SECURITY TO SUFFER WHILE FSD AND AFSD'S WALLETS GET FATTER!

Airport screeners to leave earlier

Saturday, August 27, 2005

By Kyla KingThe Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS -- Federal officials have given airlines at Gerald R. Ford International Airport a heads-up that their screeners will start leaving after the last departing flight, instead of hanging around until midnight.
Which means the airlines will have to take extra steps to avoid an incident like what happened last week, when a large group of passengers from a Delta flight were trapped on the concourse behind a locked gate for some time.
The federal Transportation Security Administration and airport officials say it's an airline's responsibility to make sure their employees open the gates after the screeners leave so passengers can get to the baggage claim area.
"I have no responsibility for arriving flights. It's just not what my screeners get paid to do," said the airport's TSA Federal Security Director John Mumma.
The federal screeners check the baggage and personal effects of departing passengers.
"There's no reason to keep somebody at the airport getting paid with federal tax dollars when there's nothing going on," Mumma said.

The terminal opens around 3:45 a.m. each day and closes each night about one hour after the last flight has arrived, usually around midnight. But federal screeners say their job is done when the last departing flight leaves around 10 p.m., so they are free to close the gates and leave. Passengers on arriving flights already have been screened by federal employees at their departure airport.

Airport spokesman Bruce Schedlbauer agreed with Mumma's assessment.
"It is the airline's responsibility to make arrangements for their customers to be allowed off of the concourse after the gates are locked," he said.

"This (recent case) might be the second case of this occurring ... it's typically not a problem."
Details of the incident are slim, but officials for Delta Connection ComAir, the airport, and the TSA acknowledged a group of passengers were trapped for some time behind a closed concourse gate.

ComAir spokeswoman Katie Moser would not say how many passengers were on the flight, or verify specifics of what happened, but said the airline was "going to work collaboratively with the airport and TSA to find a logical resolution."

"We do have people there staffing the station .... from our perspective, it really is more of a collaboration so we're obviously going to have to work with them on this a little bit more," she said.

Moser said the flight in question, which now arrives at 12:10 a.m., is being eliminated next month as part of across-the-board cuts because of decreased demand in the fall.
Mumma said starting in September, TSA screeners will be sent home around 10 p.m. instead of midnight because of schedule adjustments.

"I have a finite number of people," said Mumma, who supervises about 112 screeners. "At peak times we're stretched, so it make sense to take a couple of people who are working later when nothing's going on and push them back."

ALL I AM SAYING, IS GIVE WAR A CHANCE!

Is America losing the war at home? Have American citizens become accomplices to the Taliban and the bloodthirsty Islamic Terrorists?

I ask myself those questions every time I turn on CNN or any other of the mainstream media sources. The likes of lady killer Ted "hic" Kennedy, self confessed war criminal John Kerry, and the lady whose husband was asleep at the wheel with his pants down while "POSING" as the chief executive of our country Hillary Clinton are all over the news calling for investigations into how Islamic terrorist are being treated in Iraq, Afghanistan and GITMO.

WE were the ones attacked on 9/11! These vermin as far as I'm concerned have NO rights at all! Alright, I'll give in to giving them one right and only one...A quick, humane death by bullet to the brain! Screw em! Kill them all before they kill us!

Ted Kennedy and his liberal partners in crime are literally trying to open the door for Islamic Terrorist to come into this country and destroy everything and everyone.

Mom in the news, Cindy Sheehan is disgracing the memory of her son every single time she opens her mouth. She is calling terrorists "Freedom Fighters" and being very vocal about her Nazi-istic views for Jews to leave "Palestine".

More and more I am seeing un-American American's shooting off at the mouth defending criminals and terrorist. I think that Pat Robertson recently had a wonderful idea when he said that the Dictator of Venezuela, Chavez should be assisinated. This nut case is trying to turn his country into a launching pad for Islamic Terrorists much like former President Clinton did for Kosovo when he bombed Minority Christian targets.

Communist groups such as the NAACP and the ACLU with their leftist agendas are further weakening our country with their call for peace and defense of the "RIGHTS" of terrorists who killing OUR solidiers overseas and the ones who want to kill us here on our own soil.

President Bush needs to take a true stand here on the homefront. He needs to stand up and tell the world that we are NOT sorry for what we had to do in Iraq, and tell schmucks like Chirac and Schroeder that if they are not with us then to sit down and shut the F@#K up. He needs to take a STRONG stance in front of the world and quit apologizing to everyone every time we have to use a little force to get information that could possibly save thousands if not millions of lives.

The last administration was constantly asleep at the wheel and when they did use military force, it was usually to distract the media and the Sheeple from the fact that he was an idiot. That is not what we need now, nor in 2008 when that idiots wife, Sen. Hitlary Clinton decides to run for president.

G-d Bless our Troops, Police and Firemen.

The Rogue Jew

JIMMY CARTER SELLS OUT HIS HOME TEAM

In much of the same fasion as failed former President Jimmy Carter turned his back on and sold out his own country to Islamic terrorists and the Communists, he has once again proven himself to be a worthless backstabbing SOB to his home state of Georgia.

Former President Jimmy Carter is being blamed for the recent decision to keep open Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn. - depriving Naval Submarine Base King's Bay in Brunswick of jobs and equipment - but lobbying from powerful congressional leaders such as Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R- Calif.) also influenced the decision, according to congressional sources.

Under the Pentagon plan, King's Bay was earmarked to get much of the Groton base's personnel and equipment and its submarine school. The plan would have brought 3,188 military personnel, six submarines and the sub school to King's Bay by the year 2011.

"Jimmy Carter, a former Navy man, in opposition against his own state of Georgia," Bilbray said.

"What was he thinking?" Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue said yesterday.

