Today, Pride has been hijacked by a radical Leftist subset of the community that has no interest in including Americans with different political views or building bridges with the rest of the country.
Regulate me! Regulate me! (New York Times) (archive site)
Anthropic is upset that the AI industry is not being targeted with an impenetrable swamp of state-level regulations that only a multi-billion-dollar can afford to navigate
One of my favorite military weapons, I was issued an M3A1 in 1976 when I took over my tank platoon at Fort Knox. I qualified with it as a personal weapon. Crude, unbelievably simple, it matched my personality completely. It was also a blast to shoot..
All the experts have assured us that election fraud is impossible. No election is ever “rigged” or “stolen” in America, and anyone who says otherwise is emphatically denounced as a crypto-fascist threat to Democracy. Meanwhile, in south Georgia . . .
Here we have data that could give extremely valuable research and show definite proof of what we have suspected for a long time – That the covid mRNA injections cause vaccine injury.
The world’s most annoying Jew-hating climate activist has not only been intercepted on her way to Gaza by Israeli forces, but she is also going to be forced to watch footage of the heinous October 7 attacks so that she understands why Israel is at war with Gaza.
According to the Asheville Police Department, at around 12:07 a.m. Sunday officers were called to Rankin Avenue near College Street for a reported shooting. At the scene, they found Andy Garcia Porras dead in the roadway and multiple others who were hit or grazed by gunfire.
After investigating the shooting, police, in consultation with the Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office, determined the shooting was in self-defense.
It started when a group of men were seen harassing some women. This was witnessed by the bouncer to a club. The men were then denied entry into the club. Gee, punishing bad behavior? Must be some kind of Conservative club.
One of the guys left to get a gun. It would turn out to be the last bad decision he would make. In the meantime a patron of the club came to help the bouncer; the patron was armed.
When Porras got back, with his gun, a gunfight ensued. Both shooters and several other people were hit.
“The evidence indicates that the patron was not the aggressor and acted to defend himself during a rapidly escalating and dangerous situation,” police said in a news release.
The police go on to make a bland statement about tragedy and the sanctity of all life. Clearly the dead guy didn't feel that way. He was willing to kill because he didn't think his bad behavior - harassing women - should be punished in any way. He didn't get his way, and like a two-year-old child was throwing a tantrum, except his tantrum included a loaded weapon.
It is hard for me to see this as anything but Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0. I expect that in the next day or two we will hear for this guy's family, about how he was a choir boy, and getting ready to go to college and change the world or whatever, and we will hear how they don't like legal self-defense.
This post is (mostly) about the video embedded below, but in doing some searching, there is a lot of info on incidents involving RO-RO cargo ships (that is "Roll-On, Roll-Off car carriers) and EV fires.
The most recent incident occurred on 3 June 2025, when a ship, the Morning Midas, bound from China to Mexico, caught fire off the coast of Alaska, and had to be abandoned.
The fire aboard the car carrier Morning Midas in the North Pacific Ocean marks the latest significant incident in the maritime industry’s ongoing challenges involving fires on vehicle carriers. The UK-owned, Liberia-flagged vessel caught fire on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, about 300 miles south of Adak, forcing all 22 crew members to evacuate.
The vessel was carrying 3,159 vehicles—including 65 fully electric and 681 partial hybrid electric vehicles—when crew members spotted smoke coming from a deck containing electric vehicles. Despite immediately activating onboard fire suppression systems, the crew couldn’t contain the fire and had to abandon ship via life raft. They were safely transferred to a nearby good Samaritan vessel.
A sea-going tug has been dispatched for salvage, with the hope that the ship and its cargo will not become an environmental problem.
As the title to that article indicates, it is not the only such fire.
Fremantle Highway, a Japanese-owned car carrier with 3,783 vehicles aboard, caught fire on 25 July 2023, near Ameland, Netherlands (EVs "dismissed" as cause of fire.)
Grande Costa D’Avorio, an Italian-flagged combination roll-on/roll-off (ConRo) ship caught fire on 5 July 2023, at Port Newark, New Jersey. (No EVs on board)
Felicity Ace, Panama-flagged, operated by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), caught fire on 16 February 2022, approximately 90 nautical miles southwest of the Azores (VW is still facing lawsuits over EVs shipped on this carried.)
