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

   Tea Bagger said:
   

   You know, the tea bagger nom-de-plume sticks in progressive craws when we don’t run from it, like the homo-phobes they expect us to be. And they don’t like being shown to be irrational and intellectually defenseless by someone with that name. You can’t let others put you in a box. Consider it an act of defiance, by someone comfortable in his own skin.

   This is EXACTLY the reason to keep using the term – it’s taking the language back from the collectivists, mercantilists, plutocrats, socialists, fascists, et. al., one phrase at a time. Just like the gays did with the pink triangle – until 1969, it was a tag used by the Nazis^[1] in the derogatory sense. Since 1969, they’ve made it their own and have taken to using as an identifying logo for themselves.

   This is the same sort of reason that I will refer to myself as a “liberal” – the term was hijacked from us by Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I AIM TO TAKE IT BACK. At the same time, I will also refer to myself as a “capitalist” and “anarchist,” with the intention of making those words stand for Liberty again, as well.

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   (“Nazi” is short for National Socialist: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei = “National Socialist German Workers’ Party)

2. Posted to Elisheva Levin’s Facebook Wall –

   If the rope is for a noose, I suggest surgical tubing instead. Much, much funnier – to see what I’m talking about, use a rubber band with one of those 1980s 4″ action figures.

3. Posted to my Facebook Wall –

   No ruler can continue once he becomes a laughingstock.

   The Libertarian Enterprise: Ego, by Chris Claypoole

4. Posted to Frank Koch’s Facebook Wall –

   And here I thought that the “Zombie Apocalypse” was the public employee unions storming the Wisconsin Legislature.

5. Posted to Elisheva Levin’s Facebook Wall –

   Farewell, Fourth Amendment
   Posted by William Grigg on May 16, 2011 02:52 PM
   http://lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/88300.html

   So much for the “strict constructionism” of Scalia, Thomas and Alito – the only dissenting Justice in Kentucky v. King was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee.

   I’ll remember this one the next time someone tells me that I “have to vote for the Republican” because the Democrat will nominate lousy judges to the Supremes.

Notes from Life, Etc.

1. Took my flat tire to Wal-Mart today with the receipt from November, 2008. They told me that because it was damaged on the sidewall, it couldn’t be repaired. So that’s another Ø60-90 that I’m out, in addition to my alternator (Ø150-270), hood (Ø????), fender (Ø????), etc.

2. I picked up some G.I. Joe comics at Old West Comics – the “Cobra Civil War” looks like an interesting twist.

3. I went to the Rio Grande Foundation’s Liberty on the Rocks at Vivace (3118 Central SE) last night. Paul Gessing gave me a chance to plug this coming Albuquerque Liberty Forum.

   After the dinner group had concluded and people were leaving, I talked with Greg Sowards, running for U.S. Senate on the GOP ticket, for about 15-20 minutes. He and I discussed the current slate of candidates offered by the GOP in the race (see tomorrow). He told me not to bother with Bill English, as Bill doesn’t have any FRNs to throw around, and that “most likely” Bill would be dropping out within ten (10) days. Still, Bill is my first choice in the race – he and I don’t agree on a few issues, but more so than the others, and I’ve known him since May, 1998.

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano

2. Cavuto

3. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies

1. Re: WHERE ARE THE NM CANDIDATES? –

   CyberWiz Beezer said:
   

   Just answered a Heather robo-call survey… Starting early.

   And that’s the liveliest (sp?) thing you’ll ever see from the Wilson for Senate campaign.

   If Bill English doesn’t get this particular nomination, I’ll see who I can get to be the Libertarian Party candidate. If I can’t get anyone for that slot, I’ll look for other options.

2. Re: Ingrates, Inmates, and Other Social Ne’er-Do-Wells Sucking You Dry –

   Cyber Wiz Beezer wrote:
   

   Do any of them ever say THANK YOU to the U.S. taxpayer?

   See my article “Some Gratitude, Please?,” written in October 2007.

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

   I posit that it remains to the readers’ subjective judgment about the definitions of “civil” versus “uncivil” where discourse is concerned.

   As for “toning it down,” I can give as good as I get – if “toning it down” requires that certain issues get tabled, or that certain viewpoints get booted because someone finds them “objectionable,” well . . . that’s the path advocated by the self-appointed “politically correct” Thought Police, with their identity group politics of victimhood.

