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So you'll never be sure what, if anything, your participation in the program is going to do for your screening time, because even if you contract with one company and always fly out of the same terminal at the same time of the day through the same checkpoint, the TSA may decide to mix it up on you just for giggles and tack another ten minutes onto your screening time. <
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You got any comments of your own? If not, just link this shit on your blog. He's not an idiot for being a security guard. He's an idiot for being an idiot, and he just happens to be a security guard. - Nekrotic<i></i>

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