Did you see the Stossel show recently or did you read it from one of his books.

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http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/11/how_to_talk_to_your_kids_about_star_wars.php

A must see for anyine with children

giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys

You say that like it is a bad thing...

Fuck the TSA. Fuck the TSA. Fuck the TSA. Fuck the TSA. Fuck the TSA. Fuck the TSA. Fuck the TSA.

Fuck the TSA.

H.L. Mencken: [edited]

•  Every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods.

•  All government is essentially organized exploitation, and almost always is the implacable enemy of every industrious man.

•  A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. To get anywhere near high office he makes so many compromises and submits to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

•  Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Well, Crid, from the sound of things, you might as well fuck 'em. They're going to get to third base with you anyway. Not that they will buy you a drink, or dinner, or let you smoke a cigarette afterwards. Start wearing dresses to get on planes. Thong underwear, or commando. If everyone did that, this shit would stop, right now.

I mean WTF, I thought it was bad enough a few years ago, when they made the 80+ year-old couple ahead of me take off their shoes. (Do you have any idea how long it takes people that age to get their shoes off and on?) But this? Groping grannies and little kids? For chrissake. Do they really want to see what the average American looks like under a nudie scanner? Maybe we should get the obesity rate up a little MORE! Put an end to this nonsense!

What really gets to me is that a number of people who seem to know what they're talking about say that this wouldn't have caught the underwear bomber. And it won't catch stuff inserted into cavities, as Amy mentioned earlier.

In which case, what's the point? Are we supposed to go through all this stuff and not be any safer?

How about bringing in bomb-sniffing dogs? Sure, sometimes dogs sniff a bit much in inappropriate areas, but would you rather have a dog's nose or a stranger's hand in that area?

I have the opportunity to interview for a job that will increase my income by more than a few K per year. Part of the issue is that I would have fly west, stay for several months for paid training, and then fly home.

Part is the time away from home -- some of it is the screw the TSA, and part is the industry I would end up in is, primarily, aviation.

I can't say that is a good choice -- but at the same time I'm working for a company that is involved (tightly) to the medical/retirement industry. I was working for a bank before this.

Is there any safe industry anymore?