In the world of insane, high-end watches, some of the most insane stuff is from Maximilian Büsser and Friends, or MB&F. The produce more sculpture than watches.
If you're interested in HM9, in the video below, you can have one for just over $245,000. Not in my budget, but I think they are fascinating.
HM9 stands for Horological Machine 9. MB&F HM9 Sapphire Vision 2023
MB&F doesn't limit themselves to watches. Reuge x MB&F MusicMachine1 Reloaded
Hollywood needs to stop with the Reboots. They need to stop with sequels, prequels, re-imagining, new time-lines, whatever. But they can't. They are addicted to the idea of "mining IP," even though that idea hasn't worked in a while.
Marvin Montanaro the Movie Monster is editor for That Park Place and Geeks and Gamers. He showed up on a couple of podcasts/YouTube channels I listen to, and/or watch, and I've come to like his take on the entertainment business. While he doesn't hit the financials as hard as Valliant Renegade, he does cover the business.
This is the M4 Empire video NO ONE Wants This Harry Potter Series
Everyone picks a side. And yet somehow Warner Brothers has managed to unite both sides in saying, "Yeah, no thanks to this Harry Potter series."
The left has spent years trying to burn this franchise to the ground. And the right, well, they were still here, still buying, still supporting, and now they're walking away, too, because of decisions like Black Snape and the constant attacks on JK Rowling.
Which means that this show, this massive, expensive, years in the making reboot, has achieved something almost impressive in its failure. It's become a show for no one.
Warner Brothers, which is not the most successful Hollywood studio in existence, tried to appease the Left, and still do a Harry Potter show. In the process they pissed off everyone who wasn't on the far Left. They are left with very expensive show, that no one is interested in.
The video is about 14 minutes long.
The Other McCain brings us the details on the kerfuffle. The Christine Blasey Ford Standard and the Sudden Destruction of Eric Swalwell
Far be it from me to defend Eric Swalwell, now accused of rape and other “inappropriate” behavior by at least four women. If CNN is willing to vouch for the credibility of Swalwell’s accusers, then certainly I will not cast doubt on their veracity. However, I have never supported Swalwell, and have not voted for any Democrat for more than three decades, so my hands are clean — I bear no responsibility for Swalwell’s wrongdoing, and can applaud his destruction with a clear conscience.
Click thru for the details, and how it sits in the longstanding tradition of the Left of accusing folks on the Right, usually years after the fact.
Bruen is the SCOTUS decision that made states open up concealed carry. NJ concealed carry: Toms River leads state in permits after Bruen
New Jerseyans are fully locked and loaded – and they have the all-clear to walk around in public with fully-loaded handguns.
In the three years since a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantled the state’s previously strict standards for concealed carry permits, the number of approvals has increased nearly tenfold after what gun rights activists describe as decades of pent-up demand.
Gun controllers and dictatorial politicians are most impacted.
New Jersey police departments issued just 667 new carry permits between December 2019 and June 2022, less than 1% of the permits issued from July 2022 to December 2025. The state passed that benchmark of new permits before the end of August 2022, within two months of the Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen on June 23, 2022.
Click thru for the details.
Everyone involved is an idiot. Senior Assassin Game in Louisiana Leads To Gunfire, Arrests
Senior Assassin is a game involving squirt guns. They were trying "eliminate" people in a guy's driveway. He called police, thinking there was a problem.
Before officers arrived, her son showed up and fired several warning shots into the ground out of fear for their safety.
This is not allowed in most places, and not allowed in Louisiana.
Authorities later located and arrested several of the students, who are now facing criminal mischief charges. The man who fired the weapon was also cited for illegal discharge of a firearm.
Don't be stupid. Everyone is stupid in this incident. The high school students I can almost understand, as it is sort of the business of high school students to be stupid, but with all of the coverage of Ding-Dong-Ditch recently, you would think someone would realize that acting like a threat is bad.
And just don't do warning shots. Or at least know where they are and are not legal. They are mostly not legal.
Kenner, Louisiana is in Jefferson Parrish, about 10 miles west of downtown New Orleans.
