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		<title>Big Pax on AA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a pretty big guy, not fat, but very tall and broad shouldered and the little airline seats suck for me, and more so for the person next to me&#8230;but this is fricking ridiclous!
http://www.flightglobal.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/73953
 
This is just crazy.  How can this be safe?  How did he even get on the plane with only one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a pretty big guy, not fat, but very tall and broad shouldered and the little airline seats suck for me, and more so for the person next to me&#8230;but this is fricking ridiclous!</p>
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<p>This is just crazy.  How can this be safe?  How did he even get on the plane with only one seat and not three?  I know AA is retarded, hence the reason I do not fly them anymore, but dear God, someone do something!</p>
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		<title>TSA&#8230;..Thousands Standing Around</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone that travels these days knows the TSA is a huge joke.  The rules constantly change, even from screener to screener.  Sometimes I take my DVD player out, other times I dont.  Sometimes my cane gets passed through several times, other times it is ok to go with me through the metal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone that travels these days knows the TSA is a huge joke.  The rules constantly change, even from screener to screener.  Sometimes I take my DVD player out, other times I dont.  Sometimes my cane gets passed through several times, other times it is ok to go with me through the metal detector.  The sooner we replace the TSA with either trained chimps or <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28Terminator%29" target="_blank">Skynet</a> , the better.  To illustrate my point, here is a thread from <a target="_blank" href="http://flyertalk.com" target="_blank">FlyerTalk</a> :</p>
<p>So it just took me 35 minutes &#8216;to case clear security  to get to my vegas flight. And I was the only one in line!</p>
<p>DFW A terminal</p>
<p>Tsa: id please<br />
Me: that is my id &#8216;pointing to my PASSPORT<br />
Tsa: sir where are going?<br />
Me: las vegas<br />
Tsa: last time I checked a map, las vegas is in the US!<br />
Me: and?<br />
Tsa: well then you don&#8217;t need a passport to go there<br />
Me: and?<br />
Tsa: so your passport is not valid id for this trip<br />
Me: excuse me?<br />
Tsa: yes I need a government issued id<br />
Me: my passport is government issued, its issued by the government of the netherlands, would you like me to show you where that is on a map?<br />
Tsa: that government is not recognized by the tsa. And I know that the netherlands is in norway. So I need to see a drivers license.<br />
Me: the government of the netherlands is not recognized by the tsa? That&#8217;s dissappointing, im sure my queen will be absolutely distraught to hear that an id checker at the dfw airport is not recognizing her as a legitimate government. Its a good thing though that the tsa doesn&#8217;t set foreign policy, and that that&#8217;s left to the state department. Have you informed condileeza rice that the tsa is now deciding what governments will be recognized by the us government? Are you guys the jokers that decided to regonize kosovo as an independent state?<br />
Tsa: condeleeza who?<br />
Me: So my passport really isn&#8217;t  going to work? And you need to see a drivers license?<br />
Tsa: yes<br />
Me: well here&#8217;s the problem &#8216; I hand him my dutch drivers license &#8216; see this is also issued by that government that you don&#8217;t recognize.<br />
Tsa: hmmm&#8230;. Don&#8217;t you have anything that&#8217;s issued by the government in the us?<br />
Me: I have my greencard but the problem is, like you said las vegas is in the us, according to the map you just checked, the same one that told you the netherlands is in norway. So since I don&#8217;t need a greencard to travel to las vegas, my greencard won&#8217;t work either even though it was issued by the dept of homeland security, the same part of the us government that the tsa is a part of.<br />
Tsa: yes that&#8217;s true. Ok so you don&#8217;t have any valid id for travel in the US?<br />
Me: apparently not, since my passport and drivers license is not recognized by the tsa and my greencard is not valid for travel within ths us.<br />
Tsa: ok well you can travel without id, you&#8217;ll  just need to go through additional screening.<br />
Me: great<br />
Tsa: I need a male assist.</p>
<p>Ten minutes later</p>
<p>tsa2: hi sir<br />
Me: hi<br />
tsa2: im going to go through your bags and then wand you, is that ok?<br />
Me: sure<br />
tsa2: sir what&#8217;s this? &#8216;pointing to my passport&#8217;<br />
Me: that&#8217;s my passport<br />
tsa2: but you told the id screener that you don&#8217;t have id<br />
Me: that&#8217;s right<br />
tsa2: so you lied to him<br />
Me: no<br />
tsa2: no?<br />
Me: according to his requirements I did not have id that met his requirements for travel.<br />
tsa2: huh?<br />
