Buffalo, New York School System Is Covering Up the Abuse of Kids

The School District is of course denying anything is wrong. Buffalo detective accuses Buffalo Public Schools of failing to report abuse in viral YouTube podcast

"Allegedly" should be appened to just about every sentence... you know the school is going to go after anyone and everyone with more energy than they go after the people hurting kids.

School district vehemently denies all allegations in statement

I'm shocked.

Rich Hy, known to the internet as Angry Cops, is a detective in the Buffalo PD Special Victims Unit. In that role, he deals with issues, at the schools. Or he tries to.

A Buffalo police detective is accusing Buffalo Public Schools officials of obstructing investigations into allegations of child abuse and sexual assaults of and among students.

Detective Richard Hy, a 13-year veteran of the Buffalo Police Department who has been on the Special Victims Unit for the past two years, made the allegations on a Texas-based YouTube show called "Unsubscribe Podcast."

He says that the school district is not only NOT cooperating with investigations, but is obstructing investigations.

This is a special edition of Unsubscribe Podcast featuring Angry Cops: Your Kids Are In Danger - SVU Detective Exposes Buffalo School System. It is 38 minutes, but I think it is worth your time.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 30 April

Gatordoug Starts us off with a post I missed on Saturday. WEEKEND LINKS

The Other McCain on objectivity
Daniel Greenfield Then, suddenly
Pirates Cove Trump vs Green Washing

EBL - Chernobyl Explodes

26 April 1986 : Chernobyl Disaster
Onuka

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.28.25

Da Tech Guy: The Media Has Been Reduced to Lying to Themselves
Dana Loesch:The Kilmar Case – The Hill The Democrats Chose

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 29 April 2025: Songbirds And Cockroaches Edition

We didn't get hacked or hit by ransomware. We didn't need to. We run Oracle. (CNBC)
45 hospitals belonging to Tennessee-based Community Health Systems lost access to all their electronic records for five days because... Oracle accidentally deleted them.

Small Dead Aminals - Saturday On Turtle Island

Woke America: Democrats and illegal migrants. Democrat judges.
Lord Carney’s Realm: Chickens for KFC. The Liberal/NDP coalition.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Zelenskyy Meet Over Pope's Dead Body

Sundance at CTH hosts President Trump and First Lady Melania Pay Their Respects During Funeral for Pope Francis, President Zelenskyy Responds to Question Following Trump Meeting

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/28/2025

Tesla Arson Suspect Arrested in Arizona After Fiery Assault on Cybertruck
Police in Arizona arrested a suspected arsonist at a Tesla dealership after he allegedly lit a newly delivered Cybertruck on fire.

The Glibertarians - Saturday Morning Hot Dog Links

See, these are the important issues.
And the blind shall lead the lame…

Political Hat - News of the Week (April 27th, 2025)

Revealed: How China is fuelling Putin’s war
Beyond the detained soldiers, Beijing is sustaining Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine with military supplies

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 8: Zero Hedge reported, “Liberal Media Ditching Food Deserts Term For Far More Inflammatory-Sounding ‘Food Apartheid.’ ”
If that doesn’t work, try Food Hell or Junk Food Heaven.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

How Did Having Babies Become Right-Wing?
Harvard Is an Islamist Outpost. For decades it nurtured resentful leftists, and antisemitism united them in a common cause.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 29 /25

Daniel Greenfield: Hamas supporters can invade Jewish neighborhoods and still play the victim.
Media Blames Jews After Muslim Mobs Attack 2 New York Synagogues

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Move Faster and Break More Things

• Susan Rice and the Hidden Resistance - @amuse • Comparing Biden’s Administration With Trump’s - @defiyantlyfree

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/29/2025

Indian-born Congressman Shri Thanedar (D-MI) files to impeach President Donald Trump. He is bringing forward 7 Articles. He was either an informant or ground surveillance or both for the conspiracy over there, probably from a family line first recruited by British Intelligence.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 04-27-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2533 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, and Mondays..... from Wirecutter.

Journalists Still Struggling With Who Is the Victim

They are also wondering if the person who defended themselves will face charges. Police investigate fatal shooting during carjacking attempt | Stone Mountain | 11 Alive

Just because a bad guy suffered a breakdown of the victim-selection process, and came out on the wrong end of a defensive shooting, that does NOT morph him into a victim. He is still a bad-guy, just not very good at being one.

Just after 6 p.m., officers responded to the scene near Sister 2 Sister Cafe Halal. Once there, they said they found a man who had been shot and who later died from his injuries.

After further investigation, officers said they determined the victim was trying to carjack someone else's car and was shot during the crime.

This person was shot while attempting to carjack someone, and was apparently shot by that someone; He is not a victim. Don't expect journalists to understand this.

Also the reporter, or Professional Journalist (so called) seems confused that there is no word on charges against the person who defended himself. Which shows a disdain for, or ignorance of, legal, self-defense, and a lack of understanding of the criminal justice system works. Police do not have final say about charges. That is the job of the District Attorney.

And while the reporter may be a graduate of a liberal college, Georgia as a whole has not morphed into New Jersey.

Dekalb County, Georgia is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. The county line is about 3 miles east of downtown Atlanta, and roughly one third is inside the Interstate 285 beltway around that city.

Self-defense is a human right, and seems to be mostly your legal right in Georgia.

March Self-Defense Incidents

I have covered some of these, but not all. 11 Defensive Gun Uses Cases in March That Saved Would-Be Victims

The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use during crimes that we found in March.

And there is a link to a defensive gun use database, which I will be investigating.

Ai Giochi Addio

"Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet", also known as "A Time for Us", is an instrumental piece. It was arranged by Henry Mancini based on the music from the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet.

Italian lyrics were added at one point, under the name "Ai Giochi Addio," and that song has been recorded by several people including Luciano Pavarotti. So it is more well known by that name in Italy. Apparently.