Grande Europa, operated by Grimaldi Lines, two fires on 15 May 2019. The first fire was extinguished quickly. Second car caught fire a few hours later. On 16 May Grimaldi issued a press release calling for more restrictions on car batteries, and personal stuff shipped inside private cars.
Grande America, operated by Grimaldi Lines, sank in 13,000 ft of water after a fire broke out 12 March 2019. Italian authorities issued a report, but it is not public. NTSB said cause of fire undetermined. Ship carried about 2,100 new and used vehicles.
Sincerity Ace, 650ft Panama-flagged. Caught fire 31 December 2018 in the middle of the Pacific, 1800 miles from Oahu. Ship carried 3,800 Nissan vehicles. Ship towed back to Japan. (Cause "unknown")
Honor, 623-foot-long US-flagged car carrier, 24 February 2017. NTSB determined that the probable cause of the fire was a fault in the starter motor solenoid in one of the personally owned vehicles being transported (No word on if EVs were involved - extensive damage to 5000 new and used vehicles, and household goods being shipped for military families.
Courage American Roll-on Roll-off carrier. 2 June 2015. US-flagged vessel carried new vehicles (Mercedes-Benz, BMW), military vehicles, personally-owned used vehicles for military and government personnel, household goods shipments. NTSB determined that the probable cause of the fire was electrical arcing in automatic braking system of a vehicle on board.
Some of the fires were not started by EVs, but they don't go into details about whether or not EVs later became involved in the fires. There were 2 fires in 2020 that gCaptain listed as "honorable mentions," because the crews managed to extinguish the fires. This is how gCaptain sums up the issues:
While it’s difficult to draw conclusions about the Morning Midas fire and others from previous incidents, a look back at similar incidents does provide some insight and background about the dangers associated with transportation of new, used vehicles, and electric vehicles on roll-on/roll-off ships. With the growing popularity of electric vehicles, it will be interesting to see how or if rules and regulations evolve to meet new challenges associated with transporting them by ship.
Once again it will be the insurance companies that will eventually have to evaluate this risk, and place an appropriate premium on continuing to insure ships carrying EVs. This will be passed on to customers in the form of even higher prices, as shipping these vehicles by sea inevitably becomes more and more risky, and more and more expensive.
Lloyd's List, the oldest, continuously-running journal in for the shipping industry, also has an article. I should note that The List is not associated with Lloyd's of London, though they both trace their roots to Lloyd's Coffee House in London, in the early 1700s. Crew evacuated from Zodiac Maritime vehicle carrier in Pacific Ocean after fire.
As MGUY Australia points out, it will ultimately be the insurance carriers who decide how expensive it is to ship EVs based on risk.
MGUY Australia has had a couple of videos on EV fires destroying ships. This one from April starts with an interesting observation. Electric vehicles are a DANGER to shipping
It's remarkable, isn't it, that under the present system of regulation, EVs can be transported by roll-on roll-off ships known as RO-ROs without being designated as dangerous goods, because there's an exemption because, uh, reasons.
A cop from Prichard, Alabama, made an "arrest" in Gulfport, Mississippi. There is just one small problem. He had no arrest authority in Mississippi, so what he did was (allegedly) kidnapping.
Other Deputies responding to the area located the patrol unit leaving the scene and initiated a traffic stop. The driver of the Prichard Police unit was identified as an off-duty Prichard, AL Police Officer, David Cunningham. Cunningham was wearing his firearm and Prichard PD badge. A passenger, Kristin Allen, was also identified. At that time, Deputies were made aware that there was a 21-year-old male in the backseat of the patrol car that was handcuffed. Deputes removed the handcuffs and released the male from the backseat of the patrol car.
So why did he think he could do this? You are disrespecting his authority by even asking the question.
Due to Cunningham being out of state with no enforcement powers, knowingly detaining an individual, and removing him from the scene, a warrant was issued for Cunningham for Kidnapping. Allen assisted Cunningham with creating multiple versions of events in an effort to justify Cunningham’s unlawful actions and detention of the individual. A warrant was issued for Allen for Hindering Prosecution.
Allen was given a $50,000 bond. Cunningham is held on $500,000 bond.
Sadly, neither can be charged with felony stupidity in Mississippi.
Dana Pico was thrashing Philadelphia Inquirer liberal columnist Will Bunch, who loves Kilmar Abrego Garcia more than he loves his own mother, and it got me thinking about the utterly reflexive nature of left-wing politics. Liberals see the world as a great dramatic conflict between the Forces of Evil (Republicans generally, and Donald Trump specifically) and the Innocent Victims of Oppression. This is the only explanation for why, after Democrats lost an election in which all polling showed the electorate tilting sharply right on the immigration issue, liberals have now embraced criminal foreigners as their beloved mascots.
