Tuesday Links - 10 November

Townhall starts things rolling with Boulder Residents Have Been Paying Taxes for a Nonexistent Train

All told, they've paid a lot for the train and they're told it'll be completed in 2040. Maybe. According to the Colorado Sun, the Regional Transportation District has collected $4 billion in taxpayer money over the last 21 years. The agency cites "ballooning costs" for the delay in construction.

Roberta X - Interesting Times

Meanwhile, the Dems are in the position of a car-chasing dog that has unexpectedly caught several. Theirs is the more fractious party, and the details-and-consensus job is even more important.

Science Alert - Encryption That Protects Your Bank Account Could Fall to a Quantum Computer in 3 Days, Study Suggests

Matt Margolis at PJ Media - Why Democrats Are Crashing Out Over Stephen Miller

When President Donald Trump promoted Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff, Democrats started fuming almost instantly. That reaction alone tells you it was a good move.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: A Break In The Misery

Well, after weeks and weeks of getting beaten like the family mule, the Senators managed to win two out of three against the Expos.

MaddMedic - Was Good..

To get away and spend time with my youngest son hunting.
And to harvest a deer makes it even better!

The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden - SURPRISE: Plastic straws BETTER for environment than paper straws

And now it turns out that the propaganda about paper straws being better for the environment was completely FALSE.

Self-Defense Is Legal in Cincinnati

Though she still faces other, gun-related charges. Woman who shot and killed man in Downtown Cincinnati club won't be charged in the homicide

Prosecutors have declined to file homicide charges against a 20-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting a restaurant employee inside a downtown Cincinnati bar, saying surveillance video supports her claim that she acted in self-defense.

One charge that remains is she is less than 21 years old, and had a gun.

Prosecutors and the defense agreed in court that Minor acted in self-defense. [Cincinnati police Detective David] Gregory said Minor “was the victim of a pretty vicious assault,” and investigators said the employee who died was the aggressor. Defense attorney Clyde Bennett said Minor was attacked and shot to protect herself.

Click thru for more details, including the remaining charges.

I seem to remember a case about "under 21" and gun possession working its way through the courts, but I don't know how far along it is.

Self-defense is a human right, and it might even be your legal right in a blue city like Cincinnati.

Volkswagen Will Limit Charging on ID.4 EV

What could possibly go wrong? VW Will Automatically Limit Some ID.4 Batteries To 80% Charge This Week Unless Owners Opt Out

Okay, so safety is important. But so is range. You bought a VW ID.4 (they need a better naming convention in Germany) expecting a range of 263 miles in the all wheel drive. Now that is decreased by 20% to keep the thing from catching fire. And then there is winter.

The 20% hit to the battery likely brings real-world range below 200 miles, and actual winter condition tests show that the ID.4 loses up 37% of its range in the cold—ouch.

They link to a winter weather study that talks about performance in 32 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0 degrees Celsius. But that is late fall in some parts of the country. What about in places like Chicago in early February where -20 degrees Fahrenheit or -30 degrees Celsius is not uncommon. At least it was not uncommon in the morning, when a lot of people are trying to drive to work. And while Chicago gets cold - I mention it because I used to live there - there are places in the US that get colder.

This isn't a fix, and they don't have a fix available. I haven't looked, but I imagine this means that the resale value of the ID.4 is even lower than it was.

These are cars, and the batteries, are a few years old. The recall impacts model years 2023 through 2026, for cars built in Chattanooga, and supplied by a particular battery pack. What happens when these cars are 15 or 20 years old?

And you know they don't want to just replace the battery packs, because those are a significant portion of the value of the car.

Click thru.

How Obamacare Made Healthcare Unaffordable

It was always a push to end private health care. How the Affordable Care Act Made Healthcare Unaffordable | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

The high cost of health insurance has become a central issue for Democrats campaigning to seize control of Congress. It’s not a made-up issue: Average premiums have increased more than 40% in the last four years, and have more than doubled in the past decade.