This is "Ai giochi addio" which translates from Italian as "Goodbye to the games." It is performed by Fausto Mesolella, an Italian guitarist, featuring Ferdinando Ghidelli, though I'm not sure what instrument he is playing. It is from the 2013 album Live Ad Alcatraz.

Tuesday Links - 29 April

Stately McDaniel Manor is first with The Second Civil War #78: Rogue Judges

Our courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, wield authority only because Americans are willing to abide their rulings so long as they think the Court rational, law-abiding and trustworthy. If the courts throw away that trust, their edicts mean nothing.

Miguel Gonzalez - I made it to the NRAAM ... in spirit.

I am truly proud to be of service for Appleseed. Thay are a great teaching source which should be replicated all over the country.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 26 April 2025: Murmuration Edition

What this country needs is a really good $20,000 electric truck. Apparently. (The Verge) (archive site)

I mean, given what vehicles cost these days, it's worth a shot.

Meep at STUMP - Chicago and Illinois Update: Salary Sweeteners, Begging for Revenue, and Pensions Pensions Pensions

Let me break into Vatican coverage (and I have two posts more on that at least), let me look at my favorite chew toy(s): Chicago and Illinois.

Moonbattery - Union Jack and Cross Regarded as Enemy Insignia

Under rule by leftists like Two-Tier Keir Starmer, the British government is the enemy of the British people, which it is systematically eradicating through displacement. This has created the ironic situation whereby the flag that officially represents it is regarded by the government as enemy insignia, because it more properly represents the British people.

SiGraybeard - Another Interesting Possibility

I'd heard of the Antikythera mechanism before, but hadn't thought about it in longer than I can recall. It turns out to be rather interesting for a few reasons. It's an ancient Greek device recovered in 1901 from a shipwreck in the Greek Islands dated to approximately 100 BCE give or take 30 years. The most succinct description of it might be that it's the world's oldest analog computer. The "world's oldest" by a thousand years.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: The Cost of Victory

In other news, because I wasn’t paying attention, I wound up with five extra copies of Eric Weathers’ Battle Brick Road #2, the second book in his SF retelling of L. Frank Baum’s classic tale. These are all Cover A, and one has a mini-poster with other extras. That one is $25; the rest are $20, including media mail shipping. E-mail me if you’re interested.

Tam at View From The Porch - Angry Bees

Between Ruger slashing the manufacturer's suggested retail price on their Ruger-5.7 to a hair under five and a half bills (which means street prices will be under five hundo) and KelTec's PR57 going for under four, this brings pricing on 5.7x28mm handguns well into the "everyman" tier.

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: The Long View

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Grizzly Bear in Montana

This time the bear was not killed. Anglers charged by grizzly bear in Centennial Valley

Two guys were fishing in bear country.

Two people who were fishing were reportedly charged by a grizzly bear Monday, April 21, 2025, at Red Rock Creek on Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.

The bear charged through thick brush, and one of the anglers shot at the bear in self-defense. Fortunately, the anglers were able to leave the area uninjured. It’s unknown whether the bear was injured.

It is unlikely that the bear was injured since the fisherman were more interested in leaving that taking an aimed shot. Game wardens searched the area and found nothing.

Refuge staff with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have issued a temporary closure of a section of Red Rock Creek for public safety

Seems like a good choice.

So what gun for Grizzly? I'm thinking some in the long version of the BFR, which contrary to popular belief does not stand for Big F-ing Revolver. Or would something bigger be required, like an AR-10 pistol? Not that I am ever going to end up in grizzly country.

The bear in the photo is not related to this story.

Do You Really Think Journalists Understand the Physics of Electric Vehicles?

A typical journalist hasn't taken a science course since high school, probably didn't do too well, and thought it was stupid. "When am I going to use this?" The only difference for math, is that they may have been required to take a math course in college, though even that is doubtful today.

Well, since they only pretend to be experts in stuff they report on, they haven't thought about science, even when writing about science and engineering.

Leith van Onselen at Macrobusiness has an article that points that out. EV battery hype fails basic physics

The latest greatest announcement that someone has developed a battery that can be charged in 5 minutes, or whatever. But what they haven't announced is the electricity grid that can provide that power.

Australia cannot achieve these types of charging times in practice; they are purely theoretical.

Why? Because of the inextricable link between the power of a charger and the duration required to charge an EV battery.

Existing Australian infrastructure also cannot achieve the necessary electricity throughput to charge an EV battery in five minutes. To do so at scale would require hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in new poles, high-capacity wires, transformers, substations, etc, which is cost-prohibitive.

That doesn't even cover the issue of load balancing on the grid, which is something grid operators are already struggling with given the problems introduced by solar and wind.

The article does mention the problems of cold-weather charging that EV batteries face, and notes that the latest breakthrough does achieve charging at -10 degrees Celsius. Which is cold by some standards, but not Midwestern standards. -10 degrees Celsius is +14 degrees Fahrenheit. As far as I can tell they still haven't addressed temperatures in the -20 degrees Fahrenheit range.

This the MGUY Australia video Fast Charging: The SIMPLE fact EV zealots ALWAYS forget.

Spanish Blackout - Net Zero or a “Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon”

Personally I'm betting on Net Zero infrastructure. From Iowa Climate Science Education: Days after Spain reaches 100% renewable, mass blackouts hit, due to mysterious “rare atmospheric phenomenon”

Is this the Net Zero world we’re aiming for?

It could be a coincidence, but Spain’s grid ran entirely on renewables for the first time on April 16th. Less than two weeks later, at lunchtime Monday Spain and Portugal and even parts of France suffered massive cascading blackouts. Thirteen gigawatts of electricity, about half the grid, suddenly disappeared at 12:30pm. Trains were halted, and people were stuck in dark subway tunnels. A tennis tournament was stopped, flights were cancelled and diverted, and prosaically, as an emblem of the Western World, Spain’s nuclear plants shut too, and are now running on diesel back up.

The climate folks are sure it was nothing but a strange weather phenomenon. It couldn't be that Net Zero doesn't work. Or could it? And do we believe the Green-Powers-That-Be when they say "coincidence?"

