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As ever, you are projecting. Your ethos is getting yours whilst the getting is good. The idea that someone might act in a manner that is in some degree adverse to their situation is anathema to your world view. Tobacco stocks are winners historically but I wouldn’t own a share, would you? Do you or have you? Same with your gun addiction. There could never be too many school shootings or any other societal offense to where you’d give an inch. And it’s not because of a strongly held constitutional principle, no matter your claims to the contrary. It’s because you like your guns and what is good for you is what is most important. It’s how you roll. Others roll differently but for you it’s just another unintelligible language you never took time to understand.

You said that since the word "democracy" doesn't appear in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, that the US was not a democracy. I pointed out that since the word "gun" doesn't appear in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, you have no right to own a gun. And you see no similarity between those two arguments. With mental skills like that, you should be running for a spot on your local republican legislature.

I think that's a different thread. :)

Well, as an outsider looking in, I would say that for a non democracy you guys sure make a big deal out of your elections.

But I don't think he would fit in there, now that we have just learned even the Fox talking heads aren't dumb enough to believe their own bullshit.

The FBI discussed making a profile sketch of Cooper,, they should have the front perspective sketches are so limiting... look at these oddball profiles..

I hate RIP comments,, but Sluggo Wayne Walker did well to reignite the Cooper case with his informative website...

Interesting stuff there,, the caveat is of course we can't prove the source of any of the letter's but several of them are unique and IMO may be from the hijacker or an associate. For the coded letter, the FBI files note that they also have the unique code for the Seattle letter but they don't reveal it. The codes are to uniquely identify the sender later, to claim credit or extort money, if not the real Cooper the only reason a hoaxer would use unique codes would be to extort money somehow.. but communication never continued for some reason. Similar to Gunther, Cooper/hoaxer dropped off.. The codes had to be something the sender would know or remember, not an intentional imbedding of their identification. I just found an obscure match to the first code, it could be random but the odds are massive, the second one looks like an MGRS code which matches a location in Laos which is close phonetically to Los Angeles.. a long shot but still working on that one. The hand written letter(s) about Cooper dying was the one I got un-redacted and it is amazing.. I believe it was written by the "Carla" who contacted Gunther.. either Cooper/associate or the hoaxers.. that letter matches the tone and purpose of Carla's communication with Gunther. To claim Cooper was dead and he was really a good guy.. that doesn't sound like something a hoaxer would write, it sounds like a close advocate for the real Cooper. The Jacksonville letter is one that I think is very interesting as well and might be Cooper, I found some things in the letter that are very interesting. I can't reveal the stuff I found yet.. I am trying to put together a comprehensive report.

I'd say MOST of the poor are responsible people who just don't have the right combination of opportunity/drive/intelligence/color/sex/education/family support to succeed. However a lot of them are drug addicts (including alcohol) and there is a significant overlap between those two. Thus if your goal is to just give people money and stimulate the economy, UBI is a good way to do it. If you want to make sure that those resources have as much positive benefit as possible (and as little negative benefit as possible) I think a different approach would be wise.

Yes agree. It has to be like an Alcohol Anonymous approach. Because people have to decide they want to move in a certain direction. You can't ram it down anybody's throat. But solutions for most problems should be available. Even if its providing free tattoo school for someone. Just as an example. But such freedom of action and the cash behind it is hard to authorize.

When tax cuts are given out to wealthy Americans, do politicians worry that those people will waste the money? Or do they just let the free market decide how the money will be spent.

Last week I sat in at USPA Examiner Standardization Meeting immediately after the Parachute Industry Symposium in Reno, Nevada. The room was pretty "heavy" with UPT Sigma Examiners, but I seemed to be the only Strong Tandem Instructor Examiner in the room. Civilians still need a minimum of 500 jumps, 3 years in the sport, USPA Coach rating, etc. before they can attend a Sigma Instructor Certification Course. However, the US military is training military tandem instructors with as few as 200 solo jumps. I first heard of the practice with Alaska Air National Guard search and rescue jumpers jumping with tandem bundles 20 years ago. Mind you, the military has a mentoring program to get their skills up to speed before the Tandem Instructor Certification Course. IOW prospective military tandem instructors must complete a series of exercises before ... I suspect that "200 jump wonders" are restricted to jumping with 500 pound bundles for "X" number of jumps before they are allowed to jump with humans strapped to their chest. The USPA meeting also emphasized the importance of mentoring junior tandem instructors during the first 150 jumps after they earn their ratings because it can take up to 150 jumps before they develop their own "flow" and get comfortable in the tandem instructor's harness. It looks like the good-old-days of simply assigning a TI rating, then sending them off to work alone are falling out of fashion. One advantage these days is the proliferation of video which makes monitoring TIs in Fiji much easier. The disadvantage is that examiners don't have to travel to Fiji for a week. Hah! Hah! May I suggest that you contact my old friend: Niklas Gummeson in California (Gummeson Consulting, niklasgummeson@yahoo.com, telephone 386-848-8547)? I have known Niklas for 30 years and our paths have crossed many times. Niklas is a Sigma Examiner often trains military tandem instructors in both the wind tunnel and freefall? UPT can probably recommend another half-dozen Sigma Examiners who also train soldiers how to jump with tandem bundles. Does that answer your question?

Thanks. Talked to two Portland agents today - They want to see these pages ... but, a former friend of H says he remembers the 'situation' involving the CB guys. He thinks it got referred to Seattle? .... 'H always felt Cooper had landed close to the Washougal and went that direction to follow the roads south. When money was found a year later on the Columbia the Washougal came up again! Ralph grinned... '

D1120 is in fact my expert license number, issued 1965 by the PCA.

I don’t need my beliefs reinforced, I need them challenged. That is why I listen/watch left wing sources. Why do you think I post here? It is certainly not for reaffirmation. Regrettably, the preponderance of challenge I receive in this forum is ad hominem.