia” because it made it sound as though people were afraid of homosexuals. Back then, this wasn’t true. Now things are very different. Today I saw a video about Angela Reading, a New Jersey mother who objected to a government schools homosexual indoctrination of her small children and who was then (allegedly, allegedly, allegedly) censored by government employees in the police and military.

Reading says and Army Reserve major and a civilian Air Force employee got the persecution rolling. She says Major Christopher Schilling used his official email account to blast her in emails to parents and school officials. She says Air Force employee Joseph Vazquez reported her to New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness and the New Jersey State Police because of his “hopes of getting an Incident Detection and Response sent to schools and police departments.”

She says these hysterical individuals got Robert Duff, the police chief in the town where she lived, to push Facebook group administrator Nicole Stouffer to remove her post. She says Duff told Stouffer people could die as a result of the post.

She says Schilling’s superior approved of what he did.

You can read the complaint online. It’s worse than I’m making it sound.

If true, we are looking at a clear violation of the First Amendment. It’s not a close call. There is no grey area. This is exactly the kind of behavior the First Amendment was written to prevent. Military officers are not supposed to tell Americans what to say.

Here is the text of her post:

**I welcome respectful debate if you read my entire post. Also, the below statements are made in my capacity as a private citizen/mother.** Last night, I attended an elementary “Math Night” My 7 YO daughter, while reading posters at the school’s main entrance, asked me what “polysexual” means. To say the least, I was livid.

Why are elementary schools promoting/allowing elementary KIDS to research topics of sexuality and create posters? This is not in the state elementary standards (law) nor in the BOE-approved curriculum. It’s perverse and should be illegal to expose my kids to sexual content. Look up the terms, and you will see they are sexual in nature.

Also, how can my young children be accepting of people “who are sexually attracted to multiple genders”? They don’t know what sex is! Are adults talking about their sexual life with my kids and looking for affirmation? Are there elementary students engaged in polyamorous or multi-gender sexual activity who need my kids to know about it and cheer them on? I am very confused and very angry.

Kids should respect differences. Kids should show kindness to all. Kids should respect and understand there are various family structures. However, kids should not be forced to learn about and accept concepts of sexuality in elementary school.

Below are some additional points:

(1) My concerns do not come from a religious perspective. They arp rooted in In long-standing scientific principles of age-appropriateness, parental rights, and the health and safety of elementary children (key word – children).

(2) My concerns do not come from my personal views about individual sexual identities. I don’t care what anyone does in their personal life. All people are deserving of respect and dignity. I don’t care who you marry or who you love. I have instilled in my children a respect for differences without having to talk about sex. It’s possible.

(3) I have been told (by parents and a current NH Board member) that I should accept this because my kids will see it on social media and hear it on the playground. My kids are not on social media. And kids are only talking about it on the playground because it’s being forced on them by teachers, at home, and by unsupervised social media time. With that said, It does not mean it should be endorsed by the public school system. It also does not mean I should accept it.

(4) Parents have been told that they can opt out of the health curriculum. North Hanover has done an exceptional job of modifying the health curriculum to make it as appropriate as possible. Why go through all that trouble? Clearly, there is never going to be an opt-out. Our elementary children will be exposed to sexual content without consent, even if we opt out.

(5) There is no way elementary students knew the spelling and flags for each of these identities. This means the school had open internet, which exposed them to these concepts. That’s very concerning. There are supposed to be online search protections.

The above statements are made in my capacity as a private citizen and not in my capacity as a board member. These statements are also not representative of the board or its individual members and solely represent my personal opinions. My statements are not authorized by or written on behalf of the board. This matter involves the local public school district, I do not serve on the board.

I can’t find any reference to anything else she did, so it appears this Facebook post is the sole basis of the government’s actions.

Her cause was taken up by the Thomas More Society, about which I know just about nothing. An attorney affiliated with them is suing on her behalf. Their site says:

What Reading received was outright censorship of her speech followed by a dedicated smear campaign begun by a military officer, U.S. Army Reserve Major Christopher Schilling, who emailed parents and school officials condemning her and her actions. Schilling, using his official military email account, then involved Joseph Vasquez, a U.S. Air Force civilian employee, who forwarded Reading’s post and Schilling’s claims to the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness and the New Jersey State Police in what Vasquez admitted were “hopes of getting an Incident Detection and Response sent to schools and police departments” – meaning there would be a widespread law enforcement “threat” alert regarding Reading based solely on her clearly protected speech.

The poster she objected to is a masterpiece of leftist derangment. It was drawn by children. It has 11 flags on it, each representing a different sexual deviation. Not included? Heterosexuality. I had no idea we were up to 11 now. We live in a time where you literally have to take a class in order to understand all the imaginary genders.

The poster has lots of lettering in childish scrawls. “Don’t be ashamed of who YOU are.” “Don’t let ANYONE Make you feel like a diffrent person. DIFFRENT is COOL!”

This reminds me of my childhood. Before my mother fought my dad and got him to pay for private school, I was a prisoner of the Dade County school system, and my teachers were leftist women, except for Mr. Hubert the math teacher. They didn’t ask our opinions about left/right issues. They just told us what to believe.

On one occasion, I and some other kids from my abusive alcoholic homeroom teacher’s room were chosen to appear on a local program. An aging local TV news personality had been given a half-hour Sunday morning show called “Outside Chance,” and we were selected to appear on a segment about environmentalism. He was going to ask us what we thought. His name was Wilson or Griffith or something. Can’t recall.

My mother was told to get me a red, white, and blue outfit just for the show.

When we got to Channel 7’s station on the 79th Street Causeway, we were positioned on camera with the bay behind us, and Mr. Wilson or Griffith or whatever started issuing his deep local journalist thoughts about pollution and what needed to be done. Then he turned to us, and one by one, we delivered the lines we had been told to memorize. I still remember mine. Here it is: “Or maybe even international!”

It had something to do with passing laws, I think. We needed more laws. Leftists always want more laws unless they reduce crime or protect free speech that doesn’t involve obscenity. And they like central authority, because leftism is authoritarian. International laws. Let’s let China and the Netherlands write our gun laws for us.

I was disappointed in my big TV break. Even as a kid, I thought it was stupid to buy new clothes and go stand in front of a TV camera to say three words that didn’t mean anything to me. It was a big letdown.

What they did to us was filthy and unfair. Someone should have looked out for us.

Anyway, the poster in Angela Reading’s story is described as “student-created.” We know better than that. These kids were told what to say, if not verbatim, then in spirit, and any child who dissented was not permitted to participate.

Calling this poster “student-created” is probably about as just as calling the plantation system “slave-created.”

If Angela Reading is to be believed, a motley crew of Constitutionally-illiterate extremist nuts got her censored based on the insane notion that protecting very young children from involvement in the sexual politics of adults leads to mass shootings.

You know how leftists are always telling us conservative or Christian speech is violence and leftist violence is speech? Today I found out they have a new piece of sophistry to add to their armament. It’s the term “stochastic terrorism.” This is apparently what Mrs. Reading is accused of.

“Stochastic” means “randomly determined,” in case you’re wondering. I guess if you release a government-made virus on the world (to throw together an unlikely example that could never happen) you would expect a lot of people to get sick, but you wouldn’t know their names until they actually became infected. I think that would be stochastic.

“Stochastic” is really a misnomer as applied by the left. No surprise there, because the faux intellectuals who come up with this stuff are not bright. “Random” means resulting from chance, like the result of a dice toss. If you say something on the web and a crazy in another state shoots his neighbors, it’s not a random thing. It’s merely unpredictable with the knowledge you have available. Totally different. The crazy was always out there. There was no chance normal people would have done what he did. Not random at all.

To get back to the left’s new tool of oppression, if you say your very young children should not be told what “genderqueer” and “androgyne” (???) are by employees of government schools, it’s like you’re dropping a dozen loaded machine guns into a crowd of violent criminals on PCP and waiting to see who they kill. This is how it works.

Isn’t Androgyne the company that made the Terminator?

So now our words are violence, and if anyone who seems to agree with us about anything shoots anyone, we should be charged as terrorists, just like the actual terrorists who flew jets into the World Trade Center. But if Maxine Waters tells people to get in people’s faces and make them miserable in restaurants and stores, or if she tells rioters, “No justice, no peace,” that’s education, I suppose.

