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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
It was a mongoose that killed JFK.
I saw it on Robot Chicken, so it must be true.
- Posted to Facebook —
The male plastic models with the guns built into their right hands, with the fingers that flipped down so they could shoot. Autons, I think they called themselves.
In league with the mongoose.
That’s why they call it a conspiracy.
- Posted to Facebook —
The mugatu was the back-up shooter.
- Posted to Facebook —
Let’s not forget Dan Lewis’ West Side sportsplex for 17-18 million, because “sports tourism” is going to really bring in new businesses and private-sector spending.
https://cabq.gov/council/projects/current-projects/albuquerque-regional-sports-complex
https://abqjournal.com/768525/city-may-make-pitch-for-more-baseball-fields.html
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Adult Swim [as] from the Cartoon Network [CN] —
- Robot Chicken
- Mike Tyson Mysteries
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- The John Birch Society [JBS] — Surrendering the Second Amendment
- Albuquerque Journal — City may make pitch for more baseball fields by Dan McKay, Journal Staff Writer
- Science Alert — Quantum Weirdness of Light Was Just Confirmed by Shooting Photons Into Space by Mike McRae
- nmpolitics.net — To build healthier communities, some tribes look away from IHS by Ed Williams, KUNM
- Black Mirror
- Squawker — Video: 4chan Controlled Flamethrower Drone Attacks He Will Not Divide Us Flag In France by Jack Kenrick
- Image Comics — The Black Monday Murders, Vol.1: All Hail God Mammon
- Dokken — Beast from the East
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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —
From the Carlsbad Current-Argus
http://currentargus.com/story/news/local/2017/10/24/ipra-request-revealed-explicit-emails-judges-account/759673001/
It would seem that the New Mexico judicial system isn’t exempt from the Inspection of Public Records Act [IPRA].
The NM Foundation for Open Government [NMFOG] has the details on how to submit an IPRA request, including a sample request in PDF format.
http://nmfog.org/submit-records-request/
http://nmfog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SAMPLE-IPRA.pdf
- Posted to Facebook here and here —
- Posted to Facebook —
I would prefer that if a new B5 film or TV series were to be produced, that instead of casting new actors in previously-cast roles, that the new actors be cast in entirely new roles, like Roddenberry did with Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Reboots are very rarely as good as the original — the only rebooted series that I can think of as being better than the original was Ron Moore’s 2003 Battlestar Galactica.
- Posted to Facebook —
That’s OK — I already have them, and read them years ago.
I just don’t want to see B5 go down the same road as the Marvel comics line — rebooted umpteen times into near-irrelevance.
- Posted to Facebook —
Don’t add anyone you don’t know and trust as a group admin.
- Posted to Facebook —
What ever happened to all of the business and cash flow that the (State-subsidized) film industry was going to bring to New Mexico? How long are we supposed to wait for thsat one to happen?
And wasn’t spending piles of cash on the welfare state programs, as pushed by Martinez (the Medicaid expansion), going to boost the economy as never before? Still waiting for that one to actually happen, too.
At least the brewery owners aren’t soaking the taxpayers.
- Posted to Facebook —
For example: Ayudando.
https://ixquick.com/do/search?q=Ayudando
- Posted to Facebook —
Third time’s the charm?
- Posted to Facebook —
Facebook has been slow and sluggish lately. Had to crash Firefox three times and reboot my laptop once last night because of this.
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Black Mirror
- Adult Swim [as] from the Cartoon Network [CN] —
- Robot Chicken
- Mike Tyson Mysteries
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Vol.34, #3: Autumn 2017 —
- pp. 52-53: “Citizen Engineer: I Like Your Content But Your Terms Are Not Acceptable” by “ladyada” and “fill”
- pp. 54-57: “Obfuscating Biopolitics: A Theoretical Primer for Cyborgs and Other Concerned Citizens” by Emma Stamm
- p.58: “Debt Journey” by “Pic0o”
- p.59: “Successful Network Attacks – Phase Four: Maintaining Access” by “Daelphinux”
- p.60: “Splatter” by Alan Sondheim
- nmpolitics.net —
- Here’s what APS needs in a new school board member by Ali Ennenga
- Breweries patch the gaps between oil booms in southeastern NM by Jessica Onsurez, Carlsbad Current-Argus
- Dokken —
- Back for the Attack
- Beast from the East
- Teen Vogue from Condé Nast — Antifa History and Politics, Explained by Abdullah Shihpar
- Breitbart News — Rosie O’Donnell Breaks Silence on Trump: ‘I Seriously Worry’ How I Will Live Through His Presidency by Katherine Rodriguez
- Next Generation Gasoline Engine SKYACTIV-X: SPCCI
- The Daily Wire — Trans Artist Collects 200 Gallons Of Urine To Protest Trump by Paul Bois
- This Trans Artist Collected 200 Gallons Of Urine To Protest Trump (HBO)
- Guns & Tech by Timothy Yan — WPA’s new T91 piston AR upper at Big 3 Media Event
- The Orville
Tonight’s episode of The Orville, titled “Majority Rule,” wasn’t really original, more of a a combination of “Nosedive” from Black Mirror, and “First Contact” (perhaps bits of “Who Watches the Watchers”, too?) from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Still, it was entertaining, which is what TV is really supposed to be. Especially when the content is in the “fiction” category.
