This Case Should Never Have Gone to Trial

But DAs HATE self-defense, and in Hallsville woman found not guilty in 2023 shooting death of estranged husband

The shooting happened after a verbal altercation about Ellis moving out caused Harris to retreat to her locked bedroom bathroom, where Ellis broke down the door.

If I'm so afraid of you that I lock myself in the bathroom, and you break down the door, I think you could reasonably say that I am in fear of death or grave bodily injury. The DA didn't believe that, however.

At some point, “(Ellis) says if I can’t have you nobody else can have you, and that precipitates her move into the bathroom. When he walks into that darkened room, he sees a mattress gone. He can see she doesn’t want you there, because at this point this is not a conversation. She has said stop, go away. He enters one bedroom — that’s not his right. Then he uses force to break a door. When she sees no other option, she fires and does what she has to do and call 911,” [lead defense attorney Kyle Dansby said.]

The DA's justification? She had a Taser. If she was afraid, she should have used the Taser. Lesson learned: NEVER buy a Taser, or you will have to deal with idiot prosecutors.

Of course there was some (unnamed) conflict of interest with the prosecutor's office, so they had to get an attorney from a neighboring county to try the case.

Hallsville, Texas is about 140 mile drive east of Dallas, or about a 50 mile drive west of Shreveport, Louisiana.

Self-defense is a human right. And it is your legal right in Texas, but even in Texas, DAs HATE that.

Professor David Yamane on Gun Violence Prevention

Professor Yamane's writing is always interesting, even though I don't always agree with his positions on issues. We do agree on some things. Further Thoughts on The Ad Council's Gun Violence Prevention Campaign

Following up on my recent Substack about “Agreeing to Agree to Prevent Gun Violence,” I promised to post my complete responses to questions posed to me by the Washington Post Creative Group for their #AgreeToAgree collab with the Ad Council.

Those questions and responses are below. The #AgreeToAgree campaign quote attributed to me was crafted from these responses.

I started to write lengthy comments, but that quickly got out of hand... So here are some thoughts on one of his answers.

Question 5 of the survey:

5. What is the number one action we can all take to better protect children and teens from gun injuries?

We need to invest in the mental health of children and adolescents to reduce gun deaths.

His answer is longer than that, and you should read it, but he doesn't wander the way some authors do.

My thoughts: The entire society in 2025 is nihilistic. There is no Good and no Evil, which isn't too far off from there being no Right and no Wrong. I'm not talking about the inner city, because I have not lived in a major urban center in more than a decade (closer to 20 years). We have people shooting people knocking on their door asking for directions. People who turn into a driveway to turn around are shot from a distance. I'm not sure how you dig yourself out from that, where any interaction with a stranger is viewed as an attack.

In the case of our cites... Add in the economic devastation currently being visited on these cities, and I don't see that anyone in authority really wants to fix this problem.

Education is usually mentioned as a solution, but when you look at the percentage of students who can't read or do math at grade level in various districts around the country, it's clear that our current system of education is not working. It is not working, and the people in charge do not want to change a thing, except to give more money to the failing system. (Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity.)

So how do you address the mental health of a society that has lost all hope?

When I think about the situation that one finds in our cities, (as I type this, Los Angeles is burning with riot-started fires) I am always reminded of Hobbes' "Leviathan." No cash bail, Criminal Justice Reform, and yes talk of concentrating on mental health. The result is that would-be bad guys are not afraid of getting caught. If they are caught, they will be released. And we have what Hobbes called "the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe." Or, why do you think Justice holds a sword?

And we have everything that Hobbes said we would have under those conditions. Businesses flee the areas worst affected. There is no art, no invention, "and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Oh, and I include the Logical fallacy image at the top because The Washington Post, the fish-wrap of a paper that started this, includes in the questioning a factual inaccuracy, which Professor Yamane pointed out, and they ignored.

2. What’s the number one thing you wish people understood about why gun injuries are the leading cause of death for children?

See my previous post for why that is a lie.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

In this case, anti-gun statistics. I tried to solve the great gun mystery at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. It didn't go well | Opinion

This story is was published a few months back, but I think it is still worth a look. There are not too many stories like this that make me smile; they usually just make me mad.

The anti-gun crowd always talks about "Children and Teens," an age group of 1 to 17. They used to throw in 18 and sometimes 19 year olds, but they have gotten beaten up enough to stop that. 18 year olds are legal adults, not children.

You wouldn't think it would be hard to get the world's leading gun violence researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to tell you what the leading cause of death is for children. At least, you know, if it actually was firearms.

That Johns Hopkins organization is the Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions. The name is important to note, because it indicates that they may have a particular bias. (They do.)

Maybe I should have issued a spoiler alert, because as you might guess firearms are NOT the leading cause of death in children 1 to 9 years of age. But this isn't really about the data, though it is included, this is about how much people with an agenda will do to cover up the data if it disagrees with their premise, and that they will not answer simple questions that don't slant in a particular way. In this case the author of the piece, David Mastio, asked for a simple clarification of some of the data.

The first thing officials did was dispute that they had said anything about children age 1 to 9. "I am not quite sure where the age range you‘re mentioning is coming from," wrote their PR guy, a former TV journalist. So I told him it was hidden on Page 1 of the 22-page report.

They scheduled conference calls that got canceled. They ignored emails. They stonewalled.

When he showed up to get an interview...

Two very polite and very plump ladies from campus security complete with official looking badges came to escort me from the building.

I headed back to the school's garage, walking by red banners that said in big white letters, "BLOOMBERG SCHOOL PROUD TO BE IN PUBLIC HEALTH." This was surely a proud day for the Bloomberg School, I thought.

In the end he did get the data, but not from the Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions. The Center on Injury Research and Policy got him the data in a matter of hours.

There is more, and you should click thru for the answer to, What is the leading cause of death in children 1 to 9 years of age?" It isn't firearms. You should also click thru because what he had to go through is presented in an entertaining fashion, and it is a short read.

the Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions clearly has an agenda to serve. (Hence the Warren Buffett quote at the start of this post.) If they told you that the primary cause of death for teens, 10 to 17 years old were firearms, you might associate that age group with bad behavior in general and gang activity in particular. And that wouldn't help them convince you to give up your liberty. But if they throw 1 to 9 year-olds into the mix, then they can scream, "Won't anyone think of the children?" That will usually move people who are not paying attention.

Marvel Killed Female Focused Action Films

Yes, Marvel is all about superheroes, but they are the founding member of the Girlbosses Everywhere Club. And it has spilled over into other genres. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga flopped. The current iteration of the mess is From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, and it is in the process of flopping. Red Sonja, cannot find distribution, because Hollywood has finally caught on to the curse of girlbosses that Disney Marvel has unleashed. Though to be fair, the film is scheduled for release (after spending a couple of years on the shelf) at the end of the year.

