El Paso Airport, along with other cities, now has body scanners to check us out before we board our planes - a little extra radiation to add to our "well-being". Do I hear any howls out there from the public that was so worried about government in the health care business? They screamed bloody murder when debates waged on health care reform; implying we could not trust the government to run a health program.
So - now we can trust the government? The TSA makes pronouncements on how little radiation is emitted - (from the TSA medical school? TSA Graduate School of Physics?) And the TSA is monitoring these scanners? Just how much radiation are they giving off - how well calibrated are they, etc. Heaven help us.
Sure, we're bombarded with radiation all the time and even more so when we fly at high altitudes. What's the tipping point? Who decides that something is harmless now? Ten years down the road when illness due to that extra "tiny" bit of radiation strikes - will the TSA say oops?
Oh yes - check out financial/consulting interest in scanning equipment company - a client of former Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff. It's that good old axiom again: follow the money.
I'll give TSA a cheap thrill and let them pat me down, thank you.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
Texas Republicans - are they for real?
Just saw bits of the 2010 State Republican Party Platform of Texas and cringed. A follow-up to the Texas School Board's selection of school textbooks for the next ten years?
Samples of their ideology: "urge Congress to withhold Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving religious freedom, abortion and the Bill of Rights", homosexuality "tears at the fabric of our society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit and leads to the spread of dangerous communicable diseases"
Spread of diseases doesn't happen with heterosexuals? Breakdown of family unit? No divorces, broken marriages in this country? No jurisdiction for religious freedom cases? Yeah - Mel Gibson should like that one.
What planet are these guys living on?
Watch out world - things like this were promulgated by the well-known Austrian painter with a mustache in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Always starts with a few crazies and it grows if it isn't stopped early on.
Samples of their ideology: "urge Congress to withhold Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving religious freedom, abortion and the Bill of Rights", homosexuality "tears at the fabric of our society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit and leads to the spread of dangerous communicable diseases"
Spread of diseases doesn't happen with heterosexuals? Breakdown of family unit? No divorces, broken marriages in this country? No jurisdiction for religious freedom cases? Yeah - Mel Gibson should like that one.
What planet are these guys living on?
Watch out world - things like this were promulgated by the well-known Austrian painter with a mustache in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Always starts with a few crazies and it grows if it isn't stopped early on.
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