Wednesday Link Roundup - 6 November

Pirate's Cove starts things off with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Maggies Farm has Links. And more links. And does this all during the week.
Ned Hardy has historical photos.

EBL - FRANK SINATRA & QUINCY JONES : Mack The Knife (1984)

Quincy Jones, dies at 91, RIP.
Deadline, THR, Variety
AoSHQ: Morning Report 11.04.24

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.04.24

Cafe Hayek: On Wealth Creation and ‘Distribution’
CDR Salamander: Who Put Quartermaster Bloomfield In Charge Of Defending Guam?

EBL - Election Night Cocktails🥃🍸🍷🍺🤞

EBL: Vote 'Em Out, Election Day Cake and Other Recipes, and Pasta Carbonara
Atlas Obscura: Drink Like A Founding Father

Bacon Time - Sunday Linkage

Non-Original Rants - Sunday Meme Drop
The Air Vent - It’s Democrat Voting Weekend in Georgia

The DaleyGator - Weekend Links With Babes

Moonbattery ponders when Mark Cuban became an asshole
Irons in the Fire salutes Halloween

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 11/5/2024

Breaking: Georgia Police Respond to 7 Bomb Threats at Voting Places
The DeKalb County Police Department has responded to seven bomb threats in Georgia. Additional bomb threats were seen at other counties on Tuesday as well.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - Election Day LinkSwarm: Joe Rogan Endorses Donald Trump

Los Angeles voters have a chance to oust Sores-backed prosecutor George Gascon. (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)
Finally, New York Times tech workers are going on strike.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 4 November 2024: Multiply And Conquer Edition

We have solved the problem of every device having its own unique charger. Now it's all USB-C. Some idiots still aren't happy. (MSN)
Don't bother reading the article; the author is an idiot, as I said.

Political Hat - News of the Week (November 3rd, 2024)

Inside Saudi Arabia’s bloody £1TN Neom megaproject ‘with 21k workers mysteriously DYING & labourers trapped like slaves’
Watch the footage from the documentary

Vlad Tepes - Election is tomorrow in terms of the optics of it so; also Trevor Loudon spoke to a Doctor’s Zoom and was very good: Links 1 for November 4, 2024

3. One of the critical understandings one must have to navigate the current state of former republics like Canada, the US, and especially the UK at this time, is the difference between ‘De facto’ and ‘de jure’.

Small Dead Animals - Monday On Turtle Island

Comrade Kamala’s America: Hamas for Democrats. A typical Kamala supporter. Victor Davis Hanson – The Garbage People. A clash of postliberalisms.
Woke World: A global warming conference. Covid fascists.

Bacon Time - Sunday Linkage

Non-Original Rants - Sunday Meme Drop
The Air Vent - It’s Democrat Voting Weekend in Georgia

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 1: The Washington Times reported, “Whistleblower: James Comey had FBI ‘honey pot’ spies infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign.”
The honey pots were FBI agents.

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Here’s Jon Miltimore on Rachel Cohen on individuals and political action.
Emma Camp remembers Peanut the squirrel.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

The Propaganda Is Off the Charts
Once Joyful Harris Now Goes the Full McCarthyite
Diddy's Ex-Girlfriend Urges Americans To Trust Her Judgment

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?

• Illegal Immigrant Sexually Assaults 4 Minors In New Orleans Suburb - ZH
• Escape from Psychopathocracy - Kunstler

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 11/04/2024

Pennsylvania’s unusual voting laws make it ripe for rigged election claims.
Shady election group dumps 90,000 ballot registrations in Maricopa County before sign-up deadline ends – at least 40,000 damaged, thousands incomplete.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 11-03-24 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2118 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Sunday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Oh man, is it Monday already? gifdump from Wirecutter.

Don't Bring a Knife to a Gunfight

He invaded two homes, and stabbed one person in each home. Then his luck ran out. Iberia Parish sheriff: Arrest made in Thursday home invasions, stabbings

Maybe it was just Casey Meaux's way of celebrating Halloween.

One victim was stabbed at each house. The sheriff’s office said that Meaux was shot in the chest by the homeowner of the second house during the alleged invasion.