So there is a movie that I want to see in a theater. This doesn't happen too often, but I haven't seen a good action movie in a while, and this one is in the universe of John Wick. I haven't see all 4 of the John Wick movies, and I haven't seen any of the TV show. (I only recently found out there was a TV show/miniseries.) In any event, there was a movie released on Friday, I will probably try to see it this week. Tuesdays are always cheap at one of my local theaters.
The first trailer looked good, and a couple of reviews indicate that it has some promise.
This is "Fight Like A Girl" by Evanescence with additional vocals by K.Flay. It is from the soundtrack to the John Wick Universe movie Ballerina.. That movie was released on Friday the 6th of June (with previews on Thursday). It apparently plays as the end-credits start to run.
He was living with them, doing work around the house. It doesn't say in any of the articles I've read, but it sounds like the work was in lieu of rent.
Then one day, the woman asked him to leave. He didn't take it well.
They got into an argument overnight, and investigators said the man got aggressive towards the woman. She told deputies that she felt her life was in danger, leading to her firing her gun.
The shooting happened inside the home along Jeanal Place, and the woman was found in the front yard with leg injuries that she got during the argument. The handyman was found inside the home, according to [Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office].
OK. You don't get leg injuries during an "argument." That was a physical altercation. But if the Profession Journalist noted that, you might be inclined to side with the gun owner, and not be sympathetic toward the dead bad guy.
Hillsborough County is home to Tampa, Florida.
Why did I wonder if the couple had been too trusting?
The woman doesn't have a criminal history. The handyman, however, was a multiple-time convicted felon with a violent criminal history, HCSO said.
As noted, this happened in Florida, and not in Massachusetts, or some other gun and gun owner hating jurisdiction, where self-defense is recognized as both a human right, and a legal right.
Citigroup announced on Tuesday that it is ending a seven-year-old policy that barred companies selling firearms to buyers under the age of 21 from using its services, according to a blog post declaring that it will no longer discriminate based on political affiliation.
I'm not sure why Citi decided that 18-year-olds shouldn't be able to buy long guns, but they seem to be coming around, now that people are suing over their constitutional rights, though they were not suing Citigroup.
The change at Citi comes amid broader political pressure over so-called debanking, with influential tech leaders and right-wing officials having alleged in recent years that the Biden administration improperly blocked certain people, such as cryptocurrency proponents and conservatives, from banking services.
I'd remind you all that nothing but gun owner vigilance will stop them from reversing course, yet again, when there is someone new in the White House, but for now we can celebrate a step in the right direction.
The video is about 8 minutes long, so grab a beverage.
Pictured are two homemade SMGs produced for the Australian black market. The MAC type copy is one of many produced by a jeweler turned underworld armorer.
Click thru for the photos.
And so it is clear, not only are fully automatic machine guns illegal, but semiautomatic guns are illegal in Australia.
Officer Gabriel Facio was shot in the course of a traffic stop earlier in the week. He passed away on Sunday from his injuries.
Officer Facio, 46, leaves behind his wife and two kids. Before joining the Apache Junction Police Department, he was a police officer in Phoenix and worked with several other law enforcement agencies in the Valley.
Apache Junction, Arizona is about 30 miles east of Phoenix.
What we know: The victim, a woman who asked not to be identified, said she was visiting her new home in District Heights last weekend when the attack occurred. The woman was near her vehicle with her 11-month-old rescue dog when the attack happened.
Authorities confirm that a 911 call reporting the attack was placed at 9:54 a.m., but officers did not arrive until 11:17 a.m. That response time is under review, officials said.
What happened is that a good Samaritan, her neighbor, intervened and took her to a local hospital.
Officials have not yet provided an explanation for the delay, but the incident has raised concerns about emergency response times in the area.
From my knowledge of police it could be several things. Not enough cops to cover the shift. (How do you spell, "Defund the police?") It could be screw up at the 911 center. At least this woman got help and is going to be mostly OK. I mostly because we don't have much information on her condition, or if there will be long term effects.
The Genesee County Sheriff's Office said two separate fights broke out in the parking lot after the park closed, drawing in large crowds.
