"Riding Shotgun" on YouTube

Mood – amused, bouncey, cheerful

This is the first time I've ever had any sympathy for a roach. In this case, it IS warranted.

Riding Shotgun is a short film about semi-professional assassins Doyle and Abby who embark on a brand new "hit" adventure. What should be a quick job turns into a fight for their lives when Doyle's ill-timed bathroom break flushes their plans for easy money straight down the toilet.

Written and Directed by Michael Davis (Shoot 'Em Up), this film is bursting at the seams with bullets, T&A, and nonstop, double barrel action.

Voices:

• Doyle – Yuri Lowenthal [ Wikipedia / IMDB ]
  
  
• Abby – Jessy Schram [ Wikipedia / IMDB ]

Thanks to Seth Anderson Bailey for the tip-off !

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Andy Nunez (R? -- Hatch)

Subject: Andy Nunez (R? – Hatch)
Date: Wednesday, 07 August 2013 17:49:44
From: Mike Blessing
To: mikespublic @ Yahoo!, The Weekly Sedition @ Yahoo!
BCC: [87 individuals]

Date: Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:56:30 -0400 (EDT)

-------- Original Message --------

2012 Hero Update -- It sounds like 2012 NMBC HERO Andy Nunez has plans for improving our state and is making an important announcement TODAY [August 6]. Former State Representative and Mayor of Hatch, will hold a press conference at the Secretary of State's office in Santa Fe today, August 6th, 2013 at 10:00 am. According to information out yesterday, Mr. Nunez will officially change his voter registration and then make an announcement about his future endeavors on behalf of this great state.

The NMBC knows Mr. Nunez well, a native New Mexican who has always been dedicated to the well-being of our state. He served as a state representative from 2001 through 2012 and is currently serving as the Mayor of Hatch. We can't wait to see what his plans are!

-------- Original Message Ends --------

Since 2011, Nuñez has been registered as an "Independent" (officially known as "Decline To State" or "DTS" in New Mexico) since dropping out of the Jackass Clique.

Yesterday (Tuesday, 6 August 2013), Nuñez announced that he's now a Republican in order to seek a return to the State House seat he once held as a Democrat and an "Independent." See here for the details –

http://watchdog.org/99493/nm-politician-goes-from-democrat-to-independent-to-republican/

So he's joining the Republicans after the McCleskey Clique of the NMGOP stabbed him in the back in the 2012 elections – from the above article:

Despite consistently voting with Republicans and carrying a controversial bill aimed at repealing the state law granting driver's licenses to undocumented workers, Nuñez saw a political action committee of Republican Gov. Susana Martinez send out mailers against him, Nuñez said.

The question for those who support the ideals of free-market economics, Constitutionally-limited government, individual rights and public-sector fiscal restraint is this:

Now that Nuñez is in the GOP camp, will he bend his knee to accept the leash and yoke from the McCleskey Clique?

Will Nuñez sign off on the Bush / McCain / Romney version of Big Government Keynesianism when McCleskey et al deem doing so to be politically expedient?

Will Nuñez become a rural version of Albuquerque's Richard Berry, stumping for big, expensive projects like the APS West Side stadium and the 50-mile bike path around Albuquerque?

That IS what seems to be necessary to get into the good graces of the GOP party-archs headed up by John Billingsley. As it seemed to be during the reigns of Harvey Yates, Monty Newman, etc., etc.

For example, Susana Martinez has basically signed off on ObamaCare, creating a "state-level health-care exchange" as mandated by Obama's copy-and-paste job from RomneyCare in Massachusetts. It was initially billed as a website where consumers could compare health care plans – sort of a medical version of Priceline.com (or Pricewatch.com) or Travelocity. So why exactly does such a site require a thirteen-member Board of Directors?

And then she supported expanding Medicare, as called for in ObamaCare.

What gives?

Those who put the principles of free-market economics, Constitutionally-limited government, individual rights and public-sector fiscal restraint above any sort of partisan affiliation want to know.

Another question for Billingsley and McCleskey:

Why should we care about your Democrat-wannabe candidates who profess to support the above-mentioned principles during election seasons, then blow off those same principles after getting elected?

I cite both of the Bush Presidents, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Heather Wilson and Rudy Giuliani as examples here.

I prefer an up-front opponent than a back-stabber professing friendship any day of the week.

