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Another Major TSA Blunder

July 8, 2012 Arlington VA

Now checking drinks bought inside the secure area 'Because they can'

In yet another colossal blunder by the unusually incompetent TSA senior executives, the TSA has now decided to randomly check drinks bought within the secure zone at airports, according to an article from the Western Center for Journalism, and reported elsewhere as well.

On its blog, the TSA has defended its practice of randomly screening beverages purchased by passengers in secured areas of airports after passing through security checkpoints. You know, just in case that barista turned your latte into a bomb or something.

Under what TSA's "Blogger Bob Burns" calls "Not a big deal really..." passengers might be pulled out of line at the gate during boarding so that TSA can screen beverages they acquired after passing the security checkpoint, in supposedly secured areas of the airport.

According to Bob, the practice is just another one of TSA's layered security measures designed to be "unpredictable" thus making it harder for terrorists to plan for in trying "to do malice to the transportation infrastructure."

"If everything we did was always the same, it would provide a checklist for people to know exactly what to expect," wrote Bob. "While this would be extremely helpful for passengers, it would also be useful to those wishing to do us harm."

In the screening process, which Bob says will take just "few moments of your time before boarding your flight," a TSA agent holds a non-toxic, chemically treated test strip over the beverage opened by the passenger. As Bob stresses, the test strip never actually touches the beverage. "If the test results are positive TSA will conduct additional testing to make a final assessment," says Bob.

Bob also assures that at-the-gate screening is random and "isn't happening at every airport every day." [Info in part courtesy of About.com. ]

As we all know, TSA seldom takes anything to the level intended, and usually has its former unemployment office employees over-reacting.  Expect that here as well, especially that your drink will be ruined as they 'teach' employees not to put the strip in the drink itself.  Will the incompetence of the TSA never end?

 

This latest action is in the running for the next upcoming Stupid Award.

 

 

 

Holder Claims to be a "Proxy" for Obama in the Political Debate

July 2, 2012 Arlington VA 

If he really wants to be a proxy, so be it.

Attorney General Eric Holder, in a recent interview, called himself a 'proxy' in the political debate over Obama. if he wants to be known as that, it is certainly his right.  The only REAL debate over Obama is whether enough people who have been on Mars for three years, a few Unionists who have never learned to pull any other key than 'Democrat', and those confined with mental illness will vote for him. That is a really great crowd for any AG to join.

Holder has been a pompous fool since he avoided prosecution over his support for the Bush torture memos that he somehow avoided.  As an Attorney-General, he rates somewhere around Janet Reno, whose only claim to fame was sending in a swat team to send young Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba. His excuse for doing only those things he is forced to do is to constantly raise the race card, or have his surrogates do it for him, and then claim the high ground.

If you believe Holder, he knew nothing about Fast & Furious until he stopped it. Well, that is just not the way Justice works. US Attorney's don't go running around agreeing to allow gun running into Mexico without WASH(INGTON APPROVAL.  BATF does not allow their agents to 'go rogue' around a US attorney without WASHINGTON APPROVAL. BATF would not bless it if DOJ was not in agreement.  All threads seem to follow Holder, but Holder denies it.

Where is the truth?  In the documents he refuses to provide to the Congress, with Obama's blessing.

The time has come to either produce the facts, or get out of Washington by resigning.