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Earlier this week, the Iran-aligned Houthis announced they had expanded their campaign against maritime traffic by targeting Saudi oil shipments through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the key chokepoint on the Red Sea, through which Saudi Arabia has re-directed most of its crude oil shipments to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

China-bound tankers appear to move through Bab el-Mandeb, but some others, including Denmark-flagged products tanker Torm Innovation, have made U-turns in the Red Sea and are now heading north toward the Suez Canal.

Despite the Houthi blockade, “two China-crewed, China-bound tankers loaded at Yanbu and cleared Bab al-Mandeb apparently untouched,” maritime intelligence firm Windward said on Thursday.

 I have always enjoyed his music. Seeing this 6/23/26 Variety article makes me respect him more. He explained that he was offered seven figures to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival:

"But I’m doing enough that I don’t need to take any amount of money if it makes me feel icky, and that kind of did.”

Saudi Arabia is slowly inching towards the 16th century. It still needs to sign the Abraham Accords and treat women as equals. 

7/23/26 ABC News:

According to victim and witness statements, the suspect yelled "Allahu Akbar" during both attacks, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. The NYPD is currently evaluating whether this is a potential hate crime, she said....

While the perpetrator has no known mental health history with the NYPD, the initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor, the commissioner said.

 It looks like Bertha will soon limp into Texas, dragging a leg and will soon reach remnant status.  She has suffered with wind shear since forming and that suits me fine.

Currently, we have a light rain with 89F temps.  Wind out of the southeast at 5 with gusts to 10.  Heat index is 99F.  Not exactly pleasant, but a lot more tolerable than it has been.  In another 12 hours we will put Bertha in the history books and await the rest of the tropical storm alphabet.

By Dave Workman Almost true to form, New Jersey Democrats are reeling in the wake of last week’s Third Circuit Court en banc ruling striking down the state’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” and “large-capacity magazines,” and are already trying to figure ways to skate around the court decision. Politico is reporting that Garden State […]

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 A screen grab from a YouTube short, it seems that this bear has climbed a utility pole and is resting on the cross bar.

"It appears that Juliun [Stokes] was standing beside the open driver's door reaching into the vehicle when Carl [Loubeau] approached him from that same side of the vehicle and opened fire on him," Chief Niemczyk said. "Dwayne [Walker] was in close proximity, probably around the trunk of the Mustang when he was approached."

Walker, who investigators say is a close friend of Stokes, was also in the driveway. Detectives say he immediately returned fire, shooting Loubeau in what they believe was self-defense.

Investigators say Stokes never fired his weapon. Detectives also believe Loubeau may have mistaken Stokes for Walker, who police say was involved in some type of relationship with Loubeau's girlfriend.

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"A lady was saying, 'He's got a knife, he's got a knife," a witness who wished to remain anonymous told CBS LA. "Then he started dipping and dodging in between the lines, and then you hear two shots."

LASD officials say that the suspect, who remains publicly unidentified, was confronted by the customer, who was "lawfully armed and possessed a valid concealed carry permit."

"The customer ordered the male adult to drop the knife. The male adult then charged toward the customer while still armed with the knife, and the customer discharged their firearm," the release said. 

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 Plaquemine Parish is bracing.... well, acknowledging that TS Bertha is about to come ashore. It ain't much as tropical storms go, but if you're going to be hit, this is the one to get hit by.

Otherwise, it is just Wednesday.  We had some friends drop by after lunch and it is too damned hot to work outside anyway.  Current atmospherics are 96F with 60% humidity and a heat index of 115.  It's warm out there.   Wind is out of the NE, steady at 8, gusting to 13 and feels like a blow-drier.

I think I'll stay my butt indoors.

 Knife Rights v. Bonta (9th Cir. 2026). This being the 9th Circuit, they upheld California's ban on concealed carry of switchblade knives. I am disappointed that I was not asked to provide expert declarations or rebut the other side's expert declarations. I am not sure how much difference it would have made. At the core of this decision is the concept of how and why:

In assessing whether a law is "relevantly similar under the Second Amendment," courts are instructed to compare modern and historical regulations in terms of "how and why the regulations burden a law-abiding citizen's right to armed self-defense."...

