Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 30 May

EBL is up first with Chrysler : John Ciambriello

27 May 1930 : Chrysler Building opens
AoSHQ: Morning Report 05.27.26

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.27.26

Nebraska Energy Observer: The Surplus Store
Outkick: Bomani Jones Becomes Latest Commentator To Criticize Jaxson Dart

The Right Way - Top of the News

The Islamic Center of San Diego’s Jihadist Legacy - Blazingcatfur
Paxton win sends message to Thune: It’s Trump’s Senate now

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 28 May 2026: The Beeg Cat Who Walks Through Walls Edition

GitHub Actions not only went down, the outage left it telling users their accounts were suspended. (The Register)
Neat. Let's put all the worlds code there.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump is Cleaning Up and Beautifying Washington DC

From Ace, Judge Clears Way for Trump to Tighten Verification for Mail-In Votes; Scott Bessent Touts New IRS Rules to Identify Antifa's Funders; OMB Director Russ Vought Acts to Make Sure That Federal Grants Go to US Citizens Not Foreigners and Illegal Aliens.

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: George Floyd Day. VDH – Selective outrage. Trump’s biggest win. Mamdani moment. Your morning meme.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Our dictator warns Alberta.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For May 29, 2026

“CENTCOM: Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Kuwait ‘egregious ceasefire violation.'” Ya think?
U.S. seizes over $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.29.26 (Very Early Morning Edition)

Don Surber: You want the party back?
Flopping Aces: First Blood In Texas
Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad in Winterthur

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/28/2026

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes on Florida Launchpad
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded in a massive fireball while undergoing a static-fire test on a Florida launchpad Thursday evening

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Afternoon Links of Substitution

NEWS FROM OCCUPIED VIRGINIA: Some Virginia Sheriffs and Commonwealth’s Attorneys (prosecutors) have announced that they will not enforce the Democrats’ so-called assault weapons ban set to take effect in July.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 05/29/2026 – Back to The Washington Post Dying in Darkness!

How a bipartisan women’s history museum became a political football
Now THIS is the kind of clever guerilla tactics we need to see more of from the GOP!

The Political Hat - Quick Takes – Discrimination In Academia: DEI Continues At Arizona State; Stanford Medicine Renames But Keeps DEI; UCLA Still Racially Discriminates

It’s still DEI even if it’s called something else.
Medicine is about discriminating at Stanford Medicine.
The Supreme Court said that racially discriminating in admissions is illegal. UCLA doesn’t care.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 05.29.26 (Normal Evening Edition)

Victory Girls: Trump Gets UFC – No Kings Gets Jane Fonda
Watts Up With That: Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid”

Vlad Tepes - UK, historical myth making and Chinese control of Canadian state agencies: Links 1 for May 29, 2026

4. If a Canadian retweets or likes this short video on Chinese control of Canadian government, will we be kidnapped into a dialecticaly named, mental health facility and force fed brain destroying drugs?

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Starship Test: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Spencer Pratt Has Game

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 5/ 29/26

On demonstrators protesting Sharia law: “Finish them off.”
Academic Assailant: Dana Cloud, University of Cincinnati

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Leading NJ Dem congressional candidate Hamawy volunteered with Al-Qaida in Bosnia

• Your Journalism Degree Is Now a STEM Degree - FacultyLeaks.com
• EV Pixie Dust Effect: Ferrari Unaware of Woke Jaguar Commercial - Beege Welborn

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 05/27/2026

South Carolina’s New Social Media Law Puts Every User Under Age Surveillance. That is no good. It is possible “The Storm” is a red herring, and all other options end in us getting fucked.

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3734 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Friday's gifs from Wirecutter.

Gun Sales Soar in Response to Bans

Bearing Arms brings us a completely predictable story. Glock Bans Send Gun Sales Soaring

We've been reporting on the surge in gun sales in Virginia over the past few months, a boom caused by Democrats' wave of gun control legislation that includes a ban on so-called assault firearms and large capacity magazines. Now a similar wave appears to be forming in Maryland in response to Gov. Wes Moore's signature on a bill that will ban the sale of Glocks and other striker-fired handguns later this year.

I have not been following this very closely, not live in Virginia. I have to say that it sounds completely stupid.