I didn’t think that I would like The Orville, as I wasn’t a fan of Seth McFarlane at all before tuning in — Family Guy and American Dad are thirty-minute snack and bathroom breaks, as far as I’m concerned.
That being said, I wasn’t a follower of Keanu Reeves until I saw the first Matrix flick.
Today in history
COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
I scored 100% on the “Can You Find These US Cities On A Map?” quiz. How will you do?
- Posted to Facebook —
Orthomale-pattern ammosexual
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, and here —
Just got a a call from someone claiming to be a volunteer for Planned Parenthood, saying that they were endorsing Tim Keller for mayor in the runoff election, and asking me to support Keller.
When I asked how he got my name and number, he said it’s “public information.”
NO, I will NOT be supporting Keller.
- Posted to Facebook —
If I can’t bring myself to vote for Steve Pearce, I’ll vote for Dumpster Fire instead of Grisham.
https://facebook.com/Vote.Dumpster.Fire
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. here, and here —
https://tinyurl.com/20171025-mlg-vdf
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —
From the Los Alamos Monitor
http://lamonitor.com/content/new-mexico-supreme-court-ousts-aztec-magistrate-office
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Adult Swim [as] from the Cartoon Network [CN] —
- Robot Chicken
- Mike Tyson Mysteries
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- GQ — The Rules for Drinking Alone at a Bar by Tiffany Kelly
- Ace Books [Berkley Publishing Group] — Igniting the Reaches by David Drake
- Men of The West — The Importance of November 4th by “Phantom”
- Viceland — Vice Essentials
- Dokken — Back for the Attack
- The Los Alamos Monitor — New Mexico Supreme Court ousts Aztec magistrate from office
- The Carlsbad Current-Argus — IPRA request revealed explicit emails on judge’s account by DeJanay Booth
- Rise Again America — Major Arrest Rocks The Democrats – You’ll CHEER When You See Who Was Just Handcuffed
- Black Mirror
From the The Los Alamos Monitor —
New Mexico Supreme Court ousts Aztec magistrate from office
SANTA FE (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court has removed Aztec Magistrate Court Judge Connie Johnston from office for misconduct that a state commission said included dishonesty, surreptitious recording of private conversations in the courthouse and abuse of her judicial power of contempt.
The high court’s order issued its order Monday following a hearing on the Judicial Standards Commission’s April 10 petition seeking removal of Johnston from office.
Her term was set to end in December of 2018.
The commission’s petition cited Johnston’s “dishonesty shown in committing various acts of willful misconduct and throughout the commission’s proceedings, including her false statements under oath as well as her concealment of surreptitious recordings that she was ordered to disclose but kept secret until midtrial when she perceived a personal advantage to disclosure.”
(The first judge to go since we started this campaign was Pamela Smith from Sierra County.)
From The Carlsbad Current-Argus —
IPRA request revealed explicit emails on judge’s account by DeJanay Booth
It would seem that the New Mexico judicial system isn’t exempt from the Inspection of Public Records Act [IPRA].
The NM Foundation for Open Government [NMFOG] has the details on how to submit an IPRA request, including a sample request in PDF format.
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
- CTB-NM Main Page
- The CTBNM Facebook page — like it, share it, spread it around.
- Ballotpedia page about New Mexico Courts
- Ballotpedia page about New Mexico judicial elections
- National Council for State Courts — Judicial Selection in the States: New Mexico
Recently, Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown (D-KKKalifornia) signed a bill making it no longer a felony to knowingly infect someone with HIV [1].
Whatever happened to government being the defender of our lives, liberties, properties and pursuits of happiness[2]?
Instead, government is becoming more and more a plunderer and pillager of that which it’s supposed to protect[3].