How did healthcare costs get this high? Much of the blame rests with Obama’s signature achievement: Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act.

Hat tip to Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Legacy

Tony Iommi was the guitarist for Black Sabbath. Lately he has struck out on his own, though he did partner with Ozzy for a few songs on Ozzy's last album.

This song is "Legacy" by Tony Iommi featuring Jorn Lande on vocals. It is off his new album, From the Dark, which was released 23 October 2026.

The hat tip goes to Andrew Rooney Drums and his video on this song.

Good Guys 3, Bad Guys 0

One shot and killed, one shot and paralyzed, and one under arrest. Cops are still searching for a 4th suspect. Buford Homeowner Followed Home From Atlanta Wrestles Revolver From One of Four Robbers, Kills Him and Shoots a Second - USA Carry

This incident happened in September, but only came to my attention thanks to USA Carry.

A homeowner who was trailed from Atlanta to his Buford apartment complex by four would-be robbers turned one of their own guns on them, killing one man and leaving a second unable to walk, according to the Gwinnett County Police Department.

They apparently followed him for a while as he was in Atlanta with friends, and then they followed him home. And I'm sure you will be shocked to learn that the kia had a license plate that should have been on a Ford F-150.

What happened next is why this case matters. The robbers came armed. The man they targeted did not stay a victim. [Corporal J.K.] Bell testified that the homeowner fought Wiley for the silver revolver Wiley was carrying, took it, and killed him with it. He then shot a second robber across the midsection.

Buford, Georgia, is about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta.

E’imod Sanchez Toboris Taylor, who was left paralyzed, and Brinson Bernard Crumbley are charged with felony murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies.

Under Georgia’s felony murder rule, both men are charged in Wiley’s death because he died during the armed robbery they are accused of committing, even though neither of them fired the shot that killed him.

The Progressive Left hates felony murder. According to them, you cannot be held accountable for the completely foreseeable consequences of your actions.

Self-defense is a human right. So should this be Bad Guys 1?

When Did Free Speech Become a Bad Thing?

Can't have the plebes thinking thoughts the elite did not approve. Europe's Dangerous New Plan to Destroy Independent Media :: Gatestone Institute

In Germany, a draft bill has been put on the table that will, if all 16 federal states pass it, require big tech platforms to manipulate the algorithms in such a way that at least 20% of algorithmic recommendations for content must come from media outlets approved by German authorities. The point, we are told, is "diversity" – because nothing quite screams "diversity" like state-approved media.

That quote is from Germany, but the link above is not only about Germany.

It is also not news that the BBC, in the words of The Telegraph, "has become a tool for promoting anti-Israel bias," and, "[i]ts flawed journalism is adding fuel to the fire of anti-Semitism that is glowing ever more dangerously."

Read the whole thing (Hat tip to Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links)

MAC-11 Copies in Australia

From Impro Guns we get a story out of New South Wales. MAC-11 copies seized (NSW, Australia 2026)

These look to be a variation of the Professor Parabellum design. Or maybe Professor Parabellum was copying the MAC-11, or a precursor.

It looks like someone is starting up production of these again.

For the most part, any weekend mechanic with, perhaps, the addition of a drill press, can manufacture these. No 3D printer required. (Professor Parabellum predates 3D printers by a couple of decades.)

A Miguel Gonzalez Musical Interlude

Miguel Gonzalez has a musical interlude every Sunday. I haven't noticed him missing a week, anyway. Sunday Repose

Click thru for "Calle Ocho" by Spyro Gyra from their 2003 album Original Cinema.

This is not a song I had heard previously. I knew of Spyro Gyra in the early years of the 1980s, but I sort of lost track of them. I will have to revist their work, because I really like this song.

I'm not sure what Spyro Gyra had in mind, but the Calle Ocho Music Festival (that is 8th street, if my memory hasn't abandoned me) held each year in Little Havana, a neighborhood in Miami.

