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Funny how women in Italy, Ireland, Spain and Mexico (and many others too) have more rights over their own bodies than women in "The Land of the Free". Well, not really funny. Shameful is probably a better word.

Quite a soap opera, that one. Taveras (as far as we know) wasn't part of the documents conspiracy and cover up. When security camera footage was subpoenaed, Trump sent Nauta and another employee to ask him to delete footage of Nauta taking boxes out of the storage room in advance of a search. But Taveras said no. Maybe that's because he didn't want to or simply didnt have the ability, either way he hadn't actually done anything wrong until he lied to the grand jury. So why did he do it? Maybe because he was represented by the same lawyer, Woodward, as Nauta and the other employee, who's bill is being paid by Trump. Jack Smith had raised the issue of conflicts of interest several times and Woodward just said 'I'm a conscientious guy, it's fine'. But after Taveras lied a second time to the investigators in New York, Smith asked the court there to make him sit down with an independent Public Defender to lay out the situation for him. One meeting later Taveras fires Woodward, takes the PD as his lawyer and flips on Nauta. There's now a further conflict of interest for Woodward in that the Gov't will plan to put Taveras on the stand. As Nauta's lawyer, Woodward should plan to attack him over why he originally lied before changing his story, because it makes him look untrustworthy. He may not want to do that because he knows the answer to 'why did you lie?' will be 'because you told me to' - but if he doesn't ask the question he's not being an effective advocate for Nauta. Hilariously, Woodward suggested that the easiest way to resolve this conflict of interest would simply be for the court to exclude any and all of Taveras' testimony from trial, and hey presto problem solved. Smith's response (more or less) 'it's not the government's job to cover for your incompetence and corruption'. As a final bonus, Smith tried to file all of this under seal in Aileen Cannon's court to avoid any suggestion of unfairly prejudicing the other defendents against their lawyers. Cannon rejected the filing and refused to read anything that wasn't filed openly. Trump's lawyers are now absolutely furious that it's all in public, but there's nothing they can do because Smith was simply following the court's orders. The clown show continues.

Crew could see the lights of Portland.... Portland and Vancouver would blend together into one mass of light.. Current light. in 1971 it would be less but Vancouver and Portland are one blob. Cooper would not have jumped into an urban lit up area...

Well, women in our red Southern border states have a new option, thanks to a ruling by the Mexican Supreme Court: AP: Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure

Mac had goggles and was able to see forward. I specifically asked him about this point. He said he looked all around him including forward.

Cooper's view forward directly ahead of the airliner would be lousy. He would be looking into about a 225 MPH slip stream that was well below zero degrees F and very difficult if not impossible to keep his head in that slip stream. Here is a true story. I was on the USAF end of the F-16 program as it was transitioning from the YF- demonstrator aircraft to the F- operational aircraft. The program had a F-16 airframe in the NASA full scale wind tunnel in California for testing. One of the questions of interest was what would be the effect of losing the canopy in flight. This canopy was a single piece item without a fixed windshield in front of it. The USAF F-16 program director (two stars) was the test subject in that test. Wearing normal flight gear and exposed to the free stream air flow, he said that he could not function at 180 MPH or so.

Hi Robert, And, it looks like they are moving ahead of us on another front: Mexico to elect first woman president : NPR Jerry Baumchen Oh, well; there is still Trump to consider. :-(

Marrying an MD helps, too.

Blevins is still pushing his flawed SOL theory.. He was schooled with the facts but still refuses to accept it.. It isn't a matter of opinion he still has the facts wrong. You can't debate people who just reject the facts. There was no SOL for Cooper.. or McCoy or Hahneman.

Hi folks, Looks like things might be beginning to change, slowly but surely: a tried-and-true strategy in cases with many defendants: Portray yourself as a hapless pawn while piling blame on the apparent kingpin. Trump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him - POLITICO One can only hope that more of them see the light. Jerry Baumchen

Honestly I have been seriously disappointed with all of these sentences, but I am not a lawyer, and definitely not a federal prosecutor. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim#:~:text=Whoever%2C owing allegiance to the,not less than %2410%2C000%3B and I think anyone who entered the capital buildings during the riot should have been charged with seditious conspiracy and the prosecution should have requested the maximum penalty. I think the high level Oath Keepers and Proud Boy organizers should have been charged with treason, and we should have been going for the death penalty. Article III, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."

That's a shame. :-( Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

What baffles me is that I've had to hire and fire a lot of lawyers over the years. Never because of skydiving, excepting document and waiver review (I wrote ours) but because of my other gigs. Getting an attorney to initiate an issue when your standing was in doubt just doesn't happen even with an offer to pay more. Moreover, every lawyer I have ever hired was vastly more concerned with their standing with the bar than my particular problem. I guess that in the white shoe law firm arena where $2000 an hour is cheap things are different. But each and every one of us really needs to focus on that dichotomy and how it melds with our own relationship with the justice system and what we are really doing when we vote for a candidate or party.

Bond set at $200k Where are the calls to "Lock Him Up"?

I keep waiting for someone brave in the media sphere to get what Fani Wallis gets in spades: it was a criminal enterprise. If you go back to the Nuremberg trials there was Defendant 27, the SS. They were found guilty, the entire organization. That's where we need to be. DA Fani Willis is my current hero. When she finally gets all of the indictees, and I think she will, we'll be back on track to regaining the democracy the founders envisioned.

Happy Fourth Indictment Day!!!

When I gave mine away, I placed an ad somewhere and said free for the taking. I had another skydiver pick them up. I couldn't bear to have them thrown away and am glad someone was willing to take them. I did keep the very first issue which may be a little rare.