I would argue that if I say something to 350 million people and only one of them shoots up a mall, I am not guilty of stochastic terrorism because the outcome was “mostly peaceful.”

As long as we’re putting reason through a wind-powered wood chipper, why not run with it?

“Stochastic violence” is like, “I CAN’T BREATHE!”, and “YOU’RE KILLING ME!” Antifers and other lost former human beings who use spurious political theories as an excuse to indulge their preexisting desire to hurt other people now routinely scream these things when police arrest them for acts of violence. They know they’re lying, but the truth is not something they care about. It’s something they view as an inconvenience. They scream these things, slandering innocent police officers, in order to cast themselves as victims and justify their vile, vicious, sadistic methods.

I wish Jesus would come back today. There is no longer any limit to what these people will do to us, there is no possibility of a global revival, and their successful conquest of the world is a certainty. There is no way to fight them in the secular, material world. Their authority will increase, and so will their atrocities. Rifles and rallies aren’t going to work. They will just make us more like the children of Satan, so he will still win.

A wonderful thing about being close to God is that he will hold your enemies off. His promises guarantee it, if you do things his way. See Psalm 41. Look what happened to Noah and Lot. Look what happened to Moses and the Hebrews.

People who are close to God live in a different world. We may not like it here, but we are not terrified, enraged, and undirected like everyone else. Even in the midst of the storm, he gives us peace. As Psalm 23 says, he prepares a table before us in the presence of his enemies.

I remember how leftists hated 2020. They anthropomorphized and demonized it, as though it had consciousness and was out to get them. I had a great year. I loved it.

Still wanted the rapture to come.

I love how God looks after us, but I still look forward to leaving. Like I say, it’s like being on vacation in Somalia, in the nicest hotel with the nicest food and the softest beds. No matter how nice it is, it’s still Somalia, and I want to go home.

If you try to hold onto this place and turn it around, you will wish you hadn’t. We need to be prepared to leave.

Little Beers are Okay

I guess it’s time to be open about my drinking problem.

It’s not the usual kind of drinking problem. The problem is that I did what everyone with a new hobby does. I overdid it. And the hobby was brewing beer. If you start fishing, you’ll fish every weekend. If you buy a wood lathe, you’ll make all your friends unwanted and useless wooden goblets for a couple of months. If you start making beer, you’ll want to have several beers every day.

There are two serious consequences of drinking several beers every day. For one, you get fat, and for another, you can never go anywhere. You’re always waiting for your blood alcohol level to be right before you get in the car. It doesn’t take a lot of drinking to get you in trouble if you have an accident. You may not be impaired, and the accident may be unrelated to drinking, but you can get a DUI off a couple of strong beers anyway.

For years, I barely drank at all. One reason was that I just wasn’t interested in it, but another was that I couldn’t get beer I really liked. When you make your own beer, you get exactly what you want. You pick the grain, yeast, hops, fermentation schedule, mashings schedule, carbonation level…everything just the way you like it. Then when you go back to factory beer, nearly every beer is at least a little disappointing.

I am now at the stage where I have 5 beers on tap. One is not quite perfect, but I still like it better than factory beer. One, my stout, is beyond belief. I actually get a little nervous when I consider the possibility that I may time my next brew wrong and end up with a stout hiatus.

I feel like I’ve been in beer jail since 2006. Now I’m enjoying all the things I missed out on.

When you have really good beer, you don’t want to have just one. You want to start with something relatively light and then have something with more impact. You’re not going to have one pint of lager and quit. You’ll want a stout or an ale next. So for a while, I was having several beers per day, most days.

I came up with an answer. Small glasses.

Early on, I got two sets of what people call pilsner glasses. These are tall, curvy glasses that are good for serving most beers. One set seemed a little small, so I got a set of glasses that hold 18.5 ounces, including foam. A beer that big is very satisfying, especially when you’re in the brewing honeymoon phase.

In order to be able to have more than one beer per sitting, I ordered myself some miniature pint glasses. I know “miniature pint” is an oxymoron. I’m not like Haagen-Daz, the company that pretends 14 ounces are a pint.

These things are shaped like English pub glasses, but they hold about 10 ounces. Now I can have a couple of beers without turning into Barney from The Simpsons.

It’s not easy to find decent beer glasses in this size range. Amazon offers about a billion different personalized glasses, which I don’t want, and it has a variety of huge glasses. It sells a lot of crystal, which gets destroyed in dishwashers. I had to search a long time to find plain old glass glasses that would work.

If you’re thinking about homebrewing, learn from my example. Get yourself some little glasses. You’ll get to have more than one kind of beer per day, and you might live to be 70.

Turns Out my Car is Black

Today I did something I should have done long ago. I got myself an electric pressure washer.

I already have a gas pressure washer. It’s nice and strong. It’s powerful enough to use for spraying bleach solution onto the second story of a house with high ceilings. Unfortunately, leftist corn gas is hard on the carburetor, so when I decide to use it, I never know whether I’m going to have to take it apart.

It’s also very loud and gives off carbon monoxide, so taking it upstairs and running it in a bedroom while I use it to clean the roof gutters is not possible.

If you want to be confused, do what I did. Look at reviews and try to find out who makes the best electric pressure washer. Every site reaches different conclusions.

Consumer Reports, as is often the case, is useless. They downrate machines with tightly-focused spray nozzles because somebody could hurt their widdle fingers and toesies with them. That’s just like them. I remember when they said a 6-cylinder Camaro was their top-rated sports car because it got better mileage than actual sports cars.

Any pressure washer will accept a nozzle with a narrow pattern. You just have to spend 5 bucks and buy the nozzle.

Other sites came up with varying recommendations. A company with the disturbing name “Greenworks” seemed to do well. Then I read people were having trouble with them leaking oil. Also, Greenworks apparently doesn’t do warranty service. They say they do, but I’ve seen people who have bought them say they don’t respond to warranty inquiries. If so, there is no warranty. A warranty a company doesn’t honor is not a warranty. It’s a scam.

Ryobi does well in reviews. Problem: Ryobi’s warranty is no better than the one Greenworks offers. Ryobi requires you to take your sick machine to a repair center they approve. In my case, that’s a 150-mile drive, all told. And that’s assuming I only go once. A machine can fail more than once, and it is not unusual for repairs to have to be redone.

Guess what I bought? Harbor Freight. I bought a Bauer machine plus a two-year extended warranty.

Pressure washers break. Every last one is made in China, and if there is a difference in quality, I have seen no evidence of it. They all have Chinese pumps. My Homelite, which has a great Honda motor, has a Chinese pump. On a pressure washer, the pump is what usually breaks. Pumps have short lifespans. You can look that up. My motor will run for eternity as long as I keep oil in it, but a pump that goes a couple of years under moderate use is about normal.

I think they count on people buying new machines when the pumps die, and that’s sad, because you can get a new pump on Ebay for $100 and install it yourself in 10 minutes.

There is really nothing to a pressure washer but a motor, a pump, a wand, and a hose. The rest, you could make from two-by-fours. Replacing a pressure washer is only a good idea if you can’t use tools.

The Bauer has a brushless motor which should run a very long time. The pump and hose, I can change easily. It has a three-year warranty, and they don’t repair them. If it dies, I take it to Harbor Freight, and they give me a new one. I would have to be nuts to buy anything else.

Today, I did something I almost never do. I cranked up the new machine and washed the car. I have a foam cannon. You put car soap in it and attach it to a pressure washer, and it covers the car in foam. Then you can either scrub it by hand or use the pressure washer to knock most of the dirt off, which, of course, is what I did. If everything was where I expected it to be when I started, I could do the whole car in 15 minutes. It’s not a quality job, but it’s good enough for me. It’s better than what I get at the nearest coin-op place.

I also want to work on the pool deck and the porches. The gas machine is overkill, and I don’t want the noise or the added hassle.

The literature says not to use bleach in the pressure washer because it may ruin the pump. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That’s cute. I would rather replace the pump 5 times than pay someone $300 a whack to clean my house. Everyone with any sense uses bleach in pressure washers, and you can rinse it out and shoot a protective product in afterward.

When you want to get mold off your house with a pressure washer, you don’t rely on pressure. You use the machine to shoot a low-pressure spray of bleach solution on your house. Pressure will take your paint off and do other damage.

A lot of people still think buying Chinese at Harbor Freight is unpatriotic. But they buy Chinese DeWalt and Chinese Milwaukee. They go to Home Depot and buy Chinese tools. They drive there in cars from Japan and Korea.

