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I'd give Jared some credit if he actually came up with the compromise, but he didn't. I will however note that you are clearly fine with peddling intelligence information for personal gain, just as long as something else positive also happens. Once again, you are showing that this is political for you and has nothing to do with National Security.

Yes, just like Jared Kushner not being able to pass a security clearance investigation and Trump giving him one anyways should have concerned people. But you were silent at the time. You were also silent when MBS specifically stated Jared Kushner gave him intelligence information that allowed him to lock up those who didn't agree with him. Jared Kushner has since been given $2 billion dollars. You were all silent throughout this. So, we know you don't really care about Hunter's laptop, or maybe Joe giving information to Hunter. You care about scoring political points. If you cared about the actual issues, you would have spoken up about many more things.....

Back to the topic of M&M's, this is hilarious! (Be sure to watch to the end)

Voting is mandatory in some Scandinavian countries ... I forget which. They treat voting the same way they treat jury duty. Personally ... I believe that if you don't vote, you should be forbidden to criticize any politician that does get elected. You had an opportunity to say your piece on electing day.

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Somebody at the old Royal Crown would have had to sign for the money so there is a Court record. That names someone at RC. One idea is to ask the Justice Dept to refile and determine what happened to the bills, but the chance of that happening right now is slim to none. At the time Royal Crown was a London based company. Likewise Christies. One rumor is that someone at RC made an inquiry with an official at Christies New York office about auctioning the money. We also believe Tosaw continued to try and follow the Royal Crown money after the Court case with the thought of acquiring it. Tosaw was dealing with named people at RC NYC. Tosaw's family may have those records? I think somebody is sitting on that money today. The WSHM didnt appear interested in exploring any of this - in fact there is almost no evidence that anyone along the way has had a 'forensic' interest in the Cooper money, except for myself and Tom Kaye, in spite of the fact that the money may establish key markers in what happened after Cooper left the plane. The bills were given and shipped to RC from Portland in FBI evidence folders, just like the Ingram bills. So its not just bills and fragments of bills, but also Tena Bar debris in those folders. Enough to make a forensic person's eyes open wide. Today, it is standard practice to do mass spectroscopy and isotope analysis on evidence of this kind. So far as I know that has never been done with the Ingram money, by anyone. It is still not too late!

That ALL depends on who you are and what you look like.

People should be asking questions about the Durham investigation. Such as why wasn't a declination memo issued for the criminal investigation Durham led into Trump. The law for Special Prosecutors states such a declination memo has to be written. When spillage occurs, the DOJ does a threat assessment. I am sure such a threat assessment is currently ongoing. I am also sure that if such a threat has immediate national security concerns, congress will be briefed as has pretty much always been the case. The fact you are only focusing on Hunter Biden shows enough I think.

Joe beat me to it, while I was composing this. I'm going to guess it's something along the lines of 'how not to antagonize a cop during a traffic stop'. It's something a LOT of people are not super aware of. My ex-wife came home from work one night (she worked 2nd shift, finished at 11), rather pissed off. She had gotten pulled over, and as the cop got up to her window, she reached into her purse for her wallet. The cop didn't like the quick movement towards a 'hidden area' (inside the purse) and yelled at her to 'keep your hands where I can see them'. She didn't like that he yelled at her. I tried to explain that: 1 - Traffic stops are the 2nd most dangerous thing for a cop to do (responding to a domestic disturbance is 1st). 2 - He has no clue who she is or what she may have done in the last 5 minutes that would make her desperate enough to try to harm him. Yes, running the plate gives the owner's name, but what if she had recently stolen the car, and used it in an armed robbery that hadn't been reported yet because nobody had found the body of the convenience store clerk yet. Not super likely, but it's happened more than once. She wasn't super happy with that explanation, but said she'd hold still if she got pulled over again. Turned out she had a headlight out. No big deal. The last time I got pulled over (headlight), I did a few of the 'standard good behavior' things. Turned off the main street with no parking onto a side street where there's less traffic. Turned on my interior lights (it was after dark) so the cop could easily see that I was alone in the car. Didn't dig anything out between stopping and her coming up to the window (cops don't like to see 'furtive movement' when they are walking up). When asked for my license, said it was in my back pocket and asked permission to reach for it. When asked for registration and proof of insurance, said it was in the glove box and asked for permission to reach for it. In both cases, even with permission to reach, moved slowly & deliberately. When I opened the glove box, I pushed the button and let if fall open, waiting a second for her to be able to see before I reached into it. All of this is standard "How Not To Appear To Be A Threat". But not everyone knows it.

