Originally Posted by
PhlyingRPh
Prove to me that being detained 25 minutes makes one safer to any degree and I might stop LMAO and send you a drink chit or some O'Reilly Cash.
It is a fact that the only real terrorists airside at US airports today are american soldiers either freshly back from murdering, raping, torturing or stealing from innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan. A review of the definition of terrorism will allow you to independently reach this same conclusion.
My new best friend! I'll make your drinks nice and strong if you're in my FC cabin!
Oh, and don't forget about the ones that threw a dog off a cliff...
I'm SO sick of hearing men (and maybe women) bash themselves on the chest and talk about how American they are because they are/were in the military. Ok - thanks for your help when you're needed! But you chose to do it, just as I chose not to (and I can't anyway even if I wanted to - thanks homophobes!). I have utmost respect for the men who were in WWII, Vietnam, and Korea...but this current thing?
I don't put military guys/gals in first class if they is on open seat unless the captain or a first class passenger says to. They do a job, risk their lives, and get paid for it - so do I, just in a different way. Does that make me un-American?
<Sorry for the rant - I'm sure I'll take some grief for it, but it's just driving me up a wall...besides have you seen most of the "kids" joining now? Dumb as rocks and 90% southern..how's that for a stereotype?>
I treat TSA nicely, and expect the same. Unfortunately, 75% of the time we as crewmembers are treated no better than anyone else, except that they don't rummage through our bags without good reason. ABQ seems to have some of the most hateful workers for no apparent rhyme/reason.
To bring back gate screening is asinine. What's the purpose? What suddenly changed that we have to regress instead of advance?