Comments on: TSA To Lift Ban On Most Lighters On Planes

Security Chief Says Taking Lighters Away From Passengers Was "Security Theater"

[fake-id-2009]

Well, I'm sure right about now every liberal out there is tryin his dangdest to type in, "I bet George Bush is going to sell his Bic lighter stock now." Posted by speakinup at 04:30 PM : Jul 20, 2007
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dis librl caint tipe berry wel butt i new som assshole outt derr wood maik itda librl ting soonerorlader.

whodaphuck is jorge boosh n whaddaphuck be a bic liter?

[feelfree1]

Related:

"WASHINGTON, July 20 (RIA Novosti) - A former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a year."

"Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country."

"Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: "When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order], there's no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule."

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070720/69340886.html

[toolmangler-2009]

WISH a law could be passed for safer gear (aside from just helmets) would be passed... I ride and can't help but cringe when I see someone with a helmet, tank top, shorts and flip-flops riding a motorcycle. Your head is not the only thing that needs protecting!
Posted by sykosam at 03:11 PM : Jul 20, 2007


I am against helmet laws but I also think you are stupid (ill_advised) If you do not wear a helmet when riding, I do and I've been riding motorcycles since 1952. I don't believe the insurance industry should make my premiums go up to cover non helmeted injuries. Just don't pay them. Do not reward stupidity. I wore helmets long before they were manditory and they saved my head several times.

[speakinup]

Well, I'm sure right about now every liberal out there is tryin his dangdest to type in, "I bet George Bush is going to sell his Bic lighter stock now."

Thought I'd throw one in for the gimper - ya'll are beginnin to sound like you need it. Yup, one and a half years. Hope ya'll make it.

[tropikbreze]

They didn't do a very good job chasing lighters- I forgot I had one in my purse flying out of LA and they did not see it through the x-ray...

[bospip]

* Correction *

I meant to say I agree with macusweil "Tell me how allowing fire on a plane makes us safer?"
By letting security staff focus on real threats to safety instead of chasing Bic lighters and babys with sippy cups.

Not tropikbreze...

[bospip]

You've got to be kidding me!! Are they for real or what? Yet another fine example inviting MORE danger our way. There is no such word as "safe" anymore. It's a joke and these morons making these decisions should be ashamed of themselves.

This is beyond ridiculous and I agree with tropikbreze and mojopo1 "What a stupid thing to do. Next, they're going to lift the ban on steak knives or boxcutters (the very tools used 9/11) on planes.....then maybe they'll lift the ban on handguns (only rifles would be aloud). IDIOTS!!"

*PERFECTLY SAID MOJO!!!

A few years go by and there they go FORGETTING what happened!!

Oh yeah, this makes me feel much safer. Complete stupidity!

[speakinup]

Guess FeelFree1 would know, he got birthed from it. I wanna know how it's possible to type when your mama has you handcuffed to eight other people. Oh, you are mama.

[grammawhamma]

Security screeners now collect an average of 22,000 lighters a day, and it costs about $4 million a year to dispose of them, the Times reported.

I'm not a smoker, but why didn't they just leave them in a box for people to take when they had arrived at their destination.

Silly government thinking.
Posted by sandy19731 at 01:58 PM : Jul 20, 2007

Perfect solution Sandy!! Will you run for president?? At least someone still has common sense.

[djberson]

Great, now put the ashtrays back into the armrests and we're in business!