May 10, 2026

Sunrise... with moon.

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john mosby said...

Interesting armed-citizen case in the Seattle suburbs:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/jury-reaches-verdict-in-case-of-off-duty-guard-charged-in-fatal-shooting-of-renton-teen/ar-AA22IAa2?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Armed citizen was waiting for his son at a Seattle-suburb strip mall. 3 teen boys show up with very realistic Airsoft Glocks and walk towards a store. Armed citizen takes action, pulls his real gun on them, gets them to put down the Airsoft guns (which he thinks are real). One kid has yet another Airsoft gun in his waistband and reaches for it, maybe to also deck that one. Armed citizen interprets that as an attack and lights the kid up, killing him. Turns out the kids were returning the Airsoft guns to the store for malfunctions.

Armed citizen is prosecuted for murder 2, and a jury convicts him. He is looking at 20 years at least. Probably didn't help that the kids have Muslim names, causing CAIR to pollute the whole process.

The prosecution used as evidence against him a previous incident where he thought a man had a gun, which turned out to be a piece of pipe. He called 911 in that incident and trailed the guy around until the police showed up. So he did what the prosecution says we should do, and that shows he had ill motives for doing what they say we shouldn't in this incident? That is kind of like using my record of crossing with the light against me in my jaywalking trial.

Don't know if he has any realistic theories for appeal. CC, JSM

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Tragic for the teen and his family (they thought they were just returning toys). Also sobering for anyone who carries. Situational awareness is vital, but so is confirming the threat before escalating to lethal force.

narciso said...

The home of the chop with the real life duke, where a 77 year old man can be beaten to death to the approval of wraith wilson

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Aggie said...

I see the storied tree is continuing its recumbancy....

Bob Boyd said...

don't airsoft guns have orange tips? Had the kids removed them?

narciso said...

https://share.google/dww0H1XkRcPqhrifG

narciso said...

In other news scarf lady is back

narciso said...

https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/2053523743272800627

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imTay said...

Weird that you make George Soros's deputy Trump's Treasury Secretary, and now billions of dollars of extremely well timed bets keep getting made that payoff in very short order on Trump's next tweet.

Whudathunkit?

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Trump says Iran’s response to peace proposal is ‘unacceptable’ ~ WSJ

Week 11 of “You break it you buy it!”

imTay said...

Oh yeah, and Trump has created a fund in Qatar for the money he gets from seizing oil tankers, so that it can't be seized by, well, you know, a judge?

Senior officials claim Gulf state provides neutral location to store proceeds from which they can be moved safely and without risk of seizure

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-venezuela-oil-revenue-qatar-bank-b2901312.html

imTay said...

Trump called his boss in Jerusalem and was told "No deal!"

Israel first. Trump and Rubio have both admitted that we started this war to protect a foreign country that can't get along with its neighbors, and wants to take their land.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

It’s Netanyahu who decides when the war is over, not Trump.
That should stand to reason: Netanyahu has also decided when it started.

Iran will game this with the mid-terms coming up in a few months. It will be leveraged to reach a deal closer to Iran's terms than that of the U.S

imTay said...

All it needs is a strip tease by one of the players, and the end of this Buffalo Montreal game looks a lot like the end of Slapshot.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

At first glance I read 'Sunrise with mom'.

Happy mothers day to all the moms here and everywhere.

Gospace said...

Went out for a early Mother's Day dinner. At Cheesecake Factory. A lot of apparently undereducated yahoos were wearing ball caps while dining. Interestingly there were a number of people in suit coat and tie. Every one of which was an older black gentleman. And the children and younger people they were dining with were all well dressed.

The tables with blacks without an older black gentleman? Not nearly as well dressed...

The ball cap wearers were exclusively Caucasian. The crowd, overall, was dressed up more then normal. Two reasons. Mother's Day, and a whole lot of graduation gowns. So some school nearby, or schools, must have had Sunday graduations.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Either Christopher Walken is an alien, or AI has been around all this time.

YouTube : This video still amazing 15 years later.

(A nagging voice told me to check with AI before hitting "PUBLISH")

"The iconic dance video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" is not digitally manipulated in the sense of using CGI or AI to create Christopher Walken's movements; he is a classically trained dancer who performed the vast majority of the routine himself. However, the video does use practical and digital effects for specific sequences"

It's not the slam dunk I thought it was.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

While we are referencing Basketball down memory lane, here's a Norm Macdonald skit from a time when it could be proven that Google was sexist. Link to video

Achilles said...

