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You know you are a true Wyomingite when….

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

(reprinted forwarded e-mail stuff):

You know you are a true Wyomingite when:

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

2. “Vacation” means going up north past Worland for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

5. You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.

6. Your whole family wears brown and gold to church on Sunday.

7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.

9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.

12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Big R Ranch & Farm at any given time.

13. You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

15. You refer to the Bronco’s as “we.”

16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

17. You can identify a Colorado accent.

18. You have no problem spelling Meeteetse.

19. You consider Cheyenne exotic.

20. You don’t have a coughing fit from one sip of Coors.

21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.

22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

23. Down South to you means Denver.

24. A brat is something you eat.

25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.

26. You go out to bull fry every Friday.

27. You know how to line dance.

28. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

29. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

30 You find 0 degrees “a little chilly.”

31. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wyoming friends
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This is longer, but even better:

Wyoming State Barbies are finally available

Jackson Barbie: This modern day homemaker Barbie is available with a Mercedes 4WD SUV, a Prada handbag and matching Nike Yoga ensemble. She has a masters degree and double-majored, but has the luxury of being a stay-at-home mom with Ken’s generous salary. Comes with Percocet prescription and Botox. Starbucks mug and traffic-jamming Blackberry internet/cell phone device sold separately. Husband Ken is into fishing, golfing, baseball and is often “working late.” Available at all Seattle-area Starbucks retailers.

Teton Village Barbie: This princess Barbie is only sold at Nordstrom. She comes with an assortment of Kate Spade handbags, your choice of a BMW convertible or Hummer H2 and a long-haired foreign lapdog named “Honey.”

Also available is her cookie-cutter development dream house. Available with or without tummy tuck, facelift, and breast augmentation. Workaholic, cheating husband, Ken, comes with a Porsche.

Rock Springs Barbie: This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handgun, switchblade, ‘78 El Camino with dark tinted windows, and a meth lab kit. This model is available only after dark and can only be purchased with cash – preferably small bills, unless you’re a cop, then we don’t know what you’re talking about. Boyfriend Ken is in rehab. Available at many pawn shops.

Rawlins Barbie: This tobacco chewing, brassy-haired Barbie comes with a pair of high-heeled sandals with one broken heel from the time she chased Beer Gut Ken out of Auburn Barbie’s trailer. Her ensemble includes low-rise acid-washed jeans, fake fingernails, strawberry lip gloss and a see-through halter top. Purchase her Mustang convertible separately and get a Confederate flag bumper sticker absolutely free. Boyfriend Ken is in the State Prison. Available at Army Navy Surplus.

Cheyenne Barbie: This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans 2 sizes too small, steel-toed cowboy boots, a Willie Nelson T-shirt and a Tweedy Bird tattoo on her shoulder. She has fake fingernails, a six pack of Budweiser, and a Hank Williams, Jr. CD set. She can spit over a distance of 6 feet and kick PRCA cowboy Ken’s ass when she is drunk. Also available is the gold-toned cubic zirconium ring that Ken gave her after another one of his “episodes” with his boss’s daughter. Comes with Barbie’s Dream Double Wide Trailer. Available at Wal-Mart.

Gillette Barbie: Pregnant at purchase, this Barbie comes with a stroller and bus pass. Also included is a G.E.D. and a completely filled out food stamps form. Construction worker Ken and his ‘82 Caddy are optional. Available at Value Village.

Laramie Barbie: This Barbie is made out of recycled plastic and tofu. She has long straight brown hair, archless feet, hairy armpits, no make-up, and Birkenstocks with white socks. She does not want, or need, a Ken doll. If you purchase the optional Subaru wagon, you will receive a free rainbow flag sticker. Available at REI.

Lander Barbie: This versatile doll can be easily converted from Barbie to Ken by simply adding or removing snap on parts. Walks to work. Likes to “experiment,” but will never commit. This model is being phased out and is only available from the manufacturer.

Cody Barbie: This Barbie is a transplant from California and moved into the area to “get away from the big city”. She comes with a 10 acre “ranch” on the South Fork and a 1-ton crew cab diesel truck that she drives the kids to school in. She moved here to live in the beautiful and low populated west, but now doesn’t want anyone else to move here because they will ruin the area. Retired lawyer Ken comes with his own cowboy outfit so he can act like he is a local and “fit in”. This model is sold at any main street art gallery in Cody, and there are several to choose from.

Hawg leeeg!!!!

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

I got me a big ol “Wyoming cowboy gun” (large .357 magnum revolver, a.k.a. a “hog leg” revolver.) It’s made in Newport, New Hampshire by the Ruger company. It’s the Ruger GP100, the one with the 6-inch barrel.  It ’s pretty heavy. One review I read of it said “Great gun, and it doubles as a club!” lol…

We also got a new rifle today, a .308 caliber from a Japanese company called “Howa”, they make good guns for the money. The ironic thing is that it’s illegal to own a gun in Japan! Will work for hunting deer and antelope if we ever get around to that.

–Michael W. Dean

Charlie looking like a chicken or a llama:

Wyoming beeoches!…. (note…this is a joke, I am not a gangsta):

Peanut in his favorite position:

Fuzzy enjoys a “frink”:

Peanut plays:

Kurt Russell in Tango & Cash with the Ruger GP100 with a 4-inch barrel and some huge 1980s laser site:

How people are FORCED at gunpoint give away their private assets to “help” others.

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

TS asked on a comment on another thread: “Please explain how people are being ‘forced’ to give away their private assets to help others.” (in regard to progressives/liberals/Democrats).

This really is libertarianism 101, but deserves its own post.

But here ya go:

When you vote in people who want to increase social spending (welfare, for instance, or foreign aid), those people raise taxes. If someone who did not vote for that person disagrees, he has to pay those taxes anyway. If he doesn’t pay taxes, agents of the government will come to his house and arrest him. If he refuses to come out, they will come in his house and put a gun to his head.

Therefore, the social services you “benevolently” and “compassionately” vote for are paid for with taxes collected at the barrel of a gun. This is an initiation of aggression and a use of force and is NOT compassionate.

Moreover, Democracy is undemocratic, because 51% can tyrannize 49% with things like this.

This joke explains it well:

I recently asked my friends’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do? ‘

She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’

Her parents beamed with pride.

‘Wow…what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house. ‘

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, ‘ Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50? ‘

I said, ‘Welcome to the Republican Party.’

Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.

Another quick explanation is found in one of my lyrics, the Right Arm of Wyoming song “Freaky Liberal Mammal Sex“:

If my neighbor had three cars and I stole one
I’d rightly go to prison
If this “progressive” gub’ment mugs my neighbor for his car
to tax-support crack babies
Liberals think that’s justice

–Michael W. Dean

Personal “moral” rules change. It’s not selling out, it’s evolution.

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The younger people are, the more they think their own rules are set in stone. The older you get, the more you realize you have to sometimes re-evaluate them.

Personal “moral” rules change. It’s not selling out, it’s evolution.

  • When I was 10, I thought it was immoral to smoke pot.
  • When I was 13, I was a vegetarian, and thought it was immoral to eat meat.
  • When I was 14, I was a born-again Christian and thought it was immoral to say “Goddamn.”
  • When I was 15, I was a pacifist and thought it was immoral to hit back if someone hits you.
  • When I was 21, I thought it was immoral to carry a gun. And I thought it was immoral to deal with major corporations or vote Republican.

And I believed it was immoral to deal with major corporations until my late 20s, and believed it was immoral to carry a gun or vote Republican until I was in my early 40s.

You get old the moment you stop being teachable.

–Michael W. Dean

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I’d love to hear how your “absolutes” have changed with age.

Free libertarian punk CD for active military

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

FREE LIBERTARIAN PUNK CD FOR ACTIVE MILITARY

ANGRY PEASANT RECORDS will send CDs FREE to active military at US/ APO/FPO address. Will send to the first 70 who write us. (NO FAKERS. REMEMBER, STOLEN VALOR IS A CRIME AND WE WILL CHECK!)

Sending these free to our troops is our small way of saying THANK YOU!

email your name, rank and address to us and we’ll mail it out promptly!

YOU GET: TWO (yes, 2!) copies of the CD of feisty libertarian gun-nut punk rock/industrial music, CLING TO OUR GUNS by Right Arm of Wyoming. Check out the music at www.rightarmofwyoming.

Extra copy of the CD is to “spread the love”, makes a perfect gift for that leftie relative who needs some modern “school house rock” to educate them on the error of their ways!

STYLE: PUNK ROCK, HARDCORE PUNK ROCK, INDUSTRIAL ROCK, ROCK ‘N” ROLL

SONG LISTING:

1. GET OFF MY PROPERTY!
2. MY GUN KEEPS YOU HONEST
3. REDISTRIBUTION OF THEFT
4. GOVERNMENT IS A COLLECTIVE HALLUCINATION
5. GUN CONTROL GETS WOMEN RAPED
6. LIBERTY IN SHARDS
7. FREAKY LIBERAL MAMMAL SEX
8. FAKIN’ THE RACE CARD
9. SINGLE CRACKLING BLUE FLASH
10. WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS!
11. US Bill of Rights (read by Mrs. Dean)
12. LETTER TO A YOUNG ME (SPOKEN)
13. MY GUN KEEPS YOU HONEST – CLEAN VERSION FOR RADIO
REVIEWS:

—”Fox News – the band” – Bridge Nine punk forums

—”As refreshing as a gunshot to the head…” – children’s book author Eric B. Anderson

—”You rule! I listened to your CD. It’s AWESOME!” –Pat Kim (head honcho at ConservativePunk.com)

—”WOW, you do not pull any punches. Great! The movement needs music which will strike a cord with all different kinds of people. Thanks for all you are doing to preserve our freedoms, liberty and culture.”

