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I always avoid NYC (Newark, LaGuardia, JFK) airports, O'hare, and Atlanta whenever possible. If your going to be delayed, seems like it always involves one of these cities/airports. Actually it usually seems like it starts in Chicago and spirals out of control from there. From an airline standpoint, USAirways is the worst, Continental a close second. I usually try to fly Delta (have friend who is high up and hooks me up all the time), and will accept a trip through Atlanta to stay on Delta.

I can get to it pretty quickly. You have to practice!

Can't believe I'm going to post this.... Hitting your child for discipline is just wrong. I have kids (2) and we have a hard enough time trying to teach my 3 year old that he shouldn't hit people. How do you get that to work if we turn around and hit him as a form of discipline? I was spanked as a child (more than a few times I might add) but I do not and will not hit my children. It just sends the wrong message. I would never report someone for spanking thier child though, I wouldn't even say anything about it to them. I would report them if I felt it went over the line, I might even stop them and wait for the police. I'm done now.

Even safer on your ankle!

I always thought that prison was better described as 3 square meals a day and all the sex you never wanted!

An oldie but a goodie! How many times does this get played, and they still show up! If you ever win something from the DEWERCS corporation, like a free TV, you might have a surprise coming! We did this years ago, and grabbed a guy on a serious warrant. He actually thought he had won!

Saw a Chevy Volt outperforming everyone on the side of I-91 today outside of Hartford. It was being loaded onto a flatbed!

This is simple.... Tea Party Nation = USA Obama Nation = USSR I believe we have already seen this experiment.

20 Year old babysitter with 14 yo! Well well well. Seems that teachers are not alone....... Although, she is only 20, not quite old enough to be a teacher.

Last year I watched a few too many of the Shark Week festivities and ended up having nightmares! Weird waking up after dreaming you were swimming in shark infested waters and one was trying to chomp on me, and then realizing I was in bed, miles from the ocean. Seemed pretty real though....... I'll still watch all week though!

I was far more concerned about making beer and booze!

Well, all we need to do now is get some PVC piping from home depot and hook this baby up!

Car said 106 while I was in Springfield MA today, and I was sitting in the shade!

They always told me to never feed the trolls . . . . . .

In defense to my friends at BATF, they were not involved in the raid that killed all the Branch Davidians. At that point, it was a 100% FBI operation. The initial warrant was definately ill advised, but two of the agents were shot by fully automatic weapons, so even though you might not agree with the operation or the probable cause that the warrant was issued on, they were spot on with thier belief that the Davidians were converting weapons to full auto. I know several of the agents who were there that day (both FBI and BATF) and have talked extensively with the Agent who was on the roof and shot several times.

You know what, you made me think about how much easier it was to communicate with barricaded subjects pre-cell phones. You used to be able to send a team up with a throw phone (after you cut all power and phones to the house) and then the only way the guy could talk was with that phone. Now, you really are left with loud speakers. Throw phones still get used, but you can't isolate a suspect like before. Your calling them, and they are talking to anyone on a cell phone. I just don't get some of the peoples reactions to police using an armored vehicle to approach an armed subject. I also don't get how they could possibly refer to it as a tank (original article did this as well). A tank has a turret, and a really big gun that is designed to destroy other tanks......

Lame, so lame.

No surprise there....

What about a murder warrant? Or a bombing suspect? Or a bank robbery warrant? How about any warrant where the subject of the warrant is know to be armed and dangerous? Arrest warrants can quickly turn into barricaded subject calls. Lots of LE officers are killed serving arrest warrants. Difference between a bearcat and a brinks truck, brinks truck is designed to haul money and 1 or 2 guards, bearcat is designed to carry multiple officers and all the gear and equipment they might need during an operation. Also, it is designed to carry them safely. I see these types of vehicles as a great tool that like no knock warrants get used at the wrong times in the wrong situations. A good threat matrix should be used to determine what SRT / SWAT should or should not be involved in. I also have to say, that on more than one occasion, arrest warrants that scored extremely low on the threat matrix (no SRT / SWAT)had suspects armed to the teeth, while those that had scored extremely high (SRT / SWAT participation) had suspects completely compliant with no weapons found. Bottom line is that these types of situations (warrants) are never one size fits all, and they are always fluid dynamic and complex situations that are easy to second guess/ monday morning quarterback later by people with no experience or point of reference.

What is so wrong with police being in an armored vehicle when sitting outside a location where an armed suspect is barricaded inside who may have already taken shots at the police or other innocent persons. Should they sit in a car made of cardboard? I freely admit, I am in law enforcement (federal), I have been on and commanded tactical teams (no longer, getting to old), and there were many situations where I would have loved to have had access to a vehicle like that. It may have been a game changer as well, can't get officers close to a suspect when they are unprotected. Sniper rounds are the only way to go, so an armored vehicle may have saved the bad guys life in these types of situations. It isn't always a bad idea when law enforcement has good equipment.

The stupid guy shouldn't be the one directing the operation.

It's a BearCat, not an armored tank. Could you paint a worse picture with the title? This is an armored tank. Linky for armored tank picture. A BearCat is an armored car set up for SWAT / SRT operations. There are litterally hundreds (maybe thousands) of these all over the USA. Prior to BearCat building these designed for Police operations, departments used to get old armored cars (the kind used to haul money) to use. What, no problem with Brinks driving around in Armored cars? So in your mind, police officers that have to respond to barricaded armed suspect calls should just pull up and park out front in a regular patrol car? Armored tank Also, your favorite line, is a command officer refering to his officers outside of a barricade situation.

Nothing in life is free.

I though it was the state of insanity? No?

How cute, the seals and the sharks were playing.... We humans could learn a lot from these animals.... Can't we all just get along?