It seems like if you're going to open a legally sketchy business, you'd at least get all your building permits and stuff in order. Why ask for the trouble?

“I turned him in, but the media called me ‘the bling, bling bishop.’ They had my Rolls-Royce car all over everywhere and I feel that that played a part in this,” said Whitehead. “I think all pastors should be able to get permits for pistols.”

A pastor with $1 mil of jewlery on him? He must not really understand the Bible that well. 

Matthew 19:24 “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

Loved ones cited Walker’s grief as a way to make sense of why he’d end up in a police chase.

Yours may be the first documented case of someone actually knowing what they had.

Fuck Texas. Fuck cops. Fuck that Jeep guy. Charges should be more serious than a misdemeanor. He could have killed the cyclist. No, you don’t fucking joke around like that.

We need to have federal Truth in Advertising laws to protect consumers of all goods and services—not just people buying cars from a dealer.

Nice whataboutism, comrade.

and thats why they ruled that they all had to stop using heavy fuel oil. theyre much cleaner than they used to be. but whats the equivalent then? you gonna stop buying chinese shit? cause capitalism says we have to send jobs there so a few dozen people can be filthy rich.

There should be a basic legal principle that the fines for a crime must be equal to or greater than the gains one makes by committing the crime.

US EEZ starts 200 miles out. “national waters” are 12 miles/20km

He made 10 million.  Pays two and a half mil in fines. Six months of home confinement, and another 150K on top.   He’s still 8 mil ahead. THIS is why things are the way they are.  Steal a “billion”, pay a pittance of a fine, Rinse and repeat, and repeat.  Make these guys destitute, take the house, car, food on the…

“He was doing it way worse than me!” Wasn’t a valid defense in 3rd grade, and it still isn’t.

This is the one case where I legit think crushing impounded vehicles is warranted.

The problem in my area with guys with diesel pickups is rolling coal.  I wish they would get nailed for modifying their fuel systems for that crap!

I mean, the EPA can’t do shit about the FuelShark, because the FuelShark doesn’t do shit in the first place.  

So, can we now stop with the obligatory,

If you abolish the police, who is going to stand around for an hour waiting for backup while a gunman is in the school with your kids? Answer me that.