1. Re: Adam Kokesh body slammed, choked, police brutality at Jefferson Memorial –

   CyberWiz Beezer said:
   

   Oh he’s nutty… In a fun way. He sure had fun with the last election.
   But WTH is a Ramadan Muslim? Only a Muslim during Ramadan?

   He was having fun with the hysteria stirred up by Pamela Geller et al over the Park51 “Ground Zero Mosque.”

2. Re: Adam Kokesh body slammed, choked, police brutality at Jefferson Memorial –

   CyberWiz Beezer said:
   

   Also, why is everyone so against libertarians?

   I’ve been wondering that one myself. Especially since the GOP sent me tons of unsolicited emails in the 2010 election season. It seems that they were more than happy to accept my cash and votes, but didn’t have much time for principles that I was willing to expend those cash and votes to support.

   I will say that I was apparently wrong about Susana – she’s doing a lot better than I suspected she would back during the campaign. As for the rest . . .
   

   I like ‘em and consider myself borderline. What about Glenn Beck and John Stossel? I don’t agree with everything they say, but pretty much. I agree with Ron Paul on a lot of stuff too, however, he slips off his cracker too much.

   Stossel is cool. So is Judge Napolitano. Neil Cavuto is borderline small-l libertarian. And that about sums up my watching TV for news and political commentary. Can’t be bothered with Fox News “proper,” MSNBC, CNN, and the rest.

3. Re: Right to Life N.M. pulls its endorsement of Alamogordo anti-abortion billboard –

   Apparently it’s not entirely established that an abortion actually took place in this instance – a comment posted to the original article –
   

   There is documented proof that this was a mis-carriage.

4. Posted to Elisheva Levin’s Facebook Wall –

   I remember how the “left” was comparing Obama to JFK back in 2009. Funny how Obama has turned into a 21st century LBJ. Now he just needs to finish the job.

   http://youtu.be/xRl1wfbi4L8

5. Posted to the New Mexico Libertarians Facebook group –
   1. I take two days off from the internet and come back to a shitstorm – thanks!

      As for “the Jews control everything” and “the Jewish interests,” maybe I should convert and then get my cut, hmmm?

      In the posting about “Jewish ownership of the media,” I’d bet that there are plenty of “Christians” involved in those companies as well – from the bottom all the way to the boardroom. Should I take that as an indictment of Christianity and Christians as well?

   2. “But I am going to find out whether or not THIS PARTICULAR platform is supported by LPNM (the LPNM logo is on it)because I seriously doubt that those who support with LPNM with their money and time want to sponsor discussions that devolve from libertarian ideals and principles into mindless racism that is being passed off as a discussion of ideas.”

      I set this group up way, way back when to be the LPNM’s presence on Facebook. It doesn’t have the official support of the LPNM, but has been the de facto LPNM Facebook group.

      This “Jews run everything” nonsense got old ten, fifteen years ago. I suggest that its purveyors move it somewhere else. Where? I don’t care, so long as it’s not a group that I run. Do I need to take administrative action as this group’s creator and owner?

   3. Ed – potheads are like everyone else: some just are looking for self-gratification, others have principles.
   4. If I were to dump my principles, I’d sign up as a Democrat and get a cushy State job with 40K annual salary, guaranteed pension from PERA, take-home car and all the internet porn I could watch counting paperclips. Maybe if collected enough signatures for the candidate du jour, I could get promoted to Paperclip Straightener . . .
   5. “that the media is controlled by the Jewish culture. It always has been and still is.”

      If it wasn’t for Judaism, there wouldn’t be any Christianity, as the latter started off as a sect of the former. Therefore any “Christian” culture should be considered as being derived, at least in part, from Judaic culture. What I don’t get is how this is bad in and of itself.

      When someone in media puts out content that I don’t approve of, I don’t worry about their ancestry or religion. I simply address the content itself. That’s the sort of thing I want to see here.

      This sort of thought spits in the face of Jews who have been on the side of Liberty – Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, Aaron Zelman, Haym Solomon, and now, Elisheva Levin. As such, I’d prefer NOT to see such “blame the group” rhetoric posted here.

6. Re: Right to Life N.M. pulls its endorsement of Alamogordo anti-abortion billboard –

   William (Bill) S. English said:
   

   Actually Mike, the girl who is actually named Nani had a miscarriage. I know this little bastard well enough to want to hang him myself and for reasons that don’t involve the billboard, but the bill board is going to hang him anyway.

   Yeah, I saw that in the article and attached comments. NOT someone I’d care to associate with.

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. The Universe

2. Top Gear (UK series)

3. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies

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1. Posted to Elisheva Levin’s Facebook Wall –

   Apparently Obama thinks he doesn’t need the support of American Jews who voted for and contributed to and volunteered for him in 2008. Like Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod.

   The “silver lining” of his idiotic comments about Israel going back to pre-Six-Day-War borders is that making those comments wiped out any post-Osama bump in his approval ratings, and then some.

2. Re: SUVs saved Chrysler –

   Let me take this moment to call for Chrysler and the rest of GM to be razed to the ground and then plowed under, as an example of a fitting end for plutocrats and mercantilists.

   As a taxpayer who involuntarily paid for this boondoggle, when do I get my dividend checks from the time that GM was operating as Government Motors?

1. Posted to the New Mexico Libertarians Facebook group –

   Here’s the Wikipedia page covering the 2012 presidential race

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012

2. Posted to the New Mexico Libertarians Facebook group –

   Yet they’ve listed Jimmy McMillan from the “Rent is Too Damn High Party,” who is running as a Republican this time.

3. Posted to The Libertarian Enterprise Facebook group –

   I’m not worried at all, just disappointed in Facebook.

   WordPress has an add-on called Buddypress that lets you set up Ning-style networking on your own site. I’m thinking that we might try this in the LPNM.

   WordPress itself can be downloaded as a CMS and uploaded to your own server – you don’t have to depend on wordpress.com.

4. Posted to William N. Grigg’s Facebook Wall –

   Obviously it’s The Barack that stops Webster and SPLC wannabe David Horowitz from raising funds privately and sending the cash to Israel.

5. Posted to The Libertarian Enterprise Facebook group –

   “I ask because I am constantly deluged with questions about what ELSE a libertarian stands for besides the ZAP.”

   And here I thought that diversity was the order of the day.

6. The Libertarian Enterprise Facebook group

   Yeah, but the very concepts of “LR” or “lone wolves” or “cells of one” drive the statists, collectivists, Busheviks and Obamatons NUTS!

Notes from Life, Etc.

1. No classes at CNM on Monday, owing to Memorial Day.

2. I received another direct mailing from Qwest. Junk mail from a junk company.

3. I received an email from a guy in Santa Fe interested in volunteering for the LPNM – if this guy is everything he says he is, he’s just what I’m looking for in a new recruit.

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano

2. Cavuto

3. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies

1. Re: <p><a target=”_self” href=”http://api.ning.com:80/files/dI-Y6X1eqCQY2Hf0GgigRPfT9hB-CadP-5Os4a622uE –

   Comment by Bradley Grower 12 hours ago
   

   Sue Keller,

   Please try to hang in there and keep posting your subject lines any way you want.

   Some of us are capable of understanding that one links the blog commentary and the other links the attached illustration.

   Absolutely!

2. Re: What Does It Take to Get Pulled Over? –

   He was saying that the DMV’s demand that he submit various documents in order to renew his driver’s license, as per the “REAL ID” Act of 2005, would have required him to waive his Fourth Amendment rights in order to comply.

Notes from Life, Etc.

1. First day of class for the 2011 summer semester at CNM. I’m taking Electronics 1101 / 1192: Digital Circuits.

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Top Gear (UK series)

2. James May’s Road Trip

3. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies

4. Censored By The British Goverment – Citizens Arrest Unlawful Judge; Sieze Court

1. Re: <p>Mr Wiz,</p> <p>  I am shocked a man of you worldly knowledge knew nothing of the Koch Brothers. –

   Mr Blessing,

   Try this one-newyorkeralestate.citybizlist.com

   OK, I checked that site, didn’t find anything about TALF, Waterfall TALF or Charles and / or David Koch on the front page.

   So I ran some searches there – again, the closest I got to any of those was an article about a Bill Koch joining the National Sailing Center and Hall of Fame – not even close to the subject at hand here.

   Waterfall was created in 2005.  Morgan Stanley investement bankers found a loophole and created TALF at the financial collapse in 2008.  The investment thieves didn’t feel like the got enough money so they gouged a little more.

   I’m not disputing that. As a libertarian, I’d shut down any such programs on the public side of that (counting the Federal Reserve as “public” here!), where some of the Establishment “conservatives” (Wilson, Gingrich, Romney, Giuliani) would celebrate and expand that program, saying “Look at the jobs it creates!”

   What I am questioning is how TALF and / or Waterfall TALF are connected to the Koch brothers, as insinuated by the title of this blog posting. I ran several searches, both on Google and the site you provided above, and could find no evidence of any such connection.

2. Re: <p>Mr Wiz,</p> <p>  I am shocked a man of you worldly knowledge knew nothing of the Koch Brothers. –

   Comment by Sue Keller 6 hours ago – I didn’t say TALF had anything to do with Koch.

   Not directly, but there’s the title of this posting – <p>Mr Wiz,</p> <p>  I am shocked a man of you worldly knowledge knew nothing of the Koch Brothers. – that’s copied from above and made browser-readable.

   The insinuation is plainly there. Just for grins and giggles, I’ve got a screenshot of the original posting.

3. Re: Truth Is Judge Suzie Q can’t Spell nor.. –

   Paste correctly evidently..

   RealEstate

   Maybe she found this.”.so????

   baltimoreRealestate.citybizlist.com//1/2010/4/26/Koch-Homes-Buys-17-Lot-Subdivision-in-Pasadena-.aspx

   That’s still not an explicit connection to Charles and David Koch.
   From what I can tell, “Koch” is a somewhat common name amongst those who can trace their ancestry back to Germany, and since there are plenty of Americans who fit that bill . . .

4. Re: Now for a Serious Word –

   Mike Blessing pointed something out to me that I think I had better address…there was a time when I was a dues paying registered Libertarian. But after 9/11 and some comments I made about muslims, based on the fact that the plane that hit the Pentagon hit almost dead center of where my son David’s office used to be. Joe Knight, then head of the Libertarian Party invited me to leave because he decided I was a racist. Isn’t it interesting that time has proven me to be right…

   Joe’s support for the aborted campaign of Russell Means for governor at the time certainly didn’t help, either.

5. Re: Daniels is Out –

   Chris Christie is probably going to stay on as Governor of New Jersey. Let’s face it – Obama has the advantage of name recognition and incumbency, and is looking to raise about a billion in campaign cash for the 2012 race.

   But “Ragnar,” why aren’t you cheerleading for Romney? After all, he’s got credentials from the business world and from being Governor of Massachusetts. He’s a trend-setter on the health care issue, among other things. He’s as qualified to be President as Heather Wilson is to be New Mexico’s next Senator – what’s holding you back?

1. Re: A Personal Message from Bill English–

   CyberWiz Beezer said:
   

   Mike…. Noble as your list is, it points up the very reason we lose. As I wrote over @ FAX’s “Jews” blog, the blacks, Jews and Hispanics are for whatever reasons willing to suffer serial abuse from the D’s and come back ticking. You hate to call that stupidity, but when WE expect to find that “perfect” candidate who fits ALL the items on your list, or when we stubbornly vote single-issue (ex: guns, abortion, religion, no new taxes) we’ll lose every time. I’m not saying I wouldn’t love to find and vote for that candidate, but it’s impractical…. Jesus ain’t running.

   Every human has his/her foibles. And if they didn’t have skeletons in their closets, what the heck would we have to gossip about, right Mr. English? Let’s be practical and pick candidates who can fulfill 80% of our desires. They do better than that, great. They fall short-we ride them. That’s what the TEA Party is for. We go for a 100% candidate–we got nobody..empty ballot spot. Socialists really win.

   Bill English is my 80 percent candidate, as there are some issues where he and I will disagree vehemently.

   Heather Wilson, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani would have trouble getting to 50 percent.

