Perfect

The people who don't listen to country were happy that Beyonce did so well with a country album. The fancy people of the Grammys don't have much knowledge of the history of country music, and probably were thinking it was a good.

Let's listen to someone who actually does sing country.

The album that this song comes from debuted at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart, and it was the 4th time that Darius Rucker reached #1 with an album. And it is actually a good album.

This song is "Perfect" by Darius Rucker from his 2015 album Southern Style.

You might know Darius Rucker from his work with Hootie & the Blowfish.

I'm Shocked to Discover Corruption in Politics

No, I'm not really shocked. Politics is defined by corruption. (I'm originally from Illinois.) The Other McCain has a story about politics. BUSTED: ‘Anti-Poverty’ Democrat Activist Joe Sanberg Accused of Massive Fraud

Veteran blogger Lawrence Parson has a long post examining the (alleged) $145 million scam (allegedly) perpetrated by Joe Sanberg, who at one point was considered a “rising star” in the Democratic Party and even talked about as a potential presidential candidate. The extra use of “allegedly” in my lead is necessitated by the fact that, unlike most accused criminals I write about, Joe Sanberg has fat stacks of cash and many influential connections, so I wouldn’t want to risk a libel suit by stating as a fact that he is guilty — GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

There is a statement from the DOJ, and some info on his (alleged) partner-in-crime, now a .gov witness.

Also, isn’t America a great country? Where else can you find a Jew and an Arab cooperating in a scam to defraud Hollywood big shots of millions of dollars? (Allegedly, I hasten to add.)

Go read the whole thing.

As for Illinois. Four of the past 10 governors have gone to prison over ethics violations. Here is a more complete list. The Dishonor Roll: Meet the public officials who helped build Illinois’ culture of corruption

My favorite is Paul Powell.

There's only one thing worse than a defeated politician, and that's a broke one.

That link on Powell is to the Wiki, but it hits all the high points, including the fact that he had $800,000 in cash stashed in various places when he died in 1970. That doesn't include the $1 million worth of stock in Illinois racetracks that was determined to be the result of bribes.

Disney's Cost Cutting Ax Hits 538

The Other McCain asks Why Has the ‘Valuable Resource’ Known as 538 Been Summarily Discarded?

538, once known as FiveThirtyEight, specializes in a stastical approach to politics, which is mostly conducting and studying polling around policy and elections. It was moved around a bit, but eventually landed as part of ABC News. ABC is a division of Disney.

538 gave Hillary a 71.4% chance of winning in 2016, and in the 2024 election had Harris ahead by 6 points among likely voters.

Well, there’s a lot to work through here and I suppose the best place to begin is with ABC News claiming to offer “best-in-class polling,” to which my reply can be summarized briefly: LOL, are you kidding me?

After a bit of history of 538, and the people that started it, we get the meat of the matter. Neither 538, nor the founders of 538, though they are both still doing projections in their own ways, predicted a Trump win in 2024, even though he won the popular vote.

The fact that Trump not only won the Electoral College (as he had done in 2016) but also won the nationwide popular vote by a margin of 2.3 million votes — which he had not done in 2016 — means that predicting a Trump win in 2024 should have been easier than eight years earlier. Yet somehow these two statistical wizards managed to miss this one.

Click thru for the rest. There is quite a bit.

And Disney has woken up to the fact that it needs to stop hemorrhaging money. It axed the animation staff (or a lot of it anyway) that was responsible for the recent Moana 2 movie, even though it was one of their few successes of late.

Captain America 4 is currently in theaters. It will lose 100s of millions of dollars. Disney has recently put out there, and the access media^‡ has run with the "fact," that the budget for this movie was $185 million. It was reported last year, after the 2nd round of reshoots, that the expenditures had passed $300 million. They may have budgeted $185, but they didn't live within that budget. However, even if you believe the 185 million number, and you believe that they spent a bare minimum on marketing (pay no attention to the Superbowl Ad) the movie will still lose money. It is on track to fall short of $400 million at the box office globally, and studios only get about half of the gross box office. Yes, theaters do get paid for showing films.

