{"id":36650,"date":"2013-06-02T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/02\/fly-with-a-complementary-beverage-and-a-free-x-ray.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:13:38","slug":"fly-with-a-complementary-beverage-and-a-free-x-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/02\/fly-with-a-complementary-beverage-and-a-free-x-ray.html","title":{"rendered":"Fly\u00a0with a complementary beverage AND a free X-ray!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Actually, complementary beverages are becoming a thing of the past for most passengers in Steerage Class. But the free X-ray seems to be gone, too, as the TSA has done away with the "stand between two sinister boxes" pornoscanners that used X-rays. \u00a0The "step into the disintegration chamber" pornoscanners, which use microwaves are still in place.<\/p>\n

Most of the health concerns raised about the program were with the x-ray scanners, so that's all good (though the TSA never conceded the basis for any concerns). \u00a0The porno portion of the pornoscanners has been (we hear) largely done away with, the displays simply highlighting areas that agents should pat down, and (we are assured) the actual millimeter wave prints of our unreveaed bodies not (we are promised) saved anywhere (honest).<\/p><\/div>\n

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TSA removes ‘nude scanners’ from airports<\/a>
\n The “nude scanners” are gone.\n <\/p>\n

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Actually, complementary beverages are becoming a thing of the past for most passengers in Steerage Class. But the free X-ray seems to be gone, too, as the TSA has done away with the "stand between two sinister boxes" pornoscanners that used X-rays. \u00a0The "step into the disintegration chamber" pornoscanners, which use microwaves are still in … Continue reading “Fly\u00a0with a complementary beverage AND a free X-ray!”<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,132,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-privacy","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32236,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/so-long-some-scanners.html","url_meta":{"origin":36650,"position":0},"title":"So Long\u00a0(Some) Scanners","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Jan-13 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"So this is actually good news:1. The Rapiscan scanners (the two big boxes you'd walk between) used X-Rays and were the source of most health concerns. \u00a0The L3-Communications millimeter-wave scanners (the ones, like those in Denver, that look like Eminiar Disintegration Chambers) haven't been as worrisome.2. 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