Anti-gun activists know that passage of their favored gun control laws leads to a spike in sales in the short term, but they're willing to make that trade-off because once a law takes effect its impact will be felt for as long as it remains in place.

Click thu.

The Bears Are Leaving Chicago

From George Shay at The Chicago Contrarian we get a story of the Democrats turning on their own. UnBearable

The Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, not so affectionately known as Fatso, is laying the blame for the Chicago Bears moving to Indiana, something they have not officially decided to do, on Chicago's mayor, Brendan Johnson.

You know things are going badly for a mayor when even the governor from his own party publicly humiliates him. That is exactly what happened when JB Pritzker openly criticized Brandon Johnson for having “no plan” to keep the Chicago Bears in Chicago. Coming from a Republican, that would have been ordinary politics. Coming from the Democratic governor of Illinois, it was devastating.

The Bears aren't considering this move in a vacuum.

The sad reality is Chicago has lost a great deal in just three short years under Brandon Johnson. We lost ShotSpotter, despite the fact many police officers believed it helped save lives by locating gunfire quickly. We have lost businesses, investment, conventions, taxpayers, and confidence in public safety. We have lost far too many young people to gun violence, and we have lost police officers both literally and figuratively as morale within law enforcement continues to erode.

Click thru for more details.

As for The Bears, we get this from the AP: Bears reiterate Chicago stadium options are ‘exhausted,’ focused on suburban Illinois and Indiana

The Bears reiterated Thursday they plan to leave Chicago as they continue to look at building a stadium in suburban Illinois or Hammond, Indiana.

The state is trying to do some things to keep them in Illinois, so Pritzker could maybe do something there.

The Bears haven't said why they are leaving Chicago, but the tax and crime situation is why other people are leaving. They have said that want a moderen, enclosed stadium. If you have ever been in Chicago in January, you would understand.

Hold On, Hold On

Neko Case is listed as an Alt-country musician in a couple of places, though today's song sounds more folk rock than country to me. I'm not really that familiar with her music, though I have heard a few tracks. Since this song is from 2006, I am going to assume it is from the WXRT Saturday Morning Flashback at the start of January, when they were revisiting that year.

I am more familiar with the collaboration album Neko Case did with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs, which was released in 2016. That album is case/lang/veirs.

Though I don't think you will need them, here is a link to the lyrics.

This song is "Hold On, Hold On" by Neko Case from her 2006 album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.

Friday Links - 29 May

Peter Sweden is first with a story from Ireland. UNREAL: Pastor CONVICTED for preaching in UK

What you are about to read is something that should never happen in a free country.

An elderly pastor held an open air Sunday service in Northern Ireland.

For this ”crime” the man was convicted in court.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Liberal States Are Cutting Back On Healthcare For Illegals Or Something

Remember how we were told time and again that illegals were not getting taxpayer funded healthcare, especially in a manner that American citizens could not get?

The Silicon Graybeard - NASA proposes a lunar settlement development plan

Since Jared Isaacman took over as NASA administrator, one of the topics he has talked about regularly is not just returning to the Moon, and beating China to this little goal, but creating a sustained presence on the Moon.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 27 May 2026: Stardenburdenhardenbart Edition

California is considering an exemption from its sweeping age verification requirements for open-source operating systems such as Linux. (Tom's Hardware)

Which is nice because the law is stupid, totalitarian, and completely unenforceable anyway.

Meep at STUMP - RIP, Kyle Busch: Sepsis Death Trends in the U.S.

Men, please go to the doctor... especially if you have pneumonia

Clayton Cramer - At Least He is a FORMER CIA Official

The article explains that he was caught when he defrauded the government of $77,000. This led to the discovery that his bachelor's and master's degrees did not exist nor his military pilot's license.

The Silicon Graybeard - Blue Origin's next New Glenn flight is next week

The launch is currently scheduled for No Earlier Than next Thursday, June 4, 1:21 PM EDT from Launch Complex 36 - or LC-36 - on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS)

Two Good Guys with Guns Stop a Bad Guy

That thing the Left says never happen, happened again. Shooting in grocery store parking lot leaves one dead and wounds teen working his first job

You are not protected by your zip code. Pleasant Hill would be called a "safe town," but that doesn't mean you are safe. It is better to not need a firearm, and have it, than to need a firearm, and not have it with you..

