Comments on: Welcome: Portraits of America

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:19:45 +0000

Joel. Click on Michael’s January topics and go to “TSA among most unpopular federal agencies”.

My comments #33 and #34 talk about your innocent Iraqis and what they’re doing to each other without American help.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:00:29 +0000

Joel
I would have thought you’d pick the turd comment, but to each his own.
If you think that 90% of the people in the Middle East are in a state of blissful ignorance and not guilty of any particular wrongdoing, you’ve got your head up your butt too just like that other jackass. No group of people is that pure. 10% tops, and that would apply to ANY country that we’ve ever blown up.

I’m not patriotic, I just really believe that the US is the greatest country that there has ever been. The concept of individual rights and liberties protected by a constitution and defended by a court of law didn’t exist before the United States. Now the whole world takes it for granted.

“Never take nothin’ for granite, cause that’s what tombstones are made of.”-Hank the Cowdog

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:40:00 +0000

Bob, while your patriotism is commendable, it is also ridiculous. Your November 25 comment is the most asinine comment i have read in quite a while. Innocent by any definition is being not guilty of a particular wrongdoing, or being more generally in a state of blissful ignorance, that applies to 90% of the civilian Iraqis the US has killed. Why is the count always the 30000 troops killed, not the millions the US kills? The only thing that the continued US presence has created is increased terrorism sympathy. One nations terrorist is anothers freedom fighter..

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:00:15 +0000

You hurt my feelings. I was just being honest. When I hear “Frank Zappa”, that’s the first thing that comes to mind. It’s hard for assholes like me to get past something like that. I know that I should be able to get past the fact that a guy ate a turd and appreciate his intellect and the quality of his soul but I’m an asshole.
Like you say, there’s a lot of us assholes. Something for all you feel good, earthy types to think about the next time you want to do something offensive to the assholes. You’re not winning any poularity contests either.

By: opit

opit — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:13:49 +0000

Bob
Your ‘quips’ are the shortest distance to understanding why nobody feels a burning desire for any more of your genteel ‘company’ than must be endured. Assholes grow like turnips everywhere. They are not a cash crop.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:34:05 +0000

Wasn’t Frank Zappa the guy who ate a turd on stage? I didn’t know that he was smart too. Definitely someone I should look up to.

By: Terri

Terri — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:48:42 +0000

I’m gonna focus on one demented comment above. If Frank Zappa got a full body search at an airport he didn’t deserve it. The government targeted him. The man’s intelligence was off the chart. He used his intelligence to ‘collect data’ about bio-engineered viruses, our economy and corrosion of our government. US government officials actually feared Frank Zappa because he was respected and admired the world over. No doubt there was a dossier on him. Were Zappa alive and campaigning for president on his Barking Pumpkins Ticket I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. He, Gail, Dweezil, Diva, Ahmet and Moon Unit would make the best First Family ever. I feel sure he’d hire security clowns for entertainment instead of inbred goons with inferiority complexes. Boy! I’ve digressed! Our guards are hasseling citizens at security checkpoints, confiscating personal belongs, prodding them with sticks, while extending ‘the hand of fellowship’ to foreigners and illegals. When did they let the inmates out. (“Have you seen ‘V for Vendetta’young man?” No Joke!!!)

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:19:58 +0000

After many trips around the world on business, America customs is the worst of the lot.

My last experience was an international flight just doing a stop for refuel in Los Angles. Because you have to leave the aircraft for refueling, America now deems that your are visiting American soil, and you therefore have to go through immigration. For a whole Jumbo Jet of people, there was one Official scanning fingerprints, photographing and stamping documents. Three and a half hours of standing in a queue, the last person was processed, and we were then allowed to queue up to emigrate….by passing through the single customs official who processed us all in. We were all jammed into a single room and not allowed into the terminal itself and where never allowed more that 50 meters from the aircraft.

At one point the Customs official was handed immigration documents by a helper of someone in a wheelchair, but the wheelchair user was about 3 meters away from the counter. The Official shouted at the top of his voice that he was going to walk away if the right person was not in front of him RIGHT NOW, and we could just all stand there forever as far as he was concerned. I think the anonomous ‘Welcome to America, Have a nice day’ comment made just loud enough for him to hear might have made him think again. Either that or the laughter that followed.

Stand in a queue for 3 hours, be fingerprinted and photographed and shouted at by Immigration Officials just for a simple refueling stop. No wonder everyone in my Company will go any route other than via America.

By: Mike A.

Mike A. — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:25 +0000

Now really, i have been many times to the US also after 9.11. I have always been treated normally by the customs, although a bit more friendliness would not hurt. Could be that i always travel with my wife and we are both white and mid 40′s, apart from that i leave my Kalashnikov at home.

Instead of the USA softening up the security, i think the EU (i am a EU citizin) should up the security a bit. Maybe treat the US citizins the same when they come to the EU.

Anyway just wait a year Bush will exit and a Clinton will take over. The hassle will become less.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:03:14 +0000

And you didn’t like Ronnie Raygun either. I thought I recognized the name.