Notmuchlonger
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Perhaps we should take the TSA to Dinner and a Movie first before the search.
Pffft. Rather have it quick and dirty.
Perhaps we should take the TSA to Dinner and a Movie first before the search.
Perhaps we should take the TSA to Dinner and a Movie first before the search.
Flying out of Chicago in the morning--I'll put on some nice cologne and extra deodorant for the screeners.
Isn't there a funny scene in the movie Airplane with an x-ray security screening that shows comely young women in the altogether? Can't find it on Youtube.
I've just landed from my flight back from Europe. The full body pat down was so thorough that it may have qualified as my first gay experience...
Perhaps we should take the TSA to Dinner and a Movie first before the search.
All right, you two. I'm flying to Tampa in less than 2 weeks.
I just CAN'T decide if I will wear the little red and black number or the emerald green with the low cut bodice.
I'm triple-shaving my legs
Maureen Dowd put it cleverly:
If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?
It was an inadequate search, if it was supposed to be a search. But, if it was a "frisk" as in a Terry stop, then all he can do is feel until he feels something he believes is a weapon or contraband. Most everybody I ever worked with searched a dude's drawers by looking.I'm a little curious as to why the feeler took the feelee's word for it? If he had to ask, shouldn't he check?
I'm not sure we can say, based on this incident, that the screening isn't working. After all, these psychos and their handlers apparently believe in the screening enough to avoid carrying firearms, knives, and large explosives aboard, and are instead reduced to hiding small amounts of explosives in undergarments and using unreliable (but harder -to-detect) initiator/ignition methods. It looks like a victory for the good guys, at least in this case, from where I sit.I can't see how any system similar to the one we have could work well. The screeners are low paid employees doing an extremely monotonous job.
Same here. If everyone is body scanned we all get lost in the anonymity. I much prefer that to less accurate screening methods. Besides - whatever goes on in the mind of the monitor - just not my problem!!!!Body scan...pffffttt. Like I have said before, I lost all of my dignity with my first gynecological exam.
Bring it on.
More kowtowing to government authority apparently. Two journalists/bloggers were visited by TSA/DHS special agents and received subpoenas for publishing the new guidelines that the airlines received from the TSA.When it is a virtual certainty that all of this will likely be circumvented by creative bad guys. In the meantime, we have all been moved farther down the road toward being docile cattle accepting the state's every desire to paw us over and monitor us. I hesitate to even ask, but what is next?
I'm not sure we can say, based on this incident, that the screening isn't working. After all, these psychos and their handlers apparently believe in the screening enough to avoid carrying firearms, knives, and large explosives aboard, and are instead reduced to hiding small amounts of explosives in undergarments and using unreliable (but harder -to-detect) initiator/ignition methods. It looks like a victory for the good guys, at least in this case, from where I sit.
But, in total, I think the "last chance" defensive approach of catching these guys just prior to their attacks is at best a complement to other elements of the overall strategy (e.g. reducing the attractiveness of the ideology, gathering information about the groups/group members, and taking the fight to them when possible/effective).
I strongly doubt that anyone could be getting off on any of these images, even if J-Lo is in the scanner.If they use the body scanners, I hope they have female TSA employees scanning the women and male TSP employees scanning the men. That is the only way I would feel even slightly comfortable about it (if I should lose my mind and decide to fly somewhere in the near future). I'm really not a prude but the idea that someone is getting off over a body scan is really gross and slimy to me.