Originally Posted by Carl Johnson

The fact that more people are getting Übermenschen screening is a great thing; there's no place for an exclusive experience for a privileged elite in a government program, and certainly no private company should control who has access to the program. No one should have to go through the NOSs or do the Shoe Carnival, and now it looks as if fewer people will have to. I'm hoping this is a backdoor way of having the kind of screening we should have. The last time I went out of JFK I was the ONLY person in the Übermenschen lane during the 30-40 seconds or so it took me to get through there. All this is going to work out. People will learn they don't have to do the Shoe Carnival, etc. and if the person in front of you doesn't know, TELL THEM. And if the TSA hires some smarter clerks (to replace, for example, the X-ray operator in a post a little way up, who took about 1 minute per item) that will help. The only thing left will be to end the War on Water.