The No-Fly List

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Oct 6 2006, 11:40 AM) [snapback]328980[/snapback]</div>

Who is to say there isn't another terrorist by the name of Saddam Hussein, or Evo Morales, or Nabih Berri. I mean, come on, don't you think there is someone running around right now with the name Timothy McVeigh who is mad at someone for some reason. Just because one terrorist dies or is in prison, does not mean we are not in danger by another with the same name. :angry:

 

Found this little piece just now while I was surfing the news. The no-fly list gets to be a joke at times due to the number of mismatches. Here are a few...

Here is the link to the full article..

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061007/D8KJGBR00.html

 

Ted Kennedy is on the No-Drive List.

 

Oh, dear. I'm flying out tomorrow for a couple of weeks (leaving my Prius in the hands of my brother! Fortunately, he's an excellent driver). I hope they let me fly even though I've *gasp* given money to Greenpeace.

 

Funny thing about this,... or maybe not so funny, is that there are suspected terrorists who are not on the list for the reason that the names may become public, and the terrorists may find out we're on to them. (Saw this on 60 Minutes I think.)

I think the list is silly. I prefer the system in Mexico. When we went through customs, there was a button we pushed, which gave either a red light or green light. If it's a red light, you are searched.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Oct 9 2006, 10:07 PM) [snapback]330478[/snapback]</div>

I've always suspected they had a button on the floor that really controlled which light comes on.

On the subject of lists, this administration seems to like doing things with lists. When Bush or Cheeny or one of those dufuses, I forget which now, appeared in Fargo, they compiled a list of people who should be barred from attending the event. Apparently the list was not compiled by anybody local, because it included everyone who had signed up with a relatively new peace group in town, but did not include any of the long-term peace activists (such as myself, and I have a criminal record!) who were not on the new group's list. (I didn't need to be on their list, because their emails were forwarded on an older list, which I was on.) The local newspaper got hold of the list and published it, and it included a highly-respected City Councilwoman, who is also a local businesswoman and church music director. What struck everybody was just how stupid this particular list was, and how totally useless it was as an attempt to protect the dufus who it was supposed to protect. Even if (as seems likely) they were just trying to protect the dufus from difficult questions from the audience, it was a stupid list. The best protection they had was simply the cost of admission.

 

Here is more on this...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/05/...in2066624.shtml

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Oct 7 2006, 07:50 PM) [snapback]329593[/snapback]</div>

Easy, the later, they cant make more of themselves.
And i think there is some crossover with the Dems and Repubs - McCain has 0 testosterone as does Frist and for the Dems on the no-brain list:

pelosi

Reed (except with real estate dealings - very smart there)

hilary (is a double switch - she has balls except for accepting her cheating husband)

gore / kerry (both having lost to a guy who cant speak in public and and cant pronounce nuclear)

edwards (for associating with gore)

lamont and his minions (for being and voting for a political fool and novice who will probably cost the dems control of the house - A+ here - and glad they have no gonads to boot)

the dems true test of testosterone will occur if they dont demolish the repubs next month...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Oct 6 2006, 01:20 PM) [snapback]329055[/snapback]</div>

And John Q. Public, too!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jared2 @ Oct 7 2006, 06:50 PM) [snapback]329593[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Oct 12 2006, 11:01 AM) [snapback]331733[/snapback]</div>

dbermanmd: Perhaps you won't consider the welfare of future generations and join the Democratic party...but might you consider a vasectomy?