– Patriotic singer Lloyd Marcus

—”I threw up watching this crap. Talk about trying to indoctrinate! Pure propaganda set to music.”

–Some Michael Moore fan, commenting about Right Arm of Wyoming on YouTube

CD is factory glass mastered (not burned at home), and packaged in nice cardboard sleeve with four-color printing.

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What is libertarianism?

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Don’t mess with us and we won’t mess with you!

Someone asked me on YouTube:

I don’t understand libertarianism, is it more right wing or? left wing?

I replied:
It’s kind of both, or neither. Fiscal conservatism to the right of Republicans, and socially to the left of liberals.

In other words, we don’t care if you? smoke crack, but we don’t wanna pay for the crack babies you have.

And we really like guns. A lot.

Basically the shortest definition of libertarianism is “get off my property”, with “property” being everything: rights, taxes, money, guns, drugs, what people do in their bedroom, etc.

Hope that helped.

Michael W. Dean

He replied:

Thanks! That helps a lot. I will look into libertarianism, because I agree with what you said.

An open letter to Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Hello Governor Dave,

If you plan to change the term limits and run a third term, as many conjecture, I would like to propose that you change your party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.

I don’t suggest this only because Republicans are doing better now and are more popular, though we are. I suggest it because I think that you’re more fiscally conservative than most Democrats, so the switch would only makes sense. You’re more Republican than some Republicans, including the governor of California.

You’re in favor of preserving the Second and Tenth Amendments, things that most liberals are against. You favor Castle Doctrine and lower taxes, and are more willing to trust people to take care of themselves rather than feeling we need overlording and nannying. This trust is another mark of classic liberty-minded Republicans. You’re also more of a friend of liberty, and more fiscally conservative, than the Republicans who’ve run against you in the past.

You want the federal government out of the lives of Wyomingites, and are taking steps toward enforcing that. For all of this, I commend you.

As Democrats in America move to the left, favoring bigger government and higher taxes, and Republicans return to a Goldwater-like respect for the Founders’ ideals, I think the tag “Democrat” no longer fits you.

Come on over to the other side, Dave, it’s nice here! You’re already most of the way anyway, why not make it official?

MICHAEL W. DEAN, Casper

Wyoming contact for the Republican Liberty Caucus

(This was printed as letter to the editor in the Casper Star-Tribune)

Got my gun carry permit today

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Got my Wyoming concealed carry permit today. Meant more to me than when I got my driver’s license. (I didn’t get a driver’s license until I was 21, and never really drove much.) Getting a concealed weapon permit is a large part of the reason I moved to Wyoming….getting one is pretty much impossible in Los Angeles County, unless you’re a movie star or a judge.

You have to live in Wyoming six months before you can apply, and it took a month to get it. I’ve been here seven months, and have been open carrying the whole time. It was a trip to actually conceal carry, walk down the street, go to the library, go eat lunch with the wife. It felt good, like walking on the moon.

The libertarian in me doesn’t like the idea of needing a government-endorsed card to practice an inalienable right, but the Republican in me digs being able to get the card, and getting it.

Ironically for me, the Wyoming legislature is currently mulling a bill that would allow concealed carry without a permit, and that bill may pass. (Yay!). But my permit will still allow me to carry in Utah, the Dakotas, Montana and a bunch of other states. (Not New York or California though! Those places are no friends of freedom.)

Also ironic is that my permit was available yesterday for pickup, but it was Presidents’ Day, so the office was closed. “President’s Day” is what they call it, but it’s officially called “George Washington’s Birthday”, and I think George would have been appalled at the idea of needing a permit to carry a gun. He didn’t need no stinking papers to carry!

Anyway, it’s a really good day, and I’m very happy!

–Michael W. Dean

California cop suggests shooting gun owners who open carry

Monday, February 15th, 2010

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585807,00.html

East Palo Alto Police Det. Rod Tuason apparently posted the remarks on his Facebook page in response to a friend’s status update, which suggested that gun advocates who carry unloaded weapons openly — which is legal in California — should do so in places like “Oakland, Richmond and East Palo Alto” and not just in “hoity toity” cities.

“Haha we had one guy last week try to do it!” Tuason replied. “He got proned out [laid face-down on the ground] and reminded where he was at and that turds will jack him for his gun in a heartbeat!”

Several comments later, the detective suggested shooting the gun rights advocates, some of whom have carried firearms openly in recent weeks in California’s Bay Area, particularly at Starbucks locations.

“Sounds like you had someone practicing their 2nd amendment rights last night!” Tuason wrote. “Should’ve pulled the AR out and prone them all out! And if one of them makes a furtive movement … 2 weeks off!!!” — referring to the modified duty, commonly known as desk duty, that typically follows any instance in which an officer is investigated for firing his weapon…..

Man. I am SO glad in EVERY way that we moved out of that state. I really feel like it’s almost a different country.

MWD

Here’s a screengrab of the exahange, before they deleted it to destroy evidence:

Why revolvers?

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

My beloved Taurus 605 snub-nose revolver failed the other day. Really bummed me out, I had a “relationship” with that gun, and was counting on it if I needed it to save my life. I carried it everywhere.

My Taurus  jammed while shooting .38 special plus P ammo. I got the spent shells out, but the gun won’t close easily now, and you can barely pull the trigger.
Fortunately, Taurus guns covered by a lifetime guarantee, not just lifetime of the owner, but the life of the GUN, so even if you buy one second-hand, it’s still covered.

I’ll carry my S&W 908 semi-auto until I get it back (could take Taurus a few months, I’ve heard) but I am going to ALWAYS carry at least the mouse gun (Ruger .380 LCP) as a backup. What if I’d needed the Taurus in a life-and-death situation and it failed, and I had no backup?

I got the gun new, and have fired maybe 1000 rd through it over a few months. Mostly .357, some .38.

FWIW, the brand of ammo I was firing when it jammed was Blazer, but I don’t think it’s an ammo issue. Those rounds have a lot less power than the .357s I usually use.

WHY REVOLVERS?

Someone asked me “why do people still buy revolvers”?

People buy revolvers for the reason people still buy hammers. Because it may be an old design, but they work (despite my exception, which is so rare it proves the rule).

They fail less than most semi-autos, they’re cheaper.

They’re actually great guns for people with no experience with guns. If you ever buy a gun for someone, like a girlfriend or wife, who’s willing to carry a gun, but not willing to really become a “gun person”, a revolver is great. No safety to forget to turn off, not mag disconnect to accidentally hit, just point, and pull trigger. The trigger is so hard it acts as a safety, but you can also cock the trigger with your thumb to get a shorter trigger pull. (Which also has the psychological effect on whoever you’re pointing it at,….think Dirty Harry).

And why snubbies? A .357 revolver is the most power you can pack in the smallest form. Someone described a .357 snubbie as being like the “Noisy Cricket” gun from Men in Black.

And Snubbies can be fired from inside the pocket if need be. A semi-auto, not so much, because the slide has to move. Also, revolvers do not engage a spring until you pull the trigger. You could probably leave a loaded revolver in a drawer for half a century, and it would still work when you pulled the trigger. A loaded semi-auto with a bullet in the chamber would probably seize up or the spring would break in that amount of time.

Plus all revolvers look and feel cool and retro, and have a lot of history. They were the first usable multi-shot handguns. “God mad man, but Sam Colt made them equal.”

Revolvers have very few moving parts

compared to semi-autos

more on revolvers:

http://www.snubnose.info/

http://www.snubnose.info/history.htm

http://www.sixguns.com/range/Mademag.htm

http://www.handloads.com/articles/default.asp?id=30

http://www.notpurfect.com/main/concealed.html

Revolvers are much less affected by dust and dirt, require less cleaning and oiling, and are much easier to clean. (for what it’s worth, I cleaned mine often, and carried in a holster, which prevents pocket lint from getting in, but many people carry snubbies in a coat pocket. I don’t recommend that, for dirt, but also because in a holster, you KNOW what position it’s going to be in when you need to grab for it in an adrenaline situation.)

I’m psyched today. My concealed carry permit is waiting for me to pick up at the sheriff’’s office . Yay! I’ve wanted one for two years and more or less moved to Wyoming so I could get one!

MWD

Western States Republicans leading the way to Liberty

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Pro-Liberty legislation on Guns & Property Rights proposed by GOP legislators

by Michael W. Dean, Wyoming

Some interesting things going on here in the Rocky Mountain West…

There are three gun-rights bills going before the Wyoming legislature this month (as extra bills in a budget-only session), don’t know that they will pass, one will probably get tabled and considered later. two are 10th Amendment bills that would allow guns made and used only in the state to not come under federal purview (circumventing the Interstate Commerce Clause), but unlike the Montana bill, one of these actually allows the state to prosecute federal agents who violate it.

The other bill would allow Wyoming non-felons to carry a gun concealed without a permit, like Alaska and Vermont.

From the Casper Tribune:

CHEYENNE — A proposal that would allow people in Wyoming to carry concealed weapons without permits passed an initial legislative hurdle on Thursday.

