Arming school teachers?

Depends upon the teacher.  Most of my elementary teachers, Miss Shirley, Miss Gaudet, Miss Percy, Mr. Convery, Mrs Falby were courageous, determined, and cool under pressure.  Miss Coyne, not so much, but five out of six ain't bad.  Middle school we had Miss Macglaflin, Mr Davis and Mr Sanacandro who all would qualify as courageous and competent.  High school not so much.  It was a a Quaker school, with most of the faculty firm believers in the Quaker doctrine of non-violence.  Although I admired many of them, they were not the kind of people to draw a bead on a school shooter and let him have it right in center of mass. 
   But the public school teachers came from a tougher mold, at least back in those days.  I wonder how teachers are now a days. 

Effective TV commercials

They have been playing one commercial, for some kinda herbal supplement.   They explain it contains a miracle ingredient from jellyfish.  Well, I remember the jellyfish part, but I cannot remember the name of the product.  Effective that ad was. 
   Then there is William Devane, distinguished looking older guy, who pitchs silver and gold on TV these days.  One of his ads starts out on the deck of a retired US battleship.  Devane is standing in front of the main battery giving the pitch.  "When the US used battleships to make its points, things were better."  Although the US launched battleships starting when they were first developed, except for the Spanish American War, a tiny sideshow long ago, we never used them in combat.  By the time the US Navy became the world class force, it was WWII and the battleships had been replaced by aircraft carriers.
   And I still haven't invested in silver or gold. 

Parkland Shooter. What should have happened

This homicidal manic should have been confined to a mental hospital years ago.  But we didn't.  We don't have mental hospitals anymore.  Up here in NH, mental cases often spend days confined in hospital emergency rooms, hand cuffed to the bed, 'cause there is nowhere else to put them. 
   Everyone admits that this shooter showed plenty of signs that were ignored and not acted upon.  Resulting in 17 innocents dying.  
   The problem is homicidal maniacs allowed to run around loose.  If they cannot buy a gun, they will find other ways to do evil.
    We need a fair system to identify and confine these madmen before they do awful things. 

AT&T Last Company Standing

All the others have changed their names.  Marketing loves to change the name.  They think they are smart enough think up magic names that increase sales.  Right.
So here we are,
Company                       Old Name                          New Name
 Electric Company.         Public Service of NH          Eversource
Telephone company        Fairpoint Communicatons   Consolidated Communications
Cable company               Time Warner                      Spectrum

Only survivor

Long Distance Carrier     AT&T                                 AT&T

This ain't Chicken Feed

Alexander Soros, son of George Soros, donated $650 million to the Democrats.  Wow! That is a lot of money.  According to the Free Beacon. 

Congress critters blow it again

70% or more of the country wants to do something good for the DACA people.  Our Congress critters, Senate breed, were unable to pass anything today.  The Republicans lacked the votes to pass their bill, the democrats lacked the votes to pass theirs.  Neither side had the brains or the guts to find a compromise that both sides could vote for.  And so, the DACA people may all get deported beginning next month. 
Way to go Congress critters. 

Pentagon estimates $10-30 million parade cost

Chicken feed.  Wall St Journal carried this.  A single new jet fighter costs $80-100 million.  $10-30 million is nothing.  Remember Everett Dirksen's comment,  "A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you are talking real money."