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And, once again on this trip, I discovered (through omission) that nobody seems to care, or notice, if you have bottles o’ stuff that you don’t pull out and run through the X-Ray Line separately from the rest of your luggage. <\/p>\n

Both going and returning, my bag o’ Potentially Explosive Liquids were indeed 3-oz-or-less containers inside of an Official Approved-Size Zip-Lok — but I neglected to pull them out of my suit case.  No alarms sounded, my suit case didn’t get taken out to the tarmac and detonated remotely, I didn’t get roughed up with truncheons or forced to submit to a strip search.  And this is by no means the first time this has happened.<\/p>\n

What it tells me is that either (a) they simply aren’t noticing it, or (b) they’re noticing it but they simply aren’t making any sort of a deal of it.  Either way — can we get back to actual security measures, rather than this sort of security theater?  I’m tired of having to use those microscopic tubes of toothpaste …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And, once again on this trip, I discovered (through omission) that nobody seems to care, or notice, if you have bottles o’ stuff that you don’t pull out and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10151,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/the_global_war.html","url_meta":{"origin":11307,"position":0},"title":"The Global War on Liquids – Revised Edition","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Aug-06 10:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"The following liquids, previously the weapons of well-known or suspected terrorists, are once again Safe to Bring Aboard Airplanes. 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