OK. I get it. No one likes the TSA. Who in their right mind wants to be pulled aside when they are running late to catch a plane, only to get felt up by a Coach Beiste look-a-like in full view of their traveling companions? It's happened to me many times. So many, in fact, that I refused to travel for work for almost a year, until Austin put in the new scanners. Does it really feel necessary for me to take off my boots and walk through the airport in stocking feet? Not really. It does seem like a good way to get athlete's foot, and I still haven't figured out why we can't scan shoes without putting them on a conveyor belt, but if everyone in the airport sees the ugly penguin socks my mom gave me for Christmas, so be it. I do, however, feel safer knowing that we are doing what we can to ensure the safety of air travel. Is it perfect? Not even close. Could something get through? It will happen eventually. But looking around at some of the scraggly passengers on the red eye from California to Austin, -boy- am I glad they have been checked!
Why then, do politicians, and for that matter the famous in general, think that they are above the screenings? Why is it always a tragedy that they got singled out to get the pat down. Rand Paul actually thinks that the TSA employees push a button on purpose to cause random extra screenings. The great scanner conspiracy. Put on your tin-foil hat, boys, rent-a-cop is out to get you. I'm sorry, Rand, but have you ever known a low-level government employee, making slightly more than $10 an hour, that would willingly add to their workload? If so, send me their resume - I could use that kind of employee. What I want to know is why is this senator, who apparently is affronted to be treated like the rest of us, going to spend the tax dollars we paid, to investigate this alleged insult? Unfortunately, Rand, you are not my senator, or I would veto your ability to be a moron, but alas, I am not hopeful that the state of Kentucky is going to figure it out before my money is wasted on this fool's errand.
Oh, and Rand, you can always go through the new scanners, they are only there to find cloaked aliens.