"They had to leave the parking lot and run inside the theme park, and then that's when they started using the tear bullets, I guess, or mace bullets or something like that," Perkins continued. "It was a lot of unsupervised teens and just a lot of chaos."
Six Flags at Darien Lake is about a 30 mile drive east of Buffalo, New York.
I guess there must have been a lot of news after Memorial Day, because I don't remember seeing this mentioned much. I will admit that I am no longer tied into the general 24hr news insanity, but even so, I don't remember seeing anything about this. I guess it was just a local story.
Years before Joël Le Scouarnec was charged with abusing 299 former patients, he was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse imagery.
You would think that would be a red flag in hiring a pediatric surgeon. The French establishment didn't see it that way.
Of course the French courts didn't follow the law, and so the warning signs were covered up, or at least not sent to the people they should have been sent to.
But there was one clear warning sign: his 2005 conviction after an international F.B.I. investigation that snared thousands who had viewed child sexual abuse imagery. A French court at the time gave him a four-month suspended sentence, but demanded no psychological treatment, as it had for others. Nor did it restrict his medical practice. And the court failed to notify Dr. Le Scouarnec’s medical clinic, despite a law requiring it to do so.
And so even people who knew about the conviction hired him.
He was hired by a hospital director in the town of Jonzac, Michèle Cals, who told the court that the only person who informed her of the conviction was Mr. Le Scouarnec himself. But he arrived with a glowing recommendation from his last hospital, and the health ministry had approved his hiring.
“So what else did you expect me to do? Nothing?” said Ms. Cals, who retired a year after hiring him. “At the time, there were few applications and many vacancies, everyone was looking for surgeons. If he hadn’t been hired in Jonzac, he would have been hired anywhere else.”
There is more. Victim statements. Deflections from more bureaucrats. Another conviction that did NOT result in a suspended sentence.
The New York Times is confused because they believe that Europe is perfect. They pay no attention to the riots on the outskirts of Paris that are so regular, they don't count as news. They pay no attention to the increasing crime, and other problems. They love social programs and gun control, and are blind to everything else.
I can hardly wait until all of our health care is controlled by a giant, unfeeling bureaucracy.
Two antisemitic attacks in America happened in two weeks, and what is the response of the media?
This is an obvious (and ominous) trend — radical terrorists are acting on the Left’s rhetoric about “globalizing the Intifada.” A mere 10 days separated these two attacks, and you might think that journalists would have some sense of civic duty to alert the public to the heightened level of danger this trend represents. Yet coverage of these incidents has swiftly disappeared from the nightly news on ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS, and from the MSNBC and CNN cable channels. Why? Because these attacks do not fit the Democratic Party’s propaganda narrative.
Go read the whole thing. Robert Stacy McCain, as usual, has some great things to say about the media.
Reddit has filed suit against Anthropic, alleging that the company has accessed the site 100,000 times in the past year despite a big sign on the tree fort saying "NO GIRLS ALLOWED". (The Verge)
Woke America: Hetero Pride Month. The vaccine agenda. Walmart’s ‘Pride’ clothing. And VDH.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Diversity is our strength. Queer raccoons.
1. This speech is Amrita nectar. Savour it. Share it. The Overton window on the communist nature of the Trudeau/Carney Liberal party is now open.
Conservative MP calls COVID mandates in Canada ‘full communism’
The Political Hat: Washington State’s War On Clergy, also, Blowing Up The Rules
This Ain’t Hell: Seattle church event “swarmed” by protesters, so Mayor blames Christians
Da Wire hears from the White House: There Will Be No ‘Pride’ Proclamation, "The Trump White House is doing a complete 180 from the Biden administration's focus on LGBT issues." Mil.com reports Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship.
Brussels has been spending at least €80 million of taxpayer funds every year on mainstream media outlets for pro-EU messaging and the promotion of the European Commission’s liberal agenda
France seems to be hell bent on going all out with euthanasia, or nearly so.
Estonia says that euthanasia isn’t healthcare, but it’s still spiffy!
Meanwhile, in Manitoba, Canada…
Just believe it happened and don’t ask questions. That is often the attitude.
I exposed the BYU v Duke volleyball race incident—the Angel Reese story is no different
Why so many people are having strokes in their 20s, 30s and 40s: ‘We’ve never had patients so young.’ This site is right more often than it is wrong, and earlier than everyone else to boot
European countries have blamed EU environmental regulations for hindering their preparations for defending against a possible Russian invasion.