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Mike Blessing / http://mikewb1971.wordpress.com / Phone – 001-505-249-1248
Creator, Host and Publisher, The Weekly Sedition – http://weeklysedition.wordpress.com

Who owns you? Who runs your life? Who should – you or someone else?
Freedom is the answer – what's the question?

"An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications."
"Anything free is worth what you pay for it."
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss."
"In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'"
"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."
"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
– Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

"Government is the disease that masquerades as its own cure."
– Robert LeFevre

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
– Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.

"If you wanna live long on your own terms
You gotta be willing to crash and burn"
– Motley Crue, "Primal Scream"

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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

1. Pages about Mr. Nuñez – Ballotpedia / Project Vote Smart / Vote-NM
   
   
2. Search results about Mr. Nuñez – Bing / DuckDuckGo / Google / Yahoo!

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British Humor is Different

BRITISH HUMOR IS DIFFERENT

These are classified ads, which were actually placed in U.K. Newspapers:

FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER.
8 years old, Hateful little bastard. Bites!

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FREE PUPPIES
1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog.

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FREE PUPPIES. Mother is a Kennel Club registered German Shepherd.
Father is a Super Dog, able to leap tall fences in a single bound.

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COWS, CALVES: NEVER BRED. Also 1 gay bull for sale.

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JOINING NUDIST COLONY!
Must sell washer and dryer £100.

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WEDDING DRESS FOR SALE.
Worn once by mistake.
Call Stephanie.

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And the WINNER is . . .

FOR SALE BY OWNER. Complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 45 volumes.
Excellent condition, £200 or best offer.
No longer needed, got married, wife knows everything.

(Statement of the Century)

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Thought from the Greatest Living Scottish Thinker – Billy Connolly.

"If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking,
How come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time?"

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Children Are Quick

TEACHER: Why are you late?
STUDENT: Class started before I got here.

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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.

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TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell 'crocodile?'
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
(I Love this child)

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TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.

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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!

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TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.

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TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ' I. '
MILLIE: I is . . .
TEACHER: No, Millie . . . . . Always say, 'I am.'
MILLIE: All right . . . 'I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.'

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TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn't punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand . . . . .

_____________________________________________________________

TEACHER: Now, Simon , tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.

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TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your brother's.. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It's the same dog.

(I want to adopt this kid!!!)

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TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher

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PASS IT AROUND AND MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH

Due to current economic conditions the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

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Fwd: Fw: Fwd: Talk to a bartender

---------- Original Message ----------
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: Talk to a bartender
Date: Thu, 1 August 2013 16:39:54
To: Me

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Date: Sun, June 30, 2013 at 8:51 AM
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Talk to a bartender

* Psychiatrists vs. Bartenders *

EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD, I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEAR OF SOMEONE UNDER MY BED AT NIGHT. SO I WENT TO A SHRINK AND TOLD HIM:

'I've got problems. Every time I go to bed I think there's somebody under it. I'm scared. I think I'm going crazy.'

'Just put yourself in my hands for one year,' said the shrink. 'Come talk to me three times a week and we should be able to get rid of those fears.'

'How much do you charge?'

'Eighty dollars per visit,' replied the doctor.

'I'll sleep on it,' I said.

Six months later the doctor met me on the street. 'Why didn't you come to see me about those fears you were having?' he asked.

'Well, eighty bucks a visit three times a week for a year is an awful lot of money! A bartender cured me for $10. I was so happy to have saved all that money that I went and bought me a new pickup!'

'Is that so!' With a bit of an attitude he said, 'and how, may I ask, did a bartender cure you?'

'He told me to cut the legs off the bed! Ain't nobody under there now!'

FORGET THE SHRINKS – HAVE A DRINK & TALK TO A BARTENDER!

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About the CPB, Republicans and Statism

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: About the CPB, Republicans and Statism
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:46:48 -0600
From: Mike Blessing
To: [85 individuals]

7/26/2013 6:29 AM:

FYI: In addition to foundation money, tax dollars are also given to the CPB which runs PBS stations around the nation. The taxpayer is not asked whether he wishes to contribute. That should be stopped and we have the right to demand it.

Starting in 1994, the Republicans have been promising to do exactly this – defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – during most if not all election seasons.

From 1994 to 2007, the Republicans held majorities in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.

