making flying safer

[MAC]

yes, TSA has finally gotten around to addressing the issue of powered flight's age old enemy: fire

there answer?

butane lighters banned (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050301/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/lighters_planes_1)

now granted I see the wisdom in this (not really but lets not argue that point) and I don't need a lighter to get on a plane and go somewhere but let me ask you a question

Why don't I just wear my fucking gov't issued plain grey jumpsuit to the airport? Then they can march me into security, scan my fucking retina and make me put on a NEW plain grey gov't issued jumpsuit with my flight number printed on front & back in 3" high flourescent yellow numbers?

That makes more fucking sense then letting me blow my money at wal-mart on the chinese made clothes they allow me to choose from as though that I had a goddamn choice right? And that way they could tak emor ein taxes ot help thos eless fortunate individuals who simply cannot seem to ever make their own way unassisted. Isn't it odd that those poorest of the poor people who need the most help are the only ones you DON'T hear about being targeted by terrorists?

I wonder why that is?
Maybe it's because there's no fucking money to be made off of them by the gov't who claims to protect them and there's no hatred for ppl who fail to set there own standard in fundamentalist cultures.

Want proof of that statement? Go to any church and tell them that you've decided that you knwo what right & wrong are and that you've spoken to God personally about what you'll be doing in eternity after you die. Go ahead. Let me know how that turns out.

Yes, terrorists love the poor and they will use our billion dollar a year disposable cigarette lighter industry against the rich!
"The disposable cigarette lighter" there's an oxymoron
I think they should have named it the "easily lost cigarette lighter" because that's what happens to them. They disappear like frodo putting on the one ring and you turn into Gollum looking for a way to light your "precious" cigarette.

I guess you won't be going outside to smoke cigarettes at the airport anymore or if you do you'd better smoke the whole fucking pack with a book of matches and then eat the evidence. At least it's low in carbs. Dr Atkins would approve.

as long as your not taking things to the airport here's a few more things to leave at home
1) your attitude - everyone had to drive to the airport an dpay to park too. they all had to deal with the damned security and they all have to wait on their flight. lighten up.
2) your scent - take a bath, take a shower, but do NOT take a bath or a shower in your cologne. wreaking is wreaking and this hippy concept of covering up foul smells with good smells STINKS!
3) your life's story! - I am sit right next to you. You are on your cell phone, and for the 45 minutes we wait on this plane you tell some invisible person about everything that happened to you in your entire life with increasing detail as you approach your current life-situation because, apparently, dinner last night is more fucking interesting than winning the highschool science fair 12 years ago.

now that we've cleared that up, I think I'll go buy a 12 pack of bic lighters and mail them to everywhere I might fly in the next year.

[Barbie]

But Mac, "By creating policy to add lighters to the Prohibited Items List we are closing a potential vulnerability in air travel security," said Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Rear Adm. David M. Stone.

/sarcasm

[SatansLeftHand]

well, you CAN make a decent little bootleg frag grenade out of 'em.

[MAC]

or you can also light your cancer-causing addiction stick

or burn up all the conceivably-recyclable paper products which we still level every stand of trees in my neighborhood to make

or light your crack pipe!

Yes, there are plenty of other problems associated with the disposable butane lighter! I'm glad some gov't entity has finally drawn the line between lighters and the moral decrepidation of this country

*MAC waits for Jesus to light a candle to remember the 3000+ victims of 9-11*

I suppose you could argue that lighters are a part of america's rich and varied cultural heritage and every landowning, white, male american has a God given right to possess them. But you'd be a nut if you did.


So, as long as no one is telling me I can't own pocket knives, pen knives, box cutters, razor blades, scissors, toenail clippers, tweezers, safety pins, knitting needles, metal fountain pens, side cutters, cigar cutters, clippers & punches, tiny novelty key chain samuri swords, or any other piece of thin angular metal with sharp edges or a point I'll be happy to make sure that I don't take any of those things anywhere that they might make the other 300,000,000 american citizens unsafe!

because they have rights too! (and they can sue me)

I figure that if millions of school kids can carry clear back packs then I can leave everything sharper or hotter than a quarter at home when I travel

considering the role fire has played in human evolution, somewhere a caveman is rolling over in his fossilized grave