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LOL!

Ain't nobody gonna mess with our piper cub.

LOL!!!

This is hilarious....and true!

He'll know what to do if the Afghans use a goat with dynamite. There was an episode on the Andy Griffen show where a goat ate some dynamite.

I like the SS bolts, they're a good reminder of how the government is getting too big.

Spiffy New Uniform----------$160
Hourly Pay Raise------------$15

Don't forget the $0.43 for the bullet in his pocket.

Seriously, is it really $15/hr.? That's a hefty raise.

ROTFLMHO

The significant thing here is the citizenship requirement. San Francisco and other California airport are whining about the requirement and trying to get it overridden.

You support the federal airport workers?

Federalizing airport safety personnel may or may not be a good thing, but it is clearly NOT unconstitutional even under the original understanding of the Constitution. Article I section 8 gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. If air travel isn't interstate commerce, nothing is. I don't want the federal government involved in tasks that properly belong to the states, but national defense is the federal government's responsibility.

even under the original understanding of the Constitution.

It's sad when we have to differentiate between the Founders' "original" understanding and the current understanding of the Constitution. The Founders are crapping in their graves. ( This is just an observation, not a critique of your post...that comes later. ;-) )

I'll be giving hang glider lessons out back in ten minutes. No carry on luggage. The inflight meal will be bugs.

I went to the airport yesterday to drop someone off and I was somewhat impressed with the new security - The looked thru every car and trunk going into the parking garage and had better passenger checks with national guardsmen handy. Still I wish they would replace some of the losers that were doing it before 9/11. Hint: a pay increase does not improve a persons job performance.

Count me as "opposed". Those "for" would look more appropriate if it were their right hands raised in that stiff-armed open handed salute.

AB

Federalizing airport safety personnel may or may not be a good thing, but it is clearly NOT unconstitutional even under the original understanding of the Constitution.

This is incorrect. Using the strict interpretation, commerce would not be air travel. Not until Marshall expanded the definition with his ruling, did commerce include navigation. Excerpt:

Commerce .--The etymology of the word ''commerce'' 579 carries the primary meaning of traffic, of transporting goods across state lines for sale. This possibly narrow constitutional conception was rejected by Chief Justice Marshall in Gibbons v. Ogden, 580 which remains one of the seminal cases dealing with the Constitution. The case arose because of a monopoly granted by the New York legislature on the operation of steam-propelled vessels on its waters, a monopoly challenged by Gibbons who transported passengers from New Jersey to New York pursuant to privileges granted by an act of Congress. 581 The New York monopoly was not in conflict with the congressional regulation of commerce, argued the monopolists, because the vessels carried only passengers between the two States and were thus not engaged in traffic, in ''commerce'' in the constitutional sense.

''The subject to be regulated is commerce,'' the Chief Justice wrote. ''The counsel for the appellee would limit it to traffic, to buying and selling, or the interchange of commodities, and do not admit that it comprehends navigation. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more--it is intercourse.'' 582 The term, therefore, included navigation, a conclusion that Marshall also supported by appeal to general understanding, to the prohibition in Article I, Sec. 9, against any preference being given ''by any regulation of commerce or revenue, to the ports of one State over those of another,'' and to the admitted and demonstrated power of Congress to impose embargoes. 583

Yep!

I agree with the premise but just really hate it for Barney to be put in this position. Besides, at least Barney,unlike many in airport security today, is an American citizen...and we all know that he would be dedicated to his post. And we all know that for all his misgivings, Andy was there to back him up so no bad guys ever got away with anything. :)