But it needs more zeroes. Opposing civil rights should be expensive.

I’m with Les. This season is awesome. And they have good villains. I think Boyd Crowder is one of the best villains of all time. Well, is he really a villain in the classical sense? Seems more an opportunist looking to engage in commerce. Doesn’t seem to matter if it’s selling white supremacy, drugs, robbery, or a shakedown. He won’t ‘run whores’ though. Violates his principles and annoys his girlfriend. But he’s not really the main character’s arch-nemesis. He’s often helpful or, at least, useful to the good guys provided it benefits him.

Yes, stupid ones:

“I was completely startled when I saw a sign saying ‘firearms and ammunition,’ ” says DiSalvo, who has lived in the borough for 10 years and is the mother of two grown children. “I thought, ‘Why is there a gun store here?’ “

Because people like to exchange money for lawful products. And there’s a petition to stop more shops from opening.

They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

The latest from the FBI on those extremists you may know. Seems these days the .gov thinks everyone is a terrorist or an extremist. Except, you know, actual terrorists and extremists.

About Fast and Furious.

Also, 3 questions not asked about it.

Update: Holder either knew or was willfully ignorant.

And the comments nail it.

At a church.

In Detroit, residents no longer rely on the police:

Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they’re offering no apologies.

And private security firms are offering protection and doing routine patrols.

The press comes out of the gate lying about the new president of the gun control group. I’m not sure why. They seem pretty uninformed about the whole thing, really. It’s like they don’t even try.

It’s getting quite tyrannical. Woman, who cares for the elderly and disabled, goes to Alabama to buy Sudafed, since she needs a prescription in Mississippi. While there, she had other family members each buy a box. May as well get a supply of medicine to keep your family healthy. Now, she’s accused attempting to make meth. And another from the same story, where a grandmother bought a box of Zyrtec and a box of Mucinex in less than a week. She was handcuffed and arrested.

It’s pathetic.

From the Mississippi woman’s husband:

When common household medications and disinfectants are now illegal to possess, I believe we have gone overboard with the drug laws.

End the drug war and release the POWs.

Update: Glenn on nanny state cold medicine regulators:

I think these people should be exposed to toddler snot, then locked in a freezing basement with a bag of ragweed pollen tied over their head until they develop a proper appreciation for the consequences of their policies.

Heh.

This is an odd one:

One would think that a church would feel a special obligation to make sure that they weren’t fueling a black market for a particularly deadly form of commerce

Bloomie’s knickers are all in a twist because the LDS folks run classified ads on their for profit website.

They need your help. Go donate if you can.

Seems there’s an invasive species of Asian carp. Enter Peoria Carp Hunters. They dress up like gladiators, hop in a boat and go about laying waste the carp in, uhm, creative ways.

Musician dies, gets resurrected. Claims he was forced to sing for zombies. Ok, then.

Weerd has a review, goes belt-less. More here, including video of women in their underwear.

Hell Damn Fart! Infection May Cause Tourette’s-like Condition

Iranian women get ninja training.

The SAF on their appeal.

A good discussion.

Well, I always wanted to know.

A review of the 5.11 Tactical COVRT 18 Backpack.

In Knoxville, a recycling company must stop accepting old shingles. Seems the piles are growing and no recycling has occurred.

This is actually something I recently learned about. A client of mine does roofing. As a result, he has lots of old shingles to dispose. Asphalt companies like to use old shingles in their product. So we thought we’ll recycle them. Turns out, no place local really wanted to take them. And then we thought we’ll set up our own place to collect old shingles and sell the scrap to asphalt companies. Well, it turns out there’s a state law that makes recycling them locally a major pain and transporting them out of state makes the operation unprofitable. I’m guessing that’s what’s happening here aside from the lack of a solid waste permit.

A claim that Romney is good on guns. Since he ran right out and bought his NRA life membership the first time he ran for prez, I’m unconvinced.

The CEO of PPSS (who makes body armor and other stuff) takes a close range shot to prove his product works.

Paratrooper M1 carbine

Taurus mini 380 revolver

From NRA on facebook: The Virginia Senate just voted 21-19 to repeal Virginia’s one-gun-a-month handgun law.

No, not the movie, my GI issues.

I have an ultrasound scheduled, followed by an upper scope and a lower scope. Seems they can’t do both at the same time because then the doc doesn’t get paid for both by insurance. Seems to me the insurance company would rather minimize the costs but large insurance companies aren’t known for being smart.

Seems it could be gall bladder issues, hence the ultrasound. And the doc says it doesn’t sound like any thing life-threatening, which is good.

Right here. It’s interesting to me that, perusing the photos, there is no trigger discipline. Those photos published today would result and internet flame wars and comments galore. We’ve come a long way with gun safety, I suppose. Good.

First of all: Et tu, Clint Eastwood? I mean, really. The next half or whatever. After the bailouts. I’m unimpressed.

Up next, no, Chevy I will not trust your vehicles during the apocalypse. You can’t survive a recession, much less the end of the world.

Audi, as always, was sort of meh. They make some fine cars but I can never get excited about them.

But Hyundai brought their A game. When they said the new Genesis Sedan could beat a Porsche Panamera to 60, I jumped back. Then I realized they likely didn’t mean the turbo version, which does it in 3.6. But they meant the regular, which does it in 6. Impressive but not fantastic. Then, the 348HP Genesis Coupe. Presuming they can get the torque and weight right, that could hang with or beat the G37. Interesting stuff coming out of Korea. I mean, really, those are Hyundais.

Gear Scout tells us which AR-15 buttstocks are the toughest.