4. Re: Heather Wilson on running for Senate –

   The bit about fiscal responsibility is a crock – Medicare Part D was the centerpiece of Heather’s 2002 re-election campaign.

5. Re: WHERE ARE THE NM CANDIDATES? –

   Here’s the interview – youtube.com/watch?v=iqZL5dYn8SQ – looks good (embedded below).

6. Re: Ingrates, Inmates, and Other Social Ne’er-Do-Wells Sucking You Dry –

   If you liked that one, you might like this one, too.

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. The Planets on Science Channel

2. Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano

3. Cavuto

4. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies

5. AntiWar.com: Alan Bock, RIP, Alan Bock, Great Writer & Freedom Fighter

6. Salon: Ed Schultz blows up at David Sirota, The seductive power of the U.S. military

7. Chaotic Orbits

8. Planets Without Orbits? Astronomers Make ‘Exciting’ Discovery

9. Rob Nikolewski’s YouTube channel – Heather Wilson on running for Senate, Greg Sowards on running for Senate, Bill English on running for Senate

10. Mexican communities fighting back

11. End Of The Libertarian Party? [UK]

1. Re: Johnson PAC violates Utah warning; continues to solicit donations after group suspended. –

   What’s the big deal about this? The Johnson campaign didn’t file some BS paperwork in Utah? How is any private citizen in Utah harmed by this?

   Is there any chance that the State of Utah can show us the broken bodies and blood trails resulting from the Johnson campaign’s “failure” to file this particular form?

1. Posted to Elisheva Levin’s Facebook Wall –

   Wait til Obummer really has his way with the economy and the traffic will reverse itself with Americans seeking to head south. In fact, some Americans already have sought greener pastures in Mexico and Central America. “Sealing” the border just makes it more difficult for people to get OUT – how many people tried to break into the Soviet Union?

2. Posted to Elisheva Levin’s Facebook Wall –

   Tom Mullins – the clown who ran against Adam Kokesh for the 3rd Congressional District – might be able to help you with the land mines and sentry guns. That part of the country has the wrong climate for alligators.

3. Posted to Elisheva Levin’s Facebook Wall –

   “This is an example of what property owners deal with on the border. It gets worse – property damage includes dead animals, ruined stock tanks, vandalized vehicles and equipment, and shooting deaths of ranchers and rangers by drug gangs. It also includes ‘rape’ trees, where the torn underwear of illegal border crossing women is hung after they are raped by the ‘coyotes,’ whom the women pay to bring them across the border. The rape is free.”

   ALL of these are malum in se crimes and should be prosecuted as such. This “seal the border” hysteria – as though the lettuce-pickers are a 21st-Century version of Genghis Khan’s Golden Horde – is right of the playbooks of Samuel Gompers (who used this schtick against Chinese immigrants in the 1880s) and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who didn’t want the immigrants competing with the union labor crowd who put him in office. The reason that Obummer wants them to keep coming is that he and his union masters want to sign them up as dues-paying, sign-holding toadies.

   Let’s instead dump Drug Prohibition and dump federal intervention in the economy, so that American workers aren’t priced out of the labor market and the cartels lose the price boost that the Drug Front of the War against Liberty gives them. A friend with a past as a drug runner once told me that he would have nightmares about re-legalization of drugs.

4. Are you Suuure you want lying CEOs running this country?

   Colonel Robert F. Cunningham said:
   

   I’m not hard-and-fast in the Trump Camp either. But credit where credit is due . . . he DID make Obastard add a layer of s**t upon himself . . . but that’s not reason enough to be President.

   Trump made a similar show of “running for President” in 2004, when he “tried” for the Reform Party’s nomination. Back then he was calling for a 14-15 percent tax on “rich people.” Was he including himself in that category, or did his plan have loopholes so he could skate that tax?
   

   And your comparison to Kommrade Wilson and the Donald is absolute for those of us with any common sense.

   Thank you! That’s a big reason that I’m not in the Trump camp at all. He’ll say whatever he thinks will get him the most press coverage at the moment, regardless of long-term fallout.
   