Me: since im going to vegas, apparently my passport is not valid for traveling there, because accoridng to his map las vegas is in the us and since its in the us and I don&#8217;t need a passport to travel there, my passport is not valid for travel.<br />
tsa2: huh?<br />
Me: exactly<br />
tsa2: ok?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no place like home, there&#8217;s no place like home&#8230;&#8230; Toto I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re in Holland anymore.</p>
<p>One less moron on our countdown to everyone in the US&#8230;..</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=800023" target="_blank">[Original Thread]</a></p>
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		<title>Pilots CAN&#8217;T Drive after all</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite claims made recently in the news, pilots, at least those working for South African Airlines are NOT safer/better drivers.  This guy has problems driving his 737.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite claims made recently in the news, pilots, at least those working for South African Airlines are NOT safer/better drivers.  This guy has problems driving his 737.</p>
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		<title>Another Terrorist Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no surprise that our response to the situation is to take away toothpaste and shampoo.  Business travelers now have to check their bag verses carrying it on.  This will create more work for baggage handlers and there will be delays.  People have to allow more time for travel.  Anything that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that our response to the situation is to take away toothpaste and shampoo.  Business travelers now have to check their bag verses carrying it on.  This will create more work for baggage handlers and there will be delays.  People have to allow more time for travel.  Anything that slows us down and takes away our mobility is not going to be good for the economy.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my proposal for lifting all &#8220;security&#8221; restrictions and allowing shampoo on the plane again:<br />
You load police up with bulletproof vests, machine guns, knives, mace, side arms, and whatever else they might need to take someone down at the airport.  Then the &#8220;evil doers&#8221; would see that we&#8217;re finished messing around and we&#8217;re just going to eliminate them instead of eliminating our own freedoms.</p>
<p>Blow &#8216;em up!  Ask questions later.</p>
<p>YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWW!</p>
<p>*shoots her pistols in the air*</p>
<p>[Ryan] Then of course we would be like Germany or the UK.  Oh no!</p>
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		<title>Airbus A350 vs. Boeing 787</title>
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		<dc:creator>ryan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Word of the Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jessica</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hebetude\\HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood\\nounMental dullness or sluggishness. 
While too many Americans slouch toward a terminal funk of hebetude and sloth, Bendians race ahead with toned muscles, wide eyes and brains perpetually wired on adrenaline. &#8211;\&#8221;Wild rides in the heart of central Oregon: Bent out of shape in Bend,\&#8221; Washington Times, August 11, 2001
Earlier on, when we merely [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hebetude<br />\\HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood\\<br />noun<br />Mental dullness or sluggishness. </p>
<p>While too many Americans slouch toward a terminal funk of hebetude and sloth, Bendians race ahead with toned muscles, wide eyes and brains perpetually wired on adrenaline. <br />&#8211;\&#8221;Wild rides in the heart of central Oregon: Bent out of shape in Bend,\&#8221; <a target="_blank" href=http://www.washingtontimes.com/>Washington Times</a>, August 11, 2001</p>
<p>Earlier on, when we merely democratized fame, we defended the right of any mouth-breather to rise from deserved obscurity on the strength of his God-given hebetude. <br />&#8211;Florence King, \&#8221;The misanthrope\&#8217;s corner,\&#8221; <a target="_blank" href=http://www.nationalreview.com/>National Review</a>, May 18, 1998</p>
<p>From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in hebetude. <br />&#8211;Joseph Conrad, <a target="_blank" href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014018371X/ref%3Dnosim/lexico/104-7143018-4503110>Nostromo</a></p>
<p><i> Courtesy of <a target="_blank" href=http://dictionary.reference.com/>Dictionary.com</a></i></p>
<p>This word came up during a computer training class at work I endured today.  It wasn\&#8217;t too horrible, but I must say I was quite concerned when the class started out with, \&#8221;This is your desktop.  These pictures are icons.  This is the start menu.  This is how you turn off your computer.\&#8221;  I\&#8217;m sorry but if you don\&#8217;t already know these things, you don\&#8217;t need to be working here.</p>
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