Coronavirus Nibbling at Conservative Strongholds

For the second time this year, guests have bailed out due to coronavirus worries.

I invited two friends and their son to visit this weekend. Another friend with three sons was also going to come. A third family with two adults and 5 kids was also included. The lady with three sons decided to bail because she was concerned about taking the disease to her elderly mother.

I’m so used to being insulated, I couldn’t figure out why she was canceling. She had to explain it.

Let’s see how things are going. The papers say we are approaching 800 known cases here, up from something like 300 as of June 1. Testing has gone crazy, which accounts for some of the increase, but it may also be that there is a real spike in cases. Our death toll is stuck at 10, and we have only had around 70 hospitalizations.

Interesting fact: the county is 11.5% black, but 17% of the known cases are black. The figure for non-Hispanic whites is not published, but based on other figures that have been disclosed, it looks like we come in at a little over 50%, in a county where 84% of the people are white and the vast majority of whites are non-Hispanic. In this county, Hispanics make up something like 6% of the population.

Conclusion: white people are doing very well, and other people are not. Why? Also, women are doing much worse than men.

Are white people and men really less likely to be infected, or are we just less likely to get tested?

As always, I don’t know. Testing is still sporadic even if it’s much more common than it used to be. The tests are not reliable. When they work, they only identify active cases, so we have no idea how many people have been infected, had no symptoms, and recovered. No one really knows what’s happening.

Am I concerned about this weekend? I’m not too concerned about myself, but guess who I’m entertaining? Blacks and Hispanics. None of them are old or severely obese, but three are on the heavy side.

I am not anxious to get sick or die, but I’m also not excited about cowering in my burrow and enjoying a continually contracting standard of life just so I can remain alive in a country which, were it a person, would now be close to being wheeled around on a handtruck wearing a straitjacket and plastic face restraint.

One family is from a county with 2700 cases, with a population about 25% greater than the county where I live. Not good, but well below 1%. The others live in a county right at 1%, although they don’t live in the densest area.

What do you do? Do you wall yourself into a hole and have food pumped in through a tube? Do you tear up all your masks and do whatever you please?

We still don’t have much in the way of major-celebrity fatalities. The only one I know of is Roy Horn, and calling him a major celebrity is gracious. Where are the deaths? Many celebrities are wealthy enough to hole up for the rest of their lives, but many are not. There are a lot of broke celebrities. Why aren’t any of them dying? Where are the broke ex-athletes who are very famous yet not rich enough to insulate themselves from coronavirus? They’re all still alive. Why?

The epidemic still doesn’t make sense. It probably won’t make sense 5 years from now. We have been lied to over and over because of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and leftists don’t like to go back and correct their lies years later. We may never know what is and is not true.

If there truly is a serious spike, we will see deaths spike just as much by the middle of July, and we will surely see some famous people die. If we don’t see these things, how can we believe the epidemic got significantly worse? What magic could explain it?

What if I get sick and die? I guess people will mock me for downplaying the epidemic. I’ll be on the streets of gold, however, so it’s not like I’ll care. Hooray for you; you got to deal with the end of civilization a lot longer than I did.

Based on New York’s experience, we have maybe another month of high numbers before us.

I will take reasonable precautions, as always, and leave it at that. I’ll keep trying to stay close to God. Hope I don’t end up in the hospital. If I die, I die. I don’t think it will happen, though. The odds against me being infected are high, the odds of dying are very low, and there is a very good chance I already had the disease in February.

If I stop blogging for a month, send donations to the NRA or World Relief and move on with your lives.

Equipment for Real Social Distancing

I’ve been home from the 1000-yard range for three days, and I already have a bunch of new equipment on the way. Snipers rolled me out of the bed of ignorance, and I hit the ground running.

I’m going to be shooting a Ruger Precision Rifle. Is it the best choice for beginners? I do not know. It looks like there are a number of good guns out there at the lower end of the PRS market. The RPR is extremely popular, so even if it isn’t the best gun, there will be all sorts of support for it.

I wanted to get a simple shooting mat. I figured this would be a three-minute research project. WRONG. From using borrowed mats over the weekend, I knew there were certain things I didn’t want in a mat, and when I looked at various products, I kept seeing those problems.

One mat I used had black patches on it for reinforcement in certain areas. When the sun hit them, they got blistering hot. That’s no good, so no dark mats. Some mats were too narrow. You need a little room for your junk, so the narrow mats were out. One mat, which doubled as a case, had hardware on the inside where it would scratch weapons. Come on. Really?

There are thin mats. There are mats made from cheap fabrics. There are mats that soak up water because they have open-cell foam.

I gave up and ordered a very expensive mat which is popular among SEAL’s. Sometimes you have to suck it up and buy the best, or what appears to be the best. Fine. I’ll get over it.

My AR-15’s scope is less than a month old, and I have to get rid of it. It’s worthless for any type of shooting involving DOPE or holdovers. I don’t plan to use the AR for really serious shooting, but I want to be able to get out to maybe 800 yards, so I have to have MIL’s and target turrets. A company in Texas makes a shockingly good 4-14x MIL-dot scope for a very low price. It has the blessing of various long-range experts. It will be more than good enough for an AR-15 with a factory barrel.

I bought an inch-pound torque wrench for mounting optics. This was surprisingly hard. Gunsmithing companies make little torque screwdrivers, but people complain about how cheap and fragile they are. A serious inch-pound screwdriver runs hundreds of dollars. I ordered a beam wrench, which is the old-fashioned kind of wrench your granddad used. It will be fantastic for scopes, it will never break, and it’s easy to read. And it was cheap.

I bought the cleaning stuff the snipers recommended. They like Bore Tech Eliminator. They spelled out the reasons, but I don’t remember them. I have very good cleaning products that work well, but long-range shooting is a strange game, and anything the pros don’t want inside their barrels is probably something that shouldn’t be there. Cleaning affects accuracy. If Eliminator makes snipers happy, there must be a reason for it. They would know if their guns weren’t shooting well.

I bought a pint, which ought to last me until I die.

Ammo is interesting. Believe it or not, people commonly shoot 1 MOA with very cheap 6.5 Creedmoor ammo at 100 yards. Great, right? Just buy cheap ammo. Not so fast. Ammo that kills mice a football field away may do weird things 900 yards farther downrange. I decided to try Hornady ELD 140-grain match ammo. It’s a ballistic tip cartridge, and it’s supposed to be very good. Sadly, it’s not great for hunting. It’s just like the ballistic tip ammo used for coons and so on, but the cup the tip sits in is tiny, so I guess the rounds don’t expand much.

The gun won’t be for hunting anyway. I may use it for that, but it will be very heavy because it’s made for accuracy. I could see using it when not too much walking is involved.

I have a Vortex scope on the way for the Ruger. It’s a very nice MIL-dot scope. It was discontinued so Vortex could sell a new reticle, but there is nothing wrong with the old reticle. I saved something on the order of 50%. I am very happy about that. To do better, I pretty much have to move up to a new level and spend somewhere around $2500. That would be stupid for someone who is just starting and isn’t sure what he needs.

I bought a Kestrel. This is the fancy ballistics calculator they trained me on. It will save me a lot of aggravation when I shoot. I can set it for various cartridges and guns, and it will look at the weather, the distances, and a bunch of other things and tell me how to set my turrets. It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing. It should be, for what it costs.

Once all this stuff arrives, I will have no excuse for not shooting well, so I’ll have to start making some up.

There is a 900-yard range around 30 miles away. I have to go look at it. I expect to buy a membership.

If all goes well, I may be shooting the AR at home at 200 yards in less than a week, and I may be shooting at the range, using the Ruger, in less than two weeks. Within a month or two, I may be a minimally competent long-distance shooter. That would really be something. If I get confident, I’ll have to think seriously about traveling and hunting with guides.

I should go ahead and dump some of my guns. I hate selling a firearm, but now that I see how shooting is done, I realize some of my guns are silly. No one needs an overpriced Romanian semiauto Romak III. My K31 is neat, but the cheap ammo is no longer available, and the gun has a terrible stock. It’s like they mounted a barrel in an oak dresser. I like my LR-308, but who really needs a semiauto battle rifle in .308 Winchester? I could unload it and put the money in a hunting rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor.

Drinking the Creedmoor Kool-Aid seems to be a good thing. I used to think I wanted .260 Remington or 6.5 Swedish, but you make your life difficult when you pick those cartridges, and you don’t get much of a return. Creedmoor is a fantastic cartridge, and there is a ton of great factory ammo out there at reasonable prices. There is a reason why it’s so popular.

I could put a Creedmoor barrel in the LR-308. I don’t know why I should, though. I would be struggling to make a poorly chosen gun work.

I have a budget night scope on my .204 Ruger rifle. I don’t know if I should put an optical scope on it or not. I definitely want to keep the night scope, because it actually works, but I would also like to be able to use the rifle for daytime shooting at long range with a real scope.

If I start hunting deer, I will have to figure out what I need. Based on my sad experiences with coyotes (which never showed up), I know you want to be able to back the magnification down for anything large. When you try to spot a coyote with a 14x scope at 100 yards, all you see is a tiny bit of ground. He could be right next to it, and you wouldn’t know. If a coyote had shown up, I would have had a hard time keeping him in view as he moved. It must be worse with deer.

I have no criticisms of my pistol purchases. I think I did great there.

I’m going to buy a stockpile of Creedmoor ammo, and then I should be okay for the foreseeable future. If there is a Biden ammo panic, I’ll be okay for quite some time. Biden pretends he likes hunting, and the person who takes over when he forgets who he is will probably continue his dishonest gun policies, so hunting cartridges like 6.5 Creedmoor should be the last things to disappear. They’ll go after people who know the Second Amendment is for self-defense and resistance to tyranny, and after that, they’ll take duck guns and deer guns away from Fudds who really believed it was smart to vote for Democrats.

Spring was expensive, and summer is going to be expensive, too, but you have to spend money on very important things.

Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Generation

Are we already in the apocalypse?

Today I turned on an audio Bible while I prayed, and I decided to listen to the Revelation. I listen to different books at different times. I ask God what I should listen to, or I listen to whatever is already cued up. It’s not like I listen to the Revelation over and over, along with Daniel, trying to get myself and my stockpile of pemmican and ammunition ready for our national reenactment of The Walking Dead.

Jesus spoke to 7 churches in the Revelation, and we all know he commended the church of Philadelphia above all the others. Here is what he said:

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

I am just guessing, but I suspect “Philadelphia,” which means the love among brothers, is intended to be a prophetic signal. I think it means those churches which are full of the Holy Spirit and God’s love. Charismatic churches where people speak in tongues and don’t worship money.

The only real unifying force in this world is the Holy Spirit, and he unifies with love, not fear or harsh discipline. When Christians are led by the Holy Spirit, they are unified regardless of race and national origin.

The hour of temptation is the tribulation which occurs before Jesus returns. It happens after the rapture. So Jesus is saying people who are like the church of Philadelphia will be taken in the rapture. They will be spared the full-blown expression of God’s wrath.

We know the tribulation is a time of temptation, because the Bible makes it clear that people will still be able to be saved, and it says those who refuse to worship Satan will be killed. They will be tempted to recant. They won’t be able to buy or sell. They will be abused very badly. The ones who won’t make it will be like Esau, who sold his birthright for a bowl of soup. They’ll go to hell in spite of trying to turn to God.

It’s nice that Jesus doesn’t say people in the other churches will go to hell, but it seems obvious that if they aren’t taken in the rapture, they aren’t saved as of that moment. It appears that they will be left here, unsaved, with the option of repenting and going to heaven later, after much unnecessary suffering.

This morning I turned on a Youtube video about the popularity of 10mm in Alaska, where it’s used for bear defense. The man in the video started talking about the difficulty of buying ammunition during the current “apocalypse.” This was the first time I had heard anyone say something like that so casually. I don’t think he was serious, but what if he was right?

People have predicted the time of the end many times in the past, and they were wrong, but they didn’t live in 2020. Our population is pushing 8 billion. Technology is destroying free will and government. The greatest Christian nation in history has fallen away, and the majority is being oppressed by minorities and sexual deviants. We have a micro-plague and a mini-famine. Violence and hatred are everywhere. Delusion approaching psychosis is mainstream among leftists and some other groups. We have never seen a time like this. The earth appears to be ripe for the end.

Scientists think the earth can only sustain 10 billion people. We’ll be there soon. I admit, scientists are wrong a lot, but they ought to have some sort of clue about this.

It’s strange to hear someone use the word “apocalypse” with such nonchalance. Maybe it will become more common.

We have a tendency to deny things for long periods, then acknowledge them facetiously and intermittently, and then admit them openly. Remember the animosity Barack Obama had for Israel? People said friction between Obama and the Israelis didn’t exist. Then they started joking about it. Then journalists started discussing it as though it were undeniable and well-known to everyone. Maybe the apocalypse will work that way.

