Be patient, citizens! That is an order! Your government is hard at work protecting you. (I do rather wonder what those TSA lines snaking up and down escalators look like. Or worse, feel like to stand in, especially if you’re stuck at the top or bottom where the stairs disappear. But not enough to want to go to an airport to see for myself.)
Speaking of gummint “protection,” be glad you didn’t run into this employee of the Federal Protective Service.
Militias going mainstream? So sez The Guardian with a surprising minimum of tsking about it.
But not to worry. Plenty of tsking is still to be had in government schools. This time over a rather creative paper gun.
We are shocked. Simply shocked. Facing minimum-wage hikes, Wendys is adding self-serve kiosks, with McDonalds not far behind. Yeah, kids; that minimum-wage that nobody thinks you’re worth is a real benefit, isn’t it?
But howzabout this news on those Hillary emails? Seems the Kremlin has a gigantic trove of them, grabbed off those insecure servers …
After constantly squeaking through the courts, Obamacare has received the hoped-for blow … from a judge who immediately suspended her own ruling pending an inevitable administration review. Sigh.
Kewl. Ten life hacks using carabiners. (And evertbody’s got carabiners around, right? They’re right up there with WD40, duct tape, hose clamps, and Goof Off for usefulness.) (H/T TSO)
Weekend read: the Ukrainian hacker who became the FBI’s greatest asset — and biggest problem.
The escalator lines would be easier if they routed passengers up the down escalators and vice versa, that way you could simply march in place as you wait. Not bad exercise, either.
MamaLibertyMay 13, 2016 1:07 pm
RE: gutsy woman – giving money to the “homeless” person was quite possibly a mistake. Muggers work in groups these days, and the beggar was likely there to distract her. The reporting is lousy, of course, and I didn’t get much from the video, so I can’t say just what she did to “fight back,” except that she didn’t just “give them what they wanted” and did disable the car. No hint about what she did with the gun… But it would seem she didn’t use it. I’m glad she survived, and I hope she will now get some meaningful self defense training. Even if chooses not to get a gun. Where she’d put one in that outfit would be a real challenge! 🙂
FredMay 13, 2016 1:29 pm
Militia –
“[Joseph] Rice is running for Josephine county commissioner in south-west Oregon, and believes that the federal government’s current role in land management is illegitimate and even tyrannical…”
“…two key beliefs: that the county Sheriff is the highest law enforcement authority, and that the United States government has no right to public lands…”
“It’s this notion that is once again becoming central to local politics in the Pacific north-west…”
When the law is portrayed as one man’s “beliefs” and “notions” then the law is dead. I generally agree you Ms. Wolfe, that the story is fair but wording like this is government propo.
The subject is one of the founders of the the Pacific Patriots Network. This is a standup organization who’s calm and calming presence at Malheur very likely prevented another Waco. I would have their back in a fire fight any day.
No more free Wacos.
jedMay 13, 2016 5:19 pm
My main use for carabiners these days is to clip together the handles on plastic grocery bags. That way, they don’t fall over and spill in the back of the car during the ride home, and it’s a little easier to grab them and carry them in the house. Over time, I’ve acquired quite a few, and they serve a whole host of holding stuff together roles.
And for anyone not happy with their working conditions, compare: Working, eating and sleeping at the office. Which is still not as bad as the story I read the other day about conditions at poultry processing plants.
As far as the little blow to Obamacare, I feel confident that when it reaches SCOTUS, Roberts will roll over again.
LarryAMay 13, 2016 6:30 pm
Please! If it doesn’t support your weight, it’s a keyring, not a carabiner.
(Lost cause department.)
But some of the ideas are cool.
I’m sure TSA is working real hard now to shorten those lines while they’re begging for more funds.
The House of Ruth helped Gladys Tordil with her protective order, but Lennig said she couldn’t speak to the specifics of the case for confidentiality reasons. “She did the steps that we would encourage her to do,” Lennig said.
Anyone want to bet those steps included any kind of self-defense?
BTW, protective orders are not useless. After he comes in the door, and the shooting is over, you can say, “See? He violated the order. I had to protect myself. A record of the threats he made are in the PO file in the DA’s office, so we can show them to the jury.”
Without his glasses, (he) couldn’t see well enough to drive…
Reminder: Shooting session without glasses. (But with eye protection.)
Bill St. ClairMay 14, 2016 6:39 am
I want only one thing from the TSA: get the hell out of the airports. Then I want one thing from the free market: frangible ammo vending machines in airports.
The only saddle bags at the store where I bought my bicycle attached to the rear rack with velcro straps. Fail. So I velcroed the straps to carabiners. Works good.
VoyagernokMay 14, 2016 6:31 pm
It isn’t just peak times that the TSA lines exceed 90 minutes; Thursday of this week I spent over 90 minutes in line in Denver starting at 1:20 PM. I have cancelled many trips and driven cross country thousands of miles to avoid TSA lines at other times. And then too many of the TSA agents are common thieves as they steal from checked baggage when it is x-rayed. I have had a Gerber multi-tool and two Spyderco knives stolen from locked checked luggage–3 separate incidents. All these are legal for any of you who don’t fly and don’t know the regs. And there is no legal recourse for such things and you will never recover them as they are stolen before you get on the flight and not discovered until following the flight and no way to prove what was in your bag.
I also had an inexplicable thing happen on my last trip to Alaska. My .45 ACP was unloaded, no magazine in it, and in a locked case. My ammo was in a separate box with two loaded magazines also. (all cases have to have TSA compliant locks, meaning the feds can unlock them and pistols have to be checked and verified unloaded prior to flights) At my arrival in AK, when I opened my pistol case the pistol had a full magazine in it and a round in the chamber… someone had been playing with my pistol. But again, it was someone at my point of departure many hours earlier who saw it in the x-ray and opted to play with it. (Dallas, TX) So, there was nothing ever done about it.
