Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 23 May

The Right Way is up first with Top of the News

Put a Nuke in It and make it AWESOME - Right Angle - Theo Spark
Devil's Food Cake - Evi. L Bloggerlady

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.20.2026

Don Surber: Democrats are blowing it
First Street Journal: Amy McGrath Henderson goes 0-for-3!

EBL - Justice for Henry Nowak

Henry Nowak (a student) was the innocent victim of a stabbing, but police in the UK arrested and handcuffed Henry and he bled out (without getting treatment).

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 22 May 2026: Oof Edition

Google accidentally leaked details of an unpatched Chromium flaw. (Bleeping Computer)
Unpatched since December.
December 2022.

The Glibertarians - Thursday Afternoon Pinch Hitter Links

PEG MA TIGHT: Appalachia is blessed with huge untapped deposits of lithium in the form of the mineral pegmatite. Exploiting this resource could free us from dependence upon foreign sources, particularly China.

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Pushing Euthanasia: No Adequate Care In Canada; Hospices Collapsing In The U.K.; Denies Disability Support In Australia

In the U.K. the vaunted NHS will happily see you dead, and hospices have no funds.
In Australia, they don’t support the disabled, unless its to support patients dying.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.21.26

Gates Of Vienna: “Show No Mercy. Kill Them All.”
The Geller Report: Justice at Last: Cuban Communist Dictator Raul Castro Indicted for Killing American Humanitarian Pilots

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/22/2026

Bowser Reimposes DC Curfew Amid Surge in Juvenile Delinquency
Washington, D.C., Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday imposed a juvenile curfew in the nation’s capital, following several disturbances

Vlad Tepes - Comrade Carney and the real state of law in Great Britain: Links 1 for May 21, 2026

A migrant, dunno yet if it was a Muslim, stabbed a British person. The migrant told the police that the British stab victim had said hurty words to the migrant. The police arrested the British person. The British person died bleeding out in custody.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/21/2026

Airbus and Air France Convicted Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash
A Paris appeals court has found Air France and Airbus guilty of involuntary manslaughter over the 2009 crash of flight AF447, which killed all 228 people

Small Dead Animals - Friday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: The Panda Express. Victor Davis Hanson – We’ve heard this before.
Davos Carney’s Canada: Muslim values are Canadian values. Bread and circuses.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Congress Rests on its Laurels, DNC "Autopsy" Reveals Dems Too Nice to Trump, Indictments in Minnesota Fraud

Vince Dao @VinceDaoTV, "AIPAC has fought Thomas Massie for years, actually. That’s a shock to his supporters who started following politics 2 seconds ago, but Google is free. Notice how he didn’t lose his primary until he voted against funding ICE

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 05.22.26

Don Surber: Thune joins the Resistance
First Street Journal: I’m waiting on yet another effort by the left to censor things they don’t like

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 05/22/2026 – More Cope from the Economist!

America’s submarine dominance is under threat
Nice angle to suggest America is distracted by the war in Iran and neglecting other elements. That just isn’t the case.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm for May 22, 2026

“Left’s election fraud denials crumble as DOJ exposes two-decade-long California cheating scheme. FBI Director Kash Patel says prior administrations looked the other way on election cheating but ‘those days are over.'”

Maggie's Farm - Thursday morning links

Prepare for an Earth-Shattering Kaboom As Starship V3 Finally Takes Flight
Babylon Bee Goes on Rampage Mocking Anti-Gun Media, Politicians

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 5/ 22/26

“Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history."
Trump Takes Massive Step To Keep Americans Safe

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Thomas Massie's Ouster Is More Proof of the GOP's Ongoing Commitment to Purging Antisemitism

• Weaponized Lawfare: Finally Somebody Might Pay a Price - David Strom
• 171 Countries Out of 204 Do NOT Use ANY Form of Mail-In Voting; It Is Time for Us (U.S.) to Jettison the Widespread Use of It - FoxyHeterodoxy (Debra C)

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 05/22/2026

Big Country makes a decent case the Gangstalking Brigade, US domestic surveillance, may be the US Military’s Signature Reduction crew. Maybe. If it was, I would advise the US Military to prepare for a 99% reduction in their budget

I leave you with Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Thursday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place, and Friday's gifs from Wirecutter.

