Liberty Today

Posted on 2016-08-08 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Liberty, for Americans, and for most of the rest of the world, didn’t fare too well in the last few years.  A few places, here and there, lost everything.  Most places got liberty nibbled at, in large or small bites.  In a very few places, liberty increased for the people who are there.  (Despite the terrific efforts of tyrants and would-be tyrants.)

What IS liberty, though?  There can obviously be degrees of liberty: some people, some societies, some communities can have more liberty, be more free than others.  Google defines liberty in two ways:  1. the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views, and 2. the power or scope to act as one pleases. Continue reading →

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What If? Part 2

Posted on 2016-08-07 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

In Part 1, a friend postulated just how things can really go wrong in the 2016 presidential election (the every-four-years vote for Massa), and its aftermath.

But the real question is, “What do we do if something like this really does happen?” We’ve seen things like that in places in Latin America, Africa, and even Russia. We are often fearful, not just about our freedoms and liberties, but our family’s very lives, our means of support, and much else.

In recent weeks, it appears that there may be an actual 3-way national race, with Clinton, Trump, and Johnson (with Stein a very distant 4th) stomping around the country. The poll numbers go up and down, but we are seeing things in 2016 that haven’t been seen before: the internal fractures in all three leading parties are glaring.

Anything could happen, especially when we throw in elements of terrorism (both by the states and other actors) and economics. Life is interesting, and doesn’t seem apt to change quickly. (But it just might! ML) Continue reading →

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Another Good Reason to Avoid These?

Posted on 2016-08-07 by MamaLiberty

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I went to check on a friend in a dangerous situation recently. Call him “W.”

He was in the hospital.

Dangerous? Yes! As you may know, “hospital” is the third leading cause of death in the U.S.

But there’s another good reason to avoid hospitals that I didn’t know. So bitch-slap me.

Since he had all sorts of insurance, “W” probably looked like $$$$$ as they wheeled him into the emergency room. Sort of like when you take your car in for an oil change and suddenly you have new shocks, a new muffler, relined brakes and a big bill.

No such problems this time. And I already knew about that danger. Continue reading →

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Baker’s Dozen: ALL Black Lives DO Matter

Posted on 2016-08-07 by TPOL Nathan

by Nathan Barton, from an idea by D. Pettis, a reader.

Author’s Note: I drafted this a couple of weeks ago. Since then, the news pages have been (as always) filled with a steady stream of photos of dead black people (and people of other colors, too), some killed by police, some killed by other black people. It isn’t just in the Fifty States: we see it from England and Brazil and of course from Nigeria and Sudan and so many other places.

This baker’s dozen ™ is to remind us God’s view is of our souls and not our skin. Right now, I have few close friends or even associates with “that” skin color, and I am mostly working and living in areas with few people of central African descent. Our neighbors and family and friends and business associates tend to be AmerInd (various tribes, including Lakota and Dineh and Numu), “Hispanic” (Nuevo Mexicano, Tejano, and Mexicano), and the odd military mongrel. But we have many brothers and sisters in Christ, many comrades in arms (or their family members), and some business associates who are of darker skin color and have ancestors from south of the Sierra and north of the Kalahari. Most of those people have ESCAPED from the horror that modern “American” black culture has become, whether we are talking the rural areas of Mississippi or Oklahoma or the ghettos and fringe communities of St. Louis or Baltimore or Kansas City. Continue reading →

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Returned!

Posted on 2016-08-06 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

I’m back, I think!

Last week, in the middle of yet another 1500-mile week of travel and work, I got violently sick and for the last nine days have been sick as a dog, lost a few pounds (which I really didn’t need to), spent a few hours in emergency care with an IV, and have tried to rest, limit work AND driving AND riding, called off about 2400 miles of travel, and gotten much better. I also didn’t listen to a WHOLE lot of news and talk shows, just enough to make me glad I wasn’t concentrating on them.

Mama’s Note: Well, thank goodness you checked in. I was worried! At first I figured you were just super busy… but that has not often stopped you cold like that before. Hope you are returned to perfect health soon… and can clean up the list of “drafts” you left behind. 🙂 Hugs!

So I am back, still feisty and eager to tilt at windmills, fight for my family, friends, clients, and liberty, and again willing to do so. Expect me to be more blunt and less tolerant, even as I continue to improve. Continue reading →

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Mama’s Garden – Harvest

Posted on 2016-08-06 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty

The first week of August, already! Have been harvesting a few strawberries, and some herbs since mid June, but now I’m getting a good crop of long green chilies and the start of the snap beans. So, I thought I’d show you a closeup of some of the things I’m getting.

Harvest sample

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Aren’t they always? Part 2 – Nazgul

Posted on 2016-07-28 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Just as political parties are always screaming about how evil their opponents are, so too are Nazgul constantly finding reasons to steal away rights, often for their own perceived self-interest. Ammoland talks about how Ruth Ginsburg, the infamous Nazgul who trashed Trump and STILL hasn’t moved to New Zealand (well, give her the benefit of the doubt: the election is still three months away). She continues to make it clear that Americans (and everyone else) should be disarmed and the Second Amendment’s protection of our liberties gutted even more than it is today, much as other protections have been rendered ineffective.

It is no surprise. The madness in the 1990s continues today. Courthouses all across the nation have elaborate and expensive (and usually ineffective) security systems with metal detectors and minimum-wage security personnel and x-ray conveyor spy gear (much like the TSA checkpoints at airports). They also have unsafe locked side doors and blocked handicapped access and emergency exits, even in courthouses for counties with only a few hundred people. I’ve had to go through these a few dozen times in the past couple of months to do routine business, and for court hearings. Continue reading →

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Whom do we believe? More terrorism or just nutcases?

Posted on 2016-07-27 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The hits are coming hard and fast now, in Europe: Ansbach, Normandy, Munich… the peaceful society of Europe’s two major powers is long gone. And who is to blame? Who is doing it? Today, look at just one event, and one part of the situation.

Whom do we believe? Although CNN and virtually ALL mainstream media are sticking to the party line when discussing the Muenchen McD killer, the party line does not ring true, and it does not match other information about the shooting. Nor even what the Polizei are saying. CNN says “Munich shooting: Attacker researched rampage killings, police say.” They go into detail: “The teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich on Friday was a mentally troubled man who had extensively researched rampage killings and had no apparent links to ISIS, German police said. Authorities said the 18-year-old lone attacker — who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound — had no political motivations. No references to religion were found in documents in his home in the southern German city. … Police have not named the attacker, but said he had dual German and Iranian nationality, and was born and raised in Munich.” Continue reading →

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The Non Voter’s Dilemma

Posted on 2016-07-25 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty

Just got done talking to a friend who insists that if I do not “vote” for Trump, I’m actually casting a vote for Hillary… and the same if I were to vote for the LP idiot…

I asked her if that would still be true if I happened to die between now and voting day… I’d still not be voting for anyone.

She didn’t have any suggestions to prevent me from dying….

And, since I don’t want anyone to be “president,” and no politician has ever legitimately “represented” me… I don’t see any relevance.

Don’t give a damn who becomes president. I will not comply. I do not consent. I will resist every effort to control my life. And if I die in that, so be it.

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Mama’s Garden

Posted on 2016-07-25 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty

In a seriously deep departure from the normal post here, I’m going to tell you about my garden! That way, I can send a link to all those I know who might be interested, and save a lot of time. If you don’t care about gardens, or in mine particularly, don’t despair. Nathan will be posting new political things soon.

Finally got the pictures this morning. Almost impossible to see what I was taking a photo of… can’t see the little screen outdoors most of the time. Anyway, they’re mostly self explanatory.

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