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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
Would you prefer that people vomit, urinate or defecate at locations in the bar other than the restrooms?
- Posted to Facebook —
Of course, there were some saloons and taverns that had a urinal built into the bar itself.
https://kegworks.com/blog/a-lesson-in-tavern-history-the-fresh-flow-trough-spittoon/
https://toilet-guru.com/barbary-coast.php
I first heard about this sort of thing back in 1991 when I was in the Army Reserve, back in Horsham, Pennsylvania.
- Posted to Facebook —
Sure, there’s an expiration date to the Earth’s climate, just that it will come much later than the 21st, 22nd or even 31st century — try around the 50,000,000th century (about 5,000,000,000 AD), when the Sun’s hydrogen fuel runs out and it moves off the main sequence to its red giant phase, and its surface moves out to about where the Earth is now.
Incidentally, why aren’t those who are so “concerned” about increased carbon dioxide in the air working to promote any kind of nuclear power possible — fission, fusion, whatever?
https://lewrockwell.com/2009/09/james-p-hogan/nuclear-no-contest/
A lot of the “climate crisis” proponents seem to be Star Trek fans to some degree. Ask them this — why isn’t the Enterprise powered by solar panels (how many square miles would you need?), but by a matter-antimatter reactor about the size of a bus?
Ask them why they have no problem with spaceships of the far future using nuclear power, but don’t want present-day humanity to have anything to do with it. Ya gotta start somewhere in learning how to use it, just like anything else.
- Posted to Facebook —
Two Minute Hate at the Student Union Building?
- Posted to Facebook —
I bought a CZ-52 without showing ID or filling out any paperwork at a gun show in Albuquerque back around 1998. I forked over my ∅185, asked the guy what sort of paperwork was involved, he said “no paperwork,” and I walked away with the pistol. (I’ve since sold it to someone else.)
- Posted to Facebook here and here —
https://medium.com/@arielf/finally-rejuvenation-is-a-thing-910d48aa6c6e
- Posted to Facebook —
I won’t be able to make it, so I will send my comments via email.
- Posted to Facebook —
I’m not able to be at today’s event, so I sent my comments about their disrespectful attitude about the right to own and carry weapons to them via email (check your inbox — I blind-copied the email to you and several others).
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- FiveThirtyEight — A Tale Of Two Suburbs by Clare Malone, Graphics by Rachael Dottle
- ProPublica — The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well. by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel
- KOAT News — More than 750,000 could lose food stamps under Trump proposal by Tami Luhby
- Now The End Begins [NTEB] by Geoffrey Grider — Pedophiles Are Now Calling Themselves ‘Minor Attracted Persons’ And Want Inclusion In LGBTQ Movement
- Law Enforcement Today [LET] — Red Flag Laws Are Going To Be Used Against Those With PTSD by Kyle S. Reyes
- Albuquerque Journal —
- In 2019, just who really constitutes America’s ‘We’? by Leonard Pitts, Syndicated Columnist (The Miami Herald / Tribune Content Agency LLC)
- Editorial: Impressive drug raid took planning, collaboration by Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board
- KegWorks — A Lesson in Tavern History – the Fresh Flow Trough Spittoon by Liz Chatterton
- Toilets of the World by Bob Cromwell — Saloons of the Barbary Coast
- Finally, rejuvenation is a thing! by Ariel VA Feinerman
- OpsLens — Britain’s Anti-Knife Politicians: Not Too Sharp by Steve Pomper
- SHOT Show 2017: B&T USW, VP9 & Aimpoint Nano
- Looper [YouTube] — The Real Reason Why Firefly Was Canceled
- Prince Law Offices — Pittsburgh Sued Over Illegal, Anti-Gun Enactments by Joshua Prince, Esq.
