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General / Christopher Cantwell's Open Letter to the Free State Project Board

« on: April 18, 2014, 06:57:43 PM »

I think everyone should read this. Let me know what you think. I'm withholding my opinion on here (and I've already expressed it on my sleeves on Facebook more than enough) until I see some traffic beginning and responding to this post.

"Open Letter to the Free State Project Board" by Christopher Cantwell

URL: http://www.christophercantwell.com/2014/04/17/open-letter-free-state-project-board/

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General / Ian and Dale's New Son....Dalian! LOL!

« on: March 01, 2011, 07:53:01 PM »

I've got a new pic that just came out - one that shows Dale and Ian's newly, genetically engineered son....Dalian. (Dalian = Dale + Ian...get it???)


Here it is....

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General / Mama Alley on FTL Talking About Old Drama At Last Year's Porcfest

« on: January 20, 2011, 08:34:37 AM »

In last night's episode of FTL, Ian and Mark interviewed Savannah LastBiscuit's Mama Alley who was talking about an incident that happened at last year's Porcfest (which I didn't attend and only heard about it on Facebook a while back). Apparently Gee got into an altercation with a customer over his and Mama Alley's dogs, which was never resolved at the event.

For the record, I know the details of the event, as the "lady" mentioned on FTL was Avant Fixx....Xaq Fixx's wife.

Here's Xag Fixx's blog on the incident describing his side of the story: (URL) http://blog.xaqfixx.com/?p=154

Here's last night's FTL URL: http://traffic.libsyn.com/ftl/FTL2011-01-19.mp3

Check out last night's beginning of FTL that has gone on the air and was discussed at great length.

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General / Re: LCL Report's Tarrin Lupo Censored at the Campaign for Liberty Regional Conf

« on: January 26, 2010, 09:39:11 PM »

Beh, C4L is a joke anyway right? I delete the emails after only reading the subject.  I'm one step away from sending them to the spam folder.

Big deal.  Sounds like a hurt ego blown up into a lame story.

Edit: no offense to your blog, it looked nicely done and the story rather professionally presented.
What I mean is I personally find this story to be of a meaningless nature.  A fucking waste of time.  

Being harassed by C4L's security guards and nearly geting kicked out of the event (which bills itself to be a private one but isn't because it is accessible to the public) are "a fucking waste of time"?

*rolls eyes* Whatever....

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General / LCL Report's Tarrin Lupo Censored at the Campaign for Liberty Regional Conf

« on: January 25, 2010, 05:54:23 PM »

Here's LLR's blog post on the incident involving Lupo whose video has come out today:

http://letlibertyring.blogspot.com/2010/01/lcl-reports-tarrin-lupo-censored-at.html


I appreciate some great feedback on this. USA Today's Content Reader picked up my blog post on the deal.

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General / Re: FSP Controversy: Mark's Anger on the FTL Podcast Extended Edition

« on: December 13, 2009, 12:50:03 AM »

wat

Mark blew up on Monday's Extended Edition of the show because of his frustration with the Free State Project board dragging their feet on the call center program that Mark and Jason Osborne were proposing to the board. Ian and Mark basically criticized the FSP board because of its inherent bureaucracy.

That's the Cliff Notes' version of what happened. Just listen to approximately 2:58 or 2:59 of the show's time index, and you'll see what I mean.

A day after the podcast went up, Varrin Swearingen, the President of the Free State Project, met with Mark privately and agreed to the program.

So what do you think? You think Ian and Mark should have talked about it or no?

They even outted the fake "9800" participant number that's been rumored for a long time.

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General / FSP Controversy: Mark's Anger on the FTL Podcast Extended Edition

« on: December 13, 2009, 12:36:29 AM »

So what do you all think about it?

Should it be an area of concern for people who are interested in the FSP? Is this a serious matter? Is this matter overrated or underrated?

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General / Re: House passes healthcare bill

« on: November 08, 2009, 02:21:11 PM »

Oh you silly second amendment.

No matter which way you slice and dice it, we're fucked....and not in a good way.

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General / Re: Gene The Christian Anarchist's Rant on The Work Ethics of African-Americans

« on: October 07, 2009, 03:46:46 PM »

All the cutting off pissed me off. I have not listened in months and chose this one to listen to. They should have let Gene make his point.

<quote>FTL seems to be extremely race talk adversed (unless its dissing whites). It is a valid subject and should be explored. Instead, we get a bunch of talking over and white guilt ass covering by the hosts.

Davann:


"All the cutting off pissed me off. I have not listened in months and chose this one to listen to. They should have let Gene make his point."