If the bill passes, Wyoming would become only the third state in the nation, after Vermont and Alaska, to allow conceal-carry without a permit.

Under House Bill 113, the only people not allowed to carry concealed weapons in the state would be people under the age of 21, convicted felons, those convicted of drug-related charges, alcoholics, those with physical disabilities that impair their ability to handle firearms, and people who have lived in the state less than six months.

Currently, Wyoming residents must apply every five years for concealed weapons permits.

Rep. Lorraine Quarberg, the Thermopolis Republican sponsoring the bill, said the legislation is meant simply to spell out rights that are already guaranteed under the Wyoming Constitution and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

“I just believe people have the right to protect themselves and defend themselves,” Quarberg said. “And I want to make sure that we put it in statute and people know they can do it.”

There’s also the bill in session now to amend the state constitution to block federal demands that Wyomingites get health insurance if that federal health care debacle somehow passes.
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2010/Digest/SJ0001.htm

And then there’s this from Utah…

Salt Lake City Tribune:

SALT LAKE CITY — Conservative Utah lawmakers (photo of state capitol in SLC) want to spark a U.S. Supreme Court case that could ultimately allow states to develop resource-rich parcels of land that are now off limits where the federal government is the landlord.

The lawmakers said they will attempt to trigger an avalanche of legislation in the West through the use of eminent domain, which governments use to take private property for public use.

More than 60 percent of Utah is owned by the federal government, and policy makers here have long complained that federal ownership hinders their ability to generate tax revenue and adequately fund public schools.

Legislation was introduced in the Utah House on Thursday allowing the use of eminent domain on federal land. The effort has the full support of Republican Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who would have to defend the law.

(blog post first published in Libertarian Republican)

“so many e-mails my BlackBerry’s about to crash”

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Writing your representatives in a low-population state gets more attention than elsewhere, as seen with this report on two bills in Wyoming that would block the Fed’s ability to use the “interstate commerce clause” to mess with guns made and used only within the state.

Firearms bills draw attention

A second, tougher Firearms Freedom Act introduced in the state House would make it illegal for state or federal officials to enforce federal gun laws relating to firearms made and used in Wyoming……

…..Several legislators said they’ve been bombarded with e-mails and phone calls in recent days from constituents voicing their support for both pieces of the legislation.

I’ve had so many e-mails on this bill and Representative Jaggi’s bill, my BlackBerry’s about to crash,” said state Rep. Mary Throne, D-Cheyenne….

from the Casper Tribune

MWD

We Need More Blizzards

Friday, February 12th, 2010

I grew up in New England. Southeastern Connecticut to be precise. Winter was always a season of wonder and fascination for me. We always had snow in Winter, and it started around Thanksgiving and went well into March. Somehow, we survived those storms and made it to Summer. Summer was fun, with the beach nearby and all, but I always liked Winter best.

Fast-forward 30 years later. I’m not 7 anymore, I am 37. I live in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Prior to last week, we hadn’t seen a blizzard in 7 years, and in between that, we were pretty light on snowfall amounts. I would even dare to state that my town got more snow Saturday and Wednesday than we got total in the last 7 years since that last hefty storm. Man, did I love not having to go to work. I loved sitting on my ass in front of this computer all day, catching up on a bunch of stuff I had neglected. Tuesday night I sent my other half to the store to pick up some food and candles- just in case the power went out. It didn’t, but it was nice to know they were there. We didn’t have to do squat, and it felt good.

I don’t get people who complain about snow, about winter. These people, to me, think that they’re above nature, and they resent being inconvenienced by her whims. It’s true, these kind of storms do disrupt our everyday routines and interrupt our flow, but this is a valuable lesson to learn. We’re nothing- NOTHING- compared to what nature can do to us. George Carlin once mentioned, “The Earth can shake us off like a bad case of fleas”. How right he is, and how arrogant we humans are to think that nature, that our climate, should readjust itself so we can conduct our everyday business. Storms like this remind us of how vulnerable we are, especially if we are not prepared and stocked up to get through long periods of time without electricity or running water, and more importantly, if we’re not armed and ready to defend what is ours should there be a major natural event that renders government unable to maintain order (Katrina anyone?).

I am not a survivalist, but I am thinking, maybe I should be, at least a little bit. It can’t hurt to have things you may need in a pinch, stuff you can collect here and there. Flashlights. Batteries. Blankets. Sterno. Something to start a fire with. Knives and multi-function tools. Water purification tablets. A rifle or a bow, if you’re proficient, to hunt with, and/or compact fishing equipment. A small crank-operated radio. What would happen if, one day, our power grid went out? How would we survive without electricity? What if you live in a city or suburb and the Zombie Apocalype happens and you need to GTFO? Do you have your “bug-out” bag that you can toss in your car and go? Do you have a route to get out of dodge that helps you avoid the tangled masses of traffic that are bound to occur? What if you can’t get out on car, can you get out on motorcycle, bicycle, or foot? Or will you sit there and wait for the government to save you, or worse- for roving gangs to come by and violate you?

Of course, the media will always blow a snowstorm like what we just got out of proportion as if it were the Zombie Apocalypse, but despite their obsessive fearmongering and wolf-crying, we should remember that in the fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, one day, the wolf really came.

On a lighter note, the nation’s capital was paralyzed and unable to do business due to these last couple storms. GOOD! We need more storms. The more blizzards we have, the less damage our federal government can do to our liberty.

~Matti Frost

Radio Free Nestlandia podcast, episodes 29-37b

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

GET TORRENT

Radio Free Nestlandia podcast, episodes 29-37b

THE VOICE OF A TWO-PERSON NATION IN WYOMING. Radio Free Nestlandia is a multi-subject talk show produced by an unusual married couple who comprise the two-person sovereign nation of Nestlandia, which is located in a normal neighborhood in Casper, Wyoming.

Author Michael W. Dean and his talented wife Debra Jean Dean stick a giant virtual antenna on their roof to entertain and delight the world with their spirited discussions of art, marriage, sex, politics, science, cats, shopping, guns, liberty, love, sex, bondage, travel and shoes, as well as opining on their love of the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

Includes bonus music episode, “Right Arm of Wyoming” CD 2, work in progress, all music, no vocals yet.

Also includes two episodes with the amazing and mysterious NUNZIO of Oklahoma.

All episodes high-quality recording, production and encoding, and properly tagged.

Charlie Wilson’s war is over

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Charlie Wilson’s died. He was the 70s Texas Democrat Congressman/playboy/coke addict who basically armed the Taliban.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_wilson

They made a “heroic” movie about him called “Charlie Wilson’s War” where he’s played by Tom Hanks.

Charlie Wilson in AfghanistanCharlie Wilson on a white horse while in Afghanistan. Photograph: AP (actual photo, not from the movie.)

Charles Wilson

More on Charlie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilson_%28Texas_politician%29

The girls had cocaine, and the music was loud. It was total happiness. And both of them had ten long, red fingernails with an endless supply of beautiful white powder….The feds spent a million bucks trying to figure out whether, when those fingernails passed under my nose, did I inhale or exhale, and I ain’t telling.

Charile Wilson

In 1980, Wilson was accused of using cocaine at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; however, the investigation by Justice Department attorney Rudolph Giuliani was dropped due to lack of evidence.

Wilson was presented with the Honored Colleague Award by the CIA. He is the first civilian to receive the award. However, Wilson’s role remains controversial because most of the aid was supplied to Islamist hardliner Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now a senior Taliban leader and a supporter of al-Qaeda.

MWD

Why not split up the country?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Someone on ConPunk asked “Why not just split it into the red states and the blue states? I think at this point, both sides would be happy with that.”

I replied:

The left would never go for it. They need the red states to steal from, since we’re all in better shape financially. We don’t bail out bums as much, and we have more natural resources. Places like Wyoming, Texas, West Virginia and the Dakotas have all the oil and coal, natural gas and uranium. (And much of the wind and sun.)

People in New York and California think they should be administering that stuff from a comfy office, not out drilling for it.

Also, the leftie blue states would be driven mad by the thought that there are people in the next state raising their kids the way they want, carrying guns, going to church and not supporting crack babies. It would drive the lefties even more nuts than they are now.

MWD

Happiness is a new gun

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Walther P22. .22 caliber, will make plinking a lot cheaper. Yay! Fits well in my wife’s hand and my hand. (We have smaller hands than a lot of people, and this is kind of a “3/4 sized pistol”.) And the gun comes highly recommended from several people. Never jams apparently, unlike many .22 semi-autos (like the Sig Mosquito). We’ve shot a P22 before and loved it. Will take it out this weekend and let y’all know how it shoots, will put it in the comment section of this post Saturday or Sunday.

Was a valentine’s day gift for my wife. Beats chocolate or a teddy bear.

I also think it’s a sign of a healthy relationship. Woman-abusers do not arm their women.

My friend Jason said the middle photo looks like “a suicidal cat’s cry for help on MySpace.” lol….

MWD

FBI wound ballistics studies for different calibers

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Guns hurt, umkay?

FBI wound ballistics studies for different calibers


Old-school (drawings not photos) of different bullets fired through ballistics gel.

Handgun:

Rifle:

Shotgun:

More info, including “stopping power” studies, here:
http://www.firearmstactical.com/wound.htm

MWD

Open Carry at the WalMart

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

I love open carrying my revolver. The wife took these pix tonight at the WalMart here in Casper, Wyoming.