Iberia Parish, Louisiana is about 10 miles south of Lafayette, or about 85 miles due west of New Orleans. It is home to the famous Tabasco factory of hot sauce fame. (See the map below.)

And once again the Professional Journalists™ manage to sort out who is the victim, and who is not.

The victims and Meaux were taken to area hospitals for treatment.

The bad guy was arrested at the hospital.

Casey Meaux is facing two counts of home invasion and two counts of attempted first-degree murder, according to the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office. A mugshot was not available of Meaux on Friday due to him being in hospital care, the sheriff’s office said.

There is no word on what started Casey Meaux on his violent escapade. Maybe we can just chalk it up to "Crazy people are dangerous."

California Has Become a Place of Hate

I thought California was the land of tolerance and peace, but then it is popular on the Left to hate Jews, and the business in this case was run by Palestinians. Jewish family ousted from California coffee house over Star of David hat - Washington Examiner

“This is one of the most clear-cut cases of anti-Jewish discrimination I have ever seen in the Bay Area,” Jeremy Russell of the Jewish Community Relations Council told Henry K. Lee, a crime reporter with KTVU.

The cops are also either anti-Jew haters, or sadly ignorant of the law. Or maybe the powers-that-be have decided that Palestinian views on Jews should be codified by the government.

KTVU also cited David Levine, a professor at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, who stated that “to deny somebody service in a place of public accommodation on the basis of what here sure looks like religion, national origin and the like, is simply not allowed under state laws.”

Levine is likely referring to the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which “provides protection from discrimination by all business establishments in California,” including restaurants.

Go read the whole thing.

Last Light

Soen is a Progressive Metal band out of Europe. (The sing in English.) It consists of vocalist Joel Ekelöf, Joakim Platbarzdis playing guitar, Steve DiGiorgio on bass guitar, and the drummer Martin Lopez.

Some of their songs sound more Metal than this, though today's song reminds me more of Progressive Rock from days gone by, which is why this isn't featured on a Monday afternoon. It should not be too jarring before the caffeine kicks in. You can find the lyrics at this link.

This is "Last Light" by Soen from their 2012 debut album Cognitive.

Trump Wins

The Other McCain tracked the election so I didn't have to. Election Results 2024: Trump Wins Pennsylvania, Will Be 47th U.S. President

UPDATE 1:30 a.m. ET Wednesday: TRUMP JUST WON IT!

Go read the whole thing.

Tuesday Links - Gunpowder Treason Edition

Joel from The Ultimate Answer to Kings is up first with Holy crap this is the most evil spam I ever received…

Get a load of this…

Impro Guns - Hybrid 3D Printed SMG Seized. Click thru for photos.

Another seizure of a Hybrid 3D Printed Round Tube SMG which was discovered in a packaged along with marijuana by Brazilian customs suggesting these are currently being sold and smuggled across states.

From Liberty Doll - Dem's Gun Publicity Stunt Just Got Worse

Lucas Kunce's gun range publicity stunt may have been put on by a felon in possession.

Adaptive Curmudgeon - WYBDR: It’s A Big World

Ahead of me in line for the cashier is a woman. Nothing special about that but she’s wearing a mask. She looks reasonably fit and healthy. She’s got the standard issue “HOA Karen” quasi-professional clothes and the requisite asymmetric haircut.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: No Expansion This Year

Pete posted on the league Slack that nobody stepped up to take any of the four possible expansion teams, but a couple of the existing teams may get new owners since the existing owners have been excessively quiet lately.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 1 November 2024: Expecting Someone Taller Edition

In other good news Windows Recall has been delayed yet again. (Bleeping Computer)

This is the update that collects all your most important private data - including things like readable passwords - in one convenient place for anyone to steal.

Miguel Gonzalez - When you obfuscate to avoid "stereotyping."

I have been to a lot of recording studios through the years, owned one and I am pretty sure this is not one.

Adaptive Curmudgeon - WYBDR: Burning Fuel

I’m truly in the middle of absolute nowhere. Then, for no reason at all, I enter a place with cell phone reception. I have no idea why.