Don't Open the Door

Make sure you know who is outside that door, before you open it. UPDATE: Homeowner confronts, shoots intruder on Trenton Road in Clarksville - ClarksvilleNow

Clarksville Police detectives have learned the woman had been awakened by her dogs barking and believed someone was trying to break into her home. She heard someone at the front door and thought it was her husband trying to get inside. After unlocking and opening the door, an unknown man entered the townhouse, and a struggle began. The woman, who was armed, fired her weapon.

The guy who got shot was airlifted to Nashville in serious condition.

Clarksville, Tennessee is about a 45 mile drive northwest of Nashville.

You can call through the door. You can install a peephole. You can install a doorbell camera. You don't need to open the door without some idea of who is on the other side.

Why Movies and TV Are Horrible Today

Real Life Fake Wizard is a critic of popular culture, and I am coming to appreciate his point of view. Take this short summary:

The problem IS the people making the stuff.

Hollywood writers used to come from everywhere. They were veterans, or had real careers before they ended up in LA. Today Hollywood writers come from a handful of coastal universities. They have no life experience. They haven't read classical literature. (That was written by dead, white men.) They have no life experience. They haven't even struggled with anything, more difficult that sobering up enough to attend classes on Monday.

This is the Real Life Fake Wizard video Hollywood Writers Hate The Audience

The American entertainment industry pulls almost exclusively from the same narrow funnel. A handful of MFA programs, in a handful of coastal cities, a handful of online taste maker circles where you have to say the right things to get the right gigs. The people who get hired share a world view before they ever write a single line of dialogue. The selection pressure runs on social connections and ideological alignment. Who you know and what you say in public matters more than whether you can write a story a stranger in Ohio will pay to watch.

Inside that funnel, a very specific worldview gets absorbed by everyone. Tradition is suspect. Religion gets recoded as hypocrisy. Working-class life is bigotry waiting to be exposed. Romance gets deconstructed into a power dynamic. Heroism is naive at best and complicit at worst. Beauty gets called regressive. Patriotism is embarrassing. The writers spend years marinating in this view of the world before they ever sit down to write a script for a mass audience.

The video is 20 minutes, but worth the time.

The Clouds Breathe For You

I haven't featured anything by The Glitch Mob in a very long time. This is low-key enough it shouldn't be jarring while the caffeine is kicking in.

The Glitch Mob is an electronic music duo from Los Angeles, California. They are putting a couple of live shows this weekend in Bakersfield. Unlike some electronic bands, they are supposed to put on a lively show, though I have never seen them in concert.

This is "The Clouds Breath For You" by The Glitch Mob from their 2015 EP Piece of the Indestructible.

Friday Links - 22 May

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Doom: Hotcoldwetdry Will Make Mediterranean “Hurricanes” Worse Or Something

Did you know that the Med has Bad Weather? And that you are making it worse?

Chicago Contrarian - Chicago Mayor Misses the Bus

Mayor Brandon Johnson is heading to Rome to visit the Pope, because apparently what Chicago desperately needs right now is another taxpayer-funded photo opportunity overseas while the city continues to slide deeper into dysfunction.

Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment - WATCH: Andy Ngo Discusses Massive Tommy Robinson Rally in London

The London rally, attended by up to 60,000 people, featured several American speakers, including Glenn Beck and Nick Shirley. The speakers were critical of mass migration, Islam, and Keir Starmer’s unpopular Labour government.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - I May Have Undercounted

How many gun cultures are there, anyway?

Miguel Gonzalez - Politeness and the lack of it.