"It was a shock that he would write that letter," she said. "You could fit four Groton bases on the Kings Bay base. It’s cheaper to live here."

Added U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, a Republican whose southeast Georgia district includes Kings Bay: "You just hate to have an ex-president, a Navy guy and a Georgian going against the home team."

"I think that's very important."In the letter to the commission shortly before the vote, Carter wrote: "I don't profess to speak for other active and retired submariners, but I believe that, overwhelmingly, the consensus would be that transferring the submarine forces from New London would be militarily deleterious."

Political experts said the statement speaks loudly about the way Carter has dealt with political issues throughout his career: He weighs the evidence and acts, no matter what the political cost.

So once again, Jimmy Carter who was a failure as our Commander in Chief proves himself to be a hostile turncoat toward his home state. Why am I not surprised? He sold out his own country and our ally Iran, now he has sold out his own people. Tisk Tisk!

HISTORY LESSON FOR LIBERALS- "THE DAY WORLD WAR I I I BEGAN!

When WWIII Started


A must read historical account of Terrorism against the US ~

This is not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... That alarm has been ringing for years.

US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.

AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed -AD) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years.
America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism.

America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.

Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.

In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.

Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.

Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.

The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.

Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.

Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.

Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.

The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.

Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.

The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.

The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.

Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.

A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.

They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.

The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.

And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.

In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high official in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.

The President is right on when he says we are engaged in a war. I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world.

Support Our Troops and support President Bush for having the courage, political or militarily, to address what so many who preceded him didn't have the backbone to do, both Democrat and Republican. This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.

YOU JUST MIGHT BE A REDNECK

We've all enjoyed the redneck jokes for years. It's time to take a reflective look at the core beliefs of a culture that values home, family, country and God. If I had to stand before a dozen terrorists who threaten my life, I'd choose a half dozen or so rednecks to back me up. Tire irons, squirrel guns and grit -- that's what rednecks are made of. I hope I am one of those. If you feel the same, pass this on to your redneck friends.

Y'all know who ya' are...You might be a redneck if: It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, "One nation, under God.

You might be a redneck if: You've never protested about seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.

You might be a redneck if: You still say "Christmas" instead of "Winter Festival.

You might be a redneck if: You bow your head when someone prays.

You might be a redneck if: You stand, remove your hat and place your hand over your heart when they play the National Anthem. Chills up the back and moist eyes are common.

You might be a redneck if: You treat Viet Nam vets with great respect....and always have.

You might be a redneck if: You've never burned an American flag.

You might be a redneck if: You know what you believe and you aren't afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.

You might be a redneck if: You respect your elders and expect your kids to do the same.

You might be a redneck if: You'd give your last dollar to a friend.

If you read this blog postl from me, it is because I believe that you, like me, have enough Red Neck in you to have the same beliefs as those talked about in this post.

God Bless the USA and the Rednecks within!

THE WORD "ARAB" YANKED OUT OF THESAURUS IN AN ATTEMPT TO APPEASE THE PC POLICE

The word "Arab" has been removed from the online edition of Roget's Thesaurus after Arab-American groups complained synonyms for the word included "slimeball," "welfare bum," and "holy terror.

The words had appeared only in Roget's Internet version, and not in any of its print publications.

I say other words should be added as synonymos with the word "ARAB". How bout "TERRORIST", "MURDERER", "EXTREMEIST WACKO", and last but not least, "BUTT SLAMMING CLOSET FAGGOT".

Eneough already with the PC extremist trying to appease these people. When I finally see on the evening news, Muslim Clerics in the ARAB world condemning the actions of these ISLAMOFACIST murderers, then maybe I will back off of my low opinion of these people who are out to eradicate mine and other proud AMERICANS' way of life.

For right now, pretty much everything I have learned about the so called religion of "??PEACE??", I learned from convicted felons in the Michigan Dept. of Corrections who used ISLAM as a protective curtain to use their religion as a PRISON GANG that was responsible for drug trafficing, assaults against staff and other prisoners, and even HOMOSEXUAL PROSTITUTION with in the confines of a prison. And of course I will never, ever forget what the Ayatolla Koemeini, and MURDEROUS SCUMBAGS like MOHAMMAD ATTA and his 18 co-conspiritors taught ME and MY FAMILY about ISLAM...Religion of peace my ass!

THE ROGUE JEW

THERE! ARE YOU HAPPY ALREADY?

I removed the picture that was pissing everybody off! I do not apologize, but I will remove it! I did'nt know everybody was so politically correct. Anyway, now you can stop crying.

JUST ONE MORE?

I KNOW I PROMISED, BUT WHEN I READ THIS ARTICLE THAT WAS SENT TO ME BY THE LONEWATCHMAN, I JUST COULD NOT RESIST. I THOUGHT THAT THE ARTICLE WAS ABOUT THE TSA AT THE GERALD R. FORD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TILL I SAW HONOLULU. MANY, MANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE TWO AIRPORTS WHEN IT COMES TO MANAGEMENT OF THE TSA.

TSA Investigates Allegations Of Bad Management At Honolulu Airport
Workers Tell KITV That Management Has 'Uneven Standards'

POSTED: 4:16 pm HST August 16, 2005

HONOLULU -- The Transportation Security Administration is investigating
allegations of bad management by top screening officials at Honolulu
International Airport, KITV 4 News has learned. Among the complaints
are allegations of favoritism and retaliation.

Security screeners who KITV 4 News has interviewed this summer say
shoddy management at the TSA in Honolulu results in "uneven standards"
at airport security checkpoints. Now the TSA has begun its own probe of
some of the complaints that KITV 4 News first reported in June.

A team of TSA officials including some from the Los Angeles
International Airport arrived in Honolulu on Sunday to look into
complaints of former and current TSA employees here, sources said.

