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06, 2010  Suck it up and stop crying over scanners..Now you
can't take a book to the U.S.?  Gee, it's a good thing they made
big announcements yesterday to clear things up.  Transport
Minister John Baird said yesterday we're getting new scanners at
Canadian airports, ones that were brought in after security
devices in Europe failed to notice that a guy had explosive
material on his body. So what do the reports in the papers today
say? That the so-called naked scanners WHICH I HAVE NO PROBLEM
WITH (see my rant below) will be used only if someone buzzes as
they go through the metal detector!  I've read that in two
stories this morning. But it makes no sense. The whole point is
to detect plastic explosives and such that metal detectors can't
see. On the other hand, I've read some comments that say
everyone will get the secondary, naked