The deadly shooting in the grocery store parking lot marks the first homicide in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, in nearly 20 years

But because it is a "safe town" didn't stop bad things from happening. The chance of a bad thing happening was low, but not zero.

The bad guy didn't have a scary AR-15, or even a scary Glock. He had a not-so-scary bolt-action rifle. He still managed to kill someone.

Two armed citizens intervened shortly after the gunfire began, a move [Pleasant Hill Police Chief Tommy] Wright said may have prevented further bloodshed. The two men, whom the police declined to identify, approached Prince before he turned the gun on himself, Wright said.

The system didn't stop this guy. The police showed up later and dealt with the aftermath. The thing that stopped the bad guy was two citizens with guns.

This is Colion Noir's video The Police Chief Said Armed Citizens Likely Prevented More Bloodshed

Alabama Sheriff Ousted for NOT Working With ICE

For some reason I haven't seen this in the media. Doesn't mean they haven't covered it. This Alabama sheriff who wouldn't participate in 287(g) to aid immigration enforcement lost reelection after nearly three decades in office | Not the Bee

He was defeated in the Republican primary election after nearly 30 years in office, because he would cooperate with neither Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) nor Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Cam Hunt launched his campaign against Jones because he was frustrated that the sheriff's office was not participating in the 287(g) which is a voluntary program that allows sheriff's offices to aid in immigration enforcement by holding illegal aliens for ICE and CBP.

Hunt was fired by Jones for launching this campaign, and Tuesday night it was Jones who was fired by the people of Lee County.

Lee County, Alabama. which is home to Auburn University, is a 60 mile, or so, drive east of Montgomery, Alabama.

Even though this is Alabama, the power of the incumbent is strong, despite the power of immigration. The election was 51% to 49% and was separated by only 307 votes.

And yes, you did read that correctly. Jay Jones fired deputy Cameron Hunt for having the nerve to challenge him politically.

There are Rules That Come With Green Cards

And there are consequences for breaking those rules. William Teach at Pirate's Cove has a story of consequences. Bummer: ICE Detains Wisconsin Woman In Los Angeles

So, let’s say you are applying for citizenship, going through all the steps, paying all that money, and then you break the law. Do you know what happens? Well, you lose your citizenship journey. You go back to your home country.

And low and behold a green card holder, who has held a green card for a long time, was arrested for drugs. She wasn't deported. But she left the country and was stopped when coming back into the country in Los Angeles.

Her 2014 conviction was not grounds for deportation, said Marc Christopher, a Milwaukee immigration attorney representing Wihongi. “She can remain here and become a U.S. citizen,” he said, “but once she crosses the border, she’s governed by the rules of admissibility.”

But back to William Teach.

Foreign felons, including if they committed the crimes in the U.S., are usually not admissible to the United States. And, of course, the news has to make it about all of them.

We Have a Star Wars Movie

A really bad Star Wars movie. It opened to the lowest box office in the Disney Lucasfim era.

This post morphed into a monster, because one post got stuck in drafts, so this merges them together. The first part talks about the movie, financial performance, and some reviews. The break is in the middle of the 1st part. The 2nd part deals with how Disney took the #1 cinema franchise of all time, and created apathy.

First I direct you to this story from Marvin Montanaro at Geeks + Gamers: ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ is Officially The Lowest Opening Disney Star Wars Movie Ever

For years, Disney and Lucasfilm treated Din Djarin and Grogu like the future of Star Wars. The duo became the centerpiece of the franchise’s streaming era, drove massive merchandise sales, and were positioned as the answer to fan backlash surrounding the sequel trilogy. Now, the box office numbers are in for The Mandalorian and Grogu, and they paint a troubling picture for the state of the brand.

The film officially opened to approximately $81.9 million domestically over its traditional 3-day opening weekend, with an estimated $102 million over the extended Memorial Day frame.

Now Marvin only had the Sunday and Monday estimates. Typing this on Tuesday 26 May, I have the actual spend, at least the domestic spend. The number is NOT $102 million. The actual number (from The Numbers - click on the Box Office tab) is $98 million domestically as of the end of Memorial Day weekend (Monday the 25th).

