Once again, government knows what is best for us.

Apparently parents in Santa Clara county California are incapable of telling their kids “no”, so they got county officials to do it for them.  In a three-to-two vote by officials, toy premiums are banned in any incorporated part of the country from being included in what is considered a high-calorie meal pack.  Toys can only be included with meals that meat certain nutritional requirements.

“This ordinance prevents restaurants from preying on children’s’ love of toys” to sell high-calorie, unhealthful food,” Supervisor Ken Yeager told The Los Angeles Times.  ”This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes.”

On one side of the argument were doctors and parents, on the other were fast food franchisees, some other parents and toy collectors.  As a compromise to get the measure passed, there is a 90-day window for them to alter their menus to conform with the new rules.

Here is an idea …

Mom, I want a Happy Meal!

Too bad, have an apple.

Wow, see how hard that was?

No, instead lets have a law passed where the government has no business being involved.  You wasted time on this.  You will waste enforcement on this.  And why?  Because a bunch of parents lack the ability to say “no” to their kids  Here’s another idea, I’ll give it to you for free … GROW A PAIR!

This is not something the government needs to be involved with, but when does that stop anyone any more?

The Lower Merion School District which came to some fame as of late, has made another in a long line blunders when it comes to its court case.

In case you don’t remember the story, Lower Merion School District was the school district that had a class action lawsuit against because it used a secuity tracking system that not only located the computer, but would take images via the built-in webcam that was installed into every computer.  The school district claims that it was only ever turned on 42 times by school order, but now it is coming to light that once it was turned on, that meant it could take pictures every 15 minutes for at least two weeks.

According to Philly.com, mixed into the latest batch of documents turned over to the plaintiffs, there were reportedly thousands of pictures of Blake Robbins, the boy whom this whole case revolves around.  Reportedly Mr. Robbins failed to pay the insurance fee on his school issued laptop, and his taking it off school property was reason enough for his cam to be activated.  The problem is that Mr. Robbins was confronted about being involved with drugs due to an image taken of him in his home while eating Mike & Ike candies.

Once the camera issue came to light, and the class action suit begun, things have been crazy with this story.  Now, after a couple of weeks of quiet we find out that the school watched this supposedly “stolen” laptop for two wees.  Amongst the pictures were images of Blake Robbins in various stages of undress, asleep and so on.  Also visible in some of the pictures are his family who have no clue that they are being filmed.

According to court documents, the Robbins’ camera was activated on Oct. 20, 2009 and ran until at least Nov. 11, 2009 when he was confronted, making for a total 22 days this camera was turned on and taking pictures, and also taking screen captures of whatever happened to be on his computer screen at that time.  Are you trying to tell me that in three weeks they couldn’t figure out this boy’s identity?  You had his picture, you had his IP address to help with locating his home, but it wasn’t until he was playing with “pills” that you did anything?

While lawyers for the school say the lawsuit is falling apart, the government is still looking at what possible laws the school violated.  Also, Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) has proposed new legislation which would fold video surveillance into wiretap laws.

Amongst all this it seems that Carol Cafiero, information systems coordinator for the school district who is currently on leave, plead the fifth in her questioning over what transpired.  What do you have to hide Ms. Cafiero?  Either you did your job, or something else was going on.  Perhaps you realize three weeks of surveillance might be deemed a tad bit excessive?

Didn’t Kentucky Fried Chicken change its name to KFC some years ago to get away from the idea of it being unhealthy for you? Could someone please explain this abomination called the “Double Down” to me then?

Launching on April 12th, the Double Down is a sandwich that replaces the bread with either two pieces of original recipe chicken or grilled chicken.  The makings of the this thing?  Why cheese, bacon and some sort of sauce, of course.

Is this some sort of insanity?  In a country that has taken to constantly complaining about how it needs to lose more weight, and we have multiple television shows dedicated to this concept, someone at KFC actually thought this was a good idea?  To me it looks like a heart attack waiting to happen.

Many people are pointing out that the calories aren’t “that bad”, but have you looked at the sodium?  It’s about half of your total daily recommendation in just one “sandwich”.

Oh yeah, let me get in line now for this.  Believe me, no one really needs this thing, and, oh yeah, with that much sodium, you better get the large drink, and that will add how many calories to this meal?

