Ride out the Apocalypse in style!

I own two parcels of land in Kenna, New Mexico (population 15). It’s in Roosevelt County, and it’s literally in the middle of nowhere. Here is a Google satellite view of the Kenna area. Here is the Wikipedia article on Kenna. Here is an article with the very interesting history on how I came to own the land.

The photos above and below are of the town, not of the land. I’ve never been to Kenna or seen the land. But I own it, and will probably never use it, and am tired of paying the eight dollars a year in property tax, and would love to sell it and buy more guns. (I gots me a hankering for some AK-47s, actually!)

The land is two parcels, each is 1/6 of an acre, which is enough to camp on. You can go there when the Schumer hits the fan! I’m selling both parcels as a unit for $750.

The land is property number 1 000 010 004 285 00 – lots 9 and 11 of block 81 in Kenna, New Mexico. It’s a matter of public record that I own them, and this can be confirmed by phone with the county clerk at the courthouse in Portales, NM.

– Michael W. Dean

e-mail to buy.

Photos of Kenna, New Mexico taken by John Murphey, and scans of a few of the John Eddy papers.

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WE LOVE WYOMING!

Tonight we were on the way to the post office. DJ was driving, I was in the passenger seat. As usual when we drive, I had a loaded revolver on my hip in a belt holster, and another loaded revolver in the open glove box in front of me, in plain site, and within quick grabbing range.

Suddenly, we got pulled over by the police. Young male cop walked up to DJ’s window. I kept my hands where he could see them.

Cop: Ma’am, the reason I stopped you is you were going 40 in a 30. Any reason for that?

DJ: Yes sir. I’m sorry sir. Just inattention.

Cop: OK. May I see your driver’s license and insurance please?

DJ: Yes sir. (Reaches by her feet to her purse, gets her license and hands it to cop.)

DJ looked over at me and said “The insurance is in the glove compartment…”

Me: Officer, before I reach in there, I wanted to point out that….

Cop (cheerily): Yeah,…I see the gun.

I reach past the gun, get the insurance and hand it to DJ who hands it to the cop. He looks at it, hands it back to her, takes her license and goes back to his patrol car. He called in on the radio, came back to our car, handed DJ her license and said, “OK ma’am. Please be more attentive. I’d hate to see you have an accident on such a pretty day.”

He didn’t give her a ticket, we said ‘Thank you”, and he left.

WHAT WAS AWESOME ABOUT ALL THIS:

Well, it wasn’t California.

It’s very rare in California to NOT get a ticket when you’re pulled over for speeding. But moreover, having a loaded gun sticking out of your open glove box in California would not result in a polite “Yeah, I see the gun.” It would result in another gun being pointed at your head, commands being screamed, you being pulled out of the car, you being thrown to the ground, handcuffed, backup being called, you being arrested, processed and jailed.

But really, what was awesome about this is that a cop didn’t treat us as potentially dangerous and/or as needing a babysitter/parental supervision/nannying. Looking back on almost every interaction either of us has ever had with cops, they almost invariably treated us potentially dangerous and/or as needing a babysitter/parental supervision/nannying. Having a cop treat us as adults and not dangerous was pretty damn cool.

And NOT getting a ticket was just icing on top of that.

– Michael W. Dean

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I’ve said and done some silly things in my life (nothing as silly as this guy below did), but I’ve always done it under my real name (or made it damn easy to find my real name when using a fun pseudonym). People should use their real names on the Internet instead of cowardly hiding behind a sockpuppet. If you’ve got something to say, say it with your real name. And include your town too.

Michael W. Dean, Casper, Wyoming

Repost via Wyoming Patriot:

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Many have asked about the news that there may be “infiltrators” at tea parties around the nation.  A website (crashtheteaparty.org) was recently set up.  The creator, though he tried to hide his identity, has been outed; his name is Jason Levin, and he’s a middle school teacher in Beaverton, Oregon.  He’s on record saying that you might see some of his team in Nazi uniforms at your local tea party pretending to be racists and other offensive characters.  Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy doesn’t it?  And one has to ask the question; if tea partiers are racist, anti-Semitic homophobes, and it’s so obvious, why does he need to plant people who pretend to be those things at your tea parties?  Ah…leftist logic and tactics…there is no way to understand their twisted thoughts.  But you do need to know what the left is up to.

And by the way, if you’d like to let Mr. Levin’s school district know what you think of his behavior, and his potential influence on public school students in Beaverton, Oregon, you can contact them here. And you can reach the Principal at his school, Mr. Zan Hess, at this number: (503) 524-1345. If you choose to contact them, in direct contrast to Mr. Levin’s behavior, please be polite. Remember, just because he’s exposed himself publicly as a vile, indecent human being who will stoop to Nazi symbolism, and the promotion of racism and bigotry to silence those with whom he disagrees, doesn’t mean everyone in the school district is bad.

In any event, we know that infiltrators might be coming to our tea parties.  But remember last April 15th; the idea that the tea parties would be infiltrated in the same way was all over the news.  The results?  Virtually no infiltration.  We know they might be coming, and they know we know.  And they know we are ready.  So if you’re a couple of guys who enjoy wearing Nazi uniforms or holding racist signs, are you really likely to show up…just a couple of you, all alone, at a well organized tea party of 1,000-20,000 people who disagree with you?  I haven’t seen many leftists with that much spine.  They prefer to hide in the shadows and lurk, like sleazy predators, or secret molesters.  They don’t want to be identified.  And we ARE ready to identify them.  Do they really want their ugly mugs pasted all over the internet holding racist signs?  Hmmm…they might find it funny to think about and even to threaten, but it’s probably not a good career move, and most will chicken out before they ever get started.

