Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

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COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   After the Blue Dragon closed its doors, the location was taken by “Witch’s Brew,” offering similar culinary fare, but keeping the explicit Marxist stuff out of sight. The Witch’s Brew closed its doors a few years ago, and the building just sits there, vacant.

   https://google.com/maps/place/Witch’s+Brew/@35.1010188,-106.613381,25m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x87220b4c3b30b57b:0x8cd5582b22a7fc92!2sWitch’s+Brew!8m2!3d35.10099!4d-106.613405!3m4!1s0x87220b4c3b30b57b:0x8cd5582b22a7fc92!8m2!3d35.10099!4d-106.613405?hl=en

2. Posted to Facebook here and here —

   Mark Larkento shared a link to the group: Science, Technology & the Future.
   Friday, October 20, 2017 at 3:59am

   “Scientists and philosophers . . . had always assumed that the world worked by physical laws, and if you could measure initial conditions accurately enough, those laws would let you predict the future indefinitely. As James Gleick described it in his book Chaos: Making a New Science, this view was very wrong.”

   “There was always one small compromise, so small that working scientists usually forgot it was there, lurking in a corner of their philosophies like an unpaid bill. Measurements could never be perfect,” he wrote. “Scientists marching under Newton’s banner actually waved another flag that said something like this: Given an approximate knowledge of a system’s initial conditions and an understanding of natural law, one can calculate the approximate behaviour of the system. This assumption lay at the philosophical heart of science.”

   “Today we know how wrong this assumption was. The Three Body Problem is now recognized as a classic example of a chaotic system. Like the butterfly that causes a hurricane by flapping its wings, it is exquisitely sensitive to initial conditions. The tiniest tweak can have massive consequences down the line.”

   http://nationalpost.com/news/world/how-chinese-scientists-used-a-supercomputer-to-solver-the-ancient-puzzle-called-the-three-body-problem

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Project Veritas — Hollywood celebrities caught on hidden camera accepting money from “Middle Eastern oil interests”
2. Adult Swim [as] from the Cartoon Network [CN] —
   1. Robot Chicken
   2. Mike Tyson Mysteries
   3. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
3. Xinhua — China destroys illegal guns, explosives
4. Ten Things That Could Have Stopped the Las Vegas Massacre by J. Neil Schulman
5. Silence is Consent — WATCH: Journalist INFILTRATES Antifa, New Undercover Video Exposes EVERYTHING by Jon Anthony
6. Global Guerrillas by John Robb — THE INCREASING FREQUENCY OF BLACK SWANS
7. National Post [Canada] — How Chinese scientists used a supercomputer to solve the ancient puzzle called the Three Body Problem by Joseph Brean
8. Superversive SF — Why all the hate for Star Trek: Discovery? by “Sci Phi”
9. Ace Books [Berkley Publishing Group] — Igniting the Reaches by David Drake
10. Judas Priest — The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight (2002 reissue)
11. Dio — Master of the Moon
12. Disturbed — Believe

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   I vote to clear the bench by default every election cycle.

   https://facebook.com/Clear.the.Bench.NM/

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Adult Swim [as] from the Cartoon Network [CN] —
   1. Robot Chicken
   2. Mike Tyson Mysteries
   3. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2. Los Angeles Times — Black man who wielded flamethrower during white nationalist rally in Charlottesville is arrested by Jenny Jarvie
3. Reason — Hit & Run: Sheriff Who Ordered Aggressive Pat Downs of Students in Pointless Drug Raid Indicted for Sexual Battery by Robby Soave
4. USNI News from the U.S. Naval Institute [USNI] — Marines Solicit Science Fiction Stories to Imagine the Future of Conflict by Kelsey D. Atherton
5. Popular Science —
   1. Meet the armored soldiers and nuclear artillery of a future war that never was by Kelsey D. Atherton
   2. ISIS video shows off ‘new’ weapons based on old tech by Kelsey D. Atherton
6. Aol News — Video of alleged high school ghost leaves internet petrified by Aris Folley, AOL.com
7. nmpolitics .net — Bail reform: overdue and more to do by Leo M. Romero
8. The Washington Post — DemocracyPost: How the Russians pretended to be Texans – and Texans believed them by Casey Michel
9. Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May / June 2017 — pp. 102-111: “Ténéré” by Manny Frishberg and Edd Vick
10. Def Leppard — Retro Active
11. liberalresistance.net [LR Net] — Dan Lewis, Steve Smothermon, And Why We Can Never Vote For A Republican Again
12. Dio — Killing the Dragon
13. Target Books — Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen by Terrance Dicks
14. Terminal Lance by Maximilian Uriarte — #495 Postpartum”
15. Spaceflight Insider [SFI] — GAO: Even with production resumed, NASA plutonium supply at risk by Bart Leahy

