WTF? TSA Spends $50 Million on New Uniforms, $1,000 Per Employee, More Expensive Than Marine Corps!! And Will Permit Knives, Golf Clubs on U.S. Planes Again!!

TSA To Allow Knives On Planes Again

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will let people carry small pocketknives onto passenger planes for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, along with golf clubs, hockey sticks and plastic Wiffle Ball-style bats.The agency will permit knives with retractable blades shorter than 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) and narrower than 1/2 inch at the widest point, TSA Administrator John Pistole said today at [...]

PROPERTY SEIZURE AT AIRPORTS TURNS A PROFIT

 

A beaming girl’s picture is encased in the snow globe, which is about the size of a grapefruit and rests atop an expensive-looking wooden base proclaiming, “Congratulations, graduate!”

Alas, the graduate never received this gift. It rests amid a sea of San Antonio snow globes — and a few globes from Denver, Chicago and Disney World — on the shelves of the Texas State Surplus Store at [...]

REPORT: TX made $300,000 in 2010 selling property seized at airports

A beaming girl’s picture is encased in the snow globe, which is about the size of a grapefruit and rests atop an expensive-looking wooden base proclaiming, “Congratulations, graduate!”

Alas, the graduate never received this gift. It rests amid a sea of San Antonio snow globes — and a few globes from Denver, Chicago and Disney World — on the shelves of the Texas State Surplus Store at [...]

REPORT: Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Safety Claims of Full-Body Scanners

The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation from a scan is equivalent to what’s received in about two minutes of flying. The company that makes them says it’s safer than eating a banana [1].

But some scientists with expertise in imaging and cancer say the evidence made public to support those claims is unreliable. And in a new letter [2] [...]