Moveon.org and Talk Radio Agree and the World Keeps Turning

I never thought there would be an issue where the Left and the Right agree. Well, there was that family cap issue in New Jersey welfare where both pro-abortion and pro-life groups agreed, but that was the last century.

Both the Right and the Left are in agreement on the TSA x-ray screening and the pat downs that either follow or are used as an alternative. And the world keeps turning. I am not sure how I feel about this, the issue of x-ray screenings, not the agreement.

Here are my thoughts:

* For those of us who fly every month, if not every week I have concerns about the level of radiation we are receiving

* For children who are still growing I have concerns about the level of radiation they are receiving

* Wouldn't it make sense to only subject those who meet a level of threat assessment to enhanced screening (I like to say when 6 foot tall, pale Black women start crashing planes into buildings or taking flying lessons with no interest in landing you can pull me out of the line every time for additional screening. At least until I and every other pale, Black woman confronts our peers and stops the threat)

* Do we need protection against underwear bombers if during the year it took to put this technology in place there was not a single copy cat?

* Rather than responding to the last big terrorist attack, shouldn't we be looking for a way of preventing the next big terrorist attack?

* Using this technology for those traveling by train, subway and boat? Really?

* Can someone please tell me why we are not using bomb sniffing canines? They are inexpensive, thrilled when they find something and only offend the ethnic group that so far has been responsible for the attacks. And by the way, the dogs are truly impartial.

* I personally like the deterrent effect of having automatic weapon carrying, military personnel in my airport

So those are the musing of someone who can't believe who we are becoming. And if both the far Left and far Right agree it makes me think that there are no shades of gray in just plain wrong.

The quote from Benjamin Franklin in 1775 keeps running through my head--"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."