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Totally agree. My last flight was July 1995, Detroit to Orange County, CA to visit family. My friends think I’m being “paranoid” by not flying anywhere. And I still get that lame theory from a few who insist that it’s safer to fly than drive a car. BS. At least in a car you have half a chance of surviving if something goes wrong. In a plane, kiss your butt goodbye.

Absolutely. It just isn’t worth the anxiety. Especially, with children. It is one thing to risk my own life but the life of my children is another matter entirely.

The men would be getting to the check-ins an extra hour early too.

Maybe Newarks are like the flu? Cases cropping up all over the place?

They’re saying that it doesn’t count as a ‘smoking gun’ unless it’s irrefutable, specific, definitive, verified intel.

More shucking and jiving - spin, lie, spin, lie.......

For the record

Some blue dogs will use this to try to buy back some street creds with their electorate. A lot of the idiots will fall for it. There are a lot more pro-gun rat voters than I thin FR generally realizes. West Virginia is a good case in point.

Placemark.

ping for later read.

The “left” and “right” share one thing in common:

If judges following the law when they agree with it = good jurisprudence

If judges following the law when they disagree with it = judicial activism

Very few people are intellectually honest about it. (Or worse, they really don’t see the difference. If it’s that, God help us all.)

The same judge upholding national ID cards for illegal aliens based on a theory of Government power would be lauded by some members of this board one day, and eviscerated the next when the exact same legal logic led to the conclusion that Christians could be tracked. Many don’t seem to understand that the job of the Constitution is to stand between the people and the Government screaming, “Stop!”, and that it’s in your best interest to protect this, even when you are the party in power and want to crush your enemies.

That’s why I have so much respect for Clarence Thomas. He dissented in Lawrence v. Texas, concurring with Scalia but adding his own note that he believed 1.) the law was incredibly silly, 2,) if he were a member of the Texas legislature, he would over turn it, and 3.) it is a waste of law enforcement resources. However, he stated his theory of Constitutional law is that he has no authority because it’s not specifically addressed, meaning he wanted to help the petitioner but felt he didn’t have the power to do so.

Whether or not you agree with that, it’s intellectually consistent. I respect that. Even if he someday rules in a way that I don’t like, I understand the framework through which he approaches his job.

It's becoming more of a police state than about increasing 'national security' in the wake of a 'staged terror threat'.

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union once had organized police states like this, now the United States has repeated the history path.

The bottom line is that you can’t lead when your peers think you’re a moron.

I agree with all of that and it isn’t helpful. zero has created a situation that would be ridiculous if it wasn’t so serious .

But, except for Sarkozy, Euro leaders treated Bush rather poorly so I can’t say, except in Sarkozy’s case, that snubbing those leaders bothers me much on a personal level. Obviously, on a national security level, this is at best precarious and at worst downright dangerous.

Yep, thats what the IRA did - lots and lots of hoax calls causing economic and personal misery.

BTW remember that many Dems funded them.

I doubt Sarkozy would make the same observations and remarks about Palin.

“Just tell us anything....make it up if you like. Just so we can let you go with probation and claim some BS we can feed to the American public about how we got great intel from you without waterboarding your muzzie behind is all we ask. Dude, it’s a win-win. We get to pretend we’re on top of things and you get to walk.”

Surprise, surprise, there’s that closed fist again.

Darn.

I really thought this event would save the world.

If you ever work up the courage to ask me a question without pinging your support group, I may consider answering a question I consider legitimate. (Though I've never seen you ask one).

That childish demand only demonstrates that you have NO courage whatsoever, you're afraid of having anyone else pinged to a post which responds to your pompous sputterings. It shouldn't make any difference at all but you have seized on the pinging of other posters as your justification to selectively refuse to respond when you just can't find enough neurons to slam together to come up with a coherent answer.

On second thought, since you have proven to be less honest than Bill Clinton, I will go back to ignoring your drivel, as I have for the past month or so.