“Life’s hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid” — John Wayne
From Paul Joseph Watson we get a bit of irony. Obama’s Tower Of Doom Is Harder To Get Into Than America Itself
In yet another jaw-dropping display of elite hypocrisy, Barack Obama’s Chicago Presidential Center – long derided as the “Tower of Doom” – now requires proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency just to enter a ticket giveaway for its grand opening ceremony on June 18, 2026.
I for one, am not surprised. Chicago politicians never have to live by the rules they expect everyone else to follow.
The answer to the following question won't surprise anyone...
HYPOCRITE: The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago — opening this June — is restricting entry to its grand opening ticket giveaway to only U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 4, 2026
Kayleigh McEnany: “Why do we have stricter standards for the Obama library than for voting?”… pic.twitter.com/SbIuZDVIxv
Are we shocked?
The Right Way starts things rolling with Top of the News
Israeli American Journalist Shelly Kittleson Released After Being Kidnapped in Iraq - Breitbart News
Bird Songs - Evi. L Bloggerlady
Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.08.26
Don Surber: Trump trolls the world
Gates Of Vienna: Jihad Attacks on the Homeland Intensifying
EBL - The Road To Appomattox
9 April 1865 : Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
AoSHQ: Morning Report 04.09.26
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 9 April 2026: Leapn't Year Edition
Iran is demanding payment in Bitcoin or iTunes gift cards for ships that want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. (CoinDesk)
Do not redeem!
Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For April 10, 2026
Speaking of Blue Grift: “Democrat PAC ActBlue appears to have LIED TO CONGRESS about accepting foreign money in their effort to help Democrats win elections.” Try to contain your shock.
Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/8/2026
Anti-Israel Activist Admits to Torching 11 NYPD Vehicles in Arson Spree
A Brooklyn activist with a history of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests pleaded guilty Wednesday to setting fire to 11 empty police vehicles last summer.
Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.09.26
Transterrestrial Musings: Gavin Newsom
Victory Girls: The Amnesty Bill Of Maria Salazar – Don’t Be Fooled
A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Ceasefire Lingers On
Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Yesterday many “experts” told you we were headed for nuclear war & spent the entire day losing their minds. Today the Dow opens up 1300+ points, S&P rises nearly 3%, & oil has dropped $20 a barrel. As always, it pays to be rational.
Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island
The Democratic Party’s America: Keep the oil. Victor Davis Hanson – The left is baffled.
Conman Carney’s Canada: The Liberals want to educate us.
Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 04/10/2026 – The Economist is Begging for Iran to Win the War!
War in Iran is making Donald Trump weaker—and angrier
This was the “The MAGA base is abandoning him!” stage of The Radical Left’s cope.
Vlad Tepes - The state of the Communist/Islamic revolution in Canada
3. Jamie Sarkonak: Serving Starbucks in English might be ‘racism,’ Saskatchewan court says
The dialectic negation of Canada at the linguistic level. It used to be French and English negating each other. Now it will be, well everything negating everything
Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 04.10.26
Nebraska Energy Observer: Treason Day
Outkick: Is The Miami Marlins’ Hot Start Legit, Or Just A Mirage
The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links
Damn, this was a heck of a scam. But it’s all over now.
This guy’s political trajectory is going the wrong way. He’ll be running for court clerk in the next decade, I suppose.
Maggie's Farm - Wednesday afternoon links
Marco Rubio tweets that Rep. Ilhan Oma ushered Somali fraudster 'refugees' into the U.S. for 'a nice fee'
CNN Fell for Fake Iran 'Victory' Claim — Trump Just Destroyed Them for It
J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/8/26
The right and wrong way to rescue Americans and deal with an Islamic terrorist state.
A Tale of Two Rescues
Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Predicting Trump; predicting the Iran War
• White House Dem Hopefuls Bow to Sharpton Daniel Greenfield
• FBI arrests ex-Special Operations Command employee for leaking classified info to media PM
Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/08/2026
Iran war: Trump announces two-week ceasefire as Iran says talks to begin soon. Israel and Iran agree the ceasefire does not apply to their conflict;
I leave you with The fat of the land from Bluebird of Bitterness, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3565 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Working with what you got from Wirecutter.
Another breakdown of the victim-selection process. From ABC 23, Barkersfield. Suspected burglar shot and killed by Tehachapi homeowner identified
Deputies responded to a home on Alta Vista Avenue on the evening of April 2. Investigators say Velasquez forced his way inside the house before the homeowner shot him.
The homeowner is cooperating with detectives
The police have not arrested the homeowner.
Tehachapi, California is about 120 miles east of San Luis Obispo, or about a 40 mile drive east-southeast of Bakersfield.
Self-defense is a human right, and it just might be your legal right in California.
Professor Yamane recorded a 23 minute video in answer to questions from BBC. 45 seconds ended up being used by the news network. The Other 97%: My Complete BBC Interview on Guns in America
They asked me to re-record my answers and send them over. What you see here is the result: my complete answers, roughly 2 minutes per question, each answer thorough but concise.
It’s my director’s cut.
It was originally about a 1 hour video, but the recording died for some reason... He went the extra mile and recorded a 23 minute version.
Several music outlets refer to Joe Satriani as a virtuoso. I won't argue the point. He is one of my favorite guitarists, and his style is unique. I may not recognize the song, he has created a lot of them over the years, but his style stands out.
I had been listening to a lot of his recent work, from the past 5 or 10 years, but today we have something a bit older. It may have too much energy for this early in the morning.
This song is "The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing" by Joe Satriani from his 1989 album Flying In A Blue Dream.
The Other McCain has the details: ‘Independent Journalist,’ My Ass!
This story is just wild beyond words, but what infuriated me was the reference to “independent journalist Christopher Hale,” when anyone could have done a Google search and learned what I have told you about Hale, that he is a Democratic Party operative, with a shady reputation and no credentials whatsoever as a “journalist.” Furthermore — and I should hope my Catholic friends see this as I do — what are we to make of the fact that George Soros has expended vast amounts of money to influence (or perhaps a better verb is subvert) the Catholic Church?
Click thru for more details, and the insanity.
The Other McCain starts us off with It Would Be Wrong to Say Democrats Are Going Completely Crazy Today …
[Krystal Ball is] basically repeating Iranian propaganda here, demanding a military coup d’etat against the President of the United States. To repeat what I previously said, nobody knows exactly what Trump’s rhetoric signifies, and while we could speculate about what Trump intends to do, my hunch is that it’s nothing that would justify the “military revolt” that Krystal Ball is calling for.
Daily Caller - Professor Of Islamic Civilization Says ‘Get Over It’ To Concerns About Rape Gang Crisis
A Georgetown University professor is under fire for telling people who share concerns about Muslim “rape gangs” to “get over it.”
George Shay at Chicago Contrarian - The Chicago Sun-Times Hits Rock Bottom
Neil Steinberg turns a murdered Loyola student into a prop for his immigration sermon — and calls it journalism
Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - Illuminations #6. Lock, Stock, and a Lot Going On. (The video is interesting, espeically if you have not seen Professor Yamane's presentation on the 5 facts about gun culture.)
I returned virtually to my M.S. and Ph.D. alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to speak to students of Dr. James Bigham (see more in “Light Over Heat” below) about “Five Essential Observations on Guns in America.” I provided a broad overview of the central findings of my 14 years of study in about 30 minutes.
The Silicon Graybeard - Catching up a bit
The flood of data from the Artemis 2 flyby is being posted in glorious high definition, and large files to NASA's usual places: Flickr, and NASA's images page. Artemis II has its own "Mission Science Page" that features some nice photos, too, just not strictly the flyby pictures.
Again from The Other McCain - Trump Declares Ceasefire in Iran
During Tuesday’s liberal freakout, Democrats were denouncing President Trump as a genocidal maniac because of his threats to destroy Iran. Then, about an hour before the 8 p.m. deadline he’d given the Iranian regime, Trump announced that a deal had been reached for a ceasefire
Meep at STUMP - April 2026: Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
As long-time readers know, I support the Movember Foundation, primarily due to their association with prostate cancer issues.
However, they broadly support men’s health issues, which includes testicular cancer…
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 8 April 2026: Terabyte Edition
Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a version of its AI system aimed at security analysis. (Security Week)
This is good and bad.
Good because developers can use it to find security flaws in their code.
Bad because so can everybody else.
