Wednesday Link Roundup - 16 July

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

5. Powerline: Solar loan defaults
6. Sultan Knish: California Protects Illegal Who Bought Girl for Beer

EBL - Superman : A Beautiful James Gunn Mess

Superman
The Critical Drinker gives a mixed review over a very flawed movie. At least it is not political.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Kash Patel Not Quitting

Nick Arama at RedState New Report Drops Bombshell About the Secret Service and Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler. "The report, ordered by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, reveals that the Secret Service received classified intelligence ...

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.14.25

Chicago Boyz: The Democrats and the Necronomicon
Da Tech Guy: The Fake Grok Mel Brooks 2000 Year old Man on the rise of Christianity and Bacon

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 7/15/2025

Another ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Comes True: California Bill Passes to Buy Fire-Ravaged Palisades for Low-Income Apartments
The writing is on the wall — bold and in large font — for private landowners and homeowners

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 15 July 2025: Rabbit Killer Edition

Speaking of which, Google Gemini just lost a chess match with an Atari 2600 from the Ordovician Era. (Tom's Hardware)
The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM. / That is not a typo.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – More from The Economist!

What becomes of Republicans who cross King Donald?
LOL – Does The Radical Left have any idea of who looks worse when they repeatedly refer to President Trump as their King?

The Glibertarians - Links of Sunday Morning

Live by the sword…
Here’s a solution: eliminate FEMA.

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

Lord Carney’s Canada: Climate obsessions. Diversity is our strength.
Woke America: VDH – The left lost it’s collective mind. Chickens for KFC. A US citizen. Your morning meme. Another meme.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Gives Putin 50 Day or Else

From Ace, Surprise! Treasury Department Reports an Unexpected +$27 Billion Surplus in June, Compared to a -$71 Billion Deficit in June 2024 Under "President" Biden.

Vlad Tepes - The communist revolution is pretty much overt now: Links 1 for July 16, 2025

3. More negation of British existence at schools and across social media
4. In case you think all those DOGE and similar ludicrous expenses in Canada and the US are actually for things like teaching gay hamsters to sing barbershop quartet:

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 6: Peter St Onge, Ph.D., tweeted, “Pharmaceutical ads could be banned from television. CNN says it could cripple them.”
It’s a two-fer. It fights drug pushers and CNN.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Who’s Hungry For The Truth About Food Stamps?
Trump Admin Ends Taxpayer Subsidies For Illegal Aliens
Hispanic Voters' Support for Deportations Increasing

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 7/15/25

The question at the center of the 1925 Scopes Monkey trial was much more than the origins of human beings.
Secular Mythology: The Scopes Monkey Trial

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 07-13-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2767from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, and Tuesday's gifs from Wirecutter.

He Was Told to Leave

If an armed homeowner tells you to leave, you should leave. 30-year-old dies in shooting after trespassing dispute in Sullivan County | WISH-TV

The release [from Indiana State Police] said, “Gehring was trespassing on private property and was told numerous times by the property owner to leave. A physical altercation occurred between the property owner and Gehring, resulting in Gehring being shot.”

If you get the chance to leave, why not take it?

Mr. Gehring was taken to a local hospital, and then airlifted to a trauma center in Indianapolis, but he did not survive his wounds.

Sullivan County, with 20,700 residents, is about a 1-hour, 45-minute drive southwest of downtown Indianapolis.

Self-defense is a human right, and Indiana has a history of respecting it as a legal right. That said, the Sullivan County DA has not yet made a determination about charges.

NY Times and Climate Doom

From William Teach at Pirate's Cove: NY Times Goes All Satan And Fall Of Man For European Climate Doom

I wonder if NY Times Warmist Jason Horowitz even understands the meaning of Paradise Lost?

I doubt he read more than the CliffNotes version of Paradise Lost. William Teach gives you the introduction to Paradise Lost, in case you haven't read it.

I also wonder if he took a fossil fueled trip in order to “report from Barcelona, Spain”, considering he is stationed in Rome

Go see what the Europeans are so bent out of shape over.

For reference, here is a story from the BBC, on Monday, July 14th. Road closed as surface melts in hot weather

According to the Met Office, temperatures in Cannock reached highs of 29C (84F) on the weekend

So I'm not too worried about the Brits, anyway, even though they can't stop complaining about the heat. (84 would be great right now, and I'm only in Ohio.)

According to Accuweather, which is subject to change, as I type this the heatwave is going to see 90 degrees F on Wednesday in Barcelona, Spain. They are also suffering from Poor air quality, with high mold, extreme dust and dander, and an unhealthy level of pollution. Barcelona is where the NY Times Journalist went to wring his hands over the climate doom.

For comparison, as I type this (on Monday), Phoenix, Arizona is at 108F/42C, and Miami, Florida is cooling down for the evening, but expecting to see 89F/31.6C on Wednesday. Minneapolis, Minnesota is 90F/32C. Which are all seasonable for this time of year.

Mercy

A song from WXRT, but NOT from Saturday Morning Flashback. I was waiting for the start of that program when this song came on. This song reminds me more of Rock from the 1960s than 2000s.

This song is "Mercy" by Duffy from her 2008 album Rockferry.

