TSA confiscates a toy ray-gun belt buckle
Does this make you feel safer? At an airport security checkpoint the TSA confiscated a belt buckle made to look like a toy Flash Gordon ray-gun.
It wasn’t a real gun. It wasn’t even a toy gun. It was a belt buckle fashioned to look like a 1940s science fiction ray-gun. Even if it was one of the actual Flash Gordon ray-guns that was used in the movie serial, it couldn’t have done anything.
But it wasn’t. It was a belt buckle.
I am so glad we have the TSA looking out for us!
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Does this make you feel safer? At an airport security checkpoint the TSA confiscated a belt buckle made to look like a toy Flash Gordon ray-gun.
It wasn’t a real gun. It wasn’t even a toy gun. It was a belt buckle fashioned to look like a 1940s science fiction ray-gun. Even if it was one of the actual Flash Gordon ray-guns that was used in the movie serial, it couldn’t have done anything.
But it wasn’t. It was a belt buckle.
I am so glad we have the TSA looking out for us!
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
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Next, they’ll be putting people under house arrest becasue they “might” be ill.
Oh wait, they’re all ready trying that…
Not the same at all lol. One is a highly infectious disease that is transmissible for days before a person knows they have Ebola and only gets worse as the disease progresses. A disease that has ravaged several Africa countries. And the other is the confiscation of a belt because the buckle has a facsimile of a gun on the buckle.
If you think the two are in any way comparable, you fail to grasp how serious Ebola is.
“that is transmissible for days before a person knows they have Ebola”
That is completely false. A lie spread by fear mongers!
Thomas Duncan’s fiancée slept next to him while he was sweating with fever. She didn’t catch it. Only those who had contact with him while he was VERY sick, in the hospital became infected.
“That is completely false. A lie spread by fear mongers!”
Lol, no it isn’t. You can transmit Ebola before even testing positive for it. It is just harder to transmit in the earlier stages.
“Thomas Duncan’s fiancée slept next to him while he was sweating with fever. She didn’t catch it.”
She might have some immunity. A lot of Africans do. There is a lot about Ebola that we don’t know.
“Only those who had contact with him while he was VERY sick, in the hospital became infected.”
Yes, the people who wore hazmat suits. That you can get Ebola while using hazmat suits or even while taking one off, should tell you how dangerous this disease is. A 21 day quarantine is a prudent precaution considering how difficult it is to treat the disease and how easy it can be spread the further the disease progresses.
No one is being a fear monger, they just want people who should know better not to act like idiots.
Sorry dude lol. You’re full of it lol. You can’t just make stuff up lol. And think infringing someone’s rights is just A OK, as long as you think they’re liberal. lol
I hope when they come for you there are enough of us left to defend your rights. lol
This nation has had quarantine laws since before it was a nation and since day one.
Please provide proof she slept with him while he was sick.
One of the reasons Ebola spread so far and fast in Africa was because the people there didn’t adhere to quarantines.
Quarantine laws have been used and legally upheld for the last 300 years. Fight them all you want but you will lose.
And since he knew he was sick do you think it was smart of him to risk infection of his very own loved ones?
If this was Hiv/Aids he could be charged with attempted murder. People infected with that have been charged and found guilty when they have tried to spread the disease.
Is Ebola less deadly than HIV/Aids?
Members of the medical community have already stated that the disease could possibly stay active for a week or more outside the body in the right environments.
If the disease could NEVER stay active outside the body why do they go through so much trouble cleaning up the areas the victims have been in?
Couldn’t they just leave the area closed off for a week and viola its safe to go back in?
Look at what they are DOING not what they are saying.