- concealedcarry.com — Are Guns Registered in a National Firearms Registry by Jacob S. Paulsen
- Helloween — My God-Given Right
- Reason — Hit & Run: After the Supreme Court Said Unions Can’t Force Non-Members to Pay Dues, Almost All of Them Stopped by Eric Boehm
- Task & Purpose — A Dutch F-16 fighter shot itself with its own cannon by Paul Szoldra
- Zero Hedge — Wal-Mart Is Rolling Out The Robots After Raising Minimum Wage by “Tyler Durden”
- Grunge [YouTube] — The Biggest Scandals To Ever Hit The History Channel
- Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! [YouTube] — Iridium – The MOST RARE Metal on Earth!
- Taofledermaus [YouTube] — 12ga. BRI Sabot Bullets – We prove Winchester WRONG
From: Mike Blessing
To: Debbie O’Malley <District1@bernco.gov>, Steven Michael Quezada <District2@bernco.gov>, Maggie Hart Stebbins <District3@bernco.gov>, Lonnie C. Talbert <District4@bernco.gov>, Charlene Pyskoty <District5@bernco.gov>
BCC: [7 x others]
Date: Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 6:11 PM
Subject: Second Amendment Sanctuary County Status for Bernalillo County
Dear County Commissioners,
I support the Second Amendment, but . . . .
But even if it were repealed tomorrow, by unanimous vote of the full U.S. House, the full U.S. Senate, and all fifty State Legislatures, the pre-existing, civil, human right to own and carry weapons for defense of self, family and community doesn’t go away one bit.
To those proposing restrictions upon the private-sector civilian ownership and carrying of weapons:
Look, no one is trying to take your government away. We just want to have an honest, open, adult conversation about common-sense restrictions on government. If we can save just one child from government violence, it will worth it.
I am writing in support of Bernalillo County joining the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement that is here in New Mexico, and in other states around the nation.
As for the sheriffs and county commissions that have already signed on, they aren’t the lawbreakers as they have been smeared as in the media.
Rather, the public officials who use their offices to promote and promulgate victim disarmament legislation such as SB 8[1] are the true lawbreakers.
Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico[2] reads as follows:
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.
Maybe I missed the amendment to the State Constitution that repealed Article II, Section 6? I don’t remember seeing such an amendment on the ballot during the 2018 election, much less passing with any majority of votes cast. Nor do I remember seeing such a repeal on the ballot in any previous election.
Since Article II, Section 6 is still on the books as a valid part of the State Constitution, I encourage and implore the County Commission to “get right” with the law as it’s currently written, as opposed to doing end runs around the Constitutional bits with which they personally disagree.
Thank you for listening to my concerns.
Sincerely,
Mike Blessing,
Resident and Taxpayer of Bernalillo County since 1994
Who owns you? Who runs your life? Who should — you or someone else?
Freedom is the answer — what’s the question?
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
- New Mexico Legislature page: “2019 Regular Session – SB 8”
- New Mexico Compilation Commission — Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico
NOTES
- Published in The Libertarian Enterprise — Number 1,016: Sunday, 7 April 2019
- Reposted –
- The Weekly Sedition – Facebook / Twitter / WordPress
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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
I could just put the poster(s) of such false “news” on moderated status, meaning that I would have to approve any such postings . . . . ?
At least The Onion and Babylon Bee have the decency to refrain from presenting their stuff as actual news.
MWB, Group Creator and Admin
- Posted to Facebook here —
Was there an amendment to the State Constitution on the 2018 general election ballot that repealed Article II, Section 6?
The same Article II, Section 6 that reads as follows:
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.
I must have missed that one. I don’t remember seeing it on the ballot, much less passing.
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Target Books — Doctor Who and the Robots of Death by Terrance Dicks
- Iraqveteran8888 (IV8888) [YouTube] — Top 5 Guns That Are Not ARs
- Anton Petrov [YouTube] — Why Are There No Green Stars?
- Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! [YouTube] — Cesium – The most ACTIVE metal on EARTH!
