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Skriven 2012-02-16 20:28:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
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 TSA> Torch lighters create a thin, needle-like flame 
 TSA> that is hotter (reaching 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit) 
 TSA> and more intense than those from common lighters. 
 GJ> I wonder what that would be used for?  Lighting a hookah?
 ML> TSA claims cigars and pipes - in either case I am
 ML> apprehensive that users might burn their hair or noses.

Or someone else's, depending on where it is directed.
 
 ML> I suppose they use behavior recognition to choose the
 ML> subjects to conduct random screening on.
 GJ> You and I have both been subjected to that in USA.  I wonder what
 GJ> subject models we fit?
 ML> I apparently fit into several incompatible ones. I am told
 ML> that come midyear I will be offered Global Entry for free
 ML> (regular price $100 or so), a program that prescreens trusted
 ML> travelers and then allows entry by handprint identification.

Is that truly Global, or just in USA?

 ML> On the other hand, I recently was given a secondary screening
 ML> probably because there were congressmen hanging around needing
 ML> to be impressed at how efficient the government guys are.

While your president is getting friendly with a future Chinese leader.
 
 GJ> Interestingly, I read yesterday that your president was calling for
 GJ> easier access for tourists to USA from "selected countries", in order

 ML> It's politically expedient to do so. It was not politically
 ML> expedient for his predecessor.

That's politics!
 
 GJ> to boost tourism. As Australians are now seen to be "rich foreigners",
 GJ> with the Aus$ = US$1.07,
 ML> Remind me not to visit Australia until your currency crashes.

No sign of a crash here, yet.  I noticed that out of a population of
22 million Australians nearly a million visited USA last year, but
only 1/10 of that number of USAns came to Australia.  More came from
China, India and Japan.
 
 TSA> The U.S. is the only country in the world to ban
 TSA> lighters - all other nations, including Israel 
 ML> Interesting, that's not what my research indicated.
 GJ> Someone is giving mis-information.  Who and why?

 ML> Probably the TSA in order to justify a backtrack that was
 ML> spurred by Congress (and I figure in turn by the tobacco
 ML> industry).

Possibly, although I thought your country was run by the oil companies
and Generous Motors.
 
 GJ> Even then it was known that a horse, inadvertently chomping on a toad
 GJ> had been killed by the poison, but apparently when treated with loving
 GJ> kindness, they would not exude poison.
 ML> You could understand that a sudden toothy impact would
 ML> likely stimulate a maximal dose of poison. Must have been
 ML> a particularly hungry and stupid horse.

Darwin works with horses, also.
 
 GJ> And that dogs independently discovered that property of the toads.
 GJ> I read somewhere that the poison that can be squirted out of the
 GJ> shoulder-glands is different from, and more potent than that secreted
 GJ> by glands along the back.
 ML> I read that it was different in degree rather than composition.

Probably.  Or in concentration.  I didn't know about that property of
the toad poison when I had one as a pet, otherwise I might have done a
scientific evaluation of it, which may have been fatal.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Garlicky Green Beans
 Categories: Vegetable, Toh a/s 96
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
      1 lb Beans, fresh green
    1/2 c  ;water
      2 cl Garlic; to 3 cloves, minced
      3 tb Butter/margarine
    1/8 ts ;salt
           Pepper; pinch of
 
  In a saucepan, bring beans and water to a boil; reduce heat to medium.
  Cover and cook for 10-15 minutes or until beans are crisp-tender;
  drain and set aside.  In a large skillet, saute garlic in butter
  until lightly browned, about 1 minute.  Add beans, salt and pepper;
  heat through.
  
  <Taste of Home - Aug/Sept 96>
 
MMMMM
 

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