Apollo 11 Liftoff: 16 July 1969 at 13:32 UTC

The Anniversary of Apollo 11 is tomorrow, so I thought I would dig out the 2 videos that I love, and some info on the Saturn V. (Shamelessly stolen from myself from the 40th anniversary, with some edits.)

The launch of Apollo 11 took place on 16 July 1969 at 13:32 UTC. (That is 9:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time in case you're confused.) For those of you who don't remember, it was the first Apollo mission to land men on the moon.

I love the 2nd video I've embedded, because of the detail, and because there is expert commentary, but not everyone agrees with me.

We will start with a video that is a compilation of views from various cameras, including the control room, and the audience on site at Cape Canaveral. The thumbnail photo is the same (or nearly the same) for both videos, but I assure you that they are different. The video is about 6 minutes.

This is Saturn V launch-pad footage from that day. It is 16mm film at 500 frames per second. 8 minutes plus worth of video is only about 30 seconds of real time, but that gives you time to absorb the details of the launch. I think it is fairly interesting.

Some stats on the Saturn V:

• Produced thrust of 34.5 million newtons (7.6 million pounds)
• Fueled weight 2.8 million kilograms (6.2 million pounds)
• Height of 111 meters (363 feet)

Tuesday Links - 15 July

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with CNN Seems Surprised That Americans Aren’t Afraid Of Climate Doom

Most people realize that bad weather happens. Always has, always will. And, let’s be honest, people can only listen to so much fearporn before they just tune it out.

Meep at Stump - RIP Michael Madsen: On Heart Disease, Alcoholism, and Men

Yikes. Yes, there was a huge increase in alcohol-related deaths for both sexes. Unsurprising to those who know, the rates are much higher for males — about 3x that of females.

Miguel Gonzalez - She has been watching too many Telenovelas*

I understand the need for drama, but at least make sure you are not caught in a blatant lie.

Clayton Cramer - Cry for the Victims. And the Family.

The well-established correlation between heavy marijuana use and schizophrenia is part of why I have become a fierce opponent of decriminalizing marijuana. While the primary victim is the pothead, there is plenty of secondary damage.

Matt Margolis at PJ Media - The Democratic Party Civil War Just Escalated Big Time

The Democratic Party’s internal fractures are no longer simmering beneath the surface—they’re erupting into open warfare.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Wait Until Next Year

Ironically, though both Pittsburgh and I wanted to play our last series hands-on, the Dynasty League computers had other ideas, and we logged in Thursday night to find the games had already been played.

Tyler O'Neil at The Daily Signal - [Whistleblower] Vanessa Sivadge Says Texas Hospital 'Retaliated' Against Her

A few months later, two FBI agents knocked on her door on a Monday night. They told her she was a person of interest in an investigation targeting a leaker who had allegedly violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: Add More Ginger As Required

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

They Really HATE Self-Defense on Long Island

I'm sure that her race had absolutely nothing to do with the charges, and lack of bail. Coram woman claims self-defense in fatal shooting of boyfriend

She had marks on her neck, from where she claimed he was strangling her. She called 911 after the shooting. The System™ in New York is still holding her without bail. Why? Because self-defense must be punished.

Prosecutors say that Guimont admitted to police that she shot Carter, and that she was acting in self-defense because he was strangling her.

"We know the level of trauma that Ms. Guimont experienced particularly prior to this incident," said attorney Michael Alber.

Alber says Guimont was a victim of ongoing domestic violence, and that she has marks on her face and a swollen neck from the physical confrontation before the shooting.

I hope NY respects her right to a speedy trial, though I doubt it will.

I don't know the truth of this situation. All I have to go on is what I have read in the media, which is not a lot. What little I have read makes this sound like self-defense. And self-defense is a human right.

The Swedish Rape Crisis

There was a time, and not that long ago, that Sweden was one of the safest countries in the world. That is no longer true. From PeterSweden: The Swedish rape crisis is just getting WORSE

There was a whopping 10.167 reported rapes [per 100,000] in the year 2024, a new record high and a 7% increase from 2023.

Compared with 2015, this is a whopping 68% increase in rapes.

That is much higher than it was 20 years ago.

But what makes this even worse is that out of these, a whopping 4524 reported rapes were committed against people under the age of 18, in other words children.

Let's look at the comparison that no one wants you to see.

• England and Wales: 117 reported rapes per 100.000 people.

• Sweden: 96 reported rapes per 100.000 people.

• Poland: 1.5 reported rapes per 100.000 people.

Aside from rape, Sweden also has a problem with bombings. Click thru for details and links to more info.

Sweden used to be considered one of the most peaceful countries in the world. Now it is a disaster. Socialism and Socialist policies has destroyed my country.

The Eagle Obsession

Thanks to Robert Meyer Burnett, and and his YouTube channel The Brunettwork, I got to see his interview with Jeffrey Morris, a man who made a documentary about some of the Sci-Fi shows of my youth, together with some of the actual space exploration of the day. The documentary is supposed to be released this fall, but I'm not sure how it is going to be released. It is currently making the round of some film festivals.

This is the trailer for The Eagle Obsession from Jeffrey Morris and Futuredude Productions.

While I remember Space 1999, the show that the Eagle transporter was from, I wasn't as much of a fan, as I had been of UFO. While Space 1999 wasn't exactly a sequel to UFO, there were elements that were the same, and they were both produced by Gerry Anderson's production company.