Biden’s obvious dementia will work that way. Now he’s making pathetic Youtube ads in which he makes grammatical errors and slurs his speech.

What’s happening to human beings is a little bit like falling into a black hole. When you’re far away, you’re pulled in slowly. Your speed doesn’t change much from one year to the next. When you get closer, the gravitational force, which increases as the inverse of the square of the distance from the singularity, rises more quickly every second. You speed up faster and faster. It’s not linear. Not only are we more depraved, deluded, and cruel than were in the past; we are becoming depraved, deluded and cruel more quickly every day. The difference between 2019 and 2020 is worse than the difference between 2010 and 2019. What will the rest of the year be like?

The thing to focus on is the promise Jesus gave the Philadelphians. He said they didn’t have to be around for the tribulation. You can avoid it, too. Temptation to fall away is getting stronger and stronger. If you don’t take the bait, you’ll be fine. If you do take the bait, you’ll find yourself in a world where it’s much harder to turn back to God and harder still to stay with him. It’s not the right move.

I would be happy to leave during the next second. I don’t want to see furious imbeciles storm the White House or go on rape rampages in our suburbs. I don’t want to see Christians who don’t know the Holy Spirit shooting protestors as they charge their houses in waves. What we’re seeing now is sufficient for me.

The other day a crowd of demon puppets put a guillotine outside a house belonging to Jeff Bezos. That should chill everyone. It’s a death threat, just like hanging a noose outside a black family’s house. In the French Revolution, angry peasants pulled aristocrats out of their homes and severed their heads. Bezos is a leftist! He’s also a powerful agent of the Beast. His type of commerce is putting control of buying and selling in the hands of a few, making it easier to cut Christians off from goods and services in the future. The Beast’s silly children are threatening one of their best friends. Not sure why. Maybe they prefer Ebay.

No, they prefer stealing.

Is this really happening? Am I really living in the end of the end time? I suppose the coming weeks will tell me.

Rice for the Woke

So what’s the story with coronavirus?

I am still not willing to go out on a limb and say there really is a spike in infections, because I can’t find information I trust. I’ve been lied to so much, I can’t draw conclusions. Nonetheless, it certainly looks like there is a spike.

I wrote about the dire predictions of a second wave. I didn’t see why there would be one. If nothing changes, why would a disease suddenly stop fading out and start spreading again? It didn’t make any sense, and no one I was able to dig up provided an explanation. Oddly, we are being told we’re not having a second wave, even though we are supposedly seeing much bigger numbers. Makes me wonder what a second wave is. It would be nice if someone told us.

Today I saw something that made sense. Researchers somewhere or other think covid has become more contagious. I believe they mentioned a factor of something like 17. Anyway, it was between 10 and 20. I’m not going to look it up.

One of the saving graces of covid has been its low speed of transmission. Doctors kept telling us it was much more contagious than the flu, even as it failed to infect nearly as many people. Now maybe that has changed.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Wish I knew.

The same people who have been lying to us or providing utterly inadequate true information are saying viruses tend to become less deadly as they spend more time among humans. The evolutionary basis, supposedly, is that a virus strain that leaves victims alive will have more carriers and therefore multiply faster than, and replace, other strains.

I don’t believe in evolution as the origin of species, but creatures do respond to selection forces, as the first person to breed dachshunds could tell you.

If we have more contagion, we may have lower severity. If that happens, we could end up with a whole lot of infected people who don’t do badly and become immune. I suppose we already have this to some degree, but maybe it would become true of the elderly and other people who are weak and in danger.

If it works this way, nice viruses that spread quickly will protect us from mean ones that spread slowly.

If covid is spreading more efficiently now due to mutations, then we have to hope it behaves better than the old covid once it infects. Otherwise, it will be a very bad year, barring divine intervention.

This disease doesn’t seem to care all that much about behavior. That’s strange. It blasted lockdown prisoners in New York more heavily than people who were out and about. It also seems unaffected by warm weather. Or is it? A slowdown caused by warm weather could be masked by an acceleration caused by increased contagion.

Will it continue to hit regions where God is unpopular harder than areas where Christianity is strong (assuming such areas really exist)? I hope so. Not because I want to see pagans and protestors get sick, but because it’s very important that repentance and prayer work to protect people. If we can’t get help from God, then there is nothing we can do except wait for the vaccine. If turning back to God works, then people who aren’t totally close-minded will be able to help themselves and get out from under the curse. This is the best outcome we could hope for. It would combine protection from disease with beautiful new relationships with the God who loves us.

I said covid wasn’t a plague back when it was infecting very slowly. If it hits flu numbers AND remains severe, it will be a real plague.

Was it ever severe, though? The overwhelming majority of people who die are weak to begin with. We let people in nursing homes get sick because we didn’t care about them, so we had a lot of deaths. The flu could do things like that, and it doesn’t scare us. What would the rate of severe cases be if covid were infecting people more randomly, as the flu does? What would the flu death rate be if we didn’t vaccinate people in nursing homes?

Maybe it’s not very severe now and it will become much less severe as it mutates and spreads more quickly.

Unfortunately, we could still end up with a lot more deaths in absolute terms. A wimpy disease that affects nearly everyone can kill more people than a terrible disease that isn’t common.

I still don’t know a single person who has had it. I know two people who have friends (one each) who have been symptomatic. I can’t tell you how many asymptomatic people my acquaintances know, because asymptomatic people fly under the radar.

What am I doing to protect myself? Still nothing, almost. I do disinfect my hands when I’m out and around. I stand far from people most of the time. That’s a great idea whether or not there’s an epidemic. That’s all I do. As I have said before, I now own several masks, but they’re to protect other people, not me. A cloth mask–based on what the propaganda machine is saying at the moment–will not help the wearer, but it may reduce the number of people he infects.

While I was at my shooting class this weekend, I was surrounded by hard core conservatives, many of whom were ex-military. Surprising, I know. None had a mask. When we conversed, they said a lot of hostile things about the paranoia. I saw a group of black people shooting at the range. That’s always encouraging. Some of them wore masks. That was about it.

I get on my face every day and worship God. I try to do it at least twice. Humility is very important when it comes to avoiding curses. So far, covid has been weak in Christian-heavy areas, but what if God was just holding the disease back to give his people time to straighten out? What if he hit leftists first in order to warn his own people and get them to pray and repent? If they’re not doing it, they may regret assuming they were invulnerable.

Humbling yourself before God is like washing your hands. You shouldn’t need a crisis to motivate you to do it. You should be doing it already.

My county is still doing very well. The official case number is up around 600. It jumped when testing became available to everyone. I don’t know if it’s spreading faster here. The number includes people who have recovered. It doesn’t mean 600 people are known to be sick. Most are well now. Our death toll is stuck at 10.

It was very interesting listening to the military guys over the weekend. They discussed the impossibility of standing out in any environment including female combat troops. Women can’t do what ground troops do, period. It’s just not possible. It never will be. Nonetheless, PC requires that female soldiers get prizes. The unofficial policy is to promote them and pretend they passed courses they failed. If a man does better than everyone else, a useless woman who can’t really fight will get the place he earned.

They talk about it openly. The people in charge of training will tell the women things like, “It doesn’t matter what you do. You’re all going to pass.” Then when they move on to harder tasks, they all wash out and quit.

One spoke of a prominent female solder who is now strongly against women going into combat. She pushed her way through the process, and because of the physical demands, she became sterile. I did not know physical exertion and stress could do that to women, but anyway, this lady is now pushing to keep women out of combat.

At the same time, these men agreed they had no problem with female pilots. One of them talked about a lady who annihilated all sorts of enemy personnel while doing close air support. He said she was fearless. He thought she was great.

They talked about Jessica Lynch, the private who was captured by Iraqis after her vehicle was attacked. One of the reasons women, apart from lack of ability, that women have been kept out of infantry roles is that we are afraid they will be raped when captured. This is exactly what happened to Jessica Lynch. The press denied it, as did some Iraqis, but she said it was true. She was sodomized. The scuttlebutt in the military is that they raped her anally twice a day, and that she is now incontinent. I don’t know whether they used body parts or objects. Interesting people, the Arabs.

I don’t know how they make female soldiers succeed in Israel. I assume they must face the truth and give them easier jobs. Are they actually going into combat? I don’t know. I know women in IDF uniforms are all over Israel, carrying guns. I know they’re not doing the hardest jobs men do, because it’s not possible.

Wikipedia says they have it easier than males. Big surprise.

It’s amazing how poisonous PC is. Imagine the morale of a soldier who has to sit in a chair and clap for an ineffective, deluded woman who got everything he earned, even while he anticipates the inevitable day when she will quit and some man who didn’t get a prize or promotion will have to start doing her job.

I decided what to do about my long range rifle hobby. I’m getting a Ruger Precision Rifle. This is the Glock of PRS. It’s common. It works well. It’s not too expensive. It will get you started. Done. I also have a very good scope on the way. I got it at a crazy discount. It was discontinued. I’m also getting a MIL-dot scope (cheaper) for the AR-15.

There is a 900-yard range within a reasonable distance. I don’t feel comfortable going above 200 yards in my pasture. I’m going to need a range bag and a shooting mat.

I have to decide where I want to go for more training. The people who taught me spun off from a group now located in Tennessee. I was very happy with my Florida teachers, but it would be nice to get away from palm trees. I could also go out west. I love it out there. I don’t know if I would want to live there. The environmentalists are a pain, and toxic, flaky California transplants are defiling some areas. It would be nice to shoot there, though.

Maybe it’s time to think about hiring a guide and doing some hunting. Life is short. If it’s short for me, it should be short for deer.

I’m glad I can think about trivial things instead of grave issues such as whether the people who put Uncle Ben on the rice bag were white supremacists. The company has an announcement on its web page, sniveling and groveling about their dismay at Uncle Ben’s stereotypical appearance. Hmm. A man in a suit and tie, with a giant company named after him. Yeah, that’s degrading.

The Internet says Uncle Ben was based on a very successful black farmer who grew excellent rice. Wow. What a terrible role model for black kids. They need an imaginary rice grower in a spandex suit complete with whiskers, from an imaginary African country with world-leading technology, which, for some reason, allows neighboring countries to live in ignorance, squalor, and violence.

An advanced country where the inhabitants select their leaders by letting them beat each other to death in ponds.

I know what to do about Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima, but I hate to let my genius plan go public without charging. Oh, well. Here it is. Aunt Ben and Uncle Jemima. The trans food role models.

You put Aunt Ben in a dress, and you give Uncle Jemima a military uniform. It’s perfect. You would have to take the word “converted” off the Aunt Ben’s rice package, though, because Aunt Ben didn’t convert. She was born that way.

Send me a check, people. You know it’s the right thing to do.

You Listened too Well

One of the things that stands out about the precision rifle shooting class I took this weekend is that the instructors told me pretty much everything I had heard from other “experts” or from my own guesswork was wrong. In fact, unlearning these things was a big part of the benefit of the class.

Let’s see.

1. When shooting a rifle with a scope, you should always take a breath, release half of it, and then shoot. NOT! NOT! NOT! It’s a total myth. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard it, and I’ve repeated it. It’s true that it will give you a brief instant of stillness that can be helpful, but when you really need to see well, lack of oxygen can affect your vision. For long-distance shooting, you breathe normally and shoot after you exhale. This is called shooting during the NRP or normal respiratory pause.

2. You’re supposed to hold your index finger so it points straight ahead and then bends 90° at the first joint. The last two segments of the finger are supposed to be perpendicular to the rifle’s bore. You press the trigger with the center of the pad of the last segment. This way, the part of the finger touching the gun moves in line with the bore and won’t move the gun to the side.

3. Do NOT let the shot surprise you. Make it go off when you choose. Waiting for a pistol to go off works great, apart from the fact that it turns you into a person who can’t shoot well at a desired instant, but you don’t do it with rifles.

4. Do NOT preload your bipod. Preloading means pushing your gun forward to put stress on the bipod legs. This takes the wobble out of them. The military teaches snipers to do this. So why not do what snipers do? They’re the best, right? No, they’re actually not. Civilian shooters are better. Snipers are trained quickly, and preloading a bipod is a fast way to tighten up groups when you don’t have time to get people to shoot correctly. Unfortunately, it also puts a bending torque on the rifle. You don’t want your rifle to be flexed when you shoot.

They also taught us to push the trigger all the way back and hold it until the shot lands. Not until you hear it. Until it LANDS. This helps you not to slap at the trigger.

They said you shouldn’t wrap your thumb around your gun. It’s one more point where something can go wrong, and it’s not necessary.

I took them at their word, and I was more careful than they suggested. I didn’t even tighten my hand on the grip. There was no reason to. My fingers rested against it loosely. I’m not really sure what held the gun in place every time it went off. It worked great, though.

