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POPSAirport Screeners Swiping Your Stuff? According to this blogger, the Transportation Security Administration has a little stealing situation on their hands. What are they allegedly taking? Everything from an engagement ring to cash to designer eyewear to electronics. How can you safeguard your belongings? Elliot's recommendations include leaving valuables at home or taking them with you on the plane instead of putting them into a checked bag.
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POPSHow to Skip the Airport Security Line There's an easy solution to the problem of long security lines: pay to join a shorter queue. I've clipped about this before, but this author raises some interesting points about "registered traveler" programs. For a $100 fee and a $28 TSA background check, these programs give frequent travelers a fingerprint or iris image that allows you to join an expedited security line. The author argues that, "What looks to one person like flexibility looks to another like bribing your way through the system." What do you think?
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POPSWe've waited soooo long for this..... .....I just can't wait for my 82 year old mom to get harassed! She'll beat them to death with her Bible! Next up is check points at each states borders, maybe even counties or cities. WTF. Talk about burnin' the constitution!
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POPSAirport TSA to Introduce Black Lights for ID Checks "Your papers please". Black light will now be used to be sure your are not only not a terrorist, but not a counter-feiter. The requirement of IDs to travel is now becoming common place, and Americans are bowing to easily. The federal Leviathan is increasingly taking over private airline's responsibilities (as this article plainly discloses). When the Feds think they own private enterprise, and your right to transportation, it is a mark of totalitarian government. This is for domestic travel, not for passports mind you.
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POPSAt The Airport, You Better Smile... We now know the sound of George Orwell rolling in his grave. "Here's where it gets really absurd. Apparently, these Behavior Detection Officers work in pairs. One scenario is that an officer might move in to "help" a passenger retrieve their belongings after they've been screened. And then the officer will ask where the passenger is headed. If the passenger's reaction sets off alarm bells in the officer's well-trained mind, another officer will move in and detain them." "So while TSA employees are confiscating our scissors and water bottles, they're going to secretly be staring at us, looking for some telltale sign of terrorist intent in a grimace, a sigh, a crinkled nose? Who knows what? In the end, the Behavior Detection Officers are the ones who are really acting suspicious. Which is the truth of the matter anyway."
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POPS TSA Screeners Failure Rate Stunned Experts The failure rates at Los Angeles and Chicago stunned security experts. "That's a huge cause for concern," said Clark Kent Ervin, the Homeland Security Department's former inspector general. Screeners' inability to find bombs could encourage terrorists to try to bring them on airplanes, Ervin said, and points to the need for more screener training and more powerful checkpoint scanning machines. In the past year, the TSA has adopted a more aggressive approach in its attempt to keep screeners attentive — the agency runs covert tests every day at every U.S. airport, TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said. Screeners who miss detonators, timers, batteries and blocks that resemble plastic explosives get remedial training.
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POPSGuru Gobind Singh vs. the TSA Of course, I'm horrified and offended by the idea that we target people who cover their heads for additional security. (Especially considering that the successful terrorists of recent history did not cover their heads...) But I'm a little amused by the Sikhs once again getting dragged into this (mostly because our steak and potatoes Intelligence agencies can't tell the difference between anyone wearing something other than a baseball cap...) Then again, Kesh (uncut hair, wrapped in a turban) is just the most important of the "five K's" (external symbols of Sikh faith). What about the Kirpan? (A ceremonial dagger worn at all times, because you never know when you might have to kill an enemy of Sikhism, like Indira Ghandi, for instance...) I don't suppose they can get those through airport security either? Honestly, I'm tempted to avoid flying directly into America because of its idiotic security, and my religion doesn't even mandate carrying a weapon!
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POPSWhat's wrong with this quote? So let me get this straight... "American officers receive 16 hours of training...because U.S. officials want to be less intrusive." No chance that insufficiently trained TSA worker might terrorize air travelers?
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POPS25 Uses for Ziploc Bags 9. Remove chewing gum or candle wax from a tablecloth, carpeting, or the couch. Gently rub the gum or wax with a Ziploc bag filled with ice cubes until the substance hardens. Once the gum or wax hardens, shatter it with a hammer and vacuum up the chips. Carefully peel off any frozen wax with a plastic spatula. 10. If you have to crush up nuts, simply put them in a Ziploc bag and take a hammer to them. 11. When traveling, pack your delicate clothes in large Ziploc bags to keep your clothes clean and tidy, even after the TSA inspectors have pummeled through all of your belongings. 12. While traveling, create a homemade first aid kit and store it in a Ziploc bag. 13. If you don’t have a funnel on hand, you can always cut a hole in the corner of a Ziploc bag. In just a few seconds you have instantly created your own homemade funnel.
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