Comments on: Airport Screening Machines’ “Achilles Heel”: If Detonator Worked Northwest Flight 253 Plane Would Have Come Down http://themoderatevoice.com/57238/airport-screening-machines-achilles-heel-if-detonator-worked-northwest-flight-253-plane-would-have-come-down/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 19:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: archangel http://themoderatevoice.com/57238/airport-screening-machines-achilles-heel-if-detonator-worked-northwest-flight-253-plane-would-have-come-down/comment-page-1/#comment-239545 archangel Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:27:15 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=57238#comment-239545 re your link... those are funny... I suppose after fifty-kajillion days on air people start running a loop maybe. Thanks DaMav, that lightened these moments of drudgery here today; after-holiday clean up, ay!<br><br>dr.e re your link… those are funny… I suppose after fifty-kajillion days on air people start running a loop maybe. Thanks DaMav, that lightened these moments of drudgery here today; after-holiday clean up, ay!

dr.e

]]> By: DaMav http://themoderatevoice.com/57238/airport-screening-machines-achilles-heel-if-detonator-worked-northwest-flight-253-plane-would-have-come-down/comment-page-1/#comment-239501 DaMav Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:02:44 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=57238#comment-239501 I'm not the kinda fellow who turns down a request from an Archangel :-) You can google the words for more info but this will get you off to a good start - <br><br><a href="http://mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2009/publicballot/results.aspx?page=10" rel="nofollow">http://mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2009/pub...</a> I'm not the kinda fellow who turns down a request from an Archangel :-) You can google the words for more info but this will get you off to a good start –

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]]> By: dduck12 http://themoderatevoice.com/57238/airport-screening-machines-achilles-heel-if-detonator-worked-northwest-flight-253-plane-would-have-come-down/comment-page-1/#comment-239453 dduck12 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:28:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=57238#comment-239453 Not to worry, do you think O will miss an opportunity to make a grandiose speech? He is consulting and considering (and don't you dare say the D word). Not to worry, do you think O will miss an opportunity to make a grandiose speech? He is consulting and considering (and don't you dare say the D word).

]]> By: sortaRepublican http://themoderatevoice.com/57238/airport-screening-machines-achilles-heel-if-detonator-worked-northwest-flight-253-plane-would-have-come-down/comment-page-1/#comment-239444 sortaRepublican Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:10:46 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=57238#comment-239444 Why would Obama want to condemn a Black Muslim? haha Why would Obama want to condemn a Black Muslim? haha

]]> By: archangel http://themoderatevoice.com/57238/airport-screening-machines-achilles-heel-if-detonator-worked-northwest-flight-253-plane-would-have-come-down/comment-page-1/#comment-239439 archangel Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:02:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=57238#comment-239439 ......he is going after the coveted "Let Us Fluff Your Pillow" award recently won by Katie Couric........<br><br>you must please tell us all DaMav about this award. I think we all have nominees!<br><br>dr.e ……he is going after the coveted “Let Us Fluff Your Pillow” award recently won by Katie Couric……..

you must please tell us all DaMav about this award. I think we all have nominees!

