On Thursday 18 January 2007 14:34, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Where is Jose Padilla now? > >And what would airport screening be like if he tried to smuggle the >bomb in his underwear? Don't pull my trigger unless you expect to hear the report... Just as damned intrusive as it is since 9/11, his case has zilch to do with it. But, the last 4 times I've had to go work on a tv station that is 975 miles away by roads, I drove because airline & TSA regs now preclude my taking along enough tools, even as extra paid baggage, to do the job. I don't appreciate a 2 day drive when half a day of it is getting around Chicago, but I equally detest that the airplane flight is 3+ hours driving time in the wee hours of the morning just to get to the airport, and almost 18 hours to cover that same distance (4AM leave for the airport, get out of the plane in Iron Mountain at about 10PM), with mid-flight airplane changes & multi-hour layovers in Milwaukee, and no access to food or drink that is really suitable for diabetics during that time frame. And when I get there and rent a vehicle, its either a 2 door grand am that I can't fold up enough to get into, and have to dislocate my left knee to get back out of (I'm not kidding, the knee isn't so good anyway), or a jeep with 280k miles on it and a dead battery when I need 4WD to get that last mile. The jeep seats aren't that bad, but those in the grand am should be registered as lethal weapons, it takes me as long to learn how to walk after I get out of one of them as I spend in it getting there. As for Jose, I'm ambivalent, but to just drag it on till he dies of old age isn't justice either. They should "get to it". -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
