Leaving aside the privacy and security issues, TSA’s Secure Flight process is cumbersome enough for passengers. From an agent perspective, it’s a lot of extra work for no pay. In theory, when it’s done, it’s done. Right? Not exactly.
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We have a job opening for you! Head of the TSA! Apply now! What traveler wouldn’t want this job? You get to bust terrorists (the goofballs responsible for that two hour wait to get on the plane and the numerous invasions of privacy) and give some pushback to the airlines (the goofballs that raise and lower fares more times than the flag outside that Capitol, charge you for everything but breathing in the cabin, and keep you stuck on the tarmac without so much as a peanut for 11 hours straight).
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Though, this was the first time I had heard of studies attempting to unlock the secrets of how dogs smell, these studies have been being conducted for decades at our national labs and in private labs. A canine’s nose functionality is still a mystery for sensory scientists. Dogs have been trained to sniff and search for bodies under rubble, explosives, drugs, banned foods and even the presence of cancer.
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After billions of dollars spent, a new bureaucracy, thousands of additional federal workers and slow-downs to air transportation TSA wants more money to stop the same threats. First we need control of the organization and get our intelligence services speaking with each other.
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In our Alice-in-Wonderland world of airline security TSA security guards are now confiscating knives that were actually handed out, on-board by the airlines themselves in business and first class. Better yet, the knife in question was confiscated from the a uniformed pilot.
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Two international airport security incidents last week — one in Tokyo and the other in Kelowna, Canada — lets us know that TSA doesn’t have a monopoly on foolishness and mindless security blunders.
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