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Human Genome Finally Completed! New opportunities for the Cooper case ? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-scientists-finally-completed-the-human-genomic-puzzle

Thank you. Please don't confuse conservative with MAGA right.

I hope all you DZ. com denizens have a restful and fulfilling Thankgiving.

Fixed some more (includes return of all kidnapped Ukranians). But I had posted this about a month ago. It's rather interesting to see how weak and pathetic Putin and the Russian Army really is. Putin's lobbing missiles at civilian infrastructure. There's very little military value in what he's doing. It's a very real possibility this could be a prosecutable war crime. Personally, I'd like to see Ukraine get reasonably long range weapons. And use them against Russia. One could argue that oil refineries provide military material and are legit targets. They're also pretty easy targets for missiles & such. You don't have to target precisely. Any good hit on the complex is going to cause flammables to leak and any fire is going to take off. It wouldn't be a good idea, I know that. It likely isn't going to happen. But for Putin to be on the receiving end of the exact same thing he's been doing would be rather fitting.

Attorneys for Anderson Lee Aldrich are faced with an almost impossible challenge - keeping a mass murderer from life in prison. He is going to be charged for five first-degree murders and five hate crimes. The hate crimes will pretty much guarantee life in prison, even if he escapes that sentence for the five murders. So they came up with an ingenious trick - claim he's nonbinary. No one can verify this. The accused doesn't have to testify - and even if he does he can plead the fifth if he is asked. But since the court will address him as "they" the jury will hear it. Bill Booth did the same thing when he changed the name of his company to "The Uninsured Relative Workshop" - that was done purely so the jury would hear that during the trial. Then during closing arguments they can claim that it's absurd to suggest an LGBT person can commit a hate crime against other LGBT people, with no proof of said gender orientation offered. I gotta say that's pretty ingenious. I hope they fail, but I can appreciate the deviousness.

The only agenda for supporting the Western Flight Path, as it is now called, is to fit the facts to the data. What is your agenda?

That is why I qualified it with "if accurate",, I know a single image can be misleading.. there is no way witnesses missed that lower and lip and jaw... Though he resembles the composite sketch,, he doesn't fit the witness descriptions of dark, olive, latin, swarthy, Mexican/Native American features and complexion... I can't see witnesses coming up with those desriptors from those images. To use those descriptors it should be obvious,,

Oh holy crap — you really want to fire him up? Wendy P.

This we agree on. I think the only people arguing flight path have an agenda behind their disagreement.

Hi Keith, ABSOLUTELY!!!!! I consider myself a fiscal conservative & a social liberal.* I am quite sure most on here would consider me a liberal only. Jerry Baumchen * Striking the balance is the difficult part.

Personally I wouldn't put too much stock in that one screen cap. It looks at least as likely to be a fleeting microexpression as it does anything "real" and permanent. Overall I find Vordahl a good match for the sketches when viewed through the filter of, if someone saw Vordahl, would they describe his features in ways that result in those sketches. As others have noted, he's even a decent match for the Dracula sketch, which would otherwise have seemed to be at odds with the previous ones. I could see people trying to describe an issue with the mouth or lower lip and not knowing which words to use. I do think they could see his complexion and try to find a way to describe it that captures that he's darker complected without looking necessarily "dark." That little cut-out of the hairline is notable too. And other features are dead-on matches. Overall he's probably the best match of any current suspects, at least given what we all know about the descriptions. (Fly has indicated there is additional information that might be at odds with the public info.) I'll put it this way: He's probably as good a match as Petersen is bad. I'm bothered by how debonair he comes across. That drink gif could be a screen grab from Goodfellas. That's not the vibe I associate with Cooper from the descriptions. But for me the match is meaningless without knowing the provenance of the tie or soundness of the data-collection process and results, without knowing if the assumptions made from it are correct, and without putting that guy on that plane for a potential mass-murder/suicide/certain prison mission. I think he deserves to be discussed as a possibility--to the exact same extent that Petersen does not. But until those three very big holes are filled--data plus the presumptions from it plus him undertaking this fool's errand of a caper--he has to be considered "just a guy who sort of matches the pictures, if you ignore his age." If someone uncovers a gambling addiction or mistress he had to pay off or something career-ending he was going to be accused of at work or something, that would at least hint at motive. And even then, it will only matter if the data is sound and the presumptions made from are logical, which we don't know. For me he's a fun suspect to consider and involves fewer hoops than Petersen, AKA, the world's most comically incorrect suspect. But the whole case relies on the tie data being correct and reliable, the presumptions made from it being accurate, and him getting on that airplane for what he would have had every reason to assume was his last act as either a free or living man. Those bars haven't been met yet. So he remains tantalizing but meaningless.

