Politics in the Zeros

The TSA keeps on keeping on. Between May 4th and 10th, 2012, here’s what they found on the roughly 10 million air passengers* in US airports during that period. Firearms: 30 - 29 loaded; 1 unloaded 1 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints TSA’s homepage posted this link to the story of one of their employees who helped thwart an [...]

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After a couple of weeks with a higher than average number of firearms being found by TSA agents, the period between April 27th and May 3rd, 2012, was quieter. Firearms: 23 - 22 loaded; 1 unloaded 1 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Blogger Bob and the rest of the TSA Blog Team either had a very slow week or [...]

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I guess more of our air travelers must have been feeling threatened during the period between April 13th and 19th, 2012, because there were a lot more loaded guns found, according to the TSA‘s weekly accounting. Firearms: 30- 26 loaded; 4 unloaded 3 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints According to the TSA Blog, one of those loaded weapons was [...]

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First, to get the basics out of the way, let’s see what we got in return for the weekly $150,961,538 they cost us. According to the TSA, here’s what they found during the period between April 6th and April 12, 2012 : Firearms: 32 - 19 loaded; 13 unloaded 6 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints The TSA Blog continues its artful [...]

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First, let’s take a look at what they say they found during the period between March 16th and 22nd, 2012: Firearms: 29: 21 loaded; 8 unloaded 3 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints As far as I can tell, none of these people with firearms (unloaded or not), “artfully concealed items” or whatever are being arrested, unless they’re found with [...]

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TSA wants you to know they’re still on the job and here’s what they found (fewer guns and more “artfully concealed” stuff) during the period between March 9th and 15th, 2012: Firearms: 16 loaded; 3 unloaded 5 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Over at the TSA Blog Week in Review, they’re showing a photo of mass quantities of ecstasy [...]

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Over at the TSA, another week, another edition of what they’re now calling Week in Review. Here’s what was discovered during the period between March 2nd and 8th, 2012: Firearms: 24 loaded; 4 unloaded 2 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Over at the TSA Blog, more photos and text. TSA has announced that they’re beginning to test a modified [...]

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X-Ray Photo, 1896. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. ) Another week’s finds straight from TSA’s homepage (for the period between February 24th and March 1st (otherwise known as St. David’s Day), 2012: Firearms: 21 loaded; 4 unloaded 3 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Another batch of photos of their awesome work on the [...]

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Full body scanners can apparently be fooled by carrying light metallic objects on your side. TSA Out Of Our Pants demonstrates how to do it. This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that [...]

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Now that the folks at TSA are back on track with their Week at a Glance report, here’s what was found during the period between February 17th and 23rd, 2012: Firearms: 25 loaded; 10 unloaded [for a breakdown by airport, see the blog] 3 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Over at the TSA blog, there are photos of [...]

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