KITV 4 News obtained a memo to employees from Stanford Miyamoto, the
deputy federal security director and second-in-command of TSA Honolulu.

The memo starts out saying, "I NEED YOUR HELP!!!" It goes on to say
that allegations have surfaced "that may indicate the management
environment at HNL is not reflective of a model workplace" in several
areas.

# Areas listed: Personnel actions, including promotions
# Favoritism
# Application of sick leave policies
# Low morale
# Retaliation

In June, KITV spoke with Robert Cravens, a TSA screener who said
managers cut his hours to part time after he pointed out unsafe storage
of thousands of cigarette lighters.

"These people are incompetent. And it's an embarrassment to the great
employees we have at the airport," Cravens said.

Another screener, who asked to remain anonymous, told KITV 4 News that
TSA supervisors have different standards. Some allow people to keep
their athletic shoes on, but others require airline passengers to take
them off at screening checkpoints.

Miyamoto's memo to staff said he's spoken to most of the TSA management
personnel in the hopes of "turning things around and getting the
organization on the right track."

Miyamoto said based on the allegations TSA sent a "team from outside to
help resolve and address the situation at HNL."

Miyamoto declined to comment. Staff said TSA Honolulu Director Sidney
Hayakawa was out of the office Tuesday.

A TSA spokesman in Los Angeles declined to go into specifics, but said
this is the first time an outside team has been dispatched to Hawaii to
look into management since TSA started in the fall of 2002.

"If complaints or allegations are brought forward, we will investigate
those fully and take action when necessary," TSA spokesman Nico
Melendez said.

The complaints
TSA Employee's Complaints
A veteran screener, who has been with TSA since the fall of 2002,
resigned on June 30, 2005. Here is a summary of some of the written
complaints he made to supervisors in the last year and a half.

1. On April 14, 2004, TSA supervisor told him to read a "recurrent
training binder" while he was guarding an exit at the airport. He says
he refused to do so, but told her he’d be glad to do the reading during
his break. "Reading while posted as exit monitor is strictly
prohibited. So why is our supervisor directing us to do such a thing?
It can cause a breach and jeopardize my job," he wrote.

2. He complained that the same supervisor falsified his training
documents on April 18, 2004. He says she filled in his time sheet,
claiming that he spent six hours in training, when he was actually
working at a checkpoint.

3. On Aug. 29, 2004 at about 2:30 p.m., he was taking over at a
walk
thru metal detector. "I observed that the next passenger to walk
through was wearing thick soled athletic shoes. I mentioned to the
screener that I was about to relieve that the shoes should be removed.
His response was 'oh, not, not on the morning shift. No we let them
through, the Supervisor has said we can.'" And he said the passenger
"was listening to this discrepancy of procedures between the AM and PM
shift."

4. The same day, Aug. 29, 2004, he was operating the X-ray machine
at a checkpoint. He says screeners complained when he'd call for them
to check a bag to verify that it did not contain prohibited items. He
claims the screeners said "we're understaffed," and asked him to re-run
the bag

5. He was operating the X-ray machine on Sept. 5, 2004, when he
requested manual bag checks because some of the images on the monitor
appeared with a "cut" or "split," making them hard to check for
prohibited items. He said two screeners told him: "It's so small, you
can still see everything. Why bag check that? Just send it." He wrote
that he was concerned about such a "lax attitude" by screeners.
"Laziness in security is only (an) invitation for a breach to occur,"
he wrote to supervisors.

6. On Nov. 25, 2004, he complained that another screener read
pornographic magazines from luggage at a Continental Airlines baggage
check site. He told supervisors the screener was doing this in plain
view of passengers, who included a group of schoolgirls. Supervisors
wrote back that "An inquiry was conducted and completed and appropriate
action has been taken."

7. He reported that on Jan. 6, 2005, screeners allowed a blind
vendor employee to put his large drink cup filled with liquid to go
through the X-ray machine. He says the same man has repeatedly been
allowed to do this, even though the TSA prohibits opened beverages from
going through the machine, because any spill could damage the sensitive
equipment. "I would hate to see a million dollar piece of machinery
destroyed because they can't follow simple standard operating
procedures," he wrote.

8. In April of 2005, he reported that screeners were playing cards
instead of going through recurrent training that's required by
management.

9. May 18, 2005, he is notified he's under investigation "into your
misconduct of workplace threats." That came after he left a message on
the voice mail of a TSA human resources employee saying he was tired of
harassment by supervisors and co-workers at work that he felt was
retaliation for his complaints against them. He says he told the human
resources employee that he worried he would "snap."

10. Later in May, he wrote in another memo to supervisors that
"inconsistency among supervisors at each checkpoint, work station,
terminal and among AM and PM (day and night shifts) is greatly reducing
morale among the screener force! These memos or directives are put out
among the entire HNL airport, yet some supervisors enforce it and some
don't."

TIME TO MOVE ON!

Dear Readers,

During the last couple of months, I have been on a non stop rant about the corruption of the Transportation Security Administration management at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the abuse and intimidation toward the Screeners who work so hard every day to keep the skies safe for commercial aviation.

I have gotten to the point where I miss ragging on Hillary and the rest of the Marxist Democratic Party who are attempting a hostile take over of our great nation. I mean, how many more ways is there to explain what schmucks the two morons are who fill the positions of Federal Security Director and the ASSistant Fed. Security Director truly are. I admit, It's been a hoot.

I have a new job that I am REALLY, TRULY happy at with supervisors and managers who care about the team that they work with. It's time to move on.

I will from time to time throw in some bits just to remind the boils on the buttocks of the law enforcement community that I still "Fondly" remember them but it's time to get back to the issues that threaten our great country.