Open carry is legal here, but it is not common. In seven months of living here, the only people we’ve seen carrying are us, and a few members of the Free State Wyoming project.

We love Wyoming in ever way, and for every reason, and this is one more reason. If I’d tried this in Southern California, a cop would have pointed a gun at my head and I’d have been arrested, probably within minutes of leaving the house.

Gun is a Taurus model 605, .357 magnum snubbie. I’m also carrying two loaded speedloaders in the little pouches.

Photos by Debra Jean Dean. Photos and post covered by Creative Commons, Cc-by-sa 3.0.

– Michael W. Dean

Speedloaders for revolvers

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

So, I’ve decided that carrying my .380 Ruger LCP mouse gun ain’t enough firepower, should I ever need it. I may still carry it as a backup, but want to carry my Taurus model 605 .357 magnum snubbie revolver.

It really is the handgun I’m most comfortable with, and more powerful, by far, than my 9mm semi-auto.

I’ve gotten really good with the revolver, can hit a soda can at 25 feet, which is pretty damn good for a snubbie, and more than good enough enough for anything I might likely encounter. (And my wife is almost with me, and she carries a .40 cal Glock 23, which has 12 rounds in each mag, and she carries two extra mags.)

But the revolver only holds five shots, so I got two speedloaders


and a little belt pouch that holds two loaded speedloaders.

Got ‘em from here.

Speedloaders kind of like spare mags for a revolver.

Speedloaders are not quite as easy to use as changing mags on a semi-auto. Practice with them.

Here’s a couple videos on using speedloaders:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aulxNjoFoOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9La…eature=related

MWD

Why Wyoming libraries have my new libertarian self-help book

Friday, February 5th, 2010

So….some of the things I do, I do to make money. (Like the $30 School book series.) But some things I do just to get something good out there. Like my new band, RIGHT ARM OF WYOMING, or my libertarian self-help book:

The money projects pay for my living, and usually leave enough left over to make something great that I do not for money, but sell physical copies of (as well as giving away on BitTorrent), and usually make enough to break even.

I usually send out about 100 copies of everything for promo, to magazines, radio stations, blogs, etc. With my latest book, A User’s Manual for the Human Experience, I decided to send links to PDF copies for promo to save money, so I could send 100 paperback copies out to give to libraries.

I always liked libraries, and feel that having your book in a library is a nice thing…your book can be found by someone who would be unlikely to ever order it online or buy it in a book store. And I wrote this book to help people, not to make money.

So when the book came out in May of 2009, I sent out copies to 100 libraries all over America.

I just checked online, and interestingly, the only places it seems to be interested is Wyoming libraries. It’s not listed as being in any other libraries in America.

The fact that Wyoming libraries put it into their system is cool, it just proves more and more that we moved to the right place. This coming Thursday will be six months we’ve been here, and it feels more like home to both of us than anywhere we’ve ever lived.

Anyway, if you’re in Wyoming, here’s the libraries that have my book:

  1. Campbell Co. Public Library
  2. Carbon Co. Library System,
  3. Carbon Co. – Hanna Branch
  4. Carbon Co. – Medicine Bow Branch
  5. Carbon Co. – Saratoga Branch
  6. Crook Co. – Moorcroft Branch
  7. Fremont Co. – Lander Library
  8. Fremont Co. – Dubois Branch
  9. Sheridan College Griffith Mem Library
  10. Gillette College Library
  11. Lincoln Co. – Thayne Branch Library
  12. Casper College Library

– Michael W. Dean

Politics in the 4th Dimension

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

(RADIO FREE NESTLANDIA podcast – THE VOICE OF A TWO-PERSON LIBERTARIAN NATION IN WYOMING
(podcast episode 37)

Michael W. Dean and Nunzio do another double-ender podcast over the miles and formulate and explain the idea of 4th Dimensional Politics.

Our grandparents had the one-dimensional left/right continuum. The Libertarian Party invented the two-dimensional x/y axis (see: World’s smallest political quiz:

Debra Jean Dean invented three-dimensional politics (points on a sphere to represent going beyond the two-dimensional, and allowing for nuances in stands on various issues among people who live on the same point on the x/y libertarian chart).

But Nunzio and Michael Dean explain 4th Dimensional Politics, which is the Debra Jean Dean sphere moving through time as we evolve. Because as ex-liberal Michael says, “Once you stop being teachable, you start being old.”

Then they talk about abortion, politics, the president, idiots, guns, dope, Robert Anton Wilson, The Guns and Dope Party, and a whole bunch of other cool shit.

Then we hear the Right Arm of Wyoming song “We Are the Good Guys.”

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is racist, and they may even lie

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Excellent article called Hate And Slander For Profit

Excerpts:

I would like to point out that organizations like the SPLC stoke the fires of government officials and law enforcement that there is more of a threat than there truly is when it comes to militias. Some government agencies even ignorantly use the SPLC “Hate Groups List” and their bogus “reports” as legitimate. This causes law enforcement both at the local, state and federal level to overreact…..

…There is no mention in this report on the Black Muslim man who shot up a recruiting station killing one soldier and wounding another. There is no mention of the DC snipers, both who were black and influenced by information they had. No mention of the Black Panthers intimidating voters in Philadelphia in 2008. Those acts are no less tragic than the ones they do mention…..

…Potok automatically associates any American who identifies themselves as a “Patriot” as a potential terrorist militia member. Any information these self-declared patriots send out, whether it be forwarding an email about your disagreement with a piece of legislation or your outrage at some action by a member of congress, is propaganda in the SPLC’s eyes and not of a legitimate concern…..

…It’s also quite telling that Potok does not identify who the sources of the information and statements are from. He notes “authorities” and “says one”. According to section two of the report – which I address below – they didn’t want to be identified. How convenient. The real reason is that the SPLC is “cherry picking” who they listen to. They will quote only those whom they agree with and those who use their reports and information as in “Anonymous sources”……

…Keller states: “In the words of a February report from law enforcement officials in Missouri, a variety of factors have combined recently to create ‘a lush environment for militia activity.’”

The report he is referring to is the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) report entitled “The Modern Militia Movement” and it was later retracted by the MIAC. Yet that retraction hasn’t stopped Keller from citing it as fact.

The report caused outrage because it specifically targeted supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as “militia” influenced terrorists and to watch out for citizens with bumper stickers regarding the Constitution, Campaign for Liberty and Libertarian parties.

The most amazing thing is that even after the retraction by the MIAC, Keller’s portion of this current militia report reads almost verbatim what “The Modern Militia Movement” report said. The MIAC report cites the SPLC as the source for a good portion of the report….

…On page 5 of the report Keller tries to play a game. In this game he sites a report which had information supplied to it by the SPLC. In other words he is trying to trick you by using the law enforcement agency’s name, but it is really their info that they had supplied to that agency. They are referencing their own statements….

Here’s another good article about how idiotic and false the SPLC are.

Internet Movie Firearms Database

Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Michael Cheritto stands guard with a FN FAL 50.61 rifle with a Para folding-stock - 7.62mm NATO

Tom Sizemore as Michael Cheritto stands guard with a FN FAL 50.61 rifle with a Para folding-stock – 7.62mm NATO in Heat.

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Totally awesome. Search by movie or gun.

Gun violence is the lefties’ fault

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Gun violence is the fault of the progressives.

I don’t really have much of a problem with the Democratic Party. I have a problem with the so-called progressives, the far-Left, which usually lives these days in the Democratic Party (Pelosi, Obama, Reid, Frank, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Kennedy, whom I want to congratulate on getting five months sober this week!) But there are progressives on the Right too. John McCain is one. Rudy Giuliani is another.

The only legitimate, Constitutional, moral role of government is to protect the borders and protect the Constitutional rights of the citizens. This is right-wing/libertarian ideology in a nutshell.

By definition, progressives are people who think that government should grow and should attempt to “solve” everyone’s problems (often the problems created by the government). Progressives are busybodies. They think they’re smarter than you. They tend to say “THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW!” and “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!” a lot. To which I say “You think of your children, I’ll think of mine.”

A good example of progressive thought in action is the financial crisis: progressives (like Obama, but also George W. Bush in his “lame duck” period) caused a problem. Then they try to solve the same problem, using the people who caused it (Ben Bernanke). Then they do exactly what should NOT be done (printing more money, going into debt).

Any eighth grader who’s good at math can tell you that’s the wrong way. The right way is to get out of the way, remove regulations, and let the economy flourish.

Here’s a good video explaining this. It’s sort of “School House Rock” for the new generation:

It is not the role of government to “create jobs.” At best, the role of government is to create an environment (low taxes, no nanny laws) where jobs are created by a free market.

There are tens of thousands of gun laws in America, at the federal, state and local level. Yet not one of them has ever prevented a crime. They only serve to make politicians look like they’re doing their job, and make law-abiding citizens into criminals.

Progressives want to outlaw guns to solve the problem of gun violence, a problem the progressives created!

Right-wing states like Utah and Wyoming have a very low incidence of gun violence. And guns are common, and treated with respect. People are also treated with respect. (The ironic thing is that less “redneck” places look at places like Utah and Wyoming as “primitive.” They laugh at us. They are wrong. We’re far more socialized and decent places to live. I know. I’ve lived in Los Angeles, and I’ve had a knife held to my throat in a mugging in New York City.)

