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I'm glad someone else noticed it. I'm certain anyone who has served in the military and had to handle a flag noticed it. I'm also sure that the US Olympic Committee will address it for future athletes. When you carry the colors of your country, you are acknowledging something bigger than yourself or your personal achievement. It should never touch the ground, intentionally.

I don't mind "doing your thing" in the moment of personal triumph. I mind dragging the flag on the ground for extended periods, oblivious to protocol or common sense.

Whoever handles these athletes ought to inform them on protocols for handling the US flag. White is a great athlete, but his handling of our flag after his run was beyond cringe-worthy. Really made me uncomfortable. I couldn't wait for the video to end.

I'll give you a little information that is well known in the DC area police forces. The Dems have a lot of dirty laundry which has never been released in the spousal abuse front. Just kept quiet.

Patriot Act has many provisions for reporting currency transactions at various levels, thus the scrutiny.

Not true. Used to be true in the 80's. I'm sure there are some airlines that might have it in place, but not the norm. Pilots are presented food options and they usually rotate who gets to choose first, but the old rule has gone away quite awhile ago. So now we've learned that today, instead.

You can do something about that. https://www.change.org/p/fcc-remove-cnn-s-airport-monopoly-and-tax-payer-funded-broadcast It's the petition to get CNN out of airport gates.

The official cause of death was blunt force trauma to the chest. James Alex Fields, of Ohio, will be tried in November.

Can he be tried first, or are you re-writing the US justice system?

It's not an issue. The views expressed are not challenged. They are views, and anyone else's views on Midway are just as valid as mine. That view saves a lot of time.

Tom, I'm not going to quibble about how much of an offensive threat the Japanese Navy was after Midway. I'll stick with the view that having lost four carriers, a ton of carrier airplanes and most of their most experienced crews in that, they were on the defensive from that point on. I never said they lost the war for any other reasons than you mentioned. It was just a matter of time, greatly shortened by Midway. I agree that the Japanese were far ahead of the US in carrier doctrine and capability at the start of the war. In fact, it was a stroke of luck that Midway turned out the way it did. The initial US attacks were almost total losses, and that's with the element of surprise, as the Japanese had no idea where the US task force that launched them was. But eventually, in that fatal dive bombing attack that took out the three carriers almost at once, and crippled the fourth, along with the airplanes and crew destroyed on their decks, the force projection they were capable of prior to Midway was never possible again.

Japan had aircraft carriers. They just couldn't keep them afloat, losing four at Midway, three of them in about 15 minutes. Never an offensive threat again.

My statement has nothing to do with Putin or Russia/Trump. Not sure how you came up with that piece of brilliance. And yes, I'm not a fan of sanctions. They don't work. There are always easy ways around them. (See your examples-N. Korea and Iran). They stifle realistic diplomacy and well, they are just stupid. Would be useless in this case, except for a goofy headline or two.

Sanctions are almost always a really stupid idea. Hopefully, we finally realize that.

I would like to know what was done and how it was done before I get too excited by this. I was an election officer for years, so I'm a bit interested in this. The link does not provide that information for security reasons, but I'm sure the info will get out.

I've flown in these things. Waste of time.

In my view, none. The world would not care and view a dumbass military parade in Washington as silly. It would be a pain in the butt for the military, screw up the DC area and it's airspace for hours, and with no value. Carriers visit foreign ports for legitimate diplomatic and defense agreement reasons. Not expensive at all. They are often hosted.

Just a stupid idea. Does nobody any good. The US military does not need to gather attention, and I'm sure would never suggest such a useless spectacle. Would be quite expensive for a number of reasons already pointed out, but with an additional one, which would be shutting down some of the busiest airspace in US for a time period. Just dumb. An unforced error. How about the executive and legislative branches do their constitutional duty, like getting funding for the gov long term completed, and quit with these idiotic diversions?

A really dumb idea. Want to honor the military? Give those who have nothing to do, the same ones who would be in this thing, the day off.

Of course.

Quite a safe "gamble." Since 1871, if you held equities for fiver years or more, you had an 85% chance of making money, ie., winning. Hold ten years, and you made money 90% of the time. Hold 20 years, 100% of the time. And with any kind of extremely basic strategy, the number go up from there.

The people who don't use equity markets are the indisputable long term failed gamblers.

I will never understand the craziness of over politicizing economic issues or the stock market. The market goes straight up for nearly two years. Longest period without a 5% correction since 1929. Job growth on fire. Wage growth highest in eight years. Worries that the FED may be a little behind the economies pace and we get the long needed correction. Things are quite good. This was needed to get PE's back to something more attractive.

Post something that makes sense. I do just fine.

I'm not sure what your powers of perception are, or how skilled you are in that area. Be assured, there is no chance that I would ever be "upset" about what you or anyone else would post. I don't think you are that smart. That doesn't bother me.