Well, there are other sites, but to show the Boing Collective is not without pity: Assume the Position!

I think the BoingBoing censor has blocked my comments anyway. What she’ll probably do is look through the blocked comments to find one that makes me look bad, and then allow that to appear on the site. I’ve tested this on many other forums, and that’s usually what people in her position do.

Making Light had a lot of fun with it during that period — 1, 2 3 4 — but the one you really want is Nothing to hope for but fear itself, which collected a bunch of reliable articles about what a crock that all was.

As for what amount of baby food sounds “reasonable” to you, I purely don’t care. I’ll take the word of two doctors who are the parents of an infant over you or the TSA any day.

You do realize that there’s no way the TSA had a rule in place for what to do about two parents who are both doctors and are carrying a lot of baby food, right? The TSA employee who decreed that there had to be a letter from a separate doctor was making it up on the spot.

Moonbat (27): you’re wrong too. There’s no groupthink going on in this thread. We all think you’re wrong separately and individually.

Also, you never did explain what wearing Nazi uniforms while spanking naked men has to do with ignorance.

TheFool (30): That day is already here. I’ve seldom spent twenty dollars to better effect.

Moonbat again (64), in reply to Antinous (45):

“Don’t ask anyone here. If they give you any answer, it will be wrong.

Don’t ask me either. I have no time for you.”

But if there’s no use talking, and no use listening, what are you doing? You can’t be here for the hunting.

If I wrote this before, you should be able to provide a quote.

Seriously, how much time do you spend thinking about ways to destroy passenger jets? When will you quit pulling crazy schemes out of wherever it is you pull them from to try to point out how badly we all need to be inspected, searched, x-rayed, scanned, etc.?
What if, what if, what if… What if someone went all the way through flight school and became a real airline pilot, spending a decade or two getting into the pilot’s seat as a real pilot just so he/she could seize the plane and do whatever they want with it? Has TSA considered that possibility?!?

Ken Hansen (13): Sorry, but you’re dead wrong. I can’t believe you’re still buying the “mix two liquids or gels and it makes an explosion” story. That wasn’t just refuted; it was trounced.

How about acid strong enough to melt through the floor of a plane; has that been trounced?

Poisonous vapors, trounced also?

Moonbat (27): you’re wrong too. There’s no groupthink going on in this thread. We all think you’re wrong separately and individually.

When you insist on using your own narrow definition of groupthink, despite all indications that the other party is using the word differently, how do you think that makes you look?

No need to respond. I’ll write it for you: “I know you are, but what am I?”

But if there’s no use talking, and no use listening, what are you doing? You can’t be here for the hunting.

Sometimes you quit cold turkey. Sometimes you smoke the rest of the pack, for no other reason than it’s there.

I transitioned into apathetic semi-trolling several comments ago. Just throwing out bait and seeing which jackass jumps at it. Soon I’ll leave in boredom and disgust.

Things deteriorate much however, when he claims that readership here in populated by the “unreasonable”. Based on?

Finally, if an acid is strong enough to eat through airplane steel floors, pouches of babyfood or cans of formula or plastic bottles of formula aren’t going to contain said acid. Also, acid doesn’t look like pureed peas. Also, the acid scenario just sounds silly in this particular story.

Oh, the day is coming where they will ask you when you last urinated- because you could be carrying more than two ounces of liquid in your bladder…

“So what can you do if you feel you have been ripped off?

First and foremost, file a police report. Most airports have law enforcement in the terminals, many airports could have a police officers respond in minutes.

Second, file a claim with both TSA and the airline. We analyze this data and if we see a trend at a particular airport, we are in a better position to investigate further.”

3-5 are just regular common sense in the make sure you have it with you to begin with line of thought.

But at least the guy responded to some of the comments “Couldn’t agree more with anonymous at 12:31, “the screeners violated the public trust. That is completely unacceptable for a government employee at any level.” That’s what the post is all about. One case of officer theft is one too many and we’re doing our level best to find, fire and aid in the prosectution of any officer that is stealing. Beyond the obvious lack of honesty and abuse of the public trust that has been mentioned, officers stealing sully the reputation of the great majority of the workforce and make their jobs much more difficult.”

I haz it.

You can work to eliminate mass ignorance or you can work to enforce it. You have chosen to enforce it.

“The rule says a reasonable amount for the flight, and that’s the basis on which the decision was made.”

actually, it said “itinerary,” which we all know is far from set in stone when traveling through o’hare in the winter. (i just got home 48 hours late coming from chicago…that was not in my itinerary, but ?fortunately? i can eat airplane “food”)

but i feel that the real issue at hand is the fact that the TSA confiscated “prunes.” anyone feeding their baby prunes should not only have the said prunes confiscated, but they should also be stripped of all parental rights brought up on charges of child abuse.