Comments on: Did The TSA Kill Chicago’s Chance At The Olympics?

By: billabong

billabong — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:34:42 +0000

They didn’t come to Chicago because it is the most mobbed up city in America.

By: Guyver

Guyver — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:56:40 +0000

The IOC was probably getting payback because both Obama and Clinton insisted on boycotting the Beijing Olympics.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:58:25 +0000

I wonder how the 2014 Olympics in Russia will treat visitors.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:29:42 +0000

#39 As I think had been said before here. The TSA is not the only moronic airport force you’ll find. Europe is full of them. And you’re most likely to lose a flight in Brazil with their idiotic screeners then you would in the US.

By: Rick Cain

Rick Cain — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:01:42 +0000

#2 So comrade Alfredi, did you buy your tickets to Rio ahead of time? Nice patriotism there.

Are you now going to demonstrate how much you love america by going to afghanistan and kill some G.I.’s?

By: Animby

Animby — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:49:38 +0000

Doodie: Howdy. The TSA has some pretty lame rules and regs. But the biggest losers are the brain dead high school drop outs who are the front line and who actually come into contact with travellers. The worst is the asshole at the security check-through screaming at people to take their shoes off and remove their laptops. As long as these morons with badges are allowed to represent our government and, thusly, you and me, foreign travelers will continue to lose respect for America. I travel extensively and have run into some strange security but never anything as fascist, intrusive and unpleasant as my own country.

By: Doodie

Doodie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:13:06 +0000

Finally the TSA gets publicly bitten back by it’s own idiocy, maybe now the government will force them to start using their brains a bit more instead letting them call everyone a terrorist… nah, who are we kidding.

By: Animby

Animby — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:21:23 +0000

So what is it with Oprah? Has she been appointed to some special czar position or does the cabinet now include a Secretary of Inane Chat Shows? I get it that she is the US’s Goodwill Ambassador to Martha’s Vineyard but how does she get to go to Denmark on the public dime? When all is said and done, will anyone report on the millions of dollars this hopeless junket cost Americans? Can we send the bill to Chicago?

By: Alfred1

Alfred1 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:09:39 +0000

#23 I love America, that’s why I hate Obama…and never liked him…

Bill Ayers, Rv. Wright, B. Gates, indicate who Obama is…part of the Chicago corruption machine…Valerie his own little slum lord.

It was hilarious he made such a fool of himself…too bad the jackass had to do it in front of his kids…I feel sad for them.

I laughed out loud when Drudge had the photo of him, looking dazed and confused…”the EGO has landed!”…crashed seemed more like it.

Har har har!

Lets impeach this socialist Joker, before its too late.

By: Ron Larson

Ron Larson — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:07:02 +0000

It gets worse, thanks to private industry and the US government who doesn’t care.

Now visitors to the US are being scammed by a fake immigration agency that is bribing overseas travel agents. An Aussie friend of mine was suckered into this until she complained to me and I told her it was a scam.

This site charges $100+ for filling out the electronic immigration landing cards that are free. Yet to the uninformed, it looks and feels like an official US government site.

Visitors are told they must file out a ESTA before flying to the US, which is true. However, the real site is here. But travel agents are sending customers to the fake one, and getting a nice kick back.

The traveler thinks the US government is screwing them even more and hate us even more. And the US does NOTHING about this, letting these scamsters operate this thing.

Pathetic. Any other country would refuse to accept applications submitted from this “private company”.

By: pedro

pedro — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:54:40 +0000

#33 True. That has a bigger weight than the TSA thing thrown in here.

By: Cap'nKangaroo

Cap'nKangaroo — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:23:35 +0000

Chicago lost when an IOC committee tried to get somewhere in Chicago in under an hour. The CTA, a real crapshoot. The expressways, HAH. The TriState Tollway, they ran out of money halfway to O’Hare.

The mere thought of all that Olympic traffic competing with steel-haulers, the container haulers, the UPS and FedEX and YRC doubles, the dump trucks, garbage trucks, and RVs makes me cringe. Add in all the Ohio and Michigan plates heading to Wisconsin and all the Minnesota and Wisconsin plates heading to points east. And I ignore all the local Illinois and Indiana residents driving around everyday of the week at all hours.

Seriously, I’ve driven thru and around every major city in the lower 48 as well as Toronto and Montreal. The only two I despise are NYC and Chicago. New York because of the awful condition of the roads and Chicago for the traffic and the idiots who drive there. I’d rather do two weeks in LA at rush hour than two days in Chicago.

By: amodedoma

amodedoma — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:46:40 +0000

Actually here in europe they made a big deal of the death of Derrion Albert. Kids beating a 16 year old to death in the streets of Chicago, a shocking image to say the least. I’d say that was the moment Chicago lost.

By: sargasso

sargasso — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:03:23 +0000

#31. How could I have forgotten Oprah.

By: pedro

pedro — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:50:34 +0000

#29 You left Oprah out

#30 Which has about the same symptoms as CAOS: Compulsive Apologist for Obama Syndrome.