There was much discussion prior to the weekend, if it would be necessary to account for inflation of the next-worst-performing, Disney, Star Wars movie; it is not. The worst-performing movie HAD BEEN Solo: A Star Wars Story, which came out in 2018. It also released on Memorial Day weekend. Domestically Solo cleared $103 million through its first Monday. That is without accounting for inflation.

The Mandalorian and Grogu is officially the worst-performing movie in the entire Disney era. It is worse if you take inflation into account.

CPD Officer Attacked by Suspect with Brass Knuckles

I miss living in a civilized society. CPD officer may be unable to eat solid food for months after McKinley Park attack - CWB Chicago

They were getting a ticket, becuase they blocked an ambulence at an emergency. Blocked it so the ambulence could not leave and take the injured person to the hospital.

A convicted child sex offender and his sister have been detained on allegations that they battered a Chicago police officer who wrote them a ticket for blocking an ambulance at an emergency scene Tuesday night in McKinley Park. Prosecutors said the injured officer will be unable to eat solid foods for several months.

So of course they attacked the cop, because in a civilized society, we worry about what we owe to the others around us, like letting emergency services do their jobs. Chicago no longer qualifes as a civilized society; it is chaos.

To be clear, the suspect had brass knuckles when he was arrested. The family is saying that the cop was hit with them; I'm not sure the cops are saying that.

At that point, Sopher joined the fray, grabbing Mangan and punching the officer in the face multiple times, causing Mangan to fall to the ground, prosecutors said. Sopher then allegedly climbed on top of the fallen officer and continued to punch him in the face, causing several of Mangan’s teeth to be knocked out or loosened. Officers pulled Sopher off of Mangan and found a pair of brass knuckles in his front hoodie pocket, prosecutors said.

Click thru for the details. Weep for the status of Chicago, and the Blue Cities in general.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 27 May

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

9. Victory Girls Blog: Jeffries Tries to Define What is/is not Acceptable anti-Semitism in Democrat Party
10. Virtual Mirage: Meritocracy

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.26.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Stoic Observations: Outfitting
Based Book Sale: Craig Wilson Makes Hard SF Meet Deep Time

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 26 May 2026: Polka Time Edition

If you are running Ghost CMS the best time to upgrade was February 19. (Bleeping Computer)
The second best time is now. If your site still exists.

EBL - Jaxson Dart and Marissa Ayers

NY Giants QB Jaxson Dart got some attention supporting President Trump.
But Jaxson's girlfriend Marissa Ayers also gets some attention too.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Iran Deal in the Wings? and Another White House Shooter

Nick Arama thinks a New Report Reveals CIA Director John Ratcliffe Dropped One Heck of a Boss Move on Cuban Regime. "Ratcliffe made a point of introducing the paramilitary leader to the Cubans as the one who killed their people in Venezuela, several sources said.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/25/2026

Official statistics have shown that asylum seekers in one English county are approximately 9,000% more likely to commit sexual or violent offences than their share of the local population would indicate

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 9: Science Alert reported, “A Beluga Whale Showed a Sign of Intelligence Once Thought Unique to Humans.”
They recognize themselves in a mirror—and like it. That makes them as smart as Obama.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

The Shekel – Coins, Law, and Commentary – Goodbye, Thomas Massie
Woodsterman Babes ………….

The Glibertarians - Saturday Morning Mourning Links

Anyone who is hated by both Team Blue and Team Red is OK in my book.
It’s the monster you helped create. Deal with it.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.26.26 (Evening Edition)

Racket News: Humanity Needs To Get Offline
Shark Tank: Catalina Lauf Slams Madison Cawthorn Over Memorial Day Meet & Greet

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

China Carney’s Canada: A bubble wrapped world. Misleading CBC article. First Settlers funding. Investing in communism. Indian schools a holocaust.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Small boat migrants. White racism.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Spencer Pratt speaks
It Turns Out Illegal Aliens Were Getting Food Stamps in Wisconsin

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

“I have informed my representatives not to rush into a deal in that time is on our side,” Trump wrote.
Rubio Reveals What’s Stalling Iran Agreement.

