Santa Died of COVID (Last September) from Victor Koman, PhD [VIDEO]

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   3. "Darth Mike" — Facebook page
      
      
   4. Discordian Absurdist Party of New Mexico — Facebook page
      
      
   5. Egg McMuffin for President — Facebook page
      
      
   6. KCUF Media — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   7. New Mexico Dissent and Expose — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   8. New Mexico Libertarians — Facebook group / Facebook page / Minds group / Spreely group / Spreely page / Wimkin group / Wimkin page
      
      
   9. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   10. The Weekly Sedition — Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / Wimkin page / Wordpress
       
       
   11. Vote Dumpster Fire — Facebook page
       
       
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Album Review -- Now is the Time, by Perpetual Etude

Band: Perpetual Etude

Album Title: Now is the Time

Release Date: Friday, 15 October 2021

One Liner Summary: Perpetual Etude definitely lives up to their stated intention — to bring back the best of 80s hard rock and metal.

Review: Now is the Time made me feel as though I had been transported back to 1985-1987. It reminded me of Yngwie Malmsteen's Trilogy, along with Dokken's Tooth and Nail and Under Lock and Key

They do deliver on what they say they're shooting for — blistering, melodic guitars and keyboards, melodic vocals (see below).

I for one am hoping to hear more from Perpetual Etude, and to catch one of their live shows should they come to the States.

Rating (Out of 5): 5

Genres: Hard Rock, Metal, Neo Classical Heavy Metal

Record Label: Sound Pollution

Pre-order links — When I clicked the "Pre-Order" links on the Bandcamp site, all I got were these Javascript popup boxes, and there was NO URL available that I could copy and paste here for direct ordering or pre-ordering ANYTHING. REALLY aggravating, but this might be a Bandcamp thing, and entirely out of the band's control.

For Fans Of: Alcatrazz, Cinderella, Dokken, Europe, Krokus, Leatherwolf, Yngwie Malmsteen, Night Ranger, Van Halen

TRACK LISTING

1. I've Got the Power
   
   
2. Show Me
   
   
3. Straight Through The Heart
   
   
4. Once We Were One
   
   
5. Hell Fire Burn
   
   
6. Now Is The Time
   
   
7. Sail Away
   
   
8. Our Love

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More about Perpetual Etude

  

CURRENT LINE-UP:

• Magnus Mild — Guitars
  
  
• Kristian Fyhr — Vocals
  
  
• Kaspar Dahlqvist — Keyboard
  
  
• Vidar Mårtensson — Drums
  
  
• Mikael T Planefeldt — Bass

From their Bandcamp site —

Perpetual Etude formed in early 2019, as a project by Magnus Mild.

The aim was to write music with firm roots in the 80s hard rock / metal genre, where there were lots of guitar heroes, more solos than ever before and big focus on melodies. Influenced by that genre since childhood. Magnus wanted to focus on that sound and feel, build on it and take it one step further. When he later met up with vocalist Kristian Fyhr, Magnus had a vision: now is the time to do something about all those song ideas, now is the time to make something from it. Thus, the name of the album — Now is the Time. The songs depict the journeys in life, covering everything from finding true love to the loss of a close one. This is also symbolized on the album cover (by Gustavo Sazes), by a broken hourglass with good and bad memories coming out of the cracks. To learn from what has happened in the past and move on. The journey began to find the right persons for the job, to form a true band, and here we are now, finally, with the first Perpetual Etude album. Packed with blazing guitar and keyboard solos, fast and heavy riffing and very melodic vocals.

The guitar heroism of the 80s is back! Perpetual Etude was formed in 2019 by Magnus Mild with the sole goal to bring back the best of the heavy metal of the 80s. Influenced by the genre when growing up, Magnus teamed up with members from NorthTale, Dionysys, Nation, Shadowquest as well as Göran Edman on "Sail Away" to complete the vision. The result is the best of a whole decade in the astounding debut Now Is The Time, an album filled with blazing guitar riffs, keyboard solos and catchy choruses.