They caught him in the middle of relating his story about standing outside the bathroom telling his thanksgiving joke to Tina and Cooper. So he was “standing” the equivalent of a row behind Cooper. https://patch.com/california/livermore/livermore-man-recaps-encounter-with-db-cooper “Almstad would later get up to use the men's restroom. The lavatory was occupied and there was a man and stewardess sitting nearby," Almstad said. "I said, 'Well if we stay long enough we can have Thanksgiving dinner up here.' " The man, who he believes was D.B. Cooper, turned back and smiled at him.“

Is this the same DZO that you were posting about in the Women Only forum? Sounds like you've got an axe to grind**** ****If the allegations you made in Women Only are true, than fuck that motherfuck right to hell.

Her/She bar. I just had one a while ago and now I feel a little ....... smug?

I wasn't expressing an idea of Cooper. I was merely saying that just because someone doesn't come off as a badass doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't one. In fact, my observational experience is often the opposite. People who come off as badasses are often projecting insecurity, they have a need to be perceived as such. The people who truly are badasses don't really need other people to know. People will find out if and when they need to, and as or more often that's when they're saving someone's ass as opposed to kicking it.

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Hi Ken, I went to work for the federal gov't. in 1969. I was hired, worked & retired under the Civil Service Retirement System ( CSRS ). During Pres. Reagan's first term in office, Congress passed legislation for a replacement system, the Federal Employees Retirement System ( FERS ). All new hires were under FERS. Both CSRS & FERS employees worked along side of each other without any problems. I suggest that these local gov'ts do the same; new hires under a new system with no union recognized. The existing employees get to keep their union representation. Eventually, the cities, counties, and states will gain control over their employees. Jerry Baumchen

This interview with passenger William J. Murphy is just great. FullSizeRender.MOV

Compelling people to vote could be as simple as a $100 refundable tax credit given to anyone who does.

Right. How many of the 'Back the Blue' or "Blue Lives MATTER!!!" crowd are willing to pay higher taxes? I just paid my annual property taxes last week. The Assistant City Clerk is a friend, and she and I always chat just a bit. She sort of complains how unhappy people are to pay the taxes, and she always laughs when I'm not. I've always said: My garbage gets picked up every week. The snow is plowed. And, most importantly, if I dial 911, the cops & fire trucks are there in about 3 minutes. That stuff costs money. I wouldn't be thrilled to pay more, but if necessary, I'd be willing. I guess that makes me one of those dirty 'Socialists'.

Absolutely right. Body Cams were supposed to be the solution, instead they have become entertainment for asshole cops who know they can get a pass from their unions. This shit will never stop until our police can be fired that day for recorded on camera offenses. No paid leave, no early retirement, no none of the bullshit that exists now. That all means that they can then be charged. Our Police do not need to be defunded, they need to be defanged.

The Justice Department has a long standing policy not to release non-public information to congress on pending or active investigations unless they pertain to National Security. I believe your constitution says something about separations of powers between the 3 branches of government? Why is it that people like you seem to only understand you get to have guns, misunderstand the free speech part and know nothing else about your constitution?

I think Tom looked for band pieces but wasnt successful. I asked Brian to examine his evidence folders and describe what (debris) he was seeing. Has anyone examined his folders? The FBI has its folders. Then there are the bills (in evidence folders) awarded to Royal Crown Insurance. Those folders/bills were shipped off to Royal Crown in NYC by the company's attorney in Portland. Nobody has any idea what happened to them or where the bills and folders would be today. A numismatist-dealer tried to collect as many Cooper bills as he could locate, several years ago. Then it turned out the collector-dealer wasnt even aware of the Cooper money Court settlement - so I sent him a copy. I havent talked to that person in several years. I dont know if he made any progress tracking the Royal Crown bills/folders ... I guess its time to get an update on that if possible.

