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  1. 5 points
    We need to stop dancing around this, too. This happens because the Police have no fear. They have no fear because of the strength of their unions. It should be obvious to everyone that this is a place where combining public service and collective bargaining, in America, isn't working.
  2. 4 points
    Spotting an exit point in order to land in a specific area requires more info and control than Cooper had. You'd want to see the ground, at least familiar reference points, you'd want to know the upper winds (to calculate drift), and you'd want to be able to ask the pilot for corrective heading adjustments. So he was pretty much rolling the dice as far as where he'd land. If I were doing it, I'd want to know as much as possible about the surrounding terrain. How much was mountainous and tree'd as opposed to flatter and more open fields. How does that stuff relate to the city lights you might see? I'd want to take a test flight and time how long into the flight were the better areas, as opposed to the mts and lakes. But, how much variation is in the flight path from 'go to Mexico' and 'settle on Reno'? Having trouble with the stairs affects your timing. The whole thing is a crap shoot, especially in those days with rounds, especially with the non steerable ones he was given. As far as getting off the stairs, you'd just have to do whatever worked. It depends on how far they opened. Once you're at the end, it's loud, it's cold, you really can't see where you are (in his weather conditions) so you might as well just go. The timing of the pull... Hopefully you're at the requested 10 grand. But that's MSL. What is the terrain elevation below, specifically the highest points? I'd like to know what the lowest cloud base was. If I knew I had a couple thousand feet between the lowest cloud and the highest mtn, I'd fall through the clouds and see where I was. But rainy often means lower clouds, so you probably wouldn't have that luxury. So I'd time it to accommodate the highest terrain, unless I knew for sure I was elsewhere. There are just so many variables that were out of his control, or that he would be able to see. You'd just want to prepare yourself by knowing the possible terrain as well as you could. The guy certainly had the magic combo of stupidity and balls.
  3. 4 points
    Except they didn't need to. They never should have needed to. Everything you just saw, is exactly as described in the original statements. I don't think you went down the rabbit hole on this one, but your "just asking questions" doubts give fuel to those who did.
  4. 3 points
    Well this took quite a while. But I found color footage of all the passengers coming off the bus into the airport. Turns out that the first four people in that clip are FBI/NWO officials. Anyways, this was difficult to do but I was able to match up who was who by looking up military records for heights, stalking Facebooks, using newspaper photos, yearbook photos, etc. But this is all of them. They are listed in the order that they enter the terminal in the video. I'm also including the full color video. Flight305Passengers.mp4
  5. 2 points
    Bill, I generally tend to agree with most of what you post on here, including the general point of this post. That said, I think the above is a bit of a misrepresentation of what she posted. It seems like she’s taken a disproportionate amount of shit for one post she made about what was an undoubtedly traumatic experience.
  6. 1 point
    The Justice Department has a long standing policy not to release non-public information to congress on pending or active investigations unless they pertain to National Security. I believe your constitution says something about separations of powers between the 3 branches of government? Why is it that people like you seem to only understand you get to have guns, misunderstand the free speech part and know nothing else about your constitution?
  7. 1 point
    Thankfully REM was never really know for much activism, so who really could have known...right....
  8. 1 point
    I have an XM radio in the car, and the other day I heard "I don't like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats playing on First Wave, a station dedicated to the new wave of the 80s and 90s. Bob Geldorf wrote the song about a mass shooting in San Diego where a 16 year old girl shot up a school, killing 2 and wounding 9. (I was in New York at the time.) The song hit #1 in the UK for a few weeks and made it onto the charts here in the US as well. The song was so popular, I think, because it summed up everyone's shock at the shooting. A 16 year old girl took a .22 rifle her father had given her and just started shooting. What stopped her was the police parking a garbage truck in front of her house. After she was arrested (by being offered some Burger King) she said the reason was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." All the signs we now consider usual were there. Alcoholic father, some brain damage, evaluated for both depression and as a suicide risk, caught several times shooting out school windows and shooting squirrels in her neighborhood. She expressed hatred for cops and talked about doing something big to get on TV. Then one day she started shooting. Bob Geldorf was doing an interview in a newsroom in Atlanta and was next to the teletype machine when the story emerged. He stopped the interview and read it, being shocked at the shooter's answer to a reporter's question - "I don't like Mondays." And that experience became the song. And of course one of the reasons it became so popular is that almost never happened back then; it really shocked people. It was a once-a-year, at most, occurrence. Nowadays it's just Tuesday. A big part of this, of course, is the availability of guns. There are no hard stats on how many guns there are in the US for obvious reasons, but while the US was making and selling about 3 million guns a year in the 1980's, in 2021 that number was up to 13 million a year. Best estimates put the number of guns as greater than the number of adults in the US. And when there are more guns around, a kid who snaps is going to have a much easier time getting one and shooting up the local school (or gay bar, or synagogue etc.) So why are there so many guns? A big part of this, of course, is the gun industry, which like every other industry tries to sell more of their product. But another big part is how the right has adopted gun fear as a political tool. Democrats will take away your guns, so buy more. The country is going to hell because of those democrats, so buy more. SHTF so buy more. Hillary Clinton runs a child sex ring under a pizza parlor in Washington, DC so you better get a gun and save them! Live near the border? MS13! Get more guns! Like your gun? Now you can Stand Your Ground(tm) against those evildoers! The gun industry understands and welcomes this. Ten years ago Ruger agreed to donate $1 to the GOP for every gun they sold. So if the GOP wanted to make their fundraising targets, they had to push that fear for all it was worth. And it has worked. We now have a society so fearful that many people feel they need guns just to survive. A poster here feels she needs a gun in her shower to defend herself. And as a result, guns are readily available for the taking for anyone who feels like shooting up a school. Sure, sometimes they have to get them from a parent or a friend, but that has posed no problems in the past - and that is getting progressively easier as time goes on. This is, unfortunately, just going to get worse. Now that a political party has associated their party's platform with guns, half the politicians in the country are going to be pushing for more guns with fewer controls and less oversight. And if the problem does get worse? That WORKS for both republicans and gun manufacturers - the more people get shot in schools, the more people will be afraid, and the more people will translate that fear into a $799 AR-15 and a vote for a pro-gun republican. To protect themselves, of course, from another shooter with an AR-15 - wouldn't want to be outgunned! We really are getting closer and closer to the Ameristan that Neal Stephenson described in Fall. I wish there was a way to turn this around, but I just don't see it.
  9. 1 point
    The FBI got the micro in the same order as given to Cooper, they re-ordered it alphanumerically for the release to the public,, we have never seen the original order. Tom was not given the original order and couldn't find it. In the image of the twelve bundles we can assume two of those were top bills because one of the packets was missing bills. I have tried to reassemble the twelve piles into three packets based on shape but it is tough. The top left one was probably a top one. There is no indication of rubber bands on these. This is that top left pile.. that line is not a rubber band it the flipped over image of a White House pillar. I think it was Tosaw's book,, he said there were rubber bands on only two of three packets.. that is consistent with rubber bands bundling three packets together. If the rubber bands were used on the bundle of 3 packets then there would be one packet with no rubber band frags, one with rubber band frags on the top bill and one with rubber band frags on the bottom bill... The FBI only has about 14 bills, some have deteriorated further. The packing cards,, I did a FOIA for the packing cards, the FBI said check the FBI vault, they will put anything there. The cut shroud lines might have DNA but they have been handled by many people. The chute at the Wash Museum might have Cooper's DNA.. long shot though. The best chance for new evidence is do a new DNA analysis of the tie, you might get 20 profiles now.. but if it wasn't Cooper's tie, that may not even help. He left the tie.. but that requires $$ and the co-operation of the FBI and they don't seem interested in solving this.
  10. 1 point
    When the money was found, the FBI stated that it was in the original order as delivered to the hijacker. (If I remember correctly, that original order was never released to the public.) If you know the original order, you should be able to identify the top and bottom bill of each of the three 100 bill packets. I wonder if this was ever done by the FBI and if anyone knows where any of these 6 bills are today. The attempt at looking for a finger print with silver nitrate only makes sense if they did it on a top/bottom bill, why do it on a random bill in the middle. If there's any chance of finding evidence of the rubber bands or even paper bank bands, it would come from forensically studying one of these 6 bills. When Tom did his testing, I believe he was given 3 bills by the FBI and then later on 377s bill which he concluded was from the middle or inside of one of the packets. I don't think Tom was given the original order, so he based that conclusion on other factors of the bills being studied. Having said this, it's not clear to me that it's even a possibility for Tom to get access to the remaining bills that the FBI have and if they would identify the top and bottom bills. For new or unexplored areas of evidence, the pickings are slim, but what about: - Pivoting to the packing cards that the hijacker would have had to have touched? Could they lift a finger print and then rule it out as being from Cossey, Hayden or other FBI agents who may have touched the card ? Could there be touch DNA present ? - The shroud lines that he cut, the hijacker would had to have held the lines firmly when he was cutting the lines, you could figure out the most likely place he held the lines and then examine for skin cells where touch DNA could maybe be found? These are long shots, just shooting from the hip here.
