You, too, Can be a Spud Stud

I feel like writing about something less serious than the apocalypse. I’m trying not to read the news or focus so much on the impending destruction of mankind. I can’t help picking a few things up. I have been informed that Joe Biden is now less popular than shingles, and the Chinese suddenly have the ability to nuke all our cities at will. I’m not trying hard enough.

Every man knows the most painful experience you can have is to tell a friend he was right about something. I am now faced with that chore. My friend Mike showed me the best way to fix baked potatoes.

Everyone knows you can nuke a potato and get an okay result which is fine for dining alone in front of the TV. Not that I do that. Every day. You can also do what I used to do. I rubbed russet potatoes with olive oil and salt and baked them on the rack at 425°. You can also omit the salt if you like a dry jacket. This method works great.

Mike tried to tell me he used the microwave and a toaster oven in his recipe. Horrors. But I tried it anyway, because it was quick, and it looked like a step up from the microwave alone.

It’s very simple. You poke a few holes in your potato’s skin to prevent explosions. Then nuke it until it’s done. For a relatively large potato, I go around 7 minutes in my somewhat-strong oven. You can use a thermometer to find out how long your oven needs. The common wisdom is that the internal temperature should be about 210°.

Once your potato is cooked, throw it in the oven at the highest temperature for 3-5 minutes. This will fix the skin. Best I can do here is 500°.

I figured I was in for a compromise potato, but the first one I fixed was excellent. The jacket wasn’t limp or soggy. It tasted like it had been baked. The inside of the potato had a wonderful flavor and fluffy texture.

I was very surprised, but you can’t argue with empirical results, so now this is my default method for baking potatoes. It’s not just fast. It’s the best method I know.

I called Mike and faced the humiliation of telling him he was right, but then he is a food genius. Without his pizza knowledge, I would not be the man I am today.

As long as I’m writing about food, I just found out about a neat, inexpensive rolling pin. You won’t believe it. It’s a piece of PVC pipe. I’ll post the video where I learned about it.

My wooden rolling pin cracked because I put it in the dishwasher. I have a low tolerance for things that can’t take machine washing, so I didn’t care. I currently use a bizarre pin with a Teflon surface, and I have to wash it by hand because it’s all I have left and I don’t want to ruin it.

Today I went to Tigerchef.com to order something I needed, and in order to make the UPS charge more productive, I added a few other things. I started looking for a rolling pin, and then I decided to research. I saw the video, and I decided to try the pipe before buying anything.

I’m going to get some pipe and make two pins: a long one and a short one. I’ll use the lathe to smooth off the ends. We’ll see if they work. I don’t think PVC can take dishwasher temperatures, but I can find out by putting a scrap piece in the top rack. I may prefer hand-washing for the big pin anyway, because I don’t think the dishwasher can get the inside of a long pipe clean.

Maybe the potato method will be useful to you. I would suggest not criticizing until you try it.

Listening for the Wrong Trump

This morning I woke up and turned Youtube on to see if there were any new videos from ministries I like. I didn’t see any. What I did see was a video from the 700 club, in which Paula White, the rich money-gospel preacher who got caught vacationing in Rome with Benny Hinn, pimped her new book.

It was disappointing to see the 700 Club associate itself with White, but it’s not the greatest ministry on Earth. You can’t expect too much. They do a lot of good work, but they also slip. The other day they showed Pat Robertson saying the Bible wasn’t perfect.

I started looking through my subscribed channels for updates, and I found myself unsubscribing to one after another. I just found myself doing it. It wasn’t planned. I got rid of a lot of junk. I believe I dumped all my news channels, except for one about natural disasters.

After watching a little bit of the Paula White video, I went around looking at videos of other people who help destroy the church. I left some extremely harsh, honest comments on videos featuring Kat Kerr, Ralph Messer, and Johnny Enlow. I’ve blogged about them before.

Messer is a fake rabbi. He’s also a fake Jew. He’s a gentile who underwent a dubious conversion process and then started promoting himself as a Jew who spoke for Jews and Israel.

A Christian accused him of offering him Hebrew lessons and refusing to provide them. Supposedly, Messer tried to discourage him later, and when Messer was challenged to read the language, he was only able to get through a few words, sounding the letters out like a kindergarten student.

Messer wrapped megachurch preacher Eddie Long in a torah scroll and claimed God had made Long a king. Long allowed a bunch of deluded people to lift him on their shoulders and carry him around. He got criticized so much, he eventually apologized. Then he was accused of multiple homosexual predations, and not long after, he became emaciated and died, causing people to assume he had had AIDS.

Messer also used a torah scroll to wrap White, claiming it gave her God’s protection. It didn’t protect her from having her involvement with Hinn exposed.

Sadly, President Trump let White advise her, along with some other wolves. I have speculated that Trump’s involvement with Satanic preachers helped cost him the election. The money preachers love to say they can make anyone successful, but in reality, the prosperity gospel curses you financially and at work. Looks like it even works on billionaires.

Messer has founded what some call a cult, and he has a Youtube channel where he turns off comments. Like a cockroach, he runs from light. He can’t turn off comments on other channels where he appears, however. It doesn’t look like his ministry is doing well. His videos tend to cluster below two thousand views, and some are in the hundreds.

Kerr is amazing. She’s an elderly woman who has dyed her hair bright pink. She claims she has been to heaven a number of times. She speaks in an ordinary voice until she starts prophesying, and then she bellows in a very imperious way, as though anyone who dares to doubt her is about to get a good smiting.

Didn’t Paul say women should be silent in church? Does a woman who thinks Donald Trump is president know more than Paul did?

She said Trump would win. Then he lost, and she said he would be reinstated. As far as I know, she is still pushing this insanity, and the amazing thing is that people are crawling to Youtube to lick her shoes and tell her how wonderful she is.

Enlow is another failed Trump prophet, and my understanding is that he is still highly critical of people who don’t believe Trump will be reinstated. He says Trump will be back in 2021, which only has two months to run. He pushes the Seven Mountains Mandate, which, unlike the Bible, holds that Christians will take over the world and fix it. Now, not after the tribulation.

It’s a little strange that Enlow pushes a doctrine named for seven mountains, when the Revelation says the Great Whore who will be punished is a city that sits on seven mountains.

To show how crazy Enlow has gone, assuming he’s not just making things up for fun, he has said he saw a vision of Trump on a throne in heaven, with a crown and scepter of gold. I thought Trump was a great president, but I don’t think God made a golden throne in heaven for a casino owner and persistent adulterer.

Enlow has said, “The Lord said, ‘Your nation will be known as before Trump and after Trump, the whole world will be known as before Trump, after Trump.'”

We are definitely A.T. now.

Enlow says God gives us a “Trump test.” It appears to work like this: if you support Trump and believe he won the election, God will bless you above other people, but if you don’t, you will “come under the judgment.”

I’ll provide a quotation.

If you go against God’s person that he’s using, his instrument, even if you think you have 100 percent devotion to God, it’s going to cost you.

More:

This is a line in the sand, this “Trump Test,” it’s been clearer than ever . . . and who’s being advanced and blessed? Ministries that are advancing in blessing and who I see in increased anointing and who are seeing more–they’re seeing more favor, they’re seeing more revelatory–are people who didn’t back off Trump.

Enlow says it’s not enough to devote yourself completely to Christ. He says God also requires you to back Trump.

So, to sum up, Trump sits in heaven with a golden crown and scepter, he won the election, he is going to be reinstated within the next 60 or so days, and if you don’t agree, God is going to punish you.

New Year’s Day is approaching fast, and Biden or Harris will be in the Oval Office. Johnny Enlow’s fans will have no problem with that, because something blinds them to reality.

People like to say that anyone who opposes God’s anointed will suffer, so I make a point of opposing frauds like this openly and repeatedly. God never anointed anyone to lie about presidential elections. Prophecy is God himself, speaking. The Bible says God is not a man, that he should lie.

I believe God blesses me for criticizing people like this. I don’t fear lightning bolts out of the blue because I said Kenneth Copeland or Joyce Meyer were wrong. I believe a person who honors a false prophet gets a false prophet’s reward. In the Bible, people who confronted false prophets pleased God.

How are we supposed to get to know God when we have to fight other purported Christians as well as our flesh, unbelievers, and evil spirits?

Jesus said a house divided against itself would not stand. We always assume he was talking about Satan’s house, and I’m sure he was, but the same thing is happening to the church. Which is also Satan’s house most of the time, now that I think about it. Christians are supposed to be unified by the Holy Spirit, but very few of us listen to him, so most of us are out of order, fighting each other and ourselves for the enemy.

Preachers are the very best soldiers Satan has. No one else comes close. They drive people away from God. They lead them into snares. They make them hate church. They steal their money. They even rape their children, and I don’t just mean Catholics. Protestants do it, too.

Right now, as I sit typing this, many, many preachers in America are teaching people Hinduism and African spirit worship. Yoga and meditation are Hindu practices, and the saints Catholics worship represent the Yoruba spirits that were worshiped in Egypt, Greece, and Rome under different names.

Ya just has to worship the fallen angel. Ya doesn’t have ta call him Ray.

Preachers are telling people Christianity is just a philosophy. They’re saying heaven and hell aren’t real. They’re denying the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. They’re saying God is in favor of sodomy.

They’re encouraging people to celebrate Halloween, which is Satanism’s biggest holiday. Only ignorant or stubborn Christians involve themselves with Halloween. It brings curses on them and their children. Why not celebrate Beltane while you’re at it?

No wonder the age of the church is ending. I don’t think we could have stood much more of it.

It’s amazing how deluded Christians are. The unhinged riot troops and wokiees of the left are clearly insane, but we seem not to notice the craziness in the church and on the right.

My friend Mike met a new lady, and yesterday they met. He sent me a photo. She was wearing a black top with the word “BOO!” on it. That’s going nowhere.

I am finally starting to have what I think is a helpful level of fear of God. I prayed for it for years. I couldn’t generate it on my own. It’s finally here. It helps me stay out of the minefields. At the same time, I find myself disengaging more and more from the world. I was surprised when I found myself dropping Youtube channels, but it felt very good.

I woke up in the middle of the night and started criticizing myself to God. I brought up some of the horrible deeds, words, and thoughts I wish I could cut out of my past with a scalpel. I can be forgiven, but I can never make them not have happened.

I thought about how evil I am and how evil the world is. As I so often do, I asked him to give me and my wife whatever we have to be given, and to remove whatever has to be taken away, in order to clean us up and prepare us for the rapture or death.

People say the world has seemed like it was ending before, and they think I’m wrong when I opine that the tribulation is close, but I can’t swallow what they say. We are in an unsustainable situation. Knowledge is giving us power we will never be able to control. On top of that, the three evil horsemen of Revelation 6 appear to be loose, globally. Has that ever happened before?

We are much more evil than we understand, and so is this world. If a person could see a thousandth of a percent of the horrors that are taking place right this second, he would probably be unable to do anything but lie in the fetal position with his hands over his eyes. We are complacent and numb, so we don’t perceive evil very well.

The surface of this planet isn’t hell, but it is a place of unimaginably great agony, humiliation, malice, and hopelessness. The fact that you’re feeling okay in your warm house right now doesn’t change that.

We are used to being used to evil, so now that human evil has been magnified greatly, we have grown more calluses to keep us from feeling bad about it. Many of us still have our coffee and slippers, we’re not in the hospital or prison, and we’re not broke, so life seems good. Meanwhile, the pillars that hold up the world have been eaten most of the way through.

I keep saying the rapture isn’t just a moment; it’s a process. If you’re still defending yourself and doing as you please, you won’t be ready when the moment comes. The people who are taken will have been preparing. They will already have been raptured away from toxic jobs, infectious people, and corrupting activities. The really blessed ones will have been removed from ungodly areas. God isn’t going to come to a Halloween party and rapture you out of your Slutty Witch costume just because you watch Joel Osteen.

Christianity is like coronavirus. The Middle East had it and recovered. Turkey was a hotspot, and it overcame the infection. Europe had it, spread it, and recovered. America had it for a while, and she is getting over it. Now parts of Africa have it. If the Lord waits, they’ll get over it, too. Jesus has to put in the sickle before everyone gets over it.

You Can’t Buy Charm Like This

My golden touch has worked again. I got myself banned from another gun forum.

My first ban was over at Rimfire Central. They banned me for spamming. Having no product or service to offer anyone, I did not spam, but when I contacted the poobahs to point out the mistake, they didn’t reply. I could have done the customary thing. I could have made up another name and registered from a new email address. I didn’t bother.

My second ban took place at The High Road, where I had the gall to suggest that Massad Ayoob, a gun writer and part-time small-town cop with zero legal education was wrong to run around giving the masses dangerous legal advice. Ayoob tells shooters to talk to the police and try to convince them they’re innocent. Unbelievably stupid suggestion. Infinite wrongness.

On that forum, Ayoob calls himself “Kleanbore,” which is a trademark that was used by Remington on ammunition boxes. There are a lot of ammunition-related words I would have picked before that one, but anyway, that’s his handle. If you want some legal advice that can put you on the end of an executioner’s needle, you can Google his posts.

Ayoob and the forum silverbacks are buds, so even though what I said was correct and had the potential to keep people out of prison, I got the boot. I had failed to kowtow to their pal. Ayoob has continued to post Youtube videos encouraging people to do exactly what law schools and nearly all defense attorneys beg clients NOT to do. I have to wonder if any of his fans have been imprisoned yet.

They won’t go to prison over anything that happened in high-school-sized Grantham, New Hampshire, where Ayoob probably spent his time writing parking tickets or manning a speed trap. No one ever gets shot there.

Now I’ve been booted from another forum for talking down to other members. Perhaps I am guilty.

I was writing about the Alec Baldwin killing, and some person who is not a lawyer was writing very irrational things. He was arguing with me, among others, and I was trying to be gentle. He eventually called other members of the forum, which would presumably include me, bigoted, hateful zealots. He said we posted “bigoted, hateful, zealot opinions” because we said we thought Baldwin was negligent. That’s when I told him his legal opinions were worthless and misguided, which was factually correct, if blunt. I also said I had graduated from law school, cum laude. That may be what got me in trouble.

Gun forums don’t attract a lot of educated people. I don’t know why that is, but if you go to a random gun forum, wade into a discussion, and say you’re a lawyer, you can pretty much count on not having any other lawyers join in. I know of one lawyer at The High Road, but cursory Googling suggests he’s a low-level attorney who handles disputes for insurance companies. I don’t see him getting tapped for the Supreme Court any time soon.

My dad, who was a truly superb lawyer, told me that insurance companies don’t hire the worst, and they don’t hire the best. They spend what they think is enough money to get people who are capable of giving them an acceptable return on investment. They settle a lot, so they don’t seem interested in hiring actual litigators who can win trials.

It may be that I offended people when I pointed out that I was educated. That wasn’t my plan. I was trying to make this guy understand that I was not talking out of my hat when I suggested I knew more than he did or that he was saying silly things.

Most people don’t argue with doctors, and they wouldn’t try to tell an engineer how to design a truss, but everyone feels entitled to offer ridiculous legal opinions. It’s amazing.

If I were going to brag about something, it wouldn’t be graduating cum laude from law school. I think it means you broke a 3.0, in a field that attracts people who can’t make it as pre-meds. Getting a law school B is like getting an A in an undergraduate course, but then getting an A in a typical undergraduate course is nothing to crow about.