Let's get something straight. When you call into a talk radio show, and you talk to the hosts of the show about any subject (especially in the case of Gene's controversial subject), you will have talk radio show hosts like Ian and Mark interrupting the caller in order to correct a fallacy that the caller made on the air or to clarify the caller's statement for further understanding. Most likely, the "cutting off" is done to correct a caller on the air who has made an erroneous and fallacious statement.

Ian made a point on the air on Monday night, saying that, in order to carrying on a conversation with a caller, the hosts have to "cut them off" so that they can "make a point" and that Gene was doing the same thing (which he said was okay). Mark has said on the air to a caller on that same night named George (from Arizona) that FTL is "fast-paced" and that, on its marketing materials, the show is "fast, it's smart, and it's iconoclastic." He said, "George, wait, a second. George, let me address this before you go on, please let me address this. If I were, if I were to allow someone to go into a long monologue about and each in that monologue just a whole bunch of fallacies over and over, um, ya know, building on top of each other. Would that make for a good show that I then would wait for them to finish, "Ding!"? Your two minutes is up, now my two minutes come in, says: "Ding!" and then I go in and then I've written down every note... made their notes on everything you said, "Well, First, and your most important fallacy is initially two minutes ago, which is what you said, and based on all this was on was incorrect, and this, this was right..."?

Mark pointed out that the show is not a "high school debate club" to the caller George, and Ian pointed out that Gene was given an entire segment for him to make his point and that the claim that Gene was never given a chance to "make his point" is ridiculous. In actuality, Mark and Ian are correct, and those who are defending Gene on this point are factually incorrect. Besides, Mark pointed out that, if he and Ian paused and allowed a caller to go on and on without interrupting, that caller "won't take a pause." He's absolutely right on the mark here.

Davann, I run a radio show myself. I interrupt my guests because that's my job as a talk radio show host, but more importantly, I do this to make it a better radio show. Any talk show host HAS to do that to keep the interest level of a show spirited and high. It's also done to make it interesting. And plus it would be crazy to give equal time to a talk show guest when that guest is NOT inclined to give both the hosts and the other guests on the air the same chance and courtesy as well. Besides, Gene made his point emphatically clear on the air; it's not like he was denied the chance to express his point of view. If that were the case, he wouldn't have been allowed on the air. Period. End of story.

"FTL seems to be extremely race talk adversed (unless its dissing whites). It is a valid subject and should be explored. Instead, we get a bunch of talking over and white guilt ass covering by the hosts."

Bullshit, and we all know this to be the case. FTL is a show that, although controversial, it does welcome the discussion of race; however, the framing of the discussion by the caller in a "racist-laced setting" showcases the bias of the caller, not the hosts. Gene was the one who called into the show and expressed his racist-laced opinion on the air, especially when he was talking about the comparison of blacks versus whites. Mark is correct to inquire about the point of bringing up the context of that discussion. My view is that that context serves no useful purpose, except for the likely possibility that it can be used as ammo against a historically-oppressed racial minority group (in this case, we're talking about African-Americans).

I'm not saying that the black communities don't have a responsibility in how their kids are raised and what kind of work ethics the parents in those communities fail to instill in those neighborhoods. They do. But to point the finger at blacks and say that they're the only ones who are looking for welfare hand-outs, they're lazy, and they lack work ethics is very one-sided, considering that *ALL* individuals of every group are doing the same thing. Once again, race has nothing to do with it, but upbringing, the government school system, and the lack of responsibility that parents have when it comes to them raising their kids have everything to do it.

Your swipe at Mark and Ian, specifically saying that they are engaging in "white guilt ass covering," is totally uncalled-for and unfair, considering that your simple-minded, myopic, and one-sided view of life and embracing the conservative brand of racism have totally turned me off as it would turn the hosts off. By embracing that "Dixiecrat," conservatoid mindset, you come off as supporting the racist-laced conservative bigotry that has its tentacles attached to the diluted, vulgar mainstreamed brand of libertarianism.

Sorry, but your bullshit stinks up the board so much that the stench is unbearable.

 

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General / Gene The Christian Anarchist's Rant on The Work Ethics of African-Americans

« on: October 06, 2009, 02:08:25 PM »

It annoys and even disturbs me deeply that Gene The Christian Anarchist, a fellow freedom fighter of ours who has every right to voice his views (whether they are laced with racism or not), appears on Friday's FTL and makes a blanket, generalized statement about blacks (particularly in the South and who work in his business), saying that they are slower in terms of work performance than white people and that they have no work ethics whatsoever.

While it may be true that some individual blacks lack work ethics, the idea that we must cast aspersions on an entire racial group because of the bad actions of a few bad apples is just unfair, wrong, and absurd. We can apply that thinking to any group of minorities out there, even and especially if it's meant to be or not meant to be very racist to the core.