Perpetual Etude on social media — Facebook / Instagram / YouTube

Perpetual Etude on various search engines — Bing / DuckDuckGo / Google / Searx / Startpage

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'No One Wants To Take Your Guns,' v. 06-24-2019

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This one is an oldie (dated Monday, 24 June 2019) but a good one, as it puts the victim disarmer attitude up front, where we can see it (and ridicule it!) —

H/T "Gun Talk, how not to be a moron 2" Facebook page — Friday, December 4, 2020 at 12:00 PM

YEP. I'M COMING FOR YOUR AR15

You heard me. No apologies. The same reason you don't need a lion to protect your home, is why you don't need a rifle that shoots at 3X the speed of sound and splits concrete like ice. It's an unreasonable risk.

End the mass shooter era in America

11:29 PM ⋅ Jun 24, 2019 ⋅ Twitter for iPhone

But wait, there's more!

Just about every time one of the DNC-affiliated victim disarmers spouts off with this sort of nonsense, there's a "conservative" Republican who chimes in to offer support —

Replying to @Nate_McMurray

As unpopular as it may be with my fellow conservative Republicans, I'm kind of with you on this.

I want us to always have the right to bear arms, has to be some limitations. I don't want people to own hand grenades, or AR15's with a bump stock and 100 round magazine.

10:54 AM ⋅ Jun 25, 2019 ⋅ Twitter for Android

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   3. Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   4. "No one wants to take your guns" — Facebook page / Wimkin page
      
      
   5. Stupor Bowl Sundae Feetball Shoot — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   6. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   7. The Weekly Sedition — Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / Wimkin page / Wordpress
      
      
   8. Vote Dumpster Fire — Facebook page
      
      
   9. Vote the Air — Facebook page
      
      
   10. Wood Chipper — Facebook page

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Can It Get Worse? Indeed It Can!

H/T Tom Souther — Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 12:04 AM

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   2. Absurdist Discordian Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page / Wimkin page
      
      
   3. Albuquerque Liberty Forum — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   4. "Darth Mike" — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   5. Discordian Absurdist Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   6. Egg McMuffin for President — Facebook page
      
      
   7. KCUF Media — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   8. New Mexico Libertarians — Facebook group / Facebook page / Minds group / Spreely group / Spreely page / Wimkin group / Wimkin page
      
      
   9. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   10. The Weekly Sedition — Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / Wimkin page / Wordpress

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All In This Together, Right?

H/T Libertarian Party Mises Caucus [Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 10:38 AM] by way of The Pholosopher [Sunday, November 29, 2020 at 7:04 PM]

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   3. Albuquerque Liberty Forum — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   4. Discordian Absurdist Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   5. Egg McMuffin for President — Facebook page
      
      
   6. Extropy Unbound — Facebook page / Spreely page / Wimkin page
      
      
   7. KCUF Media — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   8. New Mexico Dissent and Expose — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   9. New Mexico Libertarians — Facebook group / Facebook page / Spreely group / Spreely page / Wimkin group / Wimkin page
      
      
   10. Resist Marxism New Mexico — Facebook page
       
       
   11. Split the State New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
       
       
   12. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
       
       
   13. The Weekly Sedition — Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / Wimkin page / Wordpress
       
       
   14. Vote Dumpster Fire — Facebook page
       
       
   15. Vote the Air — Facebook page
       
       
   16. Vote the Air NM — Facebook page
       
       
   17. Wood Chipper — Facebook page

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Book Review -- Faith Seeking Freedom: Libertarian Christian Answers to Tough Questions

BOOK REVIEW — Faith Seeking Freedom: Libertarian Christian Answers to Tough Questions

129 pages, by Dr. Norman Horn, Doug Stuart, Kerry Baldwin, and Dick Clark

FULL DISCLOSURES:

• Kerry Baldwin has been a Facebook friend for several years now.
  
  
• I don't profess to be a Christian of any denomination or sect or whatever. Organized religion and I simply don't do well together.

With those out of the way . . . .

Faith Seeking Freedom is easy reading, in that the authors don't try to cram you chock-full of data and information and jargon, such that you would feel overwhelmed by it all.

