Friday Links - 12 December

The Other McCain starts us off with They’ve Forgotten How Bad It Could Be

Why did people vote for Zohran Mamdani? It’s as if the people of Gotham City elected the Joker as mayor — a nihilistic appetite for destruction as the motivation of a political movement.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Bummer: Climate (scam) Grifters See Layoffs As Bill Gates Money Dries Up

Funny how most of these groups cannot survive without huge amounts of Other People’s money, be it from super rich folks or government

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 10 December 2025: Fascism R Us Edition

Australia is joining a wave of fascist dictatorships around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. (The Verge) (archive site)

I may have changed a word or two there.

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat - Back to Work on My Gun Culture 2.0 Book: The more scholarly companion to Gun Curious

With Gun Curious behind me, I’m ready to write the scholarly book on Gun Culture 2.0 that I’ve been preparing for all along—one informed by years of research, participant observation, and public engagement.

Impro Guns - Electro-Lord Bullingdon

Improvised firearms confiscated from Londoner accused of plotting to reenact a Shinzo Abe style atrocity at his school.

John R. Lott Jr. at The Federalist - DOJ Lawsuits Against Gun Control Policies Especially Protect The Weak

Gun control laws disproportionately harm minorities, women, and the poor — the people who benefit most from being able to protect themselves.

Andy Ngo at Ngo Comment - Andy Ngo Discusses the First Antifa Terror Convictions

On Dec. 6, I went on Newsmax, while very sick, to discuss my latest reporting on the additional two defendants in the North Texas Antifa terror case who have pleaded guilty in federal court.

Meep at STUMP - Public Pension Asset Shenanigans: New York City on ESG Issues, Maryland Audit on Fees, and CalPERS on Total Portfolio Approach

A look at some top-level public pension investing concerns

Again from Impro Guns - The Men with the Golden Gun (Click thru for photos!)

Two men were caught rocking a Saddam Edition FGC-9 while hauling 68 bricks (approx 70kg) of cocaine through the Brazilian state of Acre yesterday.

Concealed Carry Is Catching on in Chicago

The people of Chicago are learning that they can protect themselves, since the police are increasingly unable to. Chicago PD is underfunded, and not supported by city leadership. Concealed carry permit holder shoots teen after car break-in on Chicago's South Side - CBS Chicago

People were breaking into his car.

The man said one of the people in his car took out a gun. At that point, the man, who had a valid Firearm Owners Identification Card and Concealed Carry License, took out his own gun and fired shots, police said.

A 17-year-old was shot in the arm and the knee. Another person ran to a gray minivan and fled the scene.

The progressive Left in Chicago, by attacking and undermining police, by enabling criminals, are going to find themselves facing a population who no longer believes they owe anything to The Machine, certainly not their votes.

Self-defense is a human right, and it seems to be gaining ground in the People's Republic of Illinois.

The Bombing Crisis in Sweden

What happens when you import the third world into your country? You get third world problems. Children are now BOMBING Sweden - by Peter Imanuelsen

There has been over 170 bombing attacks in Sweden so far in 2025. And there has been a whopping 448 bombing attacks since 2023.

A significant number of those attacks have been carried out by kids under the age of 15.

Click thru for details.

So things are pretty bad in Sweden and the mainstream media is working hard to cover it up.

I'm shocked that they would cover it up.

When a Terror Threat Doesn't Fit the Media Narrative

You won't hear anything about it from the media. Delaware Undergrad Had Machine Gun and Manifesto Targeting Cops | Frontpage Mag

At the University of Delaware, a routine traffic stop turned into something much more significant, and potentially deadly, when a 25-year-old undergraduate student was discovered to have with him a machine gun, over 100 rounds of ammo, an “armored ballistic plate,” and a notebook with details about how he was planning a violent attack on campus police.

And why won't this be trumpeted in the media?

Yet you’re unlikely to hear much about this incident from the establishment media, for the perpetrator was not, to the inconsolable disappointment of leftist “journalists” and policymakers everywhere, one of those “right-wing extremists” that the Biden regime couldn’t stop warning us about. Instead, his name is Luqmaan Khan, and he appears to be intent on proving President Donald Trump correct when he said: “Our country’s at a tipping point. We could go bad. We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.”

Click thru for the details. (Hat tip to J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ: The Morning Report — 12/9/25)

Democrats and Your Electricity Bill

What happens when politicians pretend they understand the engineering and physical constraints behind power generation? Nothing good. From The Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling Electricity Bills, Report Confirms

State policies are a monumental factor in electricity costs, and Democrat-led states have driven prices upward through pushing aggressive mandates and choking reliable power supply, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Research (IER).