  11. 1 point
    There is little about this crime that "makes sense". The attacker was a deranged man just not into being sensible. One possible interpretation is that Pelosi was having some success in talking to DePape, but then when the attacker realized he was about to be arrested without finding Nancy he just snapped and attacked.
  12. 1 point
    Math of Insects, most of us are pretty much anonymous to each other. But we're all just friends, typing stuff about a common interest. I'm genuinely curious about what your experience is that gives you an opinion on bouncing bodies. Mine comes from watching people do it for forty years. BSBD!
  13. 1 point
    I don't think the weight of the money would affect it that much, it's his body weight leaving that allows the recoil to happen. However... The stair recoil resulting in a pressure bump is an odd thing to me, and unless Cooper was familiar with the engineering involved, it would be a hard thing to predict. Again I refer to the Treat Williams movie, those stairs don't move very far or very fast. That could be due to a cameraman on them further up, as Flyjack pointed out, but I would think it might also have to do with whatever pressure is in the hydraulic system. If there is any to much pressure in them, I would think it would dampen the movement. I would think that you would have to pull the emergency release, disconnecting them from the hydraulics, in order for them to move freely enough to recoil that much or that fast. But Fly says that didn't happen. So hard to say, but I don't see the pressure bump as a predictable occurrence. Yet it also happened in at least one of the subsequent jumps (McCoy's?).
  14. 1 point
    On more modern gear, the closing loop that the pin goes through is cloth, like a piece of line, or similar to a skinny shoelace. Sometimes those break on impact and the container comes open. But in those days the pack closures were metal cones with a hole drilled through them, and the ripcord pins went through those. So metal on metal closures, plus the fact that there are 3 or 4 pins on the backpack, very unlikely for it to open on impact.
  15. 1 point
    The hot environment was most likely from being in the sand. Sand can get hot.. "Climate and Average Weather Year Round in Portland Oregon, United States. In Portland, the summers are short, warm, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, wet, and overcast. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 36°F to 84°F and is rarely below 26°F or above 95°F." "Sand can be over 100 degrees Fahrenheit when the outside temperature is only 75 degrees; indeed, when the ambient temperature is 90 degrees, the sand can be over 120 degrees. " https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6970441/
  16. 1 point
    I've always been of the opinion that Coop probably lost the money when he opened his chute. I've wondered though, if he may have decided to rid himself of the money when he saw McCoy get busted with his ransom in his house, dead to rights. That would have been in the spring of 72. If he had already determined that he couldn't spend the money due to the serial numbers being checked, then I could see him ridding himself of it. He wouldn't be the first person to dump evidence in a river. But, as previously stated, burning it would seem a lot less risky. Perhaps, he ran out of matches?
  17. 1 point
    Definitely. When people think they need guns to protect themselves 24/7 - when they think they need guns in the SHOWER in case they get broken into - things are broken. They have been sold a bill of goods by gun manufacturers, and that message has been reinforced by politicians who use fear to manipulate and control them.
  18. 1 point
    The album cover came from before the rainbow was synonymous with 'pride.' I can understand why someone whose only exposure to rainbow flags was connected to taking a stance regarding sexual preference might assume that that was the message. Similarly, any previous definitions of 'gay' have been eclipsed by its current usage. I can understand why someone might recoil at the prospect of buying a ticket to a concert and finding themselves being 'educated' in one way or another - whether they agree with the position or not (or care one way or another, for that matter). As Frank Zappa put it, "Shut up 'n play yer guitar." BSBD, Winsor
  19. 1 point
    It's like holding a fart in the airplane. You don't do it for yourself, you do it for your fellow skydivers. What could be more noble?
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