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. John Wick: Chapter 2
2. The New American Article V Con-Con Proponents Want to “Clarify” the Second Amendment by Steve Byas
3. Tor Books [Tom Doherty Associates] — Homecoming by John Dalmas
4. Def Leppard —
   1. Pyromania
   2. Hysteria
   3. Adrenalize
   4. Retro Active
5. Judas Priest —
   1. Metal Works ’73 – ’93
   2. Jugulator
6. The Libertarian Enterprise — Number 944, 15 October 2017
7. Vertigo Comics — Fables

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, and here —

   Another good one from the Carlsbad Current-Argus!

   It seems that Eddy County Magistrate Court Judge Henry Castaneda was playing on the internet using State-owned equipment (reading and forwarding emails with “‘offensive, degrading, pornographic, racist and sexist’ content”), got busted, and now the NM Judicial Standards Commission wants him bounced from the bench.

   Aren’t Democrats supposed to be the ones who are against racism, sexism, and Islamophobia?

   If Castaneda had read and forwarded those emails on — get this radical, whacked-out concept — a PERSONALLY-OWNED computer instead of one issued to him by the State of New Mexico, this most likely would not have happened.

   https://currentargus.com/story/news/2017/10/11/new-mexico-judicial-standards-commission-recommends-removal-judge-henry-castaneda/754328001/

   http://lamonitor.com/content/eddy-county-magistrate-judge-removal-sought-over-emails

   http://kob.com/new-mexico-news/petition-filed-remove-carlsbad-judge-henry-castaneda-bench/4632363/

   https://usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2017-10-12/eddy-county-magistrate-judge-removal-sought-over-emails

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Libre Office opens and saves to Microshit file formats. I’ve been using it and its predecessor, Open Office, since June, 2004 (back then I downloaded Open Office over a 24k-28.8k connection — took me all night long).

   http://libreoffice.org

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

   H/T the Patriots for Freedom and Firearms Facebook page
   https://facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1660383390658830&id=724347924262386

   Feel The Liberty
   Friday, October 13, 2017 at 8:54pm

   

4. Posted to Facebook —

   Thank you for the input!

5. Posted to Facebook —

   What we need here at Clear The Bench NM is specific information on New Mexico judges as to WHY they need to go — case cites, what’s so bad about their decisions, courtroom misconduct, that sort of stuff.

   Priority will be given to documented and verified material.

6. Posted to Facebook —

   Don’t like the post? Lead by example then — get off your dead ass and show the rest of us how it’s done.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Overkill — The Grinding Wheel
2. The Los Alamos Monitor — Eddy County magistrate judge removal sought over emails
3. Carlsbad Current-Argus — NM Judicial Standards Commission recommends removal of Judge Henry Castañeda by DeJanay Booth
4. KOB 4 Eyewitness News — Petition filed to remove Carlsbad judge from the bench
5. U.S. News & World Report — Eddy County Magistrate Judge Removal Sought Over Emails
6. The Federalist Papers Project — Bump-Stock Ban Bill Makes Possession Retroactively Illegal – That Means Confiscation by Seth Connell
7. Tor Books [Tom Doherty Associates] — Homecoming by John Dalmas
8. Albuquerque Journal — Capitol Beat: Ex-National Guard boss joins GOP race to succeed Pearce by Dan McKay, Journal Staff Writer
9. The Des Moines Register — Dakota Access pipeline had right to take Iowa land, judge rules by Kevin Hardy
10. Judas Priest — Metal Works ’73 – ’93
11. The Objective Standard [TOS] — How Would Government Be Funded in a Free Society? by Craig Biddle
12. Lessons in Liberty by Brody Reifenberg — Why Establishment Libertarian Party People Hate on Hoppe

