>>A friend of mine posted this on Facebook today - thought it was rather fitting...
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>>" I can not believe how much people are complaining about the TSA. Is your life worth a short delay and a search. Flying is a luxury. How long do you think you will delayed and inconvenienced if all flights are grounded because of another terrorist attack. Ask you Grandparents and Great-Grandparents about sacrifice. I'm glad the head of the TSA is taking a stand. The war on terrorism is still going on!.."
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>If TSA procedures were a silver bullet that defeated all airplane-based terrorist attacks I would agree with your friend and you. I do not believe they are. Routine checks routinely slip things past them. All they do is continually respond to the last thing they hadn't thought of, while the terrorists move on to new methods. Shoe bomb -- got it covered. Underwear bomb -- got it covered. Who knows what the bad guys will think of next. For sure they will think of something. If I had to guess it might be something nasty in a cargo container that arrives in the U.S. by ship. Possibly containing the true nightmare scenario, a biological attack. That would make 9/11 look about as scary as the Carolina Panthers.
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>Bear in mind also that the 9/11 attackers entered the country uneventfully. It was their training overseas beforehand and their actions after arriving in the U.S. that made the attack work.
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>One thing I find interesting, and little commented on by you and your fellow minded, is the willingness to cast individual rights aside while not complaining about corporate resistance. You characterize the complaints of individual flyers, 99.99% of whom are non-terrorists who just want to go visit people or places, as whiners. So where is the outrage at express mail companies who don't want their cargo scanned (after the recent creative use of toner cartridges) because departure delays would take a nibble out of their bottom lines? Profit seems a lot more important than individual rights and dignity.
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>Have a good Thanksgiving anyway, my old adversary ;-) It's my favorite holiday.
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>The only football game of the three today that remotely interests me is Saints vs. Cowboys, and that's right at dinner time. Oh well. It's hardly the point of the day anyway, more something to do while keeping an eye on the turkey and waiting for guests to arrive.

You and Ann and I completely agree on this ... well, I'm not sure how she feels about the Saint's/Cowboys but I'm betting she ain't watching the Lions ( I think not watching the Lions is becoming kind of a Thanksgiving tradition )

Have a good one all !