WTH I'm still seeing the story about his girlfriend using 2 SS#'s on Yahoo's homepage.
I replaced Yahoo Home Page with BBC looong time ago...
Odd? You apparently don't know women of a certain age.
Honestly, it really doesn't make sense in regards to Americans being willing to put up with having their cars, property and person searched when they go anywhere. I understand that you apparently would be fine with it but I highly doubt it would be something most Americans would tolerate. Besides, security stops someone from entering a hotel with 30 guns, then what?
It seems to me that after 9/11 we learned from what happened and new rules, laws and security procedures were put in place. We didn't just say "oh well there's nothing you can do to stop someone from hiring people. If it's not a plane, they'll just use something else".
Why are you blaming Logan and Boston? That's a sick thing to do.
OK, just so we're clear, you are ok with being searched (bag and person) EVERY time you go to:As for being searched, we already accept it when we go to the airport. We allow complete strangers to go through our bags that are checked to go onto planes, our carry ons that we take onto the planes, and go through a body scanner and or metal detector, and take off our shoes so that they can check that our shoes has nothing in them.
OK, just so we're clear, you are ok with being searched (bag and person) EVERY time you go to:
A grocery store
A mall
A post office
A restaurant
A hotel (whether for a stay or visit)
College building
A library
OK, just so we're clear, you are ok with being searched (bag and person) EVERY time you go to:
A grocery store
A mall
A post office
A restaurant
A hotel (whether for a stay or visit)
College building
A library
I guess that you are ok with drunk drivers on the road, children in the front seat without seat belts on, unregulated guns that people use to shoot people on trains, schools and concerts. All these rules came into being where it is against the law to drive drunk, have children in the front seat, not wearing your seatbelt, but the one thing that is very difficult to do is getting rid of guns. I remember when the seatbelt law started it was universally panned, but now even buses have seat belts. As for being searched, we already accept it when we go to the airport. We allow complete strangers to go through our bags that are checked to go onto planes, our carry ons that we take onto the planes, and go through a body scanner and or metal detector, and take off our shoes so that they can check that our shoes has nothing in them.
I'm not blaming Logan and Boston for the actions of the terrorists on 9/11, but it doesn't escape my attention that American 77 and United 165 both originated there and I know you come from MA. You put up a lot of arguments about rights, what Americans will put up with but the one thing you forget is that rights don't matter to terrorists, nuts and the dead. I am still alive and I want my family to be safe, if I have to be searched and everyone else has to be searched to keep my family alive, I will accept it. Maybe I won't be happy with it, as I said I want to live and have my family alive.
What happened there was that they brought on board items that were legal at the time. Back then a blade less than 4 inches long could be brought in the passenger cabin of a plane and box cutters wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. I remember once I had a pocket knife in plain sight and was told it was OK. I even remember some discussion of this in some comic book, where they detect metal on Wolverine (who of course is heavily metal) where the security says no blades longer then 4 inches, but he jams his arm into the X-ray machine to show that his metal is all internal and thus subject to medical exemptions as an implanted device.
I carried a pocket knife on flights for years. I was questioned about the size of the blade exactly one time. And even then was permitted to keep it on me.
What happened there was that they brought on board items that were legal at the time. Back then a blade less than 4 inches long could be brought in the passenger cabin of a plane and box cutters wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. I remember once I had a pocket knife in plain sight and was told it was OK. I even remember some discussion of this in some comic book, where they detect metal on Wolverine (who of course is heavily metal) where the security says no blades longer then 4 inches, but he jams his arm into the X-ray machine to show that his metal is all internal and thus subject to medical exemptions as an implanted device.
I have seen Disney ding several people with pocket knives, and they will follow you to make sure you just jump to another lineI carried a pocket knife on flights for years. I was questioned about the size of the blade exactly one time. And even then was permitted to keep it on me.
Yes, just like my grandmother. She recently told the newspaper that she is 69. She'll be 84 a month from tomorrow.
That's amazing. My husband has had to hand over at least 5 Swiss army knives to airport security because he cannot for the life of him remember that he's not allowed one or forgets he's carrying it. My poor father had to surrender his (again he forgot) on a China trip once. He was devastated because my brother had personally engraved it for him. Closest I've even seen my father cry. I wasn't about to argue with those guys though. He also forgot he had a water bottle in his carryon. It was quite the drama and left my old father shaking for the rest of the day.