Listening to someone recently, may be Joe Rogan, saying that in five years we won't be able to tell the difference between reality and AI generated media. He's probably correct.
I recently saw a very powerful documentary called “Follow The Silenced”, it’s a in depth look at some of the vax injured by the covid experimental DNA altering injection that everyone from Rachel Madcow, Tony (Lock him up) Fauxci and Joe Biden assured everyone was “safe and effective”.
Despite its impracticality and expense, the left loves to romanticize train travel. I think much of it is because left-wing media types all live in the Acela corridor, where passenger rail infrastructure is plentiful. They don’t consider everyone else in “flyover states,” where travel by air or car makes more sense.
There’s another reason why the left fetishizes rail. Europe has embraced it hook, line, and sinker, and leftists are obsessed with the U.S. becoming more like Europe.
A Santa Rosa County man was bitten by a bear while trying to protect his dog from the wild animal early in the morning on May 15.
After the attack, the bear left the property. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will place a trap, and if caught the bear will be killed. Relocation is not an option for bears that have become a safety risk.
The attack was the second in Florida in the last two weeks. Florida authorities found Robert Markel and his dog deceased on May 5 following a bear attack on Markel's property near Jerome, a small unincorporated community 30 miles east of Naples, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Gulf Breeze, Florida is about 3 miles across Pensacola Bay from Pensacola. It isn't on the barrier islands, it is still part of the mainland, just on a narrow strip of land, which you can reach by way of the US 98 bridge, also known as the Pensacola Bay Bridge, across the bay.
That was the first fatal bear attack in Florida's history.
When someone tells you that no one needs a weapon, ask what this man should have done? Or do they want everyone to end up dead?
Math is hard, especially when the numbers don't tell the story that you want them to tell.
There is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on the part of the gun control group, Everytown. If you are interested, click thru. As far as I'm concerned, it's the same old song and dance.
While [Everytown for Gun Safety president Nick] Suplina credits the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and unnamed "improvements to state laws", he ignores the additional states that have adopted permitless carry over the past few years and seen their crime rates decline dramatically. In Alabama, for instance, homicides in Birmingham have dropped by 42% this year, despite Mayor Randall Woodfin's claim that the state's permitless carry law led to an historic increase in murders in 2024.
That is one city.
Louisiana also adopted permitless carry in 2024, and homicides in New Orleans have dropped 21% compared to the same time period in 2024. Other cities in permitless carry states that have seen double-digit decreases in their homicide rates include St. Louis (down 43.9%), Dallas (down 34%), Louisville (down 33%), Phoenix (down 33%), and Memphis (down 12.5%). According to the anti-gunners, these cities should be in the midst of skyrocketing murder rates, but we're seeing the opposite instead.
There are also a few words on the pro-2A stance of the current Trump administration. Click thru.
The situation is so bad, that in a recent livestream promoting the product in question, Marathon, they showed no footage of the game.
Marathon developer Bungie has been accused of, and has now admitted to, stealing artwork used in the current build of Marathon from an artist who first published the work in 2017.
That artist is ANTIREAL, who posted several comparisons of her work and existing Bungie Marathon assets which go far beyond “inspiration” and often are direct 1:1 lifts of images, words, symbols and even ANTIREAL’s own personal logo.
This was what was identified, and not by Bungie. Bungie eventually admitted to the theft, blamed it on an ex-employee, though several members of the art department apparently do follow @4nt1r34l on either X or Instagram.
There is no disputing the asset rips. They are 1:1 in many, many cases that are clear to see. The result of that, if Bungie will simply cut the artist a check and credit them, is unclear. It is possible that legal action could be pursued here but the artist did not seem to think they had the resources to mount the campaign. That could change, given the attention that this story has now gotten.
If you click the link at the top, the first image, of many, shows an image copied directly from Antireal's catalog into the game, with only the color grading being changed. Fewer changes were made in other places.
So if this was done so blatantly, did Bungie steal anything else from anyone else? A review is underway.
I believe it is too early to start naming and blaming specific individuals within Bungie, but the studio will need to do an intense investigation into this and come out with a lengthy explanation in addition to the terms they’ve come to with the artist, publicly. And they may promise this will not happen in the future but it has now happened four times in the past four years, the others with Destiny fan art that was lifted in some capacity for the game or in merchandise. That was third party contractors, however, and this is Bungie in-house. Or former in-house. Or whatever you want to believe.
