Flex Cuffs Are Too Easy to Buy

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Tuesday January 12, 2021 · 2:55 AM PST

2021/01/12 · 02:55

Do you think military-grade flex cuffs are hard to find? Think again.

I saw photos of the two domestic terrorists with flex cuffs in the Capitol on January 6. If those two men had been able to reach the Vice-President, Senators, Speaker of the House or Representatives, there could have been disastrous consequences.

I wondered how a civilian could even acquire flex cuffs. I thought, “Maybe they are sold at some obscure tactical gear store, or something.”

So I did a quick Google search, and lo and behold, the first source that popped up was Amazon. And there were a lot of tactical gear stores selling them too.

Why is it so easy for a civilian to obtain flex cuffs? I can’t imagine a single legitimate reason why any law-abiding civilian would need to buy these things. In my opinion, flex cuffs should be only in the hands of law enforcement and the military.

Should a law be passed to stop the sale of flex cuffs to civilians?

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Should a law be passed forbidding the sale of military-grade flex cuffs to civilians?

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Should a law be passed forbidding the sale of military-grade flex cuffs to civilians?

Yes.

57 votes

No.

22 votes

Rescue of a sea bird from my garage

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Monday December 09, 2013 · 4:17 AM PST

2013/12/09 · 04:17

I live in Hawaii, about 2 blocks from the beach on the windward side of Oahu. Today we left our garage door open, and tonight we found a disoriented sea bird waddling around inside the garage. He seemed to be sick because he didn't fly away when we approached. We wrapped him in a towel and took him to the local vet, who has nighttime hours for emergency walk ins. She identified him as a shearwater. She said sometimes shearwaters get dehydrated and end up on driveways and yards. We live about two blocks from 2 islands called "the Mokes", which are a nesting site for shearwaters. I guess the little guy was trying to fly there, but he got dehydrated and pooped out. Our garage looked like the nearest shelter.
The vet determined that no wings were broken and he was just dehydrated. She placed a feeding tube in his stomach and gave him a 60 cc bolus of water and glucose. She asked us to take him to Sea Life Park, where they have a Sea Bird Recovery Center. She said that even though it was night and the park was closed, there would be a security guard who could guide us to the Rescue Center where we could drop off the bird.
So we drove 8 miles to Sea Life Park. When we drove up, a security guard came up to our car. We told him we had a sick sea bird, and he acted like he always received deliveries of sick birds at 9:30pm. He gave us directions to the back of the parking lot where there were a lot of bird crates, stacked on a rack. There was a stack of forms, asking us to write what city we found him in and what time he was found. We noticed that there were already birds in two other crates. A busy night for sick birds. The sea bird specialist will examine all of the birds in the morning and determine if they need further first aid or if they can be released. Such a valuable service for sick sea birds and I never knew it existed.
We put the bird in a nice crate and said "nighty night" and goodbye.
If some nice Kossack will give me easy to understand directions on how to upload photos from my iPhone onto this diary, I will try to post some photos. I have tried to use Photobucket and Flickr but I can't seem to figure out how to make the photos appear in the diary. I am going to go to bed right now, since it is 2:12am HST. I will check back in about 6 hours.

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Have you ever rescued a wild bird?

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Have you ever rescued a wild bird?

Yes

48 votes

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ABC/OTUS News: "Romney has solid shot at the presidency."

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Monday August 27, 2012 · 3:34 AM PDT

2012/08/27 · 03:34

A reporter named Gary Langer, who writes for ABC/OTUS News, has an article up tonight saying:

Mitt Romney heads into his nominating convention with a solid shot at the presidency but substantial challenges en route - including broad perceptions among a downturn-battered public that, if elected, he'd favor wealthy Americans over the middle class.

Um...not if you believe that Nate Silver has the most accurate statistical political data. Tonight fivethirtyeight.com puts President Obama's calculated electoral votes at 298 and his likelihood of winning the election at 69.4%.

That doesn't translate into "a solid shot at the presidency" for Romney.

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The mainstream media is

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The mainstream media is

Stupid

4 votes

Useless

25 votes

Biased for Romney

17 votes

Trying to create false excitement

70 votes

Dishonest

21 votes

A bunch of people with shit for brains

24 votes

I got this e-mail today from a church friend...

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Thursday August 13, 2009 · 1:40 AM PDT

2009/08/13 · 01:40

I got this e-mail today from a friend. After I got it, I spent an hour and a half carefully typing a reply. First you will see a photo, then the LONG right-wing commentary under the photo, and then, my reply.

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People like my friend need to be:

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People like my friend need to be:

Told how rude they are, and then ignored and cut off from contact.

28 votes

Gently educated as to how their e-mails contain errors, and then maintained as a friend.

101 votes

Redefining the word "elitist"...

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 11:13 AM PDT

2008/10/24 · 11:13

In this election, the Republicans have denounced basic knowledge as "elitism". It is as if they are proud to be ignorant. Furthermore, they back up their pride in their ignorance with righteous indignation when they are questioned.

Two days ago there was an excellent Doonesbury cartoon in which Zonker, seen as a college student, was responding to his professor:

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