Most satisfying end to a Confederate flag parade ever. (Video NSFW due to language.)

Hey look racists can't drive!

I love that the guy narrating this video, who is clearly African American, is at first really irritated by the fact that the police are blocking off the streets for this debacle, and then becomes almost giddy after one truck rear ends another.

"God don't like ugly." 

By the way this is in Georgia where my daughter is currently staying for work. I REALLY do not like her being in Georgia.

Statistics suggest that this year guns may surpass cars as the leading instrument of death for Americans.

Courtesy of The Economist: 

According to data gathered by the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), deaths caused by cars in America are in long-term decline. Improved technology, tougher laws and less driving by young people have all led to safer streets and highways. Deaths by guns, though—the great majority suicides, accidents or domestic violence—have been trending slightly upwards. This year, if the trend continues, they will overtake deaths on the roads. 

The Centre for American Progress first spotted last February that the lines would intersect. Now, on its reading, new data to the end of 2012 support the view that guns will surpass cars this year as the leading killer of under 25s. Bloomberg Government has gone further. Its compilation of the CDC data in December concluded that guns would be deadlier for all age groups.

It is also important to note that the main purpose of cars in transportation, while the main purpose of guns is to end life.

Cars also MUST be registered with the government, and operators MUST pass both a written exam and be tested on their ability to handle the vehicle before being given a license to do so.

Most states ask for none of that in order to buy and use a firearm.

And yet the right to own only one of these is guaranteed by the Constitution. 

Just thought it was important to point all of that out.

Woman purchases gun in anticipation of violent protests in Ferguson, instead shoots herself in the head.

Courtesy of CNN: 

A woman appears to have accidentally fatally shot herself in the head with a gun bought to prepare for possible Ferguson-related unrest, according to sources briefed on the police investigation. 

The female victim, identified in a police report as Becca Campbell, 26, was a passenger in a car involved in an auto accident. 

Her 33-year-old boyfriend was driving, the sources told CNN. The boyfriend, who wasn't identified, told police that the couple had bought a gun because of fears of unrest related to the pending grand jury decision on the shooting of Michael Brown, the sources said. 

He told investigators that as they drove late Friday night, the victim waved a gun, jokingly saying the couple were ready for Ferguson, the sources said. 

He ducked to get out of the way of the gun and accidentally rear-ended another car. 

He said the accident caused the gun to go off and she was struck by a bullet in the head, the sources said. The victim was rushed to a hospital but died.

That may be one of the dumbest death by handgun stories I have ever read.

Guns in the hands of untrained amateurs does not make anybody safer. But it certainly puts the person with the gun, and everybody around them, at greater risk.

It kind of makes me wonder how many bullets will fly once this Grand Jury decision is released.

Cliven Bundy illegally sends cattle to graze on federal land. Woman hits Bundy cow with car. Bundy claims fault of state government for not mending fences. Claims woman owes him for loss of cow.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

A Las Vegas woman has sued Cliven Bundy after she crashed into one of his cows on Interstate 15. 

Danielle Beck was riding in a car that collided with the animal April 14, two days after federal authorities backed down from an armed confrontation with the scofflaw rancher and his supporters in a dispute over unpaid grazing fees, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal. 

The cow was killed, and the 40-year-old Beck suffered broken bones and other injuries when her boyrfiend crashed into the livestock and drove over an embankment about 10 miles from Bundy’s ranch in Bunkerville. 

“She’s lucky she lived,” said the woman’s attorney, Bob Apple. “I’ve been practicing since 1975, and I’ve never seen someone with so many broken ribs.”

The woman filed a $20,000 lawsuit against Bundy

The cow apparently escaped through a hole in the fence, however Bundy does not believe he is the one liable for the woman's injuries:

 Bundy admitted the cow was his, but he said the state is responsible for maintaining the fence that keeps his livestock off the interstate. 

“It’s a state problem, it’s not our problem,” Bundy said. “We really feel bad when it happens. We sure don’t want it to happen, but we’re not liable.”

So to be clear Bundy herded his cattle onto federal land where he has no grazing rights and has been warned repeatedly to stay away from, and now he is blaming the state government for not making sure that there was no way for these scofflaw cows to become a driving hazard. 

The police had to be called after the accident, and they herded four cows off of the road.

Apparently Bundy did not even bother to show up after being notified of the accident.

But here, here's my favorite part: 

Bundy said he was within his rights to make a claim against Beck for the loss of his livestock. 

“The person whose car hit that cow is liable to me,” Bundy said.

That's right he is planing to sue the woman who maliciously murdered one of his cows while driving down a road that she naively seemed to believe would be bovine free.

Silly rabbit.