Status report

The good news is that my eye surgery got moved up by a week. Next Wednesday, the 9th, is when I'm now scheduled to have it. I'm so ready! But also nervous.

October is also turning out to be a rather busy month with tangled schedules, which is a bit of an issue, but it will work out.

I'll try to not miss any posts, but we'll see how it goes.

More good news is that my bank account is in the black-- I have $3. If you're someone who hasn't donated in a while, or ever before, and you'd like to help me get a little cushion, you can help in various ways. If not, that's fine, too. It's neither your responsibility nor your concern.

I have a lot to do, and some stuff to get, to be ready for the surgery and the month of limited activity afterward. But I have practice, now.

My computer is still dead in the water, but I'm adapting. I really wish I could access my files and pictures, though.

And that's the situation as of now.

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Self-sabotage

Anytime you see the acronym DEI, replace it in your mind with the word “sabotage”. Do the same with the individual parts of DEI; “diversity”, “equity”, and “inclusion”. Those are all sabotage. They will lead to a predictable result.

If you try to implement this policy on your own organization, you are sabotaging yourself. 

Maybe you're doing it because you think it's a good look. It's not. 

Maybe you think it is necessary in order to help some people. It's not. You're hurting them.

If you want to sabotage something useless and harmful, like government, then by all means impose DEI-- sabotage-- on it. 

But if you like something, keep sabotage far away from it. Hire the best people available, without regard to irrelevant surface characteristics and without worrying about checking certain boxes. Don't self-sabotage so you'll look good to those who want to destroy you.

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Kill it with fire!

What do you consider THE killshot for the notion of political government? 

The one thing that, once heard, either cures the hearer of their belief in statism, or forces them to purge the killshot from their mind as though they’d never heard it so they can keep believing in government.

I know there are many, but there's got to be one that's far more powerful than the others and fits every situation. I'd like to find it. And use it.

What is your best suggestion?

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The real danger of "climate change"

I will agree with the climate alarmists on one point: AGCC is an existential threat. Just not in the way they claim.

Not due to climate or weather problems, but because of the things government will do, and has done, using it as justification.

So many crises are of this same type. Crime, Covid, the economy, war, "immigration"... the list goes on forever. The "problem" may or may not be real, but the threat government poses, using these "problems" as its excuse for committing evil could lead to our enslavement or extinction.

This is why government is the root problem. It's why government is and always has been The Ancestral Enemy.

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Both candidates tick communist boxes

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for August 25, 2024)

Is Kamala Harris a communist?

That would depend on what "communist" means. Defenders of communism get very slippery when you try to pin them down on the definition. Their usual tactic is to demand to know how you define communism rather than to define it themselves-- probably because they can't define it without looking like monsters for defending it.

Whatever you say in response, they'll claim it isn't "real communism" like they are advocating.

The dictionary says communism is a system based on "the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state". That's the nice version. The political version is a "social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party". (The definition of socialism rearranges the same words.) This sounds like "The Uniparty" to me.

Since I'm not a mind reader, I can't tell you what people who advocate communism are thinking or what they want.

A more useful approach is to describe what communists tend to do when they get power.

Communists tend to close the borders. They empower legislation enforcers. They work to erase property rights. They use legislation to control businesses and they impose price controls. They use taxation to finance the state, punish achievers, and buy support from those they give handouts to. They push "equity"; equality of outcomes, not equality of rights. They put government interests and power above the interests and legitimate power of the individual. They pretend to be doing it for those who have been left behind by success and prosperity-- they call it "fairness".

They try to censor those who point out what they are doing. Rather than outright government censorship, they may send their legions of flying monkeys-- corporations and activists-- to silence their opposition.

Once they get enough power they inevitably come after the smart people who don't follow the communists' agenda.

One final thing communists reliably do when they gain power: they eventually murder vast numbers of people in their own country-- after they disarm them in the name of "public safety", of course.

Political communism always results in too much government and too much government always starts sharing many characteristics with communism. Is Kamala Harris a communist? She certainly ticks more boxes than Donald Trump, but is it enough to single her out?

