Nah a better option would be to give every passenger a colonoscopy. This way they can claim to be checking for internal explosives and also doing cancer screenings. This at least would have a hope of discovering the hidden internal explosives/weapons that we are now suppose to fear that the current crop of magic machines won't find.
The reason for their indecision is that the US has yet to catch anyone intentionally or even unintentionally trying to carry a weapon through
I wouldn't hold my breath for that. I have brought through a number of banned things that I had forgotten in my pants pockets, or left in my coat pocket all of which are easily detected with metal detectors or the x-ray baggage scanner but were missed. In my pants pockets I have brought through my large pocket knife on a few occasions (it is a 4 inch lock blade) as well as my small pocket knife (3 blades the largest is 2.5 inches). In my coat pockets I have brought through a large handful of shotgun shells (about a dozen 3 inch 12 gauge magnum goose loads) and almost 20 rifle bullets (203 grain 7.62x54r with steel cases). It is not like I intentionally brought these through as I always have one of my pocket knives with me and have to actually think about removing it. The shotgun shells and rifle bullets were ones that I put in there while hunting either as extras or when unloading and had been forgotten about.
TSA is 90% waste of passengers and taxpayer's money.
The other 10% is probably the money spent on the federal air marshals which I am fairly ambivalent about but seem like they would be useful especially compared to all the other garbage they piss money away on.
Well if you have a judgment against a individual or company you can legally have their assets frozen if they don't pay in a certain amount of time in the US. I don't know if there is a similar rule in Canada but if they do and won't pay the individuals I would go to a judge and get a court order to have their assets frozen until I get paid. I had to threaten this against an insurance company the wouldn't pay even though I had a judgment in my favor. I called them and made it clear that since the time had expired for them to make the payment (at this point it was one day late) if I didn't have a cashiers check by the following day a noon I was going to have all their assets frozen.
Which is why every time I have been hit in a car accident I hope the other person has a different insurance company than I do. The 2 car accidents I have been in were not my fault. The first one I was stopped waiting for the person in front of me to make a left off of the 2 land highway and got rear ended, and the second one I was turning right off a major road and was rear ended by a high school girl who passed everyone else behind me because they were going slow and merged into the back of my car and spun me into a fire hydrant. In the first case the person who hit me had the same insurance company and it was a nightmare (for the record it was Farmers if anyone cares) trying to get the fair market value for the vehicle from them (they don't consider the KBB or NADA book values to be fair market value) and my rate went up. They ended up paying for an independent appraisal, paying for vehicle storage for 6 months, getting taken to court and paying my court filing fee. The second accident was a dream, neither party had Farmers for an insurance company and I had a reasonable offer (actually above fair market value) in about 2 weeks. I didn't have a rate increase either on the second accident which was nice.
How about they strand them in some place that would actually test them instead of some tropical paradise. Maybe like Survivor BWCA, Survivor Denali, or Survivor Gates of the Arctic but start it after Thanksgiving.
Trust me as a hunter there are a lot of cats that get killed every year during the hunting seasons. Feral cats are an invasive non native species and destroy native animal populations.
A trick to cooking lean meats is to cook it at a high temp, bison cooks the same as deer, as this prevents them from drying out. You also have the option of basting them, or in the case of game birds I do them up on the BBQ with a can of beer shoved in the body cavity. Another trick is to let them marinate in an acidic marinade overnight, milk will also work and produces very good results. You are right in that most people screw up cooking wild game and it ends up being similar to shoe leather. As far as horses are concerned some equine steaks are very good but those are farm raised and slaughtered young but most equine meat is the old horse (20-30 years old) that needed to be put down after working its entire life.
There are high end restaurants that offer equine steak that has been farm raised and I hear it is quite good until people find out that equine means horse. Much like people who don't know that venison is deer.