Other states and territories continued to adopt concealed carry restrictions on Bowie knives and other dangerous knives and weapons during and after the Civil War. These states punished unlawful concealed carry with imprisonment, fines, or both.^[10] In addition, the record includes prohibitions on the concealed carry of knives from several cities in the post-Civil War period.^[11]

The record also includes evidence as to why jurisdictions prohibited the concealed carry of Bowie knives and other knives. One of California's experts, Dr. Robert Spitzer, explained that "Bowie knives were widely used in fights and duels," and were known to be "fighting knives" intended for "[interpersonal] combat." Another expert, Dr. Brennan Rivas, explained that "[a]s rates of violence rose during the nineteenth century, people were more likely to carry and use large knives; the increased presence of knives . . . had the regrettable consequence of exacerbating the problem." This problem was "especially notable in southern areas, where Bowie knives were quite common and known to be associated with needless bloodshed." 

The problem here is why those laws were adopted. The decision acknowledges that these laws adopted in the 1950s because of criminal use.(Perhaps largely in West Side Story.) The why for the antebellum period was not members of the criminal class but the people who would become legislators, judges, and militia officers. My book Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic examines this odd situation in more detail.

 I am planning disaster against this people,

from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,
for it will be a time of calamity.
In that day people will ridicule you;
they will taunt you with this mournful song:
"We are utterly ruined;
my people’s possession is divided up.
He takes it from me!
He assigns our fields to traitors."
Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord
To divide the land by lot." (2:3-5)

What goes around comes around: You defraud your fellow Israelites out of land with no remorse. "Your" (you took it from the poor) land will now be taken from you. Who will do this? The Assyrians. You will be as to them what the poor has been to you.

God is warning His people that their callous injustice has blinded them to the storm clouds that are gathering around them. They are so busy scheming that they do not see nor care that there are other people who are scheming against them.

There is a message here for many. Steal from the taxpayers and do not be surprised when it is taken back. Ignore the legitimate needs of those in whose names those frauds took place and it will not go well for you. 

Tuna sends in another one:

Want to hear 2 short jokes and 1 long one? joke joke Joooooooooke 

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The first step in the decision cycle is Observing. This is analogous to the “situational awareness” that is often mentioned but rarely defined.

If it’s described at all, it’s with phrases like “Checking one’s six” or “scanning the environment”, but it’s entirely possible to look around and not see, and even seeing isn’t the same as observing. Reducing it to the simplest example, if you are lying on your back in your bed and you wake up and open your eyes, then photons are going to bounce off the ceiling and hit your retinas. You are looking at the ceiling, you are even seeing it, but you are not observing the ceiling, let alone the entirety of your room...

How many people in this picture are really aware of their surroundings?

A 40-year-old man was found shot at the bottom of a stairwell, along with a knife. Paramedics with the Phoenix Fire Department tried to help the man, but his injuries were too severe, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two women, aged 27 and 30, were also found suffering from severe stab wounds inside an apartment. They were immediately transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.

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Detectives said the deceased man had arrived uninvited at the apartment and assaulted one of the women. When a second woman, who is related to the first, tried to intervene, she was stabbed. One of the women was romantically involved with the suspect.

"The disturbance drew the attention of neighbors, and one neighbor shot the suspect as he continued attacking both women," according to police.

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This could be a dismissed as a incredible fantasy dream come true: “The US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, has agreed to hear en banc the question of whether Congress has the constitutional authority to enact federal gun control laws.” … Continue reading →

 If you know, you know.

By Dave Workman It has been called “gun safety legislation,” “gun reform,” and “gun responsibility,” but it all boils down to the same thing: gun control. And lately, the gun prohibition lobby and its allies in government from town councils to Congress have been using a new bit of grammatical camouflage to make the same […]

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