What particularly irks me about this is that there are some who call themselves “libertarians” who prefer to let the State (in this case, Moonbeam Brown) not only define their ethics and morality, but then insist that they’re the ones abiding by the Zero Aggression Principle —
I guess this is what you get when you lower your standards and insist that “everyone is a Libertarian, they just don’t know it yet.”
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
- Los Angeles Times — Knowingly exposing others to HIV will no longer be a felony in California by Patrick McGreevy
CNN — California lowers penalty for knowingly exposing partners to HIV by Alaa Elassar and Laura Diaz-Zuniga
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat
Today in history
COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
My contention is that “universal background checks” and other such restrictions don’t do anything to actually reduce or deter “gun violence” in any meaningful way.
If these proposed statutes really worked as their proponents insist they will, why is “gun violence” so much more prevalent in the parts of America where those laws and regulations have already been enacted?
- Posted to Facebook —
Aside from Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Baltimore, New York City, and such?
- Posted to Facebook —
Liam Neeson and Marky-Mark Wahlberg, for starters.
And then there’s Girly-Man Governator hisself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who took the extra step of signing a bill outlawing civilian possession of .50 BMG rifles in California in June, 2004, while he was the GOP governor there.
- Posted to Facebook —
- The Chevy page for the “Bolt” [ http://chevrolet.com/bolt-ev-electric-vehicle ] says that if you go for the “DC Fast Charging Capability” option, you get this:
“This available option allows you to charge your Bolt EV at publically available DC Fast Charging stations
Up to 90 miles of range in about 30 minutes of charge1
1 GM-estimated. Actual charge time may vary due to outside temperatures.”
That means WITH the “DC Fast Charging Capability,” you can go from almost-dead batteries to full charge in 80 minutes.
If you use the 120V DC charge cord, you get “up to 4 EV miles per hour of charging” (again, “Based on charging levels and outside temperature”). That means a 60-hour charge time.
- It’s a Chevy, meaning it’s from GM. I’m still waiting for my dividend check from the 2008 bailout. NO, I will NOT accept an Obamacare subsidy instead.
- Posted to Facebook —
“Children, today I’m going to show you how to delete classified emails from your home server . . .”
- Posted to Facebook —
Not til it gets to an even billion.
- Posted to Facebook —
Funny, I was under the impression that the job was already taken by the DNC and its state-level affiliates.
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —
Just imagine the possibilities — live music on the ART busses!
https://abqjournal.com/1082507/berry-unveils-plan-to-strengthen-albuquerques-music-ecosystem.html
- Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —
http://nmpolitics.net/index/2017/10/on-bail-reform-lets-get-a-few-things-straight/
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- BBC America —
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Adult Swim [as] from the Cartoon Network [CN] —
- Robot Chicken
- Mike Tyson Mysteries
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- The Virginia Quarterly Review [VQR] — American Weather by Mary Margaret Alvarado
- MARINA ABRAMOVIC SPIRIT COOKING
- Podesta Art: Inside Tony Podesta’s Home
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May / June 2017 —
- pp. 154-156: The Alternate View – “Our Leaking Universe” by John G. Cramer
- pp. 157-159: “Lips Together” by Ken Brady
- pp. 160-163: “The Banffs” by Lavie Tidhar
- pp. 164-169: “Where the Flock Wanders” by Andrew Barton
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Vol.34 #3: Autumn 2017 —
- p.46: EFFecting Digital Freedom: Don’t Let Congress Destroy What We’ve Built by Elliot Harmon
- p.49: “To Care or Not to Care” by “deadbeat0”
- Ace Books [Berkley Publishing Group] — Igniting the Reaches by David Drake
- nmpolitics .net — On bail reform, let’s get a few things straight by Aubrey Blair Dunn
- Albuquerque Journal —
- In response to far right, LGBTQ gun group hits firing line by Michael Hill, Associated Press
- Berry unveils plan to strengthen Albuquerque’s music ecosystem by Martin Salazar, Journal Staff Writer
- KRQE 13 TV [CBS affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — Dem attorneys general unite against concealed-carry gun law by Steve Peoples, Associated Press
- Newsweek — Chinese Young People Are Rejecting Communist Party Propaganda and the Government Is Freaking Out by Tom Porter
- Disturbed — Ten Thousand Fists
- Dokken — Back for the Attack
- Tactical Shit — From The Gym To The Gun Range, Antifa Is Learning To Fight by “Mo_tard”
- The Daily Wire — This Page From A New Children’s Book About Hillary Clinton Is Hilariously Crazy by Hank Berrien
- KUPI 29 TV [Heroes & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — Star Trek: The Next Generation
- The Independent [UK] — First sex-doll brothel opens in Germany, selling ‘plastic prostitutes’ by Olivia Petter
- Black Mirror
- Scary Mommy — Man Shuts Down Anti-Abortion Argument By Asking One Question by Mike Julianelle
Today in history
COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
Set a date and time, then promote it.
