Violent Spree Ended By Armed Homeowner

Either drugs were involved, or this falls under the heading of Crazy People are Dangerous. Or that's my opinion. Series of violent crimes in one day leads to list of charges for Upstate man, deputies say

Cops were called to check on Joshua Mason Bliss in Oconee County, South Carolina. Oconee County is about 90 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, or about 110 miles west northwest of of Columbia, South Carolina. It seems from the map to be fairly rural.

Mr. Bliss, fired shots at the police, and set his apartment on fire, and took off.

While investigating that shooting, deputies said they received word from dispatch that Bliss had reportedly been shot by a homeowner on Cain Drive. Upon arriving at the Cain Drive location, deputies found Bliss on the ground and the homeowner holding a pistol.

Click thru for the details, but the homeowner shot him, as he advanced, and then held him at gunpoint until police could arrive.

Bliss was taken to a local hospital, and then he was taken to the county lockup.

[Bliss] is charged with six counts of attempted murder, two counts of breakinginto a motor vehicle and one count each of breach of peace – aggravated in nature, ill treatment of animals, second-degree arson, possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime and high and aggravated criminal domestic violence.

All stopped by a good guy with a gun. You know, that thing the gun-hating part of the Left says never happens. It happened again.

The Tolerant/Peaceful Left - Or Maybe Not

How dare you disagree with the Left! (In you best Gretta T. voice:) How dare you! Trump supporter in deep blue city refuses to remove an incendiary sign as home is shot up for THIRD time | Daily Mail Online

The Seattle Police Department said they were investigating a 'potentially targeted' attack 'due to political and ideological signs' that included a Confederate Flag, supported Donald Trump, and one that read 'Police Lives Matter.'

They tolerate everyone, as long as you march in lockstep with every bit of their dogma. Deviate from that and you will be attacked.

The homeowner's car windows were also shot at and pride flag stickers were left on the vehicle.

They no doubt left the Pride Stickers to prove how tolerant they are.

Despite the violence, the homeowner told local news that she would be keeping her signs up.

Strong woman. The Left hates her.

CIA Review Reveals Obama Pushed Russia Collusion Hoax

I'm shocked that a politician from Chicago would lie, or do anything underhanded. OK, so I'm not shocked. CIA Review Reveals Obama Pushed Russia Collusion Hoax

While Brennan, Clapper, and Comey all rightly deserve condemnation, Obama launched the plot and as president he holds greater responsibility for politicizing the intelligence community against his successor.

I want to copy something, but there is too much. I will leave you with this, and say, "read the whole thing."

Yes, the CIA report showed, in the words of CIA Director Ratcliffe, “how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process.” But they were merely doing the dirty work for Obama, which is why CIA Director Ratcliffe stressed: “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump.’”

Hat tip to James Woods: Is Obama the most devious president in history?

California Dope Farm Using Child Slaves

The Other McCain brings us some perspective on a story virtually ignored by the mainstream media. California Dope Farm Child Slavery and Why Conservative Journalism Matters

So, Governor Newsom — considered a leading “mainstream” contender for the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nomination — is supported by a corporate marijuana producer who uses foreign child labor supplied by human traffickers. How much of this would you know if you got your news from ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS or CNN? The correct answer is zero, because those outlets almost completely ignored this story.

You probably saw some of the images on the news, but they didn't tell you that it was a pot farm, or that some of the "workers" were children. They only told you that ICE was being mean.

Literal child slavery is happening in Newsom’s California, but the CBS News audience is left with the impression that the real issue is racism, because “pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target” of Trump’s immigration policy.

You only think you hate the media enough. You don't.

How DEI is Causing Hollywood to Lose Globally

Andre Einherjar of Midnight's Edge is an interesting critic of Hollywood, in part because he sees Hollywood from Europe.

Deadline, the Hollywood magazine/news organization, is bemoaning the fact that American cinema isn't as popular and influential as it was a decade ago. As the studios decided to push DEI, which no one wants, audiences are disappearing. Why? Well it is Trump's fault of course, because Orange Man Bad, or something.

This is Andre Einherjar's video Report: Hollywood "Losing Influence" in Global Mainstream Culture - Here's why!

The old Soviet Union imploded for many reasons, but a major one was that they didn't let consumer demand dictate production, since they let what the powers that be thought the people should have decide what got made. That in the end helped usher in a collapse.

Hollywood has been doing something similar for years now. Rather than making the movies the audiences of the world actually wants and demands, they pushed out ideologically driven drivel they thought audiences should have, but the audience weren't having it.

It is a 21 minute video, but I found it interesting.

