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Why have primaries at all? What have primaries ever done for us (except give us extremist candidates and dysfunctional outcomes)..

A government that "governs least" wouldn't be telling women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies. If there's one issue that damped out the predicted red wave, abortion is likely it.

Seems appropriate to revisit this. It’s amazing how you are ALWAYS wrong. Even if the D’s lose in the house and the senate, it’s the best midterms for an incumbent president in a long time.

I think you are confusing a speech impediment with dementia.

Hi John, As I have been saying for years: The American electorate is uninformed and prefers to stay that way. Jerry Baumchen PS) IMO it was the killing of Roe v Wade that prevented the so-called Red Wave. There is a point where even a Republican woman is fed up.

Hi Ken, Since I qualify, can I join your club? Jerry Baumchen

One loony gone. Unfortunately MTG won, and Herschel W. may get into a runoff. It's depressing that so many people vote for obvious nincompoops just because of their party label.

Some think white robes but, I don't know. I'm partial to denim jeans and cotton shirts. Paradise prior to the rapture I think will be more mirage like, maybe an orb of light.

Looks like abortion rights got a big boost, even in Kentucky.

Man I sure hope that's not what happens. Not the R's losing part, just not another Biden/Trump matchup. A non-partisan primary would be a good start, but the D's are just as in love with power as the R's are, they're just too chicken to weaponize it and abuse it these days. Wendy P.

Considering the economic times and the weakness of Joe Biden I see it as a rejection of Trumpism and the culture wars. A pretty clear indication that if the R party is foolish enough to nominate the dotard again he will lose even bigger than last time even if he goes against Joe again. If somehome the Ds were to find a more popular nominee it would be double the defeat for Trump. The amazing part is the narrowness of the contest. Truly the nation is a house divided.

How old would he have been in 1971? Just kidding...

My grandfather was 1/2 Choctaw (making me 1/8th obviously) and while he looked "white" he still had the jet black hair, olive complexion, and high cheekbones that Gregory pointed out. So I've never discounted the NA angle of the story just because most people referred to Cooper as a white man.

Funny enough, yes I am. My committee chair wrote about her work, though in a different context. While Chael Sonnen can be pretty much summarily dismissed, there was some interest in/talk about the idea that Cooper might have been native. There is a large amount of reservation land up not far from the LZ, and it is one community within which there might not have been any interest at all in cooperating with law enforcement. It would certainly reconcile Cooper's "silence" with the law-enforcement gospel truth that sooner or later everyone talks, or is talked about, in a way that doesn't require him to have died in the effort.

I've been thinking about it, and the Cooper hijacking really seems to present a fairly unique case of eyewitness testimony... here we have multiple different witnesses observing the same man over a long period of time, and some of these witnesses even interact directly with him several times... hell, one is sitting next to him for hours. Frankly, I can't think of another case quite like it, but I'd be curious to know if there is one... especially one with a sketch available. It would be an interesting experiment on its own actually to see how prolonged eyewitness observations contribute to presumably better composite sketches.

Have you ever noticed how many hours birds devote to cleaning and oiling their feathers?

Im curious - are you familiar with the work of Barb Shipman and her tracking/behavioral models? https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/quantum-honeybees Think she was at the Univ of Texas last I knew (years ago). I think she and her father began their work in Maine ? Where was Cooper's hive ? I ran across her work when I was talking to SETI search people years ago .... What hive or small community beyond the scope of skydivers was 'buzzing' immediately after (or during) the hijacking? Any in the Portland-Vancouver-Seattle area ? Did anyone bother to tap into that resource? Any 302s about this? Was law enforcement outside the FBI and FAA ever supplied with the flight comm tapes or transcripts? Any 302s about that?

So true... that's why the skygod invented packers.

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