The new report, first provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, found that blue states generally have higher electricity costs than red states. Titled “Blue States, High Rates. Electricity Prices: Elections Have Consequences,” IER’s report notes that all but one of the top 10 most expensive states for energy — measured by cost per kilowatt hour — are governed by Democrats.

The article almost touches on reliability, but doesn't quite. When you get enough solar and wind in the mix, keeping the grid stable becomes a nightmare, and then, if you keep adding "renewables" it becomes impossible.

When politicians pretend they understand engineering and physics, or just ignore the engineering and physics, bad things happen. (Hat tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

An Open Door Is Not an Invitation

He was homeless, so of course he was looking for open doors. Man shot in the leg after entering Pueblo home, police say

[Pueblo Police Dept.] said detectives interviewed the homeowner, who reported that he arrived home and noticed that his front door was open and an unknown man was inside. The homeowner reportedly said that he then grabbed his .22 revolver from his bedroom and confirmed that his sister, who also lives at the home, did not know the man either.

Officers said the homeowner reported that he confronted the man, who had a knife in his hand. They said the homeowner reported that he shot the man in the leg and asked his sister to call 911 to report the incident.

Pueblo, Colorado is about 100 miles south of Denver.

The guy who got shot was taken to a local hospital, and then to the local jail where he was booked on a charge of second-degree burglary.

This guy is lucky he got shot in the leg with a .22 and not in the head with 9mm. That fact will be lost on him.

Self-defense is a human right, and the police in Pueblo, Colorado seem to be treating this like a legal right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.

And the Prize for Idiot of the Decade Goes To...

From Bearing Arms, we get a story of monumental insanity. Florida College Student Arrested for Being Dumbest Gun Owner Possible

In the words of Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon."

If you live in New Jersey but go to college in Florida, I can understand someone wanting to take advantage of the much better gun laws in the Sunshine State. You still have to jump through New Jersey state laws, regardless of where you buy it, but it's a little easier to own any firearm and to enjoy shooting it in the Deep South.

Unless, of course, you're an absolute idiot.

While Florida has some pretty good gun laws, and it probably looks like Nirvana when compared to a freedom-hating state like New Jersey, they still have gun laws. One of those gun laws is, you can't have firearms on college campuses.

He got caught because he ordered 1500 rounds of ammo and had them delivered to his dorm room, which led authorities to find the AR-15 he had hidden under his bed.

I routinely buy ammo in 1000 round lots. It is much cheaper to buy ammo in those quantities, it will last my lifetime, properly stored. Buying boxes of 50 are usually much more expensive per round. It's called economic order quantity.

And you want to be careful when you pick of a box of that much ammo, lest it throw out your back. The weight is mostly in the lead, after all.

And yes, he was, in fact, stupid. Not only did he break the law, but he kept an AR-15 seemingly unsecured under the bed in his dorm room, where just about any moron could find it and do something either stupid or evil with it. Even if it had a gun lock on it, that's a trivial obstacle, and that's what makes him a real idiot.

I think adults should be able to have firearms on college campuses, but I don't make the laws in Florida.

Now maybe this would be the time to challenge that law in the courts. I doubt very much that there was a founding-era law about banning guns from universities.

Polk County, Florida Is NOT Like a Blue City

They still punish criminals in Polk County. Philly youth football players face felonies for stealing sports merch in Florida

A group of eight Philly teenagers who were in Polk County, Florida, to play a youth football championship game were arrested for stealing more than $2,000 worth of merchandise from a Dick's Sporting Goods, law enforcement said on Monday.

According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the eight teenagers, who were all between the ages of 14 and 15 and played for Philly's United Thoroughbreds, entered a Dick's Sporting Goods at Posner Plaza in Davenport at around 10:55 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025.

I guess Philadelphia is one of the many Blue Cities where looting/stealing is no longer a crime. They apparently thought that was the case everywhere.

It isn't.

All eight teenagers were taken to a juvenile detention center in Florida and face two felony charges: retail theft over $750 and conspiracy to commit retail theft, according to the Sheriff's office.

The hat tip for all of this goes to Louder with Crowder: Philly teens attempt to loot a Florida sporting goods store, discover the hard way that Florida actually enforces the law

"Attempted" is the keyword here, because Polk County isn't Philadelphia. Laws are enforced, stealing is frowned upon, and committing crime lands you in jail. The bonus of committing crime in Polk County is having Sheriff Grady Judd roast you [publicly] for it.

Click that 2nd link for a video of Sheriff Grady Judd roasting the kids from Philly.