Notably, Spain has one of the highest proportions of renewable power in Europe — with 50% of the national supply coming from pure unreliable power. Spain has 32 GW of solar power, and 32GW of wind turbines. As it happens, the wind turbines have been largely useless for the last 24 hours. The Telegraph is reporting that solar power was providing almost 60% of Spain’s power two hours before the blackout.

And here is a fact that proponents of solar don't like to advertise. Solar panels become LESS efficient when they get hot. Since most of them are black or dark blue, this is an issue on a sunny day. I forget what the temperature is that most panels are rated at, but I think it is a panel temperature of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Note that is not air temperature. On a 60 degree day, those black panels will be much warmer when they have been in direct sun for a few hours. As the panels get warmer, they produce less electricity.

And the extreme temperature event... it was reported to be 23 degrees Celsius in Spain today. That is roughly 73 degrees for those of you who don't speak International System of Units. In other words, it was a beautiful day in Spain. Except for the power outage, which killed trains, closed airports, shut off refrigerators, etc.

Does DEI Lead to Death?

From The Other McCain we get an update on the recent helicopter/airliner collision in Washington D.C. Death by ‘Equality’

There is a lot left unsaid in the New York Times article which, it should be obvious, is primarily intended to obscure the fact that (a) the crash was caused by pilot error and (b) the pilot was female.

Do not accuse me of saying something I’m not saying, i.e., that this particular crash happened because the pilot was female, or that there is no such thing as a qualified female pilot. Every day, hundreds of successful flights are made by female pilots, including military pilots.

There is more, like the fact that she didn't follow an air-traffic control directive to change course.

He notes more than once that we don't know DEI and double standards had a role in the crash, but the fact that DEI exists causes people to wonder if there are double standards. In other words, DEI hurts the very people that it claims to help.

GO read the whole thing.

Peacefield

It is good to know about new music. And this is the newest, from a band that I like quite a bit.

Ghost manages to be fairly controversial, which they play into. The controversy is mostly from people who only look at the theatrics, and don't bother about the lyrics.

This is what Metal Hammer had to say about this song in there current tour:

The room buzzes with transfixed glee, as Ghost open the set with the entirely new Peacefield, a glossy 80s-coded anthem that lands somewhere between Journey and Kiss.

This song is "Peacefield" by Ghost. It was released as single on the 22nd of April ahead of the release of the album Skeletá , which came out on Friday, the 25th. They did play the song in their current tour, Skeletour, which started on the 15th.

"Lefties Losing It" from Down Under

I love Lefties Losing It from Sky News. Usually I don't post the videos because they are longer than most people have the patience to endure, but this one has a couple of things worth it. The first 4 minutes are about some musical "superstars." Katy Perry and Beyoncé get roasted, and then we get a short video of Kneecap praising the October 7th terror attack in Israel.

After that we get a Lefty, professor and lawyer Andrew Weissmann. [4 minutes and 11 seconds in.] There is a video comparing Weissmann's reaction to when Trump was arrested ("No one is above the Law") to his reaction when a leftist, activist judge is arrested ("You don't do that").

The 20 minutes finishes with a discussion of Blue-Suit-Gate, and how Trump never wears black. While the whole thing is good, I really am only recommending the first 5 minutes or so.

This is Lefties Losing It from Sky News from Monday morning, or maybe it Tuesday already in Australia. Lefties Losing It: Katy Perry goes from pop icon to laughing stock

Lefties Losing It seems to show up on Sky News at least once every day of the work week, though they may skip a day from time to time. If the Left is being particularly insane, they will have a few of videos on any given day.

If You Break Into Homes...

Eventually, you will run into an armed homeowner. Henry County Sheriff says homeowner shot intruder in face. That will ruin your day.

A little before 2 a.m. [Friday, April 25th], deputies were called to a home in the 9300 block of South 175 East after a homeowner called 911. The homeowner said a suspicious male was banging on his windows and doors and trying to gain entry to the house.

The suspect allegedly busted out a window and attempted to crawl into the residence but was met with the barrel of a gun.

Henry County, Indiana is roughly a 60 mile drive east of downtown Indianapolis.

The guy who got shot is listed in stable condition, though he had to initially be airlifted to a trauma center.

While the investigation will go on for some time, Indiana has a long history of respecting the right of self-defense.

Given all of that, you have to wonder what compelled this guy to break into a home.

Self-defense is a human-right.

Phishing-as-a-Service Is Now AI Enabled

AI is making some people's lives easier, just not what we needed to be easier. Darcula adds AI to its DIY phishing kits to help would-be vampires bleed victims dry: Because coding phishing sites from scratch is a real pain in the neck. And no, that is not a typo.

Darcula, a cybercrime outfit that offers a phishing-as-a-service kit to other criminals, this week added AI capabilities to its kit that help would-be vampires spin up phishing sites in multiple languages more efficiently.

You can use Dracula to set up fake sites for legitimate businesses by just pointing the AI-enabled software at a legitimate site. It will even translate the resulting fake site into multiple languages for you, so you can attack people anywhere in the world.

"This addition lowers the technical barrier for creating phishing pages, enabling less tech-savvy criminals to deploy customized scams in minutes," Netcraft analyst Harry Everett said in a Thursday report.

AI generated emails, clogging up the internet, filtered out by AI spam bots. Fake, AI generated sites, and related phishing campaigns. And that doesn't even touch on the problems with search.

The internet was nice while it lasted.

When Does Zero-Tolerance Not Mean Zero-Tolerance? When You Work for the BBC

Dozens of BBC staff KEEP their jobs after being found guilty of bullying and harassment | Daily Mail Online

Dozens of staff at the BBC have kept their jobs after being found guilty of bullying and harassment despite the corporation's 'zero-tolerance' promise.

