“Touch my children and I would eat your hands off your frikkin’ arms,” actor rages in response to train station grope-down of 9-year-old boy

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I had to laugh at this.

Actor Charlie Sheen unleashed on the TSA during a wild radio interview on The Alex Jones Show today, raging that he would eat the hands of any TSA worker who tried to touch his children, in response to the story that TSA agents harassed travelers and groped children in Savannah train station earlier this month after the passengers had left the train.

Fergi From Black Eyed Peas Gets Body Scan and Best Comment Ever

I normally do not report much on celebrity stories. From time to time I will, if I feel that it's a hot topic or, a story that people who read this blog might be interested in. In this case, I ran across this silly story about Fergie, and how she went through the scanner, and "Oh, celebrities have to do it too," then, I scrolled to the bottom of this story and found an genius comment:

I find it interesting that the same folks who are saying this is no big deal are the same people who literally lost their mind a few years back when The Department of Homeland Security was given the power to see what library books you were checking out. Of course, the eeevil Bush was President back then... oh what a difference a new President makes, eh?
- Jennifer, Oxford, Michigan, 01/12/2010 06:27

Cheers to Jennifer in Oxford! This post is for you! 

Talking To Liberals About The TSA

TSA Doesn't Like Fatties and Smellies

A traveller undergoes an enhanced pat down by a Transportation Security Administration agent: Staff have said that they also find the searches unpleasant

Security is now fighting back at the public saying how much they don't like dealing with people who smell and the obese. Gee, I can't imagine why.

As millions of people prepared to travel for Thanksgiving,  passenger backlash was growing against the measures introduced by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

But after being contacted by a travel blog, 17 security staff came forward to express their disgust at the policy put in place last month.

They said that they hated having to carry out body searches, with one claiming that it was worse for him than the passenger.

'It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh,' one told the BoardingArea blog.

'Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!'

Another said he had a huge problem dealing with a 'large number of passengers... daily that have a problem understanding what personal hygiene is.'

All the staff said that they had experienced a high level of personal abuse while carrying out the pat-downs.

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SNL on TSA

Sen. Claire McCaskill --- Defends Screening and Love Pats

A TSA officer screens an airline passenger in Terminal C at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport December 27, 2009 in Dallas, Texas. Pre-flight screenings were stepped up after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, of Nigeria was accused of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day.  (Getty Images)

Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri defends the TSA and its enhanced pat downs.

Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said prior to Pistole's testimony that she believed TSA was in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation, because people would be hopping mad at TSA if Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab had succeeded. She went on to say the new advanced imaging technology--which has caused uproar because of its leave-no-secrets imaging and potential health risks--is more of a blessing than a curse.

"I'm wildly excited that I can walk through a machine instead of getting my dose of love pats," Sen. McCaskill said.

I heard about this on Savage the other night and just now found the story. I thought I'd share it with you. I can't believe she called the searching "love pats"!

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My favorite solution to the problem comes from Ann Coulter via Twitter:
 

"My proposal: Make sex noises when being groped by TSA agents."

Ann also has a great column on her website concerning the issue of the TSA  pat downs. It is titled, NAPOLITANO: THE BALL’S IN MY COURT NOW. It's definitely worth the read. Check it out here on her website.

Congressman Calls to Ditch TSA

Republican John Mica of Florida is calling for airports to just kick the TSA out altogether and allow for a private industry to take over. It is being said that a private company could do better by decreasing costs and decreasing waiting time.

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This Don't Look Right

Pulled this pic off Drudge Report. Oh, that doesn't look very pleasant. This is what traveling in the U.S. has come to? I'm not sure this is our answer to being safe.

Hands Down Your Pants

TSA Screening

CAIR Strikes Again

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), you know, that loving, tolerant organization, that would never be a front group for terrorism, is at it again. In response to the TSA's recent pat-downs, CAIR is asking that Muslim passengers, mostly woman that wear a hijab, to tell the officer only to search around the neck and head.

The reason we have these searches have to do with radical Muslims. So now they are requesting special searches? This is unbelievable.

In the “special recommendations for Muslim women who wear hijab,” it states: “Before you are patted down, you should remind the TSA officer that they are only supposed to pat down the area in question, in this scenario, your head and neck. They SHOULD NOT subject you to a full-body or partial-body pat-down.”

It also states: “Instead of the pat-down, you can always request to pat down your own scarf, including head and neck area, and have the officers perform a chemical swipe of your hands.”

Simply amazing.

In February, the Figh Council of North America, a group of Islamic scholars, issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, that full-body scanners violate Islamic law.

“It is a violation of clear Islamic teaching that men or women be seen naked by other men and women,” the ruling states. “Islam highly emphasizes haya (modesty) and considers it part of the faith. The Qu’ran has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts.”

Okay. So, your religion believes in modesty but, killing innocent people, including women and children, is totally okay?

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Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped up