On Board RestrictionsYeah, right.
For everyone's safety and comfort, Greyhound asks that customers please follow certain restrictions while on board. Federal law does not permit smoking on Greyhound buses. We have a zero tolerance for alcohol, drugs, weapons and unruly behavior.
Go Greyhound and leave your safety to us.
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"We have a zero tolerance for alcohol, drugs, weapons and unruly behavior". Good. Banning cops from riding is a start, but what else are they doing?
Greyhound in the USA (dunno about Canadia) hasn't allowed firearms, even as underneath luggage, for at least fourteen years.
Guess who (on a poor student budget) had planned to take a Greyhound hop from Denver International to where the antelope play, fall of 1994. Thanks to Greyhound's policy because he had a deer rifle with him when he got off the plane and went to get on the bus he got booted off the bus and wasted cab fare in both directions from DIA to the bus terminal and back and significant added expense to the journey.
That would be me.
Driver said "you got a guitar?", I said "nah, it's a rifle." He said "we can't carry you or your rifle." I asked if they thought I was going to burrow underneath through the floor to get my rifle out of the luggage compartments underneath so I could hijack the bus and they asked me if I'd like to be arrested.
F*ck them. They can eat a box of d*cks as far as I'm concerned. On no occasion would I ever use their services for anything in any country.
Last month I drove a moving truck down to Ga. Taking my daughter-in-laws stuff to them. My daughter-in-law had arranged for me a ride back home on Greyhound. I not knowing they were anti-American, I mean anti-gun took my handgun with me as I do everywhere.
When I got to the terminal in Atlanta I saw no guns allowed posted and thought shit what if they checked me before boarding. Thinking to the hell with it I went ahead and boarded with my handgun anyway. No one checked which was good because it would have been a long walk home if they had.
I was able to smuggle my pistol back with me and all worked out in the end.
Didn't realize I had the Canadian link--went to correct it with the US one, which says the same thing--and found out I cannot post--Google has blocked my blog as spam--I don't know if anyone used the "flag" option on the tool bar to complain and shut me down, but bottom line they say it takes two days--if I hadn't responded they would have deleted everything in 20 days.
Bottom line: WarOnGuns is dead in the water--which I guess means it's time to start spending a few dollars and get off damn blogspot if they're going to pull this crap and not be available for immediate rectifying.
I'm going to see if I can find their spam policy and a way to actually contact someone who can take any action. For now, we're out of the game.
Please spread the word about what happened.
There seems to be no email addy for help with google, but one can use their discussion boards for google help if one can figure out which board to post on.
Good luck David.
This shit happens because "The War on Guns" is more than just the name of a website to some people.
Stamping out reasoned discourse seems to be the specialty of those who complain the loudest about having their "Dissent Stifled".
I'm sorry to see the GoogleGoons go after you, David. Not surprised though.
I would gladly donate to a bandwidth fund if you move to another host.
regarding the blog issue, check out wordpress
with wordpress, you can import your content from blogger to make the switch
You might be able to pay someone to import your info and setup a wordpress blog. After that you wouldn't have to learn too much to update it. The Only One Files must be preserved!!
Import from Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal, and More
If you already have a blog elsewhere and would like to move it over to WordPress.com, we provide several import options that can import posts and comments.
wordpress features, scroll about half way down
BTW, after reading the red column I pressed the flag button on the to see what happens. I unflagged it right away though. I'm not a saboteur.
here's another link about importing from blogger to wordpress
I sent google a email in responce to this,
The Blog War on Guns has been blocked by Google as a Spam site, which is not the case. Never has War on Guns been a Spam Blog, nor anything close to it.
Why did you block the Blog? If this is still America then we are innocent until proven guilty and if you would of gotten off your dead Asses and looked at the site if there was a complaint against it you would of seen that it was not a Spam blog or anything close to it.