Now, Red Sonja is an OG comic character; she first appeared in Marvel Comics in 1973. 20 years ago, a properly done Red Sonja movie probably would have succeeded. I have doubts about whether it would be properly done.

There have been great female focused action movies and TV shows in the past. Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Aliens are often mentioned. DC's Wonder Woman, both the original Gal Gadot movie, and the Linda Carter series from many years ago, were quite popular. La Femme Nikita, as a French movie, the remade English version (Point of No Return), and the Canadian TV series from 1990s, with the original name were all quite good. I haven't seen the 2010 remake of the 1997 TV series. Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show, not the movie), and were also quite popular. Underworld, Resident Evil, Kill Bill, and The Hunger Games are all classics. And the Milla Jovovich vampire movie, Ultraviolet, didn't flop because she was the star, it died at the box office because the writing was truly awful.

This is the Midnight's Edge video Marvel and Kevin Feige have KILLED Female Centric Action Movies for a Decade to Come!

For many years the whole comic book movie genre was boosted by the MCU, but that was back when there were checks and balances, and quality control in the guise of Ike Purlmutter's Marvel Creative Committee, whose unsung contributions and quality control ensured that every single MCU movie was a crowd-pleaser. But once Kevin Feige conspired with Bob Iger to oust Purlmutter, and remove any semblance of checks or balances, that's when the MCU went down the drain.

It is a long video at nearly 19 minutes, which is why it is on a Sunday afternoon.

Critical Drinker also has a similar take on the issue. Female Action Movies Are Dead - Girlboss Fatigue Killed Them at just 7 minutes.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 14 June

The Right Way starts things rolling with Top of the News

Greta Thunberg refused to watch the video of the October 7 attack - American Thinker
LA Rioters Want To Be Feared - BlazingCatFur

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

Joe. They’ve always looked hopeless. Just in a different way.
How hard could it be?

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Don Surber: X Is Winning On The LA Story
Matt Taibbi: Activism, Uncensored – The LA Riots

Daley Gator - WEEKEND LINKAPALOOZA

The Other McCain Lookie what the mail man brought
The Blaze It is an invasion

EBL - The 5th Dimension : The Declaration

The Fifth Dimension : The Declaration
11 June 1776: Congress creates a committee to write Declaration of Independence

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 12 June 2025: Crochet Apocalypse Edition

Canva now expects you to cheat on your job interview. (The Register)
Half of its staff cheat on a daily basis, so this is now the baseline requirement.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Afternoon Edition)

CDR Salamander: Send Our Best & Brightest To Grad School?
Dana Loesch: Israel Strikes Iran

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Israel Strikes Iran, Secret Service Tackles Senator

At Twitchy, Conservative Woman's EPIC Thread About 'Breaking Into Costco' Destroys Lefty Talking Points on ILLEGALS Traditionally Sarah @tradwifemom "So I went to Costco without a membership, I snuck around the card readers

Battleswarm Blog - LinkSwarm for June 13, 2025

Mossad even released footage of Israeli commando teams in Iran guiding in drone strikes on targets. ...
Jim Geraghty on why the Israeli strikes were inevitable.

The Glibertarians - Friday the 13th Links – Part 1

In local news, I think I’ve got an idea as to why they did it.
Continuing in local news. This was a tragedy, this change would not have made a difference.

Gates of Vienna - Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/11/2025

Trump: Biden Aides Used Autopen to Commit ‘Crimes’
President Donald Trump accused aides to Joe Biden of allegedly committing “crimes” by misusing the White House autopen to sign pardons and executive orders

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Evening Edition)

Victory Girls: Gavin Newsom’s Primetime Speech Was A Political Failure, also, Democrats Rediscover The American Flag
Watts Up With That: The Great Climate Murder

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

Woke America: Maxine Waters loses it. Democrats want it to burn. Arrest Newsom.
Carnival Carney’s Canada: The gas vehicle ban. Stolen land narrative. Battle for freedom.

Vlad Tepes - Vandalism, riots and abandon all hope ye who enter Canada? Links 1 for June 11, 2025

1. Holocaust memorial structure vandalized in Ottawa.
The Citizen, as one might expect, does propaganda for the enemy of civilization in this article.

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Mandatory & Prohibited In Academia: Equity Lens For Football; Illegal Race-Based Admissions; Cultural Items Forbidden From View

Despite being illegal in California according to the California Constitution for nearly thirty years, racial discrimination is still practiced in California public colleges and universities.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 12 /25

Unless we do what Democrats say, they’ll burn our country to the ground. (author J.B. Shurk nails it with this one - jjs)
Our Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Foreign Invasion

Maggie's Farm - Friday morning links

Israel Strikes Iran. What Comes Next?
Trump’s Unapologetic Defense of the Rule of Law
LA Riots Hand Republicans Script For Midterms

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Trump’s Unapologetic Defense of the Rule of Law

• The intifada got globalized again in Los Angeles JNS
• The Diplomatic Void @GenFlynn

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/13/2025

The Mossad carried out a series of covert sabotage operations against Iranian air defenses and missile facilities in tandem with the widespread strikes at a number of locations across Iran.

I leave you with Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2675 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.

Concealed Carry in Chicago

Another failure of the victim-selection process. Chicago armed robbery suspect fatally shot by concealed carry holder identified | FOX 32 Chicago

Chicago police said a 36-year-old man was getting items from his vehicle when Daone K. Feazell approached him with a gun and demanded his belongings.

The victim, who has a concealed carry license, pulled out his own firearm and shot Feazell multiple times.

Mr Feazell was 18 years old. If the anti-gun part of the Left takes note of this incident at all, they will count it as a "teenager" tragically shot. That he was really a legal adult committing a violent crime is not of interest to the Left. Context? Don't clutter the issue with facts!

The investigation is continuing, but it seems to be clearly a case of self-defense.

So do we think that the bad guys in the Blue Cities will get the message that crime is no longer safe? Probably not.

The Term ‘Family’ is Harmful and Racist According to a School District

Funny, I thought family was the traditional foundation of society. EXCLUSIVE: School board trains staff that the term ‘family’ is harmful, racist

Waterloo Region District School Board staff are being trained that the word “family” is a harmful concept rooted in white supremacy.

This school district is in the Region of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. It is about a 90 mile drive west of Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Excellence is also under attack.

True North obtained internal training materials delivered to the staff at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation which assert that terms like “objectivity,” “perfectionism,” and “worship of the written word” are hallmarks of “Whiteness” and upholding white supremacy.

Go read the whole thing.

Sing Like A Siren

New Music from one of my favorite Symphonic Metal bands, though there isn't anything about this song that sounds metal to me. Here is how the band describes this song.

We’ve teamed up with Ukrainian artist and Eurovision contestant Jerry Heil for ‘Sing Like A Siren’, and it’s unlike anything we’ve ever done before.