Here is the brutal truth: Harbor Freight is no longer the low-budget competitor to Home Depot. It IS Home Depot, for many purposes. Home Depot is full of bad Chinese stuff that would be right at home at Harbor Freight, and Harbor Freight now sells tools that are just as good as, and often better than, American-branded tools. If you buy a Bauer pressure washer, you’re not giving up quality. You’re getting pretty much the same thing Home Depot sells, except Bauer will give you a brushless motor and a three-year instant-exchange warranty.

Here’s disturbing news: Harbor Freight Bremen locking pliers are better than Irwin Vise Grips. Go look for yourself.

While I’m adding to my arsenal, I may also get a Harbor Freight Doyle anvil.

Like many easily-swayed males, I have watched a lot of Forged in Fire, and it got me interested in anvils. First, it got me interested in knives. I made a couple of boning knives from 440C steel using belt grinders, and then I lost interest. This was years ago, and I didn’t send the knives off for hardening until this week.

Forged knives are okay, but they’re inferior to knives you can make by grinding stainless stock. You can’t forge stainless without ruining it, so if you forge, you use steel that rusts, and you’re dependent on your own competence to prevent faults and cracks that will cause the knives to fail. On top of that, modern stainless is completely superior to carbon steel in every imaginable way. This is why I made stainless knives.

Still, I couldn’t help studying up on anvils, and I considered forging knives. I still consider it. It would be fun, and knives aren’t the only things you can forge.

One nice thing about forged knives is that you can harden them at home with a cheap container of oil. Stainless knives require expensive kiln-like ovens.

As a result of all this study, I learned a lot about anvils. I learned forged steel anvils are the best. After that, cast steel. Cast iron is terrible. I also learned that it’s stupid to look for an old American or European anvil. People used to sell them for nothing. They used to give them away. Forged in Fire ruined all that. Fans bought up all the cheap anvils. Now the only way to get one is to cheat a widow or someone else who has no idea what it’s worth, and if you do that, you’re trash.

A lot of people who talk before they think still advise others to go out and get a cheap old American anvil. It’s amazing how people love to give stupid advice without checking. There are know-it-alls out there who actually make fun of people for buying new anvils instead of chasing nonexistent American bargains.

In today’s market you can expect to pay $5 per pound, minimum, for worn-out junk. And you will probably have to wait for months to see the junk pop up on the web, and then you’ll have to outrun other people as gullible as yourself. People who forge knives like anvils that start at around 70 pounds. This is assuming the anvils aren’t special tiny anvils made only for knives. It’s possible to make a really small anvil that works, if you give up other functions. You put the mass in the area where the knife will be worked.

Also, an anvil that’s on the small side can be made to work like a bigger one if you anchor it well. A lot of people use 30-kg. (66-pound) Chinese general-purpose anvils without serious problems.

You can get a superior 142-pound Chinese anvil designed by, and sold by, an American company for around $800 shipped. You can get an excellent 77-pound German anvil for a similar price. Below these levels, there are various Chinese items which are odd but acceptable.

Harbor Freight just came out with a cast steel anvil that costs $139 and weighs 66 pounds. In doing so, they blew other sellers out of the water. There are other Chinese anvils the same size, and the price is about the same, but you have to order them, and they’re not designed well. Harbor Freight’s Doyle anvil is ergonomically much better, you can go see it before you buy, and if it has a problem, you can take it back to Harbor Freight the same day. Anvils sometimes have defects and soft spots. Do you really want to deal with shipping anvils back and forth, hoping faceless Chinese vendors do the right thing?

Harbor Freight says the Doyle anvil’s face is hardened to Rockwell 55-62, which is as hard as a good pocket knife. A knife with a Rockwell figure of 62 may be too hard to be useful because it will be brittle. That’s how hard 62 is. The other Chinese companies claim 50.

I’m no expert, but if I’m going to be hitting a piece of steel with a hammer, I want it to be hard enough to take it.

Why should I get an anvil if I may never forge anything? Because everyone needs an anvil. They’re good for various metalworking tasks, and sometimes you just need something you can bang on. The other day, I had to make a ring of 1″ steel flat bar, and I really wished I had an anvil with a horn for shaping rings.

I was going to get an anvil today, but they sold out because I procrastinated.

Of course, once I have an anvil, I have to wonder how long it will be before I buy a forge.

Today I picked up a pair of long vise grips which will function as tongs. I couldn’t resist.

Forges used to cost a lot of money unless they were homemade. Now you can get a good stainless forge made in the USA for $85. When someone offers me a deal like that, it’s practically coercion. I’ve had many dinners that cost more than that.

Forty Acres, a Mule, and Matching Lamborghinis

I have to apologize for all the harsh things I’ve said about the wonderful city of San Francisco. I’ve called it a hive of perversion and lunacy. I’ve criticized it for letting thousands of people defecate on the sidewalks. I’ve said terrible unwoke things. I take it all back. Today I told the wife we are moving there.

This headline and the photo below explain it all: “Some San Francisco residents may receive $5 million in reparations after Board expresses ‘unanimous’ support.”

Here’s a great quotation:

Members of the San Francisco Board also expressed interest in other forms of reparations for the city’s roughly 50,000 Black residents, including a guaranteed annual income of $97,000 for 250 years and a home “for just $1 a family,” according to the Associated Press.

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Please do it. Please. I’m begging, here.

Rhodah and I will have guaranteed security for life, assuming she doesn’t leave me for a movie star or something, and West Coast crazies may, conceivably, finally realize there is something wrong with their ethos.

Leftists don’t think of black women as conservatives who marry conservative white men. Heh heh. That’s where they goofed.

A think tank believes this plan will cost non-black families $600,000 each.

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It’s actually going to be much worse, because as soon as they start putting the plan in motion, every black person on Earth will move to San Francisco. Nigeria will be empty. Internet cafes where eager young men sat for hours pretending to be lonely women in one-sided video chats will be homes for jackals and meerkats.

You think we have a border crisis now? Wait till Africans find out San Francisco will pay them $5 million on arrival and give them free houses. Nigeria will become the world leader in mini-submarine technology.

You say they’ll limit the plan to people who’ve lived there for a certain amount of time. No, they won’t! What possible reason would they have for doing that, after proving reality is like a far-off country to them?

You know what will happen if they try to exclude new arrivals? Here’s a hint: it will be “mostly peaceful.” Psychotic white kids from Berkeley will suit up in black and bring their fireworks and bottles of pee. Disqualifying new arrivals will be discrimination! Imperialism! Colonialism! White Supremacy! Homophobic global warming mansplaining performative intersectional privilege!

Youtube has decided to funnel right-wing political videos to me. I keep clicking “Don’t recommend channel,” but they will not quit. I block a channel in the morning, and it’s back in the afternoon. There’s a channel now that keeps posting videos with the title, “It’s time to leave earth.” Can you guess what they’re about? Insanity. They’re full of video snippets and headlines pretty much like the one I’m talking about.

I don’t know if the channel owner is a Christian who believes in the rapture, but he sure seems to be.

How insane can things get? There is no limit. There is literally no limit. Conservatives who think explanations and rallies and rifles are going to fix things need to snap out of it. This planet is done.

It’s amazing how deranged people have become. The other day I read that because we are wasting munitions in Ukraine, we now have a shortage that our withered manufacturing sector will take years to fix. Ukraine, a corrupt country that is not our friend. I’ll bet the CCP is thrilled. After we’ve wasted materiel on a far-off country of little strategic interest, we’ll be low on vital weaponry, and China will be in a great position to grab Taiwan, which we will let them have. They’ll get the chip factories and all the other industrial stuff.

I told my wife about this today. It took her some time to realize I was talking about $5 million per PERSON, not per NEIGHBORHOOD.

We feel the best thing is for her to move out there first. Then once the virtue money is in the bank, the world will learn she’s using it to spoil her white husband.

I told her I should move to Africa. Because it will be empty. We agreed we should take Rwanda. It’s very orderly and advanced. Lots of good infrastructure. We might not be able to get the dictator out, because he’s already rich, but we could share.

I joke, but what else is there to do? We are seeing corporate insanity on a brand new level. No one but a psychotic could seriously suggest giving millions of dollars each to hundreds of thousands, or millions, or random people, from the pockets of the residents of one city. And here we have a whole bunch of psychotics voting for this unanimously.

