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Random Shots for Monday, 30 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Twitter

    No.

    Still, go ahead and pass it, get it signed into “law” by First Groper Joe — no “grandfathering” or other such crap. The sort of ban you really want — the “turn them all in tomorrow” sort of thing.

    Fuck around and find out, OK?

  2. Posted to Twitter

    Injured or killed.

  3. Posted to Twitter

    Just resign already. Better late than never.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Garand Thumb by Mike Jones — What do bullet impacts sound like? Tons of different materials shot! [YouTube]
  2. Active Self Protection [ASP]New Mexico Officer Has Only a Split Second to Save His Life | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
  3. OverkillThe Surgeon [YouTube]
  4. Heroes & Icons (H&I)Star Trek: Enterprise
  5. What Da Math by Anton Petrov — The Loneliest Galaxy in the Universe – Void Galaxies and How They Form [YouTube]
  6. Colion Noir5 Reasons Why You Need “High-Capacity” Magazines [YouTube]
  7. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — ANOTHER CHANGE? ! ? ATF Changes Mind On Shooting NFA Items! [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 35,308 steps today.

Random Shots for Sunday, 29 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook here and here

    Issue 1,192 (1 29, 2023) of L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE is now up

    L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE

    — An International Journal of Opinion —

    Issue 1,192, January 29, 2023

    https://ncc-1776.org/

    THIS ISSUE’S MOTTO: If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell

    THE WEEKLY CARTOON: I bought my daughter a rape whistle. It’s pretty loud.

    ARTICLES

    0. The Editor’s Notes, by Charles Curley

    1. Letters to the Editor, from Albert Perez

    2. Morning of Horror, by L. Neil Smith

    3. They Won’t Leave Us Alone: The Invasion of Politics, by Joakim Book

    4.  Heaven and Hell, by Sarah A. Hoyt

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. OverkillThe Surgeon [YouTube]
  2. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: Voyager
    2. Star Trek: Enterprise
  3. IDW PublishingG.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 24,332 steps today.

Random Shots for Saturday, 28 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Twitter

    Or better yet, you could end these legalized vote-buying scams and give us back what we were forced to pay into them.

    For. The. People.

  2. Posted to Twitter

    Hey, Slick Willard, feel free to grab your gear, pick up an AK from Zelensky, and report for front-line duty.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. GateWorldReport: Amazon Wants To Go BIG With Stargate (Dial the Gate) [YouTube]
  2. KOAT NewsNew Mexicans react to Tyre Nichols’ arrest video [YouTube]
  3. Active Self Protection [ASP]Real Life Example of Why You Don’t Draw from the Drop Caught on Camera | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
  4. Colion NoirSen Dianne Feinstein Introduces New Bill To Ban “Assault Pistols” [YouTube]
  5. OverkillThe Surgeon [YouTube]
  6. KRQE NewsTeens face murder charges in Albuquerque party killing [YouTube]
  7. Dark FootageVulcan Bomber Disintegrates on Camera [YouTube]
  8. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — ATF Admits It Made An Error AND When The Pistol Brace Final Rule Will Begin! [YouTube]
  9. Tips and HacksOnce you learn this secret, you will never throw away plastic bottles again! [YouTube]
  10. Memorable Entertainment Television (MeTV)Star Trek

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 32,128 steps today.

Random Shots for Friday, 27 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    Who would be the leadership of that “We the People Super Party” ? Steve Pearce? Jay McCleskey?

  2. Posted to Twitter

    Looks like NATO is dumping its older tanks into the Ukraine. Zelensky’s people will need to be trained to operate and maintain those tanks. Total cluster all around.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. HazegrayartHow To Get Your Hypersonic Lifting Body To Space: Featuring The FDL-5 [YouTube]
  2. Binkov’s BattlegroundsLanding an F-22 Raptor on a carrier: Impossible? [Facebook]
  3. Project VeritasPfizer Director Assaults James O’Keefe & Veritas Staff; Destroys iPad Showing Undercover Recordings [YouTube]
  4. Armed Scholar by Anthony Miranda — Supreme Court Unanimous Decision On Firearm Confiscation Denied Expansion!!! [YouTube]
  5. 2A Cops – Cops Supporting Gun Rights40 Mass Shootings Already? [YouTube]
  6. What Da Math by Anton Petrov — Star Trek Fans Rejoice! Actual Tractor Beam Was Made In a Lab Using Lasers [YouTube]
  7. Heroes & Icons (H&I)Star Trek: Enterprise
  8. Overlord DVD by “Dicktor Van Doomcock”Jon Favreau Damn Near Quit Star Wars | Here’s How The Angry Scene Went Down In Chapek’s Office! [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 30,014 steps today.

