http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14807713/

In this article, being discussed in this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=601200 There is a chance to "vote" if the new restrictions are going too far.

Please consider voteing and giving the WP a big ^ for writing an article that points out that the new rules are only for show and do nothing for real security.

A great quote from the article: "Gary Boettcher, a pilot and president of the Coalition for Airline Pilots Association, a trade group that closely tracks security issues, said he constantly sees people drinking from illicit bottles of water or putting on lip gloss when he walks through the passenger cabin. Most of the time, he said, it doesn't bother him.

"They are just doing their routines like they always did," Boettcher said. "An old woman drinking a bottle of water doesn't concern me. . . . The whole screening process is a facade to make the public feel safe, to show that the government is doing something."

Well, "the rules are there for our safety" has 58%, so I think it is pretty much a lost cause...

Don't forget to also rate this story (below the survey results).

31% is not far off the mark...I cast my vote. Let's get some votes in to pump that 31% up and make it a closer race.

If you want to send feedback to the author, you can do it from the original article at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...091201635.html

(Requires free registration, I think, or use www.bugmenot.com.)

That WaPost story brings the shocking news that folks have figured out how to smuggle lip gloss.

Oh, the horror. Where will it stop.

At toothpaste?

I just hope that the hidden terrorists looming on each flight don't manage to get hold of her cosmetics case. They might make themselves pretty.