Another shooter told the instructor what I was doing. I think he wanted the teacher to correct me. The instructor said what I was doing was good. Point for me. It definitely worked. Before my scope went nuts, I was hitting targets pretty casually. The teacher said I had a good trigger pull, and I can’t recall him correcting me about anything form-related.

Let’s not talk about the many times I dropped the magazine when I was trying to shoot the bolt carrier forward, or the times I tried to shoot with the safety on. Like I told him, I’m not an AR guy.

The more I listened to these teachers, the more I understood that nearly no one on the gun forums I visit has any idea what they’re talking about. The air is heavy with wrongness. One of the snipers said he used to try to talk to people on forums, and he quit, because it was a waste of time.

Regarding the rifle’s pistol grip, there are people on forums arguing about whether a grip should be straight or angled. My position: who cares? It looks like you shouldn’t be using it to begin with.

They taught us something I already believed, which is that you should not clean a gun very often. Crud in a gun’s barrel makes it more accurate. A newly cleaned gun takes a number of expensive shots to get its accuracy back, and obsessive cleaning doesn’t do anything for the gun. One of them said he shoots his 6.5 Creedmoor until the groups open up, and then he cleans it. He had a .308 in the classroom, and I believe he said it had only been cleaned twice.

I was surprised to hear two military snipers say the Army and Marines don’t get the best training. You may live next door to someone–maybe a dentist or an insurance salesman–who can outshoot most military snipers. That’s something for looters and snowflakes to think about. When they start trying to murder the rest of us on a large scale, they’ll be facing a good number of people who shoot better than Chris Kyle. Facing them: a bunch of untrained, nonpracticing simpletons with stolen Taurus 9 millimeters, using shooting technique that comes from music videos.

The class was worth its weight in gold. Or maybe lead.

I’m trying to pick a rifle. Once I choose one, I will be ready to get good at the things I was taught. This would be a good time for coons and coyotes to look for a new landlord.

Is Your Neighbor a Former Professional Assassin?

This weekend, I took my first precision rifle course. I’m amazed how much more I know today than I did two days ago. I would make a list of the list of well-known good shooting practices I now know to be the stuff of rumor and bloviation.

I thought “precision rifle shooting” simply meant shooting your rifle, whatever it may be, well. It looks like that’s not true. There are matches called “PRS” matches, in which shooters use strange bolt-action target rifles to shoot at long distances. The skills used by PRS shooters are applicable to activities such as hunting and the assassination of military targets, but precision rifle courses seem to draw a lot of people who compete in matches. At least it seemed that way to me this weekend. The other guys in my class talked about hunting, but a bunch of them also discussed rifle competitions.

I tried hard to get information about the nature of the course before I bought a spot, but while the course was excellent, the instructors aren’t great at communication, so I didn’t understand the nature of the class. I told them what kind of rifles I had, and one suggested I go with my DPMS LR-308B, which is an LR-10 with an 18″ bull barrel. When I got to the class, every other student had a target rifle, and most were chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor. We had another .308, plus a .300 Win Mag, but Creedmoors were everywhere. The shortest barrel in the bunch was probably 24″.

The strongest scope I own, a Leupold Vx-3, is set up for MOA shooting. It has MOA turrets, meaning each click is 1/4 MOA. They said it would work, but after I had been there a while, I saw that I really needed a scope graduated in milliradians, or “MIL’s.”

You can take this course with your favorite ACCURATE deer rifle and a 14x hunting scope, and you will get a lot out of it, but it’s really best to use a target rifle and a MIL-dot scope. These scopes have arrays of dots in the reticles spaced one MIL apart, and when you need to move your point of aim a certain number of MIL’s, you just move to the dot you need. My scope has a bunch of hash marks intended to be alternative sighting locations for bullets fired at different ranges, but they don’t correspond to any particular bullet or velocity, so they appear to be somewhat useless.

They started us out by showing us how to set our rifles up. Those of us with adjustable stocks (not me) adjusted our lengths of pull. My LOP was wrong, but there was nothing I could do. They showed us how to do a proper 90° trigger pull. Because of my LOP, I had to make do with more like 110°. They helped us set the eye relief on our scopes, too. My scope was too far back.

They took us to a short range so we could zero our scopes at 100 yards. I remember when 100 yards seemed like a long way. Anyhow, I found myself shooting odd groups. I would shoot two holes touching, or nearly touching, each other, and then I would get fliers.

Our teachers were an Army sniper and a Marine sniper. The guy working with me was encouraging. He told me I was doing about as well as could be expected with a gas-cycled gun. He said 1.5 MOA was okay.

I was very concerned. What if I was wasting my money? What if the gun couldn’t hit the thousand-yard gongs?

I was also concerned about my ability to shoot prone. The school’s website didn’t mention that we would be shooting prone the whole time. I had never done it before. When I tried it at first, during the zeroing session, I didn’t like it one bit. My shoulder and neck hurt, and I found I had to strain to stay behind the scope. I didn’t know if I could keep it up.

So here I was, far from home, staying at a hotel, possibly unable to accomplish the task I had dedicated two days to mastering. With a class full of guys who would be observing the whole thing.

Later, his partner worked with me, and I fired some terrible groups at longer range. When he looked at my rifle, he discovered that the first guy hadn’t tightened the rings enough. I was shooting with loose rings, so the poor grouping at 100 yards suddenly had an explanation not involving my own lack of ability.

Another guy loaned me a second rear bag, and I found that if I propped up my right side, I was able to get very stable. Actually, I figured this out using my new raincoat. Before I drove to the class, they said I should get a Gore-Tex jacket because it would probably rain on us. I bought one that came with a little bag. The jacket could be rolled up and shoved inside it. Before the kind stranger lent me his spare bag, I used the jacket bag, and it worked just fine. My teacher was all for it. One thing I learned was that they didn’t care at all how you got stable. There was no such thing as cheating or a silly solution. Once I got the rain jacket working, I switched to a second bag made for shooting.

We had a lot of class time. On the first day, I learned about the Kestrel. This is a little gadget that does computations for rifle shooters. You enter things like your ballistic coefficient, your muzzle velocity, the wind speed and direction, and so on, and it will tell you how far to turn your turrets to put your bullet where you want it at a given distance.

The Kestrel is a wonderful machine. You can do everything it does using a pencil, but the Kestrel does it instantly, and if you buy an expensive model, you can store information for a whole bunch of rifles.

My muzzle velocity came in at a miserable 2500 fps. The ammunition supposedly had the potential for 2650, assuming Federal told the truth, but my gun has a short barrel, and you need barrel length for speed. Coupled with the .308 bullet’s low ballistic coefficient, the velocity set me up for non-optimal performance later on, requiring considerable compensation. The Kestrel would later tell me to drop my point of aim about 30 feet at 1000 yards, and the bullets were going subsonic, causing predictability issues, at about 800 yards. According to an Internet source, a 6.5 Creedmoore round drops about 24 feet, and it stays supersonic out to nearly 1400 yards.

Here’s what I was told: the .308 flies predictably until it goes subsonic. In the area where it transitions, it stops going where the Kestrel says it will go. Then it smooths out and becomes predictable again. The 6.5 Creedmoor doesn’t have this problem at the ranges I was shooting.

Is it better to shoot .308 and become a better shooter by dealing with the transition, or should you shoot 6.5 Creedmoor and enjoy focusing on things other than trajectory kinks? I don’t know. I would guess it’s better to do it the hard way, but it’s probably not better for a beginner.

They took us up on a tower, which is really a crude building with a big second floor with a roof over it. We shot prone under the roof. They had a series of targets lined up. I don’t recall the ranges, but I believe they started at around 450, and I know they ended at over 800, because I shot that far, and it was the longest shot I had ever made.

I could tell there were doubts about me and my semiauto battle rifle, but when I laid down and shot, and my scope rings were tightened, things went very well. There were people with target rifles who had more trouble than I did. I popped some of the targets pretty quickly. I didn’t do badly on any of them, even after the sonic transition thing popped up. My instructor spotted me, told me how to adjust the scope, and got me through it.

When I hit steel at over 800 yards, with the wrong rifle, the wrong scope, and what seemed like the wrong body for shooting prone, I was ecstatic. At that point, I knew I was going to have a good weekend. I was not going to be the goat. Someone who had a more appropriate rifle and didn’t do as well might be the goat, and that would be sad, but it wouldn’t be me.

My instructor yelled at his buddy, telling him how well my short-barreled gas gun was doing, keeping up with the target guns. Nice.

Somebody was surprised, and I don’t just mean me.

The next day, we learned about wind, and then we shot from another tower. We went out to 1060 yards. I was all about 1060 yards.

They put us on the roof, with no shade. The sun was blazing. It was nasty. We were three floors up. I went through my targets. It went 568 yards, 665, 716, 866, 890, 952, 1060. Things got a little weird in the 800’s, but I made it all the way. It was hard to believe it when I shot at a microscopic spot a fifth of a mile away and heard my teacher say “impact.”

I was not doing all that well mentally or physically by this time. I was dehydrated. Water kept pouring into us, and none went out. By the time I got to the last target, my concentration was gone.

It was not easy. I had run out of turret. I had my scope’s height compensation maxed out, so in order to hit the target, I had to aim maybe 8 feet above it and two feet to the right, with nothing to put the crosshairs on. My instructor seemed to have a lot of confidence in me, because he kept spotting and giving calls, and after maybe 10 shots, I hit it.

That was really not bad. My scope wasn’t working, I was aiming at trees, I was tired, and I still connected with the gong. There were people with better guns and adequate optics who missed just as many times at shorter ranges.

The instructor’s dad was taking the class. He congratulated me. I said it was all about the spotting.

Things went well until after lunch.

We had to lie on the third floor, indoors, and shoot through holes at the bottom of the wall. I don’t know what that was all about. I don’t know if it was supposed to simulate assassination or what. My teachers were experienced killers who had shot a bunch of people to death, however, so nothing would have surprised me. Maybe it simulated something shooters do in competitions.

I didn’t sign up to learn how to assassinate people, but I suppose you could say that’s what I learned. I just wanted to know how to shoot a long way.

When I went to check my rifle and set the scope back to zero for the first target, I found that the turret was frozen. When I showed my instructor, he said the set screws had come loose. That was true, but before they came loose, the turret had refused to turn.

He tightened the screws, and when my turn came again, things went okay for the first few targets. We had to compensate a lot, but I hit steel. It got harder, and the corrections that worked didn’t seem to make sense. It looked like my scope’s turret was missing clicks when I turned it. Something was broken or misaligned or otherwise messed up.

It took a lot of effort from both of us to hit 866 yards, and then we decided to quit, because we were just chasing random turret positions that happened to connect.

I bought a Leupold scope because I thought it was top quality, but when I maxed the turret in one direction, it locked up and then refused to work correctly. Now it has to go in for repairs, and I very much doubt Leupold will pay for them. My instructor said his outfit had had a bunch of Leupolds, and only half had worked. Where was he in 2009, when buying a Leupold looked like a great idea?

Probably finishing up the 8th grade. I am old.

Well, whatever. I succeeded with bad equipment, I was complimented on my trigger pull (thanks, pistols), and I didn’t embarrass myself. I got my certificate, and I’m ready for the second class.

There are a couple of long-range facilities not too far from me, so I can practice this stuff.

I am nice. I am all about God’s love, because love is the reason he created the universe. I want nothing to do with the so-called zombie apocalypse. I want to shoot paper targets and a few annoying species of wildlife. But compared to the average American, I will, potentially, be an extremely dangerous person. Shooting rifles at long distances is surprisingly easy for me. I think it’s easy for nearly everyone who has had a lesson or two. It’s not nearly has hard as shooting a pistol at 7 yards. No comparison. That surprised me.

Speaking of dangerous, this weekend, I saw something that should sober up every cocky soy merchant out there who thinks it will be easy to overrun America, loot houses, and confiscate guns. I was in a room full of very ordinary conservative American outdoorsmen, and every one of them could kill a person, or group of people, easily at 500 yards. The instructors could shoot well over 1000 yards, and there are a lot of other snipers and competitors like them.

One of the teachers is a hunting guide. He goes to Alaska and helps bear hunters. He knows how to live in the wilderness. He’s tough. He is a combat veteran. He seems like a nice guy, but anyone who tries to pull anything near his home and family could end up feeding crows and possums, fast. Based on the things I heard him say about his military history and his feelings about leftists who might try to start a civil war, he is one of the last people on earth I would want to upset.

There is a huge number of people with similar skills all over the US. I don’t think leftists understand this. Leftists tend to be very ignorant about firearms and the outdoors. They don’t know what the people they hate do for fun.