Left-wing progressive places like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. have high rates of gun violence. Sure, part of this has to do with population, but a lot of it has to do with culture.

I’m not a Christian, but I believe that Christian upbringing ain’t a bad thing. Back when that was the norm, gun crime was much lower. Even the “Wild West”, often considered the go-to example of gun violence, didn’t have that much gun violence. That impression is the work of Hollywood. Which is filled with progressives. When is the last time you saw a person in a movie use a gun in a moral way, in pure self-defense? Almost never. Yet movies are filled with people using guns, almost always in an immoral way. Using a gun in a movie is “shorthand” for excitement. The prevalence of guns in movies is the result of lazy screenwriters, and gun-hating producers.

Right-wing places teach children to work for their goals. Left-wing places teach children that they are “entitled”, that they only have to “dream it, and they’ll get it.”….”I gots to get mine“….. Which place do you think produces more bitter, disappointed people willing to shoot up a crowd of innocents?

Progressives also downplay the role of family. Conservatives tend to have stronger families, and teach that “family is all”. Progressives teach that the family unit is an impediment, that you should “spread your wings and find your own way.”

Which group do you think has a better foundation for dealing with problems?

Progressives are revisionist with history. They downplay the role of guns in the founding of America, especially in the American Revolution. The whitewash the role of hard work in the foundation and strengthening of America. They consider wealth a bad thing, something that only exists to be stolen and redistributed to those who “deserve it” just for existing. This creates an angry underclass of people who not only think the world owes them a living, but reinforces it with a bi-monthly check.

Progressives support revolving-door prison systems, and are usually against the death penalty. Both of these put more violent people back on the street and don’t discourage violent behavior. Progressives generally consider violent felons to be a “victims of a bad upbringing” rather than simply broken machines. A good example is the ACLU, which has reams of writings on the rights of violent criminals in custody, but not one word on self-defense.

Progressives teach that any culture except American culture (including guns) is to be protected. Progressives teach that American culture is embarrassing, something to apologize for.

The progressive media also only ever reports immoral uses of guns. When was the last time you saw a news story about a little old lady using her gun to keep from being killed by some armed scumbag wanting to kill her to take her Social Security check for a fix? Yet it happens all the time.

Progressives teach their children not to have a Christian morality. They also teach their kids that “life is cheap” by telling them that abortion is a valid option if they “inconvenience” themselves with a pregnancy (due to their “fuck everything that moves” progressive morality).

I’m not making a case for anti-abortion or pro-Christianity or anti-”free love”, but I believe that “progressive” views on abortion, sex, family and religion, combined with Hollywood, have contributed heavily to gun violence seeming like a “solution” to many people. I am saying that the anti-Christian pro-abortion anti-family “I gots to get mine” agenda of progressives, and guns in Hollywood movies, are all the fault of the progressives, and contribute heavily to the prevalence of gun violence.

My brother was an Eagle Scout and participated in an after-school riflemanship program at his public school. When he was a high school senior in 1963 (back when America had a Christian morality), he used to bring his .22 rifle and ammo on the school bus and keep it in his locker for the after-school shooting classes. No one got shot, and no one cared. Whereas if you brought a boy scout pocket knife to school now, you’d be kicked out of school and likely arrested.

Obama’s DHS warns to look out for pro-American right-wing gun nuts. But almost all of the recent mass gun violence was done by people who were anti-American and left wing. The Ft. Hood shooter was anti-American. Even the shooter at the Holocaust Museum was a registered Democrat who hated Fox News.

Never forget, the KKK were Democrats! And the guy who freed the slaves was a Republican. And while we’re at it, Wyoming was the first place to give women the vote. Though that may have just been so some of them would move here!

Gun violence is the fault of the progressives. And it’s immoral that so-called progressives try to take away my guns just because they’ve wrecked so much of the world with their policies. Gun violence in secular New York City and Los Angeles has nothing to do with me in Christian Wyoming. So back the fuck off.

–Michael W. Dean

Gun control is immoral

Monday, January 25th, 2010

So, someone asked me today about “sensible” gun control. I maintain that no such thing exists.

First…

Most people who want to regulate guns don’t know much about them.

This comment on another post on this blog is typical:

I do believe that we do have the right to protect ourselves with a firearm like a shotgun or a rifle. The thing that I’m not convinced on is the need to own assault weapons like an AK-47 or an Uzi.

Here’s the thing: an AK-47 IS a rifle. And a pretty anemic one at that. Any .30 cal deer rifle has MUCH more destructive power. And range. And with a  scope, it’s pretty much a sniper rifle that could kill a man at a quarter mile. (And most deer rifles are .30 cal, it’s pretty cruel to hunt deer with anything smaller, you need to kill deer in one shot, or they suffer.) An AK-47 cannot kill effectively at a quarter mile.

Not that any of that is reassuring to anyone who likes gun control, but you will NEVER get guns out of the hands of the millions of deer hunters in America. Never.

Though the “sporting purpose” mentioned by many gun grabbers (as in “we want to ban anything that does not have a sporting purpose”) has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. The “sporting purpose” crap came from an American adaptation of a Nazi Germany gun control law.

Gun control is immoral because all honest, free men have an innate right to self-defense, on a one-to-one level, like a violent mugger, but also on a larger, “opposing tyranny” level.

The Second Amendment has nothing to do with shooting deer. The right to shoot deer was a given in the rural community of early America. If you couldn’t shoot deer, you’d starve.

The Second Amendment has to do with being able to make sure that the government doesn’t get too large. To protect yourself from government. Though even uttering these words today gets you put on a watch list. Fedzilla has grown to the point that it wants to remove the Second Amendment. And they do it slowly, in bits and pieces. Give ‘em an inch and they take a mile.

Because of the Second Amendment, politicians cannot outright ban guns. So they go after them incrementally, and each bit of gun control (or ammo control, lately) legislation is a step toward the unstated goal of the government having all the guns and the people having none. Once that happens, they can cram anything down your throat, and there is nothing you can do about it.

America was founded by guys who were really pissed.
But if you quote the Founding Fathers now, you’re called a terrorist!

–”Liberty in Shards” by Right Arm of Wyoming

Most politicians who want to outlaw guns don’t do so for love of the public safety. They only do it for power: the power of having the government have the only guns, and the power of getting votes. Politicians love votes, and promising to be “tough on guns” (instead of being tough on actual crime, which is harder) usually gets a few votes with the “think of the children!” parrots.

Back to the original reason for the Second Amendment: you don’t have to use your guns to prevent encroaching tyranny, you only have to have them. And maybe be willing to use them if things get bad enough. And have the skill to do so.

By the way, you need rifles to oppose tyranny. No revolutions were ever won with pistols, and tyranny is not opposed with a shotgun.

“Progressive” leftists tend to be into banning guns, because leftists think that they know what’s best for everyone. People on the right have more trust in people. They don’t need to “nanny” everyone.

But most leftist gun grabbers have never held a gun, so why should they be in charge of regulating them? Here’s a typical gun grabbing leftist, trying to explain the random indicators that defined an “assault weapon” under the “assault weapon ban” that she helped create.

Would you trust someone who is that stupid about pharmaceuticals to regulate medicine? (Never mind, that’s what the Democrats are trying to do with health care.)

Note that she also uses the incorrect term “clip” (should be “mag” or “magazine”) Also, “assault weapon” is a made-up, meaningless term. As is the specious indicators that “defined” one under that law. A pistol grip on a rifle never killed anyone, nor does it help anyone kill anyone. There is something called an “assault rifle” (a full-auto, select fire AK-47 would qualify, so do the guns our boys carry in Iraq, but both of those are already illegal for private citizens in America), but gun grabboids’ definition of “assault weapon” often includes many shotguns and hand guns too. Basically, it banned anything that looked like a military weapon, was black, and looked scary. They banned some very underpowered guns, and didn’t ban some very powerful guns, based entirely on cosmetics. Some gun lovers even called the “assault weapons ban” the “scary looking ugly black gun ban.”

Obama’s boy Eric Holder tried to reinstate the “Assault Weapon” ban last year, and said it was to help Mexico in their War on Drugs! Trying to limit our Constitutional rights to help a foreign country is treasonous, in my opinion.

All gun control has historically led to total gun confiscation, which has always led to tyrants being able to kill dissenters. Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin all took away the guns before doing the horrible things they’re best known for.

Gun control and gun registration does not prevent crime. There are thousands of gun laws on the books, and not one of them has made anyone safer. They have only made criminals out of law-abiding citizens. Gun control simply disarms citizens. If your daughter were being stalked, would you want her to have to wait ten days to get a gun, when the criminal stalking her likely already has a gun? And while we’re on the subject of waiting periods: if you think they’re a good idea, keep people from buying a gun when they’re enraged, why should there be a waiting periods on your second gun? And your third, fourth, fifth, etc. ?

A lot of places are going after ammo, since they think that’s more Constitutional than going after guns. But limiting the amount of ammo people can get, and requiring paperwork on ammo, will have some dark unintended consequences: criminals breaking into honest follks’ homes to get ammo, and honest folks not being able to practice much. I think people who shoot should practice often, and with a lot of rounds. If someone is having to use a gun in a self-defense situation, the more practice they’ve had, the less likely they are to hit an innocent bystander.

