Airline Security Stupidity Watch
OK, new topic here on Internal Monologue: dumbass shit we're doing in a misguided effort to make every single airplane 100% safe. Here's the latest: banning gel-filled bras (HT: Digby). (Is this what drove Hooters Air out of business?) I like the picture up Crooks and Liars:
Naked Airlines! The future of air travel. No wonder Hooters Air went out of business: they new that soon they'd be nothin' special.
Can I just say that despite all our bellicose bluster, we Americans are some of the sissiest wussies when it comes to airplanes? Yes, I can. And I just did. What it is about planes that turns us into such pansy-asses? Let me just mention that according to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System Web-based Encyclopedia, there were 42,636 fatal traffic crash victims in the United States in 2003. No one gives a shit about that. But mention the possibility of someone that someone might use a liquid explosive on a plane and everyone runs around like batshit idiots. STOP IT.
Meanwhile, our ports are unsecured and anyone could probably bring a shipping container full of God-knows-what into close proximity to many of our major population centers (including one that includes me). Would someone please work on the real security vulnerabilities we're facing? And would someone get Bush to stop pissing off the Islamic world? Yes, there are fanatics who would hate us no matter how good we were. But Bush seems to be working very hard to make as many people as possible sympathize with those fanatics more than with the United States. Hearts and minds, people. Damn.
Naked Airlines! The future of air travel. No wonder Hooters Air went out of business: they new that soon they'd be nothin' special.Can I just say that despite all our bellicose bluster, we Americans are some of the sissiest wussies when it comes to airplanes? Yes, I can. And I just did. What it is about planes that turns us into such pansy-asses? Let me just mention that according to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System Web-based Encyclopedia, there were 42,636 fatal traffic crash victims in the United States in 2003. No one gives a shit about that. But mention the possibility of someone that someone might use a liquid explosive on a plane and everyone runs around like batshit idiots. STOP IT.
Meanwhile, our ports are unsecured and anyone could probably bring a shipping container full of God-knows-what into close proximity to many of our major population centers (including one that includes me). Would someone please work on the real security vulnerabilities we're facing? And would someone get Bush to stop pissing off the Islamic world? Yes, there are fanatics who would hate us no matter how good we were. But Bush seems to be working very hard to make as many people as possible sympathize with those fanatics more than with the United States. Hearts and minds, people. Damn.
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