I'm never sure how I feel about BABYMETAL. They are a Kawaii Metal band. Kawaii Metal is sort of a mixture of J-Pop and Metal. It has everything that makes it good on a Monday Afternoon.
Here is a link to the lyrics translation. Click on "Romanization" under "original lyrics" for a more useful experience.
This is "Monochrome" by BABYMETAL. It was released as a single in late 2022 from their early 2023 album The Other One.
But then I thought it was. Judge dismisses charges in Decatur Library shooting, rules shooter acted in self-defense - On Common Ground News - 24/7 local news
DeKalb County Superior Court Chief Judge Shondeana C. Morris ruled that Medicus Brown, 44, acted in self-defense in the shooting that took place on Feb. 2 at the Decatur Library, loThe Decatur Library, located at 215 Sycamore St. in downtown Decatur.
The 5 p.m. shooting at DeKalb County’s main library branch sent shockwaves through the community and prompted the temporary closure of the library as officials assessed the incident.
Decatur, Georgia is about a 5 mile drive east-northeast of downtown Atlanta.
Details of the case seem to indicate that this charge should never have been brought. There were 5 witnesses called in the hearing, and they all agreed on what was going on.
The librarian, library security guard and the library patron testified that the victim had Brown in a chokehold just prior to the shooting. They also testified that Brown appeared to be in imminent danger of receiving a serious injury or death.
So why did the grand jury bring charges? Because Prosecutors hate self-defense, and they control everything a grand jury sees about a case.
The DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office said it does not plan to appeal the ruling or seek additional charges in connection with the shooting.
Translation: One loss is enough.
I usually call them the Useless Nitwits, but that is not severe enough for this. USAID report finds more than 100 UNRWA employees participated in Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7
The United States' Agency for International Development's Inspector General's office announced Wednesday that it has referred more than 100 current or former employees of a United Nations relief agency to the State Department over their participation in the October 7 terror attacks in Israel.
The referrals include three people they suggested be debarred by the department, including a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative who allegedly received and held civilian hostages beginning on October 7, 2023.
Trump and DOGE did shut down USAID, but the administration held on to all the records. In March 14 UNRWA employees were linked to Hamas in some way.
Hat tip to The Geller Report: Trump Bombshell: More Than 100 UN Terror Employees Referred for Taking Part in Hamas’ October 7 Atrocities
The UN is an arm of the global jihad.
And we need to stop funding it.
From Shooting News Weekly we get the details. Hoplophobe's Hell: More Americans Are Rejecting Gun Control
There’s more good news for the people who still believe that God, guns, and guts made America great. Rasmussen reports forty-eight percent of likely voters said America needed stricter gun laws. Two years earlier it had been fifty-one.
The decline wasn’t a landslide, but represents a consistent trend downward for America’s gun control industry.
The Rasmussen report is behind a "pay wall." I'm not sure that you have to pay, but you do have to sign up and provide an email address.
So, why the change?
Twenty-nine states now have constitutional carry. A law-abiding adult can carry a handgun without begging for a government permission slip. The constantly predicted bloodbaths from the shrieking harpies at Brady, Giffords and Everytown never happened. In any of these states. It never does.
People kept going to work, to church, to Friday-night football. The sky didn’t fall. There weren’t shoot-outs over parking places. The only thing that fell was violent crime rates, nationwide. The FBI’s 2025 report put the murder rate at 4.1 per 100,000—tied with 1955 and 1956, a seventy-year low.
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From The Silicon Graybeard It's hard not to talk about the NGRST launch
So the telescope launched successfully on Sunday.
I started this off saying that it's easy to get used to how smoothly and flawlessly these missions are tending to go these days. That's leaving out that part of that "smoothly and flawlessly" is things like landing the boosters back on the Cape, and that has been at industrial scale for only a few years. It's so easy to take success like that for granted.
There are some highlights from SpaceX below. The entire SpaceX video (just shy of 2 hours) is at this link.
Falcon Heavy launches @NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from pad 39A in Florida, beginning its more than three-month journey to its destination where it will generate never-before-seen photos of the universe pic.twitter.com/L3gHrBiQ08
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 30, 2026
Falcon Heavy's two side boosters land at LZ-2 and LZ-40 pic.twitter.com/j4XAR6rGZq
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 31, 2026
Miguel Gonzalez has a musical interlude every Sunday. Sunday Repose.
Click thru for a song I have not heard in a long time, "All Blues" by Miles Davis from the 1959 album Kind of Blue. There was a time I listened to lot of 1950s and '60s jazz in general, and Miles Davis was a lot of that. I'm not sure why I drifted away from it.
You should be reading Miguel Gonzalez Substack, and not just for the music. Which is usually very good.
University Professors hate that. Judge dismisses murder charge in DJ Shy Guy killing under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law
First the case in question.
A judge has dismissed the second-degree murder charge against a man who admitted shooting and killing Tampa DJ Dedrick Sykes during a traffic confrontation in Ybor City.
The judge ruled Joel Moreno Cobo acted in self-defense under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law when he shot Sykes, known professionally as DJ Shy Guy, in November 2025.
Ybor City is a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida.
As for the university professor...
Elizabeth Berenguer, a professor at Stetson University College of Law who has written several scholarly articles about Stand Your Ground, said the phrase describes multiple interconnected Florida laws.
The most familiar part eliminates the duty to retreat. A person who is somewhere they have a legal right to be does not have to try to escape before using force in response to a perceived threat.
While I have not looked at Florida, in general the Duty to Retreat was invented by the courts. No legislature ever passed such a law. (See below.)
Stetson University is in DeLand, Florida, which is in the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, on the Atlantic coast of Florida. Deland, Florida, is about a 40 mile drive north of Orlando.