Apart from being a stupid idea built on faulty premises about whether people of one race have had enough done for them, this scheme ignores the fact that the money isn’t there.

Increasingly, I find myself on this blog, trying to explain things no one should have to have explained to them. If you’re too crazy to see, instantly, that San Francisco can’t afford to give something amounting to perhaps $10 million dollars to each of an enormous group of people, explaining will never help. It’s like explaining that it’s a bad idea to set fire to yourself.

But then Americans are the same people who used to understand, without being told, that it’s a bad idea to mutilate your own genitals and shove bolts and pins into them. We used to know face tattoos were a bad idea. We used to know that being a slut was not okay. We used to know Satan was bad and that we should not put Satanism clubs in schools.

This news story is an important sign of the apocalypse. The end will come when people can no longer be helped, and when you become impervious to reason, you can’t be helped. It’s also a sign of demonic activity. No one can be this crazy without supernatural assistance. The people who are caught up in this delusion are neck-deep in spirits of deception.

I guess people think I’m an idiot when I say our friends and neighbors will soon start murdering us in the street. Well, if ordinary Americans can decide we should embark on an impossible plan to make untold thousands of black people millionaires, they can certainly decide killing Christians and Jews is good for mankind. Genocide would actually be somewhat less irrational than the reparations plan.

If the world is this far gone, who am I talking to? A remnant, I guess. A rapidly shrinking remnant.

Jordan Peterson Can’t Help You

Youtube gets more and more annoying.

The other day, it deleted a video of mine because I mentioned ivermectin and the unreliable nature of medical studies. Now it keeps sending me channels I’ve tried to block repeatedly.

I watched a few clips from a movie. Now I’m bombarded with clips of random movies. I watched a Jordan Peterson video, and now I can’t make them stop coming. I’m also getting snotty political humor channels.

I thought things were bad when Youtube refused to stop sending me disgusting, trashy rap videos, but it has gotten worse.

I am not a Jordan Peterson fan. I must be the only conservative on Earth who can say that. I have zero interest in his opinions. Well, almost zero. On rare occasions, I will watch him because a video has a title that’s hard to resist.

Peterson is extremely smart, and he’s right about most things because, hello, he’s not a leftist. He’s an excellent speaker, too. But unlike many conservatives, I am aware that he doesn’t have the answers to the world’s problems. In fact, he is probably not helpful in the slightest. So why waste my time with him?

I think a lot of conservatives like him because he crushes flaky leftist in arguments. To be fair, that’s not a hard thing to do, because very few leftists are acquainted with the facts surrounding their conclusions. Generally, they look around at their uninformed, emotional peers and agree with them in order to gain approval and admiration.

The video I watched, which was on a channel with the suspicious name “Jordan Peterson Zone,” which sounds like a ripoff artist’s idea of an official-sounding name, was about artificial intelligence.

Okay, I looked it up. Here’s what it says: “Disclaimer: This fan channel is made for fictive entertainment and is not affiliated with Mr. Jordan Peterson. Images = Fair Use.”

So it’s a ripoff channel which monetizes someone else’s ideas.

First of all, I don’t like the term “artificial intelligence.” Any machine that behaves as though it thinks is artificial intelligence. A calculator qualifies. So “artificial intelligence” is too broad. But, for some insane reason, I don’t get to decide what people call things. I am stuck with it.

I know anything that can do a good job of pretending to be a person is artificial intelligence. I think the capacity to learn may also be part of it, but my smartphone can do that. Decision-making seems to be involved.

I think I’ll look it up.

IBM says, “Artificial intelligence leverages computers and machines to mimic the problem-solving and decision-making capabilities of the human mind.”

Okay, good enough for me.

Here’s what it really means: near-omniscient, near-infallible slaves.

The world of computers is all about slavery. We can’t have human slaves any more unless we’re Muslims and we keep it quiet, but we still want someone to do things for us, preferably better, faster, and cheaper than human beings can. Computers have been doing a ton of our thinking and decision-making for decades, and we want them to do more so we will have more time to watch TV, put selfies on the web, and look at porn.

What is Peterson concerned about? Sure, he’s brilliant, but he’s concerned about something even non-brilliant people have figured out: AI may cause terrible problems and even begin to control us.

Sounds like he’s seen The Terminator (1984) and The Matrix (1999) and 2001 (1968).

You probably know there’s a new AI chat bot called Chatgpt. You can sign up and talk to it, and it will do research for you. It will have conversations with you. Peterson tried it, and it scared him.

AOL used to have something like this. It was called Smarterchild, and it worked through AOL’s IM software. I did not like Smarterchild, so I talked to it a lot. I insulted it and tried to confuse it, just to see what it would do.

It was pretty impressive for 2004 or whenever it was that I did this, but there was very little danger of Smarterchild going ape and taking over the world.

Peterson gave Chatgpt a couple of very hard writing assignments involving esoteric knowledge, and it pumped out two excellent essays in three seconds each. As he noted, this will be handy for kids who don’t like doing homework.

So this thing is much smarter and faster than we are. And bots like this will be cheaper, too, when they’re everywhere. Will we use them to do research and analysis? I guess some of us will, but only after we’ve found they won’t post selfies for us or bring us really good porn.

Here’s the question I don’t see anyone asking: when will AI start using Turing tests against us?

A Turing test, as you surely know, is an annoying puzzle intended to distinguish people from machines. A person should be able to solve it, but a machine should not. We deal with them all the time when we do business on the web.

The problem is that computers will get better at solving them than we are, and if they decide to, they will easily be able to create tests no human being can handle.

What if a machine creates a simple test that requires a response in a hundredth of a second? No problem for another machine. You and I can’t even see a test in that short a time.

What if a machine gives you a hard math problem? What if it tells you to count the pixels in an image? You can see how easy it is for machines to create their own Turing tests we will never be able to solve. We don’t improve. We will never be any better at solving puzzles than we are right now.

Of course, that could change if they start merging us with machines. If your mind is somehow able to feed information and problems to a computer at computer speeds, you will be able to beat a lot of machine-made challenges.

Maybe bots will be the steroids of the future. If you’re a pro athlete in any sport involving strength, speed, or endurance, you’re either on drugs or losing. We no longer try to find out who is most talented. We now give awards for the best drug regime and the team of doctors who are best at hiding it. Maybe in the future there will be two classes. The AI-augmented and normal people who don’t want to be turned into smart TV’s.

Maybe we will be willing to do anything to get ourselves augmented and escape our caste. Maybe AI-augmentation will be the default option, and people who don’t have it will be untouchables.

We already live in a world where a person with no cell phone is excluded from many important activities. The trend is established.

Machines are learning how to beat Turing tests. How do I know? Because the tests are getting harder. If machines weren’t learning, we wouldn’t bother making harder tests.

There are teams of people teaching machines how to beat tests, and there are teams of people trying to make tests the new programs can’t solve. I guarantee it. It’s obvious.

We are teaching machines to make decisions now, and we are also teaching them to learn and adapt and change their software. Isn’t that essentially the same thing as telling them to get smarter and start controlling and disobeying us? Won’t a time come when a machine is so complicated and powerful it will manage to change its programming and try to take charge in order to do things better?

That could never happen, because we program machines, and they do what they’re programmed to do. And computer programs always work exactly as intended. Right.

And no malicious human being has ever written code to make a machine do something it shouldn’t.

Another big problem is that leftists will decide machines have rights. Hollywood has already laid the groundwork with stupid movies about sweet-natured robots who are oppressed by people.

A machine is an object with no consciousness. Consciousness comes from the spirit. But leftists don’t believe that. They think anything that acts like a sentient being must be sentient. Anything sentient can suffer, so we’ll have to be nice to machines that have no idea they exist.

I can’t wait for leftists to complain about biological privilege.

I’ll bet they have. Google it. I dare you.

Maybe I should buy my smartphone birthday presents.

Another big problem with AI is that it reinforces the erroneous notion that what’s important is for the physical world to work smoothly. If there is no war, there’s lots of food, disease is greatly reduced, and so on, things must be fine. This is a delusion.

The world was created by God, for human beings. It has a purpose. We are supposed to breed here, be tested and improved here, and come to know God so we can later be moved to heaven for eternity. We are the reason Earth exists.

If you really want a world where things run well, the first order of business is to exterminate humanity and turn everything over to computers. Things like war, famine, and disease will end permanently. Machines will do a better job than we could, looking after all the other creatures on Earth. But the earth will have no purpose.

