The Transportation Safety Administration http://www.tsa.com-gov initiated new rules which now let passengers carry small knives, baseball bats and up to 2 golf clubs on board.

The golf clubs were added after the PGA http://www.pga.com lobbied to allow duffers to practice in the aisle.

The bats were allowed after Major League Baseball http://www.mlb.com lobbied to allow pick-up games in first class.

The knives were allowed because blades of 2.36 inches or less are OK. Apparently, when they penetrate a body they’ll only damage small number of organs, most of them not vital and the lobby for the AMA http://www.ama-assn.org could ‘live’ with that.

The NKCA (National Knife Collectors Association) http://www.nkcaknife.org/ in a press release said, “We’re sure the flight attendants want us to register every Boy Scout, wood carver, model builder and knife throwing act” Of course that sort of data base would help us reach out and expand our membership.

The http://home.bca-pool.com/ (Billiard Congress of America) lobbied for Pool cues to be allowed but you can’t start drinking on the flight because ‘We’ve all seen those movies with fights in bars with pool tables. So pool tables are banned as well.
This has gotten as much negative publicity as Paul Ryan’s http://www.jerk.com new budget proposal.

The Association of Flight Attendants http://www.afanet.org said “If we allow passengers to carry knives, can a personal drone be far behind? It’s a slippery slope.”

They added “By the way, we’ve ‘had it’ with passengers asking for water, changing seats when finding no life vests and lip reading the movie without purchasing those little ear pieces.”

Passengers immediately started showing up with nail clippers to ‘test’ the system.