- Helloween — My God-Given Right
- Martial Arts Journey [YouTube] — Why You Will Get Cut Defending Against a Knife ⋅ Martial Arts Journey
- Defiant America — Watch: Sixth-Grader Was Not Allowed to Use Trump as Her Hero for School Project, Teacher Suggested Obama Instead by Alex Graham
- Science Channel — How the Universe Works
- KUPT 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] —
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- WeaponsMan by Kevin “Hognose” O’Brien — Total US Firearms: Not 300 Million, but 412-660 Million?
- USA Today — For a million U.S. men, failing to register for the draft has serious, long-term consequences by Gregory Korte, USA TODAY
- The Federalist — Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Okay? by David Marcus
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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
The Flat Earth crowd isn’t demanding that I surrender liberty, money and property for their pet cause(s) “for the children,” or calling me a heartless asshole for refusing to comply with what they want, so all I have to say to them is “Follow your bliss.”
- Posted to Facebook —
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Vertigo Comics (DC) — Imaginary Fiends
- Asaya: A Mind (R)Evolution — The Next Einstein: Nassim Haramein and his Theory of Everything
- Futurism — Scientists Say They Can Make Light Travel 30x Faster Than Normal by Jon Christian
- University of Cambridge — Andrea Rossi’s ‘E-cat’ nuclear reactor: a video FAQ
- Dark Horse Comics — Tom Clancy’s The Division: Extremis Malis
- Image Comics — The Dead Hand
- Midnight’s Edge [YouTube] —
- How DC on film is being Rebooted
- Update: Star Trek Picard in Trouble and Disagreements behind the scenes
- Red 5 Comics — Riptide
- Helloween — My God-Given Right
- Taofledermaus [YouTube] — SLAP SHOT PHD – World’s FASTEST Shotgun Slug
- Forgotten Weapons by Ian McCollum —
- AVS-36: The First Soviet Infantry Battle Rifle
- The Soviet Jackhammer: Shooting an AVS-36
- Thoisoi2 – Chemical Experiments! [YouTube] — Erbium – A Metal, Which CREATES QUANTUM INTERNET!
Recently, Attorney General Hector Balderas sent a letter to 26 county sheriffs stating that, “As law enforcement officials . . . we do not have the freedom to pick and choose which state laws we enforce,” in reference to the “universal background checks” mandated by the newly-passed Senate Bill 8.[1],[2]
So why is that Balderas is himself choosing to ignore existing State law, specifically Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico:[3]
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.
Maybe I missed the amendment to the State Constitution that repealed Article II, Section 6? I don’t remember seeing such an amendment on the ballot during the 2018 election.
Never mind that actual criminals and terrorists won’t bother at all to go through a background check through a federally-licensed dealer, as mandated by SB 8. They’ll steal them, or get someone else to buy them, or whatever. You see, they have discovered this massive loophole in SB 8 (and other such laws) called “breaking the law.”
Balderas also said that “the taxpayers of your city or county assume the financial risk of your decision to impose your personal views over the law.”
How much liability will Balderas, Lujan-Grisham, or the legislators who pushed SB 8 assume should someone denied a firearm under color of SB 8 be injured or killed after the fact, say by a deranged ex-spouse?
Most likely they will assume zero liability (don’t bother trying to sue them on this — they will invoke “sovereign immunity”[4]) and skate away from any responsibility. After all, it wasn’t one of the Political Class that was killed or maimed, so who cares, right?
As published in the Albuquerque Journal
Gun law ignores Constitution
RECENTLY, ATTORNEY General Hector Balderas sent a letter to 26 county sheriffs stating that, “As law enforcement officials . . . we do not have the freedom to pick and choose which state laws we enforce,” in reference to the “universal background checks” mandated by the newly-passed Senate Bill 8.
So why is that Balderas is himself choosing to ignore existing State law, specifically Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico: No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.
I don’t remember seeing amendment to the State Constitution that repealed Article II, Section 6 such an amendment on the ballot during the 2018 election. Maybe I missed it?