‘Sing Like A Siren’ weaves together a unique blend of musical influences, with a Ukrainian folk vesnyanka as its leitmotif, a melody that is hypnotic and fluid, much like the ebb and flow of water. Blending rock, classical vocals, and Ukrainian folk elements, the song serves as both a call to action and a guiding force for the lost. [from the video description on YouTube]

Most of the song is in English, but since a few parts of the song are in Ukrainian, I think a link to the lyrics and their translation is in order. Find them at this link. I don't like Genius lyrics, which is that link, but my usual sources have let me down. You usually get an autoplay audio of video track. I don't think that happens here, but to see either the original Ukrainian (Cyrillic, I believe), or a romanization of the lyrics, you need to click on "translations."

Sharon den Adel's voice truly shines in this song.

This song is "Sing Like a Siren" by Within Temptation and Jerry Heil. It was released May 15th as a single. There is also an "official video" that was released on May 26th if you're interested in such things. I haven't watched it, because I find official videos distracting.

You Can't Make This Up

Antisemitism at Columbia seems to be indicative of the state of all universities. 'Jew hater' Columbia protester pleads guilty to three hate crime assaults but issues apology to Palestinian community

The self-described “Jew hater” Columbia agitator who has alleged ties to a Hamas group chat pleaded guilty to a string of hate crimes targeting Jewish people, yet only asked for forgiveness from the Palestinian community.

Tarek Bazrouk, 20, admitted to violently assaulting three Jewish people between April 2024 and January 2025 at several Manhattan protests of the war in Gaza, but used his chance to speak in Manhattan federal court to apologize not to Jews, but to the Palestinian community.

Because God forbid that he should apologize to the community he targeted with his hate.

Israel's Targeting of Iran’s Air Force Leaders

From The Other McCain: One Standard Deviation: How Israel Targeted Iran’s Top Air Force Leaders

After a reference to The Godfather, Robert Stacy McCain goes into some detail about what is started in Iran. (I know, I know, men consider it to be the greatest movie of all time.)

You see why I started out with a Godfather allusion. Like Michael Corleone eliminating the heads of rival Mafia gangs, Israel is settling all the family business in Iran.

It's not long. Click thru.

Trump, Iran, and Time Limits

From Robert Stacy McCain... ‘An Earth-Shattering Kaboom’: Israel Wipes Out Top Iranian Military Leaders

Wednesday I spoke to a colleague who said to me in a very matter-of-fact way that Iran was going to get hit soon. He isn’t some kind of security-clearance type, but he does have a few “sources close to the Trump administration,” as an Objective Journalist would say, and I don’t know how he knew it, but he was certainly correct. It has been pointed out that, on April 12, Trump said Iran had 60 days to reach an agreement on ending its nuclear weapons program, and today? Yeah — Day 61.

There is more click thru.

Friday Links - Friggatriskaidekaphobia Edition

A somewhat abbreviated links post this Friday the 13th. But that's life.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with WWIII Watch: Now Russia Wants NATO Out Of Baltic Nations To End Ukraine War

Things would have been so much simpler had Biden not been so weak that Russia invaded Ukraine, just like when Russia took Crimea with Biden as Obama’s VP

MaddMedic at Freedom Is Just Another Word… - Mostly-peaceful types planning “Nationwide Day Of Defiance” on June 14

I’ll be celebrating America on Flag Day!!!

Culture Casino - Jake Tapper EXPOSES Media Corruption as Media Trust Hits ALL TIME Low!

Media Trust Hits ALL TIME Low! Mainstream news is TOAST! CNN’s 374K viewers, MSNBC’s 718K, & ABC’s bias scandals (Jake Tapper’s Biden lies, Terry Moran’s X suspension) prove nobody trusts them!

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 11 June 2027: Bananacat Edition

News sites are getting crushed by Google's new AI tools. (WSJ) (archive site)

I had to block a bunch of these today, not just Google but Amazon and Alibaba as well, incessantly spraying redundant and nonsensical requests at my servers.

Time perhaps to take another look at Nepenthes, which is designed to derail AI web crawlers and fill them with garbage.

William Teach again - Say, Why Are The Mostly Peaceful Rioters Targeting Waymos?

So…….EVs are dangerous and bad for the environment? Huh. Who knew!

Anyhow, why are they being targeted by the hardcore lefties, who are surely members of the climate cult?

Clayton Cramer - Video Clips Out of Context

Watch these and ask yourself how out of context these are.

The Shekel - Coins, Law, and Commentary - Mexico Dips In To Fight For Remittances

Mexico is concerned that remittances from the USA might be taxed.

Note: Friggatriskaidekaphobia is Fear of Friday the 13th. Frigg being the Norse goddess that Friday is named after. (Sun-day. Moon-day. Tyr's day. Odin's day, or Wōden's day. Thor's day. Frigg's day. Saturn got hooked into that for Saturday. The Norse used Washing day for the last day of the week.

Mushroom Hunters Charged by Grizzly

This incident is from the middle of May, but it seems to have slipped through my news filters previously. ‘There Was No Time to Be Nervous,’ Says Montana Mushroom Hunter Who Shot Charging Grizzly

“We weren’t hunting bear,” says Lee, a 53-year-old retired attorney. “We just carry these guns when we’re down there in case. It just happened to be the ‘in case’ day that day.”

There was a Grizzly with a cub in the area. When she scented them, she charged.

It took eight bullets to put the sow down. Lee fired three rounds; Long shot five. They called a local game warden immediately to report the incident.

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks investigated the shooting and ruled it a case of self-defense.

There are lot of details, including what caliber he used, and how long it took for the gravity of the situation to sink in. Click thru.

Multiple Buses Burn in Philadelphia

There were electric buses stored in this lot. We don't know (or they aren't saying, anyway) if they caused the fire, but they surely contributed to the fire. 40 SEPTA buses damaged in fire at bus yard in Nicetown section of Philadelphia

The real story is how the buses were parked. They were parked in such a way that there was NO chance for firefighters to do anything. They could get close to the fire. The buses were parke so close together that a fire in 1 bus was almost guaranteed to destroy a bunch of them. And with electric buses mixed in, whatever caused the fire, toxic fumes were going to be released.

You could read the article above, and it does have a couple of good photos of the situation, but I recomend watching the video below. It is from Patrick Durham at StacheD Training. He has 19 Years experience as a firefighter, and is currently Captain at Station 4 of the Troy Fire Department in Michigan. He is also a Mechanical Engineer with experience working on advanced development projects in the automotive industry.

This is the StacheD Training video Massive 3rd Alarm Fire: Philly’s Bus Depot

If the entire lot had been filled with diesel buses, they could have sat there for a century and probably just rusted. They would have rusted away. Diesel busses don't spontaneously ignite, when they're parked, long term.

The video is just under 5 minutes.

