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By Ted Dunlap, on November 5th, 2023 Here is a supremely accurate analog clock to help with your big chore for the day: I also added it to the Bitterroot Bugle’s left column so you can find it any time of any day … so long as my site and the Internet last. A regular un-favorite day of mine when the gubbmint reminds us they control our lives… and a day when I have to wear a watch, wandering my world changing the settings on a zillion different clocks, only a few of which are intuitive. I have ranted about “daylight savings time” more than a few times. The ‘Old Indian’ meme says it as well as anything. […]
By Ted Dunlap, on October 1st, 2023 
People like me often consider what we may or may not do that facilitates organized capturing of information about us, our activities, and even our thoughts. Nobody wants to think along these lines, but many recognize it would be foolhardy to never consider such. Either you buy the product or you are the product. Faceplant is an example along this line. Their overtly paying customers are the advertisers. Regular participants are the audience, the product. Most likely there are other customers who receive the meta-data on all users. The activities, expressed opinions, interpersonal contacts build portfolios of interest, not necessarily [or likely] for our benefit. “The cloud” is another innocuous benefit offered without overt cost to its users. Considering […]
By Ted Dunlap, on May 10th, 2023 
Sigh… apparently my turn came up again for special attention from the USofA Census Bureau. I received bonus letters in the mail, phone calls, Agent Smith visits and, today a FEDEX overnight letter soliciting my participation in their extra-curricular data mining program. Their constitutional mandate is to count the number of people in each household within the borders of our country once every decade. All else is what our Army calls “mission creep”, Libertarians call “government over-reach” and computer geeks call “data mining”. Regardless of the title, I am not keen on contributing to their dossier on me any more than I have to. The last time the Census Bureau decided to dance with me was September 2010 – […]
By Ted Dunlap, on March 12th, 2023 
Today is the biannual celebration of control our overlords wield over details of our lives. They remind us twice a year that even little things are within their power. For absolutely NO GOOD REASON, they send us scurrying around our houses, shops and vehicles resetting every clock and timer therein. It is just a little jab, not like they are starving or poisoning us … with that poke anyway. I am approaching the mark where half of my life will have been spent self-employed. When you do not report for work at a time fixed by others, the annoyance level of biannual clock manipulations is reduced. I get up when I am awake and go to bed when I am […]
By Ted Dunlap, on February 23rd, 2023 
The beings who wish unrestricted rule over the 3% of us who survive their ongoing genocide have a problem… actually more like 130,000,000 problems. Gun owners are not likely to give up their families, homes, belongings to climb into the cattle cars. Armed resistance works a heckuva lot better than cut flowers and peace signs. They know this. Despite my headline, this is really not a racial issue, though since the beginning of the Gay Kenyan illegal White House occupation, race has deliberately become a divisive issue and white MEN are their specific enemies – putting us on the front lines whether we want it or not. This comes up, tediously, again because their disarmament attempts come up again. […]
By Ted Dunlap, on November 11th, 2022 
As long as we are stuck in the theater, we might as well finish the popcorn before stepping out for some fresh air. This sampling of fraud, theft, and deceit is the tip of the iceberg. Apparently Florida, or more accurately Florida’s governor exempted them, but few other states escaped. I doubt low population states mattered enough to bother rigging. Thus Montana and the Dakotas may have escaped, but I have no evidence regarding them. I admit there are quite a few examples in this collection. Don’t miss one of my favorites. I saved it for last. – Ted […]
By compatriot, on May 3rd, 2022 
Dear MSSA Friends, What’s up with the races for the Montana Supreme Court (MSC)? Great question. First, some background. The MSC is one of the last bastions of politically liberal power in Montana. The left has lost all the statewide offices and the Legislature because of the left’s practiced irrelevance. What power the left holds on to, so far, is the education industry, some local governments, and the MSC. The MSC is made up of seven justices, a Chief Justice, and six Associate Justices. They are all elected to staggered eight-year terms. Two of those seats are up for election this election cycle. Two of the sitting justices are thought to be neutral or conservative. The remaining and dominant seven […]
