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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Are you suggesting that the new restrictions this week on carrying beverages on board were an empty gesture?
I'm having a hard time following you. Yesterday you agreed that DHS is incompetent, but you said that was OK because the GOP doesn't tax you and you can drink three scotches before flights. Today you think DHS is the best thing since sliced bread.
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No. When the problem rears its head, deal with it. But its not realistic to ban everything that can be made a weapon. Taken to its logical conclusion, under your reasoning, we'd have to fly naked. There is a certain amount of risk in anything. You're using an unrealistic standard to try to make our govt's efforts look bad. Suppose we discover bombs can be fashioned from cotton due to some Islamist chemist's brilliant discovery of some ion that turns the fiber to an explosive. Given that info, whould we then bar cotton clothing on planes?
I don't think its the best thing since sliced bread at all. Like I said yesterday, I recognize the govt can only protect us so far. Like I said yesterday, I don't expect it to be my guardian angel, as so may of your Democrats do. Life's terminal, Ty. Uncle Sam cannot save you all the time.
But fuck all that. You understand the govt's limitations. You'll attack our GOP admin right now on anything - even if it forces you to hold it to absurd standards - because you'd rather chew shale than give up an opportunity to take shots at it, or worse, concede its doing an ok job on some fronts.
I know what you're doing, and its pretty toolish. Just drop this one. You're beginning to look like me arguing with Fringey about ERISA.