Lamestream Media Issues Two Retractions About O'Keefe Media Group

RETRACTO #4 & #5: Mediaite and The Daily Beast FORCED to RETRACT False Claims O’Keefe Arranged “Attempted Gotcha Meeting” on AG Pam Bondi

First a "misstatement" from The Daily Beast.

Janna Brancolini at The Daily Beast published a similar error under the headline, “Pam Bondi Spilled Epstein Secrets to Bogus ‘Nanny’ at Brunch.” The article originally claimed that the woman who approached Bondi was “hired by James O’Keefe to pose as a nanny.” Brancolini claimed the person was, “pretending to be a nanny,” and was, “wearing a hidden camera for O’Keefe Media Group.” These statements have since been removed, following a retraction request.

And then from Mediaite.

Despite no evidence that OMG had any involvement beyond publication, Charlie Nash at Mediaite originally reported under the headline, “Attorney General Pam Bondi Was Secretly Recorded in Attempted Gotcha Meeting Arranged by James O’Keefe.” The article stated Bondi had been secretly recorded “during a sting conducted by conservative activist James O’Keefe” and added that the footage was captured by “an undercover journalist.”

They did "update" the story to reflect that the video was sent by an anonymous source. Because that is all that you get for a retraction in 2025.

This is the James O'Keefe video RETRACTO #4 & #5: Mediaite and The Daily Beast FORCED to RETRACT False Claims

Robert Malone Appointed Vaccine Advisor

From The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden, we get the following. WOAH: Robert Malone appointed as vaccine advisor by RFK Jr.

RFK Jr. fired the entire Vaccine Advisory board at the CDC. Officially known as The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). They issued a "recommendation" in the complete absence of scientific data recently. In other words they were looking out for their friends in Big Pharma. I think they have been issuing such recommendations for a while now, but this time they got caught out. All 17 member of the committee were fired.

In their place, RFK Jr. has been appointing some new people, including Robert Malone. Robert Malone is one of the scientists who invented the mRNA technology found in the COVID shots.

However, for the last years he has been an outspoken critic of the COVID fiasco.

It will be interesting to see how the Left manages to say "Trust the Science" and at the same time ignore one of the scientists who created all of this.

Self-Defense Is Legal in South Carolina

I thought it was, but you can never be quite sure today. Police determine homeowner acted in self-defense during Conway home invasion

This is in relation to an incident that occurred in May.

Conway police officers responded to a home along Sun Meadow Drive, where they learned shots were fired during a home invasion.

Police said the homeowner returned fire and killed the armed suspect who was identified as 70-year-old Michael Dean.

Conway, South Carolina is 14 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, or about or about a 100 mile drive north of Charleston, South Carolina.

The police have not released further information, though I wish they would. It just seems like there should be more to the story.

Self-defense is a human right.

Car-ma in Ohio

Play stupid games, leave parts of your vehicle spread across an interstate highway.

From WKRC in Cincinnati: Video: I-75 police pursuit ends with rollover crash and arrest (No. It is not WKRP)

A driver who Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers tried to stop for speeding was allegedly intoxicated and suspected in a hit-and-run.

So she was drinking and driving. She was fleeing a hit and run. She was speeding, 82 in a 65. She wasn't wearing a seat belt. Allegedly.

All of that, and then she loses control of her vehicle and experiences a multiple rollover crash. Without a seat belt. That part isn't allegedly, because it is all caught on the dashcam. Including the part where she fails to stop for police who are pursuing her.

This video, posted by Local 12, WKRC in Cincinnati, is the dash-cam and body-cam video released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Caught on video: Police chase in Ohio ends with rollover crash, arrest.

A couple of police vehicles try to box her in to no avail, before she loses control of the vehicle. The video is about 11 minutes long, the crash, with preliminaries starts at about 5 minutes and 45 seconds in, before that they are trying to box her in, and get her to stop. After the crash they are rendering aid.

I watch a fair few police chases when I'm fighting with insomnia, but not too many close to home. This started in Franklin Township, Butler County, Ohio. It is about half way between Cincinnati and Dayton, which isn't too close to where I live, but not too far either. I haven't often been on that stretch of I-75, because if I'm going to Dayton, it would be out of my way to drive that route, but I believe that she is heading south on I-75, basically driving from Dayton toward Cincinnati.

Arkansas State Police would have executed a PIT maneuver, also known as a tactical vehicle intervention, but Ohio - I believe - has a rule about the maximum speed at which you can do that. There is also a fair amount of traffic on the interstate, and the drivers are NOT doing much to get out the cops' way. The fact that it was 6PM and people were trying to get home from work is really not an excuse. You should be aware of your surroundings, and if you don't stay well away from a police chase, you may end up as part of a crash. That doesn't happen in this case, but it does happen.

Gang Violence Is Different from Mass Shootings

Not that the media want you to think about the difference. "Nuance doesn't sell gun control."

This is Colion Noir's video Mass Shootings or Gang Violence? The Lie That’s Fueling Gun Control

Ever notice how the media just can't help but twist a story to push an agenda? We've reached a point where they're now calling gang and street beefs mass shootings. Not just shootings, mass shootings. It's like calling a bar fight a domestic terror event because more than two chairs got thrown.

The video is less than 6 minutes.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 11 June

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

Bookworm Room has the Bookworm beat.
Don Surber has highlights of the week.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.09.25

Glenn Reynolds: More In My Life As A Caregiver
Hollywood In Toto: Kathy Griffin Claims Trump Stole the 2024 Election

EBL - Saturday Night Girls with Guns

Saturday night is right for girls with guns...
EBL: The Longest Day and We'll Meet Again

Daily News Stuff 10 June 2025: Jun Edition

People arguing about the tax code change affecting software development. (Hacker News)
None of whom know what they are talking about.

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 5: Open Source Intel tweeted, “Chinese nationals Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, were arrested in Detroit for smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a dangerous fungus considered a potential agroterrorism weapon, into the United States.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

Woke America: How Marxism subverted America. Illegal aliens in detention. Your morning cartoon.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Soros and his NGOs. Those moderate Muslims.

Vlad Tepes - Watching the communist revolution play out in real time, and enemy propaganda Qanon style: Links 1 for June 8th, 2025

4. A non-leftist party leader and candidate for President in Colombia was shot in the head.
In the BBC report linked above there is nearly zero substance.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 06.10.25

Chicago Boyz: An Interesting Parallel
Da Tech Guy: Same Old Democrat Song and Dance on Obeying Federal Law: 1861, 1957, 2025

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - LA Burning

Roger Simon at America Refugees says Thank God I Left California ""Free Palestine" meets Mexico." Insty, THEY DROVE THE MODERATES OUT OF THE PARTY AND RACE-BAITING RADICALS ARE WHAT THEY HAVE LEFT:

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 6/9/2025

German Industrial Crisis Deepens, Automakers Hit Especially Hard
German industry has cut over 100,000 jobs within a year — around 45,400 of them in the automotive industry alone

Political Hat - News of the Week (June 8th, 2025)

The Callous Cruelty of Canadian Euthanasia Illustrated
The New York Times Magazine has a very long article out today highlighting cases of nonterminally ill people being killed by doctors in Canada.

