News and notes from around the interweb:
- In rare helpful act, DEA enters Canada to collect 13 year old unaccompanied minor stranded overnight on her Canadian connection. (HT: @MattSoleyn) By the way, the DEA’s softball team was cynically called the DEAlers.
- Since last year I’ve told you one open question for vaccine passports is how long they’ll be valid. That has renewed urgency now that several countries (including the UAE, Israel, U.K. and U.S.) are planning booster doses.
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— Jerry Saltz (@jerrysaltz) August 18, 2021
- She flew to Tonga for a weekend. 18 months later she’s still stuck there
- This would be cool when applying for Chase cards. (HT: Doctor of Credit)
- Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback hall of famer Terry Bradshaw is none-too-happy with American Airlines.
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has stopped enforcing federal mask mandate inside the airport
[F]ewer and fewer passengers at Myrtle Beach International Airport bother to wear masks when inside. Not only is a dwindling number complying with the federal mandate, which holds the force of law, enforcement is near nonexistent. The Sun News has observed hundreds of people — passengers, law enforcement and airport employees — failing to wear masks inside the airport. Sun News reporters have also been unable to find a single sign reminding people to wear a mask when inside the airport outside of the security checkpoint.
Horry County Police officers, which themselves have been breaking federal law by not wearing masks when inside the airport, has not written a single ticket for failing to wear a mask inside the airport in the last six weeks. The county has repeatedly refused to explain why its officers won’t wear masks in the airport.
I called Chase this week to move some credit from one card to another. The CSR said he had a program to input my info into, which produced the answer on how much I could move. Apparently, no human decision involved beyond programming of the software.
At least the DEA did one good thing instead of hassling my doctors and keeping them from treating me.
Useless unconstitutional drug war!
Regarding the Myrtle Beach article, the writer, I not going to call him a journalist, states that “ Thousands of people are forced into close proximity indoors”. No has forced these people to go to the airport. It is their choice. The one thing this last year has thought me is I now can tell who would have hidden Anne Frank and who would have turned her in!
Perhaps Terry Bradshaw should just buy some new clothes , get reimbursed and get on with his vacation?
Nice to hear an airport is being rational. All laws are null and void if they are not enforced. Instead of saluting cops who enforce the leftist laws and court orders of our enemies, conservatives should be doing the opposite and seek to replace every single cop in conservative areas with conservative loyalists who won’t enforce the laws of our enemies. Preventing enforcement is a solution to leftist democracy. We can’t win with words. We can win if people won’t be allowed to enforce the laws and orders of leftists. The first step is to stop supporting people in our own areas that we pay for with our own tax dollars (counties and states) if they are following orders of our enemies. Conservative support for the police is pathological.
@San – somehow that surprises you? Banks and insurance companies have been using algorithms for years.
Contact centers have worked to simplify agent tasks as staff turnover is huge. They have to get your issues resolved fast so the wheels of revenue generation keep rolling.
George Bailey and the Bailey Building and Loan is not today’s financial institutions.
The challenge faced: if you run into a one-off (in my case with Geico’s glass claim company Safelite and the $1600 damage to my vehicle), then the wheels come off the system pretty fast.
Why does Terry Bradshaw need clothes? He just needs to hang out in his “naked room.”
@jackson waterson – your libertarian home must be fantastic !
How do you get there? Via public roads? How’s that public plumbing? Public water? Publicly regulated electricity?
Is your home protected by a public fire department?
Grumpy as you are you are, I’m likely paying for your Medicare and Social security.
Are you just a closet socialist sucking off the teat of hard working Americans?
@liberalcapitslist
I think you’re missing the point entirely.
Also, you’re making a lot of assumptions based on, from what I see, a pretty rational post
@Jackson Waterson
Hey, Jackass you are the enemy within!!!!
