Fear The Beast

Beast In Black is a Helsinki, Finland-based, Power Metal band. Don't worry, they sing in English. They are working up to releasing a new album, and have released several singles in the past couple of years.

This is song is "Fear The Beast" by Beast In Black. It was released in early September as a single. It has been announced as the title song to their upcoming album. While they have released a schedule of tour dates, I cannot find a date for the album's release. I suppose that means they are not finished with the recording and/or production of the album.

This is the official audio of the song. There is also an official video. I have not seen it. It is easy enough to find if you are interested. I find official videos to be distracting from the music, with a few exceptions.

The announced tour dates cover a handful of Asian concerts, and a solid schedule of European dates between now and Christmas. They apparently just finished a North American tour opening for Helloween, a German, Power-Metal band.

This Guy Is Lucky He Didn't Get Shot

He also suffered from a failure of the victim-selection process. Bertie County homeowner holds break-in suspect at gunpoint until deputy arrives

A man was held at gunpoint by a homeowner Tuesday morning following an attempted breaking and entering into a residence in Bertie County.

A deputy with the Bertie County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to a residence in the 200 block of Sally Freeman Road in Colerain at approximately 9:15 a.m. for a break-in in progress.

A deputy showed up, and took Carlton Moore to the county lockup.

He was tied to another break-in committed in that area when a search of his home turned up items stolen from another property.

Bertie County, North Carolina, is about 120 mile drive east of Raleigh, North Carolina, or about a 90 mile drive southeast of Norfolk, Virginia.

Moore was charged with two counts of breaking and entering, two counts of larceny after breaking and entering and two counts of possession of stolen goods.

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

Colion Noir has a video on this incident: He Came Back For Round Two… Then The Armed Homeowner Was Ready

DOJ Sues San Jose, Calif. Over $1,600 Gun Permit Fee

The Left Coast really, really, really hates the idea of Concealed Carry. How dare you not rely on the State, even for things that they cannot provide. Justice Department Sues California City Over 'Unconstitutional' $1,600 Gun Permit Fee - The Daily Hodl

The U.S. Justice Department has sued the City of San Jose and its police department for imposing what officials call an unconstitutional fee on residents seeking to carry firearms.

The fee reaches nearly $1,600 per license and stands as the highest in the nation, far above charges in cities such as New York, Washington D.C., Boston and Chicago, says the U.S. Department of Justice.

I just checked. In my county in Ohio, (I don't know if it varies by county or not) it is $67 to get a concealed carry license. $77 if you have lived in Ohio less than 5 years. Renewals are $50. That is if you choose to get a license. Ohio is a Constitutional Carry state, though there are good reasons to get a CCW.

The department highlights a key passage from Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon stating that all law-abiding Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense and that this right is not a luxury reserved for a privileged few but a fundamental element of our republic.

I expect San Jose will fight this tooth and nail. Because Progressive politics, or something. (Hat tip to Keep and Bear Arms.)

1619 Activist's Daughter Is Upset with Her

Is anyone shocked that a Woke Activist™ would sacrifice their child's future to make some Woke Activist Point?

A wealthy activist sent her daughter to a struggling NYC public school to prove a point. No one, including the daughter, is quite sure what that point is. From the NY Post: Woke NYT, 1619 Project writer deliberately sent daughter to troubled schools as a ‘sacrifice’ — and it backfired spectacularly

The writer behind the New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project deliberately sent her daughter to poor Big Apple schools as a “sacrifice” to try to boost the education system — and no one is angrier than the kid.

The teen is now “boiling” mad — badly behind her peers after finally being allowed to enroll in a more rigorous high school, her mother revealed in a bombshell bizarre essay.

You know it is odd, because Obama, who was once the Left's patron saint of getting ahead, never went to a public school in his life.

The original New York Times article is behind a paywall, but you can find it at this link. In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?

“Did you know my school was bad like this when you decided to put me here?” [the daughter] asked.