So if something that should never happen, happened four times in four years, that means you have no procedures in place to prevent it, and you are not training your employees in the fine details of copyright. That would seem to be another problem.
This isn't the only example of the games industry stealing stuff. There were at least a couple of examples of similar insanity in Assassin's Creed: Shadows from Ubisoft, though only one example of plagiarism that I can recall. Aside from lifting a banner from a historical-reenactment society, Chinese architecture was included in a game based in Japan, and then there was the one-legged Torii gate fiasco.
It's almost like the large corporations think they will never get caught.
Chaos has engulfed Bungie after an artist, ANTIREAL, came forward to accuse Bungie of ripping off her 2017 work as its upcoming extraction shooter Marathon was starting to take shape as early as 2018. Bungie admitted to the plagiarism, supposedly the work of one ex-artist, and promised to make things right, but the story gained traction among gaming outlets and reaction streamers alike, and it’s poisoned the previous positive conversation about the aesthetic of the game.
But all of this is happening after another not-great time period for Marathon in the last few weeks, starting with the gameplay reveal and then its Closed Alpha, both of which received mostly mixed-to-negative feedback. A livestream on Friday addressed both the art plagiarism and Alpha feedback in what ended up being the most uncomfortable on-camera offerings I’ve ever seen from the studio.
Marathon was supposed to be released in a few months time, but that is questionable. Even if they come to some agreement with Antireal, they clearly need to review all of the art to see if anything else has been stolen.
The results of the alpha test may be a bigger hurdle.
Preliminary investigations found that Parker may have been attempting to break into the home. Once he entered, at least one person inside the home allegedly shot him with a “legally owned firearm,” the release said.
Or how would you respond to someone breaking into your home at 5 a.m.?
Lorain, Ohio is on Lake Erie, about a 30 mile drive west of Cleveland.
There are few details beyond that being released, because the investigation is just getting underway.
Self-defense is a human right, and Ohio has fairly decent laws defending that, at least when you are in your own home.
There’s no rule book for carjackers. But, if there were, “Don’t crash into a squad car occupied by an anti-carjacking task force” would undoubtedly be an essential chapter.
Perhaps Marshun Fort and Kayne Hunt can start scratching out a draft of that chapter while they await trial on carjacking and robbery charges in the Cook County Jail.
The amazing thing, aside from the sheer stupidity on display, is that they judge ordered these 2 detained pending trial.
The "End of 10" website is a cooperative effort to let people know that they have other options besides buying a new computer.
The campaign is a noble attempt to raise public awareness. It carries a simple, clear message in large, friendly letters: when Windows 10 reaches the end of its life in five months' time, you don't need to buy a new computer.
The article recommends a couple of options for a system that looks like Windows. I personally like Linux Mint, mostly because it is easy to install.
What do people use their computers for? Web browsing. Google Chrome, the slightly less-Google Chromium, Brave, Firefox, and more are all on Linux. Email. Thunderbird email client is the same as on Windows, if you don't care for the web interfaces provided.
For Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, etc. I have been using LibreOffice for a very long time. It is 99.3% like Office, but it doesn't come with a yearly fee. Or any of Microsoft's AI "upgrades."
One of the most interesting parts of the site is the list of places where visitors can find Linux support. There are over 70 around the world, but with a noticeable concentration so far in Germany. (Our favorite is the splendidly named Serious Cybernetics in Australia, and for clarity, nowhere near Sirius.)
Click thru if you're a bit miffed at Microsoft for this insanity.
Facebook is arguing in court that the FTC has no case that Facebook has become terrible because Facebook was always terrible. (Ars Technica)
They might have a point there.
ITEM 12: Zero Hedge reported, “Moody's Downgrades USA Credit Rating From Aaa.”
Sure, this will force higher interest rates on the national debt, but we’ll just borrow more money to cover that. Right?
Nick Arama at RedState watches Scott Jennings, Bill Maher Light It Up on Trump's Powerful Speech, Transformative Change He's Bringing, Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "President Trump has flipped "war and peace" to "peace and war
Father of Palm Springs Explosion Suspect Details Son’s Childhood
The father of Guy Edward Bartkus, the suspect in the Palm Springs in vitro fertilization facility explosion, says that he was “shocked” when a relative reached out and said his son ...
Don Surber: It’s not Trump they fear – it’s you
Gates Of Vienna: The Dawn of a New Day in Telephony, Honor Killings: Party Like It’s 1099, and Martel And Macron
The Lies in New York’s Assisted Suicide Bill
New York is close to passing a bill to legalize assisted suicide. Having passed the assembly, it is currently being considered in the senate.
Woke America: Will RFK jr win his battle? Trump posts wild clip. A New Jersey imam. Sharia Philly.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Will parliament recognize Palestinian Nakba Day?
REVIEW: ‘The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed’ by Jason L. Riley
Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action
Report: DNC on Brink of ‘Chaos’ over Potential Ouster of Vice Chair David Hogg.
South Carolina Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Law Banning Abortion at Point When Heartbeat Can Be Detected.
18-year-old Tra'sean White was shot on May 12th. He did not survive his wounds. Deonte Calen Trevon Lancit, also 18, was arrested a day later and charged with armed robbery.
An investigation revealed that Lancit and White had been in the area attempting to rob someone. During the robbery, the intended target shot and killed White, Gebhardt told The Post and Courier.
You would think that by this time, the fact that legal concealed carry is a thing would be telling the would-be, bad guys that perhaps armed robbery isn't a good idea. If you thought that, you would be wrong.
Hanahan, South Carolina is about 10 miles north of Charleston.
The cops treated this incident like self-defense, and the DA agreed.
Authorities presented evidence to prosecutors at the Ninth Circuit Solicitor's Office who determined the shooting was an act of self-defense.
I'm a bit surprised that I haven't featured this song before. It is one of Coltrane's most popular, or at least most recognizable songs. It was probably his signature song, being included in most concerts.
The song was originally written in 1959 by Rodgers and Hammerstein for the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, and of course it was also in the 1965 movie.
It is longer than the songs I usually feature, at almost 14 minutes, so grab a beverage of your choice. At this hour, that would be coffee for me.
In 1960, when this was recorded, the band consisted of the following musicians, though Coltrane played different saxophones on different songs:
This is "My Favorite Things" by John Coltrane. This was the title song to his 1961 album, but today we have the song by way of the 1995 collection Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings. It was remastered in the early 2000s, but I don't believe that is this version.
Like so many musicians, John Coltrane died too young. He died of liver cancer at the age of 40 on July 17, 1967 on Long Island. In fact, all of the quartet is gone.
Years ago we would joke that Rahm was desperately trying to obtain a Super Villain Weather Control Machine since weather was the only thing guaranteed to result in “crime is down”. Apparently Brandon found it in the basement of City Hall and spun up a dust storm (didn’t work) followed by a cold front (worked!).
Family members told me that the dust storm was strange. Not something I ever remember experiencing in Illinois.
The final tally was 2 killed, with another 22 shot and wounded. That is actually pretty peaceful by Chicago standards for this time of the year.
So is the decrease a win, or the fact that it is a "decrease" make it a travesty?
Click thru for the details, and links to a couple of stories, one from the River North entertainment district, where a lot of clubs, bars, and restaurants were, back in the day. Not sure I would be frequenting that area today, even if I was back in my 20s.
The expression "to 86 someone" is a well-known reference to killing them; and President Trump is the 47th President of the United States. The message was instantly understandable to anyone who knows modern slang and "street talk". For Mr. Comey to deny that he was aware of that hidden message is so ridiculous as to defy belief.
The recently released Hur tapes have ripped away the final veneer of normalcy surrounding the Biden presidency. In these painful recordings, we hear a man clearly struggling with basic cognitive functions—unable to recall the year his beloved son Beau died and appearing disoriented during questioning about classified documents.
As mystified as I was that few people seemed aware of looming doom, I became equally mystified at the collective refusal to weigh the costs and benefits of pandemic policy, or to consider the trade-offs of such actions in the short or long-term. I was a bleeding heart artist, but I was thinking like an economist. What would be the social, emotional, and psychological costs of induced hysteria and prolonged isolation?
What’s going on here? What we are witnessing is, I would argue, a consequence of the secularization of culture. The self-described advocates of Science and Reason have succeeded so well in their war against God that many young people now see no meaning or purpose to life. Without any sense of moral law — and no sense of duty or obligation toward the divine author of the law — some turn to hedonism, while others embrace a Nietzschean nihilism.
