Well OK... but don't tell it to Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes. You'll insult the old man. He makes NO APOLOGIES about his political news channel. He's been a Rebublican consultant for presidents Nixon, Regan and Bush. Rumors are that he may make a run of his own for the Republican nomination in 2012.

You are either well aware of you connotations when you swipe at Fox News, or you live under a rock.

I see. I state that FOX News & CNN stink, & you automatically make an assumption about my political preference. I'll have you know my political preference has ZERO influence on my opinion of FOX News. BTW, I know hard right wingers who hate FOX News.

Going back over to the TSA side of the discussion ---- if I remember correctly, it was established to replace the loosly organized, poorly trained, lowly paid private security screeners that allowed 19 bad guys to board airplanes with box cutters to cut pilots throats. So far so good -- no repeats to date. Still gotta work on those underwear bombers. Yes -- it has been expensive. Yes -- it is inconvenient. It's not quite as intrusive as that full body search under the watchful eyes of the guy with the machine gun I had to go thru in Taiwan back when the commies were coming.

Who really cares how much they're paid. It's certainly a job I would never want to do --almost as much fun as being a gate agent when flights are getting cancelled.

Your CNN comment came later when you realized your mistake and went for damage control. Its all good though. I don't care for these channels myself. I just found it amusing that you join in on the Fox bashing and then suddenly warn the others about going political.

Anyway, enough with that. I agree that it needs to get back on topic.

Please, truly do not take this post personally, I do not mean it to be but . . . . hahahahahahahahahahahahah . . . . gasp/breathe . . . . . hahahahahahahah . . . . . . rolling on floor . . . . . . whoohoohahahahahahahahahahahah . . . . . . wiping tears from eyes . . . . gasp/breathe . . . . . hahahahahahahahahahah . . . . . off to change underwear from soiling myself!!!! :D

ill get it back on topic by ranting against the TSA!!

Ill just say I really hope they keep their hands off the GA side of aviation, because they have ruined commercial travel. I honestly do not enjoy flying with a major airline anymore, It used to be fun! On the other hand, the worse they get, the better the private side of aviation looks. So as much as I dislike the way things are at airports, it means job security for GA pilots!

Okay, I get it. Fox News is not a news organization. Just like the New York Times is not a newspaper.

The NEW TSA stands for....

Touch
Squeeze
Assault

The problem is, they hired most of those "lowly paid private security screeners that allowed 19 bad guys to board airplanes with box cutters", as TSA agents...

the real fun thing is post 9/11 we fixed the one thing that wasn't broken. The nut bag islamic extremest did not carry anything through security that was on the banned list.
Airport security is all it can be, it will not get any better regardless of how much we pay them.