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I literally just quoted you claiming he had made a different choice. The second thing does not imply the first. How long is it supposed to take to thoroughly search an entire house containing documents accumulated from 50 years of government work?

Did your mother ever tell you where babies come from? Deficits are just like babies, we know where they come from and how to prevent them.

The greatest fear of all conservatives is that they will be treated like they treated minorities, women and gay people.

Well, it does have an ethically challenged senior senator.

"Time to reinvent the SC" I don't see anything wrong with South Carolina.

I heard a great description of this recently - the Two Santas. From FDR's time on, democrats have led the charge for social programs. From the Civilian Conservation Corps to Social Security to welfare reform to the ACA, democrats have been the ones pushing for government jobs/support/development programs. Republicans initially tried to portray all of this as evil socialism (and still do, actually.) Here on this forum we even see far-right Trump supporters like Ron supporting Social Security and Medicare because they benefit him directly. Republicans realized that the public started seeing democrats as Santa Claus and republicans as Scrooge, trying to ruin Christmas by taking away Tiny Tim's crutches. So rather than try to compete with them on social programs, republicans tried to be a different kind of Santa. They threw their support behind programs that support big business (so they could be a Santa to someone else) and tried to woo people with tax cuts. That way they could portray democrats as the real Scrooges, reaching into people's pockets to pay for this or that evil government program. And of course the battle to be Santa continues to this day.

There is only one US party that continues to push tax cuts for the wealthy despite evidence going back decades that they lead to increased deficits. And Trump compounded that with his grossly incompetent handling of the pandemic. And that, in a nutshell, is why billvon's statement is correct.

Hey, not everyone swooping a pond is a professional. (Pond availability varies a lot. Can be quite rare, but not always just at the 'super big DZ's full of pro swoopers'). Always good to know what the latest tech is and that includes waterproof status.

Right, I saw Arkansas at the top of the 302 and assumed Flo..

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.

The rubber band lifetime chemical history began the day they were made. Then shipped to bank. Bank uses them eventually for the Cooper bundles. Band chemistry continues to unfold based on environmental factors, starting Nov 24 to Feb 1980 and discovery. Those band fragments detail that history ........ can be analysed! Fifty years later that history is probably frozen in time ......... sitting in someone's evidence folder. I tried to explain that to Ingram but he didnt seem to understand or care. I dont know - maybe he would have responded differently to Tom Kaye. Then we believe Jerry Thomas intervened and told Ingram to have nothing to do with us ... or Tom Kaye! ....... we did all we could do commensurate with people's feelings and wishes ... they held all the cards. Nothing else we could do. So here we are today and people still dont comprehend that the rubber band fragments could be one key in this case! You do what you can do and move on . . . its like looking for water in a dessert!

You're just guessing. You have no evidence. There is no evidence because the forensic people handling this case dont have the faintest idea what "evidence" would be! So they look at the obvious and nothing more. That leads to more guessing. What this case needs is a forensic person who knows what he or she is doing, and actual evidence to examine! Fifty years later that is asking for the Moon! All that is left is politics from the various players who have staked claims on the case supported by the Media. Its a dance of fools. There is no direction in the case. Only gridlock and victims and podcasts. For example, rubber band chemistry is completely independent of all theories about this case. But no effort was ever made to find and examine rubber band fragments. That is one of the first things TK should have done! The state of the rubber bands is directly tied to the money's history along well defined parameters. That has always been known and a fact ignored, in this case. Any forensic person could have told FBI agents that! There are other markers in this case that were ignored and continue to be ignored. This case was ready made for the theory makers. So that is what we have today, endless theory making. Its a dead end that only has orphans!

Another year gone by. We remember.