Homeowner Versus Three Masked Men

How would you respond to three would-be bad guys "approaching" you in your own driveway? Cockeysville homeowner shoots at three masked men in driveway confrontation

Baltimore County Police said the men, all wearing masks and armed with a handgun, confronted the resident around 10:40 p.m. in the 10000 block of Greenside Drive.

The resident told officers the suspects threatened him, then he drew his own weapon and shot at them.

One was found dead near the scene. The other two went to local hospitals for treatment of injuries.

Cockeysville, Maryland, is about a 15 mile drive north of downtown Baltimore.

So how should one man defend himself from 3 attackers? These guys had one gun between them. What if they were using a knife or knives? Would their being armed with clubs make a difference?

The two guys who survived are facing charges. Two men face attempted home invasion, firearm charges after Cockeysville driveway shooting

The two men face charges of attempted home invasion, assault and firearm-related offenses.

They are being held without bail.

And of course, neighbors were shocked. Deadly Halloween confrontation between homeowner, masked men rattles Cockeysville neighbors: "It's very scary"

You are not protected by your zip code, not even in suburbia. Click thru for the typical comments.

Self-defense is a human right, and it sounds like the authorities are treating this like self-defense, though you can never be sure in a Blue State.

EV Charging Infrastructure Failure

Can government encourage people to drive an electric car? Well, they can outlaw internal combustion engines, but they can't make people like it. We get the following story out of Australia. Thousands of public EV chargers are coming, but they could be unusable

Electric vehicles only make sense under very limited circumstances. One of those is that you have dedicated off-street parking, and can install a charger for your own use. In other words, you own your own home.

About a quarter of motorists don't have off-street parking, making it difficult to charge an EV at home.

In inner-city areas, the proportion is much higher.

At least in the area of Australia, that they are talking about, EVs are about 3 percent of the vehicles on the road.

Three percent.

So how much "dedicated" EV parking do you want to inflict on people?

A dedicated charger on Ocean St, North Bondi, has had 988 sessions over the past year.

A kilometre away, on Glenayr St, an undedicated charger of similar power has racked up 40 sessions. Another, on nearby Curlewis St, has had just four charging sessions in 12 months.

"A lot of the dedicated ones are getting between two and three sessions a day, and the undedicated ones are getting a session every two days," Mr Weinberg said.

Click thru for the details, if you want. I recommend the video, which hits the high points and covers a few other items as well.

This is the MGUY Australia video Another EV charging idea that will NEVER work

A regular petrol pump will deliver 30 liters of fuel per minute. And each of those liters will store over 30 megajoules of energy. And if you do the maths, that is an energy transfer of over 17 megawatts. 

The fastest EV charging stations anywhere on the planet are barely a tenth of that and require vastly expensive infrastructure and massive connections to the grid. Yet any simple fuel nozzle in the world beats it by a factor of 10. 

Compared to a Tesla quote fast charger unquote, it beats it by nearly 50 times. Do you start to see how far behind EV charging really is?

The video is 12 minutes long.

Reason Number 57 You Never Leave the Back Door Open

Apparently North Carolina alligators appreciate a decent bagel. Who doesn't? 3-foot alligator strolls into North Carolina bagel shop

No, this is not the opening line to a cheesy joke. A North Carolina bagel shop owner was startled on Thursday when a 3-foot alligator wandered into his shop. Whether the reptile was seeking a bagel with cream cheese has not been determined.

The video at F*c*book is pretty good, and very short. Click thru.

Hat tip to SenseiOfSarcasm at X. (She does have an odd history with reptiles, including a very large turtle at her front door, and an incident that came to be known as Vomit Lizard.)

