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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
If the GOPNM is anything resembling competent and principled in 2020, Torres-Small will be looking for other employment on 3 January 2021, just as Harry Teague was also privatized on 3 Jan 2010.
The 2nd District is basically a Republican safe seat, just as the 3rd District is a Democrat safe seat — the last Republican to hold the 3rd was Bill Redmond from May, 1997 to 3 Jan 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Redmond
- Posted to Facebook —
Why can’t NM United pay to build their own stadium?
Why can’t NM United rent space at an existing stadium?
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- The Commonwealth: The Void Trilogy, Book 2 — The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton
- The Bronx Casket Co. — Hellectric
- Cell 13 — Sometimes I Wake Up Evil
- KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- The Libertarian Enterprise [TLE] — Number 1,046: Sunday, 10 November 2019
- AmmoLand Shooting Sports News —
- Is the Second Amendment worth it? by Alan J. Chwick & Joanne D. Eisen
- Mainstream Media is Out of Control, and That is a Problem by Rob Morse
- Park Police Surveil Second Amendment Rally at US Capitol by Dean Weingarten
- After the NRA, Organizing to Fight in Your State by Don McDougall
- Newsweek — One of the ‘Largest Radical Anti-Government Groups’ in U.S. Will Escort Republicans at Trump Minneapolis Rally by Jessica Kwong
- Return to Now by Sara Burrows — China is Selling Autonomous Killer Drones to Middle East
- Albuquerque Business First — Legislative committee to hear New Mexico United stadium pitch by Collin Krabbe
- Quillette — Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past by Craig DeLancey
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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —
All Aboard the DingleBerry Express (starting in 20 days) !
https://facebook.com/DingleBerryExpressABQ/
Albuquerque Journal
Friday, November 8, 2019 at 3:10 PM
ART is ready to start. The beleaguered Albuquerque Rapid Transit project will begin running Saturday, Nov. 30, city officials announced Friday.
https://abqjournal.com/1389158/after-years-of-delay-art-is-set-to-begin-operation.html
- Posted to Facebook —
So there are some who don’t appreciate the DingleBerry Express?
I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
- Posted to Facebook —
I propose that Trump simply take the next step in support of the Space Force (the naysayers might call it “Starfleet,” like they tried to smear Reagan’s missile-defense ideas as “Star Wars”) by offering honorary commissions of the rank of Captain (O-6, like the Navy does) to American actors who have previously played spacecraft captains on TV or in the movies. Like some states offer the honorary rank of “Colonel” to distinguished citizens.
A partial list follows:
Harrison Ford
Nathan Fillion
William Shatner
Avery Brooks
Kate Mulgrew
Scott Bakula
Kevin Sorbo
Bruce Greenwood
Chris Pine
Bruce Boxleitner
Gary Cole
Mitch Pileggi
Anson Mount
Michael Cavanaugh
Edward James Olmos
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- The Commonwealth: The Void Trilogy, Book 2 — The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton
- The Bronx Casket Co. — Hellectric
- Guns & Gadgets — SCOTUS Contemplating Case Regarding Unconstitutional Bans on ARs, AKs, and Magazines [YouTube]
- Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! by Maxim Bilovitskiy — Zirconium – A Metal for the NUCLEAR REACTOR! [YouTube]
- KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- The Santa Fe New Mexican — Officials: New Mexico needs tougher domestic terrorism policies by Michael Gerstein
- Albuquerque Journal — After sputtering for two years, ART is ready to roll by Jessica Dyer, Journal Staff Writer
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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
For me, it’s a toss-up between Cthulhu and Dumpster Fire.
- Posted to Facebook —
Total disarmament of the civilian population isn’t the immediate plan, at least in the Anglosphere.
What they really want is something like the UK at present, where your relatives or whoever has the house fifty years from now finds your stashed guns and is scared out of their minds of being caught by the cops with “unauthorized” firearms that they rush to turn them over to the cops as soon as possible.
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- The Commonwealth: The Void Trilogy, Book 2 — The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton
- Black Sabbath — Dehumanizer
- The Bronx Casket Co. — Hellectric
- AmmoLand Shooting Sports News — Alliance Seeks to Unify Gun Owners through Education and Action by David Codrea
- KRQE News [Albuquerque, New Mexico] — Democratic senator speaks out against Republican daughter running for office by Francesca Washington
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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Diaspora*, Facebook [ here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here ], Flote, and Minds —
Fireforce Ventures
Monday, November 4, 2019 at 9:00 AM
Today in 1956, 23 divisions of Soviet soldiers rolled into Budapest at the heart of the Hungarian Revolution. What had started as a student protest for political reform, had turned into a full-blown revolution against the repressive regime of the communist Soviet Union.