As I’ve often said, I’m embarrassed that I had to go to law school, because I did it after failing to get a Ph.D. in physics. I got burned out and had to quit. Then I graduated cum laude instead of magna or summa. Admittedly, I spent very little time working, but still. I did not clothe myself with glory. I did a little bit better than okay in my last-resort career field.

I remember when I found out I got cum laude. I was on the phone with a friend, and he congratulated me. I had no idea what he was talking about.

On the forum, I also aired a general grievance about the unpleasantness of being a lawyer and engaging in discussions with people who are not lawyers. It’s stomach-churning. I probably should have kept that to myself. It may have looked like I was belittling everyone else on the forum.

In my defense, I have to say that if a doctor told me it was frustrating to argue with non-doctors, I would not be offended at all. I would understand. It must send a lot of doctors looking for Maalox. If I said stupid things to him about medical conditions or treatments, and he contradicted me and told me why I was wrong, I would not insult him. I have been in that position. If he said my erroneous medical opinions were worthless and misguided, after I had said something nasty about him for disagreeing with me, no fair person would fault him.

The funny thing is that I got banned right after I quit the forum. As I have said here, I am tired of reading the news because it sucks the joy out of me and makes me mad, and I was also tired of responding to astonishingly wrong opinions about manslaughter. I decided not to go back to the forum. Then I went back.

My grandfather had a Browning Hi-Power pistol. I inherited precisely zero of his many nice guns from his estate, and many were never accounted for. I have my suspicions, but my solution to the problem has been to forgive and go out and buy much better versions of the guns my grandfather had, and to shoot them much better, with much more knowledge, than anyone in the family. When I decided to get a Hi-Power, I learned that FN had stopped making them about half an hour earlier. They were no longer in gun stores, and people were asking way too much for guns they had managed to buy at the last minute.

Five days ago, without my knowledge, Springfield Armory released a new version of the Hi-Power. It’s called the SA-35. It’s far better than the old gun, and the price is great. Because I didn’t learn about it until today, of course, every single SA-35 on planet Earth has been bought, and people are trying to sell this $700 gun on Gunbroker for $1400. I can’t predict the future, but I’ll bet I won’t be able to get one for less than a grand, ever, and since I won’t be gouged, that would mean no SA-35 for me, period.

More or less the same thing happened to me, twice. Maybe next month I’ll find out FN is making Hi-Powers again, two days after gun stores run dry.

I felt an urge to visit the forum to see if anyone had written about the SA-35. That’s when I saw I had been banned.

I think this was the first time I actually felt bad about being banned. I could have been more polite, and I liked some of the members. On the other hand, I felt like God was helping me do what I had already decided to do.

I sent the forum police a note saying there were no hard feelings and that they should keep up the good work, meaning they should continue supporting our Second Amendment rights. I don’t expect a response. People who run forums tend to hide behind their keyboards.

It’s good that I’m no longer going over there to provoke myself, but it’s also good to be isolated from that crowd. There had been a number of posts about going to war with the left, and they didn’t seem to get much in the way of negative feedback. I don’t belong to the militia crowd. I think they’re extremely deluded, and they may boil over and cause a civil war that will fail to liberate the country while wasting a lot of blood.

There were also occasional posts that seemed racist, and they didn’t seem to get much opposition. The other day, a woman shot up her neighborhood driving off two or three black thieves, and one of the forum members who saw the video said something about a thief tripping over his lips. There is no plausible non-racist reason for making a crack like that.

I’m not exposing anyone by mentioning these things, because the contents of the forum are already available to everyone. You don’t have to be a member to read.

Maybe I should have quit the first time I saw an unsavory remark go unchallenged, but in this world, you will often find yourself in a large group of people that contains a few bad apples without being so corrupt you find it necessary to leave. If you maintain a zero-tolerance policy, you may end up more socially isolated than you really ought to be.

I went to church with black racists and anti-Semites, and I didn’t let them get to me. I was patient and gave them slack because I knew the social pressures they faced. I worked for a boss who was prejudiced against everyone, including people like me who were born in Kentucky, but I didn’t quit. I worked in a bar where the employees were unquestionably racists, but I needed the work. When I was in high school, some of my wealthy Jewish friends used the N-word without shame. One of my best Cuban friends in Miami sometimes made racist remarks after a few beers, and I took a long time to withdraw from him. Everyone who lives in Miami knows you can’t socialize with Cubans without hearing things like that sometimes. Life is full of social judgment calls.

The weird thing is that I had just gone back to the forum after seven months away. I had left because some people were annoying and others were saying the types of objectionable things I mention above. I had been back for two weeks when I quit and got ejected simultaneously.

I went back because I wanted advice on a potential gun purchase, and I thought the forum was the best source available without joining another forum and complicating my life. I thought I wouldn’t involve myself beyond hit-and-run posts about firearms. Then I saw posts that interested me, and I fell off the wagon.

I should have stuck to my plan. I should have ducked in and out, getting useful information without letting anything unpleasant stick to me. I may have offended some very nice people. I will never know, because the guy who bans people removed me before I could find anything out.

I think the Internet may be a prediction device. If you read blogs, Internet comments, forums, and so on, you can probably see how Americans will treat each other face to face in a few years, when they get brave enough. I’m not sure. In any case, it’s best to try not to get pulled along with the crowd. Anger and unforgiveness send people to hell, so I keep trying to limit what I expose myself to.

As for the Hi-Power or SA-35, I am not crazy enough about it to pay the cost, and I don’t have any practical use for it. They’re too big to carry, they hold fewer rounds than modern full-size guns, they weigh a lot, their triggers are not great, they have delicate finishes, and to me, the only purpose a Hi-Power serves is fun. If I could get one for anything close to MSRP, I would buy it, but that’s impossible, so I’ll let it go.

Deliverance is Nearer Than I Thought

It’s time for me to cut back on looking at the news again. I keep seeing startling indications that the world is ending, and it adversely affects my motivation. It gives me the feeling that there is no point in doing much, because there is no future for me here.

I call it “depression by proxy.” In ordinary depression, you condemn yourself and tell yourself you’re doomed to endless suffering and failure. It worries you, destroys your motivation, and can make you want to kill yourself. This is not what’s happening to me.

In depression by proxy involving the self-destruction of others, you feel that other people are doomed. You don’t see much point in interacting with them or participating in their world, because whatever you do that involves them will be destroyed along with them.

I don’t believe I can have kids and watch them grow to adulthood. I don’t think I can start a business or write more books. I don’t believe America is going to get better and that people will start to get along again. I believe hate and sin will increase faster and faster, shortages will make people all over the globe completely miserable, violence and disease will take over the world, and Christians and Jews will be tormented and murdered en masse, along with various other groups. I believe totalitarianism is a few months or years away. We’re already feeling the sharp end of the nail.

Unlike a person who has ordinary depression, I don’t feel bad about my prospects. I think my future and that of my wife are extremely bright. I don’t expect us to suffer much, and I’m enjoying life. The problem is that I feel we’re in a holding pattern in a place where there isn’t much for us to do.

It seems that the earth is washed up, but heaven isn’t ready to take us yet, so I spend my time trying to get closer to God and amusing myself with trivial pursuits.

Reading the news makes me feel there is no point in mowing my yard, watching my weight, maximizing my wealth, and so on. I keep feeling we won’t be here much longer. I can’t imagine living another 30 years in an America even filthier and more hostile than the degraded nation I see around me today. What’s happening seems unsustainable. There is too much positive negative feedback for us to achieve escape velocity later on.

The latest journalistic gem is a story about Hazard, Kentucky. Hazard is right up the road from the town where my dad was raised. It’s in coal country, in Eastern Kentucky.

Coal country is a white rural ghetto. As liberal writer Harry Caudill was heard to say, everyone who had any get up and go got up and went. People who were more or less on top of things fled the area a long time ago, leaving an abnormally high concentration of people with trashy values.

My dad’s dad, who died before I was born, was supposedly very intelligent, but he was not able to get a college education. He took a bookkeeping course and became a bookkeeper for the Elkhorn Coal Company at its Kona camp, and he went on to become a county clerk and sheriff. His wife was a cold, vacuous person who didn’t amount to anything or form attachments. He had three children.

My eldest aunt got a master’s degree, married a radiation embryologist, and moved to Tennessee, where the state university employed him as a professor. She became a highly respected, very industrious teacher. Her younger sister got a math degree, married a NASA engineer, and moved to Huntsville. My dad got a law degree, excelled to the point where he had no place in primitive Kentucky courtrooms, and moved to Tampa, where he became head of the litigation department of a large firm while in his early thirties.

They got up and went, as Caudill put it. He said the coal country had suffered a brain drain, and my family shows how it worked. When the capable people leave an area, the atmosphere changes for the worse.

A typical person living in Eastern Kentucky would likely be incensed to read what I’m writing, but it’s completely true. I don’t think I should let concerns about people’s irrational, counterproductive responses turn me into an enabler. If I tell the truth, and you can’t handle it, it’s 100% your fault. Eastern Kentucky needs tough love, not mindless pride and approval.

My relatives almost never talk to me now, and I never hear from anyone else up there. I’m pretty sure only one relative knows I’m married. I don’t expect to visit Kentucky again unless someone dies. If I make someone in Kentucky mad, it will have no impact on my life.

I miss my family, but when you become a Christian, people abandon you. On the up side, I’m much closer to one cousin than I used to be. I baptized her here in my pool.

Hazard has a high school. The high school had an event. Girls showed up wearing Hooters uniforms, and boys dressed in women’s underwear and gave lap dances to male staffers on the basketball court. One of the male staffers was principle Donald “Happy” Mobelini, perhaps nicknamed for Happy Chandler, a famous Kentucky governor (whose real name was Albert). Students and staffers also paddled each other. The name of the event is the Man Pageant, and while this year’s version was more extreme than usual, it is a tradition at the school.

Let’s not forget that “Hooters” means “breasts,” or that the Hooters logo, which the girls wore on their minor chests, is supposed to look like breasts.

So, what did Hazard High celebrate? Lewdness, homosexuality, fornication, statutory rape, abandonment of professional ethics, and sado-masochism. On the basketball court. In front of cameras.

What are we seeing here? Fatherlessness in action. No real father would allow his children to attend this event, let alone participate. God, the primary father, is not very popular among coal country people, unless unsupported lip service counts, so it’s not surprise that Perry County dads are failing so badly. The fatherless make bad fathers.

In the past, rural towns were resistant to the propagation of sexual perversion. Many were full of fornication and adultery, but young homosexuals tended to get out and move to cities so they could get more sexual action and find acceptance. Knowing Eastern Kentucky as I do, I am amazed that Kentucky boys and men would put on a show featuring boys in women’s underwear, simulating or performing sexual services for men. Is it like this all over rural America? If so, then Satan has made a huge advance and broken through an important level of resistance.

Not long ago, a country musician made a music video with a gay black rapper. I think the deranged motive was to suggest that country musicians weren’t really racists. Just guessing. The obvious point that needs to be made is that you can build bridges between races without endorsing perversion. You don’t have to choose one of the gay world’s leading evangelists. You could choose CeCe Winans.

The rapper has made a video in which he dies, goes to hell, and gives Satan a lap dance, bending over in front of him with his buttocks spread.

Is there a connection between this rapper’s acceptance by country music fans and what happened in Hazard? If so, he’s more effective than I thought.

Are men and boys doing things like this all over the rural South, or is it just places like Hazard that were already morally backward? Are male high school students in Georgia and Tennessee dancing in drag?

To me, it suggests the apocalypse is unfolding even more quickly than I thought. It’s like seeing Trump rallies break out in Berkeley. A possible sea change.

I felt very sad when I read about Hazard. I felt tears rising. Seeing the photos of these kids was like looking at the scene of an accident where a number of people had died. I felt separation.

Society is being centrifuged to separate one component from another. God’s children are being lifted away from the children of darkness, and we can’t do very much about it. Sin is now combined with pride, and pride is sin’s armor. The perpetrators of the Hazard spectacle seemed like dead people to me, because my impression was that they would never be willing to listen to the truth and be saved.

To get back to the point, I think it’s time to cut back, once again, on my consumption of news. It doesn’t seem to be doing anything good for me. God once told me to stop reading the news, and I felt better when I complied. I will pray and see if he wants me to do it again.

A person who claimed to have visited heaven said people there were not able to see what was happening on Earth. Supposedly, they had some general information about world events, but that was it. I hope that’s true. Fox and CNN would ruin heaven for me.

Lesbians Lose the Right to Choose

I read a very disturbing story last night on a BBC site. Men who think they’re women are now exerting tremendous pressure on actual women to have sex with them, and rapes have been reported. That’s not all that shocking. What’s shocking is that many leftist women are on the side of the men.

The subject is upsetting and gross. I don’t know if sensitive people should read what I’m writing.

You would think men who try to become women would then want to have sex with men. You would expect them to be male homosexuals. It looks like that is often not the case. I don’t know what the majority of them want, but many expect women to desire them and fornicate with them, and they are targeting lesbians.

It’s a remarkable thing; men who haven’t had their penises removed are pressuring actual women to fornicate with them, based on their new imaginary status as women. Many leftists are backing them up, saying “genital preference” is bigotry. If a lesbian wants a woman without male organs, she’s a threat to emerging standards of gender and sexual behavior.

It gets worse. So many shemales are striking out with lesbians a new term has been coined. It’s sickening. The term is “cotton ceiling.”

We all know about the glass ceiling. Some women in the workforce say they can only rise so high. Once they get to a certain point, they say, they can see higher positions from where they are, but they can’t break through and reach them.

The cotton ceiling works the same way, except “cotton” refers to women’s underwear, and shemales are the ones who want to break through.

Could anything be more dehumanizing or disgusting? They make it sound like there are herds of resentful, entitled shemales out there, looking forward to a day when women will have to give them what they want.

Let’s think about women’s complaints about normal men who want to fornicate. They say many men feel entitled. They say they are coercive and often frightening. Lesbians, in particular, complain a lot about heterosexual men who don’t like to take “no” for an answer. They are tired of men who say, “Try it; you’ll like it.”

Now women are saying the same things about people who also claim to be women, and other women, real and fake, are saying the women who are complaining don’t have the right to say no.

How did we get here? Every time our strange new world presents a new curveball, that’s the question I hear myself asking.

Aren’t leftists feminists? Aren’t feminists pumped up about boundaries and a woman’s right to rule her own body? What happened to all that?

Leftist women are literally telling other women they are required to date and have sex with people they find physically repulsive. Who needs patriarchy? The matriarchy is going places where patriarchy doesn’t dare tread. The matriarchy is becoming the new rape culture.

You have to picture the scenarios that are taking place. Imagine a real woman, going on a guilt date with a man in a dress. The woman may weigh 110 pounds. The man may be six two and 220, muscular and fit because he works out and still has testicles, and he has the power and moral authority of woke on his side. Picture them alone in his apartment on a Friday night. How would you like to be her?

Then when sex occurs, through intimidation or plain old rape, other women side with the man.

These things are happening. It’s not a movie.

If I were single, no woman on Earth would say any other woman was obligated to “give me a chance.” No woman would say a lesbian was in the wrong for wanting nothing to do with my equipment. No woman would dream of telling another woman she was obligated to be attracted to me, date me, or fornicate with me. But put me in a dress, and all that changes?

