{"id":24198,"date":"2011-12-03T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/on-the-presumption-that-these-are-not-all-terrorists-which-i-presume-because.html"},"modified":"2011-12-05T06:51:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T13:51:58","slug":"on-the-presumption-that-these-are-not-all-terrorists-which-i-presume-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/on-the-presumption-that-these-are-not-all-terrorists-which-i-presume-because.html","title":{"rendered":"On the presumption that these are not all terrorists &#8212;- which I presume because&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the presumption that these are not all terrorists &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; which I presume because that would probably catch some headlines &#8212; then these people are idiots. I mean, I&#39;ve railed at the, &quot;Really, my little Swiss Army Knife keychain fob with the 3\/4&quot; blade?&quot; kind of confiscation, and I occasionally forget to pull out my ziplok full of 3oz-or-less fluid bottles &#8230; but an inert grenade? A machete?  Loaded guns (with one in the chamber)?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone stupid enough to be carrying such an item and either forgetting about it or thinking it will clear TSA &#8230; is stupid enough that it should be confiscated and incur  some hassle.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand &#8230; how many of those things were found via pornoscanner? #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-AtjsJZxm2Po%2FTtlXuZ3zF2I%2FAAAAAAAAAqo%2FQCi82wOJQ4o%2Fs200%2FGSP%25252B11-26-2011%25252B%252525282%25252529.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.tsa.gov\/2011\/12\/tsa-week-in-review-smooth-travel-this.html'>The TSA Blog: TSA Week in Review: Smooth Travel This Holiday Season \u2013 Plus Machetes Too!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the presumption that these are not all terrorists &#8212; &#8212; which I presume because that would probably catch some headlines &#8212; then these people are idiots. I mean, I&#39;ve railed at the, &quot;Really, my little Swiss Army Knife keychain fob with the 3\/4&quot; blade?&quot; kind of confiscation, and I occasionally forget to pull out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/on-the-presumption-that-these-are-not-all-terrorists-which-i-presume-because.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the presumption that these are not all terrorists &#8212;- which I presume because&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,26],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-travel","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":24198,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":24198,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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