Ian and Mark said that Gene called his black employees "shiftless" on the show. While Gene may not have used that term on the air, he did imply it (despite the fact that he lied on the air saying that he didn't imply that). Sorry, Gene, but you're being intellectually dishonest when you say that you didn't use the term "shiftless" on the air (which is true; you didn't say that word), but actually meant it in that capacity when you stated that your employees of color "lacked work ethics." How else is someone supposed to interpret that?

The truth of the matter is that employees regardless of race, color, religion, age, and creed who lack work ethics do so because of many factors that come into play, primarily because of their upbringing (i.e. how their parents have raised them), the inculcation of this vile statist idea that people who work in the retail, clerical, and other areas of the private sector that individual employees as groups must do need to do the bare minimum (and this garbage is taught in the government schools), and the lack of responsibility in their lives, thanks to parents who refuse to treat their young teens like young adults and learn the need for work ethics and responsibility in the workplace. Accusing a racial minority group of lacking work ethics in the job market is, as far as I'm concerned, akin to assigning blame to a rape victim who holds up a neon sign saying that she wanted to be raped. Race has nothing to do with this problem; it's the lack of personal values, ethics, and responsibility that parents fail to instill in their children because they cart them off to the state's government schools that don't teach them those values to begin with. Saying that blacks in a business "lack worth ethics" (which might be true on the individual level) in comparison to whites (who also lack such ethics in the workplace as well) is no different from saying that a victim of government policies asked to be victimized in comparison to another victim of said policies who asked to be victimized the same way. This is pathetically insulting rhetoric, not to mention racist and very anti-Liberty to the core.

Unless Gene has data to back up his points, they are, as far as I am or anyone is concerned, quite anecdotal.

Gene tried to rake Ian and Mark over the coals last night by correcting them, saying that he didn't use that term, but I heard the podcast from Friday's show too. It's true that he didn't use that term, but he surely meant it in that fashion.

On Friday's show, Gene gets irate that Mark, Sam, and Ian are talking over him, claiming that they are not allowing him to speak (which is not true; they devoted an entire segment to his racist rant). He brings up this pathetic point that "blacks in general" do drive cars with "big wheels," but then later in the conversation says that he doesn't "want to talk about big wheels." Gene, if you didn't want to talk about it, then why did you bring it up? What was the point of that entire conversation when it turned me off as well as a lot of listeners off?

On last night's show, Gene angrily tells Mark and Ian that he heard Friday's show and that they made it sound like Gene called his black employees "shiftless" when that was never true to begin with. That was an unfair broad-sweeping statement that Gene made to Ian and Mark, and I think he owes Mark and Ian a serious apology over it.

Sorry, Gene, but I'm on Mark and Ian's side on this matter, not yours.



Yours in Liberty,


Todd Andrew Barnett

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General / Re: Cassidy Nicosia Interviewed for 40 Minutes on Liberty Cap Talk Live

« on: September 05, 2009, 03:24:02 PM »

Mp3 download link pls?

I don't want to listen to it at the computer

Here's the Mp3 link here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/libertycaptalklive/2009/09/05/Episode-5-A-40-Minute-Interview-with-Cassidy-Nicosia-Cash-for-Clunkers-etc.mp3

Here's the WMA file if they want to make clips out of it (my show is crafted for a creative commons license):
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/libertycaptalklive/2009/09/05/Episode-5-A-40-Minute-Interview-with-Cassidy-Nicosia-Cash-for-Clunkers-etc.wma


This is convenient for those who don't want to listen to it at the computer.

Update: I had to replace the link by updating the show posting's title because I spelled the word "interview" as "interivew." I didn't realize this until later. There you go, guys!!!

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General / Cassidy Nicosia Interviewed for 40 Minutes on Liberty Cap Talk Live

« on: September 05, 2009, 02:36:02 AM »

The show aired, and Cassidy did an awesome job, although she sounded kinda shy on the phone. That's ok, though. I was salivating over her while I was doing the show.



Episode 5: A 40-Minute Interivew with Cassidy Nicosia, Cash for Clunkers, etc.

LibertyCapTalkLive

Date / Time: 9/4/2009 11:00 PM


Category: Politics

    In the fifth episode, Todd and Jim and their panelists libertarian writer and commentator Brett Bittner, Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity Movement Radio and TV show host and PFP Movement founder James Cox, and PFP Movement Radio and TV co-host Mike Shanklin discussed "Cash for Clunker" participating dealerships not getting paid the rebate money that the Obama administration promised them, the "C4C" dealerships paying taxes on income for the $4500 rebates, more news on ObamaCare, and the 1776 Project.

