I noticed the different TSA uniforms as well…

They also seemed to have increased their verbosity by a factor of at least 10…
“Do you have a belt on?”
“change in your pocket?”
“did you leave your phone in your pants?” – this is before I even walked though!! She is saying all of this as she’s standing facing me with my tub (containing all of these items) inbetween us. I thought of sarcastically pointing this out but I just kinda gave her a blank stare… They usually aren’t that chatty!!

As I tied my shoes on the other side I thought it was very ironic that they thought that those coming in and out for the convention would need additional coaching in the whole screening process – these are the folks that have advocated our new police state with such enthusiasm!!

Also, MSP was without question the *cleanest* I’ve ever seen it – the facade of Ike’s was literally sparkling!!