Another week gone bye-bye.

There are so many cases percolating right now, I’m just waiting to see which opinion drops next.

Hagar should be posting more often.

And on the fun side of things, these just showed up in my mail. If you’d like some, please let me know, and we’ll figure out costs and some way for you to purchase them.

I’ve been busy as shit at work and have been suffering from rage burnout, so I’ve been a little absent from posting.

I read a thing recently about how Mike Judge may, again, be doing a King of the Hill update/sequel/reboot.

I love that show.  Hank Hill was the bast dad on TV until Bandit in Bluey, and Hank still holds a close second.

They haven’t released many details, so this, as a big fan, are some ideas I had, because why the fuck not.

I want to see it as a King of the Hill: The Next Generation.  Same characters, just 20 years later.

Hank is now a partner and co-owner of Strickland Propane, which is now Strickland & Hill Propane.  Hank has earned it.

Buck is still alive but in partial retirement on the gulf coast.  Hand runs the business but Buck occasionally sticks his nose in and Hank has to fix his mess.

Hanks is grandpa to Cotton Hill, Bobby’s son, and tries to be the same conservative influence on him.

Bobby is grown up.  He’s shown in several episodes to have a great skill with food and meat (the one where he takes Home Ec and makes Thanksgiving dinner, the Bill BBQ sauce episode, and the series finally where he does the beef judging), so I want him to go to culinary school and be a moderately successful chef and restaurant owner. He owns a small regional chain of BBQ and Steak places.

I think a fun arc will be him wanting to get back to his comedy roots and try to start a comedy club restaurant.

I don’t know if I want him married to Connie or not, that has potential to be stupid.  But I do want him married and learning that Hank’s brand of practical conservatism was good for Bobby, even though Bobby didn’t quite understand that at the time.

Peggy is still Peggy, just grandma Peggy now.

I want Luanne back, despite the death of Brittany Murphy.  I want her to be a professional Christian YouTuber with her manger baby series. She makes good money but she and Lucky piss it away as fast as they make it on dumb stuff, the way rednecks do when they win the Lottery.  Lucky’s antics with money could be a useful plot device for comedy, e.g., Lucky buys something dumb in a crackpot idea.

Dale is still Dale, perhaps even more Dale.  He’s a fool, he doesn’t need to change.

Bill is the biggest change. I want good things for Bill.

Bill is out of the Army, he’s too old anyway.  He lost a leg, not in combat but to diabetes.  He went through a period of serious depression but finally got better.  He now works for a veteran non-profit where he helps combat amputees with their emotional struggles.  Very much the “I’ve been there, I understand, I’ll help you through this.”  He still has a deep desire to serve.

I want Bill treated with respect but a one legged Bill can still be used for comedy.  I see Dale keep trying to come up with ways to uses Bill’s disability to his advantage, e.g., taking Bill to Six Flags with Joseph and his grandson to get to the front of the line.

The overall feel of the show would be able to stay the same.  Hank, and now Bobby too, trying to live honest, small town, lives in world that seems to be more and more going mad with petty absurdities.

Just a thought.

Let’s face it: Streaming video is a convenience: Just a couple of button pushes and you have your favorite movie playing on your TV.

The bad news? May not be the movie you originally watched.

Veteran film blogger Jeffrey Wells scooped everyone by revealing a censorship campaign against William Friedkin’s 1970s Best Picture winner The French Connection. Wells’s rebellious site, “Hollywood Elsewhere,” reported that multiple versions of the 1971 cop classic had been edited to remove an exchange between lead character Popeye Doyle (played by Gene Hackman) and his partner, Buddy “Cloudy” Russo (played by Roy Scheider).

The original sequence found Hackman’s character using racial slurs, an indication of the anti-hero’s tortured moral state. Critics from the era didn’t object to the sequence, nor did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The film earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Hackman.
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The news didn’t make the mainstream media cut, even on platforms dedicated to covering all things entertainment (Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter). Enough movie lovers learned about the censorship via various right-leaning platforms to make the film’s Blu-ray edition soar to $142 on Amazon.com. (Most Blu-ray titles roughly run from $8-$40.) Twitter users urged peers to scoop up physical media versions of their favorite films … while they still can.

The censored film is reminiscent of how “sensitivity readers” tweaked classic books by Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie and Roald Dahl in recent months to align with modern cultural mores.

The difference? No one has confessed to making the edits, nor were consumers warned about the change while watching the film on various platforms. Plus, although many news outlets covered the recent wave of sensitivity “upgrades” for books, The French Connection sanitization apparently missed most editorial meetings.

I reached out to Criterion for comment — and received no response.

Five groups dedicated to cinema and its preservation similarly ignored queries on the subject, including one founded by legendary director Martin Scorsese (The Film Foundation).

Silent Censorship of Classic Movies Has Begun – The Messenger

I have DVDs and BluRays of most of my favorite movies. If you do not, you may want to start collecting them, especially if they can be found in the Walmart discount bins. They will probably be illegal to own them in a few years because Hate Crimes and all that stupidity.

