DAs HATE Self-Defense

Also, self-defense is legal in Michigan. Romulus murder case dismissed after judge rules killing was in self-defense

Judge Brian Oakley with Romulus's 34th District Court dismissed the murder charge and the charge of using a firearm during the commission a felony Sept. 4 after hearing some of the evidence in the case during the preliminary examination and determining Peterson shot Carey in self-defense, said Burton-Harris [attorney for the guy charged] and Assistant Prosecutor Maria Miller.

The dead guy was the ex-boyfriend of the shooter's mother. There was a long history of domestic violence. The two had been in an argument, which escalated. Cops showed up to the scene of a shooting and arrested the guy still alive. The District Attorney then brought charges, because that is what they do. Or what they are supposed to do. But lately it seems they don't go after the real bad guys, but the legal gun owners.

Romulus, Michigan is in Wayne County, about 14 miles southwest of downtown Detroit. Romulus is home to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.

"My client, like anybody, is happy to not have the most serious charges hanging over his head, but he is not happy about the situation," Burton-Harris said. "He's certainly not happy about having to do what he had to do. He understands and acknowledges someone lost their life. It's a very unfortunate situation."

Prosecutors are still deciding whether or not to appeal this decision, because they hate self-defense.

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

Democrat Threatens SCOTUS Justices

From Hannah Nightingale at the The Post Millennial: Democrat donor from Alaska charged with threatening to assassinate 6 Supreme Court justices

Another supporter of ActBlue.

Panos Anastasiou, 76, has been accused of sending over 465 messages through an online portal to the Supreme Court between March 10, 2023 and July 16, 2024. Beginning on January 4, 2024, Anastasiou "began sending messages intended to threaten harm and convey threats of harm towards Supreme Court Justices 1- 6 and Family Members 1 and 2," a court filing stated. He had also donated to Democrat fundraising platform, ActBlue, dozens of times, totaling over $700.

But remember what "your betters" in the press say - Republicans are the real threat.

In a press release, Attorney General Merrick Garland said, "We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder and torture Supreme Court Justices and their families to retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with. Our justice system depends on the ability of judges to make their decisions based on the law, and not on fear.

Of course he really wants decisions based on politics, but he can't say that out loud.

Click thru. Hat tip to Andy Ngo.

Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 21 September

Wombat-socho starts us off with In The Mailbox: 09.18.24 (Morning Edition)

Don Surber: Musk 1, Eurocrat 0
Glenn Reynolds: Juries, Prosecutors, & The Rule Of Law

Animal Magnetism - Animal’s Hump Day News

Harris won’t stop dodging questions. She can’t. Every answer reveals her incompetence.
This is a hell of a good idea.

EBL - An Important Message From Democrat Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom approves this message and endorses Kamala Harris!
Instapundit: An important message from Gavin Newsom:

The Right Way - Top of the News

What Alleged Trump Shooter Advocated In Rambling Manifesto - Bongino Report
Climanut St. Greta, Named Jew Hater Of The Week - The Pirates Cove

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 19 September 2024: Dorayaki Derangement Edition

Twitter is using Cloudflare to provide service in Brazil. (The Guardian)
Cloudflare handles something like a quarter of the web traffic in the world, so blocking Cloudflare would cause complete chaos for Brazil's internet users.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.19.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Vox Popoli: Douhet Wept, The Extreme Elderly Don’t Exist, Pager Terror Attacks, Shots Fired, and Loomer or Lunatic?
Ammo.com: Gun Laws v. Crime Rates

Tam at View From The Porch - Tab Clearing...

Chris Arnade walks the Faroe Islands.
The Throwing Madonna.

DaleyGator at If You are Left you ain't Right - WEEKEND LINKY LOVE

Irons in the Fire talks Kamalas hatred of your rights
Ceder Q reminds what NOT to put in grits

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Border Chief Told To Shut Up about Special Interest Aliens

Mary Chastain at LI, Ex-Border Chief: Biden Admin Told Him to Cover Up Terror Encounters, Arrests. “The administration was trying to convince the public that there was no threat at the border.”

