Every time I travel by air

There is a different set of rules at the TSA "checkpoint" in every airport.

Inconsistent.

For many years, the rules were that you HAD TO pull your laptop out of the bag because "we can't see through it otherwise". ..Which, while I found to be doubtful, (scanning technology being what it is and all) was, at least, consistent.

Friday, I travelled through Midway, and they yelled at all of us that were taking our laptops out of our bags to put in a separate bin.

"No need" they said. "Stop wasting time"....And they were RUDE about it. Plus, "shoes stay on". Even boots.

Same scanner, same personnel, just a different rule for a different day. So were they being safer at MDW before, or just lazy last Friday? And no "Perv-O-Scanner" either..... Just the magnetometer.

Now Dallas Love today?? Yerah, they had it cranked up to 11. But the dude that was telling folks what to do had such a strong "Island" accent that no one could understand what he was saying. Which led to a LOT of frustrations. There, I had to take my Laptop out and Place It In a Separate Bin..."Because we can't see through it in your bag". At least at DAL, they were pleasant. And, for TSA, efficient.

Of course, on Friday, the TSA at MDW decided to confiscate MC's Tactical Pen, because, even though it is okayed under TSA rules, it was shiny or something. They've let her fly with it 8 times that I know of previously, but on Friday, it was verboten. She even pointed out that it was ok under TSA rules, but was informed that the folks in the field can override rules. I thought she was gonna get arrested, (actually, I thought she was gonna wipe the smirk of of the TSA supervisor's face) and I pulled her away.

If Trump pulls funding for the TSA, I will support him 100%. Hell, I'd support raising the requirements to speaking good english and having to be able to read and write and speak on an 8th grade level. Did you know that having a High School diploma or GED is NOT a requirement for TSA personnel?

This'll make yer palms sweat

I couldn't do this.

Not for a minute.

I'd clench so tightly that I'd never poop again:

And partiers everywhere

Should bow their heads and have a moment of silence:

The inventor of the red solo cup, Robert Leo Hulseman, has died at the age of 84

Without his invention, hundreds of thousands of women may not have gotten pregnant. and men of all ages would have been much more lonely.

RIP Mr Hulseman.

Yeah, and my "sister" would

"Whisper in your ear" the next possible opportunity.

Cops can shoot dogs during execution of a warrant, Sixth Circuit Federal Court says.

If they are my dogs, and you shoot 'em, then your life is in danger.

And the Judge goes on the list too, if and when.

I can do it from up close, or from a fair distance away.  And no, I'm not bragging.

My pets are like family.

Cops can kill'em, but not without consequences.

HT: Freeholder

The war in EastAsia:

They almost had the American Public under their control..until the INternet in the 1980's and the gigantic growth of the World Wide Web in the early 90's.

At that point, the News Media no longer controlled the news....Information got past them. They, in fact, became irrelevant a few years ago.

But now, Barry has just signed the 2017 NDAA....

Which includes a "Ministry of Truth"....funding for a Propaganda arm of the US Government "Center for Information Analysis and Response"....

Remember:

Princess Leia

Has passed on to wherever old actresses go when they die.

Of course, I still think this was the best part she ever played:




From all accounts she "drove it like she stole it" for a large part of her life.

I hope she finds peace wherever she is.

Not that they will actually LEARN

to shoot them well, but still:

  “Progressives” buying guns for purposes other than “sport shooting,” and doing so for the express purpose of defending against what they see as a potentially tyrannical government and the chance of civil unrest. Likewise, minorities are also buying guns, and for the same reason.

Millenials....they likely think they can learn to shoot well by watching a video or two on YouTube.....and that they can just pick 'em up and shoot well and accurately..Just like in the mooviees. 

HT: WarOnGuns

What caliber....

For Drone?

North Dakota Police weaponize drones.

I have heard that Number 4 shot out of a 12 guage works well below 100 Feet.

But higher? Anybody got any experience?

Post in comments if you do....

And the shoe tastes different when it is on the other hand.....

Seems that now that they won't be the ones calling the shots, the leftists are learning that they are subject to the rules they imposed on everyone else.

All those folks who had to serve those whom they disliked, or disagreed with (think religious people who own bakeries) are smiling now.

And those who felt it was alright to tell the rest of us how we had to live and whom we had to associate with and do business with and such?

Yeah, They are learning a terrible lesson. .

Sadly, for them, too late. We'd been telling them about this for years....To deaf ears.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Twas an excellent Christmas

And I ate too much.

Today is just another day.

Mondays. Bleh

Merry Christmas

Or Happy Hanukah

Or Solstice

Or whatever your midwinter holiday is in your family and culture.

Enjoy the season and the day with friends or family.

Raise a glass to those standing watch in lands far away......away from their family and friends. And those standing guard here at home...Cops, Firemen and EMT's who aren't with their families today to protect you and yours.

And, above all, remember the Reason for the Season.

Helping it go viral:

Read this....Especially if you are a democrat.

And there is a lesson here is you are a republican too.

In fact, if you are an east or wet coast politician, then you should pay attention. Understand why both sets of folks in "Flyover Country" don't like your candidates.