Random Shots for Thursday, 26 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Twitter

    The only reason wokies seem to oppose Hitler’s racism and anti-Semitism is that it wasn’t their version.

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Mosesmania runnin’ wild!

  3. Posted to Facebook

    One of my cousins is a Publix store manager in the Tampa area of Florida.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — ANOTHER Major Flaw In ATF’s Pistol Brace Final Rule! ! Live In These States . . . Pay Attention! [YouTube]
  2. Armed Scholar by Anthony Miranda — Supreme Court 6-3 Decision Forces Immediate Review of Concealed Carry Laws! ! ! [YouTube]
  3. Binkov’s BattlegroundsWhat do French AMX-10RC mean for Ukraine? [YouTube]
  4. KRQE NewsNuisance neighbor wreaking havoc on Albuquerque block [YouTube]
  5. Colion NoirGavin Newsom Thinks Gun Owners With More Than 10 Rounds in A “Clip” Are “Perpetuating Lunacy” [YouTube]
  6. Project VeritasPfizer Exposed For Exploring “Mutating” COVID-19 Virus For New Vaccines Via ‘Directed Evolution’ [YouTube]
  7. Heroes & Icons (H&I)Star Trek: Enterprise
  8. KOAT NewsThe argument for and against New Mexico Senate Bill 123 [YouTube]
  9. Active Self Protection [ASP]Armed Robber Gets Dropped | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
  10. THE MERKINSK.W.A – “KILLAS WITH ATTITUDES Feat. Aaron Fraser-Nash as PENNYWISE” (STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON PARODY) [YouTube]
  11. 2nd Amendment WholesaleNEW Style of RIFLE Unlike Anything Seen Before From Wraithworks | SHOT SHOW 2023 [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 30,444 steps today.

Random Shots for Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Twitter

    I voted for a Democrat for the first and last time in 1990.

    I don’t care how bad the Republican is, I will NOT be voting for any Democrats in the forseeable future.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. The New YorkerAfter Bolsonaro, Can Lula Remake Brazil? by Jon Lee Anderson
  2. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: The Original Series
    2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
    3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    4. Star Trek: Voyager
    5. Star Trek: Enterprise
  3. Adult Swim [as]Love Your Feller Man | Squidbillies | Adult Swim [YouTube]
  4. Rob ZombieROB ZOMBIE – Shake Your Ass – Smoke Your Grass (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 31,174 steps today.

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Random Shots for Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Science ChannelThe more a black hole eats – the more it shines. [Facebook]
  2. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: The Original Series
    2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
    3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    4. Star Trek: Voyager
    5. Star Trek: Enterprise
  3. Brennan Center for JusticeHow the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment by Michael Waldman
  4. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — SCOTUS Smackdown! ! 2nd Circuit Expedites 5 Gun Control Challenges To Hearings On The Same Day! [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 598 steps today.

bomb gun firearm steak knife Allah Aryan airline hijack

Random Shots for Monday, 23 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Twitter

    What’s the point of having a “debt limit” or “debt ceiling” if you’re just going to raise it every time the debt gets to it?

  2. Posted to Twitter

    Payment will be in the form of . . . ?

  3. Posted to Twitter

    I just asked her, “Payment will be in the form of . . . ?”

    Until s/he says otherwise, I shall assume payment will in the form of Skittles farted out by a non-binary, triple-winged octopus that says it’s a unicorn.

  4. Sent via text message —

    I can’t think this up. We’re gonna have to get there at about 8:45 AM and short-circuit this nonsense.