Jekyll And Hyde

Five Finger Death Punch decided to mark 2025 by re-recording a bunch of their songs and releasing a compilation album titled Best Of – Volume 1. That is where today's song comes from. So not just remixing, but going back into the studio with instruments. That album will be released July 28th. This song was released on May 16th.

This song is "Jekyll And Hyde (2025 Version)" by Five Finger Death Punch. It was originally on their 2015 album Got Your Six.

Violent Spree Ended By Armed Homeowner

Either drugs were involved, or this falls under the heading of Crazy People are Dangerous. Or that's my opinion. Series of violent crimes in one day leads to list of charges for Upstate man, deputies say

Cops were called to check on Joshua Mason Bliss in Oconee County, South Carolina. Oconee County is about 90 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, or about 110 miles west northwest of of Columbia, South Carolina. It seems from the map to be fairly rural.

Mr. Bliss, fired shots at the police, and set his apartment on fire, and took off.

While investigating that shooting, deputies said they received word from dispatch that Bliss had reportedly been shot by a homeowner on Cain Drive. Upon arriving at the Cain Drive location, deputies found Bliss on the ground and the homeowner holding a pistol.

Click thru for the details, but the homeowner shot him, as he advanced, and then held him at gunpoint until police could arrive.

Bliss was taken to a local hospital, and then he was taken to the county lockup.

[Bliss] is charged with six counts of attempted murder, two counts of breakinginto a motor vehicle and one count each of breach of peace – aggravated in nature, ill treatment of animals, second-degree arson, possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime and high and aggravated criminal domestic violence.

All stopped by a good guy with a gun. You know, that thing the gun-hating part of the Left says never happens. It happened again.

The Tolerant/Peaceful Left - Or Maybe Not

How dare you disagree with the Left! (In you best Gretta T. voice:) How dare you! Trump supporter in deep blue city refuses to remove an incendiary sign as home is shot up for THIRD time | Daily Mail Online

The Seattle Police Department said they were investigating a 'potentially targeted' attack 'due to political and ideological signs' that included a Confederate Flag, supported Donald Trump, and one that read 'Police Lives Matter.'

They tolerate everyone, as long as you march in lockstep with every bit of their dogma. Deviate from that and you will be attacked.

The homeowner's car windows were also shot at and pride flag stickers were left on the vehicle.

They no doubt left the Pride Stickers to prove how tolerant they are.

Despite the violence, the homeowner told local news that she would be keeping her signs up.

Strong woman. The Left hates her.

CIA Review Reveals Obama Pushed Russia Collusion Hoax

I'm shocked that a politician from Chicago would lie, or do anything underhanded. OK, so I'm not shocked. CIA Review Reveals Obama Pushed Russia Collusion Hoax

While Brennan, Clapper, and Comey all rightly deserve condemnation, Obama launched the plot and as president he holds greater responsibility for politicizing the intelligence community against his successor.

I want to copy something, but there is too much. I will leave you with this, and say, "read the whole thing."

Yes, the CIA report showed, in the words of CIA Director Ratcliffe, “how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process.” But they were merely doing the dirty work for Obama, which is why CIA Director Ratcliffe stressed: “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump.’”

Hat tip to James Woods: Is Obama the most devious president in history?

California Dope Farm Using Child Slaves

The Other McCain brings us some perspective on a story virtually ignored by the mainstream media. California Dope Farm Child Slavery and Why Conservative Journalism Matters

So, Governor Newsom — considered a leading “mainstream” contender for the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nomination — is supported by a corporate marijuana producer who uses foreign child labor supplied by human traffickers. How much of this would you know if you got your news from ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS or CNN? The correct answer is zero, because those outlets almost completely ignored this story.

You probably saw some of the images on the news, but they didn't tell you that it was a pot farm, or that some of the "workers" were children. They only told you that ICE was being mean.

Literal child slavery is happening in Newsom’s California, but the CBS News audience is left with the impression that the real issue is racism, because “pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target” of Trump’s immigration policy.

You only think you hate the media enough. You don't.

How DEI is Causing Hollywood to Lose Globally

Andre Einherjar of Midnight's Edge is an interesting critic of Hollywood, in part because he sees Hollywood from Europe.

Deadline, the Hollywood magazine/news organization, is bemoaning the fact that American cinema isn't as popular and influential as it was a decade ago. As the studios decided to push DEI, which no one wants, audiences are disappearing. Why? Well it is Trump's fault of course, because Orange Man Bad, or something.

This is Andre Einherjar's video Report: Hollywood "Losing Influence" in Global Mainstream Culture - Here's why!

The old Soviet Union imploded for many reasons, but a major one was that they didn't let consumer demand dictate production, since they let what the powers that be thought the people should have decide what got made. That in the end helped usher in a collapse.

Hollywood has been doing something similar for years now. Rather than making the movies the audiences of the world actually wants and demands, they pushed out ideologically driven drivel they thought audiences should have, but the audience weren't having it.

It is a 21 minute video, but I found it interesting.

You can find the Deadline article at this link. Hollywood Is “Losing Its Symbolic Value” In Global Mainstream Culture, According To The Latest Nostradamus Report – Karlovy Vary. It isn't very good, for the reasons enumerated by Andre in his video. It seems to miss the point of why people are not interested in The Marvels, or Disney's She Hulk, or Ironheart, or the Thunderbolts. (With or without the asterix, or the name change.)

