The 3D Paranoia and Idiocy

By Donald L. Cline. August 1st, 2018

The wave of fear mongering and carnival hucksterism currently sweeping our nation, promulgated by people who should know better and often do know better, about the supposedly devastating consequences to public safety occasioned by '3D Printed Guns,' is astonishing, appalling, and disgusting.

Undetectable by airport screening equipment? Nonsense. If the sub-millimeter array equipment at the TSA screening points can outline human genitals, and they can, then they can detect plastic guns. Also, even if the printed gun itself is undetectable, the bullets cannot be made undetectable. If the weapon is loaded, it is detectable like a searchlight in a tunnel. If bullets are anywhere else in the checked baggage, they are detectable.

Both are rights protected by our Constitution. Neither should be considered a violation or evidence of a crime. Besides, undetectable weapons have been illegal since 1988.

Untraceable? So what? It has probably been fifty years since a violent crime was solved by tracing down a serial number. The only purpose of a serial number is to find out who first bought the weapon from a dealer, and weapons involved in crime rarely, if ever, are in the possession of the person who first bought it. They are stolen, they are rented out by the local mob; they are passed around on the street. The cost of law enforcement firearm tracing is prohibitive, and is usually not completed by the time the perpetrator faces a judge anyway.

Oh, and by the way: It is perfectly legal to manufacture a firearm without a serial number for your own use. It is illegal to sell it, however.

Lastly, what criminal or even terrorist is going to spend $3,000 to $600,000 dollars for a 3D Printer or programmable CNC Mill so he can rip off the local stop-and-rob for a couple hundred bucks? Or even shoot up a school and then off himself to avoid accountability in this world (and face much more serious accountability in the next)?

All this fuss and fury is doing is identifying those poor snowflakes who live in a constant state of panic over the possibility that someone may have the equipment to defend themselves from lethal assault. And their manipulators who constantly crank out menacing hobgoblins with which to fuel their panic, all in the interests of justifying, by democratic vote, the destruction of the individual liberties our nation was founded to preserve and protect.

Donald L. Cline

Watching the news "reporting" on this subject gives cause for even more despair as non-facts are delivered with near total hysteria. Yet again the media goes into emotional melt down as they present misinformation and disinformation without bothering to check on real data - the whole thing has been blown up out of all proportion, and let's remember, ammunition is metallic and so are firing pins and springs. An 'invisible' gun? Yeah right.

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The Ferry Susitna, All Dressed Up & No Place to Go

For the Mat-Su's mothballed ice-breaking ferry, it's decision time.

The borough got the $80 million M/V Susitna -- federally funded as a U.S. Navy prototype -- for free with a pledge to use it for regular ferry runs between Anchorage and Port MacKenzie. Work on an Anchorage landing fizzled even after the Mat-Su built a $4.5 million terminal on the Port Mac side.

This undated photo provided by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough shows the 200-foot ferry Susitna, in Alaska.

MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/08/12/3020904/mat-su-borough-determined-to-do.html#storylink=cpy

The 195-foot, catamaran-style vessel capable of transporting 129 people and 20 cars has yet to get a dip in the waters of Cook Inlet.

Instead, every month since April 2012, the borough has spent $69,550 on insurance, taxes, security, docking and "boat exercise" to keep the ferry in good running order at Ward Cove near the Ketchikan shipyard where it was built.

This long, sad story involves local politicians, political wrangling, and bureaucracies for which too much red tape is never enough.

So the Mat-Su Borough (20,000 square miles, just north of Anchorage) got the ferry for free, plus a federal grant of $6 million to put it in operation, but the powers that be can't agree on where to build the pier on the Anchorage side, so it could dock. Did I mention politics are involved?

If all this leaves a bad taste in your mouth, imagine how we feel as this sweetheart deal evaporates without the ferry ever making it here.

NOAA Puts Some AK Fishing Charter Operators Out of Business

I'm a little late with this story, but

"A new rule intended to reduce the amount of halibut taken from Alaska waters will reduce the charter fishing fleets in some areas of the Gulf of Alaska by more than one third. Beginning in 2011, charter operators will have to display a  permit issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for their clients to legally catch halibut."

So now the fed.gov is telling us who can fish?