The photo above is of an random alligator, not a part of this story. Click thru for the video.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 7 November

Wombat-socho is up first with In The Mailbox: 11.04.26 (Morning Edition)

Don Surber: Did France just save America? [No.]
STUMP: Election Day 2026 – Westchester County Blues

The Right Way - Top of the News

I have no words

EBL - MAGA Midterm Wipeout 🌊🌦️🤮

Blue Wave
Celebrate a victory for two days, mourn a loss for one. No getting around this though, this was an ass whoopin of Trump and the GOP.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 5 November 2026: Worsenisation Edtion

The hackers who destroyed food in European supermarket freezers for the second time recently also hit blood banks. (Yahoo)
Fortunately it seems that the blood banks aren't run by idiots

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Carnival Carney’s Canada: Hunting ground. Vandalizing a cenotaph. Our secretive government.
The New Islamo-Marxist America: Trump critic. Americans voted for this.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.05.26

Glenn Reynolds: Trump’s Next Act
Mark Steyn: Election Night in America, The Morning After, and Mutiny of the Maine-iacs (and more)

Vlad Tepes - Indigiqueer and other dialectical neologisms, The Allison Inquiry and more: Links post 1 for Nov. 5, 2026

3. The problem is that this kind of thing is so astonishingly common now, that we could, and many do like RMX news, make the entire content about showing incidents of Muslims and illegal migrants raping, stealing from, beating and killing indigenous Europeans.

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

It’s a bloodbath. There’s no other way to put it.
Maybe they ought to leave her a length of rope. They’d be doing the world a favor.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Bloodbath in Tech Stocks in Wake of Midterms

At PJM Eric Florack reacts, Vance Wants an ‘Honest Conversation'? Fine, Here’s One and Stephen Kruiser sees that After the Blue Wave, Ron DeSantis Has Entered the 2028 GOP Chat.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 11.06.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Andrew Torba: Our Message To The GOP
Upstream Reviews: Time At The Top & All In Good Time

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 11/5/2026

Finnish Court Jails Russian Captain Over Baltic Sea Cable Sabotage
The Russian captain was ordered jailed for three years and six months and the crew member, an Azerbaijan national, for two years and 10 months.

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 11.06.26 (Evening Edition)

Dana Loesch: Susie Wiles Out!
Don Surber: Democrats ready to abuse their power

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday afternoon links

House Recap: A grim defeat for Republicans, but with Trump in White House, Dems will be hamstrung
How Trump Blew It

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 11/5 /26

The price of war is high, but the price of passivity in the face of nation-destroying evil is invariably higher.
When A Warhawk Is Actually A ‘Peace-Monger’

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Muslim Candidates Ride Democrats’ ‘Blue Tsunami’ Into Power As The Red-Green Alliance Rises

ABC: Always Bet on Change Bruce Mehlman
Trump Lost the Election. Conservatism Wasn’t on the Ballot. Dr. Robert W. Malone

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Texans Are Still Armed

Home invaders are still getting shot. Homeowner shoots intruder during burglary, police investigating

The homeowner told officers he was awakened by an unusual noise coming from his living room and, when he went to investigate, encountered an unknown male inside the home. Police said the homeowner fired, striking the individual.

The guy who got shot ran, but police found him after a short search of the area. He was flown to San Antonio for medical treatment.

Police said criminal charges against the suspect are pending as the investigation continues.

Del Rio, Texas, is about 140 miles west of San Antonio.

Self-defense is human right, and southwest Texas is a long way, both figuratively and geographically, from New York City.

He Ran Like a Rabbit

If you break into homes, you will eventually find an armed homeowner. Jefferson City burglary ends with homeowner firing gun | Crime | KOMU

A reported burglary in Jefferson City on Sunday resulted in the homeowner firing a gun and the suspect fleeing the scene.

Cops searched, but could not find the suspect.

Jefferson City, Missouri, is about 100 miles west of St. Louis.

Perhaps this guy will reevaluate his life choices. Right after he changes his shorts.

Self-defense is a human right.

Fool's Game

In late October, WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback was revisiting 2002. Doesn't seem appropriate in some ways, but it was 24 years ago. And we get a song I don't believe I had heard before.

I was disappointed in in the music from 2002 overall. There were some wonderful songs, but they were stuck in the middle of a bunch of songs that sounded like copies of each other. I have maintained for a few decades at this point that the suits running the American (and some of the British) music industry have tiny minds that can only copy what they saw 10 minutes ago.

