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People file complaints to the FCC, all the time, about everything. Just google "Funny FCC complaints." Here's the first result, the top 10 funniest complaints about SNL:

Because the Internet is wonderful, a Freedom of Information Act request was filed for every complaint about SNL the FCC has received in the last five years. That request was carried out and posted in its entirety on this website.

This document is 226 pages long and littered with paranoia, unabashed racism and homophobia, generally angry people, and, of course, fun. Lots and lots of fun.

Included in there are accusations SNL was carrying out a human trafficking ring. It's all nuts.

So what we have here is Colbert makes a vulgar joke. People report it to the FCC because people report everything to the FCC. And they investigate and respond because that's the job of the FCC. Trump critics then turn this into "Trump supporters want the government to shut down anti-Trump views." It's just confirmation bias.

Here is the real quote;

The FAA recognizes that people and companies other than modelers might be flying UAS with the mistaken understanding that they are legally operating under the authority of AC 91-57. AC 91-57 only applies to modelers, and thus specifically excludes Its use by persons or companies for business purposes."

The funny thing is that when I coped the first instance of the quote from the site I get "pecoins" and had to change it to "persons". It looks like the OCR screwed up.

Show me SOMETHING that is made inthe USA.

Here is something. 100% US manufacture.

Your point is well taken, however. We don't make much here anymore, unless you count government. We make a lot of that.

Perhaps, perhaps not. The FBI had something to say about the incident, however.

The previous "crowning moment" of an underwater search and recovery was the cargo door from United 811. The door blew out on a flight from Hawaii, killing 9 people. After an extensive search 15,000 ft underwater (chapter 5, page 4-16) they found and recovered the cargo door from the floor of the Pacific. It was vital to determining that a design flaw in the door's locking mechanism caused the accident. (I remember the Oceans '91 paper being better, but it's behind a paywall.)

Finding something this small in the middle of the Atlantic at these depths is quite an accomplishment. The cargo door at least was large enough to generate a return on sidescan sonar, and was sitting in relatively flat terrain.

check this out too http://www.governmentattic.org/4docs/TrainingNegroArmyTroops_1946.pdf

Have a read of what the NSA had in the 1950's and 60's at: Read up on ATLAS, ABEL http://www.governmentattic.org/3docs/NSA-HGPEDC_1964.pdf

Have you seen the sorts of complaints the FCC receives? They get mountains of hilariously ridiculous complaints like these:

Complaint Summary:
Homer was asking Marge, his wife, why they took in this really annoying older mooch named Gil. She responded
nicely saying, "Christian charity, I guess."; And Homer whined and yelled back, "What does a porn star have to do
with anything?!!?"; Extremely offensive to Christians, disgusting actually. combining the two complete opposite
worlds in one sentence. I am appalled b that show anywa ,but now I'm even more anti-Sim sons.

Others available here. [PDF]