My hands tightened on the steering wheel as I worked to keep my face neutral, buying a few moments to gather my thoughts.

There is more at both links.

The hat tip goes in part to the following from X by Oilfield Rando.

If they will intentionally harm their own children to advance their cause, imagine what they’ll do to YOUR children. https://t.co/QuzMkSx5qY

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) September 20, 2026

The Anti-Gun Media Hates Brandon Herrera

That would include all of what passes for mainstream media. From Lee Williams, The Gun Writer. Why the anti-gun media is worried, clueless about a U.S. House race in Texas

Brandon Herrera will become a U.S. Congressman, despite what the anti-gunners try.

The media arm of the anti-gun, AstroTurf movement, The Smoking Gun, which is part of Everytown, has a hit piece on Herrera. They are not alone. MS-Now, USA Today, Esquire, and more have also had things to say about Herrera.

It’s been years since the mainstream media has been so united about anything, much less a U.S. House of Representatives race, in Texas no less.

Their main reason for blasting Herrera is more than clear. He is pro-gun. In fact, not only is he extremely open about his passion for firearms, he makes a good living thanks to guns. This, alone, has the other team seething with anger.

I like Brandon Herrera. I love his YouTube videos, most of them anyway, and his sense of humor, and his take on the 2nd Amendment. (The man built a AK in .50 BMG!) Just take any of his "Gun Meme Review" videos, like this example, and take note of the walls of his "office."

Click thru and read the article from Lee Williams. He was details on the media insanity, and a link to an interview he conducted with Herrera.

A Neighborhood in L.A., Hollywood, Was the Movie Industry

Past tense. From Stephen Green at PJ Media: Say Goodbye to Hollywood... If It Even Exists Anymore

Hollywood and Los Angeles were once so inextricably intertwined that you could hardly mention one without picturing the other. So much more than just a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, Hollywood simply was the entertainment industry — a name that conjured all the glamour, glitz, beauty, wealth, thrills, and tabloid debauchery of a magical place that could only exist in America.

Say "Hollywood" in the 1980s, and people didn't think of that neighborhood in Los Angeles, they thought of the movie industry.

Steve Martin's 1991 movie L.A. Story was a "love letter to a version of Los Angeles" that was already on its way to being history.

It's been decades since film and TV production began decamping from Los Angeles to Toronto, British Columbia, Georgia, the U.K., and... Hungary? Yes, Hungary. Pretty much anywhere but Los Angeles. But the trend accelerated in recent years. The city has lost 40% or more of its production jobs from COVID-era peaks. Remember, those are the industry "grunts," as it were, who were middle class and far more conservative than the Hollywood elites.

Now Paramount is decamping for either Georgia, Tennessee, or Texas. That is whether or not (I think not) California stops the Warner Brothers merger. And if the merger goes through that will be the end of Hollywood. If the merger doesn't go through, Warner Bros. will go bankrupt, be broken up and sold off for parts, so same impact on Hollywood.

And none of the considers the move to film everything in the UK.

Click thru for more on the past, the politics surrounding the merger, and a Musical Interlude from Billy Joel.

The Complete Film Threat Library to be Available

Well, it is to be available by way of Kickstarter, so no guarantees. Though I trust Chris Gore to make it happen.

Chris Gore started Film Threat in 1985. First it was a Zine, and then a legitimate magazine. It was owned by Larry Flynt for a while, but Chris got the rights back after they shut down the magazine.

During all of that time Chris Gore has focused his life on movies, and in particular independent film.

Today, Film Threat lives on as a website devoted to movies, and a YouTube channel.

The entire print run is going to be available by way of Kickstarter. The FILM THREAT Compendium and Digital Archive

Launched in 1985, FILM THREAT magazine established itself as the most respected authority in covering cult, underground and independent cinema — as well as offering a unique take on Hollywood. Our pages have featured exclusive behind-the-scenes coverage, in-depth interviews with rising filmmakers, and a wealth of insight and information about not only the movies you love, but ones you otherwise never would have heard of.