It has always amazed me how people can go from "the deer a such a majestic beautiful creature" to "they are rats on stilts, kill em all" once they hit one with a car, or it eats their flower/vegetable garden. My wife and mother-in-law were in the first camp until they hit one with a car and now are in the kill em all category. Same thing with the people who move out near one of my wife's uncles who lives in Golden, CO back in the foot hills. They think the deer are beautiful and wonderful until they eat their gardens then her uncle gets to hunt deer from the new neighbor's deck. This is also why my family now gets to have rabbit stew fairly often, my wife had a rabbit as a pet when she was young, then one year the bunnies ate the whole garden, now I get to make rabbit stew.
When it comes to wild game I find taste is more of a function of where they were harvested and the quality of the kill and retrieval than the type of animal. If you are harvesting in an area with ample berries, fruit trees, or crop fields then the wild game is much better than if are hunting in an area where they get to eat pine cones, sticks, and bark. Also if you gut shot the animal, it runs for a mile, and takes a day to retrieve then you end up with some bad meat. I have been lucky in that I haven't had to do this and have been able to get the clean shot to the vitals so they just drop or run a few yards and then drop. As far as vegetarian animals some are down right disgusting like squirrels I have never figured out how to get the gaminess out of them even if they are corn fed. Granted there are some exemptions to this but in general this is the case. Some animals I won't eat like crow (useful for targets), coyote ($25 reward in some counties for each dead one), or squirrel (see above), but other than those I will be cooking and eating anything I take.
I think you would find that the union of gun owners and participants in the Occupy protests produces a set very near the null set. While I think a number of gun owners would probably agree with a number of the grievances that the Occupy movement has made but they would never know it. The Occupy movement has been presented in the media as a counter to the Tea Party movement even though I think that the similarities between the original Tea Party (before it got co-opted by the Rs) and the Occupy movement are large. Granted the Occupy movement does seem to want more handouts but both were fed up with government not listening.
But when the really cold temperatures come, I wonder how many will be forced to go home
Really cold in New York City is easily dealt with, it seems only slightly colder than really cold in Portland, OR. Their average January low is only 27F with the record being -15F (February 9, 1934) recently they have gotten as cold a 1F (2004) but none of these temps are difficult to survive in. A good mummy bag and a few sweatshirts will get you through that no problem, this is what I use when winter camping and hunting in much colder temps. The Occupy Minnesota group is going to have a harder time, but even they should be able to make it through the winter in Minneapolis without issue from the weather unless we get another massive snow fall year like last winter in which case some might get buried as tents collapse.
I thought that 5% was considered full employment and number lower than that were cause for concern as it would cause wage inflation and thus lead to general inflation. Of course this could be completely wrong as I am not an economist and I take most of what economists say now as BS but I thought that is what I remembered hearing during the Bush years as people were stunned as general inflation didn't take hold (according to the CPI) and remained in the target range.
I have thought about the winter issue and having done a fair amount of winter camping in Minnesota it isn't that difficult to make due for an extended period of time. I just finished my deer camp vacation where I was out in the woods for 10 days, overnight lows were in the low to mid 20s F and day time highs were mid 30s F up to mid 40s F with winds between 25 mph and 35 mph. This was one of the more pleasant deer camps, other years we have gotten 10 inches of snow while hunting, freezing rain or drizzle, been out in sub 0F temps over night with single digit temps in the day. The keys to staying warm is:
1. layers
2. staying up off the cold ground while sleeping
3. staying dry (don't over dress so you sweat)
4. keeping moving while awake
5. drink plenty of water
6. eat right
Surviving a New York winter wouldn't be that difficult if they are prepared. They are probably already half way there since most sleeping bags are 40F or 20F bags and they probably have a number of sweatshirts, just go and get a mummy bag that is good down to 0F or 10F and stuff it in your existing sleeping bag. You will be warm when sleeping unless you are trying to occupy Fairbanks or Barrow and in that case buy a mummy bag that is good down to -40 and stuff that in your other sleeping bag and you have a fighting chance. Also a pair of insulated bib overalls, and a duck coat will keep you warm with only modest amounts of cloths on underneath. I don't own a duck coat or insulated bib overalls, but my cousin and uncle who I go hunting with do and we all manage to stay plenty warm, I wear 3 sweatshirts and do long johns, sweatpants, jeans, and camo sweatpants and can stay plenty warm while sitting in a tree from 4am until about 5:30pm.