The precept of blocking a Blog until they prove it is not a Spam Blog goes contrary to freedoms of the American citizens, and with all the attacks against our freedoms one would find it refreshing if Google had ascertained the validity of any clame first then reacted accordingly. As it stands this reeks of a nanny state mentality, (to protect the people from their own self’s at all costs.
I will be looking to move my web page and Blog from Google as it stands right now and I know others will be doing so.
opaww
Thanks all--I have a WordPress account as well as a domain name--I've hesitated getting into it because it will not import any photos, and WoG archives are full of them--and many of the links go to internal blogspot urls.
The transfer process is just prohibitive in terms of the amount of time to get 3 years consisting of almost 7,400 discrete posts properly formatted...yeesh.
If I start over, I'll probably leave this site as an archive only and start fresh. I'm going to go play with WordPress and see if I like it.
you can still link the articals in this blog
David do you have a addy for the new blog yet so I can link mine to yours?
I don't understand why you think wordpress won't hold images. I have a wordpress blog and it is loaded with pictures.
Please find out more about this, David. I'd love to see you free of Google.
mamaliberty: i think the issue is that wordpress can't import blogger images
That's exactly the issue.
Please all hold on any link changes, etc. If I can get this resolved, I'm not anxious to make these changes. If and when I move I want it to be when I'm ready--not when I'm forced. On my terms, at the time and place of my choosing...
Y'know, there's an analogy in there somewhere...
It would not surprise me if the ones that flagged you as spam were members of the brady bunch, atf or a disgruntled “only one”.
The only problem with moving to a free wordpress acct. is that I think (not sure) that there is still a mechanism for people to report a site as spam. It would suck to do the work just to have one of the above shut you down again…
If you do go to a dedicated domain, look into ipowerweb. I have had no problems with them and it was fairly easy to set up wordpress on their system.
Another hosting possibility would be BayWords, a site established with the explicit purpose of actually protecting free speech... and it isn't based out of the US.
The import tools do appear to be WordPress-centric, though, so the same WordPress problems likely apply.
http://baywords.com is the URI
SayUncle has a post that says a lot of other blogs are being hit with this--among them Keyboard and a .45 and Dr. Helen--but not just "righty" blogs--apparently Google is trying out some new sw to detect their spam blog problem and got a lot of false positives. I expect it will be resolved before too long.
They did the same thing to a blog I'm affiliated with. Thanks to you, I went and checked and, sure enough they'd blocked one. Had to send them a response, too. Hopefully they'll get it together and stop this nonsense.
opaww:
I guess I shoulda lied and told them it was a Telecaster.
It's really funny because I've LEGALLY carried firearms (including handguns) on BART in SAN FRANCISCO (unloaded, ammo locked up in a different box, I talked to the BART police and the CHP and SFPD before I did it). But you can't take a bolt rifle on a hunting trip and involve Greyhound in it unless you lie to them or smuggle it.
Spose if my force of habit was to lie I wouldn't be involved in guns, I'd be a liberal antiRKBA politician. Shame it's come to this in a "free" country. Boycotts work, though. Ask S&W.
I was in Wal-mart one day and my handgun was bulging a little from under my shirt, someone actually said to me that was a bug cell phone I had. I looked at what she was referring to and said oh yes it is I have one with big number on it because I cannot see so well, so it sticks out a lot.
In reading about the bus attack again, I was thinking about how it COULD have gone. Someone could have used the fire extinguisher on the knifeman. Someone could have stuck a pen through his eye from behind. Bus windows push out to allow quick egress in an emergency; no one did that. What if it had been a fire? Not everyone would have made it out, the way they jammed the aisle and door. Under stress, habit takes over. Survivors are the ones who break from the herd.
The no guns policy and its consequences like this will lead many to beg for cops and soldiers on every conveyance. That's not freedom.
opaww:"Bug cellphone".
Oooh, I want me one of those.The feelers, the mandibles, the legs, the wing case....
[Sorry, that one was too good to pass up.]
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