I'm shocked - Shocked I tell you! - to discover that a Lefty organization like the BBC doesn't mean what it says about topics dear to Lefties. </sarcasm>

In other words, they're just a bunch of virtue-signalling hypocrites.

The findings come eight years after the inquiry into BBC bullying and harassment sparked by the Jimmy Savile scandal.

And Jimmy Savile didn't stop at "bullying and harassment." He was a sexual abuser, and the BBC apparently protected him for decades. The BBC denies that of course. Which basically means they're not evil, just incredibly stupid.

Paul Siegert, broadcasting organiser at the National Union of Journalists, said: 'Many of those accused are managers and the BBC are scared to dismiss them because they are worried about the negative publicity. Often those guilty leave quietly with a payoff, a wholly unacceptable way of cracking down on inappropriate behaviour.'

Bad publicity? The avoidance of bad publicity seems to be a common thread in the UK about coverups of bad behavior.

Go read the whole thing.

Pakistan v India

Lone Star Parson brings us War Drums

You no sooner take a putative day off than two nuclear powers, Pakistan and India are at it, and then some. Maybe you've followed the story, which goes something like this. Pakistani Moslems went Jihad on Indian, Hindu, tourists in Kashmir. They killed quite a few, in a typical act of Moslem butchery.

India didn't like this and started bulldozing mosques, good call, take note Texas, and deporting Pakistanis. Sorry, Moslems, you've got to go. Pakistan didn't like this and has apparently closed its airspace to India. Not to be outdone, India's closed the Indus dam to Pakistan, cutting off the radical Moslem country's water. Here endeth a 1960s treaty.

I haven't been completely tied into the news this week, but I've still seen more about President Trump wearing a blue suit to the Pope's funeral than about a potential war between nuclear powers.

Another Lie About President Trump

A lie of omission is still a lie. The media freaked out because President Trump wore a blue suit to Pope Francis's funeral, but they forgot to mention a few others who did the same | Not the Bee

The media freaked out - or pretended to - because Trump wore a blue suit to the Pope's funeral. The had a photo that implied he was the only one, and made a point of noting that the Vatican had wanted people to wear black suits.

Trouble was, in usual media fashion, they cropped the photo. If you look at the crowd, you will see, that he was not alone. But the truth doesn't let them bitch and moan. See the image below.

It really is about 40% of this picture who is wearing a blue suit.

But if you read the media headlines you'd think it was only Trump.

And because my mind is like a pinball machine, this scene from Supernatural sprang to mind.

If you have to stoop to badly cropping photos to have some way to attack Trump, you have lost the way.

And what is almost absent from "news" coverage, is that Joe Biden, also wore a blue suit. Is the media really confused about why no one trusts a word they say?

A Story of a Bridge That Didn't Collapse

Infrastructure is still interesting. Well, it is interesting to me anyway.

The Washington Bridge in Rhode Island crosses Seekonk River from Providence to East Providence. It carries Interstate-195. Due to the problems uncovered in an inspection, the westbound span of the bridge was closed on December 11, 2023. (That is not a typo; the bridge has been closed more than a year.) There is a "rush" effort to demolish the impacted portions and get a contract to replace the bridge.

As Grady points out in the first video, this is basically a win. Sure, it would have been nice to replace the bridge without it being under emergency conditions, but the bridge did not fall down. No one was injured or killed. Usually when I write about bridges, it is because something has failed catastrophically.

This first video is from Practical Engineering. This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse. This video goes into the design of the bridge (it was a 1950s bridge built to coexist with a historic bridge.) How the design decisions made inspections difficult, and what eventually happened. It is a 20 minute video.

This is a video from YouTube channel Casey Jones - Professional Engineer titled Broken for Years! - Washington Bridge in Rhode Island. Casey Jones has some issues with the folks in charge of bridge safety in Rhode Island. This is a video that covers some statements by RIDOT, as well as analysis of vibration and movement patterns in the bridge. Is RIDOT lying to people? You judge. It is a 19 minute video.

I'm Going to Miss Law and Order When They're Gone

"Cops have the best drugs" used to be something of a joke. Chicago police recruit busted with 8 grams of crack cocaine during narcotics search training at the academy: report - CWB Chicago

A Chicago Police Department recruit was taken into custody after another recruit found bags of real crack cocaine in his pants pocket during a narcotics arrest training scenario, according to an internal report reviewed by CWBChicago.

Upon being confronted about the eight baggies of crack found in his cargo pants pocket, the 24-year-old allegedly replied, “These aren’t my pants.”

This actually reminds me of the scene late in A Clockwork Orange where Alex meets his two criminal friends who are now cops. "Two jobs, for two of job age."

But then the Left has been working to eliminate law and order from Chicago, and the other Blue Cities, for years now. It is not surprising that they are succeeding in that one thing.

Intel in the News

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony has some news about Intel. Daily News Stuff 25 April 2025: Rickle Pick Edition

Intel has officially announced its plans to fire all the useless freeloaders and force employees to actually show up at the office and do their jobs. (Tom's Hardware)|

Employees will be required to be in the office four days a week starting in September, a goal likely easier to achieve when the company is also expected to be firing 20% of its workforce.

I'm sure they will all be distressed.

And then it looks like AI might not quite be what Intel thought it was going to be.

Meanwhile Intel's current-generation and AI-focused chips just aren't selling. (Tom's Hardware)

But cheaper, previous generation chips are selling, particularly the 14th-generation parts.

Who would have thought that people don't want AI running on their PCs, watching everything they do.

There is more tech news, and a musical interlude. ("Lovecats" by The Cure. Released as a single in 1983 and then included in the compilation album Japanese Whispers in December of that year.)

A Lone Star Parson Musical Interlude

Lone Star Parson has a musical post: Dam Hippies Stole My Sailboat

Yeah, you think they're friends, then they steal your dam boat.

Click thru for a rare live recording of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performing "Down By the River" in 1970.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 26 April

Animal Magnetism starts things off with Animal’s Hump Day News

I’ve been saying this for years.
RFK file released.
After endless court challenges, maybe.