As for The Duty to Retreat: Consider the case Runyan v. State, Indiana Supreme Court May of 1877
Indeed, the tendency of the American mind seems to be very strongly against the enforcement of any rule which requires a person to flee when assailed, to avoid chastisement or even to save human life, and that tendency is well illustrated by the recent decisions of our courts, bearing on the general subject of the right of self-defence.
It seems like the Left is gearing up for a fight on Stand Your Ground. I've seen a few stories like this in the recent past.
Confession. Signed, sealed, and insane. VIDEO: WOMAN ROBS GAS STATION, SHOOTS EMPLOYEE, AND THEN BRAGS ABOUT IT | CHARLOTTE ALERTS NEWS
Shantay O’Donnell, 46, robbed a gas station in Howard County, Maryland in April 2026, video shows. Shantay then made a video bragging about the robbery and told the world about her plans to rob a Starbucks and burn the DSS building.
Howard County, Maryland, is about 5 miles southwest of Baltimore, and about 15 miles northeast of Washington, DC.
She also mentioned that she robbed a Starbucks of $40. (Doesn't she know that the Starbucks' customers are beyond cash?)
Apparently she didn't think cops looked at the internet.
Shantay was later arrested charged with robbery and attempted murder.
If this was Chicago, or NYC, she would probably be back out on the street in less time than it takes to do the paperwork. I have no idea how Howard County handles such things, but it is in a blue state...
It didn't die of natural causes. They Killed Star Trek - Echo Chamberlain's Substack
Carthage, 146 BC: Rome destroyed the city, enslaved the surviving population, extinguished it as a centre of civilisation and salted the earth.
Baghdad, 1258: The Mongols killed thousands and destroyed palaces, institutions and libraries. Books turned the Tigris River black with ink.
But nothing in history has been more ransacked, pillaged and desecrated than Star Trek.
Like most Sci-Fi and Fantasy today, including the stuff coming out of Marvel, it is written by people who don't like the source material, who don't understand the source material, and don't like genre.
After several years of covering modern entertainment, I’m still stricken with the same question: how can it be this bad? How can things be the absolute worst version of themselves? How do the makers not register how pathetic the content is? How could things take their precisely most aggravating and disappointing form? How can it be, with almost preternatural exactness, the furthest measurable, and travelable, distance from the point of the franchise’s ideal form?
When every franchise has been, and continues to be, destroyed in similar ways, it is not a coincidence. It is an assault on the very idea of heroic entertainment.
Indiana Jones and Luke Skywalker are no longer heroic figures, but bitter old men, who were never doing things right. Tolkien's Orcs are not the embodiment of chaos and destruction, but are just a misunderstood minority. Sauron is not the embodiment of evil, but a hottie who Galadriel has a thing for. It is the systematic destruction of Western literature, and Western civilization.
Or that is my opinion. Click thru to see what Echo Chamberlain thinks.
The Right Way - Top of the News
TRUMP VICTORY: ALL IRANIAN MINES CLEARED From Strait of Hormuz—Lay Another and Your Ships Will Be Destroyed - Geller Report via ANCIPIENT NEWS
Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.27.26 (Early Evening Edition)
Dana Loesch: The Pharisaitical Approach of False Shepherds Makes Modern Feminism Worse
Don Surber: A story the media won’t cover
EBL - Tim Curry, RIP
Instapundit: Page Six: Tim Curry dead at 80. RIP
Very good actor and he will be missed. Sad, right on the heels of Dolly.
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 28 August 2026: Claudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Edition
Hugging Face has announced a new robot duck. (The Register)
$13 billion for this?
Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island
Conman Carney’s Canada: Elbows Up Canadians don’t worry about deficits. The wonderful life of diplomats. Colluding. Canada’s Muslim Brotherhood. Carney’s Muslim values.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Muslim values. Can I be a migrant?
Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For August 28, 2026
The Supreme Court hands President Trump a huge win on voter integrity.
Democrats need to cheat to win. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
California passes the Don’t Investigate Democrat Fraud Act
Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/28/2026
Iran’s currency plunged to a record low this week, crossing two million rials per U.S. dollar on informal markets as households rushed to convert their savings into hard currency ahead of additional U.S. sanctions.
A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Lake America
Bloomberg, US Aims to Revive Civil War-Era Court to Claim Iran Oil as Prize. Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "Prize courts? For real, prize courts?" Quote Ben Penn @benjaminpenn, "SCOOP: Justice Dept. plans activating long-dormant maritime war court
The Glibertarians - Friday Morning Links
Antifa Networks Panic After Trump Administration Sanctions Their Secret Tech Collective
Trump Admin Ramps Up Haiti Deportation Flights
Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.27.26 (Evening Edition)
Flopping Aces: Abdul El-Sayed’s goals would end the US, also, El-Sayed teams up with Piker against Jews
Gates Of Vienna: So You Can Beat Up Women — That’s Brave
Vlad Tepes - CBC policy revealed: Full on deception to cover for Islam and more: Links post 1 for August 27, 2026
1. CBC Memo: 911 hijackings MAY NOT be referred to as a “terrorist Attack”.
[SNIP] But in this one case I do half agree with them. The 911 attack should be called islamic Jihad.
Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 08/28/2026 – Back to The Economist!
Welcome back to Day 586 of America’s liberation from the Biden*/Harris occupation! Let’s go back across the pond to see what the Limeys have to say!
The Unwelcoming States of America
Political Hat - Quick Takes – Nature Rights: Endorsed By National Geographic; Legislation Presented In The U.K.; Rejected By Oregon Voters
Remember when National Geographic was about tribal boobies? Now they’re all in on “Nature Rights”.
A bill has been introduced to the U.K. to establish “Nature Rights” as “foundational”
Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 08.28.26
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Secures 17 More Sheriff Endorsements
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Role of the Church Militant
Cafe Hayek - Some Links
David Henderson challenges Rob Schneider’s case for military conscription.
Mike Munger exposes the faulty reasoning of today’s critics of Milton Friedman.
Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links
Massive Study Says Vaping Really Is The Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking – But There's a Catch
Who Knew? The WNBA Actually Matters Now!
J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 26 /26
'Medicare for All' means Medicare fraud for all of Dearborn.
Abdul El-Sayed Served as Advisor to Muslim Medical Firm Accused of “Exploiting Medicare” in “Scam”
Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Secretary Rubio Suspends all Visa Reviews Pending Total State Dept Retraining Effort
Communist China Has Its Eyes on Your Hospital Bed - Rick Scott
The Oil Premium Breaks on New Sanctions - Vaughn Cordle, CFA
I leave you with Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4102 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Friday's Political and Current Event Memes from Wirecutter.
Is anyone shocked? Self-defense cases rise in Jackson County; prosecutor wants reform
Jackson County, Missouri, in the extreme western part of the state, and it is home to Kansas City, Missouri.
Missouri has a stand your ground law.
Prosecutor Johnson's office declined to charge in 12 cases in July and 46 for the year, citing self-defense statutes.
Is it perfect? Of course not. Justice is blind, because it is not perfect.
"More people in our community are using force, very often deadly, and feeling justified in doing so," Johnson said. "It is not our goal to remove anyone's guns from their home or possession. We are just trying to limit instances in which deadly force is justified in our community."
They don't want to remove the guns. They want to remove your ability to defend yourself. (Hat tip to Keep And Bear Arms.)
The Silicon Graybeard has some info on a space telescope being launched on Sunday. Some background on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
I've mentioned a couple of times that NASA's next big telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is launching Sunday morning on a Falcon Heavy at 7:26AM EDT, but I suppose I was quietly assuming that everyone has an idea about what that telescope is.
I knew NASA was developing a new space telescope, but I didn't know the name of it, or that it was launching tomorrow.
Here's where it gets wild. The September launch for the NGRST is eight months ahead of schedule, and under budget. When's the last time you heard something like that? I'm not sure I ever have.
Government contracting under budget? Surely that is a sign of End Times, or something.
Anyway, click thru for the details on the telescope, the mission, etc. 7:26 AM on Sunday is a bit early for me, I will probably watch it in replay. SpaceX usually has the videos live on X, and leaves them up for later viewing. I haven't checked to see if they are on YouTube, but any launches carried by the news networks usually end up there.
Surf Rock is an enduring genre of music. While it was fairly popular in the 1960s, there are bands still producing it. Or there were about 10 years ago.
This is "Cassandra Complex" by The Mystery Men? Yes, the question mark is part of the name. It is from the album Sonos Delirium which came out in August of 2013.
William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts things rolling with NICE Arrested Over 1,300 Illegals In D.C. Area
Yes, Democrats will attempt to protect even those illegals. Are all of them hardened criminals? No. But all are unlawfully present in the U.S.
Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb - Basecamp Dispatch: Worth the Sit
My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service
Miguel Gonzalez - When the ACLU misses its own point.
“Elegible voter” being the key words here. Do you know what disenfranchises ELEGIBLE voters?
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 26 August 2026: CNO Orrery Edition
SpaceX is building a new spaceport in Louisiana. (Tech Crunch)
Price tag $100 billion.
Learn a trade.
Again from William Teach - NICE Arrested Almost 50K In July
Keep those numbers going, folks!
The Other McCain - Did You Know That @ElonMusk Has Reinstated the @X Accounts of ‘Noted Neo-Nazis, Anti-Semites, and More’?
Mike Rowe - Off The Wall: Letters like this means a lot
Letters like this mean a lot. Not just to me and my team, but to the many individuals and companies who support mikeroweWORKS. Without their help, we couldn’t have assisted you, and I know the people who support my program appreciate hearing from people who have benefited from it. So thanks for writing.
The Tactical Hermit - The Surveillance State: Dispatcher resigns over Flock camera misuse
This is just ONE example of how easy it is to misuse these cameras and step all over your first amendment rights.
Self-defense rests on attitude, and it sounds like this guy had it in buckets. California Home Invader Disarmed by Resident, Killed With Own Gun
In the San Francisco area, not only did the gun control laws they love so much fail to keep a teenager disarmed, but his lack of knowledge led to fatal consequences for him.
This incident took place in Fremont, California, which is in the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Fremont is about a 15 mile drive north of San Jose, and about 25 mile drive south of Oakland.
The residents suffered "non-life-threatening injuries." In other words, it sounds like they got banged up in the altercation, but are otherwise fine.
Good on them, too.
While this sounds like a completely justifiable case of self-defense to me, I am not the prosecuting attorney in Alameda County, California. I have no idea how the prosecutor in that corner of the Bay Area feels about self-defense.
Self-defense is a human right.
His course Sociology of Guns starts with taking students, in small groups, to the range. Students have a chance to fire a gun, but none are required to do so. Safety first.
I am only partially joking when I say that the class goes downhill from day 1. Look at these smiles.
The video is only 8 minutes. (And I'm jealous of the collection of firearms.)
I recorded this video before the students came to the range, so stay tuned for a follow-on post recapping the event.
I have trouble envisioning any Ivy League university, or most state universities, allowing this class to proceed. Wake Forest seems like it must be a special place.
Flock cameras are evil. More twists than a lifetime romance movie: Florida man arrested for destroying Flock camera | Eatgrueldog
Despite the decoy camera being worth, at most, several dollars worth of plastic filament, Evan Meyer was charged with three felonies:
attempted larceny/grand theft, criminal mischief of property damage worth more than $1,000, and property crimes against computer equipment supplie . The arrest report states that the operation was devised after several Flock cameras in Oviedo were stolen in late July and early August.
There is more, including politicians reaction. Click thru.
Why? Because it doesn't support their narrative. What happened to "Trust the Science™?" Anti-gunners hilariously claim the CDC is wrong, the Gun Violence Archive is right
Who are The Gun Violence Archive (GVA), and its executive director Mark Bryant?
You’ll remember GVA, Mr. Bryant and his faulty numbers. He claimed there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses a much narrower and more realistic definition.
Lies, Damn lies, and Liberal, anti-gunner statistics.
Click thru for the web of lies, the web of organizations all tied to The Trace, and Bloomberg, and more.
That is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He was charged with conspiracy to defraud the US government. David Morens, former NIAID adviser, pleads guilty in COVID-19 records scheme - CBS News
Morens, a senior adviser at NIAID's Office of the Director from 2006 to 2022, was indicted in April and charged with five counts for what prosecutors said at the time was his role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. by shielding federal records related to the COVID-19 pandemic from the public.
There is apparently at least one Unnamed Co-conspirator. I hope that means there is more to come.
According to the guilty plea, Morens and the two co-conspirators agreed to exchange emails about COVID-19 and its origins, as well as the terminated coronavirus grant, through Morens' personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH account, to hide federal records and evade public records laws.
Hat tip to Clayton Cramer.
Nothing says integrity like hiding records.
No one likes DC's new show Lanterns, and of course the usual suspects cry "Racism." The only reason anyone could hate this show is because they don't like a black Green Lantern.
If you want to know what is going on in Lanterns, they took Hal Jordan and gave him the Indiana Jones/Luke Skywalker treatment. He's an old, drunk who needs to be shown what to do by the younger minority. Unlike Indiana Jones, where he gets saved by his replacement, Hal Jordan was killed.
So now tell me how Derek Anderson is racist. Go ahead, I'll wait. The video is only 11 minutes.
This is Derek Anderson's video LANTERNS EPISODE 2 IS A MESS! James Gunn's DCU Doesn't Understand Green Lantern
Hollywood needs to die, and be replaced by something else.
William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
- Gates Of Vienna: The Wayward Bus
- Gatestone Institute: Europe in Free Fall
Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.25.26 (Morning Edition)
Dana Loesch: Why Are We Celebrating Huey Long?
Don Surber: Handicapping the Senate races
EBL - PETA ❤️ Maine Lobster Festival 🦞
Maine Lobster festival with PETA
AoSHQ: Canadian Oysters 🦪
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 25 August 2026: Infinite Indexes Edition
Why Aliexpress is muting your music. (The Register)
Because they're taking your fingerprints using inaudible sonar.
Really.
Small Dead Animals - Tuesday On Turtle Island
Lord Carney’s Canada: Tax and borrow. Carney sabotages trade relations. Liberals hate Israel.
The Democratic Party’s America: Rigged election. Weaponizing Islamophobia.
A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Just Another Sunday in the South
From Breitbart Bus Dig, The Sky Isn't Falling in the U.S. Treasury Market. News Wax notices Newsom Touts Trump Accounts for California Families. Matt Vespa at TownHall heard Trump Went Nuclear on Some Familiar Names Last Night.
Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.25.26 (Evening Edition)
CDR Salamander: Saildrone’s Spectre – Making Sub Chasers Great Again?
Chicago Boyz: StarMind
Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – 08/22/2026, Back to The Nation!
How Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores
How dare RFK want Americans to be healthy!
Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
ITEM 7: Breitbart reported, “Ro Khanna Says Democrats Ditching Extremist Hasan Piker Would Show ‘Weakness.’”
Because, in their heart of hearts, Democrats agree with Piker
Political Hat - News of the Week (August 23rd, 2026)
Scandal Plagued Florida GOP Rep. Mills Ousted in Primary
Wasserman Shultz easily won in her black majority Florida district.
Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange
The Shekel – Coins, Law, and Commentary – SHARK!!!!!
Woodsterman Babes ………….
Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/22/2026
Far-left streamer Hasan Piker mocked the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk by sarcastically singing the song “We Are Charlie Kirk” during a live show in San Francisco on Friday.
3. Canada was WAY ahead of the curve though with the dialectically named, “Human Rights Commissions”. A proxy court for the communist state to enforce narrative without the need for the transformation of law
The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links
She had a nanny?
What an absolute fucking bitch.
“We won!” “No. WE won!”
Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links
Why Is Everything So Upside Down?
The Stop Nick Shirley Act
J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 25 /26
The choice between MAGA and DSA.
Restore or Destroy America?
Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Will Liberal Women Ever See the Damage They Are Doing?
Mocking Trump bores people Don Surber
The Data Republican Drama, or: Social media can be a really stupid place full of really stupid people eugyppius
I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 08-23-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Memes … from MaddMedic, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4082 from 90 Miles From Tyranny, and Sunday’s Yeah, that was Quick Weekend is over Meme Drop 8-23-26 from Midwest Chick's Place.
While I covered this incident a few days back, it is worth revisiting. 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after men exchange gunfire at Fort Worth home, police say
You can click thru for details.
I have said many times that if you need a court order of protection, often called a restraining order, then you also need a plan for your personal safety. Here is a quote from the video below:
Somewhere in a courthouse in Tarant County, there's a file. And in that file, there's an order. And on that order, there is a judge's signature. And that signature did exactly as much work as the toner it was printed with. Because an order is a request in a serious font.
There is at least one, and maybe two, rulings from SCOTUS that states clearly the police have no duty to protect you. No, not even if you have an order of protection.
This is Colion Noir's video Protective Orders Are Not A Self-Defense Plan
A judge just signed a piece of paper telling a man to stay away from another man's property. And the man read the paper and then showed up anyway.
The video is 7 minutes.
Here is a link to my previous post
From The Crime Prevention Research Center: Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 24 Cases During March 2026 - Crime Prevention Research Center
The CPRC has been publishing lists of legal self-defense incidents.
From Harlingen, Texas, on March 3rd, through North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on March 29th.
About 25 years ago I became interested in the Nordic myths. I had studied some of the Greek and Roman stories in both high school and college, picked up a bit the Indian Upanishads along the way, and had also gotten a bit of the stories from some of native North Americans somewhere along the way, but I had never studied the Norse legends. (Marvel comics, notwithstanding.)
So while searching for something else, I had stumbled across a whole new world of music, which I listen to in fits and starts. I find it interesting, but not always engrossing enough to displace what I usually turn to. One of the artists I found from that path is Kati Rán. Here is how her Bandcamp page describes her work.
Nordic Music
Kati Rán creates song with historical folk instruments and composes her music with poetry reflecting our connection with nature.
I do like the idea of Midgardsblot. Midgard is the Norse term for the realm of Earth. Blot is a meeting of some significance. Midgardsblot is a music event that combines "extreme metal" with folk. Sounds like an interesting time. (More below the embedded video.) Midgardsblot is held every summer in Borre, Norway.
This song is "SUURIN" by Kati Rán. It was originally released as part of a 2012 EP Leaf. This version was recorded live at Midgardsblot 2016. You can find the lyrics and their English translation at this link. The lyrics are in Karelian, a Finnic language spoken mainly by the Karelian people in the Russian Republic of Karelia.
Here's a link to the "after movie" for Midgardsblot 2016. "And a good time was had by all."
Dolly Parton Dean: January 19, 1946 to August 25, 2026
This is a clip from Steel Magnolias, though it isn't the best part of the movie, it is her role that I like the most of all the movies she's been in.
Juliette Ochieng starts us off with A Solution Dangled in Front of Me: Then snatched away
Two weeks ago, I thought my Give Send Go car campaign was going to be over.
William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Federal Judge Knocks Down Colorado Law On Inspecting Federal Immigration Centers
The judge had to explain federalism to the Democrats
Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane - What I’m Making My Students Read?
By popular demand, I have a bonus post about Sociology of Guns Version 11: the reading list.
Miguel Gonzalez - Boston is back in the hands of the British.
At least in Stupid Spirit.
The Other McCain - What ‘Our Democracy’ Really Means
For many years I have said that, if it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all. The only “principle” they have is a lust for power.
Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: A Better Start Than Last Year
Meanwhile, we’re 5-7, a game behind Boston and Milwaukee and just 1.5 games behind Minnesota. It’s April in 1975, and we think we have a good shot at the playoffs this year.
Irons in the Fire - Preferred Religion and PC Idiocy in Californicated
Guarantee that if someone had suggested these students be taken to a Catholic Mass, or a Jewish Temple for the Sabbath, the same people who pushed this would've sprouted bleeding hemorrhoids in outrage; but have them attend a mosque and take part in their ceremony?
Again from Miguel Gonzalez - Ahhh! The aroma of Clickbait by deception.
If you go to the actual guidelines for the class, you will read that there is no firearm or ammunition handling in the classroom. And the basic rules of safety taught to young kids are not Cooper’s Rules but NRA Eddie Eagle’s of Stop-Don’t Touch-Leave the Area-Tell an Adult.
But why be factual when enraging idiots with a fake image is likely to generate clicks and thus income?
Meep at STUMP - CTU Lawsuit Follow-up: Reactions
Why can’t I find anybody who supports the CTU’s side?
Crime Prevention Research Center - Just 15 House Democrats were willing to sign a letter saying that “We want safety, not lawlessness”
In an open letter, 15 Democrat congressmen declared: “We are capitalist, not socialist,” “We want safety, not lawlessness,” “We are responsible, not reckless,” “We believe government should solve problems, not create them,” “We are mainstream, not extreme,” and “We are proud, not ashamed of America.” Taken together, however, the vast majority of Democrats rejected these statements as too controversial.
Again from The Other McCain - A Distraction From the Distraction
Anyway, I’ve told my kids what I want for Christmas is an official Mac Jones jersey, which costs more than the team owner was willing to spend on a hooker. But I ain’t going near no Ohio trailer parks.
It isn't hard to do. Man fatally shot dog in self-defense in Miramar, police say - WSVN 7News
Not all threats are two-legged.
After an investigation into the incident, police determined the man shot the dog to protect himself from being attacked.
Miramar, Florida, is in southwestern Broward County. If is about 5 miles from the Atlantic coast, due west of Hallendale Beach. It is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Fort Lauderdale, and it borders the Everglades & Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area to the west of the city.
Even though I drove through Miramar, twice a day, five days a week, for a time, while commuting from Broward County, to Miami, I can't really tell you very much about Miramar.
Self-defense is a human right.
Allegedly. But it just highlights that Flock cameras are evil and need to be removed. Officer accused of misusing Flock cameras to track estranged ex-wife more than 700 times, police say
Christopher Goodson faces two criminal charges after an investigation found evidence that he allegedly misused Flock cameras while on and off duty to track his ex-wife.
After all of that, he faces 2 charges, which doesn't seem like enough.
... one count of offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks and electronic devices, and one count of official misconduct.
The Brass on the city in question is downplaying everything.
“This is an unfortunate incident,” Haines City Police Chief Isaac Jackson said in the release.
Haines City, Florida, is in Polk County, roughly 30 miles southwest of Orlando.
Welcome to the Panoptican.
Hat tip to Angry Cops (Detective Richard Hy), and his video Caught On Camera: The Truth About FLOCK Abuse. I have it set up to start at the appropriate section, though the whole video is good, and only 12 minutes long.
The Hill, of all places, has the info. Lunar eclipse August 2026: What time, how to see it
Unlike the spectacular solar eclipse that was just recently visible in Europe, this one will be safe to view with the naked eye — no special glasses needed.
A lunar eclipse happens when the moon orbits through Earth’s shadow. This month, the eclipse coincides with a full moon, giving us the best view of the shadow moving across the moon.
It has been a number of years since I've seen a full lunar eclipse. Might be interesting if the weather is good.
Click thru for a map of where you can see it. Some level of eclipse will be visible for all of the lower 48 states. Even part of Alaska will get a bit of the partial eclipse. The eastern portion of the US should see the full eclipse.
Blood moons are tied into all kinds of superstitions. I wonder what will kick off on that Thursday. (Hat tip to my sister, who is almost as perpetually online as I am.)
This song has been stuck in my drafts folder for a couple of years. I have no idea how or why I stumbled across this song, other than I like The Pretty Reckless.
This is "Heaven Knows" by The Pretty Reckless from their 2014 album, Going to Hell.
Is this Metal? Probably not really. More Rock. But since I make the rules...
Emmanuel Odunlami, a music producer in the UK, was wearing a fake Patek Philippe Nautilus. If real, it could have been worth anywhere from $170K up to $450K (estimates vary).
When they attacked him, he didn't fight about a fake watch. They killed him anyway. Gang who killed man for fake designer watch jailed
Jordell Menzies, 27, who was convicted of murder and robbery, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 31 years.
Louis Vandrose, 28, Quincy Ffrench, 28, and Kavindu Hettiarachchi, 31, were jailed for manslaughter and robbery.
Vandrose, of Thornton Heath, and Ffrench, of Tottenham, were sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Hettiarachchi, of Harrow, was jailed for 13 years.
The death was in 2022 and the verdicts were handed down in 2024. So why post about it now?
This is Colion Noir's video Gun Control Fail: He Complied & They Still Killed Him
I haven't had a cooperate with criminals post in some time. It is almost like the media is quietly hiding any story in which "Just give them what they want" has proven to be false.
Because if you're going to break the immigration laws, you might be breaking other laws. Illegal NY Harbor boat tour operator charged after deadly capsize | Fox News
This is a story that I saw last week, but I didn't really follow it. Boating is more dangerous than a lot of people believe, especially in a crowded harbor.
A New Jersey man accused of running illegal boat tours allegedly ignored multiple safety warnings before an overcrowded New York Harbor excursion turned deadly, killing a 5-month-old baby and her 27-year-old mother.
Manuel Hernandez, 46, of Manville, was charged Monday with two counts of misconduct and neglect of a ship officer resulting in death after the Yamaha AR210 he was piloting capsized Saturday night [August 8th].
I have the word captain in quotes in the title to this post, because that is a license that Mr. Hernandez does not hold. You have to have a Captain's License to carry passengers, and you have to have on-the-water experience to get that license. Getting a what is known as the 12 pack isn't too hard, that would let you carry 12 passengers, assuming that your boat can hold that many. To carry 14 passengers you need (I think) a Master's License, which is not easy to get. And in any event, the boat in question had a maximum capacity of 10 people. He also was not carrying the required safety gear.
But then I saw a bit on Social Media, that sent me looking for additional information. ICE arrests N.J. man who operated alleged illegal tour boat that capsized killing a mother, daughter
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Hernandez entered the United States from El Salvador and is in the country unlawfully. He was arrested by immigration authorities after an investigation by the Coast Guard Investigative Service confirmed Hernandez's unlawful presence in the United States, according to the department.
I'm shocked that someone in the country illegally would be doing other illegal stuff. OK, so no one is shocked.
William Teach of Pirate's Cove brings us a definition of irony. Haitians Are Being Sent Back To The Wonderful, Awesome Nation Of Haiti
In 2018, when Trump said Haiti was awful, Hollywood Libs jumped to declare how wonderful that country was. Today, when we are sending Haitians back to Haiti, Hollywood Libs have a different opinion. It is almost like they don't have any real positions, aside from "Orange Man Bad."
This post from X sums it up nicely.
Trump, 2018: "Haiti is a sh!thole country."
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) June 27, 2026
Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a great, truly beautiful country. Trump is a r*cist!"
Trump (& SCOTUS), 2026: "Temporary means temporary, Haitians have to return home to their great, truly beautiful country."
Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a… pic.twitter.com/MIihPkcYot
William Teach asks the relevant question.
I thought it was great? Didn’t all that Clinton Foundation cash, as well as all the money and aid given after the big earthquake fix this?
Click thru for the details.
I'm not tied into the 24 hour news cycle the way I was a decade or more ago, so maybe every network covered this. Germany: Weidel slams government after mass brawl between migrants with axes leaves several seriously injured in Düren city center
Residents of the German city of Düren watched in alarm on Sunday [9 August] evening as up to 20 people fought uncontrollably in the street near Bonner Platz, a central location in the North Rhine-Westphalia city. Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel has also responded to the video of the incident, which shows women shoved to the ground and victims mercilessly beaten while they lie defenseless.
What's that? People who have no relation to Western Civilization don't act with the virtues (mercy) of Western Civilization. How can that be?
Hat tip to Gate of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Axe Battle in Düren
Yesterday evening two groups of rambunctious culture-enrichers got a little rowdy in the German town of Düren, in North Rhine-Westphalia. In their collective enthusiasm, they went at each other with baseball bats and axes (in the video below, the weapons look more like hatchets than axes, but maybe I’m wrong).
I miss civilization.
Miguel Gonzalez has musical interlude every Sunday. Or I haven't noticed him missing any, but life happens. Sunday Repose
Today he serves up a live performance by Jaco Pastorius with a performance recorded live in Montreal. I am not sure when it was recorded, but Pastorius died in 1987 at the age of 35, so it was some time ago. One of many artists gone too soon.
I prefer the work Pastorius did with Weather Report to most of his solo work. But that was the era in which he started his decent into addiction.
From The Life of Jaco
The mid-1980s were difficult for Jaco and those who loved him. He was evicted from his New York City apartment and crashed with friends for as long as he could. After a tumultuous visit to his father’s home in Pennsylvania, Jaco briefly entered a psychiatric facility. The bassist didn’t like the effects of the lithium given to him as treatment. Jaco returned to New York and continued to play, but with his reputation for performances that could be inspiring one night but dispiriting the next work was hard to find.
It was during that period that his relationship ended and his drinking increased.
Freight trains in the US are close to 3 miles long. Similar freight trains in Europe are more like half a mile long. Long-haul trains in the US, carrying standard shipping containers, are typically double stacked using specially-designed well cars. The bridges and tunnels in Europe simply do not have the vertical clearance, and the weight-bearing capacity to manage that.
Also, rail in Europe is typically owned by government, and it is optimized around passenger traffic. Freight gets the leftovers.
All this means that rail, carrying freight, in the US is much more efficient, economically and environmentally, than rail in Europe. That is the amount of fuel used per mile of cargo is much better in the US than it is in Europe.
The fuel cost per ton mile drops as the train gets longer because the locomotives are already burning diesel to move their own weight.
Locomotives use the most fuel when starting a train from rest. (A body in motion wants to remain in motion.) So when you can double stack containers, on trains that are nearly 3 miles long, and run them non-stop for a 1000 miles, as opposed to having to wait for passenger trains to get out of the way in every other town, the efficiency improves a lot.
This is the Steel on Rails video Why Europe's Freight Trains Are So Short — and America's Are Three Miles Long
Maybe he thought in a Blue State like Washington, people would not be armed. Deputies: Pierce County man dead after attempted break-in at former residence
The homeowner told the sheriff’s office that the man had previously lived in the house but had been evicted. On the night of the shooting, he said, the man had shown up at the house and demanded to be let in before forcing his way inside.
He was shot multiple times, and did not survive.
While Washington State has a long history of recognizing self-defense, it is early days in the investigation, and the DA's office will ultimately make any determinations about charges in this case. Pierce County, Washington, is home to Tacoma, which is the county seat. I have no idea how that DA views self-defense.
Self-defense is a human right.
It looks that way to me, though it appears to me that they are also behaving stupidly. Trinidad faces cascade of crises, city resignations
Trinidad, Texas, is about a 70 mile drive southeast of Dallas. It had a population of 860 as measured by the 2020 census.
There is plenty of cooruption in big cities, like Chicago, and the police departments in places like that can get caught up in it as well. But small town America is not immune, and the Good-ole Boy Network can often make them think that the rules are whatever they want them to be.
Their troubles started when Jennifer Combs was using F*c*book to collect reports/complaints about the water in Trinidad. Police arrested her and charged her with a felony. That was back in May.
When we first introduced you to Jennifer Combs, the facts already sounded hard to believe. The Texas mom said police arrested her after she used Facebook to collect complaints about discolored water in Trinidad.
Combs spent 23 hours in jail on a felony false alarm or report charge. A Henderson County grand jury later declined to indict her. She has since filed a federal lawsuit alleging political retaliation.
While she was in jail, a man protested outside of the jail. He was arrested. A judge dismissed those charges, and the city fired the judge. The grand jury and the judges dismissal, were in July (I think).
It was about at this time that the city apparently fired the city attorney.
Both the firing of the judge and the attorney are legally suspect, as well as morally insane. The speculation is that the attorney told the city commission that they couldn't fire the judge, so they fired him as well.
It was about at this point that the Texas Rangers got involved. From water problems to city resignations, Trinidad faces cascade of crises
Three Trinidad city officials resigned [in mid July] and the Texas Rangers have launched an investigation after an area resident filed a complaint with the law enforcement agency amid concerns about discolored water coming from the rural Texas town’s pipes.
All of that prompted the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement to open an investigation, and the county prosecutor to chime in. Henderson County won't take Trinidad police cases after controversial arrests, state investigations
Today's letter reveals that the Trinidad Police Department is under investigation by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement; the scope of the investigation remains unclear.
Speculation, mine and others, is that the arrest of Combs, and the arrest of the protestor basically come down to cops saying, "You have disrespected my authority."
In the meantime, a judge has questioned information given to him by Trinidad officers in relation to an arrest warrant, the chief of police has resigned, a few other city officials have resigned, and the Henderson County, District Attorney has cut the PD off at the knees.
On Monday, the Henderson County District Attorney's Office and County Attorney's office informed Trinidad that it will no longer take cases from the Trinidad Police Department.
Oh, and those water quality issues that led to the arrest of Jennifer Combs... Turns out there are water quality issues in Trinidad. Texas environmental report details Trinidad water issues; state issues deadline for improvement plan
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has been investigating the city's water supply. On Monday, TCEQ released their findings.
TCEQ's report found discolored water in Trinidad that "exceeded the standard."
Tests of the water found disinfectant contamination that exceeded federal maximums by more than 300%.
There are more details at all of those articles. Now this all mostly blew up a month ago, around 21 July, the letter from the DA is about a week or 10 days old. As mentioned, Combs was arrested in May. I only tripped across all of this because of insomnia, and a YouTube video.
This video is from Brandon Grable, ad Texas Civil Rights Attorney who runs the YouTube channel Clearly Established. Prosecutor Cuts off Trinidad Police Department. The video is a bit over 13 minutes. It covers all of this, and more.
When you're losing the liberal moms in Portland, you've gone too far. Portland mom urges people to 'be loud' after suing kids' school over pride flag | Fox News
Portland, Oregon, mother Allison Roberts told Fox News Digital Tuesday she hopes her fight with her children's elementary school over a trans-inclusive flag will inspire others to speak out for their beliefs.
Ms. Roberts describes herself as a liberal Democrat. (Is there any other kind allowed in Portland?
She didn't have a problem with the Pride Flag. It was the Trans Flag that was apparently was a bridge too far.
According to the Liberty Justice Center, which filed a lawsuit on behalf of Roberts last week, she initially expressed concern last year over Meriwether Lewis Elementary School's decision to repaint its traditional rainbow pride flag with an "Intersex-Inclusive Progress" variant and an "identity flower" assignment given to her 11-year-old child that asked students to identify and discuss their gender identity with classmates and teachers.
So the school trespassed her, even though she was speaking out away from the school, and a government agency really can't punish you over your speech.
Roberts was later issued a one-year trespass order after a heated exchange with another parent, barring her from attending school events, including her child's graduation ceremony. When she reached out to the school for clarification, Roberts was reportedly told it was a result of engaging in "harassment, intimidation, and threatening behavior" as part of a pattern of "animus and harassment targeting vulnerable members of [the] community."
Here is the quote that the Left hates.
There's no hate speech exception to the First Amendment.
There are more details if you click thru, including details on the completely, predictable lawsuit. (Hat tip to William Teach at Pirate's Cove.)
The Right Way is up first with Top of the News
Byron Donalds Will Face Dem David Jolly for Governorship After Florida Primary Wins - Briebart News
Florida Primaries - Evi. L Bloggerlady
Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.19.26
Shark Tank: Florida GOP Highlights Dominant Tuesday Primary, Flips Page To November
The Political Hat: Neo-Integralism
EBL - Soylent Green Alternative Ending
Soylent Green
AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.20.26
Leigh Taylor-Young as Shirl
Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 21 August 2026: Double-Stringed Balalaika Edition
Meta glasses aren't the problem. (The Verge) (archive site)
No matter how much The Verge wants to claim they are.
Assholes are the problem.
Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island
China Carney’s Canada: What’s wrong in Canada? Save Blackie’s relatives in Cuba. Carney’s Choo Choo train.
The Democrat Party’s America: Whines like a loser. VDH – Hating Israel. In Havana.
A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - FBI Raids Eric Swalwell's House, Office
Hat Hair's John Sexton, Will Iran Escalate As an October Surprise? It wouldn't be much of a surprise, but the media would fall for it, and might even conspire with Iran.
Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.21.26 (Afternoon Edition)
CDR Salamander: The Hidden, Slow, Wet & Deadliest of All Drones – MINES!
Don Surber: California regulates spare tires
Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For August 21, 2026
“Socialists Now Say That Shoplifting Is A-OK.”
Funny how all those films of riot never show people stealing soap and toothpaste, just flat screen TVs and Nikes. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
First-year classes this fall range from Wonder Woman to ‘queer’ art to the occult.
Even Federal work-study students get the woke pushed on them.
2. Yesterday in NY a women who converted to Islam, or “reverted” as the Muslims claim in their bizarre temporally inverted universe, was arrested for planing a Jihad attack against government targets.
Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/21/2026
9 Million Images Exposed by People Finder ClarityCheck
A reverse image search and people-finder service that promises users that their reverse image search is “private and secure” has been found to have left over 9 million image files exposed
Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 08.21.26 (Evening Edition)
Victory Girls: Prince Harry And Meghan Markle: Once Upon A U-Turn, also, CNN: The Network Who Thinks Its Viewers are Drooling Morons
Watts Up With That: The 1970s Oil Crisis: Never Forget
Flopping Aces - Communists in America: Abolish The Police, Seize The Corporations, Erase The Borders
The government already spends almost $1 trillion on K-12 education and yet somehow across the country we have places where few, if any, kids can read or do math at grade level.
The Glibertarians - Wednesday Morning Links
Oh, please. Here’s a newsflash: everything ragebaits Democrats.
“It was all just a joke. Trust us.” And I’ve got some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you if you buy that bullshit.
Maggie's Farm - Wednesday afternoon links
From brothels to Medicaid fraud
The White House Needs a Ballroom. The Left Just Hates Who’s Building It.
J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 19 /26
Child-to-staff requirements raise costs without delivering clear benefits.
Sweden Doesn’t Mandate Childcare Ratios. Why Does America?
Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Why Smart People Keep Falling for Stupid Ideas
Why Smart People Keep Falling for Stupid Ideas Behind the Narrative 📣
Pacific Palisades, Twenty Months Later Chris Bray
United States debt hits $40 trillion for first time in history JTN
Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 08/21/2026
Lindsay Clancy said a voice told her to kill her children; prosecutors focus on when. You will see this woman around the right twitter-sphere, because she killed her children, and lots of other women are supporting her
I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4069 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, Thursday’s Oh Gosh What a Week Meme Drop 7-20-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, and Friday night's gifs from Wirecutter.