You can find the Deadline article at this link. Hollywood Is “Losing Its Symbolic Value” In Global Mainstream Culture, According To The Latest Nostradamus Report – Karlovy Vary. It isn't very good, for the reasons enumerated by Andre in his video. It seems to miss the point of why people are not interested in The Marvels, or Disney's She Hulk, or Ironheart, or the Thunderbolts. (With or without the asterix, or the name change.)

I Miss the Days When There Were Good Movies Every Month

I was listening to the WXRT radio program 1993 Saturday Morning Flashback - July 5, 2025. They only have a brief mention of movies these days, but it still evoked a time when there was more than 3 good movies in a given year.

1993 was year that gave us Philadelphia, staring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Oscar for Best Picture, The Fugitive staring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, The Firm staring Tom Cruise, and Sleepless in Seattle staring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. All of those movies were in the top 10 highest grossing films of the year.

Jurassic Park was the highest grossing film of that year. And it is the only Jurassic Park movie worth your time.

Other notable films:

• Leprechaun staring Warwick Davis. Started a horror franchise if I remember correctly.
• Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. The story of 2 dogs and a cat trying to get home.
• Groundhog Day. Bill Murray, in one of his best rolls, with Andie MacDowell
• Army of Darkness. Sam Raimi classic horror/comedy staring Bruce Campbell
• Falling Down. Michael Douglas as a man who lost his way, and Robert Duvall as a detective
• The Nightmare Before Christmas. Which is actually a Halloween movie.

There are more. Most of that list is from the first quarter of the year. But I had to include that last one.

You could go to the movies every week, and there would be something interesting to see. And it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

Maybe he thought a Blue State would be safe for this kind of thing. Man shot and killed after kicking door in at home in Redby, Minnesota - KVRR Local News

Red Lake Department of Public Safety says dispatch got a call Wednesday from a homeowner in Redby saying that a man had kicked the door in.

Redby, Minnesota is roughly a 250 mile drive north of Minneapolis. It may call its Police Department, the Department of Public Safety, but it is far from the blue-state center of Minneapolis.

After he kicked in the door, the homeowner shot him. He died at the scene.

Not sure why, but the FBI is aiding in the investigation along with Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Blue states. Why can't they just call it the State Police? I guess that doesn't sound Progressive, or something.

Self-defense is a human right.

Civilizations Change

Those changes have always not been for the better. Kim du Toit at Splendid Isolation: Bare Ruin’d Choirs

Did civilization end after WWI?

The Western Front saw a generation of young men (nearly) eliminated. Both the lower and middle class, as well as the upper class.

The result was the disappearance of an entire generation of young men, a decimation or worse of lower- or middle-class youth, and the virtual disappearance of the upper class, doomed by their class and upbringing to lead their men into the hot mouths of the machine guns, and to suffer disproportionately.

At a stroke, the old ruling class disappeared, whether by slaughter on the Western Front, or by revolution in Russia. In its place came the modern government bureaucracy: more faceless than before, more powerful than before. The post-Great War government was to rule not by divine dogma, nor even by royal whim, but by cold, impersonal philosophy.

Did it end? Technology didn't disappear, and we didn't get a dark ages, but in Europe it changed so as to not be recognizable. Literature and the arts changed. Modernism - Bauhaus, Dada, etc. came in, and more. Architecture stopped being beautiful. A lot of things stopped being beautiful.

Things changed again with WWII, and the reaction to the horrors we unleashed.

What the Second World War enabled was the growth of the Leviathan state, with its impersonal bureaucracy (like mass destruction) brought to its ultimate conclusion. Instead of the post-Great War Dadaism, post-Second World War literature was defined by bleak dystopian visions like George Orwell’s 1984 and absurdist plays like Samuel Becket’s Waiting For Godot.

It will change again. Will it be better or worse this time?

There is more. Click thru and read the whole thing.

The Award for Stupid Criminal of the Year Goes To...

A lot of criminals are stupid, but few are this stupid. Woman incriminates herself in reply to post insulting thief: ‘This woman called me trash’

A woman was on vacation when she was notified that her home had been broken into. She posted photos and a scathing remark on F*c*book.

When Davidson’s plane landed, she found that Cape had incriminated herself, replying to the Facebook post and allegedly admitting her guilt.

“People need to mind their own business. This woman called me trash… just because I broke in her house and stole some stuff. She don’t even know me. But thinks it’s ok to call me trash,” Cape wrote.

She hadn't been arrested at the time the article published, and I doubt we will hear more about this trash.

