TSA Follies

OMG. Unbelievable.

Does not one who enlists in the military demonstrate his disregard for
his own life and those whom he intends to kill?

Probably not. These are young kids who enlist for a variety of reasons
other than out of disregard for life. Most of them have no better place
to be. Being young, they don't even think of dying or killing when they
enlist. If they do think about it later they figure it won't happen to
them. Isn't that a typical attitude for teenagers? Plus they can hope
that they are not assigned to combat units. Plus they are naive about
how bad it really can be when you get shot. etc.

Larry Dighera wrote:


Does not one who enlists in the military demonstrate his disregard for
his own life and those whom he intends to kill?

RomeoMike wrote:
Probably not. These are young kids who enlist for a variety of reasons
other than out of disregard for life. Most of them have no better
place to be. Being young, they don't even think of dying or killing
when they enlist. If they do think about it later they figure it
won't happen to them. Isn't that a typical attitude for teenagers?
Plus they can hope that they are not assigned to combat units. Plus
they are naive about how bad it really can be when you get shot. etc.


You hit the nail on the head (too bad it wasn't some other head, but I
digress!!! I for one enlisted because in flatlands Nebraska in the late
50's there wasn't much to offer a high school dropout (or dropin!). Thanks
to the US Navy I ended up with an excellent start for a lifelong career in
electronics, saw much of the world, was aboard the USS Kearsarge when we
picked up astronauts Shirra & Cooper in the south Pacific (62/63), luckily
exited just before Viet Nam totally went nuts, and had vets benefits for
college and PPL. Didn't get shot at (at hit!) until being mugged in Kansas
City 10 years later...........

Cheers'n Beers... [_])
Don

Larry Dighera wrote:

Does not one who enlists in the military demonstrate his disregard for
his own life and those whom he intends to kill?


Well, that depends. Someone volunteering for camp guard duty in the
Nazi military might fit that description. And I suppose that in our
own history, one could find some times when it might at least be
tantalizingly close.

But in general, no.
Military members train hard to stay alive, protect each other, and at
least in some cases accomplish their mission with as little loss of
life as possible--including the lives of their opponents.

I'd say more, but there are other newsgroups that have the
political/war discussions way off topic. I'd just as soon not see this
one go there as well.

So, anyone want to ask me about my flight to Texas?

In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

This is one of the most crass, ignorant and unbelieveably stupid comments I
think I've ever read here.

You left out the adjective 'truthful.'

Does not one who enlists in the military demonstrate his disregard for
his own life and those whom he intends to kill?

Or it shows a high regards for others, even to be willling to
make the ultimate sacrfice to protect the life and freedom
of others.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:18:08 -0500, Bob Noel
wrote in
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Does not one who enlists in the military demonstrate his disregard for
his own life and those whom he intends to kill?

Or it shows a high regards for others, even to be willling to
make the ultimate sacrfice to protect the life and freedom
of others.

Those two notions are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Larry Dighera writes:

The TSA is the tangible embodiment of two-digit IQs in charge of our
safety. Apparently anyone with a higher intelligence quotient does
not choose security or law enforcement as an occupation.

Actually, LEOs overall have a slightly higher than average IQ. The
same is not true for security guards (including TSA types), however.

The main problem with both security guards and LEOs is that these
professions tend to strongly attract control freaks, which is exactly
the type of personality that should be excluded from this type of
work. The people who are the best qualified often never bother to
apply.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:41:35 GMT, john smith wrote in
:

Transportation Security
Administration officers confiscated the pies from passengers and
distributed them to troops traveling during the holiday weekend.

If the pies were considered too dangerous to bring aboard airline
flights, how could it have been safe to distribute the pies to our armed
forces?

The armed forces have publicly demonstrated their disregard for human
life, even there own.



WHA HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!! A riot.

Seems the military is finally getting more of the pie.

john smith wrote:

During the Thanksgiving weekend travel rush, airline passengers were
forbidden to carry pies in their hand luggage. Transportation Security
Administration officers confiscated the pies from passengers and
distributed them to troops traveling during the holiday weekend.

Just because the pie filling could be explosive doesn't mean it's harmful to
ingest.

It is only harmful on airplanes. Most especially if the ingester attempts to
cover her scent with a match.

john smith wrote in news:3pCdh.3552$Ye5.1611
@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:

The following Letter to the Editor appeared in the Sunday, December 3,
2006 COLUMBUS DISPATCH. It relates to procedures at the Port Columbus
International Airport in Columbus Ohio (KCMH)

Agency doesn’t make air travelers feel safer
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