This thing is like something a bachelor makes when he’s living alone, but doesn’t ever show it to someone else.  Somehow this one snuck out and is going to be mass produced.

I say avoid it like the plague.

Ah, those lovable rapscallions at the Westboro Baptist Church are back for another round, but this time they are taking on someone who won’t just ignore them.

On March 27th Kevin Smith, director of such films as Clerks, Dogma, Cop Out and more, will be giving one of his talks in Kansas City.  You can’t exactly call them “lectures” as they are more just him telling stories about the more insane things that happen in his life.  Well, apparently since he will be in the “neighborhood”, Fred Phelps and his band of loons will be making an appearance at the show … for a whole 45-minutes.

(apologies for the language it contains)

Mr. Smith, never being one to shy away from controversy, has spent most of the day taunting them via his Twitter account.  Or more specifically he has been exchanging barbs with Megan Phelps-Roper, a member of the church who sounds like she is related, but I can’t find the connection on Fred Phelps Wikipedia page.

As I’ve said before when this “church” tried to say that Santa was going to take you to Hell, and they were going off to protest a Lady Gaga concert, I just simply don’t get these people.  Do they honestly crave attention this much?  They know that people view them as idiots, and yet they appear to revel in this fact.  Reading Ms. Phelps-Roper’s Twitter stream, you can tell she is ecstatic that Mr. Smith is mocking her.

If you are a devout follower of the Bible it does say you should spread the word of the Lord, but does it have a passage I missed that said something about “act completely insane while doing it, and make sure to be as offensive as possible”?  I mean, I’ve spent my time in church, I’ve read the Bible, somehow I think I missed that passage.

I suppose to each their own, but I can think of much better things to do with my time than to be a national laughing stock that most people consider to be mentally unstable.

Classmates.com has reached a settlement in a class action suit that could see it paying out up to $9.5 million to unhappy customers.

TechFlash is reporting that Classmates.com will pay either $3 or give a $2 credit for renewals to up to 3.16 residents of the United States who were mislead by e-mails that indicated they needed to sign up for a Gold membership to see what old friends were trying to contact them on the site.  After paying for the membership they would discover that in fact no one had tried contacting them.  The settlement covers anyone who signed up with the site as far back as Oct. 30, 2004.

As part of the agreement (PDF link), Classmates has not admitted any wrong doing.

Seeing as I have received many of these e-mails over the years, I have to agree they are exceedingly misleading in their wording.  While I was unaware of the class action suit having even been filed, I will certainly be following the process to filing my claim.  It may only be $3, but I will gladly take any money from this company that I can get considering my argument with them last summer.

Combined with their declining visitors and membership, I’m amused by watching this site fall.  I’m not one for reveling in the decline of a business, but after the way I saw how they treated customers, and the fact that they hold on to every penny for dear life, good riddance to them.

The sad thing is that even though 3.16 million people are eligible for this pay out, only a fraction of them will ever file for the money they have been rewarded.  They’ll feel it isn’t worth the effort, or they won’t ever even know about it.  I would love to see all of them file for it, but I’m not exactly going to hold my breath for that to happen.

Hmm, two posts down and I still don’t feel like the company has gotten their $59 worth of advertising for the money they refused to refund to me.  Don’t worry  Classmates, I’ll make sure you get your whole value!

The saga of the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania is getting another chapter added to it: The FBI and local detectives have entered the picture.

The other day I reported on a class action lawsuit (PDF link) being filed against the Lower Merion School District over the discovery that the school district could remotely activate the webcams in the 2300 laptops it had issued to students.  The information came to light when 15-year-old Blake Robbins was called to the Asst. principals office and was accused of “improper behavior in his home.”  As evidence of his poor behavior, he was presented with prints outs of images taken from a laptop’s webcam.

District spokesman Doug Young said that the cameras had been activated 42 times in the past 18-months in an effort to to find lost or stolen computers, of which 18 had been recovered.  Although Mr. Young would not specify why this particular camera that saw Mr. Robbins had been activated, he told the Associated Press, “infer what you want.”  However, according to Philly.com, Mr. Robbins told the media gathered outside of his home recently that the image was of him eating Mike & Ike candies, which the school mistook for illegal pills.