   If no one insisted on better candidates, then Heather, Mitt, Newt and Rudy would be the best you would get.

   As for being a “single issue” voter where guns are concerned, it’s more of a litmus test that pokes into the liquid creamy center of a candidate and gets to what they’re really about as a candidate.

2. Re: Is there any chance for more civil discourse? –

   Tea Bagger said:
   

   None of those brutes, except perhaps Mao had intellectual pretensions. But those that think critical theory, “social justice” and advocacy have a place in our universities, do have intellectual pretensions. They need to be whittled down to their “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” level, so they can be shown to be intellectually naked, and their divisive racist and class warfare rhetoric exposed.

   The quote attributed to Mao – “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” – is correct. As soon as Mao and the Long Marchers consolidated political power over China in 1949, one of the first things that they did was require anyone who wasn’t either a member of the Chinese Communist Party or employed by the state security apparatus (military, police, etc.) to hand in any firearms that they possessed.

   I suspect that the Founders realized it at some level, hence the Second Amendment, and writings like these:
   

   “No Freeman shall be debarred the use of arms in his own lands or tenements”
   – Thomas Jefferson

   “. . . Arms in the hands of citizens to be used at individual descretion . . . in private self defense”
   – John Adams

   “Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who don’t.”
   – Thomas Jefferson

   “The great object is that every man be armed . . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun.”
   – Patrick Henry, Elliot Debates

   “Mr. Madison has introduced his long expected amendments . . . The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.”
   – Fisher Ames of Massachusetts

   “. . . to disarm the people; that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them . . .”
   – George Mason, Elliot Debates

   “No Freeman shall be debarred the use of arms in his own lands or tenements”
   – Thomas Jefferson

   “. . . that the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up . . . .”
   – Pennsylvania Declaration 1776

   “The people are confirmed by the next article of their right to keep and bear their private arms”
   – Tench Coxe (at the ratification of the 2nd Amendment)

   “. . . the Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.”
   – Samuel Adams, 1789 (Bill of Rights ratification)

   Even some 20th-century big-spending Democrats realized what the Founders intended, and approved (or at least professed to approve):
   

   “Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”
   – John F. Kennedy

   “The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”
   – Vice-President Hubert Humphrey

   (I’ve got a 1.2 MB text file of these sort of quotes.)

3. Re: A Personal Message from Bill English –

   Daniel Metcalf said:
   

   ……Think….what you will…….say…….what you feel you must………But…… Vote…… for those that are trying……..STOP……..The Liberal Left Wing Lunatic Progressive …….types

   I’ve been waiting since 1998 for someone to provide evidence that Heather Wilson is anything but that. Haven’t seen it yet.
   

   ………its a whole new ball game………Are there RINO’s…..wondering around……….sure………is it easier to get a RINO……to vote Conservatively………or a Liberal Democrat

   Is it now? I cite Heather’s voting record in the Congress from 1998 until 2008 as evidence to the contrary.

   And here I was thinking that the whole point of the Tea Party movement was to hold these idiots’ feet to the fire. Was I wrong? Is the Tea Party and this “Conservative” movement now just another GOP schtick to get another crop of crypto-Trots elected?

   PROVE ME WRONG HERE by not falling for whatever idiots Monty’s Coggie cliques puke up to run as candidates. Insist on some sort of principles where policies are concerned from the candidates instead of this vague notion of “electability” above all else.

   If that’s too much to ask, then what’s the point of continuing on in this dog-and-pony show?

4. Re: Another nugget from Brad –

   This one was too “good” for me to avoid getting a screenshot of it.

   What a twit.

5. Re: Brad Growers solution to global warming –

   Here it is – got a screenshot of that one, too.

   Maybe we could take up a donation for Brad and others of like mind.

   I can chip in a few plastic bags, so he can lead by example and reduce his exhaled CO₂.

   Since it’s obvious for the past month or so that He’s declared Himself the Final Arbiter Of What’s Appropriate To Post On NMPolitics.org, why hasn’t He blocked all of us that post the things He doesn’t approve of? Why haven’t our accounts been suspended or deleted?

