Chocolate French Toast and a Fairy Tale
64No Excuse!
Good morning beloved breakfastpoppers. Today is Fairy Tale Friday, December 9 in the year of our kingdom 2011. I am afraid I have to warn you that the kingdom's Transportation Security Administration has gone berserk and attempting to fly out of the kingdom could prove to be more than a little troubling. I want to explain what is going on but I feel that our meeting should take place under the cover of darkness in a secret location. The TSA must not learn of our meeting as the consequences could be quite disastrous. Let's meet in the Forest of Forgotten Trees by the Babbling Brook With No Fish. First, as is our custom, we must prepare our morning repast. This morn we will be creating Chocolate French Toast.
You will need to gather together 6 slices of thick sliced brioche, 3 large eggs, 1/4 cup half and half cream, 1/2 cup chocolate malt powder, 2 tablespoons butter and 1 dash of salt.
In a medium shallow bowl, beat the eggs with the cream, malt and salt. Set it aside. Slice your brioche into triangles. Heat skillet to medium and melt 1 tablespoon butter. Dip your slices in the egg mixture and place in skillet. Cook on each side until golden brown. Add the rest of the butter and continue with the rest of the slices. Wrap up the toast and bring along some syrup and butter. I will be there waiting for you with plenty of Irish Coffees to go around. Please make sure you aren't followed by a TSA agent. That's the last thing we need.
Hello my friends, The TSA , or as I like to refer to them as the Too Stupid Agency is at it again. It seems that it is now in vogue to terrorize and victimize elderly women. Three such women were strip searched very recently at New York's JFK International airport. All of the victim's were on their way to Florida. All had medical problems. One woman had a defibrillator and did not want to risk going through the the scanning machine. Another had a colostomy bag and a third diabetes. All three were taken into a private room at the terminal and forced to disrobe. All three complied, but were mortified. The first woman to come forward was Lenore Zimmerman 84 years old, the second was Ruth Sherman 88 years old and the third was Linda Kallish who was in her sixtes and had to disrobe to prove she had a insulin pump attached to her thigh.
We can only conclude that the TSA are a bunch of incompetent idiots who couldn't identify a security threat if their own lives depended on it. This had to be such a frightening and humiliating experience that I can't believe the women survived it.
Apparently ailing elderly women are a security threat, but a woman at Newark Airport who packed 5 disarmed grenades in her luggage is not. She was on her way to Belgium. Unbelievably, baggage screeners discovered the grenades while x-raying her luggage. She gave up her grenades and boarded her plane. Personally, I wouldn't have enjoyed sitting next to her.
The moral of this story is this. Elderly infirm ladies pose a significant security risk but grenade carrying women do not. A bit of advice, if you want to pack your grenades, swords and sabers, just go ahead and place them in your luggage, but please leave your grandma at home...POP...
Lady, take off your coat real slow
Take off your shoes
Take off your dress, yes, yes
But you can leave your insulin pump on!
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The TSA like so many government run agencies has crossed the line, and will continue to gain power. How long will it be before we will see TSA checkpoints on our nations highways when crossing state lines? This of course sounds far fetched, but is it impossible? I think not. Any agency who continues to grow in size and power is a threat to our very freedoms. The mere existence of the TSA is a victory for the terrorist organizations that caused them to be created. If there is any other way to travel, I now refuse to fly because of the TSA. I have a metal hip that guarantees me "extra" screening at the airport check in process. Surely there are others who feel like I do, and this has had to impact the airline industry in their pocket books. Other countries have security measures in place that are more efficient and less costly than our TSA goons.
Great hub.
Good morning Tom,
That is incredible. You have correctly pinpointed our meeting place. I see you recognize that it is indeed the legislators that babble and not the brook! See you at the Inn and then have a marvelous week-end.
Good morning Old Poolman,
I used to fly all the time. i haven't lately because I have no desire to go through that scanner and I will never allow one of those creeps to touch me! A lot of power in the hands of an idiot is a mighty dangerous thing. See you at the Inn. There are no screeners there...yet...
This hub pinpoints the most serious problem our country faces, so, I will pose this question: just how much will we put up with. As a "senior citizen", I am often greeted by young clerks in stores with the terms sweetie, hon,or even babe, terms I see as demeaning. I have decided to start saying something to these little darlings to let them know I am not senile. We must realize that government officals look on us as not smart enough to realize what they are doing to us and we are proving them correct by our silence. So let us start small by correcting the clerks, waiters, and any one else who choose to demean us, and work our way up to the big boys in government. You will be amazed how good it feels to put some people in their place. Most of the time, silence is indeed golden, but with someone's foot on your neck, it is time to speak out, don't you think?!!
POP: Here we go again. These TSA screeners are only following orders - but where is the manager/supervisor who can make an informed decision to waive the strip search? If you know what an insulin pump looks like, and know where it is placed on the body, you don't need to strip search. Don't get me wrong - I am not defending these TSA screeners. My point is that they are told what to do, and there is no one there with the authority to make an alternative decision. This is government work at its finest. I really feel for these three women. I don't know that I would be so cooperative, but I guess you have to be if you want to get on the plane. I've said it before. Go to Israel and see how the Israelis do it. I believe they have the best system in the world.
I'm off to the Inn - Save me a seat....
The terrorists never use the same method twice, so the TSA is just shutting the gate after the horse has escaped. After all, how many terrorists have they caught?
The airline industry is near collapse because so many no longer fly. What used to be a pleasant way to travel has now become a nightmare, where paying customers are all assumed to be criminals, and treated that way.
There has to be a better way.
Pop, security hassles stopped me from flying years ago as so many steel bars and plates bolted in my old hide set alarms off and searches were always a pain, now this crap, I'm driving or staying put, screw the idiots, see you at the inn, 50
Here in Florida, all of these Ladies have been interview, and it's so Pathetic to hear their stories. I'm sure they all looked like Security risks, Ha, Ha. Meanwhile some "crazy" person is by passed, oh well...Have a Wonderful Weekend.
We have come a long way from the 'common sense' writers of our Constitution to the Keystone Cop episode of today
Dear Larry,
Bravo!! You bet I think it is time to speak out. Seniors have enormous voting power and clout and it is time it was used. Thanks so much for coming to the breakfast table. I am happy you don't let people get away with being rude.
Dear Pino,
After the incident with Ms Zimmerman the supervisors said that it was not TSA policy to strip search. The screeners are poorly trained and, for me, that is the bottom line. This trend simply can't continue. it is insane. See you at the Inn. I'm leaving in a few minutes.
Dear Will,
You bet there has to be a better way. Let the TSA go to Israel and learn a thing or two. Flying is a nightmare thanks to the TSA being incompetent. See you at the Inn.
Dear 50,
I'm with you. What's next exploratory surgery!!!! See you at the Inn. No check points there.
Dear b. Mailin,
You were smart to drive to Florida. I would rather walk than fly at this point. See you at the Inn and enjoy the weekend.
Dear Logrhed,
You're right and what a sad observation that is. Come to the Inn. I'm buying.
BPOP - Wassup? I actually have internet service again. Going to McDonald's to read was getting on my last nerve. I don't care for their fine dining. Yours is much more exquisite.
On the bright side of this. I have something to now look forward to when, and if, I get into my 80's - being groped by idiots who traded in their Mickie D's uniforms for rent-a-cop garb. I can hardly wait.
The Frog
The TSA has really good crazy with this harassment of elderly women. Very good hub.
After 9/11, I heard around our airport that TSA staff searched people least likely to be terrorists in order to fulfill "search quotas" and avoid confrontations with real terrorists. I never figured out if that was a joke. But, I traveled with some teens through there and one had a pocketful of sugar packets, so he was the one they stopped and mortified.
Can sugar be made into a bomb or plastic explosives be powdered?? I know dozens of people who will no longer use an airplane because of this type of event.
I expect there to soon be a riot of the old people against the TSA, like the historic riot against Boston Hospital in the 1920s or 1930s to protest high costs - they one that one.
Good morning Frog Prince,
It's great to see you at the breakfast table. Soon they may have TSA agents at McDonald's. We have lost our collective minds, haven't we?
Good morning Pamela,
It is no small wonder that the airlines are struggling. Who wants to be manhandled in order to get on a plane? Not me..
Dear Patty,
I am sure what you heard is accurate. In an effort to appear to be fair they deliberately search and harass people who would never fulfill the terrorist profile. Being PC is going to get us killed. Hiring unqualified fools to catch terrorists will get us killed as well.
Pop, tsk tsk - what has happened to common sense and respect for older citizens?
Dear psychicdog,
Common sense is dead and respect is a long forgotten concept.
It would be very interesting to see the basic minimum requirements for TSA employees, and the depth of training they receive. The only good thing is they are working and paying taxes.
Good morning Old poolman,
Judging from their behavior I would say muggers and sex offenders would have a good shot at getting employment!
This would be a dream job for a gay individual or a child pervert. Do what they love to do and get paid for it? It just doesn't get any better than that.
Dear Old Poolman,
I agree. See there really is work out there, you just have to look in the right places!
Sad and funny at the same time. Love your interpretation of TSA! Voted up!
Dear Habee,
All I can say is I never would have complied with the TSA. They would have to arrest me!
Hi, bp. The TSA I am convinced is made up of Terribly Stupid Applicants who do not have enough smarts to earn a living in any other fashion. Would love to get my hands on their training (?) manual.
drbj, I doubt it would take that long to read a single page training manual. If you get one would you share it with us?
This is such a horrible incident, and a clear example of what's wrong with this touchy-feeliness we continue to have in this country which prevents us from making rationale decisions over politically correct ones...though, I don't even think this would be politically correct either disrobing elderly women. In any event, I am all for seeking out people who are most likely to be the ones who are a threat. And as I wrote some time ago in my hub, "Profile of a Patriot," common sense tells us that 84 year old women did not attack us on 9/11. Radical Muslims did. American Muslims should not feel profiled if they are pulled out of the line, THIS IS THEIR DUTY AS AMERICAN CITIZENS! You want to be an American then be willing to make a sacrifice for the good of your country. Being pulled aside is an inconvenience at best. The Americans BEFORE YOU have fought and died for our safety...
And that is the ULTIMATE sacrifice.
The TSA needs to be reexamined. Janet Napolitano should be questioned severely over this. And I personally think these agents, AND the supervisors on duty should be hauled before Congress to testify how this happened, and why this made sense to do in the first place. I am frankly tired of this kind of garbage.
Good morning Old Poolman,
I'm on it!
Good morning Springboard,
I am outraged about all of this. This type of incident is horrific and also useless. I think I am going to write about this again this morning. I can't get it out of my system.
Good morning drbj,
I wonder if English is required!!!
Tom Whitworth Level 5 Commenter 5 months ago
Pop,
I formed a mental picture of "Forgotten trees by the Babbling brook" and saw DC cherry trees by the Potamac with our nations legislators babbling incoherently. It's a mad world.