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]]> Viagra Pedido En Línea - Trusted Online Pharmacy http://www.hlswatch.com/2010/01/08/the-week-year-in-aviation/comment-page-1/#comment-137770 William R. Cumming Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:16:13 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=7942#comment-137770 Truthfully Phil I think I agree with your comment. But there is more. Transportation systems are likely targets, not yet resilient, and clearly much needs to be done. My question is simple one? In the world of transportation security which is more important--Understanding the transportation network and its vulnerabilities or the security concerns involving the public access to those systems? After a great deal of thought, but absolutely no expertise in either various transportation systems and very little in security dating from implementing and operating safeguards on nuclear weapons long ago, I have concluded that transfer bact to DOT of TSA even though disruptive is necessary. There is plenty for Homeland Security and its Secretary to do. I don't fault the Secretary's comment that the system worked because her job involves trying to get press and MSM to focus on the reality not the fears. But still it seems that these events disclose together with the many posts on HLSWatch.com on aviation screening some basic flaws. Also I continue to fail to understand why puffer technology is not used as part of screening. Hoping someone has answers but what I do know is that technology can give the illusion of protection when it absolutely does nothing of the kind. Truthfully Phil I think I agree with your comment. But there is more. Transportation systems are likely targets, not yet resilient, and clearly much needs to be done. My question is simple one? In the world of transportation security which is more important–Understanding the transportation network and its vulnerabilities or the security concerns involving the public access to those systems? After a great deal of thought, but absolutely no expertise in either various transportation systems and very little in security dating from implementing and operating safeguards on nuclear weapons long ago, I have concluded that transfer bact to DOT of TSA even though disruptive is necessary. There is plenty for Homeland Security and its Secretary to do. I don’t fault the Secretary’s comment that the system worked because her job involves trying to get press and MSM to focus on the reality not the fears. But still it seems that these events disclose together with the many posts on HLSWatch.com on aviation screening some basic flaws. Also I continue to fail to understand why puffer technology is not used as part of screening. Hoping someone has answers but what I do know is that technology can give the illusion of protection when it absolutely does nothing of the kind.

]]> Viagra Pedido En Línea - Trusted Online Pharmacy http://www.hlswatch.com/2010/01/08/the-week-year-in-aviation/comment-page-1/#comment-137769 Philip J. Palin Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:43:59 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=7942#comment-137769 My current hypothesis: President Obama is experimenting with politics as homeopathy. According to homeopaths, some diseases can be prevented (or cured) by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people. (Please see: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/homeopathy/) No harm resulted from the failed Christmas day bombing of the Amsterdam to Detroit flight. We are as healthy as before. But after a holiday weekend for quiet consideration, the President and his team have given the event a hot wash as rigorous as if the plane had blown up and crashed into Ford Motors headquarters. For some of us -- at least for me -- this has prompted a vague disquiet analogous to an over-protective parent's zealous treatment of a three-year-old's common cold. The parent's concern is justifiable and difficult to criticize in any detail. At the same time, I worry the response panders to Newtonian illusions about a quantum universe. But my guess is this response is less about what happened or not on Christmas and much more about what is likely to happen before next Christmas. There will be a successful attack. It will be as serious -- or more serious -- than that planned for Northwest 253. In giving smoking underwear such stern treatment the White House is trying to accumulate political and practical immunity for the next more successful attack. As I have sometimes told clients, treat a false alarm as the best full-spectrum exercise you have ever conducted. My current hypothesis: President Obama is experimenting with politics as homeopathy. According to homeopaths, some diseases can be prevented (or cured) by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people. (Please see: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/homeopathy/)

No harm resulted from the failed Christmas day bombing of the Amsterdam to Detroit flight. We are as healthy as before. But after a holiday weekend for quiet consideration, the President and his team have given the event a hot wash as rigorous as if the plane had blown up and crashed into Ford Motors headquarters.

For some of us — at least for me — this has prompted a vague disquiet analogous to an over-protective parent’s zealous treatment of a three-year-old’s common cold. The parent’s concern is justifiable and difficult to criticize in any detail.

At the same time, I worry the response panders to Newtonian illusions about a quantum universe.

But my guess is this response is less about what happened or not on Christmas and much more about what is likely to happen before next Christmas. There will be a successful attack. It will be as serious — or more serious — than that planned for Northwest 253. In giving smoking underwear such stern treatment the White House is trying to accumulate political and practical immunity for the next more successful attack.

As I have sometimes told clients, treat a false alarm as the best full-spectrum exercise you have ever conducted.

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