Some recent beer you should try

I recommend the following: Chimney Sweep by Schells brewery (Smoke porter), Backwoods Bastard by Founders (Scotch Ale aged in bourbon barrels) and this one by Clown Shoes which name I forget.

Dave's Brew Farm

If you live in the area, their beer is delicious. Especially the "Matacabras."

http://davesbrewfarm.blogspot.com/

Where to begin in this war?

I swear Iggy and I aren't the same person, though if things keep going the way they're going, we'll either be cell mates in concentration camps diversity training, or leaders of our own tribes in the Zombie Apocalypse. Between the two of us, we got the survival skills.

REDNECK REFLECTIONS: The Problem is a basic Lack of Structure

Other people I like in general in addition to Copts

Homebrewers, the humble, Saints, martial artists, Traditionalist minded Catholics, Russians, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs, Ethiopians...ok all Orthodox minded people whether Chalcedonian or not, bakers, Good Samaritans, people who let my in in traffic, Renfest/SCA types, Libertarians, people who like to keep in shape, Nature lovers, Zoo people, Show people, WWE type wrestling fans, people who can cook, handy people, builders, mechanics, survivalist types, Atheists like Penn Gillette who don't mind me praying in front of them, Western Rite lovers or at least tolerate it, down-to-earth people, people who work for a living, people who hate Big Government, people who call government stealing what it is: stealing, Monastics, history buff's, bakers, court reporters, forest rangers, military types, kids, people who live a moral life even if they aren't Christian, people who don't steal or wrong me and justify it, and people who don't judge people who aren't in communion with them, and every combination thereof.

But the people whom I like the most, are those who are either like Christ, or try very hard to be so whether or not they are aware of it.

I like Copts.

I like Copts, their Church and everything they do; with the exception of being Non-Chalcedonian. They are some of the sweetest people I've ever met and I pray for their deliverance. It breaks my heart to see such cruelty done to them. Ecumenism isn't a bad word when it's real ecumenism. Copts are always welcome in this blog, and in my section of the Church where ever I'm standing, and to my beer.


Journey To Orthodoxy: When Ecumenism Is Not A Bad Word

Spring Semster 2013

Monday I'm back in school getting trained in something to do with the legal profession, and that means my blogging will be sporadic, and brief. If I find a good beer, see a movie or TV show, attend a service, or have anything to share; I will.

There will also be some gradual changes in this blog, due to they trying to get me to pursue Holy Orders in the Western Rite Vicarite. If I'm feeling suicidal I'll go through with it. That would make me an even bigger target. I'm already one for being an Orthodox Christian who opposes the immorality of Leftism and Statism, in a country that steadily embraces both and discards the Constitution and Judeo-Christian values upon which it was based; I'm one also for being a Libertarian; I'm a target for pointing out the blatant inconsistencies of bishops of World Orthodoxy and Imperial Orthodox (the biggest vitriol I usually get from the "Official Orthodox"; and I'd be another if I were a Western Vicarite clergyman in the territory of a certain bishop who is hostile to it (that IS putting it mildly). That wouldn't be for a few years, and who knows? I did pray for that bishop when I got to see the Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Theotokos; so maybe Our Lady may melt his heart. I really don't know what he and people like him are so afraid of.

So there may be pictures too of my various adventures and of people I've met and things I've seen. I have this blog mainly for informational purposes, and something in my spare-time, which will be nill for the next four months. I suggest you frequent much better blogs like Monomakhos, Byzantine ,TX and such. Or if this stops being fun, I'll just S-can it.

Oh, I just took the time to read the blogs of some people I respect: one in particular of a fellow former Antiochian who left for Old Calendarism (I am loathe to use "True Orthodoxy" because I consider myself a True Orthodox in that I do what I'm supposed to do and reject ecumenism, the WCC, Christmation only and the widespread corruption in so many World Orthodox jurisdictions I could mention...not that there aren't problems in the Old Calendarists either) and maybe I haven't seen the articles, but I fail to see any claims of being a prophet, other than a cartoon. I also don't care. I also don't see any vitriol and idle talk on his part. What do I see is self-appointed "Defenders of Orthodoxy" personally attacking him, his family, and engaging in unchristian, unkind, and petty name-calling INSTEAD OF refuting what he writes. Yes jurisdiction hopping can be a symptom of a greater problem (see Gregory George). But then again I've been part of many jurisdictions myself: the unorthodox one in which I was raised; then Antioch at home, Bulgaria at the mum-in-laws; then OCA on a trial basis at home, ROCOR at the mum-in-laws (had no choice-my Hieromonk got deposed over something LONG ago and had already repented of); and now mostly ROCOR WRV at home with once a month visits to OCA, and ROCOR at mum-in-laws. I don't officially belong anywhere. I am officially NOT in Antioch or Bulgaria (due to something I didn't do). If I'm not dealing with crooks, I'm dealing with either former communist agents or western rite detractors. I don't know my friend's situation; maybe he had to deal with logistics. But I'll repeat what I just said on his blog: If the way people treat him on his blog is their idea of being an Orthodox Christian; I don't want to be one.