Glibertarians - Saturday Morning Mayhem Links

Hardly matters now, doesn’t it?
World’s most useless and ineffective agency is useless and ineffective.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Why Woke Failed - The movement was based on flawed understandings of human nature.
China and American academia

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 10 /25

Sanctuary state laws are designed to put ICE officers in harm's way.
Anti-ICE chaos on LA streets is Democrats' wet dream

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The Purple Orcs of SEIU Communists Are Back, Now Supporting Child Rapist Illegal Aliens

• Adam Schiff Defends ‘Insurrection’ in L.A. Against Federalized National Guard Breitbart
• Left Cranks Up Riot Season For Alien Felons BattleSwarm

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/07/2025

Kash, head of the FBI, says his house got Swatted.
Also – FBI Director Kash Patel announces Covid breakthrough after seizing Anthony Fauci’s phones and hard drives.

I leave you with Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2659 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Saturday Memes … from MaddMedic, Sunday Funnies For 06-08-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, and Is it still Monday? from Wirecutter.

Good Guy With a Gun Stops a Bad Guy with a Knife

This is that thing that the gun-hating part of the Left says never happens. Well, it happened again. Man stabs person, then is shot dead by dog walker: WA cops | Tacoma News Tribune

You can also file this under, "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight." This all took place in Spokane, Washington, the most populous city in eastern Washington.

A man attacked a woman at an apartment complex while holding a knife, police said.

The woman was able to get to safety when a resident took her into their apartment, police said.

Police said the man stabbed another man who was standing in a stairwell at the complex, killing him.

He then ran into a concealed carry license holder out walking his dog.

The man, still holding the knife, then ran toward a dog walker and was shot dead by him, police said.

Police said the dog walker shot him in self-defense.

For a deep Blue state, Washington has a long history of recognizing self-defense as a legal right.

This all took place in the middle of May, but it only recently came to my attention by way of Colion Noir, and his video FAFO: Man With Knife Attacks Armed Man Walking His Dog

That's what anti-gunners never talk about. How it feels to be powerless in the face of evil. They talk about the risk of having guns, but never the risk of not having one. That's not fantasy. That's not some NRA fairy tale. That's a man who was forced to choose between shooting someone or becoming victim number three.

The video is only 4 minutes.

"Long Live the V8"

This post (and the video that kicked it off) is based on a couple of stories out of Australia, and one out the United Kingdom and Europe. The folks Down Under love V8s every bit as much as Americans. (Have you ever seen the movie Mad Max?) The quote that forms the title to this post comes from the video.

• Ford Mustang sales surge to seven-year high, beating electric Mach-E 17 to one

  The Ford Mustang two-door sports car has reported its strongest monthly sales in Australia in almost seven years, as deliveries of the new model launched late last year ramp up.

• Ram to bring V8 engines back to utes [Ute is Australian for pickup truck]

  “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine”, Elvis Presley once said, perfectly encapsulating the bent-eight’s enduring appeal both in the US and Australia, so you don’t need much of an imagination to figure out what happened when Ram dropped it from its iconic full-size 1500 ute.

• Mercedes exec calls £155k electric version of iconic SUV a 'complete flop'

  [The electric G-Wagon] is reportedly being outsold seven to one by the petrol variant of the same SUV model, which for years has been a massive hit among celebrities and especially professional footballers.

This is the MGUY Australia video Electric version of ICONIC Mercedes is a "COMPLETE FLOP"!

As Enzo Ferrari once quipped, "You buy the engine and the car comes free."

The video is 10 minutes.

Blood Upon the Snow

This song came to me by way of the Tidal streaming service, when I was listening to one of their stations/playlists that was mostly Epic Music. Not sure this counts.

This is "Blood Upon the Snow" by Hozier / Bear McCreary from the soundtrack to the 2022 action-adventure, video game God of War Ragnarök. Bear McCreary is the composer for the soundtrack as a whole. Hozier is an Irish Folk artist, and fan of the God of War franchise.

If you click that link from Tidal, it will give you a menu of where to play the song. The choices are (or should be) Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music (a slightly better interface for music than classic YT), and Amazon Music. YT Music doesn't require a login, to my knowledge. I figured I would try to give people options not tied to Google/Alphabet. If anyone has any problems please leave a comment.

Tuesday Links - 10 June

Doug Ross - Dear Kash Patel, in between media appearances, could you release these 20 documents?

The time for performative outrage has passed. The American people demand primary source evidence that can speak for itself.

Townhall - Make Pride Sane Again

Today, Pride has been hijacked by a radical Leftist subset of the community that has no interest in including Americans with different political views or building bridges with the rest of the country.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - AFP: Human Caused Manitoba Wildfires Are Really About ‘Climate Change’

This kind of cultish protection of the cult is not unexpected, right?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 6 June 2025: Lifofax Edition

Regulate me! Regulate me! (New York Times) (archive site)

Anthropic is upset that the AI industry is not being targeted with an impenetrable swamp of state-level regulations that only a multi-billion-dollar can afford to navigate

PawPaw's House - M3 and M3A1 Grease Gun SMGs

One of my favorite military weapons, I was issued an M3A1 in 1976 when I took over my tank platoon at Fort Knox. I qualified with it as a personal weapon. Crude, unbelievably simple, it matched my personality completely. It was also a blast to shoot..

The Other McCain - The Thing That Never Happens Has Somehow Happened Once Again

All the experts have assured us that election fraud is impossible. No election is ever “rigged” or “stolen” in America, and anyone who says otherwise is emphatically denounced as a crypto-fascist threat to Democracy. Meanwhile, in south Georgia . . .

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Marginal Victory

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

The Freedom Corner with PeterSweden - SCANDAL: Is this a MAJOR COVERUP?

Here we have data that could give extremely valuable research and show definite proof of what we have suspected for a long time – That the covid mRNA injections cause vaccine injury.

Again from William Teach - IDF Boards St. Greta’s Fossil Fueled Sailboat

St. Greta switched from being a climate cult leader into a world class Jew hater.

Catherine Salgado at PJ Media - IDF Will Force Antisemite Greta Thunberg to Watch Oct. 7 Footage

The world’s most annoying Jew-hating climate activist has not only been intercepted on her way to Gaza by Israeli forces, but she is also going to be forced to watch footage of the heinous October 7 attacks so that she understands why Israel is at war with Gaza.

Self-Defense Is Legal in North Carolina

North Carolina man not charged in deadly shooting; ‘acted to defend himself’

According to the Asheville Police Department, at around 12:07 a.m. Sunday officers were called to Rankin Avenue near College Street for a reported shooting. At the scene, they found Andy Garcia Porras dead in the roadway and multiple others who were hit or grazed by gunfire.