   When it comes to my vote – and those I influence – Kommrade Wilson isn’t even on the list and the doors are wide open to everyone else: Who puts the Constitution FIRST and has a track record to prove it. Then we nit-pick the other priorities, economy, illegal immigraion, education, et cetera – and that list is long and volatile. The Donald still has room for consideration, but he’s damned sure going to have his feet to the fire: something most re-elected and the freshmen haven’t lived up to either.

   At present, our mercantilist plutocrat “masters” see the Heinrich “vs.” Wilson “choice” as sufficient for us.

   On the Democrat side, I’d go with Hector Balderas – he seems to be unconnected to the good-ol’-boy patron system that’s been plaguing New Mexico for a while now.

   John Sanchez is a flake – I was told by a State Senator that back in August 2002 while he was running for governor, he blew off a meeting with the NM Shooting Sports Association, and couldn’t be bothered to explain why. Richardson did attend, said what they wanted to hear, and got the NMSSA endorsement as a result.

   Greg Sowards also strikes me as at least a flake, if not outright nutcase – see this comment from Bill English:
   

   Recently I had Greg Sowards contact me and ask for a meeting. I agreed simply because I know Greg and respected him. He spent the better part of two hours trying to convince me to withdraw from the race, telling me that it was his destiny to become the next Senator from New Mexico. When I pointed out to him that with the 2012 election there was a very real possibility that that the democrats could take back control of the house, I thought he was going to go into melt down. His immediate response was that “God wouldn’t let that happen and if he did then he’s abandon America”. He went on to say that he believed that it was his destiny to become the next Senator from New Mexico

   That leaves, simply by process of elimination, Bill English. He’s getting the same cold shoulder from the Monty Newman machine that Adam Kokesh got from the Harvey Yates gang prior to the 2010 primary.

5. Re: TSA looking for “Poop Bombs” –

   The TSA agents in this picture are getting a first-hand look at what comprises their operating mandate.

Listening / Reading / Watching

1. Shocking Excerpts Read at Tucson School Board Meeting From A Book In The Ethic Studies Curriculum

2. Stossel

3. Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano

4. Cavuto

5. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies

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1. Re: Fw: Final Inspection

2. Re: county chair
3. Hats Off to Marilyn Steffen!
4. Re: Are you Suuure you want lying CEOs running this country? –

   <sarcasm>

   Every time I see someone lighting a cigarette, I also see the Big Tobacco CEO holding a knife to their throat – “SMOKE OR DIE!” is what they say.

   Don’t you know that Bill Gates amassed all that cash so he could pile it up, then jump in and play, like kids do with piles of leaves in autumn?

   The only reason that someone would drill for oil is to dump it on the ground after bringing it up.

   </sarcasm>

5. Re: Are you Suuure you want lying CEOs running this country?

   RICHMOND, Va. – The head of cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc. told a cancer nurse Wednesday that while cigarettes are harmful and addictive,but it is not that hard to quit

   Got a link for the article where this revelation was originally posted?

   Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man.

   Citations of evidence?

   I tried smoking when I was 15 – it took all of half a cigarette (if that) for me to decide that it wasn’t worth doing. By this standard, I’m apparently a freak of nature.

   Or maybe it’s not as true as the tobacco haters would like to believe.

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

   Will, are you writing for Republic magazine now? Last issue I picked up had a “Will Grigg” listed on the masthead.

7. Re: Separation of Mosque and State –

   Oh and concerning Oil the current supply has nothing to do with price. Oil prices are based on how much the oil companies believe it will cost them to refill their refineries and storage tanks. So it is based on oil futures. That is why the price of gas is based on oil not yet pumped out of the ground. It is based not on the cost of the current supple, but on what someone guesses the supply and price will be months down the road.

   So oil prices aren’t dependent on supply, but they really are, in the end?

   Needless to say, I’m not at all a fan of this sort of double-talk. Psychiatrists call it “cognitive dissonance.”

   Regardless of what it’s called, for those wanting the Imperial gaggles called “Congress” and “the Obama Administration” to regulate oil-price speculators need only follow proper Constitutional procedures first – pass a Constitutional amendment allowing such regulations.

   All this requires is for the proposed amendment to get a two-thirds supermajority voting to support it in the U.S. House of Representatives, then a two-thirds supermajority voting to support it in the U.S. Senate, then ratification by three-quarters of the State Legislatures.

   What are you waiting for – get started on that amendment!