In a leaked letter obtained by The Telegraph, the nations’ defence ministers argued that the rules had stopped the expansion of military bases and prevented fighter jet pilots from training.
The United Kingdom is upping its defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027. The continent is dragging its collective feet.
They said this was “mainly (but not exclusively) in the areas of procurement legislation, nature conservation and environmental protection, and more generally the administrative burden on defence organisations deriving from various EU legal acts”.
The letter was signed by the Dutch, Swedish, German, Belgian, Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Finnish, Estonian and Danish governments.
I'm old enough to remember how the Europeans laughed at President Trump, during his first term, for insisting that they increase defense spending in the face of Russian aggression. I don't think their laughing so much now.
The commission had promised to ease regulations that could hinder the rearmament efforts, but has yet to do so in any significant way.
It would seem that they would rather live under Putin, than give up the control they've siezed of life in Europe. Bureaucracies NEVER yield power.
Russia is building bases and expanding its military footprint near the Finnish border, in a sign of where its swollen army could be moved after a ceasefire in Ukraine.
The continuing attempt of Buffalo Public Schools, with the aid of the Buffalo legacy media, to run out the clock. "If only we stonewall, the people will forget about this." Or something.
In addition to obstructions from the school district, the media in Buffalo, New York, is trying to imply that Angry Cops and the guys from the Unsubscribe Podcast have it in for the teachers. They don't. Nick, Fat Electrician, has spoken to any number of teachers confidentially. They are the people telling him which Freedom of Information Act requests to submit.
Most teachers are just trying to do the right thing in the face of a culture that says, "don't cooperate with cops," "don't report bad things," "don't make the administration look bad."
Here is an excerpt from a longer episode in which that gets discussed, and there is some interesting video of a teacher making a statement at a Buffalo School Board Meeting, and a conversation with a teacher about administration retaliation.
Today we have an unusual song. This is the only song by Led Zeppelin to include a guest vocalist. Sandy Denny was a British folk singer, who died in 1978 at the age of 31.
Yet another song from Saturday Morning Flashback from 93 WXRT (Chicago's Finest Rock). Still great to listen to on a Saturday, while I drink coffee or do stuff around the house.
I have a list of men who I knew, who died in the line of duty and I remember them every Memorial Day, usually out loud and at church. This year my pastor, that's him with the beard behind me, asked if I'd mind reading that list (along with a few chosen lines from various poets, which varies year to year) up front during the announcements and prayer concerns moment of our service.
This week, host Symone Sanders, a former staffer for both the Bernie Sanders campaign and Vice President Kamala Harris, tried to suggest that no one knows who is really running the Trump White House, implying that Trump is not in charge.
This kind of thing can be deadly to the political careers of Leftists. [Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is] trying to get ahead of it and will wait a decent interval before publicly worrying about how this will affect “peaceful” Muslims and before noting that Republicans are “pouncing:” exposing Democrat incompetence and malice.
I've termed Florida as the most restrictive pro-gun state in the nation, and pretty much every advocate from the Sunshine State I've talked to agrees with that assessment. It's a sad state of affairs, really, when a state that has a Republican supermajority in the legislature can't seem to get some basic gun rights restored.
We are Harvard researchers. We'd rather discriminate against Jews than save lives. (The Times) (archive site)
That's not the worst of it, either. Of a scientist bewailing the loss of her $60 million research contract thanks to Harvard's illegal bigotry and intransigence.
In the Eureka Landing community early this morning, [Tues. June 3rd] a homeowner discharged a firearm in an act of self-defense against a home invader who was armed with an axe, according to the Monroe County sheriff.
As near as I can tell, Eureka Landing in Monroe County, Alabama is about a 65 mile drive north from Mobile.
The homeowner did not just discharge a firearm; the intruder was shot once in the torso. The homeowner is not expected to face charges, though the investigation is still going on.
The guy who got shot was taken to a hospital, though his condition was not reported.
“We commend the quick response of our deputies and the homeowner’s decision to defend themselves and their loved ones,” [Sheriff Tom] Boatwright stated.
You can file this under, "Another failure of the victim-selection process.
HeyJackass! brings us the crime report from the Windy City. May Wrap-up
Coming off a historically quiet April, our forecast for May assuming the trend continued was “just” 30-35 homicides and 175 shot and wounded. The homicide call was close enough but the wounded count was much lower than expected. It sure would be nice to have the ShotSpotter data to see how many attempts were made, but that’s why it was shut down, to make it impossible to know what’s really going on.