I would like to mention some of the good people I worked with during my 3 years with the TSA. The entire Screening Force of the GRR. You guys are the greatest just having to put up with the shit you do on a daily basis from the management, stupidvisors and even the passengers.

Mike and Craig who are the ASI's, you guys are alright. Mike, you were the one good Screener Manager and a good Supervisor to have worked for. Good Luck to you both in your ventures after the TSA goes private.

Steve the guy who did the scheduals, and always made sure that I was able to get my Holidays off when I needed them.

Now to all the rest of you. John, Max, Bob, Lori, Kent, Bruce, Kim, Blaine, Ray, Mike R, Paul, Dawn, Mike K...........I think by now you all know how I feel about you. I will never, ever forget you schmucks. You have imbedded your self with your cowardice, insecurities, and abusive ways in dealing with team memebers. I truly hope that someday you have to work for someone as ineffective and abusive as you were to the Screening force at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. I truly believe that what you did will come full circle back to you. For anything I've said on this website about the things that I observed and said about all of you, I make absofreakinlutely NO apologies.

And for now..............................I am done dealing with the Management of the TSA!

Sincerely,

The Rogue Jew

PS,
John and Max. Did you think that we would never find out that a convicted felon was working for the TSA in a high ranking position? Google and OTIS is a wonderful tool. I guess your glad he is not at the airport anymore. But he is now a go between for the DHS and the FBI. Any memembers of the media wishing to discuss this topic, please feel free to contact me via email through this website. I have documentation and proof!........Slammin OK, I'M DONE!

BOB STRIKES AGAIN

SOURCES WITHIN THE TSA TELL ME THAT SCREENER MANAGER BOB AND THE FSD JOHN, WERE IN CHARGE OF ASSISTING THE CANADIANS WITH THIS OPERATION.
I UNDERSTAND THAT "NO BRAINER BLAINER" AND HIS ASSOCIATE LEAD SCREENER SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARE BEING SENT IN TO ASSIST AS THE "THINK TANK" TO THE CANUKS.
HEAD STUPIDVISOR MIKE R WILL BE THE GO TO MAN IN GRAND RAPIDS IN THIS MASSIVE SEARCH AND REBURY. KIND OF LIKE THE POLISH NAVY HERE!

MAX AND JOHN'S VACATION PORTRAITS

NEW NEVER BEFORE RELEASED PORTRAIT OF MAX AND JOHN DURING THEIR LAST VACATION.

ONCE AGAIN, I MUST WONDER OUT LOUD..... OUT OF OVER TWO MILLION SPERM, HOW IN THE HELL DID THESE TWO SCHMUCKS END UP THE WINNERS. MAYBE DARWIN WAS WRONG!

JOB INTERVIEW FOR TSA STUPIDVISOR

It has come to the attention of The Rogue Jew, that unauthorized photographs were recently released of the Interviews conducted for the Screener Stupidvisor position that were, of all places, in one of the CTX machines down front.

I understand that this is a pic of a person that did not get the position, that she/he will have to continue on as a Screener/Trainer.

INTERVIEW WITH TRIUMPH THE INSULT COMIC DOG

I recently had a chance to speak to Triumph the Insult Comic Dog recently about his recent visit to Grand Rapids, Michigan and his experience with the Transportation Security Administration, particularly his run in with the Management at this particular airport.

He informed me that Grand Rapids, Michigan is a beautiful place to poop in, especially the offices of John and Max , the two "HEADS" of the TSA at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. While pooping under Max's desk he said that he ran into a fat redhead with a trailer park hairdo that was stationed under his desk during the interviews for Screener Stupidvisor. Triumph has pitty for the human male that can't lick themselves and has to hire the job out to "Wannabees".

He said that humping Lori's leg was like dry humping a anorexic 2x4, and that Bob's leg was only good for pissing on. Triumph also stated that this could also explain Bob's wet look hair style.


Parody.

YOU'VE GOT MAIL!

The email has been rolling in as usual. I've been saving a few of the letters to post. Here's a couple of them....

Rogue,

Man you are dead on with all of this stuff. You're lucky that you got out, even with the way it all went down. Max was hunting you down like he would have hunted a Prostitute when he was with the sheriff's dept.
It's just getting worse now. They have all of their snitches out and about with their ears sticking strait up trying to find out who is writing stuff to you and who your contacts are. They have literaly killed the First Amendment of the Constitution here at the Gerald R. Ford. Max is beside himself because he knows he can do absolutely nothing to shut you down or shut you up.
Keep it up. You have done more for morale here then anything that Mumma or Harnish would ever do besides tell us more lies to try and appease us.

Sincerely,
LOOKING FOR WORK

Rogue Jew,

I was once a supervisor at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport for the TSA. You could not be more right about this stuff. I left because of the incompetent twits that they hired as Screening Managers. Max was as worthless as tits on a boar hog when he was the training coordinator. It surprises me little that he is even more worthless and ineffective as the AFSD.
John and Max are doing little more then protecting their own paychecks and asses. I doubt they will do anything to improve the working conditions for the Screening Force. It matters little to them the turnover rate at the airport. As long as the wait times are short, they look good and that is all that matters to them. As for the wait times, well the screeners actually control that function, and the more they bust their asses to make the idiots at the top look good, then probably nothing will be done to send their asses packing. You and some others were aware of that and the two moronic idiots in charge were quick to shut you and your cohorts down when they got wind of it. Snitches were your down fall. (Snitches deserve stitches)
Keep up the good work though. Whatever you can do to irritate the ones in charge the better. I have made some friends of mine in the media and in Washington aware of your website to raise the awareness of the terrible working conditions that exist for TSA Screeners at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport and everywhere else.

A Supervisor Who Cared!

FROM THE UNKNOWN SCREENER

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Job worries and other things too...