Yet the CPB never lost a penny in funding.

Thus, either the Republicans are so incompetent that they are unable to organize enough votes to defund the CPB while they hold legislative majorities . . .

OR

There are enough Republicans for whom this particular issue is nothing more than PR copy for their re-election campaigns – "red meat for the conservatives," soon to be forgotten after getting another term. Then when CPB's budget comes up for renewal, they find "reasons" to vote in favor of it.

I disagree that "we have no voice." We have plenty of voices. And we do have access to the media.

In these days of Blogspot, Wordpress and YouTube, media access for the common citizen keeps getting easier and easier.

In my judgement the causes of the Republican point of view not being disseminated merits an essay.

What exactly is the "Republican point of view" ?

There seems to be a misconception out there in GOP circles that the Republican Party is about free markets, Constitutionally-limited government, individual rights and public sector fiscal restraint.

Given the track records of John McCain, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Richard Nixon, that can hardly be true. The federal government never shrunk much if any in terms on expense or intrusiveness under any of the administrations of the above presidents.

Even under "The Gipper" Ronald Reagan, the GOP's patron saint of the 20th Century, the expense and intrusiveness of Washington DC expanded greatly. Reagan talked a decent game, but never really walked the walk.

Nor did President-wannabe Romney shrink government at the state level while he was Governor of Massachusetts.

While Senator-wannabe Heather Wilson was in the U.S. House as a "representative" for New Mexico's 1st District, she enthusiastically supported the single biggest expansion of the welfare state in the "Oughts" of the 21st Century – Medicare Part D, signed into "law" by George W. Bush in 2003.

So why exactly should people who DO care about free markets, Constitutionally-limited government, individual rights and public sector fiscal restraint care in the slightest about the "Republican point of view" ?

He made his money through valuable capitalist methods: individual rights of privately owned property, voluntary trade, limited government and free markets. But in his basic premises he is wedded to the welfare state, which means the principle of unlimited government. In other words: statism.

I know the original comment was about Bill Gates, but this was and is also true of Mittens Romney, the GOP's 2012 presidential offering.

_______________________________________________________________________
Mike Blessing / http://mikewb1971.wordpress.com / Phone – 505-249-1248

Who owns you? Who runs your life? Who should – you or someone else?
Freedom is the answer – what's the question?

"Government is the disease that masquerades as its own cure."
– Robert LeFevre
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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

1. Reason: Consultant in Chief
   
   
2. [LPNM] Carla Howell: Mitt Romney = Big Government

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Book Review -- SSN, by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg

SSN by Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg

Berkley mass-market edition – Feburary, 2000, softcover, 351 pages

ISBN 0-495-17353-4

When Tom Clancy takes a direct hand in writing the books with his name on the cover, they're usually pretty good. When the writing task is handed off to someone else, it's a crapshoot as to whether you'll end up with a good read. Luckily, SSN seems to be one of the former.

SSN was based upon a CD-ROM game of the same name^[1]. Both the book and game are concerned with the U.S.S. Cheyenne^[2], a Los Angeles class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the U.S. Navy, commanded by a Captain Bartholomew "Mack" Mackey, as the Cheyenne goes into combat against the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, which is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army^[3].

The Cheyenne starts off by engaging a Han class submarine^[4] near Hawaii, but most of the book takes place as the Cheyenne goes up against various subs and surface ships of the PLAN in and around the Spratly Islands, as China wants to establish oil-prospecting operations there.

For what it's worth, the Spratlys are currently claimed by not only China, but also Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan. Most if not all of these nations are after the oil and natural gas deposits that are suspected to be under the Spratlys^[5].

The "interview" (more properly called a "conversation" or "chat") at the back of the book reveals that the game the book is based upon offers fifteen (15) different situations for the user to undertake, playing the role of "Mack," and that while completing all of them successfully won't qualify the user to actually command an attack sub in rela-life combat, they will get a taste of what it's like. One of the participants, a Captain Doug Littlejohn, CBE (retired) from the British Royal Navy, says that the main liberty taken with the game (and thus the book) was that of time compression – tasks that take hours or days in real life are squeezed into seconds and minutes for the sake of the game, simply to avoid putting the user to sleep.

All in all, it was worth the ∅2 that I paid for it at the used bookstore.

