Ted Rall for January 07, 2010

Are the 72 virgins waiting for us at the 4-star sex hotel?

I’m just waiting for the TSA to notice that all these terrorist plots have been caused by passengers, and ban all passengers on planes.

Well as a bonus Ted Rall, the first panel allows for job growth, though I in no way condone a whore house.

And instead of using those expensive and intrusive xray machines that are illegal, due to the fact that they violate the Constitution and child porn laws, why don’t the airlines just decree that all passengers are not allowed to wear clothes while on an airplane. No place to hide a bomb that way.

dcsohl: Indeed! Or the TSA might notice that all these terrorist plots happen on airplanes, and so they will ban airplanes! :)

Considering the vast amount of jet fuel (i.e., petroleum) burned up by airplanes every day, you couldn’t strike a bigger blow for the climate and energy independence than to take most of them out of operation anyway.

Bruce, I use videoconferences and phone as much as possible, but for what I do there is simply no alternative to face-to-face discussion in many cases – and sometimes even when there is the client insists on physical presence even if they have to pay through the nose for it. As when I flew from Boston to the middle of Europe for a one-hour meeting. (I added other stuff around it as best I could to make it better value.)

If you really want to realize the importance of air travel take look at the economic losses during the 2001 grounding. I believe a few economists have seperated the numbers from the general panic losses.

For something to be pornographic it has to first be sexually suggestive, not to mention that it first has to be “sexual”. And for it to be “sexual” you’d need first have someone who finds it so.

I can’t fathom why a scanner would violate any law when the monitor is looking at one dimensional image, one which can hardly arouse even the most sex starved individual, and this not mentioning the high improbability of hiring someone who is actually sexually attracted to children, if that is even really biologically possible, as otherwise is just a learned behavior that stems from autosuggested arousal.

One day this country will accept a more intrusive vigilance because we will have no more choice. By then we’ll all become accustomed to it and even grateful.

According to my neighbor, in Europe there are police forces in plain sight with quite imposing armament; this used more as a portrayal of the providing of safety rather than of an obliterating control.

No worries, Bruce. In the next few weeks I’m going to Switzerland, China, and Australia. I’m more worried about whether I can sleep on Air China seats.

Hey edmondd.

Not dead yet?

What a shame.

Great cartoon, Ted, but I fear that day will never come - unlike selling «total body scanners», nobody’s going to make a mint from treating airline passengers like human beings (assuming the Golden Rule is applied)….

Henri

They say the body scans won’t be recorded? Yeah RIGHT.

If a dude in a cave has enough resources to hack drone video its only a matter of time until a 13 year old with an internet connection figures out its easier to hack a TSA body scanner than trying to watch scrambled porn.

I’m all for Bill O’Reilly’s and Rush Limbaugh’s scans to hit the web.

Edd: ” the high improbability of hiring someone who is actually sexually attracted to children”

Speaking of living in a cave: Watch your local nightly news or visit your state’s sexual predator list. you underestimate humans.

edmondd, I wouldn’t have imagined that people would be highly aroused by sex with animals, enemas or wearing diapers, crapping in them and being cleaned up – but some are.

Sure, only juvenile individuals who would be tempted to buy those “X-Ray” glasses advertised in the back of magazines would be interested in seeing these images. But, when you think about who will be employed as screeners … I think those are precisely the kind of people who will be working there.