Why?

Does every lesbian real woman also have to agree to date every other lesbian real woman? Do pretty lesbians have to have sex with fat, old, ugly lesbians? If not, why are shemales privileged?

If you want to see how insane leftist women have become, check out some quotations from the story I read.

I was told that homosexuality doesn’t exist and I owed it to my trans sisters to unlearn my ‘genital confusion’ so I can enjoy letting them penetrate me.

“[They] threatened to out me as a terf and risk my job if I refused to sleep with [them] . . . I was too young to argue and had been brainwashed by queer theory so [they were] a ‘woman’ even if every fibre of my being was screaming throughout so I agreed to go home with [them]. [They] used physical force when I changed my mind upon seeing [their] penis and raped me.

“They” comes from the article. It refers to a man. A terf is a feminist who isn’t on board with the notion that men are women. My guess: the victim wrote “he,” and the BBC “corrected” her.

Lesbians are still extremely scared to speak because they think they won’t be believed, because the trans ideology is so silencing everywhere.

saying “lesbians don’t date trans women because they are literally lesbians, they’re attracted to women, not men” is transphobic

what is genital preferences if not a fancy way of saying ‘i am transphobic’

I’m sorry if you’re going to be mad at this but yes it is transphobic to have a genital preference no ifs or ands about it nothing you say can change that

I thought I would be called a transphobe or that it would be wrong of me to turn down a trans woman who wanted to exchange nude pictures . . . Young women feel pressured to sleep with trans women ‘to prove I am not a terf’.

It truly appears that a pathetic, rejected man who is obsessed with sex and unable to get it honestly can buy makeup and women’s clothes and start getting action. All it takes is the mindset of a rapist.

I’m not defending lesbianism. That’s another issue. I’m saying no one has the right to choose someone else’s sex partner. No woman should have to choose between rape and cancellation.

What if we truly are seeing the emergence of a left-wing canon that says you have no right to turn down sex with perverts? That would be interesting from a historical context, because it happened in Sodom, and Jesus said he would return in times that were like the days of Sodom.

In the story of Lot’s rescue, two angels went to Sodom to look around. A gang of entitled homosexual men gathered in the street and insisted Lot send the angels out so they could be gang-raped. That is what we call “entitlement” in 2021. Entitlement is rising all around us, exactly unlike the creeping, barely noticeable rise in the levels of our oceans. If fake men are entitled to sex with unwilling lesbians, who is to say homosexual men are not entitled to sex with unwilling normal men?

After all, leftists say a woman who insists on a lover with real female parts is evil, transphobic, and guilty of genital preference. Doesn’t that mean normal men who also insist on real female parts are evil and homophobic? If a lesbian who refuses to have sex with a shemale is in the wrong, what about a man who won’t allow himself to be sodomized?

Suddenly, insisting on choosing your own partner is AGGRESSION. If that’s true, then isn’t rape self-defense?

We know male-on-male gang rape will probably become popular, simply because of the prediction Jesus made. Until this week, I didn’t see a social pathway to gang-rape victory. Now the bread crumbs are laid out. A year from now, we may be hearing about the anal ceiling.

I can’t see God leaving his reasonably faithful servants on this planet when Sodom-style mass violation becomes common. I think there are some things he would not let us suffer, just as he didn’t allow Jesus to suffer sexual mistreatment. Kenneth Copeland claims Jesus was molested by Roman soldiers, but then Kenneth Copeland is a liar whose ego has consumed his brain.

I wish the rapture would come today. Human behavior has become surreal.

A lot of people are applauding Dave Chappelle for refusing to stop making trans jokes. They’re misguided. I admit, when I saw that Chappelle said he would not be “summoned” or bow to shemales, I felt like rooting for him, but here is the truth: Dave Chappelle is nuts. He has serious mental problems. Chappelle is the guy who quit a popular show without warning and went into a mental hospital because he was offended by a racist skit he himself wrote and starred in.

You can tell Chappelle is crazy by looking at what he wears. He used to dress like a normal human being. The other day, he appeared in a weird green jumpsuit with “CHAPPELLE” printed on the breast in big yellow letters. It reminded me of the idiotic caped suits Elvis Presley wore after he lost his mind, or the ludicrous leather outfits Eddie Murphy started wearing when his ego went nova. It reminded me of Benny Hinn’s insane superhero pastor costume, which is a bizarre custom-made suit with no lapels and a dove sewn into it. Chappelle has lost touch with reality.

When he talks now, Chappelle is still pretty funny, but there are frequent Senator Palpatine moments in which he turns dark and imperious. I don’t know what’s in his future. Maybe he’ll go full-throttle Howard Hughes and surround himself with burly Mormon sycophants who shoot him up with morphine and rough up everyone who tries to talk to him.

Dave Chappelle isn’t against perversion. He supports it. He’s just against being told what to say. We shouldn’t mistake narcissism and the loss of the ability to self-monitor for character or moral soundness.

Anyone with a grain of common sense ought to see something wrong with a self-proclaimed Muslim who smokes his weight in weed every month and supports homosexuality and efforts to change gender. Lots of Muslims love sodomy and pedophilia, but only behind closed doors. Their public stance is quite different.

Chappelle isn’t a hero. He’s just a self-destructive entertainer who likes having his own way.

Choose Carefully

I don’t know if any single men read this blog, because my readers seem to be old, and they are conservative, and conservatives believe in marriage. Between men and women. Actual men and women.

Anyway, I’ll throw this out: if you’re a single Christian man, you really need a Christian wife.

I don’t mean a Mormon or a woman from a gay-pastor church who practices astrology and does yoga. You need to be baptized with the Spirit of Holiness, you need to pray in tongues a lot every day, and you need to demand the same things of the person you marry, BEFORE you start dating. If not, you’re missionary-dating, you will almost certainly fail to convert your wife, the two of you will be weak because you will be trying to lift the couch while your wife is sitting on it, and your life together will have fewer blessings and more curses than necessary.

My wife surprises me all the time when we talk about God. I’ll mention something God is showing me, and she’ll respond with something 100% on-target, usually quoting chapter and verse, which is something I generally can’t do.

I’ll provide one example.

She asked me what I thought of John Hagee, the megachurch preacher. I said I thought his beliefs concerning prophecy came from intense study, which is carnal, not from impartation from the Holy Spirit. I also said he promoted a crazy belief. Hagee says every Jew will be saved.

Rhodah said that was impossible, and as proof, she cited the story (not parable) about the rich man and Lazarus the beggar. Both were dead. The rich man was burning in sheol, and Lazarus was with Abraham. The rich man called Abraham “father,” proving he was a Jew. Jesus himself told us a Jew was in hell.

This kind of interaction between husband and wife is so much better than having arguments about whether it’s okay to dress the kids up like devils and witches and send them out on Halloween. I could never have gone near a woman who would do a thing like that. It’s also better than having a “Christian” wife tell me it’s fine to be a Buddhist and a Christian, because she thinks Buddhism isn’t a religion. It’s better than having a feminist wife who hasn’t accepted the lesson of Genesis 3.

Incidentally, I suppose you could make an argument that the rich man could have been saved. It is commonly believed that after Jesus was crucified, he preached in hell and saved people who were there. That wouldn’t help Judas, though. He was a Jew, and Jesus said he would be lost. He called him the son of perdition. Judas was Jewish.

My friend Mike is dating, and he tells me about the “Christian” women he deals with. He just rejected an astrologist and a Buddhist. I’m using the term “astrologist” to mean “person who practices the religion of astrology.” I don’t know of a better term, so I’m making an executive decision.

The Buddhist tried to tell him Buddhism was only a philosophy. What ignorance. How can anyone adopt a religion or even a philosophy without making even a cursory effort to find out what its nature is?

Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism, which is very obviously a religion. Hinduism has false gods, and Hindus worship them. Buddhism has false gods, it says there are demons, and it says there are hells, in addition to reincarnation. It’s a religion.

I’m also glad my wife eats meat and has no patience with bullying leftists who push vegetarianism.

Vegetarianism comes from Satan, and I can explain why he created it. Judaism and Christianity, as well as pre-Jewish worship of Yahweh, require blood sacrifices. Jews and pre-Jews had to kill animals for God. They had no choice. Cain and Abel were required to sacrifice animals. Abraham sacrificed animals. Ancient Jews weren’t permitted to be vegetarians. God required them to eat lamb once a year, and they also had to do something with the gigantic number of animals that were roasted at the temple.

Jesus had to be killed in order for human beings to be saved from hell. The Bible calls him “the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world.” It calls him our passover. Jesus told us we had to eat his flesh and drink his blood. The passover lamb was given to the Jews as a picture of Jesus.

Vegetarianism is just one of Satan’s many attacks on God’s system. He uses it to divide men and women. He uses it to make women think they’re better than men, who are less likely to be vegetarians. He uses it to make people think Judaism and Christianity are cruel and evil compared to his ridiculous false religions, every one of which leads to the lake of fire.

Only about a third of American men are vegetarians, and only about one-fifth are vegans. I don’t know if these statistics account for the many men who only pretend to be vegetarians or vegans in order to get sex or shut their wives and girlfriends up.

God wants us to know what it is to kill innocent creatures, because he is innocent, and we killed him. He wants us to feel a little bit of what Abraham felt when he tied his son down and prepared to cut his throat. Our sins, not a Roman flagellum, cut into Jesus’ back and tore it open. Yahweh had to participate in the torture and killing of Jesus, and we are not better than Yahweh.

It’s not a coincidence that Hitler, Goebbels, Hess, and other Nazi bigwigs were vegetarians. Nazism was designed to offend God. Its death camps were sick parodies of the temple. The Nazis treated the Jews like offerings, and they did things that were insulting to the God who wrote the Jewish law.

God insists on modesty, but the Nazis made Jews strip naked in large rooms where people of both sexes and all ages were mingled. God says shaving is a punishment, and the Bible even refers to shaving of the private parts. The Nazis shaved Jews from head to toe because of lice. God hates tattoos, so the Nazis tattooed Jews. When Jews slaughter, they have to do it humanely, with knives that don’t have any nicks, and they have to drain out the blood. The Nazis killed using gas, leaving blood in the bodies, and their victims died in terror and physical suffering. God said Jews couldn’t cremate the dead, so the Nazis burned them.

I doubt the Nazis conspired to find ways to insult Yahweh. I think Satan guided them, and they didn’t always understand the spiritual significance of what they did.

I don’t think you have to eat meat to be a good Christian, but it’s wrong for a Christian to think he or she is morally better than people who eat meat.

The older I get, the more God shows me, and the more I realize that traditional roles for husbands and wives are correct, and that newer models are pathological. Women want to be led, and they need it. Men need to accept the responsibility of leading, whether they want to or not. A man must be led by the Holy Spirit, he has to agree to lead his wife, and his wife must be led by the Holy Spirit and her husband. This is the system God ordained, and when you deviate from it, you get problems.

It’s astonishing how powerfully women work to spread idolatry. They love cults. They love botanicas, wicca, astrologers, crystals, cards, meditation, and all the Eastern pus that trickles out of countries where everyone is poor and miserable. The female inclination to rebel is very old. Satan knew Eve had a weakness for idolatry. That’s why he tempted her instead of Adam.

It’s not surprising that Jews have a matriarchal society. They are precious to a masculine God, so Satan attacked their masculinity and made many Jewish men afraid of their wives and mothers. It’s nothing new. Solomon was dominated by his wives, and they led him to worship filthy spirits instead of the God who made him a great king. Ancient Jews commonly worshipped a female spirit called “the queen of heaven” and put her altars in their synagogues.

I see why God said, twice, that it’s better to live in the corner of a rooftop than in a big house with a rebellious woman (Proverbs 21:9; 25:24). What he said, through a man dominated and destroyed by his wives, is literally true. Solomon was a bigger failure than Saul. If he had stayed poor and unable to attract more than one wife, he might have stayed clear of idolatry.

Adam listened to his wife and caused mankind to be cursed for thousands of years. Moses listened to his wife, and God tried to kill him. Bathsheba bathed naked in view of David, and the ensuing sin resulted in a murder, the death of David’s son, and a curse on David’s house. Solomon listened to his wives and wrecked his kingdom, causing an extremely destructive division among Hebrews that was never healed. Then there was Ahab.

I’ve done a lot of stupid things in my life, but I am extremely glad I can say I did not marry a feminist, an idolater, or a fake Christian who decorates the house for Halloween and flies to pro-abortion rallies. Where I could have had friction, failure, and despair, I have three-way synergy with my wife and God.

I know female Christians who are not married and who are obviously feminists who don’t listen to the Holy Spirit. I have prayed for God to help them find men, but now that I think about it, it’s best that they don’t. Not until they give up their pride and rebellion. If I knew a single Christian man looking for a wife, I couldn’t recommend them. I might even tell him to avoid them.

If I ask God to help a rebellious woman find a man, I am asking him to ruin the man’s life and deprive him of something the Bible says is worth more than rubies.

If you can’t submit to God and your husband, it’s best you remain single and get more cats. It really is. Better for you to be lonely and childless than for you to be a snare to someone who might otherwise be happy.

Must be Nice to Have so Many Friends

Is it just me, or is the press doing its best to keep Alec Baldwin from being arrested?

When you see a celebrity in the news, you should never assume it just happened. It doesn’t work that way. Celebrities have publicity agents who call news outlets to plant stories. News outlets are constantly looking for content, and they don’t have the money or manpower to find enough on their own, so much of what you see comes to you via publicity agents.

Seems like every time I look at the news online, I see another story about Liz Hurley, a faded actress, putting on a bikini and posing provocatively. These stories aren’t news. Other celebrities put on bikinis every day, and we don’t see all of them on the web, because no one cares. Hurley’s career is just about over, so she is paying someone to send her photos around. Either that, or she does it herself.

Today I looked at Yahoo News and found 12 stories about actresses who were exposing themselves or drawing attention to their bodies. Journalists aren’t following these women around, hoping they’ll undress. The actresses start the ball rolling, and the journalists are contacted later.

What did we see in legitimate news stories right after Alec Baldwin shot his coworkers? Claims that he said he didn’t know the gun was loaded. Fair enough, but since then, a large number of stories that look very similar to each other have come out, saying he didn’t know the gun contained live ammunition.

A suspicious person would say media organizations called his publicist, or his publicist called them, and they ran with what the publicist told them.

We’re also seeing the phrase “prop gun” used over and over, as though a bullet had miraculously emerged from the barrel of a toy firearm. You can’t run someone through or cut them with a prop sword, because they’re blunt and dull; many are actually made from soft aluminum. You can’t shoot someone with a true prop gun, because they’re non-functional. Some are solid plastic. Baldwin didn’t use a “prop gun.” He used a plain old revolver that had been called into service as a prop. It’s remarkable that so many different copywriters are using the harmless-sounding phrase, “prop gun.” It can’t be coincidental.

It’s not a prop gun. It’s a gun that was used as a prop, or it’s a prop which is a gun. If Vin Diesel drove a Ferrari in a movie, no reporter would call it a “prop Ferrari.”

