Flying isn't fun anymore

CONTINENTAL AIRLINES STIKES AGAIN!!! Fuck that airline…and fuck United. They cancelled my flight to Buffalo from Chicago, yet had flights to cities in Ohio and Rochester, NY which is just an hour away. So airlines to avoid: Continental, United, and Air Tran. Cities to avoid connections: Chicago (O’Hare) and Atlanta. In other flyin news, it appears that the Arabs are off the “people you should be afraid to fly with list” and it’s back to the niggas again. More specifically, the Africans. Even more specific, the Nigerians. Even more very specific, those radical Muslims. I mean, I don’t understand how settin yourself on fire is supposed to bring down a plane…makes me wonder if this was a real attack. You know how the government likes to use fear to get their agenda pushed. I mean in light of the kid getting on the plane with “explosives” in his pants, the TSA is now going to install those full body scanners at various airports. Remember when they were first proposed but there was a lot of push back because of privacy issues? I bet nobody cares about someone seein their tits now…I mean the kid didn’t even get onto the flight in America so what good would the scanners have been? I think it was all a clever ploy. When you can’t force something down someone’s throat, you coax it down...just ask Mark Zuckerberg about stripping privacy while telling the users you’ve increased security. It all started back in August when Hilary Clinton was in Nigeria talkin about al Qaeda may set up shop in Nigeria and 4 months later – BAM! A Nigerian terrorist. I’ll be watchin as this story continues to unfold because it’s gonna be bad news. Whether for Americans or Nigerians (or both) we have yet to see.

Nude at the airport

All I know is that, I’m totally against it. Because if they got a woman working back in the imaging room, she gonna come to the front and pat me down herself. Start grabbin my junk talkin bout it’s a concealed weapon and it needs to be unconcealed. I looked at the arguments and both sides have some valid points. The privacy side says this is a total invasion of privacy and to some it’s even more than just appearing nude on a screen. For some it just boils down to a privacy issue and the “stripping” of our rights. Others worry about selling the scans of celebrities to places like TMZ and what not. The flip side of the coin says if it means better security then they are all for it. For me, if it means not havin to check in luggage with liquids then I’m all for it. I get so annoyed when I have to check in 2 days worth of clothes because I have to bring my toiletries with me (the stuff I use doesn’t come in a travel size and until they make a hotel that caters to minorities, I won’t expect them at the hotels I stay at). An argument that was made by Bruce Schneier, an internationally recognized security technologist, is that while the full body scan works well it would have been better to put the money towards fighting terrorist. That I can’t argue with at all. Wait, who am I kiddin? Of course I can argue against it. While I do wish the government was doin a better job with the terrorist, it’s impossible to expect terrorism to be extinguished forever. You just can’t destroy ideals. You can’t just say, we are gonna put an end to Christians and Christianity. You can kill a whole lot of them, but there will still be the rebels who will think this is a test from God and will try their hardest to make their God proud. That’s the mind state of these terrorist. The only thing we can do is learn to live with them. And that includes full body image scanners. Welcome to the world today. One thing I loved about the comments on the article was how everyone was quoting Ben Franklin. The actual quote wasn’t important but knowin Benny, you know it had somethin to do with privacy and freedom. Freedom. Comin from the man who owned slaves. SMH.