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Once I identify someone as a troll it goes on my ignore list and I no longer engage with it. If everyone stopped feeding the trolls they'd get tired and go away. Apparently it's too much to ask.

You've never heard of the Rural Electrification Program? Without that, farms would still have Jacobs windmills and 30 volt nickel-iron batteries - and appliances that worked at that voltage. Sears sold them. The government got involved because they thought that making more power available to farms would promote the general welfare of the United States. Like solar, wind, EV's and grid scale storage.

You're not, though, unfortunately. You're educated and, within acceptable boundaries, smart; that's all that keeps me from blocking you, truth be known. Thus, I won't agree that you're a knuckle dragger. I'm without doubt that you're homophonic, whatever that is. The rest, well, I'm inclined to agree with the exception that I don't think you're a red neck. What you are is outstanding at trolling and, to our consternation, apparently without any other outlet for entertainment.

What's definitely clear is that the easy stuff's already been gotten. If that wasn't the case, they would't be looking to drill through the ocean floor off of Africa. What's the point you're trying to make? We're not out of oil yet so there's nothing to worry about? Plenty of oil reserves in the stable, American bastion of Namibia so Teslas as still stupid? This strikes me as being along the lines of what I see every day in posts/talking points that create a false choice that you're either 'drill-baby-drill, fuck all renewables and those lefty cucks' or 'you hate everything that petroleum products have ever made and you want to steal food from the mouths of the children of oilfield workers and ban gasoline vehicles yesterday'. How deep down the Fox rabbit hole does somebody have to be before they simplify things that fucking much? Aside from a brief, 3 month stint in another industry before I got called back with an offer I couldn't refuse, I've been in oil and gas for the past 20 years and I may well be in for another 20. Oil is hugely important right now and that's not going to change tomorrow, but whether we're at peak oil now, in 10 years, 50 years or 10 years ago doesn't change the fact that it's a FINITE RESOURCE and we'd best not wait until we're almost out to start figuring out how to live without it, or at least with much less of it. Starting now (or decades ago as people have) with imperfect solutions is the only way to get to a point where we can transition to a live without oil that's not the doomsday scenario that the 'peak oil' scaremongers were predicting 20 years ago. Even if you're willfully ignorant of the effects of climate change, the above should be reason enough to at least concede that renewables aren't some lefty pipe dream...

How fucking rich is it that you're taking a minor diversion from your thread defending the actions of Rittenhouse to school somebody on being a member of society.

I'm sure that when the Business Cycle Dating Committee or the National Bureau of Economic Research want to have an ex-DZ owner with no background in macroeconomics, or any other qualifications for that matter (except a lot of time on his hands that he likes to spend "owning the libtards") they will give you a call.

The take-home message of the Rittenhouse affair is, if you see someone entering a school through a side door while carrying an "assault weapon" you should not do or say anything, as they might just be there to protect the textbooks. If you do try to intervene and get shot for your trouble, you are the bad guy. You cannot make any conclusions about someone's intent based on the circumstances, even if you see them shooting they might just be defending themselves. In America the person with the biggest gun is always right.

Exactly. Insisting people can’t acknowledge that just because you don’t like it is PC Orwellian gaslighting.

What does any of that have to do with your joke about Rittenhouse shooting people exactly matching your strident defence of the good Rittenhouse being completely in the right in shooting some bad guys? I don’t need to tell myself that, you’ve just spent three pages telling us that, with no ambiguity at all. So again, as I said, telling a joke that exactly matches what you believe is not a demonstration of a superior sense of humour. Tell a joke about Rittenhouse being a murdering asshole who got away with it and then we’ll see.

You think Cooper knew who Cossey was? Ha, you're tipping your (Haggar's?) hand there. But from an objective viewpoint, I think Cooper was hoping to get mains for 'back' rigs. When he got the bailout rigs, which are reserves, he would want to know what the canopies were. A rigger will sometimes note which kind, if any, of steerability the canopy has. Cossey did not note that, but Cooper wouldn't know that until he looked at the card. The fact that he even knew to look at the cards would show at least some familiarity with parachutes.

Which, as I pointed out earlier, happens to exactly match your serious views on the topic. Yeah, such a great demonstration of a sense of humour that is. That's what grownups call a lie.

Bruce Smith talked to someone who knew Cossey, he said he was a serial liar. He gets elevated if the chutes were his and not Hayden's..

Don't give those zealous fuckwits any ideas. If any state legislatures succeed in passing bills that specifically define fetuses as whole people it's only a matter of time before a woman who miscarries is prosecuted for manslaughter after doing something 'dangerous' that lead to it happening. Like going on a bike ride or driving over a speed bump.

According to Hager..... Cossey was the only civilian rigger working in that area at the time of the hijacking. In fact Hag said he had been the only rigger in that area for a few years preceding the hijacking. Hager told me. ( according to his research ) that the closest working rigger to Cossey lived and worked about 4 or 5 hours away from Seattle. I believe the guy lived north and east of Seattle. He might have been across the state line? Hag also mentioned about one other rigger that might have packed some chutes during this time. Hag said there was a small airport in the southern part of the state ( Washington ). I think it was about 20 or 30 miles east of Vancouver Washington, maybe just a little north as well. It was operated by a husband and wife. They had a son that was a certified rigger. Although he might have stayed in the state of Washington at times, Hag said this guy worked ( as a rigger ) in the state of Oregon. Hag thought it possible that this rigger might have packed some chutes at his mom and dad's airport for some of their customers? As far as Hager could tell these were the only civilian riggers working anywhere near the hijacking. There were , of course, many different military riggers working during this time. Might this be why Cossey was relevant? ( if he indeed was the only civilian rigger working that area ) Who else was the. F.B.I. going to go to?

That interview exposed Carr's lack of up to date case knowledge.. not to blame him. Unless he has access to new files/info, he only has opinions. IMO, the FBI bias is to have Cooper die in the jump, that is why they didn't solve it. I give zero credibility for his "died in the jump" opinion, he has no evidence.

It's pretty clear to me that your consternation, and that of a few others here is merely an act. There is a group of people in here who get just as much entertainment from the interaction as he does. I've come to accept it even if I don't really understand it.

Very good interview of Agent Carr: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-cooper-vortex-darren-schaefer-and-SAjTPN0by-8/ Carr explains his views well under very focused questioning by a superbly prepared Darren. A couple of things stand out. Larry's forte is not technology or science. Larry knows about Tom's work but really doesnt known in any detail what Tom did or has found. Larry appears only on the private Ulis Facebook page so if you are approved you can ask Larry questions there. If not approved, tough luck. That casino is open only to members. Larry says Cooper was a no pull. His bones are yet to be found in the Washougal Basin. The money survived intact in the bag and then washed into the Columbia, perhaps got snagged by floating debris, then 'floated' up on Tena Bar where - conveniently without being noticed by anyone for an indeterminable time - the bag conveniently dissolved quickly, not being noticed again, most of the money washed away without being noticed, until at length the Ingram's discovered three bundles, buried between 3-8" deep. ? Darren failed to ask Larry to explain the fragments because - there are no fragments.

But was he? I would doubt it. Any dropzone, such as Sky Sports, among their community of jumpers there would be a number of riggers. But if Cossey was the principal rigger at Sky Sports' loft then it makes sense that it's his name on Hayden's rigs. I'm guessing that the flight service that took care of Hayden's plane would also take care of his rigs, and they would just go to the local dz. And it was that flight service that came up with Hayden's rigs. And that would explain Cossey's name on Hayden's rigs despite the two men saying they never met each other.

Actually a group of AR-15 owners is known as a 'gaggle', not a herd

On p.30 of Tosaw's book, he claims the first thing Cooper did was remove the packing card from the parachute pocket. Tina interview.. She also commented that he appeared to be completely familiar with the parachutes which had been furnished to him.

Poor judgment? perhaps, illegal? demonstrably not.

The court found wrongly. Rittenhouse grabbed his AR-15, drove whatever distance, and interjected himself into a riot as a vigilante hoping to dispense vigilante justice. The saddest part of all of it is that there are so many people like you out there who find no wrong in why he was there at all. No one should believe it was right and no one should believe we are a better society when gun laws like we have make actions by kids like Rittenhouse probable.

Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the Vatican what gold's for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray for Peter Pumpkin Who'll pray for Peter Pumpkinhead? . . . Peter Pumpkinhead was too good Had him nailed to a chunk of wood He died grinning on live TV Hanging there he looked a lot like you And an awful lot like me

Which "M1" are you talking about? The M1 Garand (rifle) is the one with the 8 round en block clip. I've never seen or heard of a detachable magazine conversion for it. If there was, it would probably be for the 20 round BAR mag. But those are pretty rare & expensive. It could also be the 20 round for the M1A/M14. But that's for 308, not the 30-06 that the Garand is chambered in. There aren't any 30 cal 30 round mags for US rifles that I know of. The other "M1" is the M1 Carbine. A much smaller & lighter weapon, it shoots a much less powerful cartridge. In fact, the M1 Carbine round is very similar to the 357 Magnum pistol round (other than the diameter of the bullet and shell casing). The Carbine has detachable mags (no en bloc clip) of 15 or 30 rounds. If you want 'similar to an AR, the best example is the Ruger Mini-14. Semi auto, same .223 cartridge, can use 5, 10, 20 or 30 round mags. But it has a wood stock and looks like an 'old fashioned' rifle. It's essentially a 'non-scary-looking' AR. Funny thing - The Mini 14 wasn't affected at all by the 94 'Assault Weapons' ban.