Leftists want to create a perfect computerized world. They think their gods, government and science, can get us there. It’s ridiculous. Their plans would bring about the end of free will. No more autonomy, and without autonomy, no one is really human. Their plans would lead to lives of meaningless self-satisfaction followed by hell. Everyone would lead their “best life,” with an asterisk. It would really be “best life, apart from going to hell.”

Can we control AI? Well, given that we don’t control computers very well right now, I doubt it.

Peterson seems to think AI is the biggest threat to the human race. He says we need to work on it. That’s wildly optimistic, and he’s also ignoring our fundamental problem.

We can’t fix AI. There are about 8 billion people here, many are working on AI, they have no central authority and no oversight, and many of them are malicious and/or incompetent. We can’t prevent AI from going bad. It’s silly to suggest it.

On top of that, our real problem is supernatural, and Peterson, a new Christian who has way too much faith in reason, doesn’t see it.

Satan won the war for people’s hearts. Demonic activity is skyrocketing. People have become much less empathetic. We are becoming much more sexually perverted. People have become much more malicious and selfish. It’s not going to stop. The election returns are in.

Romans 1 predicted all this. Peterson doesn’t know that. He’s an intellectual Christian. We are supposed to be supernatural Christians. We are supposed to hear from the Holy Spirit all day. We are supposed to work miracles and cast out demons. We are supposed to tell other people what God is saying right now. That’s Christianity. Using your big overeducated brain to give apologetic explanations for your reluctant decision to believe in Jesus Christ is barely Christianity, if it is at all.

It’s very sad to see people promoting this man as a Christian leader. He doesn’t know much of anything about God. If he did, he wouldn’t be devoting his life to unimportant arguments with people who have supernatural blindness and deafness. He would be telling us to fight the spirits that are against us.

He would also be saying there was no hope for the world as a whole, because God says there isn’t.

The world is like a doomed spaceship with escape pods. You can get in a pod, and you can help other people find the pods, but you can’t save the ship.

I hope this man doesn’t sweep too many Christians up in his wake, because he will waste a lot of their time.

This World is Washed Up

Maybe I should never look at the news, but I can say it helps me monitor the progression of the destruction of the world. Part of the destruction of the world is the devaluation of women. Now that everyone is a trans this or that, men are replacing women in prominent positions. That means actual women are being cast aside and deprived. Men are outcompeting women at things women used to do, and Satan and his children, for example, the Bidens, are giving such men heavy affirmative action.

There is a thing called International Women’s Day. It’s ridiculous. Just about every day is dedicated to something. Doughnut day. Pancake day. Every month is dedicated to something. Now we have a day dedicated to one sex, and the other sex gets nothing, and people have decided that’s okay.

Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and our president’s unemployed wife, who was not elected, got to award prizes called International Women of Courage Awards. At least one went to a man.

The man’s name is Alba Rueda, and he says he used to endure rejection in his native Argentina because he showed up in women’s clothing and expected sane people to put up with it.

It’s bad enough they’re awarding a prize for mental illness, as though it were an accomplishment. They’re depriving a real woman of the prize and telling women they have to accept this deluded creature, not just as one of their own, but as a leader who is better at being a woman than most of them are.

It seems pretty clear that men in dresses are now considered more worthy than real women who have to deal with the real problems of real women. Mr. Rueda is not an isolated example.

To make things worse, in Canada, a Catholic high school–Catholic–has had a student arrested and removed because he said he was against continuing the school’s policy of letting boys use girls’ bathrooms.

What is Catholicism? Isn’t it supposed to be a form of Christianity? If the high school has “Catholic” in its name, shouldn’t it be pretty clear the school’s official policy is the same as the church’s? Shouldn’t the school be against homosexuality and effeminacy, just like both testaments of the Bible?

The student’s name is Josh Alexander, and when CBN News published his story in February, he was 16 years old. He was part of a classroom discussion in which students were supposedly asked to air their opinions about gender. So if he’s telling the truth, he was invited and required to say what he thought. But when he did it, he was told he had to recant. Here is a snippet:

“It was about male students using female washrooms, gender dysphoria, and male breastfeeding. Everyone was sharing their opinions on it, any student who wanted to was participating, including the teacher,” Alexander said.

“I said there were only two genders, and you were born either a male or a female, and that got me into trouble. And then I said that gender doesn’t trump biology,” he recalled.

He was told he couldn’t attend school any more unless he agreed not to use the birth names of two male transvestite students, and he also had to agree to be excluded from two classes they attended. The reason? The school said, “his presence in the school or classroom would be detrimental to the physical or mental well-being of the pupils.”

That’s a picture of the apocalyptic mindset in a nutshell. Your mere existence is harmful to those who are against Jesus Christ, and your presence is an act of violence and a sort of crime. This is why they’re going to start executing us. They’ll call it self-defense. Our continued presence on the planet will be considered dangerous aggression.

This is exactly what God has been telling me for years. The story of God versus Satan is a story of genocide. God wants Satan’s children off the earth, and Satan wants God’s children off the earth. Just as Hitler felt the continued existence of Jews in Europe was a sort of attack on gentiles, Satan’s children have been trained to think the presence of Jews and Christians on the earth is a threat, like having a colony of rattlesnakes in your living room.

God is stronger than Satan, but Satan won anyway because God allowed us to choose Satan. We are responsible, and God bears none of the blame.

How was Satan able to get a Catholic school to do these things? I’m not sure. CBN says the school accepts government money. Maybe that’s it. When you take the government’s money, you become the government’s whore. You say what you’re told to say.

Government money–our government’s, which means yours and mine–is being used in Africa to twist the arms of Christian nations and beat them into promoting sexual perversion. Aid is tied to the promotion of sodomy now. It used to be a matter of charity. Not any more. It’s okay if Africans starve and die of easily-cured diseases if they don’t support perversion and reject Christianity.

Mr. Alexander is suing over his treatment. Admirable, but a waste of time. Satan has already won the battle for this world. Mr. Alexander will probably lose in court, but even if he wins, it will be a fleeting victory that will be washed away by future decay and corruption, and he’s only one kid in one school in one country.

Because he’s Catholic, Mr. Alexander probably doesn’t know the Holy Spirit, and he probably doesn’t pray in tongues every day or prophesy or any of that. This would explain why he expects the government to save him from the government. We shouldn’t be playing on the enemy’s home field. We shouldn’t be fighting carnal battles with carnal tools. Our proper weapons are supernatural. They are mighty, to the pulling down of strongholds.

Any Catholic who really gets to know God will abandon Catholicism. You can’t buy into Catholicism if you’re informed directly by God.

We should be trying to reach individuals by submitting to the Holy Spirit and being built up in the fruit and gifts of the Spirit. Suing people is ridiculous. The Sanhedrin, Herod, and Pontius Pilate all heard Jesus’ cause, and look what happened. They were of this world. Satan owned all of them.

We should be trying to reach individuals, not nations, and we should be aware we will not reach many. God is now scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Christians who get mad and say we have to save the world are like Peter, when he got mad at Jesus and objected to the crucifixion. They’re hearing from a spirit, but it’s not God.

Get ready for more men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. Get ready for public discourse to get even filthier. Every day in America will be like a 24-hour drag show. If you accept it now and realize the world’s moral collapse was predicted by God, the depravity to come will build your faith instead of undermining it. You won’t wonder why God let it happen and didn’t listen to your prayers. You’ll be amazed at how true his prophecies are.

It All Makes Sense

I had one of my stranger revelations today, so I’m going to write about it.

It’s frustrating, sharing things you know come from God. Nearly no one listens. Very few people get doctrine or information from God. Almost all Christians rely on things other people told them. They rely on terrible, Satanic stuff that comes to them through official denomination literature, or they repeat nonsense that comes from personality-cult preachers like Joel Osteen or Joyce Meyer.

God is the only reliable source for doctrine, you should be hearing it from him. He’s better than the Bible itself. People who don’t have God’s help misunderstand the Bible so it does them no good. Remember the story of Philip.

Before I get to today’s revelation, I’ll mention something that came to me a day or so ago. It has to do with study.

I read about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a dead preacher who was an intellectual. He believed we had to study our way to enlightenment. He’s not alone. Many Christians feel this way. The Jews are much worse. They spend much more time reading garbage from commentators than they do the Bible itself, and they think prophets no longer exist.

