kallend 2,182 #1 April 15, 2012 online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html?mod=googlenews_wsj... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
devildog 0 #2 April 15, 2012 Saw this the other day and was glad at least someone from the TSA was saying it's a bust, but still, if they were serious about security and not breaching your basic rights as a citizen, they'd stop the 3 year old strip searches and adopt a system like Israel's.You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
winsor 236 #3 April 15, 2012 Quoteonline.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html?mod=googlenews_wsj I am an awful lot more concerned by the threat posed to our way of life by TSA/"Homeland Security" (did Goebbels come up with that?) than by al Qaeda. The overreacting by our government has been orders of magnitude more damaging to us than the acts of all the malevolent Mohammadeans put together. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDekker 1,465 #4 April 15, 2012 It allows for the funnelling of large amounts of money to DHS. It isn't going to go away. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
winsor 236 #5 April 15, 2012 QuoteIt allows for the funnelling of large amounts of money to DHS. It isn't going to go away. I'm afraid you're right. The old saw comes to mind whereby any bureaucracy, given sufficient time, gravitates to the business of adminstering itself. Creating a new agency is like bringing two "male" pet rabbits home. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BIGUN 1,506 #6 April 16, 2012 Oh c'mon, we've been fighting "isms" for a hundred years now. It's good for the economy. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #7 April 16, 2012 QuoteQuoteonline.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html?mod=googlenews_wsj I am an awful lot more concerned by the threat posed to our way of life by TSA/"Homeland Security" (did Goebbels come up with that?) than by al Qaeda. The overreacting by our government has been orders of magnitude more damaging to us than the acts of all the malevolent Mohammadeans put together. THIS^My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #8 April 16, 2012 QuoteQuoteonline.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html?mod=googlenews_wsj I am an awful lot more concerned by the threat posed to our way of life by TSA/"Homeland Security" (did Goebbels come up with that?) than by al Qaeda. The overreacting by our government has been orders of magnitude more damaging to us than the acts of all the malevolent Mohammadeans put together. +1"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #9 April 16, 2012 +2Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #10 April 16, 2012 +3"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #11 April 16, 2012 Quoteonline.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html?mod=googlenews_wsj feels a bit like the Goldman trader to left "in protest" (but really to try to sell a book). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sfzombie 3 #12 April 16, 2012 kinda sounds like the terrorists won. all they wanted was to disrupt our way of life and make things miserable...i would say mission accomplished.http://kitswv.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #13 April 16, 2012 Quotekinda sounds like the terrorists won. all they wanted was to disrupt our way of life and make things miserable...i would say mission accomplished. Exactly. Our knee-jerk politicians fell for the trap."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SivaGanesha 2 #14 April 16, 2012 Quoteonline.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html?mod=googlenews_wsj It seems the way to bring some sanity to the TSA would be for business travelers to sue their employers en masse for the emotional trauma caused when forced to travel on business and subjected to an invasive search at the security checkpoint. If this were done, it would matter not one bit if the lawsuits were laughed out of court. To defend a lawsuit for sufficiently long for it to get laughed out of court by the judge will still cost an employer a lot of money in legal bills. It wouldn't take long before big employers--who have much more leverage than the little guy--started to demand a change."It's hard to have fun at 4-way unless your whole team gets down to the ground safely to do it again!"--Northern California Skydiving League re USPA Safety Day, March 8, 2014 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanG 1 #15 April 16, 2012 QuoteIt seems the way to bring some sanity to the TSA would be for business travelers to sue their employers en masse for the emotional trauma caused when forced to travel on business and subjected to an invasive search at the security checkpoint. I'm guessing all those business travelers would rather keep their jobs. Or, in other words, you first. - Dan G Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kawisixer01 0 #16 April 17, 2012 Quote kinda sounds like the terrorists won. all they wanted was to disrupt our way of life and make things miserable...i would say mission accomplished. That and ruin our economy, make us broke, ruin the value of our currency, and cost us billions in spending on a war in a far away land. The funny part is we fell hook line and sinker for that as well. These guys are fighting us with bombs that cost them pennies to make and we're dropping millions of dollars in bombs on them every day from planes that cost tens of millions of dollars, based on ships that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. I suppose it isn't so bad to be the guy sending all this money to defense contractors if you have a lot of stock in them (Bush/Chaney). Kinda like the other former TSA director. He made the decision to push body scanners, then went to work in a nice golden job at the body scanner manufacturer after leaving the TSA. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #17 April 17, 2012 QuoteQuotekinda sounds like the terrorists won. all they wanted was to disrupt our way of life and make things miserable...i would say mission accomplished. Exactly. Our knee-jerk politicians fell for the trap. Yup. Now all the bozos have to do is tweak our goobermint's nose periodically with some minor BS to keep the insanity going. 'Mericans "Save me! Save me! I'm scared"...gotta love 'em, bless their little hearts.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