I work for the government and I really don't want to get into which branch and stuff, so I'll just say that most of the people working with me don't like their job. I know for a fact that myself and several others are actively seeking other jobs so we can get out of the one we're in.

There are management problems, supervisorial problems and problems with some of the leads too. I believe there are only 3 sups I like and maybe 2 leads. I don't like any of the management. There are a few employees that I would rather not work with, one because he is so old that he's putting his fellow employees, not to mention his fellow Americans in harms way because he dazes off every now and then and in our job that is NOT an option! My employers use this man as "poster child" for the organization and I'm not upset with the man, by all means, I love him to pieces, as a matter of fact, I say YOU GO V!!!, but it's still not right to use him just because it gets my place of employment national attention because they have the oldest working employee in that service. I used to respect this employee, and I still do to an extent, but myself and other employees who have to cover for him and work with him are starting to get very frustrated with him. Outside of work I couldn't ask for a better friend, but I'm sorry...working with this man is driving me and many others absolutely crazy!

To my employers...Please, let him go with dignity, not disrespect. If anyone deserves a slower paced job such as at the information booth in a museum, or even a job in Admin. at our own place of employment; it's V. Give the guy a break and stop using him for your own selfish means; let the guy go out with respect and dignity still intact. He deserves it and, really, you don't deserve him.

Another person I don't really like working with is one who never shuts up. This person has done more, seen more, been more places, worked more places, and has relatives who have done all of the above too, and she's only 23 yrs old! What is going on here? I am trying to be civil to her, trying to talk to her too, but you just can't talk to her! She has to be the center of attention and no matter what, I mean NO MATTER WHAT you're talking about, she butts in and has a better story about the topic you were speaking of, even when you weren't speaking to her at all. I'm a newly saved Christian and I am trying so very hard to let this go and to be a good listener and to be nice to this woman, but it's nearly impossible! She will lie so blatantly and everyone will look at each other like saying...WHAT???, THERE'S NO POSSIBLE WAY!!!!.....and either she doesn't notice, or she doesn't care. I believe it's the latter.

She doesn't care what she says, who she says it to, or what she sounds like, just so the attention is on her at all times. Her present condition, which I won't mention on here, is also getting on everyone's nerves, I just have one thing to say to this woman and I'll end this diatribe...Keep your hands out of your shirt while you're on the job! Some things are better done in private, not while you're at work and in front of customers and employees who really don't want to see your stomach, also, I believe that you could be a really nice person if you'd just let others talk amongst themselves without putting your two cents in; give it a try huh? Thank you. I'm done now. I have more things to worry about.

A MESSAGE TO SOME VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO HOLD A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART

This message is directed to the corrupt, abusive, and ineffective leadership of the Transportation Security Administration at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I probably need not name who this is for, I'm sure the ones guilty of harrassing Screeners, using intimidation, providing inept training, and use of strong arm tactics against your Screeners......

John, Max, Bob, Lori, Ken, Marie, Kent, Bruce, Kim, Special K, Bill, Brenda, No Brainer Blainer, Mike, Krista, and not to be excluded, Paul (who is as dumb as he is big).

My, and many others wish to all of those mentioned is that when the TSA comes to a disasterous end and it goes down in history as being the biggest Governmental Blunder of all times, is that your next position of employment finds you working for people who are bigger SHIT FOR BRAIN ASSHOLES than the ones I had the unfortunate displeasure of working with for nearly 3 years of my life which I will never be able to get back. I am sure it would not surprise you to find out how many of the Screeners working at GRR, and those who have left already, support me in this wish for all of you!

From a former Screener and others who shall remain nameless, We dedicate this message to YOU; all who are mentioned. If I didn't name you, then I apologize, some dumbasses are just more memorable than others!..........The Rogue Jew

PS...May the fleas of a thousand camels find comfort in your mother's beards!

YOU BETTER ACT NOW! TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR FEDERAL SCREENERS.

MAWA will continue to inform our elected officials of the conditions which exist at our Nations Airports regarding our Federal Screeners . This issue was commutated to to a Senator in regards to the TSA's underhanded attempts to terminate Federal Screeners just under the 3 year period so as to prevent the Screener from acquiring their right to parts of their pension, along with other possible Rights to Federal employment which would be credited as cutbacks in the workforce are increasing.

I do urge all of you to write your Representatives and Blow the Whistle on the DIRTY Tactics of TSA HIGH PAYED OFFICIALS . They are creating their Raises off of your Backs and your Livelyhood. Unless you, as Federal Screeners Like the Unemployment Line and being in Debt, then ACT now and let your elected officials know that you VOTE . Do not let them turn their back on you as a Federal Worker and an American While TSA Managers have all the luxuries of home while you as Federal Screeners are Paying the costly price of Keeping them in Style. Contact your local Official at WWW.SENATE.COM or WWW.CONGRESS.ORG . Like I said; BLOW THE WHISTLE on the Abuse. Send us an e mail at WWW.MAWAUS.ORG This will assist us in acting on your concerns. We can make a difference. Do not let the TSA officials turn you into their personal profits by Administrative Trickery. Federal TSA Security Screeners are not commodities ,They are Assets to America and our way of life, Dedicated personnel determined to keep the American Public Safe.
Sincerely

Bob Marchetta
Director / Employees Rights
Metro Airport Workers Assoc./ Associated Local of the United Steel Workers of America AFL-CIO

BOSTON LOGAN SCREENERS LOSE EXIT LANE POSITION TO PRIVATE "RENT-A-COPS"

This story is from TSA-SCREENER.COM
You can bet if it's happening elsewhere, then it's going to happen at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport soon eneough. I'm surprised that Krista hasn't gone running into Max's office with this idea. Not like you're not already on your feet 8 hours straight while the lazy ass Stupidvisors and Leads sit on their ever widening asses and don't lift a finger to help. Now they want to take the one half hour stretch that you can get off of your feet. Do you think they'll take away the stool from the Stupidvisors? Hell no, that'll never, ever happen.

