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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I saw a cool takeoff on the "black lives matter" group. It was a T-shirt with Hildebeast's pic on it and "Black Votes matter..." printed underneath.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you're pissed off enough to wear a provocative t-shirt ["any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.' Emerson] and have all your TSA pre-check stuff in order, you can make them make confused faces.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    now, now - he said suspects, not terrorists. Yes, the Constitution even applies to Muslims. and Christians.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Are there any trains that go somewhat directly without massive diversions or using a bus as part of their segments? My last try with that was Portland to Los Angeles. The first thing i heard was 'did iyou reserve for supper?" "The ticket says meals included," "But did you reservce a seat?" "I just boarded." "All the spaces are reserved." One cardboard sandwich later I left trains forever. We had to switch to a bus anyway."

    I sorely missed the train systems of Europe.

    The people of the US deserve the second class travel system they paid for no matter if the bill was first class prices.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was with my wife, who was in a wheelchair, and
    sometimes we got through easily ... sometimes not. -- j
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I no longer fly -- but I understand that you can make everything in advance including boarding pass, and you go through a line that gets you in quickly.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Its a government program more concerned with paying the screeners a lot of money, having lucrative union contracts, and rules that make us "feel: safe, but not BE safe.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we took more than 500 photos and the dvd for our
    extended family is 4,481,669,098 bytes long. . what
    a trip! -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    okay;;; Hi, Neighbor! . we're in west knoxville and
    only 3.5 hours away, by lexus. . hope to see you
    some time!!! -- j
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, even high school algebra was too subtle for this extinct even before Mesozoic went extinct dinosaur.
    Here's the kid of subtle Old Dino understands.
    When I first saw what's beyond the link in the early 70s, I knew what the nudging dude was getting at way before the married man with the beer did.
    Wasn't expecting the full revelation of the punchline, though.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrvQ...
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hell, I've traveled enough that I can sleep in coach class on a 737 now. I could probably sleep on the wing, though, with my schedule...
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sounds like a great time, john. Let me know next time you plan to be in Atlanta and have some time. We are about 35 miles east. My girl friend has friends at the Knoxville chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy. She published a book of her ancestor's diary written in union occupied Knoxville.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 11 months ago
    It looks good except -- where do we stow luggage? I suppose I could bring a duffel and use it as my pillow.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I just look forward to "travel clearances," like the
    trusted souls who share our national secrets (except
    for an occasional traitor) -- to let folks become able
    to take a business trip regularly and not have to go
    through tsa at all. -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we can just be damned glad that they don't stand
    in the way between my house and yours ... if I drive! -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    exactly. . they fail all of their tests and charge us
    taxpayers zillions PLUS they stand in the way of
    both commerce and leisure. . sux! -- j
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 11 months ago
    ffa, we just got back from a 10,000-mile trip, the BW
    and I, and we're tired. . drove to hotlanta, flew to
    honolulu, boated to vancouver, flew to lax, then to
    hotlanta, and drove home. . it was wonderful, but a
    tad bit tiring. . sleeping on a bus would definitely
    have been easier! -- j
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