...you should be.

Texas does not have a law entitled "brandishing". And even if we did, carrying your rifle from your pickup to your house would not violate such a dumb-bunny law.

Texas does not have any laws concerning the carry of shotguns and/or rifles. Yes, he can carry his rifle over his shoulder as he walks down the farm-to-market road. Deal with it.

Texas does not have any laws concerning ammunition. It is not against the law to have loose ammo in your vehicle. Or your pockets. Or in the change plate at church.

Texas does not register guns. Period. Suck it up.

Texas does not have the legal term "assault rifle". It's a rifle. It's legal. Shut your pie hole and evolve into a spine.

Deputy Friendly will explain this to you once. Maybe twice. The third time he has to listen to your snivelling, whining, lying claptrap, he is going to turn into Deputy Irritated. This should be taken as a warning.

It should not be taken as a reason to refer to the Deputy as a "jumped up prison guard"; and I should warn you that threatening the Sheriff of a Texas County with the disfavour and/or wrath of a Mayor or a Chief of Police does usually get met with giggles.

If things were that great back whereverthehell you came from, why are you polluting my county, hmm?

Added to blogroll.  Thanks to Xavier for this one.

Somehow I missed it, but eponym has their own search box that is easily installed.  So now there's a handy search box in the left sidebar.  I will probably use this more than anyone else.

I like it here so much that I am actually thinking about paying for this service.  I would get a few extra perks for $4.95 per month.  Seeing as how I spend more than that in one week on Dr. Pepper and Corn Nuts, it's probably a good deal.

Apparently the Alabama church building fires have been determined not to have been (cough) hate crimes:

We were told by official sources ... that seemingly some drinking, some night hunting, was ultimately what led to all of this," said Randy Youngblood, the campus police chief at Birmingham-Southern College.

A federal judge postponed a hearing set for Friday to determine whether to grant bond for three college students accused of setting fires that damaged or destroyed nine rural churches in Alabama on Feb. 3 and Feb. 7.

In a brief docket note, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert R. Armstrong said he was delaying the hearing until Wednesday at the request of defense lawyers.

The move meant the three will remain jailed at least until next week on federal charges of conspiracy and setting fire to one of the churches, Ashby Baptist. If convicted, each count carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison. Additional charges are possible, authorities have said.

Federal and state authorities have not commented on a possible motive, beyond evidence that an apparent prank spun out of control. Defense attorneys have not commented either, but say the fires were not crimes of hate.

Thank goodness!  So now we know that they were only drunken, malicious bastards and not drunken, malicious, hate-filled bastards--and are therefore deserving of a lighter sentence.

I expect to hear any day now that Alabama will institute a five-day waiting period for alcohol purchases.  Or even better, a law against anyone under 21 legally purchasing alcohol.  Oh, wait...

tnx to Babylonandon

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It seems that Google's spam prevention has gone somewhat over the top.  This comment says it all:

I've had the same problem and mine's more of a conservative blog, so I don't think the Blogger robots have any political bias.  They're just stupid all around.

I think I got out just in time.

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