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Coreece forgets where the buck stops. New York Times, 8/6/20: "one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States." Washington Post, 3/20/20: "Trump's insistence on the contrary seemed to rest in his relationship with China's President Xi Jingping, whom Trump believed was providing him with reliable information about how the virus was spreading in China, despite reports from intelligence agencies that Chinese officials were not being candid about the true scale of the crisis." New York Times, 4/11/2020: "Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action." POLITICO, 4/15/20: "Trump, however, echoed many of those same assurances regarding China and its response to the virus throughout January and February, as the unique coronavirus began to infiltrate countries around the world. Just days before the U.S. recorded its first death from Covid-19, Trump touted China's government for its transparency and hard work to defeat the coronavirus that causes the illness." As COVID-19 swept across the country, Trump dithered, delayed and denied, leading to persistent shortages and delays. New York Times, 3/28/20: "As the deadly virus spread from China with ferocity across the United States between late January and early March, large-scale testing of people who might have been infected did not happen — because of technical flaws, regulatory hurdles, business-as-usual bureaucracies and lack of leadership." New York Times, 7/6/20: "In recent weeks, as cases have surged in many states, the demand for testing has soared, surpassing capacity and creating a new testing crisis." Washington Post, 7/8/20: "Health-care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are encountering shortages of masks, gowns, face shields and gloves — a frustrating recurrence of a struggle that haunted the first months of the crisis." CNN, 7/14/20: "Trump administration's delayed use of 1950s law leads to critical supplies shortages" POLITICO, 3/7/20: "For six weeks behind the scenes, and now increasingly in public, Trump has undermined his administration's own efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak — resisting attempts to plan for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he chose to hear. Washington Post, 4/4/20: "It may never be known how many thousands of deaths, or millions of infections, might have been prevented with a response that was more coherent, urgent and effective. But even now, there are many indications that the administration's handling of the crisis had potentially devastating consequences." NBC News, 3/14/20: "An examination of how the Trump administration responded to the coronavirus outbreak that was first documented in December reveals a story of missed opportunities, mismanagement and a president who resisted the advice of experts urging a more aggressive response." Even after months of abject failure on COVID-19, Trump still refused to take the threat seriously, repeatedly claiming that it will simply "disappear" even as he and his allies attack public health officials and undermine the basic measures we need to control the virus. POLITICO, 8/1/2020: "President Donald Trump publicly rebuked Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday, forcefully rejecting the nation's top infectious disease expert's testimony on why the U.S. has experienced a renewed surge in coronavirus cases."

Must have been the cost of bleach and horse dewormer.

Only when someone self-identifies as a "tool" does it become a PA. He could have refrained from doing that.

I'd counter that there's a virtually limitless supply of tools chasing this Hunter Biden angle.

Timeline of Trump's ineptitude through March 20, 2020: May 2018 The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team. July 2019 The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency left the post, and the Trump Administration eliminated the role. Jan. 22, 2020 “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Feb. 2, 2020 “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” Feb. 10, 2020 “I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.” Feb. 10, 2020 “Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” Feb. 24, 2020 “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… the Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Feb. 25, 2020 “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” Feb. 26, 2020 “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” Feb. 26, 2020 “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Feb. 26, 2020 “Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.” Feb. 27, 2020 “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” March 4, 2020 “Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot people will have this and it's very mild.” March 4, 2020 “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 5, 2020 “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5, 2020 “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6, 2020 “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6, 2020 “You have to be calm. It’ll go away.” March 6, 2020 “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6, 2020 “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6, 2020 “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7, 2020 “No, I’m not concerned at all. March 8, 2020 “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.” March 9, 2020 During a news conference, White House officials said the U.S. will have tested one million people that week and thereafter would complete 4 million tests per week. By the end of the week, the CDC had only completed a paltry 4,000 tests. March 10, 2020 “Just stay calm. It will go away.” March 11, 2020 The World Health Organization categorizes the coronavirus as a pandemic due to its alarming spread and severity. March 11, 2020 “It goes away….It’s going away. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths.” March 11, 2020 "the vast majority of Americans, the risk is very, very low" March 12, 2020 “The system is not really geared to what we need right now...That is a failing. Let’s admit it.” [Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to Congress] March 12, 2020 "You know, you see what's going on. And so I just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the United States. And that's what we've done. We've stopped it." March 13, 2020 “I don’t take responsibility at all.” March 13, 2020 The Atlantic reports that less than 14,000 tests have been done in the ten weeks since the Administration had first been notified of the virus, though Mike Pence had promised the week prior that 1.5 million tests would be available by this time. March 14, 2020 “I’d rate it a ten,” [Trump’s rating of his coronavirus response] March 15, 2020 “Relax” March 15, 2020 “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.” March 16, 2020 “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment-try getting it yourselves,” March 17, 2020 “The only thing we haven’t done well is get good press.” March 17, 2020 “I felt like it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” March 19, 2020 I intended "to always play it down.” [Trump in a private taped interview with Bob Woodward, made public on September 9]

Funny how Covid gets blamed for the deficits and debts. Despite not existing for the FIRST THREE YEARS of the Trump idiocracy.

What pandemic? I thought it was a scam.

