08 July 2025

Tuesday Links - 8 July

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony is first with Daily Tech News 4 July 2025: Fireworks Ahoy Edition

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill will make it harder for solar and wind renewable energy projects to get access to government funds: They will need to actually build something. (Tech Crunch)

Inconceivable.

Miguel Gonzalez - I'll take "sh** that didn't happen' for $200, Alex.

To say that there are no Spanish-speakers in a hospital in Los Angeles is like saying you can’t find somebody with a Southern accent in Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville.

Massad Ayoob - WHY CHOOSE 1911 – ONE MORE TIME

Individual preferences invite controversy, and as always, we invite your comments here.

MaddMedic - Leftists celebrate Texas flood that killed 32, including 14 Christian girls.

There ghouls need to rot in hell!

Again from Pixy Misa - Daily News Stuff 5 July 2025: Antidoom Edition

There is no safe amount of processed meat in your diet, according to idiots. (CNN)

Why, eating as little as one hot dog every single day could increase your risk of diabetes and cancer.

At no point did CNN consider the possibility of eating more than zero but fewer than one hot dog per day.

Jihad Watch - On the Death of Karen Diamond

Karen Diamond was the 82-year-old Jewish woman taking part in a gathering in support of the Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado on June 1. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an illegal immigrant from Egypt, threw flammable liquid on, and set fire to, thirteen of those people standing in quiet prayer, witnesses who were there to remind the world of the hostages still held in Gaza by their Hamas torturers. His attack left 13 of the 29 members of the group wounded, some of them in critical condition. Karen Diamond was one of them; she has just died.

SiGraybeard - We have an extrasolar interloper

This is the third object determined to be from beyond our solar system that has been observed passing through our "neighborhood." Astronomers expect to find more with new tools designed to identify near-Earth objects.

The Other McCain - A Notorious Menace to Public Safety

The public is never safe as long as these habitual criminals are on the street, and so the goal of law enforcement should be to identify these hard-core types and, when they are apprehended for one of their many crimes, make sure they go to prison for the maximum sentence. I’ve called this “The Al Capone Rule” — it was difficult to get criminal convictions against the Chicago gang boss, so the feds indicted him for income tax evasion and put him away.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Not Long Before The End

After a week like this, I’m tempted to let the robot run the team for our last series on Thursday in Pittsburgh, but that would be dishonorable.

David Bittinger at John Kass News - The Goodness Grift

They’re 21st century liberals, and they are very good people. Just ask them.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Bummer: BBB Hits Illegal Aliens And Legal Immigrants Over Health Care

When people apply for visas, be they work or student, they are supposed to be self-supporting, not having the citizens of the US pay for them to be here. That is part of the terms of those visas. So, they shouldn’t be on Obamacare and getting tax credits. They shouldn’t be on Medicaid.

Alcohol Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

It causes you to do stupid stuff, and then you get shot. Homeowner shoots intruder in Pike County, Kentucky

After he got shot, he was arrested.

According to Kentucky State Police, troopers were called to the scene just before midnight after an intruder was shot by a homeowner. KSP says the man had entered a home on West 5th Street in Elkhorn City and started threatening the homeowner and their family.

He was armed, but his gun did not go off when he tried to fire it. The homeowner shot him in the leg, and he left.

According to KSP, troopers found Standifur in an alleyway near the home and say he was allegedly under the influence of alcohol during the incident. Troopers say he still had the firearm and allegedly made multiple threats to harm law enforcement.

It took them a couple of hours to get him into custody, and he is charge with resisting arrest in addition to the home invasion, and one of the charges is attempted murder. Police say that "alcohol intoxication" was involved. Color me surprised.

Pike County, Kentucky is about 110 miles southeast of Lexington, or about 110 miles northeast of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The injury to his leg was non-life-threatening. He was taken to a local hospital, and then to lockup.

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

Florida's Stand Your Ground Law v Brady Campaign - 20 Years On

Miguel Gonzalez on the Brady Campaign's hatred of Florida. What failure looks like 20 years later.

Miguel found an old photo from 2005 of the Brady Campaign handing out "warning leaflets" at Miami International Airport about the new Stand Your Ground law enacted in Florida.