The final tally was 38 killed, and 138 shot and wounded. As bad as that seems, it is a marked improvement from the prior years.
Typically April posts the first all 70° weekend but it looks like we’re going to into June before that happens. With conditions improving, silly decisions will be on the rise.
Click thru for the details, which include things like Selfies, and #ShotInTheAss. There are also predictions for June.
EV enthusiasts always chime in, "EVs catch fire less frequently than internal combustion engines." And that is true. But it isn't the whole story.
A fire crew can usually put out an ICE vehicle fire in about 10 minutes or less. ICE vehicles catch fire most of the time when they are being driven, or at least running, and are at operating temperature. They don't usually set adjacent cars or structures on fire.
EV fires can be difficult to extinguish. If a fire crew does get them extinguished, there is a distinct possibility that they can reignite later, sometimes days later. Also, while an ICE engine emits fumes that are bad for you, an EV fire puts off fumes that are toxic enough to kill you instantly.
MGUY Australia does a nice job in the first few minutes of this video explaining exactly why that is. The video then goes on to highlight a couple of recent EV fires, one in Welshpool, Wales, UK, and one in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Details are below the embedded video.
CREWS from five Powys fire stations were called out to a fire in the early hours of Saturday morning (May 31) which saw an electric vehicle catch fire and spread to a nearby factory in Welshpool.
An electric vehicle that exploded and caught fire in Abbotsford caused "significant" traffic delays in a popular shopping area on Saturday, according to the Abbotsford Police Department.
Calvin Polachek, 23, claimed that his brother, best friend and nine classmates were killed in 2017 during a violent rampage at Dallas High School in rural Pennsylvania.
In an emotional speech before the Kentucky State Capitol in February, Polachek recounted the horror of returning to campus a week after the alleged tragedy.
A heart-rending story that is complete fiction.
However it has since emerged that the business student lied about his ordeal and that the shooting 'never occurred', per Dallas Township Police Chief Doug Higgins.
Polachek's brother Luke is also 'very much alive and well', several Dallas High School alumni confirmed to WNEP.
Dallas School District Superintendent Dr. Thomas Duffy, who also refuted Polachek's fabricated tale, told DailyMail.com that it is, 'troubling and disappointing that a story like this would be out there, obviously with zero basis'.
So how did he gain so much traction? None of the anti-gun groups, in particular, Moms Demand Action, bothered to fact check his story. He says he was a victim of a school shooting. Put him front and center!
Polachek's story first surfaced in February at a rally organized by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America in support of Kentucky's gun safety education bill.
Police say his remarks were shared on social media and quoted in articles published by local news outlets, as well as global platforms including MSN and Yahoo News.
It seems like none of those other outlets did any fact checking either.
The former FBI director testified that the FBI's targeting of traditional Catholics, was limited to a single field office, and that was struck down as soon as the powers-that-be became aware of it. Turns out that was a lie.
The Biden-era FBI chief told House lawmakers in July of 2023 that the memo – which described the purported overlaps between Catholics who oppose abortion rights and would-be terrorists as an opportunity for “threat mitigation” and “source development” – was “a single product by a single field office.”
However, the new FBI files obtained by Grassley show the bureau produced “at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology,” as well as a second memo updating the FBI’s Richmond Field Office’s case against “radical” Catholics.
So if lying to Congress is a crime, why do so many people do it, and not face any consequences?
The new documents reveal that Richmond FBI officials worked with the bureau’s field offices in Louisville, Portland, and Milwaukee as they drafted the memo – further belying Wray’s testimony.
The Deep State apparently thinks that it doesn't answer to anyone, about anything. And they clearly don't like anything that would prevent people from worshiping The State.
Click thru for more details.
And I will just note that this is beyond being Funded But Incompetent. This is bold-faced lying, because you don't want to admit what is really going on.
Last month, a recent law school graduate lost his job after using ChatGPT to help draft a court filing that ended up being riddled with errors.
The consequences arrived after a court in Utah ordered sanctions after the filing included the first fake citation ever discovered in the state hallucinated by artificial intelligence.
Also problematic, the Utah court found that the filing included "multiple" mis-cited cases, in addition to "at least one case that does not appear to exist in any legal database (and could only be found in ChatGPT."
