Attack of the Killer Raccoons

Posted on August 24th, 2006 in Guns, Self Defense by Justin

In regards to the attack of the killer raccoons out in Washington GeekWithA45 weighs in and nails it:

All that pain and suffering, for failure to properly apply $98 worth of hardware?

Where I grew up, this would have never made the papers.

It’d have been taken care of about 2 minutes after the pattern was discerned.

The obvious action item would have been delegated to the nearest 12 year old.

Ayup. Shoot the little fuckers.

I figure the only thing we differ on is choice of caliber. He’s thinking .22LR, I’m thinking a break-action 20 gauge. The later being good for anything from pesky birds to something the size of a deer depending on the shells used. My choice would be a bit loud, I suppose.

Driving While Loaded

Posted on August 24th, 2006 in Freedom & Liberty by Justin

No, not in the booze-related way. We’re talking about cashy money here.

SayUncle is outraged, and I can’t blame him.

Instead, the court ruled that the mere fact that Gonzolez was carrying a large sum of money, that he had difficulty understanding the officer’s questions, that he incorrectly answered some of those questions (due, Gonzolez says, to fears that if police knew he was carrying that much money, they might confiscate it — imagine that!), and that a drug dog alerted to the car Gonzolez was driving (which, as dissenting judge Donald Lay noted, was a rental, likely driven by dozens of people before Gonzolez), was enough to “convict” the money of having drug ties, even if there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Gonzolez.

We’re talking about $124,000 here, and this wasn’t some po-dunk backwater court either; it was the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Unless the Supreme Court picks this up and overturns it, well, I can’t imagine what the ramifications of this as precedent will be.

To understand just how messed up this situation is, one only needs to look at the case name: United States of America v. $124,700, in U.S. Currency.

The mind boggles.

Not Dead!

Posted on August 24th, 2006 in Blogging by Justin

I’m still here, folks, just been busy with a few other things in my life and haven’t found time to post much lately.