Posted on 11/19/2004 10:30:49 AM PST by Mo1
Wow, thanks!
...and eating it also.
Those thick Iowa Chops are heavenly, but it takes about forty minutes at 225 (dang it, I have smooth forgotten how to do the degree thingie [something and 167]) to get them properly cooked.
NYC cheers up there, Resty.
If you guys are that valuable, why don't they give you more jack each month?
Pay the Queen more, managerette!
.....Westy...
LOL!!
Thanks. After FINALLY, putting the semi-colon into the equation - success.
All they have to do is carry a note from their physician that can be verified by security.
1. Note?
2. Physician?
3. Verified?
4. Security?
I know how AlQaeda can get a bomb into D.C. besides floating one in on a boat.
My dog is like that .. she just stares at my like "you want me to go out there"
Since I'm a mean mommie, I just walk away :0)
No, I am not jesting nor joshing. And I fail to see why you have an objection.
I'm going off line and scan some more pixs on another puter..BBL
......Westy......
Surely you jest.
You have a list of physicians acceptable to the authorities?
You have a standard form, notarized which contains the note?
You have the correct protocol with the authorities who will verify the form, physician, and authentication?
Set your Beeber to Stune, Babe, and check the trunk of that vehicle.
US News and World Report, 29 November 2004
Thanksgiving travelers may be in for a bit of a shock as they plod through security lines at nation's airports. Passengers chosen for secondary screening or whose clothing appears suspicious or bulky are now subject to frisking--in a pretty intrusive way. In late September, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began allowing security checkpoint screeners to manually pat down women's breasts and the genital and derriere regions of both sexes during searches. The point is to find hidden explosives while machines that might perform the job are still being tested. "I know it's not pleasant," says Rep. John Mica, chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, "but until we get the technology, what are the options?"
The new policy reflects an increasing sense of urgency about the lack of explosives-detection equipment. Today, only a small percentage of carry-on luggage and passengers is tested for bombs. In its final report, the 9/11 commission said the TSA must give "priority attention" to checking passengers for explosives. In August, two Russian airliners crashed, almost certainly because of explosives two Chechen women had concealed beneath their clothing--underscoring the danger.
Complaints. The TSA policy says that passengers can request that the new screening be done in a private room and requires that the frisker be the same gender as the traveler. But graduate student Sommer Gentry, 27, says that male screeners at Boston's Logan International Airport tried to pat her down while a female screener at Baltimore-Washington International Airport roughly jabbed a metal-detector wand between her legs. "How can I feel safe," Gentry said, " when the TSA is ordering me to let strangers put their hands all over my most intimate places?" TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield says the new policy generates only about a dozen complaints a week, but there have been reports of passengers, mostly women, growing angry during searches.
The TSA is currently testing machines that could eliminate the need for such frisking, like "trace portals" that blow puffs of air at passengers to dislodge and sniff for bits of explosive material. But it will be a while before the machines are ready for widespread use. In the meantime, the TSA will continue the pat-downs and train screeners to explain the process more carefully. "These are very valid security measures," says Hatfield. "They get at a very specific potential threat." But that's not enough for Gentry. "I am now," she says, "an ex-frequent flier." -Samantha Levine
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Just arm the pilots and stop this insanity.
See: El Al Airlines
And do you mean to say that El Al does not search their passengers?
Scoll down half way for the new ones. They were just laying the sod when we got there today, and had the plants in. Damn, I'm tired, but got lots accomplished today.
Lose the PC madness, and screen ME types. Give Americans who have flown for years and years without blowing anything up a pass for easy, no b.s. boarding.
It's really simple, but then again, all this Homeland Security is really not about security at all, or the borders would have been closed years ago.
Scuse me for being naive, but I am not of the opinion that our next big hit will be by "ME" looking people. You need to think out of the box. That was the same box the airlines were in before 9/11, thinking that any hijacking was a ploy to fly somewhere else.
Outstanding!
.....Westy.....
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