I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Andy Asberry
wrote back on Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:27:07 GMT in
rec.crafts.metalworking :
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:53:39 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote:

I wonder why those charged with improving homeland security don't
employ professionals to advise them.

I say that tongue-in-cheek: professionals are not known for P.C.

We must work with the system we have, but I'm dismayed by the
incompentence.

The trigger here is the recent ban against a carryon BIC lighter.
Good grief! I suppose a BIC could be used as a weapon, but
prohibiting them doesn't present even a minor nuisance to a
professional.

AND you can still carry on book matches. It is a joke. How many metal
barrel ballpoint pens are run through the scanner? Ever wonder what's
inside?

A Navy Seal could walk on a plane naked and find a hundred things to
use as weapons.

"I am the weapon. The gun is just a tool."

tschus
pyotr


--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."