Enemies Can Become Friends, I am Told.
That is why I started praying for that 'Godless' 'don't you dare smear my blog with your book google adverts' Ann Coulter when I found out she couldn't see the Bushes for the Whacked during the 2004 election.
And now, it appears we agree on something. Vaguely. Only one thing, don't get too excited.
It's not my particular rant but I am a bit sympathetic. Unlike her I am not trying to scourge Obama with any government waste and abuse I can think of- he didn't start Iraq, he didn't invent the fiscal banking crisis, he didn't get AIG in all that trouble, and he didn't make obsolete car designs more expensively than the imports.
But he is in charge of the TSA and it does appear that people are getting annoyed at the intrusiveness. That Saturday night live skit was hilarious!
Everyone needs to calm down though. It's not that anyone lost their Virginity to a TSA wand (ok-too graphic), nor that anyone is innocently getting patted down who doesn't wear an underwire- but really folks- who wants all their x-rayed love handles showing up on a TSA screen that can be emailed to Joe sixpack or the Director of the CIA? Isn't that a little Kafkesquie, Satrequeish, Orwellianly too much?
There ought to be a line- or a law, or something. Should you be made to take out body parts (like an artificial limb) or your teeth? Look ma-no jaws. I find it dreadful when I have to take off my shoes when I haven't had a decent pedicure. Imagine being made to take off your leg! Isn't there a medical card or something we can allow people to carry for an exemption? Oh no-then we would have everyone trafficking cocaine in their plastic legs back from Afghanistan apparently.
Perhaps we can assign people categories like "low risk" "mild to moderate risk" and "really big risks" based on a set of stereotypical profiling. On second thought. Maybe we could let Ann Coulter guess who might be hiding explosives in their Air Jordans on Jordan Air.
The difficulty is, as Obama phrased it- that apparently there are still snakes in the skies who would like us all to die- so it becomes prudent to be overly cautious and the rest of us have to be patient and miss our flights. Usually it is the Coulter corner who is really insistent on the magnitude of the threat and saying we don't do enough to protect ourselves. I think her rule of open mouth insert foot operates just as a knee jerk tirade to anything Obama does. Because he is younger than she is and he got to be President. Plus, Michele knows how to straighten her hair just as well as she does.
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