During class today, a very nice military retiree–could not have been more polite or considerate–showed the rest of us his custom-made pig sticker. To you, a pig sticker probably just means a big knife. No; he said it was a real pig sticker. You chase a pig down with dogs, and then you shove the knife into it to kill it. Gang doofuses who don’t know how to hold a Glock are not ready for this old man and his friends. Neither are dumpy Vassar graduates who think it scares people when they pose for selfies, wearing black T-shirts from American Apparel, holding Molotov cocktails.

I would never participate in that kind of hunt, but lots of very kindhearted sportsmen have blind spots about certain things. A man who can shove a knife into a live pig can shove one into a trespasser swinging a skateboard. I’m sure you could trust this guy to look after your kids for days in an emergency, but it seems to me he would show a very different side to a certain type of person, given the right provocation.

There are thousands and thousands of people out there who use bows and crossbows; weapons that can kill you and your friends without giving you a clue where your attacker is hiding. There are people who can hide right in front of you. Some conservatives have packs of dogs that aren’t afraid to run down bigger, stronger animals. They’re already trained.

People talk about civil war. Is it really a possibility? I suppose it is. In the US, we think of civil wars as fights between opponents occupying distinct territories, but you can have a civil war in which people kill their neighbors. Isn’t that the most common kind of civil war? Think of Spain, Vietnam, and Iraq. Think of just about any nation in Africa. Think of Cuba.

I’ve been expecting a leftist takeover that would work primarily through political successes, but maybe the arrogance and cluelessness of the “rioting works” kids will lead to something even uglier. If that happens, there may be terrible bloodshed and atrocities, and leftists will probably suffer the most. If they don’t wait till the government is in their control, they may end up feeding themselves into a meat grinder.

I’ve written a lot about my belief that the police and the military can’t handle leftists who take over cities, but maybe civilians would do it for them. They are more numerous, and they don’t have to wait for a chain of command to deploy them and authorize their actions.

Leftists like to say the Second Amendment only exists to help us create militias. Ironically, leftist violence has led to our first real efforts at raising militias which clearly demonstrate the need for privately owned guns.

Rural Americans have dug out their guns and stood in unison to welcome and intimidate imported leftist rioters. I didn’t realize this was possible until this month. A town in North Dakota was successfully preserved by citizens who assembled with rifles on display, and the police worked with, and supported, the ad hoc militia. According to one man who witnessed it, leftists met at a restaurant and discussed their plans for arson and rape, but when the agitators saw the firearms, they scurried away in fear. They just didn’t know what to do.

How far will people go? I wish I could say I knew.

America’s insanity seems to be getting worse very fast. Antichristians are accelerating as they plunge into the abyss of hate-filled delusion. Their appetite for the destruction of things the rest of us hold dear has become ravenous, to the point where they seem to know no restraint. They are deliberately choosing targets they think will hurt us and humiliate us the most. I have the feeling that real chaos could be here by August.

They’ve gone after the national anthem and pictures of Jesus. I guess the flag will be next. That won’t go over well with the millions of dangerous battle-trained veterans who live in America.

President Trump isn’t polling well. Does that mean America is so crazy the attacks on our cities have
majority approval? Biden would pour fuel on the flames. He would back the looters and lynchers to the hilt before dying of dementia. In a country that wasn’t completely lost, the spectacle of the antichristian left’s rage and cruelty would be swinging gigantic numbers of Americans into the Trump camp. If that doesn’t happen, we are doomed, because it means we are too crazy to be helped. Welcome to Somalia.

Is it possible the three destructive horsemen of the apocalypse have been loosed? If so, then their troops, which are innumerable demons, have been released to spread incurable insanity. Most Americans can’t resist demons. They will do whatever they’re told, just as they have in every bloodbath in history, and the difference is that this bloodbath won’t end until Jesus stops it or there are no victims left to attack.

Can the age of the Gentiles, and the world as we know it, be finished already? Is the rapture really that close?

If Trump loses, and the Democrats elect a babbling dotard, I will have to conclude that history is wrapping up. I can’t think of any way to explain that level of irrationality in a world not embarked on its death throes. What stronger sign could we ask for?

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe sanity will simply move to a new haven. Maybe China. There is a big Christian nation-within-a-nation there now. Is Russia going insane, or are they just watching us with disgust? Maybe Russia will be the new America. That would be weird.

Whatever. In any case, I am developing a very useful new skill, but I will never have any desire to use it for the most obvious purpose. If America becomes the new Somalia, and we start slaughtering each other in the streets, I will be busy praying for God to remove me whenever he’s ready. I keep asking him to use me during my remaining time, but maybe the little I’ve done for people is all I will ever be able to do.

We Need Prayer Rallies, not Protests

If you’re waiting for more insanity from the left as they take over our culture and make anti-white racism the norm, I have great news for you. They’re trying to get rid of the national anthem.

The justification? Francis Scott Key had a low opinion of black people, and he owned slaves.

The big problem with this is that a whole bunch of men who were major players in the building of America (and the rest of the world) owned slaves, and presumably, many were racists. In spite of their faults, they did a lot of wonderful things for us, including drafting the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. To purge them from our culture is to erase our history, and who likes to erase history? Who is famous for it? Satan. When you cut people off from their past, you cut them off from wisdom and from their identity. They don’t know who they are, and they don’t have any protection from things their ancestors were too smart to fall for. Once you isolate a country from its past, you can mold future generations and enslave them. Not just the black ones. All of them.

This is something we’ve seen in leftist regimes ever since they came into being. Socialists have a long history of declaring children the property of the state and whisking them off to be turned against their parents. It’s very big in Cuba, where kids have been encouraged to rat on their families for things like buying meat. Obama encouraged kids to rat on their parents, remember? No coincidence. He didn’t build that. It was a very old idea. Socialists in Europe actually trained kids to pray to Stalin and other socialist leaders, and they also played tricks on them to convince them praying to God didn’t work. Hitler indoctrinated kids. In the final days of his empire, he sent them out to be killed on the front lines.

When I was a kibbutz volunteer in Israel, I lived across the way from the beit zimmer. This was a special building for children. The kibbutz was started by deluded socialists, and they believed the kids belonged to the collective. They were supposed to live in the beit zimmer, away from their parents, where they could be indoctrinated. By the time I got there, the kibbutzniks had revolted and started keeping their kids at home, but the beit zimmer stood as a monument to their bad judgment.

Antichristians started their purge with Southerners. Now they’re extending it to white people in general. It will get worse. I wouldn’t be shocked if people were calling to raze churches, ban preaching, and ostracize Christians by the end of next year.

They’re going to tell us “brown people” built America while everyone else stood by and watched. Totally untrue, but they’ll say it. They’ll tell us every square inch of your land was stolen.

What if #Metoo purged Martin Luther King Jr. because he particpated in orgies and treated women like toys? What if Stonewall purged Obama because he used to stand against gay marriage? Why haven’t antichristians purged Kwanzaa over Ron Karenga’s overt racism? Why hasn’t Maya Angelou been purged over her racist comments about white men?

There is one standard for the left and another for the right. No group can survive the kind of scrutiny and condemnation we’re seeing now, so leftists are simply choosing to apply their standard unfairly.

The news about the attack on the national anthem should be a good thing, because it strikes at our hearts and wakes us up. We should use our shock as motivation to fast, pray, and repent as a nation. Of course, we’re not doing that. Where are the prayer rallies? Where are the huge online meetings? Where are the hashtags calling for self-humbling? Such things only exist on the fringe. They should be mainstream. Google results for prayer-related hashtags should dwarf those antichristians are using.

Only the Holy Spirit brings unity, and only unity brings peace. Christians will never have peace as long as we identify as different types of people. We have to identify as children of God, not Caucasians, Negroids, or Mongoloids. We have to see Christians of other physical races as our brothers and sisters, and we have to see people who look like us, yet who are against God, as outsiders and threats.

We reject the Holy Spirit, so we reject unity and peace. We listen to other spirits through our popular culture, and they take away our free will and our ability to lead. They make us followers. We’re supposed to stand up for God in a world that hates him. Instead, we cower and cringe and give our allegiance to the spirits that want to dethrone him. We appease. We get down on our knees like Colin Kaepernick. We lie on our bellies like George Floyd. We literally worship the people who are against us. How many people who do these things lie on their bellies before God on the days when they worship human beings and doomed, inferior, hateful spirits?

Satan has taught Christians that “worship” means music, but if you check the Greek and Hebrew, it really means to prostrate yourself or bow or make some type of physical gesture you should only make for God. Christians all over America are worshiping antichristians and the damned spirits they serve, and they don’t even know it.

It’s a big deal when you worship the wrong individual. Daniel chose to be thrown to the lions instead of worshiping a false god. It’s no joke. Mauling and death looked better to him. Mordecai refused to worship Haman, and the price was an edict calling for the extermination of all the Jews in the Persian empire. The Revelation says that anyone who declares that the Beast is God by accepting his mark will be damned, Christian or not. God respects our worship. If you choose another god, you will get it, and you will also get the consequences.

The Bible endorses slavery. It does. Christians deny it, but it’s true. The Pentateuch gives instructions for anyone who wants to become a slave. It’s not the same as, or as harsh as, the slavery gentiles have practiced, but it’s slavery. How long will it be before we are hammered with the notion that Christianity and Judaism are only for slave owners?

Of course, Islam will get a pass, because it’s not convenient to pit the Beast’s children against muslims right now. Never mind the fact that most black slaves were sold to Europeans by black muslim Africans.

The Bible said the Jews could take female prisoners in war as wives and have sex with them. Not the Talmud. Not a Pope. The Bible. The Bible said it was okay for single Benjamites to kidnap virgins to be their wives. Antichristians aren’t going to let those openings go unexploited forever.

The Bible says a woman should submit to her husband. It praises Sarah for calling Abraham “Lord.” According to Paul, God himself commanded that women not be allowed to speak in church. Christians twist this scripture because it makes them uncomfortable, but the meaning is clear. It’s not a suggestion. It’s a commandment. Antichristians will eventually figure this out, and what do you think they’ll do then?

You can’t have a form of godliness, deny the power of godliness, and retain dominance forever. You have to have the power and transformation of the Holy Spirit, which even most Christians deny. They reject tongues, miracles, prophesy, and so on. This is why we ended up ignorant and unarmed.

Christians who hear the Holy Spirit are siblings. They side with each other against everyone else. White Christians side with non-white Christians against white persecutors. The same goes for non-white Christians. If you don’t hear from the Holy Spirit, you don’t identify with the body of Christ. You identify with your earthly breed, as though you were a dog with AKC papers.

God gives people who don’t listen over to blindness and deafness. He did it to most of the Jews, as Isaiah says. He actually went beyond that; instead of merely allowing them to backslide, he sent someone to make it worse.

Isaiah was before God, and God asked whom he could send to the Jews. Isaiah said, “Send me.” Here is what God said:

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

I’m going to be praying for America to turn back to the Holy Spirit every day. You should do the same thing. Who knows? Maybe God will pull us back from the brink for a few more decades. At the very least, you’ll be on the right side of the battle, and you won’t go to hell with the others.

Today it’s the national anthem. Tomorrow it will be something that hurts worse. The punishment will keep escalating. We probably can’t fix America, but we should pray anyway. Even if it doesn’t work, we can create little islands of peace for ourselves.

Where are the Prayer Campaigns?

I’m still trying to figure coronavirus out.

Case figures rose dramatically when the virus first got a foothold in the US. I said I thought the numbers would rise exponentially and then peak, and that’s what they did. I didn’t think there would be a second wave, because epidemics generally don’t work that way. I never saw a logical explanation why a second wave should occur. The disease was already here, it had hit whoever it could hit easily, and then it had declined. It wasn’t like a new group of susceptible people was going to materialize out of nowhere, and our behavior wasn’t likely to change much and produce new cases, so where would a second wave come from?

Now the figures are going up again.

I could just say I was wrong, but these are strange times. Nothing is what it seems. There are two camps in America: the anti-Trump, pro-panic camp, and the pro-Trump, anti-panic camp. The first camp has lied to us over and over in order to make Trump look bad, hoping to drive him out of the Oval Office. You would have to be a fool to take anything they say at face value, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be right about the second wave.

I think some medical professionals are calling it the continuation of the first wave. I have not seen anyone explain the difference between a second wave and the continuation of the first wave, however. I don’t know how they would look different.

Testing has skyrocketed, and the case figures have also skyrocketed. President Trump says the increase in the figures is the result of the increase in testing. That actually makes sense, because these things happened at the same time, and it would be impossible to increase testing without detecting more cases. On the other hand, it’s possible to have a genuine increase in the infection rate along with a fake bump caused by increased testing.

President Trump has ample reason to push the claim that the new numbers are the product of testing, not increased contagion, and as much as I love Donald Trump, I’m aware that he has a habit of talking first and checking the facts later.