Geh

I gotta go buy a 9/16 impact socket.

On the day before Christmas.

I'd sooner gouge my nads off with a spoon.

I hate crowds of people. Pushing, shoving rude Christmas shoppers are an order of magnitude worse.

Having fun at the auto parts store....

So the fiberglass rope gasket on my woodstove came free last night from where I had glued it to the door. This is a really really Bad Thing, as without the gasket there is no way to control the air going to the fire....with the predictable results.

Yes, the house gets too hot and the stove glows like a crucible fresh out of kiln.

So I go to the auto parts store today for a tube of hi-temp silicone as a temporary fix. (the real fix entails peeling the rest of the gasket off, possibly damaging it and then chiseling.grinding the remaining cement off and then redoing the gasket and waiting 3 days for the cement to dry.) and ask 'em where the hi temp Permatex is?

"We got 3 kinds of hi temp silicone, what do you need it for?" dude says, trying to be helpful.

(I need the copper Permatex, as that is good for like 700F)

"Got a high speed muffler bearing that's leaking." I reply. The girl behind the counter is looking at me with wide eyes...

"Leaking from the front or the back?" he deadpanned

She looks suspicious, but as he replied so quickly, she's not sure if this is bullshit or not.....

"Leaking from both ends, but more the front than the back" I answer...

She blinks hard and looks at him, eyes wider yet.

"Use the black Permatex" he says.

Then I smiled and asked for the Copper stuff.

I explained that I was fixing a seal on a woodstove and I needed the highest temp possible.

Young lady looks much more relaxed as she realizes that the back and forth was the bullshit that she thought it was, but wasn't sure until now....

You bet....If only he can make it happen

Via Wirecutter:

America owes President Barack Obama an enormous debt of gratitude for showing how truly dangerous the federal government can be when our Constitution’s checks and balances start failing. With the active collusion of congressional Democrats, President Obama’s presidency has been one long series of body blows to the separation of powers that has protected our democracy since the founding. The results have been stark. Never has a president trampled so much on the prerogatives of Congress. Obama’s executive orders, suspending parts of our immigration laws and even his own prized Obamacare, have been sheer usurpations, going far beyond even the breathtaking delegations of legislative authority granted by the brief Democratic supermajority in Congress in 2009–10.


Read the rest a the link

Made before Political Correctness:

Maybe now that we have an Alpha Male in the big seat again.....








If you made this movie today, there'd be about 200 groups of people that would scream because they were "offended".

Where's my Global Warming

You fat bastard?

I mean, c'mon, alGore, it is supposed to be -12 F tonight. Normal low is like, 24F.....Plus 24 F, that is.

Luckily I am burning wood in a non-catalytic woodstove and the indoor temp is +73F.

I just hope the outdoor cat, Harold, is OK. He won't come into the garage to be safe. But he's like that. He'll likely show up tomorrow afternoon looking for food.

Don't forget your pets this Christmas:

and:

We have always been at war with EastAsia:

So Facebook is gonna crack down on "Fake News"
 (No, this isn't "Fake News" Seriously. )

Using, among others, Snopes and ABC News  and AP as sources to verify and/or vet the suspect stories.

'Cause we know the Media always get things right...


Right?

How come this never happens to me????

(and notice that the overreaction was....extreme)....3 cop cars? "Hustle the child from the room"? .

Now go "Hug your puppy".

An Oceanside couple expecting a United Parcel Service delivery of a toy plane instead got a surprise — a package containing an assault rifle.



Joel Berman said he opened the keyboard-sized case Wednesday night in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter, wondering how it could be the Kohl’s toy, meant for the son of a friend.

An Oceanside couple expecting a United Parcel Service delivery of a toy plane instead got a surprise — a package containing an assault rifle.

Joel Berman said he opened the keyboard-sized case Wednesday night in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter, wondering how it could be the Kohl’s toy, meant for the son of a friend.

“Her mouth popped open,” said Berman, 66. “It definitely was not a toy gun. . . . We had to explain to her Santa delivered the wrong thing.”
Cradled in foam was a semi-automatic rifle with a sophisticated scope, a stand, an ammo clip and a copy of an Arizona man’s driver’s license and his concealed-weapons permit, Berman said.

The UPS label, which had Kohl’s in Ohio as the sender, had been pasted over another UPS label from the Arizona resident to a gunsmith in upstate Woodbourne.

“I have a receipt from the UPS driver showing . . . 3.4 pounds as the weight of the package, but it was 51 pounds,” Joel Berman, a trade-magazine publisher, said. “It’s funny, but at the same time, it’s sad.

“This could have been delivered to a home that had either someone with ill intentions who would have loved to have something like this. Or it could have been delivered to a home with kids.”

They shuffled their granddaughter to another room and she immediately hugged her new puppy, Berman said.

The couple called 911 — the operator told him “Oh my God” — and three patrol cars arrived within minutes.

Nassau police said they will get the rifle to the upstate gunsmith.


Read the rest at the link.

Note: I don't think this was what people think of when we say an "Assault Rifle"....  more likely a "Sniper Rifle".....looks like a Barrett to me.

I'd a just kept my mouth shut and waited to see if anyone asked.....