Wednesday Link Roundup - 21 January

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Theo Spark has nap fraud.
This ain’t Hell… has your feel good stories. And Boomer’s Sunday.

EBL - This Ticonderoga

This Ticonderoga
18 January 1776 : Henry Knox finalizes plans for the Fort Ticonderoga artillery

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 01.19.26

Baldilocks: Auto Pilot
CDR Salamander: Greenland – Belle of the Ball

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 19 January 2026: Explainers Edition

Why Silicon Valley is really talking about fleeing California (it's not the 5% theft wealth tax). (Tech Crunch) / Oh, do tell.
Oh, right. It's not the 5% wealth tax. It's the 100%+ wealth tax.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Substance Free Sunday

Ben Smith at LI, DOJ Subpoenas Walz, Frey Over Alleged ICE Obstruction and Reckless Rhetoric. ‘Mayor Frey and Governor Walz have to get their city under control. They are encouraging impeding and assault against our law enforcement..”

Small Dead Animals - Saturday On Turtle Island

China Carney’s Canada: A lefty professor. New World Order. CBC protects Carney.
The Democratic Party’s America: Net Zero migration. A media lie. Being White.

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 2: Glenn Reynolds reported, “The New York Times thinks perfectly ordinary cutoff shorts are Hot Pants.”
They are not even Daisy Dukes. These are Hot Pants.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Vox Popoli: PROBABILITY ZERO Q&A, Where Biologists Fear to Tread, Oh, George, and The Legacy of Greenland
Based Book Sale: 2025’s Top Twenty Based Fantasy Books

Vlad Tepes - Shadowy parts of Canadian government sick dialectic attack dogs after Alberta separation, and baiting Muslims with bacon basted Korans: Links 1 for January 19, 2026

1. US considers giving asylum to Jewish people in the UK as it is no longer safe now in GB
A friend asked me what the Jews in the rest of the world under threat should do. My suggestion was that they should move to Greenland.

Political Hat - News of the Week (January 18th, 2025)

Second Amendment Roundup: Hawaii Sticks to Its Black Code Precedent
Its Amici in Wolford v. Lopez abandon the embarrassing “analogue.”

Glibertarians - Sunday Morning Yet More Postgame and Pregame Links

Am I allowed to hate everybody?
Hey, “nation-building” has worked so well for us, let’s do it again but with even worse people.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 1/17/2026

Trump to Hit Eight European Countries With 10% Tariff Over Greenland Dispute
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland are to face a 10% tariff on all goods from 1 February.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove - Climate Doom Is Decades Ahead According To Experts
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. - .Saturday Memes…

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 01.20.26 (Evening Edition)

Da Tech Guy: Why Minnesota? What’s likely been going on and will Keep going on till Trump stops it
Dana Loesch: On NATO & Greenland

Some Links - Some Links

“Texas rare-earth magnet maker Noveon Magnetics has raised $215 million from investors as the U.S. pushes to develop domestic sources of a vital electronics component that China, the world’s largest supplier, has under a chokehold.”

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Confessions of a Recovering Liberal White Woman
Whole milk is good
New York's Ridiculous Energy Policy Way Off The Edge Of The Cliff

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 1/20/26

The real insurrectionists are running the streets.
The Democrats’ Shock Troops Without Uniforms

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Roving Bands of Leftist Brownshirts Attacking Random People in Minneapolis

• In Somali fraud scandal, Republicans probe evidence of a blue state election scheme - John Solomon
• Tina Peters: Free at Last? - Joe Fried

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 01/20/2026

DOJ Announces Intention to Charge Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act, Which makes it illegal to threaten, hurt, or intimidate people to prevent them from exercising their God-given rights.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Sunday Funnies For 01-11-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3320 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Sunday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0

First he got shot, then he was arrested. Redlands homeowner shoots intruder

Police responded to a report of shots fired shortly before midnight Jan. 15. Investigators said the homeowner had just arrived home and discovered an intruder inside the residence.

According to police, the homeowner armed himself with a handgun and began checking the house. During the search, the homeowner encountered the intruder, who pointed a shotgun at him. The homeowner fired his weapon, striking the suspect, then immediately exited the house and called 911.

Redlands, California is about 70 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital, and then to lockup.

There wasn't even a mention of charging the homeowner with anything. I guess the media in California is finally beginning to see how this works. Whether they like it or not, is, of course, another story.

Self-defense, which is a human right, seems to be catching on in California.

New York Times and the Term “AWFL”

Leftists have no sense of humor. William Teach at Pirate's Cove brings us a story of media losing its collective mind. NY Times Has Hissy Fit Over Term “AWFL”

The Times stops short of calling it racial slur, but their intent is clear. Stop calling people Affluent, White, Female Liberals. Rarely, a "U" is added for urban, but really it is understood, and besides, not all of them are in urban settings.

Clyde McGrady actually spent 32 paragraphs on this, which reads more like something that would have been in a hardcore lefty site, like Think Progress or The Daily Kos, but, then, most of the people who used to write for those blogs/sites have moved to the Credentialed Media and the younger crowd just goes to work for outlets like the Times these days.

The NY Slimes is so incensed over this term, AWFL, that the underlying article is NOT behind a paywall.

The response on Twitter/X has been amazing as well. Some claim the term is a decade old, but I can't attest to that. I've only run across it in the past few years. But then I'm older than dirt and out of touch with popular culture.

Oh, and as per usual, the NYT has declared it to be a "Far Right" term.

Click thru for more.

Under the Boardwalk

The Drifters came up before Christmas on social media, thanks to their cover of "White Christmas." I lamented that not many people know any other song from The Drifters, and they really only know that because of the movies Home Alone, and The Santa Clause. I thought I should do something to rectify that situation.

Membership in that band has changed a lot, and that isn't surprising since they were formed in 1953 or '54 and the band is still together today.

This is "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters. It was a single in 1964, and while I'm sure it was collected in an album at some point, albums were not a focus in the early 1960s.

Amala Ekpunobi versus Star Trek

So everyone is dissing the new Star Trek show.

Amala Ekpunobi is YouTube creator that I like. While she mostly deals with Leftist politics and some of the insanity gripping the nation, she does also deal with popular culture. And so she reviewed the first episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Like everyone else, she is pointing and laughing. She also has one or two clips from the 2nd episode. In particular, there is essentially a DEI seminar in the 2nd episode. Is anyone shocked?

This is Amala Ekpunobi's video The New Woke Star Trek Is BOMBING It is a 13 minute video.

The Starfleet Academy Show We Wanted

In the previous post, we got reviews of the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy show that no one wanted. No on wanted One Tree Hill in Space, or Space: 90210. That is what we got, because as Gary Nerdrotic says, we get Star Trek produced by people who don't understand Star Trek, and don't like Star Trek for people who don't like Star Trek.

This is the Starfleet Dreams AI generated video STARFLEET ACADEMY (1987) - a short Star Trek AI video.

A Copy of a Parody of Star Trek

Both Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic called Star Trek: Starfleet Academy a parody of Star Trek. Nerdrotic compared it to The Orville. You will find both reviews below.

There are probably spoilers, but are you really planning on watching this stuff? (If you are, then you can find the pilot episode on YouTube for free.) I put the Critical Drinker's video first, even though I saw Gary's before I watched Drinker's review, because it is shorter. They are both good, but I realize people have stuff to do.

When people, like myself, who once loved Star Trek, and can now only point and laugh, it is a sad day. But at least we can laugh.

Critical Drinker's review of the show is Starfleet Academy - This Show Is Pure Torture.

You know, I remember when Star Trek was a serious show made by serious people with a passion for science and technology and a desire to broaden human horizons. How times have changed. After the indignities of Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds, I honestly thought we'd seen an end of the brain dead, cringe-inducing, hyper-identity-politics-driven garbage wearing the Star Trek brand like a skin suit, but apparently not.

It is 10 minutes long.

This is Nerdrotic's video Starfleet Academy is AWFUL - Star Trek is Dead. It is 24 minutes long.

As I type this, the audience score of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on Metacritic is 1.9 out of 10.

These are not the only 2 reviews of course. Disparu, Knights Watch, Mr. H Reviews, Marc with a C, Derek Anderson - The D.A., and more have chimed in on this drek. Film Threat has multiple videos on this subject. Lots of chances to watch stuff in the coming days.

Tuesday Links - 20 January

Miguel Gonzalez starts us off with Stuff that gives me headaches about an off-duty ICE officer having to defend himself.

Mr. Porter was actively shooting within a residential area with a forbidden weapon in California, but his death was murder because we are now in a rant against ICE?

The Hill - DOJ: Ban on mailing concealable firearms unconstitutional, can’t be enforced

A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion released Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Clayton Cramer also on the DOJ opinion. Gutsy DOJ Call

Prohibiting mail order shipping of handguns was supposed to make it easier to enforce state laws regulating handgun ownership—of which the focus was apparently blacks.

The Other McCain - Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Update: Three ‘Zizians’ Make Court Appearance

The court should stop wasting time with these psychiatrists and just call me as an expert witness: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Doom Today: Mushrooms Will Kill You When You Least Expect It

I’m actually surprised Jezebel didn’t put some sort of loony tunes 4th wave feminism spin on this

Cold Fury - You keep using that word, law-abiding

I do not think that it means what you think it means.

Second City Cop - Overdose Deaths Drop

And the media mentions every cause they can think of....except one:

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 17 January 2026: Kybard Edition

TSMC says AI demand is endless, just like tulip bulbs. (Ars Technica)

But you can eat tulip bulbs.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Suddenly, A Winning Week

It was a good week to be a Senators fan. First, we rose up and defeated the Expos in two games of our three game series, including a 4-run 10th inning rally ...

Meep at STUMP - Dropping Numbers: Drugs ODs, Homicides, Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths

A drop in the supply seems more credible than Narcan availability, given the huge drops in deaths.

Sorry, y’all, but what has often happened was that people were saved from their current OD event by Narcan… but would only have a fatal OD later. The bigger thing that saved them was just not having the fentanyl to kill them.

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: But First, Coffee

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

Again from William Teach - Bummer: Wall Street Is Abandoning Climate (scam) Pledges

It’s all fun and games when you think you’re Doing Something for the Earth, both because you want to look good (for insane cultists) and because you are kinda forced to do it by politicians. There comes a point when this makes no financial sense, kinda like how the yutes have realized that ordering delivery every day for most meals is a a Bad Idea, and now they’re on to Hamburger Helper

Chicago Contrarian - Latin School of Chicago Head of School Exit Raises Questions About DEI-First Governance Models

The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) — the nonprofit representing 1,700 private K-12 schools — continues championing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE) programs even as evidence mounts suggesting these initiatives may be producing unintended negative consequences.

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

Kentucky is not a good place to be a bad guy. Hopkins County homeowner shoots suspect during alleged home invasion

And though the article says "Hopkins County, Indiana" there is no such place. (In an earlier article they got it right.) This took place in Hopkins County, Kentucky, which is about 100 miles southwest of Louisville.

The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office says deputies received a call about a home invasion in progress on Friday. Investigators say the homeowner got a firearm and shot the suspect after the person allegedly forced entry into the home.

Police didn't have much to say, they didn't even have a condition on the guy who got shot, so the media had to search out neighbors for their reactoins.

They stopped just short of "neighbors were shocked" statements, but they are still convinced that they live on the Magic Dirt™ where crime doesn't happen. There is a bit of cope around this being an "isolated incident." Because crime happens in "other kinds of places" to "other kinds of people." Or something.

No. If you can read these words, you live in the real world, and you are not protected by your zip code.

Ride Public Transit? Maybe When It Is Safe

That doesn't seem like it will be for a very long time. Sicko recorded himself stabbing sleeping train passenger to death on Chicago's Blue Line: prosecutors | New York Post

A maniac allegedly recorded himself fatally stabbing a sleeping train passenger on the same Chicago Transit Authority line 26-year-old where Bethany MaGee was set on fire by a lunatic with a extensive rap sheet just two months ago, according to prosecutors.

Demetrius Thurman, 40, allegedly crept up behind sleeping 37-year-old Dominique Pollion on the Blue Line train with his phone in one hand and a knife in the other and hit record before he stabbed Pollion in the chest and abdomen around 2:15 a.m. Saturday, CBS News reported.

What does this say about the value of a human life in our Blue Cities?

Safety has been an ongoing issue for Chicago’s public transit.

Ya think?

And this guy gets the award for Stupid Criminal of the Month, because he kept the video on his phone. Police were able to retrieve the video after they got a search warrant. He was identified by cameras, and arrested the day after the murder. I have very little hope for Justice in Cook County, however. (It is better than it was a few years back.)

Don't Open the Door

Police got a 911 call of a violent home invasion in process. Georgia men accused of posing as Amazon delivery workers

The husband told police that a man wearing an Amazon-style vest knocked on his door, claiming to have a package requiring a signature. Then, the suspect forced his way inside with a silver gun, according to officers.

A violent attack ensued. His wife was able to call 911, but they interfered with that.

The homeowner was able to activate the home's panic alarm during the incident. Once the alarm sounded, the two suspects ran away.

The cops were able to catch up with them with the aid of a local business owner. The details are interesting, click thru.

Amazon officials said deliveries requiring a signature are almost always pre-arranged. If you're not expecting that type of package, don't open the door.

This took place in Stamford, Connecticut.

Highway Song

I find this song interesting because it is from 1979, it was high enough on the charts to have been on the radio, and yet I don't remember it. Of course Southern Rock was not my thing in that era, but usually can say that sounds familiar.

It isn't bad. I will have to listen to more music from Blackfoot.

This is "Highway Song" by Blackfoot from their 1979 album Strikes.

Social Media isn't bad if you can ignore the insanity. I found this by way of Social media.

Is this song right for Metal for Mondays? Maybe not, but there is a decent guitar solo, and it does increase in energy, and I make the rules, so ...

Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

First he got shot, then he was arrested, and now ... Burglar, shot by homeowner when breaking into Valley Village home, sentenced to prison

The homeowner was inside the home on July 8, 2024 when the men broke into the house on Addison Street near Colfax Avenue. The property owner fired his weapon, injuring one of the burglars, Chuks Chukwudi.

Could it be that they expected a homeowner in Los Angeles to be unarmed?

He was shot, injured, and taken into custody.

Chukwudi was sentenced to 12 years in state prison on Jan. 12 after he pleaded no contest to one count of first-degree residential burglary with person present.

This was not his first conviction.

Self-defense seems be catching on in California, even in Los Angeles.

Why Do Liberal Women Believe the Law Does Not Apply to Them?

Ellen Glickman is apparently a professor at Kent State University. She called 911 because she "needed to get into her building" on campus. (Her building?) She ended up arrested because she was intending to drive while the officers could smell alcohol on her. Along the way she resisted arrest. It went to court, and even after the court, she wanted to "speak to their supervisor," and when he didn't give her the satisfaction she demanded, she wanted to speak to the chief of the department.

So does the entitlement come from being a typical Karen, or is it special brand of University Professor entitlement?

The 911 call is interesting in itself. The dispatcher (or whoever) tells her REPEATEDLY to call the non-emergency number of Kent State. She repeats, at a louder volume, "I need to get into my building." It goes downhill from there.

She was charged with Disorderly Conduct due to intoxication, but the charges were dismissed after community service and paying court costs. So it turns out she did have some level of entitlment.

This is the Midwest Safety video Entitled College Professor Calls 911 on Herself

Trust the Science? Not When the Scientists Lie.

Fauci Knew That Natural Immunity Was Superior to Vaccine and Still Pushed to Require It

In other words, for anybody who had suffered a previous infection or who was otherwise healthy, the vaccine presented more risk of harm than good. Their explanation for choosing to insist that the vaccine was safe and effective for everyone was that they didn't want to present a "mixed message" and that it was easier to communicate a blanket recommendation than a nuanced one.

Except...the vaccine is not entirely benign. It has risks, and imposing those risks on people who didn't need to take it is unethical.

The real question is how much money Fauci made off of the vaccines. I doubt we will ever know.

But it is clear that he and his whole team of non-nuanced communicators need to charged for every vaccine injury that was incurred by people who did not need to take that risk. (Hat tip to Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Corrupt Minnesota Officials Ask Public To Riot and Hide Criminal Fraud by Public Officials)

When Multiculturalism Fails and Authorities Refuse to Believe It

The refugees should be tried and the guilty jailed, and then the administrators who came up with this (and then failed to provide security) should also be tried. Students were raped after being forced to live in complex alongside 125 refugees to 'aid integration': Terrified Dutch youngsters 'were subjected to years of sex assaults and violence' | Daily Mail Online

A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to 'buddy up' so the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands more quickly.

But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and even claimed a gang rape had taken place.

Rape. Gang rape. Threats with kitchen knives.

You cannot aid someone with integration into your society if they do not want to integrate.

As for the authorities, it seems they were more interested in proclaiming victory, than providing safety.

And they claimed they were ignored despite filing multiple reports to authorities.

Click thru. (Hat tip to Katewerk of Small Dead Animals by way of a re-post from Visegrad 24.)

Rick Beato Listened to These Songs, So You Don't Have To

So Rick Beato has been torturing himself with the Top 10 songs on the Top 50 USA Spotify playlist. You would think people would have better taste, but there you go.

It is interesting to get a glimpse of the world of Pop Music. A glimpse is all I can take.

There were three songs that I did like. Rick only plays about a minute or two of most songs, so I might go back are re-listen.

One was "Golden" from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Which is a good song, but over produced. And even though I am disconnected from Pop music, almost entirely, I've heard it enough to be sick of it.

The second was "So Easy (To Fall In Love)" by Olivia Dean, which has a bit of a Bossa Nova feel. I will listen to this again. Her singing reminds me a bit of Sade. (Sade is better.)

And the third was "The Fate of Ophelia" by Taylor Swift. She can sing, but usually I find the song-writing poor. This one actually sounds like a song. I may have to come back to this one. I hate it when I have to admit I like a popular artist, even a bit. It was like when Lady Gaga proved she could sing. (I still hate most of the music.)

And even in the songs I didn't really care for, Rick pointed out that there was a distinct lack of Auto-Tune. Good. Auto-Tune was probably the worst thing to happen to music in the past 25 years.

And Bruno Mars had another song, that sounded exactly like his last 5 songs. Which is too bad, because the singing is good. The songwriting isn't. But then that song was #1 on the Spotify USA chart, so what do I know? (Though at this point, if a better song was written, it might also be #1, and appeal to more people.)

This is Rick Beato's video Why Do I Keep Doing This To Myself…The Spotify Top 10

Nerdrotic Live Stream of a Spock Action Figure Beats Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Premiere

Geeks + Gamers brings us the funniest pop culture news of the week. Nerdrotic Humiliates Star Trek: Starfleet Academy After Spock Action Figure Livestream Destroys Premiere Numbers

The disastrous debut of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy just got even more embarrassing — and this time, the comparison came from a Nerdrotic livestream of literally nothing happening.

The livestream was funny. Gary Nerdrotic came on at the end, because there were a whole lot of superchats and he wanted to acknowledge them.

I gave up a Kurtzman Trek a long way back. Kurtzman clearly didn't understand Star Trek, and he didn't respect Star Trek, or Star Trek:TNG, Deep Space 9, or Voyager. I never liked Enterprise, but then I generally don't like stories involving time travel. With a very few exceptions, they are cheats. But at least Enterprise didn't try to rewrite and vacate all of the lore of what was produced before it came along.

Some of the Star Trek movies were good, and some not so good. The later ones were mostly made by people who didn't understand Star Trek. Well, the first movie was horrible. "Spectacle" was never what Trek was about. They didn't have the budget for spectacle.

Apparently Gary's livestream is still online, though not active. It is not published, and so I can't find the link. Like a good Martini, it was a creation of the moment.

I haven't seen Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and I won't. (See comments on Kurtzman Trek above) OK, they admit it is not made for fans of the original material. The marketing screamed Space: 90210, the early reviews from people like Alan Ng of Film Threat were horrible. The general reviews, now that it is released, are no better.

I will list a couple.

• Critical Drinker After Hours - Drinker's Chasers - The Utter Disaster Of Starfleet Academy

  That is a part of a panel discussion, just the portion on Star Trek:SA.

• Mr H Reviews Live Archives - Star Trek Starfleet Academy BOMBS

  Also a section of a panel discussion

• Call me Chato - Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. The BEST Kurtzman Trek, EVER!

Paul Chato had the best line, and it sums up my feelings.

Because this is Kurtzman Trek, I'm expecting this will be trash. I'm not going to pretend to be objective. In fact, you might say I'm planning on hating this. I have long ago made peace with the idea that my Star Trek is dead, and this is not Star Trek.

Except I have no plans to watch it, as Paul did. Star Trek: The Next Generation was a miracle in some ways. They took the essence of Star Trek (the original series) and carried on in the same tradition, though the first season is fairly unwatchable at this remove. That lead to everything that came after. Though they lost their way, as they made more money. (The last couple of movies were awful, but not as awful as the reboot.

Texans Are Still Armed

Home invaders are still getting shot. Fort Worth Homeowner Shoots Suspected Intruder During Early Morning Confrontation - USA Carry

On the morning of January 12, 2026, a suspected intruder was fatally shot by a homeowner after allegedly attempting to break into a locked garage in the 3400 block of Avenue L. The incident occurred around 6:00 AM, prompting a swift response from Fort Worth Police.

Why would you not assume that every homeowner in Texas is armed? They probably aren't all armed, but once you are outside of Austin, it is probably a better bet to assume they are.

The resident immediately called 911 to report the incident and request medical assistance. He remained at the scene and is cooperating fully with law enforcement. No arrests have been made as the investigation is ongoing.

Because this didn't happen in New York City.

Self-defense is a human right.

US Has Negative Migration in 2025

US, for 1st time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025: Report - ABC News

The U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century as a result of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, according to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution.

The range is quite large, somewhere between -295,000 and -10,000. This leads me to believe that their statistics are not very good, since they can't nail it down to within an order of magnitude.

They go on to claim that ICE and Border and Customs Protection haven't deported as many people as they claim, and the slowdown in arrivals is really because the economy under the Republican administration is bad, or something

Hat tip to William Teach at Pirate's Cove. Good News: America Has Negative Migration For 1st Time In 50 Years

I was told by Democrats, their pet media, and Never Trumpers that the only way to accomplish anything close to this was passing a bunch of laws that would really mean legal status for millions of illegals/migrants/fake asylum seekers with a wink wink promise of securing the borders

Though the link to ABC News was broken when I first looked.

Training Myth or Sacred Cow or What?

From Miguel Gonzalez: "Train like you fight." A sacred cow that needs slaughtering.

I am going to tick off followers with this post, but it needs to be said: There is no way in God’s green-and-blue Earth that you will train for any specific fight you may encounter. You do not actually go the the range with a bed and practice waking up butt naked (or in jammies), retrieve the gun and proceed to slaughter cardboard targets while the rest of the attendants look at you and frantically call 911 to report a mad man with a gun.

People ask me why I like revovlers so much. It is because when I wake up in the middle of the night, because I have heard something, my mind is not clear, not even if adrenaline is pumping. I want the simplest firearm I can get for that scenario. If you're wondering what that might be, consider the title to this blog.

Do I hate semiautomaitcs? No. I have a few. I love them. Well, except for the Bersa .380 that took a dip in the saltwater. I still have it in case there is ever a "gun buyback" in my area; it's a paperweight from the rust. (Rust never sleeps. Water always wins.)

Anyway, go click thru, as there is a lot more.

What's Worse than Minnesota Day Care With No Kids? Day Care Where They Kill Kids

What happened to this country, that it is populated by monsters? Oh yeah, Progressive Politics. Minnesota day care worker accused of fatally suffocating baby days before his first birthday 'to seek attention' | New York Post

A deranged day care worker in Minnesota with a history of making a spectacle of herself suffocated an infant to death mere days before his birthday in a desperate attempt to attract “attention,” police said.

Theah Loudemia Russell, 18, allegedly confessed to “intentionally suffocating” two children at the since-shuttered Rocking Horse Ranch day care in Savage, Minn. last fall, Savage Police Chief Brady Juell said at a press conference Wednesday.

Minnesota, being a dutifully Blue State, probably has no death penalty.

I miss living in a civilized society. Hat tip to Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) on X. And yes, I stole the title to this post from Sean

The only thing worse than Minnesota daycares with no kids, is the ones that actually have kids https://t.co/vOqCycPc9u

— Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) (@IamSean90) January 16, 2026

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 17 January

Wombat-socho starts us off with In The Mailbox: 01.14.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Stoic Observations: Superficial – The Game
Jim McCoy: Bowl of Red

The Right Way - Top of the News

Democrats Threaten Government Shutdown Over ICE Funding
Hard to Fund an ’Agency That Is Completely Out of Control’. - Breitbart News

EBL - Bionic Woman

Premires January 14, 1976 Bionic Woman
AoSHQ: Morning Report 01.14.26

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 1/14/2026

As much as $700 million in cash was transported out of Minnesota via commercial flights, often routed through Europe and the Middle East. The operation relied on couriers rather than financial institutions, keeping the transactions largely off official banking records.

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Conman Carney’s Canada: Manitoba supports Tampon Tim (Warning: CBC). Tamara Lich. The Libranos.
The Democratic Party’s America: China Sucks. The Golden Globes cesspit.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Weird Catholic: The Great Mother of Austria & Her Spectacular Wardrobe
Stoic Observations: How To Survive Outside The Box,

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Gets Nobel Peace Prize, Threatens MN with Insurrection Act

FBI Looking for Illegal Alien Who Assaulted ICE Agents in Dallas, Beege Welborn reports MN Anarchists Loot ICE Vehicle, Score Weapons Locker and Documents, Dave Strom sees Walz Inching Toward Civil War...

Vlad Tepes - Stunning phone call from Iranian tyrant’s daughter, and a hard look at media tactics and UK acceleration of tyranny and communism: Links 1 for January 16, 2026

3. Leftists are using bluesky, a leftist only social media platform created as a response to X allowing non-leftist counter narratives, to suggest that federal law enforcement in the US should be murdered on site.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radicalism, 01/17/2025 – Back to The Economist!

Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?
Europe’s options are this or become an Islamic caliphate. Choose wisely, Europe

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For January 16, 2026

Iran news has died down significantly the last few days, but the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group is moving to Mideast. It takes time to assemble a big stick…
Nick Shirley just released Part II of his look into Somali fraud.

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 01.16.26 (Evening Edition)

Shark Tank: Uthmeier Announces Arrest of Illegal Aliens In Organized Retail Theft Scheme
Shot In The Dark: Ritual Groveling

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Not Dead Yet: Cash For Rebranded DEI At Harvard; Cornell’s Zombie DEI; Banned Iowa DEI Continues

Apparently zero funding means more funding if you switch sock puppets at Harvard.
Zombie DEI programs can survive even Donald Trump
If no one notices, than it didn’t break any actual ban, right?

The Glibertarians - Thursday Afternoon Links

GERMAN ECO-TERRORISTS RUN AMOK, DELIBERATELY CAUSE WINTER POWER OUTAGE: The authorities have been ignoring these punks for 14 years. Because the previous article is partially paywalled, here’s coverage from another source.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

"Disgraced Dilbert creator"?
New scheme revealed: the Somali fraud story just exploded AGAIN…

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 1/15/26

Every bloody confrontation is the foreseeable result of deliberate instruction and escalation. The activist infrastructure behind this effort matters.
The ICE uproar is a conspiracy calculated to fool Americans

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Corrupt Minnesota Officials Ask Public To Riot and Hide Criminal Fraud by Public Officials

• Immigrant Secret Service Agent Leaks JD Vance's Travel Details - Ken Silva
• Venezuela raid leaker jailed. WaPo worried. - Don Surber

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 01/16/2026

Texas hospitals incurred more than $1 billion in health care costs for patients not lawfully present in the United States during fiscal year 2025, according to new data obtained from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

I leave you with Food for Thought – 14 January 2026 from Mostly Cajun, Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, and Midweek Memes from Granite Grok.

Self-Defense in Canada

I'm almost surprised that they didn't charge her with a crime. Woman ‘lured’ to Edgemont residence, fought off attacker in ‘self-defence’: police

A woman is recovering after an altercation with a man in Calgary’s northwest that resulted in his death in what police are calling “the most clear-cut case of self-defence.”

Police believe the man, 48-year-old Shahbaz Ahmed, lured the woman in her 30s to the residence in the community of Edgemont under a false pretence of a property showing on Jan. 9.

She did go with her father, but made the mistake of getting separated from him. That is when Shahbaz Ahmed attacked her. It was the last thing he did. She was able to stab him, and flee. He did not survive.

“She did everything right,” [staff Sgt. Scott] Guterson [with Calgary Police Service’s homicide unit] said. “This is a great example of someone who is completely innocent and had to suffer a very traumatic incident at the hands of a perpetrator.”

As an investigation has determined that the woman was acting in self-defence, Ahmed’s death has been deemed a non-culpable homicide and no charges will be laid in the incident.

That last is amazing, because the Prime Minister has all but said you do not have the right to defend yourself from attack.

Hat tip to Small Dead Animals

How Chicago Public Schools Are Destroying That City

From George Shay at Chicago Contrarian we get the following. CPS Corruption Exposé Shows Why Chicago Teachers Union’s Reign of Terror Must End — Now

Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach…govern. This must stop

Chicago did not arrive at this moment by accident. The city did not simply “lose its way.” What we are living through is the predictable outcome of institutional capture, centered on one sprawling bureaucracy that now consumes a staggering share of your property taxes while producing fewer students, worse outcomes, and a governing class increasingly detached from reality: Chicago Public Schools.

Chicago spends $30,000 per student, with little to show in the way of actual education, as measured by test results. They got PPP loans despite being fully funding during the lockdown. They spent money on bus services during the remote-learning fiasco. There were 355 sexual misconduct cases in a single year. Residency rules (teachers are supposed to live in the city) were ignored. And more.

The CTU is now a political machine, one that trains candidates, finances campaigns, writes policy, and enforces ideological discipline.

Its alumni dominate City Hall and exert enormous influence over Cook County and Springfield. Mayor Brandon Johnson is not an outlier; he is the model. His ascent from classroom to union leadership to the fifth floor is the clearest illustration of how CPS culture metastasized into city governance.

Read the whole thing, because it is not only Chicago that is being destroyed.

Witch

I need to get back in the habit of checking the new music. An artist I really like released a new album last May, and I only found out about it on New Year's Day.

As I type this, I have not heard the entire album, but there are at least a couple of songs that I do like. But then I always liked Suzanne Vega's voice since I first heard it. That would have been when her song "Luka" was released in the late 1980s.

This is "Witch" by Suzanne Vega from her 2025 album Flying With Angeles.

Jefferson Davis versus Tim Walz

Who was worse? Please Stop Slandering Jefferson Davis : The Other McCain

In recent days, various of my conservative friends have thought it amusing to compare Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to Jefferson Davis. The intent is to compare Walz’s opposition to federal immigration enforcement to the Confederate president’s defense of Southern independence. They mean this as a joke, see? “States’ Rights, LOL!”

One of these is clearly worse than the other. Click thru for the reasoning.

Friday Links - 16 January

Miguel Gonzalez is up first with a great take on The Right being polite. I had to butt in. (Click thru for the meme, it's priceless)

I am done being polite. It is getting us killed.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Bummer: Bill Requiring Climate Crisis (scam) Teaching In Schools Dies

I was not expecting this to happen in the People’s Republik Of New Jersey

The New American Digest - Caught In The Middle

What if all illegals are deported? What happens to all those Federal employees that now work for ICE?

Meep at STUMP - RIP, Scott Adams: On Advanced Prostate Cancer Incidence Rates

One of the things I liked about Dilbert is there were enough spreadsheet jokes that people would clip them out and give them to me, and I’d hang them up in my cube(s).

Doris Wise - Why Rabbis Must Teach the Moral Case for Jewish Self-Defense

Rabbis play a central role in guiding our communities, and their wisdom is invaluable. At the same time, when it comes to the safety of our people, clarity is essential. This article is not a critique of rabbis themselves, but a call for clear, direct guidance on Jewish self-defense—because history and experience show that our survival can depend on it.

Clayton Cramer - CNN Leaves Out An Important Element of the Iran Crisis

Why this seeming indifference to the religious dimension? The same progressives that reject all Christian values in the West as theocracy have an actual theocracy abusing women and gays and cannot seem to talk about it. Progressives have largely accepted the legitimacy of Islamic theocracy, I think, because it is an enemy of Christianity and the West.

Midwest Chick's Place - Rats in a corner come out fighting

While I’d really like to see the Clintons, especially Hillary, hauled before Congress, Comer et al had to know it was never going to happen.

The Other McCain - Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition

In the immediate aftermath of last Wednesday’s shooting, it had not yet even been clearly confirmed that Good was part of an anti-ICE protest, and some were still claiming that she was just a random Minneapolis mom who had coincidentally encountered this ICE raid in her neighborhood. But the truth has now been established:

The Silicon Graybeard - Nothing says State Of The Art...

Nothing says "State Of The Art" quite like a graphic of a 50-ish year old design that was mothballed 15 years ago.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 January 2026: One Word - Microplastics Edition

There is no audience for Apple's Vision Pro because there is no content for Apple's Vision Pro because there is no audience for Apple's Vision Pro and this is all somehow your fault according to Apple. (Stratechery)

With the Apple II, and the Mac, and the iPhone, you had to fend off customers with pitchforks.

With the Vision Pro that's a little less true.

First He Got Shot, Then He Was Charged

Road rage is never a good idea. Man charged with attempted murder in York road rage shooting

According to investigators, [72-year-old Michael] Bean had driven aggressively and argued with an 18-year-old. At one point, Bean was said to have gotten a pistol from his car and shot at the 18-year-old’s car. He shot back in self-defense, injuring Bean’s arm.

So after the 18-year-old showed better sense than the 72-year-old man, and showed mercy, unless it was bad aim, the 72-year-old was charged with a crime.

Michael Bean was charged with attempted murder, pointing and presenting a firearm, and malicious injury to property.

Stupid is, as stupid does.

York, South Carolina is about a 35 mile drive southwest of Charlotte, North Carolina.

As for the bad aim, I would not have been aiming at his arm.

Self-defense is a human right.

Republican (RINO) Governor of Tennessee In Favor of Gun Control

Governor Bill Lee doesn't think the courts should worry about the Constitution. Tennessee Governor Defends Gun Control: Don't Worry About 'Abstract Categories of Constitutionality'

Bill Lee, the Republican Governor of Tennessee, has been defending gun control for years, but the state’s latest reply brief in a case challenging Tennessee’s recently struck down “intent to go armed” clause is particularly offensive, asking the court to set aside the “abstract categories of constitutionality.”

I am sick to death of Republicans who are really Progressives in hiding. He doesn't think the courts should involve themselves in issues of the Constitution.

Despite Governor Lee’s rhetoric positioning himself as a conservative, the state’s latest brief would be right at home among the attorneys general of New Jersey, New York, and California for its nonchalant treatment of civil liberties and constitutional rights.

A real conservative should challenge him. (Hat tip to Jews Can Shoot)

Articles of Impeachment Filed Against Tim Walz

It isn't enough. FOUR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT Filed Against Corrupt Governor Tim Walz - Geller Report

1. Allowed massive fraud despite being warned
2. Engaged in the coverup
3. Let agencies keep running with ZERO new safeguards
4. Ignored safeguards & failed to force compliance with anti-fraud rules

Hat tip to MaddMedic at Freedom Is Just Another Word…

So this means????
More rhetoric and no real actions against criminals?

When a Cop Shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond the Left Ignored It

It didn't fit the narrative. When Mohammed Shot Justine | Frontpage Mag

When Somalia-born Minneapolis cop killed the woman who called 911.

People, the Left anyway, would like to forget. It was in 2017, long enough ago that the population can't be bothered to remember.

The Australian woman, soon to be married, called 911 to report a sexual assault in a nearby alley. Officer Noor claimed he saw a blond woman in a pink shirt raise her arm and bang on the car, so he fired through the window to protect the life of his partner Matthew Harrity. There was no body-cam footage and Noor refused to speak with Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehensions (BCA).

Go read the whole thing. (Hat tip to Small Dead Animals)

Russia Threatens War

From the Irish Mirror: Russia threatens to 'punish Europe severely' in nuclear Armageddon warning

A top Russian strategist has warned that Europe could face nuclear attack if Moscow suffers defeat in Ukraine

I haven't followed Russian rulers beyond Putin for a long time. I'm not familiar with how much power Russia's Council for Foreign and Defense Policy has, though it could be he is acting as a mouthpiece for the government.

Vladimir Putin's henchman, in charge of Russia's defence policy, has called on the country's leader to unleash nuclear weapons and 'punish Europe and the UK severely' for its support of Ukraine.

Sergey Karaganov, head of Russia’s Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, added that, if the UK and Nato's defence of Ukraine resulted in a victory for Volodymyr Zelensky, then Putin "would use nuclear weapons and Europe would be finished physically".

One thing I do know, is that Russia NEVER considered nuclear war unwinnable. The Soviet Union build blast and fallout shelters almost continuously from the 1960s on. Maybe it was from the late 1950s. That stopped for a while after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Warsaw Pact, but started up again under Putin, shortly after he came to power in 1999. They never bought into Mutually Assured Destruction, accept that they never thought they had enough of an edge to win. Americans refuse to believe this. (It would mean we should be spending money on Civil Defense, not trains to nowhere, or sending hundreds of millions of dollars to countries that will launder it for us, and send back 10% for the Big Guy™)

Also Putin is reported to have cancer, so it's not like he has a lot to lose personally. He does have a family, namely children and grandchildren.

Meeting Strangers from the Internet is Not Safe

At least he was prepared for things to go bad. Coroner identifies armed robbery suspect killed in D’Iberville shooting

The initial investigation indicates the shooting stemmed from an arranged meeting to purchase electronic items. Investigators say the victim, who repairs and resells computers and electronic devices, believed he was meeting to buy an iPad near a Papa John’s location.

But they weren't going to sell him an iPad. They planned to rob him. When one of them drew a gun, the shooter drew his own pistol and shot the guy. The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital, but he died of his wounds.

Ahmad Rasheed Hawthorne drove away from the encounter - don't say he ran like a rabbit - but police caught up with him, and he was arrested. He is charged with being an accessory before the fact to armed robbery.

D’Iberville, Mississippi is 3 miles north of Biloxi, across The Back Bay of Biloxi. That puts it about halfway between Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana.

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

Lawrence Michael DeStefano Is Being Persecuted by New York

From The Gun Writer... DeStefano: ‘I will never tell Letitia James who bought my guns’

DeStefano has sold his “self-built arms” kits to customers in all 50 states, but New York is the only state where he ever encountered legal problems.

He was arrested in Florida, and expects to be extradicted to New York.

Click thru for the insanity.

The Left Is Out of Touch with Reality

From Miguel Gonzalez we get the following. They will win because we let them, not because they are good or right.

These people have absolutely zero connection with the realities of a fight. Bleeding is something that occurs to women (Biological Females in their parlance) every 28 days or so. Pain is hearing Trump in their TikTok accounts and actions have no permanent consequences.

The thing that caught my attention was the screenshot of an X post. Here is the post, so you can listen to the audio.

After witnessing her wife's death, Rebecca is heard screaming, blaming the cops for carrying live ammo: "Why did you have real bullets?!"

Then Rebecca blames herself.

"It's my fault. I made her come down here. It's my fault."

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— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) January 10, 2026

Say that again. The wife of the dead woman, who encouraged her to drive (toward the federal agent) screamed:

Why did you have real bullets?!

Why? For the same reason that every law enforcement officer, including federal agents, has real bullets. The reason that every concealed carry gun is loaded with real bullets. The reason that the military uses real bullets. The imaginary ones don't do anything.

There was a comment linked in a F*c*book post (I don't have a link) talking about how the wife was looking for that Kodak moment. She was recording video, and taunting the agents, in the hope of getting something "viral" for TikTok, Instagram, X, Bluesky, whatever. It worked, just not in the way she expected.

There is more, both on X, if you want to go down that rabbit hole, or at Miguel's post linked at the top.

If you assault police, including federal agents, you will probably be shot. Today that depends a lot on what jurisdiction you are in, but you should not count on police having imaginary bullets. (There are a couple of clips of Florida sheriffs Grady Judd (Polk County) and Wayne Ivey (Brevard County) using the term "Graveyard dead." Here is one link to Wayne Ivey discussing violent protestors. (Sheriff Ivey is probably my second-favorite, Florida sheriff.)

Wednesday Link Roundup - 14 January

Wombat-socho is up first with an update due to technical difficulties. In The Mailbox: 01.10.26

Vox Popoli: The Tree of Woe Interview, Oreshnik Take 2, and From Theory to Farce

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

1. Sultan Knish: Somali Terror in America
2. The First Street Journal: Larry Krasner beclowns himself

EBL - The worst of the worst captured in Minneapolis

Liberty Daily: These are the illegals who the lefties are protecting...
The sooner they are sent back, the better...

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: A moral blackmailing of America. The failed State of Minnesota.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: A recruitment drive. Famine in Somalia.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 11 January 2026: Zettai Ryōiki Edition

Can AI do your job? (MSN)
If you're a computer programmer, or you otherwise work solely with words, possibly yes.
If you do literally anything else, the best AI models currently succeed at 2.5% of human tasks.

The Glibertarians - Sunday Morning Great Escape Links

It’s a good thing Trump isn’t looking for more war, right? Might as well get Bush and Cheney back.
Extra points if he looks like Laurence Olivier.

Again from Wombato-socho - In The Mailbox: 01.13.26

Don Surber: Beat The Press
Matt Taibbi: Escalation Weekend – Three Days of Confrontations Between Minnesota Protesters & ICE

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 1/12/2026

Democrats Order Police to Cover Up Somali Fraud
After the latest wave of exposes made Somali fraud a national story, Democrat state officials from Minnesota to Washington to Maine scrambled to conduct cover-ups

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - The Mess in Minneapolis Continues

From the Misrule of Law, Anatomy of an Insurrection. At Breitbart, ICE Protester: We Have to ‘Show Up with Guns and End This’. Rusty Weiss at RedState, Watch: Unhinged Dem Rep Has to Be Pulled Away From Tom Emmer in Heated Exchange Over Minneapolis Shooting.

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 3: Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post reported, “U.S. reduces number of warships near Venezuela after Maduro raid.”
North to Havana, we go north, the gold rush is on.

Political Hat - News of the Week (January 11th, 2026)

A Taiwan strike would come with heavy costs for Beijing: report
German Marshall Fund study predicts 100,000 casualties for Chinese military

Vlad Tepes - Geopolitics is suddenly very very serious, and at last, how to eat right: Links 1 for January 10, 2026

2. President Trump makes an astonishing proclamation concerning Greenland
To properly asses this, I would need to know what Trump knows. This is shocking in the absence of intel. But he may be in possession of critical information ...

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove - Huh: US And Venezuela Explore New Diplomatic Times
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. - Saturday Memes…

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Marco Rubio Sticks It to Europe’s Censorship Goons
'The Berlin Wall Moment' in Iran; US Keeps Pressure on Mullahs; Khamenei Defiant

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 1/12/26

The chief said he "hesitated" to share the truth with the public.
Blubbering Portland Police Chief Admits DHS Was Right About Border Patrol Shooting, Tren De Aragua

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: All They Do Is Lie to Incite

• All They Do Is Lie to Incite - David Strom
• Words Matter - @GenFlynn
• On the dangers of cosplay - Alex Berenson

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 01/13/2026

Hundreds of Somalis stormed an ICE operation in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Monday after a Somali news station live streamed the raid. Minnesota has a Somali news station?

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 01-11-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Sunday Meme Drop from Midwest Chick's Place, and Tuesday Memes … from MaddMedic.

What Is the Point of Documenting these Feelings?

At least they didn't go in for the "We demand Justice" line. Family mourns loss of man shot while breaking into Turlock home - Turlock Journal

The family of the dead guy describes as follows.

"He had four beautiful children and an open heart. He was a loving person and had a contagious smile," said Watkins.

That was before he was shot and killed during the commission of a home invasion.

The police department suspects Gastelo had broken into the home when he was shot. The homeowner contacted law enforcement and officers performed CPR on Gastelo until medical personnel arrived and rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries.

But he had an infectious smile.

I get that the family is upset and in morning. Why does the reporter and/or the news organization think that any of these details are news worthy?

I suppose that since the police department will not give them any information about the guy who was forced to defend himself, they feel like they need to write something. They really don't. None of this is news. Your feelings, while they are important to you, don't mean anyone else cares.

From what little they said about the incident in question, and what was left unsaid, I will go out on a limb and say that the cops believe this shooting was justified. That is how it appears to me, anyway.

Turlock, California is about 55 miles east of San Jose, though much longer of a drive. Turlock is about a 14 mile drive southeast of Modesto.

Self-defense is a human right.