Random Shots for Friday, 13 October 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —

   One down already, before CTBNM has raised any money, set up a real website, or anything!

   http://krqe.com/2017/10/12/new-mexico-judge-resigns-after-allegedly-stealing-from-a-dead-man/

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Pamela Smith makes the Albuquerque Journal!

   https://abqjournal.com/1077120/sierra-county-judge-resigns-amid-fraud-investigation.html

3. Posted to Facebook —

   Is the STD still transmissible to others?

   If so, then failure to disclose is at least a form of fraud, especially if the partner in question asked about STDs.

   Why is this even a question?

4. Posted to Facebook —

   I’ve heard about this particular bit of insanity from a sane friend who lives in the San Francisco area.

   KKKalifornia is a clusterfuck in so many other ways.

5. Posted to Facebook —

   My own way of fucking with the “progressive” types a bit, that’s all.

6. Posted to Facebook —

   ^ THIS

7. Posted to Facebook —

   If they’re passing diseases on to other people in the process of those sexual acts, YES.

8. Posted to Facebook —

   If you’re a bugchaser or don’t mind getting infected with an STD, that’s on you.

   If I got infected with an STD because a partner didn’t feel like telling me about it, I’d be extremely pissed.

9. Posted to Facebook —

   How so?

10. Posted to Facebook —

    Welcome to the Libertarian Bigots Club, Jason!

11. Posted to Facebook —

    If a man passes a disease on to a woman, that’s causing an injury, and a NAP violation, just as much as man-on-man transmission of the disease.

    If a woman passes the disease on to a man, that’s also causing an injury, and NAP violation (waiting for you to call that “misogyny” on my part).

    If bugchasers voluntarily sign up to be infected, that’s on them.

    The NAP violation occurs when you infect someone who doesn’t want to be infected.

12. Posted to Facebook —

    I’ll take the above label of me as a “bigot” as a compliment.

13. Posted to Facebook —

    For those who think that failure to disclose an infectious STD to a potential sex partner is “NAP compliant,” and that I’m a “bigot” for suggesting otherwise, I recommend a 2016 / 2017 “Libertarian” version of Orwell’s “Two Minute Hate” from 1984:

    Face your bathroom mirror holding your Johnson-Weld yard sign and scream “GARY! GARY! GARY GARY!” for as long as you can keep it up.

    The fact remains that bugchasers are minority of minorities of the LGBTQ community, and that most people, regardless of sexual proclivities, don’t want to be infected with STDs if they can avoid it.

    For those that ARE OK with being infected, that’s on them.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Mozilla — Firefox Quantum
2. Newsweek — U.S. Military Sends Troops to Russian Border, Officials Say They Want ‘Peace, Not War’ With Russia by Tom O’Connor
3. Open Culture by Dan Coleman — Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in its Original Ancient Language, Akkadian
4. American Greatness — Conservatives Need to Stop Indulging Leftist Narratives by Deion Kathawa
5. The New York Times Magazine — The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California’s Wildfires by Jaime Lowe
6. On the Banks by Bretigne Shaffer — Michael Owen Nails the Gun Debate
7. KRQE News 13 TV [CBS affilate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — New Mexico judge resigns after allegedly stealing from a dead man by KRQE News 13 and Rebecca Atkins
8. Tor Books [Tom Doherty Associates] — Homecoming by John Dalmas
9. Project Veritas —
   1. American Pravda, NYT: Slanting the News and a Bizarre Comey Connection
   2. American Pravda, NYT Part II: Exploiting Social Media and Manipulating the News
   3. James O’Keefe Responds to NYT Executive Editor Calling Veritas “Despicable”
10. Albuquerque Journal — Probate judge resigns to avoid state discipline by Katy Barnitz, Journal Staff Writer
11. Judas Priest — Painkiller
12. Overkill — The Grinding Wheel