Whatever the case may be in the situation with Mr. Robbins, the school district’s ability to activate the cameras had never been revealed to the students or their families in any way.  This has now gotten the attention of both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Montgomery County detectives over the possibility that the school violated both wiretapping and computer-intrusion laws.

The school district reports that the software which allowed them to remotely activate the camera’s has now been deactivated, but that isn’t putting any student’s minds at ease.  Reportedly the students have begun placing tape over the webcams built into their school-issued Apple laptops, and who can blame them?  The school has given permission for the students to cover the cameras, but, honestly, did they have a choice at this point in time?  And furthermore, if I was a student in this school district, they would be finding the laptop on their front lawn the moment I learned they could do this.

Dr. Christopher W. McGinley, the superintendent of the school district, has released a letter and a list of answers to frequently asked questions, one of which somewhat supports Mr. Robbins claims about the candies if you read between the lines (which you kind of have to do with each of his very carefully worded answers):

1. Did an assistant principal at Harriton ever have the ability to remotely monitor a student at home? Did she utilize a photo taken by a school-issued laptop to discipline a student?

• No. At no time did any high school administrator have the ability or actually access the security- tracking software. We believe that the administrator at Harriton has been unfairly portrayed and unjustly attacked in connection with her attempts to be supportive of a student and his family. The district never did and never would use such tactics as a basis for disciplinary action.

Well, that’s nice and all, but the Asst. principal was never accused of being the one to access the camera, she simply had a print out of the image. Secondly, the lawsuit never mentions disciplinary action, it just says he was accused of “improper behavior in his home.”  And, I’m sorry, but being “supportive of a student and his family” involves showing a teenage boy an image that proves we can see in to your home?  Oh, I feel all warm and safe now!

No matter how you slice it, the school district messed up, and it messed up in a spectacular fashion.  No matter what Mr. Robbins did or did not do is not the point here.  The point is that a school district, no matter how altruistic its motives may have been, hid software capable of spying on someone in their own home without their knowledge.  Dr. McGinley admits it was wrong of them to not inform the students and their families of the software, which he fully admits they did not, and this shows such a spectacular lack of judgement that I would question every thing to do with this school system at this point.

A school is somewhere you are supposed to be able to send your children and feel safe in doing so.  Knowing that the school saw no problem in keeping vital information from you such as, “Oh, by the way, we can look at your child any time we want, even at home, without telling you” just goes beyond the pale.

Again I say, this is not about Mr. Robbins and what he may or may not have done, but it is very distinctly about a growing and worrying trend of schools overstepping the boundaries of common sensibilities.  What’s next?  Handcuffing a 12-year-old for doodling on her desk?  Oh … wait … that already happened.  Okay, how about handcuffing a six-year-old for throwing a temper tantrum?  Surely they wouldn’t … oh … dang it.

In short … are you sure you know what your public school is doing to “protect” your kids?

It seems that handcuffing school children has become the new favorite method for getting problems under control.

Haley Shalansky, a six-year-old first grader in Port St. Lucie, Fla. was handcuffed at Parkway Elementary on Fed. 3rd after throwing a tantrum. Because she only weight 37 lbs, both of her wrists were put into the same cuff, causing bruising.  According to a report on WPBF, the following day the girl threw another tantrum and reportedly hit the school principal who is eight months pregnant.  At that point the young girl was removed from school and taken to New Horizons mental health facility to be committed.

Reading over the two sides of the story, they differ greatly, but I think the only thing they do agree on is that the girl does have behavioral issues.  That being said, she needed to be handcuffed?  She needed to be “committed”?  They couldn’t have called her parents and simply told them to pick her up?  The school says that they have attempted multiple times to arrange meetings with the parents regarding Hayley’s behavior, but the parents have failed to show up for any of them.  Okay, fine, problem there, but that doesn’t excuse the seeming extreme measures the school took in the situations.

According to TCPalm, the parents, Kathy Franklin and Mickey Shalansky, have a history of problems with the school district, and were even arrested last year for failure to appear in truancy court when a nine-year-old daughter missed 17 days of school without doctor’s notes.  It doesn’t sound like these two are going to win any parenting awards, I get that, but simply going by the facts, the school and authorities mis-handled this situation.