  5. Sent via text message —

    Let’s keep this between you, Elisheva and I, so Frank can’t go on a tear denying it and deleting anything about it.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Armed Scholar by Anthony Miranda — Supreme Court 6-3 Decision Denied Immediate Emergency Reapplication! ! ! [YouTube]
  2. KRQE NewsMan dropped off at ABQ hospital dies, police investigating as homicide [YouTube]
  3. The Daily Resister by Matthew Wilbanks — Criminal Trespass (Zachary Lucas Fisher) at 137 Hall Ave. – Coos Bay, OR – 1/22/2023 [YouTube]
  4. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — IT’S A TRAP! 2nd Fatal Flaw In ATF’s Pistol Brace Rule! ! [YouTube]
  5. KOAT NewsPossible changes to future political campaigns amid Solomon Peña case [YouTube]
  6. Project VeritasPresident of Connecticut Educator’s Assoc. WARNS Educators to “Keep Meetings Closed” in Leaked Email [YouTube]
  7. The Critical Drinker by Will JordanM3GAN – Fun And Freaky Horror Satire [YouTube]
  8. What Da Math by Anton Petrov — Green Comet Returns After 50,000 Years, But Why Is It Green? (C/2022 E3 Features Explained) [YouTube]
  9. The Gun Collective [TGC]BOMBSHELL HIDDEN IN PISTOL BRACE RULE! [YouTube]
  10. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: Voyager
    2. Star Trek: Enterprise
  11. Clownfish TVVox Media is Going BROKE. [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 29,712 steps today.

Random Shots for Sunday, 22 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook here and here

    Issue 1,191 (1 22, 2023) of L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE is now up

    L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE

    — An International Journal of Opinion —

    Issue 1,191, January 22, 2023

    https://ncc-1776.org/

    THIS ISSUE’S MOTTO: A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. — Tyrion Lannister

    THE WEEKLY CARTOON: US government to taxpayers: We need a tow

    ARTICLES

    0. The Editor’s Notes, by Charles Curley

    1. Letters to the Editor, from Albert Perez; Bryan Potratz

    2. Twenty-Three Skiddoo! by L. Neil Smith

    3. Insulin is Gender, Gender is Insulin, by Fran Van Cleave

    4. Why the Greatest Refutation of the 1619 Project May Come from a French Liberal, by Kyle Reynolds

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Put ATF on the chopping block first. Raffle off who gets to drop the ax as a fundraiser.

  3. Posted to Twitter

    Whatever. Don’t tax me to do it.

  4. Posted to Twitter

    Lex Luthor had the right idea in the 1978 Superman movie.

  5. Posted to Twitter

    Meathead is always good for a laugh.

  6. Posted to Facebook

    Let’s face it — New Mexico is a failed state.

    It’s time to rip New Mexico in half, then give the west half to Arizona and the east half to Texas.

    https://facebook.com/Split.the.State.NM/

    https://spreely.com/page/splitthestatenm

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Microsoft Network [MSN]LGBTQ people, allies dodge $1,500 fines in North Dakota by Trisha Ahmed, Associated Press / Report for America
  2. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: Voyager
    2. Star Trek: Enterprise
  3. ZubyZuby – Anarchy (feat. An0maly) [Lyric Video] [YouTube]
  4. The Angry Astronaut by Jordan Wright — Antimatter Drive Closer Than You Might Think! ! [YouTube]
  5. KRQE Newssheriff gets into fight with his own deputies [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 22,352 steps today.

Random Shots for Saturday, 21 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Twitter

    Doesn’t the NM State Constitution have an anti-donation clause?

    Oh, that’s right — these are the same people who regularly blow off Article II, Section 6 of that same Constitution because they don’t like that part.

  2. Posted to Twitter

    Both Democrats and Republicans have been raiding the “Social Security” “trust fund” for decades.

  3. Posted to Twitter

    Who was the fucktard that put Nirvana, Pearl Jam, R.E.M. or U2 on this list, but no Overkill, no W.A.S.P., no Motley Crue, or no Helloween?

    Seriously.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Dark DocumentariesSniper Bullet that Can Hit Any Spot Exactly (From 10-miles Away) [Facebook]
  2. Armed Scholar by Anthony Miranda — Game Changing Decision Puts ATF’s SBR & Pistol Brace Rule In Big Trouble! ! ! [YouTube]
  3. KRQE NewsAlbuquerque police: Man arrested for having ghost gun, drugs [YouTube]
  4. Project VeritasChris Gagsdale Cobb County Superintendent Gives Update Regarding District’s Own Review of #ScamLab [YouTube]
  5. Binkov’s Battlegrounds
    1. Fighter jet with holes in its wings [Facebook]
    2. What will end the war in Ukraine? [YouTube]
  6. Active Self Protection [ASP]Guard Beats Bank Robber to the Shot | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
  7. Dark FootageThe JB-1 Flying Bat Bomb [YouTube]
  8. Memorable Entertainment Television (MeTV)Star Trek
  9. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — Gun-Grabbers Now Targeting Popular Firearms . . . Because of Criminals [YouTube]
  10. KOAT NewsNew Mexico legislature to debate prescribed burns [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 28,609 steps today.