Usually Kevin is writing at The Other McCain, but that isn't the only place he is active.
Since the convention is just two days away, I figure I better get this done now, because I promised I would. Our second set of Ancestors is smaller than the first and a bit more narrowly focused, being mostly authors who were major contributors to combat/military SF.
This is the second post Kevin has on the origins of Sci-Fi as it pertains to Son of Silvercon, and as Wombat-socho sees thing.
The convention is Son of Silvercon, and it starts Friday and runs through the weekend in Las Vegas.
In British Columbia, politicians love to talk about “universal health care.” But what they don’t talk about is universal suffering—because in the Interior Health region alone, 1,586 patients died last year while waiting for medical imaging or elective surgery. Not while being treated. Not in recovery. They died waiting for the help that never came.
In the world of Socialized Medicine, like Canadian Health Care, "elective surgery" is not only stuff like a tummy tuck or a nose job; it is any surgery that is not mandated by a life or death emergency. You need a hip replacement because you're in pain and can't walk? That is elective surgery, and you are going to have to wait. Cataracts making you blind? Ditto. The list is quite long.
In many countries in Europe it can take up to two years to get a license to enjoy a shooting hobby. It is no wonder some Europeans opt for an increasingly popular ‘weird special hack’ which allows unlimited dirt cheap automatic carbines to materialize in one’s home without needing to ask anyone’s permission.
Click thru for a great photo that includes exampls of the FGC-9, Urutau, FGC-EVO, Rogue-9 and a Scorpion EVO variant, along with some pistols.
A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of tourists at the internationally known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, the national broadcaster RUV reported. The eruption began around 4 a.m. following an intense seismic swarm on the Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest of the capital, Reykjavik, Iceland's Met Office said.
Nick Arama at RedState New Report Drops Bombshell About the Secret Service and Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler. "The report, ordered by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, reveals that the Secret Service received classified intelligence ...
Another ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Comes True: California Bill Passes to Buy Fire-Ravaged Palisades for Low-Income Apartments
The writing is on the wall — bold and in large font — for private landowners and homeowners
Speaking of which, Google Gemini just lost a chess match with an Atari 2600 from the Ordovician Era. (Tom's Hardware)
The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM. / That is not a typo.
What becomes of Republicans who cross King Donald?
LOL – Does The Radical Left have any idea of who looks worse when they repeatedly refer to President Trump as their King?
Lord Carney’s Canada: Climate obsessions. Diversity is our strength.
Woke America: VDH – The left lost it’s collective mind. Chickens for KFC. A US citizen. Your morning meme. Another meme.
From Ace, Surprise! Treasury Department Reports an Unexpected +$27 Billion Surplus in June, Compared to a -$71 Billion Deficit in June 2024 Under "President" Biden.
3. More negation of British existence at schools and across social media
4. In case you think all those DOGE and similar ludicrous expenses in Canada and the US are actually for things like teaching gay hamsters to sing barbershop quartet:
ITEM 6: Peter St Onge, Ph.D., tweeted, “Pharmaceutical ads could be banned from television. CNN says it could cripple them.”
It’s a two-fer. It fights drug pushers and CNN.
Who’s Hungry For The Truth About Food Stamps?
Trump Admin Ends Taxpayer Subsidies For Illegal Aliens
Hispanic Voters' Support for Deportations Increasing
The release [from Indiana State Police] said, “Gehring was trespassing on private property and was told numerous times by the property owner to leave. A physical altercation occurred between the property owner and Gehring, resulting in Gehring being shot.”
If you get the chance to leave, why not take it?
Mr. Gehring was taken to a local hospital, and then airlifted to a trauma center in Indianapolis, but he did not survive his wounds.
Sullivan County, with 20,700 residents, is about a 1-hour, 45-minute drive southwest of downtown Indianapolis.
Self-defense is a human right, and Indiana has a history of respecting it as a legal right. That said, the Sullivan County DA has not yet made a determination about charges.
I wonder if NY Times Warmist Jason Horowitz even understands the meaning of Paradise Lost?
I doubt he read more than the CliffNotes version of Paradise Lost. William Teach gives you the introduction to Paradise Lost, in case you haven't read it.
I also wonder if he took a fossil fueled trip in order to “report from Barcelona, Spain”, considering he is stationed in Rome
Go see what the Europeans are so bent out of shape over.