What is worse is I am not a "Big Iron", large american V8 powered vehicles, guy when it comes to old cars (I love the little British roadsters) so I always get harassed, but it is mostly in jest, but there are some who are just like religious fanatics.
Some of the biker women are good looking, others not so much (hogs on hogs). I have never been to the bike rally but have been to some of the bike races at some of the near by tracks. Have you ever been out to the races at Road America over in Elkhart lake WI or up to Brainerd International Raceway in MN? Road America is a beautiful track and Brainerd use to be nicer until the tornado tore through there and tore up all the trees. At Brainerd you can camp in the infield and for the bike races there is the "Animal" section and "Family" section depending on how hard you want to party. If you are driving a car in the animal section just shut it off if you hear someone yell dig a hole because you will need a tow if you don't
My daily driver is a '97 BMW 540i and that one takes 8 quarts with the 4.4L V8 engine, also it takes a rather large canister filter as apposed to the standard spin on that most people are familiar with. My newly acquired Jeep Cherokee with the 4.0L engine takes 6 quarts. I haven't seen them use a suction pump the few times I have gone to one (usually when borrowing someone else's vehicle and I said I would get the oil changed) they just have the grease pit and open the drain plug. You can buy a manual fluid transfer pump but they never get all the oil out unless you spend the time to move them around in the pan and that takes forever. Those manual fluid transfer pumps work wonderfully for doing partial fluid exchanges in things like the power steering reservoir, or for getting fluid in to difficult to reach places like into transmissions, transfer cases, and differentials.
They should have been stopped by metal detectors. They would have been stopped by the locked hardened cockpit doors we currently have. In one case they were stopped by the passengers.
Sure, if stops someone from sneaking onto a plane with a weapon than you can say "it just saved X lives + plus the cost of the plane + plus the cost of insurance pay-outs + plus the cost of property damage + etc" but have they REALLY stopped anything?
No. Especially since lots of stuff gets past them now without issue. I have accidentally brought a number of dangerous items through security and they have never found them. It is not like I was even trying to hide them. I have brought the following through at one time or another since the TSA came about, all of which should have been easy to detect and have been banned since day 1:
1. A handful of 3 inch magnum 12 gauge shotgun shells (about 10)
2. almost 20 7.62x54r rifle rounds
3. my small pocket knife (3 blades the largest of which is 2.5 inches)
4. my large pocket knife (4 inch lock blade)
5. 2 straight edge razors
I have never been stopped or questioned about any of that, but god forbid if I bring my old 35mm film SLR with the metal chassis, filters, bulb, flash, and assorted lenses then it is off to the side with you and we play 20 questions and wipe for explosives. Now just to be a pain in the ass I keep a roll of 3200 speed film in the bag so I can make them check it by hand but still I end up playing 20 questions since it appears that no one knows what camera equipment is any more.
Well what about all the passengers who are standing in line as they wait for the person who doesn't know their head from their ass to go through security. Unfortunately for my job I fly frequently so if the airports that I go through have this I would probably get the equivalent of 15 to 20 full X-Ray doses a year. If the TSA does unionize then maybe they can get some protection, but that would spook the hell out of people seeing a bunch of TSA agents standing around in heavy lead lines suits for protection from the X-rays that they are going to be bombarded with.
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Nah a better option would be to give every passenger a colonoscopy. This way they can claim to be checking for internal explosives and also doing cancer screenings. This at least would have a hope of discovering the hidden internal explosives/weapons that we are now suppose to fear that the current crop of magic machines won't find.