The Compendium is a 300 page book. It will include "interviews with writers, directors, producers, actors and other filmmakers" in the world of independent film.

An important companion to The FILM THREAT Compendium is our completely remastered Digital Archive, collecting the entire print run of the magazine — including the early Xerox ’zine editions and the complete run of the ever-edgy FILM THREAT VIDEO GUIDE! That's right, from celluloid renegades Nick Zedd and Richard Kern to an array of other alternative filmmakers who sought to assault their audiences.

Chris G. produced a couple of independent movies in his career, he was a recurring host on the G4 program Attack of the Show, he has written the books The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, and more. Not that all of that is included in this Kickstarter.

It should be an interesting look at movies, if from a slightly odd point of view. I'm looking forward to it. (While this probably sounds like an ad, it isn't. I just really like Film Threat.)

Defending Yourself From Rabid Animals

Some threats have 4 legs, and some are infected with bad diseases. Rabid bobcat mauls pet dog, charges at wife before Arizona homeowner shoots it dead | FOX 10 Phoenix

A Pine homeowner shot and killed a wild bobcat after the animal launched a bloody backyard attack on his dog and aggressively charged at his wife.

What we know: State wildlife officials confirmed the bobcat tested positive for rabies following the Aug. 29 incident off Old County Road, raising fresh concerns about rabid wildlife in Gila County and across Arizona.

Pine, Arizona, is roughly a 100 mile drive north of Phoenix.

Realizing the cat’s erratic and aggressive behavior was highly abnormal, the homeowner contacted the Arizona Game and Fish Department to report the incident and request that officials retrieve the carcass.

This reminded me of a scene from To Kill a Mockingbird.

Rabies is not something to screw around with.

So I wonder if someone from the gun-hating part of the Left will explain how the world would be better if this rabid bobcat was not dispatched by this homeowner. I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.

3 Million Vehicles and Risk of Fire

"This is what happens when an entire industry process rots from the inside."

While I love to pick on electric vehicles, this isn't just about electric vehicles.

This is the StacheD Training video Why New Cars Suck! 3 Million Cars with FIRE Recall

Right now, over 3 million vehicles in this country have an open park outside recall, not to fix something eventually. A recall telling you you can't park your car in your garage because it might catch on fire.

The video is about five and a half minutes long.

Where the Ultra-Woke Gay-Rights Movement Lost the Plot

Let's start with the vocabulary word of the day: Tocqueville effect or Tocqueville paradox. Named for Alexis De Tocqueville, who toured America in 1835 and wrote a wonderful book, Democracy in America. (If you haven't read it, I can recommend it.)

So, what is the Tocqueville effect? The Tocqueville Effect: Why We’re Always Angry about Something

Tocqueville is suggesting that as conditions improve we become more offended by the remaining faults in our society. That we become more passionate about social justice as the severity of inequalities around us decreases-even if those remaining inequalities are of a lesser magnitude than previous ones.

Basically, and activists are especially prone to this, we can never declare success, and go home. We never "solve the problem," because the goal posts are always in motion.

This is Arielle Scarcella's video The Woke Queer Mob Just Made Their BIGGEST Mistake

Let's take a look at clips from 1970s Pride versus today. How did a fight for gay and lesbian civil rights turn into a hyper-sexualized corporate-sponsored chaos? I actually think that we can blame it all on five specific issues.

Welcome to another psychological deep dive.

The video is just short of 12 minutes.

Oktoberfest in Cincinnati

800,000 people, more or less, will gather in a downtown Cincinnati this weekend, drink beer, do The Chicken Dance, listen to polka, and in general celebrate the German heritage of the city.

I will not be attending. (I have bad memories of Cincinnati Oktoberfest, and the Chicken Dance. Don't ask.)