After investigating the shooting, police, in consultation with the Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office, determined the shooting was in self-defense.

It started when a group of men were seen harassing some women. This was witnessed by the bouncer to a club. The men were then denied entry into the club. Gee, punishing bad behavior? Must be some kind of Conservative club.

One of the guys left to get a gun. It would turn out to be the last bad decision he would make. In the meantime a patron of the club came to help the bouncer; the patron was armed.

When Porras got back, with his gun, a gunfight ensued. Both shooters and several other people were hit.

“The evidence indicates that the patron was not the aggressor and acted to defend himself during a rapidly escalating and dangerous situation,” police said in a news release.

The police go on to make a bland statement about tragedy and the sanctity of all life. Clearly the dead guy didn't feel that way. He was willing to kill because he didn't think his bad behavior - harassing women - should be punished in any way. He didn't get his way, and like a two-year-old child was throwing a tantrum, except his tantrum included a loaded weapon.

It is hard for me to see this as anything but Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0. I expect that in the next day or two we will hear for this guy's family, about how he was a choir boy, and getting ready to go to college and change the world or whatever, and we will hear how they don't like legal self-defense.

EV Fire Destroys Cargo Ship

This post is (mostly) about the video embedded below, but in doing some searching, there is a lot of info on incidents involving RO-RO cargo ships (that is "Roll-On, Roll-Off car carriers) and EV fires.

From gCaptain we get the following: A Look Back at Recent Car Carrier Fires

The most recent incident occurred on 3 June 2025, when a ship, the Morning Midas, bound from China to Mexico, caught fire off the coast of Alaska, and had to be abandoned.

The fire aboard the car carrier Morning Midas in the North Pacific Ocean marks the latest significant incident in the maritime industry’s ongoing challenges involving fires on vehicle carriers. The UK-owned, Liberia-flagged vessel caught fire on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, about 300 miles south of Adak, forcing all 22 crew members to evacuate.

The vessel was carrying 3,159 vehicles—including 65 fully electric and 681 partial hybrid electric vehicles—when crew members spotted smoke coming from a deck containing electric vehicles. Despite immediately activating onboard fire suppression systems, the crew couldn’t contain the fire and had to abandon ship via life raft. They were safely transferred to a nearby good Samaritan vessel.

A sea-going tug has been dispatched for salvage, with the hope that the ship and its cargo will not become an environmental problem.

As the title to that article indicates, it is not the only such fire.

• Fremantle Highway, a Japanese-owned car carrier with 3,783 vehicles aboard, caught fire on 25 July 2023, near Ameland, Netherlands (EVs "dismissed" as cause of fire.)
• Grande Costa D’Avorio, an Italian-flagged combination roll-on/roll-off (ConRo) ship caught fire on 5 July 2023, at Port Newark, New Jersey. (No EVs on board)
• Felicity Ace, Panama-flagged, operated by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), caught fire on 16 February 2022, approximately 90 nautical miles southwest of the Azores (VW is still facing lawsuits over EVs shipped on this carried.)
• Grande Europa, operated by Grimaldi Lines, two fires on 15 May 2019. The first fire was extinguished quickly. Second car caught fire a few hours later. On 16 May Grimaldi issued a press release calling for more restrictions on car batteries, and personal stuff shipped inside private cars.
• Grande America, operated by Grimaldi Lines, sank in 13,000 ft of water after a fire broke out 12 March 2019. Italian authorities issued a report, but it is not public. NTSB said cause of fire undetermined. Ship carried about 2,100 new and used vehicles.
• Sincerity Ace, 650ft Panama-flagged. Caught fire 31 December 2018 in the middle of the Pacific, 1800 miles from Oahu. Ship carried 3,800 Nissan vehicles. Ship towed back to Japan. (Cause "unknown")
• Honor, 623-foot-long US-flagged car carrier, 24 February 2017. NTSB determined that the probable cause of the fire was a fault in the starter motor solenoid in one of the personally owned vehicles being transported (No word on if EVs were involved - extensive damage to 5000 new and used vehicles, and household goods being shipped for military families.
• Courage American Roll-on Roll-off carrier. 2 June 2015. US-flagged vessel carried new vehicles (Mercedes-Benz, BMW), military vehicles, personally-owned used vehicles for military and government personnel, household goods shipments. NTSB determined that the probable cause of the fire was electrical arcing in automatic braking system of a vehicle on board.

Some of the fires were not started by EVs, but they don't go into details about whether or not EVs later became involved in the fires. There were 2 fires in 2020 that gCaptain listed as "honorable mentions," because the crews managed to extinguish the fires. This is how gCaptain sums up the issues:

While it’s difficult to draw conclusions about the Morning Midas fire and others from previous incidents, a look back at similar incidents does provide some insight and background about the dangers associated with transportation of new, used vehicles, and electric vehicles on roll-on/roll-off ships. With the growing popularity of electric vehicles, it will be interesting to see how or if rules and regulations evolve to meet new challenges associated with transporting them by ship.

This is the MGUY Australia video YET ANOTHER cargo ship DESTROYED by EV fire

Once again it will be the insurance companies that will eventually have to evaluate this risk, and place an appropriate premium on continuing to insure ships carrying EVs. This will be passed on to customers in the form of even higher prices, as shipping these vehicles by sea inevitably becomes more and more risky, and more and more expensive.

Lloyd's List, the oldest, continuously-running journal in for the shipping industry, also has an article. I should note that The List is not associated with Lloyd's of London, though they both trace their roots to Lloyd's Coffee House in London, in the early 1700s. Crew evacuated from Zodiac Maritime vehicle carrier in Pacific Ocean after fire.

If you want a more technical look at shipping of cars, see the What's Going On With Shipping video Morning Midas On Fire and Abandoned off the Coast of Alaska | 3000 cars on board, 800 are EVs. That video is nearly 18 minutes, so plan accordingly.

As MGUY Australia points out, it will ultimately be the insurance carriers who decide how expensive it is to ship EVs based on risk.

MGUY Australia has had a couple of videos on EV fires destroying ships. This one from April starts with an interesting observation. Electric vehicles are a DANGER to shipping

It's remarkable, isn't it, that under the present system of regulation, EVs can be transported by roll-on roll-off ships known as RO-ROs without being designated as dangerous goods, because there's an exemption because, uh, reasons.

Cops Breaking the Law? I'm Shocked!

OK so I'm not shocked at all. More arrests in Prichard PD officer kidnapping investigation

A cop from Prichard, Alabama, made an "arrest" in Gulfport, Mississippi. There is just one small problem. He had no arrest authority in Mississippi, so what he did was (allegedly) kidnapping.

Other Deputies responding to the area located the patrol unit leaving the scene and initiated a traffic stop. The driver of the Prichard Police unit was identified as an off-duty Prichard, AL Police Officer, David Cunningham. Cunningham was wearing his firearm and Prichard PD badge. A passenger, Kristin Allen, was also identified. At that time, Deputies were made aware that there was a 21-year-old male in the backseat of the patrol car that was handcuffed. Deputes removed the handcuffs and released the male from the backseat of the patrol car.