I recall not so many years ago in South Dakota when airlines coming and going had many passengers carrying on their rifles or shotguns in soft-sided cases, which was what most people had back then. Right there in the terminal and in lines at the gates, there would be as many guns carried on as there are golf clubs being checked and claimed in Phoenix. I even had a small golf club bag I could carry on a flight and put in the overhead bin… horror of horrors today if you tried to carry a golf club on a flight.
I agree totally with Bill St. Clair about the TSA!
VoyagernokMay 14, 2016 6:37 pm
Of course, I could skip the lengthy insecurity lines by paying Homeland $179 and giving them my fingerprints and iris scan at http://www.clearme.com
The escalator lines would be easier if they routed passengers up the down escalators and vice versa, that way you could simply march in place as you wait. Not bad exercise, either.
RE: gutsy woman – giving money to the “homeless” person was quite possibly a mistake. Muggers work in groups these days, and the beggar was likely there to distract her. The reporting is lousy, of course, and I didn’t get much from the video, so I can’t say just what she did to “fight back,” except that she didn’t just “give them what they wanted” and did disable the car. No hint about what she did with the gun… But it would seem she didn’t use it. I’m glad she survived, and I hope she will now get some meaningful self defense training. Even if chooses not to get a gun. Where she’d put one in that outfit would be a real challenge! 🙂
Militia –
“[Joseph] Rice is running for Josephine county commissioner in south-west Oregon, and believes that the federal government’s current role in land management is illegitimate and even tyrannical…”
“…two key beliefs: that the county Sheriff is the highest law enforcement authority, and that the United States government has no right to public lands…”
“It’s this notion that is once again becoming central to local politics in the Pacific north-west…”
When the law is portrayed as one man’s “beliefs” and “notions” then the law is dead. I generally agree you Ms. Wolfe, that the story is fair but wording like this is government propo.
The subject is one of the founders of the the Pacific Patriots Network. This is a standup organization who’s calm and calming presence at Malheur very likely prevented another Waco. I would have their back in a fire fight any day.
No more free Wacos.
My main use for carabiners these days is to clip together the handles on plastic grocery bags. That way, they don’t fall over and spill in the back of the car during the ride home, and it’s a little easier to grab them and carry them in the house. Over time, I’ve acquired quite a few, and they serve a whole host of holding stuff together roles.
And for anyone not happy with their working conditions, compare: Working, eating and sleeping at the office. Which is still not as bad as the story I read the other day about conditions at poultry processing plants.
As far as the little blow to Obamacare, I feel confident that when it reaches SCOTUS, Roberts will roll over again.
Please! If it doesn’t support your weight, it’s a keyring, not a carabiner.
(Lost cause department.)
But some of the ideas are cool.
I’m sure TSA is working real hard now to shorten those lines while they’re begging for more funds.
The House of Ruth helped Gladys Tordil with her protective order, but Lennig said she couldn’t speak to the specifics of the case for confidentiality reasons. “She did the steps that we would encourage her to do,” Lennig said.
Anyone want to bet those steps included any kind of self-defense?
BTW, protective orders are not useless. After he comes in the door, and the shooting is over, you can say, “See? He violated the order. I had to protect myself. A record of the threats he made are in the PO file in the DA’s office, so we can show them to the jury.”
Without his glasses, (he) couldn’t see well enough to drive…
Reminder: Shooting session without glasses. (But with eye protection.)
I want only one thing from the TSA: get the hell out of the airports. Then I want one thing from the free market: frangible ammo vending machines in airports.
The only saddle bags at the store where I bought my bicycle attached to the rear rack with velcro straps. Fail. So I velcroed the straps to carabiners. Works good.
It isn’t just peak times that the TSA lines exceed 90 minutes; Thursday of this week I spent over 90 minutes in line in Denver starting at 1:20 PM. I have cancelled many trips and driven cross country thousands of miles to avoid TSA lines at other times. And then too many of the TSA agents are common thieves as they steal from checked baggage when it is x-rayed. I have had a Gerber multi-tool and two Spyderco knives stolen from locked checked luggage–3 separate incidents. All these are legal for any of you who don’t fly and don’t know the regs. And there is no legal recourse for such things and you will never recover them as they are stolen before you get on the flight and not discovered until following the flight and no way to prove what was in your bag.
I also had an inexplicable thing happen on my last trip to Alaska. My .45 ACP was unloaded, no magazine in it, and in a locked case. My ammo was in a separate box with two loaded magazines also. (all cases have to have TSA compliant locks, meaning the feds can unlock them and pistols have to be checked and verified unloaded prior to flights) At my arrival in AK, when I opened my pistol case the pistol had a full magazine in it and a round in the chamber… someone had been playing with my pistol. But again, it was someone at my point of departure many hours earlier who saw it in the x-ray and opted to play with it. (Dallas, TX) So, there was nothing ever done about it.
I recall not so many years ago in South Dakota when airlines coming and going had many passengers carrying on their rifles or shotguns in soft-sided cases, which was what most people had back then. Right there in the terminal and in lines at the gates, there would be as many guns carried on as there are golf clubs being checked and claimed in Phoenix. I even had a small golf club bag I could carry on a flight and put in the overhead bin… horror of horrors today if you tried to carry a golf club on a flight.
I agree totally with Bill St. Clair about the TSA!
Of course, I could skip the lengthy insecurity lines by paying Homeland $179 and giving them my fingerprints and iris scan at http://www.clearme.com