If you don't follow pop culture as much as I do, you might not know that Anthony Mackie (Black Captain America/Falcon from the MCU) starred in an "Epic," historical movie set in the Middle East, titled Desert Warrior. It was a disaster from a financial point of view. I haven't seen it, but the reviews are insane.
It seems that Saudi Arabia is trying to create its own version of Hollywood. Unfortunately they have hired a bunch of people from Hollywood, and those folks are making all the same mistakes.
This is a girlboss movie set in the Historical Middle East. Who exactly would want to see that? Americans, and the folks in the West generally, are sick-to-death of girlboss movies. And why would conservative Middle Easterners want to see such a thing?
Times are good and possibly getting even better for those who value guns, gun rights and the Second Amendment.
And so the anti-gun crowd is becoming hysterical.
So, it’s understandable that those who want to restrict and subvert the Second Amendment are getting desperate. In fact, they’re willing to try almost anything to restrict access to firearms while President Trump is in office. It’s as if they never even heard of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
Enter the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
These egg-headed goons want to roll back the clock to the late 1980s. Their just-released “Public Carry Permitting: Model Policy Guide” is pretty much what some states offered decades ago. It’s laughable—a trip back in time. Nowadays, it’s likely too restrictive for even the bluest of blue states.
For six years, those of us who questioned the official COVID story were told to wait, defer, trust, and stop noticing what the data was already suggesting.
We watched it with the lab leak. We watched it with masks. We watched it with school closures. We watched it with natural immunity. We watched it with myocarditis. We watched it with vaccine injury reporting. We watched it with DNA contamination.
The frustrating part was never just that institutions got things wrong. Everyone gets things wrong in a crisis. The deeper wound was that the people asking reasonable questions — parents, physicians, data analysts, small-business owners, vaccine-injured patients, and dissenting scientists — were treated as if their questions were a threat.
And wouldn't you know it, some of those questions had merrit. (That is where the censorship machine came into play.)
Click thru for info on several studies that point to the same conclusions. Not everything was a "safe and effective" as advertised, and some of the policies were clearly stupid. (6 feet?)
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma came from the company's AI division, leading to unease among gamers. She just cancelled Copilot on Xbox and mobile. (The Verge)
The only way to win is not to play...
Shot In The Dark: Change In The Weather – For Now
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Euthanasia In Canada: Catholic Hospitals Forced To Kill; More Accessible Than Healthcare; Less Than Dogs
Canada’s healthcare system is so bad, it takes years to get healthcare, but only days to be killed.
In Canada, healthcare is for dogs and euthanasia for humans.
1. Remember, the Detective Helen Grus story is a microcosm, or a rather an excellent data point for what has happened to our civilization. The replacement of Rule of Law and all that means, to a narrative based, dialectical system where the state determines what is true
The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – The epilogue. I wish it wasn’t so.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Whiny Indian month. A partisan pick. Anti-Israel talk. ISIS recruiter.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Roger Watson – Linguistic gymnastics.
• Canadian Prime Minister is Playing a Very Dangerous Game - CTH
• Honda Cancels EV Plant in Canada – Despite Prior Deal for Billions in Subsidies - CTH
A father in Garland shot and killed a carjacker who attempted to steal a vehicle while his family of eight was still inside.
There is cellphone video, and security camera video. I prefer The video below, because it contains commentary that makes sense, though there is a brief statement from the police, but nothing that you don't get from Colion Noir.
This is another song that comes to us by way of WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. Some stats from 1979, which was the year in question, at the end of January.
A gallon of gas was 86¢
Inflation was 11%
This song is "Lady Writer" by Dire Straits from their 1979 album Communiqué. It was their second album, and was generally panned at the time. Compared to the stuff we get today, it is a masterpiece.
Gun control in the USVI is the worst in the country, and as a result only the bad guys have guns. Civilians have no legal way to protect themselves, their family or their home.
Progressives are wrong about many things but their opinions on criminals are particularly flawed. Fear of getting caught for committing crimes and the consequences after being arrested drive their actions. Talley, despite being a seven-time felon, has served only one day in prison for his crimes. That day in prison was a mere hiccup in his life.
I guess that i should be pleased that the teachers realized that indigenous rights claims mattered less than sexual depravity. Admittedly, it is Saskatchewan a fairly conservative part of Canada
Since the usual space news stories are on the small side, I'm going to divert to a different sort of science - atmospheric physics and weather. That was driven by it being the time of year to ensure we're ready for the coming Atlantic hurricane season which starts on June 1.
It was the middle of the afternoon. She was trying to break into the house through a back window.
[Philadelphia Police Department Inspector] Pace said one of the people inside, who police believe is licensed to carry, warned the woman to stop, but she refused. That's when the homeowner shot the woman, Pace said.
She was declared dead at a local hospital at 2 PM.
Even in deep-blue Philadelphia, the police are treating this like it is justified, though the police are quick to point out that the DA makes the determination on charges.
Get this: if Portland and the other cities would hand over the illegal aliens arrested for breaking the law to ICE with no fuss, heck, get proactive and call them and hand them over, then there would be less chance of operations that will scoop up those who simply broke the law in coming to the US illegally. But, you know, good luck, this could be them
But as William Teach points out, they just love protecting criminals.
The Walgreens at 8628 S. Cottage Grove Ave. will shut its doors June 4, according to Walgreens. The closure comes a little more than a year after Walgreens shuttered five other stores on the South and West sides of Chicago, amid a larger plan at the time to close 1,200 stores nationwide. Walgreens is also closing a specialty pharmacy in South Shore later this month.
Ald. William Hall, 6th, said he first heard about the planned Cottage Grove Avenue store closure earlier this week. He said the community has been “blindsided.”