I grow very cross now when somebody is impolite just because he can or is their imported behavior from where they used to live and refuse to be part with it because silly reasons, more than likely not wanting to look weak or be a redneck.

Clayton Cramer - Where Madness Leads

Multiple news reports indicate that the mass murderers at Islamic Center of San Diego hated Jews so they attacked a mosque.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 20 May 2026: Unpossible Edition

Google search is dead, says... Google. (Tech Crunch)

Professor Plum in the library with a lead pipe? / Or just Google being Google.

Anyway, the plan is, now that Google has killed its premier product through years of malign neglect, to force you into an AI "experience" any time you want to look something up.

Again from William Teach - NC GOP Looking To Pass Constitutional Amendment Limiting State Taxes

Obviously, Democrats are against keeping taxes low for NC citizens

The Price of Liberty - Defending free speech?

We defend anyone’s right to speak (write, publish, record, etc.) freely on any subject. Whether right or wrong. But we defend our own God-given right to challenge, contest, disagree, and point out when what they say is wrong.

Echo Chamberlain - The Return of Gravity: Why the Bond Market Is Starting to Frighten Governments

The cheap-money age that quietly underwrote much of modern politics may be ending.

How Should a Woman Defend Herself From Her Ex?

Two self-defense shootings in one day in Philadelphia. Intruders shot in separate Philadelphia shootings during attempted break-in, home invasion, police say - 6abc Philadelphia

I keep hoping that someone from the gun-hating part of the Left (it isn't all of the Left) will tell me what a woman should do in a situation like this. I'm not holding my breath.

The other shooting in this story, I covered yesterday in a separate post. This incident took place around midnight on Monday morning.

In a separate overnight shooting, Philadelphia police say a 33-year-old man was shot while trying to break into his ex's home in Parkside.

After she shot him, he showed up at a local convenience store with multiple gunshot wounds. She called 911 to report the incident.

"The male was trying to enter her property through the front window, and that the male was a former domestic partner of hers. Female said she didn't know who it was and she fired shots," Captain Louise Higginson, with the Philadelphia Police Department, said.

The investigation is in early days.

People need to understand the sentence, "It's over." The gun-hating Left needs to say what she should have done aside from defending herself. (If your Ex shows up in the middle of the night, and tries to break in, I don't think they are looking to have a long talk, but I'm a cynic.)

The Massachusetts Justice System Doesn't Care about Public Safety

If the state was worried about public safety, they would lock up criminals. They do not. Focusing on Gun Control Rather Than Criminal Control Forces Armed Citizens to Act in Self-Defense - Shooting News Weekly

Okay, so there was the recent shooting in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was stopped by a citizen with a concealed carry license, and a state trooper. (More on that below.)

What I learned today (the 19th) was that the bad guy in question had been convicted for a shooting in 2020, and was out of prison already.

The then District Attorney, D.A. Rachael Rollins, requested 10 to 12 years for this guy. He would still be in prison, and he would probably not have been shot. But the judge in that 2020 case, didn't think that was fair, so he was sentenced to 5 to 6 years in prison. That judge is Judge Janet Sanders.

Thus, another police officer, and an armed citizen were forced to temporarily incapacitate this dangerous individual where the state’s criminal justice system proved unwilling to do so. Law-abiding gun owners have every right to be disgusted with a government that fails in its most basic duty to protect the public from criminal violence while it works hard to prevent decent people from providing for their own protection.

As has been noted in several places, Massachusetts is not the most open state when it comes to concealed carry.

For details on the incident in Cambridge, see this link: Good Guy With a Gun Helps Stop Bad Guy

Hat tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit: PUTTING YOU AT RISK BY DESIGN

Florida AG Smacks HOA Over Firearms Ban

This is the kind of story I love to see. Florida attorney general issues warning to Port St. Lucie HOA over firearms ban

There plenty of stories out there, apparently a few on Redit, and even some on YouTube, about Homeowners Associations, and the Karens that run them, getting smacked down while overstepping their authority. While most of those stories are fiction, this one is a true story.

