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Random Shots for Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here

    Instead, consider placing warning labels on the Political Classholes — tattooed on their foreheads for the duration of their time in office:

    WARNING: Giving power or money to politicians has been associated with an increased risk of injury and death to self and others, including but not limited to increased risk of economic hardship, corruption, mass starvation, or mass execution. See http://hawaii.edu/powerkills for details.

    Everytown for the 2nd Amendment
    Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 5:11 PM

    The warning specifically says:

    Warning: The presence of a firearm in the home has been associated with an increased risk of death to self and others, including increased risk of suicide, death during domestic violence incidents, and unintentional deaths to children and others.

    https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2019/05/08/illinois-considering-issuing-surgeon-general-warnings-guns/

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Plenty of anti-gun-owner Republicans out there, too.

    And at times this sort of insanity, idiocy and evil finds a voice in the Libertarian Party — I cite the 2016 behavior of Mr. Bill the Original Weldist as evidence.

    https://facebook.com/Mr-Bill-the-Original-Weldist-406410033454486/

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Vengeance Unlimited S01E04 – Bitter End
  2. InsiderAn octopus sucked onto a vlogger’s face and ripped her skin when she tried to eat it live on camera by Lindsay Dodgson
  3. HelloweenMy God-Given Right
  4. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
    1. Star Trek
    2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
    3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    4. Star Trek: Voyager
    5. Star Trek: Enterprise
  5. PoliticoWant to Fix Presidential Elections? Here’s the Quickest Way. by Edward B. Foley
  6. Bearing ArmsIllinois Considering Issuing Surgeon General-Like Warnings On Guns by Tom Knighton
  7. ReasonThe Volokh Conspiracy: Yes, the First Amendment Protects “I Eat Ass” Bumper Stickers by Eugene Volokh
  8. AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
    1. Red Flag Attacks, Obfuscation & Avoidance Techniques by John Farnam
    2. What “Unsigning” the Arms Trade Treaty Means for American Gun Owners ~ VIDEO
    3. Government FOIA Flouting Responsible for One Bump Stock ‘Conspiracy Theory’ by David Codrea
    4. Gun-Phobic Lawyers are a Legal Threat to their Clients by Dean Weingarten
  9. TMZGun Confiscation: Tons Of Firearms Seized in Exclusive L.A. Neighborhood

Random Shots for Tuesday, 7 May 2019

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Vengeance Unlimited S01E03 – Eden
  2. Vickers Tactical by Larry Vickers [YouTube] — Navy SEAL Sniper Stress Test
  3. Taofledermaus [YouTube] — SCREAMING Rocket Nozzle Experiment
  4. Just Some Guy [YouTube] — Avery Brooks Explains Why SJW Characters Suck
  5. HelloweenMy God-Given Right
  6. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
    1. Star Trek
    2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
    3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    4. Star Trek: Voyager
    5. Star Trek: Enterprise
  7. CityLabWhat It’s Like to Live in a California Ghost Town by Rick Paulas
  8. The New YorkerWho Owns South Africa? by Ariel Levy
  9. VoxThe 20-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained by Matthew Yglesias

Random Shots for Monday, 6 May 2019

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. HelloweenMy God-Given Right
  2. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
    1. Star Trek
    2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
    3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    4. Star Trek: Voyager
    5. Star Trek: Enterprise

Random Shots for Sunday, 5 May 2019

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Swipe Life from Tinder — 14 Questions To Ask Your Crush To Break The Ice – On Tinder And IRL by Adrienne Palay
  2. The Texas Tribune with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting — Cracks in the Wall: When Border Watchdogs Turn Criminal
  3. The New York TimesInside Gang Territory In Honduras: ‘Either They Kill Us or We Kill Them’ by Azam Ahmed, photographs by Tyler Hicks
  4. HelloweenMy God-Given Right
  5. Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September / October 2018
    1. pp. 113-119: “Nevertheless” by Elizabeth Rubio
    2. pp. 120-121: Probability Zero, “The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall” by Larry Hodges
    3. pp. 122-130: “Off-Road” by Harry Lang
  6. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Volume 35, Number 2: Summer 2018 —
    1. pp. 54-56: “Re-Purposing Old Technology and Ideas for Fun and Emotional Profit or Get Off My Lawn, You Technologicaly Whipper-Snappers!” by “John Q. Sample”
    2. pp. 56-57: “Hacking: Quick and Easy” by “haplesscheese”
    3. p. 57: “Thoughts On Cryptocurrency” by “Frizzank”
    4. pp. 58-60: “Dev Manny, Information Technology Private Investigator: ‘Hacking the Naked Princess,’ Chapter 0x15” by Andy Kaiser
    5. pp. 62-63: Marketplace
  7. What Da Math by Anton Petrov [YouTube] — While Looking for Dark Matter, Scientists Discover Something Way Cooler
  8. Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! by Maxim Bilovitskiy [YouTube] — I Made LIQUID METAL for the Processor!
  9. The Dave Cullen Show [YouTube] — Star Trek Picard Series: What We Know So Far
  10. Pops Quest YouTube] — IV8888 Scandal Spreads Across YouTube
  11. TownhallBe A Rooftop Korean by Kurt Schlichter
  12. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
    1. Star Trek
    2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
    3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  13. Project Veritas [YouTube] — O’Keefe: Did NYT Fire Audience Strategy Editor Nick Dudich?
  14. Anti-Trekker [YouTube] — the UNBELIEVABLE true story of where the Star Trek: Discovery Klingon design came from!!
  15. Vengeance Unlimited S01E02 – Victim of Circumstances
  16. Vickers Tactical by Larry Vickers [YouTube] — Uzi

