I want to see the ships!!

This was great.

Bush declared war on Tourism.

My wife "beeped" when passing through security at Newark, the */%&/$!!( brutish woman who searched her could not believe it was the bra undercups that were causing the machine to go off. She basically strip searched my wife in front of everyone. Two weeks latter, we had the same situation in Switzerland, where they asked my wife of to a side, drew a curtain and were very polite in determining that some types of womens underwear require more support.
After this, and other situations, we skip the USA as much as possible.
On another occasion, after suffering the Chicago O´Hare security idiocy, we got on to our flight (a small 30 person plane) and we could not take off because there was one extra passenger and they could not figure out who it was. Finally, the pilot decided to take off anyway (!!!!) instead of asking for everyone´s boarding pass (that would have taken 15 minutes at the most). So much for security, someone just stowed away!

I still love to fly, but I rather do it from anywhere else BUT the USA

I still love to Fly!

That is, if you catch a plane at Santiago, Chile and go over to Buenos Aires (backwards is more annoying, but only because of taxes). Friendly service by the international police, no lines at the metal detectors and THEN, you fly over the Andes. A trully wonderful sight (and yes, I have seen the Rockies from the same vantage point). I might add that when LanChile says "snack", they mean a small but tasty sandwich a softdrink and a sweet.
As I said, I love to fly, but I hate going through American Airports.

The pole dancers were funny, but did anyone check out the traffic cop from Rhode Island? He really likes his job! I just hope no idiot decides that He is not directing traffic in an appropriate manner.