Really 2 days and no "Total Recall" reference, you guys are slacking off...

Dude has a visible hint of scoliosis.

dagblad,

you may be on to something there while they

scan you a medical evaluation can be made of your

skeletal health ,and a bill sent to a health provider.

I am going to invent penis extenders that slap on

to make those members look longer and thicker .

I will sell them just outside airports. I will

be rich,They will be made of pharmacuetical grade

rubber.

After the walk thru the xray machine one can pop them

off in the toilet of the aircraft and use them as

kitchen sponges at home.

Or bath sponge.

MMMhhh, any chances the machines improve safety?

Waste of money and total invasion of privacy, exactly what the terrorists wanted to happen. Taking away our nail clippers and installing full-body scanners will not stop terrorism. I wish people would get angry enough to fight back against these ridiculous band-aid laws that are only designed to get some criminal re-elected.

And I'll say it again...

The terrorists are winning. Osama stated long ago that his plan was not to beat us on the battlefield, or blow us up, his plan was to scare this country into bankruptcy.

A while back I decided to read one of Osama's speeches, not because I sympathize with him in any way but because I realized that I've only heard small sound bites but never really heard or read a whole speech and I wanted to understand what motivates such a man. I read a transcript of his 2004 speech and I was speechless. Forget his ideology, beliefs or whatever, what amazed me was his "bleed-until-bankruptcy plan" and how now six years later it seems like we're playing right into his hands.

Osama is, or was, a seasoned fighter he's been fighting wars all his life, while Bush was playing with his GI Joes, Osama was running around a desert with an AK, so he knows how to fight and that the only way a small army can defeat a much more powerful army is through the use of guerilla warfare. In his speech Osama boldly declares his "bleed-until-bankruptcy" plan. He indicates that this war will not be a traditional war but an economic guerilla war with his intention being to force this country to spend until we've lost our economic power. Keep in mind he himself waged this type of war with the Russians and won, so he knows exactly how to fight this type of war.

Here is an excerpt of Osama Bin Laden's 2004 Speech:

"All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.

This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat.

All Praise is due to Allah.

So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.

That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinises the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.

Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.

And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ.

And it was to these sorts of notions and their like that the British diplomat and others were referring in their lectures at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. [When they pointed out that] for example, al-Qaida spent $500,000 on the event, while America, in the incident and its aftermath, lost - according to the lowest estimate - more than $500 billion.

Meaning that every dollar of al-Qaida defeated a million dollars by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs.

As for the size of the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.

And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the mujahidin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan - with Allah's permission.

It is true that this shows that al-Qaida has gained, but on the other hand, it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something of which anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced. And it all shows that the real loser is ... you.



I suggest everyone reads the whole speech

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1964.cfm#down

As I read this six years later I find it haunting and every time I here about more millions and billions being spent for security or these wars, those words resonate within me, "bleed-until-bankrupt". Osama told us exactly what his intentions were and what his strategy was, and we've played right into his hands.

+ $1 Trillion Spent on the Iraq and Afghan wars [+a bunch of dead innocent people too] and what do we have to show for it.

It's like we can't spend enough ever on security?

Oh, has anyone taken the subway in Hong Kong or ridden a train in Germany. Man, those things are nice. Whereas here we have service cuts up the a$$. Man, would've been nice if we spent some of that $1 Trillion on the USA instead of bombs and sh-t.

Thank you.

Ok, I hear ya loud and clear. For a moment, imagine it were up to you. What would you have done differently?

It's depressing how right you are.

can an x-ray detect bad-ass knowledge of karate fighting?

that's right.

I read that a Saudi royal family member was nearly killed when a suicide bomber snuck in an explosive hidden in his rectum. These psychotic murderers will simply alter their strategy. Now that they know they wont be able to get away with hiding explosives under their clothes, they'll simply move to hiding them within their bodies. These scanners can't detect that.

i wanna start hiding funny shit in my pants now when i fly. i think first will just be a banana in my pocket.

Cucumber wrapped in foil?

I was subjected to one of these scans last month in Boston. Just reading about it beforehand, in the media, I didn't think it would be a big deal. However, the process left me feeling violated (even though I'm a guy), and the TSA agents seemed embarrassed, actually apologizing afterward.

First of all, I was not told I had the option of the pat-down, which from now on I will ask for. They just shuttled me into the machine and told me to put my hands over my head.

Then, after getting through, I hear over the radio, "Male?", and the guard confirmed, but then he uttered some cryptic code and came out of his photo booth, asking if I had a belt on. "Yes, I do." I was then treated to a full-body pat-down plus a rub down with some explosive-detecting sponge-on-a-stick.

I was never asked to remove my belt before entering this machine. I fly two or three times a week and NEVER take my belt off because it doesn't set off the detector.

This machine is a horrible idea. In my opinion, it helps make simple-minded people feel safe, but does virtually nothing that a determined terrorist couldn't work around. It's going to cost us millions of dollars in lost productivity due to how slow it is.

Like I said, next time I'm taking the pat-down, saving both myself and the TSA agent the indignity of a poorly-designed security measure.

also, im definitely going for the rub down.. mmm..

your point regarding the usefulness have been proven. i watched a video on its ineffectiveness a while ago..the company was giving a demo of the machine on TV, and it missed a bunch of stuff.

should have used this image instead...

http://www.desoren.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/total_recall_x-ray.jpg