It’s actually quite weird that there is no such thing as a true, blank-firing prop gun. It would be simple to rechamber a gun so it wouldn’t accept SAAMI loads and then have a reloader make special blanks to fit it. Given the huge budget of a typical movie, spending a few grand per reusable firearm seem like a bargain. If a movie has a budget of 20 million dollars, doesn’t it make sense to spend, say, $10,000 modifying three pistols?

I don’t run Hollywood, though.

I think Baldwin is mounting a publicity drive, just as he surely has in the past to compete for awards and roles. I think he is under the mistaken impression that telling the world he didn’t know the gun was loaded will influence the police and prosecutor, who are not likely to care.

I think our liberal press wants to protect Baldwin, because he’s a zealous anti-Second-Amendment agitator, so they’re only too happy to take dictation.

Lay people have the idea that it’s smart to say things in your own defense after you commit a questionable act, but it’s not, because lay people generally don’t know whether they’re guilty or not. It’s completely possible to craft an excuse which is really a confession. Baldwin should be quiet and stop airing his excuses. He’s not helping himself, except possibly in the court of public opinion, which does not have the power to acquit him or protect him from civil liability.

It’s true that his efforts might serve to taint the body of potential jurors, but if a criminal case goes to court, the prosecutor will make a good effort to find people who aren’t contaminated, and he and the judge will make sure the jurors have good instructions which render Baldwin’s blame-shifting useless.

It’s sad to see big-time organizations publishing legal opinions from lawyers who don’t shoot or who are way out on the left. One paper quoted Ron Kuby, a famous far-left defense attorney who practices in New York City and used to be the partner of William Kunstler. Kuby backed Baldwin up. What would you expect? If you asked a young, clear-witted Rudy Giuliani the same questions, you would probably get a different answer. If Donald Trump shot someone accidentally, you might get a different answer from Kuby.

It’s this simple: the last person to touch the gun is the killer.

The last person to touch the gun is the killer.

The armor may be guilty of something. The assistant director may be guilty of something. Their guilt has no mitigating effect on Baldwin’s culpability.

Every gun person knows the person holding the gun has 100% responsibility for everything that happens. He’s responsible for checking to see if it’s loaded. He’s responsible for keeping it pointed in a safe direction. He’s responsible for keeping his finger off the trigger until he has to shoot. If there is a safety, he’s responsible for engaging it. You can’t blame the person who handed the gun to you. That person may bear some responsibility for his negligence, but if you shoot someone, you and only you are guilty of manslaughter or murder, and you’re guilty of the full-blown charge. Not murder lite. There is no such thing.

Here is the New Mexico Supreme Court’s statement of the elements of involuntary manslaughter; I stole it from another site:

All that it is necessary to establish for involuntary manslaughter by the use of a loaded firearm is that a defendant had in his hands a gun which at some time had been loaded and that he handled it, whether drunk, drinking or sober, without due caution and circumspection and that death resulted.

It’s not a hard offense to commit.

Yesterday, I listed a bunch of factors that make things look bad for Baldwin. Today, there is a new one in the news: people on the set used the revolver for shooting practice before Baldwin killed his cinematographer.

What possible reason could anyone on a movie set have for possessing live ammunition? It’s like they were hoping someone would get shot. And using the same gun for shooting and playing make-believe in a room full of vulnerable people on the same day…it beggars comprehension.

The news says Baldwin was practicing drawing the gun. That means he drew the gun, pointed it at the victim, and pulled the trigger. The gun is said to be a single-action revolver. If that’s true, he also had to pull back the hammer, because otherwise, the gun wouldn’t have been fired. The hammer is the safety.

To sum up, he accepted a loaded gun and didn’t check it. He pointed it at two people who should not have been in front of him. He cocked it. He put his finger on the trigger. He fired.

You can blame the armorer and assistant director all day, but Baldwin did at least 5 negligent things after they were out of the picture. If he knew the gun had been fired on the set, his negligence is even worse. It means he knew the likelihood there was ammunition in it was higher.

It looks like this to me:

1. The people who used the gun for target practice were negligent because they brought ammunition to a movie set and put it in a gun that was supposed to be used as a prop.

2. The armorer was negligent because she put a loaded gun on a cart she knew would be used to hold it for Baldwin.

3. The assistant director was negligent because he didn’t check the gun when he held it, and because he announced that it was safe.

4. Baldwin was negligent, for reasons mentioned above.

It will be a remarkable thing if no one is charged with a crime. Everyone on the location was depending on the armorer, the assistant director, and Baldwin to protect their lives, and all three of them appear to have failed.

It takes less than two seconds to open a revolver’s cylinder and look for cartridges. A revolver’s barrel has no chamber where an additional round can hide, and it has no box magazine to push new rounds in front of the firing pin.

I don’t want to see anyone charged, but it’s still irritating to see the obvious spin. I do believe it’s spin. I think it’s contrived and dishonest. I don’t think it’s just happening on its own.

The world is extremely unfair, and the press’s treatment of Baldwin seems like a great visual aid to prove it. You can’t trust human beings as far as you can throw them, and Satan looks after people who serve him, at least temporarily.

I’ve been praying for Baldwin to avoid conviction, largely because he’s not a likable person, and I think it’s important for me to pray for people I don’t like. Doesn’t mean I think someone else is to blame for what he did.

The worst things that can happen to Baldwin on the criminal side are an 18-month sentence and a $5000 fine, which make New Mexico sound like a fortunate place to have a tragic accident. I’m assuming there will be no separate charge for shooting the director, but if there were, the punishment would be less severe. A conviction won’t put Baldwin away for good or destroy his golden years, so at least there is that.

The thoughts I’ve had regarding the case seem to be in line with what many actual criminal lawyers say, so I feel relieved. I don’t think I’ve made a complete fool of myself by opining outside of my former fields or choosing not to do in-depth research.

Time to shift gears.

Yesterday I had some interesting experiences. I spent a lot of time with my parrot Marvin. Sometimes strange bird instincts can make him aloof or crabby, but yesterday he was very affectionate.

He loves it when I go to his cage and make the toys move. He likes to entertain at home, and he seems to enjoy thinking I like his toys as much as he does. I swung them around and let him attack them and wrestle with them and so on. I’m making a point of doing this daily.

Throughout the day, he kept demanding attention, so I spent a lot of time in front of the TV, rubbing his feathers. He shook and coughed up half-digested food. That’s how African greys show they’re overcome with emotion.

I thought about what we were doing, and I realized how important it was, even though he was just a bird.

Years ago, God told me he had created the universe for love. This is clearly true, because Jesus said the most important commandments were to love God and to love other people as we love ourselves. Love, not work, raising families, or obeying rules, is supposed to be the center of our lives.

My wife is 8,000 miles away. I don’t have kids. Right now, the only living being I can show love to in person is a bird. I have to make the most of that. If you don’t demonstrate affection often enough, you can get rusty and blocked. You can also forget your purpose.

I was aware of these things already. Before my other bird, Maynard, died, I was trying to show both birds that I loved them. It was important to me that they feel it. It wasn’t enough to just clean cages and serve food. I had to spend a lot of time touching them.

I knew love was important before yesterday, but now I have a fresh appreciation, and I am grateful for it.

Thinking about love and how I have felt it pour from God during his visits, I thought about the state of the world. Churches don’t teach love. They talk about it and fill the air with empty gas, but they’re more excited about money, obedience, appearances, and control.

The world at large is full of hate now. Hate is the red horseman of the apocalypse. A powerful spirit is at work in the world, driving us to detest each other, and it’s working.

Yesterday I learned that Facebook drives hate on purpose. That surprised me. I knew Facebook was evil, but I didn’t know how deep it ran.

I found out that Facebook promotes irritating material more strongly than other content. Facebook has little buttons accompanying content, and you can click and say you liked something or that it made you mad. Facebook gives content points based on clicks, and the more points something gets, the more people Facebook shows it to.

It turns out an angry click produces five points, but a “like” click only generates one.

Someone wanted it that way. Someone at Facebook sat down and decided it should be company policy to provoke people. A machine didn’t do it.

Facebook has devoured the world. It must have addicts in the billions. Imagine the evil influence its point system is exerting.

Facebook is just one part of the apparatus. People are tearing at each other all over the web, and they’re foaming at the mouth at protests.

The protest mentality is vile. Henry David Thoreau, leftist hero, has not helped humanity; he has helped it on its way to self-destruction. He advocated civil disobedience, and it has become so popular, people think it’s always okay to protest and break the law. It’s not. If you absolutely have to do things like that, it should be for a good reason. Your hurt feelings over people using pronouns you don’t like is not a good reason. Your non-articulated rage at undefined, usually imaginary fascism is not a good reason.

We protest over everything now, and many of us have decided “protest” means “riot,” which is like saying, “Bactine” is just like “amputation.” Leftists now openly say, “Rioting works.” No, it doesn’t. Getting in the habit of rioting is like buying a rabid dog to attack your neighbors. Sooner or later, it will do the same thing to you. You can achieve a short-term goal through rioting, but you will end up causing more harm than good. Young people aren’t smart enough to understand this, so rioting will probably increase and consume the world soon.

As Revelation 6 predicts, we live in a world of hate, lack, and pestilence. It’s fatiguing.

A lot of new rapture-dream videos are appearing on Youtube and Tiktok. I’ll tell you what people say in their dreams when they think they’ve left the earth for good. They don’t say, “Oh, no! I’ll never finish barber school!” They don’t say, “Send me back! Give me one more chance!” They thank God. They’re delirious with joy. They don’t want to come back. I understand. I can’t wait to go.

The world is now full of temptation, more than ever. Provocation is temptation. Sexualizing society is temptation. International tension is temptation. Coronavirus is a gold mine of temptation. People are beating each other in the streets over it.

People love it when they think they’ve left Earth, because they think they’re finally done with temptation. One of the big draws of the Messianic age is that Satan and his imps will be locked away, so there will be no army of demons tempting people. Imagine what that will be like.

It will be like the difference between my life in Miami and my life in Ocala, multiplied manyfold.

Why are people forced to live in a world packed with evil? Because God wants us to be tempted. It sounds awful, and we know God himself doesn’t tempt, but it’s true. Everyone has to face temptation. Jesus saw to it that he faced it.

In order for there to be judgment and salvation, there has to be temptation. This is why Satan will be released at the end of the Messianic age. The Bible says so. People who are born during the Messianic age won’t know what temptation is until Satan is released from his septic tank.

Temptation is getting to be more than we can take, and that’s a clue to where we are on God’s timeline. God says the tribulation will be “the hour of temptation that shall come upon all the world.” Things aren’t going great now, but they will be much worse in the near future. Suffering will increase, and people will be told the mark of the beast is the only relief.

China is having a covid outbreak. That’s a big deal. I wondered why China had been spared, given the horrible things that are done in China, routinely. Now I think it may be because China supplies so many things. If China had fallen apart in 2020, the supply chain would probably have gone down almost completely, and there would have been greater suffering than God wanted to permit at that time. Maybe he held China’s outbreak back until he was ready. Maybe we’re about to find out what empty shelves really look like.

Personally, I would like to see the pimple burst sooner than later. I am ready to leave, and I am tired of seeing ignorant, base, deluded people receive power to libel and harm people like me. I don’t want to be here when they rule over us the way they came to rule in places like Cuba and Cambodia.

I saw something in passing the other day. I saw depression characterized as “catastrophizing.” The idea is that you tell yourself things are going to be much worse than they really will be, and you get depressed. I thought that was interesting. I don’t get depressed on behalf of myself, but I expect catastrophic things for the world as a whole. I’m cheerful and full of energy, and I think my future is inexpressibly bright, but at the same time, my hopes for the world are destroyed. It’s like being depressed by proxy, only without the down feelings.

Some texts call the angels “watchers.” They have to stand by and witness the true catastrophes human beings bring on themselves. I feel like a watcher.

When you’re depressed, your expectations of catastrophe are delusional. When you’re a prophecy-believing Christian, they’re much more solid.

One interesting thing about showing Marv unrestrained love is that it makes him vulnerable. If we were a little reserved, he wouldn’t have very high expectations. The more we let loose, the more he gives in and trusts me, and the more he will expect from me every day.

Sometimes we hold back from involving ourselves with others because we don’t think we can follow through. Life is uncertain, and one person may have many creatures who are attached to him and expect him to keep coming through. Nobody wants to adopt a puppy a month before starting military service. No one with cancer would want to adopt a desperate orphan. Once you engage with someone, you have to accept the commitment. It’s intimidating.

I have wondered if I made my pets love me too much. I tried to do the right thing by engaging with them, but maybe I made them miss me more when I wasn’t available. Birds pull their feathers out when they’re lonely, and Maynard sometimes pulled his feathers more when I was giving him more attention.

I try to make my wife feel as loved as possible, and I won’t stop out of fear, but I’m aware that the more passionately we love each other, the more pain we will suffer if one of us is taken away.

One of the nice things about heaven is that no one will die or move away. Commitment in heaven won’t put anyone at risk.

I watched a couple of movies this week. They are part of a series. They’re about a divorced police chief.

In the first movie, he moves across the country, and his old dog starts refusing food. Soon, the cop finds out the dog is sick and has to be put down. In other installments, there are other dogs.

We’re supposed to feel sorry for the cop because he’s a stand-up guy who cares about others and goes above and beyond the call of duty to help them. We’re supposed to feel bad when his dog dies. He puts off euthanasia because he can’t face it. His love for the dog is too intense.

The thing that made me marvel is this: throughout the series, he barely touches the dogs. You never see moments of shared happiness or affection. What dog lover keeps a distance? That’s for cat people. Cat owners get cats in order to avoid intimacy. Dogs are effusive with their love.

I enjoyed the movies a lot, but I don’t see why the protagonist was so reserved. It makes no sense to me. It was a strange way to portray love. The dogs were miserable. The owner was miserable. They lived in the same house. There was nothing to prevent them from being close, but the man sat in a chair, and the dog lay on the floor across the room, and that was about it.

I guess I’m rambling, but I look forward to heaven. This place is getting disgusting.

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It’s amazing how no one listens to me. A story just came out, and here is what the DA looking at Baldwin’s case says:

Ms. Carmack-Altwies took issue with descriptions of the firearm used in the incident as “prop-gun,” saying that the terminology, which is used in some of the court documents related to the case, could give the misleading impression that it was not a real gun.

“It was a legit gun,” she said, without naming specifically what kind of firearm was used. “It was an antique-era appropriate gun.”

Sound familiar? Scroll up.

Not good new for Baldwin, but nothing is settled yet.

Oil Change for Car I Clearly Don’t Need

Is there any reason why we Americans shouldn’t go ahead and glue ourselves to our couches?

My car thinks I need an oil change, so it’s nagging me. I have 10,000-mile oil and a 20,000-mile filter, so I know the car is upset about nothing, but I decided to get oil and a filter today anyway. Did I go to the auto parts store? No.

I looked around the web to find a well-reviewed filter. Then I looked at Youtube reviews to confirm that Wal-Mart oil was just as good as the expensive stuff. Then I went to Wal-Mart’s site to see if they had the oil in stock. Then I went to an auto parts site to look for a filter and see if they could beat Wal-Mart on oil. Then I went back to Wal-Mart’s site, which reminded me I had bought a filter there last time. The same one that had the good reviews.

I put my cheap synthetic oil in my cart with my filter, just to keep track of them so I could do a screenshot before going to Wal-Mart. Then noticed the site was offering free curbside pickup. For a second, I felt ashamed, but I got over it somehow. I decided to check out with curbside pickup.

