The Zombieslayer

I’ve hated the TSA since their existence.  Considering we really need budget cuts, let’s eliminate this agency completely.  Biggest waste of money, especially considering that EVERY terrorist act since 9/11 aboard American planes was diverted by PASSENGERS, not the useless TSA.

They don’t protect you, folks.  All they do is make air travel more time consuming and more annoying.

This is a guy who stood up to the TSA:

This morning, I tried to fly out of San Diego International Airport but was refused by the TSA. I had been somewhat prepared for this eventuality. I have been reading about the millimeter wave and backscatter x-ray machines and the possible harm to health as well as the vivid pictures they create of people’s naked bodies. Not wanting to go through them, I had done my  research on the TSA’s website prior to traveling to see if SAN had them. From all indications, they did not. When I arrived at the security line, I found that the TSA’s website was out of date. SAN does in fact utilize backscatter x-ray machines.

I made my way through the line toward the first line of “defense”: the TSA ID checker. This agent looked over my boarding pass, looked over my ID, looked at me and then back at my ID. After that, he waved me through. SAN is still operating metal detectors, so I walked over to one of the lines for them. After removing my shoes and making my way toward the metal detector, the person in front of me in line was pulled out to go through the backscatter machine. After asking what it was and being told, he opted out. This left the machine free, and before I could go through the metal detector, I was pulled out of line to go through the backscatter machine. When asked, I half-chuckled and said, “I don’t think so.” At this point, I was informed that I would be subject to a pat down, and I waited for another agent.

A male agent (it was a female who had directed me to the backscatter machine in the first place), came and waited for me to get my bags and then directed me over to the far corner of the area for screening. After setting my things on a table, he turned to me and began to explain that he was going to do a “standard” pat down. (I thought to myself, “great, not one of those gropings like I’ve been reading about”.) After he described, the pat down, I realized that he intended to touch my groin. After he finished his description but before he started the pat down, I looked him straight in the eye and said, “if you touch my junk, I’ll have you arrested.” He, a bit taken aback, informed me that he would have to involve his supervisor because of my comment.

We both stood there for no more than probably two minutes before a female TSA agent (apparently, the supervisor) arrived. She described to me that because I had opted out of the backscatter screening, I would now be patted down, and that involved running hands up the inside of my legs until they felt my groin. I stated that I would not allow myself to be subject to a molestation as a condition of getting on my flight. The supervisor informed me that it was a standard administrative security check and that they were authorized to do it. I repeated that I felt what they were doing was a sexual assault, and that if they were anyone but the government, the act would be illegal. I believe that I was then informed that if I did not submit to the inspection, I would not be getting on my flight. I again stated that I thought the search was illegal. I told her that I would be willing to submit to a walk through the metal detector as over 80% of the rest of the people were doing, but I would not be groped. The supervisor, then offered to go get her supervisor.

Read the rest here

Now if this doesn’t bother you, I just don’t know what to say:

Today I’m going to have a guest author.  I may or may not agree with this person.  I think after reading my blog long enough you know where I stand on party lines.  However, I’m getting sick of hearing my own voice so I’m going to start featuring guest writers.  This is Geopax.

Never in the history of our nation has our congress paid less attention to Americans and more to wealthy corporations. The fact that the Republican party rejects legislation that would prohibit government subsidies to corporations who ship our jobs overseas, should make it clear to us who they represent - the multi-national corporations who have bought them, not the American people. Before you pull the voting lever you need to think what party has tried to halt these subsidies and what party stood on the side of the multi-national corporations against the American workers. If you think Obama and the Democrats need to be replaced, you need to look what the Republicans are doing to you. They are destroying the American middle class by shipping our manufacturing and our wealth to Asia. This is not the Grand Old Party of Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. This is the new pseudo-conservation party that is causing America’s decline. This is the party of fools like McCain and bimbos like Palin.

…it’s because of overcrowding.  The population has grown too fast.  Weird to see someone agrees with me.  This guy has a different analogy:

Too Much Traffic—Too Many People?