Look at all of the people that are mad China has to pay full price in dollars for Oil now instead of giving Iran cheap junk military crap.

Its da joooooossss!!!!

You are retards nobody cares about.

Achilles said...


Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

It’s Netanyahu who decides when the war is over, not Trump.
That should stand to reason: Netanyahu has also decided when it started.

Iran will game this with the mid-terms coming up in a few months. It will be leveraged to reach a deal closer to Iran's terms than that of the U.S


China pet big mad.

Says stupid things.

Achilles said...

imTay said...

Oh yeah, and Trump has created a fund in Qatar for the money he gets from seizing oil tankers, so that it can't be seized by, well, you know, a judge?

WAR CRIMES!

Trump is a NAZI controlled by da joooooos!

Ralph L said...

If by some miracle, Pratt becomes mayor of LA and begins forcing out thousands of addicts, where are they going to go?
The rest of SoCal, the Bay area, and other temperate big cities will have to man up quickly to save their cities. Could be fun to watch.

wendybar said...


Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
mother’s day is every day

https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2053484497581273586?s=20

wendybar said...

Mike LaChance
@MikeLaChance33
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13h
Trump is destroying everything we hold sacred, said the people threatening to burn down the Virginia Supreme Court over a ruling they don't like.

https://x.com/MikeLaChance33/status/2053551215598776626?s=20

wendybar said...
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wendybar said...

PROOF that union leadership is ALL in the bag for corrupt Progressives. WHAT kind of payouts do THEY get???

Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
·
14h
Wait. Unions are mad that I want firefighters and city workers to get better pay and safer working conditions? What are they actually…for?
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Unrig LA
@UnrigLA
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May 9
The LA County Federation of Labor has a new committee lined up to go after Spencer Pratt, and they are dropping an initial $221k on this video & an additional digital ad.

https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2053535640277709257?s=20

john mosby said...

Infinite Ex: The only thing that "confirms" a threat is getting killed. That's why you can be reasonable but wrong: draw a reasonable conclusion about the threat, but turn out to be in error. Reasonable but wrong is supposed to get you acquitted, not convicted. CC, JSM

john mosby said...

Not 100% sure from the articles if these guns were Airsoft brand, which does have the orange tip, or other brand BB guns, which often don't. In any case, the one in the waistband would not have had the tip exposed. Also, there's the whole phenomenon of candy-colored real guns. CC, JSM

Bruce Hayden said...

“Look at all of the people that are mad China has to pay full price in dollars for Oil now instead of giving Iran cheap junk military crap”

The question then is whether China is paying them, or do Rey just aspire to be paid by the Chinese.

Enigma said...

@john mosby --

Blue places today find a way to prosecute anyone who uses a gun or weapon for any reason. The details do not matter: do not fight back, just accept the theft, wounding, or death. It's your social duty (especially if you are privileged).

See Northern Virginia and the 2023 self-defense shooting of an Internet 'prankster' who harassed and filmed a man. The jury inconsistently found the shooter innocent of 'aggravated malicious wounding' but convicted him for a gun crime in this 'legit' use of a gun.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jury-acquits-delivery-driver-main-charge-shooting-youtuber-rcna118007

Also see the entire Kyle Rittenhouse story.

Also see the awkward St. Louis incident of 2020 where the McCloskey's had guns outside their house during the George Floyd protests.

Anti-self defense utopian logic never ends: See the UK's extensive efforts to regulate and ban knives, such as "Zombie knives" per their style. See the guy who ended a crime in 2019 by taking a decorative narwhal tusk from a local business.

Regarding orange tips versus realistic guns: That's an obsolete concept. Real guns are now sold in pink, powder blue, transgender-friendly rainbow, and many other color schemes. People also remove/paint the orange safety tips to improve realism. The contemporary fashion-oriented market makes/paints guns with every design imaginable. Red, white, and blue US flags are common, etc.

