Self-Defense Is Legal in Florida, Though Sometimes in Doubt

This just goes to show that prosecutors hate self-defense, even in Florida. Charges dropped for Broward teen after new evidence emerges | Miami Herald

I'm sure the race of the shooter had absolutely nothing to do with the decision to charge her... How can you even ask such a thing?

Two years ago, Esther Sanon — then an 18-year-old Broward high school senior — met up with Jason Sapp, a man more than twice her age that she had connected with online months before.

That decision ended in a shooting — and with Sanon facing decades behind bars in a Florida prison.

She claimed he tried to rape her. Broward county prosecutors didn't care about that. They saw a win and went for it.

But on Thursday morning, prosecutors, citing new information, dropped charges against Sanon, who throughout the case maintained she acted in self-defense.

Sanon’s alleged victim, Sapp, a then-42-year-old, had been arrested on a slew of charges, including human trafficking and lewd and lascivious acts with a victim between 12 and 16. Since November, Sapp has been at the Broward Main Jail.

I guess they decided that prosecuting an 18-year-old for shooting someone now facing heinous charges wouldn't look too good if it came to light during any upcoming elections. Or something.

Anyway, justice was finally done, though this was nearly a miscarriage of Justice.

Before prosecutors dropped the charges, Sanon had accepted a plea deal that would have placed her on probation for six years.

More details if you click thru.

Just one more thing.

Deputies, prosecutors and even loved ones didn’t believe her, but [Sanon’s attorney, Adam] Goodman did.

Why would anyone listen to a black teenager?

Broward county is just north of Miami-Dade, and includes Fort Lauderdale. (Hat tip to KABA)

More Improvised Weapons from Around the World

Two stories from Impro Guns.

The first story is from South America. Airsoft body hybrid SMG (Brazil)

A number of these have been seized in the last few months, mainly in Bahia state. It appears to be an improvised PA Luty style SMG with the innards dressed up inside an inexpensive spring powered airsoft body. Reportedly chambered in 9mm.

The second story is from Africa. Kidnappers engaged (Nigeria)

There was one AK-47 rifle. Two improvised pistols chambered for shotgun shells were recovered. It isn't clear what gauge but one appears to be 12 gauge, and one in .410 bore or perhaps 20 gauge. There was one 9mm pistol recovered, that may or may not be improvised. (It's a bit rough, but it just may be old.)

As always, click thru for the photos.

Luty-designed firearms usually look pretty good, given how he specified they be built, but dressing them up with Airsoft furniture make them look quite nice. The rest are a bit rough, and the rust doesn't help. Well, the AK looks like a bog-standard AK that's been around the block a few times.

Nature Magazine: The Sky Is Falling. Or Maybe Not

From John Sexton at Hot Air: Nature Retracted a Study Predicting Global Economic Catastrophe

In April of 2024, the scientific journal Nature published an article titled "The economic commitment of climate change." The conclusion of the paper's authors was that climate change would lead to spectacular catastrophe for the world's economy both in the medium term and the longer term. This message, that the world's hair was on fire because of climate change, was immediately picked up and spread far and wide by the media.

Central Banks jumped on the insanity to set policy, because of course they did.

In other words, this wasn't just more screechy climate catastrophism it was going to have a major impact on banks around the globe. Only it turned out the paper all of this was based on was bogus. Those terrible predictions were not supportable.

In fact, it turned out that most of the bad news was the result of data for just one country: Uzbekistan.

It took more than a year for the report to be retracted. It was retracted last week.

Why should the public trust Nature when it chooses to publish junk science like this and then takes well over a year to retract it?

Trust the science. Just don't put too much faith in the scientists or their journals.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 17 December

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

Maggies Farm has Links. And more links. And does this all during the week.
Ned Hardy has cat owners.

EBL - Bondi Beach Hanukkah Attack RIP 🕎

Instapundit: Bondi Beach What We Know, Globalize the Intifada, and California
AoSHQ: Rampant Antisemtism in Australia

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 12.16.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Dana Loesch: Weekend Evil – Multiple Terrorist Attacks & A School Shooting
Don Surber: Police malpractice in shootings

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 December 2025: Skorking Or Non-Skorking Edition

Why AI makes bad systems more convincing. (Chaincoder)
Because AI is not just a stochastic bullshit generator. It's a stochastic plausibility generator.

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: A change is coming. Victor Davis Hanson – Europe is angry. Hamas support. The affordability crisis. Dementia Joe’s library.

Political Hat - News of the Week (December 14th, 2025)

Assisted Suicide Legalized in Illinois
Of course Governor Pritzker signed the assisted suicide bill. Was there ever any doubt? Assisted suicide has become part of the progressive policy agenda.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 12/13/2025

Arizona Couple Sentenced in $1.2B Medicare Fraud Scheme
The owners of several Arizona wound graft companies have been sentenced in federal court for orchestrating a massive Medicare fraud scheme

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam on a Snowy Sunday Morning

At Da Signal, the Great Victor Davis Hanson notes Europe Is Angry Trump Told It the Truth and wonders Will Western Civilization Still Exist in Europe in 100 Years? Chronic chronicles Europe’s Unending Tragedy.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening decrepit Links

Something about this story smells.
Yep, love them open borders.
Looks like we’re still in Syria.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove “Experts” Racing To Save Connecticut’s Christmas Tree Industry
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 5: Zero Hedge declared, “Once Again, London Has The Most Pathetic Christmas Tree On The Planet.”
Maybe Linus Van Pelt will give them his security blanket to prop it up.

Vlad Tepes - Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh on Canada’s slide into an anti-life state, and Bondi: Our analysis of the way the entire attack was deflected by the state-media complex to avoid any actionable truths at all: Links 1 for December 15th, 2025

A Canadian politician does a masterful job of converting the slaughter of a dozen Jewish people into a complaint about Islamophobia. This is perhaps a perfect example of Hegelian dialectics as practiced by Muslims.

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Arnold Kling identifies humility as the defining feature of his political philosophy – a political philosophy that I share. Arnold calls this philosophy “humilitism”; it’s what I call classical liberalism.

