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As I said, I have a commercial drone license. Not that important to this discussion, but I am very familiar with current capability. First, they are are extremely unstable unless adequate GPS data is available, and it isn't, inside. Second, the cameras are relatively small field of view, and to fly one into someone heavily armed, inside a building and effect a stop would be nearly impossible. Anyone with an automatic weapon would shoot it down way before it would be able to act offensively, and no jurisdiction would accept the liability associated with an unmanned, unstable, remote controlled vehicle with offensive weapons. Just not reality.

Forget about drones at current technology level. Drones need GPS to be stable. Not possible inside. Further, a drone operator would be incredibly vulnerable. It takes both hands on the controls and looking at a display to operate. I have a commercial drone license, and it isn't possible. I'm not talking about legality. The statement was made that students in the US "know their teachers are armed." That is not my experience.

Really? I've raised three, from kindergarten through college, and have served on numerous committees in that time. I've never heard that, and would have acted if I had.

Pitt puts up 7 in the first half against Virginia. 1 for 22 from the field. Wahoo-Wa

There is quite a bit of information starting to get out about this, and wow. Total annihilation of this Russian "Blackwater" like group. Just a total elimination of this "force" once they crossed the "don't cross this river" line. Complete with lots of interesting coincidences.

The scam is called "Flag of Convenience." International shippers have used the scam for years, thus the amount of ships flagged in Liberia. It has spread to airlines as well. Norwegian Air is a perfect example . Designed for no other reason than to be a flag of convenience carrier to avoid various labor laws in various countries.

That's her problem, at least with folks who have dealt with her, and her imperious, racial disposition. Oprah refuses to talk to people, or even acknowledge their presence. She insists that you talk to her "assistant." God probably wan't up to that.

God has already told her that her history of behavior towards others is despicable.

Every school should have a dog at the entrance trained to sniff out guns. Get the benefit of teaching the school kids a little responsibility by rotating the care during the day among classes.

Now I'm sure it's you.

So they are leaving a work site to go back to a hotel room in order to watch Hannity or O'Reilly? If true, ever thought it might be you, and they are making that up?

Not a fan of either, but maybe they are leaving because they have a home to go to.

Do you think the failed candidate and ex first lady has ever done anything that would warrant a spousal abuse charge? The result of a physical confrontation with her spouse? Hush money hell....He would have had to bail her out.

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.