I Miss the Days When There Were Good Movies Every Month

I was listening to the WXRT radio program 1993 Saturday Morning Flashback - July 5, 2025. They only have a brief mention of movies these days, but it still evoked a time when there was more than 3 good movies in a given year.

1993 was year that gave us Philadelphia, staring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Oscar for Best Picture, The Fugitive staring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, The Firm staring Tom Cruise, and Sleepless in Seattle staring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. All of those movies were in the top 10 highest grossing films of the year.

Jurassic Park was the highest grossing film of that year. And it is the only Jurassic Park movie worth your time.

Other notable films:

• Leprechaun staring Warwick Davis. Started a horror franchise if I remember correctly.
• Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. The story of 2 dogs and a cat trying to get home.
• Groundhog Day. Bill Murray, in one of his best rolls, with Andie MacDowell
• Army of Darkness. Sam Raimi classic horror/comedy staring Bruce Campbell
• Falling Down. Michael Douglas as a man who lost his way, and Robert Duvall as a detective
• The Nightmare Before Christmas. Which is actually a Halloween movie.

There are more. Most of that list is from the first quarter of the year. But I had to include that last one.

You could go to the movies every week, and there would be something interesting to see. And it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

Maybe he thought a Blue State would be safe for this kind of thing. Man shot and killed after kicking door in at home in Redby, Minnesota - KVRR Local News

Red Lake Department of Public Safety says dispatch got a call Wednesday from a homeowner in Redby saying that a man had kicked the door in.

Redby, Minnesota is roughly a 250 mile drive north of Minneapolis. It may call its Police Department, the Department of Public Safety, but it is far from the blue-state center of Minneapolis.

After he kicked in the door, the homeowner shot him. He died at the scene.

Not sure why, but the FBI is aiding in the investigation along with Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Blue states. Why can't they just call it the State Police? I guess that doesn't sound Progressive, or something.

Self-defense is a human right.

Civilizations Change

Those changes have always not been for the better. Kim du Toit at Splendid Isolation: Bare Ruin’d Choirs

Did civilization end after WWI?

The Western Front saw a generation of young men (nearly) eliminated. Both the lower and middle class, as well as the upper class.

The result was the disappearance of an entire generation of young men, a decimation or worse of lower- or middle-class youth, and the virtual disappearance of the upper class, doomed by their class and upbringing to lead their men into the hot mouths of the machine guns, and to suffer disproportionately.

At a stroke, the old ruling class disappeared, whether by slaughter on the Western Front, or by revolution in Russia. In its place came the modern government bureaucracy: more faceless than before, more powerful than before. The post-Great War government was to rule not by divine dogma, nor even by royal whim, but by cold, impersonal philosophy.

Did it end? Technology didn't disappear, and we didn't get a dark ages, but in Europe it changed so as to not be recognizable. Literature and the arts changed. Modernism - Bauhaus, Dada, etc. came in, and more. Architecture stopped being beautiful. A lot of things stopped being beautiful.

Things changed again with WWII, and the reaction to the horrors we unleashed.

What the Second World War enabled was the growth of the Leviathan state, with its impersonal bureaucracy (like mass destruction) brought to its ultimate conclusion. Instead of the post-Great War Dadaism, post-Second World War literature was defined by bleak dystopian visions like George Orwell’s 1984 and absurdist plays like Samuel Becket’s Waiting For Godot.

It will change again. Will it be better or worse this time?

There is more. Click thru and read the whole thing.

The Award for Stupid Criminal of the Year Goes To...

A lot of criminals are stupid, but few are this stupid. Woman incriminates herself in reply to post insulting thief: ‘This woman called me trash’

A woman was on vacation when she was notified that her home had been broken into. She posted photos and a scathing remark on F*c*book.

When Davidson’s plane landed, she found that Cape had incriminated herself, replying to the Facebook post and allegedly admitting her guilt.

“People need to mind their own business. This woman called me trash… just because I broke in her house and stole some stuff. She don’t even know me. But thinks it’s ok to call me trash,” Cape wrote.

She hadn't been arrested at the time the article published, and I doubt we will hear more about this trash.

Sometimes I think humanity doesn't desrve to survive.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 12 July

The Right Way is up first with Top of the News

Worst Outlet of the Week - Who Took Bottom Honors in the Latest Round of Dysfunctional Media? - Bongino Report

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

This is known as belaboring the obvious.
No shit, Sherlock.
This explains a lot of Democrats.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Defending The Wood Perilous: Fairy Tales Are Based, Actually
Jim McCoy: The Fire Within

EBL - Make China Great Again ☀️

Instapundit: Where's Xi?
EBL: Make Prosecutions Great Again: Brennan and Comey

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 07.10.25 (Evening Edition)

CDR Salamander: Wait – We Don’t Have To Give Up On The Railgun?
Don Surber: Democrats blew it

Vlad Tepes - NY unmasks ANTIFA rioters, finally, Canada at full gallop for communist state and School of Darkness, an important book on communist supervision in North America for the last 80 years: Links 1 for July 9, 2025

2. Having a look at UN dialectical assaults on Israel via dialectical negation or selective ignorance of facts and amplification of enemy propaganda