So much for that education he paid tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars for.
Language Models like ChatGPT are just that, language models. They are not truth models or fact models. They really only know when the language is right.
FBI reassigns agents who knelt during 2020 Black Lives Matter protests
FBI agents who knelt for BLM reassigned? This an outrage! Why are they still employed?
Why do lawyers keeping using ChatGPT? (The Verge) (archive site)
Because they're stupid and lazy.
Just like journalists, but they face real penalties for their stupidity and laziness.
Undercover Ukrainian operatives penetrated Russia with truckloads of drones and attacked Russian bombers at airfields. Sundance, Ukraine Carries Out Widespread Suicide Mission Attacks in Russia – White House Not Informed in Advance
Dems Lose Ground to GOP as ‘Party of the Middle Class’: CNN Poll
A new poll released by CNN has revealed that the Republican and Democrat Parties are nearly tied when Americans were asked who represents the party of the middle class.
1. Interesting and important video on how some actual Irish patriots found an illegal migrant living in an illegal encampment, who had been making videos about slicing Irish children in their sleep, and took it upon themselves to make him less comfortable, even knowing ...
Carnival Carney’s Canada: A senator speaks out. How black do you have to be? More Liberal voters.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Diversity is our strength. Sparky cars.
The FDA has officially gone rogue. It just approved Moderna’s newest COVID-19 mRNA shot—mNEXSPIKE—without a single placebo-controlled trial, directly contradicting recent public assurances from HHS that “all new vaccines will undergo safety testing”
A mother shot a convicted child molester multiple times inside an Indianapolis hotel room after allegedly walking in on him attempting to rape her 12-year-old daughter.
The guy who got shot survived and was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
Click thru for the details, or watch the video. Colion Noir does emphasize some things near the end of the video, that is not in most of the coverage of this incident. Something aside from what I put in the quote.
So, I'm going to ask the question that the media never wants to. How the hell does a three-time, convicted child predator get his hands on a firearm? Anyone? Anyone? No? Cool, I'll answer it. Because he's a criminal. He doesn't care about your background checks. He doesn't care about your gun-free zones. He doesn't care about your assault weapons ban. He just gets the damn gun because he's a criminal, and guess what the only thing that stopped him this time, wasn't the police, wasn't, the system, it was a mother with a gun who walked in and did what needed to be done.
Thousands of blooming peony plants were destroyed overnight at the University of Michigan’s W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden.
Tony Kolenic, director of Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, shared the news in a video Sunday, June 1, on social media.
“These peonies are not just plants, they are living beings,” Kolenic said in a Facebook post. “They’ve been nurtured over generations and bring joy, community, and connection to the natural world for so many people every season.”
Why? Because "Free Palestine," or some other BS. You should destroy stuff to show what a great person you are.
If you're old enough, you probably remember a song by Murray Head, "One Night In Bangkok." What most people don't know is that song is from a musical. Chess was first produced in London in 1986, and then moved to New York in 1988.
Chess was written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, both from ABBA, with lyrics by Tim Rice. Some of the music is good, though I don't know why "One Night In Bangkok" became so well known.
The characters are loosely inspired by real chess legends, such as GM Bobby Fischer, while the Russian player has elements of both GMs Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.
[Lea] Michele, who returns to Broadway after an acclaimed performance in Funny Girl, is set to star as Florence Vassey, the Hungarian-born arbiter who becomes tragically caught in the dramatic love triangle with the grandmasters.
If you are of the certain age, you remember Murray Head and "One Night In Bangkok." I'm still at a loss when it comes to explaining why this song made the impact that it did.
... when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue
It's Iceland or the Philippines or Hastings or
or this place!
If you want to see a story about people that revolves around chess, I recommend 1994's Fresh. It doesn't star Samuel L. Jackson, but he is a major character, and he gives a pretty good performance. It is a bit violent, as it focuses on a kid caught up in the drug trade, and his efforts to survive in that world.
If you want a more suburban movie, Searching for Bobby Fischer. It is a good movie, but just a bit saccharin.
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Apparently, it is a slapping wacko judges down day. I just mentioned on this morning for ruling the Trump admin cannot end the protections. Will this stop the wacko liberal federal judges?
There’s that “guise of judicial review” thing again, where judges are simply involving themselves outside the bounds of the scope of their duties and authority.
