Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

@cj8172 at this point, he literally gets the same briefing Biden gets. So, his unintelligence team is irrelevant. Meanwhile, here in the real world, most of the "drone" footage I've seen were airplanes that were out of focus due to oversaturated camera sensors and helicopters. So, rather than getting someone from oh, the USAF to answer questions or even someone who works with drones, they get a journalist/lawyer to answer technical questions that are basically guesswork. Might as well ask your mechanic their opinions on which brain surgery technique to use.
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@DrakestoneMillingCompnay I've worked with CS "gas" for decades in the military. It'll barely burn at 200 degrees, smoldering only. More likely, he broke a gas line intentionally and his firing either a firearm or flare gun ignited the gas one is reached its flashpoint, which if memory serves is between 5 - 15%. Lifted the roof and blew out the walls, which suggests gas or a dust initiator, with the latter being unlikely in a residential building (more effective in warehouse types of structures).
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Amazing, the sheer volume of people that want the results of an active investigation before the investigation has barely begun.
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@SuperSikntired so, Kash is going to undead the shooter and charge him with a crime? Or is the dead shooter only allegedly dead and really got better after laying for an entire day on the roof of that building? Or is the god-king gonna condemn the shooter to hell on national TV after Kash prosecutes him? Or are you saying that the governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania runs and micromanages security details of the Secret Service that Pennsylvania secretly operates for the federal government and intentionally stationed some random armed civilian that shot at Trump? I'm curious as to the level and depth of your delusions, so do tell me more!
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Glad to see the price of rent and eggs has been knocked down as he promised as he eliminated jobs that were available for US citizens.
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When did the York County DA become governor? Why would he replace the governor as governor in your delusions?
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OK, next time, they'll leave the hostage situation alone and patrol for drug dealers.
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Wow, two, I can name two of the opposing party that went after a presidential candidate of their own party and is now ostensibly the POTUS. I can name even more of that same party involved in other firearms related incidents, some that actually could've been charged with sedition over. Doesn't make it political, it means I'd be cherry picking like you do. How about having some modicum of respect for the deceased officer, whose body hasn't even frigging cooled off yet?
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Oh? What rights do you think that you have against another individual? When do your rights suborn the rights of others and when do you think that such a conflict won't of necessity escalate? Private industry is, per tradition and legal fiction a person. Just as individuals are persons equally under the law. And there's an ancient saying, "Your right to swing your fist stops at the end of my nose". There's also a tradition that seems to have fallen away when civilization failed, leaving political leaders children and grandchildren alone. One briefly touched by Harry Truman, when he threatened to punch a reporter out for insulting his daughter. Because, if you're unhappy with doing the civilized thing, some are perfectly comfortable doing uncivilized.
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Actually, in all three years you named, US government censorship was alive and well. Indeed, the Spanish Flu was called that because only Spanish newspapers were allowed to print the truth about the pandemic, as the US considered such news harmful to the war effort.
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@beazle86 phosphorus is highly hygroscopic, hence generates dense clouds of smoke. The gas got turned off, but was it already released inside the house?
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@tymcfadden8496 but, did he already fill the house with gas? It's not like it magically goes away, it would have to be carefully ventilated out of the whole building if he had a stove disconnected or something similar and it's lighter than air, so it'd accumulate more near the ceiling than the floor.
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@JayTX. OK, let's review. There was enough light to see that a shockwave was absent, which is evidence of deflagration, not detonation. No burning fuel fragments departing the structure, only shattered structural elements. We're starting to run out of potential common causes of such a deflagration explosion. Unnatural gas? No wait, that'd require me and a can of beans.
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Compared to censoring during time of emergency, such as the Civil War and both World Wars?
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@bikersoncall nope, but the folks at DHS are likely laughing at you, as my despisal of DHS is well known.
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@bikersoncall actually, I'm retired US Army. Never worked for DHS and am far from an admirer of an organization that reinvents the wheel with weird color codes in place of security domains that the entirety of the government uses or color codes days. They're basically, the biggest waste of tax dollars in a generation.
