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Random Shots for Thursday, 9 July 2020

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    Here’s a hint for the willfully misinformed —

    If the “protesters” kept their “protests” *ON* *THE* *SIDEWALKS,* they wouldn’t have to worry about getting run over by drivers.

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Please welcome Sean Reese to the group!

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Time’s Tapestry, Book Two: Conqueror by Stephen Baxter
  2. EuropeOut of This World
  3. Helloween
    1. Gambling with the Devil
    2. Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005 / 2006
  4. ViceTesla Hacker: The Rogue Mechanic Taking On Tesla [YouTube]
  5. CNBCWhy Rich Rebuilds Is Opening A Tesla Repair Shop [YouTube]
  6. Rich RebuildsTesla gave me the help I needed! [YouTube]
  7. KOB 4 NewsRestaurants, breweries face reality of re-closing indoor seating by Patrick Hayes

Who Said Romance is Dead?

H/T Nicholas Picciano


NOTES

  1. Reposted –
    1. Personal blogs and micro-blogs – Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter
    2. “Darth Mike”Facebook / Spreely

Random Shots for Wednesday, 8 July 2020

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook, —

    When you’re a Political Classhole: No mask, no social distancing, NO PROBLEM!

    For the rest of us: OBEY OR ELSE!

    https://tinyurl.com/mlg-no-mask

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Please welcome Robert Wall to the group!

  3. Posted to Facebook

    Burt Hall — Berry was (or is) a conservative? When was this? I think he was more of a big-spending Keynesian, with his 119-million remake of the Rapid Ride (the DingleBerry Express AKA “ART”) and his 50-mile bike path around the city.

  4. Posted to Facebook here and here

    Goldi Ramsell
    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 10:36 PM

    **** Thank you to everyone who spread the word about the fire and was on standby to help. You all rock!! I was trying to help a Doctor who came home late to the scary news and told my family. Thankfully, last night was one of very few forest fires in New Mexico that was able to be contained and put out quickly overnight. ****

    NEW MEXICO friends:

    There is a fire spreading South side of Tijeras in the Cibola National Forest tonight. If anyone has access to closed horse trailers, please keep me posted. I’ve been personally contacted by folks in need asap (within 2-3 miles of their property).

    *** I’m getting word that the fire has been boxed for now. If winds stay down, all will be well. (@11:30PM)

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Albuquerque JournalGovernor directs sheriffs, police to enforce mask mandate by Dan McKay, Journal Staff Writer
  2. EuropeOut of This World
  3. The Firearm Blog [TFB] — Belt-Fed Bullpup Lever-Action Rifle Chambered in .44 Magnum by Hrachya H
  4. YoungRippa59 by Eric JulyTokenized Character gets tokenized AGAIN | Black Batwoman is on deck! [YouTube]
  5. DUSTSci-Fi Short Film “A Stitch In Time” | DUST [YouTube]

Random Shots for Tuesday, 7 July 2020

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    What’s right with Faith No More?

  2. Posted to Facebook

    I just don’t appreciate their style.

    For what it’s worth, my favorite band is Overkill.

  3. Posted to Facebook

    Yep!

    I haven’t heard much of Prong, but what I did hear sounded OK.

  4. Posted to Facebook [ here and here ] and Spreely [ here and here ] —

    https://youtu.be/j3mNH2vXTqA

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Time’s Tapestry, Book Two: Conqueror by Stephen Baxter
  2. Bret MichaelsRock My World
  3. EuropeOut of This World
  4. Overlord DVD by “Dicktor Van Doomcock”Star Wars Leak | Rise of Skywalker Production Was A Disaster Says Insider [YouTube]
  5. Midnight’s EdgeKathleen Kennedy’s STAR WARS Reign at an end, ERASED alongside sequels? [YouTube]
  6. Garand Thumb by Mike Jones — Primary Arms 2x Prism (the end of the world red dot) [YouTube]
  7. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
  8. KRQE NewsLocal News: LAWSUIT: New Mexico State Police hands out concealed carry permits to felons by Jeannie Nguyen
  9. What Da Math by Anton Petrov — FRB In The Milky Way Was Probably Caused By Asteroid-Magnetar Collision [YouTube]
  10. Military Arms Channel (MAC) — US made G36: Tommybuilt T36 – As good as a German G36? [YouTube]
  11. Bearing ArmsIt Seems ATF Behind Ghost Gun Hysteria by Tom Knighton

Random Shots for Monday, 6 July 2020

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    Yep. I had one land in my backyard on Saturday night.

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Please welcome Brandon Stubben to the group!

  3. Posted to Facebook

    This gives them an incentive not to strangle people over stuff like selling loose cigarettes, as was the case with Eric Garner, then make jokes in public on social media over that strangulation.

  4. Posted to Facebook

    Wasn’t the Soviet Union brewing smallpox by the tanker truck full at one point, for later use as a biological weapon?