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 9.20.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Director Blue: A Few Thoughts On Operation Grim Beeper
EBL: An Important Message From Democrat Gavin Newsom, also, “So, I grew up in a middle class family…”

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For September 20, 2024

“Oregon DMV admits that they’ve registered hundreds of illegal immigrants to vote since 2021.”
“PA Supreme Court rules that misdated ballots must not be counted.”

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – The Nation Edition!

American Hell-egy – “Trump’s VP pick, J.D. Vance, is the perfect soulless vessel for the future of the MAGA-fied Republican Party.”
yes, the horrible future for the Bushes, McCains, Cheneys, Romneys…

Vlad Tepes - RFK with Charlie Kirk, heart attack deaths 2X as likely in the jabbed, Robert Spencer on the Nazis and the left, and Israel related materials: Links 2 for September 19, 2024

5. Alex Berenson: Risk to people of death from heart attack, dramatically higher if jabbed with Covid mRNA

Small Dead Animals - Thursday On Turtle Island

Comrade Kamala’s America: Harris in 2018. A new Trump song. What did John Brennan know?
Blackie’s Canada: Justin’s Islamophobia Czar. Climate Justin will burn jet fuel to the UN. The residential school censors.

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Juliette Sellgren talks with AEI president Robert Doar about think tanks and scholarship.
Steven Hayward argues that “the originalist revolution will never be complete until we fully appreciate the natural law roots of the common law.”

And again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.20.24 (Evening Edition)

Shot In The Dark: School’s Out, Self-Fulfilling, The Minnesota Prototype, Jackboots Of Joy, and Berg’s 20th Law Goes 33 For 33
STUMP: Cuomo, COVID, & The Nursing Homes Part II

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

How did Robin DiAngelo get away with it for so long?
The Assassination Wish Fulfillment.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 9/19/24

Heather Mac Donald: The New York Times finds victim-blaming repellent—except when the victim is the former president.
Trump Made Them Do It

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Deep State Democrats and the Continuing Attempts to Kill President Trump

• What a Never Trumper believes - Don Surber • It’s Not Just Haitians In Springfield. Mass Immigration Is Destroying The American Nation - Federalist

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 09/20/2024

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily that there are currently five known assassination teams in the United States here to kill Donald Trump, three of which are foreign.

I leave you with Your mid-week memes from Wirecutter, Got the cat memes off the internet....... from Theo Spark, and Thursday Memes … from MaddMedic.

15 Minutes Is a Long Time to Wait If Bad Things Are Happening

New York City and 911 statistics. Data shows NYC's 911 response time is increasing, as are traffic fatalities - CBS New York

CBS New York is doing some stuff right,

A concerning factor is a significant increase in the end-to-end average response time to crime-in-progress 911 calls. In 2020, the average response time was 10 minutes, 56 seconds. In 2024, it was 15:23.

That is a 40.7% increase in the response time to a crime-in-progress. Now a lot of bad things can happen in 10 minutes, but even more can happen in 15 minutes.

CBS New York seems to be interested in only presenting the statistics as a mystery. There is not context. Were there more police in 2020, or fewer calls? Has something impacted traffic, making it harder for cops to get to the scene of a crime? These are mysteries that do not interest CBS New York.

These statistics come from the Mayor's Management Report, released by Eric Adams' administration in September. It is 558 pages of bureaucratic boilerplate, doublespeak, deflection, and, yes, some statistics for the past 5 years. I have not read it. You can find a link at the article linked at the top of this post.

I would imagine that the report contains some statement on how Mayor Adams' administration is planning to address the issues, which include shootings, gang-related activity, etc. Or maybe not. One would think that the reporter/editor of the article would have included some of that. Something along the lines of, "We are going to hire more police to address the 911 response time." Or maybe Democrats think that is the price you pay for defunding the police. Why do you want to call 911 anyway?

Calling 911 is a fine thing to do in an emergency. They can send a lot of help your way, but that help will not arrive immediately. You might want to think about what you are going to do in the meantime.

Europeans Don't Like Free Speech

From Don Surber we get the following: Musk 1, Eurocrat 0

When you mess with the bull, ...

The opening salvo from the EU was in July.

On July 12, AP reported, “The European Union said Friday that blue checkmarks from Elon Musk’s X are deceptive and that the online platform falls short on transparency and accountability requirements, the first charges against a tech company since the bloc’s new social media regulations took effect.”