According to the Met Office, temperatures in Cannock reached highs of 29C (84F) on the weekend
So I'm not too worried about the Brits, anyway, even though they can't stop complaining about the heat. (84 would be great right now, and I'm only in Ohio.)
According to Accuweather, which is subject to change, as I type this the heatwave is going to see 90 degrees F on Wednesday in Barcelona, Spain. They are also suffering from Poor air quality, with high mold, extreme dust and dander, and an unhealthy level of pollution. Barcelona is where the NY Times Journalist went to wring his hands over the climate doom.
For comparison, as I type this (on Monday), Phoenix, Arizona is at 108F/42C, and Miami, Florida is cooling down for the evening, but expecting to see 89F/31.6C on Wednesday. Minneapolis, Minnesota is 90F/32C. Which are all seasonable for this time of year.
A song from WXRT, but NOT from Saturday Morning Flashback. I was waiting for the start of that program when this song came on. This song reminds me more of Rock from the 1960s than 2000s.
The Anniversary of Apollo 11 is tomorrow, so I thought I would dig out the 2 videos that I love, and some info on the Saturn V. (Shamelessly stolen from myself from the 40th anniversary, with some edits.)
The launch of Apollo 11 took place on 16 July 1969 at 13:32 UTC. (That is 9:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time in case you're confused.) For those of you who don't remember, it was the first Apollo mission to land men on the moon.
I love the 2nd video I've embedded, because of the detail, and because there is expert commentary, but not everyone agrees with me.
We will start with a video that is a compilation of views from various cameras, including the control room, and the audience on site at Cape Canaveral. The thumbnail photo is the same (or nearly the same) for both videos, but I assure you that they are different. The video is about 6 minutes.
This is Saturn V launch-pad footage from that day. It is 16mm film at 500 frames per second. 8 minutes plus worth of video is only about 30 seconds of real time, but that gives you time to absorb the details of the launch. I think it is fairly interesting.
Most people realize that bad weather happens. Always has, always will. And, let’s be honest, people can only listen to so much fearporn before they just tune it out.
Yikes. Yes, there was a huge increase in alcohol-related deaths for both sexes. Unsurprising to those who know, the rates are much higher for males — about 3x that of females.
The well-established correlation between heavy marijuana use and schizophrenia is part of why I have become a fierce opponent of decriminalizing marijuana. While the primary victim is the pothead, there is plenty of secondary damage.
Ironically, though both Pittsburgh and I wanted to play our last series hands-on, the Dynasty League computers had other ideas, and we logged in Thursday night to find the games had already been played.
A few months later, two FBI agents knocked on her door on a Monday night. They told her she was a person of interest in an investigation targeting a leaker who had allegedly violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
She had marks on her neck, from where she claimed he was strangling her. She called 911 after the shooting. The System™ in New York is still holding her without bail. Why? Because self-defense must be punished.
Prosecutors say that Guimont admitted to police that she shot Carter, and that she was acting in self-defense because he was strangling her.
"We know the level of trauma that Ms. Guimont experienced particularly prior to this incident," said attorney Michael Alber.
Alber says Guimont was a victim of ongoing domestic violence, and that she has marks on her face and a swollen neck from the physical confrontation before the shooting.
I hope NY respects her right to a speedy trial, though I doubt it will.
I don't know the truth of this situation. All I have to go on is what I have read in the media, which is not a lot. What little I have read makes this sound like self-defense. And self-defense is a human right.
There was a time, and not that long ago, that Sweden was one of the safest countries in the world. That is no longer true. From PeterSweden: The Swedish rape crisis is just getting WORSE
There was a whopping 10.167 reported rapes [per 100,000] in the year 2024, a new record high and a 7% increase from 2023.
Compared with 2015, this is a whopping 68% increase in rapes.
That is much higher than it was 20 years ago.
But what makes this even worse is that out of these, a whopping 4524 reported rapes were committed against people under the age of 18, in other words children.
Let's look at the comparison that no one wants you to see.
England and Wales: 117 reported rapes per 100.000 people.
Sweden: 96 reported rapes per 100.000 people.
Poland: 1.5 reported rapes per 100.000 people.
Aside from rape, Sweden also has a problem with bombings. Click thru for details and links to more info.
Sweden used to be considered one of the most peaceful countries in the world. Now it is a disaster. Socialism and Socialist policies has destroyed my country.
