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Agree with you. I found one more. Color. Take view source of this page & find 'Color'
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You're such a maroon.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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And about time too! 
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The question I have is how were passports, reported stolen over a year ago, still effective in allowing people onto a flight? To me this is proof the efforts of the TSA(1) are really nothing more than a dog and pony show. With all our computerized systems in place it isn't possible to identify when someone is using a stolen passport? These weren't flagged?
According to reports more 'suspect passports' have been identified.
Seems to me checking them after the wreck is a little too late.
What does a 'no fly' list mean if half the people on the plan are using stolen passports?
Can I make my own passport with a 3x5 card and a crayon and board a plane?
Why do they put honest citizens through the wringer on this if they don't even check these things?
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1: I realize this was Malaysian Airlines but would our TSA know about a passport stolen in Thailand two years ago? Somewhere, someone is dropping the ball on this one.
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To be fair, those poor staff. Can you imagine working on a check-in desk where 90% of your customers were Chinese and you had to be responsible for checking their passport photo matched their face! 
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Now that's what we call "razy lacism"!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Agreed: it's just saying "they all look the same to me" which is not acceptable in cats, so why should it be in humans?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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What about squirrels? They all look the bloody same to me. Well bloody anyway, especially if I can get to the crossbow.
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You definitely can't say that! The grey ones are from American Immigrant stock, who came over here and stole all the red ones jobs!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The greys are red if your aim is good.
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The greys are just tree-rats, so I'm fine with that.
Cats love 'em - except for the tail, they don't eat that bit.
But you can't shoot Squirrel Nutkin[^]! Not with those ears! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Sheep, you forgot the sheep!!!
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Griff says that every one of them is different and that you must not believe a word they say as they are liars and he was away visiting his sick aunt at the time.
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Shameel wrote: Sheep, you forgot the sheep!!!
I was reviewing the posts in my thread and randomly clicked on this one.
I'm not going to read the posts that lead up to this one, rather, I'll resign myself to a sense of wonderment on how we got to 'Sheep'.
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MehGerbil wrote: how we got to 'Sheep'
The cowboy[^] knows the secret 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Agreed: it's just saying "they all look the same to me" which is not acceptable in cats, so why should it be in humans?
From this I read one mustn't be too choosy about women you make love to. As they say, all cats look grey in the dark. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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MehGerbil wrote: Can I make my own passport with a 3x5 card and a crayon and board a plane?
No you need to go to Bangkok to get a professionally made fake! 
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JimmyRopes wrote: No you need to go to Bangkok to get a professionally made fake!
Which is a problem if you are on the no fly list and therefore need the passport (assuming you aren't near Bangkok already). 
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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JimmyRopes wrote: No you need to go to Bangkok to get a professionally made fake laydee!
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Reports I saw indicated that Malaysian airport security didn't bother to do the bare minimum needed to verify if the passports were valid, because if that had they'd've found out they were stolen. In between molesting children and the elderly the theatrical security agency also does the things that would be all that a non-elephanted security service would do.
What I'm curious about is if the failing was institutional (there was no verify policy in place), due to incompetence/indifference (the checkers couldn't be bothered to do their job), or due to corruption (bribed to look the other way).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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