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, and here —

   One down already, before CTBNM has raised any money, set up a real website, or anything!

   http://krqe.com/2017/10/12/new-mexico-judge-resigns-after-allegedly-stealing-from-a-dead-man/

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Pamela Smith makes the Albuquerque Journal!

   https://abqjournal.com/1077120/sierra-county-judge-resigns-amid-fraud-investigation.html

3. Posted to Facebook —

   Is the STD still transmissible to others?

   If so, then failure to disclose is at least a form of fraud, especially if the partner in question asked about STDs.

   Why is this even a question?

4. Posted to Facebook —

   I’ve heard about this particular bit of insanity from a sane friend who lives in the San Francisco area.

   KKKalifornia is a clusterfuck in so many other ways.

5. Posted to Facebook —

   My own way of fucking with the “progressive” types a bit, that’s all.

6. Posted to Facebook —

   ^ THIS

7. Posted to Facebook —

   If they’re passing diseases on to other people in the process of those sexual acts, YES.

8. Posted to Facebook —

   If you’re a bugchaser or don’t mind getting infected with an STD, that’s on you.

   If I got infected with an STD because a partner didn’t feel like telling me about it, I’d be extremely pissed.

9. Posted to Facebook —

   How so?

10. Posted to Facebook —

    Welcome to the Libertarian Bigots Club, Jason!

11. Posted to Facebook —

    If a man passes a disease on to a woman, that’s causing an injury, and a NAP violation, just as much as man-on-man transmission of the disease.

    If a woman passes the disease on to a man, that’s also causing an injury, and NAP violation (waiting for you to call that “misogyny” on my part).

    If bugchasers voluntarily sign up to be infected, that’s on them.

    The NAP violation occurs when you infect someone who doesn’t want to be infected.

12. Posted to Facebook —

    I’ll take the above label of me as a “bigot” as a compliment.

13. Posted to Facebook —

    For those who think that failure to disclose an infectious STD to a potential sex partner is “NAP compliant,” and that I’m a “bigot” for suggesting otherwise, I recommend a 2016 / 2017 “Libertarian” version of Orwell’s “Two Minute Hate” from 1984:

    Face your bathroom mirror holding your Johnson-Weld yard sign and scream “GARY! GARY! GARY GARY!” for as long as you can keep it up.

    The fact remains that bugchasers are minority of minorities of the LGBTQ community, and that most people, regardless of sexual proclivities, don’t want to be infected with STDs if they can avoid it.

    For those that ARE OK with being infected, that’s on them.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Mozilla — Firefox Quantum
2. Newsweek — U.S. Military Sends Troops to Russian Border, Officials Say They Want ‘Peace, Not War’ With Russia by Tom O’Connor
3. Open Culture by Dan Coleman — Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in its Original Ancient Language, Akkadian
4. American Greatness — Conservatives Need to Stop Indulging Leftist Narratives by Deion Kathawa
5. The New York Times Magazine — The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California’s Wildfires by Jaime Lowe
6. On the Banks by Bretigne Shaffer — Michael Owen Nails the Gun Debate
7. KRQE News 13 TV [CBS affilate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — New Mexico judge resigns after allegedly stealing from a dead man by KRQE News 13 and Rebecca Atkins
8. Tor Books [Tom Doherty Associates] — Homecoming by John Dalmas
9. Project Veritas —
   1. American Pravda, NYT: Slanting the News and a Bizarre Comey Connection
   2. American Pravda, NYT Part II: Exploiting Social Media and Manipulating the News
   3. James O’Keefe Responds to NYT Executive Editor Calling Veritas “Despicable”
10. Albuquerque Journal — Probate judge resigns to avoid state discipline by Katy Barnitz, Journal Staff Writer
11. Judas Priest — Painkiller
12. Overkill — The Grinding Wheel