Month: June 2010

  • Random Commentary for 29 June 2010

    1. Posted to Liz Michael’s Facebook page
      I wouldn’t see a problem if you did have wild orgies every night — if everyone’s a consenting adult, it’s nobody’s business but the participants’. Freedom’s the answer — what’s the question?


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  • The Weekly Sedition Returns to ABQ Ch.27

    Current mood: happy, productive

    Starting Thursday, July 1st, at 8PM, The Weekly Sedition returns to Albuquerque Comcast Channel 27.

    Your cordial host will be myself, Mike Blessing, with Bill Koehler behind the camera running the technical side of things.


    NOTES
    1. Reposted —
      1. Personal blogs — Blogspot / LiveJournal / Myspace / Tumblr / WordPress
      2. KCUF Media — Blogspot / Myspace / Xanga
      3. New Mexico Liberty / The BTPNM Blog / The LPNM Blog / Mike Blessing for State Representative

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  • Random Commentary for 19 June 2010

    1. Re: The 100-Word Challenge
      Exactly who should be the standard-setter concerning which bits of information are or aren’t “reliable” ?

      Or is that a decision that each and every one of us has to make for ourselves?


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  • Random Commentary for 18 June 2010

    1. I posted a comment to John Ennis’ profile page on newmexicoliberty.com —
      Hey, John — Glad to see you here! There’s one of your fellow jarheads living in Santa Fe that you’ve just gotta meet one of these days — maybe at next year’s LP State Convention . . . ?

    2. I like the line Scott added to this one — “Apocalypse no.”
      via Scott Bieser

    3. Just watched the video titled Collateral Murder about the 12 July 2007 airstrike in Baghdad

    4. Re: Tom Mullins — Landmines on the (U.S.—Mexican) Border
      While the armed forces comprise 56 percent of discretionary spending, they only make up about 25 percent of the total budget —


      I agree that American forces are overly used abroad — Iraq and the “AfPak” theater are just the biggest examples. The predominate doctrine in “defense” circles these days revolves around the “power projection” concept —
      the capacity of a state to conduct expeditionary warfare, i.e. to intimidate other nations and implement policy by means of force, or the threat thereof, in an area distant from its own territory.

      The Pentagon has had its collective head up its power-projecting posterior since the end of WWII. I don’t (realistically) see an end to this idiocy any time soon.


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  • Shifty Self-Promotion WILL Bite You in the End

    Current mood: amused

    Subject : Filmtub
    From    : ShamelesslyRed

    I hate Xangan drama. Sometimes however, it’s a necessary evil. For all of you who don’t know, then this is your heads up. A certain blogger of movie reviews is creating mass Xanga accounts to rec his own posts to shove himself to top blogs. The fact alone that he does this, deserves a public reprimand from our community. He does not deserve a slot on the front page of Xanga. His peers are not sending him there by overwhelming support and approval of his writing, but he sends himself there by rec’ing and commenting his own posts. He should have our pity for doing such a thing, and our collective rebuke.

    Fwd : from buddly47:

    All of his created troll sites are friend locked or brand new accounts with no posts or comments except comments from him. And their user names are ones I don’t think any of us will recognize.

    Let’s get him taken down?

    His latest entry is here.

    http://filmtub.xanga.com/728723434/american-pie-presents-beta-house-2007/?cref=topblogs

    The other day he was no. 3 on top blogs with 49 rec’s. 44 of them were from his own troll sites. WTF?

    Thanks Buddly for the heads up!
    ~Red~

    I think that in the end, “filmtub” will get tired of logging in and out of 40-50 different accounts, each with its own username and password.

    To set each of those accounts up, “filmtub” had to have a distinct email address. Now this can be done with Gmail, Yahoo! or Hotmail, but still, it’s a lot of headache, considering the meager returns.

    Another way “filmtub” could do it is to have a separate computer for each account, in addition to a separate email address and password. This way, “filmtub” wouldn’t have to spend the time logging in and out of each account. But in this case, the extra space required, the extra expense on the electric bill, the additional heat all of these machines would generate . . . .