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

“Experts” Racing To Save Connecticut’s Christmas Tree Industry
Norway Avoids ‘Green’ Energy Quicksand
Energy Affordability: A Blue State Problem

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: More Tax on Tips: Blue States Erase New Federal Tax Cuts

• Ford's $35.1 Billion EV Fiasco - Robert Bryce
• Valero Eats $1.1 Billion Loss to Escape Newsom’s Toxic California - Elizabeth Stauffer

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 12/16/25

Fomenting mutiny in the ranks? Yup that's pretty damn serious IMHO - JJS
Pentagon Escalates Investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly for ‘Serious Allegations of Misconduct’

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 12/13/2025

FBI Director Christopher Wray did, in fact, have DNA evidence that confirmed Ilhan Omar did, in fact, marry her own brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and admitted she would “do what she had to do to get him ‘papers’ to keep him in the U.S.” — but covered it up.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 12-14-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3221 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Mondays again, but in gifs this time from Wirecutter.

Concealed Carry in Indiana

He was a rowdy bar patron. Violence at South Side tavern leads to Muncie man's shooting, arrest

According to an affidavit, city police were called to the Red Dog Saloon, 1600 W. 23rd St., about 8:45 p.m. after Scott "became belligerent with an employee ... punching at her from across the bar."

He went on to attack several employees and bar patrons, with various items including bar stools. He ended up sending a couple to the hospital. Eventually, someone had enough.

The officer reviewing the video said Scott then armed himself with a pool cue and broke it over the head of a female victim.

The Muncie man was reportedly continuing to strike the woman with the broken cue when one of the other victims shot him, apparently in the buttocks.

After that he left, but cops picked him up and took him to the hospital for treatment of his gunshot wound, and then they took him to the county lockup.

This guy is charged with two counts of aggravated battery, four counts of battery with a deadly weapon, and three counts of battery by bodily waste, for spitting on people.

The guy who did the shooting was not arrested, because Indiana is not New Jersey.

Self-defense is a human right. (Hat tip to Gun Watch)

They Accuse the Conservatives of Subverting Democracy

But it is the liberals, specifically the UK Labour government, that are canceling elections. From the BBC: New mayoral elections to be delayed in four areas of England

Elections for newly-created mayors will be delayed in four more areas of England, the BBC has confirmed, pushing back regional devolution plans.

New mayors were expected to be elected in Greater Essex, Norfolk & Suffolk, Hampshire & the Solent, and Sussex & Brighton in May next year, but will now have to wait until May 2028.

The need time to organize, or something.

Opposition parties are crying foul, and it is odd that the plans are changing just as membership in Labour seems to be on the decline.

From the Financial Times: Labour membership plummets since general election

Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK becomes the largest political party by members

That's not suspicious at all. The guy who was the face of Brexit, which the right-thinking technocrats in the government hated, is now head of a popular political party. Well, we can't have elections under those circumstances. The "right people" might not get elected.

The Labour party has lost about 100,000 members since last year’s general election, underscoring the dramatic fall in Sir Keir Starmer’s popularity and the surge in support for smaller parties.

This is against a backdrop of the British and the French telling people that they might have to face a war with Russia.

From the BBC again: Outcry at army chief's warning France must prepare to 'lose children' in war

The French don't want to fight wars. That's why they started the Foreign Legion. (Does that still exist?) That's why they pretend to support NATO.

A stark warning from France's new army chief about the country "losing its children" in a potential war with Russia has sharply divided political opinion.

Gen Fabien Mandon, who took over as army chief-of-staff in September, told a congress of mayors on Tuesday that France's biggest weakness in today's dangerous times was the lack of a will to fight.

And it isn't just France. From Sky news: UK 'rapidly developing' plans to prepare for war

Underlining the role civilians would have to play in a major conflict, Al Carns said armies, navies and air forces respond to crises but "societies, industries and economies win wars".

Al Carns is a Member of Parliament, and was a Colonel in the Royal Marines, and is now in their reserves.

I would have to do some serious research, but my guess is that neither the French or the British military are in any state to fight against Russia. For decades NATO countries have not met their commitments to funding their military budgets to the levels specified by NATO. They just rely on the US to foot the bill. Germany has been particularly lax, so that at one point before the COVID lockdowns, the German military didn't have enough guns to outfit the German army. Poland, and one other country that I can't pull out of memory, were meeting their commitments during the 1st Trump administration.

Looking back at these stories, two things occur to me.

The first is that the Left is projecting their own attitudes and desires on the Right when they say conservatives are threat to democracy.

And the second thing that comes to mind is ...

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
    — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

More like Airstrip One every day. And they have an emergency to justify the cancelling of even more elections.

Love My Way

I'm never sure how I feel about The Psychedelic Furs. They were very popular way back in the dark ages of the 1980s, and they certainly capture the Post Punk/New Wave feeling.

This has been stuck in my drafts folder for months, so I can obly guess that it is by way of WXRT and Saturday Morning Flashback.

This song is "Love My Way" by The Psychedelic Furs from the 1982 album Forever Now.

There was a time when New Wave was just a term invented by the suits running the American music industry. They hated Punk so much, even when they were making money off of it, that when Post Punk came along they wanted nothing to do with the name.

After 20 Minutes of Doing Nothing ...

The Australian cops shoot the Wrong Guy. It is almost like the cops in Australia wanted the killings to go on longer than they did. It is almost like they want to discourage people from taking any action to stop terror. Second Bondi Beach hero helped disarm shooters before police mistakenly shot him: report | New York Post

A man who rushed in to help disarm one of the terrorists who fired at a crowd celebrating Hanukkah in Australia’s famous Bondi Beach was mistakenly shot by police and tackled by bystanders, according to a new report.

I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but the first thing the Australian government did in the wake of this attack was to declare they are going to implement more gun control. Because actually addressing the real issue would be politically incorrect. It is like they want a crisis so they can exploit it.

The Bondi police station is less than 1000 meters from the site of the shooting. Yet it took them 20 minutes to respond. There were uniformed police at the event. But they did nothing.

The Bondi/Australian police are going to displace the Uvalde, Texas as the most useless police department on the planet.

So of course they are going to insist that you rely on them for your personal safety, even though they have demonstrated they cannot provide it.

Tuesday Links - 16 December

Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat is up first with Table of Contents for My Book on Gun Culture 2.0

Below is the current table of contents for my book on Gun Culture 2.0. You’ll see how my proposed culture-as-practice approach plays out across five sections.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 12 December 2025: Brown And Out In Beverley Hills Edition

Reddit is suing Australia to have itself removed from the under-16 banlist. (The Register)

Reddit is a screaming dumpster fire, but so is our government, and I can simply ignore Reddit if I choose. So I'm solidly on their side.

