Ahh....American hypocrisy. I love how many people will freak the hell out over a cop wanting to search their car during a traffic stop, but being effectively personally violated at an airport makes it A-OK. Exactly how many deaths a year can we attribute to bad/drunk driving versus how many deaths by "planes being flown by terrorists"? You don't get it both ways, people. Either you're okay with the government performing unreasonable searches at all times, or never. There's no grey area here.

Sounds to me like this could have been easily handled by the slightest amount of competence on the part of the TSA, but as we've learned over the years, the government has no interest in paying salaries that competent people are interested in. 95% of those people are RUDE and dumber than a sack of ball peen hammers. The rude is forgiveable....I understand dealing with the public and I wouldn't want to be doing it either. But the incompetence? They operate on the opposite way that criminal justice works in this country. You're guilty until proven innocent. It's gone far beyond "reasonable" when they can't just ask someone to empty their pocket AGAIN when there's GOVERNMENT ISSUED LEGAL TENDER setting off their scanner...ridiculous... not everyone knows that crap is printed with magnetic ink....but every TSA agent should, and people SHOULD be treated with respect for minor missteps like that, not groped up or stripped.

Only thing I'm going to say, and I feel like I'm already risking a pee-pee-slap from the mods, so no responses to replies on this one.. feel free to downvote, as I'm sure I'll get a ton just like anytime I do where I'm not Team America World Police around here..

Stay out of the Bacchanal buffet. It's a horrendously overpriced monstrosity that isn't worth the money, with a few novel trinkets to make you not so annoyed you paid like 120 bucks each.... If you have a hankering to gorge on crab legs, surprisingly Paris was one of the better places for that, and predictably, their desserts were good. The MGM breakfast buffet with the drinks wasn't too bad, but the highlight was DEFINITELY the crotchety-ass curmudgeon that was pouring all the free drinks while freaking out over the drink limits at one time per guest...and then knocking over trays of TONS of glasses when people were berating him at closing time for not pouring more booze. I still can't figure out if it was karma, or if I feel sorry for the guy. Something tells me he's used to it. =P

Too many Ingress portals to avoid, bro.

Yeah..uh...wow.

Trying to figure out who follows Islam that isn't a "Muslim".... pretty sure there's no Christians that are following Islam...or Atheists...uh.... no wait, I got it, the Jewish are the ones that follow Islam, right? And the Bhuddists follow Christianity? Oh screw it, I give up. This crap is way too complicated.

aka: The Pinside Way..

That's exactly what I said... but..ya know.. #Pissside.

Ha...we stayed in the Stratosphere and walked to/from the proper part of the strip at least 3 times. Literally 20 miles in 4 days including everything else. I think we actually had a ride ticket with our room but didn't use it. The only thing that I felt was actually interesting was the freefall jump. Man it's freaky watching that big ass winch.