Does anyone in the TSA administration ever actually fly anywhere? When was the last time you saw a TSA employee in an airport such as LAX or BWI who didn't look bored, uninterested and...dare I say it...incapable of performing the ever more complex tasks their bosses are proposing? Come on, people! Invest the money in hiring and training the right people first, then layer in the complicated technology and tools.

I have a suggestion for a better use of TSA's biometric test. Start using it on Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Mehlman et al. We might find out what's behind the smirks, stumbles and snarls.

Yes, just as soon as the first passenger goes "postal" and blasts a few of these petit martinettes into oblivion.

Great, everyone trying to control their fear of flying will be pulled out for questioning.

Bush will want Diebold, both screw-ups, to make these machines. Need I say more.

Okay, so the biometrics are intended to identify people who are concealing stress, right?

In order to get on an airplane today, I have to take off my shoes, put every piece of removable metal in a tray, and walk through a little booth that irradiates my fillings and sniffs me for nitrates ... this, after standing for 90 minutes in a line with other happy people and showing my driver's license and boarding pass and being subject to random search by someone in TSA whose training will only be validated by catching a "terrorist." And if you complain about any of this, you can be taken to a Little Room where another TSA employee learns things about your body cavities that even a doctor would be loath to know.

This boondoggle makes the Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere look like a pretty good deal.

The last time I looked Love was an emotion. How would the overpaid airport screeners deal with it? I'd like to be listining to their questioning, especially of two people on their honeymoon voyage. Take the train instead if possible, they also got sleeping cars.

Last time I looked Love was an emotion.How do the overpaid luggage screeners deal with it? I'd like to be a secret listener to their questioning! Especially if they catch up with two people on their honeymoon voyage.

Never discount the possibility that an intelligent traveler may be frustrated when confronted with the vast ignorance that underlies all bureaucracies - like the TSA.

Isn't this just enough to make you want to piss your pants, or scream out loud?

Airport screeners are job force rejects who couldn't work anywhere else -- about one step below hamburger flippers.

Now, the government is going to give these morons a couple of weeks of training to become $8-an-hour psychologists who are going to not only bully you into taking off your shoes, wand you, make you dump your diaper bag, look at your pill bottles, and otherwise harrass you and make you so goddamn mad you could spit, but then they are going to haul you into a back room and give you a full body cavity search if you so much as bat an eye.

Bush said "They hate us for our freedom."

What fucking freedom?

You knuckledragging minwage fatassed fuckwit. If you grope me one more time I will tear your fucking head off and shove it up your ass. And you over there, grandpa with the white belt and matching shoes telling me "You can never be too safe" come over here so I can punch your dentures through the back of your redneck head you fucking asshole. I have been on this line for 3 hours and you who are holding my fucking paperwork UPSIDEDOWN and babbling to me in fucking Xhosa or some shit are holding me up? I will hunt you down and drown you. I will fucking exterminate your entire family.

Airplanes are a major source of carbon emissions - so much so that current levels of air travel cannot be sustained if we are to save our planet. So the current government's election strategy of scaring the shit out of Americans by hyping disorganized idiots in Miami and London suburbs and imposing irrational airport security will have the admirable benefit of making the airlines go out of business. I certainly want to fly a whole lot less, am I’m not alone.

Now as for all the money wasted, the lack of high-speed rail and the enduring war and fear mongering, these hurdles within the otherwise-excellent environmental strategy have yet to be worked out.

As if the security personnel at the airports did not have enough to stress them out and stretch them to the limits! Now they are being asked to make psychological observations about the constant flow of human traffic that goes through their airports every day. I know that part of their job is to be vigilant, but this is ridiculous.

I understand the need for security in our airports, but I feel that some of the measures taken have been overkill and not very useful. I would like to know that when I am traveling somewhere that good precautions are being taken to ensure the safety of all who travel, but when you ask a TSA officer to "examine" the faces of each individual that comes through their area, that is asking too much. What if they make a wrong call? Wouldn't this detract from their regular duties and cause another distraction? What would they have to do, think "Hmmmm, that woman has a scowl on her face . . . that man is sweating too much . . ." Are they going to get a crash course in body language? This, in my opinion, is going to cause more problems, delays and frustration for everyone involved.

I am sure that there are more useful and efficient ways of going about airport security than what has been instituted of late. But, if there is a backward, weighted down, paranoid way of dealing with a problem, rest assured the Bush Administration has that covered and will happily institute the policy.