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Random Shots for Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Slack

    “There is a place for fake libertarians and it’s called LPNM. They’re all there.”

    They’re in possession of stolen property (including the name “Libertarian Party of New Mexico”). Time to take it back.

  2. Posted to Twitter

    What’s wrong is the attempts to get the Koof scare going again — COVID-23?

  3. Posted to Twitter

    How much Botox was involved?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. The FederalistCulture: For The Love Of All That Is Holy, Stop Backing Into Parking Spaces by Mark Hemingway
  2. Found And ExplainedThe Never Built Soviet Stealth Bomber – T-4MS [YouTube]
  3. Active Self Protection [ASP]Ego Leads to Danger Yet Again | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
  4. Clownfish TVDisney CEO: Get Back to Work in Office or ELSE! [YouTube]
  5. Colion NoirOutraged UK Mom Blames Guns In The US For 6-Year-Old Shooting Teacher & Wants To Leave America [YouTube]
  6. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — Illinois Rushes Gun Ban To Governor . . . BUT Lawsuit Is Ready & Sheriffs Say They Won’t Enforce It! [YouTube]
  7. KOAT NewsNew Mexico Supreme Court hears redistricting lawsuit [YouTube]
  8. Project VeritasVeritas was in El Paso, Texas when Joe Biden visited the Southern Border. Here’s what he didn’t see. [YouTube]
  9. KRQE NewsJudge grants motion against New Mexico Civil Guard [YouTube]
  10. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: Voyager
    2. Star Trek: Enterprise
  11. PolygonDeep Space Nine was ahead of its time for all the reasons it was Star Trek’s ‘problem child’ by Dylan Roth

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 25,535 steps today.

Random Shots for Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Slack

    OK, how is David Clements involved in this now?!

  2. Posted to Slack

    Part of it is Frank is starting from scratch (sort of).

    Part of it is Frank is trying to micro-manage things, which hardly ever goes well.

  3. Posted to Twitter

    <sarcasm>
    Because Biden is a Democrat and the bestest president evarrrr!!! and Trump is Orange Man Bad!!!!
    </sarcasm>

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. PJ MediaThe First Step to Ending ‘Gun Violence’ Is to Stop Calling It Gun Violence by Kevin Downey Jr.
  2. Dark TechRussia Says 16,000 mph Satan-2 Nuke is Ready [YouTube]
  3. Tips and Hacks2 Ways How to Open a Lock – Very Easy [YouTube]
  4. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: Voyager
    2. Star Trek: Enterprise
  5. Armed Scholar by Anthony Miranda — Supreme Court’s Decision Backs ATF Restriction & Tyranny Into A Corner! ! ! [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 30,831 steps today.

Random Shots for Monday, 9 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Twitter

    Meanwhile, Meathead, your precious Democrats have been working legislatively to overthrow the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence since at least 1933. When do THEY head to prison?

  2. Posted to Slack

    Any chance we could have a script for the NAP pledge on the site itself as opposed to paying Jotform for it?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
    1. Anti-Gunners Should be Careful What They Wish For by David Codrea
    2. Judge Claims “Lack of Standing” in Second Amendment Public Transportation Case by Dean Weingarten
  2. The Angry Astronaut by Jordan Wright — Original Starship! An Interstellar Craft that we could build NOW! [YouTube]
  3. The Daily Resister by Matthew Wilbanks — Homeless campsites and trash off lakeshore drive, Coos bay Oregon [YouTube]
  4. Colion NoirAre Lights On Guns Really Necessary? [YouTube]
  5. Dark TechUltra-Fast HIMAARS Missile Shoot and Scoot [YouTube]
  6. Clownfish TVAnimation Cancelled. Sexism Blamed. [YouTube]
  7. Heroes & Icons (H&I)Star Trek: Enterprise

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 35,189 steps today.

Random Shots for Sunday, 8 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Slack

    I will not be able to make this meeting.

    Can this be done by email poll of the board?

  2. Posted to Facebook here and here

    Issue 1,189 (1 8, 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 1,189, January 8, 2023

    https://ncc-1776.org/

    THIS ISSUE’S MOTTO: I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated fool. — Moliere

    THE WEEKLY CARTOON: We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying. — Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

    ARTICLES

    0. The Editor’s Notes, by Charles Curley

    1. Letters to the Editor from Albert Perez, Dennis Wilson, L. Reichard White subjects Do Words Matter; L. Reichard White’s Silly-Assed Mistake; Re: Fw: L. Reichard White’s Silly-Assed Mistake

    2. A Blueprint for Ending Gun Control, by L. Neil Smith

    3. Assets of Sam Bankman Fried, by Jim Davidson

    4. History Rewrite: The Sin of Slavery, by Sean Gangol

  3. Posted to Twitter

    The same is true for Democrats.

