Welcom to Twenty Ten...or is it '010, or two thousand ten?

However you find yourself saying it, Happy New Year! Hopefully 2010 will be much better than 2009 was. 2009 was just a horrid year filled with nothing but a suckfest of events. Between the car accident, getting laid off and being jobless for the past 9 months...it pretty much just sucked. 2010...let it be said that you are warned that you better not suck!

With the ringing in of 2010 we find that we still don't have cars that fly like the movies of old made us thought we would, but we do have a mind reading machine in airports now! It's like TSA's version of the Vulcan Mind Meld or something. I saw a diagram in the local paper today that basically spells out "GET TO THE AIRPORT ONE DAY BEFORE YOUR FLIGHT!!" Ready for this? This includes current and future technology! Here we go!

First you have the long lines we've all become acustomed to standing in, you present your ID to the not so nice TSA agent who looks like they despise their job, then one day soon you'll have to step into this MagShoe machine that can detect potential weapons from the knee down. Then you have to take off the shoes you just had scanned for a double check and send all your things through the scanner (don't forget that change in your pocket!). THEN you'll have to walk either into or by this new machine that's being developed that can read your mind (I'm not kidding) and your body language to tell if you're suspiscious. Of course after you get a full dose of radiation from the xray machine and metal detector and the Vulcan Mind Meld machine, there's the ever so personal pat-down. There will be extended pat down's(in which the TSA agent will have to buy me a drink first) and swabbing for explosives (something about letting TSA agents swab ANYTHING is slightly disturbing). And to top it all off, as you leave the land of TSA security there will be an exit interview with a lie detector machine checking for all signs of deception and for a moment, you'll feel like you're on the now defunct Fox show "The Moment of Truth"...but without the marital humiliation and prize money.

Now, don't think that I'm against all of this sci-fi technology, I'm not. Personally I think profiling and all this is a necessity to keep us safe. But what I am against is having half witted half assed people do this job that really don't care about security...it's just a job. Not all TSA agents are like this, but you know the ones I'm talking about. You can just tell by looking at them, they don't belong in the position. I know asking for competent, experienced people in the position is a long shot, but a girl can dream can't she?