Never mind that actual criminals and terrorists won’t bother at all to go through a background check through a federally-licensed dealer, as mandated by SB 8. They’ll steal them, or get someone else to buy them, or whatever. You see, they have discovered this massive loophole in SB 8 (and other such laws) called “breaking the law.”
Balderas also said that “the taxpayers of your city or county assume the financial risk of your decision to impose your personal views over the law.”
How much liability will Balderas, (Gov. Michelle) Lujan-Grisham, or the legislators who pushed SB 8 assume should someone denied a firearm under color of SB 8 be injured or killed after the fact, say by a deranged ex-spouse?
Most likely they will assume zero liability — If you sue them on this as they deserve, they’ll invoke “sovereign immunity” — and avoid any responsibility. After all, it wasn’t one of the political class that was killed or maimed, so who cares, right?
MIKE BLESSING
Albuquerque
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
- Albuquerque Journal — Friday, 5 April 2019: AG directs sheriffs, chiefs to enforce gun law by Dan McKay and Dan Boyd, Journal Capitol Bureau
- New Mexico Legislature page: “2019 Regular Session – SB 8” [“SB” = “Senate Bill” MWB]
- New Mexico Compilation Commission — Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico
- The Libertarian Enterprise — Number 23, 1 March 1997 – Down By Law by Victor Milán
NOTES
- Published in
- The Libertarian Enterprise — Number 1,015 – 7 April 2019
- Albuquerque Journal — Saturday, 13 April 2019, p.A13, Opinion – Letters to the Editor: “Gun law ignores Constitution”
- Reposted –
- The Weekly Sedition – WordPress
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Sunday, April 7, 2019 7:38 AM, nobody wrote:
Mike,
It’s worse than that, neither MLG nor Balderas have a bond so they are NOT governor and attorney general, respectively.
Dana Majewski
Dana —
Thank you for your input.
I fully support ejecting both Baldy and Loogie-Gruesome from their present offices, and barring them from being seated in any other office.
Still, I recommend reading Down By Law, by the late, great Victor Milán before filing any litigation.
https://ncc-1776.org/tle1997/le970301-07.html
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LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Pipe Dream from Binghamton University [New York] — Guest Columns: Stricter gun legislation is not the answer to gun violence by Nadiya Al-Noor
- AmmoLand Shooting Sports News — Police Aren’t Enough by Walter E. Williams
- Overkill — The Grinding Wheel
- 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
- Albuquerque Journal — AG directs sheriffs, chiefs to enforce gun law by Dan McKay and Dan Boyd, Journal Capitol Bureau
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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, here, here, here, and here ] and Twitter —
More money for The DingleBerry Express!
How can this be anything but a winning proposition?
https://krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/boost-in-proposed-transit-budget-includes-millions-for-art/1898565789
- Posted to Facebook —
The Punisher by Larry Hama — that looks like something worth purchasing!
- Posted to Facebook —
Wait a sec here — how can you not LOVE the DingleBerry Express?!
- Posted to Facebook —
Even better — let’s build a subway grid underneath the DingleBerry Express (and all over Albuquerque), and elevated trains to run above it!
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Target Books — Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen by Terrance Dicks
- KRQE News — Albuquerque – Metro: Boost in proposed transit budget includes millions for ART by Jackie Kent
- Overkill — The Grinding Wheel
- AmmoLand Shooting Sports News — Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Condemns Jewish Calls To Disarm
- Washington Examiner — Alyssa Milano’s ‘I believe’ Kavanaugh accuser becomes ‘we can’t assume’ Biden guilt by Zachary Halaschak
- 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
- Albuquerque Journal — ABQ mayor proposing $1.1 billion budget by Jessica Dyer, Journal Staff Writer
- South Florida Sun Sentinel — Governor had the right to dump Sheriff Scott Israel, judge rules by Rafael Olmeda and Anthony Man
- msn — Politico: Grassley schools Trump on wind turbines and cancer by Burgess Everett
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