"These are the same dedicated, highly-trained, security "professionals" who routinely miss ... things on the no-fly list."

I haven't flown since 9-11, and I have often wondered if the above-mentioned security people are the same minimum-wage security people that let 9-11 happen to begin with (generally speaking -- don't get your knickers in a knot), or did they unload all of them and get new dweebs at a dollar an hour more pay (+all the stuff they can confiscate)?

Bics are fine for what they are. That 75-year-old lady that survived the light plane crash with you would know how to use it to start a fire to keep you from freezing while you're unconscious.

Sue