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"Forever" governance

I guess they're at it again. Well, they never stopped.

The tyrannical taterheads of government believe themselves-- and their "job"-- so important that even if the world is destroyed someone needs to be governing what's left. 

Now, they are focusing more on what happens if they are all dead, too, in some sort of merciful precision strike. They want to make sure someone who thinks like them takes their place.

This is arrogant beyond belief. Like "forever" stamps.

You and I are on our own. We always were. We could all be dead, but as long as government continues these authoritarian monsters see it as a success.

Don't be fooled. "They" are unnecessary and harmful. Any plan to keep them ruling you after a "mass casualty event" is a plan for martial law and tyranny to be imposed, to protect their power over you. Forever.

I'm curious if they are worried that an obviously rigged or fraudulent election (aren't they all?) will trigger some widespread "unrest" that is more useful than sauntering through some "taxpayer"-owned buildings. I doubt enough Americans have the courage to be that useful.

Just remember that this kind of response is not even necessary. The simple fact is, if no one obeys, no one rules. Do not comply.

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Oculus sinister

After the recent eye surgery, I can now see great out of my left eye (at distance, anyway), while my right eye has my natural 20/1600+ "vision". 

I haven't had a chance to shoot since the eye surgery, but I have done a little dry-fire practice. Political ads are good for something after all. Who knew? 

Anyway...

My right eye is my shootin' eye. Or was...

I would have to shoot a rifle left-handed to have any chance of hitting anything other than the broad side of a barn (and that would be from inside the barn).

But I notice that when I aim a handgun I automatically align my left eye with the sights. Without any conscious thought about it at all. My body adapted, without hesitation, the first time I picked up a pistol. I didn't expect this, but I'm glad.

I expect that when I finally get the right eye taken care of, I'll automatically go back to using my right eye. I should find out in around 3 weeks if all goes as planned.

Has anyone else had experience with this?

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Has the android become one of us?

Found multiple places online

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Meta now says he's libertarian.

I don't go by what people say they are. I go by what they do; how they behave.

Do they follow the ZAP? 

Or do they just say they want a smaller government to follow the Constitution, while hanging out with congressvermin and other archators and promoting government programs (and politicians) they like? You know, like the majority of the semi-famous "libertarians" you'll run across on social media.

Time will tell with the world's most prominent android. I don't trust him, but I would love to be wrong and need to apologize to him. Which I will gladly do if he's truly changed.

(This post was immediately removed from FB for "violating community standards". Then they instantly removed the post I made saying the other one had been removed, and pointing to this blog's main page. With a warning about continued violations. So, the answer may be closer than we thought.)

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Robot wars are coming

I'm thinking it may behoove us to come up with ways to defeat the robots designed to defeat us, including aerial robots- drones. Robots that will be armed.

The recent story about the guy who fought a police robot, and lost, caused me to start thinking about the issue.

You might support what the cops did in this case, but if you're smart you know it's only a matter of time until tyrants use robots against those who aren't complying hard or fast enough. Against the good guys.

Today's robots are a joke compared to what we'll be seeing soon.

If you are only planning for defense from human bad guys, you aren't planning. Of course, robots may have the same weakness that F-15s have: human operators. Some may be autonomous, though. You'll need to be able to beat either type.

Ideas that come to my mind are electrical interference, pit traps, entanglements for their legs/propellers, snare traps, and armor-piercing liberty seeds.

What can you think of that I've missed?

I think this is important and will only become more important in the future. Robots are tools, and like all tools can be used by good guys or bad guys. The most effective ones will be reserved "for law enforcement use only", so we need plans to even the odds.

Added: When I say "Robot wars", I don't mean one government's robots against another government's robots- I mean government robots against you and me. I don't care much what happens between governments until they start calling us "collateral damage".

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"Why do the highly educated lean Left?"

It is commonly observed that highly educated people tend to lean Left. Some people would like to believe this means that’s the smart position.

They'll tell you this all the time. Often with a dash of smugness.

It's not necessarily true.

Since most "educators" lean Left, their students are influenced in that direction. Some of those students end up being "educators" and the cycle not only continues, but accelerates. Partly because they feel Left is the wise position since the "smart people" they know all lean in that direction, so to prove they are also smart, they lean Left. Maybe even a little further Left than those who taught them. Or brainwashed them.

The truly smart people reject archation. They lean neither Right nor Left, but toward respecting the rights and liberty of everyone around them. Politics makes people stupid, especially when they think they are being smart.

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(I’m struggling through a disastrous computer problem, using a combination of someone else’s computer and my phone. This is not sustainable, but I’m still trying to get back into my laptop. Wish me luck!)

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Computer trouble

My laptop has locked me out.

I’m working on it. I’ve tried everything I could think of and I’ve asked people who know more about computers than I do. So far nothing has worked. 

"People will never let go of government"

In any discussion with statists, at some point I will be told that people aren't ready for liberty. That they will never accept the responsibility of governing themselves. That they'll continue to insist on being governed, and someone will step in to fill that position.

So what if they're right?

Maybe people aren't ready for liberty.
Maybe they'll insist on having political government and on being governed.
Maybe.

That doesn't mean you have to accept their weakness. It certainly doesn't mean you are wrong for not sharing in it.

They'll never grow up unless they are pushed. 

That's why we need to keep pushing. Keep ridiculing statism-- because it is ridiculous. Keep pointing out the evil stupidity of political government. Keep showing them that not everyone accepts the premise that government is good or necessary. Keep expressing the many reasons we don't accept the premise. The reasons we never can.

Yes, (the superstitious idea of ) government exists. So? I don't share that belief- not in government as a concrete thing that people have to have. It's an obsolete belief that evil people use to control gullible people. Once the belief cracks, it's never as powerful against you.

Yes, those who believe in it will continue to be a danger to you and to society. I wouldn't expect anything else. There will always be bad people doing things they have no right to do. The hallucinations inside their head that cause them to justify doing those things may differ, but it's irrelevant. I don't care why they do wrong; only that they do. 

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Too much government deadly to liberty

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for August 18, 2024)

Too much government is a problem. I'm not talking about too many governments, but too much. Global government-- one government-- is the worst possible scenario. The fewer governments, the worse the problem generally becomes. Political power-- the power to govern, murder, steal, imprison, and enslave-- gets more dangerous the more concentrated and centralized it is.

The best number of governments is exactly the same as the number of people alive. Neither more nor fewer. Each human has a right to govern himself, and no one else.

A hierarchy of governments-- national,. regional, and local-- isn't a substitute; it adds too much government to the mix. That kind of structure allows governments to gang up on individuals to crush their liberty.

Governing others is a form of collectivism. It's a bad idea and worse in practice. Whether you call it communism, socialism, or fascism (versions of the same thing), or a constitutional republic, the last thing you want to do is allow too much government to exist.

Government collectivism and liberty are mortal enemies; they can't coexist. Watch what is happening in formerly "Great" Britain if you don't believe me. First, the people were disarmed and now they are being arrested-- kidnapped by government-- for social media posts the British government doesn't like. This is where democracy leads. The people voted this into existence, and now they are paying the price.

The British subjects may be wishing they hadn't allowed the British state to violate their rights so completely. It's going to be harder now to regain liberty from too much government. I hope they manage.

Too much government can impose some truly awful ideas.

Too much government might impose diversity-- not the consensual, organic, bottom-up kind, but the coerced, destructive, top-down form. When you force people together it doesn't go well for society. It gives governments an excuse to crack down on the people who are reacting to the unlivable situation, though. This is probably why so many governments are forcing this policy on their populations.

The worst government idea of all is "equity"-- forcing equal outcomes, rather than respecting everyone's equal rights. It's one of the most brutal authoritarian plots communists have come up with so far.

Every human being alive has equal and identical rights. It doesn't depend on whether the regional government respects these rights; they exist regardless. If this fact is being suppressed, you have too much government.