Small Dead Animals - Friday On Turtle Island

Lord Carney’s Canada: Ugly Buildings. Why do the police bother arresting anybody? Streets of Montreal.
Woke America: A Mamdani staffer. The useful idiot generation. Illegal aliens in congress.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 7/10/2025

Minnesota DHS Policy Investigated for Civil Rights Violations
The Trump administration said Thursday that it has opened an investigation into whether a Minnesota state agency’s newly updated affirmative action policy violates civil rights laws.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Vox Popoli: It Isn’t Theirs, Sandman 2 Sucks, and Shots Fired! Shots Fired!
Upstream Reviews: WonderFilled Meltdown

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony -

Centerville, Ohio, is not scanning your trash and feeding the data into an AI to issue notices that you are a poopy-head. (Dayton Daily News)
They're scanning your recycling and feeding the data into AI.

The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links

Economic Advisers Council Reports Import Prices Falling, Undercutting Tariff-Driven Inflation Fears
USAID Sent Thousands of Viruses to the Infamous Wuhan Lab

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.11.25 (Evening)

Matt Taibbi: One More Wafer-Thin Mint?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Struggles Shooting Again, Still Leads Indiana Fever To Win Over Brittney Griner, Atlanta Dream

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

MacArthur Park is a Hellhole
The Forgotten American: Can There Be Life After 12 Years in a Chinese Prison?

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 7/9/25

Daniel Greenfield: Without Illegals, Republicans would control the country.
Why Dems Are Fighting a Civil War Over Illegal Aliens

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The Fight For The Fate Of The Intelligence Community Is On

• Violence is the Last Stop for Democrats - Sasha Stone
• The Roots of Leftist Rage - Victor Davis Hanson

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 07/11/2025

Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest.
Protester Fires Gun at ICE Agents at California Marijuana Farm Raid; Democrat Congressman Crashes Police Line.

I leave you with Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Memes and Things from The Feral Irishman, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2756 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter.

First He Got Shot, Then He Was Arrested

I think this guy is lucky to be alive. Man shoots accused burglar in mother’s home, Osceola deputies say

He was celebrating the Fourth of July by breaking and entering.

The homeowner’s son had noticed a rear door was left open and armed himself with a revolver after then entering the home and reportedly hearing strange noises, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

After the man called out to see if anyone else was in the home, Platt allegedly emerged from a hallway and charged toward him, prompting the man to fire a single shot into Platt’s leg, the release states.

I'm a firm believer in aiming for center of mass. A guy is running at you, so you don't have time to be wrong.

The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital, and then to the county lockup.

And since this took place in Florida, the authorities were only worried about one thing, in relation to the guy doing the shooting.

The man who fired the shot was not injured, investigators said.

Osceola County, Florida is just south of Orlando and Orange County. It contains the city of Kissimmee, Florida.

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

What Were You Doing When You Were 14?

I'm guessing armed carjacking wasn't one of the activities. Too young to drive, old enough to carjack: Two 14-year-olds charged with violent Edgewater hijacking - CWB Chicago

In a case that underscores the growing concerns around youth violence in Chicago, two boys — just 14 years old — have been charged with a brutal armed carjacking that left a 39-year-old man critically injured last month in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood.

Edgewater is one of the 77 neighborhoods (excuse me, "community areas") in Chicago. It is about 6 miles north of The Loop, and right on the lakefront. It is about 6 miles south of Evanston, Illinois and Northwestern University.

Two of these juveniles remain on the streets.

According to a police report, the boys, along with two unidentified accomplices, pulled up in a white sedan and struck the victim with the vehicle. Authorities said the group, which had at least one firearm, stole the man’s belongings and fled in his blue Toyota Highlander, leaving him with injuries so severe he was taken to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition

If this isn't a sign of the breakdown of civilization, that 14 year olds are committing violent crimes with no remorse, I don't know what is.

Here is the obligatory reference to Hobbes' Leviathan, and his reference to the State of War that exists when criminals no longer fear that the government will impose Law and Order.

You could also read "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats. He also touches on issues around the decay of civilization.

Judgement Day

There aren't too many bands that can produce an acoustic version of a song, and still make it sound like Heavy Metal. But 5FDP manages that with today's song. I'm still putting it on Saturday, because of a lack of screaming guitars.

This song is "Judgement Day (Acoustic Version)" by Five Finger Death Punch. It was on the Digital Deluxe Edition of their 2022 album AfterLife.

Friday Links - 11 July

Lone Star Parson is up first with Nothing To See Here

Epstein committed suicide. He didn't have any "clients." Not a single powerful, wealthy, important person ever went to his private island resort and even if they did, which they didn't, it was to enjoy sun, sand and sea.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - ZOMG: Trump Hires Scientists Who Think The Climate Crisis Scam Is A Scam

Consensus is not science. The consensus at one time was that the Sun went around the Earth. Dinosaurs were lizards. Ulcers were caused by stress. That plate tectonics was mule fritters. Really, the wackos have weaponized consensus, especially as it relates to the climate cult.

Paul Serran at The Gateway Pundit - PANIC IN BRUSSELS: Globalists Tremble as Patriots for Europe Group Will Lead Negotiations on the EU’s Climate ‘Target’, Ditch ‘Climate Fanaticism’ and Suicidal Policies

As much as they tried in 2024, the liberal-Globalist Brussels establishment was not able to thwart the surging European rightwing parties, who have become a formidable force that is fighting for power all over Europe.

Clayton Cramer - Higher Education Whining Higher Education Whining

Yes, if you have $2 million per student endowment, you are a hedge fund that dabbles in education.

Again from William Teach - Rich Folks Worried About Global Boiling Driven Storms Build Better Homes In Path Of Storms

If these people were truly worried about the Doom from coastal storms they wouldn’t, you know, build homes at the coast, right?

Jim Treacher - Grok Goes Goosestepper?

There’s no law against starting your own party, of course. Nobody is forcing anybody to vote for a Republican or a Democrat. But maybe Elon should’ve asked his robot Grok about Ross Perot’s vanity campaign in 1992. The old coot ended up costing George Bush a second term, not to mention inflicting the Clintons on us for the rest of their lives. Is that really what Elon wants?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 9 July 2025: Oops All Hitler Edition

Yesterday I noted that Twitter was taking steps to make its AI chatbot, Grok, "less politically correct".

It looks instead of making it 5% more Hitler, they dialed it up to 500%. (Tech Crunch)

For a few hours it sounded like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and the Ayatollah Khamenei, or a moderate Democrat.

Don't Bring a Knife to a Gunfight

Also, people need to come to terms with the sentence, "It's over!" California homeowner shoots, kills intruder later revealed as wife's ex-boyfriend | FOX 11 Los Angeles

Even the media in Deep Blue Los Angeles noted that this intruder was known to the people in the home, or at least one person in the home. People you know can be a threat, and this is one of the canonical examples: an ex-boyfriend turned stalker.

What we know: Officials with the Simi Valley Police Department said they received a shots fired call from a neighborhood at 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, June 18.

Six minutes later, they received another call from a homeowner stating they had shot an intruder following a confrontation.

The guy who got shot was declared dead at a local hospital.

The couple had multiple issues with the suspect at the home and the woman had a temporary restraining order against her ex in the past.

In Texas, or Oklahoma, the authorities would be saying this is clearly self-defense. In Florida the local sheriff would issue a statement about how it is a good thing that the law abiding are able to defend themselves and their families from bad guys.

But this took place in California, so the authorities will see if there is some way to charge the guy who was forced to defend himself from an armed intruder with a crime. Why? Because you can't allow individual action and individual responsibility to take hold in a Liberal enclave like Simi Valley.

Simi Valley, California is about 12 miles north of Malibu, about 11 miles southwest of Santa Clarita, and about a 40 mile drive from downtown Los Angeles.

But whatever the authorities in California may decide, self-defense is a human right.

The Environmental Devastation Caused by the Production of Electric Vehicles

The West has mostly outsourced rare-earth mining, to China. They get all of the toxic waste associated with that. China Has Paid a High Price for Its Dominance in Rare Earths - The New York Times.

If you're not clear on how Rare Earths figure in our technology, there is an explanation below the embedded video.

Of course the fact that China doesn't give a damn about the environmental devastation visited upon people far from the country's capital, means that the production of rare earth metals is much cheaper in China than can be managed in civilized countries.

For decades in northern China, toxic sludge from rare earth processing has been dumped into a four-square-mile artificial lake. In south-central China, rare earth mines have poisoned dozens of once-green valleys and left hillsides stripped to barren red clay.

Achieving dominance in rare earths came with a heavy cost for China, which largely tolerated severe environmental damage for many years.

The article, which was originally in the New York Times, used past tense in that last sentence. I'm not really sure that the attitude of the Chinese government toward the environmental impacts has changed.

An artificial lake of sludge known as the Weikuang Dam, four square miles in size, holds the waste left over after metals are extracted from mined ore. During the winter and spring, the sludge dries out. The dust that then blows off the lake is contaminated with lead, cadmium and other heavy metals, including traces of radioactive thorium, according to technical papers by Chinese scholars.

During the summer rainy season, the sludge becomes coated with a layer of water that mixes with poisons and thorium. This dangerous mix seeps into the groundwater underneath the lake.

This is the MGUY Australia video Quickie: China's environmental DEVASTATION from rare earth mining. The video is about 4 minutes long.

Here is a bit from CNN about What are rare earths used for?

Rare earths are ubiquitous in the technologies we rely on every day, from smartphones to wind turbines to LED lights and flat-screen TVs. They’re also crucial for batteries in electric vehicles as well as MRI scanners and cancer treatments.

Rare earths are also essential for the US military. They’re used in F-35 fighter jets, submarines, lasers, satellites, Tomahawk missiles and more, according to a 2025 research note from CSIS.

SIG Sauer and the Ongoing P320 Kerfuffle

It seems that ICE agents are no longer authorized to carry this sidearm. They are going to take it up the.... - by Miguel Gonzalez

For those of you not in the know, SIG has been accused of producing a firearm in the P320 that "goes off by itself." This isn't an isolated incident or two. And now has spilled over to the LEOs at the federal level.

Law Enforcement and Military sales are pittance compared to civilian sales, we all know that. But they do have some influence on what people buy and even more on what people do not buy if safety is an issues, right or wrong.

It is my belief that the safety issue is related to some design clash between the gun itself and retention holsters. Sort of like binary explosives: individually they are perfectly safe, but when combined, boom will follow.

SIG's reaction has been denial, and a hearty F- You to anyone who has had an issue.

Good news however: I figure in a year or sooner, we will have a glut of P320s at deeply discounted prices at Gun Shows.

When a certain PD replaced all of its revolvers with Glocks, officers kept shooting themselves. In the end, there wasn't anything wrong with the Glock in question, but that the cops weren't used to the ease with which a striker-fired pistol could be discharged. Glock didn't say F You. They bought back all of the firearms. And got a lot of good will.

Glock also had problems of their own, and they fixed those problems. That also generated good will.

And you should click thru just for the meme.

Two Stories of Home-Built Firearms

Impro Guns always has the stories about home-built and 3D printed firearms, which drive the anti-gun crowd bananas. How dare people build things that we don't let them buy! Or something.

First we have a story on the .22 Harlot. Turkish Black Market 3D Printed .22 Derringers

Harlots are mostly 3D printed, with a few items, like metal tubing and springs, picked up at your local hardware store.

3D printed Harlot .22 pistols being offered on the Turkish black market for just under $100 a pop. Supply is infinite as these can be continuously pumped out in the bedroom of this particular entrepreneur while he is away enjoying the finer things in life.

The Australians are particularly upset because they have moved heaven and earth to make guns all but illegal, and semiautomatics extra illegal.

There is a link to a video I have not watched. Yet.

The second story is from Brazil. Phone Booth Spray System Eliminator

I said "story" but it is just a photo of a 9mm semiautomatic confiscated in that country.

Lovingly crafted deep in a favela from bits of scrap.

Looks to be from the plans by Professor Parabellum, or something similar.

In both cases, you should click thru for the photos alone.

Are Canadians Waking Up to Self-Defense?

I'm sure the prosecutors don't want to see that happen. Jury acquits teen who claimed self-defence in fatal Toronto school shooting, saying he carried gun because his neighbourhood was ‘like Iraq’

A Toronto jury on Friday acquitted a 20-year-old man of second-degree murder, accepting his claim that he fired four shots in self-defence, believing the victim — 18-year-old Jefferson Guerrier — was “lunging” at him with a knife outside a high school in the city’s east end.

You can't rely on The State to provide things that The State cannot provide. One of those things is your personal safety in the moment of a violent attack. Canadians, and Europeans, have been in denial for a couple of generations, but I think they are fianally figuring things out. Or at least the Canadians seem to be.

Only the Rich Should Have Rights, Or Something

So says the Left in California. Expensive Gun Control: San Jose Concealed Carry Permit Costs $1,443

An initial application for a concealed carry weapon permit in San Jose, California, costs $1,443, according to the city’s police department website.

For comparison, the cost of a concealed carry permit in Texas is $40 and in Arizona it is $60. The Indiana State Police website indicates there is zero cost for a permit in Indiana, apart from the $12.95 fee for fingerprinting.

Those poor people, in the bad part of town, don't deserve to be able to defend themselves from crime. That should be reserved for the wealthy. So says the Progressive Left.

And those same Progressives, who claim to be all in favor of helping the poor and downtrodden, don't see anything hypocritical about this state of affairs.

So how is this different from when states in the South were charging a tax to be able to vote, to keep the poor - and the blacks - from voting?

Think about it this way: The cost of a concealed carry firearm is approximately $500 to $700 and the cost of ammo for that firearm, including training time and carry ammo, will probably fall in the $200-$300 range. Add in the $1,443 for a concealed permit and San Jose residents are looking at roughly $2,500.

Progressives. Sticking it to the Poor at every chance they get.

A Failed Generation

Or a generation setup for failure. This is sad, and I don't know that you can blame this on the lockdowns, or not only on the lockdowns. San Francisco employers are hiring etiquette coaches for Gen Z

Didn't any of them have parents? They have no basic skills, and some of them don't even understand personal hygiene.

One supervisor told [Rosalinda Randall, a Marin-based etiquette coach] a new hire repeatedly left food wrappers scattered on the communal lunch table, assuming janitors would clean it up. ‘Their manager didn't know how to handle it, as they didn't want to sound like a parent,' said Randall.

Companies have been reduced to spending money to teach Zoomers how to act like grown ups.

• how to make eye contact
• where to stick your name tag (always on the right)
• how to ask for — not demand — things from your boss.
• personal hygiene (because two new hires did not shower or change their shirts for weeks)
• why being an "office siren" is inappropriate

Hat tip to Not the Bee with Companies are hiring etiquette coaches to help Zoomers acclimate to the workplace, and MaddMedic.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 9 July

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

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

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 07.08.25 (Morning Edition)

Don Surber: Grok-aganda
Elizabeth Nickson: Civilian Hero Mode Activated

DaleyGator - LINKY KINKY LOVE LINKAGE

Doug Ross? Doug Ross is a linking machine
Sultan Knish notes…. GOOD RIDDANCE
Dana Pico writes about John Bolton

EBL - Battle of Aqaba

6 July 1917 : Battle of Aqaba
Lawrence of Arabia

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 7 July 2025: Desert Bus Edition

Why AI sucks. (Dwarkesh)
Because it doesn't learn.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Cleaning Up from July 4

'Becca Downs at TownHall notices The Fact-Checkers Once Again Race to Defend Mamdani and Scott Jennings Offers a Telling Reminder on Democrats' 'Big Tent' Amidst Concerns With Mamdani

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - Russo-Ukrainian War Roundup For July 7, 2025

“SAM System Factory Hit By Drones in Izhevsk, Russia – Over 1,300 km From Ukraine. Liutyi drones hit the Kupol Electromechanical Plant which produces Tor and Osa SAM systems for Russia as well as drones, including Shaheds.”

Vlad Tepes - “French” banned from Swiss pools, Neturei Karta leader banned from Israel and more: Links post 1 for July 7, 2025

But no matter how serious the problem of the behaviour of “French” people is in public pools in Switzerland, and everywhere else in Northern Europe for that matter, it still isn’t serious enough to tell the truth about who is the problem.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 7/6/2025

Over 60 UFOs Reported Zipping Over New York Skies in the First Half of 2025
A jaw-dropping 66 UFOs have been spotted zipping over New York state skies in the first half of 2025, according to data.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – Election Integrity Edition!

Federal judge delivers harsher punishments for election fraud than prosecutors requested (case involved fraudulent voter registrations)

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 21: DeSantis unveiled a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson County, Florida, ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary next July Fourth.
Rename Palm Beach County Trump County.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

Woke America: VDH – The old socialist playbook. Trump is a wrecking ball. Muslims in New York.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Feds questioned graves story. The insanity excuse again.

Political Hat - News of the Week (July 6th, 2025)

Obama-Appointed Judge Delivers Second Amendment Win
A District Court judge ruled on Tuesday that California should allow non-residents to apply for concealed carry weapons (CCWs) licenses.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

Let’s get this out of the way. This is an absolute tragedy.
And there’s more to come.
Let the hand wringing commence.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Black New Yorkers rage over Zohran Mamdani’s ‘African American’ claim: ‘He’s a fraud’
Republicans talk, Trump does

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

A big dose of their own medicine is exactly what the doctor ordered.
Help New York City Kill Itself

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: We don’t need the America Party, We Already Have MAGA

• Why Do Cities Vote Democrat? Capt. Seth Keshel
• When the drones come, they always turn off the internet and sometimes the electricity. CTH

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 07/05/2025

West Point still has professors pushing Critical Race Theory.
Pfizer Busted Using Irrelevant Study to Deny Genome Integration Risks from Their mRNA Injections.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 07-06-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2745 from 90 Miles from Tryanny, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, and Mondays..... gifdump II from Wirecutter.

Self-Defense Might Be Legal in New Jersey

The DA, judging by how long it took for this to be decided, apparently hates that. N.J. man who fatally shot home intruder will not face charges, officials say

This incident took place on March 2nd, and it took this long for the decision to be made.

The homeowner told dispatchers that a man had entered his home and was standing at the bottom of the stairs undressing, according to officials.

The homeowner said he fired a warning shot but the intruder refused to leave, officials said. After undressing, the man started climbing up the stairs and the homeowner man fired one shot, hitting him in the upper chest, officials said.

Yes, he was disoriented from a car crash, and his clothes were wet on a day when the temperature was 20 degrees Fahrenheit, but there was a naked stranger in this guys home, who was advancing on him. I would call that a "reasonable suspicion of imminent death or grave bodily injury." But then I'm not a prosecutor in the blue state of New Jersey.

In Texas, they would have had to present this case to a grand jury, and it still wouldn't have taken this long to make a determination on a case.

DAs hate self-defense, and I guessing that goes double for DAs in New Jersey.

Still, self-defense is a human right.

Spanish Battery Recycling Plant Fire

Google translate is needed because the English-language stories are missing some details. A fire at a battery plant in Azuqueca de Henares has led to the lockdown of several towns.

I looked at several English-language sources, but none of them mentioned the fact that Envirobat Spain deals with recycling of lithium-ion batteries.

A fire broke out this Friday at a lithium battery recycling plant located in the El Ródano industrial park in Azuqueca de Henares (Guadalajara), causing a thick column of smoke visible for tens of kilometers. The release of toxic gases has forced the activation of regional emergency plans in both Castilla-La Mancha and the Community of Madrid.

Because when lithium-ion batteries catch fire, which they do quite a lot, they become toxic hazards, both in terms of the gasses they emit, and residue they leave behind. So no, they are NOT environmentally friendly.

The fire broke out in the early afternoon [July 4th] and quickly mobilized emergency services . At 8:15 p.m., the Government of Castilla-La Mancha activated the Territorial Plan of Castilla-La Mancha in alert phase for the entire province of Guadalajara, due to the severity of the fire and the possibility of smoke affecting the nearby population.

Azuqueca de Henares is about 20 miles northeast of downtown Madrid.

The hat tip goes to MGUY Australia and his video 🔥 MASSIVE fire 🔥 engulfs Lithium battery recycling plant

Oromë

Oonagh is a German singer, though she has recently changed her stage name to Senta. Her music is said to be inspired by the lore of J. R. R. Tolkien's universe. And that is the sum total of what I know about her. Well, that, and I like this song, which comes to us by way of the Tidal music streaming service.

Since the song is mostly in German, here is a link to the lyrics and their English translation.

This song is "Oromë" by Oonagh from her self-titled album from 2014.

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.