Random Shots for Sunday, 8 January 2017

Today in history

Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Facebook –

   Forty years ago, the punditocracy said “you’ll never get it passed” about marijuana re-legalization.

2. Posted to Facebook –

   Refer him to the DNC as a prospective employee, but the lack of ties to terrorist groups might be a disqualifier.

3. Posted to Facebook –

   What ever happened to Carl Milsted’s “Libertarian Reform Caucus” ? I know that it was the group who gutted the platform at the 2006 National Convention in Portland, Oregon, but it disappeared after that.

4. Posted to Facebook –

   Even better — a comment posted by the “Populist Caucus” to its own post:

   https://facebook.com/LPPopulists/posts/1293429097385325?comment_id=1293430680718500

   “How can Libertarians say they’re for people’s rights when they don’t even support the rights of the state?”

5. Posted to Facebook –

   Check the Legislature site for committee hearings, but the committee heads have been known to play games with the hearing schedule to make sure that only testimony that they want to hear is heard by the committee.

   https://nmlegis.gov/

6. Posted to Facebook –

   Here’s the site with the City Charter and Ordinances — it makes the NMSA for the State look relatively benign. As a bonus, the NMSA is much more readable.

   http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/New%20Mexico/albuqwin/cityofalbuquerquenewmexicocodeofordinanc?f=templates$fn=default.htm$3.0$vid=amlegal:albuquerque_nm_mc

7. Posted to Facebook –

   Facebook doesn’t truly delete accounts. What they do is suspend it til you log in again.

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Garry Reed – Science Fiction and the Humanity of the Libertarian Ethos
2. Reason –

        Did the Libertarian Party Blow It in 2016? by Brian Doherty and Matt Welch

        Bill Weld’s Weird Tuesday

3. The Libertarian Enterprise – Number 905, 8 January 2017
4. Roswell Daily Record – Gun regulation proposals converge on New Mexico Legislature
5. Metrocosm by Max Galka – Election Results in the Third Dimension
6. AmmoLand Shooting Sports News – Citizen Persistence after NICS Gun Purchase Block Results in Overturn of Denial by David Codrea
7. Gil Fewster – The mind-blowing AI announcement from Google that you probably missed.
8. The Liberty Conservative – Should Austin Petersen Leave The Libertarian Party? by Chris Dixon
9. Andromeda

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