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Today in history

Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Facebook –

   Try owning an AR-15 or AK-47 type rifle in California, New York, Massachusetts, or New Jersey (especially the urban areas) before lecturing others about “tolerance” and “letting other people be,” OK?

2. Posted to Facebook –

   My guns, my choice.

   My money, my choice.

   My diet, my choice.

   My books, my choice.

   Ad infinitum.

3. Posted to Facebook –

   Governments don’t have rights, only individuals have rights. Governments have specific powers delegated to them by their constituents.

4. Posted to Facebook –

   As for what “1488” means to the Aryan Airheads —

   1. The “14” is short for “14 words” —

      https://duckduckgo.com/?t=disconnect&x=%2Fhtml&q=14+words
      https://ixquick.com/do/search?q=14+words
      https://startpage.com/do/search?q=14+words

      “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

   2. The “88” serves a double meaning — “H” is the 8th letter of the Latin / English alphabet, so “88” stands in for “HH” as in “Heil Hitler,” as well as David Lane’s “88 Precepts” —

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_Precepts

5. nmpolitics.net – Re: Gun-safety group was top spender among Roundhouse lobbyists in 2016 –

   “The biggest spender among lobbyists in New Mexico last year was not employed by an oil company or a tobacco company or a mining company. Instead, it was a New York-based advocacy group for gun safety that spent $219,500.

   “The reports, filed this week with the Secretary of State’s Office, show that Pedro Morillas, regional director for Everytown for Gun Safety,”

   If “Everytown for Gun Safety” was truly about promoting firearms safety, they would offer training where people could learn how to handle, use, carry and store firearms in a safe manner.

   Instead, that sort of training is offered by the outfit that “Everytown for Gun Safety” complains about on a regular basis as The Scourge Of America — the National Rifle Association of America.

   While “Everytown for Gun Safety” could be offering firearms training, all they do instead is lobby governmental bodies in the name of restricting the inherent individual, civil, Constitutional right of Americans to own and carry weapons. The Constitution doesn’t give anyone that right — the right is a pre-existing one, accorded to everyone at birth as a matter of being born as a sapient (self-aware) entity.

   White, black, Latin, Asian, or Native, gay, straight or bi, cis or trans, male or female, Christian, Jew, Hindu, pagan or Muslim — the Second Amendment doesn’t discriminate.

   Copied to Facebook here, here, and here

6. Posted to Facebook –

   Funny how conservatives and libertarians didn’t behave anything like this on 20 January 2009 or 20 January 2013.

   And there are people in the LP that want to not only look to these people for “common cause,” but recruit them to the LP and run them as candidates.

7. Posted to Facebook –

   John Parrott — How does the tax collection agency know whether or not the object being sold is new or not?

8. Posted to Facebook –

   From the original post [ https://facebook.com/groups/259892904054714/permalink/1295515010492493/ ] —

   “Libertarians are isolationists”

   This sort of slander and libel has been aimed at the LP since the LP was founded in December, 1971.

   Isolationism is the Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall across Britain, Imperial China between 1757 and 1840, and the Japanese Shogunate between 1635 and 1853.

   Libertarians aren’t isolationists, but *non-interventionists* (there’s a difference — look it up, you can’t expect me to do your work for you), as in we don’t want America to run the lives of the 7,181,000,000 non-Americans around the world.

   Comments like these make me ashamed to be part Polish, and are a data point in support of the Polish jokes in the 15 or so volumes of the Truly Tasteless Jokes series.

9. Posted to Facebook –

   https://gunsafetyrules.nra.org/

   https://firearmtraining.nra.org/

   https://mqp.nra.org/

   http://nrainstructors.org/

   https://rso.nra.org/

   https://coach.nra.org/

   https://onlinetraining.nra.org/

   https://eddieeagle.nra.org/

   And that’s just what’s on the NRA site.

   Here’s a list of the instructors certified by the State to teach the concealed carry course:

   http://www.dps.state.nm.us/index.php/nm-concealed-carry/ccw-instructors/

10. Posted to Facebook –

    We received it loud and clear here in New Mexico, after repeated infiltration attempts by the Greens in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

    The 2016 Gary Johnson campaign was actively trying to recruit these types, purely for short-term gain (boosting the membership rolls and such). Had to kick a guy off our FB page recently because he thought that he should have carte blanche access to post anti-DAPL material there (we’re in New Mexico, he lives in San Francisco, the DAPL site is in North Dakota, and he can’t figure out why that sort of nonsense isn’t wanted on our page).

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Kim Stanley Robinson – Green Mars
2. Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005 / 2006
3. Albuquerque Journal – GOP legislator, party boss square off outside Bull Ring by Dan Boyd and Chris Quintana
4. nmpolitics.net –

        Chief justice: State’s judicial system ‘is on life support’ by Phaedra Haywood, The Santa Fe New Mexican

        Gun-safety group was top spender among Roundhouse lobbyists in 2016 by Steve Terrell, The Santa Fe New Mexican

        The Land of Enchantment can’t stand by Scott Pruitt as EPA administrator by Christopher Ramirez and Demis Foster

        State budget relief may place burden on schools, fire departments by Andrew Oxford, The Santa Fe New Mexican

5. Forward Observer – Battle Track the Inauguration SITREP 1830E by Samuel Culper
6. Motherboard at Vice – All References to Climate Change Have Been Deleted From the White House Website by Jason Koebler
7. Terminal Lance by Maximilian Uriarte – “Inauguration 2017”

Today in history

Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Facebook –

   I was wondering when the Political Classholes would pull the “firefighters first” trick to avoid spending cuts of any kind.