Though 2002 was the year we got Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. We didn't know we were living through the golden age of cinema. Even the bad movies from that time are better than 99.4% of the drek we have gotten in the past decade^‡. (What was the last comedy you really laughed at? What was the last Sci-Fi or Fantasy movie or TV show that was wonderful?)

And though I don't think you will need them, I am going to try to remember to include a link to the lyrics in posts going forward. It will probably not last.

This is "Fool's Game" by Bonnie Raitt from her 2002 album Silver Lining.

‡ It is almost like something happened in 2016 that caused Hollywood to lose its mind. I can't think what it might be. Though I know the woke was going strong before that. Even before GamerGate, the woke had invaded comics, and was moving into movies and TV.

Friday Links - 6 November

Another abreviated Friday Links. The Insanity continues without pause. I hope everyone had a good week, and if not, it's over. (Or it will be shortly.)

Bayou Renaissance Man starts us off with Creating a crisis - or responding to signals we can't yet hear?

I'm sure many readers are aware of the sudden rush of articles and media reports, recommending that we make sure we have enough supplies stockpiled to take care of sudden, unexpected shortages. Periods range from a week to 90 days.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 4 November 2026: Call Me Fishmeal Edition

Microsoft has made Windows 11 suck 20% less if you are running with just 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware)

It is at least a step in the right direction. Albeit after a double marathon in the wrong direction.

The Other McCain - MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS HQ

Republicans have been slaughtered in this election. How bad is it? Ohio hasn’t elected a Democratic governor since 2006, but that’s what they did tonight.

The Silicon Graybeard - SWIFT space telescope reentered this morning

To tie a "completed" ribbon on the stories here about the SWIFT gamma ray observing satellite, SWIFT crashed to Earth today, November 4th, 22 years after its launch.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Cost Of DSA Policies? $49 Trillion

That’s a big number. Would $355K per household over 10 years be more manageable?

The Silicon Graybeard - Blue Origin publicizes some upgrades to New Glenn

Blue Origin announced two significant upgrades to its New Glenn rocket today, Nov.5, intended to reduce the cost of manufacturing the rocket as well as increasing its capacity for payloads to high energy orbits well beyond low and medium Earth orbit as well as to the Moon.

Adaptive Curmudgeon - The Octoberfest Conundrum

There I was, riding a dirtbike through the forest. I was happy as a clam. I had no idea where I was specifically but I had a general idea. That’s all I needed. The weather was ok and I had time to “find my location” before sunset. I had not a care in the world.

Alcohol Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

It can cause you to do stupid stuff that ends with you getting shot. And Texans are still armed. ‘Not Your House, Bro’: Man Shoots Guy Trying To Enter His Apartment After Halloween Party

Police believe that the guy who got shot was intoxicated, and tried to enter the wrong apartment. This was in an apartment complex, how large they don't say, but the people in the aprtment he broke into did not recognize him, so probably large.

[Houston] Police investigating the incident say the intruder lived at the apartment complex, but was intoxicated and may have been trying to enter the wrong unit after leaving a Halloween party.

Hell of a way to end a festive night.

There was a fight, and the guy who did live in the apartment, ended it by shooting the other guy. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

“At night, when someone’s coming into your house, you do not have a duty to wait and decide if it’s a mistake or if this is just some drunk guy,” FOX 26 Legal Analyst Chris Tritico said. “You can take action to defend your property and yourself, and that includes deadly force. In this circumstance, when it may have just been a mistake, the homeowner doesn’t have to wait to decide. You can use deadly force.”

Self-defense is a human right, and Houston hasn't quite morphed into Boston.

Another 3D Printed Gun Out of Brazil

Impro Guns has the information. Hybrid 3D Printed SMG (Oct 24 2026, ES Brazil)

Another hybrid 3D printed SMG design using square tubing for the upper receiver with a Glock mag AR9 type lower.

Click thru for the photo.

Can you outlaw guns if they can be produced so easily?