Next up is Rachel Zegler's Snow White. The feud between Zegler and Gal Godot is so epic that Disney has canceled some (or all) of the promotional tour and interviews. (Zegler is a "promoter" of the "Palestinian Cause™" while Gadot is a veteran of the Israeli Army.) They canceled the UK Premiere, because they are "worried" about backlash, but it could be that they know the film will bomb, and they are just saving money. (The early projections are that it will bomb.)

That will be followed up by Thunderbolts. A movie no one asked for, featuring a bunch of characters that even comic book nerds don't know, or if we do know of them, we don't like. (A gender-swapped Taskmaster, Discount Black Widow, and Red Guardian, are not the characters we were looking for.)

Then later in the year, coming to Disney+ will be Ironheart, a series about a character added into Black Panther 2, that is guaranteed to be nothing but a Girl Boss trying to take over for Iron Man/Tony Stark.

Finally, there are rumors swirling around Hollywood that Disney is trying to sell Lucasfilm. The only problem is that no one is interested in buying. Kathleen "Put a chick in it and make her gay" Kennedy has destroyed whatever value Lucasfilm once had.

‡ The "Access Media" consists of that part of the entertainment, and gaming, media that requires access to maintain their place in the world. They need invites to early screenings of movies, they need early access to video games, etc. As a result, outlets like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are not in a hurry to question anything that the movie studios say. They will not be granted That access if they piss people off.

As I was editing this, going through the back of my mind is, "Disney isn't even the stupidest movie studio making superhero movies these days." That title has got to go to Warner Bros. They could screw up a free lunch, and it seems that is exactly what they are doing on several fronts.

Browser Recomendations Anyone?

So Firefox, my go-to browser for a very long time, has decided that they are not a browser company, but an advertising firm, dedicated to selling user info on the open market. Hand in hand with that, they have also gotten much slower.

Currently I am using LibreWolf, a browser based on Firefox that is more security and privacy focused. I'm not 100 percent convinced. I've tried Chromium (the basis of Chrome - still Google related) and Brave. Brave is interesting, but they keep trying to get me to sign up for their ad system.

There is an even more extreme version of the Firefox line of browsers, whose name escapes me at the moment, and a completely de-Googled version of Chromium yet to try. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Chrome phones home to Google. Opera phones home to Italy. The last time I had Vivaldi installed I was having some kind of problem, but I can't remember what it was at this distance. (Opera is another browser based on Chromium, and Vivaldi is a "privacy" version of Opera.) I don't believe Full Moon is supported anymore (basically a classic version of Firefox from years ago), but I haven't looked into it.

Friday Links - 7 March

Professor Yamane at Light Over Heat has some thoughts on his gun-related research: "Gun Culture 2.0" as a Two-Edged Sword

A simplistic reading obscures the reality that American gun culture has always been and continues to be internally diverse. Self-defense has always been a part of American gun culture, and guns remain practical tools, sporting goods, or recreational equipment for many.

The Other McCain - Oscar Winner Decides to ‘Recognize and Honor the Sex Worker Community’

Because I haven’t watched the annual Oscar ceremony in years — and I suspect few of my readers watch it, either — this bit of Hollywood news was somewhat confusing to me. Who is Mikey Madison and what did she do in the movie Anora to merit the Best Actress award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?

Meep at STUMP - Mortality Classics: Broken Heart Syndrome

Dolly Parton’s husband of 60 years, Carl Dean, has died:

3 Mar 2025, AP: Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years who inspired ‘Jolene,’ dies at 82

Again from The Other McCain - Tuesday Speech YUGE Win for Trump; Democrats Self-Destruct on Live TV

We’re only 43 days into Trump’s second term, and we don’t know what the future holds, but there can be no denying that he now has strong momentum, and the Democrats don’t know how to cope.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 5 March 2025: $81 Trillion Dollar Man Edition

Citigroup needed to credit $280 to a customer's account. They instead credited $81 trillion. (MSN)

That used to be a lot. [SNIP]

Two employees approved the transaction and it was deposited into the customer's account before it was noticed and reversed 90 minutes later.