Christopher B said...

john mosby, while I'm sympathetic to your claim the only way anybody is going to beat a murder rap in that situation is a very strong claim of self-defense. Your thumbnail description indicates the citizen had almost none. Few states allow you to assert self-defense if only property is threatened (generally just your own), and unless there was some evidence uncited indicating he felt the group was advancing on him, exiting his truck made him the aggressor in the situation which would also negate self-defense. (An aside, this is what a lot of misinformed people think happened in the Zimmerman-Martin case.) I think even intervening if the situation had advanced, as he mistakenly thought, to a robbery would have been problematic in many states without shots being fired before he got out of his truck.

Christopher B said...

Andrew Branca on the five elements of a self-defense claim

rehajm said...

If by some miracle, Pratt becomes mayor

…I’ll eat my hat comes to mind…

Eva Marie said...

@Christopher B: He may have thought he was interrupting a sniper attack - three young men coming to a mall to shoot innocent shoppers. I’m not saying I’m sympathetic to his side because he ended up killing an innocent young man himself but that may be what he was thinking.

Eva Marie said...

“China pet big mad.”
That’s funny.

Humperdink said...

Reading the news on the fallout from the Commie Dem faceplant in Virginia is reaching an absurd level. One plan has the VA legislature reducing the retirement age for VA Supreme Court judges to 54 years old. The judges get forcibly retired and are instantaneously replaced by friendly judges. Popcorn futures are up.

Breezy said...

The Dems in VA are demonstrating how far they will go to cheat. This latest idea is pretty shocking to those who haven’t been closely watching. When people show you who they are, believe them. They have no business claiming the mantle of democracy protectors.

Enigma said...

@Humperdink --

I thought "at some point" the sane Democrats would split from the psychopaths who were given the reins as TDS arose in 2016. They know that the Party will lose and spend 40 years in the wilderness if they do split; the Bernie Bros almost split from Hillary before TDS. Guaranteed losing is the only thing that keeps this surreal sprial going.

Add one more layer to the Democrat's mile-high Jenga tower of 'be everything to everyone' policies: women, minorities, poor, free college for the wealthy, transgender, no borders, unions, Wall St., Globalism, China, free stuff for everyone, tax the rich and don't let them leave blue states, support the oppressed but also support selective violence per the topic, use eco policies to stop growth but keep the profits, DEI 'free passes' for black women at Harvard and the USSC, and here, pack every court to guarantee mob rule.

I suspect that court packing would backfire very quickly, as there's no coherence and some factions would immediately demand contradictory outcomes.

Breezy said...

Actually, Hakeem Jeffries is conferenced in on this VA ridiculousness. It’s bigger than just VA.

narciso said...

Maximum war remember

Enigma said...

Google AI prompt "How did people fight beserkers?"

Historically, people fought Viking berserkers by exploiting their unarmored state, lack of tactical discipline, and physical exhaustion. In actual medieval combat and as documented in the Norse sagas, berserkers were elite shock troops rather than mythical beasts, and they were far from invincible.

Armies and rival warriors defeated them using a mix of battlefield tactics and specialized individual combat:
1. Battlefield Formations and Missile Fire
The Shield Wall: Organized armies used the tight, overlapping Viking shield wall (skjaldborg) to resist a berserker's initial, terrifying charge. By maintaining formation, disciplined soldiers absorbed the impact and pinned the berserker down.
Volleys of Missiles: Because berserkers famously discarded their heavy armor (the name literally means "bare-shirt" or "bear-shirt"), they were highly vulnerable to ranged weapons. Opposing forces peppered them with arrows, javelins, and thrown rocks before they could close the distance.

2. Exploiting the "Berserkergang" Aftermath
Attacking During Exhaustion: The psychological trance or adrenaline surge (the berserkergang) was temporary. Once the fury subsided, berserkers suffered from profound physical collapse, dulled senses, and extreme weakness. Savvy opponents waited out the initial rage and slaughtered them while they were incapacitated by exhaustion.
Turning Them Against Their Own: Berserkers were a double-edged sword because they were nearly impossible to control once their rage took over. Opponents would sometimes maneuver to trick berserkers into breaking their own lines or attacking their own allies.

3. Specialized Duel and Melee Tactics
Blunt Force and Ground Attacks: Norse sagas recount that while a berserker's thick animal pelts or manic state made them highly resistant to slashing swords, they could still be crushed. Opponents used heavy clubs, maces, or the flats of axes to break their bones.
Attacking from Below: Because berserkers focused heavily on aggressive forward momentum, they often left their lower bodies exposed. For example, during the famous Battle of Stamford Bridge, an English soldier famously defeated a lone berserker holding a bridge by floating underneath it in a barrel and thrusting a spear upward through the wooden slats.
Grappling and Subduing: In individual duels (holmgang), experienced warriors used defensive shield work to break the berserker's weapons or momentum, eventually tackling them to the ground to finish them with a dagger or by strangulation.