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: For the Honored Dead

• Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Net Zero Dream - Tilak Doshi
• Dr. Oz Fires Back After Joy Behar's TrumpRx Meltdown - David Manney

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 05/26/2026

You will have to travel over the Vox Day and read this one. It features a transcript, which if true, might mean Nicola Tesla discovered the Vatican discovered electricity as early as 1200 AD

I leave you with Food for Thought – 24 May 2026 from Mostly Cajun, Sunday Funnies For 05-24-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Tuesday Memes … from MaddMedic.

There Are No Guarantees

I still think that being armed in your own defense is better than the alternative. An Oregon Man Fired Back at an Intruder. By the Time Police Arrived, Two People Were Down. - USA Carry

This is a pretty standard story of the home invasion. Very few details were provided by the police, and the wording they used wasn't 100% clear on what happened.

Here is what we do not know, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. We do not know for certain who the two wounded people were. We do not know whether one of the wounded was the homeowner or whether both were intruders, though the way the police report is worded, with the caller saying he was shooting back, it sounds like one was the resident and one was the intruder.

This guy did everything right. He called 911. He defended himself. He ended up shot.

There are no guarantees in this life, there are only strategies for dealing with violent encounters.

Illinois Sued Over Firearms Owners ID Card

The FOID card is one of many things Illinois does to stand in the way of your Second Amendment RightsIllinois Sued Over Firearms Licensing Scheme | The Daily Caller

Illinois requires anyone to obtain a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card (FOID) before they can possess any firearm or even ammunition, according to the Illinois State Police Firearms Service Bureau. The New Civil Liberties Alliance announced the litigation in a Tuesday release, bringing the action on behalf of several Illinois residents including a Navy veteran and a restaurant owner.

Click thru for the details, as it is a fairly straight-forward suit in the era of Bruen.

“Under the FOID scheme, the state denies all residents the right to keep and bear arms unless and until they satisfy the ISP that they are eligible—and reserves the right to revoke permission instantly, at any time,” the complaint says.

Need to buy some popcorn. Oh, and the liberals with be screaming about the end of the world in a few seconds.

Put the Message In the Box

Another selection from WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. This is from a late April show.

1990 was a pretty good year. The films from that year include The Hunt for Red October, Ghost, Awakenings, Home Alone, Pretty Woman, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

World Party was the project of Karl Wallinger. He was the only consistent member of the group. Wallinger started World Party after he left Water Boys. He stopped touring, releasing albums under the name World Party in 2015, though he was reportedly working on a new album in 2023. Considering the first album came out in 1987, that is not a bad run. Wallinger passed away in 2024 at the age of 66.

This song is "Put the Message In the Box" by World Party from their 1990 album Goodbye Jumbo.

German Boy Decapitated By Palestinian Migrant

Europe is going to kill themselves over empathy. HORRIFIC: German Boy Decapitated By Palestinian Migrant Who Should Have Been Deported - modernity

German media is reporting that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in an abandoned building near Memmingen train station by 37-year-old Qais Saleh, a rejected Palestinian asylum seeker from Abu Qash in the West Bank.

He was denied asylum, but couldn't be deported for some reason. Why? Bureaucrats run on documentation and he didn't have any.

You can click thru for the details on the crime, why he was in the country, when he came to Europe, etc.

When confronted, he attacked officers with a knife, fled, and was later shot after lunging at them again outside an indoor swimming pool.

He died in hospital and authorities are now investigating the use of lethal force.

Because of course they are investigating if a guy who killed a kid, and then attack cops with knife, was dealt with fairly. And while this is Germany, this kind of thing is happening all over Empathetic Europe, though decapitation is extreme, rape has become disturbingly common.

Tuesday Links - 26 May

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Good Grief: Masculinity, Eating Meat, And Climate Doom

I thought the age of this type of Woke wackadoodle crap was over. But, hey, it’s the uber-Leftist UK Guardian

Busted Knuckles - I grew up listening with my parents to CBS News Radio, can’t say I am not gratified to hear it is gone.

Once you cease to be useful to the Black Rider, you will be thrown from the high horse. And if CBS News Radio was a part of holding the country together, it was doing so for the benefit of the ruling elite.

Chant du Départ - The Mowing ...

I am giving serious thought to finding someone else to do it, you know, for cash money. As Danny Glover might have put it ...

Clayton Cramer - Capitalist Meets Astronomer Need

Results: magnificent.

Miguel Gonzalez - Let Darwin be the teacher for others.