Which raised the question: How?

Pirate's Cove - Climate Cult Now Wants Dedicated Global Climate Courts

Cool, a global court of unaccountable people who can force their doomsday cult beliefs on every country, company, and individual. At least other cults aren’t trying to force Everyone to practice what they believe in.

Flopping Aces - Puppet Parade: Democrats’ Scripted Collapse in the Spotlight

Meanwhile, Hewlett Packard and Pfizer are onshoring operations. A Taiwan semi-conductor company will spend $100 billion building a plant in the US. Trump has gotten at least a trillion dollars committed to investment it the US.

Professor Yamane again - Why Do I Own a Gun? Which One? I Own 12

These are very complex figures to decipher — which is the point, because so is gun ownership. The bottom line is that many diverse people own guns for many different reasons.

When Seconds Count, Police Are Hours Away

Or minutes away. Either way, they will not be there instantly. The 911 system certainly isn't working the way people expect it to in many places, including Salt Lake City. ‘Why aren’t you here?’: Reality of 911 responses don’t always meet expectations in Salt Lake City

A drunk driver, in a park hit at least one vehicle and was driving toward people. Response time 14 minutes.

A woman was attacked near her car, managed to escape and call 911. Response time 3 hours and 23 minutes.

There are explanations of how 911 works, how many calls per month, high-priority versus non-emergency calls. There is also a note that the PD is about down 5% from the number of officers they are authorized to have.

Statements from the powers that be. Plans to hire, and plans to use non-police officers for some calls. But it all comes down to a system struggling.

It should be noted that the 14 minute response time is better than average for police response to a 911 call in that city. A lot of bad things can happen in 14 minutes, even if you can call 911 before the bad things start happening.

While there are some statistics, on non-emergency calls that still require a police response, there are not many statistics on the call center. Do they have trouble with calls that shouldn't go to 911? Are they short of staff?

I read a lot of stories about 911 response times, and 911 call centers. The one overriding public response is that it doesn't work the way people think it does. Your call may not be answered immediately. The police will not be there immediately.

Even ambulance response is a problem today, because the pay doesn't make sense for EMTs in the light of job stress. The perennial problem is that government and insurance don't pay enough for covered ambulance rides, so there are never enough ambulances, and EMTs quit the job a lot - see the comment on pay + stress above. Then there is the fact that ambulances spend a lot of time waiting at hospitals. (They can't respond to your call, if the patient from the last call is still in the ambulance waiting for hospital staff.)

I don't know if the 911 system is broken or braking, but I think a large part of the problem is unrealistic expectations on the part of the public. Utah is a Constitutional Carry state, having joined that club in 2021. Before that they had (still have) a system of concealed carry permits for both residents of the state, and people traveling to that state. But the gun-hating part of the Left says, you don't need a gun, just call 911. They don't talk so much about the 14 minute wait for help.

Calling 911 is a fine thing to do, but you might want to check on how long, on average, you might expect to wait in your area for the Police/Fire/EMS to respond. And then you should remember that is the average response.

Boston Mayor: We're Sorry Knife -Wielding Attacker Was Stopped by Off-Duty Cop

And the head of the PD was in on that as well. Are we surprised that a couple of Democrats are sorry about stopping crime? Boston mayor, top cop criticized after offering condolences to family of armed man shot by officer

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox are under attack on social media for their response to the deadly officer-involved shooting in the heart of the city on Saturday.

Both Wu and Cox offered condolences to the family of a knife-wielding man who was shot dead by an off-duty officer after he allegedly tried to attack customers inside a Chick-fil-A on Boylston Street on Saturday night.

Yes, it is just shame that he was not able to complete his attack, but instead was shot and killed, thus saving lives, just not his own. Or maybe not.