    Or “filmtub” could pay unemployed college students to set up these accounts and post the requisite comments. That seems to be the way that message board spammers get around the CAPTCHA requirements.

    No matter how it’s being done, I think “filmtub” will soon return to more lucrative ventures, like sending out email spams for penis-enlargement pills, “r0llex” watches and the like. Why? Blogging is a “pull” type of marketing, where you have to entice the prospective reader to click the link and read the page, whereas email spamming is a “push” type of advertising, where the message ends up in the recipient’s inbox regardless of their wishes. Much as people complain about spammers, they must be making some money off it, or they wouldn’t do it.


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  • The 100-Word Challenge

    Current mood: amused

    New Mexico Turn Around posts a challenge for the rest of us

    CHALLENGE: In 100 words suggest a solution for the economic mess toward which we head.

    Oh, really?

    Here’s my response — let’s see if I actually need the full 100 words . . .

    1. Cut spending across the board — no special handouts for anyone.
    2. Cut taxes across the board — no special breaks for anyone.
    3. Repeal regulations across the board — no special breaks for anyone.
    4. Repeal bad, wasteful laws across the board — no special breaks for anyone.
    5. Bring the troops home from Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere else.
    6. Return to a sound money system (gold? silver?) for government transactions.
    7. Repeal legal tender laws.
    8. Repeal any law repugnant to the written U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights.

    I count 80 words.

    And I dared to use That Word Which Shall Not Be Uttered In Contemporary Politics — “repeal” — not just once, but four times! Shame on me!


    NOTES
    1. Original posting
    2. Reposted —
      1. Personal blogs — Blogspot / LiveJournal / Myspace / Tumblr / WordPress / Xanga
      2. KCUF Media — Myspace / Xanga / Blogspot
      3. New Mexico Liberty / The BTPNM Blog / The LPNM Blog / Mike Blessing for State Representative

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  • Random Commentary for 17 June 2010

    1. Re: Tom Mullins — Landmines on the (U.S.—Mexican) Border
      Why is the military complex and our occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan never mentioned on this blog?

      I think you answered your own question in the preceding sentences (not that I disagree at all) —

      (1) Republicans in NM are not willing to accept the ‘ex-vet against the war’ positioning (see John Kerry)
      (2) NM is very dependent on the federal dollar spent in this state on military. Kirkland, after all, is the state’s number one employer.

      On your point (1), I think that the big-government hawks of the GOP let Larry Bailey and Co. conduct a Swift Boat-type smear campaign against Adam. Since Mullins gave every appearance (to me, at least) of being quite eager to jump on board the smear campaign, while he says he’s not part of the GOP Machine, he’s doing its bidding, and thus deserves the title of Coggie (see above).

      Thus Mullins seems (again, to me) to be quite content to be an unwitting Coggie, and I cannot in good conscience extend the slightest increment of support to the Mullins Campaign.

    2. Posted to Facebook
      Isn’t repelling invasions a big part of what the Second Amendment is all about? Let’s not look to Washington DC for answers — that’s a big part of how the “border problem” got started in the first place. If we cleaned out the District of Criminals, ended the welfare state and ended Drug Prohibition, the “border problem” would cease being any sort of problem.

      Freedom is the answer — what’s the question?


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  • Tom Mullins — Landmines on the (U.S.–Mexican) Border

    Posted to Facebook
    Way to go, Tom Mullins!

    GOP House Candidate Tom Mullins: Consider Land Mines on Border with Mexico But NOT Canada (Audio)

    Landmines on the border, to stop immigrants?

    Here he attempts to clarify this a bit — Mullins clarifies land mines comment

    Now he said in the KOB interview that he’s not advocating this himself, but was suggested by someone he met on the campaign trail.

    Still, if you go to the archived audio clip, it does sound at first as though Mullins himself is advocating this very sort of thing —

    I think well they need to enforce the law. I actually have a couple of ideas and I received these ideas. We talk about a border fence, and really what we get down to is, it’s very difficult to have a fence and have that work. But we have some low-cost, low-tech solutions, and I know it sounds crazy, but we used to have land mines. I know it sounds like a crazy thing, but if we wanted to stop, if we have an attack on the United States, if we have a nuclear attack and we find that they carried the nuclear weapon and the people that harmed us came across the border and we say we have got to secure the border, we could put land mines along the border. I know it sounds crazy, we could put up signs in 23 different languages if necessary . . . .

    Now, later on in that clip, he does say that he doesn’t actually want to use land mines, and that the National Labs can cook up another low-tech, low-cost means to secure the border, but come on now, how many millions will they spend on developing it?

    Am I supposed to believe that some future Administration won’t fall back upon the land-mine idea as just the sort of low-cost, low-tech solution? After all, back in 1996, we saw an 18-year-old boy (Esequiel Hernandez) who was herding goats, shot dead by a Marine Corps counter-drug patrol because of the .22-LR rifle that he carried. Between that, the whitewash and coverup investigation of the Waco Massacres of 28 February and 19 April 1993, and plenty of other incidents along those lines, why should anyone trust a Republican of the Lincoln-Roosevelt mold?

    We saw just how well the Republican-majority U.S. House members exercised their oversight duties in 1998 looking into the Waco debacle, didn’t we? They didn’t dig too deeply simply because they knew that they would need the Democrats to return the favor and go easy on their Administrations’ . . . indiscretions of using federal power. We saw some of those indiscretions from 2001 through 2009, first at Rainbow Farm, then Afghanistan, then Iraq, the USA-PATRIOT Act of 2001, etc., etc.

    What really stymies me is that the clown clique behind Mullins [1] keeps pushing the idea that things will improve “when our people take the reins of power.”

    The fact remains that they had those reins of power in the Congress from 1995 until 2007, and in the White House from 2001 until 2009. How much did they actually shrink the reach and intrusiveness of Washington DC? How much did they lessen the costs of Washington DC upon us?


    NOTES
    1. I know that Mullins says that he’s not part of the GOP Machine, but is the gear in your wind-up alarm clock cognizant of the other gears in the clock, and the other parts that make the hands go around, the alarm go off, and such?
    2. Reposted —
      1. Personal blogs — Blogspot / Myspace / New Mexico Liberty / Tumblr / WordPress

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  • Random Commentary for 16 June 2010

    1. Re: Susana Martinez In NY Times
      Logic begs the question, “What is a non-aggressive stance” on social issues?

      See my previous posts on various social issues — the non-aggression principle.

    2. Posted to Facebook
      Way to go, Tom Mullins!

      GOP House Candidate Tom Mullins: Consider Land Mines on Border with Mexico But NOT Canada (Audio)

      Landmines on the border, to stop immigrants?


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  • Random Commentary for 15 June 2010

    1. The Intelligence2 Debate — Stephen Fry (Unedited)

    2. Re: Spill Response Not About Oil, But Snake Oil
      Why not plug the leaking hole with Federal Reserve Notes and Treasury securities? The Obamanoids are going to print them by the dumptruck-full anyway; we might as well put them to good use.

    3. Re: Changing New Mexico’s Culture of Corruption — New Mexico Liberty / New Mexico Watchdog
      Point 3-A — In addition to giving more resources to the State Auditor, the Open Meetings Act needs to be beefed up to open conference committees in the Legislature, as well as explicitly allowing citizens to take their own camcorders into any session of the Legislature. If the legislators don’t like that, that’s too bad — while they’re in session, any photon bouncing off of them goes into the public domain. Same goes for any sound vibration coming from their person. If they don’t want to go on record, they shouldn’t run for election to public office.

    4. More on the abiotic theory of hydrocarbon generation
      Here’s the Theory for you to ponder true or nutty:
      More on the mystery of the origins of gas

    5. Re: Springfield XD pistol is “made in America” —
      It’s actually made in Croatia and imported by Springfield Armory, Inc. But that’s OK — almost all innovation these days in handgun design has moved from America to central-eastern Europe. Which is NOT what I would expect, considering that almost all of these countries (Germany, Austria, etc.) have gun laws that make California’s look rather benign by comparison.

      The “XD” moniker is simply Springfield Armory Inc.’s marketing name for the HS2000


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