PHOTO: Leanna Diaz And Her Disappearing Lipstick

[Bluebear]

While others argue about whether the threat was real, this picture encapsulates the whole miserable five years and this administration's approach to "keeping us safe"...




Leanna Diaz, of Palm Desert, Calif., left, uses her lipstick one last time before throwing it out as liquid containers are collected from passengers' carry-on bags at the Portland International Jetport, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006, in Portland, Maine. Heightened security measures quickly produced long lines at airport checkpoints as the government banned passengers from carrying nearly all liquids and gels aboard flights after a major terror plot was foiled in London. The ban extended to toothpaste, makeup and suntan lotion. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

[Der Blaue Engel]

1. Terrorist! Git her! She's putting the explosive ON and they let her board?

:wow:

[Bluebear]

2. NOW she has explosive lips!

They could go off at any moment!!!!!

[Broken_Hero]

4. explosive lips...

a term, I never heard of until today, its not part of my lexicon...:) thanks!

[progdonkey]

6. All part of al-Qaeda's "Operation: Mile High Club"...

Dr. Osama bin Evil: "You see, we get a bunch of those western jezebels to wear the special lipstick and, being sex-crazed--as we know all women are, which is why we avoid them by spending all of our time around other men in sweaty training camps--they won't be able to resist kissing each other! The first pairing of two lipsticks shall result in a thermo-nuclear explosion!"

No. 2: "Sir, we couldn't get the ingredients for the lipstick... but we do have gloss!"

Evil: "Does it have artificial chemicals?"

"Yes."

"Well, that's a start."

[YOY]

31. As opposed to Flaming Lips?

[MrCoffee]

37. FLAMING LIPS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best.Band.Ever.

[YOY]

40. Naw...that's Everclear, but the Flaming Lips are up there!

;)

n/t

[MrCoffee]

43. Everclear? You've clearly lost touch with reality.

Wayne Coyne, if you're out there...:yourock:

[americanstranger]

48. I'll go hopelessly old-school on this one...

Cheap Trick. Still great.

- as

[MurrayDelph]

45. ...brings new meaning to the term:

"Look out! She's gonna blow!"

[Bluebear]

3. PLUS she has one a them MEXICAN names!

:scared:

[KansDem]

44. And her first name ends with "A"!!!

"Ala"
"Guevara"
"Osama"

That's all I need to know! :scared::scared:

[Sherman A1]

5. A sad commentary

on our inept, government, airport (in)security and the state of affairs. My travel will be by auto, as much as I really love flying.

[Caretha]

7. This photo says it all

If you don't believe we're living in a fascist state, one step away from total state control, take another look at this picture. A US citizen, a barefoot elderly woman, using a product she paid for to enhance her humanity, dignity and her feelings of self worth, standing infront of another woman, a US citizen, paid to police and strip another innocent US citizen of her belongings. Sickest of all about it, we paid for that.

Goddamn their black hearts! Don't even dare tell me that this is to save and protect us from terrorism. This is being done to systematically reduce Americans to quivering puddles of fear. Fear to oppose, fear to be free, fear of authority, fear of being unworthy of respect.

I'm finally and truly disgusted to the depths of my being. I would spit on any politician be they democrat or republican if they should happen to be in that close of proximity to me.

I now blame them all!

[mithnanthy]

13. Thank you, Caretha...

for your compassion! I felt the same way. Everything you said is correct!

[Bluebear]

29. 'Sickest of all about it, we paid for that.'

Indeed. Thanks for reacting to the photo, it really struck me for some reason, then you put it into words.

[SammyWinstonJack]

34. !

:applause:

[daleo]

36. Good reality check

Sometimes we forget how crazy it all is.

[earth mom]

57. Excellent post! They are stripping us of our humanity AND our rights

and they are doing it every god damned day! And no one is impeaching the bastards who are in charge of this bullshit yet! :wtf:

Which is crazier? What they are doing to us, or that we aren't bringing charges up against them for it?! Most of the dems in office suck! For shame! :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Clark2008]

8. Lipstick is a liquid?

I heard a woman complaining yesterday about having to throw away $80 in makeup. I'm female, I wear makeup, but I simply cannot FATHOM paying that much for makeup and carrying it along with me. I guess I didn't get that gene (along with the shopping gene) on my X-chromosome. :shrug:

[Skidmore]

10. Well the personal hygiene and cosmetic industries are going to

profit on this one.

[flygal]

19. I was just talking about that woman

She threw away a tube of blush that cost $80. WTF?! My make-up kit consists of mascara and tinted moisturizer.

[Clark2008]

39. LOL!

Mine consists of cheap base, mascara and lipstick. Retail: $20 total. And it lasts me all year. :)

I'll have to try that tinted moisturizer, though. That would work better in the summer than the clunky base that I have to thin out.

[calico1]

9. Well, that would definitely make me

feel safer. :eyes:

[marions ghost]

11. this is absolutely

the most absurd thing I have ever seen. The world is now officially INSANE as far as I'm concerned. How dumb do they think we are? Hijackers are going to grab people's cosmetics and bring down planes??!??

:wtf: :silly: :wtf: :silly: :wtf: :silly:

WHO was responsible for ordering this at US airports? I want to know WHO & WHERE these orders came from.

This is just surreal. I don't think you could find a better illustration of how the politics of fear can be used to intimidate a population.

That woman holding the bag better watch her step with all those 'explosives.'

[Canuckistanian]

26. Freeze, terrorist scum!

Put that lipstick down and step AWAY from the makeup bag.... SLOWLY.