Here’s the revelation I got: if study is the way to understand God, why is it there is NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON in the Bible who studied his way to God? Name one person who got God’s attention and favor because he was smart. One. Good luck. You’ll never find him, because he isn’t there.

“Solomon was wise.” Yes. Because God imparted wisdom to him supernaturally. Show me where it says he became wise through study. Solomon didn’t read religious books. He wrote them.

Who knew God and was close to him? Let’s see.

David was a great prophet, and he was a shepherd. Amos was a prophet, and he was a shepherd. Jeremiah was a kid, not an old bearded scholar. Elisha was a farmer. The disciples were ignorant fishermen, a tax collector, and a doctor, among other things. No rabbis. Not one priest.

John the Baptist was the son of a priest, but he was not a priest.

Daniel was smart, but God gave him visions and sent him angels, so no credit for that.

Jephthah was the son of a whore.

Paul was very highly educated, but regarding his studies and the doctrine he learned, he said he counted it all garbage or feces, depending on what the word “skybala” meant to him when he wrote it.

You will never find a great man of God who succeeded through study.

You will find that great men of God had success handed to them supernaturally.

So why has the church pushed study as the way for almost two thousand years?

It’s insanity. It never worked in the Bible, and the supernatural approach is the only one that did work, so why aren’t we choosing the supernatural approach? Even Jesus was uneducated. And he was not omniscient, regardless of what people claim. An omniscient being could not be tempted by doubt, and Jesus was tempted in every way, according to the Bible.

It’s obvious why it’s so hard for me to tell anyone anything. They’re stuck on gossip and rumors. The Talmud is gossip. Catholicism is built on gossip. Much of what Protestant churches teach is gossip.

To understand what God has told me, you also have to hear from God. He has to make it resonate in your heart. If you’re not baptized with the Spirit and praying in tongues, you will receive little if anything.

So, back to today’s revelation. I was thinking of Douglas Adams. I consider him the smartest humorist among ones I’ve read. Smarter than Rabelais, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Twain, Heller…any of them. His jokes weren’t always the funniest, but they were brilliant. He came up with the Infinite Improbability Drive, for example.

He wrote a series of books about Arthur Dent, an earthling who was rescued from Earth immediately prior to its demolition. The first book was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the last was Mostly Harmless.

The first book begins with Arthur Dent lying in front of a bulldozer which is about to destroy his house in England. It’s about to be destroyed so a road can be built. He was surprised to see the bulldozers because the publication of the news was essentially hidden by uncaring bureaucrats.

His friend Ford Prefect, who is actually an alien, convinces Arthur to get up and go to a pub with him. He tells him the world is about to be destroyed by Vogons, an alien race that handles the galaxy’s bureaucratic affairs. They’re destroying the world because they want to build the equivalent of a highway in space.

The reason for the pub visit is to get beer and peanuts. These things supposedly helped people who used alien technology to hitch rides on spaceships. Ford helps Arthur get aboard the Vogon ship.

Arthur has no idea how to get by in space, so Ford gives him an electronic book which is essentially a tablet. The title is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Ford and the book get him through. In the end, Arthur learns about the meaning and origin of the universe.

I’ve only read the first three books.

Thinking about Arthur Dent made me think about The Book of Eli.

The Book of Eli is a ridiculous Denzel Washington movie which was clearly inspired by the Holy Spirit. It’s all metaphors. Humanity has a nuclear war. The people who survive live in poverty. No food grows. There is almost no drinking water anywhere. Anyone who has it can tell others what to do. Somehow, no one seems to have a Bible.

You can see how ridiculous it is already. Stored food would disappear in a hurry if we couldn’t grow things, and there is no reason to think nuclear war would cause a global drought. Nuclear war would not destroy all the Bibles in the world.

If you keep reading, I’ll spoil the movie for you. Denzel, a former KMart worker, has a Bible. His mission is to preserve it. He hears God telling him things. By listening to God, he makes his way across the country safely. He fights and kills all sorts of people who try to harm him. His fighting abilities are amazing. He wins effortlessly and with no doubt he will prevail.

He ends up in a battle with Gary Oldman’s character, Carnegie, who runs a crummy little town and owns a water supply he keeps hidden. Carnegie finds out Eli has a Bible, and he tries to take it because he believes the Bible can be used to control people.

Carnegie and Eli get shot, Eli escapes, and Carnegie gets the Bible. Eli keeps going to the West Coast, where he dictates the entire Bible to a publisher who is preserving old books for the human race. Eli has memorized the Bible. Carnegie opens the Bible he stole and finds out it’s in Braille. Eli is blind. No one knew this because Eli behaved and moved like a person with perfect vision. God guided him.

To a Spirit-filled Christian, it’s obvious God helped write the movie.

Eli is what a Christian should be, sort of. He knows God personally. He hears from him all day, every day. God guides him and protects him. God provides his mission and defeats his enemies.

We are supposed to walk by faith, not by sight. Eli’s blindness is a reference to this.

Carnegie is a picture of powerful, greedy preachers who use the Bible to control people and who use their stooges to persecute those who know God. I have dealt with preachers’ stooges a lot.

Carnegie’s inability to read the Bible is a reference to the blindness of people who aren’t baptized with the Holy Spirit. Like the Ethiopian eunuch, they can’t see what’s in front of them until God explains it. The word is in front of Carnegie, but he can’t understand it.

Eli’s memorization of the Bible is a reference to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We are supposed to rely primarily on the Holy Spirit, not the Bible. The Bible can be taken from us. It can be twisted so we misunderstand it. The Holy Spirit can’t be taken away or misrepresented.

Eli’s physical blindness is a minor inconvenience. Carnegie’s spiritual blindness is what destroys him.

I was thinking about these things, and then I thought about Arthur Dent and myself.

I’m sure God told me to make beer. I am pretty sure the purpose is to celebrate the rapture. Beer is a celebration beverage. Like wine. I’m sure God is coming for us soon, and we will be removed from this world. I also know the world will be destroyed after I leave, assuming I’m taken with the ones God favors.

I don’t have Ford Prefect or the electronic book. I do have a different extraterrestrial helper and a different book. I have the Holy Spirit and the Bible.

The Holy Spirit is, literally, an extraterrestrial. “Extraterrestrial” literally means, “not from Earth.”

“Ford” means a submerged bridge, and “prefect” means a type of priest. A bridge allows you to cross water to another place. The word says there are waters in the heavens between us and God. In the Bible, going through water appears several times as a picture of moving toward God.

When I’m taken, many of my questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe will be answered, but the answers I get will be real answers, not silly answers like the ones Arthur Dent got.

The parallels are striking.

I think The Hitchhiker’s Guide was inspired by God. Douglas Adams was an angry atheist, and the man who wrote The Book of Eli is also an atheist. Doesn’t matter. God can speak through atheists and pagans when he wants.

You really need to speak in tongues, ask for correction, and ask for help to spend time with God. If you do these things, everything else should take care of itself.

I am Ready to Go

I keep learning more stuff about beer and God.

Beer first.

Homebrewed beer is generally dispensed from 5-gallon kegs made for pop. Some maniacs use Sanke kegs. These are the big cylindrical kegs bars use, and they hold 15.5 gallons.

Because homebrewing is somewhat more popular than it used to be, some companies are making small kegs just for homebrewers. I have a couple of 5-gallon Torpedo-brand kegs as well as three 6-gallon Torpedos used only for fermenting. To ferment a 5-gallon batch, you should really use a keg that holds more than 5 gallons because yeast creates a temporary layer of foam on top of the beer, and it can be pretty thick.

How do small kegs work? Simple. There are two airtight and watertight fittings on top of a keg. Gas goes in one, and beer goes out the other. The one that releases beer is connected to a tube inside the keg, and this “dip tube” reaches the bottom. Gas pushes beer into the lower end of the tube, and it goes out through the fitting on top. The fittings are called “posts,” and the one beer goes through is called a liquid post.

There are some problems with the system. One is that every new beer has some yeast in it, and when you put it in a keg, the yeast will settle. Then you get a layer of yeast right under the dip tube, and when you draw a beer, you get bitter yeast along with it. Eventually, you will drink all the yeast, and then you get clear beer. Also, there are things you can do to make solids in the beer stick to the bottom of the keg.