Sometimes I think humanity doesn't desrve to survive.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 12 July

The Right Way is up first with Top of the News

Worst Outlet of the Week - Who Took Bottom Honors in the Latest Round of Dysfunctional Media? - Bongino Report

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

This is known as belaboring the obvious.
No shit, Sherlock.
This explains a lot of Democrats.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Defending The Wood Perilous: Fairy Tales Are Based, Actually
Jim McCoy: The Fire Within

EBL - Make China Great Again ☀️

Instapundit: Where's Xi?
EBL: Make Prosecutions Great Again: Brennan and Comey

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Evening Edition)

CDR Salamander: Wait – We Don’t Have To Give Up On The Railgun?
Don Surber: Democrats blew it

Vlad Tepes - NY unmasks ANTIFA rioters, finally, Canada at full gallop for communist state and School of Darkness, an important book on communist supervision in North America for the last 80 years: Links 1 for July 9, 2025

2. Having a look at UN dialectical assaults on Israel via dialectical negation or selective ignorance of facts and amplification of enemy propaganda

Small Dead Animals - Friday On Turtle Island

Lord Carney’s Canada: Ugly Buildings. Why do the police bother arresting anybody? Streets of Montreal.
Woke America: A Mamdani staffer. The useful idiot generation. Illegal aliens in congress.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 7/10/2025

Minnesota DHS Policy Investigated for Civil Rights Violations
The Trump administration said Thursday that it has opened an investigation into whether a Minnesota state agency’s newly updated affirmative action policy violates civil rights laws.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Vox Popoli: It Isn’t Theirs, Sandman 2 Sucks, and Shots Fired! Shots Fired!
Upstream Reviews: WonderFilled Meltdown

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony -

Centerville, Ohio, is not scanning your trash and feeding the data into an AI to issue notices that you are a poopy-head. (Dayton Daily News)
They're scanning your recycling and feeding the data into AI.

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

Economic Advisers Council Reports Import Prices Falling, Undercutting Tariff-Driven Inflation Fears
USAID Sent Thousands of Viruses to the Infamous Wuhan Lab

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Evening)

Matt Taibbi: One More Wafer-Thin Mint?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Struggles Shooting Again, Still Leads Indiana Fever To Win Over Brittney Griner, Atlanta Dream

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

MacArthur Park is a Hellhole
The Forgotten American: Can There Be Life After 12 Years in a Chinese Prison?

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 7/9/25

Daniel Greenfield: Without Illegals, Republicans would control the country.
Why Dems Are Fighting a Civil War Over Illegal Aliens

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The Fight For The Fate Of The Intelligence Community Is On

• Violence is the Last Stop for Democrats - Sasha Stone
• The Roots of Leftist Rage - Victor Davis Hanson

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 07/11/2025

Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest.
Protester Fires Gun at ICE Agents at California Marijuana Farm Raid; Democrat Congressman Crashes Police Line.

I leave you with Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Memes and Things from The Feral Irishman, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2756 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter.

First He Got Shot, Then He Was Arrested

I think this guy is lucky to be alive. Man shoots accused burglar in mother’s home, Osceola deputies say

He was celebrating the Fourth of July by breaking and entering.

The homeowner’s son had noticed a rear door was left open and armed himself with a revolver after then entering the home and reportedly hearing strange noises, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

After the man called out to see if anyone else was in the home, Platt allegedly emerged from a hallway and charged toward him, prompting the man to fire a single shot into Platt’s leg, the release states.

I'm a firm believer in aiming for center of mass. A guy is running at you, so you don't have time to be wrong.

The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital, and then to the county lockup.

And since this took place in Florida, the authorities were only worried about one thing, in relation to the guy doing the shooting.

The man who fired the shot was not injured, investigators said.

Osceola County, Florida is just south of Orlando and Orange County. It contains the city of Kissimmee, Florida.

Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guy 0.

What Were You Doing When You Were 14?

I'm guessing armed carjacking wasn't one of the activities. Too young to drive, old enough to carjack: Two 14-year-olds charged with violent Edgewater hijacking - CWB Chicago

In a case that underscores the growing concerns around youth violence in Chicago, two boys — just 14 years old — have been charged with a brutal armed carjacking that left a 39-year-old man critically injured last month in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood.

Edgewater is one of the 77 neighborhoods (excuse me, "community areas") in Chicago. It is about 6 miles north of The Loop, and right on the lakefront. It is about 6 miles south of Evanston, Illinois and Northwestern University.

Two of these juveniles remain on the streets.

According to a police report, the boys, along with two unidentified accomplices, pulled up in a white sedan and struck the victim with the vehicle. Authorities said the group, which had at least one firearm, stole the man’s belongings and fled in his blue Toyota Highlander, leaving him with injuries so severe he was taken to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition

If this isn't a sign of the breakdown of civilization, that 14 year olds are committing violent crimes with no remorse, I don't know what is.

