Why Schiphol Airport sucks (megaopenhaardkoor)

(Please ignore the last word in the title, it's a Dutch internet thing.)

I promised you guys 'n gals a rant about Schiphol Airport. Well, here goes. Schiphol must be one of the most dreadful airports in the world. And this is only for lack of having discovered any other planets with something resembling a civilization. Why is Schiphol so bad? Well...

First of all it's terribly slow. Schiphol is built according to a 'one terminal concept', which is a slick way of saying you'd beter bring your hiking boots. If you are misfortunate enough to land at gate A and have a connection at gate F, you'll be walking for at least half an hour. (Senior citizens had beter book a hotel for the night.) In fact, I would be tempted to suggest no terrorist in his right mind would want to attack Schiphol Airport because of the long walking distances, if it wasn't for the...

Extremely lax state of security at the airport. Only recently, a bunch of robbers nicked several millions worth of jewelry from what was supposed to be a highly secure area. If robbers can steal stuff, then I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to haul a few RPG's in there either and blast some birds out of the sky. (I'm referring to planes of course, and not the seagulls that shit all over your car if you're driving within five miles of Schiphol. We are the only country in the bloody world which has an airport that hides a bird baiting device somewhere.) Nevertheless, some people might actually welcome being blown up by Jihadi's, if only to be saved from the...

Extremely arrogant people which Schiphol employs. When hundreds of passengers had to spend the night on the floor last week because snow had shut down most of the airport's operations, Schiphol's PR representative did not apologize for this near-Communist lack of planning. Instead, she went on Dutch PBS stating she felt it was 'heel vervelend'. This roughly translates to a rather condescendingly vocalized version of 'gee, too bad'.

Some people think it's the government's strict immigration policy that keeps the influx of foreigners down. I know better. I live near Schiphol.

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Politician of the week

Of course, every sensible European or American knows that recent positive developments in the Middle East are happening despite of George W. Bush, and not because of him. Or could it be that...

Read this article in Newsweek, not exactly a neocon bastion:

'The other noted political scientist who has been vindicated in recent weeks is George W. Bush. Across New York, Los Angeles and Chicago—and probably Europe and Asia as well—people are nervously asking themselves a question: "Could he possibly have been right?" The short answer is yes. Whether or not Bush deserves credit for everything that is happening in the Middle East, he has been fundamentally right about some big things.'

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