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Home Front: WoT
arsonists can drive fuel tankers
2005-01-13
Lemme see, here... You can't bring a nail clipper on an airplane, and they have to have dogs sniff your shoes, but...
The federal government wants to change its current rules to permit convicted arsonists to get special licenses so they can drive gasoline tankers and trucks loaded with explosives and hazardous materials. But murderers and convicted racketeers will no longer be permitted to drive hazardous materials on the nation's interstates. "Arson is not always an act of terrorism," the Transportation Security Administration declared in proposing the new regulations that would permit the agency to review on a case-by-case basis whether convicted arsonists should get the special licenses allowing them to drive gasoline trucks, or other vehicles carrying hazardous materials.
That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense... Well, no. Maybe it doesn't.
Posted by:muck4doo

#14  sweeet! ima poster this atn janeane garafolo blog and al franken was user it fer him sho today. :)
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-01-13 6:57:44 PM  

#13  and thats not the USDoT logo,either, which is a bent over triangle inside a circle (some kind of engine?) That must be TSAs old logo from when they were still within USDoT.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-01-13 4:11:22 PM  

#12  TSA is part of Homeland Security. Hasnt been part of DoT for quite some time.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-01-13 4:09:17 PM  

#11  Does this mean Michael Jackson will soon be driving school buses?
Posted by: Raj   2005-01-13 1:50:31 PM  

#10  As long as Underprferomin' Norman is in charge of the DOT, how about replacing the eagle in the department's emblem with a monkey?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-01-13 10:38:10 AM  

#9  If I haven't been convicted of arson, can I still qualify?
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-01-13 10:22:19 AM  

#8  Nope SteveS, that makes you convoy material.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-13 10:10:15 AM  

#7  I'm not a pyromaniac, but I like to see things explode. Does that disqualify me?
Posted by: SteveS   2005-01-13 9:53:04 AM  

#6  It makes perfect sense. See, a arsonist could claim to be a pyromaniac, which is a mental illness. Therefore, refusing to hire him would be descriminating against him because of a medical condition which is forbidden by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Posted by: Steve   2005-01-13 9:25:45 AM  

#5  Next up: Knives for Bloods and Crips so they can cut their steaks.
Posted by: Charles   2005-01-13 9:12:47 AM  

#4  I'm beginning to acquire a new catchphrase:

Oh ****, It Isn't Scrappleface.
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-01-13 9:03:09 AM  

#3  Of course this makes sense. Allow arsonists to drive large trucks filled with flammable/explosive materials and they soon become murderers, after which they won't be allowed to drive such things any more. See how clever this is?
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-13 5:55:15 AM  

#2  The federal government wants to change its current rules to permit convicted arsonists to get special licenses so they can drive gasoline tankers and trucks loaded with explosives and hazardous material

This is scrappleface...right????
Posted by: 2b   2005-01-13 2:13:55 AM  

#1  That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense... Well, no. Maybe it doesn't.

As long as Underperformin' Norman Mineta is in charge, it won't.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-01-13 2:07:16 AM  

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