A week or so ago, the board of directors for Tradition Community, in Port St. Lucie, Florida, changed their bylaws to forbid the carrying of weapons, concealed or open, in all common areas. That included offices, club house, pool, storm water areas (which are often set aside as parks), etc. It included residents of the community, guests, independent contractors, and employees of the association. Or so they thought.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is warning a Port St. Lucie homeowners’ association that its ban on firearms in common areas violates state law and could trigger legal action.

In a formal letter sent on Thursday to the Tradition Community Association, Inc., Uthmeier said the association’s policy prohibiting firearms in shared spaces conflicts with Florida statutes protecting the right to keep and bear arms.

Ouch. That is going to piss off the Karens who came up with this policy. It will impact them for 2 reasons.

1. They cannot forbid guns from the community, and they are scared of guns
2. They are not the Law

To be a fly-on-the-wall for the next board of directors meeting...

Here is the statement that Attorney General Uthmeier made on X:

Tradition Community Association, Inc. is on notice:

Enforcement of its discriminatory policy against anyone for exercising the constitutional right to keep and bear arms will be met with legal action by my office. pic.twitter.com/1j4hjeoeUf

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) May 21, 2026

Liberty Doll also has a video on this topic: HOA Bans Guns, AG Threatens Legal Action

For the record, I consider HOAs to the evil. I lived under one for 7 months in Florida. It took me an extra few weeks to sell the condo. When I bought my current house, I researched to deed back to the 1840s, when the US military was first surveying this part of the country, to make sure that there were no covenants or restrictions. There are not.

I tend to agree with The Fat Electrician when it comes to HOAs:

Unfortunately this gentleman lived in an HOA, a homeowners association, which if you don't know is basically diet communism. It's where a bunch of people build some nice houses, then they get together and they're like:

Hey we got all these nice houses; you know what we need? More government! We've got federal, state, county, municipal... it's not enough. We need even more rules. We should come together, designate a tribunal of Elder Karens to make all the important decisions for us.

You can watch/listen to the Fat Electrician's video on WW2 Veteran, and Medal of Honor recipient, if you like. It is classic Fat Electrician. WWII history, and an HOA that gets an epic beat down. It is just over 11 minutes.

Concealed Carry Still Not Allowed on Florida College Campuses

Which I will never understand, and don't understand how this will pass muster under the Bruen decision, but here we are. DeSantis Signs Law Arming Trained College, University Faculty After FSU Shooting - South Florida Reporter

A year after a gunman opened fire on Florida State University, trained college and university faculty can carry guns onto campus under a bill Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Friday.

The training is fairly involved, but at least the campuses will not be completely disarmed.

Under the new law, HB 757, the program will be extended to colleges and universities. Staff hoping to become guardians must complete 144 hours of training — 132 hours with firearms. Although the program isn’t mandatory, college and university presidents have the power to appoint their school guardians.

But they can't allow legal adults with concealed carry licenses on college campuses. Oh, no. Because while they can be armed in most places in the state of Florida, when they step onto a college campus they lose the ability to be responsible. Or something. Or is it just that the college students don't "feel safe" unless they are in a defenseless victim zone.

It is the 21st Century and feelings are important. [Heavy sigh]

I'm sure the Left, especially the college professors and students will be screaming and crying and running for their safe spaces in no time.

Christopher Nolan's Woke Odyssey

Christopher Nolan is a good director. He is responsible for Oppenheimer, Interstellar, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight. There are also some movies I don't like.

He is basing his upcoming adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey on a modern/feminist translation. Great. Because Hollywood hasn't been beating that dead horse for a decade now.

This is Derek Anderson's video THE ODYSSEY IS COOKED! Trailer Getting DESTROYED!! Chris Nolan’s MOST DIVISIVE Movie!