[DemonFighterLives]

12. Great Photo and thread

The kid in the back actually looks compassionate about this lady losing her lipstick.
This is that sick Chertoff's facist plan. Years ago it was nail clippers and scissors and stuff. My wife brought a miniature pair of scissors home from work where someone was going around with the loot. Apparently the stuff was realeased for sale or whatever.
It is wasteful if nothing else to throw all of this stuff our or incinerate it or explode it or whatever the goofballs have in mind.
Oh yeah, be sure to pick up more duct tape and plastic. I wonder if that is ok to bring on the plane?
I have a republican Uncle who usually is quiet and gentle, but he was up in arms about airport checks, calling it a bunch of bs. That was before this round of confiscation.
:dem:

[marions ghost]

14. good

I'm glad to hear some Republicans realize how ridiculous this is.

The airports can do all the scanning they want, but this is just totally unnecessary. It is meant to control and instill fear.

[elehhhhna]

15. I expected a pic of her body-stashing a 40 dollar tube.

[marions ghost]

18. LOL

yes I'm surprised some women didn't put up more resistance to this...

[blondeatlast]

16. But, but, but, Fearless Leader has caught yet another terraist!

Is anyone surprised that AQ has infiltrated Palm Desert? Those "bridge clubs" and shuffleboard leagues are a clever front, ya know. :sarcasm:, which I hope is understood, but ya never know.

The absurdity of this makes my head hurt--my hubby and I cancelled a reservation today-a ONE HOUR flight to Las Vegas wlost it's appeal with a freaking 3 hour wait prior.

In three hours we can be more than halfway there from Phoenix.

Yeah, I feel safer.

[NuttyFluffers]

17. so, when will it be more convenient to travel by ship?

these spastic freakouts are getting really annoying. i'm thinking of using a train the next time i have to travel around the continents of america...

[gatorboy]

20. I love the garbage bag!

Such advanced technology! for fighting the war on terra!

The gov't could've at least chipped in to buy some fucking Hefty bags.

[elehhhhna]

21. Hijackrs could suffocate passengers & vrew with those bags. BOOGA!

[SammyWinstonJack]

35. !

:spray: It's absurd, isn't it?

[MrCoffee]

22. It puts the lipstick in the bag

or it gets the hose again

[Greybnk48]

23. lol

my husband says that to me MrCoffee when I "take too long" to get ready to go out!!

[MrCoffee]

25. i have no response to that n/t

[Beausoir]

28. LOL. That made me laugh out loud.

The absurdity of this situation.

[hedgehog]

24. Ther is a good reason for this.

It's unfortunate that so many people were caught short, but it was a good move under the circumstances. If no one is bringing anything on board, then the terrorists aren't bringing anything on board. Folks, airliners have been blown up in mid-flight. Ever here of Lockerbie, Scotland?

[PATRICK]

27. Kissing on planes prohiibited

Mouthwash meet lipstick or lipstick meet lipstick?

[Bluebear]

30. Yes, I heard of Lockerbie.

I was a flight attendant for many, many years, so don't think I take this stuff lightly.

Lipstick, though? Sorry. "The terrorists" truly have won if this is what it has come down to.

[Zodiak]

32. Lockerbie wasn't done with lipstick

so your point is moot.

And it does sound like you have succumbed to the fear that is being peddled. I could go into ridiculous hyperbole and mirror your argument by saying "if we all are locked into prison camps, then the terorists are locked up, too" to point out how silly your argument is.

[Goblinmonger]

33. If nobody flies, then terrorists aren't flying!!! n/t

[daleo]

41. Wasn't that brought down by checked baggage?

If so, this lipstick business isn't relevant.

Are they X-raying all checked baggage yet? If not, this lipstick business won't matter.

[Bluebear]

49. Yes it was a checked bag

with a rigged cassette tape recorder in it, if I recall.

[Der Blaue Engel]

46. Anything can be blown up anywhere

Why are we allowed to even carry anything on our person anywhere we go? We enter public, private, and government buildings every day carrying things. We should all be strip-searched. No one should ever be allowed to bring anything with them anywhere. That will stop terrorism. :eyes:

[Caretha]

47. Ever hear of all the unchecked mail/packages etc

in the belly of all those planes. Check out how much mail/packages that are transported daily in the cargo hold of commercial airlines. Its impossible for each piece to be examined physically and .....it's not. :)

We're talkin' billions of pieces here.

[flyarm]

55. and only 10% of what goes in the belly is checked..

and we are worried about water bottles and lipstick..

get real people..


ever watch fear factor??

fly

[jmowreader]

52. The Lockerbie bomb was in the cargo hold

And it was Semtex--which is the consistency of clay.

This measure, this "throw away any liquid in your carry-on" BULLSHIT, would not have helped.

[5X]

56. Someone could also swallow a big lump of C4......

and then go to the crapper and....

We better plug up all assholes.

[Beelzebud]

38. That lipstick is a metaphor for our freedom.

[daleo]

42. They hate us for our lipstick.

And our Gatorade.

[Bluebear]

51. ...

:spray:

[OzarkDem]

59. This is how the GOP goes after the women's vote

Notice most of the pics you see in the news are of women, to instill fear of terrorism.

[Oilwellian]

50. This is just absolutely PATHETIC

And it really PISSES ME OFF!! Fuck flying! I would never put myself in a position to be so humiliated by my own fucking government. That is their intent and they can go FUCK THEMSELVES!

[jmowreader]

53. That security woman looks SO PISSED

that Ms. Diaz would have the gall to hold up the process by using her lipstick before throwing it away.

Oh! The temerity of some people! Not giving in without a fight!

God, this pisses me off.

[soup]

54. If loose lips sink ships...

imagine what red lips could do to a plane...

[OzarkDem]

58. Sort of like Nazi Germany

Stealing people's self respect, dignity and independence a little at a time and replacing them with fear and intimidation.

Truly sad what our country has come to.