In 2021, the ATF branded Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) as illegal machine guns, targeting DeMonaco with aggressive tactics. He was forcibly removed from a car at gunpoint, his property seized, and his life upended, as detailed in firsthand accounts. This wasn’t regulation—it was persecution, designed to intimidate a law-abiding citizen for challenging the ATF’s overreach.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.
Miguel Gonzalez has some photos of what NYPD and the denizens of NYC consider a "cache" of ammo. NYPD, always good for a laugh.
In the meantime in Free America, prepping for some fun shooting and testing next weekend. Just a few rounds, nothing to go crazy about unless you live in NYC or similar.
The Marxist, anti-white mayor of Chicago may now face federal prosecution for his stunning comments about his vile, racist hiring policy.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Mayor Brandon Johnson boasted that he only hires black people because they are the “most generous people on the planet.”
Ryan Hinton was an 18-year-old black man living in Cincinnati, Ohio. On May 1, 2025, he and three friends were pulled over by the police in a vehicle the police officers believed was stolen. The four youths took off running. The two police officers who had made the stop pursued on foot.
Seconds later, Hinton appeared from between two dumpsters with a semi-automatic pistol in his hand and pointing it at one of the police officers. He was shot dead.
Can you guess how the "community" and his family have reacted?
The father, Rodney Hinton, Jr., was upset. So, later that day, he got in his car and ran over a sheriff’s deputy directing traffic outside a University of Cincinnati graduation event. The officer was killed.
What happens when you buy critical technology from a country that might not consider you to be a friend? Nothing good.
Undocumented communication equipment discovered in renewable energy infrastructure could allow remote grid disruption
While it is typical for there to be internet connections for firmware maintenance, this is something else entirely.
However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S. experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.
Yeah, this won't come back to bite the West in the ass.
According to police, the victim’s wife got a notification from a home surveillance camera that someone was in their driveway, and when he stepped outside to take a look, someone opened fire.
Now he is lucky, in some ways, he was shot in the foot twice. It could have been much worse. Oh, and his house is damaged by gunfire.
And just because he was "only" shot in the foot, for which he needed surgery, doesn't mean he won't suffer from this for a long time.
People need to make up there own minds about what they are willing to risk. I can't think of a single personal possession that is worth being shot over, but then every heirloom, mostly jewelry, I had was stolen in a burglary decades ago.
Roy Khan is an excellent vocalist. When I first became aware of him, he had already left Kamelot. He had been lead singer of that band for years, but needed a break due to personal issues. After taking a few years off from the music scene he reunited with his band from the 1990s/early 2000s. (I'm not sure of the dates.) Since then, they have released at least one EP and one album.
This song is "Waywardly Broken" by Conception from their 2022 album State of Deception. It was the first song from the album to be released as a single. It came out about a month before the album was released.
Unless it is a container ship that causes a bridge to fall down, as happened in Baltimore, or it is an unusual ship, like this one, people don't pay attention to it.
This incident was a slow-moving disaster, leaving multiple injured deckhands behind. A ship from the Mexican Navy, Cuauhtémoc, crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge. Onlookers captured the accident as mast after mast broke off when the vessel couldn’t clear the historic landmark. Sailors at the top of the masts were caught clinging for their lives
The link at the top has some video and still photos of the collision and the aftermath.
Social media was buzzing over this, and the title to this post was "borrowed" from a user on X. People were wondering why the sailors were on the top of the mast. That is how you control a tall ship, with men aloft. Modern safety concerns mean all of the sailors were in safety harnesses. Not something that would have been the case 100 or more years ago.
The video below has some explanation of what may have happened, though there is a lot of speculation on some fronts. What isn't speculated is the tidal current, and nature of the East River, which is covered in the video.
ARM Cuauhtémoc is a steel-hulled Barque, that is roughly 220 feet long, and 39 feet wide, drawing 17 and a half feet. It is a training vessel with 186 officer and crew, and 90 trainees.
The residents of the home were confronted by a man armed with an axe trying to enter their home through the back door, and in response, the homeowners fired multiple shots through the door,s striking the intruder. Authorities say that an axe was located, along with other weapons, near White's body, as well as damage to the back door.
The southern edge of Duplin County, North Carolina, is about a 50 mile drive north of Wilmington.
The investigation is not over, but this seem to clearly be self-defense, at least to me.
When the Vermilion Valley Resort in California’s eastern Sierra shut down for the winter, the staff left cabin doors unlocked just in case a wayward hiker needed shelter during the frequent mountain snowstorms. That decision may have saved the life of Tiffany Slaton, the 27-year-old Georgia woman who was missing for nearly three weeks in remote wilderness.
Owner Christopher Gutierrez spotted a cabin door ajar and a pair of shoes nearby when he arrived Wednesday morning to begin reopening the resort for spring. Suddenly, a young woman appeared in the doorway.
People don't take nature into account. The mountains are not like the plains. The north is not like the south. Usually people don't survive this kind of thing, so she is incredibly lucky.
Gutierrez gave Slaton a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and called authorities, who brought her to a hospital for evaluation. She was hungry and dehydrated, but otherwise in good condition, sheriff’s officials said.
So is this a "feel good" story, or a cautionary tale?
Travelers returning to Jacksonville International Airport are arriving to uncertainty and damage after a massive fire broke out in the airport’s Hourly Parking Garage on Friday afternoon, destroying approximately 50 vehicles.
Early on they were not letting people get their cars out of the lot, but they seem to have relented allowing people to remove cars that still function.
There is a fairly-good, one-minute video at the link above, that shows the fire in full swing. It will autoplay everything from the Yahoo news site if you let it.
This is the MGUY Australia video WHAT CAUSED the Jacksonville Airport fire? EV News. The first six minutes are devoted to the Jacksonville fire, and the rest is more renewable news in general. Sales of EV cars are down in several countries, the state of nuclear power, etc.
First we get a story about a particular carjacking. Then we get some statistics from Chicago about closure rates of Chicago PD. That is, what percentage of homicides result in an arrest? What percentage of non-fatal shootings result in arrest? Click thru if you want to be depressed; the vast majority of violent acts are never solved by the police.
But this is really about whether listening to college professors opine on the subject of crime and punishment makes sense.
So he says, although (a) the professor’s ability to make cause-and-effect analysis seems questionable, (b) he was still in college during the 1990s, and (c) he’s spent the past 18 years teaching at an Ivy League university and I’m not sure a faculty gig in Ithaca, New York, is the best place to formulate an accurate view about crime in America. The average cop in Chicago certainly knows more on the subject than does Professor Enns.
There is more. It's worth your time. Go take a look.
Marvel isn't any better shape today, but they did manage to make some money early on with their purchase of Marvel. But this article is about Star Wars.
Disney paid $4.05 Billion (with a capital "B") for Lucasfilm in 2012. While they made a little money on the early movies of the sequel trilogy, they have not come close to recouping that initial purchase fee.
People were excited when the sequel trilogy was announced, but it didn't turn out the way most people hoped it would.
One of the most painful aspects for longtime fans was how Disney mistreated the franchise’s original heroes. Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Leia Organa were iconic figures who had shaped the Star Wars universe for decades. Yet, in the new trilogy, Han was reduced to a disillusioned, absent father; Luke became a bitter recluse who abandoned his ideals; and only Leia maintained some semblance of her former strength, but even she provided comfort to Rey rather than long time friend Chewbacca when Han was unceremoniously killed off in the first sequel. Carrie Fisher had more than a few complaints about her role in the sequel trilogy.
There has been a lot written on this topic from Chris Gore's famous Tweet, on down. How do you set fire to $4 billion? Disney managed it.
Despite the actuaries and financial failures, whenever fans have expressed disappointment or criticism, Disney and Lucasfilm have regularly responded defensively, labeling dissenters as “toxic” or accusing them of bigotry. Rather than engaging with constructive feedback, the creators have dismissed longtime supporters, further deepening the divide, and reducing the audience size.
DEI and The Message™ over story telling. Heroes? Villains? We can't have heroes, and the villains are really just misunderstood. Women? They were always perfect (see Rey - she was instantly good at everything) only held back by their own doubts and/or the patriarchy. Or something.
The biggest downfall was trying to satisfy the mob on Social Media, because they are never satisfied, and they don't go see your movies anyway, and there are not enough of them to support something like Lucasfilm or Marvel.
Disney’s handling of Star Wars since acquiring Lucasfilm has been a textbook example of how to destroy a beloved brand by imposing a narrow ideological agenda. By turning Star Wars into a “girl brand,” prioritizing DEI over storytelling, and alienating its original fanbase, Disney undermined the very magic that once made the franchise a cultural phenomenon.
