Tag Archives: political correctness

Who, as opposed to what, gets on the plane

The El Al security system is far less intrusive than the TSA one (there is no groin grope or X-Ray machine), and it works just fine.

Because, unlike the feds, El Al is not concerned with political correctness, only safety.

Michael Totten, who gets profiled every time he flies through Tel Aviv, explains how Israel does it:

By eschewing the “Security Theater” approach, which is to always fight the last “war,” i.e. remove your shoes, bring no shampoo, let them grope your underwear, etc.

Despite that Al Q never strikes the same way twice, the Feds always do.

(I’m hoping to experience the Israeli Way when I fly to Tel Aviv in the spring.)

Meanwhile, Thomas Sowell sees more of Obamalot’s disdain for America here:

“If anything good comes out of the airport ‘security’ outrages, it may be in opening the eyes of more people to the utter contempt that this administration has for the American people.”

Still more from Instapundit, who thinks the flying public’s anger over TSA’s groin grope is far from over.

Because, for one thing, Obamalot is considering exempting Muslim women.

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, the federal bigs are breezing right on through. No scan or grope for them. And no surprise, either.

Political Correctness collapsing?

Oh, happy day. Would that it would be, as Glenn Loury of Brown U. says, true. Of course, my take is that it will just be replaced by a new kind. Society seems to work that way.

Via Instapundit.

PC and the Civil War

What happened in one small, Virginia town when the 1910 Confederate memorial was struck and all-but-destroyed by an out-of-control truck driver: You can imagine the political conflict, I’m sure, when it came to discussing how to rebuild. The truth is that the memorial (and others like it across the South) got erected in the first place by the then-PC-dominating majority. And the twist here is that, so far, slavery and emancipation are not on the agenda for mention.

The deadly finger gun

Now you don’t even need a real gun to get suspended from school. A finger gun is enough. And to think I actually taught Mr. B. how to make one. Sigh.

(Note that out of the more than one hundred comments under the article at the first link, many side with the school’s policy. Sheeple.)

The offense industry

First it was Piglet. Now it’s the Three Little Pigs. When did the Brits turn into morons? I must have been napping.