I, a smug credentialled communist, am a good person, and anyone who disagrees with me is a bad person and deserves everything that happens to them, but I'm too nice to say so, so instead I'll turn them into an endless stream of grant proposals. (Ars Technica)
The resulting lecture may have been 20 minutes or however long it took us to reach our destination, but I remember telling Jeff never to write anything in an email, DM or text message that he wouldn’t want to see as a headline on the front page of the New York Times.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) used a gesture at the end of a speech that many have referred to, when used by Republicans or conservatives, as a "Nazi salute. The move came as he finished up a 15 minute speech at the California Democrat Party convention on Saturday.
It was never gonna fly, if you’ll excuse the pun. The only way would have been to either stop fossil fueled flights altogether or make a breakthrough in aviation fuel. Considering they haven’t come up with one for cars, it’s a long shot
If the armed guards are getting stabbed, I'm thinking that transit isn't quite as safe as driving in a locked car.
A Metro security guard shot a man in self-defense after being stabbed along with another guard in an unprovoked attack at the Metro North Hollywood Station on Saturday, May 31, authorities said.
The man appeared "agitated" after he was issued a citation. Does anyone think drugs may have been involved?
The two guards are expected to be OK. The guy who got shot was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Someone (Small Dead Animals?) used to say that riding public transit was like sharing your car with 20 random hitchhikers.
Self-defense is a human-right, though I'm not sure whether most people in Hollywood agree with that statement.
This is the conclusion of some university professors. That people embedded in academia are willing to say that perhaps the emperor doesn't have any clothes, when it comes to net zero and electric cars, should be some indication of the scope of the problem.
A recent study led by University of Michigan earth and environmental scientist Adam Simon, together with colleagues at Cornell University and the University of Queensland, takes a hard look at how much of the metal will be required over the next generation.
While copper is not the only bottleneck, we can start there.
How much copper do we produce? Let's look at current production as a baseline.
For context, global mines turned out roughly 23 million metric tons in 2024 – barely two percent of what the world will burn through over the next twenty-five years.
Well, that sounds like a lot. Is it?
The number climbs higher when the researchers layer green-energy targets on top of everyday growth. Transitioning every passenger vehicle on the planet to electric power using copper-based materials, along with the necessary grid upgrades, pushes demand to 1,248 million metric tons.
Relying mostly on wind and solar power bumps the requirement to 2,304 million metric tons. Building a grid that stores energy in large-scale battery packs sends the tally soaring to 3 billion metric tons.
Meanwhile, emerging economies have their own copper bills to pay. India alone will need about 227 million metric tons to expand power lines, hospitals, and sanitation systems.
And for the people who find math hard, 23 million is less than 1 percent of 3 billion. And that 3 billion may really be 4 billion. You will need to read the article for that.
So what does it all mean? Net zero by 2050 is a pipe dream. Except when politicians, who know nothing about engineering, and haven't taken a science class in 40 years, have pipe dreams, they tend to pass laws with no basis in reality. They won't suffer, because governments and bureaucracies will make sure to take care of their own.
Battery storage and wind and solar consume vast quantities of copper and yet this is the path many countries are still taking towards net zero.
So what if we can't achieve the (stupid) goals set by politicians without regard to reality of mineral production? Will they change those goals?
Will the politicians and the decision makers read this? Will Chris Bowen sit down and think carefully about the facts presented? Will Ed Milliband? Of course not! They're much happier staying high on the smell of their own farts, than considering the effects that the failure of net zero - and it will fail, it's just a question of when - will have on the poor, long-suffering population when electricity becomes a luxury item that is too expensive for many to afford. We will then have truly regressed to the stone age.
It’s that time of the month again. A time when public officials the world over hop on their Zoom calls at a local office building to discuss how to cut back to save the planet. Just kidding, they’re all flying to the French Riviera instead.
Why? For a Useless Nitwits meeting, or UN conference on the oceans of the world, it can be hard to tell.
They won't be staying in cheap motels, either. Click thru for those details.
Visions of Atlantis is another band I discovered via one of the music streaming services. I have only had occasion to sample a few of their songs, but I am fairly happy with what I have heard. This is one of the bands that reminds us that "Heavy Metal" today, is more like what mainstream rock was in the 1970s, with maybe a hint of progressive rock thrown in from time to time.
Clean vocals, and duet between a male vocalist and female vocalist isn't what people think of today when you say Heavy Metal. But that is where we are. Let me know what you think about the song in the comments.