Jim Hᴏft at The Gateway Pundit - Another Imported Disaster: Somali Refugee and Lewiston City Councilor Who Lied About Residency Just Indicted on Federal Gun Theft Charges

Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline is calling for the resignation of newly elected City Councilor Iman Osman after an Androscoggin County grand jury handed down an indictment charging Osman with receiving stolen property and theft by unauthorized taking.

Adaptive Curmudgeon - Another FedEx Truck Stuck In My Yard

The FedEx dude zoomed in exactly like a guy who’s never seen snow. Rather than menace him with my tractor and the snow bucket I parked well out of the way and sat there to let him do his thing.

Wombat-socho at The Other McCain - A Warm Welcome To Our Chinese Affiliates

Now, there is a strong possibility that this is some kind of scam intended to get Stacy and I to shell out hundreds of bucks to buy these URL ourselves, but on the off chance this is actually a legit heads-up, I would like to welcome our new West Taiwan affiliates.

The Other McCain - Red States, Blue Cities: Minnesota, Somalia and ‘The Great Replacement’

In an appearance Friday on Fox News, Trump strategist Stephen Miller said the Somali welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota could end up “being the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history.” The complete scale of this fraud has yet to be fully calculated, but the total amount certainly appears to be in the billions of dollars.

Wombat-socho again - FMJRA 2.0: The Hits Just Keep On Coming

It was another good week to be a Senators fan.

Manhattan Contrarian - Today's IQ Test: Which Is Cheaper To Produce Electricity, Wind/Solar Or Fossil Fuels?

Fortunately, we are now far enough into this process to have clear data on the diverging prices among the states.

A View from the Beach - Science Unsettled

I question the whole idea of predicting the impacts of "climate change" on the economy many years in the future. As Yogi Berra said "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future".

Your Home Is Not a Free Fire Zone

Not even if you are really mad at porch pirates. Atlanta homeowner arrested after shooting alleged porch pirates | FOX 5 Atlanta

An Atlanta homeowner accused of shooting two teens he believed stole a package has been arrested, according to court documents obtained by FOX 5.

If package theft is a problem near you don't have packages delivered to your home. It is easy, if nothing goes wrong. This guy is going to pay for these packages for a long time.

Rakim Bradford, 34, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Even if a jury finds him not guilty, he will spend a long time fighting these charges, and if he is found guilty or takes some deal, he will spend time in prison. For the time being, he is in the county jail. Over what? Something he ordered for the holidays?

One of the teens was shot in the torso, and remains in the hospital. The other was shot in the foot. No word on whether or not they will face charges.

Chicago's Financial Destruction

It was a great city at one time. Now it is falling apart. From Meep at STUMP: Chicago Watch: Head Tax Hostages, Credit Ratings, and Reactions

While all the headlines are about the fight over Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed "head tax," a tax on every employee at every business with more than 100 employees, the real story, to me, is the credit rating.

There is a saying in the bond market: credit ratings lag the market.

That is, we see the market’s assessment of credit risk before the credit rating agencies making a move.

That makes sense, as the market prices continuously (in basis point spreads over Treasuries), while the credit ratings are at discrete ratings.

11 Dec 2025, Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago’s bond rating likely to drop to a notch above junk, no matter how and when budget stalemate ends.

This is big, because Chicago is borrowing money to pay current debts. They are living off the credit card, and so the rates are going up.

That is, Chicago has to pay much higher interest rates on their bonds, the less creditworthy they are… just like individuals with poor credit scores.

As for the head tax, Chicago is facing $1.15 Billion (with a "B") deficit for 2026. They head tax - if all of the numbers work out in their favor would raise $100 million. But Brandon Johnson doesn't want to cut programs. In fact he wants to use that $100 million for new spending to combat violence in the city, and he doesn't want more police, because that would be racist, or something.

Mayor Brandon Wants to Die on Head Tax Hill

The first thing that will happen if the head tax is passed, is that companies with between 100 and 110 employees, will suddenly have 99 employees. They next thing that will happen is large companies who are considering moving out of the city will make the determination that it is time to go, and any companies that might be considering a move to Chicago will look elsewhere.

Not that I believe any company is considering a move TO Chicago at this time.

It really was a great city, and not that long ago. I loved living and working in the city. Taking the trains downtown to museums, and restaurants was great. If you don't count trips into or through O'Hare airport, it has been 2 decades since I've set foot in the city.

Criminal Immigrants in Italy

From the Hispanic gateway of The Gateway Pundit: Three illegal Gambian immigrants are wanted by Italian police after the gang rape of a 23-year-old university student outside a metro station - Gateway Hispanic

According to the police reconstruction, the attackers immobilized her with violence, dragged her about 350 meters to an isolated area on Via di Valle Melaina and, in an act of unimaginable savagery, one of them raped her while the other two held her tightly, preventing any resistance.

Criminals don't obey the law.

Man on FIre

I was re-watching this movie recently, during the cold weather, and I noticed that the date, of the end of the movie was the 16th of December. Parts of this movie are tough to watch, at least for me, but there are scenes that are classic, and the end of the movie is perfect. Anyway, the rest is a retread from a few years back.

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Denzel Washington has made some truly great movies. I think Man on Fire (2004) might be one of those really great movies. It comes close, anyway.

This movie didn't do too well at the box office. Despite only having a $60 million production budget, when you factor in a marketing budget, and the fact that studios only get about half of the box office receipts, this movie likely lost money at the box office. It did make it's money back when you factor in DVD sales and rentals, which reached $123 million, according to the info I could find.

Critics didn't like this movie. The public did. That is reflected in the Rotten Tomatoes scores, where critics gave it a 39% and audiences gave it an 89%. The movie stars Denzel Washington, as John Creasy, and was directed by Tony Scott. Most of the complaints (a lot of them anyway) focus on the fact that the movie is two and a half hours long. If they made it today, it would be over three hours, and that may be a valid complaint. (Action movies need to go back to 90 minutes or so.)

Yes, some of this movie is very predictable, but it has more heart than most action movies can muster. I enjoyed it. Though I didn't sit down and give it my undivided attention. I don't do that much anymore. I had it on while I was doing other things... surfing the web, answering emails, etc.

And given the state of the drek coming out of Hollywood these days, older movies are looking better and better.

This is a small scene from the movie that I particularly like. Christopher Walken is wonderful as Creasy's friend telling the police about his friend; Creasy's art is death.

It Is Almost Like the Australian Authorities WANTED Casualties

There were 4 armed police at Bondi. There is a police station a few blocks away. Why did the shootings continue for 10 or 20 minutes, before a bystander stepped in? When you outsource your security to the government - by Ian

There is video that captures 10 minutes of the attack, and it is not the entire attack.

So, I started looking. Here is the closest police station:

That looks like a couple of blocks to me. 500 metres — more or less — as the crow flies. A distance that my 58-year-old, moderately crippled arse can cover in about four minutes while carrying a 9mm pistol.

So is this cowardice, or something darker? Is this a crisis that they won't let go to waste?

Four armed officers on-scene while two bastards armed with weapons that don’t reload quickly played Whack-A-Mole … and a citizen had to be the one to rush them.

Australia doesn't like the idea of self-defense, but then they need to ensure that they have your defense covered. They don't.

If the government is going to take the right of self-protection away from the citizens, then it is incumbent on that government to actually, you know, provide protection. If the government can’t provide that protection, then get out of the citizen’s way.

They won't. Australia, like Europe, cannot let people protect themselves. It would undermine their entire world view.

This is the Paul Joseph Watson video. Disturbing Questions About The Bondi Beach Attack

Obvious signs of narrative control were in full swing less than an hour after the incident happened with UK Labour MP Lola Makavoy. absurdly insisting that the real takeaway should be that diversity is our greatest strength.

Suicidal empathy will destroy the West.

Mother of Light

Heavy Metal that includes a healthy dose of violins, and lead singers that are classically-trained sopranos always throws people, but that is exactly Symphonic Metal. And one of my favorite Symphonic Metal groups is Epica. That is mostly because I just love Simone Simons' voice.

Here is a link to the lyrics. While I don't have trouble with them, it can be a bit tricky to pick them out if you don't know the song.

This song is "Mother of Light (A New Age Dawns 2)" from the 2015 album Consign to Oblivion (Expanded Edition).

Mississippi Is a Bad Place for Bad Guys

This is the way more violent stalkers should end up. UPDATE: Gulfport man killed during home invasion identified

Two women had restraining orders against this guy. He still broke into where they were living at 7 AM, proving once again that a restraining order is just a piece of paper.

Investigators say one of the women suffered a minor knife wound, but both managed to escape and barricaded themselves in another room of the home.

Police add that the uninjured woman then retrieved a gun and shot the intruder, killing him.

Since this happened in Mississippi, and not in New Jersey, I believe there won't be any charges. Maybe even New Jersey would recognize that this was a clear case of self-defense.

People need to understand the phrase "It's over." They also seem to have trouble with "Get lost!"

Self-defense is a human right, and while I sometimes believe that things could have ended differently, this guy made his choices, and he got the expected result. Not that he expected it. (Hat tip to Breitbart)

The Battle of Lanzerath Ridge

The opening volley of The Battle of the Bulge.

First Lt. Lyle Joseph Bouck, Jr. was commanding the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon attached to the 394th Infantry Regiment of the 99th division. It was the most decorated platoon for a single action in US Army history. 22 men, 18 of Bouck's platoon, and 4 artillery forward observers held up the German offensive for nearly 20 hours. They literally held off hundreds of German soldiers, giving allied forces time to respond to the German Offensive that would later be called the Battle of the Bulge.

On the morning of December 16, 1944 – the first day of the Battle of the Bulge – Bouck’s platoon was in a defensive position, manning observation posts along the right flank of the 99th Infantry Division. They came under heavy fire from the advancing German 6th Panzer Army, later engaging in a 10-hour firefight.

In what later became known as the Battle of Lanzerath Ridge, Bouck knew how important it was to defend the Allied position, given its location along a road to Losheim Gap. He rallied his men together, along with four Forward Artillery Observers from Battery C, Field Artillery, and throughout the firefight moved along their position, despite exposing himself to enemy fire.

This is the WW2 Tales video The 20 Hours 18 American Soldiers Stopped Germany's Entire SS Panzer Army

In 1969, John Eisenhower, son of the former president and himself a military historian of note, published The Bitter Woods, a comprehensive account of the Battle of the Bulge. He included a detailed chapter on Lanzerath, calling it one of the most remarkable small unit actions of the war, but full official recognition was still years away.

The video is 50 minutes long. I cannot embed the video here, but click thru.

Antisemitic Terror in Australia

From Cullen Linebarger at The Gateway Pundit: TERROR DOWN UNDER: Two Terrorists Kill at Least 11, Including Children, at Australia's Bondi Beach During Hanukkah Celebrations in Evil Attack on Jewish Community - Shooters Identified, One Dead (VIDEOS)

One of the worst shootings in Australia’s history unfolded Sunday evening in Sydney as two terrorists slaughtered at least 11 Jewish beachgoers who were celebrating Hanukkah. One of the gunmen is also deceased.

As The Daily Mail reported, two men stepped out of a vehicle on Campbell Parade, near Bondi Pavilion, and opened fire at Bondi Beach at roughly 6.40 pm on Sunday. Witnesses report that more than 30 shots were fired.

But Australia has all of that lovely gun control. I have no idea if self-defense is legal, but it is clearly impossible given the disarmed state of the population.

One of the 2 terrorists was shot and injured, one was killed.

Unconfirmed reports say [the guy who got shot and injured] is a Pakistani immigrant. He was apparently radicalized at some point.

The other gunman was killed at the scene.

If Hollywood Doesn't Care, Why Should We?

So the Warner Bros Studio, or the portion of the studio under the direction of James Gunn, has decided to release a trailer for their upcoming Supergirl movie. It doesn't look good to fans of the comics. There have been many videos produced, here are 2 from people I trust.

First is the Nerdrotic video Superheroes Are COOKED - The Absolute State of Marvel and DC. The title to this post is a quote from Gary B.

DC always had trouble with movies, but the MCU was cooking, for a long time. And then it wasn't.

Disney Marvel decided to go all in on the M-She-U and The Message™, and bypass this thing known as a plan, leading to diminishing returns that should be taught in film schools.