Boston's Logan Airport, from where two planes were successfully hijacked from two private security companies on 9-11-2001, is quietly replacing all federal TSA Exit Lane agents with private security guards on August 21, 2005. You won't hear a "we are making things safer!" MASSPORT press conference on this one...

These new private company security guards will make $4 less than TSA employees make and earn $6 less an hour than private TSA-contracted screeners made in 2002...for the same security vital position. Penetration of many Logan Airport Exit Lanes provides rapidly smooth access to unsuspecting passengers, airport runways and access to parked planes.
Since early 2004, private security companies have been gate screening international flights in the federally protected sterile area in violation of Congressional mandates of federal agent and screening to be done only by those federally trained.

Logan's private companies utilize former TSA-contracted private screeners whom were rejected due to non U.S. citizen issues. This forcible rejection based on nationality, coupled with a then drastic cut in their salary rates makes these companies employees susceptible to bribery for being turned by Al Qaeda. Or, by any other criminal seeking unauthorized access, for that matter.

Surely, many of those rejected by this country because of their nationality have an immediate personal motive to feel a desire for possible revenge, should that chance ever come before them.

Now such an opportunity...has been handed them by MASSPORT and TSA. It is amazing that the Department of Homeland Security also allowed this downgrade of Logan's airport "sterile area" security.

MASSPORT and Logan airline operators were burned once already, yet now MASSPORT and TSA, have turned the other cheek. Instead of staying the course, they have chosen to roll the dice with the lives of 25,000,000 flyers each year.

Their security gamble puts hundreds of federal TSA screeners at risk, as well, because many Exit lanes can't be personally monitored by TSA supervisors. Cameras don't serve the public interest being used to replace actually present in person federal oversight. As 9-11 proves, cameras beaming down on checkpoint entrants didn't deter terrorists one bit nor can they be used to apprehend them in time to save anyone.

TSA & MASSPORT have already okayed these private company security guards. They are not federally trained nor Congressionally authorized [unless the airport as a whole "opts out" of federal agent screeners airport-wide].

This puzzling flip-flop against federal security for Logan flyers comes in the face of TSA suffering one of its highest resignation rates here, steady at 38%. Since TSA isn't allowed to completely replace every resigning federal screener, there is no turnover ratio to be more helpfully noted.

In the last few weeks already one preliminary private security company Exit guard supposedly allowed a breach in Logan's newest terminal "A". Shades of post 9-11 problems come to mind. Here we go again...

CONSISTENCY-IT'S THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE STUPID!

I wish to comment on this article for you read; this from the Canon City Daily Record.
Now the writer tackles the consistency from airport to airport. As a former (Thank G-d)Screener of the TSA, I wish to comment on the consistency between shifts and between Stupidvisors.

In the Words of one Screener, "It's Awful!" Each Stupidvisor takes it upon him or herself to make up their own rules as they go along, or some Stupidvisors afraid of confrontation with a passenger would let them continue on with a prohibited item such as a cake knife till confronted by Yours Truly. I wanted to submit an official document of disagreement with that Stupidvisor who suddenly "Rose to the occasion" to chase down that passenger and retrieve the prohibited item knowing the Screener would officially object if he didn't! One Stupidvisor on mornings insists on confiscating small round tipped sewing scissors, which are considered allowable, NOT prohibited, from old ladies and all this while she watches over the screeners like an overlord, she refuses at most times to assist in the wanding area, so she cleans the ETD machine instead of assisiting an overworked female screener who has probably been all by herself most of the morning.

Consistency...MY ASS! There is absofreakinlutely NONE! The only thing consistent at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan is the fact that the Administration, Management and Stupidvisors of the TSA are the most LAZY, INEXPERIENCED,INCONSITENT,SELF SERVING,CHICKENSHIT, SPINELESS, CORRUPT, AND MOST WORTHLESS BUNCH OF DUMBASSES I HAVE EVER HAD THE DISPLEASURE OF MEETING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Now with that all being said, I hope you enjoy the article......The Rogue Jew

Publish Date: 8/2/2005

TSA must be more consistent

The Transportation Security Administration’s stated goal is to protect the nation’s transportation systems by ensuring the freedom of movement for people and commerce.

The agency, created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, certainly has its work cut out for it, and the workers try their best to implement national policy and keep travelers safe.

But consistency is desperately lacking when it comes to procedures in airports around the country. Incon-sistency can be a recipe for disaster.

Traveling from Denver International Airport to other airports around the country, many already have seen how travelers can be scolded to the verge of public humiliation at one airport for something as simple as not knowing to remove a video camera or laptop from a bag at the screening station. At times, travelers even have to show agents how the device works.

Upon returning from a different airport, the same traveler can go through screening with the same camera or laptop without anyone noticing or commenting.

Similar past inconsistencies have been noted concerning travelers in wheelchairs or passengers using baby strollers.

If TSA is to truly fulfill its mission, consistency is a must. Traveler complaints about wait times or personal violations during screening likely would subside if the procedures were the same around the country. If we know what to expect, we are more likely to comply without complaint.

Frustration is bound to set in, however, when a security check wait at DIA can take 30 minutes or more and a similar check at a large airport such as San Francisco International takes five minutes or less.

But inconvenience is not the game. Security is.

Inconsistencies in checks also result in inconsistent security levels. Anyone who truly wishes to do harm can find out which airports are the easiest to pass through.

Terrorism, obviously, is alive and well as seen in the recent attacks in London. TSA needs to get its act together across the country to be sure procedures are followed properly without leaving passengers feeling humiliated if security is to be maintained.