We have seen this crap going on for ages. More than one Hollywood movie has a version of the subway surfing probably dating back to silent movies.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 May 2026: Peak Three Edition

Spotify is focusing on AI to deliver everything except what it is paid to deliver. (Tech Crunch)

Spotify wants to become an "everything audio" app, only it's all AI. Audiobooks read by AI; podcasts read by AI; your daily schedule... Read to you by AI.

Want to listen to music? Well, sure, that's in there too. Somewhere. Probably.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Writing Until Dawn

I wrote a thing. Maybe not as good as Ralts Bloodthorne’s Behold! Humanity (and certainly not as long) but you may find it entertaining. As the post title says, it kept me up until dawn for most of last week.

The Other McCain - ‘Crash Out Kylie’: How a Queer Feminist Became Famous (Not in a Good Way)

Lecturing the world about politics at age 24? Never crossed my mind circa 1984, and I can’t imagine why Kylie Brewer or anyone else would imagine the world needs such lectures.

Gates of Vienna - Justice, Belgian-Style

Mr. Bakkali was sentenced in France, but he is serving his sentence in a Belgian prison. Under Belgian penal rules, he is eligible for furloughs from prison after serving only one-third of his sentence.

Jews Can Shoot - CPRC: FBI Active Shooter Reports Undercount Armed Citizens Who Stop Attacks

The Crime Prevention Research Center report claims the FBI’s active shooter reports from 2014 through 2023 badly undercount armed citizens who stopped attacks. According to the CPRC, the FBI listed only 14 active shooter incidents stopped by defensive gun use during that period, while the CPRC found 180 such cases.

Again from The Other McCain - Congo: ‘The Horror! The Horror!’

Joseph Conrad famously used the Belgian Congo as the scene for Heart of Darkness, with the madman Kurtz dying of fever, his final words being: “The horror! The horror!” The situation has not much improved lately, as the State Department warns: “Do not travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) due to crime, civil unrest, and health. Some areas have increased risk due to armed conflict.”

And then there’s the deadly ebola outbreak

Hunter Shoots Charging Grizzly Bear

Some predators walk on 4 legs, and you are only an apex predator when you are armed. Hunter shoots charging grizzly bear in defense of life near Cave Falls Road | Idaho Fish and Game

A hunter and his son were hunting black bear in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, near Ashton, Idaho, when a Grizzly charged them.

The hunters were sitting on the edge of a meadow when a grizzly began crossing it and seemed to pick up their scent. The grizzly then changed direction and headed directly toward the two hunters. As the hunters attempted to alert the grizzly to their presence, it began to charge directly toward them. The man fired at the charging bear with his sidearm before quickly switching to his hunting rifle, killing it within 5 yards of where he was standing.

Ashton, Idaho, is near West Yellowstone. It is about 220 miles north of Salt Lake City, Utah, or about 110 miles south of Bozeman, Montana.

The Idaho Fish and Game department has determined that the grizzly was shot in self-defense.

After conducting a thorough investigation, it was determined that the hunter acted in defense of life, as he and his son were being charged by a bear from a close distance.

Click thru for details, and info about how to deal with things in bear country.

Can You Stop a Home Invasion With a Cellphone?

The short answer is, "No!"

This is the story of a Home Invasion in Los Angeles.

Here is the tl:dr version of the video. A Man Tried To Stop A Home Invasion With His Cell Phone. This video is 90 seconds.

Here is the longer video: Los Angeles Built The Perfect City For Criminals

So, a man tried to stop a home invasion with his cell phone. You see, I'll let you guess how that worked out.

This was LA, so they didn't need to be armed. There were 2 home invaders, and they nailed this guy, a neighbor with a cellphone, with a can of bear spray. He is lucky that they didn't have a firearm, but then crooks in Los Angeles don't really need firearms.

The perfect ecosystem for predatory criminals.

This is the full video from Colion Noir; it is 10 minutes.

Another Homemade Gun from Brazil

Impro Guns bring us the story in Brazil capture

The Left is going crazy over 3D printed guns, but long before 3D printers, there were sheet-metal guns.

A seized DIY sheet metal auto pistol which may have been reworked to at least chamber .38 spl.

Click thru for a photo of the gun, and a link that should take you to some build plans, and other photos.