EU was upset that Twitter now charges people with a blue check $8 a month — $7 by yearly subscription.

Musk responded by telling the world how the EU tried to coerce him into censoring people that the EU didn't like.

Then Thierry Breton, the one-time Commissioner for Internal Market of the EU, sent a threatening letter to Musk about silencing "hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation." Who gets to decide what is disinformation? Why Thierry Breton of course.

After that Congress sent a letter to the EU wanting to understand how they are threatening Americans' right to Free Speech, and an American company.

And finally, the EU, recognizing a losing battle, canned Thierry Breton.

On Monday, Breton resigned — although the letter he ironically posted on Twitter indicates European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen forced him out.

There is more, including an indictment of "newspapers that have moved away from reporting news and using paper." Click thru.

Will-O'-The-Wisp

The Omnific is a trio from Australia. Two bass players, Matt Fack and Toby Peterson-Stewart, and Jerome Lematua playing the drums. Some people object to a band with 2 basses; I like it. It might have a bit too much energy for first thing in the morning however. Give the caffeine a chance to do its thing for a few minutes, and then hit play.

I found these guys via Spotify last year. I'm guessing they were included in a playlist, probably one of the "Top 40" - or whatever playlists - though that is only a guess.

This is "Will-O'-The-Wisp" by The Omnific from the 2024 album The Law of Augmenting Returns. I find this video completely annoying. I usually do, but this one has been turned up to 11. Listen to the song, but browse a different tab.

Spotify has a series of playlists. "Rock This," "Kickass Metal" (if memory serves), and a couple of others that list the top songs by genre in terms of streams. They do a fair job of cutting through the Pop Music schlock, though some of it is still awful. Still it is a good way to find new music.

Friday Links - 20 September

Professor Yamane at Gun Culture 2.0 is first with Student Gun Range Field Trip Reflection Essays for Fall 2024 Forthcoming

Later this week, I will begin posting some of the field trip reflection essays my Sociology of Guns students were required to submit following our visit to Veterans Range at the start of this semester.

The field trip is historically a highlight of the course for students and the reflection essays are among the most popular items I post to my blogs every year.

Jack Hadfield at The Publica - UK: Judge Orders Victim Of Pakistani Grooming Gang To Delete Her Request To Have Her Rapists Deported

GB News discovered that the speech was heavily censored by the judge, with multiple sections erased due to restrictions they imposed. “I’d like to request that after sentencing and upon Rudy and Showabe’s release, that they should be deported back to Pakistan as this is where they originated from and came here to exploit children,” the original uncensored conclusion of the statement read.

Raw Egg Nationalist at The American Mind - Disrupting the Right

Like the Business Insider doxx that almost was, Hope Not Hate’s eggsposé is an obvious parallel construction. A parallel construction, if you don’t know, is what law enforcement and journalists do when they want to hide their sources. Let’s say you’re a journalist and you obtained a crucial piece of evidence by illegal means. Perhaps you contacted a farm-shop owner and got them to break data-protection laws and reveal customer data (even trying to solicit this is a crime, I might add). So what do you do? You make up a plausible story to explain how you got that evidence legally. An anonymous tip off, a social-media post of a distinctive-looking cat you were able to trace—anything.

The Daily Signal - ABC News Correspondent Says Harris Failed to Provide ‘Specific’ Answers ‘Multiple Times’ During Interview

ABC News’ senior White House correspondent Selina Wang on Tuesday said Vice President Kamala Harris often did not offer detailed responses during her National Association of Black Journalists interview.

The Other McCain - A Message From the Mossad

Apparently, Mossad agents penetrated the supply chain by which Hezbollah was obtaining its electronic communications devices, but there’s a lot of finger-point between the Taiwanese manufacturer and the Hungarian middleman about how this could have happened. At any rate, the Mossad reportedly inserted pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), “a highly explosive material,” inside the batteries of the devices, which “were then detonated by an external signal that caused the batteries inside to overheat.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 19 September 2024: Dorayaki Derangement Edition

Congress is also working on legislation that would require AM radios in all new cars made in the US. (The Verge)

As standard equipment, with no bullshit.

Car makers are upset because this could add as much as a dollar to the cost of building a car.