Midwest Chick's Place - Why the Afroman lawsuit was important
Fast forward to the early 2020’s and the local gendarme actually got a warrant to search for weed and a ‘kidnapping victim’ in Afroman’s home. It was a pretty destructive search and the coppers in question showed themselves on his video system to be, IMO, totally unprofessional
In the MIDDLE of the RIGHT - I think we should absolutely do it
Were it me, I’d pull all personnel and all equipment off the base, and destroy everything that the US had bult at those airports….buildings, refueling, fuel storage, and runways. Let the explosives engineers have fun. Leave nothing that the US built since the inception of NATO.
The Silicon Graybeard - We're in the final 24 hours of Artemis 2
The crew is in the final hours of their mission, which will end Friday evening East Coast time, right around midnight UTC.
Though this is not what I would have ever expected to read about. Alabama burglary suspect beaten with dog gate after falling through ceiling at 3 a.m.
A south Alabama burglary suspect who fell through a ceiling during the break-in was discovered by the homeowner, who beat him with a dog gate, Dothan police said.
He entered the house through an attic vent, and was apparently in the house for 2 hours before falling through the ceiling. The article doesn't address, "Why?" Drugs may have been involved. He was arrested a short time later after being tracked by a K-9 unit.
Dothan, Alabama is about a 100 mile drive south-southeast of Montgomery, or about an 85 mile drive north-northeast of Panama City Beach, Florida.
Self-defense is all about attitude, and using the weapon or weapons that you have.
From Warner Todd Huston at Chicago Contrarian we get the latest on the insanity coming from the mayor's office. Illegal Immigrant Murders Sheridan Gorman, but Chicago Mayor’s Concern Is with Safety of Illegals
Only about 10 days after the brutal and senseless murder of Chicago college student Sheridan Gorman, Mayor Brandon Johnson was heard expressing his fear illegal immigrants are feeling unsafe in Chicago.
What. The. Fuck.
But then if the Democratic Machine that runs Chicago cared about the safety of the legal residents, they would probably back up the police more, instead of hanging them out to dry at every opportunity.
Read the whole thing for a look inside the mind of the Democratic Party. (It isn't just one crazy mayor, it is the entire Party.)
From Matt Margolis at PJ Media: Records Prove Biden's DOJ Ordered Mar-a-Lago Raid Over FBI Objections
The picture of the Biden administration's weaponization of federal law enforcement keeps getting uglier. New records that Judicial Watch obtained reveal that the FBI's own agents believed there was no legal basis for the Aug. 8, 2022, raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, and they said so repeatedly.
The Biden DOJ didn't care.
Because it wasn't about Justice. It was about smearing Trump.
The records show FBI agents spent five weeks pushing back on the probable cause question, time they said was "counterproductive" to the stated goal of protecting classified information.
Click thru for the details, including the involvement of the Biden White House.
Or maybe not. The Left and the Media, but I repeat myself, love to tell us how accurate the legacy media are. They should be trusted; others should be censored. The legacy media have layers of editorial oversight, they are known for non-biased application of standards, and other stuff. In a pig's eye. Red State brings us all the details.
Last Friday, the "professional journalists" at the NY Times demonstrated their complete lack up understanding of anything to do with geopolitics. Gray Lady Faceplant: NY Times Apparently Doesn't Even Know What NATO Is in Pathetic Gaslighting Effort
The NY Times identified NATO as the North American Treaty Organization. It would be laughable it they weren't trying to lecture all of us about geopolitics and our roll in NATO.
NATO, of course, does not include the word “America” — it’s the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and it was created in 1947 with Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States being the founding members.
OK. So they hired a bunch of brain-dead theater kids, who weren't good enough to actually land on Broadway, and decided to go to journalism school, because the math requirements were nil. A simple web search for "NATO" would have turned up the correct info. (It is literally in the 1st line in the Wikipedia article.) But journalists are nothing if not sure of themselves.
“Fact checks? We ain’t got no Fact checks! We don’t need no Fact checks! I don’t have to show you any stinking Fact checks!” (With apologies to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
If you can't get the simple facts right, why should I trust you about complex issues? If you are completely unaware of what NATO is, and you would need to be mostly clueless for this error, why should I listen to you when, through your editorial board, you try to tell me what to think about the issues of the day?
