These quotes from today's NYTImes made my Thanksgiving morning and brought a huge laugh.
“If it’s going to keep me and others safe, I’m all for it,” said the Rev. George Oberle, a Lutheran minister who said he had gladly submitted his body for a scan on his way to New York from Detroit. “I’m 50,” he said. “I’m proud of what I’ve got.”
“We’ve had 10 years to be desensitized; I’m not sure why people are freaking out now,” said Dr. Janice Manjuck, 50, a physician from San Francisco who was traveling with her husband and 11-year-old son to Norfolk, Va. Dr. Manjuck said she doubted the efficacy of the pat-downs and body scanners, but did not particularly object to them."
“We’ve got terrorists coming over wearing explosives in their clothing,” said Jason Moody, a 34-year-old X-ray technician in the Army, who was reading a novel during a layover in San Francisco. “The T.S.A. did not just dream this up.”
Joe Murphy, 76, a retired consultant who was flying to Washington, was not impressed. “Protesters?” he asked. “There were more people selling tickets to my grandson’s high school football game.”
And then, of course, this: “We’re from San Francisco, so we’re used to nudity.”
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Ruth Marcus' article in yesterday's Washington Post eviscerated the issue: "Don't touch my junk? Grow up America."
Happy Thanksgiving.