It's not for music or talk radio, but to provide a standard method for emergency broadcasts.

SiGraybeard - About Those FAA Fines on SpaceX

There have been headlines in the news aggregators for the last couple of days that FAA has announced big fines against SpaceX for alleged safety violations. The number being quoted is $633,000. Today, the story was changed to SpaceX saying they'll sue the FAA for regulatory overreach.

Again from The Other McCain - The Only Trick in Their Bag

Look, I get it: Biden put Democrats in a bad spot. He could have — and should have — announced in early 2023 that he would not seek a second term, thereby making it possible for Democrats to have a primary to choose their 2024 presidential candidate. Unfortunately for Democrats, while senile dementia diminishes many cognitive functions, it does not diminish egotism.

The Feral Irishman - Explosive Device Found. Explosive Device Not Found. Now, Incident Renamed As A "Suspicious Occurrence".

It looks like the ministry of propaganda is "deep sixing" this story too.

Moonbattery - Californians Push Back Against Democrats on Crime

Prop 36 would undo some of the damage inflicted when California moonbats effectively legalized shoplifting by making any theft under $950 a misdemeanor.

Meep at Stump - Drug OD Deaths Down... It's Okay News, I Guess

10.6% is not a “plummet”.

This is a sad attempt at selling an okay decrease after a horrific climb as some fantastic breakthrough.

Self-Defense Shooting in New Mexico Leads to Second Body

I doubt we will ever know the entire story. Hobbs Police find dead mother during break-in investigation

He broke into his neighbors' home. The neighbors barricaded themselves in the bedroom. Eventually one shot was fired through the bedroom door. Cops showed up and he was taken to a local hospital, but he passed away.

Officers were advised of Thames’s mother, Kristie Thames, who lives with him in a neighboring home. HPD attempted to contact Mrs. Thames but were unsuccessful. To ensure welfare, officers forcefully entered the home to find Mrs. Thames dead in a bedroom.

I'm getting a Norman Bates vibe to the whole thing, but maybe I watch too many old movies.

Hobbs, New Mexico is about 90 miles southwest of Lubbock, Texas, and about 250 miles southeast of Albuquerque.

Cops are still investigating, but no one has been arrested.

Self-defense is a human-right, and it appears to be a legal right in New Mexico.

A Digital Fahrenheit 451

The powers-that-be are editing books to remove things they don't want you to think about. Does it seem familiar to you? - by Miguel Gonzalez

Frederick Forsyth wrote a number of Cold War spy novels. Several have been made into movies, include The Odessa File, The Day of the Jackal, and The Fourth Protocol. This is about that last book.

In that book there is a letter, from a Soviet Spy in Britain to Russia.

Extracted from The Fourth Protocol by British writer Frederick Forsyth. It is a fictious letter from Soviet spy Kim Philby to the Chairman of the USSR about turning Great Britain fully to Communism. The piece is full of very insightful and scary information that I can’t help but see reflected in our country.

Click thru for an image of that part of the book.

The rest of the letter is illuminating, especially the part how the Soviets infiltrated the British Labour Party ever so slowly and effectively it became a proper tool of the USSR. I would urge you to read it, but make sure you find a first edition of the book (1984-85), or you will run the risk of getting an edited version with that letter removed for reasons unknown, even to Forsyth himself who only found about this year.

That letter talks about how democracy can be overturned by zealots working for years to destroy a country. And yes, it does sound familiar.

People have not read Bradburry's Fahrenheit 451. That is because it exposes too much. Captain Beatty, in that book, talks about how it didn't start with book burning; it started by removing passages that were offensive to various groups. Eventually the entire books were deleted, because if you were made to think by a book, how could you be happy. (And so you were offended, or something.)

The bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico.

Is this passage offensive to someone? Edit it out of the book. Do not think different thoughts, all the same thought.

This is what Bradbury himself had to say:

Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by the minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the library closed forever.

And then there is equality.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. [Fire-Captain Beatty, in Fahrenheit 451]

In other words, we must all be crushed down to the lowest common denominator.

You really should read that book. (And the title was stolen from a recent comment... )

3D Printed Version of Professor Parabellum's Submachine Gun

I love Professor Parabellum, and Impro Guns. 3D Printed Submachine Gun (Brazil)

A modified version of the Hybrid Printed Round Tube SMG (Professor Parabellum) seized by police in the Brazilian state of Santa Caterina. The upper receiver however appears to have also been printed rather than made from steel tubing.