Almost 200,000 Hungarians would flee their native country, as the Soviets brutally gunned down thousands of revolutionaries and innocent civilians alike.
Only a few thousand would stand against them, most famously at the Corvin Pass within Budapest where this photograph was taken. Facing off against 75,000 Soviet soldiers with thousands of tanks was not a professional army. The average Hungarian anti-communist guerilla would have looked a lot like the woman in this photo, carrying an outdated bolt-action rifle. They did not number more 4,000.
For over two weeks, they would fight stubbornly, destroying at least a dozen tanks. The fate of this female fighter is unknown, and very few of the Hungarians resistance fighters would make it out alive. The Soviet Army fully crush the resistance at the Corvin Pass on the 9th of November, and the revolution would be completely stamped out 2 days later. At least 6,000 Hungarians lost their lives, with the Soviets suffering 754 dead. The brutality of the event permanently tarnished the reputation of the Soviet Union and diminished many openly communist organizations in the Western world.
Like many who stood up to the Soviets against overwhelming odds, the woman in this photograph was not a professional soldier. She had no helmet, no air support, and no Geneva Convention. The only thing identifying her is her lapel in the colours of the revolutionaries.
The world can never forget the sacrifice and heroism, on that violent Fall of 1956 in Budapest. Their service to the free world is not forgotten.
Isten, éldd meg a magyart!
#HungarianRevolution #MilitaryHistory #ColdWarHistory
- Posted to Facebook —
http://albertfuchs.com/insurance-for-routine-care-an-idea-whose-time-has-passed/
- Posted to Facebook —
The start date for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was 23 October, which is celebrated as a national holiday in Hungary, and rightfully so.
- Posted to Facebook —
Maybe Freedom Party International will set up an American affiliate?
http://freedomparty.org/
- Posted to Facebook —
They should also wear their price tags with large numbers, like numbers on a football jersey.
- Posted to Facebook here —
I voted “NO” today.
https://facebook.com/mikewb.11971/posts/2329711924026265
- Posted to Facebook —
The “why” is obvious — why bother raising the advertising funds from private donations when you can just go the City’s PR budget instead?
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Summit News — “It’s Okay to be White Fliers” as Potential Hate Crime by Paul Joseph Watson
- ZeroGov by Bill Buppert — Private Black Rifles Matter by Bill Buppert
- The Commonwealth: The Void Trilogy, Book 2 — The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton
- Musings from the Lunatic Farmer by Joel Salatin — A Beef with Libertarians
- American Greatness — The Military-Intelligence Complex by Victor Davis Hanson
- Avenged Sevenfold — City of Evil
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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —
Save Central ABQ
Monday, November 4, 2019 at 10:43 AM
- Posted to Facebook —
Is this a good development or a bad one?
- Posted to Facebook —
At the same time, astrology buffs, like Flat Earthers, don’t insist that I surrender liberty, money or property to their cause, as the climate believers (and hoplophobes and victim disarmers — there’s considerable overlap between the groups) do every time I encounter them.
Thus all I can say to the astrology enthusiasts and Flat Earthers is “follow your bliss.”
- Posted to Facebook —
https://youtu.be/LF1951pENdk
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Avenged Sevenfold —
- Waking the Fallen
- City of Evil
- KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Alamogordo Daily News [ADN] — Alamogordo Police Chief Brian Peete resigns by Nicole Maxwell, Alamogordo Daily News
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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook here and here —
Elisheva Hannah Levin
Saturday, November 1, 2019 at 9:29 PM
You know, I have been extremely grumpy today. I have my reasons. I am grumbly and grumpily questioning how much of my time and money I am spending on the LP, and whether what I do with it matters.
I am a competent academic in the field of disability policy. I am a researcher fascinated with how people with disabilities might free themselves from the governmentalities that limit their lives and segregate them from full citizenship, and how this might look in different communities and circumstances. I am the only libertarian I know to have been appointed to the DDPC council by both a Republican and Democratic Governor. Boards like this exist in all 50 states as well as US territories. This is no small honor. Much of what I am doing was inspired by my upbringing by first generation Libertarians, my parents who passed to me the vision of Liberty in our lifetimes.
