The "Security" Joke That Is The TSA
A bunch of JFK baggage handlers were "charged with stealing electronics, jewelry and other items worth more than $20,000 from checked luggage, Queens prosecutors said Wednesday." (Per a Newsday report by Gary Dymski.)
If people can take stuff out of luggage, they can put stuff into luggage. Oh, but we're so much safer because a high school dropout who finally got her GED is putting her latex-gloved paws up around your underwire.
> If people can take stuff out of luggage,
> they can put stuff into luggage
13+ years into this madness, that had never occurred to me.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 5, 2014 1:51 AM
That's because you don't read other people's posts.
Radwaste at December 5, 2014 3:30 AM
The TSA is the biggest public-works project since the Depression and the CCC.
CmdrBna at December 5, 2014 6:30 AM
Oh, gosh - don't compare it to the CCC.
I regularly visit a state park that was built by CCC workers - the craftsmanship is amazing, and the work was *hard* - digging into rock by hand. The building is still in great shape - an amazing little jewel in the wilderness.
If we are going to have government "assistance", then the CCC was the right way to do it. It provided people a way to do honest work, learn a skill, and have pride in their job, while leaving a lasting contribution.
flbeachmom at December 5, 2014 6:40 AM
> That's because you don't read other
> people's posts.
Oh you poor, wounded puppy... You see sixty thousand comments, and imagine they came out of nowhere, reacting to nothing.
You're still upset about the thing where it's OK to hit children with sticks, right? You never had the chance to express your dearest heart about how we need to be understanding about those thing.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 5, 2014 2:12 PM
Reminds me of Black Cindy from Orange is the New Black.
Catherine at December 5, 2014 2:53 PM
You're making things up again, Crid.
It only took about five posts to describe the idiocy that is today's TSA policy. One of my first included the observation that if an agent could be bribed to let a package onto the plane, the agent did not know what was actually in it. Remember "Knowing", The DHS employee using company time to attack Amy?
Work on your memory skills. As diverse as your opinions, and as profound as your ability to describe them, I know you want to be consistent.
Radwaste at December 5, 2014 5:04 PM
I'm all about the consistency. My insights are not only penetrating, but they shine like undying beams of sunshine, enlightening the befuddled for as long as it takes for them to find their way out of ignorance.
Also, I have no idea what you're yammering about. Your first post was to snark at me.
> Work on your memory skills
I don't love you enough. It's easier to hold on to a a few honest principles than to haul around a thicket of dicey exceptions. It doesn't matter how many wonderful things people said on Tuesday if they're be foolish on Friday.
And here you are.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 5, 2014 6:48 PM
"I don't love you enough."
Of course, it is all about you – once again. Which is true: you were the one who did not realize the points raised right in front of you.
It is not about me. If you are going to post, you should be attentive and accurate. Alas, these are the two qualities too often missing from your otherwise wonderful prose.
And that is why Andrew Garland wins the content/syllable contest.
Radwaste at December 7, 2014 12:00 AM
"Content"!
So I 'lose.' Oh well.
Blog commenters, who are by now an aging and diminished breed, still amaze in their certainty that others do and should pay attention. This is most entertaining from Canadians, who will note in the first of a ten thousand comments that they aren't actually going to be voting in our elections ("But..."), and they'll expect the rest of us to remember. (Or so they say when we remind them they have no skin in the game.)
Putting one's thoughts into words, and doing it better than it was done yesterday, is the best motive. (A Googlable index of half-drunk [night] and half-caffeinated [daytime] anecdotes is beneficial, too.) A few years ago, Ariana nonetheless convinced a few thousand people to pursue a new kind of rock stardom which had no music, audience or money... Stooges did this for her, and she got rich. The bloke in line at the bank with you truly is that naive... He thinks the reason he hasn't been fêted as humanity's savior is that we just didn't know how magnificent a force his interior life rilly wuz.
I've seen the name Andrew Garland perhaps a thousand times, presumably always here, but maybe elsewhere as well... Yet his beliefs, character and postures are nonetheless transparent in my memory. I'm sure he's a loving father, a conscientious taxpayer, a defensive driver and a fine dancer.
If his "content" brings you fulfillment, even the kind for which you send money (or drop to your knees for blowjobs), well, you are both welcome to your mutual satisfactions, and I need not take part or feel a loss. My needs here still get met.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 7, 2014 12:51 AM
Every time I see Crid and Radwaste get into it with each other (or in general), I feel like I am Charlie Brown listening to the teacher go "Wah wah wah waa." I know what all the words mean, but what I get is something like, "Snarky snark snark anger anger snark."
Shannon at December 7, 2014 6:08 PM
Reread.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 7, 2014 6:40 PM
I don't know about you people but I am the brightest person currently using this keyboard.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 7, 2014 9:46 PM
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