Oh, and anyone who would spend 10 seconds of their time to find out who I am has no life.

MOLON LABE: Come and Get em'!

What goes for Ignorant Redneck (with whom between the two of us can provide for our respective clans in a zombie apocalypse) as usual goes with me! That greek phrase, as I understand, are the words of King Leonidas to the Persians who demanded that he and the other 299 Spartans lay down their weapons and submit.

REDNECK REFLECTIONS: MOLON LABE

Child Prodigies: STOP THEM!

I got sent this article with which I agree 100%. These kids do not have the maturity to deal with a business full of liars, backstabbers and general reprobates; disappointment, setbacks, and failure; and constant self-doubt and working a day job. Case in point: Charlotte Church. Where is she now? Burnt out and dead career.

Here's my favorite part:

NO! No it isn't! Not for an eleven year old girl singing Musetta's Waltz or "O mio babbino caro"! Not okay, not okay! That teacher is either delusional or a hack! Stop singing opera! Stop singing opera! The vocal folds which produce musical tones are a highly delicate, extremely fragile, easily damaged organ. Adult opera singers are at risk of incurring injury from over-use; what chance do you think Shirley Temple Junior has? Think about it. That Tweenie girl singing opera is writing checks her body can't cash, even though, yes, it might sound perfectly lovely to YOUR amateur's ears. You don't get to hear her ten years later when her instrument has degraded to the point that a career in the opera field is no longer an option. And my objections aren't limited to the vocal hazards. Putting a child on television to sing, be it a local, regional, or national audience, is no way to raise a kid. It's even worse when the TV program is in the format of a competition. You do understand that a child with an unusually mature voice still has a child's emotional maturity, don't you? A youngster who has been always been praised for her beautiful voice is swimming with sharks once a Career In Show Business has been launched. Regardless of how much cash is earned, regardless of the fan letters received or the pride felt by the pushy stage-parents, here's what the child faces: * Hurtful, snide criticism by the Simon Cowells of the world. * Losing; losing competitions, losing recording contracts if sales aren't up to snuff; and public rejection for everyone to see, perhaps with TV cameras trained on their faces as someone else's name is announced as the winner, following the trail of tears rolling down their cheeks. Losing an election for class president is a valuable experience; losing a damn singing contest on TV at a young age is traumatic. * Being regarded as a freak by other children their own age * The pressure of doing what they're doing so as not to disappoint the adults in their lives: ambitious parents, the teacher who may be fixated on the vicarious thrill of a student's success; adults with whom they spend most of their time interacting instead of with their chronological peers.

You didn't read the code

First of all, it isn't exactly a National Secret who I am. About 15 people already do, and I usually tell people when I meet them when the subject of blogs come up. Therefore you may stop patting yourselves on the back. It's not like I am clergy or in a position with any Church either. You think I can't speak my mind to people's face? That's the way I prefer to do. EVERYBODY who meets me knows where I stand. I am not officially in any jurisdiction either. Second, I don't read my own blog. I have a life. That's why I didn't notice all the vitriol and idle talk in the comments section which have all been deleted. That's also why it "took me so long" to delete them. I don't read other blogs that much either, therefore I don't know about this prophet stuff. If you have a problem with someone, I suggest you take it up with them and not here. I am not interested in this idle talk. That's why this blog sucks. I just post things that interest me. Fighting on the internet with self-appointed "Defenders of the Faith" who attack anyone who sins against them whom I neither know, nor want to know, does not interest me. Third, from now on, NOBODY will be allowed to comment unless I will it. Who reads this blog anyway?

I will go unto the altar of the Lord.

Alex Jones: You're not helping

I've never heard of Alex Jones, but he obviously, like me and other Constitution loving people, supports our right to have means of defending ourselves from a tyrannical government and those who would try to hurt us. Piers Morgan doesn't support our Constitution, and is openly hostile to it and most of the freedoms we are guaranteed buy it. The word around the campfire is that he's over here because the English are sick of him. Well why stop with the 2nd Amendment? How about taking away our Right to Free Speech and Habeus corpus?

