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Home again, home again, jiggety jig.

On the 'No Fly' list:
Yogurt
applesauce
New:
Tinned pasta
A peanut butter and jelly sandwich
(As the TSA agent explained to me, there's gel in that 'jelly'.)

From moses: Touched by His noodly appendage

Posted without comment from today's column in the Portland Oregonian by the National Review's Rich Lowry:

This is not to say that the United States is flawless. Our mistakes, however, tend to be the product of an excess of zeal and idealism. We don't do coldblooded calculation well. Some of this is the product of being a superpower; dishonest diplomatic ploys are beneath us. Some of it is the nature of our democracy, which values openness and honesty.

...we are in Iraq for exactly the achingly innocent reasons we say. We are spending and bleeding there tyring to plant a liberal democracy in the hardscrabble soil of Mesopotamia. When President Bush is gone, there will be a change in foreign policy. But it won't be a change the foreign policy establishment likes. It won't be toward a let's-talk-even-more-to-the-French multilateralism as represented by Sen Chuck Hagel, R-Neb, It will be something more selfish and hardheaded, something more French in its motivations. Bush without the soft touches. Then, the world will miss the earnest do-gooding United States of old.

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Seriously, I think the sequel to Snakes on a Plane should be "Drinks on a Plane"

I am god damned sick and tired of all these motherfuckin' beverages on this motherfuckin' plane!

Exactly... it may have to somehow become a Moron Life sketch.

I've got another one, which might have only been funny in my head (and at my sister's bachelorette party after many mixed drinks): PlaySkool's new line--"My First Stripper Shoes! Comes with Action Pole!"

Yay, home! And y'know, it's funny, I was wondering just yesterday how they would handle tinned (or canned) pre-packaged foods...

Uh. I had stuff to tell you but I forget what it is now. Other than to remind you that the lap desk on the couch is for you. Oh! Right. I'll email you the rest.

I don't suppose you know if fruit snacks, fruit roll-ups and gummi bears have been banned? Also, what about sauces? They're not really liquids or gel, but they're sort of fluid? Spaghetti sauce? And can you have mayo, ketchup, mustard or other condiments on a hamburger or does that get confiscated, too? I suspect that the packets of condiments are banned, but if jelly sandwiches are banned, then shouldn't they be banning condiments on food, too? Just wondering.

In my experience? It's 'show up and see what the person who catches your bag feels is terror-filled today'. I'd say fruit snacks, fruit roll ups and gummi bears are solid enough to get by most TSAgents. And I don't know if the next guy down the line would have had issues with the jelly or not. Total crapshoot, IMHO. The tinned pasta went through Seattle just fine, but got yanked in Portland.

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich
(As the TSA agent explained to me, there's gel in that 'jelly'.)

PB&J. _PB&J_. Gah. And yet people continue to buy the security theater.