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Don't fall into this trap

Believing a leader is necessary (or wanting one) is weakness.

Mistaking politicians-- rulers-- for leaders is stupidity.

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Where are they now?

Do you ever wonder "Where are they now?"?

I was just wondering about the person who, in response to my newspaper column about Covid hysteria in October 2020, wrote this to me:

You tell people to go ahead and get out in the same paper that the doctors are asking us to stay in as much as possible. You are incredibly inconsiderate. You go ahead and get out and when you get sick, we’ll just say “Sure there was a cost” but he knew and was happy to risk it.
You need to stop writing until you face reality.

Yes, I was happy to risk it. Yes, I've probably had the illness 3 times so far. It was worth it to not be a prisoner in my own home. She's welcome to feel differently.

I wonder if she ever caught on that the thing was mostly (or entirely) a scam to control the population. That many of those doctors now admit there was no scientific data behind the mandates. 

I wonder which of us was more in tune with reality.

Is she still trying to hide from the virus?
How many shots and boosters did she get?
How many times has she had the Fauci Bug?
Does she blame me for every time she caught it?

I wonder if she is even still alive.

She never wrote to apologize for being crazy. Some people eventually do.

I'm fighting an urge to reply to her old email and ask how she is doing. But I won't. I doubt my email would be welcome.

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The Difference

When I don't like what others are doing I'll refuse to take part. I'll speak out against what they are doing. I may ridicule it. I'll only use force if I have to do so to protect life, liberty, or property from an archator.

When a statist doesn't like what others are doing, the statist will threaten (and use) government violence against them to stop them from doing it, whether there's an individual victim or not.

We are not the same.

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I'm not signing

If someone came to you today, with a document to sign that said the exact same thing the US Constitution says, would you sign it?

I wouldn't.

I was told I will be forced to sign some constitution, so I'd better sign this one or I'll be signing one that's worse.

I am not signing.

I was told they don't care if I don't sign. They'll insist on governing me anyway.
So, then, why would I sign?

I was told I must have a PLAN! to deal with thugs who would insist on governing/molesting me anyway. I pointed out all plans fall apart as soon as other people are involved. What is his plan? Signing their one-sided "contract"?
The best thing to do is to have principles that you can act on.
I'm still not signing it.

I was asked what I do when armed people show up and demand I pay their "taxes". I asked if he has a plan to deal with muggers.
How would signing a constitution eliminate the thieves? Why didn't it work this time?
I'm not signing anything.

So I was told all I have are principles and ideas that can't be put into concrete action. What an odd thing to say. Especially from someone whose plan seems to involve signing documents forced on him by criminal gangs. Documents which will be interpreted and enforced by the people employed by the criminal gang.
Not gonna sign.

Then he said I was claiming persecution, simply because I pointed out that criminals will always exist, whether you call them rapists, cops, murderers, tax collectors, rapists, or whatever. If you can't live free in spite of them, then you'll never be free.
All I'm saying is that I'm not going to sign, not that I'd try to stop him from signing.

So I was told again that I "hate" the Constitution, that I "keep pretending as if the binary is between 'a perfect stateless system or the imperfect constitution' when in reality the choice is between this imperfect constitution or some other constitution that is worse." Which I never did. In fact, I pointed out several times that Utopia is not an option.
But, I wouldn't sign his constitution.

This was another of those self-proclaimed "libertarians", doing anything he could think of to force people to live under a state because he couldn't imagine any other way.
And, I still wouldn't sign his constitution.

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Things that make you say "Really?"

Curious whether "someone" has made political donations in your name without your knowledge? (Or want to see who the latest wanna-be assassin has been donating to?) Go to https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts and find out.

I was relieved to not find my name anywhere on the list. But I did see something a little suspicious.

One of my relatives seems to have made well over 200 donations in the last year she was alive-- up until 8 days before she died in January of this year. Mostly $3 each (198 of them!), with some smaller, some slightly larger, some amounts of a greater order of magnitude, and a couple of $250 donations. All but one going to ACTBLUE. 

Maybe she did... but it looks fishy.