@Jackson Waterson and @Dc
Rational posts, my eye. Eleanor Roosevelt was poignantly right when she said, “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
Considering the efficacious ability of quality, triple layer face masks, if worn properly to significantly stop COVID virus laden respiratory droplets from spreading infection in indoor spaces where people are fairly close together, such as airports, (Effectiveness of Mask Wearing to Control Community Spread of SARS-CoV-2 by John T. Brooks, MD; Jay C. Butler, MD and a variety of other published papers, studies etc. in peer reviewed journals.) and the significant numbers of infected people in public, and considering that most infected people are infected by the Delta variant which is 200+ percent more transmissible than prior strains of COVID, and considering the mortality rate of the disease, even if likely twice or a bit more than are known to have had the virus had it, we would be horses’ petunias to not protect children who can’t yet be vaccinated, those who can’t get vaccinated due to medical reasons and the immuno-compromised, as well as others, from those who choose freedom without responsibility, by making indoor face mask wearing mandatory in public settings.
The last time I read the Constitution its purpose was carefully and succinctly outlined in the preamble where it talks about “We the people” and for us to “promote the general Welfare.” That’s what the mask mandate does. It promotes the welfare of Americans. It prevents the serious illness and death of millions. And it takes away no freedoms whatsoever, except perhaps the freedom to be stupid and potentially infect many others if infected.
Those who are vulnerable have the same rights as any to have a life and to have a life without being held hostage by those who chose to eschew their personal responsibility to their fellow human beings in the false name of freedom.
Great news about Myrtle Beach. I don’t think most people realize how most law enforcement departments don’t care about enforcing mask mandates. The mask mandates are implemented by democrats who don’t care about police so the police return the favor by not enforcing the mask mandates. Sure they may fake like they care, but no reasonable cop will arrest you for no mask as long as you aren’t an asshole. Its all fake theater and everyone knows masks are pretty much worthless in containing Covid. If people just realized this and just stopped wearing masks and forcing businesses to call the police on them this whole masking thing would be over pretty quick.
Although airlines are different because they are federal and flight attendants are power hungry Karens.
Health insurers and Medicare should refuse to pay any claims of people with covid who did not get vaccinated!
Need every airport to be like Myrtle Beach. I am hearing more and more from friends who are flying that in the airports and even on many flights it is not being enforced to the degree it was. TSA people bark at people with mask below the nose but as soon as through security the mask is below the nose or chin again. People have perfected the bottle of water sipping trick for the entire flight and so forth. Flight attendants look the other way rather than bother someone to raise the mask above the nose. I am not flying because I absolutely will not wear a mask. I have had one mask since March 2019 and it has to last for the duration. Can’t wear it out. Can’t wait to be rid of the Biden and airline Gestapo.
The FAA should issue a ground stop for all flights departing or arriving to Myrtle Beach indefinitely until the airport complied with federal policy. It’s not that hard.
It is rather funny , , , or sad.
None of you — irrespective of your position — left, center, right, none of the above — have any idea that you are being played like a fiddle. It has nothing to do with the article’s subject. It has nothing to do with any other article’s subject. Without even being aware, you subject yourselves to manipulation. None of you see it and think to extract yourself from it. And, you all flail like puppets.
Have a nice weekend.
Florida’s running out of oxygen. I told you to wait for delta to hit your country a few months back. Now it’s here and people will die due to a lack of oxygen.
But don’t wear masks because of your freedumbs. What’s a few more deaths in deathcultistan.
I’ve frequently heard the Myrtle Beach area referred to as the Redneck Riviera. Given the information about the airport, I’d say that the Spreadneck Riviera would be more accurate.
If police officers won’t enforce the law, it would seem that we need a lot less of them. Cut 50% of their funding, and if they still won’t do their jobs, cut the other 50%!
@ LiberalCapitalist. You evidently are completely ignorant of how Medicare (not Medicaid) and Social Security (not welfare) are funded. Educate yourself. The knowledge will be beneficial to you when you approach retirement.
@one trippe
Oh… is it not a government run program where wage earners pay a set amount in the expectation of getting future benefits?
And due to rising medical and inflationary costs, current wage earner monies that are paid in go to fund the spending of those currently drawing benefits?
So, a community paying in to ensure coverage for all involved… not socialism?
Seriously, do go on and let us know.