Alarming headlines aside, their chances of actually getting their hands on any amount of seriously radioactive material was slight to nonexistent. This isn’t the sort of stuff you can just shove into a backpack and walk out with - it’s likely to be fatal to anyone who tries that.

How ironic that we see another cute, contrived, and juvenile ‘preaching to the choir’ exercise, while ignoring the rampant corruption of the leading dem candidate, or even the voodoo economics that surround Bernie’s proposals.

Why do we need it? Well, our current heavy bombing force is getting ancient. One reason the USAF does so well, like the USA, USN, USMC, is they train hard. That wears planes down. So does using a large bomber, staged out of US bases, to the ME.

Was it chance or on purpose that you show Predator 3034 at the top of the article? It conducted the first Hellfire tests, and it also fired the first Hellfire in combat over Afghanistan. Retired after over 2000 hours of flight time, it now hangs in the NASM’s UAV section. One of the original developers described 3034…

Obama probably wanted the Cubans to tell us how we could make that better. At least, that’s what he would probably say in a speech.

I thought Michael Moore told us that Cuba had a great health care system. What a miracle, considering the country is all but bankrupt at this point. In fact, I was about to head there to get one of those low cost MRI’s they must have. And the great antibiotics. And the minimal invasion surgery. And... whoa, wait a…

N Korea has uncomfortable memories of amphibious landings that they weren’t expecting. Probably why S Korea likes to make such press on this capability.

If the diesel had continued running after the sub submerged, it would have sucked all of the air out of the inside of the boat, pumping it out as exhaust, and the crew would have died from embolisms when their blood boiled from the low pressure. Nasty way to go.

Won’t make much difference if they’re dead or alive. Kim Jong Un (sounds like someone having trouble on the toilet, doesn’t it?) starves more people than that to death every week, why would one sub full be of any concern? Nor would US help in finding the sub or even saving the people produce anything positive in…

Any resemblance to a TIE fighter pilot’s helmet is purely coincidental.

You can pick them up for peanuts today, too. They are simple enough that an avid weekend mechanic can keep them running, though the typical SL owner back then wasn’t always so fastidious about maintenance, so proceed with caution. Also, watch out for body corrosion. They’re not really a ‘sports car’, handing is a bit…

Is true... when I was a kid, someone in my small town bought a new 1971 Shelby GT500. Powder blue, it was beautiful. It lasted... two weeks. They brought the remains into the gas station across from school - there wasn’t a single undented panel on it. Sideways, bounced off a tree, then rolled.

Ah, walk the other way. I had one. Oh, it was a nice car, except they love to blow head gaskets. The 4 valve cylinder head that was original on that engine wouldn’t pass US emissions, so they put a 2 valve head from one of their smaller engines, and it almost fit. Otherwise, that was a comfortable car, tight handling…

CP on that particular one... too much mucking about under the hood, too many dubious mods, even if you don’t factor in emissions, if you’re in a state that doesn’t check emissions.

A more viable option might be the BMW E46 or E90 wagons. They are also AWD, though it is simpler and less maintenance prone than the Benz system, and they tend to sell cheap(er) because sporty types want the coupe, while people who want the room get the SUV.

That’s not something you see every day.

Plus all the money they have to spend to support a couple of million ‘visitors’....

Do you expect me to talk?

Don’t bet on Google being able to pull a Tesla. It took a determined visionary to buck tradition and make the electric car concept work, much as it took a determined visionary to buck tradition and take Apple off in a different direction.

Well, that just breaks my effing heart. Pity one can’t bottle and sell unbridled and unjustified arrogance - he’d be out of that hole tomorrow.