Who is right? The huge percentage of America that has been turned into a coronavirus-hysteria propaganda machine, or the president who exaggerates his successes?

I see news articles about the current situation, and they’re full of claims that look deceptive to me. One article says 81% of Florida ICU beds are full. Here’s the obvious question: what percentage are normally full? I’ve been in ICU’s in normal times, and they have generally had few empty beds. Even if the epidemic is getting worse, only a tiny percentage of Americans have become ill, and even fewer have had to go to intensive care. The numbers still resemble flu numbers. So how can I believe Florida ICU’s are jammed up? It seems to me that the claim is meaningless and intentionally misleading.

It appeared in an article which took a negative and condescending tone toward President Trump, so that also reduces its credibility.

Many people think the disease has been here much longer than doctors are telling us. It was active in China in the fall, and Chinese people were flying to America during that time. If coronavirus is as contagious as the pro-hysteria people say, then Americans had to begin contracting it no later than November. If that’s so, then the disease is a lot more common than we used to think, and increased testing, especially when it reaches people with light symptoms, should generate a lot more positives than we’re used to.

The CDC is now saying 20 million people in the US may have been infected. How are we supposed to believe anything they say? I think they’re right, but they keep changing their minds.

A month or so ago, I could not get tested in Florida. I had no symptoms, and they didn’t allow asymptomatic people to be tested. As of a few weeks back, that changed. They decided to allow everyone to be tested. What would the natural result be? People who weren’t sick, yet who were still curious, would go in for testing, and you could see a higher positive rate. That’s what we’re seeing. The tests only caught active cases, so there was no point in me going.

Florida just had a huge case-number jump. Thousands in one day. They told us the numbers went up, but no one seems to be asking whether anything else happened the same week. Were new testing methods put in place? Did waves of new test kits arrive more or less simultaneously in many areas, allowing more testing? What is the rate of false positives? We aren’t being told.

Anti-Trumpers are blaming the removal of the lockdowns, which was supposed to occur regardless of what Trump wanted, and the implication is that we would have remained locked down but for the GOP. That’s absurd.The lockdowns were always intended to be temporary measures that would slow the epidemic without getting rid of it. This is what doctors, not Donald Trump, have told us. Let’s play the game anyway, though. If getting rid of lockdowns made infections jump, why didn’t weeks of protesting without social distancing have the same effect? Why did New York find that most new infections took place among people who were locked down? Why is it that confined populations, who should be immune, still make up something like half of the numbers?

One thing does surprise me. I’m surprised the warm weather didn’t bring us a sharp drop in cases. UV rays kill coronaviruses nearly instantly, and warm weather gets people out of confinement. We did see infections plummet in the spring, but even if the new numbers are grossly misleading, the bug is still here.

Covid is still hitting Hispanics, blacks, and American Indians much harder than everyone else. Can that have any conceivable cause that isn’t supernatural? They do what white people do, more or less. What natural reason is there for them to get sick more often?

The more I look at the epidemic, the more I feel that it hits leftists harder. It seems like a Biblical plague, because it appears to be targeted. Even in my county, where minorities are not all that abundant, they make up a very disproportionate number of the cases, and minorities other than Asians lean left.

I’m not sure what’s happening, but I don’t trust the hysterics at all. They have lied to us consistently for too long.

I bought my first masks today. That’s not completely true. I once had to buy a cheap mask in order to get into a gun show, and some friends of mine gave me a flowered mask that might look good on Caitlyn Jenner. Today I got some real cloth masks at Target. You can buy them these days. The hoarders stopped cleaning them out.

I didn’t buy them out of concern for myself. A cloth mask is just about worthless for self-protection. I bought them in case I get sick. They would provide a little protection for people around me. I think I had covid in the winter, but I may be wrong, and I could still get it. Maybe the epidemic really is getting worse in Florida. Might as well spend 10 bucks on preparation.

Almost no one seems to be promoting self-humbling, repentance, and prayer as remedies for coronavirus, shortages, and violence. It’s very sad. Our problems are obviously caused by rebellion and pride, but no one seems to know it.

America is a former Christian country, and there are still many Christians here. We should know that when a nation has problems like ours, it means something has messed up our relationship with God. In the Bible, when Israel had problems, there was always a reason involving God. They would fast and pray and ask God what was wrong, or a prophet would show up and tell them, and then they were able to alter their behavior and regain favor. That’s not happening in America right now. We act as if we’ve never seen the Bible.

Where are the preachers calling for a nationwide week of prayer and fasting? There are a few dimly heard appeals out there, but that’s about it. Shouldn’t prayer and humbling be our first responses, every single time? How can we not know that?

I don’t see how we can get past our mini-plagues without doing the right thing. Because we won’t admit fault and seek God’s face, I expect us to get worse and worse.

More Data for the Gitmo Admissions Committee

I’m white, I’m male, I’m conservative, I’m a far-out Christian who speaks in tongues every day, and I shoot as a hobby. My blog has been banned secretly by the Department of Defense, as a hate site, for reasons that have never been revealed to me. What more can I add to my resume?

How about long-range rifle shooting? That ought to move me up a few spaces on several secret lists.

I’m getting ready for my first precision rifle shooting course. Right now, I’m more of a spray-and-giggle shooter. I take semiauto .22’s out to the berm and blast away at steel targets with humorous shapes. The course will have me shooting match .308 ammunition at 1000 yards.

I don’t know what more I can do to attract persecution. I should just send Joe Biden a letter requesting he have me disappeared the day after the inauguration. Assuming he gets inaugurated, which I don’t. I think leftists are scaring normal people to the polls.

If he gets elected, and he’s too busy to disappear me the day after the inauguration, Kamala Harris can always do it two days later, after she assumes command due to Biden’s dementia, which the press will suddenly discover.

You have to wonder how military people, who tend to be conservative, are going to feel when things go nuts and leftist regimes require them to guard conservative and Christian dissidents at Guantanamo and black sites while relatively liberal Deep State intelligence people torment them. They’ll probably end up guarding many of their friends.

I never really thought about the political contrast between the CIA and the military before.

The Deep State and its hostility toward conservatives are absolutely real. The more time passes, the more things happen that confirm that right-wing conspiracy nuts aren’t nuts at all. Not about the important things.

I am scheduled to take a class soon, and I’m trying to figure out what I need. The people who teach the class are not great at communication, and I have never been to a PRS (Precision Rifle Shooting) class before.

I had to get a couple of shooting bags. I’ve used a Rock Jr. rest and various bipods, but I have never shot off a bag. I chose the Armageddon Gear Game Changer front bag and the Armageddon Gear X-Wing rear bag. They arrived today. I put them on the dinner table and plopped the LR-308 onto them. Very nice. I see what I’ve been missing. They’re much more cooperative than rests and bipods, and the scope seems much more stable.

I realized my fancy tactical sling won’t work with the LR-308 until I get the right swivel for the handguard. I’ll probably have to cannibalize a sling from another gun, along with one swivel.

Today I bought a Gore-Tex rain jacket. It’s surprisingly hard to do this here. Gander Outdoors is gone, Dick’s Sporting Goods (spit) has nothing useful, Rural King doesn’t have Gore-Tex, and I didn’t even try the mall because it looked so bad the last time I was there. I found a nice jacket at Bass Pro, and it comes with a tiny bag. You can wad the entire jacket up and stuff it in the bag, and it takes up about as much room as a foot-long sub.

I like Gore-Tex. It’s likely to rain at the class, and it will definitely be hot, so I want something that keeps rain out and lets water vapor out. I don’t think evaporation will be all that helpful, but it has to be somewhat better than wearing a plastic jacket that doesn’t even try to release vapor.

I’m supposed to bring some tools. When they suggested that, they poked the wrong bear. I’m trying to whittle my choices down to things that will fit in one toolbox. I guess a cleaning kit, some Allen wrenches, and a can of One Shot should get me where I need to be.

They don’t provide lunch, and the food situation in the area is, well, there isn’t any. I have to figure out how to provide lunch for myself two days in a row.

I guess I should take a notebook. A real one, not a PC.

I looked at shooting glasses today at Bass Pro. The ones I have are cheap yellow plastic. I think they cost $14.99 at Gander Outdoors. I thought I should get something better. Bass Pro had Oakleys for $256. They looked exactly the same as the $14.99 ones. Am I missing something here? I decided I didn’t need new ones.

I want to take the bags out and pop off a few .223 rounds. The other day I shot 1 MOA at 50 yards using an uncooperative bipod and a plastic table with a railroad spring sitting on it to take out the bounce. If I can do that with terrible equipment, one would think I could shoot 1 MOA consistently with a good set of bags, even using the plastic table.

Maybe I’m going to be a good long-range shooter. That would be nice.

When I first started shooting at 100 yards with scopes, I refused to take my left hand off the guns. I was stubborn. I felt like a shooter who didn’t hold the gun with both hands was so uninvolved, it was almost unnecessary for him to be there.

I used bad ammunition, mostly, and I got something like 3 MOA. I now think most of the error was due to my efforts to delude myself. The more human being touches a gun, the worse it shoots at long distances. It’s just a fact. To shoot as well as possible, you should mount your gun in a vise and pull the trigger remotely. I think I wasted a ton of ammo trying to disprove something everyone else already knew.

This time, I’ll have a great trigger, match ammunition, a good rest, and good technique. Maybe things will go better.

Ammunition confuses me. On the one hand, people talk about the importance of accurate ammunition, and they say you need handloads to do well. On the other, I’ve got cheap ammunition in at least two calibers that will shoot 1 MOA, guaranteed. How can I reconcile these things? I’m starting to think I shouldn’t listen to people who criticize ammunition I haven’t tried. If you look on the web, you will see people shooting 1.5 MOA with Wolf, which is some of the cheapest ammunition available. If they can do that, maybe ammunition usually isn’t that critical.

Most people can’t shoot. This is a fact of life, and it’s probably caused by stubbornness and lack of training (unless I’m the only one those things affect). It doesn’t prevent them from shooting badly and then going to Internet forums and saying this or that ammunition is accurate or inaccurate. If you shoot 5 MOA on your best day, you’re not qualified to evaluate ammunition or anything else. I’m sure there are people out there telling others certain guns or ammunition are accurate when they really mean they don’t shoot them any worse than other things they shoot badly.

There’s a Youtube guy who does wonderful videos in which he loads .223 ammunition and does systematic experiments to see what shoots best. He has used many powders and bullets, and he bought a high-end barrel. His good loads shoot maybe 0.75 MOA, and his bad ones probably run 3 MOA. I have a bunch of cheap Fiocchi ammo which, I’m pretty sure, will do 1 MOA at 100 yards out of my non-precision AR-15 with the barrel it came with out of the factory. I have seen a guy shoot very tight groups at 200 yards with the same stuff. If Fiocchi will do all that for fifty cents per round, how can the Youtube guy not be wasting his time?

It’s puzzling, but it sure looks like 1) factory barrels on second-tier AR-15’s can shoot 1 MOA, so you don’t need to upgrade unless you’re extremely picky, and 2) there is no point at all in reloading .223.

If I can shoot 1 MOA, then I have the potential to put a bullet in a 3″ circle at 300 yards. That means I should be able to hit prairie dogs three football fields away, reliably. That’s awfully good accuracy, in a world where 4 MOA was very respectable 40 years ago. Will my life really change if I find a load that reduces the circle to 2″?

It’s great to think I can shoot very precisely with cheap ammunition, but it’s a bummer to think I may not be able to justify making my own .223 or .308 rounds. Or .204 Ruger. Dang it.

I found a brand of top-quality .223 rounds with temperature-stabilized powder (not a gimmick) and 55-grain polymer-tip bullets. This is essentially the same thing as a very popular defensive product called Hornady TAP Urban, which is considered a law enforcement product. The stuff I found is packaged in little plastic packets that should preserve it forever, and if I zero my scope at a certain temperature, I can shoot it at a different temperature with nearly no change in the point of impact.

The Hornady stuff, which has been discontinued, sells for 75 cents per round. The stuff I bought costs about 50 cents, and it’s better. I will never have any reason to buy Hornady, and it will be hard to justify buying .223 dies just to make 55-grain ammunition.

Why did I buy defensive .223 ammunition, if I don’t plan to use my rifle defensively? Because I didn’t get the ammunition for use against people. I got it for targets and coons and so on. It can also be used for pigs and deer. But you never know what the future will bring. Maybe I won’t use it, but I’ll end up giving it to someone who needs defensive ammo.

I don’t know whether the gun I’ll be shooting in class will hold 1 MOA, but I’ll bet it will. Other people have done it with this model. It will be funny if it works. I have no doubt at all that it will at least approach 1 MOA. If I can’t make it work, I can get a new barrel for $300.

