which is magnified immensely by Muricans' traditional technical ignorance, rampant despite the number of folks maxxed-out on their CCS; buying electronic toys. We are beginning to look so silly that it is impossible to lampoon How Silly. And effete: above all, that.

IIRC, the earlier stunt in Bahston.. the simple blinky-blinky toys (ad campaign in bus shelters) == nowhere near flying-boxcutters: prompted similar sentiments there, in-effect approving of the continuing mass ignorance of all things more complex than a stone wheel + wood axle.

While the cluelessness is not new.. the instant-hysteria over \ufffdAnything that blinks, IS. Clip from another venue

> Clueless female security with limited English [snip]

It sounds a lot like my experience at the San Francisco airport in '79. The clueless 'screener' INSISTED on hand examining the contents of my camera case and dropped my newly serviced Leica camera body screwing up the
light meter. As a direct result none of my China pics were properly exposed and I've no record of the trip of a lifetime, China before modernization.

> > I used to fly out of ORD hauling fragile X-Ray tubes in the 70s & 80s
> > that my company bought an extra seat for the tube. Ever try to explain
> > that an X-Ray tube is harmless when properly packed in a 24 x 24 x 36
> > box and that it required a lot of extra hardware to be dangerous. I
> > never had a problem with Tek scopes when I carried them, strange

Yes, but it was a space payload being hand delivered to Boeing in Seattle. The ticket said "Mr. Box" and the clueless idiots didn't realize it was just that, a box, destined for space. Never mind that there were about 30 crates of our test gear in the same plane's hold. As a result the plane was an hour late leaving the gate.

As to flying, I'm done with being a passenger. Let them take out their silliness on the sheep. I don't HAVE to vacation somewhere that requires flying in their cattle cars.

[...]

> >> I started to feel the effects of public fear on those that
> >> brought technology to the airports about 20 years ago. I used to have
> >> to travel with my 2465 and my tool case full of suspicious looking thingies.
> >> Even back then I got very suspicious treatment. I remember one instance
> >> when a baggage checker saw my OK tools solder sucker on the X-Ray
> >> and thought it was a zip gun (an improvised pistol made of plumbing
> >> parts). I assured her it was an electronics tool, and cocked it and
> >> pressed the button to demonstrate... she hit the floor! And I was
> >> instantly surrounded by mouth breathers with guns. Fun!
> >>
> >> And then there was the baggage checker that thought my hemostats meant
> >> I was carrying drugs. I have never had my socks and underware checked
> >> so carefully.

SO then.. let's all STILL dignify the Rove Plan for Continuous Fearmongering -- by assuming that It Is Out of Our Hands. Shall we? And on to 2017 too - because THAT's the Plan on which all 3 'houses' of govt. are currently converging. Or does anyone here imagine they are Not?


Baa Baa
Have you any wool?
Nation of the Scared-shitless and Damn Proud to show the dirty drawers to Prove it.

Hell we're even scared to let Ahmadinejad try to weave his compelling (!) rhetoric? / ignorant holocaust twaddle to the natives: They'll Believe ANYTHING (OK that part IS true.)

It's not just that daily cowardice, I think.. its the utter grinding abject nature of this Murican Daily Cowardice. Daddy! Mommy! Make Me Safe I Don't Want Ever To Die. OK? OK?????



\ufffd Akmed - this bombb has Not enough blinky-blinky lights to explode. ISss for Muricans - must have More Blinky-Blinkies! you syphilitic son of a heretical camel.