The city leaders made the comments after the armed suspect, identified as 32-year-old Lemark Jaramillo, chased two people into the popular eatery around 5:30 p.m.

An off-duty officer who happened to be in the restaurant tried to de-escalate the situation, but the suspect allegedly refused to comply, prompting the officer to fatally shoot the man.

Tone deaf. Out of touch. Soft on crime. These are few phrases that come to mind.

Hat tip to Paul Chato at aPauling News and WOKE Boston Mayor apologizes to attacker. Migrants take over French theatre.

Your most trusted source for fake, real news.

Hollywood's Creative Bankruptcy Marches On

Hollywood, having no ability to create something new, is going to reboot some old TV shows. Do the kids today even know these shows?

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, and The Time Tunnel are going to be dusted off, and "updated with modern sensibilities." That doesn't sound good.

And be fair... these shows, with the possible exception of Voyage, were not that good. Dave Cullen describes Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as "Star Trek, under water." That may be fair, but it still doesn't mean that a "modern take" is needed, or will work.

This is The Dave Cullen Show video Hollywood’s Endless Cycle of Remakes

... a kind of cultural strip mining or scavenging of classic sci-fi shows.

I have long been convinced that Hollywood is not capable of doing anything new. This doesn't change that one bit. The video is 6 minutes long.

Consider the Oscars. I don't even know what all films were nominated but for Best Picture, but I have heard...

• Anora is like Showgirls sponsored by OnlyFans
• Dune, parts 1 and 2 suffer being genre; Hollywood HATES genre films. (Some Academy members couldn't be bothered to watch Dune, Part 2.)

Actually Anora sounds more like Pretty Woman with disapproving parents, but I haven't seen the movie.

What If You Called 911 and Waited for an Hour for Someone to Answer the Call?

Once they answer the call, then you have to wait for police to actually arrive. L.A. Influencer Calls 911 for Burglary, Waits Nearly an Hour for Response

The bureaucrats are saying, "Of course that's not true," but Lovett was on speakerphone and his neighbors stopped by see what was going on.

Lovett maintains that he has witnesses who can verify his version of events. Several neighbors, who arrived to assist him, were present while he made the call on speakerphone, he said. According to Lovett, an automated recording first informed him he was on hold, then advised of high call volume and warned him not to hang up.

"There was absolutely no human being that we heard from, until 59 minutes," he said.

Calling 911 is a fine thing to do, but help will not arrive immediately. You should have a plan for what you will do while you wait.

The New York Times Doesn't Want to Be Bothered about Facts

All the better to look down their noses. It isn't correct, but don't expect them to admit that. From Professor David Yamane: Getting Past the "Duck Dynasty" Stereotype of Gun Owners

While the NY Slimes is awake to the fact that new gun owners are more diverse than ever, they still have some facts to catch up on.

In an otherwise fascinating and well-reported story on the changing face of gun owners in America today, the authors include a significant misstatement. They write, “a majority of gun owners are white, conservative, male and from rural areas.”

This “Duck Dynasty” stereotype of gun owners is one I have challenged for years now, from my 2019 presentation on Gun Culture 2.0 to my recent opinion essay in The Hill on the unrecognized diversity of gun owners.

You are entitled to your own opinions, but the NYT wants to have its own facts.

Are politically conservative white men from rural areas overrepresented among gun owners relative to their portion of the population? Bullseye!

Are they “a majority of gun owners”? Not by a long shot.

Read the whole thing.

Anti-Oil Protestors Sabotage Electric SUVs

Not the sharpest tools in the shed. Bungling protestors drill holes in 100 Land Rover tyres in attack on 'fossil fuel death machines'... but all vehicles damaged were electric cars | Daily Mail Online

A group of clumsy woke protestors drilled holes in hundreds of SUV tyres in an attack on 'fossil fuel death machines', not realising they were actually damaging electric vehicles.

This took place in the village of Scorrier, in Cornwall, England, about 45 miles west of Plymouth, or about 230 miles west-southwest of London.

