We recently blogged on stuff you should be afraid of, like breast milk and toothpaste. Now, apparently, you should be afraid of people that look determined or angry (click image above to expand).
Let's say you've had a fight with your spouse in advance of a business trip - hey, it happens. So you get to the airport and suddenly you're pulled over, bundled into a room, and given the full rectal. Sure, you weren't going to blow up an airliner, but why not be on the safe side?
Taking a page from Israeli airport security, the transportation agency has been experimenting with this new squad, whose members do not look for bombs, guns or knives. Instead, the assignment is to find anyone with evil intent.
Doesn't that give you a warm feeling? Let's strip search the woman who just had a fight with her boyfriend - who cares about the guy with the bomb who looks cheerful because he's going to get his 72 virgins in a few minutes? As a member of the Reality Based Community, don't you want them to find the bomb or the knife instead of the middle manager who just got canned by his boss?
And if you're pissed off because you were bumped off the last flight? You'll never get on that plane.
I can't tell you how happy I am that I don't have to fly anymore. But I'll be sure to send my husband away happy the next time he has to travel.
Posted by: Kathy | August 17, 2006 at 06:52 AM
Here come the Thought Police...
Posted by: Alicia | August 17, 2006 at 08:21 AM
Remember, it is to your disadvantage to be a person of color. So I suggest, if you do happen to have to fly, and your a darker-skinned than say, Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld, and you happen to be determined and angry because your girlfriend threw you out - get some white-face and slap it all over yourself. THEN you won't be strip-searched. Unless you have a pot of lipgloss with you. Then all bets are off.
Fuck.
Posted by: divajood | August 17, 2006 at 08:24 AM
They have these cool new machines that can X-ray your soul. So I feel safer.
Posted by: Kevin Wolf | August 17, 2006 at 08:38 AM
What's the look for "There are motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane"?
Posted by: actor212 | August 17, 2006 at 12:55 PM
When I fly, I always have my three kids under age seven with me, plus a husband who once (just once) walked through security first without asking if I needed help, then waited for me, the kids, and all our carry-on. If he does this again, and if I shoot him through the Xray machine, will they still let me on the plane? I promise I will not be angry after that.
Posted by: Blue Gal | August 17, 2006 at 01:44 PM
Uh oh. I'm pissed off all the time when I'm at the airport, 'cause I HATE AIRPORTS and their STUPID "SECURITY" PROCEDURES. So I'm bound to be detained, probed, questioned, and sent to Guantanamo Bay. I guess there won't be a vacation this year. *sigh*
Posted by: HelenWheels | August 17, 2006 at 02:12 PM
Don't be like that, Helen! You'll be...one of the first American tourists in Cuba in fifty years!
Yeah, that's it...
Posted by: tata | August 17, 2006 at 03:15 PM
People tell me I always look mad because I forget to wear my glasses and have to squint to see things.
Posted by: Lew Scannon | August 17, 2006 at 04:24 PM
Don't you just love charades? Maybe they could just hire the Amazing Kreskin... I hear he needs a job.
Posted by: Libby | August 17, 2006 at 06:16 PM
I do hope everybody's had enough now. Or are we going to continue to legitimize this insanity come November?
Posted by: JollyRoger | August 17, 2006 at 09:31 PM
How long folks- good question ? This is so insane, that maybe people who are tired, hassled or frusated maybe detained because of some cock-a-mainey assanine procedure....Yeekgods No moms will be able to fly....
Posted by: enigma4ever | August 18, 2006 at 09:32 AM
Blogenfreude,
I found it most entertaining, down-right laughable to look at the picture or Michelle Malkin found in the previous post and wonder just how hard of a time she would have catching a flight out of Israel with the nasty scowl she wears all the time. She definately has that "Angry" look, with her "jaw thrust forward."
Posted by: M A F | August 18, 2006 at 10:57 AM
By the way, is the only way a guy can get some action around here is to look really angry and get on line at the airport?
Posted by: actor212 | August 18, 2006 at 12:08 PM
Ya, Malkin's definatly getting bumped.
Posted by: Fred | August 18, 2006 at 02:52 PM
"I do hope everybody's had enough now. Or are we going to continue to legitimize this insanity come November?"
Posted by: JollyRoger | 08/18/2006 at 12:31 AM
Good question. We can't afford it. We couldn't afford four more years of that dipshit pretendent and he we are in the vortex now.
Posted by: Chuck | August 18, 2006 at 09:17 PM
The airlines companies must be loving all this. Pretty soon no one will want to fly anywhere due to the anxiety of the security.
Posted by: pissed off patricia | August 19, 2006 at 03:13 AM
I knew the sour-tempered would be under attack soon. It is not enough that we are constantly bombarbed by the Shiny Happy culture. Now you're a suspected terrorist if you're not Paxiled into perpetual state of bliss.
Posted by: Polly Jones | August 21, 2006 at 01:40 PM