Mouth-Breathers Keeping Us Safe?

The TSA doesn't seem to know that the District of Columbia is part of the nation.

One might imagine that they think that the "D.C." in "Washington, D.C." refers to sexual proclivities.....

I haven't heard of anything this dumb since a guy I once knew was not permitted to mail a package because of a requirement to spell out the names of nations. The jerk in the Post Office thought that Austria was an abbreviation of Australia. (The customer then asked to see the clerk's boss "or somebody who is at least a GS-2".)