@BBCBreaking:
Russian airliner reported missing has crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, Egyptian prime minister says
https://t.co/YAsM2cyY83

The Russian company denies it has crashed but Egypt isn't backing down.
Sad....

RT is now confirming this.
@RT_com: UPDATE:
Russian passenger plane with over 220 onboard crashes over #sinai
https://t.co/kwkvHk3OV8 https://t.co/w6UOs5rtQh

http://nydn.us/1PRnVgx

The kid who stood up for her said she had nobody. Now that makes sense.
Poor kid. She probably didn't give a damn about what anybody said to do.

NO! JUST! NO!

That teenager was being disrespectful and uncooperative. However, NOTHING she did should have been met with that type of force. NOTHING! Imagine that was your daughter. And don't cop out by telling me that your kid wouldn't do that. Every kid can have a moment especially when they are teenagers. I have seen even the best kids act way out of character at times.

You do not escalate a situation like this unless you want an ending like this. She was not going to cooperate and slamming her head into a wall is not going to help her, the teacher or the other students. And with all due respect to Lance Adam's, this man is an SRO not a SWAT team member. If he is working in a school then he needs a lot of techniques to deal with students. Brute force should be the LAST measure and only used in extreme situations when somebody is a danger. Not obeying an order does not constitute a danger.

As far as assaulting an officer, that was a direct result of his forceful intervention. I could tell you that was coming the minute he approached her. He knew it too. Does she deserve to be punished? Yes. Does she deserve to be treated this way? No. AND that isn't coddling students. That means you don't assault them.

Those who have the 'power' in any situation have an obligation to use it wisely. If this was a wise use of force, then what will happen in a real and dangerous situation? As far as the assertion that you have to teach others to respect the police and obey them, this did not do that. It taught fear.

Real respect is earned and much more powerful than fear. Fear creates resentment and anger. This is in some respects a 'hostage' situation. The class and teacher are held hostage. What do you do in those situations when that happens? You de-escalate and talk. What you have taught that student and the others in that class was to use force to handle even non-life threatening situations.

I taught. I taught 9th graders and I did not put up with crap. I also did not threaten my students with physical force or have it used. A lot of people need to think long and hard about what they are advocating. Imagine this was your kid??

I worked in Chesterfield County for a summer on a geology project. Pageland is one of the larger towns. . I traversed EVERY road, trail and pig path. If there was a hint of a path, I went down it with my partner from Furman University.

You aren't on the edge of the Earth but you can see it from there. It is a classic country county made up of itty bitty towns and crossroad communities. Everybody knows everybody and everybody's business.

I have no doubt that there are armed groups and such in the swamps and even in the state legislature. I seriously doubt if that man was part of one. He had to have enough wiles to steal but his behavior and demeanor probably let him blend into the background. He probably lifted those guns from some real nuts.

You would be hard pressed to unscramble that pile of weapons, chainsaws plus lawd knows what and outfit one person much less a group. They were thrown together without a care.

He obviously has problems. I dare say that the guns were out of circulation and better off with him than with many fools I know. He was the County Gun Control Agent.

I promise you that there are worse people wandering around.

Mother cat breaks into vet clinic to be with her abandoned kittens
https://social.newsinc.com/media/json/69017/29850416/singleVideoOG.html?videoId=29850416&type=VideoPlayer/16x9&widgetId=2&trackingGroup=69017

Don't mess with Mama!

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1. When she tried to sing, it sounded like a walrus giving birth to farm equipment.

2. Her eyes twinkled, like the moustache of a man with a cold.

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4. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

5. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room temperature Canadian beef.

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7. The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.

8. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

9. Her eyes were like the stars, not because they twinkle, but because they were so far apart.

10. His career was blowing up like a man with a broken metal detector walking through an active minefield.

11. The sun was below the watery horizon, like a diabetic grandma easing into a warm salt bath.

12. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes at a 7:00 p.m. Instead of 7:30.

13. It was as easy as taking candy from a diabetic man who no longer wishes to eat candy.

14. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes before it throws up.

15. Their love burned with the fiery intensity of a urinary tract infection.

16. It's basically an illusion and no different than if I were to imagine something else, like Batman riding a flying toaster.

17. If it was any colder, it would be like being in a place that's a little colder than it is here.

18. Joy fills her heart like a silent but deadly fart fills a room with no windows.

19. The bird flew gracefully into the air like a man stepping on a landmine in zero gravity.

20. He felt confused. As confused as a homeless man on house arrest.

21. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.

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****snort****

Ha!

I tol' y'all Mother Nature wasn't playing.

I love this group. They have many videos and songs on YouTube.

Now I have an automatic negative thought when I hear that sound.
I might carry a life jacket in my car in case I cross any bridge or just in general. If they didn't warsh away in the flood, they had to be weakened. Same with the roads.