The video is just shy of 20 minutes, so plan accordingly.

Second, we have Critical Drinker's video Supergirl - More Superhero Slop?

Katzenberg on How to Make Movies That Are Successful

A memo from Jeffery Katzenberg, written in 1991, details that big budgets, and spectacle do NOT ensure success in the movie business. Story and character matter.

For those of you who don't know, or don't remember, he started at Paramount, where he oversaw the production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He then went to Disney and was involved with Dead Poets Society, Pretty Woman, and in television he was involved with The Golden Girls, and Home Improvement.

Katzenberg was Chair of the Disney Corp from 1984 to 1994.

The memo says a lot of things, but one of the main things is that blockbuster movies are a trap that studios should avoid.

This is the Film Threat video THE D-FILES 9: JEFFREY KATZENBERG WARNED DISNEY OF ITS DECLINE IN A 1991 MEMO

Your Home Is Not a Free Fire Zone

And you can't just shoot at people because a car alarm is going off. Especially not in New Jersey. Man Shot Rideshare Pickup 3 Times At Howell Home; Now He's Headed To Prison | Howell, NJ Patch

Howell police learned that three teens who were friends with the girlfriend's son were sitting in a vehicle outside the home waiting for their rideshare service. When the rideshare vehicle — a Dodge Ram 1500 pickup — arrived, the three got out of the other vehicle but set off the vehicle's alarm system by accident in the process, authorities said.

So he hears the car alarm going off at 12:30 AM, and his first reaction is to start shooting at the vehicle in his driveway. It is a pickup owned by the rideshare driver.

Even if the guy wasn't there for a legitimate reason, even if he was stealing your car, that is not grounds for the use of deadly force. I don't know how things are where you live, but my criteria is that I need to have an "imminent threat" of death or grave bodily injury. That does not include an imminent threat of auto theft.

I can already see the comments flowing in. "Principle." Or "civilized society." "Hard earned cash/value/whatever." Fine. You do you. I am not in a place like the old west, where if you steal my horse, you have killed me. If you steal my old ass SUV, I will survive. I may swear a lot, but even that won't kill me.

"Let this serve as a reminder to think twice prior to retaliating against a possible intruder," [Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago] said. "The law is particular when you are permitted to use deadly force and this case was not one of them."

Howell, New Jersey is about 25 miles east of Trenton, and about 6 miles inland from the coast. It is about a 65 mile drive northeast of Philadelphia.

Every bullet comes with a lawyer attached. That is true everywhere, but clearly in New Jersey.

Operation Watch am Rhine

Tuesday morning 16 Decemberat 5:30 AM local time, in Bastogne, Belgium, bells will ring, as they do every year. These mark the start of one of the costliest battles in World War II.

Operation Watch am Rhine. The Ardennes Offensive. The Battle of the Bulge. It ran from 16 December 1944 through 25 January 1945.

This is how the National World War Two museum in New Orleans sums up The Battle of the Bulge.

On December 16, 1944, the German army launched a massive offensive in the Ardennes Forest. The Battle of the Bulge would be the largest engagement ever fought by the US Army—and ultimately hasten the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

It gave rise to some things like The Malmedy Massacre, in which eighty-four American POWs were murdered by the German SS.

This is the WW2 Tales video Germans Mocked Americans Trapped At Bastogne — Then Patton's Tanks Broke Through The Snow. It is 45 minutes long, so plan accordingly. I can't embed videos from WW2 Tales, but that link will get you there, and the video is less interesting than the audio in any case.

Winston Churchill addressing Parliament in January 1945 declared, "This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory." Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery admitted, "The Americans at Bastogne wrote one of the finest chapters in military history. Their stand will be remembered as long as men honor courage."

Vincent Sparansa was an American paratroop who brought beer from the local brewery to wounded soldier in Bastogne. The town brewery created Airborne Beer in his honor. Vincent visited the town many times. His last visit was in 2019; he was 96 years old. He gave the following toast

To the boys who didn't come home, to the people who never forgot, to freedom.

For more on the Battle of Bulge from the view point of German Logistical nightmares, see Modern Warfare is Logistical Problem.

CBS Staff Think They Have a History of Journalistic Integrity

They don't. Bari Weiss Named a New CBS News Anchor, and the Response Is the Funniest News Ever

A report late Tuesday in the UK Independent claims that "many staffers at CBS News are not thrilled" with Weiss picking CBS Mornings host Tony Dokoupil to sit in the anchor chair. “It’s an insult to the storied news giants who came before him,” one CBS News reporter told the paper.

That is laughable for one simple reason. Dan Rather, and Ra^thergate.

This is the same network that had to show Evening News anchor Dan Rather the door in 2005 for using laughable forgeries to "prove" that then-President George W. Bush repeatedly went AWOL during his service with the Texas Air National Guard as a fighter pilot.

Rather continues to stand by the story, including during his "return interview" last year on CBS Sunday Morning. He told his old network it was merely "an error made in good faith," even though bloggers in their pajamas were able to spot the forgeries within minutes of Rather airing them.

Rather may be a particularly bad example of partisan meddling masquerading as news coverage, but he isn't the only bad example. Click thru for details. (Hat tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 13 December

The Right Way starts things moving with Top of the News

The reality of self-defense law - American Thinker
Why are Christmas markets suddenly so dangerous? - BlazingCatFur

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

Good. Racism is racism, no matter what color.
They should. But will they?

EBL - White Christmas: Hannah Gill 🎄❄️

White Christmas
AoSHQ: Morning Report 12.11.25

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 12.11.25

Dana Loesch: Erika Kirk Shuts Down Conspiracists – Including Candace Owens
Don Surber: Rebecca Kelly Slaughter is not my president

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 11 December 2025: Elimination Of Process Edition

Cryptographers have proved that AI security will always have holes. (Quanta)
It's a bit like saying colanders will always have holes. Yes. We know.

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Debunking Pearl Harbour revisionism. The death of Europe. America is the Great Satan.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Decolonizing Christmas. Famine in Gaza.

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Transfeminist Academic Propaganda: Feminist Queer Digestion; Transgender Ways Of Knowing; Transfeminist Pregnancy

Having a “different way of knowing” ain’t just for non-White people anymore. The abstract concerning “trans data epistemologies”:

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 12.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Stoic Observations: Early December AI Brain Dump
Jim McCoy: Academy of Outcasts

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 12/12/2025 – Back to The Nation!

Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
Believe it or not, I’m cool with this. As long as before any of this happens we get a full review of the drone strikes by Barry O and Joey Sponge Brains Crapped Pants*.

Vlad Tepes - China moves Pawn to Liberal 171 CHECK – mRNA damage goes mainstream, UK thought crime inescapable, if people actually knew how bad it was: Links 1 for December 12, 2025

3. It is with zero pleasure that we continue to post the emerging realization that the Covid shots are, and do, exactly what we said they are, and do, since nearly day 1. This is NOT schadenfreude or anything approximating it.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - 'Maryland Judge' Springs 'Maryland Man'

So, What's Next? Anxious anxiously reports Trump sanctions Maduro's nephews, 6 ships carrying Venezuela oil. Caribbean News Week hears Guyana say oil tanker seized by US was illegally flying its flag.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 12/11/2025

House Torpedoes Rogue Democrat’s Push to Impeach Trump
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Thursday to table articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, 237 to 140 with 47 Democrats voting “present.”

The Glibertarians - Thursday Afternoon Links

MEANWHILE: Libertarian hero Congressman Thomas Massie introduces bill to withdraw the US from NATO. Now do the UN, please. This is the direction in which we should be moving.

The Vine of Liberty - The Intermittent Missive… Now LESS Intermittent!

Widespread Obamacare Fraud: Phony SSNs Had a 100% Success Rate for Getting Coverage, Investigation Finds

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 12.12.25 (Evening Edition)

Matt Taibbi: Justice Jackson’s Blunt Call For Government by “Independent” Experts
Nebraska Energy Observer: A Bit of History

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

GMU Econ alum Dominic Pino (now a columnist at the Washington Post) offers some basic economics lessons to Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and others who insist that corporate CEOs are overpaid.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday links

Humphrey's Executor On The Ropes
The Somali Grift Isn't Just for Minnesota Anymore

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 12/10/25

Texas already slapped the label on the two groups last month.
Florida Designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: ‘Nearly Every’ Somali Household with Children Is on Welfare in Minnesota

• 'US Citizens Need Not Apply' - David Strom
• Climate Activists Are Pricing Coloradans Out Of Heating Their Homes - Helen Raleigh

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 12/11/2025

Minnesota’s embattled Democrat Governor Tim Walz earned a standing ovation at a party fundraiser in Seattle Tuesday when he promised to bring even more fraud-prone Somali migrants into his state.

I leave you with Wednesday's gifs from Wirecutter, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Wednesday Memes .. from MaddMedic, Signs of the times from Bluebird of Bitterness, and Thursday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place.

People You Know Can Be a Threat

And it appears that self-defense is legal in Nebraska. Charges not filed against Lincoln man accused of fatally shooting brother at Casey’s

The gun-hating part of the Left loves to go on about how if you own a gun, you are more likely to shoot someone you know, than a complete stranger. There is a very good reason for that.

Jarell Wheeler was leaving the store, just as Emanuel Greenwalt-Claypool, was arriving to deliver something.

Based on store surveillance, video and witness statements, police determined that Wheeler came back inside, left and then came back inside again, this time running towards Greenwalt-Claypool with his arm raised.

Given the furtive nature of their prior interactions, this was deemed to be self-defense.

Click thru for more details.

The reason that you are more likely to shoot someone you know, is that complete strangers are less likely to pose a threat. That equation is breaking down, and civilization breaks down, and random street crime spreads everywhere, but people you know can still be an issue.

The list of people you know, is quite large after all, and extends beyond friends and family, to ex-coworkers, ex-romantic-partners, neighbors, and more. Any of them can become stalkers, perceive that you insulted them in some way, etc.

The Left doesn't like to admit this. It is scary to think you might shoot someone you know, but they want you scared of guns, and disarmed because of that fear.

The Lies Told to Women about Carrying Firearms

From Theresa Inacker at News2A we get the following: What is the Deadly Cost of Dissuading Women from Carrying Firearms for Self-Protection? - News2A

Women around the United States, including New Jersey, have been shaken by the recent tragic killing of the 22 year-old Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley. Police have alleged that Riley was murdered by 26 year-old Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, while she jogged on dirt trails. While the killing is politically charged due to the salient immigration issue, it has also resulted in victim-blaming, and a barrage of recommendations for women on how to prevent such an attack.

It is all too common to see gendered violence: women murdered at the hands of men again and again. Responses to Riley’s murder have varied from calls for women to not run or jog alone, to telling women to carry knives or even pepper spray. But what about carrying concealed? Many women do not consider it an option because they have been scared out of it by anti-gun groups, like Moms Demand Action.

A survey of runners, which cite's women's fear of attack is presented, as is also some bad self-defense advice about bear spray.

Sorry to disappoint Professor Hemenway, but carrying bear spray is not lawful in New Jersey. And sorry, definitely NOT sorry, I WILL be carrying my firearm for self-defense, because despite what he says, my life is worth defending.

Click thru for more, including the insanity of gun-free zones (so called, only the criminals are armed, so I call them defenseless-victim zones). The lies told by the anti-gun organizations, and more details on everything above. (Hat tip to Jews Can Shoot.)

Bis in alle Ewigkeit

This song came across one of my playlists/radio stations on the Tidal streaming service. It took me way too long to figure out what song it was a cover of. Other than that, I know nothing about this band.

Here is a link to the lyrics and their translation.

This song is "Bis in alle Ewigkeit (Walhalla)" by Santiano from the 2013 album Mit den Gezeiten. The album name translates as With the Tides, and the song name translates as "To All Eternity (Valhalla)." It is a German-language cover of "All You Zombies" by the Hooters. Sort of. It isn't a translation of the lyrics. See the link to the lyrics.

It is only by coincidence that this coming week is the anniversary of The Battle of the Bulge.

