She had been a known public menace for 15 years, basically, and by the time she finally killed someone — running a red light on a residential street at 85 mph — you might think the courts would consider this something more than a mere traffic violation. The appropriate legislative response to this egregious situation would be to fix whatever loophole exists in Florida law that fails to punish vehicular homicide as a felony, particularly in cases with aggravating circumstances such as a prior record of driving on a suspended license, etc.
Australia is moving closer to banning children from social media - which is impossible - after a story commission by the government showed that banning children from social media - which is impossible - is possible though they won't say how and admitted that there is no ...
Vox Popoli: The Science is Settled, Iran Has Nukes, There is No “We”, Kemosabe, The War Drums Get Louder, and Why the USA is Under Pressure
Stoic Observations: Transhumanist AI Fiction
Bluesky Temporarily Suspended JD Vance
Vice President JD Vance’s venture onto Bluesky was cut short Wednesday, with his account suspended less than 20 minutes after he announced joining.
From Ace, Blue Collar Wages Rise 2% In Just the First Five Months of Trump's Second Term, the Most in 60 Years "Nice:" From Fox, Left's tariff doomsday predictions fall flat as Trump's America thrives
We are no longer a reality-based country. Well, some federal activist judges aren’t anyway. And they can decide the policy for the rest of us at their sole discretion, apparently.
Like rats from a sinking ship. I can’t say I blame them.
Lord Carney’s Canada: No resource projects – (Warning: CBC). Diversity incident in Toronto. Wheel of privilege. You will buy an electric car and like it.
Woke America: Liberal white women. A peaceful protest.
Don Surber: Help Democrats the Rand Paul way
First Street Journal: Midnight Oil Blogging, President Trump is winning on immigration, and World War III Watch
The E-4B “Nightwatch,” also known as the Doomsday Plane,has relocated from the US state of Louisiana to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington D.C.amid the latest escalation of the Israeli-Iranian conflict
The homeowner tells KATU News that the person he shot had been bashing on the door for about 10 minutes, claiming he lived there. The homeowner said he warned the would-be intruder that he was armed.
He eventually managed to break the door, and gain entry. The homeowner shot him. The cops arrived about 30 seconds later, and provided first aid.
The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital. The homeowner was not arrested.
While banging on the door, the guy who got shot was screaming that he lived there. He didn't. This is either a case of Crazy People Are Dangerous, or I suspect that drugs and/or alcohol may have been involved.
Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.
Alan Ng's review on Film Threat of the new Pixar film Elio
Last year, Inside Out 2 became the highest-grossing animated film in history. While that didn’t necessarily make it the best, it signaled that Pixar was back to form. After that massive success, Disney/Pixar follows it up with a space tale for boys…can lightning strike twice with Elio? Well, this is Disney after all.
Is there a single property/studio that Disney has purchased in the past 15 years or so, that they have not destroyed over time?
It pains me to say this, but Elio earns the dubious distinction of being the worst Pixar movie ever made. Story-wise, Elio is for children…mostly young boys…unlike every Pixar movie, there is nothing for adults. Mom—Dad! Be prepared to be bored for ninety minutes while your child takes in the cute aliens and slapstick humor.
There are a couple of truly great Pixar films, and not because the animation technology is outstanding, because the early movies were made before the technology was outstanding. The movies were good because they knew how to tell stories. I guess those times are gone.
This is mostly a critique of the artistic composition of individual scenes. Walt Disney took inspiration from classic, master works. Current generations of animation from Disney takes inspiration from no one. It is a non-spoiler review.
Infected Mushroom is fairly described as pioneers of Psytrance Music. That would be Psychedelic Trance. Some of their music reminds of the club music from my youth, while being something slightly different. A lot of it is more relaxing.
The album today's song comes from was a bit of an attempt to open up to a broader audience. The first disk was all Psytrance, while the second opened up the musical style a bit. Today's song is Psytrance.
The issue is not the Senate, which isn’t interested in giving the well-heeled in blue states a bigger federal tax break, as can be seen with putting the SALT cap back at $10K.
This is not a one-off post — it reflects sentiments Dr. Rao has expressed for months, as he has also posted: “Hope Tel Aviv is leveled. There’s no wrong way to delete Zionists” and “Zionism must be destroyed, [I’m] grateful for all the resistance fighters.”
The Sceptered Red Isle is at it again, with MPs voting in the aptly named House of Commons to decriminalize abortion up to the point of birth. You see, in the UK abortion is a criminal offence with major exceptions up to 24 weeks. The 24 week limit has now been voted down by the hugely unpopular Rainbow Leftist NWO stooge shills in Westminster.
Canada's national government has been doing its best to get to Net Zero by many methods including high carbon taxes. Saskatchewan has long relied on coal for power. Wind power sometimes drop to zero and solar power era reliably drops to zero on some poorly understood schedule that is probably an oil company conspiracy.
I’ve been in many Twitter debates, regarding the slow posting of what she did, in comparison to if a Republican did it, and how the media would demand the Republican resign.
Remember how in 2012, during a Republican primary debate, Mitt Romney was mocked for saying he was in favor of “self-deportation”? The audience actually laughed, as Romney explained that it would not be necessary to “round people up,” but rather that enforcement of the E-Verify system for employment would cause illegal aliens to leave the country voluntarily. Liberals treated this idea as if it were some kind of joke, but Romney’s point — that if the U.S. ever got serious about enforcing our immigration laws, this would encourage illegals to leave — has now been vindicated.
Investigators said a person entered the store armed with a “cutting instrument,” walked around the counter and attempted to rob the store clerk. A struggle ensued and the robbery suspect was shot by the store clerk, authorities said.
WGNO calls the guy who got shot a "Shooting Victim." Not a victim. Still a criminal. The store clerk was the victim of an attempted armed robbery.
[The would-be, bad guy] was taken to a local hospital and later airlifted to a hospital in Lafayette, where he remains listed in critical condition.
Self-defense is a human right, and it seems to be your legal right in Alabama.
Blue collar wage growth is WAY up in Trump’s first 5 months, with the only OTHER time it’s happened being … Trump’s first term.
It must be absolutely baffling to the Democrats who keep assuring us that Trump’s policies are going to be catastrophic for the workaday American and will only benefit fatcat billionaires… when the facts and data keep contradiction them
There are several things that are contributing to this. One being employers can't hire illegals for no money. That is not the only reason that wages are up 2% in five months. The cutting of regulations hasn't hurt.
So. Which is the party of the working man, and which is the party dominated by, and organized for, the coastal elites?
A peaceful display of solidarity with Israel in Melbourne’s CBD was abruptly 'moved on' by police last weekend, with officers finally saying the quiet part out loud — that they couldn’t stop violence if the anti-Israel mob turned on them.
I spoke with Yaacov Travitz, leader of the Lions of Zion group, who shared shocking details about how police once again forced his small peaceful gathering out of the city.
The video at the link is about 13 minutes, though most of the info is in the article.
Rabbi Emanuel Goldfeiz, 62 — Rabbi of Beit Yaakov and Rabbinical administrator for Star-S kashrut — used his legally owned handgun to fend off two masked attackers during a violent attempted carjacking in North Baltimore.
Rabbi Goldfeiz was slightly injured but did not go to a hospital. The two attackers, punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground, and continue to beat him.
Until he drew his firearm.
That convinced them to leave, but the came back and tried to take his car.
“As the suspects tried to assault him again, the victim drew his firearm and pointed it at them,” said a Baltimore Police spokesperson. “The suspects then fled the scene on foot.”
While some people are calling this a hate crime, it looks more like a crime of opportunity to me. Carjacking is up this year in Baltimore.
If you don’t follow the press, you are uninformed ...; if you do follow the press, you are misinformed.
So the NY Post admits that legacy media has been lying to everyone. We all know this, but you don't usually read it in the legacy media.
Nowadays you can actually be, you know, informed if you carefully follow the alternative press and social media.
It’s a major reason why the organized left, the Democrats and the traditional media — but I repeat myself — have less traction today than they used to.
OK, so this is an opinion piece but it does occur in the legacy media.
Time for a history lesson. The original blogosphere, followed by the rise of corporate social media (F*c*book and Twitter - pre-Elon), and how stories that questioned the narrative of the Left got censored.
Twitter, before Elon Musk bought it, didn’t just ban The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop — it prevented sharing the story via direct message.
Ditto any skepticism about COVID policies or the climate “emergency.”
You will not say or write anything the Left doesn't approve of, because if you do, you might think thoughts that the Left doesn't like.
We’ve learned that the legacy media routinely peddle lies: A dramatic story about a racist incident, a la Jussie Smollett, once provoked instant outrage.
Now, many start out assuming the incident is a hoax — and they’re often right.
Gallup recently discovered that 69% of Americans distrust the media; only 31% generally believe their reporting.
There were community armories. Only certain people had access, because in the tradition of European socialist, you can't allow the people to be armed. Why? Because Reasons.
Part of the invasion plan was to locate and immediately murder those specific people, so arms that were locked-up in the community’s ‘armory’ could never be accessed, by anyone.
Terrorists didn’t need those guns (they brought their own!). They just wanted to be sure all their hapless victims were completely unarmed and defenseless!
New legislation in New York makes it illegal for AI to murder more than 100 people. (Tech Crunch)
Less than 100, no problem, but over 100 is right out.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Everything is now ‘far right’. UK civil servants. A secret meeting of globalists (including two Cdn. cabinet ministers). A Soros wedding.
ITEM 13: The Detroit News reported, “GM plans $4 billion push to move production from Mexico to U.S.”
Oh the cruelty. Americans will have to go back to making their own cars.
Police Evacuate Texas State Capitol After Threat to Lawmakers
The Texas State Capitol and grounds in Austin were evacuated on Saturday ahead of a planned protest after a credible threat to lawmakers
Ace, Iran Media Claims Top Iranian Nuclear Scientists Killed by Car Bombs Update: Iranian "News" Station Bombed Mid-Rant "I heard that Mossad agents are now operating deep inside Iran. They have enough Iranian allies to permit this.
So the FBI was in fact, guilty of election interference in so many ways. A kind of passive interference by lying about the Hunter Biden Laptop saying it was Russian disinformation, and active by burying what they knew about this report. But what about Trudeau?
Officers injured as Portland rioters breach ICE building with explosives and rocks.
Minnesota police name suspect in shootings of Democratic state politicians. From various reports, it appears the shooter, Vance Boelter, a 57 year old Democrat
The guy who got shot was on a crime spree. Armed Robbery times 3 in under 20 minutes. Well the last time it was only an attempted robbery.
Feazell's crime spree began just 18 minutes earlier when he robbed a man on the corner of Fulton and Kilpatrick in Austin and stole his grey 2025 Toyota Corolla.
Then at 10.43pm he pulled up alongside two women, both 27, walking on the 2500 block of West Haddon in Humboldt Park.
He jumped out of the stolen car and robbed them at gunpoint of their purses, phones, and wallets, before fleeing in the Corolla.
It was at this point that he ran into a guy with a concealed carry license in Chicago. For the complete details you can see my original post, Concealed Carry in Chicago. But the Daily Mail article linked above has the details:
After Feazell displayed a gun and demanded the CCL holder’s valuables, the victim pulled out a firearm and shot him multiple times in the head and chest, according to CPD documents
Mo-Zam-Bique. (Mozambique Drill: 2 to the chest, one to the head. The FBI adopted that in the late 1970s or 80s.)
Austin is one of the 77 neighborhoods in Chicago. It is due west of The Loop, and right on the city limits, up against Oak Park. Humbolt Park is also one of Chicago's neighborhoods; it is just east of Austin. Austin is currently the leader in the HeyJackass! homicide race, with 20 homicides, and 50 people having been shot and wounded in 2025. Humbolt Park is in 6th place with 10 homicides and 22 shot and wounded. That will change every day or so as HeyJackass! updates the statistics.
Every criminal should second guess themselves before they try to rob someone. The fear of getting blown away, by someone legally carrying, should be baked into the decision-making process, but instead we're out here fighting tooth and nail just to keep the right to carry in some places.
The Berlin Blockade, and the Berlin Airlift probably mark the beginning of The Cold War. It also shows the true nature of Communism. Berlin Airlift Timeline.
For those of you not familiar with the old East Germany/West Germany divide and the East and West Berlin saga... Berlin was divided between the 4 allies: France, UK, USA, and Soviet Russia. About the time relations with Russia were going downhill, France ceded their portion to the UK and the USA. Berlin was also about 100 miles east of the border between East Germany and West Germany.
All traffic through the Soviet portion of East Germany was halted on 18 June. Soviets cut power to West Berlin on 19 June. The first planes flew on 26 June 1948.
Ah yes, that time that Communists tried to starve an entire city, so America and the UK teamed up to deliver 4.6 billion pounds of food and supplies to that City using nothing but cargo planes.
The video is 17 minutes, but worth the time. You might learn something. (It will only hurt for a minute.)
Today we have a song I really like, by a band I know virtually nothing about. I can't find any information on them from any of my usual sources. Still, I like the music.
Well, some of it anyway. There seems to be a whole genre of music in which once popular songs are covered as instrumentals in the flamenco style. Some of it interesting. A lot of it is drek.
This song was served up to me by the Tidal streaming service in one of their curated playlists/radio stations. It is one of the selections I listen to in the evening when I'm reading.
This is "Sultans Of Swing" by The Jazz Guitar Friends & The Spanish Guitar from the 2010 album No. 6 "Your Songs On Spanish Guitar" (Ambient Lounge For Relaxing). It is an instrumental cover of the song originally by Dire Straits.
You used a firearm in defense of life against another human being, which means you will be given an investigative colonoscopy and there is nothing you can do about it but keep your cool and follow the recommendations of Massad Ayoob.
Corporate adoption of AI is slowing as it turns out that it's expensive and kind of useless. (The Register)
Gartner warned last year that end user organizations adopting AI could discover "500 to 1,000 percent errors of AI cost estimates are possible," because of vendor price hikes, not paying attention to the cost, or simply inappropriate use of AI.
Yeah, beancounters love it when bills are unexpectedly ten times higher than you told them.
Wombat Socho - FMJRA 2.0: September in Washington. I know it is not fantasy baseball in the usual sense, but it is something similar, with a distinctly time-shifted calendar.
Ah, September…the month when the rosters expand, the kids go back to school, the miserable sweaty heat lingers over the Anacostia, and the crowds at RFK dwindle as the Senators get beaten like a rented mule.
From his book “Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood” where he takes a dull machete and finely guts the film industry.
Now, if Julie was a Republican all the local news outlets would be calling for her to be booted from the General Assembly. They’d feature numerous quotes from Democrats decrying what she did and calling for her to be booted. It would probably make the national news, and be part of segments on the 630 evening news. And mentioned on the morning shows this morning. But, she’s a Democrat, so, the double standard plays hard.
A Hendersonville business owner and his wife survived a gun battle with an armed man inside the couple’s collectible shop early Wednesday morning. As for the suspect, he’s facing multiple charges — including attempted homicide — following his release from the hospital.
First he broke the door to the business. As at most retail businesses, the door was glass. When he realized the owners were inside he left to retrieve a gun. He was back a few moments later, and he was armed.
Then, just moments later, Bryan can be seen coming back to the door, pulling what law enforcement described as a 9mm from his backpack, ducking back through the broken glass into the store, and rushing toward the back of the shop.
“He’s looking to do harm at that point,” [HPD Assistant Chief Scott] Ryan stated.
By this point, the co-owner of The Cache, Roger McCandless, was ready and armed with a shotgun loaded with birdshot.
Birdshot injured and scared him, but it did not end the threat. While he retreated from the store, he opened fire with his 9mm pistol. Birdshot is not what you want to use for self-defense.
Hendersonville, Tennessee is about an 18 mile drive northeast of downtown Nashville.
I am not a shotgun expert by any means of the imagination, but I heed the advice of more knowledgeable people: Birdshot is for birds, small rodents and training. Bipedal predators (AKA Dangerous criminals) require at a minimum buckshot, preferably in repeated pairs.
Okay. Terminal ballistics. Pistols put holes in people, rifles put holes through people, shotguns, at the right range with the right load will physically remove a chunk of [ __ ] off your opponent, and throw that [ __ ] on the floor, and you will have to get someone to come in and clean this [ __ ] up with a shovel.
Maybe I should reload that shotgun. (The picture above is of a somewhat random shotgun, neither the one used in this incident, nor the one I own.)
Nickel mining in Indonesia, in response to the demand from EV manufacturing, is destroying some of the most pristine environments in Indonesia.
Stark images, captured from a drone by environmental campaigners and shared with the BBC, appear to show how nickel mining has stripped forests and polluted waters in one of the most biodiverse marine habitats on Earth.
This is amazing, not because it is new news, but because it has been reported by the BBC.
In the blinkered rush towards EVs and net zero, which is supposed to save the planet, the Greenies have been remarkably selective about what environmental issues they focus on. Their tunnel vision regarding climate change has meant that they have conveniently ignored the myriad other unforeseen consequences of this mad push for net zero. Many of which are far worse for the environment.
