Bush officials rebut Ridge's accusations

Your point is???

Your narrow-mindedness..

His point is... that he is a complete moron... the DNC stands for Democratic National Convention son... it can not be refereed to as a plurality... it is a singular event.

No that we have that cleared up... what did you find incompetent about the DNC... provide proof please G&L.

You my dear, said Mr. Frank's was gay,I didn't say any such thing.
I don't care what his preferences are.
I just like the sound of the word Uranus, childish humor, maybe?
Thought it might give you a chuckle! Guess not. Humorless twit. Did I say that? Sorry, humorless yes, but I don't know you enough to call you twit.

I duno... I laughed pretty hard when Barney Frank put down the loony woman in Dartmouth... If the nurse prescribes me to laugh more... I guess I should watch the video again...

I am going to take a cue from Barney Frank

"On what planet do you spend most of your time?"

They are over zealous about their jobs... when people said they were profiling... they said "No shit!!!" Even Cat Stephens can not make it through without being detained... You are way of base on this one lady.

For the sake of curiosity... why did you add the Treasury Department into that list? Are you worried that they are not detaining tax evaders at airport security?

You can't figure out what the Treasury dept. has to do with security? Think about it for a minute!
And unlike you I have lived on planet Earth all my life.
And if you think I've become a Judas to your Christ you have way over estimated yourself.
I don't profess to know everything. But I'm not a blowhard! And back to Barney Frank, when you see him on Uranus say, "Hi!"

too bad you lost your balls before you can impeach..aint that a bitch..who has it now?? obama??

But there was a big change at Pittsburgh International Airport. They took everything off of you. They kept my daughter's bottle of water, her fruit snack and her pepper spray on her car keys (I gave her to use when she's alone getting into or out of her car.)
They got rid of carry-on bags for a while. You couldn't even have an emery board.

Hell, the first time back to Philadelphia to see the historic sites you had to go through a metal detector. They kept nail files and blunt nursing scissors. A little 2" pen knife my friend had since childhood to cut fruit with! It was totally crazy.
Before 911 I could walk right up and into any of the buildings without anyone approaching me even with my knitting needles sticking out of my bag.......

He was not referencing the changes they made to security of buildings and what is allowed on air planes... he is talking about the threat level being raised in 2003 right before the election. When they raise the threat level they are supposed to have even more exaggerated screening like pat searches for everyone and a whole lot more security staff and police on site in case of an incident... but even thought the threat level was raised they did not go through with the even greater security precautions, they just did what the had been doing like taking away pin knives, pepper spray, and containers over 3oz... and did not add extra police or personnel.

Actually they quit allowing friends and family into the main terminal. Only passengers.
After they build another main terminal you have to ride a high speed train to get to because it's so far away from your car. Then with a lot of steps and escalators you are up at least one story from the tarmac. You now can go to be with your family but they are bottlenecked between employees checking them out to get on the plane. out.

That has nothing to do with the situation in 2003, you were not allowed past the security screens if you did not have a flight long before 2003.

So all they did was.....SLIGHTLY increase airport security?

I distinctly remember the mayor of New York going on TV to complain that he was not notified of any threat.

No one in any major city was.

It was akin to screaming "Fire!" and then casually walking away.

If there really was a fire then something significant should have happened --- something more significant than taking someone's shampoo at the airport before allowing them to board.

When the news people asked what the "threat" was and was it averted....again the reporters were met with only blank stares from the Bush Admin.

"What are you talking....oh! Right! Yeah! We, uh, well, it's all over now. All fixed!"

Right. Sure.

S'funny how the next time there was an election -- shock! -- the threat level went up again.

And again there didn't seem to be any orders given to any mayors of any cities to be on the look out for anything. Once again Bush screamed "Fire!" and then walked away.

The date was 9-11-2001, Milchbag. So yeah, for two years before 2003....

I am well aware... thank you for the clarification nurseobfuscation...

My dear, Milchbag, I did not muddy the situation I clarified it. You are the confused.

Otay Brutus... should I turn my back now???

Nurse knows what you are saying, and it's true. I live in L.A. and nothing,absolutely nothing changed from one day to the next after these "alerts" were announced. Nurse is just one of those rock ribbed "republicans are virtuous" individuals. You take everything nurse says with a grain of salt.

I do not like salt Eleganza... and I will not take any on her account... if she wants to bandy words she had better be willing to contend with me.