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FBI responded positively to my FOIA about the hair slide's location and said they'd look for it again. It has a very clear evidentiary tag (PC-H3225), so maybe it somehow ended up in a pile of random miscellaneous evidence at the crime lab or something. Worth a shot.

Uhmm, yeah not really. Claim: farm in Guatemala claims coffee production in peril due to climate change Observation: global coffee production is up, specifically in Brazil and Vietnam. Brenthutch: see there can't be a problem in Guatamala.

. . . at which point they just blame Biden and call it a day.

Lyndon Baines Johnson (D) Assumed office November 1963: $5 billion deficit Left office January 1969: $3 billion surplus Reduced the deficit by $8 billion Richard Nixon (R) Assumed office January 1969: $3 billion surplus Left office August 1974: $6 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $9 billion Gerald Ford (R) Assumed office August 1974: $6 billion deficit Left office January 1977: $54 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $48 billion Jimmy Carter (D) Assumed office January 1977: $54 billion deficit Left office January 1981: $79 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $25 billion Ronald Reagan (R) Assumed office January 1981: $79 billion deficit Left office January 1989: $153 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $74 billion George H.W Bush (R) Assumed office January 1989: $153 billion deficit Left office January 1993: $255 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $102 billion Bill Clinton (D) Assumed office January 1993: $255 billion deficit Left office January 2001: $128 billion surplus Reduced the deficit by $383 billion George W. Bush (R) Assumed office January 2001: $128 billion surplus Left office January 2009: $1.4 trillion deficit Increased the deficit by $1.5 trillion Barack Obama (D) Assumed office January 2009: $1.4 trillion deficit Left office January 2017: $665 billion deficit Reduced the deficit by $735 billion Donald Trump (R) Assumed office January 2017: $665 billion deficit Left office January 2020: $3.7 trillion deficit Increased the deficit by $3 trillion Joe Biden (D) Assumed office January 2021: $3.7 trillion deficit Fiscal year 2022: $2.775 trillion deficit Fiscal year 2023: $1.376 trillion deficit Reduced the deficit by $2.3 trillion (so far) So in the past 60 years, only one Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, had a larger budget deficit in his last year in office than he inherited from his predecessor. All six Republican presidents had larger deficits in their last budgets than they were handed at the start of their term. And yet so many gullible voters have swallowed the GOP line that it's the Democrats who are spendthrifts, the basis for McCarthy's current threat to refuse to pay the nation's bills -- something Republicans never did as Trump was adding $8 trillion to the national debt in just four years. Hypocrites!

Yep -- this. Trying to see all sides of the issue. That's why I love our sport. We know every BODY is different, and you just have to learn how to fly yours. :)

And weather is impacted by climate. It was followed by record breaking precipitation. One of the effects of climate change is weather patterns that swing from extreme to extreme.

More to the point is that BH can still afford all the coffee he wants so it just doesn't matter.

Hi folks, Here is a non-paywall version: Opinion | Bragg spells out statutes that bump up Trump's charges - The Washington Post (archive.ph) Jerry Baumchen

I made a wedge out of 1” floor foam that has worked wonderfully for the past two years. I’m able to use a wrist altimeter mount on the chest strap or the wrist. I just used hot glue and a knife.

Swine!...... Keep your hands off Canada's F-18s. Seriously, Canada will need them because of liberal government bungling, feet dragging and politics. As you may be aware of.Canada has a long history of buying old equipment from allies. "Most Canadians know the sad story of Canada's second-hand submarines. Purchased from Britain in 1998 for a suspiciously low price, the four vessels have spent most of the last fifteen years being refitted and repaired." Word had it is that the UK laughed and laughed that Canadian admirals were so dumb,Its politicians so .gullible. Then Canada bought other used F-18s from Australia. But because of Canadian government bungling and delays Canada won't receive its first F-35 until 2026 and its last F-35 until 2034. So Canada will likely end up with them. In 2016 Canada's F-18s had already reached the end of their service lives with most having 7000 hours. and a useful life of 8000 hours. But we do have $10 daycare now

Accounting errors! The most popular topic in Russian military circles for why fuel, ammo, tanks and jets can't be found on any bases.

This is it, in a nutshell. Asshole. There are plenty of them. Wendy P.

I didn't know what acid was until joining the Navy. The mail clerk in boot camp had it mailed to him, tucked under the stamps on letters. I still can't imagine tripping while in boot camp.

In my late teens, I knew a guy who like to take an acid trip on the weekends. One Monday evening he was coming down from a trip, and came to the realization that earlier that day (while still under the influence), he had visited the local recruiting office and made preparations to sign up for the army. That scared him so bad, that he swore off of acid.

The last paragraph of Heather Cox Richardson's letter last night is fascinating: Interestingly, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has indicated he’s on board with the idea of Biden invoking the Fourteenth Amendment. “I think if I were president, I would be tempted” to use the Fourteenth Amendment, Hawley said. “Because I would just be like, ‘Listen, I’m not gonna let us default. So end of story. Y’all will do whatever you want to do.’ But I’m not necessarily giving him that advice. It’s against my interest.” Hawley’s defense of the idea suggests that Republicans are eager to find a solution to the crisis that does not involve them, so that they can then condemn the Democrats for whatever they do. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-17-2023

Those on hallucinogens often report hearing voices speaking to them out of nowhere.

I have heard "oh god" and "oh god yes" screamed once or twice. Does that count as a religious experience?

Not really related to your post, But damn I miss Larry. He was a good person.

It has been a while hasn't it. Between Covid, some changes on my end, as well as some projects that I could not turn down, progress has been slower then I wanted. I have been laying low on DZ.com as a result. There has been a lot of progress, but all the public cares about is a release date lol.. I was live fire jump testing last summer and will restart test jumps in a couple of weeks, it is still cold here and then there is life lol. I was not able to get to PIA this cycle so I was planning on an up date here. One new thing that I am thinking about is taking the Blue Tooth that the Military AAD has and adding it to the Sport Tandem AAD so it could notify the DZ management if a Tandem Instructor pulls low or turns more then 90 degrees on final; this in an attempt to reduce the number of tandem incidents. Of the two, the low pull is really the only alert that makes sense to alert management of, as anyone who has been jumping for any amount of time knows that 180 hooks a standard tandem landing pattern, and why alert management of something that they see happen all day long lol.. Now I imagine that such an alert would get a lot of push back from TIs, but, buss and truck drivers pushed back when GPS monitoring was introduced and now it is normal. Bottom line is, if you are doing what you are supposed to then there is nothing to worry about. An AAD is not a product that should be rushed in my opinion. This AAD does things the current AADs just can't do, and there is a lot to consider and test to reach the reliability and confidence level that want.. I am really excited and proud of what my team and I are creating.

If you would read between the lines you'd understand that the point was that stating that increasing immediate costs to individuals, be they Democrats, Independents, Aardvarks, or Mifflin County Gun Toters was likely to directly affect opinions and polls was a silly point. We know that. That's why long term planning that accounts for that inevitability is crucial. Think of it like this: you wouldn't go snipe hunting without your stick and bag, right? Same thing, sort of.

I disagree. To the average person of reasonable intellect looking at skydiving, it is readily apparent what the potential outcomes might be. Indeed, many whuffos regard skydiving as more dangerous than it actually is. Watching a swoop landing, it is blatantly apparent that it is low, it's fast, and if someone screws it up it's going to be ugly. To regard these people as innocent deer-in-the-headlight types who have no clue what they might see is an insult to the intelligence of the general population.