"NOAA's preliminary figures estimate that 231 businesses will qualify for a permit in Southeast and 173 will not; in Southcentral, 296 will qualify and 154 will not..."

Yeah, because some faceless bureaucratic panel 4,000 miles away knows what's best for poor little us. Sorry, but this is a load of bull. They have no business interfering in fishing. If the State of  Alaska chooses to regulate and/or impose quotas, that a different matter.

But a federal fishing permit? Yes, others have predicted it would happen. Now it has.

Friday Morning Thoughts

It was clear, 19 degrees & frosty at 5 a.m., a perfectly normal March morning. The gurus & weather wonks at AccuHunch predict we'll have low 40s and rain, this weekend. That's normal, too.

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So after the Seattle Times cleans the egg off its collectivist face, and after they admitted no one threw a brick through a Congressperson's 30th floor window*, perhaps it should consider a name change. "Post-Intelligence" comes to mind.

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Speaking of collectivists, the Anchorage Birdcage Liner-Glass Polisher reports:

As 48 other states are participating in a national re-writing of their state education standards, Alaska is taking a look at its own and wondering if it should get on board and raise the bar for the state's students. But while some educators say Alaska kids deserve to be held to the same standard as the rest of the country, others are saying we are different and the current, laxer standards are just fine.

Earlier this month, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers released the draft of sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks.

~snip~

Among the things that the national standards would call for: middle-schoolers will be ready to read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and letters from John Adams; 10th graders will be up to mastering John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath."

The state standards don't mention specific reading material. Instead they say that middle schoolers should be able to identify foreshadowing in literature, and that by the 10th grade a student should be able to do things like identify syntax...

I don't know why not; I had to learn those things, and I seem to be able to string more than two words together without drooling.

After the NEA and various governmental entities (you know who you dare, Dept. of Lowering Our Educational Standards) have been dumbing the kids down for the better part of a century, I think it's high time to actually, you know, teach the kids something.

Besides, this move comes from the States, and that's the way it ought to be. I keep harking back to that silly ol' Constitution ... and it doesn't say anything about the General Gov't. setting standards for education. But maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

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There are a lot of things to discuss, stuffed shirts to puncture, and inflated egos to pop ... so many progressives; so little time ... (sighs). But work beckons.

Y'all come back, hear?

*"Threw it through the window" is confusing to many, with so many homonyms. Perhaps, as Lewis Grizzard once suggested, we should switch to southern spelling. "He thowed it thew the window" is more clear, no?

The Maritime Sentry: Who Knew?

Abstinence Education Works Better Than Sex Ed

Excerpt:

Why would any sane person take a piece of machinery that works with harmonious precision and throw a wrench into it and expect that it would cause anything but destruction and havoc? A sane person would not, but a progressive would only be convinced that they did not use the right kind of wrench.

RTWT.

T.S.A. Qualification Test

Please circle your answer to each scenario.


1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:

a. Superman

b. Jay Leno

c. Harry Potter

d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40



2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by :

a. Olga Corbett

b. Sitting Bull

c. Arnold Schwarzenegger

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:

a. Lost Norwegians

b. Elvis

c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women

d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:

a. John Dillinger

b. The King of Sweden

c. The Boy Scouts

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:

a. A pizza delivery boy

b. Pee Wee Herman

c.. Geraldo Rivera

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:

a. The Smurfs

b. Davey Jones

c. The Little Mermaid

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:

a. Captain Kidd

b. Charles Lindbergh

c. Mother Teresa

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:

a. Scooby Doo

b. The Tooth Fairy

c. The Sundance Kid

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:

a. Richard Simmons

b. Grandma Moses

c. Michael Jordan

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:

a. Mr. Rogers

b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems

c. The World Wrestling Federation

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:

a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd

b. The Supreme Court of Florida

c. Mr Bean

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



12. In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:

a. Enron

b. The Lutheran Church

c. The NFL

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40



13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:

a. Bonnie and Clyde

b. Captain Kangaroo

c. Billy Graham

d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40


If you answered "d" to any of the questions, you're guilty of profiling. (!?!)


No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners are not allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.

Footnote: Fort Hood, Texas ......another Muslim 39 years old killed 13 people and wounded many others... Does this fit the profile?


h/t Sandi-with-an-i