My phone goes apeshit! A zillion texts have been piling up and they all ping onto my screen at once. It’s overwhelming. There’s a bill I needed to pay a week ago. There’s a doctor’s appointment reminder for next week. There’s a bunch of well wishers who’ve been sending me texts without really “grokking” the idea that I was no-bullshit off-grid. (I think there are people in 2024 who have never been out of cell service and don’t really understand the concept.)

American Greatness - From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’—Why the 16 years of Vilification?

Statisticians tell us that the new non-clinging Democratic Party finds its greatest support from those who earn less than $50,000 and those who make considerably more than $100,000. These are the rich/poor bookends that surround the reformed Republican party in between.

And finally we have the opening of V for Vendetta.

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.

I definitely will be watching that movie. How a government used a virus to strip all freedom from its citizens, and make a boatload of money on the cure. Seems more in line with reality every year. (And doing my best to not think about the election - tomorrow is soon enough for that.)

Easier to Vote, Harder to Cheat

Can you guess how the Democrats feel about that? Georgia: How’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Working?

Despite the fact that early voting has set historic records in Georgia, a certain Democrat remains permanently disgruntled: [SNIP]

As advocates of the new Georgia law have repeatedly said, it makes it easier to vote, but harder to cheat — and it’s that latter aspect of the law that Abrams and other Democrats deplore. There was massive “ballot harvesting” in Georgia in 2020, but they won’t be able to play that trick this year, which is one reason why Team Trump feels pretty confident about Georgia.

Click thru for the rest.

People You Know, Threats and Self-Defense

The Left loves to go on at length about how if you own a gun, you are more likely to shoot someone you know, than a complete stranger. There are reasons for that. POLICE: Suspect shot, injured after breaking into family home | CBS19

And also, people in Texas are armed. You might say that they are heavily armed.

A 38-year-old man was hospitalized after police say he was shot while forcing his way into a family member's home Friday night.

Longview, Texas is about 60 miles west of Shreveport, Louisiana, and about 110 miles east of Dallas.

It started earlier in the day, as a fight between family members. He wanted to have the last word, but I'm guessing this isn't how he planned for things to turn out.

He was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, and charges are currently pending.

So yes, you are more likely to need to defend yourself from someone you know, or even a family member. The category of people that can be described as "someone you know" is quite large. A disgruntled ex-employee, the creepy guy from your favorite coffee shop, and ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend turned stalker, etc. The statistic that the Left loves to throw around isn't the win they think it is.

Research Fraud Costs Hundreds-of-Millions-of-Dollars

A lot of that fraud is paid for by tax dollars, though not all. Research fraud, Alzheimer's, and Mortality trends

This is a podcast episode by Mary Pat Campbell that covers a bit of fraud. There are also a bunch of links to other articles, one of which has the $247 million dollar number, that was the amount spent on a particular branch of Alzheimer's research, all of which was kicked off by a single paper, that was eventually was retracted due to falsification of research data.

That was one branch of research. The whole problem may be close to $1 billion in scope.

Prominent research in Alzheimer’s disease going back for decades has been found to be fraudulent, which has effects. Alzheimer’s disease has been a cause of death with an increasing age-adjusted death rate, and it’s one of the very few causes of death with a rate that’s higher for females than males (at all ages). How has this come about? And what should be done?

It took 22 years to have some of the bogus research retracted. 22 years during which the fraud stood, and grew.

There is more, and I can recommend clicking thru and listen to the 30 minute audio. (I listened at 1.25X and for a time at 1.5X normal speed.)

This is not new, and not restricted to medical research, but it is a problem. The image below is an excerpt from the 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through.

Is Cincinnati PD the New Chicago PD?

In other words, is it completely insane, riddled with corruption, and spending money without regard for anything? Though in Chicago's case, the excess spending is more about insane amounts of overtime right now.

Cincinnati is not really a big city. It is only the third-largest city in Ohio, behind Cleveland and Columbus. You know about Cincinnati because of the pro sports teams, The Reds, and The Bengals. (What is the third largest city in Indiana, or in Nebraska?) $500,000 is a lot of money for a city the size of Cincinnati.