Random Shots for Saturday, 4 May 2019

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) [YouTube] — DiFi Plans on Introducing New Anti-2A Bill
  2. Gary Kasparov and the Flying Penis
  3. Buzzfeed NewsA Former Alt-Right Member’s Message: Get Out While You Still Can by Rosie Gray
  4. The Reluctant Anarchist by Joseph Sobran
  5. OverkillThe Grinding Wheel

Random Shots for Friday, 3 May 2019

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Taofledermaus [YouTube] — TTTT – JB-Weld Extreme Pressure Test [1]
  2. Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! by Maxim Bilovitskiy [YouTube] — Neodymium – A METAL Is Used to Make MAGNETS!
  3. Forgotten Weapons by Ian McCollum [YouTube] — The Korsac EM1 – a British / Polish Bullpup FG-42
  4. AmmoLand Shooting Sports NewsGun Control Is A Myth: The Second Amendment Stands Strong Or Not At All – Part 1 by Roger Katz
  5. Military Arms Channel (MAC) [YouTube] — K&M M17S Bullpup First Shots
  6. What Da Math by Anton Petrov [YouTube] — Scientists Discover That Our Own Black Hole Sgr A* Has Atmosphere
  7. OverkillThe Grinding Wheel
  8. The Firearm Blog [TFB] — TFBTV: Top 5 Under Appreciated Semi Auto Rifles [YouTube]

NOTES

  1. “TTTT” = “Test Tube Torcher Test”

Random Shots for Thursday, 2 May 2019

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    I don’t get much of their stuff in my YouTube feed to begin with, so this is easy for me.

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Fourth paragraph in the article —

    “The FBI report, which wasn’t posted online because the matter is still active, alleged that the anti-fascist activists were looking into buying firearms from a ‘Mexico-based cartel associate known as Cobra Commander’ that would be used to ‘stage an armed rebellion at the border.'”

    Was this scheme inspired by Larry Hama’s run on the G.I. Joe comic books?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Trek Central [YouTube] — TNG Actors NOT appearing in New Picard Series? – Star Trek News
  2. Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! by Maxim Bilovitskiy [YouTube] — Rhenium – A METAL WITHOUT WHICH THERE WOULDN’T BE GASOLINE!
  3. The Firearm Blog [TFB] — Five Decent Rifles That Failed Commercially
  4. Project Veritas [YouTube] — O’Keefe’s Message to NH Attorney General
  5. Beyond the press [YouTube] — Exploding 5 Meter DYNAMITE Stick in Super Slow Motion | 210 000 FPS!
  6. Military Arms Channel (MAC) [YouTube] — Bullpup Shoot – Rockcastle Shooting Center
  7. Forgotten Weapons by Ian McCollum [YouTube] — Shooting the FG42: The Hype is Real
  8. Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) [YouTube] — Illinois: 10,000 FOID Cards Revoked. 75% Still Have Their Guns.
  9. Survival Russia [YouTube] — Making Axe Handles And How To Cook On A Camp Fire Without Soot On Your Pots 2019
  10. Vickers Tactical by Larry Vickers [YouTube] — SIG 552
  11. OverkillThe Grinding Wheel
  12. The FederalistIn Ethics Seminar, Lawyers Say They’d Report A Client For Legally Owning A Gun by Rebecca Kathryn Jude and Chauncey M. DePree, Jr.
  13. Fox News — FBI probing Antifa plot to buy guns from Mexican cartel, ‘stage an armed rebellion at the border’ by Lukas Mikelionis
  14. Natural NewsCalifornia cops who shot each other in the legs underscore the insanity of the gun control argument that “only police should have guns” by J.D. Heyes

Random Shots for Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    “But how do we deal with the parent who is willing to prostitute his/her child?”

    That sort of thing actually happened here in Albuquerque a few years ago, where the drug-addled mother prostituted her 9-year-old daughter to her adult boyfriends in exchange for drugs and money.

    Basically, people who would prostitute their own underage kids are the sorts who should not have had kids in the first place.

    How to stop this sort of thing? First, why can’t other family members get involved and remove the kid(s) from the unfit parents?

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Drop them off at the Mexican Consulate in Albuquerque (1840 4th St NW), then surround the place with CBP and ICE. Make CBP and ICE actually do their jobs instead of continuing the Obama plan of catch and release.