And when asked why I should be able to have a military-pattern semi-auto gun, I say why not? I’m an honest person. Should you be limited to a slow computer with little memory because hackers can work faster on fast computers? I have a military-pattern rifle because who the fuck knows what’s going to come to my door or my neighborhood? If there were an earthquake and people were looting and trying to kill me, en mass, a shotgun and a handgun (which I also have) wouldn’t save me.

Why should my handgun be limited to a ten-round mag? If a criminal (who, by definition, does not respect the law and does not follow it) tries to mug me, starts shooting, why should I have to stop to reload? That could get me killed. (And anyone who says “If ten rounds isn’t enough, you’re not a good shoot” knows nothing about guns or self-defense. Especially when trying to fend off more than one bad guy, and they’re not standing still.)

A common chirp of gun grabboids is “The Founding Fathers didn’t imagine Uzis and AK-47s when they wrote the Second Amendment.” Well, I can guarantee if they did, they would have included that. They had the cutting edge of battle technology at the time.

A good response I’ve heard to “The Founding Fathers didn’t imagine Uzis and AK-47s when they wrote the Second Amendment” is a response about the First Amendment: “I’m willing to only carry a brace of muskets if the New York Times is willing to only publish on hand-run presses and only deliver papers by horseback.”

A lot of people confuse Uzis and AK-47s with machine guns, because both are also available in full-auto (machine gun). Only criminals have those in America. I know people with AK-47s, but they’re legal semi-auto versions.

By the way, I have several semi-auto rifles that are FAR more powerful than an AK-47.

Which brings me to the “Why do you need so many guns?” question. Well, why do you need so many shoes? I have different guns for different things. Plus, I just like guns. I like the history of them (which is why I own a 1943 gun that was actually used to kill actual Nazis), I like the feel of them, the mechanics and the science of them. Why does a stamp collector have so many damn stamps?

My guns in Wyoming don’t effect you in your state. My guns don’t even affect you if you’re my next-door neighbor. Like most gun owners, I’m an honest person. Assault and murder are illegal, and rightfully so. I will not do those things, I wouldn’t do them even if they were legal. So lay off my guns.

Guns hurt far less people than cars and swimming pools. And you don’t need a gun to hurt people. You can kill someone with a rock or a hammer. So keep your immoral desire to control my guns to yourself, and go after actual criminals instead of trying to make me into a criminal.

–Michael W. Dean

Punk Rock California Liberal buys a Gun, changes his registration to Libertarian and Moves to Wyoming

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

(reprint from Libertarian Republican blog.)

BUY A GUN, LOSE ALL YOUR FRIENDS. (A true story of Republitarian redemption.)
Copyright 2009, Michael W. Dean

I’m a peace lovin’ guy. I’d never hurt anyone who did not try to hurt me.

Though I used to vote Democrat. But couldn’t really tell you why. I hated authority and I hated big government. I guess I just wasn’t paying attention. I was one of those folks who thought that following the issues was too much work. So I voted by clipping out the little voting guide from the leftie City Paper.

That’s how, many years ago, I ended up voting for Feinstein and Pelosi. (Don’t tell my friends at the NRA, the GOA and the JPFO. I’m now a card-carryin’ member of all three.)

A couple years ago I was awake late one night in my home in Los Angeles when someone outside tried to pry open our bedroom window. The guy wasn’t very badass. Unarmed, I chased him away just by going outside and confronting him.

But we were shaken. The next day I told my wife, Debra Jean, “Baby, we’re buying a shotgun.” She was very against it. She said, “Buying a gun is admitting that the world is a horrible place.” I said, “Baby, sometimes the world is a horrible place, and I love you, and we’re buying a gun.”

And being the one California Democrat with his balls intact, I bought a shotgun anyway, even though my wife hated the idea.

Turns out, we both really liked guns, and we loved our dates to the range. We soon added his ‘n’ hers 9mm pistols and a couple .22 rifles to our collection. Debra Jean became a good shot in weeks. Took me a little longer.

All of our friends were lefties, and most of them were concerned about the “new us.” But they still kept talking to us, and we even took one of them to the range. Once.

I started reading up on California and Federal gun laws. I’ve never been arrested and intended to keep it that way. Debra Jean (a paralegal) and I decided that the laws seemed designed not to protect people from violence, but rather they were structured to make honest folks into criminals.

Our new view of nanny-state gun laws made us look at California (and the USA) in a whole new way. And that made us both start paying attention to government and politics.

We became Republitarians almost overnight.

I got there from “punk rock anarchist” on one end and apolitical Democrat on the other. I loved the process, but it kinda hurt. Debra Jean didn’t have as far to go…..Turns out she was registered Republican. Which if I’d known years earlier, I probably wouldn’t have married her. But it never actually came up, which shows you how much attention I paid to politics, and shows you how much she loved me to marry me even though I’d made it clear I was “a compassionate liberal, not one of those stuffy old selfish Republicans like my dad.”

My wife really liked my political “spiritual transformation.” (Her dad, by the way, had given her Heinlein books to read as a child, and he’d stumped door to door for Goldwater.)

Debra Jean and I got itchy. Being around leftists suddenly gave us hives. So it was clear what we had to do: GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA AND MOVE TO WYOMING.

Our leftist friends got really worried. The “hipper” ones said, “OK, I guess I can “get” having a shotgun for protection, if you must. But I really don’t feel comfortable coming to a house with handguns in it, and…WAIT….YOU DON’T HAVE THEM WITH YOU NOW, in MY house, do you?!!…”

Or, “Who is this ‘Bob Barr’ person you say you’re voting for? Libertarian? What’s a ‘libertarian’?” And “Obama is so cool and hip and…Wait, WHAT? YOU’RE SELLING YOUR HOUSE AND MOVING TO WYOMING? And you wanna buy a BATTLE RIFLE? What the hell is a BATTLE RIFLE?!”

Let me just say this: our outgoing Christmas card list was a lot shorter this year. And I doubt we’ll get any cards from California, but if we do, the card will not likely have the word “Christmas” on it. And it will probably be colored green and say “Reduce! Reuse! Rejoice!”

I will promptly take that “Seasonal Holiday Greeting Card” at its word and toss it in the recycling bin. (See? We did import ONE of our hippie ways from California. But we would never in a billion years try to force our new friends and neighbors to do the same, out of respect for their liberty. And we love that our new friends and neighbors are far less “in other people’s business” than most everyone we met in California. Which is partly because our new friends and neighbors are nicer people, and partly because most of them own and carry guns, too. “An armed society is a polite society.”)

We’ve lived in Wyoming for almost six months and WE LOVE IT. The air is clean, the people are sweet and we can open carry a pistol, or have our loaded battle rifle on the car seat next to us. Talk about “breathing in the sweet air of liberty”!

Carrying a gun could literally get you killed by SWAT in California. Here, people just say, “Oh, my husband has that one! Is that the .357 or the .38 special?” or “Nice rifle! Getting in practice for antelope season?”

We feel like we left California and moved to AMERICA.

Our few remaining California leftie friends who still talked to us followed this ongoing transformation in words and pictures on my blog. One by one they STOPPED BEING OUR FRIENDS. Their comments ranged from a good friend of eight years saying “Michael, I love you, but I’m really worried about you” to a good friend of 23 years (a guy I was in a band with) saying, “Michael…..Once someone gets talked into these right-wing ideas very rarely can they be talked back…..This new-found cocky way of life is very wrong, very immoral and very dangerous. I’m older than you so consider my opinion, if you still can…I doubt you will. This makes me very sad. Good luck, dumb fuck.”

Another “friend” actually talked about organizing an intervention and driving out here to “save us.” Didn’t happen though. I guess it’s easier to take the bottle out of a passed-out drunk’s hand than it is to take guns away from people who are more awake and alive than they’ve ever been.

Even strangers chimed in. Typical of the many slams I received was a fan of my older books and music who said “I can’t believe how quickly you went from being a hip, artistic guy to being a fat WalMart redneck Red Lobster-eating NRA asshole.”

The comments from strangers made me laugh, in a dropped-jaw kind of way. The comments from the actual friends hurt. But I remembered what my dear sweet mother would have said: “If they say things like that sweetie, they’re not really your friends.” And my dad told me, “Better to find out now than further down the road.”

I do not cling to my “victimhood” and you’ll never catch me at a support group or on Oprah bitching about this, (nor would she likely have me). All in all it has really just reinforced my resolve to reject idiocy in all its forms.

I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that so many people, including ones I thought were “cool”, cannot wrap THEIR heads around the fact that “social justice” is always accomplished by muggery and thuggery. And they get freaked out if I say “Guns aren’t bad, guns are good….And guns make it harder to be a victim of muggery and thuggery.”

I now have a lot more to talk about with my dad and my father-in-law. I no longer think they’re “square”, and I really love yakking with them now. They “get it.” They get liberty.

Those other folks can just stay in California, me and my wife will be in AMERICA. If you need us, we’re probably on a date to the rifle range. After that we’ll be at Red Lobster, then WalMart.

Michael W. Dean sings in the “feisty libertarian punk rock band” RIGHT ARM OF WYOMING LibertarianPunk.com

His blog is Stink Fight

He writes books and makes documentary films for a living, they are listed here: oreillynet.com

MLK owned guns

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Remember all this when any gun grabber (including Obama, who sometimes seems to think he’s MLK Jr. Jr.) demands you give up your guns.

http://www.lesjones.com/posts/004857.shtml

Well before his decision (apparently in 1955) to embrace Ghandian non-violence as the best tactic in the national showdown over civil rights, King had been a committed civil rights activist, but also a man who believed in protecting himself and his family against constant threats of racist violence (which included the bombing of his home).

