It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: Pandora on March 12, 2011, 11:46:23 AM
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The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-11-tsa-scans_N.htm)
The TSA says that the records reflect math mistakes and that all the machines are safe. Indeed, even the highest readings listed on some of the records — the numbers that the TSA says were mistakes — appear to be many times less than what the agency says a person absorbs through one day of natural background radiation.
Math mistakes? Yes.
"the testing procedure calls for the technician to take 10 separate scans" for radiation levels, "add them up and then divide by 10 to take an average. They didn't divide by 10,"
- per Nicholas Kimball, TSA spokeshole.
::facepalm:: These are fcking geniusii, who didn't learn how to calculate an average, responsible for testing and monitoring sophisticated X-ray producing machinery, and have ....
In the past, the TSA has failed to properly monitor and ensure the safety of X-ray devices used on luggage. A 2008 report by the worker safety arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the TSA and its maintenance contractors had failed to detect when baggage X-ray machines emitted radiation beyond what regulations allowed. They also failed to take action when some machines had missing or disabled safety features, the report shows.
There's a full cast of characters involved here; Sen. Susan Collins, Congressman Jason Chaffetz, Prof. Peter Rez, Rapiscan Systems spokesman Peter Kant, the aforementioned Kimball, and John Pistole.
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The TSA is responsible for the safety of its own X-ray devices. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said it does not routinely inspect airport X-ray machines because they are not considered medical devices. The TSA's airport scanners are exempt from state radiation inspections because they belong to a federal agency.
Apparently, nobody is responsible because the TSA is CERTAINLY not responsible.
Read it.
H/T Big Government
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My God. This government is so far over the edge right now, a part of me is just itching for a brave cabal of Generals and Admirals to finally say enough is enough.
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What's amazing to me is there are enough people willing to ignore allll of this and step right up in order to get on their damn plane to wherethehellever.
These people are lying through their teeth; there are five different "explanations" for what's going on here, when the truth is as you say, IDP: the government is just out of fcking control and is going to say and do anything it damn well pleases in pursuit of the goal of total control.
Sonsabtches, all of them.
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At least now we know where the scientists who plowed several space craft into Mars because of "math mistakes" went.
Airplane Crashtest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI-FkWJaVEs#)
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I thought Chaffetz was one of the good guys!!?
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10x's?
Math problem?
Spending, debt...radiation...
Government out of control?
That does compute!
::guillotine::
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My God. This government is so far over the edge right now, a part of me is just itching for a brave cabal of Generals and Admirals to finally say enough is enough.
Our military has been neutered and it's run by career-minded bureaucrats toting the PC line. No hope there. I think we need someone COL or below.
And these machines are screwy b/c they rushed 'em into the field so Chertoff could cash-out...
Am I remembering that correctly? He's gto a stake in the machines?
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So the warm, fuzzy feeling is in reality your guts cooking. Great.
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So the warm, fuzzy feeling is in reality your guts cooking. Great.
Soups and Stews
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What's amazing to me is there are enough people willing to ignore allll of this and step right up in order to get on their damn plane to wherethehellever.
This has been part of my frustration as well. People are most intently concerned with their own pursuits -- their job, their house, their family, their upcoming vacation -- and are willing to put up with "whatever" as long as they're still more or less able to continue these pursuits. On the one hand, it's a completely understandable position. But on the other, you just want to throw up your hands and wonder, is there any sort of principle or ideal that they value more than their 9-5 job or what's on Pay-per-View tonight?
This is an area where the conservative's lack of an "activist gene" is a disadvantage. The Leftists tend to occupy those sheltered little enclaves of the economy -- academia, non-profits, bureaucracy -- where they, at our expense, are more free to pursue ideological goals. They are aware of this, at least subconsciously, and it explains their reaction to what started in Wisconsin with the unions.
Have you seen Braveheart? Towards the beginning of the film it shows the Scots chafing under the abuses of the English, but even in spite of this mistreatment Wallace proclaims his intent to put up with it all as long as he's able to have a piece of land and a family. People remind me of that.
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So until people have their wife die instead of being raped by oppressors they won't act?
Why wait?
People are so stupid!
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Exactly, Glock. Go along to get along mentality isn't just in the halls of Congress. They're all lacking the traits that dominated our Founding Fathers, obedience to the teachings of the Lord, Nature's God.
Put in it's perspective, we clearly can see why we, as a nation, are so totally screwed. ::bashing::
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Totally screwed.
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I thought Chaffetz was one of the good guys!!?
Actually, you're right, he is. My error in stating "all sonsabtches"; should have excepted him.