Aww, it warms my heart to see our tax dollars working hard.

Well....airline security is a farce, but at least its more thorough than, say, railway security, which doesn't exist.

Obviously you didn't read ace's story last week about turning a simple lighter into a bomb. And, why are you smoking?

You're lucky you didn't get a backhand for sass-back, young lady...

Sounds like Jay wants to put Karol over his knee. ;)

Karol, you missed Greg Gutfeld flirting with ace yesterday.

You know why airport security is both obtrusive and ineffective, don't you?

It's because the Bush regime (like the Clinton regime before it) puts corporate profits above security, every time:

With the cooperation of the FAA, industry leaders have scuttled or watered down just about every significant reform that has been proposed over the past dozen years, including the recommendations of two high-profile presidential commissions.

They've accomplished this, in part, through generous campaign contributions: The airlines gave almost $4.2 million to both political parties during the 2000 elections.

Airport security is outsourced to the lowest bidder, who then hires unqualified people at minimum wage to maximize their profits. As a good little capitalist, you of course must support this wholeheartedly...right?

And of course it doesn't end with airport security:

Cutbacks in federal spending have left New York City, which has been the target of six separate plots by Islamist terrorists in the past decade, with nearly 6,000 fewer police than before 9/11. In fact, New York,"America's front line", will receive nearly $61 million less in federal public-safety subsidies than it did before 9/11. The Bush Administration recently eliminated funding to upgrade police and fire department communications systems. As a result, New York police and firefighters are still using the same outdated radio systems that failed during the 9/11 attacks, and were the direct cause of the deaths of 120 firefighters in the World Trade Center who did not receive the warnings to evacuate the buildings before they collapsed.

Dubya has to pay for those corporate tax cuts and giveaways somehow...right?

Don, please see the 'It's not that liberals are crazy....' post below. This is a classic example.

In the news on WINS over the weekend were potential lightening of rules on searches and allowing people to bring razor knives, scissors and box cutters on planes. Hmm. My feeling is: "search me boys." If it is going to keep something off the plane (especially a pesky conservative with NOT ONE BUT TWO lighters), go for it!

I don't think searching for anything before boarding that 1) could light something else they might have missed, or 2) could gash something else is in any way problematic.

Didn't Reid use MATCHES?

As smart as Reid was, he probably tried to rub two stick together.

Wow, Don. Great articles you quoted there. Quite timely too. After reading those, I swear I won't vote for President Bush in the 2004 elections.

Karol:

You want to bitch and moan about this problem. I want to know what the problem is and what's causing it.

In your world, that makes me a crazy liberal.

And yet, Don, all we see you doing is bitching and moaning. What have you done to find out what the problem is and what's causing it? Would it be possible, if you can tear yourself away from your intense investigation, for you to lend a hand to O.J. and help him find Nicole's "real" killers as well? No pressure, but we're all counting on you, Don.