When they were called out on being idiots, their spokesman's response was, basically, "Well electric SUVs are bad too!"

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

As one of the comments on the article states:

It just goes to show that they haven't got a funking clue.

These are the self-appointed saviors of civilization.

Wednesday Link Roundup - Ash Wednesday Edition

Pirate's Cove is first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

11. This ain’t Hell…: Dems oppose Fentanyl restrictions
12. Vlad Tetes: Keir Starmer signs 100 year partnership with Ukraine, hints at conscription in the UK

EBL - VDH: Zelensky Takeaways

Legal Insurrection: Trump holds all the cards...
Federalist: Zelensky blows up peace talks

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 03.04.25

Stoic Observations: Intelligence vs. Virtue
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Can Ukraine Win Now? also, Clash of Worldview

DaleyGator - BLOGGING APPRECIATION DAY

The Notorious DTW Open Road time
Feral Irishman Struggling right now

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Did Democrats Set Zelenskyy Up to Fail?

Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre, "It can’t be overstated how central hatred of low-caste whites is to the identity and status of the left The idea of being ruled by one of the untouchables causes them to drop all pretense."

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 4 March 2025: Overbugged Edition

The secret weapon of AMD's 9070 XT graphics card: It exists. (Twitter)
Retailers report they have received more stock so far of the 9070 XT than of all the new Nvidia cards combined, including the unreleased RTX 5070.

Small Dead Animals - Monday On Turtle Island

Odds And Ends: The Zelensky deception. A tough talking Keir. The migrant occupation of a theatre.
Today In Islam: Diversity is our strength in Germany.

Glibertarians - Monday Morning Links

Come on, Mother Nature. Get your timing right next year. And get to the gym as well.
So stunning and brave. I’m sure they think they’re making a real difference.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 3/2/2025

In response to the new international security situation, the premier of the southern German state of Bavaria, Markus Söder, is calling for a massive upgrade of the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr.

Political Hat - News of the Week (March 2nd, 2025)

Trump shuts down US base in Greece
U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the shutdown of the U.S. military base in Alexandroupoli, Greece

Don Surber - Highlights of the week

ITEM 11: General Mike Flynn to FBI Director James Comey: “Jim, If you get this message, Get ready. You’re going jail—unless you give up someone bigger and deeper in this than even you.”

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

Surveillance camera company Flock is taking legal action against a company that is mapping the locations of its cameras.
Pushback against Amazon delivery drones in College Station, TX.

Vlad Tepes - This St. Patrick’s Day keep one eye open, TWO Berenson posts and the usual assortment of anti-West protesters in … Saskatoon? Links 1 for March 3, 2025

3. Alex Berenson again. This time on confirmation from a SECOND Ivy League medial school that the immune system continues to make the (toxic) spike proteins for a long time after the injections, and “immune system exhaustion”.

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

Trump has started a trade war.
“Warren Buffett calls tariffs ‘an act of war’.”
The Atlanta Fed is pessimistic about near-term economic growth.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

Trump Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism Announces Visits to Columbia, Nine Other Schools. 'The Task Force’s mandate is to bring the full force of the federal government to bear in our effort to eradicate Anti-Semitism, particularly in schools,' says Leo Terrell, the task force's head

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 3/ 3 /25

And the Left is apoplectic about it.
Trump, Vance Shut Down Zelensky in Jaw-Dropping White House Confrontation

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Victoria Nuland’s son is part of a USAID group fighting Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine War.

• What would it cost Europe to defend itself without the US? Dirk Kaufmann
• High Court Paves the Way for Quarantine Camps Brownstone

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 03-02-25 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Long Memories ...................from Rico from Theo Spark, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #2370 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and OH SHIT!!! IT'S MONDAY!!! from Wirecutter.

Texans Are Still Armed

Bad Guys are still getting shot, because they haven't gotten that memo. Homeowner shoots alleged intruder on Airline Road | KIII TV

How would you respond to someone breaking into your home at 4:25 in the morning?

