Finance News Latest Business Headlines. Business. Inside the marriage of Bill and Melinda Gates. A couple of days after the Christmas Day Pantybomber tried to light up his gusset on the approach to Detroit, I was at a small airport in Vermont shuffling through the line to what they call the sterile area. Anyway, I handed over my drivers licence and, as he had done with all the previous passengers, the Transportation Security Administration agent examined it. And examined it. And examined it some more. He had a loupe, one of those magnifying glasses jewellers use to examine diamonds for any surface blemishes or internal flaws. In this case, he was deploying it to examine how the ink lies on the paper. And when hed finished doing that he got out his UV light to study the watermark on my licence. Football Manager 2012 Ingame Editor. And, looking down at his bald patch as he went about his work with loving care, I was overcome by a sudden urge to point out that nobody had ever blown up a U. S. airliner with a fake drivers licence. Why bother going to all that trouble when a real one is so easy to get On Sept. ID issued by the state of Virginia and obtained through the illegal immigrant day workers network run out of the parking lot of the 7 Eleven in Falls Church. Almost two years earlier, Ahmed Ressam, the Millennium Bomber, had been arrested on the British Columbia Washington state border travelling on a genuine Canadian passport. Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne. In that instance, the terrorist had been stopped because the guard thought he seemed nervous when she looked him in the eye. But in Vermont the guy didnt look me or anybody else in the eye. He remained hunched over his loupes and licencesno doubt in part because if he looked me or any other regular air traveller in the eye all hed see staring back at him was an expression of total contempt at the pointless and stupid security. So they avoid looking at you, and instead peer through their magnifiers, and amble back and forth barking out the rules about how the three ounce containers of liquids and gels have to be placed in a one quart zip top clear plastic bag, and rummage through your carry on for more and more proscribed items. But they never look at you. Because theyre not looking for terrorists. Theyre looking for things, and an ever growing list of them. Oh, to be sure, you can still find the occasional nonagenarian spinster who thinks if theyre patting her down and making her unscrew her leg brace its a sign that theyre being extra super careful about security. Which, of course, theyre not. Every minute spent on the nonagenarian spinster is a minute not being spent on, say, a nervous 2. Muslim male whos a bit twitchy because his crotch is loaded with PETN. In the end, I forbore to mock the scrutiny of my drivers licence, as most of us do, lest the TSA stick us on the no fly list. Even by the standards of government make work bureaucracies, they dislike being questioned, and they seem to believe they have the power to pull you off the flight for lse majest. Vancouver_2010-Xbox_360Screenshots19008Giant_Slalom_4.jpg' alt='Crack Vancouver 2010 Pc' title='Crack Vancouver 2010 Pc' />A week after the Pantybomber, a man broke into the sterile area at Newark. When I say broke into, thats Homeland Security speak for strolled into, while crack TSA agent Ruben Hernandez had wandered away from his post and had his back turned. He wouldnt have noticed it, but a member of the public, whiling away an hour or three waiting for an arriving passenger, chanced to see it and brought it to the TSAs attention. They immediately swung into action and checked the surveillance cameras to get a good look at the man. Alas, the cameras werent recording. They required a reboot, and nobody at the TSA had got around to asking for one. Still, it looks nice and reassuring having all those cameras everywhere, doesnt itEven if theres nothing in them. Fortunately, Continental Airlines at Newark keep their own surveillance video. Unfortunately, the TSA didnt know the phone number to call or the procedures that had been agreed on for getting hold of the backup tape. So instead they locked down the airport, stopped all flights, pulled everyone off the plane, prevented them from getting food or drink or using the bathroom, and rescreened them all, causing massive inconvenience and loss of time and money. All because TSA model employee Ruben Hernandez turned his back. In the wake of the Newark incident, I received a number of emails from airport workers suggesting this sort of thing happens fairly regularly. For example, one correspondent tells me that at Detroits North Terminal last year some fellow sauntered into the secure area through the exit, bought some food from Village Pizza, and was halfway through eating it before the TSA caught up with him. Presumably the cameras were working that day. At Newark it took a little longer. Singularity-2010-Cd-Cover-45148.jpg' alt='Crack Vancouver 2010 Pc' title='Crack Vancouver 2010 Pc' />After six days, they finally found the security breachera man called Haisong Jiang, a 2. Rutgers grad student whod decided to give his sweetheart one last kiss. New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg is furious that Mr. Jiang may only get a fine and not serious jail time. It wasnt some prank that didnt do any harm, fumed the senator. It did a lot of harm because it sent out an alert that people can get away with something like this. Er, yes. But isnt that the problem you should be focusing onThat people can get away with something like this, because the model employee turns his back, and your security tape isnt running, and you dont have the phone number for the backup. But for a while theyll be more careful. So the lines will move slower, and get longer. If youre at a busy airport on a Friday afternoon, two thoughts occur First, this is costing a ton of money. Not just model employees as far as the eye can see, and the new full body scanners that show you what all the Islamobabes look like underneath the burka for 2. But the money and energy drained out of the real economy by all those people whod be doing something more productive if they werent spending so many hours standing around waiting to do the shoeless shuffle. 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First Amendment either. The justification was a familiar onethat in return for surrendering liberty, the state will ensure you are safe. And so on 91. 1 three out of the four planes followed all the 1. Because in the end the state wasnt up there with them. It was the same on Christmas Day. This time it was the post 91. Were told that Mr. Microsoft Office 2010 Included Keygen Music more. Abdulmutallab wasnt on the no fly list per setheres only about 4,0. Whatever. Had he chosen to light up his panties in the bathroom instead of waiting till he got back to his seat, everyone would be dead. Question what do the 91. Shoebomber, the Heathrow plotters, the Pantybomber, the London Tube bombers, the doctors who drove a flaming SUV through the concourse of Glasgow Airport and the would be killers of Danish cartoonists all have in common Answer theyre Muslim.