"People have no idea how graphic the images are," Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union, said.
Cities that are installing or planning to install the Airport Peek-A-Booths (That's mine -- I just coined that!) include Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Dallas, Vegas, Miami, and Detroit.
Supposedly it's going to be an "optional" alternative to the pat-down.
That's great. Hey, Homeland Security? As long as you're gonna be staring at my balls, can I maybe smoke a fucking cigarette or keep my water bottle with me?
Motherfuckers. Meanwhile, random testing of airport security (where an undercover agent tries to sneak a bomb on the plane) FAILS over 85% of the time.
My wife said a long time ago, "Eventually we're gonna have to fly naked and under anaesthesia." Looks like she's not far off.
I propose THIS, rather than price, should be how we determine who sits in First Class.
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In Europe, Amsterdam's Schipol airport is already using the scanners.
See, I don't mind this because I'd be too stoned to care in Amsterdam. My junk would probably be hanging out anyway.
We are so screwed.
Good post.
Hey, Ron Paul dropped out of the race.
And KO is a complete madman and is getting beaten up all over the place. Huffpo especially.
Seems I was uninformed and far too generous in my "85%" failure rate.
How about 21 out of 21?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11863165/
I haven't been to Huffpo in weeks. So, who's turning on KO? He was the golden boy a week ago. Fuckin' talking head. Always hated him while everyone else slobbered on him just 'cos he said mean things about Bush. As if he cared. The nets saw which way the wind was blowing and decided to get some of the liberal cash - and the stupid liberals fell for it. Amazing how after all these years of Bush saying one thing and doing another, the lib side will start following anyone who says what they want to hear despite their voting record. And I'm especially talking about the idjits who thought Ron Paul was the nazz with god given ass. Fookin' sheep, these humans.
But at least you're over politics. 8)
Hang on a tick! Did you just call me an idgit?
As for the xray thingies, I'm never gonna get on a plane again, as I said. But I'll just bet the horror shows the screeners will see, will totally outweigh the one or two babes per week they might get to ogle. And anyone who gets a woodie looking at a computer mockup of the body might as well get a fucking Tombraider game and jack off to that. You guys and your fetish for plastic women. I just don't get it.
Hang on ANOTHER tick! Now I'm an idgit with a blow up doll?
I think Coyote's calling you names, MV. Blow up dolls? Now you're gonna criticize my hobbies??
4:00 club, just like at EIU. "Somewhere there's a drink with my name on it."
If the sock fits....
*snort*
Heh, MV, technically, you're not an idjit, cos you've already said you're libertarian. Liking Ron Paul would be normal for you. For a liberal to like him because he says the right things about the war (despite the fact that he's always voted lockstep with 'pukes and didn't start talking out against the war until he decided to run for prez), makes them idjits.
I can't argue with that. Unlike Obama, Ron Paul is not a Messiah. You gotta like the party first and the candidate second, cuz you know the candidates gonna be surrounded by smart people. And in Obama's case, really good speech writers.
Bob Barr is the Libertarian candidate, and I admit I haven't done any research on him yet. I didn't even watch when he was on Colbert the other night.
It's hard to get excited about a guy who's gonna get maybe 3% of the vote.
Ron Paul has a ton of personality and character and he has a big following that's now gotten infinitely bigger. Hopefully some of the "Paulbots" will do some research on libertarianism now.
Kinda like how Eric Clapton introduced me to the blues.
Oh yeah, Clapton, Beck and Page, I've got a jam album (yes, vinyl) of them together from way back when. Pretty cool, but nothing to play it on. Got lots of Muddy Waters on cassette. Again, nothing to play it on. Sigh. Always loved the blues, but it puts me right back in Pensacola where I played it non-stop for years.
That and Journey. Heh.
I either had that album on vinyl or wanted it, but I know exactly which one you're talking about. A few years ago I got one of those portable record players from Restoration Hardware or Potterybarn or something. Good sound, nice fold up case. Looks like a typewriter case.
I listened to Queen's "Flash Gordon" soundtrack and then framed the LP. 8) Just smelling the vinyl jacket gave me sense memories.
Loved Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Albert King, Albert Collins, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson, all of which led me to the last of the great living legends of blues guitar -- Mr. Buddy Guy.
Sonny Boy! Oh yeah. I got all purist, man, and found Robert Johnson. But Muddy was always a fave.
Yeah, sooner or later everybody ends up getting the Robert Johnson box set and tries to listen to it. It's great, but not exactly easy to listen to.
I'm into history, so it was inevitable. I saw Clapton in Pensacola, they'd just built a concert venue and he was one of the first to play there. Folks really didn't know how to do a concert, the bands that came to play usually did so on the beach, so everyone was just milling about, drinking and smoking, not paying much attention. I was able to get right up to the stage. What fun. I think it was the Behind the Sun tour; I just loved that one. In contrast, I don't think I've ever heard the Tears from Heaven song all the way thru - I just hate "theme" songs like that. And I hated the Layla that won the Oscar (was it?). Fookin' dirge.
"No one can play the blues like Blind Willie McTell."
Jeff and I saw Clapton w/ Robert Cray and Stevie Ray Vaughan -- the night before SRV died in the helicopter crash. 2 shows at Alpine Valley, Wisconsin. We saw the first night, he died after the second.
That wasn't easy to deal with. We were so far back on the lawn that we pretty much watched the video screens, but what a show. I'd never seen anybody play like SRV. I had seen him on MTV Unplugged and a few concert clips, but this was unreal.
For the encore, blind guitarist Jeff Healey (who just died recently), was sitting on stage for a huge "Sunshine of Your Love" jam.
The next night, of course, Cray, SRV, Clapton, Jimmie Vaughan, and Buddy Guy all jammed.
It was so weird. One night I see an amazing guitarist, the next night he's dead. And he had quit cocaine, quit drinking, and even quit SMOKING! In the last interview I read w/ him, he was chewing Nicorette.
Kinda makes you wonder -- why bother quitting anything? That must've been so hard on the guy. Then his fucking helicopter smacks into a ski slope in a fog.
Fuck it. Have fun now.
Bummer. The closest I come to that kinda story is that I had tickets to and INXS concert that was canceled because the lead singer had died of autoerotic asphixiation. Dingbat!
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