Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   Brad Torgerson — Exactly why Babylon 5, Andromeda, Earth: Final Conflict, the Expanse and the 2003 reboot of Battlestar Galactica were way better than Star Trek in its devolved state.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Pluto TV — Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda
2. The Joe Rogan Experience by Joe Rogan — Joe Rogan Experience #1470 – Elon Musk

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

1. Spent a bit of today putting Mom’s affairs in order and cleaning the house

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   From the article:

   “The Democratic governor said that approved spending increases will have to be slowed due to a drop of up to $2.4 billion in estimated revenue levels, but that federal stimulus funds and state cash reserves could help the state avoid layoffs and furloughs of state workers and teachers.”

   G-ds forbid that any state employees should lose any income because of the COVID-19 panic.

   Who then speaks for the private sector workers who were laid off of furloughed, and are struggling to make ends meet?

   Certainly NOT the Maximum Loony Grandstander AKA Governor Chipmunk.

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Although Bitch Planet did have its moments, that’s all they were — moments.

3. Posted to Facebook [ here and here ], and to Spreely [ here and here ] —

   For your consideration —

   https://facebook.com/groups/220922012080396/

4. Posted to Facebook —

   How many times in the last ten years has Drobik been on street patrol?

5. Posted to Facebook —

   I just looked it up on the Google Play Store, and you’re not the only one to dislike it. No, I didn’t install it, nor do I have any plans to install it.

   What was a bit depressing were the reviews from people saying that “everyone needs to install it and use it.”

   I’m wondering if Google and Apple will sneak this onto our phones by including it in one of OS updates for Android and iOS.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Politico — Biden: ‘If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black’ by Quint Forgey
2. Albuquerque Journal — Legislative special session set for June 18 by Dan Boyd and Dan McKay, Journal Capitol Bureau
3. KOB 4 News — New Mexico reports year’s first human case of West Nile by the Associated Press
4. The Washington Post — No one thought SpaceX would beat Boeing. Elon Musk proved them wrong. by Christian Davenport
5. W.A.S.P. —
   1. The Neon God: Part 2 – The Demise
   2. Double Live Assassins
6. Guns America Digest — School Board Member Calls Lockdown Protesters ‘Bioterrorists,’ Threatens to Shoot Them by Jordan Michaels

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. The Joe Rogan Experience by Joe Rogan — Joe Rogan Experience #1465 – Tim Pool
2. Image Comics — Skyward
3. W.A.S.P. —
   1. The Neon God: Part 1 – The Rise
   2. The Neon God: Part 2 – The Demise

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

1. Spent some of today putting Mom’s affairs in order and cleaning the house. Still coming to terms with this.
2. Went to one of the Eyemart locations here in Albuquerque, and was told that the earliest opening for their optometrist was for Wednesday, 27 May at 10:30 AM.

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   Please welcome Jake Ashcraft to the group!

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Please welcome Robert Ferguson to the group!

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Birth.Movies.Death. — If Macho Man Randy Savage played Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars [YouTube]
2. Vice — Superpower for Hire: Rise of the Private Military [YouTube]
3. DUST — Sci-Fi Short Film “The Beacon” | DUST Exclusive [YouTube]
4. Love, Death + Robots
5. DC Comics —
   1. Justice League Volume 2, # 23.2: “Lobo – The Last Paycheck” (2013)
   2. Young Justice Volume 1, # 32: “Anita’s Date With Lobo” (2001)
6. Marvel Comics — Deadpool – Secret Agent Deadpool, Volume 1: Persons of Interest
7. Vertigo Comics — Fight for Tomorrow

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. Posted to Facebook [ here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here ], Quora, and Spreely [ here, here, here, and here ] —

   Q: Why doesn’t the USA regulate how many guns are sold to cartels and illegal organizations?

   A: Well, stopping the cartel members from obtaining firearms is the stated intent of those pushing various victim disarmament schemes, such as “assault weapon” bans, “one gun a month,” “mandatory ‘buybacks'” and the like.

   Except for the fact that the cartel members (or other criminals) who want to have guns have found this massive loophole in the victim disarmers’ “gun safety” “ideas” called “breaking the law.”

   More to the point, victim disarmers have been pushing these inane, insane “proposals” since the 1910s, and in most places in America where they’ve had their way, the resulting stautes have not only FAILED to lessen the impact of crime, those statutes have made crime WORSE.

   It gets better, believe it or not. Back in the mid-1990s, former Senator Howard Metzenbaum said of his victim disarmament proposals:

   “I don’t care about crime, I just want to get the guns.”

   “No, we’re not looking at how to control criminals . . . we’re talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.”

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. W.A.S.P. —
   1. Unholy Terror
   2. Dying for the World
2. Vice —
   1. Blade II
   2. Blade: Trinity
   3. Bernie Blackout