SPECIAL WEEKEND MESSAGE

TSA JOB SATISFACTION SURVEY RESULTS-CLICK ON THIS TITLE!

IF YOU CLICK ON THE POST TITLE IT WILL TAKE YOU TO A WONDERFUL WEB PAGE THAT SHOWS THE DHS MODEL WORKPLACE SURVEY RESULTS!

WITH PRIVATIZATION COMING IN THE FUTURE, I HOPE ALL OF YOU ARE THINKING NOW WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING NEXT.

I CAN HONESTLY TELL YOU, THAT THE BEST MANAGEMENT IS NOT WORKING FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

GOOD LUCK YOU GUYS, MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY!

ANYWAY, CHECK OUT THE LINK TO THIS WEBSITE, I DON'T THINK YOU'LL BE SURPRISED BY THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY.

LETTER FROM THE "UNKOWN SCREENER" OF GRR

The following letter was emailed to me from a mysterious source from the TSA at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. In respect for this person wishing to remain unknown, I have deleted the email and have Copied and Pasted the letter in respect for this unknown Screener's privacy.

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that John Mumma the FSD and Max Harnish the AFSD at the Gerald R. Ford International in Grand Rapids, Michigan should be made to answer some questions. There is enough which has been said about some of the questionable background of some of the administative staff at our airport to fill a dump truck. On behalf of the Federal Security Screeners of Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, We need to call for a more in depth investigation into the Complaints stemming out of Grand Rapids by abused and intimidated Federal Screeners ,Victims of a Hateful Administration running the TSA Mission Amock. We ask at this time that all screeners and workers Nationally contact The FSD and AFSD at Grand Rapids , Contact our congressman and senators in writing and by phone and tell them to remove the FSD, AFSD, Managers and Supervisors responsible for carrying out these Acts against our Federal Workers . The Hostile Working environment created by TSA Is making it very difficult for Screeners to do their job and protect the public in their best interests.

Go to WWW.MAWAUS.org File your complaint and also let our Elected Officials Know We are FED UP with Hate in the TSA Workplace. Abusive Managers MUST be Removed For the Good of the Service and Just Cause is Obvious by the number of filed complaints of Abuse and Rights Violations inflicted upon Federal Screeners. Send John Mumma and Max Harnish A STRONG Message!! Call MAWA & AFGE Or Email Them. Also, email your Congressman and Senator. If eneough letters and calls start landing in the right places, maybe something will finally be done about this.

IRAQ WAR STATISTIC-NON TSA RELATED

If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in
the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, that gives a
firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The firearm death rate in
Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000.
That means that you are 25% more likely to be shot
and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the most strict gun
control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion:

We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.

TSA CHIEFS FORCED OUT ON THEIR ASSES!

After reading this article, it does my heart good to think that there is still hope of watching the high and mighty MUMMY and SPHINCTER MAXimus and all of their fellow cronies eventually come tumbling down from their ivory towers.

Screeners....SEND IN THOSE LETTERS! DON'T LET THESE SCHMUCKS KEEP YOU IN FEAR FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES! THERE IS LIFE AFTER THE TSA! I KNOW, I FOUND IT! SNITCH OUT THESE WORTHLESS BASTARDS, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO BE AFRAID OF? PRIVATIZATION IS COMING ANYWAY. THE TWO MEATHEADS (FSD & AFSD) COULD GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT YOU GUYS. BRING THEM DOWN! NOW IS THE TIME!

I HAVE INFORMATION THAT IS SURE TO BE EMBARASSING TO SAY THE LEAST, AND COULD BE THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN FOR THESE TWO CHOWDER HEADS!
LET FREEDOM RING!!! THE ROGUE JEW

TSA brass removed local chief, aide says

By Jim Ritchie
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, August 4, 2005


The former Transportation Security Administration chief at Pittsburgh International Airport was booted from his job in May after supervisors lost confidence in his work, according to an assistant who resigned at the same time.
Robert Blose resigned from his $142,735 job heading the TSA at Pittsburgh International, but only after superiors asked him to leave, Craig Martelle, who was Blose's assistant federal security director, wrote in a letter obtained by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

"George Naccara asked Bob Blose to step down at the end of May due to a loss of confidence by (then) TSA Assistant Secretary Dave Stone," Martelle wrote in the letter to the TSA's interim management at the airport. Naccara is the agency's Northeast area director in Boston.

Until now, the agency had described the departures of Blose, Martelle and William Rough, former deputy assistant federal security director for screening, as resignations for personal reasons, although they left at the end of an internal investigation.

The TSA investigated claims of fraud, intimidation and sexual harassment that employees made against the managers, but brought no charges. Tom Rice has been the acting federal security director at Pittsburgh since Blose resigned.

TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis would not comment on Martelle's letter Wednesday.

Martelle's four-page letter paints a different picture of events. In it, Martelle described how the resignations followed a conversation between Blose and Naccara.

"Dave Stone is the man who was fired by the White House from what was a five-year position earlier that month," Martelle wrote. "His handling of the TSA resulted in a cult of personalities, and his inability to work with Congress resulted in a complete failure of strategic vision.

"Dave Stone considered Bob Blose and his key staff members (the Deputy AFSD Screening and me) to be too demanding -- self-discipline and high standards of personal conduct were too 'military,' according to a vocal minority."

Martelle, reached by e-mail, confirmed he wrote the letter but could not be reached for comment by telephone. Blose, who lives in Moon, did not return a phone message seeking comment.

Martelle's letter also criticized the agency's new leadership for a June 30 security breach at Pittsburgh International, when a woman slipped through the security checkpoint without being checked by X-ray equipment. She boarded a plane before TSA officials identified her using airport video.

The checkpoint was closed, but not until after her flight had departed.

