WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Transportation Security Administration is acknowledging that the new pat-downs are more invasive than what travelers were used to in the past. [unless they’re used to naked Twister or Hide the Weinie party games]

TSA administrator John Pistole says he has received the new pat-down, as has his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Some travelers complain that the new inspections target sensitive body areas. Pistole says he understands those privacy concerns, but says the government must provide the best possible security for air travelers. [so the way to catch the next shoe/foot bomber is to have a TSA toe-sucker]

Pistole was testifying before a Senate committee about TSA policies and procedures. The hearing was scheduled before the recent outrage about airport security pat-downs.

So maybe normal people should just start taking trains and let the pervs fly all they want.  Can you imagine the delight of the creepy old guy on Family Guy?  He’d be taking short hops all around the country for quick gropes.

I’m posting this ’cause it bothers me on so many levels…

By now I sure you’ve all heard/read about the 17 year old Bolingbrook teen who drove his SUV into an apartment in the middle of the night and killed the woman sleeping in her bed [if you’ve been under a rock, click here].  There are so many things wrong with this story that I wouldn’t even know how to list them:  teen is in this country illegally, but works part-time; doesn’t attend high school; doesn’t speak English; has no drivers license; had a blood alcohol level of .204.  If the car is his, how did a 17 year old come up with the cashola to buy this -I can’t even imagine a company loaning money to a 17 year old illegal who works part time (unless it’s a sub-prime car loan company).  And if the car wasn’t his, well, then, who loans a car to an unlicensed driver?  ’cause let’s face it, if you’re close enough to a person to loan out your car, you’re close enough to know the SOB doesn’t have a license.  Obviously there are even more things to get upset about but let’s start with those.

Where did he get the booze?  An alcohol level that high and he’s still able to walk, talk and drive?  Doesn’t that mean he drinks frequently and has a higher tolerance?  One glass of wine and I start yawning, so I’m maybe not the person to ask, but still… Isn’t there a curfew for those under 18?  And someone commented that you have to have a licensed driver with you if you’ve been driving less than a year, but if he never bothered with the license in the first place, that one’s out the window!

And his parents?  Don’t they have some responsibility for this?  Oh, wait, if he’s illegal, then his mother is possibly also illegal – but wait, she works for a hotel.  And some news articles mention the mother’s boyfriend.  So many questions, so few answers…

OK, the newest big news from the TLC reality/whore channel is that the married son and his wife are having their second child after suffering a miscarriage last summer; their first child turned one last month.  Oh, and they also plan to leave the number of children they have in God’s hand…although if stuff stayed in the hand we wouldn’t be reading so much about the Duggars...just sayin’

They are part of the Quiverfull movement, where you are expected to produce as many litters children as possible so the Christians can overwhelm the heathen by sheer numbers. pah…

Little bit of sunshine in the Trib today about how the credit card companies are sneaking around the latest laws meant to curtail such practices.  Maybe their tag lines should read:  Never give a sucker an even break…