She suffered a stroke several years ago and hadn't been 100% since then, unable to speak and be understood by anyone but her immediate family, and unable to walk. I'm not really sure how good her mind was otherwise.

It wouldn't shock me to discover she was a leftist, but it shows she made 13 small donations in one day, and on several days she apparently made 5, 6, or 7 donations. 

She probably had the money to do this, but it looks odd to me. There was one other person in this ZIP code with a similar donation profile, also mostly giving to ACTBLUE, but with only about half as many individual donations. This relative of mine beat everyone else in the ZIP code for the number of donations, but not the dollar amount. (One other relative made around 70 donations to various Republican groups and candidates in the past 2 years. This also seems excessive, but as there wasn't only one main recipient, it looks legitimate.)

I'm not going to mention this to her family. As I say, she could very well have been a lefty, and what's done is done. I don't corner people over politics. I can't explain peoples' political behaviors. Plus, it's none of my business. I didn't even intend to see this information, it was an accident as I was looking for my name and didn't know quite how to work the website. It just makes me wonder.

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Spending all the time on the crazy half

I've always said I agree with the Right and the Left on the half of things they are each correct about. That hasn't changed. Given all the positions of each side, in raw numbers, they are still right on around half the topics.

Something else has changed, though. They are no longer correct half the time.

Both sides are focusing most of their time and effort yapping about the things they are wrong about.

Their statist positions disgust me. 

The Right would probably claim they push their bad positions-- pro-cop/"lawn odor", borderism, imperialism/militarism, etc.--  as a reaction to the nutty stuff coming from the Left. That excuses nothing.

The Left may still be correct about half of the time-- but they have pushed that half almost completely aside. They've swept it under the rug and focused hard on the things they are wrong about. Things like having government traffic people, banning guns, sexualizing kids, etc. (Things they lie and say isn't what they are doing when it really is.)

Why have they stopped talking about the things they are correct about-- ending prohibition, for example-- and started going so hard for the crazy stuff they are wrong about? Perhaps they'd claim it is in reaction to the nutty stuff coming from the Right. It excuses nothing.

I find it so hard to relate to statists.

(Image made on Gab.ai- look at all those fingers! The better to pick your pocket with.)

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However election ends, you'll be fine

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for August 11, 2024)

No matter which politician attains the office of President after the upcoming election, you'll probably be fine. I know it's more popular to say we are all doomed unless a certain politician wins. The truth is, no President has had much effect on my life, regardless of whether I liked or despised him. Or potentially, her.

If they imposed unconstitutional legislation I didn't like, I probably ignored it or found a workaround. We all commit an average of three felonies per day, according to author and attorney Harvey Silverglate; what's the harm of a few more? When the laws are wrong, good people are outlaws.

This time, some activists tell us if the candidate they hate wins, he'll round up all those who oppose him or who live a different lifestyle. It's not going to happen. Not even if he actually wanted to do it, which he doesn't.

I don't think America will allow anything like the Japanese American internment camps of World War 2 to happen again. If you want me to rise up, try it.

Nearly every time we've been told a particular segment of the population will be rounded up, they haven't been. "January 6" protestors, drug users, and gun owners are obvious exceptions, and in those cases, neither party has been willing to end the atrocity. Both are guilty. It should have been resisted from the first, and it wasn't. This was a mistake... and a lesson.

If things get bad enough that your friends and neighbors see the need to rise up to save you, we will. And we'll win. Government doesn't realize they are playing with fire now.

The warning doesn't apply to only one political party, either.

I think every election since I've been an adult has been "the Most Important Election in Our Lifetime". Each one had at least one candidate who was a threat to the very fabric of America, according to the other party and the corporate media representing that side. I don't even think they are wrong. Anyone who seeks political power over others is unworthy of it and dangerous. Some are worse than others.

Whichever way the next election goes, you'll be fine. If it looks like you won't be, it's time to forego voting and protesting. "Never again" doesn't only apply to the Holocaust, but to any government overreach posing a threat to life, liberty, and property. I've had enough. Have you?

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