Accordingly, the pre-Ghandian King had been armed to protect himself and his family — to the point where his home was described by one activist as “an arsenal“:

King would later admit that at the start of the boycott be was not firmly committed to Gandhian principles. He had initially advocated nonviolence not as a way of life but as a practical necessity for a racial minority. When his home was bombed at the end of January, he had cited Jesus– “He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword”– rather than Gandhi in urging angry black neighbors to remain nonviolent. At the time of the bombing, King was seeking a gun permit, and he was protected by armed bodyguards. Only after the bombing did King alter his views on the use of weapons for protection. His reconsideration was encouraged by the arrival in Montgomery of two pacifists who were far more aware than he of Gandhian principles.

Also see The Racist Origins Of Gun Control

HOPE? and CHANGE?

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Great video put together from my friend Chris from the JPFO.

Death threats to me on YouTube

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Got a nice one today:

suboptimal wrote

This is probably the stupidest video I’ve seen on youtube. You’re a moran!

I replied “The stupidest? THAT would be quite an honor!”

suboptimal wrote

OMFG I know you’re not being sarcastic to me. I don’t know who you think you are or where you’re from but around here we don’t tolerate bullshit like that. If this were on the streets where I’m from, you’d get a cap in your ass, son!

I used to be a nigga on the street tryin’ to kick a beat and now I’ve got a great job as a manager, despite rednecks like yo self trying to keep me down.

We need hate crime laws, but no one needs a god damn bumpkin band putting out anti Obama music.

Peace out.

It was a response to this video:

I don’t know where the guy lives, but I’ll bet he’s posting from his mother’s paneled rec room.

Michael W. Dean

Guns ‘n’ punks ‘n’ the NRA

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

I started a thread about guns on the MySpace punk rock forum. Got some interesting replies (many of them full of jackassery, a few coherent). Forum thread and replies are here. My user name on MySpace is “Right Arm of Wyoming.”

The original post that I wrote to start the thread is below.

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So I’ve been on here for about a week, and noticed several anti-gun anti-NRA comments, even in posts that are not about guns or the NRA. Even the one guy who says he owns guns made it clear he’s not “one of those NRA folks.”

I’ve been into punk rock since 1982, and used to hate a lot of things without being able to tell you why. I saw Dead Kennedys and MDC at the Rock Against Reagan in 1984 and cheered along with everyone there hating Reagan, but couldn’t tell you why if you asked me, other than “Reagan is a Republican and Republicans are selfish and evil.”

I had similar thoughts about guns. I hated guns, and used to think that the world would be a better place if they were all outlawed.

I now own guns, and carry a gun with me whenever I leave the house. I have my reasons, which I’ll explain if you like.

I’ll say this: one of the reasons I have guns is to protect my home and loved ones from looters in a breakdown situation like Haiti’s earthquake or Hurricane Katrina. I would NOT want to have to wait for the government to protect me while roving gangs go door to door using violence to take what they want. And anyone who says “it can’t happen here” does not understand history.

I’m also a member of the NRA. I’m amazed at how many people are cool with gun ownership, but think you’re nuts if you’re a member of the NRA. I don’t like the idea that I have to be a member of a lobbyist organization, because I don’t like the idea of lobbyist organizations. But the thing is, guns would basically be illegal in America without the work of the NRA. So I begrudgingly send them 35 bucks a year, and in that sense, I “support” them. But I am by far not “your typical NRA member”, and not what most people think of when they think of the NRA.

(I’m also a member of the Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership, a gun-rights organization that I like much more than the NRA.)

I’d like to hear your thoughts on guns, and the NRA. I will also logically refute anything I take as non-logical. People tend to get emotional on this subject, and yell, and judge people as a group, rather than as individuals, and that is not using logic. It’s using hate and fear.

(Also, when you respond, please let me know if you’re in a country where guns are illegal, and if not, have you ever shot one, and do you own any?)

Thank you!

Michael W. Dean

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
From: Michael W. Dean
Wyoming contact, Republican Liberty Caucus

Dear Republican Party,

In the next presidential election, and in all state and local elections, you need to support candidates who are true Republicans and genuine lovers of liberty. The party will not succeed if it does not run candidates who truly understand and respect the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.

America was once a constitutionally limited republic, and it needs to be returned to that. In the past 100 years, and especially in the past 20 years, America has been reduced to a so-called “democracy”, where 51% of the people can rob and over-regulate 49% of the people.

A true constitutional republic could last in perpetuity; whereas democracies historically survive for 200 to 300 years. After that, they devolve into socialism or oligarchies, as the people who do not want to work vote into office people who will let them not work, and can pay them to do so by stealing from those who do work.

We are at a tipping point. America is in her 235th year. The next presidential election can determine if we regain our constitutional republic, or slide into a permanent “progressive” majority helmed by a deluded far-left who do not listen to the people, and are chomping at the bit to bankrupt us into a socialist oligarchy. Those folks see Republicans not as a force to work with in a bipartisan capacity, but as an impediment to robbing from the productive so they can “give” to those who have no desire or ability to produce.

If Washington followed the Constitution, it would barely matter who was president. The checks and balances would work. But ours has been co-opted into a popularity contest wherein people vote for the candidate with the slickest tongue and the shortest slogan….especially slogans like “HOPE” and “CHANGE.” As we’ve seen, these basically mean “Get me in, and you’ll find out my actual core beliefs later, when it’s too late.”

If the President and Congress followed the Constitution, DC would not be permitted to arbitrarily dictate most of what a citizen does in a given state. We need candidates who stand up for the Constitution, including the true meaning the Interstate Commerce Clause, and the original intent of all parts of the Bill of Rights, especially the First, Second and Tenth Amendments.

If the Republican Party establishment supports a spend-o-crat RINO (Republican in Name Only) in the next presidential election, you will guarantee a victory for the Democratic Party.

The Democrat Party used to have some principles, but has lately been taken over by a few dozen extreme leftist “progressives” with radical ideas and ties. They think they know what’s best for everyone, consider the Constitution a detriment, and consider Republicans a speed bump to be routed around behind closed doors.

America has woken up to the waste, “legal” stealing and “legal” bribes that can only lead to the destruction of America. The Democrats are largely responsible, but some Republicans have helped along the way. If you run a RINO for president, you will guarantee AINO (America in Name Only) in the near future, and forever.

The American people have finally woken up. Americans who have never been active in politics have taken to the streets by the millions. This is just the beginning.

The Democrats have been exposed for their gross spending of other people’s money at all levels, but in doing so have also shown that the Democrats aren’t the only ones. Some Republicans have contributed to this as well.

If you run a constitutional candidate like Gary Johnson, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, or Paul (Ron or Rand, take your pick) in the next presidential election, you’ll have a chance. I’ll vote Republican, and help out. So will millions of libertarians, tea partiers, swing voters, independents and even some of the smarter disgruntled Democrats. All combined, this will be enough to make the difference in the outcome of that election.

But 2012 is likely the very last year where even this will be possible. The leftists are working 24/7 to stack the deck against the possibility of retaining any America in America.

The Republican Party needs to run constitutional candidates, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because it will keep the party from being perceived as “irrelevant naysayers” without any of their own ideas on how to make the country better. Running constitutional candidates will keep you from becoming a footnote in history. And even that footnote will likely be erased with time when a permanent socialist majority takes control of all media and education.

This road to serfdom can possibly be avoided, but it’s up to the Republican Party. You must run Barry Goldwater candidates, not George W. Bush, John McCain, or Rudy Giuliani candidates. Otherwise you’re going to end up with an America you don’t recognize, while you cling to your “Don’t blame me, I voted Republican” buttons.

Politics has become far too complicated. Lawmakers don’t think they’re doing their jobs if they don’t enact dozens of new laws and endless pork-barrel projects to “bring home the bacon” every day. This leads to honest folks becoming criminals, and the federal government having a stranglehold over every single aspect of our lives. We need candidates who will simplify, not complicate. We need candidates who will leash the beast, not feed the beast.

The Republican Party must run candidates who follow the Constitution and understand natural law… people who believe in their heart of hearts that government does not grant rights, does not restrict rights, but has only one legitimate role: protecting rights.

Our Founders are likely rolling in their graves at what the Democrats are doing now. But the Founders surely wouldn’t be pleased with what some in the Republican Party have done, either.

Why make us pick from the lesser of two evils? Here’s a novel idea: how about running someone who’s NOT evil!

Try it, you’ll like it. And America will be better for it.

–Michael W. Dean
http://www.libertarianpunk.com

Of Moose and Men

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Here’s another reason for gun ownership. No, it’s not drug-addled criminals, nor is it jackbooted government thugs (though both are good reasons to own a firearm, but I digress), instead it’s moose! Yes, that’s right, Bullwinkle can be just as much a threat as kitty stomping, gub’mint officials.

The past several winters I have had problems with moose on mine and my father’s farm. When the snow falls, feed for moose becomes scarcer. They resort to eating the bark off of aspens and small twigs off of shrubs. But if they find a way into somebody’s hay storage, they will keep coming back for more. They will quickly become territorial and will chase off everybody (moose, dog, and human). Last year my English Mastiff was charged and stomped by a moose. Luckily, my runt of a Golden Retriever, Gus, attacked it and chased it off of her. This all occurred in the time it took my father to unholster his sidearm (no he’s not a slow drawer, it was just lightning quick). Ever since the first time we had problems with moose we carry a firearm when we feed our horses. Normally a Mossberg 12 Gauge.