The police chief has decided that instead of honoring a business decision to send all 5-year-old service weapons back to Smith and Wesson for a discount on their replacements, they will instead destroy all of the service weapons, and buy new. I'm not sure why they think service weapons, most of which get used only at their yearly qualification (I'm assuming that Cincinnati PD has to do a yearly firearm qualification - I know it is dangerous to do so) need to be replaced every 5 years, but then I'm not a bureaucrat, and I know a little about firearms.

This is the Liberty Doll video Activist Cops Cost Taxpayers $500K

On the subject of Cincinnati Police she has the following to say:

People that have no problem enforcing unconstitutional laws, that arrest journalists for filming crime scenes, that arrested people for not social distancing in 2020, have officers drunk driving with expired plates, people dying of stab wounds during SWAT raids, arrest people for filming them during arrests, and also allegedly threatening to shoot them for filming, have officers involved in Narcotics money laundering schemes at nightclubs, and have 56-year-old officers using the police data system to get the phone numbers of 19-year-old women, are talking about not trading in their Department weapons and choosing to spend an extra $500,000 of taxpayer money because they're worried about "moral consistency."

Liberty Doll has the receipts for all of those instances. Watch the video.

Be Prepared

The Other McCain on possible insanity. Election 2024: Be Prepared for Anything

The old Scout motto has always been wise advice, and as we brace ourselves for Election Day — to be followed by Election Night, and then perhaps Election Week or even Election Month — we ought to psychologically prepare ourselves for all possible contingencies.

Click thru.

Faster

Within Temptation is a Dutch (don't worry - they sing in English) Symphonic Metal band. It was started in 1996 by lead singer Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. I love the fact that he worked in Human Resources before his music took off. (He got to quit his day job.) Though he only does studio playing, he is the band's main composer.

As for the rest of the band, Ruud Jolie plays lead guitar, Stefan Helleblad plays rhythm guitar, Mike Coolen is the drummer, Martijn Spierenburg is the keyboardist, and Jeroen van Veen plays bass guitar.

While I never have trouble understanding Sharon den Adel, here is a link to the lyrics.

This is "Faster" by Within Temptation from their 2011 album The Unforgiving.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

The bad guys are not getting the memo that homeowners are armed. Lenoir County homeowner shoots suspect during attempted vehicle break-in

A man who is suspected of breaking and entering into a vehicle at a home on Will Baker Road was shot by the homeowner and is in serious condition at a Greenville hospital.

A man who identified himself as Ryan Lee Burd, 39, of Morrisville was discovered on the side of Will Baker Road by Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office deputies, who were responding to a breaking-and-entering call.

Lenoir County, North Carolina is about an hour and a half drive southeast of Raleigh.

The guy who got shot was airlifted to a trauma center, and is in serious condition.

The DA will make any determination on charges, but as far as I can tell, the homeowner was not arrested.

That is because self-defense is a human right, and it seems to be your legal right in North Carolina.

Federal Judge Strikes Down Public Housing Ban on Firearms

In all of the election insanity, I didn't see anything on this court case out of New York. FED. JUDGE SIGNS PERMANENT INJUNCTION - Second Amendment Foundation

That means that public housing authorities cannot ban tenants or their guests from being armed for self defense. This ruling is from U.S. District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

A federal judge in New York has issued a permanent injunction against the Cortland Housing Authority prohibiting any sort of firearms ban against CHA tenants, in a victory for the Second Amendment Foundation and its fellow plaintiffs.

SAF was joined in this action by three private citizens, Robert Hunter, Elmer Irwin and Doug Merrin. They are represented by attorneys Edward Andrew Paltzik, Serge Krimnus and Meredith Lloyd at Bochner PLLC in New York City.

If the Cortland Housing Authority doesn't appeal, and who can tell at this point if that will happen, then I expect a law suit in New York City, and they will fight tooth and nail to keep the population disarmed, because that is what tyrants do.

A small step? Perhaps.

The hat tip goes to the Armed Attorneys YouTube channel, and the video Breaking News: The Post Office Carry Ban Fight Begins! In which they note, that since public housing is often a dangerous place, you might want to be armed.

And they also note that U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York is generally considered to be hostile to gun owners and gun rights.