When I got to the checkout page, it said I was $3.49 below the free shipping threshold.

Free shipping? What would it cost me to drive to Wal-Mart? I thought a minute. About four bucks, during Joe Biden’s pre-tribulation oil panic. If I bought a product in the four-dollar range, it would be mostly free. Sort of.

I needed shampoo. I looked for it. I buy it in big jugs. One just went empty today. Wal-Mart said it cost more than $3.49.

BAM. Shampoo in cart.

Now Wal-Mart is going to bring me my oil, my filters, and the shampoo I expected to have to go get, all at Wal-Mart prices.

Is there some way I can get the UPS guy to bring it in the house and put it in my hand? Maybe he could change my oil. Perhaps he could apply pressure to my diaphragm and breathe for me, too.

It reminds me of the old joke about the neighbor who watched a rich lady move into the house next door. A mover came along, wheeling the lady’s son on a handtruck. The neighbor said, “Poor kid! Can’t he walk?” The lady said, “Yes, but thank God he doesn’t have to!”

I should buy enough oil for 10 more changes. If I don’t, prices will go up and I’ll probably spend the same amount on the next change. Assuming I can afford enough gas to get me through the next change interval.

Looks Like it Will be Beans and Rice Till Friday

I realized I had to start eating my old survival supplies in order to keep them from going to waste, so yesterday, I made myself a huge pot of red beans and rice. Let it suffice to say I am extremely pleased.

I took a chance on what is purportedly an Emeril recipe. I have nearly no faith in Emeril, for a number of reasons, but he ran the Commander’s Palace, so Cajun food shouldn’t be a challenge for him. After I got into the process, I realized the recipe was actually secondhand. Some lady who probably eats margarine posted it on the Internet, and she said she had made changes. When a woman makes a change in a recipe containing pork, it’s generally an indication that regurgitation is imminent. They’ll substitute turkey for pork or canola for butter. I decided to take a free hand, and things worked out great.

I had two pounds of dried beans to get rid of, so I had to make a big batch. When it was over, 24 ounces of andouille and two ham hocks were in the pot along with the beans. The main thing I did to make it work was adding dry white wine. It’s hard to think of a good excuse for preparing poultry or pork without wine.

My beans are maybe two years old. I forgot to put the buy date on the bag. As a result, it took hours for them to get soft. I had to have a PBJ for dinner, but I made up for it this morning with a big serving of Cajun joy.

You don’t have to spend a lot of money to make good food. Well, actually, you do, during the Biden catastrophe. But you don’t have to spend a lot compared to what you would spend on things like steak and seafood, which used to be expensive but are now downright precious. If you can fix beans a few different ways, you can get good nutrition without being hammered too badly by Uncle Joe’s empty shelves.

I would say it’s best to use one whole cup of dry white wine per pound of dried beans. That sounds like a lot, but it seems like beans blunt the wine’s effect on the pork.

I should have a relatively pleasant couple of months after true famine sets in, getting creative with my prepper cache. After that, unless I’m raptured, it will be time to learn how to eat acorns.

In other news, the Alec Baldwin story continues to get more interesting.

I now think what happened to Baldwin was supernatural. I think God did him a favor by allowing him to be humbled so he can examine himself and receive salvation. It would be hard for random chance to explain all the bad things that happened to Baldwin simultaneously. Let’s see if I can list them all without checking the web.

1. He was producing the movie, so he has more responsibility than an actor would ordinarily have.

2. Hypocritically, for a self-righteous, vitriolic leftist, he hired non-union workers to fill spots vacated by disgruntled union members. This guarantees that many people who worked on the movie will try to make him look as bad as possible.

3. Prior to the shooting, there had been several gun mishaps, and there had been protests.

4. Instead of having the movie’s trained armorer declare the gun safe and hand it to him, he let an assistant director do it.

5. The assistant director has been subject to a lot of complaints. He is said to have expressed resentment over having to hold meetings about gun safety, and he is also said to have done a very poor job at those meetings. On top of all this, men and women who have worked with him have complained about inappropriate touching, which makes Baldwin look irresponsible for hiring him.

6. Forget the universal gun safety rules he disobeyed; he ignored a rule specific to moviemaking. You never point a live gun at a human being on a movie set. There are protocols. Baldwin knows about them. He violated one.

7. The person he killed has a husband and parents, so Baldwin has set himself up for wrongful death litigation from multiple plaintiffs, and prosecutors are sensitive to plaintiffs’ goading.

8. Baldwin has a history of condemning people who have shot others. Regarding a California police officer who shot a man who attacked him and grabbed at his gun belt, Baldwin said, “I wonder how it feels to wrongfully kill someone.”

Let me add that the movie Baldwin was making was to be about a boy sentenced to death for an accidental killing. That can’t be a coincidence.

At least one New Mexico criminal attorney has confirmed that Baldwin may be on the hook for a homicide charge. Under New Mexico law, it’s possible. That pretty much ends the debate over whether he can be charged. Now, the question is what the police and prosecutors will choose to do. A leftist prosecutor committed perjury to indict George Zimmerman, and a leftist prosecutor refused to charge the people who tried to murder Kyle Rittenhouse. A prosecutor has been indicted for failing to properly pursue charges in the Ahmed Arberry case. Prosecutors aren’t vending machines. They are as biased as anyone.

It would be bad enough for Baldwin if he had taken the gun directly from the armorer, on a peaceful set with no prior accidents, and killed a woman. It would be more typical of workplace accidents. His case is exceptional, though. Accidental shootings don’t usually have mountains of additional circumstances that make things worse for those at fault.

The only thing that could be worse for him would be if the prosecutor had voted for Trump.

Baldwin has not behaved well since the accident. He went to Twitter and posted a link to a story that said he had been told the gun was safe before he handled it. It was a desperation move. I’m sure his attorney didn’t advise it. He’s not taking responsibility. He’s throwing other people under the bus. Here’s what he should be saying: nothing. Maybe, “I am devastated by the accidental shooting which occurred on my set today.” Anything beyond that looks like denial of guilt and lack of remorse.

I’m not saying he should admit he’s responsible. Not until after jeopardy has passed. But he shouldn’t feed the public BS.

It doesn’t matter whether he was told the gun was safe. He was supposed to check it personally, regardless of who looked at it before he did. Even if you swallow his invalid argument at first, you have to admit that it was negligent to listen to an assistant director when there was an armorer on the set, especially after several other mishaps.

I’m not trying to condemn him. I just know how lay people think, and I know that if I don’t present things forcefully, people may come back in my comments and play amateur attorney, defending Baldwin with very poor arguments lawyers have already rejected.

I’m not writing about this story to pick on Baldwin, but to connect it to my own experiences. Last night I woke up and started confessing to God and asking for help to be a better Christian. I thought about all the bad things I had done, said, and felt. I thought about two things God had told me.

1. The concealment of a sin is worse than the sin itself.

2. An excuse is a lie.

I’ve done what Baldwin is doing, and worse. I could never begin to recall all the excuses I’ve made for myself.

I started thinking about Adam and Eve. Satan tempted Eve, Eve sinned, Eve tempted Adam, Adam sinned, God accused Adam and Eve, Adam blamed God and Eve, and Eve blamed Satan.

Then all the descendants of Adam and Eve were cursed, and we fight those curses to this very day.

God has also told me this: everything you bury, you also plant.

The sins and lies of Adam and Eve became the seeds that would eventually result in things like damnation and the tribulation, not to mention every evil man has ever experienced. Eve’s sin was a very small seed, but it turned into a tree that covered the world. No wonder God cursed women for what she did. No wonder he cursed Adam PRIMARILY for listening to the voice of his wife.

Until last night, I had never thought about this: Satan didn’t tempt Adam. Eve did. Adam wasn’t the first person to sin. Eve was. Adam didn’t blow it until he abandoned his role as leader and chose to be a feminist. Feminists like to say the world would be a better place if women ran everything, but the only time a woman ran the world, she led mankind into destruction.

Now we live in a time in which masculinity is considered toxic and we are told to let women and even children lead. No wonder the world is disintegrating. We’re living the curse of Isaiah 3. We’ll really feel the pain when Kamala Harris takes over for Biden. Female leadership leads to curses, period. It’s not what God commanded, and there are consequences.

Overwhelmingly, women are the ones who lead us into idolatry. Witchcraft, fortune-telling, astrology, crystals, yoga…you will probably never hear a woman say, “I was a Christian, but my husband convinced me to try Buddhism.” It’s almost always the other way around. There is a reason God requires men to lead.

Eve and Adam should not have sinned, but once they had, they should have confessed. God already knew everything. Baldwin shouldn’t be on Twitter showing he is not willing to be honest.

I don’t want him to be prosecuted. I would rather see him get away with it, just as you and I have gotten away with things. Putting him in prison for a mistake doesn’t seem to serve a valid purpose. But he should not blame others for what he did.

I’m not that concerned about his civil liability, since whatever he ends up paying will not be a significant percentage of his wealth. He’s probably worth several dozen million dollars, so whatever he pays probably won’t affect his lifestyle or those of his children.

I expect the assistant director to get obliterated. He’s a #MeToo magnet, he appears to have done the armorer’s job for her without justification, and he’s lower on the food chain than Baldwin, who will have moneyed interests pushing for his exoneration. The armorer might be okay if she can say she did everything right and the assistant director prevented her from doing her job. She will still have to explain the other accidents, though.

The assistant director, David Halls, has deleted his Twitter account, so we can’t see if he ever said unfortunate things about the use of firearms.

Personally, if I were working on a movie that had had three on-set gun accidents, I would quit. One is inexcusable, and two prove the moviemakers can’t be trusted. After a third, the insurers should cancel the production.

As for Biden and Harris, I see socialist Saturday Night Live has taken the gloves off. Last night, they did a sketch in which 2021 Biden talked to his 2013 self. They made fun of his unpopularity, his false teeth, and even his dementia. When Saturday Night Live turns on a leftist president, there isn’t much hope of redemption or spin. Maybe next time, they’ll do the right thing and hit him for the terrible problems he’s causing. They didn’t mention the Biden energy crisis, the Biden shipping crunch, or his enormous mandate lie. Things will probably be a lot worse in 2022, and Biden isn’t doing anything to prevent it. He’s doubling down on pathological policy.

Biden is turning out to be a replay of Carter, except that Carter still had his faculties. It’s very bad when dementia compounds incompetence and corruption.

Carter is said to have had a nervous breakdown in office. Older readers will remember. He knew the ship was sinking, and he couldn’t fix it. He was temporarily disabled by hemorrhoids, and that didn’t help his image. He knew the public despised him. There was no light at the end of the tunnel because he just wasn’t good at what he did. He has a gargantuan ego, but it wasn’t a thick enough rampart to protect him from crumbling. Biden is a monumental egotist, too. Will his baseless pride allow him to continue confronting the world with mock confidence, or will he fold up one morning and refuse to leave the bed?

I know how dementia and arrogance work together. Arrogant people who know they’re demented don’t admit it. A proud dementia patient can stand in his own excrement and insist you’re the one with the problem. Maybe Biden will go out clawing and accusing.

At his most recent town hall, Biden clenched his fists and held them in front of him for around 20 seconds while receiving a question. It was very odd. Internet commenters have pointed out that dementia patients are known to make this gesture. It indicates anxiety or confusion. I wonder if that’s what’s happening with the president. He also appears to be developing what is known as a “magnetic gait,” which is a dementia symptom in which the feet slide along the floor instead of being lifted.

I don’t know how the left’s lie machine will cope with Biden’s final implosion. My best guess is that they’ll pretend it’s something other than dementia until he has been out of office a long time. “Our overworked, beleaguered president has succumbed to exhaustion.” Maybe they’ll hypothesize that his aneurysm problems have led to delayed issues. They’ll never admit the obvious. They’ll never say they voted for a man they knew was senile because they hated Trump more than they cared about a strong America.

My friend Mike has a golf buddy who used to play with a Trump hater. The Trump hater told the buddy he didn’t care if America was destroyed as long as Trump wasn’t president. I think that attitude is common.

Fauci Fell, and No One Noticed

I should have switched to the shotgun three years ago. I went out for an hour today and plugged two squirrels. Both kicked a little, but neither one was breathing when I got to it, so it looks like they died quick.

I blasted one, walked around the property, missed a good opportunity at a second, and blasted another. Both of the dead ones were near my house, which is great, because those are the ones that need to be killed. By the time I made my circuit of the property, the first one was gone. Hope it went to a hawk and not a coon, possum, or coyote.

I think from now on I’ll throw the dead ones on the workshop roof. That way, I’ll be sure they go to the birds.

It’s really nice not having to find a squirrel in a reticle or worry about how high he is off the ground. With a shotgun, you can get a shot off in a couple of seconds, and you get way more opportunities. It’s also hard to miss. I nailed one of today’s squirrels from about 30 yards, and I would say the other one might have been 40 yards off. It was so far off, I wasn’t sure it was a squirrel. I figured it was best to shoot it to be on the safe side. Worst-case scenario: I kill a stick.

I looked at the news when I got home. I checked to see if anyone was excited to find out that Fauci lied about gain of function research. It’s a surprisingly low-key story. Even Rand Paul, whom Grouchy Fauci slandered while lying to Congress, was not very vocal about it.

I’m not sure why gain of function research exists. My understanding is that they take nice, harmless viruses that could never bother human beings and “fix” them so they can make us sick. I assume there must be some purpose to it, but it sounds really stupid on the surface, especially after two years of a pandemic.

I wonder if Wikipedia can tell me.

Okay, it says gain of function research CAN be “research which could enable a pandemic-potential pathogen to replicate more quickly or cause more harm in humans or other closely-related mammals.”

You know, science can be amazing, in very bad ways unrelated to science itself. Science can be so obscure or so hard for the public and the government to understand that eggheads can be allowed to make incredibly dangerous decisions without legislators or executives finding out about it. I am guessing, but I’ll bet no one ever went to Donald Trump and said, “We’re making a SARS virus much more dangerous to humans, but we have a good reason, and we’re letting the Chinese handle security, so is that okay?”

We all know military people can’t be trusted with policy. The president can’t say, “Go fight a war the way you think best, and tell us when you’re done.” Wars are fought to achieve objectives that may be thwarted when the military does as it pleases. Similarly, it may be that we need to make certain scientists and engineers get permission from Congress or the White House before doing stupid things. Aren’t we doing that already? Apparently not, since it took two years just to get proof we were doing what Fauci said we were not doing. If there was any kind of transparent mechanism for sanctioning insane research, Trump could have called some underling and gotten the facts in 10 minutes.

The Wikipedia article is short, and it’s Wikipedia, and I am not a virologist, but the sense I get is that super-viruses can be useful in developing vaccines. That sounds great, but how are they helpful if you release them on the entire world, before creating the vaccines, through stupidity?

You take a virus which may or may not be a problem if it gets loose, and just to be safe, so you can make a vaccine, you turn it into a virus which will definitely cause a pandemic, and THEN, before you’re anywhere close to creating a vaccine or treatment, you let some butterfingers drop a vial in the lunchroom. And you put the CCP in charge of letting us know China dropped the ball.

