Comments on: Your Tax Dollars at Work: Beware of Hippie-Toothpaste-Squeezing Terrorists

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:13:22 +0000

Love the laughter this elicited.
Yea to the writer!

By: Christie

Christie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:34:12 +0000

Lovely story, Pru, made me smile all day. Especially, the update. Your move was courageous and mad, and wonderful to know that we can move whenever we feel the urge.

By: dearpru

dearpru — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:41:56 +0000

Yes, Cathy, flouride IS poison. Our environment is incredibly toxic already; to add even one iota more to our bodies (in the form of flouride) is madness.

I just heard today from my friend Donna, http://www.autismdaybyday.blogspot.com, that autism among our boys is now one child in 80. This precipitous rise MUST be from something in our atmosphere–is it phalates? mercury? arsenic? flouride? pesticides? estrogen mimickers?

I urge every person who has even three minutes to spare to write to President-Elect Obama and/or your U.S. Senate and Congressional repesentatives to strengthen and fund greater environmental laws, a strengthened FDA and an NIH free of pharaceutical companies’ blood money.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:54:54 +0000

I just did a quick trip and tried out Melissa’s strategy — it worked. The decoy allowed me to have a few tubes go through in my suitcase. Like your son said, “Now I feel safe.”

Thanks Pru for this important look at not only the silliness of the TSA ‘security’ system, but what did not go unnoticed for me was the fluoride part. Haunting image. Important reminder. Made me want to learn more so I checked it out and I found this:

In 1997 the Union of Government Scientists of the United States Environmental Protection Agency voted unanimously to co-sponsor a Californian initiative to ban fluoridation, stating:

“Our members review of the body of evidence over the last 11 years, including animal and human epidemiology studies, indicates a causal link between fluoride/fluoridation and cancer, genetic damage, neurological impairment and bone pathology.”

Thanks for shining the light. I’ll stick to my Jason’s fluoride-free toothpaste.

By: rosemary

rosemary — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:31:39 +0000

Hilarious and wonderful! What a great saga and so glad that even though you lost your toothpaste, you found a great new life. By the way, Melissa’s strategy is what works for us although we once lost a really expensive bottle of hair detangler to an apologetic TSA-er.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:54:46 +0000

I pack a “decoy” ziplock for the friendly TSA-ers. A ziplock with a few appropriately sized items (ones I never ever use).
Throw it in the bin and move through. All the other stuff is still in my carry on. It always works.