Wednesday Link Roundup - 11 March

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts things rolling with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Don Surber has highlights of the week.
Doug Ross has Larwyn’s Linx. And more Larwyn’s Linx.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.09.26

Don Surber: Regime change matters
Elizabeth Nickson: Remigration NOW

EBL - Daylight Savings

Daylight Savings
Instapundit: Spring Forward

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 8 March 2026: Space Shark Edition

The associated Hacker News thread notes that you can get even better performance [than using AWS] by the simple trick of running your own server.
And save a ton of money.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Iranian Leadership Hiding Under Hajibs, Trump Demands Unconditional Surrender

Ace, War Powers Act Vote to Limit Iran Action Fails, Meaning This Is Now a Congressionally Approved War. "Okay okay, that's kinda bullshit. But you will agree, this means that this is not a Congressionally disapproved war.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: Douglas Murray – Keeping his promise. Iran’s last hope. Hating white men.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Alleged Graves. Stolen Land.

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 6: Costa Rica’s president-elect Laura Fernández said, “Mexico is for me a reference of where we do not want to go.”
Even Mexicans don’t like Mexico anymore.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.10.26

STUMP: New York Pension Watch – Public Employee Unions Ask for Sweeteners
The Political Hat: Leviathan’s Operating System

Political Hat - News of the Week (March 8th, 2026)

Rep. Dan Crenshaw loses to Republican primary challenger in Texas
NBC News projects state Rep. Steve Toth defeated Crenshaw, who was the only GOP House member running for re-election in Texas who didn’t have Trump’s endorsement.

Vlad Tepes - Iran, the conquest of the West by Islam, proof of Grok’s “baked in” agenda and more: Links 1 for March 9, 2026

3.Muslim terrorists threw a home made frag mentation bomb at an anti-Islamization rally in New York City yesterday. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of press on it. Right in front of the mayor Mamdani’s official residence

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - Iran Strikes: Day 10

Meanwhile, Iran is hitting only purely military targets. Ha, just kidding! They’re hitting desalinization plants, in Bahrain and UAE.
No sleep until Brooklyn regime change:

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 3/9/2026

German Industry Orders Plummet in January With Oil Prices Adding to Pain
Germany’s industrial sector has started weakly into the New Year.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

That’s just good product placement, right there.
How about you go fuck yourself, Ron?
Tulsi? Is that you?

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Climate Cult Has A Special Class For Special People
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 3/9/26

It has been nearly 50 years since I wrote about Iran with Nixon. Trump approaches Iran with the same clear-eyed realism.
Trump Learned Richard Nixon’s Lessons On Iran

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

The obvious signs the Iran war is part of larger contest with Russia and China
The Fall of the NGO-Administrative Complex

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Our Long Road to War With Iran

• It’s Not ‘ISIS’, It’s the ‘Allah Finger’ - Daniel Greenfield
• Before FBI subpoena, congressional observers flagged commingled ballots at Maricopa County center - JTN

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 03/10/2025

Right-wing AfD makes historic gains in west German election.
Send everyone you know to AmericanStasi.com, because we need readers

I leave you with Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Sunday Funnies For 03-08-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Memes …. from MaddMedic, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3475 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.

If You Break Into Homes...

You will eventually find an armed homeowner. Suspected burglar was shot by Provo resident | KSL. Or in this case, the homeowner's son.

File this under, "Another failure of the victim-selection process."

Lance Andre Hunter, 41, broke into a home and started a confrontation with some people inside. Two women ran upstairs and locked themselves in a room. Hunter followed. The homeowner's son, who have been arguing with Hunter retrieved a gun.

After Hunter pushed past the son, he went upstairs and "was attempting to kick in the door to the room they [the two women] had locked themselves in." That's when the son reengaged Hunter, this time armed with a gun, according to the affidavit.

He was shot once.

Despite being shot once, police say Hunter stole a vehicle at the hangar that had the keys still inside and tried to leave the area, but was stopped by responding deputies.

Provo, Utah is about a 40 or 45 mile drive south of Salt Lake City.

This sounds a bit like a domestic incident, but police are looking to see if Hunter is connected to other burglaries in the area.