I guess I should invest in a lunchbox. I don’t know what else I should take with me.

Next time I take a course like this, I’ll have a different rifle in a friendlier caliber that won’t beat me up. That will be nice. I’m not really sure what purpose a .308 serves in 2020.

Decide What You Stand On

For some time, God has been teaching me about the problems white people are having. He has shown me that we lost favor because we turned away from him. I’ve been thinking a lot about the problems associated with this change, but today he helped me see the opportunity it presents.

It’s natural to be concerned when you find that the group to which you belong is besieged and disempowered. People like me look around at 2020 America, not to mention the world, and we see we are standing on an island which is getting smaller and smaller as the water rises to drown us. Anti-white racism is red-hot, and it’s becoming white-hot. It’s not going away, and the people who are against us sincerely want to inflict terrible pain on us, as well as humiliation. They’re going to get what they want. Favor has left us.

While it’s reasonable and normal to be concerned about our future as a group, those of us who know God should be happy about the opportunity we now have. We can focus on building a holy family which destroys the barriers of race and nationality and includes brothers and sisters from every background.

Yesterday I got around to fixing my new audio Bible. I had been listening to a Zondervan Bible, but it wasn’t that great. The man who did most of the talking mispronounced things. It was clear Zondervan hadn’t spent much time preparing him. I downloaded a different dramatized KJV, and I turned it into MP3 files, but when I was done, my televisions couldn’t use the files. I had 1189 files in one folder, and the televisions refused to index them. I had to consolidate them into 66 files or one per book.

This morning, I got up and turned on the bedroom TV. Somehow I found myself listening to Joshua. I went to the living room to make breakfast. I turned on the living room TV, and I played Joshua in that room. I didn’t really think about the choice.

I was already prepared for Joshua, because earlier, during prayer, God had give me this word: “I am victorious because of you.”

The book of Joshua is a story of dominance and conquest. Moses led the Hebrews into Israel, but he didn’t enter the country. He died to the east of Israel, and his body was left there. God put Joshua in charge, and he told him to subdue the inhabitants of the land. Israel had been given to Abraham and his descendants, but others were squatting there, and they were idolaters.

The Hebrews fought people God told them to fight, when God told them to fight them. When they were in good standing with God, they defeated their enemies easily. When they displeased God, they were routed.

The Hebrews attacked a city called Ai. Scouts told Joshua it wasn’t necessary to send a big force. They said a few thousand would do, because Ai didn’t have many warriors. The Hebrews sent several thousand soldiers, and the inhabitants of Ai defeated them.

When Joshua complained to God, failing to ask what the Hebrews had done wrong, taking a victim attitude, God told him to get up and asked him why he was lying on his face. God said someone in the Hebrew ranks had taken something cursed in the conquest of Jericho. God had told the Hebrews not to take any treasure, but a man named Achan stole a Babylonian garment and some silver and gold and hid them in his tent.

God singled Achan out as the culprit, and the Hebrews stoned him and his family. They burned their bodies. Then the curse was lifted.

I don’t know what the significance of the gold, silver, and clothing was. Maybe the clothing was associated with demon worship, and its presence would have threatened the Hebrews with the spread of idolatry. Maybe there were pagan images on the silver and gold.

Once the transgression was dealt with, God resumed giving the Hebrews victory.

After the Jews rejected their Messiah, white gentiles were chiefly responsible for spreading the gospel. God gave them favor over peoples who worshiped evil spirits. They ended up ruling every major land mass except for South America, and even there, the dominant group was European, if not quite white. No one could stand before white people. They turned a huge part of the globe’s surface into Christian territory, and God was with them in spite of the fact that they, like the peoples they subdued, did considerable evil. The heathens were a good deal more cruel and bloodthirsty than whites were; no one seems to want to talk about that.

When whites in Europe rejected God, Europe’s favor diminished. The British were great missionaries, but England walked away from God, and the British empire was stripped away. People they used to dominate drove them out.

Here in America, too many whites have chosen godlessness. Now whites are off their pedestal, mobbed by groups to whom they thought they were superior. They credited themselves with their success, claiming they were smarter, harder-working, and so on, but in reality, brains and work will get you nowhere without God. Asians are smart, and they work harder than westerners, but Asia was inferior to the west until very recently.

Now the age of the gentiles, in which white people spread the gospel, is ending or over, and white people have lost their dominance. Those conservatives who are proud and godless think prepping and buying rifles and voting Republican will save them. They’re completely wrong. You can’t replace favor with work. One of the main purposes of favor is to show you how ineffective your plans and works are.

If you’re a white American, you can’t keep hanging onto the shield and weapons that seemed to work for you in the past, because they won’t work unless God is backing you up. The security you used to have because you belonged to the herd is disappearing.

The good news is that without the illusion of racial superiority, white people, and the rest of us, have an opportunity to find favor by aligning ourselves with the family of God.

We can’t turn the clock back and regain dominance as a group, and it’s not a desirable goal anyway. Our segment of the population is vulnerable as a whole, and that won’t change. What we, and everyone else, can do is to find favor as individuals. We should have been doing this in the first place.

If God favors you, it doesn’t matter which ethnic group you belong to. You will be dominant. I don’t mean you’ll be able to push people around. I mean you will be victorious when you’re attacked. You will have a lot of insulation from hostility. You will have provision when godless preppers and militia nuts lack.

One of the best things about seeking favor as an individual is that your status will transcend race and nationality. You may still be targeted by BLM and Antifa destroyers, but you will be united with Holy-Spirit-led people of every type. When you’re with family, race and nationality won’t matter. The anxiety and wariness will be gone. They will be replaced by love and trust.

There is no such thing as racial unity on a nationwide scale. We try to implement it, and we fail. We got rid of segregation laws, and minorities responded by segregating themselves. If you want to find someone who hates interracial marriage, go to any black or Asian neighborhood. Most white people don’t care about it. White people changed, but the rest of America wants no part of it. They want black colleges and Muslim neighborhoods with sharia patrols. They want La Raza and Mecha. They want non-white gangs. Young Asians excoriate girls who marry whites, saying they suffer from self-hate. They say whites who marry Asians have a fetish. Most non-white Americans don’t want unity, and many whites agree.

We can’t have unity as a nation, but you can have unity with the brothers and sisters God has given you, regardless of what they look like. Together, you can step back from the fray and watch the unenlightened tear at each other. You don’t have to let BLM and Antifa screen your friends.

The Bible is full of promises of help and favor, but somehow, Christians have decided they’re not intended seriously. We have cultivated the notion that a really good Christian lives on a sidewalk in a box and preaches love and kindness while people spit on him. The Bible says God gives us victory, healing, joy, peace, strong families, and prosperity. It says our enemies will flee before us. Who is right? God, or the people who preach defeat?

Favor is real, and the stronger the destroyers get, presumably, the more favor God will be willing to give his children. And surely he will want to unite Christians of different backgrounds in order to shame the destroyers and give the lie to their racist nonsense.

There is no black student union in heaven. There is no Italian social club. There are no whites-only golf courses. There is no yeshiva that doesn’t accept gentiles. Jeremiah Wright won’t have a black church in heaven. He’s probably going to hell. Segregating people according to the flesh is a Satanic notion. God unites people according to the Spirit, regardless of what their flesh looks like.

Man’s protection is falling away from me and every other white, male, Southern, Christian, Jewish, or heterosexual American. That’s fine, as long as I move into God’s protection. Man required me to compromise and tug the forelock. God gives favor along with dignity, with no self-betrayal.

People who take sides according to the flesh are going to get nowhere. The word says God will release a horseman to take peace from the earth, and he may already be here. You can’t fight that with earthly weapons. The only real peace is among God’s children.

If Joshua and Caleb throve while surrounded by enemies in superior numbers, so can you. God says he prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies. He struck the gay rapists of Sodom blind so they couldn’t find the door to Lot’s house. When the rain lifted the Ark, not one pagan was able to break in.

Too many people are taking the wrong messages away from the successes of the destroyers. They’re becoming more carnal, not less. They are following the destroyers instead of standing up as leaders.

I’m glad God showed me the positive side of what has happened to America. I have felt a lot of grief over the spectacle, but in Christian thought, birth comes after death. I should have considered that. Most people will fail and be destroyed, but eventually, the people who are spared and delivered will make me and other Christians forget all about the lost and the pain they caused us.

Hack Reloader Succeeds Where Professionals Fail

I cracked the 10mm mystery.

A long time ago, I made 10mm ammo with Speer Gold Dot bullets and Accurate No.7 powder. When I checked it at the range, I got speeds over 1200 fps from a short-barreled Glock 26. I carried it for years. It was very good compared to the stuff most people carry.

Recently, I decided I needed more ammo. I did a lot of detective work to make up for my lack of good records, and I tried to reconstitute my old loads. At one point, I got good velocities (with 12.0 grains of No.7), and I decided to use the resulting recipe to make defensive rounds. Then I checked again, and I got low velocities. The primers were the same. The charge was the same. I never found out what the issue was.

I decided to do research, and I discovered BE-86 powder. It’s made for defensive use. It has a flash suppressant, so if you shoot a soy commando in your bedroom at night, it won’t mess your night vision up as much as other powders.

Of course, there were no published loads for Speer 180-grain Gold Dots and BE-86, so I started with a recipe for a different 180-grain hollowpoint. The published load was for 8.2 grains. It was a maximum. I backed down to 7.8, figuring this was a good margin for safety. That was incorrect. I have since learned that you’re supposed to go down 10% from a maximum load. It worked, however.

A few days back, I shot some rounds made with 7.8 grains of BE-86, and I got velocities that were not satisfactory. The average was 1086. That sounds more like .40 S&W, which is what you buy a 10mm to get away from.

Yesterday, I made rounds with 8.0 grains, and today, I shot them. Or so I thought. I actually picked up the wrong magazine. I was shooting my old tried-and-true No.7 rounds from a decade ago. The came in at almost exactly 1190 fps, which is acceptable. The spread was almost nonexistent, at 6 fps.

It’s bad that I shot ammo I wanted to keep, but it’s good that I shot old ammo right behind new ammo. When I shot the new ammo, I had a very fresh memory of the way the gun felt with No.7. With BE-86, the recoil was much sweeter. Sort of like .45 ACP. With No.7, the recoil was sharp and snappy.

Even though the rounds were nicer to shoot, the velocity was no lower. The average was 1189 fps, with a spread of 3 fps.

I was hoping for 1200, so 1190 is very good. Bullets go slower out of short barrels, and I was using a short barrel. I would prefer 1250 fps, but if I load for that velocity in the Glock 29, I may hit 1300 in the Glock 20, which has a longer barrel. I’ve seen complaints about the way the Speer Gold Dot performs at 1300.

I got very good velocity, pleasant recoil, an extremely tight spread for 6 shots, and a suppressed flash. I think BE-86 is the answer.

I guess it pays to experiment. No one else uses this load. All the published alternatives were inferior. They lacked flash suppressant. Some were harsh. Some were slow. Some couldn’t produce velocity without creating too much pressure. My recipe is better than anything out there.

I can’t see any pressure signs on the casings. I guess I’m good to go. I’m tempted to try for another 50 fps, but I may be better off right where I am.

I keep good records now. I act like a scientist. I record things that don’t even seem important. If I need to revisit this ammo 10 years from now, I’ll be ready.

Now I can crank out some ammo and move on from 10mm to something else.

Joss Whedon Should Write Them a new Narrative

On Saturday night, in a section of Minneapolis, multiple shooters opened fire, wounding 11 people and killing one. The City Council has called for the disbanding of the police department, yet somehow, the police have been called to investigate the shooting. Multiple witnesses were present, and they talked to the press. Oddly, the articles about the shooting do not provide physical descriptions of the shooters.

The dead man is black. There are black people in the few photos that have been published. If the shooters are white, it’s quite remarkable that the press hasn’t told us. Journalists are pretty conscientious about promoting stories of white-on-black violence, rare though it is.

In Seattle, in the criminal-occupied zone at least one Youtuber is referring to as “Soymalia” and “Wokeanda,” a 19-year-old man has been shot to death. We have seen armed criminals roaming the streets, functioning as the official security team for the area. Haven’t seen law-abiding citizens doing that. In fact, it’s impossible to see a law-abiding citizen doing that, because open carry is illegal in Washington.

Wonder who shot the young man.

For a while, I’ve been pointing out that the Seattle goon squad is now the area’s police. So this shooting appears to have been police brutality. Committed in a zone where the occupants had convinced themselves freedom from police was the solution to the brutality problem. And they called the real police when the shooting took place.

Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture?

You throw your police force out because of occasional occurrences of police brutality. Then you declare your area police-free. Then you form your own police squad which has no oversight or training, and it commits a murder right off the bat, in addition to other acts of violence that have been filmed. Then you ask the real cops to come in and investigate.