  5. Posted to Facebook here and here

    Spike Cohen
    Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 9:03 PM

    Do not settle for anything less, when we can be #TheFirstOnesFree

    Jo Jorgensen / Spike Cohen 2020
    Libertarians for President

    joj2020.com/donate

  6. Posted to Facebook

    Nirvana
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Faith No More
    Springsteen
    The Monkees

  7. Posted to Facebook

    The Washington Bipartisans

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Time’s Tapestry, Book Two: Conqueror by Stephen Baxter
  2. Bon JoviCross Road
  3. Bret MichaelsRock My World
  4. Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! by Maxim BilovitskiyGermanium – THE MOST FUTURISTIC ELEMENT! [YouTube]
  5. DUSTSci-Fi Short Film “The OceanMaker” | DUST [YouTube]
  6. Military Arms Channel (MAC) — The Robinson Armament XCR-L rifle: American ingenuity. [YouTube]
  7. YoungRippa59 by Eric JulyCivil disobedience may be the only way this ends . . . [YouTube]
  8. What Da Math by Anton Petrov — The First Ever Colliding Black Holes To Produce Light [YouTube]

Random Shots for Sunday, 5 July 2020

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Midnight’s Edge: Re: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy ERASED Rumors – New Rumors Offer More Detail [YouTube]

    The timeline between Return of the Jedi and The Force is Woke was already mapped out in the novels and Dark Horse Comics. They should build upon that instead of rewriting those years from scratch. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Bon JoviCross Road
  2. NBC NewsTech News: Conservatives are flocking to a new ‘free speech’ social media app that has started banning liberal users by James Wellemeyer
  3. What Da Math by Anton Petrov — This Is The Smallest Motor Ever Made – 16 Atoms Big! [YouTube]
  4. Colion NoirThe Irony of Defund the Police & Gun Control [YouTube]
  5. Midnight’s EdgeStar Wars Sequel Trilogy ERASED Rumors – New Rumors Offer More Detail [YouTube]
  6. YoungRippa59 by Eric JulyMask Cultism and Repeated Shifts of the Goalpost [YouTube]
  7. Covert CabalWhy Does the US Not Have Supersonic ASMs? (Anti-Ship Missiles) [YouTube]
  8. What IfWhat If We Built an O’Neill Cylinder? [YouTube]

Found in the Backyard, Post the Fourth


NOTES

  1. Reposted –
    1. Personal blogs and micro-blogs – Facebook Page / Gab / Spreely Page / Twitter / VK

Random Shots for Saturday, 4 July 2020

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. 5th Passenger
  2. US of Z by “Monsieur Z” — What If The Schlieffen Plan Succeeded? | Alternate History [YouTube]

“No one wants to take your guns,” v. July 3, 2020

From the Albuquerque Journal, Friday, 3 July 2020, p. A11 OP-ED (“SPEAK UP!”)

KUDOS TO the Santa Fe County Commission for passing on the purchase of AR-15 weapons for the Santa Fe sheriff’s department SWAT officers. . . . Instead of just waiting, as Sheriff Mendoza seems inclined to do because of “the current climate in the nation,” I recommend the funds be redirected to a buyback and destruction of this type of weapon from civilians who have no legitimate need for them. AW


NOTES

  1. Reposted —
    1. Personal blogs and micro-blogs – Blogspot / Diaspora* / Facebook / Flote / Friendica / Gab / Gorf Social / Liberty.me / Minds / Pocketnet / Spreely / Twitter / VK
    2. A Bias Toward Liberty — Facebook group
    3. Absurdist Discordian Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
    4. Albuquerque Liberty Forum — Facebook page / Spreely page
    5. Discordian Absurdist Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
    6. Freedom Rally Point New Mexico — Facebook group
    7. KCUF Media – Facebook page / Spreely page
    8. Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus — Facebook page / Spreely page
    9. New Mexico Dissent and Expose — Facebook page / Spreely page
    10. New Mexico Gun Rights — Facebook group
    11. New Mexico Lest We Forget (voter remorse) — Facebook group
    12. New Mexico Libertarians — Facebook group / Facebook page / Spreely group / Spreely page
    13. Pink Pistols – Albuquerque — Facebook group
    14. Resist Marxism New Mexico — Facebook page
    15. Split the State New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
    16. Stupor Bowl Sundae Feetball Shoot — Facebook page
    17. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page
    18. The Weekly SeditionFacebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / WordPress
    19. Vote Dumpster Fire — Facebook page
    20. Vote the Air — Facebook page
    21. Vote the Air NM — Facebook page
    22. Wood Chipper — Facebook page

Random Shots for Friday, 3 July 2020

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Time’s Tapestry, Book Two: Conqueror by Stephen Baxter
  2. YoungRippa59 by Eric JulyTexas Mandates Masks | Republicans are Useless | Yes, you’re an authoritarian [YouTube]
  3. Nerdrotic by Gary Buechler —
    1. George RR Martin FAILS to Deliver The Winds of Winter and Will NEVER Finish ASOIAF [YouTube]
    2. Friday Night Tights: Let it Brie on YouTube | Superheroes CANCELED! Lucasfilm LUNACY | Hollywood PANIC! [YouTube]
  4. VolbeatBeyond Hell / Above Heaven
  5. Bon JoviCross Road
  6. Overlord DVD by “Dicktor Van Doomcock”Friday Night Frolics | The Future of Star Wars | Propane in the Tank [YouTube]
  7. The Joe Rogan Experience #1496 – Colion Noir