My thoughts exactly #9...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth

When I was in Cuba this past winter, we saw many, many hitchhikers. Our tour guide on the Havana trip claimed it was the number one national sport. They also have a government paid position called 'the Yellow Man', whose job it is to put hitchhikers on government vehicles traveling in the same direction as the hitchers. Not only not gone, but now government supported - at least, in Cuba.

lol - i can hardly wait to hack up my own activation device...

My daughter has a surgically implanted 'g-tube' aka feeding tube. It doesn't need to be sterile - only clean. In fact, it's quite literally impossible to keep it sterile during insertion as it rubs against the abdominal skin. No one's life was at risk.

Having said that, however, the 'TSA' is out of control. Why do you yanks put up with the fascists stealing your freedom in the name of "security" and "safety"? It's amazing to watch from outside your country. You used to be a shining light to the rest of the world representing freedom and democracy and now you just represent a bunch of mindless, frightened children. Take your country back! The fact that you're willing to lie around waiting for your freedoms to return is baffling, when you consider your forefathers killed and died for the rights you're losing. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Get off ur asses, yanks!