Posted on 10/08/2011 8:22:45 AM PDT by george76
$237 million more dollars down the drain.
IN THE LATEST ATTEMPT to prove they’re “protecting you from yesterday, tomorrow,” the TSA has announced plans to insert yet another extravagantly expensive, questionably effective machine into the airport security screening process.
You know how at the entrance to the security line there’s that agent who makes sure the name on your boarding pass is the same as the one on your photo ID? Apparently that guy’s job is too hard.
According to CNN, the TSA has contracted with three companies to produce machines to “match a traveler’s boarding pass with his or her government-issued ID, while verifying that both documents are authentic.”
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total $237 million, and only buy 30 machines.
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How ‘bout we disband the DHS, including the TSA, and allow concealed carry on public conveyances.
Problem solved, and won’t cost the public a dime.
Just sayin’.
Wonder which major DNC Donor is getting the contracts for this one (or which friend of a Government official)?
Problem solved, and won’t cost the public a dime.
Just sayin’.
Great; until a bullet penetrates the aircraft and rapid-depressurization occors, or, worse yet, contol hydraulic lines are severed by a stray bullet, and the plane is out of control.
damned spellchicker....
I can’t be the only one who ears earplugs being I usually sit in the back and it can get pretty loud sometimes,I also wear earplugs to keep my eardrums from emploding from the pressure. Soon we will have to pay $10.00 to supply our own ear plugs,and $5.00 to admire the very attractive stewardess.
The imbecile held my boarding pass and ID up to it a couple of times. It didn't work at all, so he just scribbled on the boarding pass and i was free to take off my shoes and get a naked picture shot
Neither is likely or possible. You watch too much James Bond.
people at TSA can read ?
Horse pucky. It’s easy to restrict “approved” ammunition to frangible only, where it would not pierce the pressure vessel or have any other consequences with other than soft targets. Besides, catastrophic decompression is not possible with a single bullet hole or two in a fuselage.
Just the common knowledge that other pax may be armed would be enough to insure that any further hijacking attempts would be a thing of the past.
Add in real profiling, and we could eliminate the TSA completely.
Departed from Boston’s Logan Airport last night (weather was idenitical to 9/11 when I was trying to fly out then also.)
Scads of TSA Blue Shirts on duty - one doing her instant messaging while “monitoring a computer”, two others playing grab#ss, three others chatting while oblivious to their surrounding. I sure am glad the Later Loser Ted Kennedy insisted on making them fed. employees to insure high standards.
Perhaps I’ll call John Kerry to complain. /S
I have always maintained that society will be much more civil if everyone was armed.
DHS and TSA are George W Bush’s Legacy. Napolitano and Obama have taken it to new heights. Hitler, if he were alive, would be proud.
Hijacking is so yesterdecade.
The sealed cockpit door required today during flight makes it virtually impossible for a hijacker to capture control of a plane.
The more likely terrorist situation aboard a plane today is to bomb it, taking the entire craft down. Which is why the teeny tiny toothpaste tubes that are all that are permitted for carryons today, in hopes that would be an insufficient quantity of explosive to down the flight if it proves to be explosive.
Wonder which major DNC Donor is getting the contracts for this one (or which friend of a Government official)?
Exactly. Follow the money and you will find the truth.
It only takes a few ruffians to ruin things for everybody else.
It was probably sold on the idea that it would hasten throughput. Whether that’s a scientifically supportable notion, is another question.
Sooner or later we will be charged to blow our noses,cough,say “excuse me miss” and $5.00 extra to use Bounty or Angel Soft over the 15 cent TP rolls in those nasty smelling restrooms.
I'd be too much an optimist to presume that the TSA will now employ less people. Quite the contrary, the TSA will hire 3 new people for each machine, to "operate" it during the 3 shifts. The original guy becomes their supervisor.
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