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2010-11-11 Home Front: WoT

Oops: Radio talk show hostess opts out of body scan so TSA molests & threatens her. You're next.

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Posted by gorb 2010-11-11 04:04|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Far easier to drive.

Posted by eLarson 2010-11-11 07:26|| 2010-11-11 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 That's what she get for not going to Burquas R US Rental first cuzz you know that a Muslim would never be treated that way, right CAIR?

Posted by Jack Salami: 2010-11-11 09:18|| 2010-11-11 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Another reason not to fly again. I use my travel trailer to get from here to there. So, when they build that six lane interstate between home and anywhere else, I'm stuck in North America.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-11-11 09:23|| 2010-11-11 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't need to fly.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-11-11 09:32|| 2010-11-11 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 I fly every week across America. On one occasion I forgot to remove my knife. The TSA allowed me to throw it in the amnesty box and away I went. Most people I see that have problems with the TSA arrive with an attitude. They try to sneak stuff through or when pulled for screening they get ugly with the TSA. They try to argue with the agents over the policies. I have been through the getting pulled aside and searched a couple of times. They try to keep the searches timed so to not slow the flow of passengers and not make the random selectees have to wait. Each time they have explained very carefully what was happening. I have watched them screen women and they offer to move them to a private area for the search. And not they never grabbed and twisted some woman's breasts. Once this girl realized she was being screened developed an attitude. I've seen it before. She's lucky she did not go to jail.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-11-11 10:32|| 2010-11-11 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I fly a good bit, and the TSA folks are generally pretty decent. Last week, though, they all had their frownie faces on because, I suspect, they had been told to expect trouble over the new scanners.

The problem is (a) only a bureaucrat could think it was rational idea to give the same amount of security attention to a five-year old girl from Nebraska as to a 20-year old Yemeni named Mahmoud and (b) it's fascist and demeaning in the best of circumstances.

Posted by Matt 2010-11-11 11:22|| 2010-11-11 11:22|| Front Page Top

#7 As much as I always loved flying in the past, I'm glad I've been able to drive everyplace I needed to go in the last 9 years.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-11-11 16:00|| 2010-11-11 16:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Only a bureaucrat would think it was appropriate to allow any kind of Yemeni on an aircraft in the first place.
I stopped flying in 1994 altogether after a particularly provoking flight experience. If I can't get there by driving or sailing, I'm not going.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-11 16:02|| 2010-11-11 16:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Doesn't matter to me. Pelosi/Obamacare knocked my health insurance up 30%, which was my disposable income.

Government people, and those who run or own businesses, I want you to read that again.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-11-11 17:55|| 2010-11-11 17:55|| Front Page Top

#10 My solution? Hand out Viagra to all males in line.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-11-11 21:58|| 2010-11-11 21:58|| Front Page Top

#11 xkcd beat u to it oldspook

http://xkcd.com/779/

Posted by HEU 2010-11-11 22:15|| 2010-11-11 22:15|| Front Page Top

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