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REPORT: In a stunning decision the 9th Circuit has ruled in (Duncan v Becerra) IN FAVOR OF GUN RIGHTS by affirmng that #California's ban on possession of high capacity magazines holding ten rounds or more violates the #2ndAmendment. pic.twitter.com/M07NnXH3dJ

— John Basham (@JohnBasham) August 14, 2020

I guess not everything in 2020 is bad.

Whatever the 9th Circus is smoking, they need to pass it around.

I know, now you are stuck with the song because of my childish sense of humor.

Photo taken with a Kodak PIXPRO Astro Zoom AZ251. I have to say that this camera has given me so many great pictures. A gift from the missus a couple of Christmas ago and runs under $150 IRRC

It will do very nicely till Pentax decides to make a camera where I can use all my old lenses without having to shell 3 or 4 mortgage payments and a pint of blood. .

And that includes fireworks.

Today’s visual safety brief. ZONK!! pic.twitter.com/Tua6Tuv1pk

— Knot the Agency Guy (@knot_agency) August 14, 2020

From the New York Post:

‘Blazing Saddles’ debuts on HBO Max with a new racism warning

HBO Max has added yet another informative introduction to one of its titles. When “Blazing Saddles” hit the network’s new platform on July 28, the Mel Brooks film kicks off not with its opening sequence, but rather an introduction by University of Chicago professor and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart.

“This movie is an overt and audacious spoof on classic Westerns,” Stewart says in the newly added intro. “It’s as provocative today as it was when it premiered back in 1974.”

This is a God dammed shame.

There should only be one introduction to this movie.

“Blazing Saddles is THE funniest movie ever made.  Mel Brooks is a comic genius without equal.  This movie has entertained millions for decades without a trigger warning. If this movie offensive you, your parents failed you and you need therapy. If you get the urge to cancel someone because of this movie, do society a favor and wash your mouth out with a shotgun.”

The person who decided that Blazing Saddles needs a trigger warning can get fucked with a Sawzall.

If anyone tries to cancel Mel Brooks or insult the memory of Gene Wilder I will be happy to personally feed them feet first into a wood chipper.

If Hollywood ever goes so far as to memory hole this movie I will Killdozer down Hollywood Boulevard until it’s restored.

I swear to God, this is the shit that will drive me to Boogaloo, not being able to show my son Blazing Saddles.

This is too insane not to be real for 2020.

Good Humor is “calling on ALL drivers to STOP playing ‘Turkey in the Straw’ immediately" because of its association with minstrel shows in the 1800s.

But Good Humor has good news! They have an idea for a new song https://t.co/BeLAppQcTb

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 13, 2020

I, like countless kids learned the Sharon Lois and Bram lyrics.  We knew. Nothing of minstrel shows.  My association with that song is ice cream trucks and learning to sing folk songs in elementary school music class.

No child today hears that song and thinks “this is a song of black oppression because my ancestors had to sing it while they danced for their dinner before racist white people.”

If they do it’s because their woke parents told them that, which really is child abuse.  There is no reason to make a little kid miserable, shouldering them with a history of racism they don’t have the higher thought capability to emotionally process.

So what did they replace Turkey in the Straw with?

A song by Wu-Tang.

The rap band from the 1990s that used the n-word liberally, sang songs about the criminal life style, abusing women, and drugs. They embodied the gangster rap lifestyle so much, one original member Ol’ Dirty Bastard was murdered.

But sure, letting one of these guys create a new ice cream truck song is less problematic that an old folk song, the lyrics nobody knows, because the popular version was created by some hippie Canadian kid’s music folk singers.

This is such bullshit.

I always hear the chant whenever somebody has an issue with their PC or Windows system. Why I don’t buy Apple? Besides old history with a distributor/seller way back in the dark ages, it simply does not make fiduciary sense: You don’t use a Bugatti Chiron to go to Walmart for groceries or load it with sacks of cement from Home Depot for the patio rebuild you are doping this weekend. I just need a basic computer that allows me to surf the web, play World of Tanks and write this blog, I need the equivalent of a “previously used” F-150 and nothing else.

I just captured this from their respective websites:

Basically I can buy 4.5 Dells Inspirons for the price of the cheapest desktop Mac. My computers usually last me 3-4 years easily which means at the Apple price I have computer coverage for over a decade, less if I decided to get  bigger monitors rather than keep using the ones I already have.

Mind you, Macs do amazing work if you are in the Audio Visual business. I have a buddy who is a recording engineer (with a Grammy under his belt) and does all his work with Apple, but his regular human use is done on PC because it does not make sense to risk expensive tooling for anything else.

In gun terms, it makes more sense to spend the same money and  buy an used Glock 19, 2 spare mags, ammo and take a class than buying a top of the line HK USP 45 and nothing else.