A homeowner shot a 41-year-old man he said was breaking into his home early Thursday morning.

Corpus Christi Police Department Lt. Joshua Newman told 3NEWS the call came in around 4:26 a.m. when that homeowner told dispatch officers that he was holding a person at gunpoint at his home

The guy who got shot is expected to survive.

Although the investigation continues, no one has been arrested.

Self-defense is a human right.

Two of the Illegal Aliens that the Left is Wringing Hands Over

On the run for 20 about years, and ICE finds them in 2 months? Trump tops 50,000 migrant removals including fugitives who evaded justice for 20 years | Daily Mail Online

When immigration agents were first ordered to deport Ivan Oramas and Santos Maradiaga-Villalta, President George W. Bush was in the White House and the iPhone was a distant dream.

That was over two decades ago—yet both men were arrested this week, according to federal data reviewed by DailyMail.com.

Oramas, 61, has convictions for sexual battery and aggravated assault. He was ordered to be deported in 2003. Maradiaga-Villalta, 40, was convicted for smuggling aliens into the U.S. He was ordered to be deported in 2006.

It's amazing what can happen when you let cops enforce the law.

They were among over 50,000 illegal immigrants removed so far, a Department of Homeland Security official revealed to DailyMail.

At least the DailyMail is using the term "illegal."

Zeitgeist

Social media can be OK if you can avoid the insanity. That can be hard to do. I'm not sure if I remember this song or not from 2013. I had purchased a house that needed a bit of renovation before I moved in - above and beyond the usual coat of paint and refinish the floors. Things like replace all of the interior trim, gut and redo the kitchen, and more. I'm not sure I was paying much attention that whole year.

This song is "Zeitgeist" by Black Sabbath from 2013 album 13.

Arkansas Is NOT a Place to Run from Police

The directive to Arkansas State Police, is that if they flee, put them in the ditch.

The district attorneys of the State of Arkansas had a meeting with the Arkansas State Police. They issued a joint statement via YouTube, which said, in part...

We will pursue you, we will stop you, and the men and women standing behind me will prosecute you.

This is their video ARKANSAS STATE POLICE & STATE PROSECUTORS UNITE TO COMBAT FLEEING SUSPECTS - Troopers will stop you

When I am having bouts of insomnia, I watch more than my fair share of police chases. More than a few are from Arkansas, in part because they publish them to YouTube in fairly short order, but also because the (for the most part) include speed, location and other data in the video. And because ASP doesn't F- around. If you run from ASP, you will end up in the ditch, 999 times out of 1000. No, they aren't perfect.

Despite this, the number of people who try to run from police is growing. One of the people in the video mentions the stats for one police district.

Here are a few videos of ASP pursuits That I've looked at in the past year or so.

• Legendary Trooper Byrd is back w/ smooth PIT on fleeing drug dealer & wanted felon #pursuit #police 8 minutes
• CLASSIC VIDEO WEDNESDAY - The Legend Begins, Trooper Byrd chases down racing Dodge Charger at 150mph 8 minutes
• MULTI AGENCY PURSUIT on Stolen Vehicle - Arkansas State Police take primary - PIT and catches FIRE 8 minutes of a 15 minute video
• PIT / TVI Maneuver on Dodge Ram sends it rolling and overturning #pursuit Arkansas State Police 4 minutes
• PIT at 130 MPH sends HONDA CIVIC rolling & tumbling down Interstate 7 minutes of a 13 minute video

The moral of the story is, don't run from Arkansas State Police, and if you're ever driving through Arkansas keep an eye on the rear view mirror, because you never know what will be coming up behind you. (If the pursuit does come up behind you, merge to the right.)

Tuesday Links - Fat Tuesday Edition

Cassandra MacDonald at the Gateway Pundit starts things off with WATCH: Don Lemon Resorts to Harassing Strangers and Chasing NYC Subway Cars in Bizarre Video After Being Fired By CNN

A bizarre TikTok video uploaded by Lemon left people wondering about his mental health.