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@thoughtsonstocks talk about mistargeting! Both get campaign contributions from the same infinite depth superpacs. If I'm Richie Rich, I'd contribute to both to ensure my will be done. First lesson in counterterrorism, think as they do. No resources, plenty of humans, in their case, go on the cheap via religion, in real politics, go money.
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Total democracy, totally a great idea! Why, the vote whether to declare war on Japan for Pearl Harbor would likely finally be completed this year.
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@oldschoolzone5711 erm, who was paid oddly capitalized millions? The White House or the press? So, was Harry Truman also liable for threatening a reporter for insulting his daughter, a minor child? Back when we had a civilized society, leaders families were sacrosanct, now they're a terrorist's target of opportunity. Be happy, if I were in that office and some asswipe came after my family, what I'd do would be equally uncivilized, involve an edged weapon and quite lethal. At a certain point, office and father become quite distinctly different, with entirely different duties.
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@godbyone it can, if the blast went from room to room or echoed off adjacent buildings. The problem is increased, as news footage isn't really of high enough speed and resolution to fully capture events that rapidly occur. But, wish in one hand, crap in the other, we all know which hand will get filled first. :/ The real bear is clearing the structure afterward, to remove anything potentially dangerous as investigators do their thing.
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@frotobaggins7169 that's unusual in what way for a District Attorney?
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@joekulik999 alas, far too many do. I remember back when the press did convict people, that got changed after expensive litigation re-introduced the press to the Constitution and the fact that their exercising their rights does not suborn the rights of others - even suspects.
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@chrishales3280 how fascinating a concept, rights that can administratively be expired, rather than have the orders of a court to interfere with. Turning a Bill of Rights into a Bill of Optionals.
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Interesting tap dancing around what is and is not obstruction, entirely missing intent and proof of mens rea. One can argue until the sun goes out, one has to prove a guilty mind in intending obstruction to support an obstruction charge. Specifically, not obstruction of a public highway, but intent to obstruct an official governmental function in specific. Otherwise, you create the example asked in the title, equating being shackled seated to block a public highway being precisely equal with assault, battery, forcible entry, burglary, theft, ransacking the capitol and threatening the murder and unseating of one's government, so that legally blocking a road is sedition. Which, frankly is the dumbest goddamned thing I've ever heard in my life. Fortunately, not precisely what was said, but will likely be interpreted that way anyway to support their god-emperor wannabe.
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CS isn't flammable until heated over 200 degrees. Thank you for playing, please try again. Looked more like a natural gas or propane gas explosion.
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@gerrymatheson4020 I suspected as much. Given initially reported conditions, one would be expecting a fire fighter to go running up to a home gas valve and turn it off, given reports of an armed and shooting suspect, yeah, absent a greater threat, such as a strong smell of gas, just wouldn't happen. EMS ain't cops, you need a greater danger than random shots for them to be cleared to enter a suspect with a firearm scene. Scene safety being critically important to fire and EMS services, lest they swiftly run out of responders. The bear is, it takes quite some time for a house to air out on its own. :/ People are far too complacent with NG and LP, not realizing how explosive it can be. Having witnessed such explosions from regular leaks, yeah, nasty stuff, but I still use gas or induction for cooking, gas usually being cheaper.
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Please God, let them all bow down to the Lord Almighty, Mammon. The almighty God of the United States of America.
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@JayTX. well, we're running out of causes. No evidence of HE, due to no shockwave. Structure configuration makes a dust initiator impossible, not enough open space. Roof was lifted, walls blown out, which is a rapid deflagration blast. That leaves NG or propane released within the structure, which would have those effects. And it sure wasn't, as one ignorant person suggested, phosphorus, which is so hygroscopic as to conceal the entire block.
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So, now the PA governor is responsible for the Secret Service fucking up? OK, gotya. Didn't realize that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania owned the US Treasury Department, who owns the US Secret Service!
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