Who made this possible? Somewhere, there are some men and women who signed the papers. Who are they? Why haven’t we dyed them green or something so everyone knows not to hire them again?

Isn’t China our enemy? Did I dream that? Isn’t there a country called Taiwan, which we are sworn to defend, which China is currently threatening to take by force? Didn’t China just launch a shocking hyper-sonic missile that made everyone in the Pentagon and at Raytheon soil their pants? Isn’t it bad form to pay your enemies to learn how to develop weaponizable viruses?

Or is this just me, being a deplorable, ivermectin-buzzed hick who doesn’t understand nuance?

It reminds me of the War Room scene where Dr. Strangelove commented unfavorably on the secret Soviet Doomsday Machine, which was intended to deter nuclear strikes by assuring that if one bomb went off, the planet would be cleared of all life. He said, “Yes, but the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost…if you keep it a secret!” Similarly, the whole point of creating a killer virus to save lives is lost if you put the Chinese in charge of containing it AND reporting any embarrassing accidental exposures.

I don’t know if the Chinese created the virus and let it escape, but it looks more likely every day. I mean, sure, the epidemic could have started right beside the research lab by chance. That could have happened. After centuries of Chinese wet markets with no pandemics, in which people bought and sold exactly the same revolting things they bought and sold in 2019. It’s totally possible.

Fauci is a real peach. If he doesn’t turn out to be the biggest public health villain since Josef Mengele, it will be a great testimony to the power of the lying liberal press. It’s bad enough that he lied, but he lied angrily, as though Rand Paul, who was telling the truth, was accusing him falsely of groping toddlers. Paul stood up for us, against the smug, lying press and against many of his peers. He blew the whistle for us, repeatedly. He didn’t quit when the world tried to slap him down. And Fauci shot the messenger in order to save face. Very CCP of him.

Lying to Congress is a crime, at least under certain circumstances. Is it only true when you’re sworn? I’m not familiar with the law. There must be some reason why Fauci hasn’t been indicted. I guess it would be necessary for Democrats to go along, so never mind.

So what else is he lying about? I guess we’ll never know, because he’s the one we question, and he lies. Isn’t there somebody else over there we could talk to?

The Washington Post says Fauci lied, so there is no point in commenting here, claiming he didn’t. When the Post gives up a leftist the right hates, you know it’s a lost cause.

Now they’re saying the definition of “fully vaccinated” is going to change. That’s fascinating from an apocalyptic perspective. They’re saying you may have to have three or more shots. It’s open-ended.

They told an older generation not to worry about Social Security numbers because they would never be used for anything but delivering government benefits. Remember how that worked out?

Nobody has my Social Security number. Nobody except every university I’ve attended, every bank and securities firm where I’ve had an account, every company that has given me insurance or a quote, every company that provided me with a credit card…I’m pretty sure my cell carrier has it. I should have it tattooed on my forehead.

The vaccines do not work well. I’m not saying they “don’t work.” I’m saying they “don’t work well.” We can no longer deny this. Public health officials are saying they may not be very helpful at all to a big, big percentage of the only large groups of individuals who are generally at risk of real problems. In other words, the only groups that were ever really endangered, as a whole, are the fat, the sick, and the old, and now they’re saying they’re also the only groups for which the vaccines work very poorly.

If you have any brains at all, you can see what that means.

A vaccine that has a 95% no-catch rate (to make up a flattering, unrealistic figure) for people who are extremely unlikely to become seriously ill anyway is not necessarily a good vaccine. The purpose of the vaccines is not to prevent the sniffles. No one cares about that. They were developed to prevent serious illness and death. When they came out, we were told THE SCIENCE had hit a home run. A very small percentage of the vaxxed could get something like a cold, but virtually no one would get very sick or die; that was the official line. Dying would be like winning Powerball. Now they’re saying the shots have a pretty high breakthrough rate AND the people who were already vulnerable have a VERY high breakthrough rate combined with high rates of serious disease and death.

So, if I understand things correctly, the vaccines have done a FAIR job of preventing the sniffles and a POOR job of preventing death and serious disease.

Or maybe they did better at the start, and now the disease is changing and defeating the shots. After all, we did see big drops in the stats after the shots came out. Something had to cause that, and we know it wasn’t masks or social distancing. We have a big collection of old graphs showing spikes coinciding with lockdowns, masks, and distancing.

They tell us different things every week. They’ve been wrong over and over. They don’t know what’s going on. Very often, they actually say so. My uninformed guesses may well be just as good as the best conclusions trained scientists can offer. I could be like the famous chimp who beat professional stock-pickers.

Now the Morlocks have decided I’m eligible for a booster. I was thinking I’d get it, because for all I know, it could be of some help, but now I don’t know. I used to think coronavirus was probably a one-time thing, but now I think I’ve had it twice, and I was vaccinated between episodes. I don’t know that another shot will help, I have every reason to believe future episodes will be mild, I have had dramatic improvements after using ivermectin from Tractor Supply, and I don’t feel good about going in for another round of a bizarre vaccination which has attracted warnings from intelligent, informed medical professionals.

To get back to the apocalypse, the redefinition of “fully vaccinated” opens the door to a future of increasing and unending oppression. As long as they can tell us we have to jump through new hoops to end the crisis, we will have to keep jumping, and they will have the authority to create nastier hoops. We will have to get used to life on the salmon ladder.

The first shot wasn’t the mark of the beast. The first booster isn’t the mark of the beast. Isolated mandates aren’t the mark. It has to be something big and global, and it can’t be temporary. What if the mark is something that shows you’re complying with a long-term program of repeated injections, not to mention fascist masking, isolation, AND censorship laws? Wow. That’s the Antichrist’s dream scenario.

Again, “fascist” is the correct term. It’s a value-neutral term. There are people who are proud of being fascists, and they wear hats and shirts that say “fascist” on them. Forcing people to take shots, making them stay in their houses, and deleting their publicly stated remarks about a disease are fascist measures.

I’ll bet it happens. I’ll bet the virus never cooperates. I’ll bet we get variants that really are more contagious than the flu, instead of much less contagious, like the ones we have now. Maybe we’ll get some variants that threaten healthy people. If that happens, kiss the outdoors goodbye, because Uncle Sam will nail your front door shut.

Maybe variants will get so bad, you’ll stand a substantial chance of dying if you’re not vaccinated regularly. Then you would have to obey the government pretty fastidiously, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the government denied unvaccinated people access to food and goods, claiming they were seditious and toxic and unlikely to live anyway.

Leftists love the word “seditious” now. It’s so strange. Maybe young people don’t know it, but they used to hate that word the way they hated Joe McCarthy. Liberal teachers sneered when they said it. How things change.

We could be looking at year after year of new shots and fascist curtailments of our liberty, with the mark of the beast provided as a reward for obedience. You obey, you eat. Just a guess, but it fits the way the disease and our governments have behaved so far.

I have about a dozen unopened tubes of ivermectin, just sitting around. Maybe I’ll buy a few dozen more. Who knows how many times I’ll get sick? Ivermectin may actually be helpful, and it could gain popularity and become hard to find. It may also be useful if I catch something else, and someone else might need it. Can’t hurt to stock up.

If I get really sick, I’ll try to get monoclonal antibodies. I have been told Biden won’t let anyone who has been hospitalized have them. Not sure what that’s all about. They say that if you get sick, you should absolutely refuse to be hospitalized until you’ve received antibodies. Is it a rumor? Is it true? Hope I don’t have to find out.

Every day the mark of the beast seems closer than I thought it would seem the night before. The world’s insanity isn’t just accelerating; it’s jerking.

Acceleration is a physics term. Jerk is sort of a physics term, but it’s used by engineers, not physicists. I never saw it until after I had become a physicist and then quit.

Acceleration is velocity’s rate of change. If a car is doing 10 mph now and 20 mph in 10 seconds, it’s accelerating at 10 mph per second. Jerk is acceleration’s rate of change. If a car is doing 10 now, 20 in 10 seconds, and 300 in 20 seconds, it’s jerking. I guess. Not sure what the present participle is, in engineering. I’m not an engineer. Anyway, the acceleration isn’t constant. It increases with time. Jerk can be constant. I’m sure it’s not, in my example. I would have to do a calculation to come up with a constant jerk. Wait…no, I wouldn’t. Jerk can increase, and its increase can increase, and so on. I’m digressing. Help me stop.

Think of a magnet, moving toward another magnet. It will accelerate slowly, then faster, and then it will bang into the other magnet so fast you can’t see it happen. That’s jerk. Gravity does the same thing, but we can’t see it because we’re all at the same distance from the center of the earth. Where we are, gravity seems constant. If you were to fly toward a black hole, the change would be obvious. Don’t do that, though.

Anyway, the world’s insanity isn’t just increasing, and the rate of increase isn’t just increasing; the rate of the increase of the increase is increasing. I expect things to be a certain way in a few days, based on the way things have been getting worse over the last month, but they will probably be worse than I expect.

Apocalyptic jerk is why I think the rapture is coming very soon. People will try to predict the end based on a relatively smooth timeline, but things aren’t changing smoothly. It shouldn’t surprise Christians. Jesus said he would come at a time when we thought not.

Accidental Shooting Puts Liberal Actor in Undesired Spotlight

It looks like Alec Baldwin has killed someone. He was performing. He fired a gun in the direction of a cinematographer and a director. The former is dead, and the latter is injured.

It’s an interesting story, because the two articles I read say movie prop masters are traditionally given the responsibility for making sure movie guns are not loaded. The writers made sure they included this information, which sounds exculpatory. Did someone working for Baldwin tell them to do it? It won’t help.

When people think they’re in legal trouble, they tend to spout every argument and excuse they can think of. This is very useful to the authorities, because most people don’t know the difference between exculpatory evidence and damning evidence. They will rattle off excuses they think are helpful when they’re really telling the police they’re guilty.

“I knocked him down and fractured his skull because he called me the N-word.” “I told the kids to stay away from the gun cabinet.” “The meter reader let the tigers out.”

If you kill someone negligently, you can be liable both criminally and civilly. I have no idea how the jurisdiction where Baldwin shot these people handles negligent homicides. That varies. I do know how civil negligence works, and the standards are ancient and pretty much universal.

In order to be guilty of negligence, you have to owe another person a duty of care, breach that duty negligently, and cause that person harm. Assuming Baldwin’s gun was functioning normally, he is guilty of negligence.

There are rules to gun handling, and they are well known. They don’t vary from place to place, either. One of the rules is that you always check a gun when you take possession of it. You see if it’s loaded. I don’t care if your dad, your priest, or Santa Claus himself hands it to you. You check. Another rule is that you never point a gun at anything you don’t want to shoot.

Baldwin should have examined the gun to see if it was loaded. If he didn’t, the cinematographer’s loved ones, if any, may be able to sue. They can sue Baldwin, the prop master, and maybe the company or companies that were making the movie.

What if he checked, but there was some defect in the gun or ammunition that caused a projectile to do harm? He’s still negligent. Why? Because he pointed a gun at people he didn’t want to shoot and pulled the trigger. He violated a well-known rule of gun safety.

You may argue that it’s impossible to make a movie without pointing guns at people and pulling their triggers, and that is true, but it’s only true if you’re aiming at an actor or stuntman. There is no valid reason for aiming a real gun or any other dangerous instrumentality at a cinematographer.

Everyone in Hollywood should know that freak accidents can cause guns to kill even when they’re not loaded with normal ammunition. The most famous on-camera shooting involved a gun that had something called a “dummy bullet” stuck in the barrel. A blank drove it out, and it killed Brandon Lee. Every studio’s attorneys and insurers know this, and actors and directors should know it. Studios should have comprehensive documents covering firearms safety measures, and one of the rules should be that you tell the actors never to point a firearm at anyone who isn’t playing a character who should be shot or threatened. Everyone who will be on the set of a movie where guns are used should have to read these documents. They probably exist.

Maybe the victims were shot because they needed to film Baldwin shooting toward the camera. They could have been moved. In 2021, we have sufficient technology to allow a director and cinematographer to film something without standing close to a camera.

What about the guilt of the victims? They’re probably negligent, too. If they sat next to a camera while Baldwin fired toward it, and they didn’t have to, they breached the duty of care they owed themselves. No idea how a court or jury would apportion the liability.

Are there waivers in place? I don’t know. Will they help? I don’t know. Courts don’t like waivers, believe it or not. That’s especially true when one party has more bargaining power than the other. Matt Lauer probably can’t stand on a waiver that says an intern won’t sue if he molests her.

I think that if the cinematographer has loved ones, some money will change hands, either after a trial or, if the studio’s insurance company’s lawyers aren’t idiots, before one can start. I doubt the director will sue anyone. He was in a management position, and the killing happened on his watch. He would look stupid trying to blame anyone else.

In the case of Brandon Lee, various lay sources say the authorities determined that the cause of the killing was negligence. I don’t know whether that’s true, but I do know that an investigator’s finding is not a verdict, so it wouldn’t mean anything in court. Lee’s mother sued and got some money, and the filmmakers were fined for workplace safety violations. There was no criminal prosecution.

I’m rusty because I don’t practice, so maybe I’m wrong about Baldwin’s case, but it looks somewhat complicated to me. I don’t think it’s a simple case.

I hope they don’t prosecute him. He must be miserable. I think our legal system is way too hard on people who make mistakes. I have performed more than one negligent act that could have killed someone else, and you probably have, too.

Oh, you haven’t? Ever text in the car? Better get off that high horse, Jesus Junior.

As readers of this blog know, there was a young man who was like a son to me, and he died two years ago after an accidental shooting. I felt some frustration because I knew the killing was unnecessary and caused by negligence, but I never, ever wanted to see the shooter arrested. I never felt any hostility toward him. People make mistakes, and a prosecution would have made him unemployable for years. Baldwin is a jerky individual, but I don’t think prosecution would serve any purpose. It certainly would not be corrective. I don’t think he’s likely to be careless with guns in the future. He will probably be the most careful actor in Hollywood.

There is some justice in what happened. Baldwin is on the far left, and he mocked Donald Trump after a high school shooting. He loves gun control, but, let’s face it, he does a great deal to promote the sale of firearms. Google “Alec Baldwin” images, and you will see him holding a wide variety of guns, and I don’t mean for trap shooting.

I like to say Barack Obama is the greatest gun salesman ever, because when he was elected, people went nuts, and they went on a gun-shopping binge that still hasn’t stopped. Truthfully, though, Hollywood has probably sold more guns than Barack Obama. Hollywood has done more than any other entity to make guns and knives seem cool and desirable.

Remember Dirty Harry? When Clint Eastwood played him, he used a Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver in .44 Remington Magnum. A bogus story has circulated, saying it was a Model 57 in .41 Magnum, but according to director John Milius, that isn’t true. I think I’ve repeated the myth myself.

Before the movies came out, you could get yourself a gun like Harry’s. They were in short supply because they had gone out of production due to low popularity, but they could be found. Afterward, they vanished. Everyone wanted one, so they were snapped up. They’re still in demand. I bought a 27-2 in .357 Magnum partly because I liked Harry’s gun. The Model 29 went back into production because of Clint Eastwood. He probably drove the popularity of revolvers from Colt and Ruger, too.

Movies and TV shows sell guns like nothing else. The best thing that can happen to a gun manufacturer is to have a model featured in a movie. It will drive people to stores. Actors make it all happen. They even pose with guns on movie posters. Baldwin appeared on a poster for The Getaway, pointing what looks like a 1911 at the camera!