Click thru for the image of the firearm. It seems to be fairly high-quality example.

When Only Police Have Guns, Only Police Will Shoot Judges

Or something. Report: 1 dead, Letcher County sheriff arrested following courthouse shooting

Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines has been arrested in connection to a shooting at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, according to a local report.

The Mountain Eagle, a local newspaper in Whitesburg, reported Stines allegedly shot District Judge Kevin Mullins in his office Thursday afternoon before surrendering himself.

There are a lot of politicians racing to get in front of microphones, but no information really.

So what gun control law would have prevented this killing?

Red of Tooth and Claw

Nature is not like it was depicted in the Disney movies of the 1970s. Wild animals are not cute and cuddly. We have a few stories that should remind us of that, but probably won't.

The first story is from Daily Mail Online. Children are left bloodied and scarred by swooping seagulls as 'hundreds' report being attacked in towns and cities across Scotland

The seagulls are moving inland in search of food, and coming into conflict with people, who probably don't know better than to leave them alone, and/or not feed them.

They include horrifying accounts of children left bloodied by the birds swooping on people and household pets and, while coastal communities are severely affected, complaints also include scores of revolting tales of the gulls feasting on rats in Scotland’s biggest city.

The hat tip for that story goes to American Thinker: Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ playing out for real in Scotland. He also reminded me of the phrase that forms the title to this post.

Bats have been described as “rats with wings,” but so are seagulls.

The 2nd story is out of Washington State. From KREM - Otter attacks child, drags them underwater at Bremerton Marina

According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), a woman and her young child were walking on a dock around 9:30 a.m. when the river otter pulled the child into the water. The woman said the child was underwater for a few moments before resurfacing.

WDFW officials say the otter kept attacking the woman while she pulled the child out of the water.

I wish I could give a hat tip, but I can't figure out how I tripped over that story.

And there is a list of even more stories in that American Thinker article linked above.

Disney-esque fantasies about the larger predators—e.g., coyotes, bears, lions, boars, wolves, etc. In communities that have started protecting these animals or stop pushing back against them, people are no longer safe:

• Coyote attacks toddler in Woodland Hills in broad daylight: attack captured on video (I know the neighborhood where this happened, and the coyotes are omnipresent and scary).
• Wild Boars Are Causing Havoc In Germany, But Humans Are Making It Worse (I love this COVID-era headline about it being people’s fault)
• Japan wants to make it easier to shoot bears as attacks rise
• Mountain lion attacks, kills pit bull in Sylmar neighborhood

We are having to relearn the same lessons our ancestors always knew: Wild animals and people cannot share the same spaces. It’s a zero-sum game.

As for "Red of Tooth and Claw," it is a quote from "In Memoriam A.H.H." by Alfred Lord Tennyson:

Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law—
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed—

Reporting a Rape in the UK Is a Crime

You racist you. You reported a minority man for raping you. [In your best Gretta T. voice...] How dare you! British Woman Arrested After Reporting Sexual Assault To Police - The Publica

In that place where Great Britain used to be...

To say that policing in the UK is f*cked up is an understatement of massive proportions.

This all took place in London.

In a troubling case that has raised serious questions about police handling of sexual assault reports, a woman from Warrington, Cheshire, has revealed how her attempt to report a sexual attack led to her own arrest while the perpetrator remained free to assault others for nearly two years.

Helen Ingham, 48, recently waived her right to anonymity in order to share her harrowing experience with law enforcement after reporting an assault by Ahmed Fahmy, 45, a hotel manager whose reign of terror against women spanned more than 15 years.

Why was he let off? For all the reasons that have plagued the UK for a generation or more. The cops don't want to be called racist.

The consequences of this mishandling were severe. Fahmy, left unchecked, continued his predatory behaviour.

And it wasn’t until January of 2024, nearly two years later, that he was finally brought to justice following reports of rape and sexual assault from two more women at another hotel.

The subsequent investigation revealed a pattern of behavior dating back to 2008.

Women in the UK cannot defend themselves. It isn't just guns that are illegal; self-defense of any kind is not allowed. And it appears that they can't report crimes to the police either.