    What I find insane and idiotic are the people who want to give the Political Classholes more power and money even after knowing this.

  4. Posted to Slack

    Maybe it’s at jotform.com ?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Budo BrothersA Look At Serrada Escrima [YouTube]
  2. Carpenter Brut† Carpenter Brut † TURBO KILLER † Directed by Seth Ickerman † Official Video † [YouTube]
  3. 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
  4. Image ComicsBomb Queen

Random Shots for Saturday, 7 January 2023

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 NewsCity of Albuquerque proposes plan to tackle warrant backlog; how effective can it be? [YouTube]
  4. Clownfish TVDisney’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 TechM982 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.

Random Shots for Friday, 6 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Facebook

    Should we look forward to rounds 12, 13, 14 and 15?

  2. Posted to Slack

    Correction to my above post — Means croaked in 2012 of esophageal cancer.

  3. Posted to Twitter

    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

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. Armed Scholar by Anthony Miranda — Supreme Court Demands New York Answer For Defying Its Carry Decision! ! ! N.Y. Responds! [YouTube]
  2. Clownfish TVEzra Miller STAYS in the DCEU After The Flash?! Cavill and The Rock are OUT! [YouTube]
  3. KRQE NewsAPD: ‘Substantial’ amount of arrests made over holiday season for shoplifting [YouTube]
  4. KOAT NewsShots at homes of elected officials [YouTube]
  5. Active Self Protection [ASP]Wanted Man Refuses Officer’s Orders | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
  6. DUSTSci-Fi Short Film “Strong” | DUST [YouTube]
  7. Heroes & Icons (H&I)Star Trek: Enterprise
  8. Binkov’s BattlegroundsUkraine is HARMing Russian radars, thanks to the US? [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 29,713 steps today.

Random Shots for Thursday, 5 January 2023

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 NewsProposed 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 HacksInsane Way to Open Any Lock Without a Key! Amazing Tricks with Matches, That Work Extremely Well [YouTube]
  4. Found And ExplainedInsane 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.

Random Shots for Wednesday, 4 January 2023

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. RedStateObama’s National Sales Tax by Brian Darling
  2. Guns & Gadgets by Jared Yanis — MAJOR NEWS! Red Flag Law Ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL [YouTube]
  3. The Angry Astronaut by Jordan Wright — New WOW Signal Detected!! Breakthough Listen to study this discovery and others! [YouTube]
  4. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: Voyager
    2. Star Trek: Enterprise
  5. KRQE NewsVIDEO: Rio Rancho hit again by tire slashers [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 627 steps today.
  2. Had a Board meeting of the FLPNM via Zoom tonight.

    Proposed Agenda (amended 30 Dec 22):

    1. Convene
    2. Roll Call
    3. Public Comment, 2 minutes maximum per person
      1. Verify waiting room is clear before proceeding
    4. Approval of Agenda
    5. Approval of Minutes of Last Meeting
    6. Ratification of decisions of last meeting (correcting deficient notice)
    7. Recognition of newsletter editors
    8. Recognition of board members who have not paid dues
    9. Funding for convention:
      1. Venue; and lunch; requested $300
      2. Convention Parliamentarian (Caryn Ann Harlos)
      3. LP literature for convention distribution
        1. What literature to allow? Limit to official LP literature? Caucus literature? Clearly labeled as non-official?
      4. Badges
    10. Establish Convention Credentials Committee
    11. Funding for LNC party?
    12. Motion to Reprimand Mike Blessing (unauthorized use of name)
    13. Adjourn

Random Shots for Tuesday, 3 January 2023

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 NewsGun 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 NetNew 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.comStar Trek In 2023: What We’re Most Looking Forward To

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 1,657 steps today.

Random Shots for Monday, 2 January 2023

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

  1. Posted to Slack

    I would go with Spike Cohen at present. Have to look up the rest.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

  1. The Angry Astronaut by Jordan Wright — A NEW Mars Mission powered by Micro Starship! [YouTube]
  2. Covert CabalWhy Doesn’t Russia Just Move Their Bombers? [YouTube]
  3. Active Self Protection [ASP]Off Duty Cop Draws on Unarmed Man | Active Self Protection [YouTube]
  4. Heroes & Icons (H&I)
    1. Star Trek: Voyager
    2. Star Trek: Enterprise
  5. Dark TechThe Mysterious African Ironman Combat Suit That Can’t Be Real – Can It? [YouTube]
  6. Frog TimeThe trajectory until the frog can prey on the hornet for the first time. part 1 [YouTube]

NOTES FROM LIFE, ETC.

  1. I walked 38,390 steps today.