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Unfortunately, the dumb sonofabitch could kill someone on 5th Avenue, get a life sentence, and STILL get elected. The only shot is to invoke the 14th Amendment. It does not require conviction for insurrection, just participation, and he's disqualified for holding any office. Having said that, it would be nice to see him in the slammer. BSBD, Winsor

Ok, I feel bad for that mistake so I will post something new from my files... This is a redacted letter that I was able to get unredacted... WHY was it redacted?? and it has elements/themes that were in Gunther's book.. it may have been written by "Clara"... or Cooper himself.. gave her $5000 cash... close to TBAR amount?? The letter isn't written as fact.. but to claim Cooper was dead and he was a good guy.. just like the Gunther narrative which was published much later. This letter is fascinating because of the redactions and similarity to Gunther's book, I can't see some rando writing this. It was mailed Sept 72.

The expression comes to mind, "If all you have is a hammer, soon everything begins to look like a nail." If the money were recovered a week later, and a little bit was missing, people would assume the guy who stole it had what was missing. No one in the public would assume a flight attendant whose name they wouldn't have known and whose story was completely unfamiliar to them, must therefore have the missing money. The FBI might wonder, but they are not taking their tips and information from blurbs in the Bucks County newspaper. They already had her statement, and knew where to get more. There was no reason to assume more wouldn't be missing, whenever it was found. We only know that because we live in the future, when Tena Bar has occurred and involved a number that starts with 5. For them, in real time, any amount might have been recovered, from 0 to 200,000. Or some might have been recovered one day and some another. And so on. They didn't know that one day we'd be here looking back at no other money found save the number that starts with 5. Her FBI agent brother-in-law would not devise some elaborate plan to help his sister in law steal $5000 ransom money from a hijacking she was involved it--at least not one that names her and suggests she might have been offered that exact amount of money. If anything, he would be the one urging her to give it back. And if he did devise one, it would have been internal to shield her from investigation, not external to control what nice old Margie Johnson from down the block thinks. This whole proposal is quite contrived and fanciful. It's fine to ponder it, but I wouldn't advance it as anything more meaningful than science fiction. There are a host of far simpler, more ordinary explanations for this very normal little nothing-burger of a local-newspaper blurb. You have to really be looking for conspiracies to find this even vaguely credible.

Creationists are up there with genuine flat earthers as a special kind of stupid. (I distinguish "Genuine" flat earthers here - I'm pretty sure most flat earthers MUST be taking the piss for shits and giggles)

I must admit, the greater theory of Tina's potential involvement in the skyjacking, in particular the Tina Bar money, is very intriguing. Frankly, it's hard to ignore. As to your narrative, if I am sitting on your jury, the FBI agent brother in law, her living in proximity to Tina Bar, and her general recluse/mysterious behavior all feel like the "dog" of that narrative. Whereas the tiny news article and its timing feels like the "tail" (at best). Just offering some outside perspective.

Hi folks, There is an old saying about, 'He can do anything you want with the ball except autograph it.' That alludes that he is a gifted athlete but too stupid to be able to write his name. Here is my nomination for this 'prize': Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) => refusing to denounce white supremacism as a racist ideology Tuberville Claimed White Nationalists Aren’t Racists Enough Times That GOPers Had To Say Something (msn.com) What a complete & total idiot. Jerry Baumchen

Also this wasn’t exactly a highly read paper. The Mucklow blurb was in between mention of someone who had a broken ankle, and a dog that fell into a pool.

I think this story would have created the expectation of finding Cooper with the full $200k, and thus created the opposite effect of diverting attention away from Tina (or other crew members) if less than $200k was found. If one was properly "front-running" the expectation of finding Cooper's body with less than the full $200k, wouldn’t it have made more sense to create a plausible cover story and explanation? "Tina Mucklow saw Cooper haphazardly attach the money bundles to his person before jumping from the plane, and sources say they would be surprised if most or any of it stayed attached on his descent."

interesting to see what people think of as "the worst case" that is worth trying to prepare for. My off the cuff categories: Level1: a prolonged recession Level2: an orderly breakdown of basic supply chains / rationing / hoarding Level3: civil unrest / breakdown of society / civil war Level4: zombies Level5: a massive meteor strike / global nuclear war I only worry about 1, meaning I try to be conservative with my saving for the future. Edit: Climate change factors in here somewhere. I live in Michigan which is a good choice as any for dealing with it IMHO.

The impetus of this thread was a fatality of a very skilled and accomplished canopy pilot. We can agree that many (most) of the injuries and deaths are people who watch the accomplished canopy pilots and rush and/or skip steps to do high performance landings. AND THAT’S THE PROBLEM. There are a lot of people who minimize the risk involved in high performance landings which leads some people go into it without recognizing how little margin of error one has. Further, the very accomplished canopy pilots have a financial incentive to allow/encourage people to rush and/or skip steps. It is extremely rare for a canopy coach or school to tell people they aren’t ready for the course they just signed up for or to have a very difficult conversation about their canopy progression choices. Too many people think they are doing the homework and have a false sense of security because “They took a couple canopy courses with a world champion” and then fly themselves into the ground.

Then please tell us how to take the many injuries and fatalities out of swooping. Imagine you operate a DZ where your 90% who are eventually injured learn to jump. How would you organize things? What criteria would you use to say yes to one and no to another? How much energy and what percent of your time would you think is right to spend on managing the desires of swoopers compared to the rest of your business?

Skydiving is not safe. Risks can be managed, but it’s not safe, because shit happens, and it’s more likely that shit happening during skydiving will hurt you than in many (most for most of us) activities. Swooping is even less safe, but risks can also be managed there. That includes education, good choices in canopy, and good choices in when and where to swoop. Probably a lot more than that, but I don’t swoop. Wendy P.

and if you take students, swoopers, and old people out of the equation, then skydiving in general is very safe. unrealistic but safe. of course that's not how we do things but by all means adjust the data to fit your preconceived notions.

By your logic, because Sean Chuma has more than 7,000 BASE jumps and hasn’t died, BASE jumping is very safe, right? Swooping is not very safe and that attitude is what has kept it the number one killer and number one cause of serious injuries year over year. You think the intentional low turn injuries and deaths are only stupid people with no common sense or training?

I mean there are well known researchers in this case that think that a guy in Pittsburgh read about the floods in the Columbia, flew out to Portland, drove to Tena Bar at night, and dug through the sand for stolen loot in 3 feet of water by moonlight. Other well known researchers believe that the crew of 305 ignored their prescribed flight path and flew from the Malay Intersection directly to the Canby Intersection without ATC knowing or caring, and then the entire military-security apparatus of the United States either overlooked this fact or actively covered it up for reasons unknown. So, if you think Mucklow's brother-in-law caused the suspension of a ground search to protect his sister-in-law from prosecution for accepting $6000 under duress, then I guess you are in good company. Carry on.

At least President Biden was able to see through the poor advice from the naysayers and overrule them.