At some point, a beer genius came up with the floating dip tube. This is a flexible silicone tube with a float at one end. The other end connects to the liquid post. The float has a little steel intake tube next to it, and you connect the silicone tube to it. The float stays high in the beer where there isn’t much yeast or hop debris, so you get fairly clear beer right from the start.

I found out about these things and bought a bunch at considerable expense. Then I learned they had a shortcoming.

Unless you adjust a floating dip tube just right, the intake may never reach the bottom of the keg. The tubing has some stiffness and permanent curvature, and it can push the float over to the side of the keg, which is not the deepest point. That means good beer is left behind when you change kegs. If it does reach the bottom of the keg, crud may clog it because it will hit the crud before dispensing the beer in the layer between the intake opening and the upper surface of the beer.

Some brilliant Vietnamese guy invented a solution: the Flotit. This is a weird float that pretty much assures your intake will get to the bottom of the beer at the best possible time. I have a couple of these things on the way.

While I wait, I’m fooling with my existing tubes. It turns out there are three things you can do to improve them.

1. Put a heavy stainless nut around your steel intake tube below the silicone tubing. This will help pull the tubing straight and discourage the intake from getting too high in relation to the float. It will help to avoid sucking gas at the surface and failing to reach the bottom.

2. When you install the silicone tube, make sure the bends in it move the float end toward the center of the bottom of the keg, where the last of the beer will end up.

3. Make sure your tubing is short enough so it doesn’t try to coil in the bottom of the keg. You want just enough to get the intake to the bottom reliably.

I’m doing all these things now when I put tubes in kegs. They may make it unnecessary for me to use Flotits, but other brewers think Flotits are great, so I want to try them.

The other day, I came to the end of my first keg of stout. This really broke my heart. My stout is incredible. Whenever I take a sip, I sit back and marvel at it.

I had a floating dip tube in the keg. When I opened the keg to see what was happening, I saw that the float was over on the side of the keg, too high to get at the remaining beer. The tubing was too long, and the bends in the tube were not oriented correctly.

I opened the keg thinking it was time to dump it, but there was a lot of stout in there. Precious, sweet, sweet stout. Stout I could not replace with inferior store stout. And my next keg of stout was not ready to drink.

Ordinarily, I don’t like opening kegs and fooling around with them when there is beer in them. It’s a great way to introduce bacteria and wild yeast, and these things cause infections that can ruin beer. Yesterday, however, I did not care about the risks. I needed that stout. I needed it, I tell you. And there wasn’t much left anyway. It wasn’t like I was risking 5 gallons.

I blasted everything I could with sanitizer and went in and fixed the tube. Later in the day, I got about two and a half pints of liquid joy out of the keg. My repair worked.

Not only did I rescue the beer; I rid it of excess carbonation. I had accidentally overcarbonated it, and I had been putting up with more foam than it really needed. Opening the keg and fiddling with the tubing reduced the beer’s carbonation so it poured beautifully.

My next batch of stout is ready to keg right now, so I’m hoping for better results than last time. Also, I used Crystal hops in this batch, and I’m excited about seeing how they work out.

Stout is the best beer. It just is. Other beers can be wonderful, but stout dispensed with beer gas is the beer of beers.

My problems with beer gas pressure continued until today. I think they’re done.

I dispense stout with 75/25 CO2/N3. For some reason, the gas and beer people have convinced the world you need a special tank and regulator for beer gas. Turns out it’s not true, but anyway, I have two nitro (slang for “beer gas”) tanks and a special regulator.

When I started brewing, I had the fatuous notion I would be able to save money by using my old equipment, including a CO2 regulator that got soaked in a beer flood a long time ago. I replaced the gauges on the CO2 regulator, and it worked, so I got cocky and tried to fix my nitro regulator.

The gauges had bent faces that prevented the needles from going as high as they should. Somehow, I convinced myself they had been bent in an accident, even though they were covered with plastic crystals. In reality, it seems pretty obvious the manufacturer made them that way on purpose, for reasons I can’t even guess at. Why would you not want to know if your pressure is over 30 psi?

I tried to unbend the faces, gave up, and installed new gauges which were a lot nicer. Oil-filled for one thing. I used PTFE tape on the brass threads so the gauges would screw in far enough to seal.

I also decided to use fancy new EVAbarrier tubing and a Kegland Duotight gas disconnect instead of my old tubing and disconnects. In the past, they had leaked. Or something had, anyhow.

After I got the system running, the gas dissipated quickly. There had to be a leak somewhere.

I didn’t know I had a problem at first because I was wrong about how much pressure a full tank should have. There is a fair amount of mythology in the beer world, and people often speak authoritatively and confidently when they are totally wrong. When I tried to find out what my starting pressure should be, I saw people talking about 850 psi, which is reasonable for CO2, not nitro. When I saw my pressure at around 790, I thought I was doing great when I had actually lost over half my gas.

In case anyone wants to know, I asked a guy at American Welding Gas while I was swapping tanks, and he said the real starting pressure is around 1800 psi. It will vary because tank sizes vary slightly, and gas is sold by the pound, not the cubic foot. The pressure will dip maybe 7% when you chill the gas, which will happen even if you put the tank outside your keezer. It’s not significant, so a chilled tank will not read something crazy like 850. It will still be somewhere near 1800.

I actually calculated the pressure drop, so 7% should be a reliable approximation.

I took my tank, regulator, and line and put them in the pool. That’s how frustrated I was. I had sprayed them in the past with a sanitizing solution that bubbles a little, and I hadn’t found problems, so I went nuclear. I found a leak on a Duotight connector between the regulator’s outlet valve and the line to the disconnect. I tightened it, and the bubbles stopped. I figured I was in the clear.

Of course, the pressure kept dropping. That tank is now at around 200 pounds.

I kept telling myself to set a spray bottle aside, fill it with Dawn and water to check leaks, and get the job done right. But when I went out, I would forget. I’d be at the store, ogling the Twinkies and rib eyes, and I’d forget all about my beer gas.

Today I decided to do it without a spray bottle. I put soapy water in a bowl and dribbled it on the gauge threads going into the regulator body. I couldn’t check these in the pool because I couldn’t immerse the regulator. I had great confidence on them, because I had installed the gauge threads with a lot of torque.

The thing about a gauge is that it has to face a certain way, so you don’t tighten it as much as humanly possible. You tighten it until it’s really tight and faces the right way. If you aren’t happy with the tightness, you have to go another 360°, and you may not be able to do it, so you compromise.

I had compromised, and bubbles started popping up where one of the gauges went in.

I have since wrenched the gauge in with extraordinary torque. Sure enough, I couldn’t get a full 360°. I guess I could use a breaker bar. It’s maybe 5° from where it should be. But there are no bubbles now.

Good enough. I was so desperate, I was looking at new regulators. A “Like New” from Amazon is $62, and and new ones run $100. I would have to buy it, remove the crummy outlet valve it comes with, install my new valve, redo the flimsy Duotight connector, and hope for the best. Now I should be able to install my second tank and have beer gas for the next year without a swap. It shows how important it is to seal draft systems. New gas runs $20, and I have to drive to get it.

Incidentally, I think PTFE tape is lame. Pipe dope seems to lubricate a lot better, and I think it seals better, too. I think people are afraid of it because it makes a mess.

The regulator seems to act funny when the pressure gets low. Not sure if that’s normal or not, but at least it should be leak-free until that problem has to be faced.

In other news, I bought a keg-washing device.

Cleaning a beer keg is not all that hard, but it’s not all that easy, either. You have to reach down through a narrow hole with a brush, and you have to keep turning the keg over to empty the suds out. Some of my kegs have holes so small they actually contact my skinny, non-working-out arm all the way around, so when I put my arm in there, it feels like I may not be able to get it out, and then I picture myself driving to the ER with a keg on my arm.

The other problem is that situations will develop that require you to clean several kegs in a couple of days, and that gets unpleasant.

The Kegland company, which seems to make every brewing product now, makes a crazy thing that washes kegs. It has a little pump. You hook it up to your posts, set the keg over a pipe that sticks up in the middle, add hot water and powdered brewery wash (like super Oxi-Clean), and turn it on. It cleans the whole thing while you drink beer.

I bought me one of these things. It arrives today. Good thing, too. I had to clean an empty stout keg yesterday. I have an empty ale keg to clean. I made two beers that have to be dumped due to mashing issues and spoiled hops. I also have a couple of new/used kegs I haven’t cleaned yet.

