Bare footin'

[tarp]

TSA/HSA/FAA are really making the news in the DC metro area!

News report - TSA spokeman Robert Johnson says that at selected airports in the US you will now be required to take your shoes off even if they don't have metal shanks. The TSA has supposedly received yet another "credible tip" that another "shoe bomber" attempt may be made. Therefore in anticipation of the July 4th peak travel period, passengers will be required to remove any foot apparel (including sneakers and flip-flops) at designated airports.

(Tarp comment: about 20 years ago and as a frequent visitor to fitness centers, I found that I was quite susceptable to athelete's foot infections.???? Time to start packing Lysol and Desenex.)

News report - Baltimore, MD - A Cessna 172 aircraft has apparently become the first victim of the ADIZ airspace. The pilot and 2 passengers were slightly injured when their airplane ran out of gas 3 miles short of Martin State Airport. According to the pilot, the airplane circled for OVER ONE HOUR trying to get access into the ADIZ. They got an ADIZ clearance just as the pilot was about to divert to another airport for fuel - when they got the clearance they decided to continue to their destination and ran out of gas just short of the runway.

News report - The holiday weekend travel has begun to overwhelm the TSA screening facilities. Typical wait times are 40 minutes at BWI, 55 minutes at McCarran in Las Vegas, and up to 2 hours in Los Angeles where the TSA says they are short staffed by almost 500 screener positions.

 

[FSB99]

short staffed? come on, people...
government agencies must literally teach their employees how to be most inefficient..!

 

[Badger]

TSA shortstaffed

The modern day boondoggle...

T housands
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If the US Govt allowed profiling the flying public would actually be safer instead of wasting millions on this overpaid rent-a-cop thing they call TSA.

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

Re: TSA shortstaffed

The modern day boondoggle...

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If the US Govt allowed profiling the flying public would actually be safer instead of wasting millions on this overpaid rent-a-cop thing they call TSA.

No, no, no. You have to look at the positive side of things.......

The TSA jobs are helping to keep the unemployment numbers lower than what they actually are. Think of it as token of appreciation from the guberment and business for all the jobs we've sent out the country via NAFTA and China. Plus we all FEEL safer and that's what counts.

 

[Dieterly]

Dear Mr President,

Thank you for signing TSA into law, well done.

Sincerely,

Dieterly

 

[Cardinal]

A liberal decrying the creation of a new bureaucracy? Can this be possible? Must be the "not invented here syndrome."

 

[Buffettpilot]

Time to Vent

OK, I got three points:
First, About 90% of the TSA jobs were former private security companies positions. So, pretty much a conversion of private sector jobs to government jobs (not a "welfare" job system).

Second, take your shoes off, lets be safe (believe me, intel pukes know a lot more than the average citizen does).

Third, idiot pilot crashed himself!!!!! Should have called Bingo Fuel and drove into an airport instead of 'trying' to make the feild. His own fault.