Last time I checked, open carry of both long guns and sidearms is still legal inside and around the Roundhouse.
- Posted to Facebook —
Are there similar articles for journalists covering “knife violence” (stabbings and slashings), “blunt-object violence,” (assault and battery using baseball bats, clubs, axe handles, lengths of pipe or rebar), “automotive violence” (deliberate hit and run incidents) and “bare-handed violence” (unarmed assault and battery) ?
- Posted to Facebook —
How many suicides, deaths due to neglgence or justifiable homicide are lumped into the category of “gun violence” ?
- Posted to Facebook —
Claudia Anderson — name me a victim disarmament “gun control” proposal that will actually perform its stated function of deterring violent crime.
- Posted to Facebook —
Here’s a screenshot from the CDC site — “gun violence” doesn’t even make the list.
- Posted to Facebook —
“Universal” background checks (and a 15-day waiting period) are already the law in KKKalifornia, yet Los Angeles has some of the highest rates of violent crime per 100,000 residents in the nation. That’s been the case for over 20 years now.
“Back that up by making possession of a gun that you didn’t get a background check for a felony.”
That would make me a felon several times over, for simple possession of inanimate objects. NO THANKS.
- Posted to Facebook —
No, I’m not confused at all.
I’m simply unwilling to surrender liberty and property so that you can have your momentary warm fuzzy that you “got something done” and “made a difference.”
For me to “compromise,” I would have to get something back that *I* want. Vague, unenforceable “promises” that “this will make a difference” don’t cut it. Nor do the lies that “no one wants to take your guns.”
- Posted to Facebook —
I guess I’ll have to settle for you and Bobby likening me to a heartless asshole or mental defective, then.
- Posted to Facebook —
What I did was pointed out that your proposed victim disarmament statutes haven’t stopped “gun violence” in any meaningful way in the past, then I asked why should I expect the same sorts of measures to work THIS TIME, because you have such “good intentions” THIS TIME?
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Judas Priest —
- ’98 Live Meltdown
- Demolition
- KRQE 13 News [CBS affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — Victim in carjacking crash fighting to cling onto life by Jeannie Nguyen
- Dark Horse Comics — The Shaolin Cowboy – Who’ll Stop the Reign?
- Star Trek: Discovery
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May / June 2017 —
- pp. 148-151: “In the Mists” by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
- pp. 152-153: “The Return” by Bud Sparhawk
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Vol.34 #3: Autumn 2017 —
- pp. 26-28: “The Hacker Perspective” by “Master Chen”
- p.29: “A Little Brother’s Manifesto” by “Qrag”
- Ace Books [Berkley Publishing Group] — Igniting the Reaches by David Drake
- nmpolitics.net —
- Politics isn’t a sport by Heath Haussamen
- Build on the knowledge of the past instead of tearing it down by Brad Cates
- Disturbed — Ten Thousand Fists
- The Libertarian Heathen by Ryan Ramsey —
- Dave Champion, SJW and Federal Snitch
- LPF Under Attack by Adrian Wyllie, Paul Stanton, and ANTIFA
- Meet Paul Frankel, Editor in Chief at IPR, ANTIFA Terrorist, Convicted Forger, Former LNC Rep, and His Freak Show Seeking to Disaffiliate the LPF
- Columbia Journalism Review [CJR] from Columbia University — A gun-focused news outlet on what it takes to cover firearms credibly by Ben Hallman
- Hallmark Channel — Frasier
- Image Comics — The Family Trade
Today in history
COMMENTS I’VE POSTED
- Posted to Facebook —
Them too — end the Export-Import Bank, agricultural subsidies, no more tax-funded sports stadiums, no more bailouts for politically-connected companies deemed “too big to fail,” etc., etc., etc.
Defense procurement should also be streamlined, if we’re going to have the public sector involved in defending us and our neighbors. No more micro-managed development programs like the F-35, the Crusader SPG and such. Put out the technical specifications and requirements of what’s needed, and have potential vendors bring ready-for-testing products to the table for evaluation.
- Posted to Diaspora*, Ello, Facebook [ here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here ], Google Plus Minds, seen.life, Tea Party Community, and VK —
And end corporate welfare, too — end the Export-Import Bank, agricultural subsidies, no more tax-funded sports stadiums, no more bailouts for politically-connected companies deemed “too big to fail,” etc., etc., etc.
