Letters to the Editor
emkeane
Published Letters: 4
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Testing?
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really like the IQ test idea. I'm going to be thinking about it for days.
Eamonn Keane
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Isolated incedents?
[Read the article: "Mentally deranged"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In no way, shape, or form do I believe that this is the work of just a few " bad apples" in the military. The responsibility is at the top in the chain of command. I blame Bush. I cannot look the other way here and it is no wonder the US is hated around the world by so many. If I was on the receiving end of this kind of treatment would I react much differently?
Whatever happended to presumed innocence? Is that only for Republicans who support this?
--emkeane
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Thank heavens we just started getting ziplocs here
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I guess I should be happy that the supermarkets here just started to carry ziploc bags. With holiday season coming up and so many Irish flying to Florida, this will be a welcome relief. /sarcasm
I don't even know if they carry gallon or quart ziplocs here. They're just zipper bags...if they don't have the logo, are they not allowed?
When we flew Dublin to Atlanta in the spring, we were subject to the lovely second security screening, as we had to fly on to Jacksonville. Of course, there are no toilets, and a long long line. And we have a 4 year old with a tiny tiny bladder. When we finally got through (amazingly with dry pants), I asked why the hell we had to do that. "Because security overseas is completely different from security here." Yeah. It's better in Dublin. And that's really saying something, since I've travelled with my Swiss army knife by accident (tho it was confiscated at Heathrow).
As well, flying back from Boston last month, we were stuck in the lovely queue for TSA. Now, I do need to say that we flew from Rockland, Maine, where the TSA folks are nice, calm and incredibly professional. We have to carry our own food as well as liquid medicines and an AnaPen for my son. They allowed what they could, very politely, and also when something was found in my bag (eyeglass cleaner), they gave it to my mother to ship on to us (as our bags had already been loaded on the tiny plane, otherwise they'd have slipped it in to the checked luggage). We fly from there instead of driving the 4 hours cause it's just worth it. The rest of the TSA should take lessons from those 5 screeners in Maine.
Boston was another story. In the long long queue, we were separated from our friend who was travelling with us, as well as the fact that I'm 6 months pregnant (with complications) and was getting dizzy from the heat and intensity of the room. But there was no way to get out of line, nor was there a way to try to move up so i could sit while my husband and son worked their way through the queue. I was almost crying when we finally got through the damn thing. (Of course, things weren't helped when we landed in Dublin the next morning, and all our bags and our son's carseat were not on the plane. But Aer Lingus' recent crappy customer service is a whole different article, isn't it?)
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Cut and run
[Read the article: Rumsfeld's thumpin']
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hasn't Rumsfeld effectively cut and run from the war now?
Just gloating.