The reason for their indecision is that the US has yet to catch anyone intentionally or even unintentionally trying to carry a weapon through
I wouldn't hold my breath for that. I have brought through a number of banned things that I had forgotten in my pants pockets, or left in my coat pocket all of which are easily detected with metal detectors or the x-ray baggage scanner but were missed. In my pants pockets I have brought through my large pocket knife on a few occasions (it is a 4 inch lock blade) as well as my small pocket knife (3 blades the largest is 2.5 inches). In my coat pockets I have brought through a large handful of shotgun shells (about a dozen 3 inch 12 gauge magnum goose loads) and almost 20 rifle bullets (203 grain 7.62x54r with steel cases). It is not like I intentionally brought these through as I always have one of my pocket knives with me and have to actually think about removing it. The shotgun shells and rifle bullets were ones that I put in there while hunting either as extras or when unloading and had been forgotten about.
TSA is 90% waste of passengers and taxpayer's money.
The other 10% is probably the money spent on the federal air marshals which I am fairly ambivalent about but seem like they would be useful especially compared to all the other garbage they piss money away on.
I would hardly call hot dogs meat, or food for that matter.
I'd go for that as well.
Well if you have a judgment against a individual or company you can legally have their assets frozen if they don't pay in a certain amount of time in the US. I don't know if there is a similar rule in Canada but if they do and won't pay the individuals I would go to a judge and get a court order to have their assets frozen until I get paid. I had to threaten this against an insurance company the wouldn't pay even though I had a judgment in my favor. I called them and made it clear that since the time had expired for them to make the payment (at this point it was one day late) if I didn't have a cashiers check by the following day a noon I was going to have all their assets frozen.
Which is why every time I have been hit in a car accident I hope the other person has a different insurance company than I do. The 2 car accidents I have been in were not my fault. The first one I was stopped waiting for the person in front of me to make a left off of the 2 land highway and got rear ended, and the second one I was turning right off a major road and was rear ended by a high school girl who passed everyone else behind me because they were going slow and merged into the back of my car and spun me into a fire hydrant. In the first case the person who hit me had the same insurance company and it was a nightmare (for the record it was Farmers if anyone cares) trying to get the fair market value for the vehicle from them (they don't consider the KBB or NADA book values to be fair market value) and my rate went up. They ended up paying for an independent appraisal, paying for vehicle storage for 6 months, getting taken to court and paying my court filing fee. The second accident was a dream, neither party had Farmers for an insurance company and I had a reasonable offer (actually above fair market value) in about 2 weeks. I didn't have a rate increase either on the second accident which was nice.
How about they strand them in some place that would actually test them instead of some tropical paradise. Maybe like Survivor BWCA, Survivor Denali, or Survivor Gates of the Arctic but start it after Thanksgiving.
Trust me as a hunter there are a lot of cats that get killed every year during the hunting seasons. Feral cats are an invasive non native species and destroy native animal populations.
A trick to cooking lean meats is to cook it at a high temp, bison cooks the same as deer, as this prevents them from drying out. You also have the option of basting them, or in the case of game birds I do them up on the BBQ with a can of beer shoved in the body cavity. Another trick is to let them marinate in an acidic marinade overnight, milk will also work and produces very good results. You are right in that most people screw up cooking wild game and it ends up being similar to shoe leather. As far as horses are concerned some equine steaks are very good but those are farm raised and slaughtered young but most equine meat is the old horse (20-30 years old) that needed to be put down after working its entire life.
There are high end restaurants that offer equine steak that has been farm raised and I hear it is quite good until people find out that equine means horse. Much like people who don't know that venison is deer.