The sheriff’s department claims that they handcuffed the girl to keep her from harming herself, but that still doesn’t seem like something that falls under their purview.  Why wasn’t child protective services called?  You leap immediately from tantrums to a mental institution?

I called my 89-year-old grandmother who is a retired school teacher.  She taught in inner city Phoenix and her class was made up exclusively of the students the school felt were “lost causes”, she dealt with weapons, tantrums and every other scenario you can think of under the sun, and even she thought this situation was handled incorrectly.  Her biggest issue was the handcuffing of the girl, “Her fight-or-flight instinct would have kicked in and she would have ended up harming herself even worse due to just her instincts taking over.”  I asked her if she would have ever had a child handcuffed for throwing a tantrum to which she replied, “Sean, I didn’t have them handcuffed for weapons, tantrums you just ignore.”

My grandmother is what you call “a tough cookie.”

This is the second case of a student being handcuffed in as many weeks.  The other case happened in Queens, NY where Alexa Gonzalez was taken away in handcuffs for doodling on a desk in erasable marker.  What is happening in our public schools?  When did handcuffing a student become a common practice for situations that would have previously called for detentions or just speaking to a mental health worker?  By today’s standards I’m not sure what would have happened to me in school.  I was well-known to school officials for my lack of respect and desire to question their authority.  True, I never threw things or damaged school property, but I probably would have been hauled off in handcuffs at some point.

Have schools lost so much control that they now have to rule by intimidation and fear of retribution?  Something is wrong in our schools, folks, and it isn’t the kids.

Thanks to Jo from Jo’s Cafe for bringing this story to my attention.

It would seem that public schools have totally lost their minds.

Alexa Gonzalez, a 12-year-old girl from Queens, New York, was recently taken out of her school in handcuffs and walked over to a police prescient across from her school.  Once there she was detained for several hours until she was released to her mother.

Her crime?  She doodled on her school desk with erasable marker.

According to the New York Daily News, Ms. Gonzalez scribbled on her desk, again, in erasable marker, “I love my friends Abby and Faith” and “Lex was here. 2/1/10″ followed by a smiley face.  Upon discovery of the doodles, the police were called and that was when she was escorted from the school in handcuffs.

She is currently suspended from school and has gone to family court where her sentence was eight hours of community service, a book report and an essay about what she has learned from the experience.

Excuse me, but what in the heck is going on here?

Don’t get me wrong, the girl shouldn’t have doodled on her desk, but it was erasable.  Whatever happened to the teacher saying something like, “Ms. Gonzalez, you’re going to have to clean that up and you have after school detention”?  Since when was the proper procedure to handcuff a pre-teen causing her emotional anguish over some doodles? David Cantor, a spokesman for the Education Department, said, “We’re looking at the facts. Based on what we’ve seen so far, this shouldn’t have happened.”

Gee … you think?

What about the police, though? They are also coupable in this disgrace. “Even when we’re asked to make an arrest, common sense should prevail, and discretion used in deciding whether an arrest or handcuffs are really necessary,” said police spokesman Paul Browne.

Again … you think?

I don’t even agree with the suspension, and I certainly don’t agree with the sentence that family court handed down. All any of this has done is to make Ms. Gonzalez distrustful of the school and justice systems, and with good reason.  They were doodles, in erasable marker … make her clean them up, give her detention, end of story.

Admittedly we have not heard if Ms. Gonzalez had prior disciplinary problems, but it doesn’t sound as if she had, and even then, involving the police, let alone the handcuffs, are excessive unless she got violent and threw a fit.  Again, it does not sound like she did either of those things.

Where has common sense gone?  I can see one person failing in their thought process, but this took multiple people to act like idiots.  Did no one in this process not go, “Um … she doodled … that’s it.”  Nope, multiple people seem to have all lost sense of their faculties and gone along with this farce.

Someone stop the world, I wanna get off.

It seems that if you’re a talentless hack in Hollywood, you too can earn $125 million in Hollywood.

