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No judge or clerk for a judge should be accepting money from lawyers. If they cannot see the perception problem with that, they probably aren't smart enough to be a SCoTUS Justice.

Thomas likes checks, but he prefers Venmo.

Your constitution has the same problem communism has. The idea is alright, but greed/lust for power will eventually ruin it all.

I deny that there is any longer such a thing. Anyone who votes GOP is, ipso facto, supporting Tuberville, MTG, etc. and the other loonies since they have the Speaker by the balls.

Possible it was misread. But that’s exactly how Cary Grant communicated in North by Northwest.

Johnny Crews of the Pelican Skydivers Passed away quietly on the morning of July 9, 2023 Another true pioneer of Sport Parachuting, an original member and founder of the Pelican Skydivers when the club originated in Manassas Virginia and later moved to Ridgely Maryland. Survived by his wife Sandy Amundson.

Didn't Thomas rule digital or cash only vacations, homes, etc. are too traceable

Odd to have written notes on a matchbook. That's an incredibly awkward thing to do. Just write on a magazine or something else. I'm honestly not sure if I believe that. I think that may be an agent reading Rat's statement and conflating things together for that summary because Rat mentions the matchbook and Cooper's notes in back to back sentences. That doesn't appear in any testimony nor does it appear anywhere else in the files. Also, I don't believe Tina ever went to the cockpit once she took Flo's place. What would need to be written on a matchbook? She communicated everything through the interphone.

This talk about the Bible got me thinking. If God created the universe, where was he when he created it. There must have been somewhere else he was hanging out. Was he in his condo or on the beach with Snoop Dog drinking a Corona. It says he created it in 6 days. Well if there was no earth rotating on it's axis and revolving around the sun, how could there be any days. It says after the 6 days, he rested on the 7th. I know Saturday and Sunday are considered the weekend but the calendar has Sunday at the beginning of the week. Who ever wrote the Bible must not have had an editor because a lot of other things don't make much sense either.

We agree I also think he obfuscated his prints.. In the FBI files..

Money is speech. SCOTUS says so (Citizens United).

You just need more Latin.

Then all bets are off. To me they read like off-the-rack fan-fiction. (I.e., the work of randos who who just wanted to borrow a little glory from a thing in the news.)

See: " Technically, the block isn’t a block. It’s more of a delay that forces extra votes for each nominee. So Schumer could get around Tuberville’s hold by filing cloture and cutting off debate on each nominee, which requires an extra procedural vote and more floor time. This is the case with virtually all of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees and most senior picks. Tuberville himself has noted that he’s really just forcing the Senate to take roll call votes. So if the Pentagon is facing vacancies at its highest levels in the coming months as members of the Joint Chiefs retire — and their replacements face confirmation — Schumer could file cloture and schedule some one-by-one votes to avoid gaps at DoD. The problem: Despite his argument, the Senate can’t realistically vote on each of the hundreds of general and flag officer promotions expected this year, or it would have time for nothing else. Filing cloture on a military promotion is also a cave that Schumer would likely want to avoid, as it would allow Tuberville to claim validation that he isn’t truly blocking anyone’s confirmation despite the impracticality of holding votes on so many nominees. And it would have the effect of politicizing promotions, Punaro argued, normalizing delaying them for partisan gain. “The minute we just do the first cloture for a military nomination, we have now turned military nominations into federal judges,” Punaro said. “We will never get it back. We will totally politicize the military.”" From: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/22/tuberville-pentagon-nominees-blockade-00098130

I'm not sure I see a criminal being as studious as Cooper was about not leaving evidence behind then turning around and writing a letter. Post-crime letter writing is generally reserved for a select few sociopaths. It's serial killer type crap.

Not just promotions. Appointments too. One significant example is that the Marine Corps has no Commandant. For the first time ever, the former Commandant stepped down (as required) with no successor confirmed. Tuberville's idiotic obstinance is seriously degrading the military's effectiveness. A growing number of important leadership positions (important enough to require Senate confirmation of nominees) are unfilled. They have 'acting' heads. Who are constrained in a variety of ways from properly performing the duties of the position. So much for the Rs 'supporting the military'.

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.

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.

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.

Ahh, cool! Thank you!