So If guns were confiscated, what would stop a moose (which after getting a full belly of hay, is in its own way like a drug-crazed person) from attacking me or my animals? How will I protect myself? I doubt a hunting knife or acid would be very effective.

Just another reason why Alaska is one wild, wild place to live.

-JD Melvin.

Glenn Beck fucked up….

Monday, January 11th, 2010

I like Glenn Beck. I watch him a lot (surprised? lol…).

A lot of people on the left say he’s a purveyor of misinformation, but I’ve never heard him be flat-out wrong….

…until today. Today on his show he was complaining about how people today don’t know much about the history of the Founding of America, and what the Constitution means. I agree with that, and agree with his summation that this ignorance is intentionally fostered by public schools, that don’t teach natural law and the Bill of Rights so it’s easier for the government to step on those rights.

Then he said only (x%…some small amount) of people could correctly answer the question “In what decade did the American Revolution start?” He was right about the answer, the 1770s. But then he said “the American Revolution, of course, started on July 4th, 1776.”

WRONG! I set down my rifle (are you surprised that I sometimes watch TV while holding a rifle? lol…I do a lot of things while holding a rifle – hey, Glenn Beck says we need more “guns, gold and God, and I agree)…And I started screaming at my TV (are you surprised that I often scream at my TV? lol…): The American Revolution started on April 19th, 1775! With ‘the shot heard round the world‘! The adoption of the Decoration of Independence was on July 4th, 1776.”

I still like Beck, but I hope he corrects this. There’s nothing more embarrassing than giving out historically inaccurate information while complaining that “today’s citizens are uninformed about history.” Especially when the thing he’s wrong about is the date of one of the two most important events in American history.

MWD

(e-mailing this post to Glenn Beck now.)

p.s for more about The American Revolution, check out Appleseed.

When guns are outlawed, outlaws will only have acid…..

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Ever wonder what a perfect world it would be if guns were completely outlawed in your country? Well, guns are completely outlawed in Hong Kong and the UK….
Tourists Injured In Hong Kong Acid Attack

X-Ray Of Horrifying Knife Attack (UK)

This X-ray shows the savagery of the knife epidemic sweeping Britain’s streets. But this teenage boy is one of the lucky ones – he miraculously escaped death after the kitchen knife was plunged into his skull…..

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I could go on and on and on and on and on, but….you get the idea.

Michael W. Dean

Gun Control Numbers Game

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

The Violence Policy Center, based in Washington, D.C. has compiled a list of “Concealed Carry Killers” which is available on their website. The numbers they have produced are 107 people have been killed by holders of concealed carry permits since May of 2007. So far as I can tell, that number is accurate. There are a few points of contention with their numbers. One that they are honest enough to state. 12 of those killed were CCW holders who killed themselves.

What is NOT listed is the intellectual dishonesty of these numbers. We have 95 people killed nationwide by CCW holders if we discount the suicides. How many permits have been issued nationwide? Even the NRA does not have a defined number since these permits are issued by individual states with no national database. They estimate the number to be 5,000,000, with more being issued daily. 95 deaths sounds like a lot, but when you apply mathematics to dispell the emotion, you are left with an entirely different picture. The number of permit holders that have broken the law and killed someone is .0019%

GUNS ARE SAFER THAN CARS. BY FAR.

The Violence Policy Center, simply put, is just another anti-gun group that is willing to take statistics out of context to make a statement.

If .0019% is worthy of panic, then we should stop flying, driving, and walking because the chance of being killed in these activities is exponentially higher than that of being killed by a CCW holder. Just as a side note, 4792 people were murdered with weapons other than guns in 2004. Accordingly, shouldn’t the Violence Policy Center (which only deals with guns, not violence) be working to ban knives, clubs, bats, fists, and feet in order to protect Americans?

-Justin West

Free feisty libertarian punk rock MP3s for our readers

Friday, January 8th, 2010

So….for the time being, our readers may download the RIGHT ARM OF WYOMING CD free!

DOWNLOAD is HERE, right click to save.

You can still buy the CD for only 12 bucks, and once the initial pressing of 1000 is gone (fairly soon), I’m probably not repressing. I’m on to making the second CD now, and I don’t like to “paint the same picture twice.”

WHY ARE YOU GIVING THIS AWAY?

I make enough to get by on my day job, writing tech books and how-to stuff. Even though this music is better than most stuff done by people who “define themselves as being in a band”, that’s not me. At least not anymore. I have no plans to tour or get signed, I’ve been there and done that. Touring the gin mills of the world, playing for beer and gas money, and waking up next to hot crazy women whose name I can’t remember….well, that’s no longer in my plans. I’ve done the hell out of it, and lived to tell the tale, and that’s enough.

This music exists to pass on a message. Giving away downloads isn’t taking any food off the table, and I’ve also found that people who download don’t usually buy things. So I’ll still sell as many CDs. Maybe more, given my past experiences doing things like this.

WHAT’S IN THE DOWNLOAD?

It’s a 101-meg zip file of all the MP3s of the new album. Also included is the lyric sheet and cover art. It takes about 90 seconds to download on DSL. The MP3s are high-quality encodes (192k / 44,100 k, 16-bit joint stereo MP3s, properly tagged). Download, unzip, and you can drag them right into your iPod, iPhone, or whatever chromed-robot-turd folks are carrying this week, and they’ll light up your day.

WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

Tell two friends. Blog. Twitter, Facebook, or whatever you kids are doing these days. Get this shit out there.

Also available on BitTorrent, if you prefer (please seed if you do that.)

Michael W. Dean

From Angry Peasant Records. Angry Peasant Records is a division of the Nestlandia Institute Libertarian Think Tank

SONG LISTING:

1. GET OFF MY PROPERTY!
2. MY GUN KEEPS YOU HONEST
3. REDISTRIBUTION OF THEFT
4. GOVERNMENT IS A COLLECTIVE HALLUCINATION
5. GUN CONTROL GETS WOMEN RAPED
6. LIBERTY IN SHARDS
7. FREAKY LIBERAL MAMMAL SEX
8. FAKIN’ THE RACE CARD
9. SINGLE CRACKLING BLUE FLASH
10. WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS!
11. US Bill of Rights (read by Mrs. Dean)
12. LETTER TO A YOUNG ME (SPOKEN)
13. MY GUN KEEPS YOU HONEST – CLEAN VERSION FOR RADIO

Chicago Police may scrap entrance exam

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Obama’s home town is thinking the unthinkable:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/1975918,CST-NWS-policeexam06web.article

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/chicago-police-scrap-entrance-exam-80790827.html

It’s a sad day when you have to foster “diversity” by dumbing things down.

Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the process to as many people as possible

However, the lack of an exam would make Chicago the lone major city without one, and experts contend that the exam is integral to eliminating unqualified applicants.

You know something’s a bad idea when even a Union chief says “It’s ‘too stupid to be true.”

My opinion? An unintended consequence is that this could be Chicago’s way around the NRA lawsuits they’ve had post-Heller regarding handgun ownership. “Whatta ya mean we don’t issue handgun permits. We’ll let anyone carry a gun….”

Michael W. Dean

A short, logical thought against gun control

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

I’m from the government and I’m here to help. Give me your guns! It’s for your own good!”

Gun control does not prevent crime. Gun control disarms victims, increases crime, and makes criminals out of honest people.

Gun control does not prevent crime, because criminals, by definition, do not obey laws.

Terrorists are a good example of why gun control does not work. Next time there’s a terrorist attack because the powers that be are asleep at the switch, and Rahm “don’t let a crisis go to waste” Emanuel or Eric “let’s try terrorists in criminal court” Holder tries to ban guns, remember this: explosives are much more tightly regulated, much more illegal than guns. Yet terrorists can always can get their hands on explosives. Let me repeat that short thought, because it’s important. Explosives are much more tightly regulated, much more illegal than guns. Yet terrorists can always can get their hands on explosives.

Gun control doesn’t work. Just say no to voting for politicians who claim they “know what’s best for you” (in anything). And remember, the politicians who want to take away guns from common folk are themselves protected by Marines and Secret Service with guns, 24/7.

The attitude of Gun-grabboid politicians is that they’re important and worth protecting, you’re not.

I’m not single-issue about guns, but I will say this: a politician’s stance on citizen gun possession is my most important “acid test” when I look at their record. Because if they don’t trust me, an honest man, with guns, I don’t trust them to “run my life.”

–Michael W. Dean

Las Vegas Shooting

Monday, January 4th, 2010

A shooting at a federal building this morning has left a court security officer dead and another seriously wounded while the gunman himself was killed. I would like to start by saying that my thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the slain officer and to the officer who will now begin recovery from this horrific event.

The left wing blogoshere is starting to come alive with gun grabbers claiming it must have been a “Teabagger” or an “NRA Weenie.” No information has been released about the gunman, but there are already calls for banning guns. A human tragedy turned into political capital within 8 hours. It sickens me that there are those that would start making political hay so soon after a tragic event. I’m certain I will have plenty of comments on the matter once I have enough information to come up with a logical opinion. I wish I could say the same for my political opponents. Baseless accusation seems to be the order of the day. How can one logically pass judgement with no information?

-Justin West