The Process is the Punishment - Free Speech Silenced in the UK

In that place where Great Britain used to be, Free Speech is nearly gone.

Bernie Spofforth copied/pasted a tweet on X. When she learned it was in error, she deleted it. That didn't matter. She was arrested, jailed, and banned (by bail conditions) from using all social media. The "Professional Journalists" and activists (but I repeat myself) were mostly behind the campaign to have her silenced.

Journalists and the media organizations gained clicks and had a lot of stuff to say. People who disagreed with the government were silenced, because she was an example of exactly what will happen if you question the policies of the government.

In the end, no continued legal action was taken, because Free Speech isn't quite dead in the UK. Not quite.

This is the Mahyar Tousi TV video Woman Arrested By Starmer During 'UK Riots' Speaks Out.

They say they support Free Speech, but they mean only the speech they agree with. They say they support dialogue, but only the dialogue that agrees with their worldview, and they say they want equality, but they don't mean for people who think differently to them.

The video is only about 7 minutes; I believe it is worth your time.

Nobody Really Wanted This F-ing Thing in the First Place

In case you missed it, a new MCU TV show was released yesterday, Agatha All Along. I haven't seen it, because Disney+ is not in my budget. Neither is setting piles of cash on fire, or flushing them down the toilet, which would be a better use of cash than spending it on anything Disney, let alone Disney+.

Then there are the "purple carpet" clips on YT and X. Agatha All Along is apparently the gayest MCU production ever. OK then. Which is why The Critical Drinker asks "Who was this even made for?"

The consensus seems to be, as Drinker states, that it was made for suburban wine moms, with a passing interest in the MCU. (Talk about a niche audience!) Maybe with a side-order of the mythical modern audience. For an MCY show, there are no superheroes, it is vaguely a spinoff of a spinoff, and it is about a character that literally no one, except for people deep in the nerd culture, ever heard of before the failed TV show, Wanda Vision. It would make more sense to make a show about Amanda Waller minus Task Force X (The Suicide Squad) than to make this movie. (And that would make no sense at all.)

In other words, it is more Disney/Marvel drek. Whether it descends to the level of schlock remains to be seen.

Since we are stuck with others' opinions it is good they are entertaining.

This is Critical Drinker's video Agatha All Along - Who Was This Even Made For?

The title to this post is basically a quote from Drinker and this video.

The Critical Drinker is not the only one to have this take. Here are three:

• Derek Anderson - The D.A. - INCOMING TRAIN WRECK! MCU’s Agatha All Along Looks Like Another WOKE DUMPSTER FIRE For Marvel!
• Snarky Jay - AGATHA ALL ALONG is a "GAY EXPLOSION!?" | Disney's NEW STRATEGY!
• Valliant Renegade - "Gayest Marvel EVER" - Agatha All Along IS The Acolyte Season 2

Valliant Renegade's video seems to have been deep sixed by the YT algorithm, so I hope you will watch it. It is only 11 minutes.

Alan Ng of Film Threat also reviewed the first 2 episodes, but it is part of a 2 hour podcast. If they publish a short excerpt, I will update this post. In the meantime, here is what he said on X.

Unlike the Acolyte, there is no lore breaking because it's based on no lore. There are gay characters, but being gay is irrelevant and exists solely for virtue signaling. It's not woke garbage...it's just garbage.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 18 September

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

1. Greenie Watch: Frustrated wannabe authoritarians
2. Green Jihad: Hollywood Bowl Canceled Due To California Power Grid Strain

EBL - ANOTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT on TRUMP

Democrat Suspect in custody. President Trump ok. Florida should investigate too.
Instapundit: Is anyone surprised by this?

Political Hat - News of the Week (September 15th, 2024)

Why 30% of Gen Z sympathize with Osama bin Laden
The American education system produces undereducated, radicalized individuals who are indoctrinated with anti-Americanism

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.16.24

The Political Hat: No Hope In Venezuela
This Ain’t Hell: Vindman brother accused of embellishing his military service

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 16 September 2024: Well Fuck Edition

DryMerge is an AI powered application connector, like IFTTT (If This Then That) or Xapier, only you talk to it. (Tech Crunch)
Which could be a great idea if it works, but right now it mostly doesn't.