dr.e

]]> By: DaMav http://themoderatevoice.com/57238/airport-screening-machines-achilles-heel-if-detonator-worked-northwest-flight-253-plane-would-have-come-down/comment-page-1/#comment-239417 DaMav Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:33:34 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=57238#comment-239417 <i>Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder who (again) offers a thoughtful and polemics-free take...</i><br><br>Absolutely hilarious. Ambinder as usual offers a bevy of roses and apologetics for the Obama Administration, including turn down service, pillow fluffing, and tiny chocolate mint treats. The only thing missing from Ambinder's wet sloppy kiss is a claim that Obama is walking <i>over</i> the water traps.<br><br>Somebody screwed up big time on this. We were warned, not in some kind of a vague general way, but specifically about this individual terrorist. Warned that he was high risk. Not by some anonymous tipster but by his own father, a well respected international banker who took the time to go to the US embassy. Warned by one of the "moderate Muslims" who we demand step forward and did exactly that. (Kudos to this moderate Muslim who blew the whistle on his own son!!) And we BLEW IT.<br><br>We let his radical reprehensible extremist terror inclined son board a plane bound for the US with no special screening, no additional measures taken at all. By the Grace of God or fate, his evil plans failed, but the screw up is undeniable.<br><br>Wouldn't it be reassuring to hear the President angry? By no means was this Obama's fault, but would it not be reassuring to hear our President insist that he would spare nothing to find out how this could have happened and see that performance would be improved. Instead we get a fatuous statement from the head of Homeland Security that the "system worked" and the President plays golf. How long would it take to at least demonstrate that he takes it seriously -- between holes? <br><br>And we have Ambinder claiming that this lapse of leadership is actually "strategy". Maybe he is going after the coveted "Let Us Fluff Your Pillow" award recently won by Katie Couric. He certainly put himself in contention for next year's title. Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder who (again) offers a thoughtful and polemics-free take…

Absolutely hilarious. Ambinder as usual offers a bevy of roses and apologetics for the Obama Administration, including turn down service, pillow fluffing, and tiny chocolate mint treats. The only thing missing from Ambinder's wet sloppy kiss is a claim that Obama is walking over the water traps.

Somebody screwed up big time on this. We were warned, not in some kind of a vague general way, but specifically about this individual terrorist. Warned that he was high risk. Not by some anonymous tipster but by his own father, a well respected international banker who took the time to go to the US embassy. Warned by one of the “moderate Muslims” who we demand step forward and did exactly that. (Kudos to this moderate Muslim who blew the whistle on his own son!!) And we BLEW IT.

We let his radical reprehensible extremist terror inclined son board a plane bound for the US with no special screening, no additional measures taken at all. By the Grace of God or fate, his evil plans failed, but the screw up is undeniable.

Wouldn't it be reassuring to hear the President angry? By no means was this Obama's fault, but would it not be reassuring to hear our President insist that he would spare nothing to find out how this could have happened and see that performance would be improved. Instead we get a fatuous statement from the head of Homeland Security that the “system worked” and the President plays golf. How long would it take to at least demonstrate that he takes it seriously — between holes?

And we have Ambinder claiming that this lapse of leadership is actually “strategy”. Maybe he is going after the coveted “Let Us Fluff Your Pillow” award recently won by Katie Couric. He certainly put himself in contention for next year's title.

]]> By: DaGoat http://themoderatevoice.com/57238/airport-screening-machines-achilles-heel-if-detonator-worked-northwest-flight-253-plane-would-have-come-down/comment-page-1/#comment-239414 DaGoat Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:26:14 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=57238#comment-239414 <i>In a sense, he is projecting his calm on the American people, just as his advisers are convinced that the Bush Administration projected their panic and anger on the self-same public eight years ago.</i><br><br>Ambinder is setting up a false choice here. There is a middle ground between projecting panic on the one hand and projecting disinterest on the other.<br><br>Just as there was probably nothing Bush could have done to immediately effect the situation while he finished My Pet Goat, Obama could probably not have changed a thing by canceling his tee time. The problem is we expect our presidents to act presidential, something that neither reading a children's book nor playing golf is consistent with.<br><br>Obama's lack of action and comment reflects his passive approach to government. As he has been content to let Reid, Pelosi and Geithner set policy, now he is content to let Napolitano handle this. In a sense, he is projecting his calm on the American people, just as his advisers are convinced that the Bush Administration projected their panic and anger on the self-same public eight years ago.

Ambinder is setting up a false choice here. There is a middle ground between projecting panic on the one hand and projecting disinterest on the other.

Just as there was probably nothing Bush could have done to immediately effect the situation while he finished My Pet Goat, Obama could probably not have changed a thing by canceling his tee time. The problem is we expect our presidents to act presidential, something that neither reading a children's book nor playing golf is consistent with.

Obama's lack of action and comment reflects his passive approach to government. As he has been content to let Reid, Pelosi and Geithner set policy, now he is content to let Napolitano handle this.

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