6. Re: <p>Mr Wiz,</p> <p>  I am shocked a man of you worldly knowledge knew nothing of the Koch Brothers. –

   Let’s see . . .

   Waterfall TALF appears to have been a front corporation set up in the Caymans for the specific purpose of raking in corporate welfare from the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, a program set up by the Federal Reserve to motivate consumers to spend – basically, Ben Bernanke’s version of the Obama “stimulus package”.

   So I ran a search for Waterfall TALF Koch, and could not find any articles pointing to any sort of connection between TALF and the Koch brothers.

   I suspect that the Koch brothers are right up there with Wal-Mart and McDonalds as far as the “left” is concerned, in that they’re someone else that “progressives” love to hate.

1. Re: A Personal Message from Bill English –

   CyberWiz Beezer said:
   

   Just an FYI…….. GREG SOWARDS addressed the BCGOP breakfast this morning. I will not discuss the details… Y’a had to be there.

   Well, I told him face-to-face last night at the Rio Grande Foundation’s Liberty on the Rocks that if the GOPNM nominated Heather Wilson for U.S. Senate, I would start shopping around for a candidate to run in the general election against her and the Democrat on the Libertarian Party ticket.

2. Re: A Personal Message from Bill English –

   Daniel Metcalf said:
   

   the Republicans / Conservatives……..have one enemy………and that is …….anyone………that votes………against a fellow…..Republican / Conservative………

   Guess what – I’ve been an enemy of socialist Republicans since January 1994. That’s when I bailed from the GOP and joined the LP. I’m referring to those like Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, who will hopefully crawl back under their wet rocks with all possible haste.

   Just because someone has an “R” after their name doesn’t mean I’m going to cut them slack when they turn out to be a big-spending, ever-regulating, gun-ban-supporting socialist.
   

   Spit and see where it….lands………how about in New Mexico……..and then look around…………is there a choice…….between a frigging liberal Democrat……or Wilson…..I don’t think sooooooo

   I’m still waiting for someone who can show me a difference between big-spending, gun-ban-supporting socialist Heather Wilson and a big-spending fascist Democrat like Martin Heinrich. Sure, Heather and Martin might disagree on certain things, but it’s all for show in the end. Both of them will vote to spend, borrow and regulate in such a manner that puts drunken sailors to shame – at least the drunken sailors are stuck with spending only their own cash, where Heinrich and Wilson get essentially unlimited resources.
   

   Conservatives……WIN…….. the state first ……and then………start worrying about…….how hard core someone may be……..stay focused on getting Republicans…….elected

   Yep, fer shure.

   Wait a sec here – didn’t Republican “Conservatives” control ALL THREE branches of government (the White House, both House and Senate in Congress and the Supreme Court) from 21 January 2001 until 3 January 2007?

   And let’s look at the exemplary job they did in reducing the size, expense and intrusiveness of the federal government in that time span:

   • the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
   • the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
   • the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
   • the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act
   • the No Child Left Behind Act
   • the Homeland Security Act
   • Medicare Part D – the centerpiece of Comrade Heather’s 2002 re-election campaign!
   • the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (helps people too stupid to set up a mail filter in their email client)
   • the Energy Policy Act of 2005
   • the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005 – yet another Ø1 coin that’s the same size as a quarter.
   • the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
   • the Digital Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005
   • the Caribbean National Forest Act of 2005
   • the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006
   • the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

   Exactly how many bills to repeal existing laws were sent from the Congress controlled by Republican “Conservatives” to George Bush’s desk in that time frame?

   And while we’re at it, Comrades Heather, Mitt, Newt, Rudy et al need a catchy theme song . . .
   

   and other wise…..keep your……..mouth shut in public……..even having to say this is annoying………

   Who will stop me from speaking out?

3. Re: A Personal Message from Bill English –

   William (Bill) S. English said:
   

   I’ll bet that went over like a lead balloon.

   I was under the impression that he was somewhat enthusiastic about the idea. Of course, this could change as the campaign season proceeds.

Notes from Life, Etc.

1. Today is apparently Draw Mohammed Day. And tomorrow is supposed to be Rapture Day, if you believe the nutcases.