Evansville police were first alerted to the incident, which Aussieker described as a "burglary in progress," by the homeowner just after 1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
"The caller stated three subjects broke into their home and their son shot one of them," Aussieker wrote in a news release. "The caller did not believe the person who had been shot was alive. The two remaining subjects fled the scene."
Evansville, Indiana is about a 120 mile drive west of Louisville, Kentucky, or about a 175 mile drive southwest of Indianapolis.
The shooter is cooperating with the investigation, and has not been arrested.
A man shot and killed by a homeowner after he allegedly broke into a residence at Canyon Gate Country Club lived less than five minutes away in the private west Las Vegas community, according to police.
Normally if I read a story about a resident of a gated, golf-course community breaking into another home in that community, I would assume that there was some kind of neighborhood beef, or a domestic situation, or something. That doesn't seem to be the case here. "Havens, identified in the report as a stranger to the homeowners, was pronounced dead on the scene."
This doesn't sound like the kind of place for random break-ins. But I guess this proves what I always say; you are not protected by your zip code.
Canyon Gate Country Club, where the shooting happened, is a gated community with an 18-hole golf course, fitness centers, sports complexes, and more, near West Sahara Avenue and South Durango Drive.
I would like to say that we will learn more in time, but I doubt that the media will cover this story again, unless something truly strange is uncovered. It will remain one of life's mysteries.
Larisha Sharell Thompson was murdered by six illegal aliens, ages 13 to 21 years, who had just tried to commit a robbery too. It is unclear why they killed her except that they were obviously completely lawless young thugs. Don’t expect Democrats to be as empathetic to Larisha as they were and are to criminals like George Floyd, Jordan Neely, and Karmelo Anthony — when black Americans are murdered by illegal aliens, Democrats look another way.
Click thru for the details, the status with ICE and the local police, and more.
According to the article, the car of illegals pulled up next to her and opened fire. Why? Because criminals break the law.
Her daughters are Sh’Mareona Bufford and London Benson.
I miss living in a country ruled by law and order.
NewsMax, Rubio Expected to Make Drastic Changes to NSC "The idea behind shrinking the staff would be to reshape it to align with how President Donald Trump makes decisions, the sources told NBC News.
It's 2025. Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? (Jamal Habash)
Because they're banks. Something that is bad and barely works but has known risks is preferable to something that is good and works well but has unknown risks.
“Hamas Releases Last Living American Hostage Edan Alexander.” Good for President Trump doing what the rudderless and leaderless Biden Administration couldn’t. But I still want to see Israel kill every last member of Hamas.
Hey, I’ve seen this movie before! I didn’t like it the first time around. And I bet the remake sucks as well.
Sounds like it wasn’t a very happy ending. Well, it was and then it wasn’t.
Power Line: Modern-Day Racism, George Floyd Riots 2.0, and All the king’s horses
Shark Tank: Jose Regalado Skips Silver Bluffs Debate While Ralph Rosado Shows Up For Voters
AP-NORC Poll: Dems Pessimistic About Party’s Future
Six months after Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Democrats remain deeply pessimistic about the future of their party
Queer canine becomings: Lesbian feminist cyborg politics and interspecies intimacies in ecologies of love and violence
The earth is a big badass butch dyke in menopause
• The Real First 100 Days - Victor Davis Hanson
• Trump’s Latest Order Could Keep You Out Of Prison For Crimes You Didn’t Even Know You Committed - Laura Powell
Tapping Whitney Hermandorfer for the Court of Appeals shows the president isn’t tired of winning yet.
Trump Is Off To a Great Start On Judicial Nominees
James Comey posts a pic to Instagram featuring seashells arranged on the ground spelling out “8647.” 86 is slang for “kill” so everyone is taking it as a former FBI Director calling for Trump to be killed. He claims he stumbled on the arrangement of shells and had no idea what it meant.
Brandon Durham, 43, called 911 just after 12:30 a.m. Nov. 12 to initially report that there were people shooting outside of his home, but later told the operator that someone had broken in, as reported by KABC.
When officers arrived, they discovered Durham and the suspect, later identified as Alejandra Boudreaux, fighting over a knife. Police fired multiple shots, hitting and killing Durham. Boudreaux was not injured by the gunfire.
The woman who broke in knew Durham, and was apparently hoping for this, or a similar, outcome. I guess that
Durham and Boudreaux reportedly knew each other and had previously been in a relationship together. A criminal complaint obtained by NSNV alleged that Boudreaux broke into the home with a weapon with the intention of getting police to fire at them.
