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TSA Checkpoint Screeners Concerned About High Cancer Rates

July 12, 2011August 10, 2015 239 Views 0 Comments Homeland Security, TSA, DHS, Cancer, x-ray machines, radiation

Well, I won’t say, “I told you so, but…” The New York Times is reporting on email exchanges between TSA employee representatives and Department of Homeland Security officals about concerns over increased cancer rates. According to the article, airport screeners in Boston and Atlanta were concerned about growing numbers of co-workers ‘falling victim to various forms of cancer,’ which they suspected might be caused by radiation exposure from the machines. “

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Avoid Airport Hassles with TSA

January 22, 2011September 29, 2018 172 Views 1 Comment TSA, Flying, Glider

OK, so here’s how to avoid all the headaches of the TSA checkpoints. Just get one of these. I loved the takeoff procedure, but I can see where landing could get a little complicated depending on your speed. Kind of reminded of Fred Flintstone, but it could be a lot of fun.

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TSA Bumper Stickers

December 1, 2010September 29, 2018 251 Views 0 Comments Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, DHS, crazy, Pat-Down, Bumper Stickers, illegal search

Well, you knew it would be just a matter of time. I think I want one of each. My personal favorite, the one about the Freedom Pat. I can see some Congressman startting to use that to justify TSA.

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How to Shorten Your TSA Rub Down

November 20, 2010August 10, 2015 323 Views 0 Comments Michael Chertoff, Security, 9/11, Pat Downs, Rub downs, x-rays, hijacking, Homeland Security, TSA, 9-11

Finally people seem to be waking to the ridiculousness of the TSA’s “security theater” at the airport gates, just not before Micheal Chertoff, former head of Homeland Security, got to sock away a nice retirement package from selling us taxpayers the bogus x-ray machines. Don’t want to go through those, then get yourself a rub down from a TSA agent, but I’ve found a way to get through the rub down pretty fast.

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Porno Pete Wants A TSA Pat Down

November 16, 2010September 29, 2018 295 Views 1 Comment same-gender, Homeland Security, TSA, Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH, Porno Pete, Groping, Pat-Down, Janet Napolitano

As I picked up my rental car here at Dulles Airport Monday morning, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was on C-Span Radio trying to defend TSA’s ridiculous and overly intrusive pat downs and use of the prono-x-ray machines. I noticed she kept talking about people who opt out of the backscatter machines can get a “same-gender” pat down. She kept saying “same-gender” over and over.

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Guns Guns Everywhere, and Not a Bit Safer

April 12, 2008September 29, 2018 B. John 281 Views 1 Comment florida, Homeland Security, TSA, Guns, National Rifle Association, Hand Guns

We now have “take your gun to work” here in Florida…not just on a specific day, but everyday, and we’ve got airline pilots shooting through the cockpit with their TSA issued handguns due to another idiotic TSA procedure.

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News Round-up – February 1, 2008

February 1, 2008 B. John 168 Views 1 Comment Homeland Security, TSA, Brain, IDs, Medical, Strokes, Tampa Airport, Wired

This is a round-up of minor and fun news items for the week ending Friday, February 1, 2008. We have a guy at the airport with 99 fake IDs, and speaking of the airport, CNN shows how a TSA inspector got a bomb past security there. We’ve got a story in a brain vaccum (I think the prototype might have been tested on George Bush), and the price of chocolate is going up.

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Airport Security Follies

December 30, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 181 Views 0 Comments Homeland Security, TSA, Terrorism, Terrorists, Air Travel, Airport Security

The New York Times has a great Op-Ed about the foolishness of the TSA security screenings at airports. It points out, as most thinking people have to come realize that this is mostly feel-good theater that does no actual good at preventing another terrorist attack.

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Letter to Congress About Marines on No-Fly List

April 13, 2006 B. John 183 Views Homeland Security, Bill Nelson, Jim Davis, Mel Martinez, No-fly list, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

After reading of a Marine Reservist placed on TSA’s no-fly list because gun powder was found on his boots, I wrote the following to my congressional delegation. I would invite you to take action as well.