4. Legal and Social Elimination
Outlawry: By the 11th century, Christianized Norse societies viewed berserkers as dangerous, uncontrollable liabilities rather than holy warriors of Odin. Iceland officially outlawed berserkers in 1015, followed shortly by Norway. Anyone practicing the berserkergang was exiled, allowing communities to hunt them down legally.

narciso said...

Look at the peanut gallery here they are insane

RJW said...

Enigma @ 4:48, one reason these cases get so messy is that people often decide the “correct” self-defense outcome first based on tribe and politics, then work backward.

Conservatives point to Rittenhouse or the Virginia prankster case as proof blue jurisdictions oppose self-defense. But Texas conservatives were furious over Daniel Perry’s conviction in a very red state, after he posted on Facebook that he was going to murder a protester and then murdered a peaceful protester. Governor Abbott ultimately pardoned him, after the demand of Tucker Carlson.

That suggests the disagreement is often less “left vs. right on self-defense” and more how people interpret fear, escalation, and proportional force depending on who they identify with politically.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

The US trade deficit is now lower than the fraud in California and Minnesota? That can’t be true. We don’t have good information on fraud yet.

narciso said...

The bezerkers link is very apt

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Leland said...

Like Trudeau before him, Starmer will exit… sometime in the future, maybe September, but not now.

Christopher B said...

@Eva Marie, as Branca points out in the short clip the threat has to be occurring in the moment you are making the decision. It can't be what you imagine might happen in the future whether that's a robbery or other use of the weapons you see. You can google for lengthier discussions by him as well. He did a whole series at Legal Insurrection IIRC during the George Zimmerman trial. FWIW he is a strong supporter of the right to self-defense but explains very well how it works in a real courtroom.

Enigma said...

@RJW --

Yes, you are correct. I posted a reply saying that Masaad Ayoob is a great source for precise and level-headed self-defense guidance. I linked to his website, but it disappeared per the Comment Eater.

So yes, my answer was from memory and the topic requires more nuance. Also, any comment that gets close to boom boom sources stands to disappear.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Everyone (armed) should read In the Gravest Extreme by Ayoob. Cover to cover.

wendybar said...

"after he posted on Facebook that he was going to murder a protester and then murdered a peaceful protester."


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Humperdink said...

From Coffee and Covid: “The halls of Congress increasingly resemble a retirement home with excellent benefits combined with a surprising amount of insider trading that is best characterized as estate planning. As of early 2026, 24 members of Congress are 80 or older, over half are running for re-election, and the vast majority are Democrats. In the Senate, the median age of Democrats is 66, significantly older than their Republican counterparts.

When a reporter asked Representative Maxine “Auntie” Waters, 88, why she continues to serve, she replied, “My work is not finished, and I don’t know if it will ever be finished.”

Made me laugh.

narciso said...

Yeah molotov maxine has only burned down two cities at most
She still has work to do

Christopher B said...

Of course now UpChuck goes the other way by claiming that unspecified prior conduct negates the ability to defend yourself from a direct and imminent threat.

narciso said...

Mostly peaceful right

narciso said...

Theg cheer actual murderers too many to count

narciso said...

Monday Morning Meme Madness – Twitchy https://share.google/XYyBwgoXWdjRyZy5O

boatbuilder said...

It seems like there must have been some language barrier issue in that Seattle case, and/or the "armed citizen" was overly aggressive. Hard to imagine that the kids with the "guns" weren't frantically trying to tell the shooter that their guns were toys.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Achilles: "Says stupid things."

China' strategic reserve storage is much larger than that of the rest of the world, combined. Unlike the US the Chinese storage facility was also full at the start of the Iran war.

I’m surprised Trump hasn’t found an excuse not to go to China. It’s not really possible for him to come back looking good.

narciso said...

Otto consistently surprised

Peachy said...

Lovely. I love pathways.

RJW said...

Wendybar, Perry, not Penny.

“I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.”

“Can you catch me a negro daddy,” the other man replied.

“That is what I am hoping,” Perry said.

