I just heard an oscar story that's kinda funny and kinda sad, but it illustrates how much the government is fucking up the war on terror.
Basically a guy won an oscar for some technical field, and tried to fly home with it. Well, the federal screeners would not let him carry the oscar onboard as it's considered a blunt object. (FIRE THAT IDIOT!)
Being an experienced air traveller, this guy knew there are two kinds of luggage: Carry on and lost. So he arranged to have his ocsar shipped to his home.
It apparently got lost in shipment.
I feel sorry for the guy, but more over it's amazing that all these years after 911 they don;' have armed pilots, co pilots or engineers on every flight, they don't have reinforced doors on every flight, they don't have air marshals on every flight but they can sure as hell fucking harass and inconvenience passengers on virtually every flight with ridiculous rules and "policies" that have all the effect of farting at a hurricane.
Oh well, I guess I should be happy knowing that I never need fear being crashed into by a plane that's been hijacked by a bunch of oscar wielding muslims.