  3. Posted to Facebook

    Alternatively, pop open a manhole cover, toss them down into the sewer head-first.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. The American Conservative [TAC] — Amelie Zhao Learns To Love Big Brother by Rod Dreher
  2. Monster Hunter Nation [MHN] by Larry CorreiaTo The Book Community: Go Fuck Yourself. An Anti-Apology.
  3. The Most Successful Fraud in American History by Gary North
  4. Vengeance Unlimited S01E01 – Cruel and Unusual
  5. ReasonCancel Culture Comes for Counterculture Comics by Brian Doherty
  6. It’s Going Down [IGD] — The Alt-Right Says It Has a New Strategy Against Journalists and Antifa: Suing Them
  7. Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! by Maxim Bilovitskiy [YouTube] — Dysprosium – THE MOST MUSICAL METAL ON EARTH!
  8. Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) [YouTube] — Survey Designed to get Patients to Disarm Themselves
  9. US Defense News [YouTube] — Here’s What Soldiers Think of the U.S. Army’s Brand New Handgun
  10. Junkball [YouTube] — USS Enterprise J Breakdown
  11. Albuquerque JournalPadilla claims AG concealed recording device in coffeepot by Dan Boyd, Journal Capitol Bureau Chief
  12. OverkillThe Grinding Wheel

Random Shots for Tuesday, 30 April 2019

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    Meanwhile, Prince Charles is most likely climbing the walls for his day on the real throne, instead of having to settle for the porcelain namesake.

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Repeal, overturn or otherwise nullify 18 USC 920-922.

  3. Posted to Facebook here, here, here, and here

    What I said back in 2012.

  4. Posted to Facebook

    Please welcome Chris Hamilton to the group!

  5. Posted to Facebook

    Hopefully, the morons that sign up for this haven’t reproduced yet.

    Think of it as evolution in action.

  6. Posted to Facebook

    If the Political Classholes stuck to legislating against malum in se crimes (murder, rape, robbery, theft — things that are bad by themselves) instead of continually inventing malum prohibitum “crimes” (things that are “bad” simply because the Political Classholes disapprove of them — guns, alcohol, changing your own car’s oil, hiring an unlicensed contractor to repair your house, etc.), then these incidents wouldn’t happen as much.

  7. Posted to Facebook

    I challenge the leftists of all affiliations to have as many abortions as they can physically stand to have.

    How to make a contest out of this?

    What should the prize(s) be?

    https://lifenews.com/2017/04/27/planned-parenthood-promotes-new-group-grandmas-for-abortion/

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Tempo Toxic Tempo: 29 Awful Bands From The 1990s by Jennifer C. Martin
  2. AmmoLand Shooting Sports NewsGiffords Gun Group a New Attempt at an Old Divide-and-Conquer Tactic by David Codrea
  3. OverkillThe Grinding Wheel
  4. Guns & AmericaSince 1982, 74 Percent Of Mass Shooters Obtained Their Guns Legally by Ryan Caron King, Luis Melgar
  5. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
    1. Star Trek
    2. Star Trek: The Next Generation
    3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    4. Star Trek: Voyager
    5. Star Trek: Enterprise
  6. DelishCarrot Hot Dogs by Lauren Miyashiro, Senior Food Editor
  7. lifenews.com — Planned Parenthood Promotes New Group: Grandmas for Abortion by Micaiah Bilger

Random Shots for Monday, 29 April 2019

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    Jay’s Freehold shared a link to the group: Heinleiners.Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 6:59 PM

    RAH would approve

    So would Johann and Eunice

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/aug-25th-2018-an-ancient-human-hybrid-child-universal-blood-parasites-parasitize-each-other-and-more-1.4795953/ubc-researchers-have-found-a-way-to-convert-any-blood-type-to-the-universal-o-1.4795975

  2. Posted to Facebook

    Or just open the road back up for normal vehicle traffic.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! by Maxim Bilovitskiy [YouTube] — Hassium – THE MOST VOLATILE METAL ON EARTH!
  2. Yahoo! News‘We don’t want to be an anti-Trump thing.’ New conservative media outlet prepares to launch. by Jon Ward
  3. Bright Insight [YouTube] — Ancient Map PROVES The Lost City of Atlantis is The Eye of The Sahara – Ancient Civilization
  4. Big Think [YouTube] — Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval | Sean McFate
  5. Military Arms Channel (MAC) [YouTube] — Bullpup Rifles: Part 1 – The Concept
  6. Seeker [YouTube] — Is Our Entire Universe Held Together By One Mysterious Number?
  7. OverkillThe Grinding Wheel
  8. Pat Condell [YouTube] — Our Battle Of Britain
  9. Adult Swim [YouTube] — You Can’t Spell | Squidbillies | Adult Swim
  10. Project Veritas [YouTube] — James O’Keefe CONFRONTS NYT Exec Editor Dean Baquet
  11. Fractal Tear [YouTube] — Picard (2019)
  12. Zero HedgeGoogle Tracks Your Location And Shares It With Police, Even When Your Phone Is Off, authored by Derrick Broze via The Mind Unleashed, posted by “Tyler Durden”
  13. KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
    1. Star Trek: Voyager
    2. Star Trek: Enterprise
  14. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [CBC] — Quirks & Quarks: UBC researchers have found a way to convert any blood type to the universal O
  15. GizmodoWhat If the Asteroid Never Killed the Dinosaurs? by Daniel Kolitz