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These kids are incredible. They are brohters, and the banjo player is only 9 years old.

I drive a Dodge Challenger with the 5.7L Hemi. One of the first things that I did when I bought the car was to have the exhaust straight piped. This makes the car fairly loud, and for this reason, people often think the car is going faster than it is.
Periodically, I have people (always women) yell at me to slow down. The conversation usually goes like this:

Woman: “You should slow down. The speed limit here is X.”
Me: “How fast do you think I was going?”
Her: “Too fast.”
Me: “Are you a cop?”
Her: “You need to slow down.”
Me: “Go fuck yourself.”

I have been told that I am being rude. I agree. However, when another person appoints themselves as the monitor of my behavior, my attitude of “you’re not the boss of me” kicks in, and I tell them to stop. While rude, I don’t think it is out of line.
The stopping distance of my car from 30 mph is 23 feet. The stopping distance for a minivan from 20 mph? 25 feet. Why? Because I have
Anyway, just who appointed you to be the traffic monitor?

New Hampshire’s House recently passed HB1410. This law redefines domestic violence to include animal cruelty. Cruelty in this case is defined as “acts or omissions injurious or detrimental to the health, safety or
welfare of any animal, including the abandoning of any animal without
proper provision for its care, sustenance, protection or shelter.” The text of HB1410 is here. The legal definition of animal cruelty is here.

This can result in any person that breaks up with their domestic partner and moves out of the house without making arrangements for the goldfish to be taken care of being slapped with a domestic violence restraining order, even if there is no evidence that the person in question has committed any violent act. This, in turn, will result in the person in question becoming a “prohibited person” for the ownership or possession of firearms under Federal law.

Slippery slope is not a fallacious argument.

Equality sucks, if you are normally part of the privileged class, that is. Recently, 40 Sheriffs went to address the state legislature in Oklahoma, and were told that they had to either disarm or leave. They chose to leave.

Many conservatives applaud the sheriff’s position and think that the legislature was wrong. Not me. The cops did not do this as some kind of protest against stupid gun restrictions. They walked out because they feel that they are above the rules that the rest of us are forced to follow:

Colbert doesn’t know for sure which senator complained, but has his own complaints about the complainer.

“We’re the people that protect these people,” he said. 

 The cops don’t care one whit about your rights to arms. They care only about their power and privilege. This was not a stand for rights, but a turf battle between two sets of elected officials.

Because of my recent data security problems, I finally wound up changing everything. I now have new bank account numbers, a new phone number, and all of my internet passwords have been changed. The only things I haven’t changed are my street address and my email address.

In other news, the woman that I began dating 5 weeks ago and I have agreed that we should stop seeing anyone else, so that we can see where things go without distractions. Life continues to improve.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An anti-gun congressman is a prohibited person, forbidden by Federal law from owning or possession of a firearm.

Alan Grayson believes that gun control is the way to go.The very law that he once supported is being used against him.

My own view is that domestic violence injunctions are far too often used falsely as a lever in court, but I admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude when I see an anti-gunner hoist on his own petard.

An off duty cop is arrested for DUI after leaving a local country music bar. As the state trooper is doing the arresting, the cop under arrest tells him that his career is over because he dared to arrest another police officer. Bravo to the trooper, and I hope this entitled piece of shit that he arrested sees an end to his career.

I would also point out that the deputy who was arrested for DUI after the trooper spotted him going 60 mph in a 35 mph zone and followed him for over a mile as he watched him weave all over the road, is allowed to carry a concealed weapon nearly anywhere in the nation without a permit for the remainder of his life, even if he is convicted of the crime of which he has been accused.

Why? Because cops are more trustworthy than the rest of us, or something.

I truly believe that many people and businesses only do what is right when they are faced with a lawsuit. Nothing gets a person’s attention like a subpoena. It is one of our basic rights: you have the right to sue someone to enforce a contract or other obligation.

With that being said, the law is abused far too often. Case in point: An 18 year old woman is suing her parents because they won’t pay for her to go to college, after she moved out because she didn’t want to abide by the house rules set forth by her parents.

There has to be some way to stop this type of foolishness without trampling on the rights of those who actually DO need the courts to enforce their rights.