I go to LNC Discuss and other LP groups and see people avoiding real issues and hard discussions, using their dislike of a party official with autism as an excuse. At convention, I see the same people crowding the microphones again and again, while the chair is praised for ignoring limitations that would allow more diversity of expression. I see a party that is silent on issues such as the Free Hong Kong movement and the millions of ethnic and religious people being put in reeducation concentration camps in China. Such silence will be our shame in the future. I hear libertarians arguing for open borders with no order, while ignoring the human trafficking, the violent drug trade, and rights violations creating incredible human misery only a few hours south of where I live.
I am a competent policy researcher concerned with making systems more life-promoting and liberating. I know that for better or worse, people WILL create order where there is none. That is the origin of governments and governmentalities. Liberty is an order in which people govern themselves. Anarchy means no rulers, it does not mean no order. I want to see the kind of spontaneous order that promotes human happiness. Happiness is not an emotion, but a state in which liberty and property allow people to create a harmony that is productive and life-affirming.
For these reasons, I will not promote drug use, alcoholism, or prostitution, even though I do not believe they should be policed by the government. I doubt any recovered drug or alcohol addict or prostitute would seriously promote such life choices in their children. I believe that the civil society is the proper place for the development of life-promoting values, and that manners and mores that demonstrate respect for the lives, liberty, and property of others are appropriate for libertarians. I believe most libertarians do in fact have such respect and value such manners. There are some very disrespectful people in high and petty positions at national who lie about and slander others, and claim that this is appropriate behavior, and the LNC does nothing. The LNC does nothing even when persons in high position smear whole groups of people to the detriment of the party. Individuals have freedom of speech. Those charged with high office who represent the party either officially or representationally, have taken on privileges and with them, responsibilities that limit their rights while they hold office.
Liberty does not come free, even though it is a human birthright. Rather, it comes with the responsibility to respect the rights of others, and to treat others as valuable, sovereign human beings, worthy of respect unless their behavior proves otherwise.
The LP needs more quiet, competent people and fewer egoizers and grandstanders. The LNC needs a course in manners, and the courage to enforce the NAP and censure leaders who violate the rights of others, or who treat others with disrespect. The convention needs the courage to push back against the LNC when it treads on the rights and privileges belonging to the convention, no matter how much overtime is required. No office is so important that the LNC should violate the prerogatives of the convention. Better none-of-the-above hold the office empty than that the convention be violated.
I have said my piece. It is a lot longer than I expected. I do not expect to be appointed to any LNC or convention committees. I am competent, but quiet and unexciting. I did, however, offer my services as a volunteer to see to the accommodation of people with disabilities in the convention hall. I did so after seeing how badly the job was bungled in New Orleans. Although Libertarians do not believe that government should mandate accommodations, basic respect for others requires us to include all Libertarians, and this means making appropriate accommodations, not because a government forces us, but out of basic, human decency.
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, and here —
Who else but the cops in KKKalifornia will go on Newsom’s “red flag” citizen disarmament raids? Kevin De Leon? Xavier Becerra?
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/ca-governor-vetoes-bill-to-give-disability-benefits-to-cops-instead-gives-new-rights-to-murderers-and-violent-criminals/
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, and here —
The lamestream snoozemedia has, on occasion, been reporting stories like these for at least twenty years.
Even more hypocritical than Ashley Auzenne are the candidates for public office who are also advocates of victim disarmament, who then use firearms to physically attack their pro-self-defense opponents.
https://washingtonexaminer.com/news/a-waste-texas-gun-control-activist-shoots-her-three-children-dead-in-murder-suicide
- Posted to Facebook here and here —
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Liberty Doll — 20 “Facts” About Guns (and Their Owners) [YouTube]
- Avenged Sevenfold — Waking the Fallen
- Midnight’s Edge — Kathleen Kennedy’s leadership of Lucasfilm and Star Wars openly being called into question [YouTube]
- KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
- Star Trek
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Wide Open Spaces — Dick’s CEO Says Anti-Gun Policy Created ‘Quarter-Billion Dollar’ Loss by David Schlake
- Law Enforcement Today [LET] — CA governor vetoes bill to give disability benefits to cops – instead gives new rights to murderers and violent criminals by Kyle S. Reyes
- Washington Examiner — Texas gun control activist shoots her three children dead by Ellie Bufkin
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