Here is the obligatory reference to Hobbes' Leviathan, and his reference to the State of War that exists when criminals no longer fear that the government will impose Law and Order.

You could also read "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats. He also touches on issues around the decay of civilization.

Judgement Day

There aren't too many bands that can produce an acoustic version of a song, and still make it sound like Heavy Metal. But 5FDP manages that with today's song. I'm still putting it on Saturday, because of a lack of screaming guitars.

This song is "Judgement Day (Acoustic Version)" by Five Finger Death Punch. It was on the Digital Deluxe Edition of their 2022 album AfterLife.

Friday Links - 11 July

Lone Star Parson is up first with Nothing To See Here

Epstein committed suicide. He didn't have any "clients." Not a single powerful, wealthy, important person ever went to his private island resort and even if they did, which they didn't, it was to enjoy sun, sand and sea.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - ZOMG: Trump Hires Scientists Who Think The Climate Crisis Scam Is A Scam

Consensus is not science. The consensus at one time was that the Sun went around the Earth. Dinosaurs were lizards. Ulcers were caused by stress. That plate tectonics was mule fritters. Really, the wackos have weaponized consensus, especially as it relates to the climate cult.

Paul Serran at The Gateway Pundit - PANIC IN BRUSSELS: Globalists Tremble as Patriots for Europe Group Will Lead Negotiations on the EU’s Climate ‘Target’, Ditch ‘Climate Fanaticism’ and Suicidal Policies

As much as they tried in 2024, the liberal-Globalist Brussels establishment was not able to thwart the surging European rightwing parties, who have become a formidable force that is fighting for power all over Europe.

Clayton Cramer - Higher Education Whining Higher Education Whining

Yes, if you have $2 million per student endowment, you are a hedge fund that dabbles in education.

Again from William Teach - Rich Folks Worried About Global Boiling Driven Storms Build Better Homes In Path Of Storms

If these people were truly worried about the Doom from coastal storms they wouldn’t, you know, build homes at the coast, right?

Jim Treacher - Grok Goes Goosestepper?

There’s no law against starting your own party, of course. Nobody is forcing anybody to vote for a Republican or a Democrat. But maybe Elon should’ve asked his robot Grok about Ross Perot’s vanity campaign in 1992. The old coot ended up costing George Bush a second term, not to mention inflicting the Clintons on us for the rest of their lives. Is that really what Elon wants?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 9 July 2025: Oops All Hitler Edition

Yesterday I noted that Twitter was taking steps to make its AI chatbot, Grok, "less politically correct".

It looks instead of making it 5% more Hitler, they dialed it up to 500%. (Tech Crunch)

For a few hours it sounded like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and the Ayatollah Khamenei, or a moderate Democrat.

Don't Bring a Knife to a Gunfight

Also, people need to come to terms with the sentence, "It's over!" California homeowner shoots, kills intruder later revealed as wife's ex-boyfriend | FOX 11 Los Angeles

Even the media in Deep Blue Los Angeles noted that this intruder was known to the people in the home, or at least one person in the home. People you know can be a threat, and this is one of the canonical examples: an ex-boyfriend turned stalker.

What we know: Officials with the Simi Valley Police Department said they received a shots fired call from a neighborhood at 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, June 18.

Six minutes later, they received another call from a homeowner stating they had shot an intruder following a confrontation.

The guy who got shot was declared dead at a local hospital.

The couple had multiple issues with the suspect at the home and the woman had a temporary restraining order against her ex in the past.

In Texas, or Oklahoma, the authorities would be saying this is clearly self-defense. In Florida the local sheriff would issue a statement about how it is a good thing that the law abiding are able to defend themselves and their families from bad guys.

But this took place in California, so the authorities will see if there is some way to charge the guy who was forced to defend himself from an armed intruder with a crime. Why? Because you can't allow individual action and individual responsibility to take hold in a Liberal enclave like Simi Valley.

Simi Valley, California is about 12 miles north of Malibu, about 11 miles southwest of Santa Clarita, and about a 40 mile drive from downtown Los Angeles.

But whatever the authorities in California may decide, self-defense is a human right.

The Environmental Devastation Caused by the Production of Electric Vehicles

The West has mostly outsourced rare-earth mining, to China. They get all of the toxic waste associated with that. China Has Paid a High Price for Its Dominance in Rare Earths - The New York Times.

If you're not clear on how Rare Earths figure in our technology, there is an explanation below the embedded video.

Of course the fact that China doesn't give a damn about the environmental devastation visited upon people far from the country's capital, means that the production of rare earth metals is much cheaper in China than can be managed in civilized countries.