While you are at it, make sure you have spare DVD/BluRay players. They may suddenly be found dangerous to your healyt by the EPA or NIH and banned from production and sales.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The parents of the Covenant School shooter have transferred all rights to the shooter’s writings to the Covenant victims.

The shooter’s family wants those affected by the shooting to get to decide what happens to the documents. Six people — including three 9-year-olds — died at the hand of the 28-year-old Nashvillian. Metro Police said the shooter had several journals detailing plans for the shooting and had been planning the attack for months. So far, police have indicated it would take a year to analyze all of the writings and documents from the shooter.

Shooter’s parents turn over ownership of the shooter’s writings to Covenant (newschannel5.com)

I don’t understand what the issue is with releasing the info. I suspect that more than the investigation done by Asshole Audrey Hale itself, is to cover the schools and parents from yhe public finding out this was a preventable massacre. Cops indicating the “analysis” will take over a year is nothing more that playing for time so people forget of the incident and questioning what could have been done.

I have the nagging suspicion that the writings mention Gun Free School Zones too much for the Nasville Democrats liking. It would interfere with Gun Control efforts to have to deal with a mass killer using Liberal policies to murder kids.

B.L.U.F. Does bad law live on? What happens to all the opinions issued by circuit courts on Second Amendment cases before Bruen.

On June 23, 2022, a year ago, the Supreme Court issued the Bruen decision. The Bruen reaffirmed Heller. The Second Amendment is an individual right, it is not a second class right. The way to properly adjudicate a Second Amendment challenge is we hold that when the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct. To justify its regulation, the government may not simply posit that the regulation promotes an important interest. Rather, the government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.—New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. V. Bruen, 142 S.Ct. 2111, ¶ 1 (U.S. 2022) This fantastic opinion opened the gates to regaining our Second Amendment protect rights.

The court then proceeded to GVR four other Second Amendment cases. One of those cases was in the 4th Circuit Court.

The Forth Circuit Court has not found an infringement that they couldn’t find a reason to find constitutional. They are horrible on Second Amendment rights. While the Ninth Circuit gets all the news, the Fourth is actually worse.

There are fourteen judges on the panel. Only one of them found that there was a constitutionally protected right to keep and bear modern semi-automatic rifles. Thank you, Judge Traxler.

Why is this case important?

The United States jurisprudence is based on common law. Once a law is passed, it is up to the courts to apply that law in a common way across all instances. Since the laws as written often have edge cases or might just be poorly written, the courts are required to say what happens in those edge cases or badly worded situations.

Consider the following. A government employee is granted a security clearance. They gain access to some classified material. Because they are pressured to complete some work regarding that classified material, they copy that material on to a thumb drive and take it home with them.

At home, they copy the documents on to their home server, stored in the spare bedroom. At a later time, they leave government employment. In the process of debriefing, they mention that they had a copy of a paper on their computer that they would remove.

They have just admitted to a crime. There is an investigation and they go to jail.

Any government employee who did a similar action, take classified material out of a secure location and put it on an insecure home server, would be guilty of the same crime and would be punished in the same way.

Common law is what makes this possible. Every court in the land has access to the law, as written, to the court cases involving that law, and what the holdings were for each of those cases. The courts then apply the law in a common way across all people.

This is true of the G.S.-5 who was charged with editing her bosses classified memo as to the S.E.S. former Secretary of State. The law is applied in a common way across everybody.

Kolbe is one of the fundamental pieces of case law that controls how Second Amendment challenges are adjudicated within the 4th Circuit Court. It is also used in other Circuits, though it is not binding on other circuits. Many cases on the East Coast were resolved based on Kolbe.

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WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Officers across Williamson County have their work cut out for them after as many as 70 cars were rifled through and two guns were stolen.

A group of choreographed thieves reportedly targeted unlocked cars in Nolensville, Brentwood and Spring Hill.

More than four neighborhoods were targeted in Nolensville and at least 30 cars were rummaged through by these criminals.
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According to investigators, the criminals did not break windows or pry open doors, but rather pulled on door handles. If the doors were unlocked, they searched through the car.

In multiple cases, Nolensville police said the thieves bypassed tools, expensive sunglasses, and even cash.

Detectives said they stole one handgun in a crime spree that authorities now said appears to be about finding guns in unlocked cars.

2 guns stolen, nearly 6 dozen vehicles burglarized in Williamson County, TN (wkrn.com)

“Won’t happen to me.” is a piss-poor life strategy and I bet most of the victims (of their own idiocy) were participants of that train of thought. Do I even have to go again about not leaving the effing gun inside the car unsecured? Out of sight in the center console, glove compartment or under the seat are not secure methods to keep a firearm from being stolen from your vehicle. And if you are home, take the damned thing inside the house!

Oh yes! If you leave your car outside the house, LOCK THE DAMNED THING!

PS: I wonder how many of these cars were parked outside because the garage was being used to store all kinds of shit that are probably altogether valued under 5% of the cost of the vehicle. It would be the equivalent of buying a $20 gun show nylon holster to carry a Les Baer Presentation Grade 1911.