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Easter Egg Hunt Circa 1950s (Source: Christopher Vaz at seasideheightshistory.com Checking in with the TSA, here’s their list of what was found for the period between March 30th and April 5th, 2012: Firearms: 27, 24 loaded; 3 unloaded 4 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints Over at the TSA Blog, the lists (and puns and bad jokes) continue. Knives [...] Kip Hawley More than a decade after 9/11, it is a national embarrassment that our airport security system remains so hopelessly bureaucratic and disconnected from the people whom it is meant to protect. Preventing terrorist attacks on air travel demands flexibility and the constant reassessment of threats. It also demands strong public support, which [...] Fun During Coffee Break, 1932. Martin Munkacsi, American. (Metropolitan Museum of Art © Joan Munkacsi, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery) It looks like it was kind of a slow week for the TSA during the period between March 23rd and 29th, 2012: Firearms: 11: 5 loaded; 6 unloaded 0 artfully concealed prohibited items found at checkpoints Over at the TSA Blog, [...] Joseph's Brethren Discover Money in Their Grain Sacks, ca 1530. Stained Glass, France (Metropolitan Museum) I’m happy to announce that the TSA homepage has finally updated its Week at a Glance feature for the period between February 10th and 16th, 2012: Firearms: 24 loaded; 4 unloaded 3 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints They’ve added a link to [...] Packing peanut butter, ca. 1915. Photo: Detroit Publishing Co (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. ) Those rascals at the TSA haven’t updated their Week at a Glance feature yet (I think the unfortunate individual responsible for the task is out sick or on vacation or something), so I did some [...] Book with knives, 12/19/11 (TSA photograph) The Transportation Security Administration, commonly referred to as the TSA, has a budget of $8.1 billion for 2012 and plans to add about 3,000 more employees. According to the Mission statement on its own website, TSA “protects the Nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people [...] Europe bans x-ray body scanners used at U.S. airports. TSA puts off safety study of x-ray body scanners. Terrorists could implant explosives in themselves, TSA said, alerting us to apparently fictional threats, since they also said there was no actual evidence such plots were being planned. I suppose attack-trained chihuahuas with explosives on their backs could swarm airports or that TSA could stop being so transparently hysterical in their attempts to get [...] Suddenly there is major news everywhere. The European debt crisis is growing. Portugal and Spain are next. The banksters are trying to force countries to make good on private loans and bond purchases that should never have been made. They don’t care if they destroy countries. But Europeans and Brits has a long history [...] Think about it. Mass opt-outs for being scanned by TSA would mean long waits on a busy travel day plus by doing so you are demanding to be groped. It’s not surprising that not many are doing it. The increased militarization of US society is troubling. We may have scanners everywhere soon. And to what [...] |  | ||||
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