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Feb 24, 2007, 11:47 pm
#61
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Feb 25, 2007, 9:28 am
#62
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The image is whichever one we say it is, Citizen. You do not need to know anything more.
Feb 25, 2007, 9:37 am
#63
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... We need a machine that can just read peoples mind and as we pass through security, they ask do you intend on committing any crime and then the machine reads their thoughts and marks the ones that are thinking yes. Then we launch them into a furnace for recycling and boom, all solved 
I'm usually thinking something like that going through the WTMD.
Feb 25, 2007, 9:41 am
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I think half of us would be sent to the furnace for thinking "...and my taxpayers pay this guys salary" or "how hard is it to tell a battery from lipstick" or "will my laptop be swabbed for the third time in 3 days, or will they finally learn what a laptop is?"
I'm usually thinking something like that going through the WTMD.
I'm usually thinking something like that going through the WTMD.
Or
"Is it possible to have an IQ in the single digits?"
"Will they learn that a solid deordorant is not a liquid?"
Feb 25, 2007, 12:12 pm
#65
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I think half of us would be sent to the furnace for thinking "...and my taxpayers pay this guys salary" or "how hard is it to tell a battery from lipstick" or "will my laptop be swabbed for the third time in 3 days, or will they finally learn what a laptop is?"
I'm usually thinking something like that going through the WTMD.
I'm usually thinking something like that going through the WTMD.
Feb 25, 2007, 5:25 pm
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"It seems faster. I'm not uncomfortable with it," said Kelsi Dunbar, 25, of Seattle, who chose the machine. "I trust TSA, and I trust that they are definitely trying to make things go quickly and smoothly in the airport.
I'd love to see this issue taken up on Oprah, complete with larger-than-life "chalk outlines" of women's bodies, both the before and "improved" pictures clearly showing tampons, IUDs, cervical caps and/or pad outlines. That would do the trick.
It's unfortunate that it would seem it takes mob mentality of one sort -- let's call it, "Winfrey Populism" -- to fight mob mentality of another, the Sheepleship of Citizens.
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Feb 25, 2007, 6:35 pm
#67
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Idiot girl.
I'd love to see this issue taken up on Oprah, with "chalk outlines" of women's bodies, including before and "improved" pictures clearly showing tampons, IUDs, cervical cap and/or pad outlines. That would do the trick.
It's unfortunate that it would seem it takes mob mentality of one sort -- call it, "Oprah populism" -- to fight mob mentality of another, i.e. citizen "sheepleship."
I'd love to see this issue taken up on Oprah, with "chalk outlines" of women's bodies, including before and "improved" pictures clearly showing tampons, IUDs, cervical cap and/or pad outlines. That would do the trick.
It's unfortunate that it would seem it takes mob mentality of one sort -- call it, "Oprah populism" -- to fight mob mentality of another, i.e. citizen "sheepleship."
Feb 25, 2007, 7:13 pm
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Feb 25, 2007, 7:58 pm
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Feb 25, 2007, 8:18 pm
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Feb 25, 2007, 9:04 pm
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Honestly i do think it will come to a point where people put enough pressure due to privacy issues associated with the body form shown onscreen. It seems to me that the inate nature of most citizens to just accept little inconveniences for safety's sake will be compromised by their inherent self esteem issues.
Feb 25, 2007, 9:10 pm
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Shame that it takes an issue about vanity for people to wake up and protest for the right thing.
) got out that would spark some protest?
Feb 25, 2007, 11:32 pm
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I carry a tiny black purse, so I usually put my shoes, jacket and purse in the same plastic tub and my laptop in another tub. On a trip from TUL to DFW it was freezing so I had a big wool coat with me. That day I used three tubs, putting the large coat in a separate tub and my same purse/shoes/jacket in the other tub. When my tubs started coming out my purse was missing and they had not annouced they were sending it back through for additional screening. I started hollering, yes yelling where is my purse. Some TSA person had rearranged my stuff, removed my purse from the tub number 1 and put it UNDER my big black coat in tub number 3. My coat was the last tub to come out as I put my least important/valuable item at the end of my tubs. It took me a minute to find my purse as it didn't occur to me to look under my coat. A TSA supervisor rushed over and asked me to check and see if anything was missing. There wasn't anything missing, but it seems to me that they take unneccessary liberties with our belongings and bodies.