I do hope he may live long enough to be indicted; or, at least, to see his family (wife, dau.) ashamed enough to get off the TV with their know it all nonsense. The truth will usually out.

I would even drive to Wisconsin to piss on his grave.

I bet nomolos meant Wyoming, I do that first letter switcheroo with names all the time myself. As I tell the Mr., if I get the first letter right, I consider it the right name ; )

Well, we can’t get too cocky, we gave the world Tailgunner Joe.

My beloved home state would never fall so far from grace ; )

And PJ@39, not to pick a fight or anything, but your chance of dying on an airplane is near zero. For example, last year 25.5 million passengers went through Logan. Logan is the 20th busiest airport in the country. 20th. I don’t know the total passenger numbers for all of the US last year, but on that basis it has to be hundreds of millions. Not one of whom died due to a terrorist-related incident on board. The chance of a terrorist killing you on a plane is staggering small. This was also true before 2001. Before the shampoo follies, before confiscated nail clippers, before naked girly machines and groping.

You are much much more likely to die from a lightning strike. Or a car accident. Cancer. Heart disease. If the TSA gave a damn about my safety, there would be free health clinics in airports with free screenings for each passenger instead of naked girly machines.

Your safety is not remotely a concern of the TSA. Their job is to brainwash Americans into compliance on endless war. And if it gives them job security and makes Skeletor a few bucks, all the better.

Humans are terrible at risk assessment and as a result make bizarre “safety” choices all of the time. The government knows how to exploit that for political advantage.

Being treated as a potential terrorist, when they couldn’t even find real ones that they were being told about beforehand, is worse than insulting.

Oh, gawd.
Born a US citizen, but outside the US.
Married to a US citizen, but married outside the US.
University? Part of it also outside the US.

My father and uncles are/were vets of WWII.
My cousins are/were vets of Korea and VNam.

You would not believe how hard it is for me to use a passport at a customs gate. And although not a ‘modest Midwesterner’ like phred, I gravitate to the same sense of ‘privacy’. Being treated as if I’m some kind of suspicious person because I’ve actually been beyond the borders of the US just incenses me.

Inside the US borders, I’ve started riding the train.

One of my favorite stories, sadly, is of a friend who’d been outside the US for special chemo-cancer treatments. When he came back in, his body was so radiactive that he started the alarms when he passed through the passport gate.

So apparently, if you have been born outside US, married outside US, worked outside US, studied outside the US, or get chemo outside US, you’re a “person of interest.”

Meanwhile, the government has never explained what happened wiht $700 billion of TARP money, and that was only a tiny amount of the total bailouts. On a sane planet, all that missing money would be viewed as a national security risk.

Sheer lunacy.
There are moments when I think bin Laden and the Iranians must be convulsing in hysterics over Richard Cheney’s utter stupidity.

I know people who have been in train wreck(s). Really not fun, but you have a much better chance of surviving than in a plane crash.

We need a short slogan to capture this sentiment on a bumper sticker.

Taking away our freedoms has not made us safer nor the government wiser about the identity of terrorists.
Strip searching/body patting every person boarding a flight is telegraphing to the public that the government is clueless about the current identity of terrorists.