Bill, I generally tend to agree with most of what you post on here, including the general point of this post. That said, I think the above is a bit of a misrepresentation of what she posted. It seems like she’s taken a disproportionate amount of shit for one post she made about what was an undoubtedly traumatic experience.

I have an XM radio in the car, and the other day I heard "I don't like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats playing on First Wave, a station dedicated to the new wave of the 80s and 90s. Bob Geldorf wrote the song about a mass shooting in San Diego where a 16 year old girl shot up a school, killing 2 and wounding 9. (I was in New York at the time.) The song hit #1 in the UK for a few weeks and made it onto the charts here in the US as well. The song was so popular, I think, because it summed up everyone's shock at the shooting. A 16 year old girl took a .22 rifle her father had given her and just started shooting. What stopped her was the police parking a garbage truck in front of her house. After she was arrested (by being offered some Burger King) she said the reason was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." All the signs we now consider usual were there. Alcoholic father, some brain damage, evaluated for both depression and as a suicide risk, caught several times shooting out school windows and shooting squirrels in her neighborhood. She expressed hatred for cops and talked about doing something big to get on TV. Then one day she started shooting. Bob Geldorf was doing an interview in a newsroom in Atlanta and was next to the teletype machine when the story emerged. He stopped the interview and read it, being shocked at the shooter's answer to a reporter's question - "I don't like Mondays." And that experience became the song. And of course one of the reasons it became so popular is that almost never happened back then; it really shocked people. It was a once-a-year, at most, occurrence. Nowadays it's just Tuesday. A big part of this, of course, is the availability of guns. There are no hard stats on how many guns there are in the US for obvious reasons, but while the US was making and selling about 3 million guns a year in the 1980's, in 2021 that number was up to 13 million a year. Best estimates put the number of guns as greater than the number of adults in the US. And when there are more guns around, a kid who snaps is going to have a much easier time getting one and shooting up the local school (or gay bar, or synagogue etc.) So why are there so many guns? A big part of this, of course, is the gun industry, which like every other industry tries to sell more of their product. But another big part is how the right has adopted gun fear as a political tool. Democrats will take away your guns, so buy more. The country is going to hell because of those democrats, so buy more. SHTF so buy more. Hillary Clinton runs a child sex ring under a pizza parlor in Washington, DC so you better get a gun and save them! Live near the border? MS13! Get more guns! Like your gun? Now you can Stand Your Ground(tm) against those evildoers! The gun industry understands and welcomes this. Ten years ago Ruger agreed to donate $1 to the GOP for every gun they sold. So if the GOP wanted to make their fundraising targets, they had to push that fear for all it was worth. And it has worked. We now have a society so fearful that many people feel they need guns just to survive. A poster here feels she needs a gun in her shower to defend herself. And as a result, guns are readily available for the taking for anyone who feels like shooting up a school. Sure, sometimes they have to get them from a parent or a friend, but that has posed no problems in the past - and that is getting progressively easier as time goes on. This is, unfortunately, just going to get worse. Now that a political party has associated their party's platform with guns, half the politicians in the country are going to be pushing for more guns with fewer controls and less oversight. And if the problem does get worse? That WORKS for both republicans and gun manufacturers - the more people get shot in schools, the more people will be afraid, and the more people will translate that fear into a $799 AR-15 and a vote for a pro-gun republican. To protect themselves, of course, from another shooter with an AR-15 - wouldn't want to be outgunned! We really are getting closer and closer to the Ameristan that Neal Stephenson described in Fall. I wish there was a way to turn this around, but I just don't see it.

?? Uh, the 42 year old violent extremist overpowered the unprepared 82 year old? Do you really consider that confusing or odd?