Thanks to Robert Meyer Burnett, and and his YouTube channel The Brunettwork, I got to see his interview with Jeffrey Morris, a man who made a documentary about some of the Sci-Fi shows of my youth, together with some of the actual space exploration of the day. The documentary is supposed to be released this fall, but I'm not sure how it is going to be released. It is currently making the round of some film festivals.
While I remember Space 1999, the show that the Eagle transporter was from, I wasn't as much of a fan, as I had been of UFO. While Space 1999 wasn't exactly a sequel to UFO, there were elements that were the same, and they were both produced by Gerry Anderson's production company.
Five Finger Death Punch decided to mark 2025 by re-recording a bunch of their songs and releasing a compilation album titled Best Of – Volume 1. That is where today's song comes from. So not just remixing, but going back into the studio with instruments. That album will be released July 28th. This song was released on May 16th.
Cops were called to check on Joshua Mason Bliss in Oconee County, South Carolina. Oconee County is about 90 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, or about 110 miles west northwest of of Columbia, South Carolina. It seems from the map to be fairly rural.
Mr. Bliss, fired shots at the police, and set his apartment on fire, and took off.
While investigating that shooting, deputies said they received word from dispatch that Bliss had reportedly been shot by a homeowner on Cain Drive. Upon arriving at the Cain Drive location, deputies found Bliss on the ground and the homeowner holding a pistol.
Click thru for the details, but the homeowner shot him, as he advanced, and then held him at gunpoint until police could arrive.
Bliss was taken to a local hospital, and then he was taken to the county lockup.
[Bliss] is charged with six counts of attempted murder, two counts of breakinginto a motor vehicle and one count each of breach of peace – aggravated in nature, ill treatment of animals, second-degree arson, possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime and high and aggravated criminal domestic violence.
All stopped by a good guy with a gun. You know, that thing the gun-hating part of the Left says never happens. It happened again.
The Seattle Police Department said they were investigating a 'potentially targeted' attack 'due to political and ideological signs' that included a Confederate Flag, supported Donald Trump, and one that read 'Police Lives Matter.'
They tolerate everyone, as long as you march in lockstep with every bit of their dogma. Deviate from that and you will be attacked.
The homeowner's car windows were also shot at and pride flag stickers were left on the vehicle.
They no doubt left the Pride Stickers to prove how tolerant they are.
Despite the violence, the homeowner told local news that she would be keeping her signs up.
While Brennan, Clapper, and Comey all rightly deserve condemnation, Obama launched the plot and as president he holds greater responsibility for politicizing the intelligence community against his successor.
I want to copy something, but there is too much. I will leave you with this, and say, "read the whole thing."
Yes, the CIA report showed, in the words of CIA Director Ratcliffe, “how Brennan and Clapper and Comey manipulated [and] silenced all the career professionals and railroaded the process.” But they were merely doing the dirty work for Obama, which is why CIA Director Ratcliffe stressed: “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump.’”
So, Governor Newsom — considered a leading “mainstream” contender for the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nomination — is supported by a corporate marijuana producer who uses foreign child labor supplied by human traffickers. How much of this would you know if you got your news from ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS or CNN? The correct answer is zero, because those outlets almost completely ignored this story.
You probably saw some of the images on the news, but they didn't tell you that it was a pot farm, or that some of the "workers" were children. They only told you that ICE was being mean.
Literal child slavery is happening in Newsom’s California, but the CBS News audience is left with the impression that the real issue is racism, because “pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target” of Trump’s immigration policy.
You only think you hate the media enough. You don't.
Andre Einherjar of Midnight's Edge is an interesting critic of Hollywood, in part because he sees Hollywood from Europe.
Deadline, the Hollywood magazine/news organization, is bemoaning the fact that American cinema isn't as popular and influential as it was a decade ago. As the studios decided to push DEI, which no one wants, audiences are disappearing. Why? Well it is Trump's fault of course, because Orange Man Bad, or something.
The old Soviet Union imploded for many reasons, but a major one was that they didn't let consumer demand dictate production, since they let what the powers that be thought the people should have decide what got made. That in the end helped usher in a collapse.
Hollywood has been doing something similar for years now. Rather than making the movies the audiences of the world actually wants and demands, they pushed out ideologically driven drivel they thought audiences should have, but the audience weren't having it.
It is a 21 minute video, but I found it interesting.
I was listening to the WXRT radio program 1993 Saturday Morning Flashback - July 5, 2025. They only have a brief mention of movies these days, but it still evoked a time when there was more than 3 good movies in a given year.
