Thoughts on TSA Employees

[foxglovehp]

Okay, this is x-posted from my LJ, and though it is now a week-old topic and thus probably a dead issue to the media, I still think it is relevant.  For the record, I think the whole Gate-Rape thing is overblown, though I still may wear a kilt (regimental, of course) the next time I fly.  But I am also one who would go for the body scan since I am

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[mahnmut]

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[mahnmut]

Awesome, thanks. You're fast. :-)
I'll try to comment on the subject a bit later.

[foxglovehp]

Better?

[mahnmut]

Yes yes, thanks.

[existentme]

"Well, maybe we'll get back to that someday."

No, we will not get back to it at all: any right, once surrendered, is rarely if ever regained.

[luvdovz]

In my observation rights come and go. Up and down. Much like climate change. ;)
(Well I'm not as old as the sound of this made me look).

[existentme]

I'm good with climate change, but awfully pessimistic about the other.

[gunslnger]

From my observations, they only come back due to revolutions. Where have you see them come back "naturally"?

[pastorlenny]

TSA employs the worst mouth-breathing HS dropouts

"Mouth-breathing?" Seriously? Did you just read some Nietzsche or something?

[the_rukh]

is this phrase new to you?

[pastorlenny]

What would make you think it was new to me?

[the_rukh]

Your reaction to it. Is there anything else there I would be responding to? ;)

[devil_ad_vocate]

For a lighter than air experience, try LutheranAir:

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2010/05/01/scripts/lutheran-air.shtml

[dwer]

TSA employs the worst mouth-breathing HS dropouts

Just because the requirements aren't high doesn't make that conclusion true. Furthermore, I'd suggest that the training is at least as culpable in this case. Were the policy sane and the training effective, it wouldn't matter if you had eight-year olds doing it.

[mijopo]

indeed, the poster goes from pointing out that it's possible to get a job at TSA without completing high school to the conclusion that "TSA employs the worst mouth-breathing HS dropouts"

I think there's an important question to be asked about whether or not TSA employees are qualified to be doing what they're doing, but it would be nice to follow the rules of logic and reasoning, not to mention general human decency, while we do so.

[dwer]

I'd suggest that if we're worried about insufficiently qualified TSA employees, what we're really talking about is insufficient qualification requirements.

[mijopo]

Well, the two are related to each other, to be sure. But while we may need higher qualifications, it doesn't follow from that that "TSA employs the worst mouth-breathing HS dropouts"