The Two Least Reassuring Things I’ve Read All Week

Needles found in turkey sandwiches on Delta flights from Amsterdam.

Not-very-reassuring thing #1:

“TSA continues to closely monitor the review of the incidents as well as the security protocols being conducted by the air carrier and the airport authority,” spokesman David Castelveter said.

And not-so-reassuring thing #2:

“Delta requires all its in-flight caterers to adhere to strict criteria in order to offer our customers the very best onboard meals,” Baur told CNN in a statement. “The safety and security of our passengers and crew is Delta’s number one priority.”

So the bad news:  Delta and TSA are on the case.  And if cases can be solved by being late or groping peoples’ nether regions, we’re gold.

The good news?  To the best of my knowledge, Al Quaeda hasn’t figured out how to fit a bomb inside a needle yet.

And I’ll just shut up right now.

14 thoughts on “The Two Least Reassuring Things I’ve Read All Week

  1. Well this might cause a review of Dutch drug law enforcement laxity.
    When I heard this story on the news last night, I thought it was local father-son slip-n-fall team not smart enough to know which one was supposed to plant the needle so they both did it. Then we learn that it was >5 different passengers/sandwiches and….blech. I haven’t yet understood why many people consider it a bad thing that airlines don’t serve food on domestic flights. Aren’t the filthy tops of the soft drink cans enough of sign for you? Always stick with hard liquor in the little airplane bottles. Hopefully the proof is high enough to kill any STD’s the attendants handling the ice cubes might have.

  2. Not-so-reassuring thought #3:
    Airline food is a tiny fraction of the food delivery system in America. I’m no scientist, but I recall that bacteria and viruses are a lot smaller than needles. If a terrorist infiltrated even a medium-sized food producer they could potentially kill thousands.

  3. Based on the above threadjacking from Sanity, someone out there is yanking the nose ring chain and getting the oxen to throw out shiny objects to cover some bad-for-Obama news.
    Hmmm, I wonder if it’s this…
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304388004577530831334228966.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
    or perhaps this…
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303933704577530630389408696.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
    Maybe, Sanity, the White House could stop blaming it’s failures on talk show hosts, 0.002298851 of the Congress or British (like Churchill-the one that didn’t kill Obama’s Grandfather) bankers and look internally at it’s own incompetence and less than capable staff and cabinet secretaries.
    Back to the topic at hand – Sanity, does it concern you that someone/some entity was able to place needles in sandwiches on an inbound US flagged carrier and our nations security apparatus is said to be “looking into it”?

  4. Sanity must be pulling his hair out since he found out that Chip Cravaack has been endorsed by a union! God forbid that a traditionally liberat organization doesn’t endorse a DemocRAT!

  5. Well, I feel so much better knowing now that the TSA is on the case. Actually, not really. I’d prefer the FBI.

  6. @Sanity:
    And the reason you believe anything you read in the New York Times is….

  7. Well, mnbubba, Sanity and the other liberat trolls on this thread are so used to slimy organizations like A4ABM use them as sources for their lies and smear jobs. Further, being dedicated useful idiots of the DemocRAT party, they have no use for facts or truth, if they hurt their communist causes!

  8. If it turns out to be true that the US is playing both sides in the Middle East, meaning the US is supporting some islamists in certain situations as the least-undesireable alternative . . . will Bachmann still be crazy and dangerous for whistle-blowing about it?

  9. “If it turns out to be true that the US is playing both sides in the Middle East, meaning the US is supporting some islamists in certain situations as the least-undesireable alternative”

    That’s called diplomacy. Heads of state and their diplomats talk to each other. That’s the way it’s done. If Morsi is in power then you negotiate with his admin, same as was done with Mubarek or Nasser or Sadat. US doesn’t get to pick (well, most of the time) who was elected, so you deal with whoever it is through diplomatic channels.

    Not sure what Bachmann is thinking here, besides trying to make some political points to her base. If she believes US government is infiltrated, why did she announce it publicly? Why not work with CIA and Homeland Security, quietly, to out and prosecute these dangerous infiltrators?

    http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/17/rep-keith-ellison-on-ac360-muslim-infiltration-claims-not-true/?hpt=ac_t1

    Ellison makes the same points in the video here (click on image at top left).

  10. I’ve been wondering why Bachmann is being shelled by her own party on this. After all, she’s gotten away with lies and outrageous, baseless statements for years. I’ve come to this conclusion: Michelle Bachmann’s unfounded comments put at risk the safety and integrity of the Secretary of State during a diplomatic mission overseas.

    This is a cardinal sin, akin to treason.

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