I can't help but notice a fellow mangoite New Yorker's rather defening silence on the subject, unless of course she's still bargain hunting at Macy's. I had really expected her, as customary, to be the first to break the news around here. But then again, someone has to take a break on turkey day. Cansidering your closeness wid di prez, yu a di one who shoulda shame fi mek summady whey nuh like him break dat dey kine a news.

I don't think this move by the Prez warms me to him in any way shape or form. Why the hell does he not bring the troops home and go after the person(s) who really created 9/11? It is all a political ploy.:evil I cannot get over the fact that the man has made travelling so much harder for folks like me who just want to get on a plane and go where I am going.

I hate the fact that people have to now tek off dem shoes - even sandals!:rolleyes If dem barely have one likkle heel pan dem, yu could be terrorists. Imagine at Norman Manley, dem have dis likkle area where 3 or 4 airport workers have on gloves, you step out of your shoes, stand on a piece of something - could be cardboard, carpet or cloth and the check you out. There is a basin of water, I imagine to wash up. I must say, I did not suffer this indignity, but watched it being done to others. Mi whey neva have nuh desire to have Canadian passport was forced to get one just to prevent mi blood pressure from going up each time I hit the airport. I still take my blue book with me when I arrive in Ja though. I swear you are treated differently when you show it. Lata