So after they made this error they tried to downplay it as simply a typo. It wasn't a simple typo. After That Embarrassing NY Times ‘NATO’ Headline the Press Opposes Applying Their Own Standards
After the typo thing didn't fly they kept at it. It wasn't that big a deal. Or something.
Anytime right-of-center news outlets have an error of this fashion, they become excoriated by those in the press gaggle. Accusations of a lack of editorial oversight and lax journalism are made, while at the same time touting their own fact-checking filters. At the Times, they have long established their own deeply strenuous editing process, declaring how this elevates their quality above all others.
They even explain those layers of oversight.
Somehow, when the most vaunted of news sources screws up to a level well beyond the errors leading to others getting scorched, it is excused away. And this headline debacle was hardly an isolated instance from the Times. Just a week prior, the paper had to issue multiple corrections in its report on recent proposals made by Undersecretary of State Jacon Helberg.
If it weren't for double standards, they'd have no standards at all.
Not to be out done by the NY Times, CNN, “The Most Trusted Name in News,” decided to do a similar face plant. Journalism Fail 101: Major Outlet Reports on Hollywood Star's Death, His Response Is Golden
Now CNN, which still occasionally uses its tagline, “The Most Trusted Name in News,” got in on the game Wednesday with its fond remembrance of the star of the Hollywood blockbuster Back to the Future movies. “Remembering the life of actor Michael J. Fox,” they played across the screen.
One wee bit of a problem here, though.
Michael J. Fox is very much alive.
Fox got into the fray by complaining to Variety. Michael J. Fox Speaks Out After CNN Sparks Death Scare: ‘How Do You React When You Turn on the TV and CNN Is Reporting Your Death?’
“How do you react when you turn on the TV and CNN is reporting your death?” Fox asked his followers. “Do you…A) switch to MNSBC, or whatever they are calling themselves these days, (B) Pour scolding hot water on your lap, if it hurts your fine, (C) Call your wife, hopefully she’s concerned but reassuring, (D) Relax, they do this once every year, (E) Ask yourself wtf ? I thought the world was ending, but apparently it’s just me and I’m ok. Love, Mike.”
Media. You only think you hate them enough.
Pixy Misa has an AI Update. Daily News Stuff 7 April 2026: The Command Line Cometh Edition
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the leaked version of Claude Code. (Adversa)
If you've used Claude Code, you've noticed that it loves running shell commands to examine your codebase, rather than, say, reading it. Or having simple fixed-function code built into the software to do it on your computer.
This has to do with Claude taking full control of your PC, because of course it would. They have the corrected code - it is IN the leaked source - they just are not using it.
Can you talk about AI without mentioning OpenAI?
OpenAI is once again calling for public funds to clean up the mess it is creating. (Business Insider)
The best time for a Butlerian Jihad is now.
There is more on AI, and the rest of the tech news for the 7th.
If you don't recognize that reference to "Butlerian Jihad," it is from the novel Dune.
Home invaders are still getting shot. One shot during suspected home invasion on University Boulevard North, Jacksonville police say | First Coast News
A man was seriously injured Monday afternoon in a suspected home invasion-turned-shooting on University Boulevard North, near Jacksonville University, according to Jacksonville Sheriff's Office investigators.
This took place at four o'clock in the afternoon, so maybe he thought no one would be home. Still, home invasion is a bad bet in Florida. A large number of homeowners are armed.
The guy who got shot is described as having "life-threatening injuries." The parties were detained for questioning.
Self-defense is a human right, and Florida has a long history of recognizing it as a legal right. (Backup link)
In Australia it was taking five hours. ‘Disaster’: EV owners left waiting for hours in Easter holiday chaos
Aussies have been left stranded for up to five hours over the long Easter weekend, with one viral video exposing the “disaster” state of the country’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Several frustrated drivers took to social media to reveal the grim reality of EV ownership during the holiday peak.
That is on a holiday weekend, not an emergency situation. In the event I had to evacuate from the path of a hurricane, one of the things I had in the back of the SUV was a jerry can or 2 of fuel. Because 10 gallons of fuel provided an exta driving distance to get out of the impacted area. You can't put a 5 gallon contain of electricity in the back of your SUV.
This is the MGUY Australia video Easter EV charging CHAOS causes MASSIVE queues
