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How odd that you never took issue with a president who said that COVID would just go away in the spring, and that if people supported him they wouldn't wear masks. His lies led to about 400,000 excess deaths. Could it be that you have a double standard here? So here's a question for you. 80% of the people in the US are vaccinated against COVID to some degree. If 60% of COVID deaths are in vaccinated people (this is NOT an accurate number, it is an example) - does the vaccine reduce death rates or not? OK. So I went to the source for that. Here's the actual data: Infection rate: No/partial vaccination 20/100K Full vaccination 11/100K Full vaccination + boost 7/100K Death rate young No/partial vaccination.5/100K Full vaccination .1/100K Boosted 0/100K Death rate middle age No/partial vaccination 3.6/100K Full vaccination .6/100K Boosted .3/100K Death rate old Not fully vaccinated 32/100K Full vaccinated 5.7/100K Boosted 2.7/100K https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/stats/vbt.html So: 1) Yes you can conclude that vaccinations greatly reduce the incidence of both infection and death. 2) Given that you misrepresented the Minnesota numbers above, why should we take your OUTRAGE! over someone's dishonesty seriously? You did something very similar.

Someone posted just yesterday that claims without unbiased citations in support are meaningless. I wonder who it was.

The Pres needs to stop saying what he said in summer 2021 because what's happening in fall 2022 is different? I'm going to take a WAG that he has stopped saying it, otherwise you'd be using a newer quote...

The three real experts on Jo Weber were (a) Galen Cook, Bruce Smith (b) Sluggo, and (c) a female attorney in the Portland-Vancouver area Jo talked to frequently by phone, visited on her trip to WA, ... this female attorney was plugged into the Cooper case and was full of the latest FBI info she then conveyed to JO. That was Jo's source for FBI info nobody else had and I think Jo conveyed this to Mr Cook ........ I would have to dig out old emails between myself and Cook. I probably posted something about this years ago here at DZ but people payed no attention. Jo Weber was a networker' and a 'busybody' because it was part of her and Duane's profession. OleMiss speculates about this in his recent interview with Darren, wondering how it was that Jo often had privileged info about what the FBI was doing etc in the Cooper case - according to Cook it was some female attorney in the Portland area Jo talked to almost daily... To understand Jo you had to know and understand her connections. Her telephone was her primary device for obtaining information. When Jo finally took her trip to WA, supported by some producer she claimed, she apparently got snubbed by a lot of people she had hoped she would be welcomed by ... and she went home empty handed and pissed (so goes the story conveyed by Cook). Perhaps Cook was playing a double role, conveying info about Jo to the FBI ? But to understand Jo Weber you have to understand Galen Cook, Bruce Smith, and Jerry Thomas, and Ralph Himmelsbach. The backstory on Jo and other 'researchers' has often been more important than the Cooper story itself but vital to understand in order to track and understand people's claims and any info they claim to have. The Citizen Sleuths had hardly been formed before Jo Weber was already all over it trying to contact members ... to leverage information. And the same from Geof Gray ...

She may have heard about it while doing her lab work with peach-tree dishes.

I want to draw attention to the Ryan Burns, criminal attorney interview at: https://thecoopervortex.podbean.com/e/db-cooper-is-misunderstood-ryan-burns/ It is an exceptional interview imo with valuable research insights. It's a long interview but worth your time. Burns draws on his background as a practicing criminal attorney to evaluate Cooper's profile and actions, in detail. I like Burn's rational - behavioral approach and his ability to pick apart people's stories and various facets of the Cooper case testimony.. Burns makes a very strong presentation comparing and evaluating the most prominent Cooper suspects. Its worth your time. Ryan can be found on the DB Cooper Mystery Group of Facebook or on The DB Cooper Forum and the DropZone under the user name OleMissCub. I am impressed with the amount of quality thought and work Burns has put into the Cooper case. More about Ryan's interview later.

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I already have one. I understand they are inexpensive and poorly made - bad wiring. Of course I'm looking for a cheap audible. The full feature VOG does nothing of much value extra, in my opinion. Multiple beeps do not a VOG make. Seemed reasonable to ask whether the basic version is actually being delivered.

I payed $20 to watch that movie during a "virtual film festival". I don't like to disparage anyone's work, but in this instance I will. Absolute garbage. Two "bounty hunters" decide to make a film about a drunk that says he was DB Cooper. He doesn't know anything about the case, and would have been like 22 years old in 1971. The Treat Williams movie gets more about the case correct. The reenactments are done poorly and there is weird scene where they tresspass on Tena Bar, then announce to guy that catches them that they're armed. You know its trash if I won't promote it, or have anyone from that project on the show. lol

And the remaining 10%?