- “I carry a gun every day.” This is great! (H/T LA)
- Wordlessly ending the hassle at a checkpoint. (Tip o hat to jed)
- Publicola is back! And he comes out swinging at the Neville Chamberlains of gun rights.
- Lenore Skenazy of Free Range Kids reviews the top 10 nanny-state fails of 2014.
- Amazing. Wonder. Beauty. Creation. Destruction. Science!
- And speaking of “science,” a prominent meteorologist explains why the NorthWET has been so very darned wet this year. 🙂
- Groom calls off wedding. Bride, family, and friends have some liberating fun.
All great finds!!! Love the un-wedding paint party, instead of pity party. What neat people. Sure hope this lady finds a groom worthy of her.
i don’t think that checkpoint method would work in NH. in this state the checkpoints are authorized by the superior court; so the search would be warranted.
local LE mentioned that in their petition they have to show that their stops are conducted in a random manner.
KiA — I can see how a judge might use some legalistic procedure to authorize a checkpoint. But I can’t see how any individual search at a checkpoint could be warranted, since warrants (at least in happy freedomista theory) require some probable cause.
But then, clearly I’m neither a lawyer nor capable of understanding why randomness makes random abuses legally okay. Sigh.
How common are checkpoints? I’ve never seen one here (Kentucky), or in any of the other states I’ve lived in (Florida and Ohio). Every time I’ve heard of someone getting a DUI, they were weaving all over the road, or giving some other indication they’re drunk.
I’ve been all over all three states on Long Range Flea Market Patrol, and have yet to see a single checkpoint. Are they an urban thing? I very seldom go into major urban areas if I can avoid it.
There’s a Lucky Dude out there somewhere that will wind up marrying the spin-art bride! A n additional cool factor is they put the dress on display. I hope it works out better for her in the long run.
Nanny state fails-seriously? I must not live in a Nanny State..oh-it’s Toad Suck, Arkansas, not Alaska..I know someone who went to the Toad Suck Festival…you gotta wonder how it got that name..
Miss Claire, I am touched. I didn’t know you knew of me let alone remembered me. But luckily I took an hour long seminar in blushing some years ago, so I think I have myself under control now 😀 I am woefully behind though – in addition to figuring out which buttons make something publish or go bye-bye, I just today found out about jpfo, & the last I read on that was from October. If you have a few moments & wouldn’t mind, what’s happening with them now? Things any better or worse than it seemed it’d be?
As wondrous as the Pillars of Creation is, I don’t think it quite measures up to the Keyhole Nebula for sentiment. (That’s really just a small part of the whole structure known as the Keyhole Nebula, in the much larger structure known as the Carina Nebula.)
The nanny-state rules make me sigh, but they really do create their own danger. As we saw just recently, sometimes even little kids need to deal when SHTF.
Girl Who Walked Away From Deadly Plane Crash Learned Survival Skills From Dad
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/01/04/girl-who-walked-away-deadly-plane-crash-learned-survival-skills-dad
I saw comments saying it would have been better for Sailor to stay with the plane. Such people have little knowledge of and no respect for nature. Someone dressed as she was, in wet, 40 degree weather, would have been in hypothermia long before dawn.
FRK is right. THANK YOU to Lenore!
Scott, checkpoints – of one kind or another – are quite common in California (surprise… not), but pretty much unknown here in Wyoming – with an occasional exception made in the two larger population centers (that really don’t amount to actual “cities.”
Since actual impairment is not important to them, only made up numbers and their “rules,” the number of truly dangerous drivers removed from the roads in this way is very small. And at least in California, the real purpose of the checkpoints has little or nothing to do with either dangerous drivers or alcohol. This article is five years old, and I’m sure things have gotten much worse, but it is a good overview of the problem. http://themoderatevoice.com/63941/dui-checkpoints-are-cash-cow-for-cops-cities/