I am now officially worried about toy drones.

The aircraft strike in England is really bad news.

I'm pretty sure the fans can take a strike, but I assume the batteries in these toys are substantial and that each prop has a small electric motor using dense magnetic materials, so the compressors in a jet turbine are toast.

This is NOT the same as a bird strike.

I also assume that there are substantial numbers of these things that can be resold to avoid registration of any kind as well.

I know for a fact that it is childs play to increase the range of the rf transmitter so you could fly the thing from a considerable distance if equipped with a camera.

Get the picture?

What is wrong with this picture?

I got a hide for telling skinner off. My bad. I regret it even though I had my reasons.

My chances of being on a jury are like non-existent.

So I get a request for jury duty for the second time in the last couple of weeks tonight...

Bad children. Bad bad bad.

No soup for you.

Let's get a little more civil, what do you say?

Spam Alert!

What IS it with zombies?

I mean, really. And what is it about vampires?

Both Our Candidates Are More Civil Than We Are CTFO

They attack each other on the issues but not personally and certainly not against their respective supporters.

I may not like Hillary.

But I have NOTHING against her supporters. They are just like me. They are just as passionate about her as I am about Bernie.

I draw the line with hurtful comments directed at each other or against either candidates support group as a whole.

I would like to encourage everyone to keep the discussions civil. You can bash the candidates for whatever infractions or shortcomings you want to, but not each other.

Don't pick out inflammatory articles and re-post them here. We're better than that.

I will respect you and your decisions, even though I may disagree with them, but I WON'T attack you for your positions. I expect the same in return.

Chill the fuck out. Everybody, just take a deep breath and think about the other person for a change.

What I would give to have John Stewart back and watch him parody Mitch McConnell

trying to tell America why the party of stupid won't consider a supreme court nominee from Obama.

"If you come to a fork in the road -- take it"

Words of wisdom from an American icon, Yogi Berra.

I'm new to DU and have to disclose a few things. I am a flaming liberal progressive. I have a doctorate in physics and part of that process requires the candidate to examine problems objectively and think outside the box. I don't back down from anybody, including a Nobel Laureate once during some crappy ass shindig. Everyone in my immediate, if not my full extended family, has already voted for either Trump or Cruz or intend to soon. You can take it for granted I don't go to reunions, and my mother wonders why. It would appear that I have actually managed to tell the boss of DU to piss off in my first 50 posts. C'est la vie.

So, what does this have to do with forks in the road or the primaries? Nothing and everything. This post may seem to be a shill for Bernie, but it isn't. It has to do with dropping personal prejudices for or against either candidate and focusing objectively on a fork in the road that is approaching real soon now.

And it isn't our fork.

Both political parties are dealing with one or more forks in their respective roads at this time. Once the party of stupid gets its candidate, it receives its marching orders. They will have no other forks to navigate. They realize that they can win if they get behind their candidate and either win the independent vote or suppress it sufficiently enough to exclude the Democratic candidate from getting enough votes to win. They realize that the independents control the election, not the parties. Therein lies the fork in the road that is coming real soon now.

I teach math, physics and astrolomy to undergrads which make up a significant fraction of the independent vote which is 42 percent of the electorate. Their fork is pretty simple. Show me that voting will make a difference or fuck off. They don't buy into the lesser of two evil politics. Their rationale is that things suck now and they would rather stay home than vote for a candidate that will keep things sucking either a little less or a little more.

We either try to control which part of the fork they choose (vote or don't vote) or we risk losing it all. The Obama campaign did that in 2008 but not as well in 2012.

Something for you to think about. In the end it doesn't appear, at least to me, that it's enough to just get Democrats behind Hillary or Bernie. Its about getting somebody who doesn't, in general, give a shit to get behind Hillary or Bernie.

How do you propose to do that?

I cut my lip shaving.

It seems I'm getting to be a little like my '82 Isuzu diesel truck. It doesn't start up real well, especially on cold dark mornings. It's sort of herky-jerky for about ten minutes, just like me. Some effing idiot in Germany came up with a way to win the war (WWI) with something called daylight savings time. Perfect psycho warfare. If he wasn't dead already, I'd kill him. Instead, I cut my lip shaving.