Friday Links - 12 December

The Other McCain starts us off with They’ve Forgotten How Bad It Could Be

Why did people vote for Zohran Mamdani? It’s as if the people of Gotham City elected the Joker as mayor — a nihilistic appetite for destruction as the motivation of a political movement.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Bummer: Climate (scam) Grifters See Layoffs As Bill Gates Money Dries Up

Funny how most of these groups cannot survive without huge amounts of Other People’s money, be it from super rich folks or government

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 10 December 2025: Fascism R Us Edition

Australia is joining a wave of fascist dictatorships around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. (The Verge) (archive site)

I may have changed a word or two there.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - Back to Work on My Gun Culture 2.0 Book: The more scholarly companion to Gun Curious

With Gun Curious behind me, I’m ready to write the scholarly book on Gun Culture 2.0 that I’ve been preparing for all along—one informed by years of research, participant observation, and public engagement.

Impro Guns - Electro-Lord Bullingdon

Improvised firearms confiscated from Londoner accused of plotting to reenact a Shinzo Abe style atrocity at his school.

John R. Lott Jr. at The Federalist - DOJ Lawsuits Against Gun Control Policies Especially Protect The Weak

Gun control laws disproportionately harm minorities, women, and the poor — the people who benefit most from being able to protect themselves.

Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment - Andy Ngo Discusses the First Antifa Terror Convictions

On Dec. 6, I went on Newsmax, while very sick, to discuss my latest reporting on the additional two defendants in the North Texas Antifa terror case who have pleaded guilty in federal court.

Meep at STUMP - Public Pension Asset Shenanigans: New York City on ESG Issues, Maryland Audit on Fees, and CalPERS on Total Portfolio Approach

A look at some top-level public pension investing concerns

Again from Impro Guns - The Men with the Golden Gun (Click thru for photos!)

Two men were caught rocking a Saddam Edition FGC-9 while hauling 68 bricks (approx 70kg) of cocaine through the Brazilian state of Acre yesterday.

Concealed Carry Is Catching on in Chicago

The people of Chicago are learning that they can protect themselves, since the police are increasingly unable to. Chicago PD is underfunded, and not supported by city leadership. Concealed carry permit holder shoots teen after car break-in on Chicago's South Side - CBS Chicago

People were breaking into his car.

The man said one of the people in his car took out a gun. At that point, the man, who had a valid Firearm Owners Identification Card and Concealed Carry License, took out his own gun and fired shots, police said.

A 17-year-old was shot in the arm and the knee. Another person ran to a gray minivan and fled the scene.

The progressive Left in Chicago, by attacking and undermining police, by enabling criminals, are going to find themselves facing a population who no longer believes they owe anything to The Machine, certainly not their votes.

Self-defense is a human right, and it seems to be gaining ground in the People's Republic of Illinois.

The Bombing Crisis in Sweden

What happens when you import the third world into your country? You get third world problems. Children are now BOMBING Sweden - by Peter Imanuelsen

There has been over 170 bombing attacks in Sweden so far in 2025. And there has been a whopping 448 bombing attacks since 2023.

A significant number of those attacks have been carried out by kids under the age of 15.

Click thru for details.

So things are pretty bad in Sweden and the mainstream media is working hard to cover it up.

I'm shocked that they would cover it up.

When a Terror Threat Doesn't Fit the Media Narrative

You won't hear anything about it from the media. Delaware Undergrad Had Machine Gun and Manifesto Targeting Cops | Frontpage Mag

At the University of Delaware, a routine traffic stop turned into something much more significant, and potentially deadly, when a 25-year-old undergraduate student was discovered to have with him a machine gun, over 100 rounds of ammo, an “armored ballistic plate,” and a notebook with details about how he was planning a violent attack on campus police.

And why won't this be trumpeted in the media?

Yet you’re unlikely to hear much about this incident from the establishment media, for the perpetrator was not, to the inconsolable disappointment of leftist “journalists” and policymakers everywhere, one of those “right-wing extremists” that the Biden regime couldn’t stop warning us about. Instead, his name is Luqmaan Khan, and he appears to be intent on proving President Donald Trump correct when he said: “Our country’s at a tipping point. We could go bad. We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.”

Click thru for the details. (Hat tip to J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ: The Morning Report — 12/9/25)

Democrats and Your Electricity Bill

What happens when politicians pretend they understand the engineering and physical constraints behind power generation? Nothing good. From The Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling Electricity Bills, Report Confirms

State policies are a monumental factor in electricity costs, and Democrat-led states have driven prices upward through pushing aggressive mandates and choking reliable power supply, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Research (IER).

The new report, first provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, found that blue states generally have higher electricity costs than red states. Titled “Blue States, High Rates. Electricity Prices: Elections Have Consequences,” IER’s report notes that all but one of the top 10 most expensive states for energy — measured by cost per kilowatt hour — are governed by Democrats.

The article almost touches on reliability, but doesn't quite. When you get enough solar and wind in the mix, keeping the grid stable becomes a nightmare, and then, if you keep adding "renewables" it becomes impossible.

When politicians pretend they understand engineering and physics, or just ignore the engineering and physics, bad things happen. (Hat tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

An Open Door Is Not an Invitation

He was homeless, so of course he was looking for open doors. Man shot in the leg after entering Pueblo home, police say

[Pueblo Police Dept.] said detectives interviewed the homeowner, who reported that he arrived home and noticed that his front door was open and an unknown man was inside. The homeowner reportedly said that he then grabbed his .22 revolver from his bedroom and confirmed that his sister, who also lives at the home, did not know the man either.

Officers said the homeowner reported that he confronted the man, who had a knife in his hand. They said the homeowner reported that he shot the man in the leg and asked his sister to call 911 to report the incident.

Pueblo, Colorado is about 100 miles south of Denver.

The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital, and then to the local jail where he was booked on a charge of second-degree burglary.

This guy is lucky he got shot in the leg with a .22 and not in the head with 9mm. That fact will be lost on him.

Self-defense is a human right, and the police in Pueblo, Colorado seem to be treating this like a legal right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

And the Prize for Idiot of the Decade Goes To...

From Bearing Arms, we get a story of monumental insanity. Florida College Student Arrested for Being Dumbest Gun Owner Possible

In the words of Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon."

If you live in New Jersey but go to college in Florida, I can understand someone wanting to take advantage of the much better gun laws in the Sunshine State. You still have to jump through New Jersey state laws, regardless of where you buy it, but it's a little easier to own any firearm and to enjoy shooting it in the Deep South.

Unless, of course, you're an absolute idiot.

While Florida has some pretty good gun laws, and it probably looks like Nirvana when compared to a freedom-hating state like New Jersey, they still have gun laws. One of those gun laws is, you can't have firearms on college campuses.