Defense procurement should also be streamlined, if we’re going to have the public sector involved in defending us and our neighbors. No more micro-managed development programs like the F-35, the Crusader SPG and such. Put out the technical specifications and requirements of what’s needed, and have potential vendors bring ready-for-testing products to the table for evaluation.
And if you absolutely, positively have to smoke pot, shoot up with heroin, pop a few oxy pills, snort coke or meth, have a beer or shot of whisky before your shift, here’s a hint — find an employer who’s OK with that.
Arvin Vohra
Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 1:48pm
Paradoxically, while many Americans have no job, we’re simultaneously facing a labor shortage.
Today, many industries have difficulty finding employees who can meet the bare minimum requirements of work. No, not a degree or diploma. Just the ability to show up at all. Or to be free of intoxicants.
Those working in industries ranging from retail to healthcare have issues with no-shows employees. In many states, businesses can’t find people who can pass a drug test! https://www.nytimes.com/ . . . /hiring-hurdle-finding-workers-who . . .
This is a direct consequence of entitlement culture. The culture that says “You need to pay for my kid”, “You need to pay for me to study a hobby in college”, “You need to fund grants that allow me to pursue my hobby,” etc., is exactly the culture that says, “I prefer getting high to working. I’ll work if I want to, and as high as I like.”
And a person has that right. You have the right to choose weed over work. But you don’t have the right to force people to then pay for your food and medicine when you predictably have no way to support yourself.
Ending entitlement culture starts with ending entitlements. People have the right to destroy their own lives; they don’t have the right to force others to shoulder the burdens of their counterproductive decisions.
Let laziness, entitlement, and bad decisionmaking be their own punishments, and to serve as examples to future generations. If elected, I will sponsor legislation to end all welfare, end all federal research and arts grants, fire as many federal “workers” as possible, end all federal tuition assistance, and eliminate all federal support of entitlement culture. Let’s embrace a culture in which hard work and responsibility are rewarded, and laziness and bad decisionmaking are no longer rewarded.
Arvin Vohra For U.S. Senate
- Posted to Facebook —
Wait, “ad hominem” Jack Quesinberry?
- Posted to Facebook —
“It’s not ad hominem when it’s true. Wasn’t he the libertarian party chair . . . .”
Except that he’s not a chair of the National party, nor of any state affiliate, from what I can tell.
So it’s still an ad hominem on your part.
“Wasn’t he the libertarian party chair that penned the op-ed about not “infringing on the freedom of speech” of white nationalists? Or was he the one involved with the MRA subreddit?”
You’re the one who insists that he’s on the side of the Aryan Airheads, do your own work and look for the evidence yourself.
“It’s so hard to keep the multitude of shitty, shitty petulant man-children associated with your party straight.”
If that’s the case, you’ll fit right in.
- Posted to Facebook —
That’s the Land of Entrapment for you!
- Posted to Facebook —
Also consider that we seem to be living in the Age of Universal Plunder — “Everybody steals from everybody else.”
- Posted to Diaspora*, Ello, Facebook [ here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here ], Minds, seen.life, Tea Party Community, Twitter, VK —
H/T Danny Bedwell
https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207762348296808&set=a.1035648111580.5464.1836788484&type=3
LISTENING / READING / WATCHING
- Disturbed —
- Believe
- Ten Thousand Fists
- Ace Books [Berkley Publishing Group] — Igniting the Reaches by David Drake
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Vol.34, #3: Autumn 2017 —
- pp. 11-12 : “Inseparable: The Intersectionality of Hacking and Politics” by “Josephus”
- pp. 13-14 : “Telecom Informer” by “The Prophet”
- p. 17 : “How to Get Nearly Free Travel from Scotrail” by “TheGeek”
- pp. 23-24 : “How to Hack Your Way to a Guilt-Free, Political Ideology” by “Eyenot”
- Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May / June 2017 —
- pp. 130-138 : “The Speed of Faith in Vacuum” by Igor Teper
- pp. 144-147 : “Vulture’s Nest” by Marissa Lingen
- Albuquerque Journal —
- Family sues after guard kills man at Whataburger by Katy Barnitz, Journal Staff Writer
- NM couple indicted in $50 million investment scheme by Nicole Perez, Journal Staff Writer
- The New York Times — Hiring Hurdle: Finding Workers Who Can Pass a Drug Test by Jackie Calmes
- Judas Priest — ’98 Live Meltdown
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