Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   How many boxes of ballots were found at the last minute?

2. Posted to Nextdoor —

   How about give me back in cash what I’ve paid into “Social Security” and Medicare?

3. Posted to Facebook —

   New Mexico is a failed state.

   Let’s rip the state in half, give the west half to Arizona and the east half to Texas.

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

   https://spreely.com/page/splitthestatenm

4. Posted to Twitter —

   Newsom, between California’s taxes, regulatory red tape, and victim disarmament laws, you’re the LAST person who should be talking about liberty and freedom.

   

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. The Daily Resister by Matthew Wilbanks — Insane counter-protester at the Coos Bay boardwalk – 8/28/2021 [YouTube]
2. Foundation for Economic Education [FEE] — Leonard Read Changed My Life by Jacob G. Hornberger
3. KOAT News — City of Albuquerque proposes plan to tackle warrant backlog; how effective can it be? [YouTube]
4. Clownfish TV — Disney’s FAILING Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Could CHANGE? Something’s Up! [YouTube]
5. Active Self Protection [ASP] — Officers Take Serious Action On Man Who Draws From The Drop | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
6. Armed Scholar by Anthony Miranda — BREAKING NEWS! ! ! Federal Appeals Court Strips ATF of Power to Regulate Under New Rule! [YouTube]
7. Dark Tech — M982 Excalibur 50-Miles Away Precision Artillery Shell [YouTube]
8. Memorable Entertainment Television (MeTV) — Star Trek

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

1. I walked 31,429 steps today.

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Slack —

   Means pocketed something like 8,000 in donations from LPNM members, then gave it to Mike Castro (formerly of the NM Green Party), who was running the “Neighborhood Party,” which morphed into the “Independent Coalition Party.” Castro then converted that 8k from Federal Reserve Notes into pot and then smoked it. In 2003 Castro told me “Russell Means gave us your $8,000, so you might as well come over to us and take advantage of it.” In 2004, the State Party Secretary of the “Independent Coalition Party” basically said, “This is bullshit, Castro is a con artist, I’m out.”

2. Posted to Slack —

   Russell Means didn’t arrive on the LPNM scene until June 2001, when Joe Knight brought him in as a gubernatorial candidate.

3. Posted to Slack —

   June 2001 was the State Convention in Farmington, where Russell sought (and received) an early nomination to be the 2002 gubernatorial candidate.

   FYI — Means croaked of throat cancer in 2007 on the Pine Ridge Reservation. This after he tried to open a liquor store on the reservation border, with the stated intent of using the profits from that liquor store to fund some sort of alcohol treatment program.

4. Posted to Twitter —

   Whatever, Meathead.

   

5. Posted to Slack —

   Russell Means was supposed to be the 2002 gubernatorial candidate. When he bailed out on us for the “Neighborhood Party,” the top of the slate was empty.

6. Posted to Slack —

   *To the best of my knowledge,* Means never appeared on a ballot in New Mexico.

   I think that at one point, he ran for tribal office on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and came in fifth or sixth place.

7. Posted to Facebook —

   Speaker’s dozen?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. KOAT News — Proposed House Bill calls for speed cameras on New Mexico highways [YouTube]
2. Active Self Protection [ASP] — Officer Makes Difficult 75-Foot Shot to Protect Partner | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
3. Tips and Hacks — Insane Way to Open Any Lock Without a Key! Amazing Tricks with Matches, That Work Extremely Well [YouTube]
4. Found And Explained — Insane Flying Wing Jet Fighter To Save Germany – Horten Ho 229 Nazi UFO [YouTube]
5. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — WHAT?! The 2nd Amendment Is A Curse!?! [YouTube]
6. Heroes & Icons (H&I) — Star Trek: Enterprise

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

1. I walked 33,164 steps today.

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   Actually cut spending below last year’s levels — NO MORE of this “we’re just slowing the growth of government” stuff.

   Actually balance the budget. No more deficit spending PERIOD. If that means someone’s pet project or welfare state contract doesn’t get funded, oh well, deal with it.

   Stop issuing T-bills and municipal bonds, even if the budgets are balanced.

   NO MORE treating gun owners as a political soccer ball, to be kicked around when it’s more convenient.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. AmmoLand Shooting Sports News — Gun Owner New Year’s Resolutions Can Help Increase Involvement and Effectiveness by David Codrea
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. Reclaim The Net — New browser extension replaces Wikipedia pages in search results with Encyclosphere pages by Didi Rankovic
4. Interesting Engineering [IE] — Science: Scientists produced X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before by Chris Young
5. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [SMBC] by by Zack Weinersmith — Oops
6. trekmovie.com — Star Trek In 2023: What We’re Most Looking Forward To

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

1. I walked 1,657 steps today.

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Twitter —

   1 % at most, with no deficit spending of any kind permitted.