Another ad hominem slur as you compare a good conservative Freeper to Bill Clinton. You personify the 'politics of personal destruction' with such utterances. Shame on you.

(Funny to be told to "grow up" by an post-modernist ethics-less adolescent, though. :)

Yes, everyone is an adolescent, and you are the seasoned, mature, wise and scholarly adult. Your arrogance knows no bounds.

btw, for the record for anyone who happens to be lurking, I have already explained to this sick lib what conservatism is, and how I have been a conservative activist for decades. He, however, dodges and weaves to avoid answering what he has actually DONE for conservatism, because.............he isn't a conservative.

All you've done is brag about yourself, accuse others of not being conservative unless they bare their souls about their deeds and accomplishments, you are a total Pharisee.

Game over. I win. sick lib loses. Back to ignoring the drivel and conversing with the grown ups.

Translation = oWf returns to her mental echo chamber where she is always right, always the heroine who 'saves' conservatism, and everyone else is the enemy, and always 'wrong' (not to mention a bunch of delinquent kids that she is always symbolically screaming at to "get off her damn lawn!" lol).

Question to Palin: "Why did your campaign lose?"
Palin reply: "I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration, how have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration." Bush administration to blame...Sarah speaks November 9, 2008

This is an important quote (about war strategy) and I think it would be a fair question to pose to Sarah, i.e. "what would you do differently in the War on Terror as opposed to the prior policies of the Bush Administration, not to mention the inept non-policies of the current 0bamunist regime?"

I'd like to hear what kind of answer that would generate.

That should be post #121 not "109", argh.

Need coffee.

Could one of you please tastefully respond to post 106 (since I can not do so because the Mods have asked me to not to ping you know who)?

Brother Rabs, she pinged you in #106, and you certainly can respond to that. But I think SickOfLibs answered with the precision of a laser guided munition in post #109, so it's really a moot point (nicely done SoL!).

The braggarts and blowhards will always be with us, tooting their own horn about all the wonderful things they've done or are doing for the cause of conservatism, while either being ignorant of, or in defiance of James 4:16 (those who proclaim to be Christians that is), which states:

"As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil."

That says it all. A proud and haughty spirit is always brought down and humbled in the end.

Enough of these incidents and airline travel will crash.

People will put off or cancel some trips, or drive or take a bus instead.

Many preople will use electronic/digital means to do most of what they would have traveled for.

Then those people will find out how much money and time and HASSLE they saved and how much SAFER they felt by not flying.

My reaction too. LOL

You know, after spending over thirty years in local and federal law enforcement, I used to tell anyone who ask that we, in law enforcement, do profile everyday. When the person responds that profiling should be illegal, I remind them that without profiling, no criminals would be caught. Drug dealers act in a manner which is totally different from a house burglar. The same goes for a gang banger acting different than a check kiter. Unless we as a society pull our collective heads out of our rectal cavities (excluding Freepers, of course!), many of our citizen's will die because of political correctness.

It is completely understandable why Iran would refuse a visit from John F'in Kerry.

They want JIMMY CARTER, and I say SEND HIM!

Give that goofy bastard a few thousand nails and a couple of hammers and he can build some Humanitarian Habitats for the scientists and engineers at those formerly secret nuke sites.

And with a little luck, the IAF will make their move just as Jimmy drives in the last nail.

Profiling works almost every time!!!!!

Your anti-McCain gig has worn more than a little thin, Rab.

The anti-McCain "gig" keeps on going until McCain gets defeated in an election, is convicted of a crime and gets removed from office, dies in office, or in any way ceases to be a United States Senator.

Why not start on Webb and/or Warner?

Both are very good suggestions for after McCain gets walloped this year.

Especially Warner.

I haven't forgotten about the sales tax incident a few years back.

Ditto

Exactly. Just another slap in the face.

I’m still looking for a pic of Daisie E. King. Any idea what she was wearing when she died?

Don’t they know who he is?

I was patted down and my bag was searched just yesterday as I was flying from Redding, Ca to Seattle, WA on a Horizon Q400 Commuter.