It has always amazed me how people can go from "the deer a such a majestic beautiful creature" to "they are rats on stilts, kill em all" once they hit one with a car, or it eats their flower/vegetable garden. My wife and mother-in-law were in the first camp until they hit one with a car and now are in the kill em all category. Same thing with the people who move out near one of my wife's uncles who lives in Golden, CO back in the foot hills. They think the deer are beautiful and wonderful until they eat their gardens then her uncle gets to hunt deer from the new neighbor's deck. This is also why my family now gets to have rabbit stew fairly often, my wife had a rabbit as a pet when she was young, then one year the bunnies ate the whole garden, now I get to make rabbit stew.
He has probably never gone fishing and used bait like corn, hot dogs, bread, gummy worms, or french fries. Fish love those things.
When it comes to wild game I find taste is more of a function of where they were harvested and the quality of the kill and retrieval than the type of animal. If you are harvesting in an area with ample berries, fruit trees, or crop fields then the wild game is much better than if are hunting in an area where they get to eat pine cones, sticks, and bark. Also if you gut shot the animal, it runs for a mile, and takes a day to retrieve then you end up with some bad meat. I have been lucky in that I haven't had to do this and have been able to get the clean shot to the vitals so they just drop or run a few yards and then drop. As far as vegetarian animals some are down right disgusting like squirrels I have never figured out how to get the gaminess out of them even if they are corn fed. Granted there are some exemptions to this but in general this is the case. Some animals I won't eat like crow (useful for targets), coyote ($25 reward in some counties for each dead one), or squirrel (see above), but other than those I will be cooking and eating anything I take.
They are best when they have only been fed heavy whipping cream for those 3 months.
I think you would find that the union of gun owners and participants in the Occupy protests produces a set very near the null set. While I think a number of gun owners would probably agree with a number of the grievances that the Occupy movement has made but they would never know it. The Occupy movement has been presented in the media as a counter to the Tea Party movement even though I think that the similarities between the original Tea Party (before it got co-opted by the Rs) and the Occupy movement are large. Granted the Occupy movement does seem to want more handouts but both were fed up with government not listening.
But when the really cold temperatures come, I wonder how many will be forced to go home
Really cold in New York City is easily dealt with, it seems only slightly colder than really cold in Portland, OR. Their average January low is only 27F with the record being -15F (February 9, 1934) recently they have gotten as cold a 1F (2004) but none of these temps are difficult to survive in. A good mummy bag and a few sweatshirts will get you through that no problem, this is what I use when winter camping and hunting in much colder temps. The Occupy Minnesota group is going to have a harder time, but even they should be able to make it through the winter in Minneapolis without issue from the weather unless we get another massive snow fall year like last winter in which case some might get buried as tents collapse.
I thought that 5% was considered full employment and number lower than that were cause for concern as it would cause wage inflation and thus lead to general inflation. Of course this could be completely wrong as I am not an economist and I take most of what economists say now as BS but I thought that is what I remembered hearing during the Bush years as people were stunned as general inflation didn't take hold (according to the CPI) and remained in the target range.
I have thought about the winter issue and having done a fair amount of winter camping in Minnesota it isn't that difficult to make due for an extended period of time. I just finished my deer camp vacation where I was out in the woods for 10 days, overnight lows were in the low to mid 20s F and day time highs were mid 30s F up to mid 40s F with winds between 25 mph and 35 mph. This was one of the more pleasant deer camps, other years we have gotten 10 inches of snow while hunting, freezing rain or drizzle, been out in sub 0F temps over night with single digit temps in the day. The keys to staying warm is:
1. layers
2. staying up off the cold ground while sleeping
3. staying dry (don't over dress so you sweat)
4. keeping moving while awake
5. drink plenty of water
6. eat right
Surviving a New York winter wouldn't be that difficult if they are prepared. They are probably already half way there since most sleeping bags are 40F or 20F bags and they probably have a number of sweatshirts, just go and get a mummy bag that is good down to 0F or 10F and stuff it in your existing sleeping bag. You will be warm when sleeping unless you are trying to occupy Fairbanks or Barrow and in that case buy a mummy bag that is good down to -40 and stuff that in your other sleeping bag and you have a fighting chance. Also a pair of insulated bib overalls, and a duck coat will keep you warm with only modest amounts of cloths on underneath. I don't own a duck coat or insulated bib overalls, but my cousin and uncle who I go hunting with do and we all manage to stay plenty warm, I wear 3 sweatshirts and do long johns, sweatpants, jeans, and camo sweatpants and can stay plenty warm while sitting in a tree from 4am until about 5:30pm.