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Bleah!

http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showevent.asp?eventid=28464

Also, they have invited all the HIGH SCHOOL principals to a conference call with Bill Ayers including a suggested reading list of his materials.

http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/wsup/showevent.asp?eventid=28285

Here’s my open letter to the Casper Tribune about it:
Do we want a terrorist speaking at the University of Wyoming?
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University of Wyoming has scheduled convicted domestic terrorist William Ayers as a 2010 Spring guest lecturer for Monday, April 5.  Ironically, the name of the speech he’s scheduled to give is “Trudge toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action.”

In the early 70s, William Ayres participated in the bombings of New York City Police Department headquarters, the United States Capitol building, and the Pentagon. He is unrepentant about these acts, and is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ayres wrote a blurb for the back of President Obama’s autobiography, though Obama has downplayed their relationship.

I think having Ayres speak in Wyoming, especially to impressionable youth, is a HORRIBLE idea. And I think having it paid for by our taxes is a travesty.
I’m all for free speech, but I think Ayres’ past actions and present attitude goes far beyond free speech. I also think it’s a crazy world we live in when former enemies of the state are considered role models, and have a relationship with the president. Wyoming seems more secluded from this sad decline than the rest of the country, and I think we should help keep it that way.

I urge people contact to the public relations coordinator, Jim Kearns at 307.766.2670 or jkearns@uwyo.edu and event coordinator Tanaya Moon Morris, sjrc@uwyo.edu, 307-766-3422 and POLITELY ask them to cancel this event.

Respectfully,
Michael W. Dean,
Casper
Wyoming contact for the Republican Liberty Caucus
http://www.rlcwy.org/

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I hang a United States flag outside my house most days. (When the wind is under 40 MPH in Wyoming, when it’s higher than that it will bend the pole. It’s happened before.)

But most days, it becomes a “burrito flag” within hours:

I go outside several times a day and un-burrito it:

We had a flag up in California the last few months there, but someone stole it off our house. (Probably to perform some Satanic ritual with it, or to disgrace it in some way and call it “art.”)

We are patriotic. Not in a “my country, right or wrong” way. More in a “love it or leave it” way. I don’t trust my government, but I love my country.

And I love Johnny Cash. I’m listening to him right now. Seems to fit somehow.

We are just loving every moment in Wyoming. It’s what we always wanted but just didn’t know it existed. Here are some photos:

DJ happy:

Below: on the left is the Dick Cheney Federal building. To its right is the William Jefferson Clinton post office. (Do you think they fight when no one’s looking? Or….if you’re a NWO conspiracy theorist, do you think they drink blood and sacrifice virgins together?)

DJ happy downtown:

Me happy downtown, with a gun on my hip under my coat, in front of some REAL public art:

More Wyoming public art:

(Compare to some California public “art”):

Meanwhile, back in AMERICA, downtown Casper:

Our favorite museum, Fort Caspar:

Inside Fort Caspar:

Back home….Fuzzy get your gun!:

Daddy get your gun!:

Babydoll happy with Peanut:

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(re-post of a blog post I did in June 2008 about George W. Bush. I’m re-posting to quash beliefs that I only dislike liberals and love all Republicans.)

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Is the president being impeached? (I hope so.)

I have been watching a lot of C-SPAN lately. It’s basically the only thing worth watching, now that all TV pretty much sucks.

Not a lot of people watch C-SPAN. So I’m one of the small percentage of Americans who know, at this moment, that Representative Dennis Kucinich is on the Congressional floor presenting his resolution calling for Bush’s impeachment. It’s a list of 35 charges, (list here) mostly Constitutional violations and Geneva Convention violations, and he’s been reading it for about an hour, and he’s about halfway through it. A member of the House of Representatives presenting a resolution detailing charges is one of the first steps in impeachment proceedings.

The charges range from election fraud, including disenfranchisement, to illegal wiretapping to illegal torture, to lying about our reasons for going to war, to handing out padded military contracts to his buddies. And a lot more. I can barely keep up. And I’m as giddy as a kid in a candy store about this. So is Debra Jean. She’s glued to the screen. We both love the Constitution. A lot.

It’s history in the making, and it’s not even on CNN.com or Yahoo News yet. I think it’s an emergency meeting, because it’s 10:30 PM in DC right now. I remember seeing the effort to impeach Richard Nixon as news coverage on TV when I was a kid, but he was never actually impeached. (He quit before that could happen, and Ford pardoned Nixon as soon as he took office.) And Nixon was basically just going to be charged with, as I recall, one thing (conspiring to pay people to bug a hotel room). The charges being read against Bush are many, and many are far more serious.

Kucinich is quoting the US Constitution a lot. I wish Kucinich had made it to run for president. He’s smart, and has other things going for him.

I have a prediction: tonight on the Colbert show, Colbert will report this out of character, as he really is, not as his “alter ego” who would be outraged by this. He’ll just state it, and let people cheer.

Here’s a quick 20-minute podcast I recorded, and uploaded while the proceedings were still being read live. It’s about 17 minutes of the charges being read, and about three minutes of us commenting on it. We’re pretty much in shock. And pretty happy.

(behind every great short man is a smart, better looking, and often taller, woman)

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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

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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? It’s 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.

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

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

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Governor Dave Freudenthal should become a Republican

Howdy 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?

Respectfully,
Michael W. Dean
Wyoming contact for the Republican Liberty Caucus.

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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 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

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