Flying High

Lift Airline Ban on Lighters, TSA Urges

The nation's aviation security chief says Congress should lift a ban on passengers carrying lighters on airplanes because screeners are spending too much time looking for lighters instead of bombs.


The TSA says its screeners confiscate 30,000 lighters a day at checkpoints. Although lighters are just one of 68 items passengers cannot carry on planes, they represent 80% of the confiscated items, the TSA says. Congress enacted the ban in late 2004 in response to concerns that a terrorist could light explosives on an airplane. Matches are allowed on planes.

Congress at their best. They ban lighters so you can't light a fuse on a bomb but they allow matches. Let us think about this one, hmmm, I wonder what one can do with matches. This all started over the shoe bomber, I guess he wouldn't have been able to light his shoe bomb with matches. I wonder, if they go back to allowing lighters, can I once again go through security with my shoes on so I don't catch athletes foot? As a side note, screeners confiscate 30,000 lighters a day which tells me someone other than me still smokes!!!!!!!







High court: Prisons can withhold newspapers
Decision overturns ruling from lower court for which Alito wrote dissent

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania officials did not violate the free-speech rights of troublesome inmates by keeping secular newspapers and magazines away from them.

I wonder how the inmates will find out about this since they don't get a paper? Free speech rights by withholding reading material - I could have answered that one and saved the Supreme Court a lot of time!







Drive-through pot smoke gives pair away
Aroma wafting through window brings dining cops out to make arrests

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A pair of pot smokers picked the wrong day to use the drive-through window at a KFC restaurant. A couple of narcotics detectives were inside ordering their food. That's when a cloud of marijuana smoke wafted into the restaurant. The detectives then spotted the two men smoking what one of the cops called "the biggest marijuana cigar you ever saw."


Now, if you read this and don't think of the Cheech and Chong's 1978 movie "Up In Smoke," you are way too young!!!!















China cracks down on blogs, search engines
Moves to block material government considers unlawful, immoral
"As more and more illegal and unhealthy information spreads through the blog and search engine, we will take effective measures to put the BBS, blog and search engine under control," said Cai Wu, director of the Information Office of China's Cabinet

Oh no, now I am losing all my Chinese readers. This is a conspiracy.





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