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Penn & Teller are from this time period. If you're trying to use the "Well Regulated" meant "Well Organized" argument - I'm not even sure where that originated. The colonialists (the people) were the militia and not any part of a standing army (which caused Hamilton great concern for the US to have one - but we do). In his Federalist Papers No. 29, he outlines all "three sides" of the coin. The militia, a standing army and the people. "Well Regulated" meant training to a military standard. It was proposed, that the people from each state would gather once or twice a year and train to military standards, but make no mistake they were "the people" of each state - not a paid military. In fact, they could be made to support another state in the event that other state were invaded by a standing army. There is an ongoing myth about what the forefathers "meant" about a "well regulated" militia and "the people" being separate by a single comma. "The people" were "the militia." The right to bear arms was to allow the people to support the militia UNTIL a more formalized militia could be developed at a later date to protect these US from a standing (foreign) army. If you don't believe the government can regulate weapons and ammo, then how has the NFA stood as a law for so long. Did you know that the Supreme Court didn't acknowledge individual gun ownership as a right until 2008. 219 years after the US Constitution was adopted. If you don't think the US can ban certain weapons, then why is there still a ban on gravity knives. Why is there still a law on who can or can't own machine guns and a rather lengthy "well-regulated" process to own one. Having said all that, I personally, don't like the "left's" attack on the 2nd Amendment, but I also don't like the "right's" belief that gun ownership comes without some form of responsibility or accountability, or regulation. The "left" needs to agree to leave the 2nd Amendment alone and the "right" needs to agree that children getting killed in school warrants regulation of firearms to prevent it from happening again. We claim to be morally superior to other countries - let's start with protecting children from even having to have "active shooter" programs by regulating ownership - not banning guns, but banning nut jobs from owning guns AND ensuring everyone who owns a weapon gets the proper training as Hamilton outlined as "the People" being "Well Regulated."

That's a freeze frame of the russian firing his weapon. His colleagues are on the ground, appearing to surrender, then the last russian comes out and opens fire. Yes, they are all filmed dead afterwards, but pretending to surrender (perfidy) is a war crime. Also, did you not read to the end of that BBC article? They also talk about a gruesome murder done by the Russian side. You're regurgitating weeks old Kremlin lines, do your handlers have to use paper letters to send them to you to rehearse?

Hi Keith, Once again, a well thought out post. I don't agree with all of it, but overall, I could easily live with every bit of it. Jerry Baumchen

Hi folks, Time for the 'new' guard to take their places: In historic vote, Democrats pick Jeffries to replace Pelosi as party leader | The Hill 'Hakeem' eh? That should get some MAGA heads exploding. Jerry Baumchen

Yes, we're both going off the same item numbers. Pure titanium with that much antimony sticks out like a sore thumb. The specialized metals industry moved away from creating TiSb alloys in the late 50's and moved to TiSn alloys, which are much more efficient and easy to mass produce. Ulis figured out that Rem-Cru was one of the companies creating TiSb alloys in the 1950's and he just started with them. However, other companies were doing that as well in the 50's. So our team looked at the research departments of those companies like TIMET, DuPont, Batelle, Wa Chang. We weren't getting anywhere and there was still the nagging issue of how would something from the 50's end up on 1964+ clothing. Then after an exhaustive search of the patent databases, Broer ended up only finding two patents during the tie era that showed someone creating alloys by compounding TiSb.* One was Sprague Electronics out of Massachusetts. Their patent also ended up just being an experimental patent and was never put into any product, so it never left the lab. Then there was the Milton Vordahl patent from 1965. So that led us back to checking out Rem-Cru. Our team built an exhaustive list of everyone we could find who worked in the R&D department at Rem-Cru from 1955 until NORJAK. We went through the list and used Ancestry and obituaries and whatever to vet these individuals. What we were looking for primarily were men from the PNW and military men. Literally the only individual of all these names who had PNW ties was Vordahl himself. Then in researching him many things began to click (aviation knowledge, anti-social behavior, knowledge of the area, etc) and it was like a month into it that we found a photo of the guy and felt the resemblance was close enough to warrant further consideration. Had he looked like Chris Farley or something or if his measurements on his draft card didn't fit certain parameters we'd have moved on. What Eric did was quite a bit different. We gave him the name and number of the only guy still living on this list and Eric called him and asked who he worked with who was tall and about 50 in 1971 and the guy said it sounds like you're describing Vince Petersen. So we ended up coming to our suspects via the same origin but through different methods. Also, if you're wanting the particles to match the patent that's a fools errand. The patent doesn't call for a specific formula, plus even if it did have a specific formula we'd have no way of knowing when in the experimentation process those particles got on the tie. The takeaway from the patent is that it allows up to 18% antimony and the antimony readings on those particlesare 16.8%, 16.9%, and 17%. The next highest antimony count on the whole spreadsheet is 10% and it only shows up with 5% titanium, so it obviously can't be an alloy. Personally, I'm not sure if Petersen ever would have come into contact with this patent. He and Vordahl worked at different research labs for Rem-Cru. Vordahl worked at their Midland lab and Petersen at their Robinson lab. Also, as I believe Kaye has pointed out, the patent holder themselves would probably be the only person coming into contact with the patent materials if it was just an experimental patent that was never developed or produced, which is what this was. *major caveat being that just because something doesn't show up in a patent doesn't mean other people weren't messing around with it, but the patents are as good of a lead as any since it means we know unequivocally that these individuals were working with it.

Well said! I am more and more coming around to this similar opinion.

I knew it wouldn't last.

Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) says he left his ballot blank rather than vote for GOP nominee Herschel Walker in the Senate runoff against Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.). So there are still some Republicans with a backbone.

0.00001 % The patent connection is way overplayed, that said I would have pursued it just to check,, but there is nothing there. If that profile image is accurate that eliminates him right there..

lol, oh boy

Arguably the folk legend would grow if it is established that he survived and lived another 10, 20, 30 years. It would just be a different legend, I suppose.

Not at all. I think most people who are interested in the Cooper case just want to know who he was. It's like saying that people who are into Bigfoot wouldn't want to see an actual Bigfoot.

Count me in.

particularly when they claim to be "Christian"

In heavily red Cochise County, AZ officials are refusing to certify the election, crying about the top seats (governor, sec of state, AG) going D in close races. They aren't saying that anything is wrong in their county -- just that they have heard things they don't like about other counties (Maricopa in particular). If they don't certify by next week, the Cochise County votes will not be included in the statewide tabulation. If that happens, a US Representative seat will flip from R to D, along with a state schools chief. Then we will really see some crying. Can you imagine being that R candidate, having won, and some dipshits cause some of your votes not to count? https://apnews.com/article/arizona-deadline-2022-midterms-certification-d6a1ea4020c26313a3124931c14b79fb

Bill, please, stop with this crap that the no gun folks can eviscerate at will. I am certain we agree that responsibly kept firearms in the homes of trained users is acceptable. We also agree that home defense weapons are a reasonable reaction to the real world around us. Trying to get past that is like trying to explain the difference between statistics and art. Give them their day.

Tina described the red sticks as being six inches long which is not consistent with road flares.

The sheer amount of Ti metal found on the stubs combined with all those particles of Ti-Pd and the TiSb are all very strong indicators of specialty metals R&D work. Tom agrees this is the kitty pool cooper was swimming in. I’ve looked at individuals who would be wearing ties from all the players involved in this industry: RMI, Batelle Memorial Institute, TIMET, Dupont, Crucible, Wa Chang, Bureau of Mines, ect. and there is only one individual that I’ve come across that sticks out as fitting the cooper physical profile the personality profile and the tie profile. This person who I refer to as the unicorn is Milton Bernard Vordahl.

Choosing not to implement a wingloading BSR has nothing to do with a fear of being sued. Potential litigation has never even been part of the conversation concerning wingloadings.

I disagree. If they care about safety and get sued enough to go out of existence, or even be severely curtailed, then their ongoing ability is diminished. The best result you can get is the one with the resources you actually have, not the ones you wish you had. We see fewer wingloading fatalities these days. Too many still, but fewer. Wendy P.

And why would anyone believe them? They already have a recent and documented history of agreeing to terms, Ukraine doing their side of the deal, then Russia reneging when it suits them and just invading again. You keep talking like Russia are being reasonable, when we already have proof that they're not, their words are meaningless. Ukraine are SEEKING PEACE as you so dearly hope for. They are doing so by making this war so costly for Russia that they will eventually give up. So far, they're doing a damned good job.