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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
American Traveller Equality Act of 2010
But if Pelosi's flying experience is anything like Boehner's in the future, she still won't have to worry about pat-downs and security lines. [More]I find it offensive that these self-entitled elitists are automatically deemed more trustworthy than the general public that employs them.
Why not challenge your representative to introduce and/or sponsor a bill along these lines without delay? Seeing who supports and opposes it should be telling:
A BILL
To ensure that all members of Congress shall be subjected to the same Transportation Security Administration air travel screenings as their constituents.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘American Traveller Equality Act of 2010’.
SEC. 2. NO EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTAIN AIRPORT SCREENING METHODS.
No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any exemption for a Member of Congress from any physical contact, x-rays, or millimeter waves, that are requirements imposed on the general public in an airport or to fly in an aircraft.
END
If nothing else, the creative weasel-worded excuse-making ought to make for interesting reading.
We're the Only Ones Helping Ourselves Enough
Agents confronted Campbell, who was handcuffed and later searched. Bundles of money were found in both of Campbell's front and back pockets and a sweatshirt pocket. Money also fell out of each of his pant legs.[More]Where do they get these dumb goons?
Oh yeah--BATFU.
The O'Malley Plan
How Long?
How Long Before TSHTF? [More]
Got this one late Friday--since I don't post much except for GRE columns on weekends, I almost lost track of it.
It's a question worth discussing: How much time do you think we have?
My own answer would have to be you can never tell because we have no idea what the catalyst event will be.
Maybe that's another discussion to have--what do you think will be the likely irrevocable event to set things off?
My guess would be something we don't come up with, but as my kids will attest, I've been wrong before. And how.
I'm Glovin' It!
From Michael G:
Be something if they're made in China, wouldn't it?
WND has an article claiming that TSA personnel performing "Enhanced Pat Downs" do not regularly change their latex gloves between passengers.That and I'd be interested to know who their glove supplier is, whether controls are in place to prevent bio agents being placed in/on them during manufacturing/packaging, and whether distribution chain of custody controls are in place up to the time they are issued to the gropers...
This got me speculating, the hard part of bio warfare is not the disease, but spreading it. Aerosol delivery is really pretty inefficient. But imagine a suicide bio bomber infected by a lethal disease spread by skin to skin contact booking an airline flight and refusing to go through the scanners? Then if the TSA personnel that performed the pat down failed to follow proper glove discipline he would spread it to every other passenger he searched until he finally changed his gloves. Possibly himself if he didn't know the proper way to remove gloves.
Be something if they're made in China, wouldn't it?
We're the Euronly Ones Shockingly Powerful Enough
The shocking powers of prosecution the EU has over all of us [More]Sounds like as good a reason to say the hell with seeking peaceable redress as any...
We're the Only Ones Using the Nuclear Option Enough
Federal agents hired to transport nuclear weapons and components sometimes got drunk while on convoy missions, a government watchdog said Monday. In an incident last year, police detained two agents who went to a bar during an assignment. [More]As Homer Simpson said, "It's nuke-yular."
And these are the morons who don't trust us with guns.
We're the Only Ones Lighting Up Yor Life Enough
Well, it's gotta be something's fault...The sergeant specifically blamed the placement of a light switch under the trigger guard on his .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol. [More]
Be interested to see if he gets away with this--that excuse might come in handy some day. But then again, it may be reserved for more special people than us just plain folks...
[Via William T]
For Every Action...
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...
A POLICE chief has sparked fury by calling for kids aged 10 to be allowed to use guns such as rifles. Do you agree with him? [More]The bleating from some of the sheep is just too contemptible--some truly will deserve their fate.
Meanwhile, take heart--not everyone is so removed from the "gun culture"--take, for instance Will's main squeeze...
[Via cycjec]
We're the Only Ones Informative Enough
A Chicago Police officer was a partner in crime with his informant -- a drug dealer who has allegedly killed at least two people and was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the city for information that led to arrests of his rivals, according to law-enforcement sources and an indictment unsealed Monday. [More]
You mean paid snitch programs can foster police corruption and abuse?
This is my shocked face.
[Via FFFW]
Philadelphia ‘secret police’ threaten to ‘lock up’ citizen for open carrying
Apparently, in the city of Independence Hall, secret police wearing full length black coats and red arm bands can rely on intimidation to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms—and are confident from experience that they can get away with evading personal accountability for it. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes that turning on a light is the best way to deal with those who would hide in the dark.
Share the illumination?
This Day in History: November 23
I have wrote you repeatedly but have not been honored with any reply, which I impute to the uncommon hurry in which you must have been, since you left us. I have long since been impatient to see you in this City for many, very many Reasons as well public, as private. I shall hope for that pleasure, before I leave America, meantime you will oblige me by sending me a Bill for the Amount of the Goods sent you if agreeable to you, as I am remitting whatever I can to France against my return for which am extremely impatient. I pray of you to make inquiry if a passage can be procured from Boston soon in a good Vessel for France or Spain I care not which - the port waits & I cannot add any thing but my Compliments to Mrs. Hancock & that I am as ever with the most sincere attachment. [More]
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