Cops are investigating to make sure that the cops didn't do anything wrong. Or something to that effect.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has opened an internal investigation into the actions of the officer, identified as 26-year-old Alexander Bookman. The results of the investigation will determine if criminal charges will be filed.
Do we have any faith that cops investigating cops will be impartial?
That isn't news exactly. Disney has systematically been driving every franchise they purchased into the ground. Lucasfilm and Star Wars got their first, followed by Lucasfilm and Indiana Jones. Now Marvel is dead. Well, it has been dead for a while, but I think Disney is waking up to the fact.
In a scathing 77-page ruling released Tuesday, Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain officially stripped New York City and its Department of Correction (DOC) of full control over Rikers Island, citing a decade of failure to protect inmates from “grave and immediate” harm, including unconstitutional levels of violence, abuse, and systemic mismanagement.
National Interest tells how the Osama bin Laden raid put stealth helicopter technology in PRC hands allowing them to make a clone of the stealth Blackhawk.
I could have sworn that the South abandoned quasi-slavey practices with the advent of the Civil Rights Act, but I discovered that it simply got disguised under the cloak of “caring” and “fighting victimization and hate”
Meet the new overseer, same as the old one but pretending to care about your chains.
The only things that went wrong on the trip were booking an extra day at the Strat (they refunded me the resort fee, bless them, because they got it right back with an upgrade yesterday), booking the Red Roof Inn near Fort Meade instead of a Days Inn, which meant I had to dicker with the housekeepers for the refrigerator because the front desk guy was some kind of West African whose English was no muy bueno.
The Kids Online Safety Act is back and has the potential to change the internet - or to get struck down immediately over the obvious First and Fourth Amendment issues. (Tech Crunch)
The bill has strong bipartisan and industry support, which means it is just astoundingly awful.
This is basically a retread of the club's initial lawsuit, which makes no sense at all. It's one of those things that shouldn't be needed. Fort Devens was told to knock it off, and rather than comply with the courts, they just keep doing the same stuff that got them sued in the first place.
New York City is more like the Gotham of DC comics every year.
Alvin Francis was riding a shuttle bus along the J train route just before 2 p.m. Sunday at Crescent and Etna Streets in Cypress Hills in Brooklyn when a feud erupted between him and a backpack-wearing passenger over seating, cops and sources said.
The only "description" of the bad guy provided by either the police, or The NY Post, is that he was "wearing a gray sweat suit." No one had a description? Height. Weight. Race? Or was all of that memory-holed for some reason?
If public transit isn't safe at 2PM on a Sunday afternoon, when would it be safe.
This is end result of a couple of decades of Liberal, soft-on-crime policies in the Blue Cities, and Blue States.
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;
This may actually be more in line with Hobbes' Leviathan. The idea that security is required for civilization to endure is not new. Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651. In that book he describes the State of War that ensues when law and order break down.
Western Civilization is built on a foundation of law and order. Without law and order, you can't have nice things. You can't have anything really. Or as Hobbes stated it, when there is no force-of-law to keep people in check, things break down.
What happens when you put health care into the hands of the same bureaucrats who run the Department of Motor Vehicles? OK, so it isn't the same bureaucrats, but the same type of bureaucrat. The short answer is, "Nothing good."
The Commons public accounts committee (PAC) said the “jaw-dropping” sums being paid to victims of botched treatment and government inaction to reduce errors were “unacceptable”.
That £58.2 billion is to settle "lawsuits arising from clinical negligence," what we call Malpractice on this side of the pond.
The sum is so huge that it is the second-largest liability across the whole of government, with only nuclear decommissioning costlier, the committee said in a damning report.
There are a lot of details in the article, like cost overruns on an infectious disease lab, and more on the harms to patients.
"Elite" universities, and government research grant-making organization stopped worrying about actual research, and started mandating DEI/Woke criteria for hiring, promotion, and giving money.
Why? Mostly because they were afraid of the Woke mob.
There's probably no institutions in the world that have tried to be more inclusive, without sacrificing merit - until recently - than the universities. And if they're not able
to do it, and you think that's a consequence of systemic racism, well then you're one of those neo-Marxist types that really we shouldn't be contending with anymore, especially not in the universities
On the afternoon of April 1, 2024, a woman ran into a convenience store in the Tampa suburb of Seffner, Florida. Her face was covered in bruises, according to Ashraf Zakhar, the clerk who was working the counter: “She was screaming and crying and said ‘I need help. I need help.’ She just ran to the bathroom and locked herself in.” The clerk called 911 and police showed up. It turned out that the woman had been held captive for more than two months, beaten and terrorized by 48-year-old Walter Medina.