If actors are going to try to take away our civil rights, they should stop exercising them and making them so alluring in movies. Obvious?

Or they could just admit we need guns. Still, though, they could make a little effort to make shootouts look less enjoyable. They could show what really happens when the hero gets shot in the shoulder. He doesn’t wrap a rag around it and keep fighting. He gets an amputation, maybe. He loses use of the arm due to nerve damage. He loses an entire bicep muscle, like the guy who tried to murder Kyle Rittenhouse. Stuff like that happens.

I’m against Ouija boards and tarot cards. If I were an actor, I wouldn’t accept roles where I made them look appealing to the public. Why can’t actors have similar standards? Believe it or not, it’s possible to make a good movie without firearms or with firearms but without making people want to buy and use them.

My guess is that Baldwin will have a bad year due to stress and legal issues, but I’ll bet there is no prosecution. I feel sympathy for him. This has to be a terrible thing to go through.

I wonder what other conservatives are saying. Probably nothing nice.

Wake me Up When They Start Injecting Faces

Today I saw people on Youtube talking about the Satanic nature of the coronavirus vaccines. They are convinced vaccination is the mark of the beast. It’s pretty obviously not. Where does the delusion come from?

The Bible says the beast–the man called the Antichrist–will appear. Then the world gets the mark. You can’t have the mark of the beast with no beast. The Bible says people will receive the mark in their foreheads or right arms. I got vaccinated in my left arm. The shots don’t leave marks, so how can they be marks? Science has no way of telling whether you’ve had the shot, so how can your grocery store or Home Depot tell if you’ve had it when they’re deciding whom to allow to shop? You could display your vaccine card, but it’s not a mark.

People are worried that vaccines somehow let the government track their movements electronically. Oddly, some of them use smartphones to air this concern. If you have a smartphone, Joe Biden already knows where you are. What about the sensors and cameras that line our streets? What about the doorbell and security cameras that are connected to the web? What about the facial recognition software that knows when you go to the mall or a concert?

Wait…are there still concerts?

The vaccinations are not the mark of the beast. Accept it. The present is bad enough without making problems up.

I saw a lady saying she had a dream about people who got the shot. She saw a Spirit-led friend who had gotten it. The friend said she thought God had shown her it was okay. Then she attacked her friend who was dreaming the dream. This dream is supposed to be evidence that the shots are transforming people into enemies of God.

Not every dream is from God. I once dreamed I had a big harem of teenaged girls. God didn’t send that. Sounds more Muslim than Christian.

I think human beings will end up with global passes, and the pass will be the mark. It makes more sense. People are already using vaccination status to prevent others from traveling, buying, and working. If the pandemic gets bad enough, there will suddenly be a “need” for a standardized pass used the world over. For the children, as always. People who push it will wrap themselves in clouds of virtue, and they will shame everyone who disagrees, just as virus fascists do right now.

“Virus fascist” is an accurate term. Fascism is authoritarianism, and regardless of whether draconian measures are right or not, they are authoritarian.

Maybe the aversion to the shots comes from God. The shots aren’t the beast’s marks, but they are being used to train us so we will welcome the mark. Maybe God is using fear of vaccination to prepare people to resist the mark when it comes.

This morning, I was thinking about the causes of the crisis the world is enduring. I found myself trying to list them. Then I scolded myself. When God judges nations, the causes are always the same. Idolatry, sexual perversion, lying, cruelty, and selfishness.

There is very strong evidence that the pandemic’s local severity is tied closely to governmental promotion of sexual perversion. I keep watching Australia and New Zealand, because they seem like test cases. They have moved heaven and earth, imposing unbearable, unsustainable measures to keep covid out. They’re also perversion havens. If things go well in these countries, it will seem to indicate that perversion is not really a big factor in the global crisis.

Today I checked both countries, and numbers are going up. In Australia, the genie really seems to be out of the bottle. The graph looks like the Burj Khalifa. New Zealand also has a very sharp spike, but in absolute terms, it’s tiny. I’m going to keep watching.

The UK, which is arguably the place where effeminacy first went mainstream among influential post-Christian Western men, is doing badly in spite of harsh government responses. They are planning on cracking down again, even after vaccinating a whole bunch of people. Russia is also going back into panic mode.

Why aren’t the vaccines working better? The UK looks like it’s doing worse than it did last year, when it did very badly indeed. The peaks aren’t as high, but they are very high, and they are broad. How can that happen, in a nation which is a leading oppressor and vaccinator? The vaccination rate is 68%. Even if the vaccines aren’t great, shouldn’t they cut the infection numbers by maybe 50%? Where is the decrease? Is the current crisis what covid looks like WITH a big decrease?

Is the delta variant the problem? Last year they told us covid was incredibly contagious, which appears to have been a huge exaggeration, because (if you believe official figures) it spread much more slowly than a typical flu. Maybe things would have been much, much worse had we had the delta variant from the start. I can only guess.

As for official figures, the CDC says the flu hits one billion people in a typical year, and we are told the two-year-old covid pandemic still hasn’t hit 250 million. Believe what you will. Everyone else does.

Over 10% of UK residents have been diagnosed with covid, so the actual figure must be a lot higher, but it’s not slowing down. Shots and recoveries aren’t getting the job done. How can that happen?

From a Biblical perspective, things don’t look good at all. The Bible predicts pestilence before the end, and it says the tribulation will affect the whole world. I didn’t realize until a few days ago that there had only been one other pandemic in history. I mean real pandemics, not typical flu epidemics, the plague, syphilis, the common cold, or AIDS. A real pandemic has to hit every nation, it has to cause big problems, it has to happen within a short time, and it can’t be something you have to work hard to catch.

The Spanish flu and coronavirus are the only real pandemics history has recorded, but only coronavirus is accompanied by other problems predicted in the Revelation.

I still expect things to get worse. Right now, my feeling is that coronavirus will continue to defy vaccines and countermeasures, and that we will see numbers a lot worse than the ones we have seen so far. I think it will never go away until Jesus returns to rule.

My guess, which is just a guess, is that the world will get used to seeing pundits on TV, saying they have no idea why coronavirus keeps beating science.

If this happens, hostility between pro-vaxxers and anti-vaxxers will get worse, contributing to another of the three main plagues of the apocalypse: hatred.

I saw something amazing on Youtube. About a month ago, there was a vaccine-mandate protest in France. People were walking around holding signs and making noise. Suddenly, a large gang of men armed with long poles dashed out into the frame and started beating the protestors. They were not cops. They were not soldiers. Some ordinary French citizens were so afraid of death and so furious at people who didn’t want a shot, they beat them with deadly weapons, knowing they would be filmed.

I can understand governments beating people, because that’s what they do. Secular government is a curse, and it manifests in government brutality. But why would private citizens get so enraged about a vaccination that they would organize, buy big sticks, and try to inflict serious, permanent injuries on strangers who were simply standing around complaining?

You can blind someone with a blow from a stick. You can emasculate and cripple people. You can destroy hearing. You can destroy mental faculties and motor functions. Hitting people with sticks is not a small aggression. It’s not like throwing pies.

It’s remarkable that NBC posted the stick video. Usually, you have to look for a fringe channel to learn about the mandate crisis.

The MSM appears to be working to hide mandate protests. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. Very large crowds have assembled all over the planet, and to watch the news, you would have no idea it was happening. You would think Fox would be breaking the picket line, but it’s not. Fox is headquartered in New York, where people fear death and think Christianity is funny. Fox’s people aren’t conceited liberal elites, but they’re still conceited elites.

It’s as though the godless media elites in New York, Los Angeles, and London had a conference call and decided mandates were too important to cover fairly. I don’t think that happened, but things wouldn’t look any different if it had.

Youtube started pushing a channel on my feed. It was full of protests. A day or two ago, it vanished. I had to search for it. When you search for “coronavirus protest,” Youtube’s search suggests topics it should know you’re not looking for. When it finally delivers, it seems to do so grudgingly, and it provides videos that are weeks or months old, ignoring the protests that are happening right now. Can that possibly be coincidence? It sure looks like some Pokemon-playing millennial who knows better than we do nudged the algorithm.

It’s very unfortunate that the most misguided, arrogant, unempathetic people on earth think they know better than Christians and have power to rule society and control the flow of information.

I am concerned about myself. I don’t think I will ever experience lack again, and I don’t believe I will die from a disease or be murdered in a riot or for my cans of milk and corned beef. I am concerned that I’m not sufficiently sanctified. There are things about myself that I still need to correct, and I have not taken them seriously enough. Time will run out on me if I don’t watch it.

I keep working to stop ridiculing people. I am trying to stamp out what remains of the habit of heartless humor. I’m trying to stop getting angry about things. I have to let go of role models who are either in hell or on the way there. Even men my age have role models, whether they admit it or not.

I believe holding doors open for ungodly influences allows spirits to come in and drive me to sin, and sin can prevent people from being saved or raptured. I don’t want to be here the day after the rapture, waiting for strangers to kill me for my rice and flour, or just for being white or having a nice house.

When your ship gets torpedoed and you’re trying to stay afloat until you’re rescued, you throw the things that make you sink overboard. It’s that simple. When the horn blows, I want out of this place.

Humility Solves Pest Problem

Just blasted a squirrel from the front porch. KERBLOOIE! Lights out, just like that. No .22 kicking and scratching. No guilt.

For the longest time, I’ve had problems killing squirrels quickly with .22 rifles, but I hated using a shotgun because it’s like using a mop to put ketchup on a French fry. No sport. Tonight, I gave in.

People kept telling me I couldn’t shoot! My last 100-yard 6.5mm Creedmoor target had 5 groups. Four were 5 shots each, and one was two shots. The two shot group was the biggest at under 5/8″. PLEASE do not tell me my shooting is the problem. I once shot a squirrel three times in the head, and I had to put one more in him to finish him off. Squirrels are not rabbits or birds. They do not roll over and die easily.

Maybe red squirrels are weak. Maybe the gray squirrels in your area are wimps. Here, you just can’t kill grays hard enough. They are tougher than Terminators on PCP.

I once shot a squirrel that had three legs. Someone else had shot it first, or an animal had torn a front leg off, and the squirrel had escaped, continued to feed and climb trees, heal, and mate. I had to shoot it more than once, myself. I have no patience with the people who say every squirrel they pop with a .22 dies instantly.

The other day, I thought maybe I should start using a shotgun, so I looked for #6 shot for my 16 gauge. I was shocked to see how little there was out there. The industry started starving the 16 gauge a long time ago, and the shortages made things worse. There was very little #6, most of it was overpriced badly, and some vendors were limiting buyers to two boxes. TWO BOXES, with UPS shipping added.

I decided to look at 20 gauge guns. Maybe it was time to get a squirrel gun in a more popular gauge.

I know almost nothing about hunting shotguns because my dad quit hunting before I was born and decided it was better to spend every waking hour in front of the TV. I started making Google searches like “best 20 gauge shotgun.” I had to start somewhere.

It had to be semiauto. This is 2021, and paying semiauto prices for primitive one- or two-shot firearms is idiotic.

I figured I would be looking at $700 for something nice. That isn’t what popped up. I saw Benelli and some other brands. Upwards of $2000. What? Don’t people shoot Remingtons any more?

I saw a Turkish brand: Retay. It was getting great reviews, and it was a lot cheaper than Benelli. The Turks make very good guns, not just for the money, but good, period. I’m sure it’s good enough for me, and I’m also sure I don’t want to spend $2500.

I found out the 20 gauge was around a grand, and the 12 gauge was not that much more. I thought, “Why buy a 20 gauge that will only kill birds and squirrels when I can go big and kill everything?”

I’m pretty sure my grandfather killed birds with a Remington 1100 and the Browning Sweet Sixteen I now have. I don’t know if the 1100 is any good or not, and it looks like Remington’s inept management has made it impossible for me to get one, so that model is out.

While I was thinking about the Retay, I found an acceptable deal on 16 gauge shells, so the new purchase was put on hold. Although I should still do it, because gun.

It is because I was able to secure a few shells that I lost my fear of shooting the Sweet Sixteen, so when I saw a squirrel tonight while I was talking on the phone, I was ready. Using Bluetooth to keep the conversation going, I stuffed 4 shells into the Browning, and when I was free, outside I went.

I filled the bird feeder yesterday. Not because I love birds. I knew what it would attract. While I was on the phone, I saw a big, fat, white belly facing me from beneath the feeder. An insolent rodent was chomping away, looking me right in the face.

He vanished during my conversation, but he returned, and when I went outside later, he was in the same spot. I aimed, pulled the trigger, released the safety, and pulled the trigger again. I have to work on that. BAM! Squirrel down! He had a buddy behind him, and the buddy took off and ran to the base of a tree. I couldn’t see him clearly, so I gave him a temporary reprieve, but next time, I’m going to shoot everything out there, even if it’s on the run.

I left him to rot. He’ll be gone tomorrow. He’s probably gone now.

I should have put the rifles away long ago. They just don’t work. You can’t shoot at anything above the horizon. You can shoot half a squirrel’s head off without killing him. You will find yourself watching wounded squirrels run off, time after time. Rifles are way more fun than shotguns, and using a shotgun makes me feel like a woman, but something has to be done about these rodents.

Rifles are great from a rest, when you have time to aim well and you don’t care whether kill anything or not. The rest of the time, a rifle is the wrong choice.

I’m thinking I should get a good hunting 12 gauge. I have never had one. I can get the gun, a big supply of bird shells, and a big supply of squirrel shells. Then I can relax, knowing all my hunting bases are covered. Maybe they’re covered now, with the 16 gauge, but I’m not sure.

I’m all set for 12 gauge buck. No worries there.

For the rest of the season, I’m going to kill squirrels like Democrats think ivermectin kills Trump supporters. The insanity of tolerating these creatures has to stop.

Next: a Table Saw

It’s important to marry a woman who has things in common with you. Rhodah and I agree on Christian doctrine and conservative politics, so the big-ticket items are covered. As a bonus, she also likes things like meat, knives, and guns. She even likes my waterproof Keen hiking shoes. Suffering with woman shoes while I walked all over Egypt and Turkey in comfort made an impression on her.

Guns are legal in Zambia, where people are still somewhat sane and remain able to tell the difference between 1) a woman and 2) a male head case in a dress. We have discussed the possibility of getting her a firearm, but we haven’t done anything about it.

I did get her a knife, however. She won’t be able to handle it until we’re together again, because shipping things to Zambia is like shipping things to Neptune. I suggested a Spyderco Manix 2 with CMP SPY17 steel, which is supposedly about like S35VN, only cooler because it was made especially for Spyderco.

There are steels that hold an edge better, but they are harder to sharpen. I don’t see Rhodah becoming a sharpening expert any time soon, so I thought I should make things relatively easy. As much as it pains me, I’m giving her a pull-through sharpener with carbide and ceramic guides. It will not win any contests, but her knife will stay sharper than 98% of the knives within a 10-mile radius of her house.

When I picked the knife out, I was happy to see that it had a pretty blue handle. I knew that would help with the sale. She confirmed that it was “cute,” and we were in business.

I made the mistake of saying I could make a belt sheath for it, so now I have to do that.

