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The Playmobil Security Check Point

You'll find the play station oddly amusing. But you'll find the customer submitted images and the customer reviews hilarious.

Now see there Sheeple? THIS is how Propaganda is SUPPOSED to work!

Gizmodo: People are tweeting that the TSA has turned off the Scanners and no Groping is being performed.

So, no "pat-downs" and no scans equals no protests, no delays. Everything goes smoothly and the Propaganda Media smirks at the "failure" of the protests.

Welfare Queens, Rag Heads and Mexicans......and Me.

Damned if you do, Damned and groped if you don't

Daring Fireball

Peter Rez, a physics professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, did his own calculations and found that you are equally likely to die from the scanner radiation as from a terrorist airplane attack.

That Airline Commercial: You Are Now Free To Move About The Country

Has anybody seen it on TV lately?

Didn't think so.

No means: Don't Touch My Junk

The Curmudgeon was conversing today regarding the "Don't Touch My Junk" Guy. It was pointed out that women have been saying this very thing forever, albeit in a more straightforward way. But the first time some guy gets publicly humiliated by having his 'nads backhand brushed against his will, suddenly men have this huge movement.

Well, The Crumudgeon can attempt to balance the scales in the only way he knows how. Let's remind all the Dumbasses out there:  

No Means No = Don't Touch My Junk!

A little insight for you CaveMen: If Men Could Menstruate.


A 2 page spread in a British Magazine:

 

And closing out with Erica Jong:
"If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would be a Sacrament." 

 

Practicing For the Possibility of Being Searched For Upcoming Air Travel

I decided to alternately standing naked in the kitchen, in front of an operating microwave, then step away and proceed to touch myself, in a very professional manner of course, with nitrile gloves on. 

 Might have worked better if I'd been at my own house. But I don't own a microwave.

Don't want pervy bastards twisting your titties? Then don't go where pervy bastards twist them.

courtesy of orokos.com

Surprise. Very Attractive Female Singled Out For "Naked Scan"

So who, exactly, is forcing her to fly? Is she being prevented from traveling in any other fashion? If no, then while I sympathize with her distress, I don't see the problem. She chose to fly, knowing what might happen. If she found the possibilities of being scanned or "rubbed down" problematic she should have chosen another way to travel.

While I absolutely disagree with the use of scanners and MOST of the post 9/11 security screening procedures; airlines are businesses. Businesses regulated by the government to be sure, but businesses nevertheless. And they should be treated as such by consumers.

If she had walked into Taco Bell or Target and was treated in the same fashion, would she go back to Taco Bell or Target? Probably not. If she complained about her treatment to the manager and found no resolution, she would move up the chain of command until someone listened.

If the chain of command doesn't work, then the action she undertook is the next best step; make it a public embarrassment. Failing those things, boycott them. There are many other modes of travel: buses, trains, car pools, private planes, that do not require this type of screening. If you want to hear the airlines squeal, take away their revenue stream.

Yes the screeners, the TSA are part of a government entity. But if the airlines start complaining about losing business because of these measures the government will, as they always do, find ways to “accommodate” big business. If that isn't punitive enough pursue a lawsuit, hell, get all the other traumatized together and make it a class action suit.

Ultimately, I don't have much sympathy for her situation. She made the choice to put herself in it. And like it or not, she knew she was choosing to play Titty Twister Roulette as soon as she entered the airport.

No matter what the outraged say, this isn’t about civil liberties. This is about convenience made inconvenient. Not exactly what the Founding Fathers were enduring when they coined the phrase: “Give me liberty or give me death.” Because if you truly think there is a comparison between armed militia breaking into your house, stealing your food and torturing or killing you and your family and being able to cut 3 hours off your travel time, your understanding of the concepts of suffering and of history are seriously out of kilter.