What is worse is I am not a "Big Iron", large american V8 powered vehicles, guy when it comes to old cars (I love the little British roadsters) so I always get harassed, but it is mostly in jest, but there are some who are just like religious fanatics.
Some of the biker women are good looking, others not so much (hogs on hogs). I have never been to the bike rally but have been to some of the bike races at some of the near by tracks. Have you ever been out to the races at Road America over in Elkhart lake WI or up to Brainerd International Raceway in MN? Road America is a beautiful track and Brainerd use to be nicer until the tornado tore through there and tore up all the trees. At Brainerd you can camp in the infield and for the bike races there is the "Animal" section and "Family" section depending on how hard you want to party. If you are driving a car in the animal section just shut it off if you hear someone yell dig a hole because you will need a tow if you don't
My daily driver is a '97 BMW 540i and that one takes 8 quarts with the 4.4L V8 engine, also it takes a rather large canister filter as apposed to the standard spin on that most people are familiar with. My newly acquired Jeep Cherokee with the 4.0L engine takes 6 quarts. I haven't seen them use a suction pump the few times I have gone to one (usually when borrowing someone else's vehicle and I said I would get the oil changed) they just have the grease pit and open the drain plug. You can buy a manual fluid transfer pump but they never get all the oil out unless you spend the time to move them around in the pan and that takes forever. Those manual fluid transfer pumps work wonderfully for doing partial fluid exchanges in things like the power steering reservoir, or for getting fluid in to difficult to reach places like into transmissions, transfer cases, and differentials.
How about I raise a couple of fingers to them instead. I would get the same treatment either way.
They should have been stopped by metal detectors. They would have been stopped by the locked hardened cockpit doors we currently have. In one case they were stopped by the passengers.
Sure, if stops someone from sneaking onto a plane with a weapon than you can say "it just saved X lives + plus the cost of the plane + plus the cost of insurance pay-outs + plus the cost of property damage + etc" but have they REALLY stopped anything?
No. Especially since lots of stuff gets past them now without issue. I have accidentally brought a number of dangerous items through security and they have never found them. It is not like I was even trying to hide them. I have brought the following through at one time or another since the TSA came about, all of which should have been easy to detect and have been banned since day 1:
1. A handful of 3 inch magnum 12 gauge shotgun shells (about 10)
2. almost 20 7.62x54r rifle rounds
3. my small pocket knife (3 blades the largest of which is 2.5 inches)
4. my large pocket knife (4 inch lock blade)
5. 2 straight edge razors
I have never been stopped or questioned about any of that, but god forbid if I bring my old 35mm film SLR with the metal chassis, filters, bulb, flash, and assorted lenses then it is off to the side with you and we play 20 questions and wipe for explosives. Now just to be a pain in the ass I keep a roll of 3200 speed film in the bag so I can make them check it by hand but still I end up playing 20 questions since it appears that no one knows what camera equipment is any more.
Well what about all the passengers who are standing in line as they wait for the person who doesn't know their head from their ass to go through security. Unfortunately for my job I fly frequently so if the airports that I go through have this I would probably get the equivalent of 15 to 20 full X-Ray doses a year. If the TSA does unionize then maybe they can get some protection, but that would spook the hell out of people seeing a bunch of TSA agents standing around in heavy lead lines suits for protection from the X-rays that they are going to be bombarded with.