   

2. Posted to Twitter —

   Saw this one coming a mile away.

   https://ncc-1776.org/tle2017/tle950-20171126-04.html

   

3. Posted to Facebook here and here —

   Issue 1,188 (1 1, 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 1,188, January 1, 2023

   https://ncc-1776.org/

   THIS ISSUE’S MOTTO: You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

   THE WEEKLY CARTOON: We cannot assume its gender; it might be trans. We cannot assume it’s rational; it might be woke.

   ARTICLES

   0. The Editor’s Notes, by Charles Curley

   1. Letters to the Editor, from Jeff Fullerton, Dennis Wilson

   2. An Application for Employment, by L. Neil Smith

   3. The Biden Administration Is Banning Low-Cost Appliances — and Bragging about It, by Patrick Carroll

   4. The Sociobiology of Liberty: The BIG PICTURE, by L. Reichard White

   5. Racism in America, by Charles Curley

4. Sent via text message —

   Seeing these meltdowns over Karen, I am almost ready to nominate Kaelan Dreyer for State Chair in March.

5. Sent via text message —

   I swear, it’s like I don’t have to drink to excess or use drugs to make the room spin. I can just read posts by Frank or Gurry.

6. Sent via text message —

   Remember, it took Caryn Ann TWO YEARS (January 2019) to realize Bill Weld was a lying, backstabbing sack of shit, when we knew it before August 2016.

7. Sent via text message —

   I saw Tyler’s post on the Mises Caucus Slack. Jeez, what are these people thinking?!

   I’m wondering if Burlie has already got his hooks and fangs into Frank.

8. Sent via text message —

   I’m wondering if he’s going to try this nonsense with Dereck. After all, Dereck is a recent convert from the GOP. I’ve been in the LP for 29 years now and look how Frank went after me.

9. Sent via text message —

   Frank is doing a pretty good job of blowing it up all by himself.

10. Sent via text message —

    Karen Bedonie or Caryn Ann?

11. Sent via text message —

    I’ll tell Caryn Ann face to face when she comes to ABQ in March, just for her reaction.

    Or does she not get sarcasm?

12. Sent via text message —

    When all of this is over, Caryn Ann gets on a plane and goes back to Denver. We’re the ones still here dealing with this mess.

    Caryn Ann has visited NM for a few weekends over the last six years. I’ve been living, working, etc. in this rat-trap state for 28 years, been in and around the LPNM for almost as long.

    Maybe I know a bit more than she does?

13. Sent via text message —

    You, too, probably know a bit more than her.

    So when she comes down here to bloviate about how we need to operate, she better not step on our toes or I just might tell her to stop behaving like Luchini

14. Posted to Facebook —

    Please welcome Man Shi Brunk Up to the group!

15. Posted to Slack —

    I’ve also been through the takeover to which Betsy referred to above.

    I find it interesting how some here want to welcome one of the ringleaders of that takeover (Burly Cain), who’s been involved with Luchini since 2017, yet shit themselves over Karen Bedonie.

    I was also one of those (along with Tyler Askins) who sat and chatted with Karen Bedonie for about an hour at the Boxing Bear on Tuesday, 18 October 2022. None of her detractors (here, or in my NM Libertarians FB group) showed up when they had the opportunity.

    (Frank, you were there, but you left the table and the Boxing Bear before Karen and Efren arrived.)

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Luxon Bushcraft — Dugout Shelter Build With Hand Tools – FROM START TO FINISH [YouTube]
2. Heroes & Icons (H&I) —
   1. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
   2. Star Trek: Voyager
   3. Star Trek: Enterprise
3. GateWorld — Where Was Destiny Going? The Sudden END of Stargate Universe (Dial the Gate) [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

1. I walked 35,188 steps today.

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Twitter —

   If the GOP retakes the White House and Congress in 2024, what will Republicans do to repeal or rescind this mandate of Biden’s?

   

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. The Angry Astronaut by Jordan Wright — Why doesn’t NASA use a SpaceX Crew Dragon to solve the ISS crisis? [YouTube]
2. Active Self Protection [ASP] — California Store Owner Accurately Defends Property [YouTube]
3. Dark Skies — The Insane Super Fighter That Was Too Weird for the Air Force [YouTube]
4. Heroes & Icons (H&I) — Star Trek: Enterprise

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

1. I walked 37,755 steps today.