new security measures by TSA

You don't think people would shovel abuse at someone, just because he was a vet? I'd love to think that highly of my fellow humans, but I've been in too many airports to be able to do that.

 

Aww, that's cute. I guess the size of airplanes is subject to the same shrinkage rate as the Canadian dollar.

 

If nothing else, I hold out hope they would think twice.

Forgive me if I cling to my few remaining shreds of hope in humanity.

 

Candian dollar is $.95 to the US. What's your point?

I'm sure there are more of airports like the one above (Goderich, Ontario) in the US or Canada than any "major" aiports.

 

Hey, dumbass.

You have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

That is all.

And no, I will not clarify.

 

Of course the Israeli security expert thinks his guys would have caught the bomb in the parking lot. If you'd asked Janet Napolitano last week what would have happened had someone tried to sneak a bomb on a US flight, she too would have crossed her arms and said "We'd catch him."

Again, I'd be interested to know exactly how many bombs Israel does stop in the parking lot. I'd be shocked if it was very many. I'm sure the Israeli security works as much as a deterrent as anything. I'm sure the same is true here, even if it's not as effective.

And I don't know how you can't acknowledge the system here at least somewhat works. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of people have flown since al qaeda and Bin Laden launched their jihad against the United States. The two people that have tried to smuggle bombs on to planes in the last decade obviously had to use elaborate methods and go to great lengths to keep their bombs and its components undetected. What they were able to get on board obviously wasn't enough to work.

Maybe it was just dumb luck. We just got lucky. But you're acting like anyone can just strap on a vest of C4 and waltz through the airport while a bunch of dumb Americans point at their shoes and take their nail clippers. They can't. If you could, don't ya think Al-Queda would just send some guy with a fool-proof push-button detonator over instead of something as complex and chancy as these weapons obviously were?

 

Oh, stop being so overly sensitive, eh?

 

That's a big part of it. They basically have to secure one major international airport.

I've flown out of TLV. The security is unbelievable. It actually freaked me out.

It starts when your cab is stopped at the edge of the airport grounds by machine gun toting guards. Telling them that I had been to Bethlehem -- which is in the Palestinian controlled West Bank -- was the wrong answer to the, "Where have you been while you were here" question.

Bringing that level of security to the U.S. is possible, but it would be expensive, would require massive training & personnel, and would outrage civil libertarians, who would view it as profiling.

 

With the advent of full-body scanning, I've changed my money-making scheme to the "PackagePal" smoked sausage. It will give those of us who are less-well-endowed relief from embarrassment.

And it will provide something tasty to munch on now that the airlines are cutting back in in-flight snacks.

 

And Transport Canada has elevated this nonsense to new heights of absurdity.

No books or magazines allowed

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2010/01/05/books-banned-by-transport-canada-in-wake-of-foiled-christmas-day-attack.aspx

This is sheer stupidity.

 

Not only does Israel have only one airport, they have no domestic flights, which are 90 percent plus of all U.S. flights. Put Israeli security on all of those, it'd cost $2 trillion and make a flight between Boston and Philly take longer than driving.

 

The luggage that tested positive for TNT and acetone peroxide, shutting down the Bakersfield airport yesterday? It had five bottles of honey inside. I have no idea if this is going to bee a new security issue in the future.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582094,00.html?test=latestnews