This is Tim's America video Germans CAN'T EXPLAIN Why 800,000 Americans Throw An OKTOBERFEST In Cincinnati

The visitor from Munich, can't explain the chicken dance because it was never [music] German in the first place. It's a Swiss tune given words by a Belgian named in Oklahoma and made enormous in Ohio.

The video is 20 minutes long.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 19 September

EBL starts us off with Haitian Gangbanger and Illegal Alien Deported Back to Haiti

AoSHQ: Goodbye Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles
Wisteguens Is Leaving on a Jet Plane

The Right Way - Top of the News

Schiff: Trump Admin ‘Damn Well Better Preserve Records’… - Briebart News
MAGA A.I - Evi. L Bloggerlady

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.16.26

CDR Salamander: At last, the long-awaited diplomatic push into the SW Pacific
Chicago Boyz: Have You Ever Kippled?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 17 September 2026: Cold And Dead Edition

California is sliding into the sea. (Yahoo)
About damn time.

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

China Carney’s Canada: China is wonderful. Teachers fired.
The Democratic Party’s America: The lynching epidemic. Corrupt Milwaukee. The ghouls. Another convert.

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

Senate Blocks Major Crypto Bill
Patel Touts ‘Most Prolific Reduction in Violent Crime in U.S. History’ Under Trump

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For September 18, 2026

Just as suspected: “Dem Fundraising Giant ActBlue Accepted Illegal Foreign Donations, Covered Up Evidence, House Report Says.”
“Texas Democrat Caught on Video Explaining $25 Program to Influence Voters.”

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.17.26

Victory Girls: Sydney Sweeney Has Everyone Remembering What A Woman Is
Watts Up With That: Economic Sooper Genius SPD Suggests Taxing Productivity Gains Stemming From Using AI

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 9/18/2026

Diesel prices have climbed to record or multiyear highs in several European countries this week, squeezing truckers, farmers and households already strained by months of elevated energy costs tied to the Middle East conflict, the war in Ukraine, and tight global fuel supplies.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - US Poverty Hits All-Time Low

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Iran: We Got a Mighty Convoy, Stuck Here Overnight. From the Volokh Conspiracy, Dave Bernstein notices Iran's Expanding Campaign Against Jewish Targets Outside Israel.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 09/18/2026 – Back to The Economist!

Donald Trump’s unworthy state of the union
Agreed. But would it be necessary without the unworthy opposition party that hates this country and wants it destroyed?

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 09.18.26

First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble boy, also, You in a heap o’ trouble mom and dad
Flopping Aces: They Told Us the Plan – Bankrupt America

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Madness In The Anglosphere: Censoring Parliamentary Hearings in Australia; Free Speech A Weapon Of War In New Zealand; Nurses Refusing To Treat Racists In The U.K.

The regulators can’t let their own parliament let the people know what’s going on.
Free speech is apparently a weapon of war, according to a former Prime Minister.

Vlad Tepes - Several points showing how Canadian law and policy actually is, as opposed to the usual thinking that these are exceptions or corruptions of Canadian law: Links 1 for Sept. 16, 2026

5. It would be great if someone with an expensive AI model at their disposal was able to ask how much time CBC had devoted to the real genocide by Muslims in Nigeria Vs. their coverage of Israel

Maggie's Farm - Friday morning links

The Dangerous Ideology Behind the AI Warnings
Who’s afraid of AI?
What's the problem?

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 9/ 16 /26

The dangers aren’t just hypothetical—but safety measures shouldn’t be used to entrench today’s dominant firms.
How to Manage the AI Risk?

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: AI—Another Prepackaged Obama Armageddon

How Government Thinks Money Works - Chris Bray Trump's war on fraud links DOGE, Justice and Capitol oversight - JTN

I leave you with Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4177 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Yup, it's that time o' the week again from Wirecutter.

Self-Defense in Colombia

From the Crime Prevention Research Center: Colombia Lifting of Restrictions on the Carrying of Firearms

On September 8, 2026, President Abelardo De la Espriella signed Decree 1368, lifting Colombia’s nationwide suspension of permits to carry firearms. The decree ends the general prohibition on firearm-carry permits that Colombia had maintained since 2014.

