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I have no interest in opining on anything regarding a group of morons on a single day doing something remarkably stupid, anymore than I think school shootings from individual lunatics point to a national attitude. Same thing with those out of towners that came to my hometown. Anamoly. 9-11 was way bigger. Way more impactful. Way more fatal. Had an infinitely grater economic impact. Had an infinitely greater impact on our gov. To claim otherwise is the stuff of idiotic faculty lounge conversation expressed by people who have no idea of scale or scope. In other words, idiotic.

I wasn't referring to a message board. I was referring to the reporting from the uninformed media.

That "judgement" depends on where you were at those times. 3000+ people dead. An entire industry destroyed. Scores of medical problems years after. A massive reworking of US internal security. Not close, at least not to the people attending the memorial services that I did. Partisan nonsense. Partisan insanity.

Swivel less. Relax more. The concept that military bases have restricted airspace above them is ridiculous. Very few do.

I hate to do this, but am compelled. There is a mass amount of uniformed opinion about this, but I want to clear something up that seems to be in evidence. AIRSPACE OVER MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IS MOST OFTEN NOT RESTRICTED. Got that? The fact that there is a military installation does not mean that the airspace over it is restricted. More often than not, it is not restricted. There are some places that are, but this is a total red herring re this drone nonsense. There is controlled airspace that you need to get a clearance to fly through; nothing to do with security, everything to do with traffic. There is uncontrolled airspace. Flying in there requires no FAA clearance. There is restricted airspace, which limits who can fly there. There is prohibited airspace, which means nobody can fly through there without a special clearance.

Nearly nobody here will get this joke.

I have no view, other than I think you are crazy.

Of course I'm afraid of planes. That's why I flew them for over 40 years, and a drone for the last ten. You are a special kind of goofy.

Totally ridiculous. Is this post an intentional joke? Let's hope so, or we have a lune on this forum.

I humbly suggest adjusting now. The military has plenty of airspace to conduct low level training of small drone flying. No need.

The claim is preposterous, and so typical of these folks. This Administration and Obama's, which also freed up a bunch of money for Iran to funnel into its proxies has led to this. Netanyahu did everything opposite of what Biden's controllers wanted, and thus the success. Don't invade Rafa. Don't expand into south Lebanon to address Hezbollah. Put in place a restrictive semi embargo on providing Israel needed weapons. To Iran..."Don't." They did. Stating we have no people in a war zone while the Eisenhower is defending against attacks on its task force and commercial shipping every day while at the same time denying that task force to take the threat out. Absolute fiasco from them. An undeniable pattern of mistake after mistake in the Admin's judgement and advice regarding the entire Iranian proxy thing and dealing with Iran itself.

Your statement is an assumption, so your question/challenge is meaningless.

I don't think its an airspace conflict issue or there would be far more action. The FAA would be far more aggressive if there was conflict.

I've got a feeling that when the facts are known about this, a few people who think the US gov is behind this are going to feel silly. Want to keep a secret? Note how they do this? Look at the F-117 project and operation Constant Peg at Tonopah Test range. That's how these things are done.

Ya, I've seen that. I am suspicious of these judgements. I can't see any reason the gov would do this. Its not like they don't know what's underneath these things, and they certainly know they would be seen. Just an opinion, but I'm of the view that this is nothing.

If it was the gov and secretive, they wouldn't have the lights on, and to what purpose? 2000' is really high for a drone, and illegal. That would also get them into much stronger winds, probably 30-40 knots. Not where a drone wants to be. 30-50 mph is really fast for a small drone.

Being a church does not allow you to subborn or support illegal activity, nor determine what it is or isn't, nor decide what laws the nation has in place are to be abided by. Some churches do it becasue the gov has not decided it's worth it to go after them. That may change, and I hope it does. Aiding in an illegal activity is itself a crime. Want to do it? Risk losing your tax exempt strategy as a fist step, and more personally punitive punishment next.

I have no idea what their purpose is and I'm sure they can be detected. Depending on what type they are, it's usually fairly easy to figure out who's flying them becasue they are remotely controlled unless a programmed route is inserted, and the remotes are not that powerful meaning the operator should be fairly close by. In addition, unless they a somewhat sophisticated, they are pretty easy to jam and make go stupid, even crash. It would just take a little enforcement time and effort, and they probably only need to get one in order to figure out what is going on. I've got a commercial drone license and used mine commercially for a number of years doing real estate and other pay projects for fun. Whoever is flying these is probably not licensed.

They're not permitted in controlled airspace, which the airspace close to an airport is, without a clearance. Drones have very specific flight rules they must abide by.

They would not be "invading Catholic Churches." That is a ridiculous conclusion, made by the same folks who demand Catholic Hospitals permit abortions. When a criminal is to apprehended, no church has the right to protect them against the law.

I'd go with Netanyahu. Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran significantly impacted. Total realignment of the middle east, going against every single thing Biden suggested, which seems to be the formula for success. Massive difference between last year and this.

Like how he "nailed it" when he said the internet would be no more effective than the fax machine in economic issues? Or when he recently stated that 70% marginal tax rates were "reasonable." I thought the guy retired, but not soon enough.

I think they demonstrated how incredibly stupid they are. They always assume that the world court, as the UN is, will rescue them when Israel destroys them, which it always does. This time, that didn't happen. Israel decided it would go to the mat to destroy Hamas, no matter the international viewpoint. Momentum led them to Hezbollah, correctly. The weakness of Iran is a biproduct that led us to this point. Either way, there is no turning back, nor should there be. I'm not sure who are referring to when you state "neither side." If you are referring to Israel as one of these 'sides," they absolutely "share our beliefs."

Israel is doing the Corleone strategy, where at the end of Godfather 1, Michael "settles all the family business." Israel clearly doesn't want the Iranian weapons supply pipeline to get into the hands of wackos.

Airplane vs airplane, bet on the F-22. Simply unbelievable, but being out serviced. After that, bet on the F-35. In US trained hands, a star wars machine.