According to Vanity Fair, the biggest money earning individual in Hollywood in 2009 was Michael Bay, director of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen.  His income apparently came from the following sources

• $75 million: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (back-end profit participation for directing and producing, based on worldwide box-office gross of $835 million)
• $28 million: Transformers: R.O.T.F. (share of estimated $280 million in DVD revenue)
• $12.5 million: Transformers: R.O.T.F. (share of toy and other licensing royalties)
• $4 million: Friday the 13th (back end for producing, based on worldwide gross of $90 million, and share of DVD)
• $2 million: The Unborn (back end for producing, based on worldwide gross of $77 million, and share of DVD)
• $2 million: A Nightmare on Elm Street (fee for producing inexplicable remake)
• $1.5 million: Royalties from older films, other income

While I think the whole thing is fairly silly, the part that is blowing me away is the fact he earned $12.5 million from a share of the toys and licensing … excuse me?

Michael Bay is brought in to make a movie based on characters he had nothing to do with.  He has to go to Hasbro, the makers of the toys, before each film to discuss with them what characters they will allow him to use.  So how in the world is he getting paid a cut of the toys, let alone licensing fees for the characters to be used elsewhere?  He didn’t create Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee or any of the others, so why should he be getting paid a dime?

The other stuff he earned … oh well, whatever, when you have no talent beyond making things look pretty when they explode, I guess you have to play to your strengths, and if it makes you some money in the meantime, why not?

I’ve discovered over the years that one of the keys to a long and happy life is to just simply not discuss religion. Sure I have my occasional dances with the Church of Scientology, but that isn’t really about religion. Define Pat Robertson’s comments about the tragedy in Haiti any way you want, but I’m still going to condemn them and call the man an asshat.

Lets get this out of the way first: the tragedy in Haiti is mind numbing in its magnitude.  Some estimates put the death toll at north of 500,000, and that is a number that is almost too large for the human mind to comprehend.  My heart goes out to the people of Haiti as they try to work through this horrific tragedy.

However, people like Pat Robertson are not helping.

In a recent segment on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr. Robertson said the following in regards to the tragedy in Haiti:

And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.” True story. And so, the devil said, “OK, it’s a deal.”

My personal favorite moment is when he says, “True story.” Really? You have documented proof of this, Mr. Robertson? Is it notarized by the Notary Public of Hell?

Where do you even start with how wrong this whole thing is?  Not only does he talk about some supposed pact with the Devil (true story!), but he calls the earthquake “a blessing in disguise” in the full video clip below.  Mr. Robertson, you sir, are an asshat.  Plain and simple.  Why, I would go so far as to call you the King of the Asshats.  Wear your crown with pride, sir.

It’s official: Bono is a complete tool.

In the past U2 has allowed its manager, Paul McGuinness, to be the mouthpiece any time the band wanted to make pointed comments about the evils of file sharing.  He has never measured his words and even likened ISPs to shoplifters.  However, over the weekend, U2 front man Bono decided to finally speak for himself in an editorial he wrote for The New York Times.

Caution! The only thing protecting the movie and TV industries from the fate that has befallen music and indeed the newspaper business is the size of the files. The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we’re just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of “24” in 24 seconds. Many will expect to get it free.

A decade’s worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators — in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can’t live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least sympathetic among us — and the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business.

We’re the post office, they tell us; who knows what’s in the brown-paper packages? But we know from America’s noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China’s ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it’s perfectly possible to track content. Perhaps movie moguls will succeed where musicians and their moguls have failed so far, and rally America to defend the most creative economy in the world, where music, film, TV and video games help to account for nearly 4 percent of gross domestic product. Note to self: Don’t get over-rewarded rock stars on this bully pulpit, or famous actors; find the next Cole Porter, if he/she hasn’t already left to write jingles.

Where do I even begin with how wrong he’s gotten this whole thing?

The fight to stop child pornography online is a very different creature than fighting copyright infringement that uses completely different technology.  Most file sharing is done via peer-to-peer software across what are known as BitTorrent services.  (I explained in-depth how the technology works in a past article, so you can go there if you want to read the full description.)  Most child pornography is traded in private message boards and not across open networks such as BitTorrent so that the parties involved can keep a closer eye on who is involved in the file trading.

In other words, Bono is comparing apples and oranges when it comes to technology and the manners in which those people can be hunted down and stopped.  As for the example he cites in China, again, apples and oranges.  His complete lack of understanding of the fundamentals of how file sharing is done is atrocious for a man who is putting himself out there at the forefront of the fight.  If you’re going to speak publicly on such matters, you might want to at least have a basic understanding of the subject at hand.

