I was thinking the same exact thing, Bob. We don't need to worry about a terrorist or crazy BVD bomber getting on a plane. An overcrowded airport is just as good.

Cripes, that's a great point.

I started wondering the other day why so many people still travel for work. Hasn't technology eliminated the need for so much of it? I still know so many people who travel weekly. Baffling.

Jennifer

...and lets stop spreading miracle grow on terrorists by occupying two Muslim countries.

Looks like a shopping mall...before all of our shopping malls closed down because of the economy.

I'm not sure if blowing up an airport building is spectacular enough for the current crop of terrorists. They seem to want to make big gestures, rather than only (if that be the appropriate word) causing death and chaos.

Jesus H.

@alopecia:

Thankfully you're right. There's little security getting into the airport, it would be easy to hop on a bus, get dropped off at the curb, go into the airport with a "carry-on" and into the security line... then BOOM. Heck, it's what's been done in Israel - crowded pizzerias and cafés.

Frankly, a couple such attacks would be far worse in terms of Americans' reactions than something like the WTC bombing. I mean, not everyone in the US worked in Manhattan, let alone the WTC. But millions traipse through airports every day.

Sobering thought.

But that's the risk we take every day, and it's a risk that isn't going to go away no matter how many articles of clothing the brilliant minds of the TSA require us to remove.

You just brought up a great point Bob. But forget a suicide bomber. How about another Major Hassan. If that (god forbid) would happen, do you think the Republicans would scream for profiling of potential gun buyers? I highly doubt it.

Would someone please add Jim DeMint to a "no speak" list!

I swear to all that is Elvis (no not that Elvis, our Elvis) that my brain is going to fucking implode if I have to see him spewing his BS unchallenged by the so-called liberal press anymore.

Just shoot me!

lot's of CO2 being generated there. Doomsday is near. Al Gore warned us.

What I don't get is how this guy got past a security guard who was there? He's been fired by the way. As I've previously stated, I don't have a problem with airport scanners. Many of you ,may know from previous posts that I was coming up the escalator under the Trade Center on 911. When they bombed it in 1993, I had also just left the 22nd floor and boarded the Path Train, 70 feet below for a 10 minute ride back home. When I turned on the news, I saw what I'd just missed. I

know that many don't want to panic but, I have to tell you that after 911, I became parinoid about the Subways because to this day, I still feel that they are the most vulnerable. It's why there's still a total freak out everytime someone accidentally leaves their back pack on the train or a bench. I still go to the City but, I don't work there anymore. While I know that something bad can happen just about anywhere, I'm not expecting it now and that's the point. Oddly enough, I live just across the Hudson River. I stare at that empty skyline now, every day.

Mr. Cesca,

Just as you raised some very interesting questions with your astute visual comparison of Timothy McVeigh and the alleged Islamic extremist (however an extremist can truly be defined without losing out on our liberties), you may also find it intriguing to note the similarities between those conveyor belts in the beef processing plant on your posted video of Beef Products, Inc. and the escalators in Newark airport. Such mechanized forms of transporting animals and people are a result of the incredible reliance we've seemed to condition ourselves to embrace.

Indeed, down here in the dark underworld of daily life in the United States, where the rewards of work seem less acknowledged and rewarded with each passing year, it is no surprise then that Farmville is so popular on a thing called Facebook, and nefarious activities on the streets seem so commonplace in major urban centers.

Next time any politician or financial executive talks about investing in the United States, perhaps they ought to look at how they invest in their own citizens instead of investing in widespread paranoid security measures or moving factories to some far away land. Education, frankly, seems really the only way to go, even if it means reading on one's own time in a library rather than taking out a crushing student loan sure to guarantee one a bigger debt (a no-no in business principles) but not a fancy career.

Perhaps John Dewey was right when he once suggested that there just may not be enough opportunities out there. That was some time ago. And while we assume some things have changed for the better since then, in some ways, maybe they have not, as in Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle."

However one may interpret this message, this writer tends to think that money can be a good thing, but it all depends on how one earns it and spends it once they get it. Get it? Got it. And at least for this writer it ain't milk or money. It's vision.

Worse-erous attack of all!

The nations reservoirs. I've lived in two areas where a totally unguarded open reservoir serves as the water source for two or more communities.

In one specific situation we're talking about 3 times the casualties of 9/11 and in the other about 7 times that!

Be scared! Be very scared!

The greatest threat on safety I see here is a fire breaking out, combined with the resulting panic.