The Right Way - Top of the News

Kristi Noem Robbed at DC Restaurant - Bongino Report
Doom Today: Scientists May Possibly Have Underestimated Climate Doom - The Pirates Cove

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.23.25

Upstream Reviews: Looking Marvel-ous? also, Prospero Lost
Cedar Sanderson: Tracking The Rain

EBL - Larry David and Bill Maher : My Dinner With Adolf

Instapundit: Celebrity Angst and PJ Media: Larry David
Wrestle Mania 2025?

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trade War De-Escalation Ahead?

Atop Da Hill, Pritzker orders Illinois to boycott El Salvador over Abrego Garcia’s detention. TownHall's Guy Benson hears Dems: You Know, This 'Maryland Father' Story Is Political Gold for Us.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 04.24.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Don Surber: Trump vs. the imperial judiciary
Matt Taibbi: A Recap Of Trump’s First Three Months,

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Lord Carney’s Realm: The sleazy Liberals. Carney is not fit to be prime minister. A federal report.
Woke America: Trying to run Teslas off the road. Hamas in NYC.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/23/2025

Gov. Newsom’s $750M Gift to Hollywood Donors
Ben Affleck recently complained that California “came to take this industry for granted a little bit.”

Vlad Tepes - On Tamara Lich and the state of Western nations measured by their responses to Islamic terror: Links 1 for April 24, 2025

2. JD Vance exposes one of the purposes of the ‘Global Warming’ dialectical scam
3. Paul Joseph Watson demonstrates that Germany is exactly where Great Britain is in terms of a dialectic state, rather than one ruled by law.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.24.25 (Evening Edition)

Transterrestrial Musings: Reforming NASA, also, Faking Pr0n
Victory Girls: 60 Minutes Producer Quits, Cites Loss Of Journalistic Independence, also, Yale Derecognizes Students For Justice In Palestine Chapter After Latest Protests

The Glibertarians - Winston’s Mom Does the Links.

Eliminating student debt was the wrong thing to do. Although making it clear art majors with unpaid balances that somehow disappeared, and suddenly reappear just warms my cold, dead heart. It might get bad when enough of them default.

Once again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.25.25

Shot In The Dark: Lucky’s Gonna Lucky
The Political Hat: Free to Choose Friday – I, Pencil
This Ain’t Hell: VA Home Benefit Cancelled

Maggie's Farm - Friday morning links

New Evidence Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Drops... And It’s Bad
Germany Downgrades Growth Outlook, Now Expects Recession For Record 3rd Year, Blames Trump

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 23 /25

The fire was just 5% contained by 8 p.m. Tuesday evening.
Massive Fire Rages In New Jersey; Thousands Evacuated

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: What Is Democratic Legality?

• The Trump Feint Doctrine - W.C. Dispatch
• Trump’s Fight To Fire Leftist Bureaucrats Is A Supreme Battle Worth Fighting - M.D. Kittle

I leave you with Your mid-week memes from Wirecutter, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2525 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and

Self-Defense Is Legal in Tennessee

And a bad guy is dead. Police reveal details in Crockett County shooting that left 1 dead - WBBJ TV

“The Crockett County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call, indicating that a male subject had been shot in her residence,” said Stephen Sutton, public information officer for CCSD.

The preliminary investigation revealed the male subject was armed with a knife and a gun. Allegedly, he assaulted the female subject and she shot him.

And this is how I wish more domestic violence situations would end, with the bad guy shot.

Crockett County, Tennessee is about an 80 mile drive northeast of Memphis.

The investigation is still going on, and Crockett County has called on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for assistance. An autopsy has been ordered, so it will likely be some time before the dust settles on this case.

But we can say that self-defense is a human right.

The Highest Grossing Films - Not What You Think

When Hollywood talks about the highest grossing films today, they (almost) never calculate inflation. That would make them look bad, because films that were shown when the admittance to a theater was a few cents, or a couple of bucks, beat out all, or nearly all of the stuff that they produce today.

This video is interesting, to me anyway, because it shows those highest grossing movies from 1930 to 2022. And it includes a bunch of movies I used to watch on WGN's Family Classics when I was kid, like Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, and The Sea Wolf. And even the stuff that fell off the list in the 1980s or '90s was interesting, like Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.

A number of early Disney classics are on the list for a while, like Fantasia, or Bambi. Even Song of the South was on the list for a LONG time. Makes you wonder why Disney forgot everything they ever knew about making films. Oh yeah. They fired all of the old guys before they could train the younger generation, not that the current generation thinks they have anything to learn.

The number of classics that live on the list for a while, aside from Gone with the Wind (the overall winner) was amazing. We get things like Casablanca (briefly) and The Ten Commandments and Doctor Zhivago. All good to great movies.

This is the video Highest Grossing FILMS (Adjusted for Inflation) from SMail.

Puttin' Out The Fire

Dorothy is a band headed by Dorothy Martin. Sometimes she sounds metal, but often the music reminds me of old school Rock & Roll. I don't think it matters much, but I think this song sounds more like Rock.

This song is "Puttin' Out The Fire" by Dorothy from her March 2025 album The Way.

Friday Links - 25 April

SiGraybeard is first with some news from NASA like we don't usually get these days, news about a deep space probe, that includes a photo. Lucy visits another asteroid

The flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson along the way to Jupiter's L4 Trojan asteroids was passed this past weekend, on Easter Sunday, April 20.

Stephen Green at Instapundit on the Climate Crazies Latest Brainstorm - WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

UPDATE (From Ed): Why are the Brits trying something so crazy that Barry O. himself refused to implement it, even at the height of Hopenchange fever, when his administration could have done pretty much anything they wanted to do?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 23 April 2025: Let A Thousand Lawsuits Bloom Edition

Intel is reportedly also planning to lay off 20% of its staff. (Bloomberg) (archive site)

That's... Less good.

Chicago Contrarian - Chicago Is Safer Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke

Expect the Cook County Jail population to continue to grow as Burke removes and keeps dangerous and habitual criminals off the street. Thus far, Burke has demonstrated a firmer stance on violent crime than her predecessor. Monthly admissions for people ordered detained increased 47 percent as of the end of March, compared with admissions the month prior to her taking office. Admissions for domestic battery saw the largest increases, 81 percent.

The Gateway Pundit - Explosive Report Alleges Election Sabotage in Germany: Dead Voters, Missing Ballots, and No ID Checks

The complaint asserts that the 2024 Bundestag election, which resulted in a narrow victory for the globalist Christian Democrats over the insurgent, anti-establishment Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), was marred by a series of “avoidable electoral errors” that, according to Luthe, may have altered the outcome of the vote.

Professor David Yamane at Light Over Heat - "The most powerful lobbying group in Washington is. . ."

NOT the National Rifle Association, contrary to popular belief

The Other McCain - The True Definition of ‘Objectivity’

Why have so many journalists become ill-disguised political activists? Because they have made the mistake of caring, that’s why.

To be truly objective, you have to be able to get enough distance from your personal feelings in order to concentrate on the Three Rules of Journalism: Accuracy, accuracy and accuracy.

Impro Guns - .410 pocket pipe

A man in West Harris County, Texas accidentally shot himself yesterday while carrying this thing.

He "appeared to be under the influence of drugs."

Proving again that drugs really are hazardous to your health. They make people do stuff that is likely to result in getting shot. Chino break-in suspect strips naked after being shot by homeowner, police say | FOX 11 Los Angeles

He broke into a home at two o'clock in the afternoon, and found an armed homeowner. He got shot by the husband, and then the wife called 911.

When officers got there, they found the break-in suspect, who they identified as Svens Sokolovskis of Whittier. Sokolovskis was naked, and according to officers, "appeared to be under the influence of drugs."

Chino, California is at the western end of San Bernadino County, about a 35 mile drive east of downtown Los Angeles.

He was arrested and taken to the hospital. He will be charged when he is released.

While the investigation is still going on, there was no mention, even by the Professional Journalist™ of charging the homeowner, because even in Deep Blue California, self-defense is a human right. I won't comment on whether or not it is your legal right in that state.

Never Again - What It Means

Dictators always start with confiscating guns. Whether in Germany or in China or any other dictatorship, dictators don't want the population armed.

We have a couple of stories about "Never Again" from Jews Can Shoot. First up: Never Again Means Armed: A Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter Warns America

The Day the Nazis Took the Guns

Picture Berlin, 1933. A Jewish shopkeeper keeps a hunting rifle above his mantel. It’s legal. Registered. Symbolic of a father’s duty to protect his family.

Then one night, Hitler’s brownshirts—the SA—kick in his door. “Jews can’t be trusted,” they snarl, and rip the rifle from his hands. His permit? Worthless. His rights? Revoked. His home? No longer his sanctuary.

By 1935, the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship—and their right to bear arms. In 1938, the German Weapons Act banned Jews from owning guns, ammunition, even ceremonial daggers. Just days after Kristallnacht, a Nazi decree demanded all remaining Jewish weapons be surrendered—or else.

The other part of Never Again is understanding what is happening. Yom HaShoah: Never Again Is Now

April 23rd was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Did America remember?

This year, remembrance comes with burning clarity. On October 7, 2023, we witnessed the unthinkable again. 1,200 Jews were massacred — in their homes, on the roads, at a music festival. Babies murdered. Families were burned alive. Women raped, mutilated, and paraded. Jews hunted again.

And once again, the world watched. And then blamed us.

They told us Never Again. But the moment it happened again, the world rushed to explain it away. To rationalize it. To soften the horror, because it was Jews.

After the SCOTUS ruling said that the Trump Administration can't deport terrorists and their supports, Jews were prevented from entering the campus at Yale University. So much for due process.

Gators in the News

Not the University of Florida sports team, but the reptiles. It is springtime, and the gators are on the move.

First we have a story about a quick-thinking wife. Man, 84, Was Gardening When He Was Attacked by an Alligator. This Is How His Wife Saved His Life

Joe Roeser was spreading mulch near a pond that was close to their house in Sun City when an alligator reached for him from the water, NBC Palm Springs, ABC News and WJCL 22 News reported. His wife, Marian Roeser, then struck the reptile with a tomato stake until her husband was free, according to the outlets.

"I just grabbed the closest thing I could find — a tomato stake — and started attacking the alligator's eyes and head," Marian said, according to a police report cited by ABC News. "I knew I had to do whatever it took to save my husband."

He is in the hospital with leg and arm wounds, but is expected to recover.

This is not quite a Florida Man story. Jacksonville man captures alligator from patio using trash can

The woman was letting her dog outside her Jacksonville home when she noticed a seven- to eight-foot-long alligator hiding behind a garbage bin.

Local animal trapper Mike Dragich came to the rescue, cancelling his Easter dinner plans and improvising by using a trash can to catch the reptile.

Not just some rando with a trash can, but someone who knew what he was doing. They relocated the alligator.

And lastly, some video. ‘Only in Florida’: Alligator Rings Doorbell Before Trying to Enter Home

I first saw this video on social media earlier in the week.

An American home’s doorbell camera footage shows two alligators trying to enter the property. One of the reptilian visitors is seen attempting to, and seemingly succeeding in, ringing the bell, before chaotically failing to open the door, while the other hangs back in relative inactivity.

Remember, The alligator has the right of way.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

I wonder if the donut shop is popular with the police. Armed robbery suspect shot, killed by Clinton Twp donut store worker | FOX 2 Detroit

This story has been stuck in my drafts folder for two months. Not sure how that happened, but it is still worth a look.

At 12:45 p.m. male suspect armed with a firearm allegedly demanded cash inside Golden Donuts, 34155 Harper Avenue. The employee then pulled out a handgun and shot the robbery suspect.