He got caught because he ordered 1500 rounds of ammo and had them delivered to his dorm room, which led authorities to find the AR-15 he had hidden under his bed.

I routinely buy ammo in 1000 round lots. It is much cheaper to buy ammo in those quantities, it will last my lifetime, properly stored. Buying boxes of 50 are usually much more expensive per round. It's called economic order quantity.

And you want to be careful when you pick of a box of that much ammo, lest it throw out your back. The weight is mostly in the lead, after all.

And yes, he was, in fact, stupid. Not only did he break the law, but he kept an AR-15 seemingly unsecured under the bed in his dorm room, where just about any moron could find it and do something either stupid or evil with it. Even if it had a gun lock on it, that's a trivial obstacle, and that's what makes him a real idiot.

I think adults should be able to have firearms on college campuses, but I don't make the laws in Florida.

Now maybe this would be the time to challenge that law in the courts. I doubt very much that there was a founding-era law about banning guns from universities.

Polk County, Florida Is NOT Like a Blue City

They still punish criminals in Polk County. Philly youth football players face felonies for stealing sports merch in Florida

A group of eight Philly teenagers who were in Polk County, Florida, to play a youth football championship game were arrested for stealing more than $2,000 worth of merchandise from a Dick's Sporting Goods, law enforcement said on Monday.

According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the eight teenagers, who were all between the ages of 14 and 15 and played for Philly's United Thoroughbreds, entered a Dick's Sporting Goods at Posner Plaza in Davenport at around 10:55 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025.

I guess Philadelphia is one of the many Blue Cities where looting/stealing is no longer a crime. They apparently thought that was the case everywhere.

It isn't.

All eight teenagers were taken to a juvenile detention center in Florida and face two felony charges: retail theft over $750 and conspiracy to commit retail theft, according to the Sheriff's office.

The hat tip for all of this goes to Louder with Crowder: Philly teens attempt to loot a Florida sporting goods store, discover the hard way that Florida actually enforces the law

"Attempted" is the keyword here, because Polk County isn't Philadelphia. Laws are enforced, stealing is frowned upon, and committing crime lands you in jail. The bonus of committing crime in Polk County is having Sheriff Grady Judd roast you [publicly] for it.

Click that 2nd link for a video of Sheriff Grady Judd roasting the kids from Philly.

We here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website appreciate any excuse we have to write about America's Sheriff, if for no other reason than it's an excuse to drop this

The 2nd video at that link is a rap about Grady getting his man every time.

If you're interested in the entire press conference held by Sheriff Grady Judd, see this link.

I'm Old Enough to Remember When Meeting Strangers from the Internet Was a Bad Idea

But then I'm older than dirt. Armed rapist luring women to Woodlawn via dating apps: Chicago police - CWB Chicago

Investigators said the man arranged meetings through the app, led each woman into an apartment, produced a handgun, assaulted them, took their belongings, and used their phones to transfer money from their bank accounts before fleeing.

I don't like to blame victims, but "stupid is as stupid does." Or something.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 10 December

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

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

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 12.08.25

Elizabeth Nickson: Absurdistan Is Resting
First Street Journal: “No one is above the law.” — Joe Biden

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 8 December 2025: Do Not Edition

Why meetings can harm employee well-being. (Phys.org)
Well, they're meeting. That's what they're for.

EBL - "JAP LANGUAGE USEFUL PHRASES" USMC Training Film

Instapundit: Never Forget and Eleven Remain
EBL: Pearl Harbor Tribute, Remember Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor Women

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: The liberal media. A University of Delaware student.
Mohammad Carney’s Canada: Hamas in Toronto. Avi Lewis’s Green New Deal.

Political Hat - News of the Week (December 7th, 2025)

Black Friday Gun Sales Dip Compared to 2024
Black Friday is the biggest sales day of the year, even now in the era of internet shopping. That’s especially true for gun sales because, well, you can’t buy them on Amazon.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Congress Demands Video of Drug Runner Double Tap

Ace reads the NYT: Zelensky's Government "Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption to Fester." "Sounds like Zelensky learned from Tim Walz and Ilhan "Omar" nur." Sundance notes Zelenskyy Met with Starmer, Merz and Macron – Now Heading to Brussels.

Vlad Tepes - Russia seems to be about the same as the UK in terms of freedom of speech and communism, the Global Warming dialectic attack, and competing contradictory narrative attack: Links 1 for December 9, 2025

1. So Russia is getting to be pretty disappointing for those who thought they were not doing exactly what the West is doing.
Please read the analysis at RAIR Foundation.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Oh Noes: Democrats Asked Who Comes First, US Citizens Or Foreign Drug Runners
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 6: Ezra Levant tweeted, “Canadian taxpayers gave Stellantis $15 billion.
“On Wednesday their CEO proudly told Donald Trump they’re putting almost that exact amount into new factories in the USA. Mark Carney is a master negotiator!”

The Glibertarians - Tuesday Morning Links

President Trump Announces $12B in Farm Subsidies
Trump calls for nationwide AI standards, plans executive order

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 12.09.25

Victory Girls: Jennifer Welch: A Chardonnay Democrat Is The True Definition Of Grift
Watts Up With That: Australia’s Electricity Future,

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 12/9/2025

Bill Maher and Ana Kasparian went head-to-head in a fiery clash after he asked the outspoken liberal which Middle Eastern city would tolerate her wearing western clothes.

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “I Have Inherited a White-Supremacist System”
Everyone in the city will suffer from Mamdani’s foolish decision to end homeless camp sweeps

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 12/9/25

For Catholics who like their Christianity with a strong dose of Marxism.
Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Trump’s Best Hope to Likely Avoid Impeachment Runs Through Indiana

• Democrats finally shout FJB - Don Surber
• Homan: 62,000 Migrant Kids Rescued Under Trump Admin - Mary Chastain

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 12/09/2025

Candace alleged France was planning to assassinate her, and there was Foreign Legion involvement in Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and now people have found a guy right near Charlie at the moment of the shooting, and he is wearing a hat that originated just miles from a key Foreign Legion training facility in France.

I leave you with Monday's memes from Wirecutter, Monday Memes from Granite Grok, Tuesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Consequences & Mini$omalia ..............from Rico from Theo Spark, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3203 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.