Self-Defense in Philadelphia

Is legal self-defense becoming more common in the Blue Cities, or am I just noticing it more? Police: Man shot dead after forcing his way into Northeast Philly home

How should the law-abiding citizens of Philadelphia react to someone breaking into their homes at about one o'clock in the morning? This incident happened at ten minutes past one.

Investigators believe the shooting happened after the victim forced his way into the home and a struggle ensued with someone inside the property, during which, the man was shot.

Officials said the man -- who police did not immediately provide additional identifying information on -- was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced at about 1:39 a.m.

The cops haven't said that this is self-defense, but then those determinations are made by the District Attorney's office, and I have no understanding of where the current Philadelphia DA stands on the issue of self-defense. The description they provided makes this incident sound like justified self-defense to me, but I'm no lawyer.

Self-defense is a human right, and it just might be your legal right.

Free Markets Work

Politicians hate that they cannot command the economy to do their bidding. Honda Posts First-Ever Annual Loss After Pullback From E.V.s - The New York Times

Honda had a loss of $2.7 billion for the year ended 31 March.

The sharp downturn underscores the extent to which Honda — and many other automakers that poured billions into electric vehicles — has been buffeted by cooling demand.

Everybody who wants an EV has one. The rest of us don't, because of things like the 39% decrease in range in "cold weather," and really 20 degrees Fahrenheit is not that cold.

The hat tip goes to MGUY Australia and his video Honda posts first LOSS in 70 YEARS (thanks to EVs...)

The initial spike in EV sales has been uh driven by the Three Fs of Fanboys, Fleets, and Freebies. Fanboys who went out and bought a Tesla because they thought it was cool. Fleets who are forced to buy EVs by governments, who are offering massive incentives for them to to abandon their combustion fleets and and go all electric. And then we have the freebies, the tax incentives.

Anti-Gun Activist Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder (by Firearm)

The verdict came down at the end of April, but I only found out about it. Colorado anti-violence advocate guilty of murder at child’s birthday party

Sayers Sr., who ran the Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts Center, an anti-violence organization in Aurora, attended an event sponsored by Denver nonprofit Struggle of Love immediately before the killing. He drove from the anti-violence rally in Montbello to Pioneer Park, where surveillance video showed him park and walk toward Watson. The man was shot and killed seconds later, just out of the video’s frame.

He left an "anti-violence" rally to commit violence. No one appreciates irony anymore.

This is the Liberty Doll video Anti-Gun Activist Convicted of Murder at a Kid's Birthday

And you know what? If he had not dedicated so much of his life telling other people not to own guns and not to use violence in these situations, this wouldn't even be a story.

The video is just under 12 minutes.

Marketing Stunt Backfires on Disney

Disney and Hollywood keep trying to push Pedro Pascal on the world. Disneyland Pedro Pascal “Fan Surprise” Immediately Exposed as Influencer Marketing Stunt

Disney is once again getting dragged online after fans discovered that a Pedro Pascal "surprise" event at Disneyland was anything but authentic.

Over the weekend, Disney-affiliated social media accounts pushed a video showing Pedro Pascal appearing aboard the Millennium Falcon attraction at Disneyland to promote The Mandalorian and Grogu. The clip was framed like Pascal had randomly shocked unsuspecting park guests with “the surprise of a lifetime.”

Except of course those "unsuspecting park guests" turned out to be known shills for Disney, otherwise known as online "influencers."

Within hours, users on X identified several people featured in the clip as established Disney and Star Wars influencers with sizable followings and long histories of Disney promotional access.

What has become known as the "access media." They throw softballs in interviews, and love absolutely everything, so that they get access, like being invited to a meeting at a park with the star of the upcoming Star Wars movie.

If you're not aware, a new Star Wars movie is coming out this week, The Mandalorian and Grogu. It is based on a Disney+ TV show from a few years back, that was popular in Seasons 1 and 2, but died on the vine in season 3. So of course Disney decided to put a movie in theaters. It is the first Star Wars movie to be released in theaters in 6 or 7 years.