Police say the suspect, in his mid-30s, fled in a vehicle and was found inside his crashed SUV at the Sunoco gas station at 15 Mile and Harper. He was transported by ambulance where he died at the hospital.

Clinton Township is about a 25 mile drive northeast of downtown Detroit.

Michigan has adopted a fairly favorable view of self-defense since they legalized concealed carry. At least one sheriff even admitted that concealed carry made things better, and not worse, as he had been on record predicting before that law passed.

The Breakdown of the Family

At least in Chicago. The parents are to blame for raising such men. Man gets 4 years for shooting younger brother he was 'tired of' - CWB Chicago

Brown woke his brother up around 2 a.m., stated, “I’m tired of you,” and shot him in the chest and arm, prosecutors claimed at the time. He then instructed his younger brother not to tell anyone about the shooting, prosecutors said.

Instead, the boy got up and asked his mom to call 911. When police arrived, Brown was covering his brother’s wounds with a blanket.

Family has disagreements, but when family turns to firearms to settle those disputes, the family has been destroyed. So the Left has achieved that much, at least in the inner cities. Life means nothing.

If he was willing to kill his own brother, what do you think he would be willing to do to a perfect stranger?

As these stories often do, this story has reminded me of the poem "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats. The entire text of the poem, it isn't long, and can be found at the link. The part I always think of is...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

It was written in 1919, after the First World War. Go read the whole thing.

Nothing Is Ever the Fault of the Woke

They are completely without responsibility for whatever they do. Exclusive | NYC woman charged in Cybertruck hate crime is woke therapist

Natasha Cohen has been charged with a hate crime.

The Brooklyn woman accused of leaving a brick scrawled with a swastika and the word “Nazi” on a parked Tesla is a super-woke family therapist who was involved in criminal justice diversion programs — and blamed Elon Musk for her heinous actions as she was taken into custody.

Insert a clip of Flip Wilson here, saying, "The Devil made me do it."

She also dumped a bag of garbage on the Cybertruck. There is video evidence.

Neighbors are mystified.

Said another neighbor: “Who does something like that?”

A crazy person does something like that. Are you shocked that a crazy person would become a therapist?

Aside from her terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and a side order of Elon Derangement Syndrome, she didn't explain how "Elon made me do it," was a rational response to seeing a truck owned by someone who is not Elon.

I miss living in a civilized society, populated by rational people.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 23 April

William Teach at Pirate's Cove had a holiday post. Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup – Happy Easter

10. neo-neocon: The left’s dubious heroes
11. Moonbattery: Kansas Pulls Electric School Buses for Safety Reasons

EBL - American Revolutionary Song: The Liberty Song

American Corner: Lexington and Concord
Hot Air : One if by land, two if by sea...

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 04.21.25

Don Surber: Wasting Away In Margarita Gate,
First Street Journal: Easter Monday, also, Requiescat in Pace, Pope Francis

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 21 April 2025: Skilled And Unaware Of It Edition

Resist eggheads! (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica has noticed that people have finally woken up to the communist takeover of the education system and is desperate to put them to sleep again, by force if necessary.

Vlad Tepes - VIdeo correction, Trevor Loudon on Oz, Taxing your equity, United Church goes to endgame, Sam Cooper exposes Carney’s execution of Chinese election strategy and more: Links 1 for April 21, 2025

1. Trevor Loudon on the current Australian PM
A public meeting was held in Victoria where even if you had a valid ticket, they wouldn’t let you in if you were a White Australian but would if you were Chinese or East Asian appearance.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

Um, how can I put the delicately? Oh, go fuck yourself.
“I’ll go back to slaughtering you on Monday.”

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 6: PJ Media reported, “In a Monday night letter, William J. Pulter, director of the U.S. Federal Housing Agency, referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Department of Justice for prosecution of mortgage fraud.”

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Maryland Man Meets "Maryland Man"

Trump Team Performed a Masterclass in Obliterating This Narrative About the Deported Illegal Alien. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson "Tom Homan makes an absolute FOOL out of Kaitlan Collins on live television. She is just a walking L at this point

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 4/19/2025

The Czech Republic will no longer be importing oil from Russia, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday at the opening ceremony for a new connection to the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL) in Nelahozeves in the north of the country.

Political Hat - News of the Week (April 20th, 2025)

AI proves that fingerprints are not unique, upending the legal system
Fingerprint analysis has been a dependable tool in crime-solving for more than a century.

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

Gay North Dakota: Media chaos. No pipelines, but keep sending us money. Conman Carney and the media.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Diversity is our strength. The clean energy con.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Katy Perry’s space jaunt was galaxy-level cringe
Trump vs. the Ivy League Week in Education
'We Are Not the Same'

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 4/ 21 /25

Comparative advantage may work in theory, but in a world of mobile capital and asset trade, it's a recipe for national decline.
Debunking Comparative Advantage

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: SCOTUS Violates Marbury v. Madison By Granting Ex Parte Injunction Against Executive Branch

• SCOTUS: Breaking All Norms By Vetoing the Alien Enemies Act - @amuse
• Process Formalism In Texas But Not At SCOTUS - Josh Blackman

Annonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 04/22/2025

Hegseth gets hit with new allegations of OPSEC failures, Pentagon mismanagement. He has reportedly been reticent to hit Iran, and drives Trump in that direction, so the neocons are trying to gin up all sorts of dirt to drive him out.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 04-20-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Memes and Things from The Feral Irishman, and Mondays..... again, but this time in gifs from Wirecutter.

Kentucky Teen Defends His Family's Home

The reported seems confused on a couple of points. Kentucky teen shoots and kills 2 home invaders. This incident too place on Sunday, Feb 16th, but I seem to have missed it at the time.

Investigators found that the teen, who is a resident of the home, discovered the two men inside and saw them holding firearms, [Kentucky State Police] said.

"The juvenile, acting in self-defense, retrieved a handgun and shot both men before escaping through a bedroom window," according to KSP.