1993 was year that gave us Philadelphia, staring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Oscar for Best Picture, The Fugitive staring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, The Firm staring Tom Cruise, and Sleepless in Seattle staring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. All of those movies were in the top 10 highest grossing films of the year.
Jurassic Park was the highest grossing film of that year. And it is the only Jurassic Park movie worth your time.
Other notable films:
Leprechaun staring Warwick Davis. Started a horror franchise if I remember correctly.
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. The story of 2 dogs and a cat trying to get home.
Groundhog Day. Bill Murray, in one of his best rolls, with Andie MacDowell
Army of Darkness. Sam Raimi classic horror/comedy staring Bruce Campbell
Falling Down. Michael Douglas as a man who lost his way, and Robert Duvall as a detective
The Nightmare Before Christmas. Which is actually a Halloween movie.
There are more. Most of that list is from the first quarter of the year. But I had to include that last one.
You could go to the movies every week, and there would be something interesting to see. And it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.
Red Lake Department of Public Safety says dispatch got a call Wednesday from a homeowner in Redby saying that a man had kicked the door in.
Redby, Minnesota is roughly a 250 mile drive north of Minneapolis. It may call its Police Department, the Department of Public Safety, but it is far from the blue-state center of Minneapolis.
After he kicked in the door, the homeowner shot him. He died at the scene.
Not sure why, but the FBI is aiding in the investigation along with Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Blue states. Why can't they just call it the State Police? I guess that doesn't sound Progressive, or something.
Those changes have always not been for the better. Kim du Toit at Splendid Isolation: Bare Ruin’d Choirs
Did civilization end after WWI?
The Western Front saw a generation of young men (nearly) eliminated. Both the lower and middle class, as well as the upper class.
The result was the disappearance of an entire generation of young men, a decimation or worse of lower- or middle-class youth, and the virtual disappearance of the upper class, doomed by their class and upbringing to lead their men into the hot mouths of the machine guns, and to suffer disproportionately.
At a stroke, the old ruling class disappeared, whether by slaughter on the Western Front, or by revolution in Russia. In its place came the modern government bureaucracy: more faceless than before, more powerful than before. The post-Great War government was to rule not by divine dogma, nor even by royal whim, but by cold, impersonal philosophy.
Did it end? Technology didn't disappear, and we didn't get a dark ages, but in Europe it changed so as to not be recognizable. Literature and the arts changed. Modernism - Bauhaus, Dada, etc. came in, and more. Architecture stopped being beautiful. A lot of things stopped being beautiful.
Things changed again with WWII, and the reaction to the horrors we unleashed.
What the Second World War enabled was the growth of the Leviathan state, with its impersonal bureaucracy (like mass destruction) brought to its ultimate conclusion. Instead of the post-Great War Dadaism, post-Second World War literature was defined by bleak dystopian visions like George Orwell’s 1984 and absurdist plays like Samuel Becket’s Waiting For Godot.
It will change again. Will it be better or worse this time?
There is more. Click thru and read the whole thing.
A woman was on vacation when she was notified that her home had been broken into. She posted photos and a scathing remark on F*c*book.
When Davidson’s plane landed, she found that Cape had incriminated herself, replying to the Facebook post and allegedly admitting her guilt.
“People need to mind their own business. This woman called me trash… just because I broke in her house and stole some stuff. She don’t even know me. But thinks it’s ok to call me trash,” Cape wrote.
She hadn't been arrested at the time the article published, and I doubt we will hear more about this trash.
Sometimes I think humanity doesn't desrve to survive.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Ugly Buildings. Why do the police bother arresting anybody? Streets of Montreal.
Woke America: A Mamdani staffer. The useful idiot generation. Illegal aliens in congress.
Minnesota DHS Policy Investigated for Civil Rights Violations
The Trump administration said Thursday that it has opened an investigation into whether a Minnesota state agency’s newly updated affirmative action policy violates civil rights laws.
Vox Popoli: It Isn’t Theirs, Sandman 2 Sucks, and Shots Fired! Shots Fired!
Upstream Reviews: WonderFilled Meltdown
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony -
Centerville, Ohio, is not scanning your trash and feeding the data into an AI to issue notices that you are a poopy-head. (Dayton Daily News)
They're scanning your recycling and feeding the data into AI.
Economic Advisers Council Reports Import Prices Falling, Undercutting Tariff-Driven Inflation Fears
USAID Sent Thousands of Viruses to the Infamous Wuhan Lab
Matt Taibbi: One More Wafer-Thin Mint?
Outkick: Caitlin Clark Struggles Shooting Again, Still Leads Indiana Fever To Win Over Brittney Griner, Atlanta Dream
He was celebrating the Fourth of July by breaking and entering.
The homeowner’s son had noticed a rear door was left open and armed himself with a revolver after then entering the home and reportedly hearing strange noises, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
After the man called out to see if anyone else was in the home, Platt allegedly emerged from a hallway and charged toward him, prompting the man to fire a single shot into Platt’s leg, the release states.
I'm a firm believer in aiming for center of mass. A guy is running at you, so you don't have time to be wrong.
The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital, and then to the county lockup.
And since this took place in Florida, the authorities were only worried about one thing, in relation to the guy doing the shooting.
The man who fired the shot was not injured, investigators said.
Osceola County, Florida is just south of Orlando and Orange County. It contains the city of Kissimmee, Florida.
Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guy 0.
In a case that underscores the growing concerns around youth violence in Chicago, two boys — just 14 years old — have been charged with a brutal armed carjacking that left a 39-year-old man critically injured last month in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood.
Edgewater is one of the 77 neighborhoods (excuse me, "community areas") in Chicago. It is about 6 miles north of The Loop, and right on the lakefront. It is about 6 miles south of Evanston, Illinois and Northwestern University.
Two of these juveniles remain on the streets.
According to a police report, the boys, along with two unidentified accomplices, pulled up in a white sedan and struck the victim with the vehicle. Authorities said the group, which had at least one firearm, stole the man’s belongings and fled in his blue Toyota Highlander, leaving him with injuries so severe he was taken to St. Francis Hospital in critical condition
If this isn't a sign of the breakdown of civilization, that 14 year olds are committing violent crimes with no remorse, I don't know what is.
Here is the obligatory reference to Hobbes' Leviathan, and his reference to the State of War that exists when criminals no longer fear that the government will impose Law and Order.
There aren't too many bands that can produce an acoustic version of a song, and still make it sound like Heavy Metal. But 5FDP manages that with today's song. I'm still putting it on Saturday, because of a lack of screaming guitars.
Epstein committed suicide. He didn't have any "clients." Not a single powerful, wealthy, important person ever went to his private island resort and even if they did, which they didn't, it was to enjoy sun, sand and sea.
Consensus is not science. The consensus at one time was that the Sun went around the Earth. Dinosaurs were lizards. Ulcers were caused by stress. That plate tectonics was mule fritters. Really, the wackos have weaponized consensus, especially as it relates to the climate cult.
As much as they tried in 2024, the liberal-Globalist Brussels establishment was not able to thwart the surging European rightwing parties, who have become a formidable force that is fighting for power all over Europe.
There’s no law against starting your own party, of course. Nobody is forcing anybody to vote for a Republican or a Democrat. But maybe Elon should’ve asked his robot Grok about Ross Perot’s vanity campaign in 1992. The old coot ended up costing George Bush a second term, not to mention inflicting the Clintons on us for the rest of their lives. Is that really what Elon wants?
Even the media in Deep Blue Los Angeles noted that this intruder was known to the people in the home, or at least one person in the home. People you know can be a threat, and this is one of the canonical examples: an ex-boyfriend turned stalker.
What we know: Officials with the Simi Valley Police Department said they received a shots fired call from a neighborhood at 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, June 18.
Six minutes later, they received another call from a homeowner stating they had shot an intruder following a confrontation.
The guy who got shot was declared dead at a local hospital.
The couple had multiple issues with the suspect at the home and the woman had a temporary restraining order against her ex in the past.
In Texas, or Oklahoma, the authorities would be saying this is clearly self-defense. In Florida the local sheriff would issue a statement about how it is a good thing that the law abiding are able to defend themselves and their families from bad guys.
But this took place in California, so the authorities will see if there is some way to charge the guy who was forced to defend himself from an armed intruder with a crime. Why? Because you can't allow individual action and individual responsibility to take hold in a Liberal enclave like Simi Valley.
Simi Valley, California is about 12 miles north of Malibu, about 11 miles southwest of Santa Clarita, and about a 40 mile drive from downtown Los Angeles.
But whatever the authorities in California may decide, self-defense is a human right.
If you're not clear on how Rare Earths figure in our technology, there is an explanation below the embedded video.
Of course the fact that China doesn't give a damn about the environmental devastation visited upon people far from the country's capital, means that the production of rare earth metals is much cheaper in China than can be managed in civilized countries.
For decades in northern China, toxic sludge from rare earth processing has been dumped into a four-square-mile artificial lake. In south-central China, rare earth mines have poisoned dozens of once-green valleys and left hillsides stripped to barren red clay.
Achieving dominance in rare earths came with a heavy cost for China, which largely tolerated severe environmental damage for many years.
The article, which was originally in the New York Times, used past tense in that last sentence. I'm not really sure that the attitude of the Chinese government toward the environmental impacts has changed.
An artificial lake of sludge known as the Weikuang Dam, four square miles in size, holds the waste left over after metals are extracted from mined ore. During the winter and spring, the sludge dries out. The dust that then blows off the lake is contaminated with lead, cadmium and other heavy metals, including traces of radioactive thorium, according to technical papers by Chinese scholars.
During the summer rainy season, the sludge becomes coated with a layer of water that mixes with poisons and thorium. This dangerous mix seeps into the groundwater underneath the lake.
Rare earths are ubiquitous in the technologies we rely on every day, from smartphones to wind turbines to LED lights and flat-screen TVs. They’re also crucial for batteries in electric vehicles as well as MRI scanners and cancer treatments.
Rare earths are also essential for the US military. They’re used in F-35 fighter jets, submarines, lasers, satellites, Tomahawk missiles and more, according to a 2025 research note from CSIS.
For those of you not in the know, SIG has been accused of producing a firearm in the P320 that "goes off by itself." This isn't an isolated incident or two. And now has spilled over to the LEOs at the federal level.
Law Enforcement and Military sales are pittance compared to civilian sales, we all know that. But they do have some influence on what people buy and even more on what people do not buy if safety is an issues, right or wrong.
It is my belief that the safety issue is related to some design clash between the gun itself and retention holsters. Sort of like binary explosives: individually they are perfectly safe, but when combined, boom will follow.
SIG's reaction has been denial, and a hearty F- You to anyone who has had an issue.
Good news however: I figure in a year or sooner, we will have a glut of P320s at deeply discounted prices at Gun Shows.
When a certain PD replaced all of its revolvers with Glocks, officers kept shooting themselves. In the end, there wasn't anything wrong with the Glock in question, but that the cops weren't used to the ease with which a striker-fired pistol could be discharged. Glock didn't say F You. They bought back all of the firearms. And got a lot of good will.
Glock also had problems of their own, and they fixed those problems. That also generated good will.
Impro Guns always has the stories about home-built and 3D printed firearms, which drive the anti-gun crowd bananas. How dare people build things that we don't let them buy! Or something.
Harlots are mostly 3D printed, with a few items, like metal tubing and springs, picked up at your local hardware store.
3D printed Harlot .22 pistols being offered on the Turkish black market for just under $100 a pop. Supply is infinite as these can be continuously pumped out in the bedroom of this particular entrepreneur while he is away enjoying the finer things in life.
The Australians are particularly upset because they have moved heaven and earth to make guns all but illegal, and semiautomatics extra illegal.
There is a link to a video I have not watched. Yet.
A Toronto jury on Friday acquitted a 20-year-old man of second-degree murder, accepting his claim that he fired four shots in self-defence, believing the victim — 18-year-old Jefferson Guerrier — was “lunging” at him with a knife outside a high school in the city’s east end.
You can't rely on The State to provide things that The State cannot provide. One of those things is your personal safety in the moment of a violent attack. Canadians, and Europeans, have been in denial for a couple of generations, but I think they are fianally figuring things out. Or at least the Canadians seem to be.
An initial application for a concealed carry weapon permit in San Jose, California, costs $1,443, according to the city’s police department website.
For comparison, the cost of a concealed carry permit in Texas is $40 and in Arizona it is $60. The Indiana State Police website indicates there is zero cost for a permit in Indiana, apart from the $12.95 fee for fingerprinting.
Those poor people, in the bad part of town, don't deserve to be able to defend themselves from crime. That should be reserved for the wealthy. So says the Progressive Left.
And those same Progressives, who claim to be all in favor of helping the poor and downtrodden, don't see anything hypocritical about this state of affairs.
So how is this different from when states in the South were charging a tax to be able to vote, to keep the poor - and the blacks - from voting?
Think about it this way: The cost of a concealed carry firearm is approximately $500 to $700 and the cost of ammo for that firearm, including training time and carry ammo, will probably fall in the $200-$300 range. Add in the $1,443 for a concealed permit and San Jose residents are looking at roughly $2,500.
Progressives. Sticking it to the Poor at every chance they get.
Didn't any of them have parents? They have no basic skills, and some of them don't even understand personal hygiene.
One supervisor told [Rosalinda Randall, a Marin-based etiquette coach] a new hire repeatedly left food wrappers scattered on the communal lunch table, assuming janitors would clean it up. ‘Their manager didn't know how to handle it, as they didn't want to sound like a parent,' said Randall.
Companies have been reduced to spending money to teach Zoomers how to act like grown ups.
how to make eye contact
where to stick your name tag (always on the right)
how to ask for — not demand — things from your boss.
personal hygiene (because two new hires did not shower or change their shirts for weeks)
'Becca Downs at TownHall notices The Fact-Checkers Once Again Race to Defend Mamdani and Scott Jennings Offers a Telling Reminder on Democrats' 'Big Tent' Amidst Concerns With Mamdani
“SAM System Factory Hit By Drones in Izhevsk, Russia – Over 1,300 km From Ukraine. Liutyi drones hit the Kupol Electromechanical Plant which produces Tor and Osa SAM systems for Russia as well as drones, including Shaheds.”
But no matter how serious the problem of the behaviour of “French” people is in public pools in Switzerland, and everywhere else in Northern Europe for that matter, it still isn’t serious enough to tell the truth about who is the problem.
Over 60 UFOs Reported Zipping Over New York Skies in the First Half of 2025
A jaw-dropping 66 UFOs have been spotted zipping over New York state skies in the first half of 2025, according to data.
ITEM 21: DeSantis unveiled a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson County, Florida, ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary next July Fourth.
Rename Palm Beach County Trump County.
Woke America: VDH – The old socialist playbook. Trump is a wrecking ball. Muslims in New York.
Lord Carney’s Canada: Feds questioned graves story. The insanity excuse again.
Obama-Appointed Judge Delivers Second Amendment Win
A District Court judge ruled on Tuesday that California should allow non-residents to apply for concealed carry weapons (CCWs) licenses.
West Point still has professors pushing Critical Race Theory.
Pfizer Busted Using Irrelevant Study to Deny Genome Integration Risks from Their mRNA Injections.
This incident took place on March 2nd, and it took this long for the decision to be made.
The homeowner told dispatchers that a man had entered his home and was standing at the bottom of the stairs undressing, according to officials.
The homeowner said he fired a warning shot but the intruder refused to leave, officials said. After undressing, the man started climbing up the stairs and the homeowner man fired one shot, hitting him in the upper chest, officials said.
Yes, he was disoriented from a car crash, and his clothes were wet on a day when the temperature was 20 degrees Fahrenheit, but there was a naked stranger in this guys home, who was advancing on him. I would call that a "reasonable suspicion of imminent death or grave bodily injury." But then I'm not a prosecutor in the blue state of New Jersey.
In Texas, they would have had to present this case to a grand jury, and it still wouldn't have taken this long to make a determination on a case.
DAs hate self-defense, and I guessing that goes double for DAs in New Jersey.
I looked at several English-language sources, but none of them mentioned the fact that Envirobat Spain deals with recycling of lithium-ion batteries.
A fire broke out this Friday at a lithium battery recycling plant located in the El Ródano industrial park in Azuqueca de Henares (Guadalajara), causing a thick column of smoke visible for tens of kilometers. The release of toxic gases has forced the activation of regional emergency plans in both Castilla-La Mancha and the Community of Madrid.
Because when lithium-ion batteries catch fire, which they do quite a lot, they become toxic hazards, both in terms of the gasses they emit, and residue they leave behind. So no, they are NOT environmentally friendly.
The fire broke out in the early afternoon [July 4th] and quickly mobilized emergency services . At 8:15 p.m., the Government of Castilla-La Mancha activated the Territorial Plan of Castilla-La Mancha in alert phase for the entire province of Guadalajara, due to the severity of the fire and the possibility of smoke affecting the nearby population.
Azuqueca de Henares is about 20 miles northeast of downtown Madrid.
Oonagh is a German singer, though she has recently changed her stage name to Senta. Her music is said to be inspired by the lore of J. R. R. Tolkien's universe. And that is the sum total of what I know about her. Well, that, and I like this song, which comes to us by way of the Tidal music streaming service.