   Why can’t they make up the difference from LEDA, the film subsidies, “renewable energy” subsidies, oil and gas subsidies, the legislators’ pension fund?

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Andromeda
2. Albuquerque Journal – UNM tries to levy ‘free speech fine,’ GOP group says by Chris Quintana
3. Forward Observer – FO Podcast Episode 053 – Reader Mailbag with John Mosby
4. Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005 / 2006
5. Liberty Viral – Libertarians are Liberty’s Worst Nightmare by Crystal Byrd
6. Washington Examiner – Boom: Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers by Paul Bedard
7. Vox – Liberals and libertarians should unite to block Trump’s extremism by Brink Lindsey
8. Terminal Lance by Maximilian Uriarte – #363 “Boot(Camp) Stories”

Today in history

Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Facebook –

   SO TRIGGERED OMG have 2 oragnize a proetest merch[/sarc]

   Don’t look at me — Elisheva didn’t close the sarcasm tag.

2. Posted to Facebook –

   Why don’t the “leftists” and “progressives” ever refer to stabbings as “knife violence” ?

   Why don’t they refer to attacks with baseball bats, pry bars, hammers, or pieces of rebar or pipe as “blunt object violence” ?

   Why don’t they refer to hit-and run attacks with vehicles as “automotive violence” ?

   The very phrase “gun violence” is designed to make people think of firearms as only good for criminal activity.

3. Posted to Facebook –

   For those looking for alternatives to Facebook, here are my profiles on Diaspora*, Minds and seen.life —

   http://diasp.org/people/797c4c40d5020132c71100259069449e

   http://minds.com/mikewb1971

   http://seen.life/profile/mikewb1971

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Andromeda
2. Kim Stanley Robinson – Green Mars
3. Helloween –

        Gambling with the Devil

        Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005 / 2006

4. Audio Of Protest Group’s Plans To Disrupt Trump Inauguration
5. Entertainment Weekly – Donald Trump: Star Trek’s J.J. Abrams, Chris Pine sign letter opposing candidate by Nick Romano
6. EveryJoe – Lines of Departure: Dear Rosie . . . or Why Rosie O’Donnell Really Shouldn’t Want Martial Law by Tom Kratman
7. Project Veritas – Part I: Undercover investigation exposes groups plotting criminal activity at Trump inauguration
8. Observer –The Clinton Foundation Shuts Down Clinton Global Initiative by Michael Sainato
9. Stroker & Hoop

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Today in history

Comments I’ve posted

1. Posted to Facebook –
   1. Helloween from a USB stick through the car stereo.
   2. Been semi-binge-watching Andromeda (usually 4 episodes a day) lately.
   3. Also working my way through Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. He does OK on the physics, but the rest is unintentional comedy.
2. Posted to Facebook –

   https://facebook.com/events/563463163847561/

3. Posted to Facebook –

   Second-to-last sentence of the article —

   “Unfortunately, it’s not available for civilian use.”

   The statutory provisions that prohibit civilian possession of these (and the bigger M134 it was derived from) — the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Hughes Amendment of 1986, etc., — are completely contrary to the explicit written sentiments of the Founders who drafted the Second Amendment.

4. Posted to Facebook –

   There are three small-l libertarian meet-and-greet groups that I know of in Albuquerque —

   https://facebook.com/ABQLibertyForum/

   https://meetup.com/Albuquerque-L-libertarian-anarcho-Meetup/

   https://facebook.com/libertyontapABQ/

   From what I’ve been told, others are in the works in Los Lunas, Farmington, Los Alamos, Portales, Clovis, Artesia, Las Cruces, and Rio Rancho.

   If there isn’t one in Chama, feel free to start your own. Send me the details (location, date, time, etc.) and I’ll get it posted.

5. Posted to Facebook –

   http://kabq.com/

   “This premium domain name may be listed for sale or lease”

   

6. Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here –

   There are three meet-and-greet groups and one radio show that cater to small-l libertarians that we know of in Albuquerque —

   Albuquerque Liberty Forum — 2nd Thursday of the month at the Frontier (2400 Central SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico)

   https://facebook.com/ABQLibertyForum/

   Albuquerque L/libertarian/anarcho* Meetup

   https://meetup.com/Albuquerque-L-libertarian-anarcho-Meetup/

   Liberty on Tap — 2nd Wednesday of each month at Kaktus Brewing Co. (2929 Monte Vista NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico)

   https://facebook.com/libertyontapABQ/

   Living Liberty — Saturdays at 1 PM on The Rock of Talk (1600 AM / 95.9 FM)

   https://facebook.com/libertyontapABQ/

7. Posted to Facebook –

   So when you come to us to take away our guns, Dirk, make sure to carry a dildo in each hand, OK ?

