December 12, 2007
Is TSA lucky or good?
I'm afraid I didn't have much time to check the new today - I was busy trying to save an expensive coat that my wife gave me last year. Somehow I managed to get chocolate protein shake all over it. I scrubbed for a while but I think I just made it worse. Maybe the dry cleaner will bail me out. Otherwise I could be in trouble for a long time...
The one thing I do have for you is a critical piece on TSA. The main argument is that flying isn't particularly safe because TSA is not very good at stopping people from getting weapons on planes:
Unless you’ve been living for the last few years in a cave that is much more remote and much less technologically sophisticated than Osama bin Laden’s, you know that government investigation after government investigation has shown that it is just as easy today to sneak deadly weapons past screeners as it was on 9/11. Just a few weeks ago the T.S.A. was defending itself against the latest such report - one from the Government Accountability Office - finding screeners at 19 airports around the country to be inept. (The G.A.O. added that it would likely have found similarly dismal results at other airports.)Posted by James Trotta at December 12, 2007 12:39 PM | TrackBack
The main argument is that flying isn't particularly safe because TSA is very good at stopping people from getting weapons on planes:
huh?
They are very good at stopping people from getting weapons on planes - yet people aren't safe?
Should be "not very good" - good catch...
Posted by: James Trotta at December 12, 2007 11:53 PMIt says it is not very good...
Posted by: Stephanie at December 13, 2007 11:50 PMI used to work for TSA and it's a joke. The flying public is in grave danger.
Posted by: Dollar Bill at December 15, 2007 2:51 AMTSA???? Just a bunch of window-dressing rules. They even think we believe in that bullshit...that's how dum they get ;-)
Posted by: me at December 15, 2007 9:05 PMI understand that it isn't a viable solution...TSA that is. But if you guys have a better, economically viable alternative, let's hear it. Otherwise, all this TSA bashing doesn't help anyone one bit.
Posted by: John at December 15, 2007 9:27 PMTSA: Thousands Standing Around
Posted by: Mary at December 19, 2007 1:31 AMBack in August of 2005, I was going from Maui to the Big Island. Going through security I had to take off all my metal objects with one item being a ring that I had purchased on the island of Oahu. Well to make a long story short the ring was not in the basket when it came through the other side. Just what may have happened, hmmmmm!!! You figure it out.
Posted by: Elek J Timar at February 13, 2008 3:39 PMMost of the people at these checkpoints rifling thru your stuff were not hired because they actually gave a shit or were of exceptional character....call it a wild guess.
If I am wrong, let the record reflect that the "organization" needs to hire some image consultants and possibly teach their people how to pretend they give a shit and somehow cultivate a sense of urgency.
Posted by: Henry at February 14, 2008 12:46 AM