monkeylizard

Why would anyone ever think otherwise?

Ray Blanton made Rod Blagojevich look like a choir boy. He had schemes inside his schemes.

Dunkirk at the IMAX is on my calendar for tomorrow night.

I'm not moved to be against it yet, but I've long held that it should only be used for heinous crimes when there's zero doubt of guilt and innocence. Get a conviction beyond reasonable doubt, but only have execution on the table when it's beyond the shadow of a doubt. We wrongly convict too many people to use it in any other way.

FIFY!

If anyone else showed up with a gun and demanded you turn over your cash, it would called armed robbery. Without actual criminal charges and a conviction, it should be no different with a badge. If it's drug money, convince a DA to press charges and then prove it in court. I also agree that the seizing agency shouldn't get a dime of it. It creates way too much conflict of interest. I know that would remove a huge tool in the DEA's arsenal for going after drug runners, but the cost to our civil liberty is just too great, IMO.

In most cases, that's where I land too. In this case, it's hard to feel that way after the Sheriff said what he said. Maybe it is a systemic problem in the whole department. I'm not saying every deputy. I'm saying something's wrong with the department, their hiring practices, their training materials and methods, their procedures, their patrol guide, etc. If what those deputies did was within department policy, then that's a serious problem which starts at the top.

Now they do it because someone thinks they might be involved in loaf larceny. http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-18/local/me-24209_1_forfeiture-law

I think that there was on an old episode of The Simpsons where Homer drove past a sign that read "Welcome to Texas. 3,086 executions for 2,267 crimes" or something like that.

TCA 55-8-198 But because this stuff is written by lawyers, that's followed by (b ) (4 ) which says:

You can thank Ronald Reagan and the GOP for that. His war on drugs and the Comprehensive Crime Control Act that was a part of it brought civil forfeiture back into vogue in the USA. It really incentivized local and state LEOs to take advantage of it. There's nothing quite like guilty until proven innocent, is there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States#Legal_origins http://www.aclu-tn.org/policing-profit-shocking-cost-civil-asset-forfeiture/ News Channel 5's Phil Wwilliams did a big expose series on this several years ago. Here's one for $22,000 http://www.newschannel5.com/story/18241221/man-loses-22000-in-new-policing-for-profit-case Or how about $160,000: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/tn-hearings-demonstrates-_n_4323673.html

Good for her. I hope I can still enjoy it when I'm 71.

I'll be tempted to do the same. Of course that will depend on who gets the Dem nomination.

I caught the audio version of this on the radio this morning. Well presented by NPR. I'm shocked. I think the audio can be played via the blue button at the top left of the article. http://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539438864/military-tries-to-cut-through-the-noise-of-war It was nice to hear them describe and then demonstrate that "silencer" is a misnomer. In the audio version, they demonstrate an M4 fired unsuppressed and suppressed. Well done.

None. I wouldn't have any money left for ammo. . .

MG 42 https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/58/570/mg-42-fully-automatic-class-iii-machine-gun-gustloff-werke-suhl

My wife (a teacher) had a kid one year named Diamante....yep....named after the Mitsubishi.... Some teachers my wife worked with swear they had a kid in a summer camp named Vaginal Delight. It was a few days after I heard this story that I realized the poor kid's initials would be V.D.

It's my understanding that the current law allows the Secretary of the Army to make the transfer. There is no Secretary of the Army right now, so technically nobody is allowed to make the transfer even if El Presidente tells the Sec Def to get it done. That may be a misunderstanding. I can't seem to find the text of this year's amendment, so I don't know who is being directed to make the transfer.

It has been about 25 years since I ceased to be a dependent, and I still can't go into a store like Wal-Mart or Target without instinctively wanting to pull out my wallet and show my ID to someone at the front door. Stupid AAFES . . . . I also can't go to a movie without hearing that announcer voice in my head saying "Now sit back, relax, and enjoy your AAFES feature presentation."

Rep. Mike Rogers' amendment was included in the House version of the NDAA which passed today. If the Senate passes it (and they probably will) then I think the Army has to release the surplus 1911s to the CMP. http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2017/07/cmp-1911-pistols/

Maybe you could try container gardening? A 5-gallon bucket will support a tomato plant. Maybe you can do a few of those on a deck or patio just for the satisfaction of growing something and getting a little fresh produce.

Tomato plants are producing like crazy and for the first time ever I'm having some good success with pepper plants. Okra is about 2 feet tall and I saw one pod on it. It got to about 8" long before I noticed it so it's worthless, but it's there. Slugs killed my beans.

The best part is that the boxes look the same, so I just don't keep them together. she still thinks I only got one new gun.

I couldn't decide between 9mm and .45 so I got both.