   Or will that be a dildo in one hand and a bong in the other?

8. Posted to Facebook –

   So, Dirk, you really want to take away all of the firearms in the United States owned by private-sector civilians?

   Let’s take a look at what that would entail —

   http://combatshootingandtactics.com/published/2nd_amen.pdf

   CSM Paul Howe (the author of that article) was an assaulter with “Delta Force” during the “Blackhawk Down” incident in Somalia back in 1993. When he wasn’t blowing in doors with explosive charges and clearing rooms, he was either training to do it or training others to do it as his full-time occupation.

9. Posted to Facebook –

   Now let’s take a look at the current stats on the United States —

   1. America has 12,000 miles of basically unenforceable borders and coastlines. Law enforcement only stops about five percent of the drugs being smuggled into the country. And read your headlines for the GOP caterwauling about illegal immigrants — “they’re stealing our jobs! they’re all rapists and murderers!” Yet supposedly there’s 11 million of them already inside the country.

      When the powers that be outlaw a commodity that’s in demand, whether it’s unsanctioned drugs or unsanctioned labor, someone will find a way to make money in satisfying that demand. Outlawing guns will simply allow organized crime, whether it’s the Mafia that was supposedly wiped out, the biker gangs or the street gangs, to get further into the weapons market.

   2. America has the world’s largest amount of firearms already in the civilian sector. F-Troop estimates that number to be around 300-320 million. Other estimates push the number as much as twice or three times the official estimate.
   3. America has the world’s largest supply of precision machine tools. I read a comment posted to an article by a machinist that said it wouldn’t matter if guns were illegal — all he needed was time and metal, and he could make any weapon he wanted.
   4. 60-70 percent of American military and law enforcement personnel are supportive of the Second Amendment, and either libertarian or conservative leaning. These are the people you will insist conduct for you the confiscation raids that CSM Howe talked about in the article linked to above. Because we both know that you don’t have what it takes, right?
   5. In the states where restrictive laws have been implemented, compliance is spotty at best. Connecticut insisted that “assault weapon” owners register them after the Sandy Hook massacre — only five percent or so actually did, and state government there gave up insisting that everyone register them after it turned out that 68% of Connecticut’s cops would be among those required to register.
   6. Most of America’s food production areas (“Flyover Country” is what Frau Reichsecretary Hillary’s friends call it) is decidely pro-gun. Are you prepared and willing to raise your own vegetables, grain, beef, fish, pork, chickens?

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Kim Stanley Robinson – Green Mars
2. Helloween – Gambling with the Devil
3. The Firearm Blog – POTD: Weird Franken-Gun In Pickup Truck Gun Rack by Nicholas C.
4. Terminal Lance by Maximilian Uriarte – “Confirmed Badass”
5. Comedy Central – South Park
6. HiConsumption – XM556 Handheld Microgun by Mike Waldron
7. Andromeda

Notes from Life, Etc.

1. Went to the Chat over coffee event sponsored by the Albuquerque L/libertarian/anarcho* Meetup at the Fans of Film Cafe (504 Yale SE in Albuquerque)

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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, and here –

   Arvin Vohra
   Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 2:27 am

   Things that are worse than rudeness, private sexist comments, public sexist comments, and opposition to illegal immigration:

   1. Bombing children in other countries.
   2. The War on Drugs.
   3. Stealing from working people to support Wall Street.
   4. Stealing from working people to support indefinite detention.
   5. Stealing from working people to support indefinite welfare.
   6. Spying on American citizens without a warrant.

   Democrats: things that affect you minorly are not more heinous than things that affect other people majorly. Your hurt feelings are not worse than someone else’s incinerated child. Your feeling rejected is not worse than someone else being robbed by the government to support torture and war.

   Your current attempts to grant political correctness higher moral value than rights to life, safety, and property are insane.

   The evils of insulting people are nowhere near on par with the evils of bombing them. The fact that you find political incorrectness more distasteful than using government to kill, rob, kidnap, and torture just shows how ludicrous your values have become.

   When Trump takes over bombing children and hospitals, will you attack that? Will you attack him for locking people up for victimless crimes? Will you fight the most serious abuses of big Republican government?

   Or will you continue in this fantasy world in which insults carry more significance than killing?

   In Puzzlement,

   Arvin Vohra
   Author
   Why Hillary Lost

2. Posted to Facebook –

   I take it that rape victims such as Juanita Broaddrick won’t be listed among the featured speakers?

   I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Target Books – Doctor Who: The Dalek Masterplan, Part II — The Mutation of Time by John Peel
2. Mises Daily Articles by – What If Public Schools Were Abolished? by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
3. The Intercept – The Crimes of SEAL Team 6 by Matthew Cole
4. Bon Jovi – Cross Road
5. Bret Michaels – Rock My World
6. nmpolitics.net – How I got started with the Women’s March on Washington Albuquerque Rally – and how you can, too by Felicity McCollum
7. Europe – Out of This World
8. Kim Stanley Robinson – Green Mars

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