[Republic of Texas]

Have you flown lately? "Security People"? These are people that, by and large couldn't get a job at starbucks.

[leilani]

RofT said: "These are people that, by and large couldn't get a job at starbucks." The problem is that nobody can win for losing here. Hello? YOOHOO! There are satanically-inspired weirdos in this world who believe that all Americans, indeed all westerners (read:christians, hindis, ideed, all non-muslims)should die and they are prepared to do whatever it takes to bring us all down. The folks at the airport running security are damned if they do (shake down passengers) and damned if they don't (i.e., let through the local "investigative reporter" who tries to get through with a boxcutter.) Americans are gonna have to get a lot more sophisticated about the cold-hard reality currently confronting them than the breathtakingly naive writer of this piece. Amazing.

[zingzang]

Have you flown lately? "Security People"? These are people that, by and large couldn't get a job at starbucks.

Night shift at some greasy spoon truck stop would be too good for these morons. Our federal bureaucracy has created another out of control monster. Welcome to the machine!

[EDINVA]

" ... Security People? These are people that, by and large couldn't get a job at starbucks."

Good God, no. Starbucks has standards.