Manchester, Kentucky is about a 100 mile drive south of Lexington, or about a 100 mile drive north of Knoxville, Tennessee.

The reporter seems confused about how the teen could have located a handgun for defense. It doesn't seem all that strange to me.

Of the two guys who got shot. One died at the scene, the other died later at a local hospital.

The teen was not arrested, because Kentucky is not New Jersey.

Self-defense is a human-right.

EV Buses - A Safety Hazard

This isn't because they tend to catch fire. They do. This is because the people designing and building these buses have no idea what the F- they are doing . Kansas school halts electric bus use over student safety concerns

A Kansas school has stopped using its electric school buses out of an abundance of caution after reports of the buses losing steering and braking, posing a threat to student safety.

Working for you, 27 News reached out to the six school districts that initially received federal funding to purchase electric school buses. While some districts report the buses are functioning well, Wabaunsee USD 329 said it removed buses from service “in line with our highest priority of student safety.”

The primary school district covered by the article took buses out of commission because one just suddenly stopped working while being driven. No power, no brakes, no steering.

The rest of the article details problems other districts have been having.

The Biden Administration handed out piles of cash to this Canadian company. It got them to start opening facilities in this county. Not that it helped. EV bus maker Lion Electric suspends operations at plant near Joliet, Illinois

The Lion Electric Joliet plant is located at 3835 Youngs Rd. in Channahon. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other state leaders cut the ribbon on the facility back in July 2023.

At the time, Lion Electric said it planned to manufacture 20,000 electric buses every year.

But since that time, the company has failed to meet its sales goals.

Channahon, Illinois is about 10 miles southwest of Joliet, or about 50 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.

About 400 people will be laid off.

Investors have decided that the people running the company have been lying through their teeth about the state of the company. Lion Electric shareholders file class-action lawsuit against struggling bus manufacturer

Quebec-based electric-vehicle manufacturer Lion Electric Co. LEV-T is facing a class-action lawsuit from shareholders who allege the company misled investors and misrepresented its financial health, leading to artificially inflated stock prices.

Hat tip for the first link at the top goes to Moonbattery - Kansas Pulls Electric School Buses for Safety Reasons

Between Tears

How about some acoustic guitar with just a bit of energy? Sounds good while we wait for the coffee to kick in.

This is a song I found by way of the Tidal music streaming service. Overall, I have been very happy with Tidal since dumping Spotify. It isn't perfect, but then what is?

This is "Between Tears" by Johannes Linstead from his 1999 album Sol Luna Tierra.

USAID - The CIA's Little Sister

USAID was MUCH worse than the woke insanity that has been in the news. It was CIA Lite. It was CIA without any brakes. It was pure insanity.

This is the Shoe0nHead video What Trump REALLY Destroyed | The Dark Truth Behind USAID

What I originally thought was just an older sibling giving a younger sibling an unplugged video game controller, actually turned into a real thing, and their first order of business was dismantling USAID, an innocent government program that helped poor people all around the world. Or was it?

The video is 27 minutes, but worth your time. You should plan accordingly. And you definitely can just listen while doing other stuff, there are not any real visual aids that require your attention.

Tuesday Links - 22 April

Mike LaChance at The Gateway Pundit starts us off with a story about the tone-deaf Democrats. PARTY OF THE PEOPLE: Kamala Harris to Host DNC Fundraiser With Tickets Starting at $25,000

The Democrats constantly talk about how they want ‘big money’ to get out of politics. Yet the DNC is holding a fundraiser next month with tickets starting at a mere $25,000.

Doug Ross - The COVID Timeline We Were Never Supposed to See: Also known as "The Moderna Prophecy"

What leaps out is the complex web of foreknowledge, preparation, and coordinated response that preceded the official COVID-19 narrative. The timeline reveals not just a series of coincidences, but a pattern of institutional awareness and strategic positioning months before the public acknowledgment of the virus.

The Other McCain - The Intersection of Rage and Ignorance

Tempted as I am to blame “misinformation” for this, the facts of the Kyle Rittenhouse case were accurately reported in dozens of major media outlets, so there is no excuse for these people who somehow got the idea that Rittenhouse “murdered . . . black kids in Michigan during a protest.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 19 April 2025: Plato's Rave Edition

Blue Origin's all-girl space stunt is Elon Musk's fault. (The Verge) (archive site)
Elon Musk has nothing to do with it, has saved the day when things went south, and generally speaking has done nothing wrong at all, but Elizabeth Lopatto has to rant.

Tillman Plank at The Federalist - How No-Consequence Schooling Turns Kids Like Karmelo Anthony Into Killers

We lower expectations, excuse bad behavior, and pretend that endless second chances build character. But they don’t.

Again from The Other McCain - Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents

People keep getting murdered by these deranged wackos, but it’s totally NOT a cult like the Manson family, OK? Ziz just happens to be infinitely loved by his friends, but that doesn’t make him a cult leader, and all these dead bodies that keep turning up around Ziz and his friends — well, that’s just a random coincidence.

The Vodka Pundit - The Battle Is on for the Soul of the Democratic Party... but SHEESH, Those Contestants...

"It's a pity both sides can't lose," former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quipped about the Iran-Iraq War, and, while I mean no insult to the odious Saddam Hussein or Ayatollah Khomeini regimes, I had the same thought watching two wings of the Democratic Party go to war.

Again from Stephen Green the Vodka Pundit - How Big Did 'Snow White' Really Bomb? THIS Big.

In its fifth weekend on screens, "Snow White" earned about $7 million in ticket sales domestically and internationally, bringing the total box office take to an estimated $194 million. The film cost an estimated $270 million (after tax credits!) plus another $70-$100 million to market and probably needs $625 million, after theaters take their cut, just to break even.

And last but not least Wombat-socho brings us FMJRA 2.0: No Grandeur, Lots of Misery, Just One Victory

Top linkers for the week ending on Good Friday:

1.  EBL (10)
2.  357 Magnum (9)
3.  A View From The Beach (8)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!