So why did he think he could do this? You are disrespecting his authority by even asking the question.

Due to Cunningham being out of state with no enforcement powers, knowingly detaining an individual, and removing him from the scene, a warrant was issued for Cunningham for Kidnapping. Allen assisted Cunningham with creating multiple versions of events in an effort to justify Cunningham’s unlawful actions and detention of the individual. A warrant was issued for Allen for Hindering Prosecution.

Allen was given a $50,000 bond. Cunningham is held on $500,000 bond.

Sadly, neither can be charged with felony stupidity in Mississippi.

The Democrats Embrace Criminal Aliens

The Other McCain has thoughts on Immigration and Politics. Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association 2.0: Illegal Immigrants Are the New Khmer Rouge or Something

Dana Pico was thrashing Philadelphia Inquirer liberal columnist Will Bunch, who loves Kilmar Abrego Garcia more than he loves his own mother, and it got me thinking about the utterly reflexive nature of left-wing politics. Liberals see the world as a great dramatic conflict between the Forces of Evil (Republicans generally, and Donald Trump specifically) and the Innocent Victims of Oppression. This is the only explanation for why, after Democrats lost an election in which all polling showed the electorate tilting sharply right on the immigration issue, liberals have now embraced criminal foreigners as their beloved mascots.

It's worth your time. Click thru.

Fight Like A Girl

So there is a movie that I want to see in a theater. This doesn't happen too often, but I haven't seen a good action movie in a while, and this one is in the universe of John Wick. I haven't see all 4 of the John Wick movies, and I haven't seen any of the TV show. (I only recently found out there was a TV show/miniseries.) In any event, there was a movie released on Friday, I will probably try to see it this week. Tuesdays are always cheap at one of my local theaters.

The first trailer looked good, and a couple of reviews indicate that it has some promise.

This is "Fight Like A Girl" by Evanescence with additional vocals by K.Flay. It is from the soundtrack to the John Wick Universe movie Ballerina.. That movie was released on Friday the 6th of June (with previews on Thursday). It apparently plays as the end-credits start to run.

Self-Defense in Florida

Was this couple too trusting? Homeowner shoots, kills handyman who turned aggressive during argument: HCSO | FOX 13 Tampa Bay

He was living with them, doing work around the house. It doesn't say in any of the articles I've read, but it sounds like the work was in lieu of rent.

Then one day, the woman asked him to leave. He didn't take it well.

They got into an argument overnight, and investigators said the man got aggressive towards the woman. She told deputies that she felt her life was in danger, leading to her firing her gun.

The shooting happened inside the home along Jeanal Place, and the woman was found in the front yard with leg injuries that she got during the argument. The handyman was found inside the home, according to [Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office].

OK. You don't get leg injuries during an "argument." That was a physical altercation. But if the Profession Journalist noted that, you might be inclined to side with the gun owner, and not be sympathetic toward the dead bad guy.

Hillsborough County is home to Tampa, Florida.

Why did I wonder if the couple had been too trusting?

The woman doesn't have a criminal history. The handyman, however, was a multiple-time convicted felon with a violent criminal history, HCSO said.

As noted, this happened in Florida, and not in Massachusetts, or some other gun and gun owner hating jurisdiction, where self-defense is recognized as both a human right, and a legal right.

Citigroup Drops Anti 2nd Amendment Policy

Citigroup, one of the biggest banking organizations in the country, dropped their stupid anti-gun policy. Major Bank Reverses Ridiculous Anti-Gunner Policy After Seven Years

Citigroup announced on Tuesday that it is ending a seven-year-old policy that barred companies selling firearms to buyers under the age of 21 from using its services, according to a blog post declaring that it will no longer discriminate based on political affiliation.

I'm not sure why Citi decided that 18-year-olds shouldn't be able to buy long guns, but they seem to be coming around, now that people are suing over their constitutional rights, though they were not suing Citigroup.

This is really part of the larger discussion on debanking. Citigroup lifts banking curbs on gun makers and sellers

The change at Citi comes amid broader political pressure over so-called debanking, with influential tech leaders and right-wing officials having alleged in recent years that the Biden administration improperly blocked certain people, such as cryptocurrency proponents and conservatives, from banking services.

The hat tip for all of this goes to Liberty Doll and her video Big Bank Ends Anti-Gun Policy

I'd remind you all that nothing but gun owner vigilance will stop them from reversing course, yet again, when there is someone new in the White House, but for now we can celebrate a step in the right direction.

The video is about 8 minutes long, so grab a beverage.

Australian Built Submachine Guns

From Impro Guns we get the following. Australian Underworld SMGs

Pictured are two homemade SMGs produced for the Australian black market. The MAC type copy is one of many produced by a jeweler turned underworld armorer.

Click thru for the photos.

And so it is clear, not only are fully automatic machine guns illegal, but semiautomatic guns are illegal in Australia.

Officer Gabriel Facio

End of watch. Apache Junction police officer dies after being shot in face

Officer Gabriel Facio was shot in the course of a traffic stop earlier in the week. He passed away on Sunday from his injuries.

Officer Facio, 46, leaves behind his wife and two kids. Before joining the Apache Junction Police Department, he was a police officer in Phoenix and worked with several other law enforcement agencies in the Valley.

Apache Junction, Arizona is about 30 miles east of Phoenix.

What If You Called 911, and It Took 90 Minutes for Cops to Show Up?

What would you do? Lengthy police response time under investigation following Maryland dog attack | FOX 5 DC

What we know: The victim, a woman who asked not to be identified, said she was visiting her new home in District Heights last weekend when the attack occurred. The woman was near her vehicle with her 11-month-old rescue dog when the attack happened.

Authorities confirm that a 911 call reporting the attack was placed at 9:54 a.m., but officers did not arrive until 11:17 a.m. That response time is under review, officials said.

What happened is that a good Samaritan, her neighbor, intervened and took her to a local hospital.

Officials have not yet provided an explanation for the delay, but the incident has raised concerns about emergency response times in the area.

From my knowledge of police it could be several things. Not enough cops to cover the shift. (How do you spell, "Defund the police?") It could be screw up at the 911 center. At least this woman got help and is going to be mostly OK. I mostly because we don't have much information on her condition, or if there will be long term effects.

I Miss Living in a Civilized Society

When I was in high school, it was common to go to Six Flags, in Illinois, without parents. There were amusement parks closer that we went to more frequently, but I don't remember stuff like this. 'Really traumatic experience': Mother recalls witnessing fights at Darien Lake

The Genesee County Sheriff's Office said two separate fights broke out in the parking lot after the park closed, drawing in large crowds.