We here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website appreciate any excuse we have to write about America's Sheriff, if for no other reason than it's an excuse to drop this

The 2nd video at that link is a rap about Grady getting his man every time.

If you're interested in the entire press conference held by Sheriff Grady Judd, see this link.

I'm Old Enough to Remember When Meeting Strangers from the Internet Was a Bad Idea

But then I'm older than dirt. Armed rapist luring women to Woodlawn via dating apps: Chicago police - CWB Chicago

Investigators said the man arranged meetings through the app, led each woman into an apartment, produced a handgun, assaulted them, took their belongings, and used their phones to transfer money from their bank accounts before fleeing.

I don't like to blame victims, but "stupid is as stupid does." Or something.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 10 December

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts things off with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Victory Girls Blog has Sunday morning cafe cocktails linkage.
Vlad Tepes has linkage.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 12.08.25

Elizabeth Nickson: Absurdistan Is Resting
First Street Journal: “No one is above the law.” — Joe Biden

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 8 December 2025: Do Not Edition

Why meetings can harm employee well-being. (Phys.org)
Well, they're meeting. That's what they're for.

EBL - "JAP LANGUAGE USEFUL PHRASES" USMC Training Film

Instapundit: Never Forget and Eleven Remain
EBL: Pearl Harbor Tribute, Remember Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor Women

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: The liberal media. A University of Delaware student.
Mohammad Carney’s Canada: Hamas in Toronto. Avi Lewis’s Green New Deal.

Political Hat - News of the Week (December 7th, 2025)

Black Friday Gun Sales Dip Compared to 2024
Black Friday is the biggest sales day of the year, even now in the era of internet shopping. That’s especially true for gun sales because, well, you can’t buy them on Amazon.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Congress Demands Video of Drug Runner Double Tap

Ace reads the NYT: Zelensky's Government "Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption to Fester." "Sounds like Zelensky learned from Tim Walz and Ilhan "Omar" nur." Sundance notes Zelenskyy Met with Starmer, Merz and Macron – Now Heading to Brussels.

Vlad Tepes - Russia seems to be about the same as the UK in terms of freedom of speech and communism, the Global Warming dialectic attack, and competing contradictory narrative attack: Links 1 for December 9, 2025

1. So Russia is getting to be pretty disappointing for those who thought they were not doing exactly what the West is doing.
Please read the analysis at RAIR Foundation.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Oh Noes: Democrats Asked Who Comes First, US Citizens Or Foreign Drug Runners
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 6: Ezra Levant tweeted, “Canadian taxpayers gave Stellantis $15 billion.
“On Wednesday their CEO proudly told Donald Trump they’re putting almost that exact amount into new factories in the USA. Mark Carney is a master negotiator!”

The Glibertarians - Tuesday Morning Links

President Trump Announces $12B in Farm Subsidies
Trump calls for nationwide AI standards, plans executive order

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 12.09.25

Victory Girls: Jennifer Welch: A Chardonnay Democrat Is The True Definition Of Grift
Watts Up With That: Australia’s Electricity Future,

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 12/9/2025

Bill Maher and Ana Kasparian went head-to-head in a fiery clash after he asked the outspoken liberal which Middle Eastern city would tolerate her wearing western clothes.

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “I Have Inherited a White-Supremacist System”
Everyone in the city will suffer from Mamdani’s foolish decision to end homeless camp sweeps

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 12/9/25

For Catholics who like their Christianity with a strong dose of Marxism.
Woke Priest Uses His Church’s Nativity Scene to Mock and Defy ICE

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Trump’s Best Hope to Likely Avoid Impeachment Runs Through Indiana

• Democrats finally shout FJB - Don Surber
• Homan: 62,000 Migrant Kids Rescued Under Trump Admin - Mary Chastain

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 12/09/2025

Candace alleged France was planning to assassinate her, and there was Foreign Legion involvement in Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and now people have found a guy right near Charlie at the moment of the shooting, and he is wearing a hat that originated just miles from a key Foreign Legion training facility in France.

I leave you with Monday's memes from Wirecutter, Monday Memes from Granite Grok, Tuesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Consequences & Mini$omalia ..............from Rico from Theo Spark, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3203 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.

Don't Bring a Snow Shovel to a Gunfight

Don't assume your intended victim is unarmed in 2025. Michigan man who shot shovel-wielding man acted in self-defense, police say - CBS Detroit

A 60-year-old Michigan man who shot another man who attacked him with a shovel acted in self-defense, authorities said.

Reasonable fear of imminent death, or grave bodily injury goes without saying, if your assailant is armed with a shovel.

The 49-year-old told the 60-year-old to leave, and then he shoved him, and hit him with the shovel. The 60-year-old shot him twice, and called police.

The man who was shot was taken to an area hospital, where he is in stable condition, police said.

There is even video evidence from somewhere, but they do not elaborate.

Kalamazoo, Michigan is about a 140 mile drive west of Detroit. It is about 35 miles east of Lake Michigan.

Self-defense is a human right, and it has been gaining traction as a legal right in Michigan the past several years.

All he wanted to do was return a borrowed stepladder. And he gets attacked. (Hat tip to KABA)

The Carbon Dioxide Involved in Creating Electric Vehicles

If you ignore most of the CO₂ involved in the creation of electric vehicles then they can look better than internal combustion cars. But you're lying to yourself and everyone, just to virtue signal.

Truth about EV vs Gas ⛽️ Engines

I expect MAJOR suppression on this post.. pic.twitter.com/NR3AAX7Avp

— JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 (@JayGenXer) December 7, 2025

Hat tip to Small Dead Animals: We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Sleeper

Continuing my jazz series, only because one thing leads to another...

This is "Sleeper" by Snarky Puppy from the live-in-studio album We Like It Here, which was recorded in 2014.

Tuesday Links - 9 December

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Climate Cult Super Excited To Force Internet Platforms To Catch “Misinformation”

Funny, they call us Authoritarians and Fascism, but, they’re the ones doing all they can to shut down opposing Free Speech

Florian Sohnke at Chicago Contrarian - Chicago One Year Under Eileen O’Neill Burke

Five ways the new State’s Attorney has righted the Cook County prosecutor’s office

Eric Salzman at Racket News - Time to Pump the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence Finance?

Big Tech needs trillions to fund their AI dream, much of it from insurance companies and pension funds. What could possibly go wrong?

Alice Jones Webb at Take It Outside - Thou Shalt Not Slam the Truck Door: Ten commandments for deer hunters

In the beginning, there was deer season. And thus was created the deer hunter, who walked in peace among the pines. And lo, the woods delivered these commandments to the buddies at deer camp so that the hunt might be fruitful and the truck door remain un-slammed.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 5 December 2025: Please Not Edition

A critical flaw in React and Next.js lets hackers execute code on your servers if you're a fucking idiot. (Bleeping Computer)

The problem with making JavaScript run on servers is that then JavaScript programmers will run code on servers.

The result is exactly what everyone predicted.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Another Winning Week

It was a good week to be a Senators fan.

Larry Correia at Monster Hunter Nation - New Shooting Drill

I’m working on a new shooting drill. It’s called the Internet Bad Ass.

Again from Larry Correia - Good Firearm Instruction

You may have noticed over the last week I’ve gotten into a bunch of gun related arguments with a horde of ridiculous Dunning-Krugerands with self-esteem issues.

Divemedic at Area Ocho - Smoke and Mirrors

The left loves to claim that Clinton ran a budget surplus when he was President. That is false. The national debt actually went up every single year that he was President. The reason that they can claim this, is the money was moved from one account to the other.

Again from William Teach at Pirate's Cove - “Experts Say” Bristol, UK Soon Doom From Frightening Sea Rise

Having actual data on how much the sea is rising would be rather important, would it not, to understand any potential doom? The average height of Bristol above sea level is 36 feet, though, you can see from the topographic map where it is low lying with connections to the Bristol Channel, but, really, not much danger at all.

And last but not least, Second City Cop looks at the cost of food and fuel in and around Chicago. Don't Look Now....

We've been doing a bit of driving lately:

• gas prices in suburban Costco were $2.92 the other day
• in Indiana, under $2.75 a gallon
• in Wisconsin, $2.54 

He Had a Problem With His Neighbor

So he broke into his neighbor's home and attacked him. It didn't work out too well. One dead, one hospitalized after self-defense shooting in Greeley

Upon arrival, deputies found the reporting party, the victim of the break in, who said he had been in “a long-standing feud” with his neighbor, according to the post. During the incident, the man told police, the neighbor had kicked his door in and come into the home with an object in his hand.

During a struggle, the victim shot his attacker. That attacker was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

The victim was also taken to the hospital and remains in critical condition.

While the investigation is just beginning, it doesn't seem that this is anything but self-defense based on what they describe in the article.

Weld County, Colorado is just north of Denver, with the county line being about 15 miles are so north of downtown Denver.

Self-defense is a human right, but I'm not sure how it is viewed in Colorado. (Hat tip to Keep and Bear Arms.)

Because The Feds Don't Count Gas Prices in Inflation...

This won't be reflected in the official numbers. They don't count food or fuel. These are two of the things I buy every week. The other being electricity. (I'm actually not sure if they count that either.) And of course they changed the algorithm back in the 1980s or '90s so they didn't look so bad.

Power the Future. Gas Prices Fall Below $3 for the First Time in Years

For the first time in over four years, the national average for gasoline has fallen below $3 a gallon. According to AAA, prices now stand at $2.998, a milestone that will impact millions. It’s no coincidence that this positive news comes just as the United States has set a new record for oil production, surpassing 13.8 million barrels per day in September.

Considering that California has stupidly high gas prices, due to some insane policies, this is a bit amazing. (While the price peaked for the Thanksgiving holiday, the price in my area has mostly been below $3.00 this year.

You can check the current average price at AAA Fuel Prices. I took a screenshot of the price on 7 December. The interesting bit is the maximum price from 2022. Over $5 per gallon. (See below)

Hat tip to Hot Air

Ride Public Transit They Said

Maybe if they can make it safe. Man on pretrial release tried to kill CTA passenger by pushing him onto the tracks: prosecutors - CWB Chicago

Tommie O. Carter, 39, has been ignoring a judge’s orders to check in with court officers since being charged in October with trespassing at a Loop building and spitting toward a Chicago police officer who took him into custody, according to court records.

He is now charged with attempted first-degree murder for a violent attack on Monday morning at the Harlem Blue Line station in Forest Park.

He pestered the 59-year-old victim for money. When the guy said he didn't have any cash, this guy knocked him down, and eventually pushed him onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train.

Carter closed the distance between them, pointed in the man’s face, and backed him down the ramp, the filing said. Carter then pushed the victim to the ground, but he was able to get up and move toward the platform. Carter followed him, struck him in the head, and then shoved him in the back with enough force to knock him off the platform and onto the Blue Line tracks, coming dangerously close to the electrified third rail, according to the detention document.

He suffered multiple fractures to one knee, and one fracture to the other.

CTA workers and a bystander went to his aid, and another CTA employee was able to cut power to the 3rd rail.

There have been at least 2 fatalities in 2025 from people coming into contact with the 3rd rail of the Chicago Transit Authority system.

It is no surprise that this guy is a frequent flyer with the Criminal Justice system in Chicago. Click thru for the details, and there are a lot of arrests.

And now attempted murder, and it is only by chance that the victim didn't fall on the 3rd rail.

Take public transit? I have not ridden on an El train in decades, and I have no plan to start now.

I miss living is a civilized society.

The Blog Was Locked and Unlocked Today

Blogger locked my Blog, and denied me all access to my content, apparently in response to a complaint.

I assume this was someone who objects to my politics. The Left in general, and Gay/Lesbian community in particular feels it is their duty to destroy anything (and anyone) who steps outside the bounds they declare as appropriate. A lesbian who supports the Second Amendment must be silenced.

And so I was silenced for about 4 and a half hours today.

I have been putting off doing the self-hosting thing, mostly because I'm cheap, and this is supposed to be a hobby. I suppose I will have to decide on a way going forward, and not rely on Blogger or WordPress or whoever. Wherever I go, the same libtards are going to complain, even if they have to lie to come up with a complaint.

IF this blog really does get nuked in the future, I will try to have some folks publish where it ends up, and I will probably also put something up at the Archives. (See the link in the sidebar.)

The infuriating thing, is the Blogger/Blogspot/Google/Alphabet's process seems to revolve around "guilty, until we decide to investigate the charges." That is not a procedure. That is believing all the name-calling

UPDATE: If anyone has some suggestions, or "don't use this service" stories, please add them to the comments.

If You Break Into Homes ...

You will eventually find an armed homeowner. East Avenue J shooting: Two hospitalized after attempted home invasion | FOX 26 Houston

According to Lt. Horelica, the homeowner was inside when two men allegedly tried to get inside the residence. At some point, a gunfight broke out between a suspect and the homeowner.

This serves as a reminder that being armed in your own defense is not a magic shield. Bad things can still happen.

The homeowner was shot at least once, but managed to make his way to Houston Fire Department station 23 nearby where he was found by police.

One of the would-be, bad guys took off in their vehicle, leaving his injured buddy behind. I guess, "No honor among thieves" is still true. Cops caught up with the injured guy while he was knocking on a neighbors door, seeking help.

Police showed up and noticed he was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken into custody, officials report.

Both the injured bad guy, and the homeowner are in stable condition.

Self-defense is a human right, and this too place in Texas.