Jim Hoft also from Gateway Pundit - Teary-Eyed Federal Employee Compares Filling Out Elon Musk’s Email to “What I Imagine Living in North Korea to be Like”. (People in North Korea are starving to death.)

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane - What We Talk About When We Talk About “Gun Safety”

I argue there are two different views of what constitutes gun safety, driven by fundamentally different underlying views of the role of guns in American society and Americans’ lives.

The Other McCain - Zelenskyy Gets Pimp-Slapped on Live TV by Trump in White House Meeting

Miguel Gonzalez - The Zelenskyy Drama

PS: We need to DOGE the hell out of the money sent to Ukraine just for shits and giggles.

Legal Innsurection - Dan Bongino Appointment is Upsetting All the Right People

Already shaken by President Trump’s appointment of Kash Patel as FBI Director, Brennan must have been apoplectic when he heard that the unfiltered, unapologetic, take no prisoners Dan Bongino was named Deputy Director. I can’t think of any two individuals who did more to dismantle the deep state’s conspiracy against Trump than Patel and Bongino.

Mike Rowe - Carlos Whittaker—How Fast is Godspeed? (Ep. 427)

His name is Carlos Whitaker, and unlike me – another guy who has become concerned that he has developed an unhealthy addiction to his iPhone – Carlos wanted to see just how profound his addiction was. So, one day, Carlos left his phone at home and went off to live with Monks and Amish farmers for seven weeks. He went “cold turkey” in other words. Then he wrote a book about it.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: A Rare Winning Week

Confinement VI [conference in Tennessee] ended sooner than I thought it would, with Mike Williamson, most of his family, and a large number of C6 members going off to the range this afternoon, so I’m getting caught up on blogging.

American Thinker - Leave guns to the professionals

One of the articles of faith and narratives of anti-liberty/gun cracktivists is the police are highly trained marksmen. We must leave guns to them because Normal Americans aren’t so highly trained and will just shoot themselves, their families and worse, they might shoot criminals. The truth is quite different.

Divemedic at Areo Ocho - Get Out of Boston

That would normally be the end of the story, and may or may not earn a blog post here. Except the mayor and police commissioner got involved.

They offered condolences. To the dead attacker and his family.

Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0

Road rage is such an insane way to spend your energy. This is also another failure of the victim-selection process. Person shot in road rage incident facing charges

It isn't clear to me why the road rage incident started, because the person who got shot pulled in front of the van driven by a disabled guy, with three kids inside the van.

The van had cameras, front and back, so cops have complete documentation of everything that happened.

Investigators say Bain’s vehicle first break-checked the van causing the driver to go around. After that Bain allegedly began chasing after the van, continually trying to cut the van off. While on Taylor Blvd., Bain’s vehicle rammed into the van during this chase which ended on Carlisle Avenue when the van’s tires were flattened, disabling it.

The video shows Bain then allegedly rammed the disabled van with the man and three kids inside nearly flipping it over.

At that point, the driver of the van, who was armed, shot the aggressor one time in the stomach.

That person was to be arraigned on Friday, despite being in the hospital.

Self-defense is a human right, and Kentucky is not New Jersey.

How Is That Criminal Justice Reform Working Out?

They won't hold this guy until he actually kills someone. Ordered deported in 2022, migrant is on probation for gun possession and charged with beating his ex-girlfriend. But judges refuse to keep him in jail. - CWB Chicago

A Venezuelan migrant who was ordered deported in 2022 is living in Chicago where he is now on probation for possessing a loaded ghost gun and on pretrial release for allegedly battering his ex-girlfriend repeatedly over the course of several days, according to court records. Prosecutors asked judges in both cases to keep Pedro Colmenares in jail as a safety risk. Both judges denied those requests.

So domestic violence is not enough. Gun charges - I thought so-called ghost guns were extra-scary - are also not enough. Maybe ICE can take him off the street.