By compatriot, on March 21st, 2022 
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of TotalitarianismLet me tell you about the state of our nation: things are getting worse, not better. Easily distracted by wall-to-wall news coverage of the latest crisis and conveniently diverted by news cycles that change every few days, Americans remain oblivious to the many governmental abuses that are still wreaking havoc on our freedoms: police shootings of unarmed individuals, invasive surveillance, roadside blood draws, roadside strip searches, […]
By Ted Dunlap, on February 12th, 2022 
I share below a GREAT news show featuring three men who know very well the situation in these two volatile areas. They are in complete agreement with other data and sources that I have been reading, watching, observing and as much as I can, sharing here on my website. The show as presented via Lamestream Media and the political prostitute class is childish at best. These guys nail the truth in a professional grade presentation. There are reasons that a landslide presidential election victory was obviously, blatantly set aside to put an advanced dementia sufferer on the puppet stage. You get that in this show along with probable projections for how it will play out in these theaters. I am […]
By compatriot, on December 28th, 2021 
to Compensate ‘Victims of Malicious Prosecution’ KATHERINE HAMILTON from Breitbart.com An Oklahoma state senator filed a bill on Tuesday dubbed “Kyle’s Law,” inspired by the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, to protect Oklahomans who exercise their right of self-defense from facing trial for “political reasons.” State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-Broken Arrow) said the legislation, also called Senate Bill 1120, is designed to ensure “victims of malicious prosecution” are able to receive compensation for expenses and damages. Should the bill become law, if a person charged with murder is found not guilty due to justifiable homicide, the state would have to reimburse that person for all reasonable costs “including loss of wages, legal fees incurred, and other expenses involved […]
By Ted Dunlap, on November 14th, 2021 
The USofA Department of Labor issued a report on 2021 price changes thus far. Most people see the cost of everything rising. “Everything is getting more expensive.” I visualize the dollar and all other fiat currencies in the world going down. FAST. It is like being on an escalator going down. You can see the floors rising relative to your position, but you know they are not. The squeeze is on producers to keep the majority of their customers from feeling the sticker shock. It cannot be helped as their costs are also rising as their dollars lose value just as fast as ours. You cannot drop endless quantities of paper money out of helicopters without devaluing every single one […]
By Ted Dunlap, on August 9th, 2021 
A few items in my morning news perusal all pointed in the same direction. That is no surprise as my sources are selected, directed by love of liberty. I combine three bits here for you. My inclusion of the quotation below is inspired by the one to the right. But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. Lysander Spooner The essay below invokes the compact, thorough, classic book by Albert J. Nock, Our Enemy The State. The string-pullers of the control mechanism are still willing […]
By Ted Dunlap, on December 31st, 2020 
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has published their report for the year 2020. It is easy to look suspiciously at the salaries and raises congresscritters give themselves while we get any crumbs that may slip between their grubby fingers. The bigger picture shows that graft and corruption are for more significant to their personal wealth than the “peanuts” we officially pay them. Mega-businesses along with corrupt rulers world-wide are happy to buy favors from the District of Criminals (Washington DC) because million dollar bribes return ten to hundreds of times that by the time the entire transaction process is completed. The earmarks highlighted by this study are major parts of that. Others hide better, but the obvious ones are […]
By Ted Dunlap, on November 1st, 2020
Today is the biannual celebration of control our overlords wield over details of our lives. They remind us twice a year that even little things are within their power. For absolutely NO GOOD REASON, they send us scurrying around our houses, shops and vehicles resetting every clock and timer therein. It is just a little jab, not like they are starving or poisoning us … with that poke anyway. I am approaching the mark where half of my life will have been spent self-employed. When you do not report for work at a time fixed by others, the annoyance level of biannual clock manipulations is reduced. I get up when I am awake and go to bed when I am […]
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