Neanderpundit

Just downloaded and installed pale moon. I had issues with the WordPress interface in Firefox and it never worked at all in Chrome, but pale moon seems to love it. I am in like flint, baby.

Several of the Ruark books. The old man and the boy. The old mans boy grows older. Use enough gun. I’ve been reading them one chapter at a time, different book each sitting, shuffled together like a deck of cards, and it has not had a moment I didn’t enjoy.

I took my machinists apprenticeship at Inland Steel. There was almost nobody there I grew really close to, including one guy who eventually became my brother in law. I had a lot of friends, but only a very few ‘Friends”. Out of that couple hundred millwrights, electricians, pipefitters, operators, machinists, I think I hung out with four people outside of work, and most of the time it was only one guy.

His name was Jon, and he was a superior millwright. His family was Jewish, and his dad ran a classic haberdashery, where I purchased my very first bespoke suit. Jon and I went to movies together, escaped our wives together, and got our first computers at the same time. We even got modems and chatted online! Imagine!!! in 1982!! I had a Franklin Ace, and he had an Apple 2. We swapped games and programs and files, we found out about bulletin boards and TELNET and USENET and ARPANET and all kinds of other stuff.

The mill, for the time I worked there, was a pretty rough and tumble place. Even people you knew and liked were prone to lighting you up, and if you didn’t like someone all bets were off. It was a common thing to corner a guy in the shower, naked, and beat him with a rubber hose for his birthday.

Anyway, Jon and I and a few others stayed away and above this sort of thing. We were smart enough never to let our birthdays be known and we were careful in the showers, choosing to hang with the old timers who would brook no such nonsense.

Jon led a completely separate life from the mills- he was a dandy, he dressed extremely well, and spent most of his time downtown Chicago on his days off. In the Inland days, he was unmarried and still hitting the gay bars every weekend and many was the time I picked him up at some apartment where he had landed and drove him back to some bar to pick up his car. Had the rest of the crew at Inland known this they would have beat him senseless, which is exactly what we all did when I outed him at work.

What?

No, I never did any such thing. But a powerful lot of the people who think they know me suspect that this is the kind of person I am, which merely proves how ignorant they are. See, my dad’s stepbrother- now long since dead- was queer as a $3,* and I had good and well developed gaydar from an early age. I knew Jon was gay or at least bi, and I knew what kind of trouble that would be for him if it ever became well known, but it was never discussed. I showered naked with him (and a couple hundred other guys) every single day for four years and it never gave me a moment’s discomfort. I never concerned myself with his personal proclivities because mine are and were of such a nature that the mechanics of homosexuality seem fairly tame by comparison; I was clearly the pervert in that friendship.

We were friends because we shared interests. Partner, during that time, was unfortunately not on the “Approved” list of friends according to the ex wife, so Jon was the guy I hung with. He kept me sane through the difficulties of my first marriage as it failed, and when he got married (Predominantly to ensure his lineage; he was, after all, a Jew, with the inbred desire to keep the line going)I was there and kept him from losing it during the worst of their times.

He was my friend. He lives in Indianapolis now and is still my friend, though I have not seen him in person for many years.

The idea that I have any issue with gay people is of course ludicrous to anyone who actually knows me-John would have laughed out loud with his funny, barking laugh. The idea that I want to harm them in any way is equally ludicrous, like the morons who say “Catholics believe god hates gays!” No, we do not, and no, he does not. Homosexual relations are considered sinful behavior just like all the other sinful behavior that exists, and homosexuals are welcome in the Catholic church just like other sinners are welcome in the Catholic church. No, the Catholic Church does not consider homosexual relations acceptable, and in fact no Christianity can exist where they are considered acceptable. Sorry; you can disagree but you’re wrong.

Instead of making racism disappear properly we tried to force it by force of law, and now a worse racist divisiveness exists than existed before, because it is constantly used as a weapon. Feminism has done the same thing and had the same effect. Making gays the new protected class has had the effect of making a new divisiveness where too much divisiveness existed already. The left has done an excellent job of helping to create this divisiveness, and there are some pretty clear reasons. The primary one is NOT to gather votes, because the gay population is so small its voting bloc is meaningless. The clear intention is to force the impression on the population that “Gays should be given everything they want because they deserve it just like you and me” (Which is of course ignorant) and that anyone who disagrees is a mean poopy headed gay hater.

There is another agenda, and it is clear to me, and that is the group that will side with anyone against the church. I get this, I really do; if you’re not too smart and you have been harmed by someone, the urge to destroy G-d is strong.(As if he directly caused your trouble) I can only have pity on the people that have that damage, I can’t fix them so all I can do is pray for them and hope they find healing.

This is the plan- damaging the church, which is the last wall between socialists and everything they desire. They discovered- much to their dismay- that the Church is not the clergy but the faithful, and while they won’t stop damaging the clergy they have now set their aim on the faithful and damaging their ability to worship. I am of course insane for even thinking this, though it is already happening elsewhere and is on it’s way here very soon. it will happen here, and worse, because we have institutionalized the slaughter of innocents, and in doing so have as a culture run away from the Creator.

This is why I am of the opinion that the number of actual Christians on the planet is in the mid to high five figures. I do not see the kind of activity there should be if there were larger numbers.

What I do see, though, is a terrible resolve. I am annoyed that the left has decided to pit the faithful against gays because in reality, the faithful recognize sinful behavior and just want not to celebrate it, any more than they want to celebrate abortion, or murder, or theft. had the left not jammed their filthy mitts into the issue the gay lifestile might just have eventually peacefully merged with everything else, and none of it would be any big deal to anyone. Those who are in the game are not smart enough to understand that they are being manipulated, and those supporters of it have taken to their training well, and dismiss the notion out of hand that there might be an agenda other than the one they see.

I don’t have an overwhelming desire to see harm come to anyone. Anyone that can do my commute and honestly say that will understand what I mean. I just don’t want others harming me because they have chosen to believe some leftist shibboleth instead of reasoning it out for themselves. The knee jerk “You just hate gays and you’re a homophobe and etc” is the equivalent of “RACIST!” It means the same thing, nowdays; the person screaming it is the real problem.

Don’t piss in my cornflakes and tell me it’s raining. I remember Babylon.

*Who do you suppose is on the $3? I bet it’s Truman Capote.