Considering you fall squarely into the “fuck your feelings” crowd, you seem to be very sensitive. Maybe you could give those who ask for some consideration some actual consideration. If not this is all pretty hypocritical.

Thankfully, I don't think its anywhere near 50 per cent that fell for it. Just the extremes of the bigoted, the gullible, and the not so bright.

The best that Q had to offer was a claim of a pedophile ring run from the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn't actually have a basement. Q - the information source for the terminally gullible.

It seems pretty simple to me: if it upsets you to be thought a "tool", don't fess up to being one.

Also correcting myself: Apparently Paratec does have an FAA TSO approval: https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/FA5FE432E878C07385256E5900556FEB.0001 In my defense, the FAA search function is... awful. Edit: Case in point, the "copy URL" button doesn't work. To search FAA TSO Approvals, to here: https://drs.faa.gov/browse Under "Design and Production Approvals", select "Technical Standard Order Authorizations/Letter's Of Approval". The quickest way in the search window is to select Paratec under "TSOA Holder".

Hmmm... This could be an interesting ploy. Lawsuits are expensive to defend regardless of the outcome. If they send back an unairworthy rig and someone jumps it and goes in, they could be sued. If you threaten to sue them for not returning your property, maybe they'll offer you a new rig as a cheap (insurance) way out. I've got an old Vector in the closet, I think I'll send it to them...

Sorry, yoor rite:

Most lighter debris will be suspended on the bottom.. unlike rocks, the money would be easily moved. Here is a video starting at mile 98 moving downstream right past TBAR located at about mile 97.. The bottom is relatively smooth and sandy... suspended debris on the bottom could be easily moved along by current.. BTW.. at mile 97.3, for that entire 1 mile section on the map 200,000 cu yards of fill was dumped in 1976/77.. it is across and upstream of TBAR. The debris was clamshell dredged and barged from other areas of the Columbia River. That is a potential method to move the money upstream from the mouth of the Lewis River.. video..

If you drink enough you will hold your breath until the fire goes out. And you won't even care. Just like fentanyl. Except it is far easier to control the dose of poison with Ethyl.

I had kind of stopped thinking of any washdown theory, but then at CC, Tom gave his talk and showed this pic (it is in his video). A card attached to a packet of money traveled 5 miles in 18 months (the money was gone, maybe taken, maybe fell off). I don't see the plane flying this far East, but will all the tributaries around there, I guess it's possible for a bundle to make it down a river (maybe in a trench coat). A separate bundle open to the elements would not likely have stayed in tact, and for the whole bag to land in a tributary and make it to Tina Bar would be unusual. There really are so many ways that money could have gotten to Tina Bar. It's just such a small portion of the money. I tend to think the bills were rubber banded to keep them together, but if there was some way to get conclusive proof that they were not rubber banded, then that would be real interesting. Although Himmelsbach has said some things that don't fit with the 302's (dirty rotten crook, bad language, -7 degrees, etc.), I have trouble discounting everything he says or what Tosaw said.

Suction dredge was used to put material on TBAR... I don't see a suction dredge as a possibility,, a bundle of rubber banded money is too fragile.. However, there was clamshell dredging up and down the River and material was dumped upstream of TBAR,, that is a possibility for moving the money upstream from the Lewis R, but not my favourite theory. I don't like the Washougal theory either because you would need to move the flightpath/LZ East and South to reach the closest water for that basin,, but even then the route to the Columbia is a really tough one.. down a stream, across a lake, through a gate and down another stream,,, not feasible.

Do we know what type of dredging was done on the Columbia post-hijack? Was it suction dredging or bucket/backhoe dredging. I have not ruled out the dredging theory, especially if buckets were used vs suction. Both were common. It is less likely that the money went through a suction dredger, but possible given the shards. A while back on one of the boards, someone with dredging experience had mentioned seeing all sorts of material survive a suction dredge. I think the general assumption has always been that suction was used.

Hi Phil, Lippy is not; and, neither am I. Once again, Brent has not seen the football since kickoff. Jerry Baumchen

The standard way of dealing with obsolete orphaned systems is to stay away from them. The other way of dealing with them is to understand that they have very little resale value so you can buy them cheaply but you are taking a risk that you won't be able to replace parts if you lose them. You may end up with an unusable item in the back of a closet. Main PCs can be replaced with generic ones, talk to a rigger. Handles can also be substituted. The real thing to be concerned about is if you lose your reserve PC and freebag. Those are container specific.

A long time ago in a college level English Composition class, we had an exercise in this sort of critical thinking. This was just before the 'turn of the century' (98 or 99), so Google wasn't an option. We were given an article from a tabloid (Weekly World News?) and asked to pick it apart. It was full of glaring errors, and most of the class spotted most of them. I impressed the teacher somewhat when I pointed out that the article referenced Antarctica, and said something to the effect of 'the article says they have to leave in October, because of the coming winter. Southern hemisphere has spring in October.' Nobody else had noticed that one. My parents taught me to analyze and critically examine stuff like that. It's a handy skill that is VERY lacking. The number of people that fell for Trump and all his bullshit is a clear example of that. The number of people that fell for (and continue to believe) his "Fake News!!!!" garbage is both frightening and depressing.