When the knife arrived, I liked it so much I was extremely jealous, so I ordered a sister knife in M390 steel, which is harder. It’s not here yet.

The Smith Pocket Pal sharpener I ordered has been tested on a stubborn Forschner kitchen knife, and it put a very good edge on it. It looks rough, but it will cut just fine.

I decided to get a real sharpener for myself. I have hones and diamond stones, and they work, but a modern sharpener will give you nearly exactly the edge you want, all the way down a curved blade, without the need for a lot of skill or youth-grade eyesight.

You can blow well over a thousand dollars on a knife sharpener if you have no life whatsoever and give your knives the names of female anime characters, but it looks like you can do very, very well for two hundred bucks. A company called KME makes a gadget which will put a beautiful edge on knives up to 10″ long. I ordered one. True nerds like them a great deal, and that’s good enough for me.

I hope it works out.

I told my buddy Mike about it, and he said he only sharpens his knives on one side. I had to sit down. I shook for a while. He said it saved time.

Maybe he’s onto something. Sushi chefs use knives sharpened on one side, and they do a fine job. Sharpening one side of a knife takes no skill, and as Mike says, it’s fast.

The big knock on Mike’s system is that it can make it hard to make a straight cut.

MAC, a Japanese manufacturer, recommends a big bevel on one side of the knife and a tiny one on the other. They claim it makes it easier to make thin slices, and it doesn’t make the blade drift. That’s interesting. I might have to try that. I could get another chef knife.

Mike didn’t come up with his system after years of study under Hattori Hanzo. He was just too lazy to learn how to sharpen a knife. What if it turns out laziness has worked out better than work?

I usually use a Mundial santoku with a plastic NSF grip. I think I paid $18. This is what real chefs use when they’re not on TV, by the way. A restaurant will hire a company, and the company will come around every so often with a bunch of sharpened Forschner or Mundial knives with thin stainless blades, and they’ll take the restaurant’s dull knives away to be restored. I know some chefs have knife rolls full of overpriced, impractical Wusthofs and Globals, but you’re probably not going to see 35 greasy Wusthofs if you barge into the kitchen at Morton’s on a busy Saturday night. I have never worked in a commercial kitchen, but I’ll bet expensive knives are only seen in the hands of prima donnas.

The Mundial sharpens to a razor edge in about 5 seconds, it loves the dishwasher, it’s springy, and it can’t rust. If you gave me a big, heavy Sabatier that cost $200, I would thank you, put it in a drawer, and keep using the Mundial.

I’m going to spend $15 on another Mundial and sharpen it the MAC way. It will be an interesting experiment. If it doesn’t work, I’ll have one more chef’s knife. If it does, it could revolutionize my sharpening practices.

I would have to come up with a good lie to tell Mike, though.

Knives are so much better than they were when I was a kid, it’s a wonder anyone still has a knife more than 40 years old. Edges last way longer, handles don’t disintegrate, corrosion is no longer an issue, and most pocket knives now have locks to keep them from closing and severing finger tendons. Old knives look really, really bad compared to new ones.

Today I saw a video from a guy who knew T.B. Joshua. His name is Mfon Tommy. He says Joshua’s last message to the disciples was, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Jesus said this on the night he prayed in the garden, and after he said it, he went away and returned to find the disciples were sleeping and ignoring his warning.

I thought this was all very interesting. Jesus left, and he will come back. He will come back to rapture certain Christians, he will depart for 7 years, and he will return a second time to rule the earth.

While he is gone, the world will undergo a period of suffering called the tribulation. In the Revelation, Jesus called it “the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.”

It may be that Joshua was warning the world about what was about to come. You don’t want to be here during the tribulation. The government will inflict all sorts of suffering on you to make you take the mark of the beast. The beast mindset is already setting in. Governments are destroying liberty and crushing protestors all over the world.

Rhodah had a rapture dream last night. She had written a book, and she had to pay a man 500 units of some currency in order to have it published. When she gave him the money, he grabbed her and took her to heaven using an escalator. When she arrived, she met people who had died. Some were people she expected to be saved, but some were pleasant surprises.

Her sister and her sister’s new baby, who was still a baby in the dream, were also raptured.

Rhodah said there was a division between the dead and the raptured. They could talk, but they couldn’t merge.

Rhodah hates escalators. It’s something we disagree about. I took a smug satisfaction in the presence of the escalators.

My understanding of the rapture is that the dead will rise first and stay in heaven. The living who are worthy will go to heaven for 7 years, for the marriage supper of the lamb. Then they’ll have to return. One would expect the dead and the raptured to be separated in heaven.

Jesus is a raptured person. He went to heaven in his flesh body. It makes sense that we would be like him. The Bible says the rapture is a harvest, accomplished with a sickle, and elsewhere, it calls Jesus the firstfruit of the harvest. He is the first of many. He will return to live on earth, so the raptured should return as well.

Was the dream prophetic? Rhodah’s nephew is a few weeks old, and he will only be a baby for another year and a few months.

The book seems to be her testimony. She needs to get it out there. Maybe she needs a blog.

America Forever!

The Bible says the first shall be last, and the last shall be first. I wonder if we’re seeing that in Africa. When the rapture comes, will there be a huge wave of Africans accompanied by a tiny trickle of Americans and Europeans?

After T.B. Joshua died, I looked for other ministries to observe. The conclusion I have come to is that on the whole, African churches are superior to American churches. There are plenty of corrupt preachers and Christians in both places, but Africa has something America lacks: big churches full of faith-filled people, where miracles, deliverance, and good teaching are features of nearly every service.

Africa has entire nations that have declared themselves Christian. Remember when Obama, who is despised by African Christians, said America was not a Christian nation? African nations have responded to coronavirus with state-sanctioned days of prayer. African nations have leaders who will sit in front of MSM cameras and say, with no trace of embarrassment, that homosexuality is evil and will not be encouraged in exchange for American aid dollars.

Southern Africa’s covid miracle is a wonder to behold. Nations that stand up for God no longer have coronavirus epidemics, and they never had major problems. They don’t have Antifa and BLM riots. They are not experiencing the shortages we face here in the world’s richest country. My wife says food is abundant in Zambia. The big problem is a weak economy that makes it hard for people to buy it.

If I had to guess, I would say things will get much, much worse in the pro-perversion nations while Southern Africa, apart from South Africa and a couple of other “progressive” nations, continues to roll along pretty much as it does right now. It will be interesting to see if my impression is correct.

In the America of 2000, you were free to say, “I don’t have any interest in taking action against people because of their odd sexual practices, but I believe what they do is sinful.” Now you can’t do that. Most Americans claim to belong to ancient religions that explicitly condemn sodomy, yet you can pretty much expect to be persecuted and ostracized by those same people if you simply say you agree with your religion’s teachings. It’s not enough to be tolerant. You have to join the deviants and help them promote their beliefs and practices.

It’s a very big deal. We are blinded to the significance of it because of herdthink, cowardice, and the incremental nature of the change, but 2021 America is an astonishing place compared to the America of our parents. Deviation is mainstream now, in our entertainment, our businesses, our government, and our “Christian” churches. The proponents of sin won. There is no struggle. That’s all behind us. America is an aggressively pro-deviation nation; far and away the greatest power in favor of coerced cooperation with sexual sin that the world has ever known. We used to snicker at the Greeks. They were nothing compared to us.

How can it be that Africans have become more advanced than Americans? Aren’t they the people we send bags of rice? How can it be that they’re sending much-needed missionaries here? How can it be that Americans who want to see the Christianity of Jesus in action have to go to Youtube and watch people in Nigeria?

Africa isn’t perfect. It has a huge underground homosexuality problem, and it’s full of witchcraft. Still, the tsunami of plagues God is allowing to drown developed nations is passing Southern Africa by. Maybe curses aren’t just about sin. Maybe they’re more about official endorsement of sin. Places like Uganda have big AIDS problems due to secret sodomy, but their governments are openly against perversion.

In the US, we don’t have the option of voting for congressmen and presidents who will endorse Jesus and stand against perversion. They can’t make it through the primaries.

Maybe America is in trouble because we have started encoding support for sin in our laws.

What would happen if Joel Osteen grew a spine and some intestines and decided to cast demons of sexual perversion out on national TV? Americans would destroy his TV ministry in under a month. He would end up with a thousand-person church in a warehouse complex. I don’t think his staff, entourage, and pampered wife have anything to worry about, though. If Osteen ever found he had a trace of a spine, he would have it removed immediately.

This country is gone; finished; kaput. You know what people like to say when they see a bad injury: “There’s no coming back from that.” That’s us. If you support sexual sin, rejoice and stop seeing yourself as part of a struggle. You are not the underdog. You’re the establishment. You’re dominant. You won a long time ago. Christians, observant Jews, and Muslims lost, and they will keep losing, losing, losing. You can tell us where to work and if we can work. You can drive us out of neighborhoods. You can have our stuff. Rejoice. The fun won’t last long, because a very angry and deadly Jesus is going to return, but you’re in charge right now.

Not in Africa, of course, but still.

Why are Africans so strong when we’re so weak? How did that happen? Where did they get so much guts?

America is the Ronda Rousey of countries. Remember her? Let’s look back at her career.

She started by going to the 2008 Olympics and winning a bronze in judo. Not gold. I assume she was not competing against the world’s best, because they would have to be professionals and therefore ineligible. She didn’t fight the best, and two nobodies still did better than she did.

She entered the MMA world, where the female talent pool was very small. She beat a lot of people fight historians now consider mediocre. She used the same hold over and over. She grappled instead of striking, because grappling was all she knew.

People like Joe Rogan and Gene LeBell started saying she was a once-in-a-lifetime talent. She was unstoppable. Destined to be the best athlete of the century.

Rousey got full of herself. She started saying she could beat up men. She threatened at least one. Even Serena Williams never got that crazy. Williams got her rear end handed to her by a third-rate male pro. Rousey is alive and walking today because she never tried to deliver on her threats.

Rousey found herself a striking trainer named Tarverdyan. He claimed he was a world champion boxer, but what does that mean when there are no unified titles? I’m pretty sure there are organizations somewhere that would give me titles for $25 each. Tarverdyan’s title was even more suspect because he got it by fighting a person with no record.

Rousey started shadow-boxing for the cameras. It was disturbing. She didn’t box BADLY. It was more like she didn’t BOX. She bent her wrists, squared up to the camera, held her head high, and threw “punches” that came from the shoulders. If you’re not a boxer, you may not understand how crazy that is. She looked like a kitten throwing swipes at a littermate. I am not exaggerating. She was totally incompetent. The sycophants didn’t care. She was indestructible!

If you watch her shadow-box, you will see she throws her rear end in the opposite direction from the punch. That’s unbelievable. Your rear end has to go in the same direction as your hand if you want power. They teach you that during the first 10 minutes of your first day. If you move your behind backward, you make your punches softer.

Rousey arranged a fight with Holly Holm, a very good boxer who later faded into the ranks of ordinary MMA fighters. She talked smack about humiliating and dismantling Holm. It was a foregone conclusion. She made Muhammad Ali look humble.

She didn’t realize her career had already ended. She would never again make a credible appearance in the ring.

Of course, Rousey lost to Holm in the second round, and she was no challenge at all. She would have been knocked out in the first round, but it took Holm a while to wrap her head around Rousey’s shocking lack of ability, so she hesitated. Once she realized she was fighting unopposed, it was like watching Holm beat up an amateur.

Rousey couldn’t punch correctly or land her bad punches. She couldn’t kick. Stubbornly, presumably because she was THE Ronda Rousey, she kept trying to box, and Holm kept punching her in the mouth. Rousey started panting. She wasn’t in shape. Gods don’t have to train.

Rousey decided to grapple, having been assured she was the best grappler in history. She grabbed Holm repeatedly. Holm peeled her off effortlessly, as you might peel your cat off your leg while trying to put groceries away. Rousey is much, much weaker than Holm. She learned this at the same time we did.

Rousey fought orthodox, but she led with her right hand. You know who leads with a right? Someone like Ali or Mayweather. In other words, a person with fast hands and head movement. Not a Ronda Rousey. Rousey is slow, slow, slow, and she didn’t have enough common sense to cover her face with her left while the right was out there failing to connect.

Rousey couldn’t strike, she couldn’t wrestle, she couldn’t block punches, and she wasn’t allowed to quit. Holm beat her for a while and then put her down. Holm was fighting southpaw, but she was so confident, she hit Rousey with a lead left, proving she could easily do what Rousey had failed to do. Holm connected with left leads often during the short fight. Rousey couldn’t even lead with her jab hand.

Rousey fell and ended up facing away from Holm. When she stood up, her hands were down, either because she was a bad boxer or because she had a fresh concussion. Holm turned the stumbling, compliant Rousey toward herself, positioned her perfectly, and kicked her in the face. Rousey was out. When she hit the canvas, her arms were down, and her face hit first. Before the referee intervened, Holm punched the inert Rousey in the same place she kicked her three more times. It was months before Rousey could eat properly again. Several of her teeth were loose, and her lip had to be stitched closed.

In her next and final bout, she faced Amanda Nunes, a better fighter than Holm. Unfortunately, she kept Tarverdyan and didn’t improve. Unlike Holm, Nunes had very heavy hands. She was a power puncher. Rousey had never faced anyone like her. Rousey was the person who said “girl punches” didn’t hurt.

A relaxed, unscathed, dry-skinned Nunes delivered a brutal, decisive TKO to a bloody, staggering Rousey in the first round, and at some point after Rousey recovered, she took her battered reputation, which had been landing her movie roles, and went to work in the WWE, which is about like becoming a rodeo clown, only less dignified.

Holm went on to lose her next three fights, one to someone Rousey had beaten. She eventually lost to Nunes, following a face kick reminiscent of the Rousey shot.

Honest fight critics will say they learned some things about Rousey. She is extremely slow for a striker. She can’t hit hard. She punches inaccurately. She can barely kick at all. She has no head movement. She has no guard. She has a glass jaw. She isn’t very strong. She gets tired faster than her opponents.

In short, not only is she not a phenomenal fighter; she’s not a very good fighter. She’s not good enough to fight in the UFC, even as a journeyman. She didn’t quit because she was traumatized, tired, or intimidated. She quit because she found out she was a fake, and she knew her future earnings were evaporating with each loss. Even if she had gone back to work with a real trainer and gotten in great shape and sparred with top partners, she would have continued losing, and if that had happened, not even the WWE would have hired her. That would have led to a career operating a strip mall dojo. With only two losses to explain, she and her employers can at least pretend she could have continued fighting.

Every woman in the UFC knows how to beat her now. Get in good condition so you outlast her. Punch her in the mouth, because she can’t stop you. Avoid her submission holds, or, if you’re stronger than she is, just pull her off. Don’t worry about her punches, because they’re weak and she misses. She missed Holm so completely, she followed through and landed on the canvas with Holm standing behind her.

America is just as self-gaslighted as Rousey. America thinks it can beat coronavirus, shortages, and internal hatred, because we’re AMERICA! We think we can beat China, even though China has already won. We’re like Samson, lying on Delilah’s lap, dreaming of beating up Philistines even as she wipes the Barbasol off our defenseless head.

Southern Africa may be more like Gideon, hiding out and feeling weak and unimportant while God prepares a victorious future.

California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and other blue states are not doing well right now. I plan to keep checking to see how things unfold.