For decades in northern China, toxic sludge from rare earth processing has been dumped into a four-square-mile artificial lake. In south-central China, rare earth mines have poisoned dozens of once-green valleys and left hillsides stripped to barren red clay.

Achieving dominance in rare earths came with a heavy cost for China, which largely tolerated severe environmental damage for many years.

The article, which was originally in the New York Times, used past tense in that last sentence. I'm not really sure that the attitude of the Chinese government toward the environmental impacts has changed.

An artificial lake of sludge known as the Weikuang Dam, four square miles in size, holds the waste left over after metals are extracted from mined ore. During the winter and spring, the sludge dries out. The dust that then blows off the lake is contaminated with lead, cadmium and other heavy metals, including traces of radioactive thorium, according to technical papers by Chinese scholars.

During the summer rainy season, the sludge becomes coated with a layer of water that mixes with poisons and thorium. This dangerous mix seeps into the groundwater underneath the lake.

This is the MGUY Australia video Quickie: China's environmental DEVASTATION from rare earth mining. The video is about 4 minutes long.

Here is a bit from CNN about What are rare earths used for?

Rare earths are ubiquitous in the technologies we rely on every day, from smartphones to wind turbines to LED lights and flat-screen TVs. They’re also crucial for batteries in electric vehicles as well as MRI scanners and cancer treatments.

Rare earths are also essential for the US military. They’re used in F-35 fighter jets, submarines, lasers, satellites, Tomahawk missiles and more, according to a 2025 research note from CSIS.

SIG Sauer and the Ongoing P320 Kerfuffle

It seems that ICE agents are no longer authorized to carry this sidearm. They are going to take it up the.... - by Miguel Gonzalez

For those of you not in the know, SIG has been accused of producing a firearm in the P320 that "goes off by itself." This isn't an isolated incident or two. And now has spilled over to the LEOs at the federal level.

Law Enforcement and Military sales are pittance compared to civilian sales, we all know that. But they do have some influence on what people buy and even more on what people do not buy if safety is an issues, right or wrong.

It is my belief that the safety issue is related to some design clash between the gun itself and retention holsters. Sort of like binary explosives: individually they are perfectly safe, but when combined, boom will follow.

SIG's reaction has been denial, and a hearty F- You to anyone who has had an issue.

Good news however: I figure in a year or sooner, we will have a glut of P320s at deeply discounted prices at Gun Shows.

When a certain PD replaced all of its revolvers with Glocks, officers kept shooting themselves. In the end, there wasn't anything wrong with the Glock in question, but that the cops weren't used to the ease with which a striker-fired pistol could be discharged. Glock didn't say F You. They bought back all of the firearms. And got a lot of good will.

Glock also had problems of their own, and they fixed those problems. That also generated good will.

And you should click thru just for the meme.

Two Stories of Home-Built Firearms

Impro Guns always has the stories about home-built and 3D printed firearms, which drive the anti-gun crowd bananas. How dare people build things that we don't let them buy! Or something.

First we have a story on the .22 Harlot. Turkish Black Market 3D Printed .22 Derringers

Harlots are mostly 3D printed, with a few items, like metal tubing and springs, picked up at your local hardware store.

3D printed Harlot .22 pistols being offered on the Turkish black market for just under $100 a pop. Supply is infinite as these can be continuously pumped out in the bedroom of this particular entrepreneur while he is away enjoying the finer things in life.

The Australians are particularly upset because they have moved heaven and earth to make guns all but illegal, and semiautomatics extra illegal.

There is a link to a video I have not watched. Yet.

The second story is from Brazil. Phone Booth Spray System Eliminator

I said "story" but it is just a photo of a 9mm semiautomatic confiscated in that country.

Lovingly crafted deep in a favela from bits of scrap.

Looks to be from the plans by Professor Parabellum, or something similar.

In both cases, you should click thru for the photos alone.

Are Canadians Waking Up to Self-Defense?

I'm sure the prosecutors don't want to see that happen. Jury acquits teen who claimed self-defence in fatal Toronto school shooting, saying he carried gun because his neighbourhood was ‘like Iraq’

A Toronto jury on Friday acquitted a 20-year-old man of second-degree murder, accepting his claim that he fired four shots in self-defence, believing the victim — 18-year-old Jefferson Guerrier — was “lunging” at him with a knife outside a high school in the city’s east end.

You can't rely on The State to provide things that The State cannot provide. One of those things is your personal safety in the moment of a violent attack. Canadians, and Europeans, have been in denial for a couple of generations, but I think they are fianally figuring things out. Or at least the Canadians seem to be.