Guns welcomed on Oregon shuttle

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Monday October 09, 2017 · 7:41 AM PDT

2017/10/09 · 07:41

I travel to Oregon a lot to visit my son and his family. I use a shuttle sevice to get to and from the Portland Airport and Eugene. The last trip I made, I noticed a sign on the front door of their office/hub in Albany. It basically said, as proud supporters of the 2nd amendment, guns were welcome at their establishment. It was basically the opposite of a no guns allowed sign. The idea of travelling with armed passengers on a shuttle bus horrfied me. I sent a message to them about their gun policy and received the following email response:

“Hi my name is Eric the operations manager for Hut Airport shuttle. I sorry if people legally carry fire arms scare you but it makes me feel more safe. If us supporting the second amendment makes you uncomfortable than I'm sorry but its our right. Just FYI Place that outwardly support the right to bare arms are less likely to be robbed and be attacked by terrorist. That is why we post and it and support it. I hope you have better luck trying another company and stay safe. Thanks Eric”

This response horrified me even more so I wrote a review about my experience with them on Yelp. My one star review for them did not meet Yelp’s standards for recommendation so it was a review that was basically hidden. I guess they figured people would not want to know that a shuttle bus they might want to use allowed its passengers to carry guns on board.

Republican Debates-American Idol Style

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Friday May 29, 2015 · 8:39 AM PDT

2015/05/29 · 08:39

There are over 20 contenders for the Republican party's nomination for POTUS. The problem is how to narrow the field to 10 in such a way that is fair and does not exclude a potentially strong candidate. The criteria for entry to the debates is focusing on limiting to 10 based on polls. As Rachel Maddow and Rick Santorum, himself, have pointed out, if polling were used to limit candidates in the 2012 primary debates, Rick Santorum would not have made it into the debates. As it turned out, Rick Santorum came in 2nd to Mitt Romney after winning Iowa and several other states (10?) in the Republican primary. So using polls to determine who gets to debate could potentially knock out a strong candidate whose momentum was just getting started. My husband came up with an idea that sounds a little crazy but one that makes more sense than anything else. His idea is to bring in all 20+ candidates, have each one sequestered in a transparent, sound-proof booth on stage and have each candidate respond to a question. Each candidate would get 1 minute response time (electronically enforced cut-off) and each response played back to the audience, one at a time. This way the candidate would have to respond to the question with no redirection and they would not be able to respond to each other's answers. They could get in 6, hopefully, high quality questions in a 2 hour debate time frame. Okay-sounds pretty good so far, right? Now comes the snark from me-let the audience decide on the top ten via American Idol style.

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