"They had to leave the parking lot and run inside the theme park, and then that's when they started using the tear bullets, I guess, or mace bullets or something like that," Perkins continued. "It was a lot of unsupervised teens and just a lot of chaos."

Six Flags at Darien Lake is about a 30 mile drive east of Buffalo, New York.

I guess there must have been a lot of news after Memorial Day, because I don't remember seeing this mentioned much. I will admit that I am no longer tied into the general 24hr news insanity, but even so, I don't remember seeing anything about this. I guess it was just a local story.

Bureaucracies Protect Their Own

People on the outside can pound sand. The New York Times doesn't understand that. A French Pedophile Doctor Abused Hundreds in His Care. Why Wasn’t He Stopped?

Years before Joël Le Scouarnec was charged with abusing 299 former patients, he was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse imagery.

You would think that would be a red flag in hiring a pediatric surgeon. The French establishment didn't see it that way.

Of course the French courts didn't follow the law, and so the warning signs were covered up, or at least not sent to the people they should have been sent to.

But there was one clear warning sign: his 2005 conviction after an international F.B.I. investigation that snared thousands who had viewed child sexual abuse imagery. A French court at the time gave him a four-month suspended sentence, but demanded no psychological treatment, as it had for others. Nor did it restrict his medical practice. And the court failed to notify Dr. Le Scouarnec’s medical clinic, despite a law requiring it to do so.

And so even people who knew about the conviction hired him.

He was hired by a hospital director in the town of Jonzac, Michèle Cals, who told the court that the only person who informed her of the conviction was Mr. Le Scouarnec himself. But he arrived with a glowing recommendation from his last hospital, and the health ministry had approved his hiring.

“So what else did you expect me to do? Nothing?” said Ms. Cals, who retired a year after hiring him. “At the time, there were few applications and many vacancies, everyone was looking for surgeons. If he hadn’t been hired in Jonzac, he would have been hired anywhere else.”

There is more. Victim statements. Deflections from more bureaucrats. Another conviction that did NOT result in a suspended sentence.

The New York Times is confused because they believe that Europe is perfect. They pay no attention to the riots on the outskirts of Paris that are so regular, they don't count as news. They pay no attention to the increasing crime, and other problems. They love social programs and gun control, and are blind to everything else.

I can hardly wait until all of our health care is controlled by a giant, unfeeling bureaucracy.

Antisemitic Attacks Are Not News

Not according the the mainstream media. In fact they would be happy if you forgot about them. The Mainstream Media’s Memory Hole Has Swallowed Deadly Attacks on Jews

Two antisemitic attacks in America happened in two weeks, and what is the response of the media?

This is an obvious (and ominous) trend — radical terrorists are acting on the Left’s rhetoric about “globalizing the Intifada.” A mere 10 days separated these two attacks, and you might think that journalists would have some sense of civic duty to alert the public to the heightened level of danger this trend represents. Yet coverage of these incidents has swiftly disappeared from the nightly news on ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS, and from the MSNBC and CNN cable channels. Why? Because these attacks do not fit the Democratic Party’s propaganda narrative.

Go read the whole thing. Robert Stacy McCain, as usual, has some great things to say about the media.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 7 June

Animal Magnetism is up first with Animal’s Hump Day News

Good for Poland.
When your enemy is drowning, throw him an anchor.

The Right Way - Top of the News

In The Mailbox: 06.02.25 - The Other McCain
Murder Rates Plummet Under President Trump - Bongino Report

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.04.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Dana Loesch: Transparency Is Important
Don Surber: June’s media lies so far

EBL - Abraham, Martin And John

5 June 1968 : Robert Kennedy shot by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan
AoSHQ: Morning Report 06.05.25

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 5 June 2025: Plush Month Edition

Reddit has filed suit against Anthropic, alleging that the company has accessed the site 100,000 times in the past year despite a big sign on the tree fort saying "NO GIRLS ALLOWED". (The Verge)

DaleyGator - Weekend Links

Pirates Cove…Then they came for the plants
Right Way has morning News
Irons in the Fire has hews about the new Army rifle

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

Woke America: Hetero Pride Month. The vaccine agenda. Walmart’s ‘Pride’ clothing. And VDH.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Diversity is our strength. Queer raccoons.

Vlad Tepes - One exceptional MP details the COMMUNIST nature of the Trudeau/Carney state and a CHICOM and Islamic plot caught against the USA: Links 1 for June 4th, 2025

1. This speech is Amrita nectar. Savour it. Share it. The Overton window on the communist nature of the Trudeau/Carney Liberal party is now open.
Conservative MP calls COVID mandates in Canada ‘full communism’

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.04.25 (Evening Edition)

The Political Hat: Washington State’s War On Clergy, also, Blowing Up The Rules
This Ain’t Hell: Seattle church event “swarmed” by protesters, so Mayor blames Christians

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - A Brouhaha Over the Big Beautiful Bill and the White House Has no Pride

Da Wire hears from the White House: There Will Be No ‘Pride’ Proclamation, "The Trump White House is doing a complete 180 from the Biden administration's focus on LGBT issues." Mil.com reports Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – More from the Virginia 2025 Elections!

Books, Bucks And Backroom Deals: Vindman’s Sketchy Campaign Spending Exposed
Another Chapter In The Vindman Ethics Saga

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 06.05.25

The Bugscuffle Gazette: The Gun Rights Cake
Stoic Observations: Joyful Things

The Glibertarians - Friday Morning I’m Hooked Links

The kids cry when Daddy and Daddy fight.
This obviously impacts me, but hey, I approve nonetheless.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 6/5/2025

Brussels has been spending at least €80 million of taxpayer funds every year on mainstream media outlets for pro-EU messaging and the promotion of the European Commission’s liberal agenda

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 06.06.25

Victory Girls: The Guys In Mickey Ears Need A Dose Of Reality
Watts Up With That: New York Electric Power Trends

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Euthanasia Expanding Everywhere: Extreme Laws In France; A Human Right In Estonia; MAID For Kids in Manitoba

France seems to be hell bent on going all out with euthanasia, or nearly so.
Estonia says that euthanasia isn’t healthcare, but it’s still spiffy!
Meanwhile, in Manitoba, Canada…

Maggie's Farm - Thursday morning links

Hudson’s Bay closes after 355 years
How Catholicism Got Cool

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Understanding the Big Beautiful Bill and the Laws That Surround It

• Trump's Peace Plan, Zelensky's War Path - @amuse
• EU, UN condemn US sanctions on ICC judges - Felix Tamsut

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 6/ 4 /25

Just believe it happened and don’t ask questions. That is often the attitude.
I exposed the BYU v Duke volleyball race incident—the Angel Reese story is no different

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 06/04/2025

Why so many people are having strokes in their 20s, 30s and 40s: ‘We’ve never had patients so young.’ This site is right more often than it is wrong, and earlier than everyone else to boot

I leave you with Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2652 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, and Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic.