I don't know what is sillier, the TSA confiscating this man's pb&j as a threat or this man only having 33 cents on his person. The story was so amusing I really have no snark.

I feel kind of dumb here...what does one do with a bag of cornmeal and PB&J?

ScienceRocks: what does one do with a bag of cornmeal and PB&J?

I have an idea but what kind of hooker can you get for 33 cents?

Out on a limb here but I have to think the Congressman's press secretary doesn't vet the blog.

Wow. I mean, train wreck wow.

scruffy1
He's doing that 2 week, 20 dollar challenge to see what it's like to live off of food stamps. It includes fundraisers and stuff like that, too, so without the PB&J, he's just got cornmeal to live on for 2 days. Hah.

.wait a minute, I've got nothing to eat but oatmeal right now!

Two things?

Why does he have only thirty-three cents? Is he one of those silly legislators who is taking part in some "feel-good" experiment to live off of food stamps every week. (And if so, FARK him, as not actually being able to afford something and having the ability to, but not choosing to buy something are something entirely different.)

Also, if our legislators realize TSA screening standards are ridiculous, why don't they change them. If they cannot change the law, why are they even in power?

scruffy1
I don't know what is sillier, the TSA confiscating this man's pb&j as a threat or this man only having 33 cents on his person. The story was so amusing I really have no snark.

The point is that he's on his food stamp crusade, so now he lost a meal in addition to surviving on $21 of food a week.

Serves him right for wasting money of stupid things like PB&J. Everyone knows that when you're on Food Stamps, you buy nothing but Top Ramen and Mustard. And once in a while you get the free cheese-food from the food bank.

If he gets the packages on sale, that is potentially 84 to 210 bags of ramen noodles. College diet 4tw!

What the hell? I thought it said T&A steals congressman's PB&J.
That would have been a hell of lot more interesting than reading about his last bit of cornmeal.

Careful there, Sparky, that's hundreds of pounds of potentially high explosive material.

I don't know what's sadder - that the TSA thinks PB&J sandwiches are dangerous, or that this guy considers confiscating PB&J sandwiches to be "doing an exceptional job".

Bhruic

Definitely him thinking that the TSA was doing an exceptional job, because he is supposedly one of those people making our laws.

\If we stop now, we will let the PB&J terrorists win.

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PainSorrowLoss

If he gets the packages on sale, that is potentially 84 to 210 bags of ramen noodles. College diet 4tw!

College diet indeed! _(nsfw)

Pervert.

Meh. I routinely have absolutely no cash on me at all, as it's quite normal where I come from to do everything with debit/credit cards.

That said, does he have to make his own meals while he's travelling? I wouldn't stand for that, and I'm just some developer, not a Congressman.

Submitted, but of course it won't show up under his comments section:

You'd like to thank the TSA for doing an exceptional job? Are you insane? How can a peanut butter and jelly sandwich EVER be considered a security threat? Do they think you will somehow break into the cockpit and smear it all over the window? This is nothing more than overzealousness by an organization desperate to prove its relevance and should be stopped at once, and you praise them. I can only hope that rational, intelligent people replace you and others like you in Congress and end all this madness.


Doubtful he'll even see it, but there's always a chance.

scruffy1
I don't know what is sillier, the TSA confiscating this man's pb&j as a threat or this man only having 33 cents on his person. The story was so amusing I really have no snark.

He's doing a challenge. I had a quick look at the bar on the left told me that after I read the 33 cents bit. So the sillier thing is obviously the TSA taking his pb&j.

How is peanut butter and jelly a liquid? Peanut butter is a paste; jelly is (duh) a gel. At the very least, the dimwit congressman should have asked if he could have kept the bread.

That would be the Manchester Airport a travel agent tried to send me to when I asked for a ticket to Manchester Airport UK.
Instead of arriving in a terribly inconvenient airport surrounded by Manc chavs and Scousers, I would ended up in the middle of Butt-fark nowhere, with only a peanut butter and jam sandwich to keep me company.

Not sure which is worse, really.

No Catchy Nickname: Not sure which is worse, really.

You've obviously never been to El Paso.

I don't think I saw the woard sandwich in the article once. Secondly, he refered to being out of SEVERAL meals. I seriously doubt that the TSA would steal sandwichs, but they would take the small jars of peanut butter or jelly that you could fit in a carry on bag.

My question is was he carrying bread, crackers or flat bread to put it on? Normal bread takes too much space.

wdgiles

Hey, I was busy enough comparing two airports, don't confuse things with a third one!

Concord is farking 20 MINUTES from Manchester douchebag...

Ultroniar

He's doing a challenge. I had a quick look at the bar on the left told me that after I read the 33 cents bit. So the sillier thing is obviously the TSA taking his pb&j.

Okay, fine.

/harrumph

Did they threaten him with a baseball bat?

Krumet: Careful there, Sparky, that's hundreds of pounds of potentially high explosive material smuggled drugs.

FTFY

Hillary T. N. Seuss: How is peanut butter and jelly a liquid? Peanut butter is a paste; jelly is (duh) a gel. At the very least, the dimwit congressman should have asked if he could have kept the bread.

Pastes and gels count too. See it's not about explosives, it's about drugs. You can use a liquid, gel, or paste as a gaseous diffusion barrier, to make something virtually undetectable by smell. But for it to be practical you need a container above a certain size to contain an inner watertight capsule inside the liquid. Hence the 100ml per item and 1L max in a clear plastic bag. With pastes and gels, you could theoretically just submerge or dissolve something in it, but this isn't as effective as surrounding it with a liquid.

Liquid explosives? Yeah right! Find me a liquid with anything near the energy density to blow open the cockpit door let alone bring the plane down. Not happening. You might be able to fill it with smoke if you lit a couple gallons of gasoline in the aisle. Maybe.

Thanks for forcing your morals on us guys, and creating a massive organized crime network. You could always just punish the people who are irresponsible about it like adults, but no that would mean people could have more fun than sitting in church, can't have that!

Didn't they do a strip search?
Cornmeal? Was he going to make cornbread on the plane?

Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan,
Working hard to earn your respect,
Living on .33 cents a day,
Secure in the knowledge your taxes are being spent well,
Setting an example to all American by not biatching about the
TSA taking a PB&J,
Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan,
Just what Ohio wants, a wuss with no money.

Thats not a bomb sir, its PB&J.

Yes well get it out of here at once before it explodes!

no wonder our country is in so much debt. he thinks he has .33 cents.

/did he crack a penny into thirds?
//he likely has .33 dollars
///he thinks the national debt is 88 billion
////if only!

They stole a can of hair spray from my wife, before all the baggie rules and boy, was she pissed (It was listed as being a-ok at the time).

She yelled at me for days. What was she going to do with it? Threaten to style the pilot's hair?

the TSA's 311 rules exist only to make it easier for the TSA to check for items which pose no threat.

He should have shoved the whole sandwich in his mouth.

The human body is mostly liquid, are we allowed to go through the screening process or do they now dehydrate you prior to flights? I havent taken a trip in a while and didnt know if they changed the rules.

SmokeGrinder: I don't think I saw the woard sandwich in the article once. Secondly, he refered to being out of SEVERAL meals. I seriously doubt that the TSA would steal sandwichs, but they would take the small jars of peanut butter or jelly that you could fit in a carry on bag.

Read Day 1 of his "Food Stamp Challenge" blog (RTFB?). His supermarket receipt shows 2 jars of preserves and a jar of peanut butter, plus a loaf of wheat bread.

I took a big knife off of my former Congressman when I was in the TSA. The schmuck flew back home to the district with Bush in Air Force One, headed out to his ranch, and flew back commercial. Unfortunately, he was a pissy son of a biatch when he came through.

One of the leads took the initiative to personally deliver the confiscated knife to the schmuck's Congressional office on the way home. And that sort of service just doesn't normally happen. Personally, I'd rather have had the knife destroyed. Then again, I never voted for the son of a biatch anyway. I always voted for the other guy.

Tim Ryan's blog: "So after giving a GREAT commencement speech (You'll be able to see it later today when we post the video) to the graduating class of my old law school..." (emphasis his)

Okay, I know that some people have a blog to show how cool the are, but a congressman? First, it was hard to read after I realized he was one of those sanctimonious smugsters trying to survive on $15 a day to prove a point (but getting on an airplane). Then, he decides to rate his own speech as "great" (I refuse to give it the same emphasis he did).

I don't think I care for this politician. ...and I'm not the type that automatically makes jokes or hates all politicians.

I love it one goverment employee farking the other goverment employee who was respossible for him getting the job in the 1st place.

I mean where is the gratitude from the TSA employee? If it were not for this inept politician and the way he votes, he would be working at the car wash.

Does anyone really think the TSA is protecting us? They are not allowed to profile, so we have some semi-educated buffon running the wand over Granny's depends, because she is going tobe the on to intitate a Jihad at 30,000". LMFAO!

2xcited:
Would you rather fly on an airline where passengers simply stroll onto the plane? We clearly need to have at least some level of security.

Central Tendency:
I don't think I care for this politician. ...and I'm not the type that automatically makes jokes or hates all politicians.

I think you got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Whenever I get up in front of a room full of people and start talking for a half hour or so, I frequently think "ok great job, I didn't start barking or drop the F bomb" like I frequently fear that I'm going to. Write a speech and delivery it in front of a crowd without farking up (won't get fooled again) and tell me you don't step off the podium thinking you did a great job.

iconoclastic:
Would you rather fly on an airline where passengers simply stroll onto the plane? We clearly need to have at least some level of security.

I'd rather see us go back to the airport security we had on 9/10. The only thing that has made any difference at all is that armored cockpit doors were added to all planes. Had that single security measure been in place on 9/11 there would have been no hijacking.

What we deal with today isn't security. It's theater.

FROM TFA: " Steve DeStephano and his family had to rush me down I-93 to get me to the plane in time"


In other words, I'm above the law and was allowed to speed (w/ or w/o escort) in a non-emergency situation.

/Yeah, I'm reading a lot into it, but you have to be on top of these guys.

There is no such thing as a binary liquid explosive. The TSA is FUD. Wake up.

So in real life, he got tired of doing the challenge, so he made up a story that both gets him out of it and gives him free press at the same time.