Back to Alex Jones. The place where he lost me was "1776 WILL HAPPEN AGAIN..." You probably noticed from watching the clip that Piers was just sitting there while Jones was bellowing like a pro wrestler on crack. Alex Jones did a big favor for gun-grabbers. This could not have gone better if Piers Morgan had hired an actor to do this for him. Now, thanks to over emotionally involved Alex Jones, ordinary low-information sheep/people are going to look at Alex Jones and sign away our rights.

Go on Youtube and watch Ted Nugent and Jesse Ventura do a much better job. Now if you think the way to act is to be like either Piers Morgan, or Alex Jones: I have no use for you.

Happy New Year 2013

What a year. It was good for me personally and the ROCOR WRV, bad for Met. Jonah, bad for Patriarch Ignatius, good for craft brewers, bad for those in NY and NJ, bad for Christians in the Middle East (as is every year), great for Statists, the world didn't come to an end, and bad for the people of the OCA ESPECIALLY those in the Dioceses of the South (who STILL don't have a bishop) and the Midwest whose bishop is a pervert, a bully and a disgrace to the uniform. But I digress. Happy New Year!

Union Thugs are bad guy wrestlers

I can't wait for the semester to end. It has taken up most of my free time; so much that I've had little time to blog or read blogs. I look at what is going on in my neck of the woods with Michigan becoming a "Right to Work" State and the Leftist thugs being their usual Fascist, violent, and vulgar selves. Let's see, they've: physically assaulted Steven Crowder, tore down the tent of Americans for Prosperity while people were still in it, tried to break into government buildings, and destroyed a man's Hot Dog Stand while calling him the N-word. I thought Unions claimed to be looking out for the "little guy"? Is there a Hot Dog Stand Union?

Being from the Great Lakes area, I was raised by the AWA, Gilligan's Island and Kung Fu with David Carridine. My gummit Union Thug and heretic Father was a bare-minimum parent at best leaving me and my siblings at the mercy of our abusive feminazi heretic mother (who hates everything about Orthodoxy that we love). Therefore I learned about being a man from Da Crusher, Superstar Billy Graham, Mad Dog Vachon and especially hulk Hogan. Hogan may had been a complete fraud in real life, but being a child and being that the business was closed about it being fixed and scripted; I didn't know. And of course the biggest "bad guys" were Sheik Adnan Al Kasie (who like Hogan was the exact opposite in real life, except he is a good man) Bobby Heenan, Nick Bockwinkel, Ivan Koloff, the Iron Sheik and future MN Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura. One Jesse memory I will share, and use as the explanation of the headline.

On the weekly show Jesse Ventura and fellow heel (code for "bad guy")Mr. Saito were teamed up against career jobber (meaning he never won) Kenny "Sodbuster" Jay and Baron Von Rasche. Near the end, Jesse and Saito had Kenny Jay tied up, upside down in their corner and took turns stomping a mudhole in Jay. Now according to wrestling "rules" they had until a five count to stop or be disqualified. Right before the five count they'd tag the other in thus breaking the count and exchanging their role as the "legal man" and thus not being disqualified. They were following the letter of the law, but they were also supposed to let Jay out of the corner. So after about 2-3 minutes of this, Baron Von Rasche, having enough, storms in and starts beating the crap out of both Jesse and Saito (called a "hot tag" in the business, just without the tag) rescuing his partner. Now the Baron wasn't the "legal man" and therefore wasn't supposed to be in the ring, but monkey see; monkey do. So the Baron puts Jesse in "The Claw" (also one of the most fake moves of all time, the TW actually thinks it feels good) and Jesse sells it (meaning he acted like it hurt) and Mr. Saito somehow found a board of wood and hits the Baron over the head with it. Then both Jesse and Saito put the boots to the Baron until more referees and AWA officials break it up.

Immediately after this, the interviewer (I forget who) approaches them with mic in hand and the first thing Jesse exclaims is, "WE DIDN'T BREAK ANY RULES!" He then goes on about how they broke the five count and legally tagged in and out, all the while the crowd is booing. It didn't dawn on them how they were illegally keeping Jay tied upside down in their corner and not letting the referee let him out. A common trait among bad guy wrestlers is that they were sociopaths. They believed themselves to be infallible, felt justified in cheating and seriously hurting their opponents, claimed the good guy had no right to win, and when called out on it, told the interviewer that they were either blind, stupid, or discriminating against them.

Does this sound familiar? I see this wherever Leftists congregate. I saw it in Madison, I saw it in the Occupiers and I see it again at the State Capital in Michigan. These union thugs don't care about rights, they only care about continuing their money laundering scam for the Democrats. The Left says that the TW can choose kill our baby (she's not pregnant, just an allegory) but not choose to not be in a union. Just like with bad guy wrestlers, you couldn't reason with them. The only way to deal with them was to fight them and beat them. The fight is on!"