Jay, are you a glutton for punishment or what? I personally found your
story humurous with the occasional funny jab at the "Johns" (you forgot
"life support for a hair-do"), but like anywhere else in this country,
it's so polarized you're bound to **** off half of the people, and no
one is going to convince anyone to change their minds.

As far as you and your family not fitting a profile, there is no profile,
everyone is suspect. In "Bush At War" by Bob Woodward, there's
a passage...
....."Disruption is our goal," (CIA Director George) Tenet said. "We
want to change the profile of what we do to provide security at
critical points. To throw them off, to frustrate their planning, show
a different security profile. Something they haven't seen before, haven't
planned against, can't count on. Because the goal is disruption."
Searching everyone from clergymen to elderly ladies at airport
security could send a message to terrorists-no matter how you dress
or how unlikely a suspect you may appear, no one is immune from
scrutiny.........(Simon and Shuster - on loan from library)

Now imagine every TSA/SS worker is driven by that idea and you
can see why they do what they do, right or wrong. Do the Pres/VP
candidates on each side deserve SS protection, of course they do.
Does anyone in this group really want any of these four, regardless
how much you hate them, be attacked? I'd hope no American here
would say yes, and the non-americans who have a problem with
our way of government can mind their own business. We may
not be perfect, but this and the past presidents are ours, for better
or worse, no one asked you.

Even though I saw your attempt at humor, politics, especially right
now, is a good way to make enemies and lose friends. For what?
There's whackjobs in here on both sides of the issue, far left
and far right, neither is better. Luckily most Americans are
somewhere in the middle, regardless of how we're represented
here and abroad by the media.

....but I await your next adventure, hehe.

Chris

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Steve Bosell for President 2004
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