Wow. If you believe what you hear or read today, the world is falling apart. There's a hurricane in the Gulf, mortgage giants need to be rescued, foreclosures are up, Madonna's in a meltdown, and...OMG, Batman's been arrested in London!!
Personally, I choose not to participate in the supposed recession. I'm positive and believe that 'God makes a way out of no way'. I'm healthy, my family is strong, my friends are dear, and I believe in myself and my dreams. My paintings are selling, and my business is expanding.
So, what gets me going? Well. How about 'Miami Airport Security Cameras See Through Clothing.' Jeez. Apparently, whole-body imaging machines are being used - they reveal weapons and explosives concealed under layers of clothing.
"It allows us to detect threat objects that are not metallic and that cannot be detected by metal detectors, and items that are sometimes missed even in a physical pat-down, in a non intrusive manner," said Mark Hatfield, federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration at MIA.
They say the image produced 'is more humanoid than human', and the face is blurred. Some guy sits behind a curtain and looks at these all day. Fun.
Granted, it isn't as intrusive as, say, 'turn your head and cough', or, 'scoot your bottom down just a little bit more', but it still gives me the creeps.
I'm pretty certain there have been days when I could look 'more humanoid than human' on my own, without some stranger giving me the 'once over' with a ray gun.
Kinda gives a whole new meaning to my mom's constant admonition to me when I was a child, to 'always wear clean underwear'. Her concern was that I might get in an accident and someone would see if my undies said 'Sunday' on a 'Monday'. Perhaps I should get a pair that say "Hey, guy behind the curtain...what're you lookin' for down here??"
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