FRUIT OF THE BOOM underwear.

abc News posted this photo of the UndieBomber's Fruit of the Boom underwear, custom modified to hold the explosive. Blowing his balls off for Allah. But if he does that, what will he do with the all the virgins he would receive in heaven? I guess they will remain virgins.  I jest, but it is actually a very serious issue.

The disturbing thing for me is that the FBI had been notified by this guys father of his radical ideology and potential risk. The CIA and FBI are more worried about Graigslist escorts than terrorists and dropped the ball again - big time. This was not an issue of not screening this guy's emails, it was that they had direct contact from his father. What more does the CIA need? Does the father have to escort him to America and to the FBI for them to take notice?

Who ever received the information at the CIA and did not get this guys name on the DO NOT FLY list failed his or her obligation and should be terminated. If he was on the list and the airline failed to search for him on the DO NOT FLY list before issuing him a ticket, then the airline needs a healthy fine for security failure. There is no excuse why this guy was allowed on the plane. He set off so many red flags: No luggage and purchased a one-way ticket with cash. HELLO! Even without his name on the list, he should have been detained and questioned and a call to the FBI was in order. He could have missed that flight, and if clean, sent on his way the next flight, or most likely would have been identified as a risk and denied boarding.

Personally I have been on the political hassle list for years that required me to get my boarding pass at the counter, rather than online or at the kiosk. That's because I talked badly about our past president in emails to our Danish friends overseas. That tripped the NSA's computers red flag and then my name was posted on the list. Fortunately the new administration has deleted these political hassle lists and I can now print a boarding pass online. So if they can do that to me, why can't they do the same thing to a guy buying a one-way ticket, no baggage and a name Abdul????? DAHH!

We spend all this money on a new government agency "Homeland Security" and we get incompetence like this? Are they more worried about Jose swimming across the Rio Grand looking for a job, than Abdul flying across the ocean on a one-way ticket, paid with cash and no baggage, who's father called months before to warn of his risk?

I do have a suggestion for flying now. Everyone can undress and put on hospital gowns that open in the back, and those paper slippers to pass through security and to wear while on the plane. Prohibit any carry on anything and that should solve the problem. Clothing optional is the only way to overcome this type of smuggling of explosives onto a plane. Otherwise every ones underwear is going to have to be checked, as well as all other potential clothing, like bras, pants, socks, etc.

Here's a new industry, special travel clothing like sweat pant and shirt with chemicals that interact with explosives of all types. The clothing will dissolve if it comes into contact or near explosive material. If you see some ones pants dissolve when they walk up to the security screening, then he might be a terrorist.

Of course making everyone fly nude would solve all this and reduce travel cost as well.

Since we are flying to Australia at the end of February, I can see now it will take longer to go through security. I might even try the hospital gown to see if that speeds my passage up.

OH, here is something else that is driving me nuts. The conservatives are wanting this young terrorist to be tried in a military tribunal rather than the federal court. Why, the shoe bomber terrorist, Richard Reed, caught during the Bush administration was prosecuted and convicted in a federal court, not a military tribunal? The shoe bomber who tried to ignite an explosive in his shoes is now locked up in a maximum security prison in Colorado. No cries of not having him here in America or torture him to see what he knows. Some are even asking that the undiebomber be tortured to see what master mind info he has. This low level,  bottom of the chain operative that I am sure Al Qaeda did not trust with the plans of their next big attack. What happened to our moral civility and adherence to the rule of law? The conservatives are the ones always yelling "We must have law and order." But now its different, he's Muslim. You know they will call for Pres. Obama's head. But not George W's when the shoe bomber attempted to blow up an airplane!

Do you have any ideas we can pass on to the White House?