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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

1. Tom Clancy's SSN (CD-ROM game)
   
   
2. U.S.S. Cheyenne (SSN-773)
   
   
3. People's Liberation Army Navy
   
   
4. Han class submarine
   
   
5. Spratly Islands

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Dear Starbucks

My recent email to the head honchoes at Starbucks, sent via a hoplophobe website:

Dear Starbucks,

Thank you for allowing private civilians to exercise the right to own and carry weapons for self-defense in your locations. Because of this, I will go to Starbucks whenever possible over your competition.

Your support for the Second Amendment IS appreciated.

Again, thank you.

Here's the link, for those wanting to send their own:

http://action.momsdemandaction.org/page/speakout/dear-starbucks

H/T Jospeh L. Roberts

This is almost as good as when I sent Jeff Bingaman a check for ∅1 back in 1994 – he's been sending me holiday-season cards ever since.

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My gotoquiz Political Ideology Test Results

Take the test yourself – What is your political ideology?

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In case Xanga 2.0 doesn't pan out . . .

I'm already on Wordpress and Blogspot – see for yourself:

http://mikewb1971.wordpress.com

http://mikewb1971.blogspot.com

I'm also a member of the Xangaville Facebook group:

http://facebook.com/groups/116326698428600/

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Book Review -- Learning the World, by Ken MacLeod

Learning the World by Ken MacLeod

1st mass-market Tor edition (October 2006) – softcover, 364 pages

Learning the World won Ken MacLeod the Prometheus Award in 2006^[1]. Should it have won? Considering that it was up against Vin Suprynowicz's The Black Arrow, I don't know. Still, Learning the World was a really good book.

Here's the plot summary from the back cover:

Humanity has spread to every star within five hundred light-years, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. But the universe has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.

Now the ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering a promising new system after a four-hundred-year journey. To their immense surprise, they detect patterned signals from the system's Earth-like world.

Meanwhile, on Ground, second world from the sun, a young astronomer searches for his system's outermost planet. A moving point of light thrills, then disappoints him. It's only a comet. But something is very odd about that comet's path . . . .

For the inhabitants of the starship and of Ground alike, the world has changed. "We are not living in the universe we thought we lived in yesterday. We have to start learning the world all over again."

Basically, humanity has become somewhat posthuman (or transhuman) to varying degrees – the people on board But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! have genetically-inheritable virtual-communication systems. Think of surfing the web, reading emails, posting to Facebook, whatever, all in your head, and you're born with that capability. Among other things – some of those on board are so adapted to the microgravity life that living on a planetary surface would be extremely inconvenient, at best.

And then there's the aliens, who also think of themselves as "human." They seem to be evolved from bat-like creatures in the same sort of way that humans here evolved from primates. Their architecture reflects this, as well as the comment some of them make that "if the gods wanted us to build flying machines, they wouldn't have given us wings." Wings they do have, and not the vestigal, atrophied kind that ostriches have – the "humans" of Ground are perfectly capable of flight.

Of course, the "comet" that Darvin discovers behaving in a peculiar manner is But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! (a miles-long and miles-wide generation ship) entering the star system, decelerating as it goes. Since when do comets slow down?

Anyway, the "humans" of Ground are closer to us present-day humans in terms of technology and social development than the humans of Learning the World – they're about where were in the early Twentieth Century (discovering radio transmission and heavier-than-air powered flight), where the humans of the book have been going about settling various star systems for 15,000 years, albeit limited to 0.01c^[2].

As the story progresses, the "humans" of Ground and those on board But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! provide plenty of intrigue to keep the reader engaged and guessing.

OK – enough spoilers – if you want more, you'll have to read it for yourself.

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FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

1. MacLeod's blog site – The Early Days of a Better Nation
   
   
2. March 2006 interview with SFRevu
   
   
3. Wikipedia pages – Ken MacLeod, Learning the World, Prometheus Award

NOTES

1. Here's the full list of Prometheus Award finalists in 2006.
   
   
2. The lower-case letter c stands for the speed of light – 299,792,458 meters per second (186,282.39 miles per second, or 670,760,005.47 miles per hour) in a vacuum. Light goes 9,460,730,472,580,800 (9.46 x 10¹⁵ in the short form) meters (5,878,625,373,183,607.73 miles) in one year, hence the term light-year.
   
   
3. Approximate reading level – 9.4
   
   
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