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Virginia is nothing like that, and sorry for your ancestor's sacrifice.

Honestly, I don't think it's an overreach at all, nor do I think it has anything to do with revenue capture. I think it is a safety issue. These things are very dangerous. The props are spinning at thousands of rpm, and there's four of them. As I stated, I've seen them cut through small branches. Thousands of these things have crashed on first flights because people don't know how to operate them. If one crashed into a stadium, it is almost a guarantee someone could be hurt, and I'm not going to discuss the potential weaponizing of them. There are also technical issues. They work by remote signalling. Those frequencies are limited. Get a few of them in the same area using the same freqs, but controlled by disparate, unknown operators and you get the picture. The other issue is that the NFL stops games when an unknown drone is over a stadium. That would significantly disrupt their product.

I knew nothing other than cursory information regarding Stonewall Jackson and Lee. Then I read the Shaara Trilogy, Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels and The Last Full Measure. With the understanding that the USA at that time was a local/regional country far more than it was today, context is important. While I wish the Confederate Generals would have sided with the North, the situation at the time cannot be judged by us, like the practice of "bleeding" that was done in medicine. Times change. Judgements made must be sensitive to the times. Now being aware of the "Union's" leadership, post Lincoln, which was U,S. Grant and Andrew Johnson, and considering a decision of who was more honorable, I know I'd go with Jackson and Lee. Either way, the senseless renaming of schools and removing of statues has proven to do no good.

Sometimes I think you are just an idiot. (Well....All times). Other times I am surprised by your idiocy, as in this post. Richmond has absolutely nothing to do with this.

Not that it matters to you, but the respect due Robert E. Lee is legitimate and deserved. You have just called a great potion of the population of the US as "disgusting," and "anti American. I suggest you are foolish. Absolute bull####. But not surprising.

Because that's what the people in those areas agreed to do when they were constructed. This idiotic renaming is not only stupid, it has proven to be counterproductive and very expensive. Further, while some would disagree, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Lewis and Clark were extremely honorable people. The knuckleheads that made these decisions, including a blatant racist who was the energy behind removing a Lee statue are anything but.

Respectfully, are you serious with this question? The schools were renamed. The monuments were torn down. That money was wasted. Resources, including millions of dollars, scores of lawsuits, and a total waste of time was spent renaming them, tearing monuments in existence for scores of decades. Get that? Total waste of everything involved, and you are claiming that the issue is with responding to this?

This entire monument removal/school renaming thing has been a total waste of time, money and resources. This is how lawyers get paid, and nothing positive results.

Just so people know, it is illegal to fly a drone within three nautical miles from any stadium having a capacity of 30,000 or more from one hour prior to scheduled start until one hour after. Many other events trigger what are called Temporary Flight Restrictions, which also prohibit drone operations. Obvious ones would include Presidential appearances, but there are many others. You can request a waiver from the FAA for any number of requests, but it would never be granted in this case. Regarding size and registration, if it weighs more than .55 lbs, it must be registered. I can't imagine anything worth flying, or having any capability weighing less than that. The battery weighs that much. If someone does it, local law enforcement can stop it, use the FAA's Law Enforcement Assistance Program to report it, and the FAA can pursue certificate or even criminal action. The NFL wants local police to have authority for enforcement. The NFL has had many games delayed because of this, and it is extremely dangerous. In most cases the drones were not registered, so flying them anywhere would have been a violation, let alone within the temp flight restricted area of an NFL stadium.

What? This is Israel's survival. They are and have been under attack from three sides for years. It is there issue to "deal." Biden has proven to be a spineless non ally, and that is shameful.

Oh my.

I'm sure you have as much interest in digging deep into this as I have, which is zero. But....The FAA certainly has a mechanism to enforce drone regs on any unregistered drone, by any individual. To the bigger picture, these things are dangerous in the hands of idiots, like the 15 year old who gets one for Christmas and thinks it would be fun to fly it over a stadium. Quite easy to do. I've seen them saw small branches off of trees. They have limited battery life, and crashing one into stadium stands would be really bad. not some

It doesn't matter if they're commercial or not, which I'm sure they aren't. Operating one over a stadium, or any other non participating human is illegal.

Just horrible. As said by others, our allies don't trust him, and our enemies don't fear him. The man is a foreign policy disaster. As former Defense Sect Robert Gates said: "I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Denying Israel this shipment is idiotic, counterproductive and lunacy. "

I won't comment on NFL games or stadium venues, but there is absolutely functional federal enforcement re unauthorized drone usage. I have a commercial drone license and am aware of this.

As I read the link, it simply enabling local law enforcement to utilize anti drone measures. That authority, to date, is reserved for the Feds. The fact is that operating a drone over a stadium without FAA authorization is illegal, and has always been, and for very good reasons.

IRS audits are the result of IRS problems with a return. IRS agents do not make their money auditing returns that have no discrepancies. There are other windmills worth tilting over.

I don't agree with the targeting claim. IRS audits are based on filed returns. I would aver that the audits were based on discrepancies within those returns, like inaccurate 1099's etc. High income filers don't make those mistakes. They probably have professional help. My guess is that there's no story here.

It was perjury.

Perjury is perjury. The subject matter is irrelevant.

The same woman who advocated for going after "them" in restaurants. I had the "privilege" of carrying her on many of her weekend roundtrips from Dulles to LA. The woman is a classless, imperious, arrogant slob.

I get all that, but the BLS Report, and the ADP Report usually differ based on their modelling, but there has been no suggestion from the financial market world that they are cooked by politics. They are revised, as are almost all economic reports, but that, again, is not influenced by politics.

These are apolitical stats derived from apolitical sources. The Biden Admin doesn't influence them. It was weaker than expected, but the reading too much into one economic report is foolish. Better to use a three-six month moving average. That gives a much better picture. Still, we are approaching the end of the time line that these economic reports are grossly effected by the pandemic, and become more meaningful.

I've been following details of this since the thing was an idea. The "dock" is completely unprotected, so any weather of any serious consequence is going to stop the operation. Think WWII Normandy, but worse. The vessels being used are quite small, so any serious weather is going to require them to be hoisted until it passes. Regarding other news on this front, Eisenhower has now left the Red Sea and is in the Med, meaning there is no carrier to threaten the Houthis. I would say that objectively, Operation Prosperity Guardian has been a mission failure. Traffic through the Red Sea is at 50% of previous levels, and is largely Russian an other unfriendly stuff. There have been 50 attacks on shipping that have been successfully defended, one sinking of a commercial ship and one taken over. The joint forces have been incredibly productive, but the political will to end the threat has not, so it lives on.

Does this include Hunter Biden's coming clean after admitting to gross cheating?