Note to self: Don’t get over-rewarded rock stars on this bully pulpit, or famous actors; find the next Cole Porter, if he/she hasn’t already left to write jingles.

I quoted this part again because the whole self-deprecating aspect of this was just so heavy-handed and an obvious attempt at trying to deflect any criticism of his saying all of this as to make it laughable.

Big rock stars have not had much luck taking on music piracy, just ask Lars Ulrich of Metallica how it worked out for him and his band.  They were some of the biggest critics of Napster back in the day, and it took them years to recover from the backlash of music fans that couldn’t stand the idea of one of the richest musicians in the world telling them how sharing music with one another was wrong.  Yeah, it didn’t work out too well for them, and it won’t work too well for you either, Bono.

The other issue is if you talk to small bands  – their interviews are all over the Web — they like file sharing.  Getting to be a known band in this day and age without major label support is next to impossible.  File sharing has provided them with a grassroots way to promote their work, and, in turn, get people to come to their shows and buy t-shirts.  This is where the real money is made for any act as the royalties paid on music are tiny at best, hence why t-shirts cost $25 at shows when it costs them only a dollar or two to produce them.  (note: I’ve been involved in t-shirt manufacturing … trust me on the cost …)

I spoke recently about how Bono is an idiot after the U2 concert was shown on YouTube.  Basically this man can’t open his mouth any more without sticking his foot in up to his ankle.  His inflated sense of self-importance has reached a point of sickening.  Whether it’s about how “green” his band is, or how he has no understanding about the evil technology he has chosen to attack, this guy really should just shut up before he makes himself look like an even bigger fool.

At what point are they just going to ban people from flights?

The evidence is growing that the government and security are at fault for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab getting the opportunity to set burn himself in his failed terrorist attack on a flight arriving in Detroit, Michigan.  Thankfully the flight crew and passengers reacted quickly to thwart disaster, but it also appears that there were mistakes made well before he tried detonating his device.

According to CNN, Umaru Abdul Mutallab, father of the would be terrorist, contacted. the U.S. Embassy weeks before the attack with concerns that his son was going to attempt something.  A source also told CNN that Umaru had contacted other security agencies possibly up to three months ago about his worries over a text message his son had sent him about going to Yemen.

Umar was placed on a watch list, but not the “no fly” list.  He was allowed to keep his passport and visa which allowed him to board that Northwest flight that he tried to bring down.  Authorities are saying they didn’t have enough evidence to take these actions.

Bull.

If a family is coming to you and saying, “Hey, we think our son has fallen in with a bad crowd, we think he is talking with terrorists and we think he is going to take action,” then you do something about it.  I mean, I certainly don’t have access to how many such reports security agencies get like this, but I would think if a father is telling you they think their son has turned to terrorism, I think I would give it a bit more credence than some random report.

Add to this he was on a watch list, why was he not checked more throughly before his flight?  Was he pulled aside for extra screening?  The government of the Netherlands is saying they did everything properly, but have they released security tapes to show us this?

So now we all get punished with new regulations due to government officials not taking a threat seriously enough.  From Air Canada’s Web site:

New rules imposed by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration also limit on-board activities by customers and crew in U.S. airspace that may adversely impact on-board service. Among other things, during the final hour of flight customers must remain seated, will not be allowed to access carry-on baggage, or have personal belongings or other items on their laps.

This means no going to the bathroom folks.  Ever tried with a small child?  I haven’t, but I have observed enough of it to know this is not going to go over well with parents.  No accessing carry-on baggage?  Hope you don’t need to change a diaper.  Have type-1 diabetes?  Hope you don’t need an insulin shot.

Thus far these has been no word on these rules being put in place for domestic flights inside the United States or on outbound international flights, but I would be surprised to see some of these pop up this week.

I am all for safety, don’t get me wrong on that, but I find it infuriating that everyone is so quick to put new rules in place on the travelers as opposed to looking into what went wrong with the reports that were made about this man before he even boarded a flight.  Are these investigations coming?  Will they be made public?  Who knows, but until then, lets make sure we treat every air passenger as a criminal … and don’t you dare go to the bathroom.