The best analogy I’ve found is traffic.

Read the rest of his article here.

Do you want to hear something stupid? People use athletes as role models.

That, is stupid.  Do you know what professional athletes are? They are people who can run faster, throw a ball faster, or catch better than you can.  They’re not any smarter.  They’re not better people.  They are, simply, athletes.

They’re also more often than not stupid.  Looking up to athletes, is, well, stupid.

I follow sports.  I take them with a grain of salt.  I would rather not know them in real life because I know I’d be disappointed.

Alternatives?

Yeah, how about finding someone who makes a difference in the world.  Like that lady who tried to wage an international campaign to ban land mines.  Or someone who invented something cool. Or that Chinese guy who just won the Nobel Peace Prize while in jail.

You wonder why people outside of America think Americans are so stupid? It’s because we’re so obsessed with moronic things like American Idol and Jersey Shore (which I’m proud to say, I’ve never watched either), and sports yet we can’t name the 7 continents.

The Gods gave us brains.  Let’s use them for something productive.

…and that’s a good thing.

Now that I got your attention, why the double standard when it comes to sex? You will see the exact same parents be proud of their son being sexually active while denying their daughter has any sexuality whatsoever. Yes, that’s bad for the girls. But it’s also bad for the boys. The girl will start off with a dysfunctional sex life. Nice going, parents.

Boys and girls think about sex. All the time. So do adults. So do old people. So does that receptionist who’s bored out of her mind, that balding guy in his 40s, that homeless guy asking for spare change, and that kind lady in the wheelchair. So do retarded people, people who like to fish, and the guy who’s fixing your bike. Denying people their sexuality is just plain stupid.

Which of course brings me to censorship. For those of you who have read my blog for years, you know that it was Tipper Gore who originally got me into politics. No, not in a good way. I fucking hated her holier than thou ass. I remember her speeches on Dungeons and Dragons being “a pathway to Satanism,” the urban legends about the kids getting killed because they took Dungeons and Dragons too seriously, her trying to ban such songs as Cyndi Lauper’s “She Bop.”

Yes, “She Bop.” It’s about female masturbation and we all know that the entire Gore family NEVER masturbated because they don’t do such evil things like that. Yeah, whatever. Fuck you Tipper Gore and that white horse you rode in on. Note that of Tipper’s filthy fifteen list, 2 of them were about female masturbation. Another of the 15 was Sheena Easton’s “Sugar Walls” which is a song about female arousal. No wonder we have a generation of kids screwed up about sexuality. Anyone who claims to be a feminist who supported Tipper Gore, do the world a favor and shoot yourself in the head right now. Thanks.

I’ve always wondered why it took Al so long to get divorced. You waited long enough. Now I find it funny that the guy who claimed to have invented the internet can’t find out where to get happy endings.

Movie ratings

America is ass backwards when it comes to sex not only in music censorship but in movie ratings. I remember when my son was a kid, we rented the movie “Mission to Mars” which was rated PG. No, not PG-13, but straight up PG. So thinking it was safe, we watched the movie together. He was excited to see it and said how he wanted to be an astronaut.

Well, the movie had several graphically violent deaths, including one guy spinning around so fast that he blew up into a mass of blood. Yes, in a PG movie.

After the movie was over, my son said “I don’t want to be an astronaut.” Nice going, movie rating dickheads.

I also remember that Indiana Jones 3 movie where the Arab guy got his head cut off and his head rolls by Indiana Jones. Did that movie get an R rating? Of course not. Then again, we all know Hollywood hates Arabs so I’m not surprised.

If Indiana Jones 3 had a pair of bare breasts though, it would have gotten an R rating. Moral - nudity bad, graphic violence ok as long as it’s not too much.

The thing is, breasts aren’t even sexual organs. Well, besides tittie fucking but come on, that’s only common in porn. (Tip to Al Gore - if you ever read the internet that you claimed to invent, you ask if they speak Swedish).