...and 100 percent of passengers from 14 terrorism-prone countries

Is that "countries" or "counties"? Shasta County is pretty right wing...I see how Janet Nepolitano would consider that terrorism prone.

Why isn't she fired yet?

“3. Execute him.”

That’s already off the table in a civilian trial I think.

If Zero does not want to be seen as soft on Islamists, he needs to follow the example of his hero FDR and dispose of Abdulmuttalib the way Roosevelt disposed of Operation Pastorius — a month-long trial before seven generals, a week for the Supremes to review, then six fryings in the DC chair.

HAHA! I am from there too and don’t miss it at all. I had to laugh because I also refer to it as the “armpit of America”.
The worst part for me is the stretch from The Parkway Exit(Hess refineries begin) right on through to the Meadowlands(polluted swamp). It always smells like you are driving through the world’s largest kitty-litter box.
Just try closing the windows and shutting the vents...lol....there is no escape!

Brennan, whom I don’t know, sounds like he wouldn’t know “intelligence” information if it bit him in the ass.

Same mentality that led to 9/11. FBI people wouldn’t listen to their field agents in Arizona and Minnesota.

Somebody should sue Obama over this latest screw-up.

I hope JD Hayworth runs against him.

I’ve never had a problem at DFW

Obama, you really do not have a clue, do you? (Sheesh, our branches of government are cesspools of idiocy.)

Obama, all that bowing, kowtowing, apologizing and bad mouthing the good old U.S.A. isn't getting you any respect. Face it bro, they respected Bush more than they respect you. It must eat at you big time.

Hopefully they are learning just how foolish it is to use the airlines while Obama is in office.

MNJohnnie raises a good point. Your anti-McCain gig has worn more than a little thin, Rab.

I notice that you joined FR within days of our Old Dominion having lost its one conservative Republican Senator, and which state has since elected its second Democrat senator. We have a lot of pickins right her in Ole Virginny. Why not start on Webb and/or Warner? McCain is an older man now, he won’t be running for POTUS again. Leave him alone and let’s look in our own back yard at much younger men with longer careers ahead of them and lots of ambition certainly on Warner’s part.

Background link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420280/posts

I flew internationally last night. I watched as the black guy in full traditional African get up with a hard look and build of prison strolled through and a 55 year old caucasian grand mother got the pat down.

Thankfully my plane was full of Swedes. I saw one guy that seemed a bit suspicious. The down side to flying with Swedes, they'd all rather die than have any sort of confrontation and the men are a little short on testosterone.

TSA left a note in one of our bags that they had gone through it. It had some batteries and other unusual stuff because I was loaded down with needed items for my next six months of my sentence here in Stockholm. (:

TSA used to leave me those little notes, too (I haven't gotten any lately) when I was carrying art supplies.

Such a disorganized mess at Newark

I flew into Chicago yesterday and into Newark two weeks ago. I will take Newark over Chicago any day of the week. Chicago is a disaster.

I didn't experience any increased security that I could see. TSA left a note in one of our bags that they had gone through it. It had some batteries and other unusual stuff because I was loaded down with needed items for my next six months of my sentence here in Stockholm. (:

Maybe her feet hurt.

I can't help but believe that every single thing McCain does is all about McCain. I don't think it has anything to do with Brown or what's right, but only to get his name in the news.

The level of cynicism I have about McCain is very high.........especially after his horrific treatment of Sarah Palin after the election.

Provable fact - sicklib (aka BillyJeff) posted to me about 6000 times, following me from thread to thread, hounding me, spamming on multiple threads, just to call me "OAF," (among other names) breaking every FR rule in the book, (for which I never pinged a mod once), and now he's lying through his teeth again.

He is FR's resident pathological liar.......and it continues on this thread.

Now if you'll go away, sick lib, the rational discussion of this thread can continue. I'm done with this sick little game you keep playing. The record has been set straight. Discussion over.

Hi Fichori!