Tiger Pants 318

I grew up being told that they were quacks and it wasn’t real medicine, so I didn’t think much of them.

One day a few years ago, I slipped a disk once and was damn near immobile. Couldn’t get an appointment with my doctor or specialist in the near term. A friends dad is a chiropractor and I said why not. Went in, he checked it all out and applied a TENS unit, and then did the adjustments every couple days. Honestly, it worked and I would feel better for about 24 hours before it would hurt again. After about a month, it felt completely better and I was ready to quit going in. He said to come in one more time so we could have a serious discussion. I was kinda freaked out about it…and then I got there and he tried to sell me essential oils.

Tough to hate on the results of the actual chiropractic elements but come on dude…essential oils?

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Elon came to the United States in 1992 and became a citizen in 2002.

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You're correct. I am wrong. Thanks for pointing that out.

He can do this without sending ICE to run screening operations at the airport (which btw they don't have the statutory authority to do).

If he's serious about it, they should add a targeting rule into Secure Flight that checks the immigration status of everyone attempting to fly. Every passenger is already run through Secure Flight, just add this additional targeting rule.

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It's almost like he completely beat his cancer that he was diagnosed with over a year ago.

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I mean let's hope so? Nobody deserves the hell that cancer dishes out.

They actually tried to exempt themselves from screening all together a few years ago by citing Article I, Section 6, Clause 1 of the Constitution. It says Senators and Representatives are “privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same,” except for “Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace.”

They tried to interpret "arrest" as any delay or impeding of their movements, to include security screening. Got shot down pretty quick by Boehner but kudos for out of the box thinking.

Fair point, but you know how it is at these auctions. They typically just say "does not include tips, transfers, shells." I've done about half auctions/half direct booking. I've had a blast on auction hunts, but I've just always had smoother sailing on direct bookings.

From the looks of their website, its big game hunting?

Regardless of if it is a big game hunt or birds, the hidden fees (or not hidden, and just excessive) are kinda the norm down there. I've been a handful of times and have seen the landowner fees, transportation fees, license fees, special access permit fees, etc. What's funny is that if you actually purchase the hunt from the outfitter directly (vs. on a donated hunt) the fees seem to go down/disappear. My last trip down there, I asked if I could get a copy of my hunting license to keep as a souvenir, maybe frame it or something. They never could get around to producing the license for me...makes you wonder.

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ICE and Border Patrol are VERY important to Homeland Security.

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ICE and Border Patrol are both fully funded through the OBBB. Its most of the rest of the DHS components that are left unfunded (USSS, TSA, FEMA, etc.)

And if we're being honest, the idea with TSA was always that it would be fee funded. The thinking at the time was that the folks who don't travel shouldn't have to cover the cost of those that do. If you bought a plane ticket, you'd be assessed a fee that would cover the cost of the screening/salaries of the TSOs and that's how it works today. The problem is that as the threats to aviation evolved and became more expensive, the airline lobby parked them squarely in the way of any rate increases to cover the cost of more advanced screening technology. They haven't even adjusted for inflation. Say what you will about the airlines, they've got some damn good lobbyists.

So, to cover the delta in fee collection, congress has to appropriate it now...which they aren't currently doing. Fees don't even cover 1/3 of what it costs.

Mark Staton was the outfit that took mine, but there were dozens of gators on the dock that day and all of them were going to them, so can't say if they'd take only one.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that there's a better than average chance that I won't be getting "my" hide back. Feels kinda like dropping off "my deer" at the processor. Really no way to know what you're getting back. The gator I got was 10'4'' and I (my wife) got to pick the color and finish for the stuff we'll make out of the hide. I was told that my gator would be enough for two pairs of boots, a handbag, and a bunch of belts, wallets, coasters, etc. The turnaround on just the hide is 12-15 months, so sometime between now and Christmas, I should hear back. Same deal with the head. Its been with Southern Taxidermy for almost a year.

I've heard/read that they migratory Canadas used to come through Louisiana in numbers worth targeting back in the 50's and 60's. Crazy how they can bounce back in some flyways in huge numbers but not in others.