Gun Free Zone

Duane Owen (Was/Were) was executed for the murder of Georgianna Worden, a 38-year-old executive secretary and mother of two. He was also given the death penalty for the brutal rape and murder of 14-year-old Karen Slattery who was first stabbed all over her body 18 times and then sexually abused.

ACLU trying to be woke, keeps cementing the idea that all LGBQT+&%$, etc. are just a bunch of murdering sexual deviates who we are supposed to commiserate because they were not given a penis slicing and titties courtesy of the taxpayers.

But we are the bigots.

Then again maybe the ACLU is following the example of school boards that refuse to arm teachers or even harden schools to protect children. You get successful fundraisers and more funding if you get to wave the bloody shirt.

There are days when your socks are knocked off. Is it accidental journalisming or is this common place for them?

It is even more confusing when the call sign is “KPQ”. For those that don’t know, radio call signs start with “W” east of the Mississippi and with a “K” to the west. Generally a “K” call sign translates to “Oh My God, they said what!”

Can You Legally Carry A Firearm In Public In Washington?—Dave Bernstein, Can You Legally Carry A Firearm in Public In Washington?, News Radio 560 KPQ, (last visited Jun. 17, 2023) I’m cringing already.

Where’s the catch?

Come on, where is the zinger? Where is the slam of conservatives and gun owners? What’s WRONG with you?

That’s the extent of their reporting. Clean, clear, short. The rest of the article is a table of states and the legal state of open and concealed carry in those states. Nothing untoward.

Feel free to give them a click and positive feedback.

A small warning. When a state has open carry but concealed is permitted, shitty cops will sometimes claim that having any part of your arm covered is actually “concealed”. That means that if you are wearing an OWB holster and your shirt tail covers a part of the grip, you could be charged with concealed carry without a permit.

In the same way, but reverse, some cops will claim that if your concealed firearm prints or is observed it is “open carry”. If the stated doesn’t allow open carry you are in for a bad day.

I am all up for buying a nice AR from the back of a truck like it was tamales.

Biden: “Down in Philadelphia and New York, areas I know well, like up here, you’d see a truck pull up, pull to the curb and selling weapons, selling guns, selling AR-15s.”

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— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 16, 2023

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.