Because it couldn't be what Walgreens actually said, which is that crime - shoplifting and violence - drove them out of the neighborhood. That would mean recognizing that crime is destroying the city, and Democrats won't do that.
Fun Fact: Big Bill Thompson, the last Republican mayor of Chicago, left office in 1931.
The details are complicated, and I would say not explained very well, but then the reporter is relying on some bystanders/witnesses for parts of the story, and they are not as clear as the police statement.
He was apparently stalking the girl, and he showed up at her stepdad's home. He fired through the door, and then kicked in the door. He was shot twice for his trouble, and did not survive. The girl was also shot, and was taken to a local hospital.
That is my interpretation, but I may be completely wrong. The police said much less about the incident.
The police chief, RaShall Brackney, went on at some length about "finding the triggers of domestic violence." I would say human nature, but what do I know? And in all the ways this could have turned out, I think I can say that the bad guy got justice in this case, though he managed to inflict some harm, so we can't say "Bad Guys 0."
The homeowner was released after questioning, without being charged, because self-defense is a human right. It appears to be a legal right in Mississippi.
A hateful mob of keffiyeh-clad anti-Israel protesters flooded the streets near a historic Manhattan synagogue Tuesday night — clashing with cops as they repeatedly shouted “Israel should not exist.”
It was an organized "protest."
The 7 p.m. protest was led by the anti-Israel activist group Pal-Awda NY/NJ, which promoted the rally with slogans such as “No settlers on stolen land” and “Stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land.”
Authorities confirmed that two German citizens were killed — a 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man. At least two people were seriously injured, while around 20 others suffered minor injuries, according to emergency services.
You can click thru for the details.
Leipzig, Germany is in the state of Saxony. It is about 140 kilometers, or 87 miles, southwest of Berlin.
Authorities have not commented directly on his mental health but both the Bild daily [a German newspaper] and local broadcaster MDR reported that he had recently been receiving treatment in a psychiatric facility.
Bild said he had admitted himself to the centre, but was asked to leave on Sunday due to aggressive behaviour towards other patients.
On December 20, 2024, six people were killed here — five women and a 9-year-old boy — and more than 300 were injured, some severely, when a man drove a vehicle into the crowds. His precise motives remain unclear.
A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice.
The judge's verdict followed 3 1/2 months of sometimes heart-wrenching testimony from survivors of the 2016 attack, who during the trial described the horrors and carnage they witnessed that Thursday summer night and the impact on their lives since.
Nice, France is about 133 kilometers, or 83 miles east of Marseille, or about 140 kilometers south of Turin, Italy.
A judge sentenced a man who killed six people and injured many others when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee to life in prison with no chance of release Wednesday, rejecting arguments from him and his family that mental illness drove him to do it.
Waukesha, Wisconsin is about 14 miles west of downtown Milwaukee.
If your goal was actually saving lives, actually preventing innocent people from getting killed, you'd be having the exact same conversation about cars that you have about firearms.
The American Left Is In Thrall To Political Violence
Jack Posobiec on X: "Posobiec says WCHD shooter Cole Allen suffers from “main character syndrome”: “They all think they’re the hero of a movie”
Appalachia Lithium Cache Could Power U.S. for Centuries
The newly published lithium resource numbers are estimates, and much more work needs to be done to take advantage of our current mineral capacity.
The Democratic Party’s America: Kamala buys a house. Matt Walsh – Abandon the truth. The critics are wrong. A moderate Muslim speaker.
China Carney’s Canada: Motive unknown. China is our new strategic partner.
ITEM 4: The U.S. Geological Survey found enough lithium in the USA to replace 328 years of imports from Red China and other backward places.
The bad news is it is located in New England and New York.
1. A decent example of Canada moving from a nation of rule of law to a dialectically driven, narrative based state
2. Multiculturalism in Spain is going as expected
A United Airlines aircraft on Sunday struck a light pole on its final descent into Newark International Airport causing damage to the post and a tractor trailer traveling on a nearby highway
We Can't Talk Anymore Because Our Moral Visions Are So Far Apart
Democrats’ leftist takeover is complete with Graham Platner’s rise in Maine US Senate race
Secret Service agent in town to do security analysis at Trump Doral is arrested for following women around and then dropping his pants outside their room and masturbating right in the hall.
During their investigation, it was determined that the male subject arrived at the residence and knocked and banged on the front door and windows prior to entering the residence through the unlocked sliding glass door. After entering the residence, the male subject then kicked in the male resident’s bedroom door, at which point he was shot two times, according to authorities.
The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital. The investigation is just getting started.
The police did say this was in relation to a domestic dispute, but offered no other information.
Mt. Dora, Florida is about a 30 mile drive northwest of downtown Orlando.
Self-defense is a human right, and this didn't take place in NYC.
I used to ask, "How is the criminal justice reform working out?" I don't ask anymore, because it is clear that it has failed the people the system is supposed to protect.
This murder took place in 2024, but someone has now been charged.
Court records show prosecutors have now charged Shontrell Moon, 20, with Campbell’s murder.
The shooting occurred three months after Moon skipped court on a pending felony gun charge, records show.
So he's arrested on a felony gun case, and set free. (No cash bail is the thing in Illinois. Social Justice.) He ignores his court date, and (allegedly) shot 20-year-old Keyante Campbell in the head. So who is the no cash bail protecting, and from what? It didn't protect Campbell.
This report continues our coverage of individuals accused of killing, shooting, or trying to kill or shoot others on pretrial release for a felony allegation. CWBChicago began our series of reports in November 2019 after then-Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans publicly stated, “We haven’t had any horrible incidents occur” under the court’s bond reform initiative.
I think Keyante Campbell's mother would disagree with that "no horrible outcome" statement. Click thru for the stats on the horrible outcomes.