I guess it’s better than holding a lynching, hypocrisy notwithstanding.

Here’s how much sympathy I feel for the residents of Minneapolis and Seattle: none whatsoever.

Is that a sound Christian position? Yes, it is. One of the fascinating things about Christianity is the way it separates people. It unites people who are led by the Holy Spirit, regardless of their races and so on. On the other hand, it separates us from belligerent, rebellious people who can’t be helped. We’re supposed to show them patience up to a point, and then we’re supposed to let them go and stop thinking about them.

When Lot was delivered from Sodom, he wasn’t just told to leave. He was told not to look back.

The people of Seattle and Minneapolis voted for this situation many times. They thought leftist rebellion was cute and stylish. They knew better; nearly everyone knows better. Now their foolishness and hypocrisy are biting them in the rear end, and still, many of them are defending their stupid actions. To feel sympathy for them is to have more concern for them than they have shown for themselves.

What about the Christians who are trapped in these areas? No sympathy. No one who has been listening to God has been trapped anywhere. If you had listened, you would have left. Or God has allowed you to remain there for a reason, and he has also provided an escape route you will take before long.

Discussing the day of his return, Jesus told parable of the 10 virgins;

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

“At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

“Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

“‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

“But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

“Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’

“But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.”

That’s what’s happening now. If you’re in the wrong place, and you think God put you there, you don’t have oil. In the Bible, oil represents the presence of the Holy Spirit. He guides and teaches us.

The wedding banquet is a real event, and it will take place in heaven during the rapture. You will notice the parable mentions 10 women but only one groom. The groom is Jesus, and we are the virgins.

People who don’t believe in the baptism with the Holy Spirit, or who insist they received it automatically when they accepted Jesus, are going to be running around looking for oil after the doors have closed in front of them.

What happens in Seattle and Minneapolis, to people who continue to reject God and who don’t listen, isn’t my concern. They’ve made their choice. They’re not part of my world. I can observe their distress and learn from it, but I’m not supposed to get involved with it. There are better uses for my time. It’s hard to imagine a worse use. I would accomplish nothing at all, and Satan would squander my potential while I chased idiots. Jobs God wanted me to do would go undone.

People end up where they belong. They choose. Some people belong with God, and others belong in hell. It wasn’t created for them, but they select it. It’s pointless.

I was just interrupted by a call from a black friend. We spent a few minutes laughing at the riot nuts.

Is it wrong to laugh? It’s hard not to. You try to have a cheery outlook.

I guess I should stop now. I just received a big ammo shipment, and I have to test some new 10mm rounds I made yesterday. Maybe it’s good that I blog about my firearms. When the kooks decide to target me, they won’t take me seriously when I say I don’t want to hurt anyone. They will probably be deterred for quite a while. They talk a big game, but the very thought of forceful resistance turns their black Antifa outfits yellow.

BOO! I’m dangerous! No, seriously!

I’m getting ready to take my first precision rifle course, so that ought to boost my cred.

Anything that buys me time and peace is okay by me.

Trump Rallies no Longer Permitted to Exist?

The MSM is beside itself. President Donald Trump had a rally in Oklahoma, and attendance was poor.

To read the MSM sites, you would think America had abandoned Donald Trump. But is that true? The surge of racist, envy-driven rioting has awakened a lot of people. So did coronavirus, which, oddly, sent huge numbers of Americans to gun shops to buy their first firearms. Republican voter registration is up. The Trump economy is still good. These are things that ought to make it hard for Democrats to get elected.

Is the surge in Republican registrations real, though? Some say Democrats with no integrity are registering as Republicans in order to weaken the party from within.

It makes sense. Republicans will not reciprocate, because they are less enthusiastic about lying and spying. You can see this in our nonexistent response to the left’s habit of attending conservative events. BLMtifers show up at conservative events to riot and disrupt. When leftists have their own events, we generally avoid them.

According to a well-known former Republican, the reason Trump’s rally didn’t do well is that leftist liars took a large number of tickets fraudulently. Left-leaner Steve Schmidt, who worked as a strategist for people like McCain and Schwarzenegger, brags that his daughter and her friends have hundreds of tickets. Legislator and former bartendress Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez also bragged about the fraud and said she was proud of the people who had done it.

It’s a sickening moment. People who hate Trump are too stupid and immature to understand that subverting democracy is a great evil.

Some time ago, I predicted that America would one day be ruled not by Democrats or Republicans but by people with smartphones. I said technology’s ability to coordinate people was getting so strong, we would reach a point where elections and laws would lose their power. Everyone can’t be in the police or the national guard. It’s impossible to control Americans when a sufficient number of them are united in real time by gadgets. It looks like we’ve just seen a big step toward true technocracy administered by complete idiots. The Beast is discovering his hands.

We seem to be looking at a future in which mobs will be mobilized much too quickly for the government to react. It will be facilitated by a cyberspace infrastructure we all subsidize willingly through wireless and Internet fees. It’s as though the technocratic government already has a taxation system, and we’re all paying.

The law doesn’t matter, and fairness certainly doesn’t. Justice is one of the main things leftists hate. As the electronically coordinated Beast becomes more aware of its power and better able to direct it, anyone who disagrees with its infantile doctrine will be in danger of deletion. They call what they’re doing “canceling,” but that’s just bad English from people who aren’t bright. Cancellation only applies to events. It’s really deletion. They want to remove our voices, our power, our wealth, and all traces of our existence from the earth. Why do you think they pull statues down? A statue is evidence that a person lived.

If Jesus delays his coming long enough, electronic government will happen. It’s inevitable. Conservatives, Christians, whites, Jews, and Asians from China, Korea, and Japan will have to wall themselves inside enclaves in order to survive. No one who disagrees with the Beast will be safe in the general population.

They’ll be able to touch us anywhere. They’ll be able to mob-assassinate individuals they don’t like. If you blog from a cabin in Idaho, they will be able to converge on your property, pull you out of your house, and torture you to death for Facebook. The government won’t be able to help you. They won’t see it coming, and they won’t have the manpower.

We’ve already seen how our government handles riots. In some cases, they break things up, but in many cities, they have chosen to retreat instead. They don’t do that out of principle. They do it because they have no choice. The rioters are stronger than the police and the National Guard.

In the future, we’ll see riots directed at individuals, far from cities. It will be like the torches-and-pitchforks scene in Frankenstein. The police will let the rioters kill, just as they do when rioters attack groups.

According to Jewish legend, mob crime was one of the things God hated about Sodom and Gomorrah. There is evidence of this in the Bible. When the angels visited Lot, a gay mob showed up and insisted on having the angels released to them so they could rape them all night. Jewish legend says the Sodomites ruined visiting merchants by showing up in mobs. Each person would take one item, so no individual committed a crime that, in and of itself, was serious. The effects on the victims were worse than grand theft.

Maybe God burned the Sodomites alive partly to prevent mobs from understanding their power. Maybe he didn’t want their knowledge to spread.

God deleted the Sodomites, leaving only a few survivors. Now their spiritual descendants want to delete the Jews, God’s children, and anyone who succeeds in amassing wealth. It’s like I’ve been saying for a long time: the story of creation is a story of genocidal war.

Control over commerce has moved into the cyber realm. The Bible says the Beast will prevent God’s children from buying and selling. The more stores we lose, and the more we buy through cyberspace, the closer we get to the day when it will be possible to exclude people from commerce arbitrarily and without legal repercussions. Even if we move to insular communities and somehow manage to protect ourselves for a while, how will we get things like oil and electricity? How will we repair the things we have? If we rely on generators, how will we get parts for them?

If we want to defend ourselves, how will we get bullets, brass, and smokeless powder? Those things don’t just jump out of the ground on prepper farms. They have to be shipped from areas the Beast will control.

The Beast is somewhat like Thanos, the villain in the recent Avenger movies. Thanos felt that half of the universe’s population need to disappear. He thought overpopulation was an existential threat, which is an odd thing to believe in a universe which appears to be infinite in size. His answer was to create a jeweled gauntlet that allowed him to snap his fingers and make them vanish. Marvel’s writers didn’t say how he expected to prevent the population from rebounding, which is a little ridiculous, but never mind that.

The left–the Beast–sees people like me the way a body sees viruses. They want us gone, permanently. They truly believe utopia is possible but for the presence and influence of people like me. They want to snap their fingers and delete us. The Beast just snapped his fingers in Tulsa.

Even if we have a temporary recovery from our insanity, the Beast will eventually get what he wants. It’s foolish to argue with prophesy. It’s absurd to try to prevent it from coming to pass.

I have the feeling that something that kept the world going has been taken away. It’s as though humanity had been shot with a poisoned arrow, and I’m watching it die. It doesn’t know it has been killed, but death is spreading through the body the way hemlock slowly extinguished Socrates.

All over the US, tattooed brats are celebrating their own doom.

I have a feeling similar to the feeling you get when you know you’re going to dump your girlfriend. You’re both smiling, she thinks things are fine, and you still spend time together, but you know it’s over, and you look forward to live without her. A lot of people think God is still doing everything he used to do to keep the world running, but I think he stopped a while ago. I think the world has been jilted.

I feel myself mourning. Not for me. For a country that should have had a better end, and for arrogant young boneheads who are sowing agony and eternal damnation into their own endless futures. I also feel bad for weak Christians who appease and compromise, thinking nothing has changed. They think people who see the end coming are cranks. They’re going to get a lot of nasty surprises.

I think people who are truly close to God will have great favor in the coming days. I think many of us will do well regardless of the Beast’s deletion campaign, and the favor God gives us will be used to heighten leftist hatred. It will drive people to sharpen knives and dream of plunging them into us. If you have toilet paper, good food, and a nice house, you will be a greedy Jew who fattened himself on Germany’s Weimar misery and then celebrated Pesach with matzohs made with the blood of Gentile babies. You will be a privileged white who wallows in money generated by the suffering of black slaves. You will be a Romanov who moved from palace to palace, drinking the blood of serfs.

You’ll be everyone the Beast’s slandering children can blame for their own self-inflicted unhappiness and failure. You’ll be whatever figure of fantasy they can conjure up.

Maybe I should get rid of my guns. I don’t plan to use them defensively. I study the subject, and I prepare for it by buying appropriate weapons and making good ammunition, but those are just intellectual exercises. It’s a hobby. I don’t want to hole up behind sandbags and shoot flash mob assassins. It would make me more like them, and it could keep me here with them a lot longer. It would increase my entanglement with them.

I can understand why Jesus and Paul didn’t resist the people who killed them. Think how tired they were, after dealing with human beings for so long. If you fight the Beast’s kids, you may prolong your exposure to them unnecessarily and delay your escape to heaven.

If I have guns, I might defend myself reflexively instead of accepting a welcome transfer to a better place.

I’ll keep them while I can. I enjoy shooting. As far as I can tell, God wants me to have them.

I don’t want to be here when they come for the guns or when they start imprisoning and killing us. I don’t want the pain of watching the end. I don’t want to see the pierced and the stained, hooting and dancing as they perpetrate atrocities on defenseless people who are better than they are. There is nothing I can do about it, though. I can’t leave the earth. I can only wait to be taken.

I wish I could do more before I go. I tried to get involved in ministry starting in around 2007, but I was rejected and back-burnered over and over. Churches and movements are crooked. They can tell if you’re going to mess things up for them. If you’re honest about greed and lies, or if you talk about the need for inner change, you’re the enemy. Satan runs churches just as he rules Antifa and Planned Parenthood.

If you’re tired of people bothering you and trying to involve you in things, start telling the truth. You’ll be unpopular in no time. I speak from experience.

Maybe I’ll still be used to get something done. For all I know, I may have to remain on earth for 30 more years. I would like to see people get physical healing miracles through me. I would like to see people delivered from compulsions and delusions. I would like to see them grow up and become one with God. Maybe I made these things impossible through my own bad behavior.

If Trump wins and we get a brief reprieve, it will have to be because God stood up for us and defeated the Beast. We just don’t have the earthly tools to beat his benighted flock.

Why Can’t Instructions be Honest?

Here is a question I would like answered. Why is it that every job that involves tools takes 4 times as long as it’s supposed to and requires at least one unexpected weekend trip to a store?

Today I decided it was time to deal with my garbage disposal. It was leaking under my sink. I don’t like working in cramped spaces, so I had been putting it off.

I ran water through it to find out where the leaked water was coming from. It would have been very nice had it been a loose hose clamp or a problem with the joint where waste water leaves the machine. No, neither option was in the cards. There was a leak between the motor and the body of the machine.

Replace the gasket, right? Guess what InSinkErator (50 cents says that really means “Whirlpool”) did to me? They put Torx bolts on the motor. Tamper-proof bolts, to make sure people who pay good money for appliances don’t “tamper” with them by trying to fix them.