However that plays out, self-defense, and defense of others, is a human right. This didn't take place in Massachusetts. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

All This "Clean Energy" Is Causing Environmental Harm

From CFACT we get an article about the dirty truth of Wind Energy that the environmentalists somehow don't want to address. Waste from “clean energy” piles up across the U.S.

Disposal of wind turbine blades is an issue. An environmental issue.

Disposal of giant blades in landfills is often the only way to deal with equipment that is no longer serviceable. “Blades are frequently buried in fragments in several landfills throughout the Great Plains,” Cohen adds, “transforming sites in Wyoming, Iowa, and South Dakota into wind turbine graveyards. By 2050, the cumulative decommissioning material from wind turbines could reach 133 million tons. On average, 3,000 – 9,000 blades are being taken out of service per year in the United States, and that number is expected to increase to 10,000 – 20,000 blades per year by 2040.”

The blades for the giant turbines don't last as long as the environmentalists hoped they would. They can't be recycled. I wonder if the energy required to produce the blades, which are made out of fiberglass, epoxy resins, and carbon fiber, can ever be recouped by the turbine. That doesn't include the steel, the concrete, and the copper that goes into the entire thing.

Noche Acosador

I do love classical guitar, but I know next to nothing about this artist. The song comes by way of a playlist generated by the Tidal streaming service based on my listening habits.

This is "Noche Acosador" by John 5 from his 2012 album God Told Me To.

Corporal Timothy O’Connor Jr.

End of Watch. Fallen PA state trooper leaves behind wife, daughter after fatal Chester County shooting

The 40-year-old trooper was shot around 8:15 p.m. after pulling over Jesse Elks, 32, 10 minutes after responding to the initial call, state police confirmed.

He was responding to a call about an erratic driver.

Pennsylvania State Police said O'Connor first enlisted in 2010 and was first assigned to Troop J in Avondale, Pennsylvania before joining the Criminal Investigation Unit in October of 2016.

He was then transferred to the Embreeville barracks in March of 2022 and was promoted to corporal months later in July of 2022.

Tuesday Links - 10 March

MaddMedic at Freedom Is Just Another Word… is first with GUNS Magazine Should You Carry a Gun at Home? The Nancy Guthrie Incident ..

What?
You don’t???

Lone Star Parson - The Royal Navy

The UK can't even send one of its very few warships to defend one of its territories in the face of an attack by an hostile power. But of course the power concerned is Moslem and it wouldn't do to offend all those imported votes asylum seekers. would it.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 7 March 2026: Sleepless In Santorini Edition

AI startup Hayden AI is suing its former CEO over alleged instances of fraud and theft and pettifoggery and exaggerating on his resume. (Ars Technica)

The mopery and dopery appears to go back a ways:

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Better Than Expected

A good week for Senators fans, even though travel and work compelled me to play the Tuesday series against the Angels on Wednesday and the Friday series against the Hated Yankees tonight.

The College Fix - Stanford student gov. wants reinstatement of student co-ops suspended for antisemitic, anti-white actions

‘Perceived’ Jews, men, whites not wanted … but hey — one co-op has a communal kitchen! The other’s Weds. happy hour is the best!

Clayton Cramer - Remember When Bigots Said Women Were Too Emotional to Vote?

The bigots were wrong but leftists screaming at the sky does nothing to refute it.

John Nolte at Breitbart - Nolte: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Ultra-Woke Frankenstein Flick ‘The Bride!’ Bombs at Box Office

So, yes, I wanted The Bride! to fail at the box office, because woke delivers lousy art and even worse storytelling, and the only way to make it stop is for it to fail at the box office.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Oh Noes: Trump Forcing Canada To Make ‘Climate Change’ Research Budget Cuts

Adding Trump’s name in somewhere is the way it’s supposed to be done, right?

Daley Gator - IDIOTS AND ANTI-SEMITES

Why don’t y’all take a flying leap.

Will The Cook County State's Attorney Treat This Like Self-Defense?

The new State's Attorney is a step up from the last, but it is still Deep Blue Chicago. Chicago crime: Homeowner with CCL shoots intruder amid break-in in Back of the Yards on Loomis Boulevard, Chicago police say - ABC7 Chicago

It happened at about 2:39 a.m. in the 5100-block of S. Loomis Boulevard, police said.

A 59-year-old man was breaking into a garage and was confronted by the homeowner.

CPD said the homeowner, a valid CCL holder, pulled out a gun and shot at the alleged intruder.

The guy who got shot is expected to be okay. The police also say that "charges are pending."

Back of the Yards is a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, about 8 miles south of the Loop. From about 1865 until the 1950s (?) Union Stock Yards was surrounded by a lot of meatpacking operations. The people who worked there, lived in Back of the Yards. It isn't one of the 77 official neighborhoods, but is part of New City.

Liberal prosecutors generally hate self-defense. I don't know that much about Eileen O'Neill Burke, the current Illinois State's Attorney for Cook County, except that she is better than Kim Foxx. That is not a high bar, as Second City Cop called Fox Crimeshea. I guess we will see what happens in this case.

Self-defense is a human right. It is a concept that seems to be catching on in Chicago. I see this as a case of, "Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

The Once Great British Navy Is a Joke

William Teach at Pirate's as some info on the Place Where Great Britain Used to Be. Trump To Starmer: “We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

If Trump has any sort of foreign policy doctrine, it’s FAFO. This can go anywhere from FriendlyAFO to FoolAFO to FuckAFO. It’s up to them to see which Trump they’ll receive. Trump keeps them guessing. Now Starmer will either have to dig in or kiss Trump’s ass.

Britain once ruled the seas. Now they cannot get a ship to sea in the face of an emergency. And aside from what we are doing, British bases in Cyprus are under missile attack, and they cannot deploy a single destoryer to provide missile defense. Not one.

From Lone Star Parson we get that update. The Royal Navy

In 1935 the Royal Navy had something like 12 battleships, 3 battlecruisers, 7 carriers, 66 cruisers, 184 destroyers and 60 submarines. Britannia ruled the waves and employed over 300,000 men to do so. Now the Royal Navy has maybe 63 active ships and submarines in various states of disrepair, of which 2 are carriers, 6 destroyers, 7 frigates and 10 submarines.

This is a sad state of decline.

The Media Is Still Shocked that Gays Own Guns

Because the Left and the Media (but I repeat myself) holds on to a lot of stereotypes about gun owners. LGBTQ Floridians seek gun safety training amid rising tensions - Watermark Out News

This article sounds a bit like an extended advertisement for a group called Equality in Arms, which is an organization out of Orlando that focuses on training people new to the idea of owning and carrying guns.

“When you’re carrying a firearm, you’re carrying a huge responsibility,” [Christopher] Fernandez [owner and lead instructor of EIA] says. “You almost literally have the power of life and death in your hands. I teach people how to walk through the world being a good, sane, thoughtful, principled person who happens to carry a firearm. That’s a huge focus of my concealed carry class.”

They do get to Pink Pistols, and a few other organizations, toward the end of the article. Pink Pistols was formed in 2000, but the media hasn't gotten that message. For a mostly complete list of organizations of minority gun owners, see Implications for Understanding Gun Owner Diversity Today. That is a section of a post from Professor David Yamane.

It is a left-wing publication, so they have to have a few paragraphs about ICE, because Journalism.

Supermassive Black Hole

Muse is odd. Whenever I hear one of their songs, I generally like it, but I have never gone searching for their music, and as far as know none of it has crept into any of my playlists, though I will probably have added this song to at least one playlist by the time you read this.

Muse is listed as "Dance Rock" which I hadn't heard of, but then when I was listening to dance music, it tended to be fairly extreme by mainstream tastes.

Here is a link to the lyrics.

This song is "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse from their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations.

Don't Bring a Knife to a Gunfight

Things will probably not work out for you. Moore County homeowner holds knife-wielding robber at gunpoint until officers arrive

According to the Aberdeen Police Department, the homeowner called 911 just before 11 p.m. to report a burglary in progress in the 200 block of Campbell Street. He said he was at home with his wife when a man armed with a knife came to his porch and attempted to break into the house.

When cops arrived they found the homeowner holding the would-be, bad guy at gunpoint. Cops took control, disarmed the bad guy, and arrested him.

Police said the suspect was identified as 21-year-old Tylee Keyshaun Cannady of Aberdeen. He is charged with the felony offenses of first-degree burglary and breaking and entering with intent to terrorize, along with the misdemeanor offenses of first-degree trespass with entering/remaining and possessing marijuana paraphernalia.

Moore County, North Carolina is about a 65 mile drive southwest of Raleigh.

The homeowner was not charged because North Carolina is not New York. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0. (Hat tip to USA Carry)

The BBC Lied About Pete Hegseth Speech

I'm shocked that the BBC would lie about anything. OK, so I'm not shocked. From The Telegraph: BBC altered Pete Hegseth speech on Iran war

The BBC mistakenly altered a speech by Pete Hegseth on the war in Iran, making him appear to say the United States was targeting the Iranian “people”.

BBC Persian, which broadcasts to audiences inside Iran, mistranslated remarks by the US secretary of defence, telling viewers Washington was bringing death to the Iranian “people”.

What Hegseth actually said was that the US is targeting the regime, and NOT the people.

Even The Telegraph seems reluctant to claim the BBC is biased.

The mistake was seized upon by pro-Israel media campaigners, who claimed that it cast doubt on the BBC’s impartiality. It also triggered a backlash on social media.

Some (probably desipised) group thinks this shows the BBC is biased. Now maybe there is some part of British law that would open The Telegraph to a defamation suit. My opinions are protected by the 1st amendment, and I believe that the BBC is a group of lying bastards that are deep in the throws of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It is "claimed" to be a part of long-standing bias in covering the Mideast.

In January, the BBC was embroiled in a row with the Israeli embassy after the broadcaster was accused of obsessing over Gaza while “largely ignoring” the protests in Tehran.

Gee, the BBC wouldn't be antisemitic, now, would it?

That is on top of the suit by Trump against the BBC for lying about stuff during the election.

Florida Takes Aim at HOAs

‘Failed experiment:’ Florida committee unanimously OKs plan to scrap HOAs

After a state lawmaker brought up eliminating HOAs last year, a new Florida bill would allow residents to do exactly that, according to a report from our sister station WKMG in Orlando.

The bill — HB 657 — was filed back in December by state Rep. Juan Porras (R-Miami), who blasted HOAs as a “failed experiment.”

It sounds good, but I think it is going to be tough in practice. Click thru for the details.

If you are wondering why people would love to get rid of a Homeowners Association, see The Fat Electrician on HOAs being Diet Communism. That clip is about 1 minute long. I can recommend the entire video, which is on Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Van T. Barfoot, and his fight with an HOA.

AI Update and Musical Interlude

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony has some tech news, and song of the day. Daily News Stuff 7 March 2026: Sleepless In Santorini Edition

Artificial Intelligence is NOT a bubble. Why would you say that?

AI startup Hayden AI is suing its former CEO over alleged instances of fraud and theft and pettifoggery and exaggerating on his resume. (Ars Technica)

The mopery and dopery appears to go back a ways:

According to Carson's LinkedIn profile, he completed a doctorate from Waseda University in Tokyo in 2007.

"That is a lie," the complaint states. "Carson does not hold a PhD from Waseda or any other university. In 2007, he was not obtaining a PhD but was operating 'Splat Action Sports,' a paintball equipment business in a Florida strip mall."

Did he use Cluely to get the job?

Click thru for more Tech News and "Avalon" by Roxy Music. It is the title song to their 1982 album.

So We Got a Lanterns Trailer

So DC is producing a TV series based on the Green Lantern comic books.

Lanterns, because it features both Hal Jordan and John Stewart, will be streaming on HBO+ or whatever it is. The trailer landed to near universal mockery.

This is Kaida's video DCU Lanterns Already Let Me Down

But I'm done, 8 minutes, 44 seconds dude. I'm done complaining about the DCU. I'm done complaining about the lanterns. I am now apathetic. I don't give a [ __ ] man. Do whatever you want 8 minutes, 53 seconds to do. You want to keep doing your Green Lanterns with [ __ ] gray, go for it.

The video is 10 minutes.

There isn't a lot of green. The show seems to violate some basic properties of how the Green Lantern series works. Or worked. But that is basically what DC has been reduced to.

This isn't the only reaction, of course.

• Ryan Kinel at RK Outpost: Lanterns Trailer DISAPPOINTS! | James Gunn Is Running Out Of Time With The DCU!
• Film Threat: LANTERNS TRAILER REACTION
• JLongbone: 'Lanterns' Looks Like 💩
• Tyrone Magnus: Lanterns | Official Teaser | Reaction!

I think Tyrone M. summed it up.

The trailer didn't do a damn thing for me. Like a damn thing. I'm not excited. I'm not intrigued.

It will probably be better than Peacemaker, though that is not a high bar.

A Miguel Gonzalez Musical Interlude

Miguel Gonzalez brings us Sunday Repose

March 5th was the anniversary of the death of John Belushi. I figure this is appropriate.

Click thru for "Soul Man" from the Season 4 (1978) of Saturday Night Live.

Miguel Gonzalez has a musical interlude most Sundays.

Could It Be That Self-Defense Is Legal in Connecticut?

I would be quite shocked if that was the case. Darien homeowner fires shots at people who illegally entered his home: Police

"Illegally entered?" Aren't they "undocumented visitors?" Why can't you just call them home invaders?

Police later said the people involved were able to get into the house after finding a key hidden outside. When they entered, they were confronted by the homeowner. Another family member called 911 when they saw the suspects on the front porch.

Don't hide keys. And if you feel the need to, then don't put one under a mat, or under a pot near the front door.

One of the home invaders was armed, and so the homeowner shot in their direction. He may have done more than that.

"During our initial investigation, Darien Police Detectives determined that a male juvenile potentially matching the description of one of the suspects arrived at the Bridgeport Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound and was rushed to surgery," Darien police said in a Facebook post.

Darien, Connecticut is about 15 miles southwest of Bridgeport, and about 10 miles northeast of the New York State line.

The guy who got shot is in stable condition.

No talk of any charges, but it appears that police did not arrest the homeowner.

The investigation has a long way to go, and I have no idea what the DA for that area of Connecticut is like self-defense in general, let alone when it comes to issues of self defense.

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

Can We Talk to Each Other Across the Divide?

From Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat, we get some details on an effort to bridge a divide on guns. What Happened When Guns Rights and Gun Violence Prevention Advocates Spent 80 Hours Talking to Each Other?

I believe that getting beyond the firearms ownership VERSUS public safety false dichotomy can be facilitated by having civil conversations about guns with those with whom we disagree.

I take these opportunities whenever possible, from the Vail Symposium to the California Rifle and Pistol Association and many others.

Now this is good, and I hope it works. I have my doubts, but let's have the grace to let Professor Yamane have his say.

The most ambitious of these opportunities came in the fall of 2024, when Dr. Michael Siegel from Tufts University made me an offer I couldn't refuse: to engage in an extended deliberative dialogue with a diverse group of stakeholders representing a truly broad range of perspectives on firearms in America.

The group's name is “Bridging the Divide on Firearm Policy,” but in my mind, we were actually bridging the divide between gun rights and public safety. We were engaging in simultaneous proponency by overcoming the idea that the two are somehow fundamentally incompatible, by getting beyond the notion that we can only advance one at the expense of the other.

Click thru for the details.

My doubts are mostly encapsulated in this post: Liberals Distressed That Things Are Not What They Hoped

In Yamane's post that I am responding to, he quotes Ross Douthat, a "Conservative" that writes for the NY Times, asking the following question.

How do you love your country when it’s governed by a man you hate?

No Conservative who conscious when Biden was President would ask that question.

My concern is that his conversation "across differences" to bridge the divide, is really the divide between liberals who hate guns and gun owners, and the membership of The Liberal Gun Club.

I have not read the entire paper; it is 60 pages. What I have is more reasoned than I feared. So, at this point I have concerns, and not objections.

Of course nothing will come of this in terms of laws enacted, or policies adopted. It is an interesting exercise, but it will not satisfy the people on the Left who hate all gun owners, think all gun owners are criminals at heart, and want to magically wipe firearms from existence. (The powers-that-be in Brazil are struggling with that.)

But then the Professor says that it is about the journey and not the destination. If we can start talking to one another, then maybe, someday, we will come to some agreement. I am more cynical than that.

Microsoft Has Ways to FORCE You to Use Edge

The Register brings us the latest insanity from Microslop. Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience: Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in

Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot update to Windows Insiders that embeds web browsing directly into the assistant, opening links in a side panel rather than launching your default browser.

The plan is that users of the Copilot app in Windows will show content in the assistant's window "so you don't lose context."

This is all because they want you to do what they tell you to do. Do you want to use the Brave broweser? Do you want to use Firefox? No. They will force you to use Edge.

Do I care? NO. I gave up on Microslop.