Internal Checkpoints

This site is simpler and more content is easily available on the front page.

This should up your numbers of visits and time spent on site.

I think you have something to offer that no one else has. But probably on first or second glance, you just seem like all the other talking heads out there that are in your neighborhood of opinion.

The challenge remains how do find more of the quality people who should be reading and commenting on your site.

I used to use a user name on wikipedia that had the word libertarian in it, and I have challenges to my edits all the time.

Since I made a new neutral user name, I’ve had far less drama. Using the libertarian bugaboo, might be a terrible provocation that’s scares off lots of good people, not just the clovers.

You like older kinds of machinery and dislike newer kinds of machinery and it’s all very interesting. Especially the fact you’re the only libertarian who can fix things instead of sit in ivory tower think tanks and wear bowties.

Maybe start getting your topics out of the better comments you get here. Or address the issues your paying patrons care about, but only objectively.

The biggest thing here that would help, is if all the people here who try to have their own blogs that get next to zero visits and are a huge waste of time and exercise in vanity, gave up on flying solo and started pitching in here instead and became part of something that reaches lots of quality people and dispenses lots of quality content.

It is necessary to get “the consent of the governed.”
That means more and more “big lie” propaganda, to cover up the loss.

Think OODA loop. Think in terms of … Riding a whirlwind. You get turned around so fast you can’t even orient yourself. You have no Observe-Orient-Decide-Act loop – by the time you’re Observed, there’s a new Observe phase starting.

The joke equivalent, think in terms of an argument with a woman. Anything you say after she decided the argument is over, is just the start of a new argument. And sometimes the arguments are even peripherally related to what’s bothering her.

I’ve been dealing with an increasingly mad woman for 10 years. Finally had enough. And she realized, somehow, that being suicidal and controlling everyone and everything around her wasn’t working…
But, that’s why the comparison, looney tunes Fruit Loops just isn’t reasonable. You go to address Issue 1, and before it’s even done being examined, Issue 2 has asserted itself and is Immediate attention, and then while observing that one, Issue 3 (and sometimes 4, 5, even 256 and counting) are all in need of IMMEDIATE attention.

That’s the mewling we hear on TV, radio, and even the Web. Because if we really had a few moments of silence, we’d be ready to kill them all – and they know it. It’s only by interrupting us and keeping us divided and dispersed (mentally) that they’re able to keep this society going, keep kicking the can down the road.

BTW, you can look at Danger and Play and Roosh V for some good commentary, also Citizen Renegade / Chateau Heartiste – they’ve learned that TPTB ignore you until you actually have a following. You’ll be safe until then. But if you have a following, they’ll find ways to shut you down (E.G., the Roosh V meetup plans were cancelled because of planned protests and threats of police action – against the Roosh people. Not the protestors, who had already been making death threats… )
Bold and Determined might help with the Blog, BTW – not DOING things, but teaching how to implement and better monetize. Haven’t read the guides yet; given neither of us are spring chickens, might be worth it to find a means of cooperation. As I get my life back in order (lunatic + organized life = disordered life + lunacy), it’s worth some consideration to make things work.
I’ll drop a line after I read the guides (probably Thursday, today is going to be beastly.)

Eric, I TOTALLY agree. I was simply pointing out a difference in my experience. I’ve never had Borders/Customs guys talk to me on a road checkpoint. Coming back from Mexico? Yes.

It might have something to do with the fact I’m usually driving a rental car and am old and white, but I don’t know for sure.

Nearly 20 years ago we had friends who lived in Santa Teresa N.M. and we’d go to see them occasionally. I haven’t driven from El Paso north except into the edge of NM so I don’t know where all the checkpoints exist but there was one an hour east of EP on I-20. Two guys in a company car or private car we’d get waved through for the most part but one day they motioned us to stop. I was a passenger and was reading something so I had only looked up when we pulled over through the inspection point and gone back to reading. We get stopped and I looked up to see the “agent” motion at the window. My buddy who was driving rolled down the window and waited for instructions. He had a shirt on that said “I Fish, Therefore I Am”. The agent said Hey, I like your shirt. My buddy said thanks and was motioned on. I was relieved since we had 100 wetbacks in the trunk with 20,000 lbs of pot….in a rent car. Seriously, how do they determine if you might be a drug mule or human trafficker other than vehicle and plain old profiling? They don’t. For a couple decades they made busts just on the vehicle and brown people inside.

I used to go by the impound lot at the Midland airport a few times a day delivering freight for SW, mostly bank stuff. The vehicles fell into a single category, ext. cab pickups, more than a few with Chevrolet on the windshield and a couple with Ford on the windshield and the occasional one with flowery script of Villa or Diaz in the back window. They all had extra wide wheels and big tires that stuck out past the fenderwells. Now that those early 90’s GM pickups have made such a resurgence in this part of the country I often see them stopped on the interstate with mainly a DPS or three searching the truck while a guy who’s spent 12 hours a day working in the patch is standing there well away from the vehicle. Of course now those vehicles have all sorts of outside skirting and wild paint jobs the guys got done on the cheap in Mexico. I see some so nice on locations I feel the need to give the owner a thumbs up. But the cops still haven’t caught on it’s working guys now instead of wetbacks carrying loads of pot.