    Jim, Todd, and the panelists interviewed Cassidy Nicosia, the topless Free Stater who held her one-woman topless protest, for 40 minutes from 11:10 p.m. to 11:50 p.m. EST on what got her interested in Liberty, the reasons for the protest, her subsequent arrest, and the dropping of the impending charges against her.

    [*Note: Cassidy was on the line much earlier and on top, so top kudos for her; she's welcomed back anytime. The show went very well, despite a little bit of annoying feedback on the caller line, but it wasn't that bad. Also, Mike Shanklin had to leave at around 12:27 a.m. EST, so the show continued on and did fine without him for the rest of the broadcast.]


Here's another URL for the show(this one is taken from my tweeting of the show on Facebook): http://tobtr.com/s/645026.

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General / Re: I think my sister is a lesbian.

« on: August 08, 2009, 07:16:38 PM »

 So what do you think?

I think you should stay the fuck out of your sister's sexual life.  

No offense intended, Rillion, but you should really learn some tact, for fuck's sake.

Look, I agree that he should stay of her personal life. I don't think it's any of his business, unless she makes it his business by flashing her sexual orientation in front of him and the other members of the family. (If that were to happen, then it would be her fault for advertising it by making it an "in-your-face" deal.) I don't know why he's posted it, and what the reason would be, and quite honestly, I don't care why he did it. I wish he didn't post it, but I don't get what I want out of the process.

But there's a better way to express this rather than attack the guy personally. Granted, what he did was stupid. He sounds like a spring chicken on here or even in his family, I'm sure. Fuck, I'll go so far as to say that he's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed for posting this info about his sister. But let's cut him a break, for fuck's sake.

I am not offended by his post, although I will say that what he wrote is out of pure ignorance, and that's curable. But your mean-spirited, condescending remarks are hardly setting a good example for all of us. If you get pissed with my statement about this in advance, then what were you expecting? A homecoming hug, kiss, and dance? Your Neanderthalic attempt to address this won't educate his mind but rather close it. Is that what you want? What, did you actually think that he would learn this from you? Are you fucking kidding me or what? Totally lame and pathetic here.

What he did was stupid and lame, but not an attack as if he committed some sort of vile crime. Foolish? Yes. Insensitive? Yes. Immature? Yes. But worthy of an ad hominem over it? Fuck no!!

I've noticed over time that You've posted stupid shit on this board yourself, and don't tell me you haven't, because if you do, then I'll know you're lying about it.

Get. Over. Yourself.

The day I "get. over. [myself]." is the day you find a good avatar of yourself or buy a nice outfit and take a pic of yourself wearing it to put on your profile to match that stick up your ass.

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General / Re: I think my sister is a lesbian.

« on: August 08, 2009, 05:27:00 AM »

* BonerJoe sprays the water hose on Rillion.

Calm down.

No fucking shit.

She'd be the wrong pick for a Sunday advice column in the New Hampshire Free Press paper. She's no Ann Landers or Dr. Joyce Brother's, that's for sure.

Talking about being uber-insecure and uber-sensitive, for crying out loud.

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General / Re: I think my sister is a lesbian.

« on: August 08, 2009, 05:11:47 AM »

 So what do you think?

I think you should stay the fuck out of your sister's sexual life.  

No offense intended, Rillion, but you should really learn some tact, for fuck's sake.

Look, I agree that he should stay of her personal life. I don't think it's any of his business, unless she makes it his business by flashing her sexual orientation in front of him and the other members of the family. (If that were to happen, then it would be her fault for advertising it by making it an "in-your-face" deal.) I don't know why he's posted it, and what the reason would be, and quite honestly, I don't care why he did it. I wish he didn't post it, but I don't get what I want out of the process.

But there's a better way to express this rather than attack the guy personally. Granted, what he did was stupid. He sounds like a spring chicken on here or even in his family, I'm sure. Fuck, I'll go so far as to say that he's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed for posting this info about his sister. But let's cut him a break, for fuck's sake.

I am not offended by his post, although I will say that what he wrote is out of pure ignorance, and that's curable. But your mean-spirited, condescending remarks are hardly setting a good example for all of us. If you get pissed with my statement about this in advance, then what were you expecting? A homecoming hug, kiss, and dance? Your Neanderthalic attempt to address this won't educate his mind but rather close it. Is that what you want? What, did you actually think that he would learn this from you? Are you fucking kidding me or what? Totally lame and pathetic here.

What he did was stupid and lame, but not an attack as if he committed some sort of vile crime. Foolish? Yes. Insensitive? Yes. Immature? Yes. But worthy of an ad hominem over it? Fuck no!!

I've noticed over time that You've posted stupid shit on this board yourself, and don't tell me you haven't, because if you do, then I'll know you're lying about it.