To imply that the scanners are safe, because the FDA approved them is foolish. The current make-up of the FDA is in the tank for Obama, and they don’t have a stellar record with respect to drug approval over the many years. There are warnings everywhere that to expose yourself to radiation for CAT scans, dental x-rays etc. more often than is absolutely necessary, can have an impact on your future health from the radiation. So we are warned not to expose ourselves to more radiation than is necessary, yet, the same government is exposing the public to radiation that they are warning against in healthcare issues. It’s not just pilots and flight attendants, it also exposes the frequent fliers to the same amount of radiation.

It appears that the current crop of TSA employees, some 67,000 at this time, are not radiation technologists, by any stretch of the imagination. I seriously doubt that a former McDonalds worker is qualified to monitor the scanners, let alone maintain them, if the reports of maintenance are true. Then again the maintenance workers may in fact be those represented by the Scanner manufacturers, Rapidscan, that have a vested interest in the scanners, which is actually worse.

The pilots in fact did have a valid point in their rejection of having to be screened, because they are allowed to carry, but the constant exposure to radiation was an equally valid concern. Perhaps the TSA regs were so premature that they didn’t even consider what the pilots concerns may be, or, the frequent fliers.

As to my paragraph about religion, yup, you are correct, it wasn’t appropriate to this diary. I happened to see one of the quotes in your sig line. As to your reply to those comments, I so totally disagree that the Pope has been conservative, it is pathetic. The Pope is a Socialist no matter how much you want to deny that. Again, I believe in teaching a man to fish, rather than providing him with his fish each day. I grew up hearing sermons about individual charity, and the church steps in to help those that are needy. I never was exposed to preaching about countries and societies redistributing wealth. When they got involved in politics, that’s when I said bye bye. This should convince you that the Pope has definitely gone political, and global-

http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=15054

and that is where my statements come from. It clearly states that the Catholic church must be involved in governmental politics, in order to promote the “common good.” The church has no business in getting involved in politics. The Catholic church should be involved in nothing more than preaching the word of God, and the goodness and charity of each person. Each person is judged on judgement day, not the collective good of the society. That’s what Obama believes. That’s what the faux catholic organizations, started and funded by Soros, such as Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good have been preaching. According to them, if you redeem yourself with promoting the common good, you can support democrats, even those that believe that abortion is OK. Their meme is that if we reduce poverty, and make everyone financially equal, then abortions will be less frequent. Right. I may be a former Catholic, but, it doesn’t mean that I don’t keep up with their positions.

and you are entitled to it. I only linked one article, written by a “father” that prtetty much spells out where the pope is on the redistribution issues. If you want more, go back and read Encyclical 35, it spells out the same positions. The Pope is a Socialist, and, when I realized the Catholic church started getting involved in “politics” it was too much for me. As I said, Christ was more so of the belief that when you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a long time, but, when you give a man a fish, he will become dependent on that handout. I am of the belief that charity comes from the heart, from each individual. and that is what makes the man. Got that, coming from each individual man to one another. The US has been very generous with their foreign aide to other poor countries. We have given more dollars to Africa, for their poverty and starvation, which really does exist, than probably any other nation. Are they less starving despite the monetary donations? NO. The US has given more in dollars and medical research for AIDS, is the incidence of AIDS in Africa less significant now after all that money, NO. Look at what the US did with the disaster in Haiti, not only our government donations, but, as a people we cared very deeply for the plight of the Haitians and many, myself included donated for their cause.

It may be that the Pope believes it is the fraility of each human, that they should give most of what they earn to those amongst us that earn far little, and, the people of this country have proven over and over that Americans are the most generous of any in the world. It is socialistic to believe that we should take from the wealth creators, those that provide jobs in small numbers small or large, strip them of any profit, only to give it to those, that have unfortunatly lost their Christ like way of working for what they get, rather than taking what they can.

Your argument speaks of a person that willfully ignores what the words, in plain english, from the Pope, who more than denigrates the capitalistic system, because it makes the rich richer, and the poor in other third world countries poorer. Who in the hell has tried, for many more than a few years to induce the poorer, third world countries to invigorate, and educate those third world countries people to become much more productive in taking care of their own personal needs with growing crops to feed themselves. Who in the hell has gone into third world countries to educate the people on sanitation, infrastructure etc to teach those people how to not just maintain life, but, how to establish healthy communities. The Catholic church, who has been losing supporters, many of them over the years, is now relying on whole governments and countries political systems to support every human in the world. You’ve seen how the open borders policy, in the US, has decimated our economy, just so we can feed and house, and provide medical care to anyone who crosses the border. The Pope is understandably anti-war, but, he makes it the US position that we can’t allow these poor souls from Mexico to be a product of their government policies that do nothing to provide a country safe from the slaughter of the druggies. How about he makes some statements denigrating the Mexican government system, and, demands that the Mexican government clean up their act for their citizens. Huh, how about he gets really strong on denouncing the violence in Mexico. The Mexicans are strongly Catholic, many of the South American countries are strongly Catholic. How about making strong statements about the governments in those countries. It would be much more Christ-like if he did that rather than to beg any country with any wealth to give and give, and then give more. I haven’t proofed this comment, I’m letting it fly, typos and all. You are naive to believe that the Pope is anything more than a redistributionist globalist socialist.