Here is what Christian Toto, of Hollywood in Toto, had to say:

Saw #TheMandalorian

Apologies to The Acolyte!

But seriously, it’s sub kiddie level storytelling that’s so afraid of itself it vomits up nonstop action rather than share Netflix dialogue that repeats key themes

Sigourney Weaver gives Razzie worthy turn

One late scene is a DEI…

— Christian Toto (@HollywoodInToto) May 19, 2026

The hat tip goes to The M4 Empire video Disney Has a Pedro Pascal Problem. It is a 20 minute video that covers this, and even more stuff featuring Pedro Pascal.

Now guys, Pedro Pascal is not the core issue here. Now, don't get me wrong, he's a weirdo creep, but he's not the real issue. Disney is, because Disney created this environment.

Wednesday Links - 20 May

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Victory Girls Blog has Sunday morning cafe cocktails linkage.
Vlad Tepes has linkage.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.18.26

Upstream Reviews: Of All The Gin Joints in the Universe (2/4), also, Vertical Run
Cedar Sanderson: Reviews & Maturity

EBL - The Odyssey Firestorm Gets Worse

ZeroHedge: The Odyssey looking like a woke disaster
Instapundit: Camp and Bad Feelings

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News stuff 16 May 2026: Dipole Edition

OpenAI wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts. (The Verge)
Not their bank accounts. Just yours.

Political Hat - News of the Week (May 17th, 2026)

A Private Call Reveals Democrats’ Desperation Over Tossing of Map
A conversation involving House members from Virginia and the top House Democrat reflected the fury and desperation that has gripped the party after Friday’s ruling

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - A Light Flow Day

At NottheBee, Listen to this trucker explain how “foreign” drivers are being sidelined just days after SCOTUS said companies are liable for them. GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless, "It took less than 24 hours for brokers to tighten the belt ..."

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 4: Daniel Greenfield reported, “Canada: Pro-Migration Pol Loses Election to Bangladeshi Pizzeria Owner.”
The loser helped import the voters who voted him out.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 05.19.26

Power Line: From Saint Paul to San Diego, All he is saying, ICE officer charged, The word from Aimee Bock, and Failure In Iran?
Shark Tank: Pinellas County Officials Endorse Byron Donalds For Governor

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: California hearing aids. Chinese spy scandal.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Francis Widdowson speaks out.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Paul Joseph Watson – The worst one I’ve seen.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 5/16/2026

Netherlands: Police Arrest 3 at Apeldoorn Asylum Protest for Second Night
Police arrested three people after intervening for the second time at a protest in Apeldoorn against plans for an emergency asylum shelter

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

You want Skynet? Because this is how you get SkyNet.
Womp, womp.

Bacon Time - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove SCOTUS Denies Virginia 10-1 Redistricting Appeal
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

A bad day to be a terrorist or drug kingpin ....Trump is knocking them over, one after another, like bowling pins.
Democrat voters keep making the same mistakes

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 5/ 18/26

It is time to bring closure and victory to our conflict with Iran.
In War, There Is No Substitute for Victory

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Trump’s Cleanup Crescendo

• The ‘Free Trade’ Tax on Americans - Thaddeus G. McCotter
• The Last Privilege - The Rustbelt Reader
• Americans Face The Highest Memorial Day Gas Prices On Record - ZHp

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 05/16/2026

There is a rumor Trump is preparing a pardon for Snowden in return for testimony against Comey, Clapper, and Brennan, but it is unsourced.
US Supreme Court rebuffs Virginia Democrats in bid for new voting map

I leave you with Saturday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place, Sunday Funnies For 05-17-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Monday Memes from Granite Grok.

How Should a Woman Defend Herself?

If not with a firearm, how should she defend herself? Home invasion thwarted by armed homeowner - AOL

A man is accused of breaking into a woman’s house, only for her to confront the intruder with a gun, leading him out of the home. He was later arrested.

Given how this started, I think she should have shot him. Maybe more than once.

The suspect, Sergio Ruiz, 21, and the victim’s first interaction seemed innocuous as he texted her wanting eggs, as she had a sign outside saying she was selling them. However, the messages reportedly escalated into sexual and vulgar comments.

Although she blocked his number, Ruiz allegedly started texting her from a different one.

This doesn't sound like a guy who can take a hint.

Mesa County, Colorado, is on the state line with Utah, roughly 130 miles west of Denver.

Cops eventually located and arrested this guy, after he left.

Ruiz was booked in the Mesa County Detention Facility for stalking, second-degree home burglary and attempted non-consensual sexual assault. He was given a $100,000 bond, which the sheriff’s office stated, “has gone untouched.”

So I would like the gun-hating part of the Left (it isn't all of the Left, though it often seems that way) to explain exactly what this woman should have done, without a firearm? I am not expecting them to explain.

Self-defense is a human right.

The Justice System in Chicago is Broken

The inmates are running the show in Cook County. Releasing suspected cop killer on an ankle monitor wasn't a mistake, top judge says - CWB Chicago

You have to work hard to be this tone deaf.

The decision to release a five-time felon with four pending felony cases, including two violent robberies, on electronic monitoring was not a mistake, Cook County’s chief judge says, even though that man is now accused of going on to murder a Chicago police officer and gravely wounding the fallen officer’s partner.

He said, basically, how could you know what he would do?

Retired Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel had a response to Beach’s rhetorical question: “How do you predict another person’s actions? Start with the obvious—his criminal history.”

Click thru for all the details, including how he ended up shooting two police officers.

Hat tip to Second City Cop: The Chief Judge said What???

The fact that an asshole judge can say thing like this without any fear of political (or other) repercussions is truly a crying shame.

Could it be a factor that the top judge quoted in the article, and the judge who released this monster are friends?

Carry On

Here is a song I had not thought of in many years, when it came up on a YouTube channel I watch occasionally.

This song is "Carry On" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young from their 1970 album Déjà Vu. The harmonies this band produced were amazing.

NY Post Can't Call a Felon a Felon

I usually like the New York Post, but they can't get things right with this story. Why? Because the credentialed class can't stand the idea that "college grads" are subject to FAFO, and Karma, like everyone else. ‘Exceptional’ NY college grad killed when boat taken without permission crashes in Boston Harbor

The original title to the article seems to have been "Student-athlete killed, three injured in Boston Harbor boat crash." They couldn't even say that the boat was "taken without permission." Most people call that stealing, but the NY Post is talking about a "college grad."

Here is what they want you to remember.

An “exceptional” New York college graduate was killed when a boat she and her friends were riding in without permission crashed into a pier in Boston Harbor, according to officials.

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Dankert, who played soccer for Union College in Schenectady, was killed when the recreational boat smashed into pier 4R, just off a runway at Logan International Airport, around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Massachusetts State Police.

If someone was "riding without permission" in my vehicle, I would consider it to have been stolen. Maybe that is just me.

"Smashed into pier" sounds to me like the boat was traveling at high speed. This tells me that whoever was driving probably had limited-to-no experience piloting a boat.

If you get far enough in the article, you get to some inconvenient facts.

“The vessel involved was taken without authorization and operated outside the knowledge and control of the Club, well after the Club had closed for the day,” the club told WCVB. “We are cooperating fully with all relevant authorities.”

Freedom Boat Club is a way to get access to boats, without owning one outright. Sort of like cross between a timeshare and car rental agency. The club never interested me, so I can't tell you much about it.

Dankert graduated from Union College in 2024. It is odd that they don't mention anything about what she has done since then. Or maybe not so odd. The job market, if you're a "student athlete" from "a small liberal arts school in Schenectady," is probably a tough market.

Hat tip to William Teach

Exceptional? Boat taken without permission? Seriously? She and her friends stole the boat. Little Miss Exception committed a felony, the FAFO to the extreme