When the authors cite Biblical content, they put the citation right there in the same paragraph as the point that they're making, so you don't have to keep flipping back and forth to the end of the chapter or the end of the book. This is probably for the best where electronic versions are concerned. Also, for those inclined to have a Bible nearby to check on the authors, it's right there where you can compare and contrast the authors' points against the Bible verse(s) itself.

The authors don't attempt to take sides where the big divisions of libertarian thought occur, such as the minarchy vs. anarchy debate, or whether or not to be involved in the LP, with the exception of the abortion issue.

SPECIFIC POINTS —

[Page numbers cited here are what listed is on the particular page. The actual pages on the PDF version that I used for this review will be that number, plus 10 pages.]

Chapter 2 (The Libertarian Basics, pp. 23-34) gives the reader a decent summary of the Non-Aggression Principle and how it applies to everyday life.

p. 26, part of the answer to Question #13 (How do libertarian Christians account for people who violate the non-aggression principle (NAP)?) takes on the minarchy vs. anarchy question rather well — the authors explain both sides without explicitly favoring one side or the other. (Disclosure: I personally lean towards the anarcho-capitalist side.)

p.39, Question #25 (Do libertarians believe any and every government is illegitimate?) also tackles the minarchy vs. anarchy adroitly, explaining both sides without favoring one or the other.

pp. 67-68 give a succinct and principled response to the "What about roads?" shibboleth.

OK, enough spoilers.

Do me a favor Do yourself a favor — Go and get a copy and read it for yourself.

SUMMARY —

Faith Seeking Freedom is an easy-to-read, principled guide for Christians who are seeking to understand libertarianism, on par with Inclined to Liberty by Louis Carabini, The Law by Frederic Bastiat, or Down With Power by L. Neil Smith.

Go get a copy, read it, then tell your friends and family.

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   3. KCUF Media — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   4. New Mexico Libertarians — Facebook group / Facebook page / Minds group / Spreely group / Spreely page / Wimkin group / Wimkin page
      
      
   5. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   6. The Weekly Sedition — Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / Wimkin page / Wordpress

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Dominion's - Buy 1, Get 10 Free (4 AM Only)

H/T Tom Barnes at Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 12:12 PM

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   3. Egg McMuffin for President — Facebook page
      
      
   4. KCUF Media — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   5. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   6. The Weekly Sedition — Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / Wimkin page / Wordpress
      
      
   7. Vote Dumpster Fire — Facebook page
      
      
   8. Vote the Air — Facebook page
      
      
   9. Wood Chipper — Facebook page

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What is "Spaceport America" but a Political Classhole Slush-Fund?

Facebook always yields instances of the Political Classholes getting caught with their pants down and their hands in the cookie jar —

Peter St. Cyr
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 10:32 AM

An Independent audit confirms serious operational and management problems at Spaceport America. I repeatedly told embattled Director Dan Hicks he could not write his own public records law. This facility was constructed with taxpayer money and needs to be transparent to avoid these kinds of problems in the future. Click to read the report here: https://osa-app.org/uploads/2020/66dacc30-9870-49f4-874a-f4b26d09aaa6/Spaceport Authority - Investigation of Complaint Final Report.pdf

And what exactly has been launched from "Spaceport America" besides a few suborbital flights?

Wasn't Virgin Galactic the "anchor tenant" for whom Reichsgovernor Richardson built this particular elephante blanco?

From SpaceNews — Virgin Galactic declares Spaceport America ready for SpaceShipTwo, by Jeff Foust, 15 August 2019 —

Virgin Galactic didn't give a date for when it expects SpaceShipTwo to arrive at the spaceport — WhiteKnightTwo will return to Mojave to fly it to New Mexico — but that when it arrives the company will start with a couple of glide flights to test those upgraded flight controls and to get familiar with the airspace.

Once those are done, "we'll be ready for rocket-powered flights," he said. While there is no set number of powered test flights planned before SpaceShipTwo is ready for commercial operations, Moses noted there are currently eight hybrid rocket motors stockpiled at the spaceport.

Two other SpaceShipTwo vehicles are under construction in Mojave. Moses said the first of those two should be ready to begin flight tests in 2020.

At this rate, will Virgin Galactic be ready to launch anything by 2120?

Considering Virgin Galactic's pre-COVID glacial pace of operations where "Spaceport America" is concerned, on top of the Beer Bug-inspired shutdown mania, it's probably safe to say that 2020 is a write-off at this point.

But there's always 2021, right?

Go ahead and feel free to make that bet.

But hey, at least "Spaceport America" has a nice new lounge that Governess Chipmunk can use to host one of her COVID-non-compliant parties —

For what it's worth, that State Auditor's report that St. Cyr linked to above is great fun, if you get your kicks by reading about some of the ways that the Political Classholes have fun at our expense.

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   2. Absurdist Discordian Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page / Wimkin page
      
      
   3. Albuquerque Liberty Forum — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   4. Discordian Absurdist Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   5. Egg McMuffin for President — Facebook page
      
      
   6. KCUF Media — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   7. New Mexico Dissent and Expose — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   8. New Mexico Libertarians — Facebook group / Facebook page / Minds group / Spreely group / Spreely page / Wimkin group / Wimkin page
      
      
   9. Resist Marxism New Mexico — Facebook page
      
      
   10. Split the State New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
       
       
   11. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
       
       
   12. Vote Dumpster Fire — Facebook page
       
       
   13. Vote the Air — Facebook page
       
       
   14. Vote the Air NM — Facebook page
       
       
   15. Wood Chipper — Facebook page

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Trick or Treat! Happy Ancapowe'en!

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Messing About with Article II, Section 6

A few weeks ago, Albuquerque City Councilor Diane Gibson has gotten herself some no-charge campaign advertising, courtesy of the lamestream snoozemedia ^[1], on account of her calling for a State-level Constitutional Amendment to change Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of New Mexico from its current text:

No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.

— to something that gives municipal and county governments more leeway to enact victim disarmament statutes:

No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons.

Considering that the sorts of victim disarmament statutes desired by Gibson and her hoplophobe cronies only disarm those who need to own and carry weapons the most — the five-foot, hundred-pound woman who's being stalked by her crazed six-foot, two-hundred-pound ex-boyfriend — and don't actually disarm the criminal and terrorist types one bit, those of us who support and exercise the individual, civil, Constitutional, human right to own and carry weapons for ".... for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes ...." would prefer that IF Article II, Section 6 must be amended, that it should read like this afterwards:

No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.

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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

1. Albuquerque Journal — New vote sought on firearm provision
   
   KRQE News — Albuquerque city councilors seek new vote on firearms provision

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   3. A Bias Toward Liberty — Facebook group
      
      
   4. Albuquerque Liberty Forum — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   5. Discordian Absurdist Party of New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   6. Freedom Rally Point New Mexico — Facebook group
      
      
   7. Gun Owners of New Mexico — Facebook group
      
      
   8. KCUF Media — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   9. Libertarian Second Amendment Caucus — Facebook page / Spreely page
      
      
   10. New Mexico Dissent and Expose — Facebook page / Spreely page
       
       
   11. New Mexico Gun Rights — Facebook group
       
       
   12. New Mexico Lest We Forget (voters remorse) — Facebook group
       
       
   13. New Mexico Libertarians — Facebook group / Facebook page / Minds group / Spreely group / Spreely page
       
       
   14. Resist Marxism New Mexico — Facebook page
       
       
   15. Sons and Daughters of Liberty New Mexico — Facebook group
       
       
   16. Split the State New Mexico — Facebook page / Spreely page
       
       
   17. Stupor Bowl Sundae Feetball Shoot — Facebook page / Spreely page
       
       
   18. The Old Drunken Old Irrvelivents — Facebook page / Spreely page
       
       
   19. The Weekly Sedition — Facebook page / Spreely page / Twitter / Wordpress
       
       
   20. Vote Dumpster Fire — Facebook page
       
       
   21. Vote the Air — Facebook page
       
       
   22. Vote the Air NM — Facebook page
       
       
   23. Wood Chipper — Facebook page

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