Monthly Archives: January 2010

Healthcare Debacle

President Obama bet the farm on health care reform, then did nearly nothing to help its passage, and got what  he deserved.  Of course, we deserve better.  We deserved a decent health care bill in the Senate that wasn’t held … Continue reading

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AND Yet Again! This time in Munich

The Washington Post reports that German police evacuated a Munich terminal because a guy’s PC set off a bomb detector.  At least in this case, there was at least some indication of a threat, but as we’ve seen no bomb … Continue reading

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Washington Post: The FBI broke the law

And all in the name of terrorism.  According to the Post, agents made up non-existent terrorist threats and emergencies in order to gain access to information that should have remained private.  While the crimes didn’t rise to the level of … Continue reading

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Can America use Israel’s Security model?

So now I’ve ranted about just how awful the TSA is.  A friend says that we should throw them away and start doing airport security the way the Israelis do it.  CNN recently carried an interview with Isaac Yeffet, the … Continue reading

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It happened again! TSA Risks lives at JFK!

If there’s one thing that I can’t stand, it’s people who don’t learn from their mistakes, and here once again, the TSA has failed to learn.  Once again they evacuated a terminal, took many people and crammed them into small … Continue reading

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