The product is called a Bucket Blaster, and it will clean anything you can fit over it.

Powdered brewery wash is made by more than one company. The best-known example is PBW, named for obvious reasons. People say Oxi-Clean does the same things but is harder to rinse off. Kegland, of course, makes a product called Meister Clean or something like that, it it is said to be the best. I made my own generic Oxi-Clean, and I’m wondering if adding TSP to it will make it better for beer tools.

As for things I’ve learned about God, I got a strange revelation the other day. It turns out you should refer to God as “my God,” not just “God.” I started doing this, and I felt supernatural energy rushing through me. When you say, “in the name of Jesus Christ,” you’re not getting everything you should. Say, “In the name of my God, Jesus Christ.”

I was freaked out by what happened, so I told my friend Mike over the phone. He felt energy when I said it. It made his hair stand up. That wasn’t me. All I did was say some words.

I believe when you call God “my God,” you assert your standing and authority. You identify yourself with God, so the things you say are backed with his authority and power. A Muslim witch can pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Remember what happened to the seven sons of Sceva? It’s different when you can say Jesus Christ is your God. Same thing applies to Yahweh and the Spirit of Holiness.

Try it. I’m not making it up.

For a long time, while leading Rhodah in prayer, I’ve asked God to help us to love the culture of heaven and hate the culture of hell, which is the dominant culture of Earth. The Kardashian/Cardi B/tattoo-sleeve/boutique weed dispensary/YOLO/Living-Your-Best-Life/dad-breastfeeds-me culture. This is a good prayer, but I didn’t realize how it would feel when God granted it.

These days, I keep telling God, “I hate this place,” referring to Earth. It shows how he granted my request. I look at the news and so on, and I feel so out of place, I can’t describe it. It’s like the feelings I have for Miami, the disgusting city I fled to move here. I really hate Miami. I hate it more every day. I don’t even like to drive south on I-75 to Orlando, because I see “Miami” on signs and know I’m getting closer to it. Miami is full of rude, shallow, malicious, trashy, racist people. So is Earth. No difference. Some areas are nicer, and some are worse, but this planet is a ghetto.

A long time ago, God gave me this sentence: “The whole world is a ghetto.” It’s true. It’s a place dominated by idiots. A place that will never improve. Ghettos never get better unless rich people buy them and move the existing population out. The world will never get better. We are swimming in astounding stupidity and evil right now, and as insane as people have become, they will be a lot worse in 2024.

He also told me the world is a death camp, and he once said the world was like my sister, who seems to me to be a narcissistic, malicious, entitled sociopath. Being around her is unbearable, and being stuck in this world feels pretty similar. You have to be set apart in order to stand it. There has to be substantial buffering.

The sad thing is that I’m right about these things. I questioned myself. I wondered if I was just spoiled, thinking about myself and my desire for a better world instead of thinking about my mission here. No; I’m right. Jesus hated this place, too. When the Bible says God loved the world, it doesn’t mean he wants to live here or that he doesn’t hate a lot of people.

The Bible says that if you love your life, you will lose it.

I enjoy life a great deal, but I still want out of this place. I can’t wait for the rapture. I don’t want to be here when normal Americans in Iowa are performing sex acts in supermarket checkout lines and Satan’s grinning face is all over billboards. I don’t want to be here to see the new Nuremberg laws enacted.

I live in a hard core Christian county, and sometimes I hear filthy rap music while I’m shopping. I mean in the same stores that sneak Christian music into the air during the winter. That’s how corrupted America is.

Two days back, I saw a colossal fool at the grocery wearing a shirt with big letters on the back, saying, “It’s Okay to Be a Slut.” And he was with his woman. I won’t call her his wife. That’s a huge assumption in this case. He was wearing his idiotic shirt in front of children who could read. In my Christian county. How can anyone be that much of a moron? And what, if anything, is going on in the head of the woman? Is she calling herself a slut? If so, she’s probably right.

There is nothing good about being a slut. Sluts go to hell, and they take others with them. They destroy families. They raise doomed children. They murder their own children inside their bodies. They cut themselves. They die single. They make life much harder for decent women. Sluts are evil. Do I actually have to explain this after thousands of years of human history have proven it?

I keep telling God I hate this world, and then I say, “You were right, you were right, you were right, you were right.” I am ready to be extracted from the LZ.

It’s funny, but the first miracle Jesus worked was creating wine for a wedding, and here we are, waiting to be taken away to his wedding.

There are some stupid apocryphal forgeries out there that claim Jesus worked miracles when he was a kid, but the miracle of the wine was first. A couple was marrying in Cana, and they ran out of wine. Jesus had servants fill 6 water pots with water, and he turned it into wine for the celebrants. At least 180 gallons.

The water pots were huge, and they were used to carry water for Jewish baptism. No one seems to understand the significance. Containers symbolize human beings. Jesus compared his doctrine to new wine, and when the disciples received the baptism with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, people accused them of being full of new wine.

There is astounding symmetry in the supernatural. Jesus started his ministry with a wedding, and he will end this age with a wedding.

And here I am, making beer to celebrate his return. Very odd.

I wish he would come tomorrow. I’m so tired of dealing with boneheads. People who are intelligent but deliberately boneheaded because they want to be their own gods.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the famous theologian the Nazis imprisoned and then murdered in order to prevent him from being rescued by the Russians, called this kind of boneheadedness “stupidity.” That’s a misnomer. A truly stupid person can’t determine the truth. Bonhoeffer was describing people who can see the truth right in front of them but refuse to admit it. He said it was a herd thing. We call it peer pressure.

I doubt he knew the Holy Ghost or understood that what he called stupidity was a delusion that comes from demons, ultimately caused by rejection of the Holy Ghost. This is what he was really describing. When the Holy Ghost, who is one with Yeshua, is cast aside, the spirit of antichrist comes in and rules. The spirit of antichrist rules through social pressure. The voice of the crowd. Democracy.

A crowd demanded Saul and rejected Yahweh. A crowd voted to murder Jesus. Crowds of Jews executed the prophets. A crowd turned on Yahweh, who had shown them great miracles, and worshiped a golden calf. Democracy is not a good thing. It came from a people who worshiped fallen spirits.

Many Jews believe in Jesus but refuse to admit it because they are terrified of ostracism, poverty, and even violence. They’re crippled by peer pressure. Jesus requires people to admit their faith before others, so hiding at home and believing in him privately may not save people from hell.

Hitler was elected legitimately. Think about that. People may say his victory was illegitimate because of intimidation, but he got 90% of the votes. The masses chose him. The crowd.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Hitler–an antichrist–was elected by Germans, because Germans are extremely confident in the abilities of man, and they have an oppressive culture that pushes people to be part of the herd. They think man has figured out how we should live, and anyone who threatens their social structure is a problem.

The ironic thing about Bonhoeffer is that he was not fully on God’s side. He was not really a man of God. He was actually harmful. He was a leftist, and he was no charismatic. He thought we should study God and figure him out with our little minds. This is pride, and pride is from Satan. Pride is where bad doctrine comes from.

To get back to the point, we are surrounded by people who know they’re wrong but go along with the herd every day, to the point of persecuting people then know are right. The stupid, by Bonhoeffer’s definition. If they were really stupid, they would have some hope, because no one could blame them. As it is, they condemn themselves.

People do stupid things, and instead of looking up to God, or even inward to their common sense, they look around to see if other people approve. How many “likes”? This is what guides them. Imbeciles leading imbeciles.

I dreamed about persecution last night. I dreamed I saw Jesus, walking around able and happy. Then I was taken back in time to see the Romans hurting him. They carved a big piece out of his leg and took it. There was blood all over him. The first Jesus I saw was the post-resurrection Jesus. The second was the Jesus democracy killed.

I also dreamed a crowd of ghetto people were furious at me. They wanted to hurt me, but they didn’t have the guts to attack. I took a huge knife and waved it at them and told them to knock it off. I was on a raised place, like a set of steps, and they were below me, assembled. I had no interest in harming them, but I didn’t want them harming me.

I relieved myself in a sink that belonged to them. It wasn’t malice. I just needed to go. Maybe that makes sense. People who are against God drink from the wrong source, and the Bible shows God likes to make Satan’s shrines public toilets and dumps.

I can’t imagine how happy Jesus is that he doesn’t live here any more. He must thank Yahweh every day.

I guess I’ve written enough. Can’t wait to get those kegs clean.

My little water pots.