Unfortunately, it worked. I pictured myself waiting 10 days for a gasket and a set of female Torx wrenches (which I plan to get anyway) while water continued dripping into my cabinet. I couldn’t stand the thought. I bought a new machine.

My old disposal was apparently the cheapest type available. They sell for under $85. It had a 1/2-horsepower motor. It had a short warranty.

I think it was made for trophy wives who only cook when they want jewelry.

I Googled around, and I saw they made a tougher model with a 3/4-horsepower motor. Done deal. Before I went to get it, I made sure it would mate up with all the stuff the old one was attached to. “No problem!”, the anonymous online liars said.

My old one came with a cord, and the new one didn’t. I didn’t think that mattered, because I could use the old cord.

I bought plumber’s putty even though I probably already had it. I can never remember whether I have plumber’s putty, so I always buy a new can. It’s better than taking a chance and having to drive back to the store.

I got home and looked at the instructions. First, you use the little disposal crank to turn a ring that holds the disposal against the parts that mate to the sink. In the instructions, there is a cartoon of a lady’s hand, whisking the wrench to the left without breaking a nail.

“Child’s play,” I thought.

I put the wrench in the metal loop in the ring and yanked. Nothing happened, unless you count the ring bending. I put two wrenches in two loops. No joy. I beat the rings with a hammer to knock the rust loose. No movement whatsoever. I even tried a cold chisel.

That’s when I went and got the sawzall.

Using a demo blade, I cut the disposal in half below the sink. This took about 30 seconds. They should draw a cartoon about it for the manual.

Now I had full access to the ring. I could really pull on it. Guess what happened? It made the flange spin in the sink. They appeared to be mated for eternity. I saw a huge cake of rust uniting the ring and the thing it was screwed into.

Using the demo blade, I cut the ring in half. Then I yanked on it again, figuring there was no way it could resist. No; sorry. I had to cut it in three places.

I was sweating even though the air conditioning was set at 74. Why do I always sweat during these jobs? I can’t figure it out. I wasn’t exerting myself, and the air was cool. This always happens. I got up and picked a setting in the 60’s.

I would say I was now two hours into what was supposed to be a half-hour job. My guess is that in 95% of the cases, it is literally impossible to do what the directions say to do. I didn’t invent rust. Other people have the same problem. I guarantee it.

When I was done, I was supposed to use a flat-bladed screwdriver to pry out a snap ring that went around the sink flange and held some of the parts in place. First of all, there was absolutely no way to get at it, and second, a screwdriver wouldn’t have fit between the ends of the ring. The manufacturer has to know this.

Solution: use a Fein Multi-master oscillating tool with a metal saw to cut through the remaining rings including the snap ring. I tried the sawzall, but the blade couldn’t cope with the unnecessarily hard Chinese steel. Much later, the Fein tool made it through the ring, and the parts fell out.

I decided to install the cord. I cut it out of the old machine and got the wires ready. I found some butt connectors and wire nuts. Then I read the instructions. I was supposed to insert a 1/2″ wire clamp into a hole in the disposal for strain relief. A wire clamp…”not included.”

Okay, who makes a garbage disposal that requires you to add a cord and does NOT include strain relief? This is something that would cost the manufacturer maybe 20 cents. They include like 15 parts you need to install this thing, and then they leave out the cheapest one.

Back to the store.

Got the wiring done, installed the flange in the sink, installed the disposal but for the waste pipe, and found that because the disposal, which supposedly mated up to installations for other models, was too fat to work with the existing waste pipe and sink flange. The pipe was too long. It pushed the disposal off to the right, making it impossible to tighten the ring that mated it to the sink. I had to pull the pipe out, cut 3/8″ off with the Multi-master, and reinstall it.

Look, if you buy one of these things, I’ll give you the real instructions.

1. Get a long carbide demo blade or metal-cutting blade for your sawzall.

2. Ignore the nonsense about turning the ring that holds the disposal up. Cut the disposal in two with the sawzall, and then insert the sawzall blade into the hole and slice the ring that holds the remains of the disposal against the other hardware. Don’t cut it once. Cut it in at least two places. Then pry it off and fling it into a ditch.

3. Cut the remaining ring and spring with the sawzall. Don’t even bother trying to open the ring. You can’t. I recommend an oscillating tool with the hardest blade you can find as a backup.

4. Have something handy for shortening the waste pipe. Alternatively, have extra pipe in case the old pipe is too short.

5. Always buy plumber’s putty.

You should read the installation instructions online before you buy the disposal so you can find out which essential parts are not included.

There. I just turned a half-hour job which is really a 5-hour job into a 3-hour job.

The bigger disposal looks like a good choice. It’s quieter and smoother than the old one, it has a longer warranty, it should crunch harder garbage, and the construction looks a lot better. It looks like it will be a lot harder to cut in two with a sawzall, however, so I hope I’m not here when it fails, because I can’t even guess how I’ll get it out.

A smart person would go under the sink once a month and turn the ring that attaches the disposal to the flange. This would keep it from seizing. I considered putting anti-seize on it. Maybe I’ll still do that.

The evolution of the garbage disposal, clearly, is not finished. Supplying these things with rings that seize and which are not strong enough to stand up to your efforts to turn them is not a sign of brilliance.

I’m trying not to think about the oven and the awful faucet. The oven trips its thermal fuse when I use the cleaning cycle, and the faucet is just plain bad. I don’t want to buy an oven because they’re very expensive, and the faucet will require working in a cramped space.

Anyway, the garbage problem is licked. On to the next battle.

Somehow, Racism Must be at the Bottom of It

CORRECTION AT BOTTOM.

Yesterday a cousin I barely know sent me a text to check on me. I believe she lives in Arizona. She said she and her husband had been helping Navajos. She said the epidemic had hit Navajos harder than other people.

That got me thinking. I already knew blacks were getting hit badly, and we all know older people in homes are more likely to be infected . People in homes represent something like 25% of all covid-related deaths. Today I learned that Latins and prisoners were also at higher risk. Now I’m learning that American Indians get infected more often. It’s not just Navajos. What’s the explanation?

The CDC, predictably, says racism explains the rate among blacks. That was easy, wasn’t it?

Lower incomes? The cause must be racism. More heart disease? Racism. Sickle cell anemia? Definitely racism. When the race card is in their hand, liberals don’t even look at the other cards.

Racism isn’t making people sick. When the CDC blames racism, it’s making a self-serving wild guess that also helps it virtue-signal.

If a certain group gets inferior healthcare, it should result in more deaths, not more infections. It wouldn’t make people more likely to be infected, but it would make them less likely to get adequate care once they were ill.

I can see why prisoners and residents of homes get infected. A home is just a prison for old people. Both types of facilities confine people on whom society places a low value. We put them in small spaces, and we don’t really try to keep them safe, because we don’t care about them. It should have been expected.

Minorities are different. They’re not confined together. Why are they getting sick?

I just read a story in which an official claims to have come up with the reason: racism. That surprised me. Okay, it didn’t. She says many Navajos don’t have running water or electricity, and the government has let them down by failing to provide good healthcare. But isn’t medical care what helps people who are already sick? I have never seen any source of information that suggested healthcare providers could slow the transmission of covid. On the contrary, they put that burden entirely on the public. Don’t leave your house. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Doctors and nurses can’t help you do those things.

It’s as though supernatural forces had chosen to focus on certain nations and groups. I wonder if that’s the case.

If the disease were somehow being directed toward enemies of God, you would expect it to hit leftists harder. That has actually happened here in America. The Northeast has an extremely high disease rate. Liberal cities across America have high rates of infection. San Francisco is a notable exception, but California itself has a high rate. Hawaii hasn’t been hit hard by the virus, but it has been slammed economically because a quarantine order cut off money from the state’s major industry: tourism.

Blacks and Latins tend to be liberal. American Indians depend heavily on government assistance and generally support Democrats.

I can’t find information on infection rates among gays. Either it doesn’t exist, or it’s being concealed. They are overwhelmingly liberal, and they have an abysmal record of containing infections. They still have epidemics of venereal diseases the rest of us rarely contract.

American Jews tend to be atheists and supporters of Israel’s enemies. They have a high infection rate. This is true even of Orthodox Jews, who are more supportive of Israel. Israel itself has a low infection rate.

Republicans are more likely than leftists to be friends of God, and a May article from Reuters said the coronavirus rate in Democrat-controlled areas was triple the rate in conservative areas. Triple!

Remember how Democrats made fun of conservative counties in Florida when hurricanes came through? They said it was God’s punishment for voting for Bush. They distributed silly memes which distorted the truth, making it look like the storms were heavily concentrated in conservative areas. In fact, liberal areas got hit, too. Could it be that God is making his response?

In 2012, leftist extremist Antonio Villaraigosa presided over a voice vote at the Democratic Convention, supposedly after Barack Obama forced the issue. The Democrats had removed “God” from the text of their platform, along with text acknowledging Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The delegates voted on restoring this language. They voted several times, clearly in the negative. Villaraigosa looked at other leaders for help, knowing he was in a pickle. Then he lied and said the motion had passed, and he was booed loudly. Is God thinking about that now?

In the Revelation, after releasing a horseman to conquer the earth for Jesus, God releases three other horsemen to torment the earth. The first horseman is disease, and the second is lack. When the second horseman is released, a voice says, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wage’s, and do not harm the oil and the wine.” The third horseman is murder. Like a lot of people, I have said he represents war, but that’s not what the Revelation says. It says he takes peace from the earth and makes people kill each other. That’s not necessarily war. Look at the BLMtifa riots.

We saw coronavirus, which is a disease, and then we saw lack. Now, with the riots, we are seeing an end to domestic peace. These things took place in the same order in which the horsemen were released.

The next thing the Revelation predicts for the earth is the fall of the stars of heaven. They will fall on the earth like untimely figs.

Stars are great spirits. Is God about to release powerful spirits on the earth to punish mankind?

The Revelation says 4 spirits will be ordered to prevent the wind from blowing on the earth, and before the real destruction starts, the people of God will be sealed in their foreheads.

It’s confusing. The story about the horsemen and ensuing disasters seems to describe things that can’t happen until the rapture has taken place. It speaks of people who have come to heaven through the tribulation, which is a post-rapture event.

Maybe what we’re seeing now is a little picture of that time. A preview. Maybe we will see something that looks like the tribulation, except that it will be relatively mild.

I’m very confident the tribulation can’t come before the rapture. God removed Noah’s family before the flood, and he removed Lot from Sodom. He separated the Hebrews from Egypt and protected them from the plagues. I don’t see why he would show us that pattern over and over and then abandon it.

If we’re seeing a preview, maybe we should expect violence and the cancel culture to rage for a while and then subside somewhat so people can repent and prepare.

Then, of course, it would all come back, except it would be worse, and it would not subside. It would just lead into things that were more unpleasant.

If God is involved in what’s happening, why is San Francisco doing so well? It’s an extremely vile place. It also has strong ties to China, and many sick people must have flown from San Francisco since the epidemic began.

When the USA was making plans to drop the atom bomb, our leaders spared certain cities from conventional bombing. They spared Hiroshima because they wanted a clean target for nuclear weapons. They wanted to be able to distinguish Little Boy’s effects from those of ordinary bombs. I wonder if San Francisco is being set up.

I don’t know what’s happening. I’m just trying to perceive the pattern.

I think Revelation’s admonition not to harm the oil and the wine is about God’s plan to protect people who belong to him. Oil represents the Holy Spirit, and wine represents the blood of Jesus, which confers salvation. Maybe people who are really on God’s side are receiving protection.

Why wouldn’t God protect old people from covid? Maybe old people who don’t belong to him are dying. Or maybe he’s sparing them the ordeal of being elderly and helpless during the tribulation. The antichrist’s people venerate the young and excoriate the old. They have no respect for the wisdom of older people, and they blame them for the world’s problems. Who knows what they’ll do to older people when God’s hand isn’t here to restrain them?

We’ve already seen them mistreating the elderly in videos from the riots.

It makes sense that prisoners wouldn’t do well in a world facing God’s wrath. Prisons house the worst, least godly people in society.

The other day while I was in prayer, I felt he said, “I will surround you like a shield.” I hope so. He has done that so far. I hope other people will get as close to him as they can and avoid the pain of his anger.

CORRECTION

I made a strange error in this post. Somehow, I got the order of the horsemen of the apocalypse mixed up. It goes like this: conquest, violence, lack, and death.

I thought the last three horsemen were death (disease and so on), lack, and violence, in that order. We have had a pandemic, shortages, and riots. I thought it might mean something that the same things were taking place in the same order.

Of course, we had a bunch of BLM and Antifa riots before the current wave of opportunistic crime by filthy criminals masquerading as activists, but I don’t recall any shortages.

It’s strange that I got this wrong, because it was right in front of me.