Well, that's structural racism - and CRT is the study of structural racism.

His father already stated his relief that he's not gay.

Restful? Not so much. Fulfilling? You bet. Cat turkey party at the cat rescue: https://www.facebook.com/safehavengb/videos/1085288718786761

I saw this theory on another forum yesterday. My position is: The crime its self proves he identifies as male; When was the last time you saw a non-male commit mass murder?

I don't think that someone cannot commit a hate crime against their own "group," especially if being in that group causes them to feel guilt or anguish or depression or self hatred.

But, it is. Look at the number of people released by organizations like the Innocence Project. A permanent solution demands a perfect process. We don't have that.

Two points.. The particle pattern on Cooper's tie isn't uniform and random vs the Boeing tie, there is a pattern.. and there are particles on the shorter back piece... These suggest many of the particles were not obtained while it was worn.

The point is that many "100% RIGHT ON" convictions have later been shown to be wrong. The judicial system will never be perfect, so if you keep capital punishment you are guaranteeing the continuation of state-sponsored murder of innocents. I can never support that. If you *must* keep it as a punishment, then it should be as humane as possible. A nitrogen chamber meets this requirement easily and cheaply. Choosing the remaining methods that have been shown to often be excruciating means you want revenge, not justice.

Possibly, but maybe not for the reasons you think. The word "Woke" has been turned so toxic by elements of the right that it is pretty much used exclusively as a perjorative now, so it's almost impossible to use it the way you have defined here (as it originated) and be understood correctly. As in, I was genuinely disappointed in you having used it, because I reflexively took it as the perjorative. I am *glad* that I was wrong about your intent, but I honestly could not tell you the last time I saw a conservative use it correctly and without an implied sneer.

I posted this a while back.. speculating on the patterns.. The bottom one is the Boeing tie, particle distribution (UV) is fairly even.. The Cooper tie above is not. There is an underlying even distribution with an overlay of what looks like contact marks across the tie or perhaps the tie was laid on something.. IMO, it looks like some of those concentrated particle distribution marks may have been deposited when the tie was not being worn.

Dr Edwards on podcast.. listening at 1.5x speed, going through the basics so far..

So I guess if someone tries to rape your wife, you'll just tell her to stop resisting to avoid needless injuries or death.

Newly found photos of N467US from a new article that was published today.

And there will still be tens of thousands who will vote for the moron, because . . . . stupidity.

It must be measured to avoid escalation beyond what the Ukrainians, or NATO, can endure. We're still boiling frogs. Let's give them the tools to take back the Crimea and toss a few fuck you's onto the nearby motherland and see how that goes first. Don't forget, Russia is an impoverished and fully ignorant of world affairs third world country outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg. No hell NATO can visit there will bother Putin one iota.

Ukraine is doing exactly the right thing. They are harassing a retreating enemy that unjustly invaded their land, looted, pillaged and tortured their citizens, and now is dragging washing machines along with them as they flee. Negotiations will only buy time for Putin to attempt to rebuild his forces so they can attack again. While pacifism is an admirable concept, the school bully will always want your lunch money again tomorrow.

Agreed, using 100% nitrogen for, say, 1 hour is much more effective. Anyone who has been in a high altitude chamber can attest that the loss of consciousness one experiences due to extreme hypoxia is painless. Unlike a gas chamber, which uses cyanide binding to inhibit hemoglobin, a nitrogen chamber simply removes oxygen from the equation. People who have succumbed to entering a nitrogen environment generally die before they realize what's happening. The whole idea of execution as 'punishment' is flawed. There are people who are a threat to anyone around them, regardless of where they are. Rather than having them rape, maim and murder such prisoners as are slated to rejoin society, removing them from the equation in a humane fashion is much more beneficial overall. 'Lethal injection' is a poor approach - unless it amounts to an intercranial injection of 230 grains of lead, and oxygen deprivation does not require earplugs. BSBD, Winsor

Hello Gerry, Now we get into a lengthy debate about whether a lowly rigger should follow the second or third edition of the manual. Most of the time, I follow the latest edition of the manual, unless I know about some part that does not apply to older versions of that parachute. For example, when packing Javelins, I fold pilot chutes in accordance with the third or fourth version of the manual because it does a better job of concealing the F-111 fabric.

Thanks Wendy. Please repeat that loudly within earshot of my boss.