Pardoning murders, drug dealers, and cop beaters seems to be the Republican cool thing.

Enigma said...

@IEE: "Larger" -- but silly, as China doesn't have drillable oil. Every oil producer worldwide has a larger 'reserve' if they want it.

narciso said...

Sigh bulwinkle

Nancy said...

I thought it said "sunrise with mom". Very timely.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Trump had hoped to go to Beijing with control over Venezuela and Iran and leverage that to get a trade deal -- and likely a revaluation of the Yuan. Then, pull out of Ukraine and declare victory, leaving the Euros and Russians to make good, pull out of Middle East, leaving China and Israel to make good and go back for the July 4th Celebrations.

Except the Iranians didn't play ball and now he has to go and try and save his deal and his presidency. Iran’s foreign minister was in Beijing last week. China is not likely to throw the gatekeeper of the Gulf under the Trump bus. It would not take much to get Trump to change the US position on Iran, such is Trump’s desperation. China may make a few calls but they won’t be steering Tehran to the off-ramp.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

Remember when, on the first day of the war that he started, Trump told the Iranian military to lay down their weapons in exchange for immunity?

That was over two months ago, and they now control the Strait of Hormuz.

All because Trump wanted another quick and easy victory and started a war of choice without thinking through the possible consequences.

Rustygrommet said...

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
"Achilles: "Says stupid things."

China' strategic reserve storage is much larger than that of the rest of the world, combined. Unlike the US the Chinese storage facility was also full at the start of the Iran war."

(Sigh)And you know this how?
You don't. You can't possibly know it. You were told. By who? The Chinese. And as we all know the Chinese are the most accurate and reliable source of Chinese propaganda which you parrot every time. Your a shill for the CCP.
Change my mind.

narciso said...

Cue the steamroller from a fish called wanda

narciso said...

Blue wave? Red wave? No, an Orange Wave nears https://share.google/w5mpBeyzb9y9vl9AT

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

I can imagine you -- in a city park sitting at a card table with a cardboard sign: "change my mind"

China holds the world's largest strategic oil inventories by a significant margin. According to US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates as of December 2025 (just before the Iran conflict escalated): https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67504

China: ~1.4 billion barrels total strategic inventories (government-held ~360 million barrels + commercial/refinery stocks ~1 billion barrels, which China treats/uses strategically). eia.gov

United States: 825 million barrels total (413 million in the official SPR + ~411 million commercial). The pure SPR was ~413 million barrels. eia.gov

Japan: Third largest (government ~263 million + commercial).
IEA members (32 countries including US) combined: ~1.2 billion barrels emergency stocks. finance.yahoo.com

China's total was bigger than the US + Japan + much of OECD Europe combined in many estimates, and it continued building stocks into early 2026. Some analyses describe it as larger than the rest of the world's major holders combined when focusing on strategic/commercial stocks under state influence.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

"Strategic brilliance is the aggregation of haphazard, self-defeating actions." – Don Tzu

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

A lot of people believe Trump is bold to challenge China and it was long overdue, and I could actually support that belief. Except that China is leading the pack on EV cars, windmills and green energy and Trump cut that off completely. China is leading the pack in manufacturing and Trump has done nothing to increase it here. Trump is paying farmers for crops they can't sell, paying ranchers for beef they won't sell because of his gift to Argentina. Rather than having a grand strategy, Trump is frustrated and bored with it all, and most interested in building gargantuan vanity monuments and doubling down on persecutions of his political enemies. Xi doesn't need to do anything but watch and bide his time.

Achilles said...

lol.

China pet is mad that China’s reserves have to be used and China is paying the US dollars for oil.

Keep crying Chuck. Everyone hates traitors. the Chinese government would execute you if they won.

Everyone hates you.

Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...

The lack of experienced staff at the highest levels has turned Trump’s gamble into possibly one of his biggest failures. Turns out energy markets are a bit harder to master than insider trading.

Jersey Fled said...

I’m old enough to remember when Democrats had nothing to worry about but the price of eggs.

boatbuilder said...

Except that China is leading the pack on EV cars, windmills and green energy and Trump cut that off completely.

Which is important why exactly?

Saint Croix said...

In the UK...

Reform went from 2 (!) council seats to 1,453.

Labour lost 1,446 seats.

Challenge Starmer by Monday or I Will

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