It follows the example of Brazil, and that country's president Bolsonaro, which has seen murders in Brazil fall dramatically.

Colombia is not lifting all restrictions, and there are a lot, but every little bit helps.

Law abiding people should be able to protect themselves, because when seconds count, police are only minutes away.

Spelling matters. Colombia is a country in South America. Columbia was a record club from the 1970s, that was easy to join, and impossible to quit.

Private Schools In Danger of Losing Tax Exempt Status

Chicago Contrarian has the details. Chicago Private Schools Discriminated for Years to Further DEI and Now the IRS Wants Its Money Back

This story is about private schools in Chicago, but it applies nationwide.

Private schools that are tax exempt are in some trouble. They have been following the strictures of DEI, both in the classroom, and in hiring and pay. This is a problem. Or a potential problem anyway, as the US Treasury is proposing to crack down on DEI.

The proposed regulation (REG-119986-25) observes that a private school is not operated for charitable purposes if it "adopts, maintains, or enforces any policy or practice that discriminates on the basis of race, color, or national or ethnic origin" in any educational policy, admissions policy, scholarship program, athletic program, "or other school-administered or school-supported program."

"The operative concept here is 'any purpose,' and good intentions are not an excuse," the donor suggests. The proposed regulation suggests that racial discrimination in education is against fundamental public policy "regardless of the intent behind it," including where it is "defended as serving remedial or diversity-related objectives."

The National Association of Independent Schools is behind the pushing of DEI, and the number of schools, as estimated by the Treasury, is surprisingly large. Or maybe it is not so much of a surprise.

Schools that fail lose exemption for taxable years beginning after May 31, 2027. The IRS estimates 18,000 schools are in scope. These schools didn't all suddenly decide to start breaking the law individually. They followed their standards organization, the National Association of Independent Schools. NAIS is the trade group for Latin, Parker, Shipley, and hundreds of other private schools.

NAIS does not merely encourage DEI among its members. It embeds it in the "Principles of Good Practice", and membership in NAIS is contingent on agreeing to abide by them.

18,000 schools seems like a lot. That is more than half of all private schools in the US. (see National Center for Education Statistics.)

But really, I am not surprised that an alliance of educators is all in on DEI.

Enigma

Kamelot is, or at least was, one of my favorite bands. I have not loved their last couple of albums, though there are usually at least a couple of good songs. They released a new album at the end of August. And while I don't like all of the songs, I do like today's song, a lot. But then it lets Tommy Karevik's vocals shine.

And while they are a Heavy Metal band, this songs reminds me more of a power ballad, or just rock, so here we are on Saturday morning, and not Monday, which is for Metal.

This song is "Enigma (Think of Me)" by Kamelot from their August 2026 album Dark Asylum.

Coordinated Sabotage Hits Dutch Rail Network

Robert Semonsen at The Gateway Pundit brings us a story, the isn't quite about terrorism, even if I am categorizing it that way. Just In: Coordinated Sabotage Hits Dutch Rail Network at 20 Sites, Sparking Chaos as Questions Mount Over Security

The Netherlands woke to transport chaos Tuesday after suspected coordinated sabotage crippled major railway routes, exposing just how easily critical infrastructure can be thrown into disarray while Dutch and European leaders increasingly focus their attention on threats from abroad.

The "attacks were simple. Attach pipe between both rails, signalling to the control system that train was present and stopped at that location, forcing the network to stop actual trains.

Workers began discovering sections of pipe attached to rails at around 5:30 a.m. Reports initially identified roughly 20 affected locations, while later accounts said security systems had been disrupted at more than 30 points.

The locations were dispersed enough to say that this was not the work of a few people, but a coordinated effort.