Every single Gun Control Group, almost every newspaper and media outlet was furiously bashing the law and Democrats were swearing on several dozen stack of bibles that Florida was about to become the Wild West. The fight against SYG continue for at least 5 more years till they figured out that Floridians liked the law and a case in Miami made it to the State Supreme Court and it confirmed as firm law of the land.

The kicker was when the gun control group would issue a recommendation that came to be view as anti-Hispanic.

That pamphlet indicated that visitors should not be loud or use hands in wild gestures for fear that armed Floridians may be startled by that and shoot them on sight….which was probably one the dumbest thing ever said in a community which is 65% Hispanic known to speak very loudly and gesturing so much with our hands, we make Italians look like mute quadriplegics.

It helped get the "Brady Bunch" tagged as racists. At least in certain parts of the country.

Click thru.

Is Drug Criminalization Racist?

No. From The Bureau: The Left Thinks Drug Criminalization Is Racist. Minorities Disagree

Is drug prohibition racist? Many left-wing institutions seem to think so. But their argument is historically illiterate—and it contradicts recent polling data, too, which show that minorities overwhelmingly reject that view.

While the polling data is out of Canada, the Canadian cities have the same drug-induced problems we see in our cities.

And you can see the cultural disparity clearly, if you look at how drug crimes are treated differently worldwide.

Today, Asian and Muslim jurisdictions impose much stiffer penalties on drug offenders than do Western nations. In countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Singapore, and Thailand, addicts and traffickers are given lengthy prison sentences or executed. Meantime, in Canada and the United States, de facto decriminalization has left urban cores littered with syringes and shrouded in clouds of meth.

Click thru for those details.

Mexicans Want Americans Out of Mexico

Why am I not surprised? From Miguel Gonzalez: It is not racism when they do it.

So a section of the Mexican population seems to be disgusted with the idea that gringos are settling in their land and “gentrifying” real state out of their incomes because it is apparently cheaper for John Smith to live South of the Border than in L.A.

Lot's of photos, including threats, and more thoughts. Click thru.

07 July 2025

Terror Attack on Border Patrol Facility in Texas

The Left has been promoting violence, and so we have some. Or some more. The Man Who Opened Fire at Texas Border Patrol Facility Has Been Identified

A 27-year-old man was killed after he opened fire at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas on Monday.

According to the Associated Press, Ryan Louis Mosqueda was shot dead around 5:50 a.m. after he fired off dozens of rounds at the facility.

Townhall has identified the rifle as a "sporting rifle." I looked at a couple of sources, but the only thing that is clear is that many rounds were fired. If it was an AR-15 or a similar rifle I would expect that the media would be all over the "assault weapon" hysteria, but they are doing everything they can to downplay this incident.

Hat tip to The Other McCain and Terrorism in Texas: Michigan Maniac Opens Fire on Border Facility in McAllen

So when you take into consideration the expense of traveling 1,700 miles cross country, plus renting a hotel room for several nights, add in the cost of a rifle and ammunition, etc., this terrorist attack required a lot of resources. Where did Mosqueda get all that money? Did he have accomplices? Was he affiliated with any groups? Had he previously been involved in protests? Or was he just a “lone wolf” lunatic, radicalized in online forums? The mainstream media don’t seem to be very curious about any of this, for some reason. It’s just so mysterious . .

Ozzy's Last Performance

I'm actually surprised he didn't retire before this. From Variety we get the news from his last performance on Saturday. Black Sabbath Reunites for Ozzy Osbourne’s Final Performance, Joined by Metallica, GNR, Steven Tyler and Other Hard Rock All-Stars: The Complete Setlists

Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Gojira, Alice in Chains, Billy Corgan, Ronnie Wood, Travis Barker, Tom Morello and Sammy Hagar were among the many support acts or guests through the long day in Birmingham.

That qualifies as a super concert. I wonder if a film of it will be released.

The original lineup of Black Sabbath reunited for the first time in 20 years on Saturday in the U.K. — and for the last time ever, since the performance was also billed as the final concert ever for singer Ozzy Osbourne. The Birmingham stadium show climaxed with a four-song Sabbath set, preceded by Osbourne doing a five-song set of his solo material … preceded in turn by a full day’s worth of metal and hard-rock all-stars doing mini-sets that included Sabbath covers as well as original material.

Four songs is a lot for guys this old. Tony Iommi, the guitarist, is 77. Ozzy Osbourne is 76. Bill Ward is 77. Geezer Butler is 75. And Ozzy did twice that many.

Click thru for details, including set lists from all the bands.

This is one of the songs that Black Sabbath performed, "Iron Man." It was originally on their 1970 album Paranoid. "Iron Man" was released as a single from the album in 1971. This is the remastered version from 2012.

The hat tip goes to CultureCasino and today's 6 Minute Daily.

Happy 4th of July, Chicago Style

Is anyone shocked? 7 hospitalized after mass shooting in Back of the Yards neighborhood, police say - CBS Chicago

Seven people were hospitalized following another mass shooting Friday night in Chicago, this time on the city's Southwest Side.

Two men walked up to a group of people and opened fire.

Back of the Yards is not one of the 77 official neighborhoods in Chicago, but is part of New City. It is named for the fact that the it was adjacent to the Union Stock Yard and other meat packing plants that formed the largest concentration of meatpacking in the country in the 1950s.

If you have ever read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, it was set in Back of the Yards. It is about a 7 mile drive south, and a bit west of The Loop.

The hat tip goes to The Other McCain: Chicago Celebrates 4th of July With Patriotism and Deadly Gunfire

The media don’t offer descriptions of the suspects, so I’m just going to guess they were Trump supporters wearing red “MAGA” caps.

Or maybe not.

Even More Self-Defense in Florida

Florida is not a good place to be a bad guy. The bad guys keep ignoring that memo. Jefferson County homeowner shoots intruder during attempted break-in, sheriff’s office says

How would you respond to a break in at 5 AM?

An investigation went on to reveal that the homeowner, his wife and child were asleep when they were awakened by someone attempting to enter the home through the front door, the press release wrote.

As a result, deputies said the man retrieved his gun and went into the kitchen, where he found the intruder allegedly actively trying to enter the home.

The homeowner gave the guy a couple of warnings to leave, but when he broke a window by the front door, the homeowner shot him.

The homeowner provided first aid until deputies arrived, and the would-be bad guy was taken to a local hospital where he is stable.

Jefferson County, Florida is in the Big Bend area. It has a small section of coast on the Gulf of America, and is just east of Tallahassee.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

AI Models Are Still Lying to You

Pathological Liars in a box. AI Models Mislead Users on Login URLs - Infosecurity Magazine

Never login to a bank, or other financial service with a link you get randomly off the internet. And asking an AI for the info is no better.

As Carignan concluded: “LLMs don’t ‘retrieve’ information – they generate it [...]. Without proper sourcing, these systems become ripe for both inaccuracy and exploitation.”

You think the AI is looking stuff up on the internet. It isn't.

Wyoming Opens Most Government Buildings to Concealed Carry

With the obvious exceptions, such as court houses, and prisons, concealed carry is allowed in state buildings. Concealed carry allowed in many Wyoming state government buildings starting today.

The legislature overrode a veto to enact the law. This law also applies to city/county buildings, since at least one municipality also adopted similar rules on employees being armed.

The new rules mark a major expansion of where citizens can carry firearms as they conduct business with their government. That expansion comes at the behest of the Legislature and over the objections of Gov. Mark Gordon, who sought to implement concealed carry into Wyoming’s state buildings through a rule-making process overseen by the Building Commission. But lawmakers passed their repeal bill with a veto-proof majority this year. Gordon nixed a previous version in 2024.

It seems that even in a state like Wyoming, the Professional Journalists™ don't like concealed carry. After detailing several instances of "political violence," that include arson and assassination, but not concealed carry, we get the following.

Lawmakers who pushed for the concealed carry bill, which passed the Senate with a 25-6 vote and the House with a 50-10 vote, believe allowing citizens to go armed and defend themselves is the antidote to such violence. Opponents fear more guns in more places will lead to more deaths and injuries, both accidental and deliberate.

Fear. This is the same tactic used to fight against concealed carry in every state where it was adopted in the past 40 years.

State employees, will also be able to conceal and carry while at work, with the similar exceptions, unless their job involves being armed.

As for the local governments, here is that one story I ran across. Rawlins City Council approved resolution to regulate concealed carrying of firearms by city employees.

On July 1, House Bill 0172, enacted by the Wyoming State Legislature, went into effect as W.S. 6-8-105, repealing statutory gun-free zones previously applicable to various public spaces, including municipal buildings. This legislative change allows for the lawful carrying of firearms, including by public employees, in settings where such possession was formerly restricted.

There is more information at both links.

Portland Antifa Members Face Federal Charges

The charges can't be dropped by the sympathetic prosecutors in Portland. Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment: Four more Portland Antifa riot suspects federally charged

Four more Portland Antifa riot suspects have been federally charged over the ongoing insurrection against the ICE facility. This brings the total federally charged so far to 17, devastating the numbers Antifa need to attack the building night after night. The cases are not being dropped immediately.

So of the charges carry mandatory sentences measured in years.

Read the whole thing.

06 July 2025

Scarlett Johansson Turns 40

Ms. Johansson is distressed that when she was young and hot, she got rolls revolving around her being young, and hot, and now that she's getting on in years, by Hollywood standards anyway, I think she still looks good, she is upset that rolls go to actresses who are younger than she is, and who are hot.

This is the Critical Drinker video Save Us From The Male Gaze! The Drinker has some thoughts about the people in Hollywood who won the genetic lottery, now that they're getting older regretting the fact that there is a genetic lottery. After they have benefited from it, of course.

Anyway, a couple of days ago, Miss Johansson took some time out of her busy schedule to do an interview with The Times of London, where she offered up her thoughts on the current state of Hollywood, and one of her favorite subjects these days, the dreaded male gaze.

The video is about 7 and a half minutes.

Ryan Kinel also has something to say about this: Scarlett Johansson Is TIRED Of The Male Gaze In Hollywood As Jurassic Rebirth Set To Open. That video is also 7 and a half minutes.

Something has shifted.

She's older, but then who isn't?

Self-Defense in Deep Blue Maryland

The only thing that is surprising is the attitude of the Professional Journalist, though maybe I am reading something into it. Man Shot by Homeowner After Reported Breaking and Entering Attempt in Charles County, Police Investigating - Southern Maryland News Net

911 callers reported an male was attempting to break into the residence when the one of the homeowners shot the suspect. The 911 caller stated the firearm was secured, with the suspect outside of the residence being rendered medical attention by the homeowner and a neighbor.

Cops arrived, and then the emergency medical team arrived. The guy who got shot was airlifted to a trauma center.

Nanjemoy, Maryland is about a 42 mile drive south of Washington, DC.

As for the Professional Journalist, given that we are talking about Maryland, I suppose this isn't too far out in left field.

The firearm used, a Sig Sauer .45, was secured by police and found to be registered and owned by the homeowner.

The incident remains under investigation by police, no known charges have been filed as of Sunday, Jun 29th, 2025.

To me, that sounds as if the reporter is shocked that someone can be shot, and the police don't arrest the shooter. The very existence of justified self-defense is a concept never considered. Though that might just be me, reading something of my feelings about Professional Journalists into the mix.

Self-defense is a human right, and even in Deep Blue Maryland, it might be your legal right.

The Intel Coup to Disrupt Trump's First Term

I'm shocked that the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA would lie. Okay, so I'm not shocked. They Knew It Was Fake - And Did It Anyway: The Intel Coup to Sabotage Trump - Flopping Aces

In strange lapse into transparency, an official review of that whole kerfuffle has been made public.

The “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals at the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May.

Click thru for the document.

Here is a taste, though you can read the whole thing.

The review criticizes the ICA for including the Steele dossier, a salacious and discredited opposition-research product written by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was working for the Hillary Clinton campaign, which claimed Russia possessed sexually compromising blackmail material on Trump.

Missouri AG Investigating Big Tech for Suppressing Speech

Specifically speech relating to the Second Amendment. The Turner Report: Missouri AG investigating Google, Facebook, YouTube for suppressing speech about guns, ammunition

Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that he is issuing a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, within Meta Platforms, Inc., to determine whether the companies have engaged in unlawful business practices by suppressing lawful speech and commerce related to firearms and ammunition on its platforms. The goal of the investigation is to expose any corporate misconduct and restore transparency and fairness to online platforms.

Good luck to Mr. Bailey on this.

“When Big Tech companies hold the power to control what Americans see, say, and believe, they hold the power to reshape the nation,” continued Attorney General Bailey. “We will not allow Silicon Valley to rewrite the Bill of Rights from behind a firewall.”

I think this will be tough to move on, but I'm not a lawyer.

05 July 2025

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 5 July

Animal Magnetism starts the ball rolling with Animal’s Hump Day News

We take our good news where we find it.
We can hope.

The Right Way - Top of the News

Have you noticed the pattern yet? - Theo Spark
Happy Canada Day - Evi. L Bloggerlady

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.02.25

BattleSwarm: Xi Out?
Behind The Black: Methane climate satellite fails

EBL - A Freako is not a R.I.C.O. : Sean Puffy Combs Acquitted of Most Serious Charges

Legal Insurrection: Diddy guilty of 2 of 5 counts
Breitbart: Diddy not guilty on RICO charges

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - BBB Passes House Test Vote

Ace, CNN Poll: Trump Now More Beloved By Republicans Than Even the Great Ronald Reagan Was. (((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten, "GOP voters love for Trump is record breaking. His strong approval (63%) is up like a rocket from term 1 (53%). It's higher than any GOP prez

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Conman Carney’s Canada: Fake News. Migrants will quickly fill all the beds – More shelters in Chowtown. A Canada Day story at the CBC.
Woke America: RFK Jr interview. Health care fraud busted.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 07.03.25

Shot In The Dark: Violating The Laws of Physics
The Political Hat: Magna Carta And The Birth Of The Rule Of Law

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 7/3/2025

Google Fined $314.6M for Data Collection by San Jose Jury
A San Jose jury has ordered Google to pay more than $314.6 million to Android users in California, finding that the company improperly harvested data from smartphones

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 7/ 2 /25

Cheering for the enemy: (It’s not that the Democrats are on the side of the enemy, 200+ years of history prove that the Democrats ARE the enemy.)
Whose Side Are Democrats Really On?

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.04.25

Chicago Boyz: Gell-Mann Revisited, The Spirit of ’76, and Shall It Be Sustained?
Da Tech Guy: Hermit of Loreto 2 Planned Parenthood 0

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

How the Yuppies Became Socialists
Democrats, Animated by Loathing of Trump, Are Driving Their Party to Self-Destruction

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Mamdani Is A Warning On Where The Next Generation Of The Left Is Heading

• Judge Blocks Another Trump Order, Proving Alito Was Right Again Brianna Lyman
• Sean Duffy to States: ‘Roads are for Safety, Not Politics’ Mary Chastain

I leave you with Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2738 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Pic Dump................... from Theo Spark, and Not Just Any Thursday ~ It's Libturd Thursday ~ AM from Woodsterman.

Neighbors Are Shocked

Another story of self-defense from the Sunshine State. 1 injured after shooting on Midpoint Bridge | WINK News

It is worth noting that both the police and the news media in Florida understand the difference between victim, and perpetrator.

According to police, two men, who did not know each other, stopped on the side of the road in separate cars. The suspect allegedly attempted to attack the victim. In response, the victim pulled out a gun and shot the suspect in the armpit and forearm.

The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital, the victim is cooperating with the investigation.

Cape Coral, Florida is in Southwest Florida, about 100 miles south of Tampa, and about 115 miles west of Palm Beach. The Midpoint Memorial Bridge spans the Caloosahatchee River, and connects Cape Coral to Fort Myers.

As for the neighbors...

The unexpected incident occurred near a park frequented by families, raising concerns in the otherwise quiet neighborhood.

David Goss, a resident who visits the park daily to read and eat lunch, expressed his disbelief.

"Why? Why?" said Goss.

You are not protected by your zip code. You are not protected because you live in a nice area. Criminals, and crazy people (I don't know that either applies in this case) can drive to where you live.

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

June in Chicago

HeyJackass! has the June Wrap-up

A promising start to The Summer of Silly Decisions with lead-based totals coming in well below average.

June 2025: 35 killed, 140 wounded
June 2023: 74 killed, 323 wounded
June 2023: 72 killed, 273 wounded

As sad as it is to acknowledge, 35 dead of murder is an amazingly good number for Chicago in June.

Looking back, it seems as if the brakes were applied back in February and continued to be ridden through the first month of the Summer of Silly Decisions. That being the case, we weren’t forecasting more than 40-45 homicides with an additional 175-200 wounded. Missed on both, however, we suspect our homicide guess will be correct once the Austin arson incident is clarified and declared.

Click thru for the detailed stats, and predictions, both for the July 4th Weekend, and the month as a whole.