tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post4188600851542518618..comments2024-02-13T01:25:33.947-05:00Comments on The Gods Are Bored: Jesse and MeAnne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-65807438134898544312011-01-28T07:24:45.391-05:002011-01-28T07:24:45.391-05:00It's because America has become a place where ...It's because America has become a place where we go by the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law. Americans don't do logic or common sense. It's not right-wing enough. <br />Not only is it just security theater we do, but there is a good way to actually make us more safe in air travel, but we refuse to attempt it -- probably because it requires training, judgment, and looking people in the eye. It's the way the Israelis do it, and it works.kimchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14020798623317549440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-44148710541100407272011-01-25T22:46:23.856-05:002011-01-25T22:46:23.856-05:00I'm surprised he didn't body slam them.I'm surprised he didn't body slam them.yellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-8882866601119356602011-01-25T20:37:02.101-05:002011-01-25T20:37:02.101-05:00Could somebody please explain to me in terms that ...Could somebody please explain to me in terms that anybody with a speck of brain embedded in their skull could understand why ANYBODY, ANYWHERE, could possibly reason that Ex-Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura could POSSIBLY be a threat to any flight anywhere? Is total lack of common sense now a prerequisit for employment at the Dept of Homeland "Security"?Alex (I swear on a stack of books of shadows) Pendragonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-88352062457541536452011-01-25T19:51:14.498-05:002011-01-25T19:51:14.498-05:00Why the pat down? If they are looking for explosi...Why the pat down? If they are looking for explosives, they won't find them that way. Wouldn't a explosive dog be better? Less evasive. Easier for the public to accept. And I imagine they would be cheaper too. If they can do those scans, why can't they do something clever to detect explosive stuff?Lori F - MNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-23021090899660416672011-01-25T17:34:37.917-05:002011-01-25T17:34:37.917-05:00I don't know this guy (which says more about m...I don't know this guy (which says more about my lack of knowledge than about him), but I'm glad he's suing. When people are being molested, aka receiving "enhanced pat downs" in the name of being protected from bad guys, the terrorists have won.<br /><br />I agree about using the Greyhound. They aren't the most comfy, and they take a while to get places, but it's better that than air planes at the moment.Dancing With Feyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03493553137383118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-887918696773011042011-01-25T17:03:21.984-05:002011-01-25T17:03:21.984-05:00Going Greyhound is the more environmentally respon...Going Greyhound <i>is</i> the more environmentally responsible choice... by a longshot. (The average airplane ride generates enough CO2 per passenger to be the equivalent of that person's carbon footprint for a <i>whole year</i>... which is obscene, especially when you think about the ways America is trying to slow the development in other parts of the world rather than cut our own emissions one jot.)<br /><br />But I join with you in your gladness over this one. I'm glad someone high profile is suing. I myself have not flown in over thirty years--issues around time and money, not being such a cranky woman they won't let me board a plane, believe it or not.<br /><br />But I have friends I love and admire, survivors of childhood abuse, who have experienced retraumatization as a result of the security theater going on in airports these days.<br /><br />This is no way to run a democracy.Cat C-B (and/or Peter B)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10002916434676859262noreply@blogger.com