The sad thing is that this isn't the first time Medina had done such a thing, but he wasn't locked up because that would be mean, or something.
The Other McCain includes a link to video of a police chase in Florida, that finally stopped Medina. He describes the chase as "one of the scariest I’ve ever seen."-
Not only were dozens of innocent motorists endangered by Medina’s reckless driving, but the troopers chasing him were also endangered. That alone should be enough for a 10-year prison sentence, beyond and above whatever the sentence is for what Walter Medina did to that poor woman he held captive for more than two months.
When jurists are soft on criminals and don't sentence them to prison for terms that match their crimes, what they are really saying is that the don't give a damn about the next victim. They care more about virtue signalling their "compassion" for the criminal than their duty to public safety. What about compassion for the victims?
The defendants are the government of Canada, Member of Canadian Parliament Ya’ara Saks, and other officials.
Specifically, the suit alleges that the defendants tried to scuttle the events, promoted as “Rumble Live” and “Rebel News Live” on May 10 & 11, 2024, by enforcing unjustifiable fees for security measures they knew were unnecessary and exorbitant. The gatherings were planned and held by the two companies after they entered into a lawful contract to rent a venue in North York, Ontario that typically hosts wedding receptions and other private events.
Freedom of information reports from the various police forces in the relevant jurisdiction indicate that there was no indication that there was going to be any disturbance. And there was none. All the usual suspects (ANTIFA, etc.) were at Toronto University protesting Israel and generally showing their sympathy of terrorists.
And the government was hostile to the events.
“I am wondering if you think there is any language within the lease agreement that would permit us to stop this event from happening,” wrote another. “Based on my review, I don’t think there is, but I would appreciate your opinion.”
When they determined that they couldn't stop speech they didn't like, they chose another tactic.
“The Defendants knew that there was no way for them to lawfully prevent the Event from proceeding,” the lawsuit alleges. “Nonetheless, they sought to, and did, interfere with the contractual relationship between Rebel News and the [venue], successfully pressuring the venue to impose the Unwarranted Costs on the Plaintiffs, contrary to the Agreement.”
I don't really expect them to make much headway. The courts will be hostile to free speech, that is just how things are in Canada.
Robert Benton, the much-admired screenwriter turned director who co-wrote Bonnie and Clyde and received a pair of Academy Awards for his work on the best picture winner Kramer vs. Kramer.
From an era when movies nominated for an Oscar were actually worth watching, and movies were not all about aliens, superheroes, or virtue signaling. Or all of the above.
He also wrote and directed, Nobody's Fool (1994). Another movie worth watching. His screenplay was nominated for an Oscar, but didn't win.
I didn't particularly care for his movie Bonnie and Clyde, but Kramer vs Kramer is a classic.
This is known as the "Like father, like son" scene from Kramer vs Kramer. It is a classic piece of cinema, and it includes no dialog. Where it falls in the movie, it tells a compelling story, about how they are getting along. How they went from being mad at each other, to getting along on a typical morning.
The boyfriend of jailed Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a new company that... Sounds exactly like Theranos. (The Daily Beast)
This will end well, I'm sure.
Israel plans to seize Gaza under a new plan, officials say
Israel approved plans Monday to seize the Gaza Strip and to stay in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified amount of time
Capt. Ed, Hamas to Release US Hostage -- For What? At NRO, Hamas Releases Last Living American Hostage Edan Alexander. Great. Now bomb them back to the Cambrian era.
Woke America: The Pope’s brother. American hostage was tortured. Biden’s FBI.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Non-indigenous people banned from provincial park.
The Other McCain has plenty of links to peruse
Daniel Greenfield focuses on national disgrace Jerry Nadler
Pirates Cove ponders New Joisy Insurrectionists
ITEM 4: Benny Johnson tweeted, “The Pope’s older brothers used to make fun of him for being a do-gooder saying: ‘What do you think you’re going to be Pope someday!?’ ”
The idea that Democrats have until now been taking the high road is one of the biggest of Big Lies we've ever heard.
Let’s Face It, Dems Have Always Been ‘Dark Woke’