Vlad Tepes - 3rd attempt but who’s counting, Lindsay vid on the American Maoism, sentencing on Coutts convicted compared to ANTIFA who ran over people and more: Links 1 for September 16, 2024

4. In this TwitterX thread, Montreal’s Natasha has a thorough look at the sentencing of the two men from Coutts Alberta, in comparison with an ANTIFA previously convicted Criminal who ran over three Freedom Convoy supporters in his car.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Assassination Attempts, Round Two

YOU OWN THIS: Kamala Harris Gets WRECKED Following Second Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump. End Wokeness@EndWokeness, "You called him a threat to democracy and a day 1 dictator. You own this."

Small Dead Animals - Monday On Turtle Island

Blackie’s Canada: A diversity is our strength video. Challenge to a Muslim association.
Today In Islam: Moderate Muslims in Brooklyn. Policing in Pakistan. Greta the terrorist.

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 6: Gerrard Kaonga reported, “Tourist who dropped Cheetos in largest US cave could trigger ‘world-changing’ chaos, parks service warns.”
But the guardrails and trail the parks service installed in the cave are perfectly harmless.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkage

The Air Vent - Chicken Brains
Watts Up With That? - More Horror Pictures Emerge Showing Locations of Met Office “Extreme” Record Temperatures

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Jack Nicastro reports on the continued progress of California’s ‘progressive’ revolution.
GMU Econ alum Dominic Pino reports on the continued progress of Cuba’s socialist revolution.

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 9/16/24

Daniel Greenfield: Two assassination attempts on Trump in three months.
Kamala Supporter Attempted to Assassinate Trump

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany
Kamala Harris Completely Bombs Her First Solo Interview

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The data show voters are not better off under Harris

• Trump: I Will Empty Springfield of Migrants - Jazz Shaw
• Harris Won’t Answer Why Campaign Chief Brian Fallon Keeps Her Hidden From Interviews - CTH

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 09/17/2024

Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior.’ A CIA asset, reveling in the fact some day he may not have to fear the conspiracy losing its position.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 09-15-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Here meme, meme, meme from Miguel Gonzalez, MONDAY MEMES from Granite Grok, and Let me know if your Monday sucks as bad as these from Wirecutter.

Med School Researchers - Gun Control Has No Impact on Homicide Rate

They still want more gun control, of course. From Firearms News - Med School Researchers Conclude Gun Control Has No Impact on

We get a study from Duke University published in July of 2024.

Gun control laws have no impact on homicide rates. Those in the gun rights community have always known that. Now, a recent study led by researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine has substantiated it. The study looked at suicide and homicide rates involving children under the age of 18 for the period of 2009 through 2020. Using mortality data from the CDC and a database of state-level firearms laws maintained by the Rand Corporation, they examined the impact of 36 different gun control laws.

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Hat tip to Jews Can Shoot.

Despite this conclusion, the lead author of this study is calling for more gun laws. Such is the thinking of the anti-gunners.

Travesty of Justice in the UK

Other people have been sentenced to jail for saying mean things on F*c*book, meanwhile this guy gets off. Huw Edwards given 6-month suspended jail sentence for indecent child images: Veteran BBC presenter avoids prison but is ordered to complete sex offender treatment programme

When there are 2 kinds of justice, you can be sure you live in a police state. Are you friends with the BBC? Are you friends with people in government? Do you have the correct political views? No prison for you!

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Handing down the sentence at Westminster magistrates’ court on Monday, chief magistrate Paul Goldspring said Edwards’ “long-earned reputation is in tatters”.

Who cares about his reputation? He committed a crime. Or maybe not, it can be hard to tell what is and isn't a crime in the UK today.

Beautiful Imperfection

I'm not sure how I ran across Guthrie Govan's work. He has been a member of several bands, such as Porcupine Tree, that I am familiar with. It was only in the past couple of years, however, that I became aware of him as a solo artist. Today's track comes from JTC Guitar (Jam Track Central), which is a site devoted to learning guitar, and they sell some stuff that guitarist want or need.

This is "Beautiful Imperfection" which features Guthrie Govan on guitar. It is from the 2013 JTC Guitar album West Coast Grooves.