The media keeps calling this an attack, but really this doesn't kill anyone, and any damage is minimal. It still is a problem for a country that relies heavily on rail for commuter transit.

More troubling still, the operation apparently didn’t end after railway crews arrived. ProRail reported discovering new pipes in some areas where workers had already cleared earlier objects, suggesting that the interference was continuing while authorities scrambled to regain control.

There are a lot more details, and I'm sure we will get some more over time.

Hat tip - indirectly - to Bayou Renaissance Man: Yet another reason to update your emergency supplies

Yesterday the Dutch railway network was brought to its knees by coordinated sabotage attacks across the country.

Friday Links - 18 September

A somewhat abbreviated links post. (There is less free vanilla ice cream than usual.) Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is up first with Herb Alpert, and other delights

So last night I went to see Herb Alpert play for a sold-out house at the historic Tennessee Theater downtown. The theater is about to turn 98, Alpert will be turning 92. Both appear to be in fine shape.

Echo Chamberlain - Women are still blaming “the patriarchy.” There is no patriarchy.

When Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial ended this month in a mistrial, the spectacle it produced was, in its first instance, not really a legal one. It was ideological.

The Crime Prevention Research Center - Texas Democrats Find a “Gray” Area in Paying People to Vote

Sky McAdams, an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, says: “We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all of these bad things. So it’s like a roundabout way of paying people for their votes, essentially.”

Don Surber - Making Sydney Sweeney a sports billionaire

I want to thank CBS and other news outlets for giving me an excuse to write about Sydney Sweeney. Citing sports influencers—whatever that means—and a few women athletes, the media created a controversy over an advertisement for an online sports betting operation, Novig.

The Other McCain - The ‘Killadelphia’ House of Horrors.

Perhaps the headline is somewhat misleading because basically anywhere in Philadelphia is horrible, but 417 Chew Avenue is particularly bad, even by Philadelphia standards. The disappearances of at least five women — at least two of whom were murdered, police believe — are connected to the house.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0

He suffered a breakdown of the victim-selection process. Self-defense is a thing in California, especially away from the big Blue Cities. Burglary suspect shot in Cutten had previous law enforcement run-ins

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said dispatchers received the 911 call at about 4:34 p.m. on Monday from a homeowner reporting he had just shot a burglar who had forcibly entered the residence in Cutten. The homeowner reported that a man had come into the house without permission and that he fired a round at the intruder before the intruder ran off.

Cops located the suspect a short time later, and had him taken to a local hospital for "non-life threatening" wounds. After treatment he was taken to the county lockup.

Humbolt County, California, is about 165 miles north of San Francisco. It is right on the Pacific coast.

The bad guy in this case is facing charges of burglary, being a felon in possession of a firearm, unauthorized entry of an occupied home, and violating parole.

The homeowner was not arrested because even in California, self-defense is a legal right, and a human right.

Deputies did not arrest the resident, saying the information gathered at the scene indicated he fired because he feared for his safety.

Click thru for more details about those prior run-ins with police.

Mass Shooting or Gang Violence?

Or is that a question we are not allowed to ask? Gunmen fire more than 70 shots, killing 1, injuring 6 in Humboldt Park on Sunday afternoon - CWB Chicago

Humboldt Park is one of the 77 neighborhoods community areas of Chicago. It is on the West Side, and was heavily Puerto Rican in the 1970s, and 1980s. I have no idea what the demographics are today.

Six people were standing outside when two vehicles pulled up, and multiple gunmen got out and began shooting, police said. A 30-year-old woman driving nearby was struck by gunfire and crashed into a CTA bus, according to CPD.

I don't think that this will make the national news, but I've been wrong before.

Police recovered "dozens" of shell casings, mostly from rifle-caliber bullets.

The shooting took place on Saturday the 13th. Police determined that a vehicle left at the scene was also used in a drive-by shooting on Thursday.

When this kind of thing happened when Al Capone was running The Outfit, it was a national scandal. Now it's just Tuesday. Or Saturday.