"Why the checkpoint was closed nearly two hours after the passenger breached security is not just an inconvenience to the passenger, it borders on incompetence," Martelle wrote.

The Trib first reported April 29 that TSA employees at Pittsburgh International asked for the investigation of managers. They questioned why the TSA allowed the managers to resign.

President Bush and Congress formed the TSA in November 2001, two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The agency employs 312 people at Pittsburgh International, but intends to reduce the number to 258.

Jim Ritchie can be reached at jritchie@tribweb.com or (412) 320-7933.

BOB & LORI- REMEMBER, YOU'RE NOT IMMUNE TO YOUR OWN STUPIDITY!

Screeners, could you imagine BOB or LORI having to do bag checks for Virgil or Dennis? How funny would that be? Lori wouldn't have time to kiss up to the old guy to be included in his will. Sue would knock her over for that spot anyway!
I found this article at SCREENER-CENTRAL.COM. Good Piece. Check it out.

SCREENER MANAGERS DEMOTED AT SMF.

A slew of screening managers for the Transportation Security Administration at Sacramento International Airport have been demoted, according to a TSA employee who contacted Screeners Central anonymously.

According to the source, all but three screening managers at the airport have been demoted, reportedly because they were improperly promoted to begin with.

"A memo came down from Washington," said another TSA employee, who spoke under condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation from the local TSA management if they were identified. "Headquarters said we (SMF) have too many managers."


Screeners Central administrator Mark Arsenault contacted TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield for comment. Hatfield failed to respond to multiple e-mail inquiries about the issue,

LONEWATCHMAN ON THE JOB-34 VENDORS ANNOUNCED AS QUALIFIED TO TAKE OVER AIRPORT SECURITY. TSA JOBS IN JEAPORDY?

Sioux Falls Regional Airport Joins TSA Screening Partnership Program
Aug 02, 2005 By News Staff

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week approved
Sioux Falls Regional Airport in South Dakota for participation in the
Screening Partnership Program (SPP). TSA also announced that 34
companies have been approved as qualified vendors, eligible to compete
to provide passenger and baggage screening services for the airports
that are approved for the SPP.
Starting this fall, the Sioux Falls airport will begin the transition
from federal TSA security screeners to using screeners employed by a
qualified private company. Under the SPP, the federal security director
(FSD) is still responsible for security at the airport and for
maintaining TSA security standards.



"TSA is pleased to announce the approval of Sioux Falls Regional
Airport for the Screening Partnership Program," said Kenneth Kasprisin,
acting assistant secretary of homeland security for TSA. "TSA is ready,
willing and able to work with any airport that makes the local decision
to apply to the program."

TSA assumed responsibility for aviation security in February 2002. By
November 2002, a federal work force was hired, trained and deployed to
screen passengers at 424 commercial airports. Under a pilot program
required by the ATSA, TSA selected airports in five cities to have
screeners employed by qualified private companies: San Francisco;
Kansas City, Mo.; Rochester, N.Y.; Tupelo, Miss.; and Jackson, Wyo.
Private screening companies may only hire employees who meet the same
requirements as federal screeners. Like federal screeners, private
screeners must be U.S. citizens, have a high-school diploma or the
equivalent, be proficient in English, and pass a 10-year FBI background
check.

In addition, all private screeners undergo 40 hours of classroom
training and 60 hours of on-the-job training on the same standard
operating procedures as federal screeners. This means that the private
screeners at San Francisco International Airport, for example, operate
under the same security procedures as federal screeners at other
airports.

In 2004, as required by law, TSA analyzed the pilot program to
determine if the private screeners delivered the same level security
and customer service as federal screeners. TSA hired independent
consultants to conduct a study, and it was determined that the private
screeners were able to meet the same standards.

Based on this conclusion, airport operators in November 2004 were able
to begin applying to TSA to have screening performed by a qualified
private company.

RUNNING SCARED

During an "important TSA meeting", the FSD, AFSD and Screener Manager suddenly remember fancy titles don't mean shit to those they cannot control.

TRAINING AT THE GERALD R. FORD INTERNATIONAL, OR LACK THEREOF!

Check this opinion article out! A TSA Training Coordinator who ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING! The TSA must have hired this guy by mistake. I can, without a doubt, say that the one at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport does absofreakinlutely not a damn thing! Oh yeah, I forgot, he made a training video which was WRONG!

I have even read about a Training Coordinator who had a Police Bomb Squad do a demonstration for the Screeners. I think that one was at JFK. At a tiny airport such as the Gerald R. Ford International, one would think that the person in charge of training would have more time to be, what is the word I'm lookin for.........Oh Yeah! PROACTIVE! This putz in Grand Rapids does NOTHING! NADA! ZERO! ZILCH! Screeners have even been asked to sign their training sheets even though they were not complete. Anyway, read the following article.

Airport security folks deserve some applause
While most people agree that in a post-9/11 world airport screenings are a necessity, the Transportation Security Administration has become the agency travelers love to hate. Longer wait times to get to airport gates and people poking and prodding you when you are barely awake enough to find your ticket.

I want to buck the trend and give a big thank you to TSA at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The extraordinary team led by federal security director Paul Wisniewski and training coordinator Cassandra Clark has been working for months to improve the way screeners work with passengers with disabilities and especially assistance-dog teams.

Beginning several months ago, TSA invited members of the Partners of Assistance Dogs Network to help train supervisory personnel. Assistance-dog trainers and partners, along with their dogs, reviewed the TSA procedures for working with people with disabilities and assistance-dog teams. Soon after, TSA trainer Curtis "Bob" Burns visited a Partners of Assistance Dogs meeting to explain the screening process to the partners and to demonstrate with the dogs.

To read the rest of the article just click on the post header. I think the Screeners at GRR would agree...I made my point!