Worriedman

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Never intimated that TSA had anything to do with customs.  Was remarking on the number of TSA agents sitting on their cans while only 4 were working the security station at Memphis in response to your comment about connection though DC, and figuring TSA would be responsible for your transfer and, from what I have seen at Dulles they are not any snappier up there then they are at Memphis. But then you might be coming in from out of country instead of just making a US connection through there. And from the last couple of commercial trips I have made, the TSA scanner might only take a minute, but the back up to get to it is running longer and longer. I much prefer to take our King Air 200, cuts out a lot of BS.

  It is the US Citizen/permanent resident side at customs, Immigration for aliens is next over and to the right. It is manned by Border Patrol agents, there is one more "check point/access control" to get back into the terminal at large after you pick up your checked baggage, but the "gates" you see in the photo are where you declare what you are bringing in, and they look at your customs declaration card, check your passport etc.   If I have to start going more often, I will jump into the Global Entry Program as well.  The people who were really ticked were the airline crews, they were having to go through with the rest of the great unwashed.

Flying out of Memphis, saw 32 (counted them) TSA agents sitting on their dead hinneys while 4 were working the security line to get to the gates.   Interesting happening, Van Jones was going through security right in front of me.  I spoke to him, called him by name, (asked him if he was headed back to D.C.?) and he about jumped out of his skin, I got the distinct feeling he was nervous about being recognized.

Never happen.  The Powers that be are fully under the direction of the Board of Regents, and they will never let firearms on campus without repercussions, never.  They MUST have control.

Customs is not staffed by TSA folks, they are gun totin real life officers of the line.  They are actually Border Patrol officers.

Coming back from Mexico yesterday into Houston International, this is what customs looked like, one lane open for US Citizens out of 40 available. Took me nearly 3 hours to clear what normally takes 15 minutes. The mood was evil I can promise, especially from the "Crews" as they closed their line and made them go though with the Great Unwashed.

Looks like the intent on closing the HCP Database bill is to kill it by paying no attention in the senate.  Thanks Lt. Gov. Ramsey.

I personally do not think that being fired for exercising an enumerated Constitutional Right is "random", I see it more as hegemony.

I normally respect your opinion on things, but this time I think you err.

Anybody hear any problems from States that have this law with the codicil that the employer can not fire an employee for keeping a legal item in their car?  I remember only too well asking the paid shill for Fed Ex if it cost them any money in any State that mandated the Citizen be able to keep their legal weapons in their private vehicles, to which he answered "No", then further questioned if the ability to keep those legal weapons in their private vehicles had caused any security problems, to which he answered "No" again.   Our State Constitution ONLY allows the legislature the power to regulate the wearing of arms, not a business owner, and that again is simply the wearing of arms, not the keeping.  Keeping them is supposed to be an inviolate Right.  Nature gave an amoeba the instinct and the natural Right to try and survive, are we as humans any less important?   But that is alright, that same document says that we are supposed to elect our Supreme Court Justices in TN, and that clergy are not allowed to be elected to the legislature, nobody pays any attention to any of that, so losing a few more of the Rights guaranteed is not that big of a deal, as long as private property, which the State, City, County or Federal government can take from you as easy as a horse takes a dump, and with just as little effort, is held sacrosanct, (which it is not).

Hard to get  some folks to see this, but, your cash is your property.  Taxes are legalized theft of property.  If you did not have to give the government your taxes, you could buy more property. Government has a mechanism to take everything you have, including your life.

FTFY  From Jethro Bodine's Naught-Naught Spy stuff, the funniest of which was the Jethro Bodine Ejector Seat...from Double Naught Jethro (March 3, 1965)

I believe you have the species correct, however the location of the orifice seems about 180° off...

Jump up then and get petitions going to repeal all restrictive ordinances against materials that can be used in construction of a business, what use any piece of property can be put to regardless of where it lies.  If one truly wants unlimited personal control of property, the there should be no control by government of any type for anything.  That mindset would negate all ADA regulations, but I do not see anyone championing the repeal of those. Funny how it seems to only be a firearms issue that brings out the anarchist in many.  Nobody wants a lead smelter to be allowed next door to their kid's school, but under the scenario of zero government intrusion, that would be permissible.

Should said business be able to fire you for having a copy of the Constitution, tape recorder, video camera, golf clubs or any other legal thing kept in your vehicle out of sight and unhandled? If that restriction was not a part of the agreement upon your hiring, would it be considered ex post facto to institute such a restriction now that this law has been posted as a public chapter?

 Have to vote out Haslam, Harwell and Ramsey first, then get Bob Pope fired...

  And if you follow this line of reasoning, according to one celebrated TN lawyer, the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the Union supersedes the Bill of Rights, therefore the 1st and 2nd Amendments, why actually all of them, are null and void.

The tentacles run wide in scope.  You buy ammo at Wal Mart, they give up their receipt data base to .gov, they then assume you have guns in the calibers that you purchase ammo for.   Same receipt data base shows you also bought meds for anxiety...   Need to create jobs, hire analyst to put 2 and 2 together...

  More than one pocket, from more than one source.  The game is afoot.

Ramsey said they are going to proceed with passing the deal in the Senate.  You can bet that if Harwell jumped in to keep it alive in the House sub-committee (which she did) they have a deal worked out.   Watch, the House will tack the grocery store thing onto something else, and they will have a Conference Committee to get it out.   Little boy (Mathew Hill) who popped in the House Local Government Committee will get Mae Beavered next year, Beth meant for that to go forward, and she will be displeased.

It was HB 42, not 47.

1870 version: http://www.tncrimlaw.com/law/constit/index.html   1835 version: http://www.tngenweb.org/law/constitution1835.html   1796 version: http://www.tngenweb.org/law/constitution1796.html

So very sorry for your loss.  Your concern for him, and the testimony you gave as to his character speak volumes.  You were lucky to have him in your life.

Original loss of Rights was 1870, when the State Constitution was redone, to make sure freed slaves were kept unarmed, and the "intent to go armed" Jim Crow law was instituted.   No question of how or what, just do.   1835 version:     1870 version:     Legislature picked the bones of the beat down State, and inserts themselves into a position they never previously had, nor were intended to have to increase their power.  See how well that is working for us?