There Are Reasons No One Trusts the Media

Andrew Malcolm at RedState has a disturbing, but not surprising, look at the state of Journalism. It's Not That Hard for Media to Cheat; How to Fight Back

Despite all the liberal talk about the importance of diversity in everything, media joined with Biden agencies in a conspiracy to suppress online conservative news, including here at RedState.

They successfully pressured social media to adjust algorithms accordingly, which reduces revenues and the financial viability of media that doesn’t follow accepted narratives. So, targeted media had to develop alternative sources of income.

Government and industry cooperating for social control used to be called fascism.

From Jason Blair inventing things at the NY Times, to Janet Cooke winning a Nobel Prize for a story about youth, who didn't exist, and CBS editing of the Kamala Harris interview (and refusing to release the whole, unedited version), there are examples of why we don't' trust the media, and how we got here. And also the risks it poses to freedom. There is a reason for the 1st amendment, and that is that the press is supposed to keep government honest, not cover for them.

Read the whole thing, because there are some suggestions for how to fight back.

Plans for New 3D Printed 9mm Firearm Released

From Impro Guns we get the following news. Rogue-9 : Advanced 3D Printed 9mm Firearm At Home

The 31st saw the release of what is probably the most refined and easily made 3D printed semi-automatic firearms offered for download so far. The Rogue-9 is a compact and improved ‘remake’ of the FGC-9 (currently arming thousands across the globe). Like the FGC-9, it requires no restricted firearms parts and can be made in any home, anywhere in the world using basic hardware store supplies.

I haven't had a chance to look at the design, beyond the image below, or search for videos of anyone firing it, but an improvement to the FGC-9 is a good thing. And the fact that the 3D models include jigs to make parts- that's known as tooling - is even better.

As the British and Australian governments clamber to ban toy guns for being easily ‘convertible’, developments like the Rogue-9 will show all efforts to slow down the incoming tidal wave of advanced DIY arms to be completely futile.

Election Fraud Continues

The New Neo brings us an update on people doing bad things. Election fraud allegations: here, there, and everywhere

(2) In Michigan, there were reports of many duplicate ballots, but “Lara Trump said on X that the RNC’s election integrity team investigated the matter and determined that a ‘glitch’ was to blame. The duplicates will not be counted.”

This “glitch” was caught. But the existence of the glitch is troubling, and I don’t see why some glitches wouldn’t pass undetected despite attempts to catch them.

There are more, including the bit from Pennsylvania covered this morning.

Texans Are Still Armed

Bad guys are still getting shot. You would think after all this time, they would have seen the memo. Fort Worth PD: Homeowner shoots person during attempted break-in | WFAA

Texas — One person was shot twice by a Fort Worth homeowner during a possible attempted break-in, police said.

Cops are convinced it is self-defense, but cops don't make determinations about charges. Still, this happened in Texas, and not in New York City.

Fort Worth police said the person who was shot was taken to the hospital with "what are believed to be non-life-threatening injuries."

I wonder if he knows how lucky he is to be alive.

Self-defense is a human right, and in Texas, it seems to be your legal right as well. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

Warning Shots Are Not Recommended

They may also be illegal in some jurisdictions. Florida Man Shot and Killed After Driving Truck Toward Armed Homeowner Who Had Fired Warning Shots - USA Carry

The conflict began when 47-year-old Marcus Blicker followed and swerved at two vehicles driven by a neighbor’s son and his friend as they passed his house. Feeling threatened, the son called his father, who then emerged from the house with a rifle as Blicker pulled into the driveway, shouting threats. The father, in an attempt to deter Blicker, fired warning shots into the air. However, Blicker did not retreat; instead, he reversed momentarily before accelerating his truck directly toward the armed homeowner and another bystander.

So. Firing warning shots did not stop the confrontation. It doesn't end there.

Firing warning shots is not considered an effective method of de-escalation in a self-defense scenario. Legally, the discharge of a firearm is treated as the use of deadly force, whether aimed at a person or fired into the air.

If you're going to fire a weapon, it had better be because you are trying to stop an imminent threat, not convince someone you're serious.