Xymphora offers up a reassuring dose of reality for anyone planning on visiting an airport anytime soon. What will they think of next? Why bother with a plane when the bumbleheads in charge of security can take out the whole airport?
This political scam can continue as long as we agree to put up with it. Airline security is a joke, with the neanderthal screeners picking out the 90-year-old grandmothers for strip-searches, and the guards pouring all the chemicals, which supposedly explode on being mixed, into the same vats.
Tell it to spiiderman, I tried telling him this a week or so ago.
Posted by: farang on August 16, 2006 12:47 AMSpiider says he's broken some ribs. Another blogger is posting on his site.
We wish him a quick recovery.
Posted by: Buck on August 16, 2006 7:24 AMI wish him a speedy recovery also.
But I was speaking of the post he made here praising the airport security.
I tried to explain to him we already are safe, that this is all a scam to keep Americans fearful.
He responded by inferring he travels often.
I responded by pointing out I travel more, and internationally, and only when I reenter my own country to I detect the paranoia.
Posted by: farang on August 18, 2006 12:16 AMMrs. Batard and I visited our friend Monique in Philadelphia a few months ago. Being a sentimentalist who still holds on to old ideas, I wanted to see the Liberty Bell. They wanted Monique to take off her belt and she obliged but made her displeasure known loud and clear. Then they wanted me to take mine off and the irony of visiting a symbol of liberty and having to undergo Nazi like scrutiny, and with Monique making such sensible statements, it just got the best of me. I went into "Rude Pundit" mode and just refused to comply so we didn't see that Bell that used to represent Liberty. The Wackenhut goons were scrutinizing everyone beyond reason. (although one of them whispered to Monique that he agreed with her). The Park Service people came out and apologized, told us we weren't the first to have complaints and urged us to file an official complaint.
I've since read that a Federal Judge in a building across the street is just as offended, if not more so. Our French friend Monique, whose Dad died fighting the Nazis, says its all just a conditioning exercise to get the population used to living under Nazi like rule. I must say, I agree totally.
Posted by: Buck on August 18, 2006 12:11 PMI am really tired of this nonsense, I too started thinking about plausibility and researched it. There may have been a plot, but it wasn't the most workable plot I've ever seen.
I have about had it with illogical responses to this stuff. The worst part is being around people who haven't gotten it YET!