8. Re: Are you Suuure you want lying CEOs running this country? –

   Colonel Robert F. Cunningham said:
   

   Even so, the thought of having anybody as morally bereft as Soros & Company in charge of this nation is appalling. We have the most prime example – right now – in the White House and in control of too much of the government and Free Enterprise.

   I think Mr. Pickel’s actual concern is, that Donald Trump – a world reknown CEO – just might be able to REMOVE Obastard without actually running, and the communists can’t have that. There are a few of us who are personal friends of Gary Johnson and fully aware of how his business acumen straightened out the economic mess NM was in. There’s no doubt, in my mind at least, that Gary would be one hell of an improvement over the Kaks, RINOs and damned socialists we’re suffereing under right now. I don’t think the money is there for him to win, nor does he have the name-recognition among the TEAPs and Independent voters.

   But if the question is CEO or another communist, the CEOs have my vote hands down.

   AGH – Soros vs. Trump – what a choice!

   Both of them are CEOs who have made bundles playing around with debt and fractional-reserve currencies while courting favor from governments. Trump has only been bankrupt four or five times, when he wasn’t bulldozing little old ladies’ homes for parking lot space at one of his casinos. Soros, on the other hand, seems to have no problem at all with drilling for oil, as long as he makes a bundle off it.

   I’d really like to see the both of them were to go head-to-head in the markets and take each other out, such that afterward, they’re both dumpster diving for their meals.

   Anyway, IF Trump can win the GOP nomination, then he still has to beat Obama, and I doubt that he can do that. All the Trump “campaign” is about is Seasons 11 and 12 of The Apprentice.

   In Trump, we have a CEO who plays political football with his professed principles. Think of him as a male version of Heather Wilson, with a bigger mouth. The big difference between Wilson and Trump is that while Wilson is a sock puppet with someone else’s hand up her rear moving her lips, with Trump the hand is his own.

9. Re: Separation of Mosque and State –

   George Soros is a futures trader – the very sort of speculator that Pickel was complaining about. Soros makes a bundle speculating, moves his own cash out of that commodity, then complains about others doing the same sort of thing.

   By the way, Soros is also the very sort of capitalist that Karl Marx was complaining about when he and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto. Frederic Bastiat put out similar complaints about mercantilist plutocrats like Soros when he wrote The Law – except that the solutions advocated by Marx and Bastiat are wildly divergent.

10. Re: Providing the basics is not “stale” –

    And about Dinelli – while he was working for Slick Marty Chavez, he was the point-man on eminent domain efforts to seize low-income homes and businesses under the guise of “cleaning up ‘urban blight.’” Hardly someone for advocates of smaller government and free markets to pay any attention to, other than as opposition research.

11. Re: Are you Suuure you want lying CEOs running this country? –

    Bradley Grower said:
    
    

    The internet is a wonderful invention for the mentally disturbed, because it allows them to ramble on incessantly without fear of being institutionalized. (SEE: All above comments)

    Considering the source, I’ll take this as a compliment.

1. Re: Providing the basics is not “stale” –
   

   Revitalizing and invigorating the plaza downtown;
   Building bus rapid transit along Central;
   Revitalizing the convention center;
   Creating a “culture loop”;
   Rebuilding the Paseo and I-25 interchange; and
   Building additional parks and recreational facilities.

   I for one don’t need any of this. The Paseo / I-25 interchange is just fine. As for the other stuff, why is it that it seems like everyone but me needs some sort of public spending to have a good time?

   Here’s the comment that I sent in:
   

   Take any money left over from this year’s budget (if any) and either give it back as a tax return or set it aside for next year. Or put it towards repayment of some of the city’s existing bond expenditures.

   Get over it – this schtick about “there’s nothing to do” in Albuquerque is bunk. Take a look at the local newspapers – Alibi, Local iQ, the Journal, etc., – and you’ll see plenty of things to do listed.

   If you really want to “invest in the future,” cut taxes, cut regulations on business, and cut regulations on private property. Let us in the private sector grow the economy by getting government out of the way.

1. Pro Libertate: The Grand Old (Torture) Party

2. Techspot: Mozilla stands up to U.S. government takedown request

3. Raw video of checkpoint arrests – Released to the North County Times
4. Top Gear (U.K. series)
5. Adult Swim: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Squidbillies

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