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It is complete insanity really that Biden and Trump are the best leaders the US has to offer.

First they came after the journalists. We don't know what happened after that.....

Little Donny's delay tactic did not work. He has until Monday to put up the money. Judge Kaplan Denies Trump's Motion for Temporary Stay on $83.3M Carroll Judgment

I was going to post the same but I need to lay off being such a downer even if there is no hope and the future seems more frightening by the minute and our leaders are conspiring against us and it won't be long before we're once again studying all night for answers and eating top ramen and struggling through the snow even in summer and with no place safe to go.

The real question is why. Why is a law like this needed? It is not needed at all. It is merely an attack on those who are different for no reason other than scoring points with the base. It doesn't really matter exactly how it is worded. It is evil at its heart.

Not me! I'm still leaning toward complete fiction. I do have a question though. This is what makes me scratch my head the hardest when it comes to Gunther researchers, with you and Marty being the top two. Gunther says Clara never gave him Cooper's real name. Gunther wrote that he just calls him "Dan LeClair" because he has French-Canadian background. So why did you guys seek out connections based on a name that the author admits is fictional? Even if Clara DID give Gunther the real name of Cooper, there's no way Gunther would have just thrown the real name out there nor does it seem like he'd supply a name that was close to Cooper's real name. So shouldn't Dan LeClair/Dan Clare, etc., be a complete non-starter. So to research anything concerning Dan LeClair must mean that you think two things: 1. Clara actually gave Gunther Cooper's real name (why in the hell would she do that?), and 2. Gunther decided to publish the real name or something extraordinarily similar to it (and why the hell would he do that?). Am I wrong?

It sounds like there might be some confusion. As much as we all disagree about things in the Vortex, I don’t think any of us believe Barb was Cooper. There may be one or two outside the Formans. This all has to do with whether or not she is Clara. For all the people who were convinced that Max made the whole thing up, they sure did change their minds quickly.

I'm personally not into Gunther, Clara and all of that, but even in the tangential stuff I still believe there is good to come from it. Maybe the ultimate benefit of Gunther's work is that it has brought stylometry to the attention of the Vortex and that unlocks something further. Maybe Gunther's book is that first step or a step of a butterfly effect that brings this case to conclusion. who knows. I try to keep my energy and time on the case material and not go deep on candidates or tangential works.

Now the loser is losing in UK courts! BBC: Donald Trump told to pay six-figure costs of firm he sued This was about the Steele dossier.

Nope. They use the term "social transition" which per their definition includes using a pronoun like "they" instead of their birth pronoun. And if you do so - just once - you can be arrested and convicted as a sex offender. No. It allows flags to be displayed if part of the curriculum - as in, say, a Nazi flag from World War II in a history course. It also, of course, allows US military flags to be displayed. Indian flags are OK. There is a list of 9 other exceptions of flags that are OK to display. Just not pride flags or the like. Rhetorical effect. I am copying the language used by right wingers when describing the threat posed to children by, say, trans people. If it seems incendiary or over the top - good. I'm glad you feel that way; so do I. Thanks for attaching that! Note this on the second page: "Terrorism" means activities that: 28 (a) Are done in cooperation with any foreign terrorist organization, as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1189, that threatens the sovereignty of another state or the United States of America; That means that local organizations that, say, blow up abortion clinics will not be considered terrorists by definition in Idaho. And perhaps it's just me, but I don't feel that such organizations need protection against the label of "terrorist." I am 100% in favor of those parts of the bill. Here's what I object to: A teacher who has active status in the program is not liable for any civil damages or penalties if the teacher: 84 (i) when carrying or storing a firearm: 85 (A) is acting in good faith; and 86 (B) is not grossly negligent; or 87 (ii) threatens, draws, or otherwise uses a firearm reasonably believing the action to be necessary in compliance with Section 76-2-402. If the rest of the bill does indeed reduce the incidence of accidental discharge and/or misuse, then there's no need for that section. Fear of prosecution for negligently harming a student is, and should be, part of the decision as to whether someone carries a gun in a school. Imagine, for example, a hungover teacher with a drinking problem fumbles with his gun one morning and accidentally kills a student. No question that was negligent. But unless a court can prove that he is GROSSLY negligent (a much higher bar, involving deliberate, severe and reckless disregard) he is protected under this law.

That is a good visual - but in my book that item alone does not hold a candle to Marty's overall contributions to the Vortex. For me, I don't require a spreadsheet or any fancy programs to "know" that Barb's not Cooper. Mentally I can do the math on that candidate and it doesn't add up to our guy. I find it fun to ask myself often WWCT of all this?

I mean, if you go by the official summary of the bill, it would certainly not be based on "forcibly transition". This is how Social Transition is defined: The proposed bill would also make offenders a Tier 1 Sexual Offender with the requisite registration and annual reporting. The proposed bill is scary as fuck.

I can't help but think that whoever is elected, they won't finish their 4 year term for one reason or another.

Hey - like a typical immigrant I did the jobs most Americans wouldn't do. Like teaching quantum mechanics.

Comparison of word use between the Clara and Barb letters.

THIS is the exact reason I don't interact on here anymore. You got ONE somewhat right. Somewhat right - IF someone, IF Anyone tries to forcibly transition a kid https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB2885&year=2024&code=R You got this from a news article - what it actually says is ALL flags other than the US or State of Tennessee flag in public schools, but the whole inflammatory BLM, Nazi, KKK, support of the white supremacist to destroy ALL those black and gay children was necessary - for what?. https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1605&ga=113 Scratching my head - According to the Florida Senate it relates to condominiums: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/154/?Tab=BillHistory Whew. This is just so wrong that I'm attaching the entire bill. But, you get liberal points for including, right-wing terrorists, Aryan nation, KKK and AoG in the same sentence. Really? Cause it reads like trying to protect the children and nothing about immunity. In fact, it requires teachers to take courses in use, protection, security and storage. Cause, ya know, you guys won't write your congress critters about gun responsibility. https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0119.html I don't get you guys anymore. S1220.pdf

Some followup on Kaczynski. In Ted's cabin at Lincoln MT was the typewriter he used to type a number of messages including his 'manifesto'. At the same time, a person or persons unknown was being sought for committing a series of Federal crimes in the Lincoln MT area, going back years. Vandalism to rail lines, vandalism to trains (moving and parked), vandalism to State and National Park equipment, poisoning of park ranger's dogs and animals, and on and on and on. Ted was already under suspicion from a number of angles; he had been arrested on several occasions with cases dismissed for lack of evidence. Ted was under observation. The minute Ted's cabin was entered for any reason and its contents inspected, a link to the Unabomber case was all but assured. All of this independent of the FBI's Unabomber case.

Cause they are awesome people and every day in Newfoundland is a great fucking day. I love Newfoundland.

Interesting. the Unabomber manifesto was read by Ted Kaczynski’s brother (after his wife), and they had a similar sized paper to compare it to. Those were almost exactly alike. The wife of David Kaczynski, Linda Patrik, had edited some of Ted's early work when they were all together in Chicago. So she was familiar with Ted's unique style and phraseology - in several cases she recalled/found direct matches to syntax and sentences Ted had used in previous editorial essays she had edited for Ted ... David already had his own suspicions and concerns about his brother. Linda nagged David to read the manifesto. Finally he did . . . the rest is history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kaczynski Ted exposed himself when he wrote and published his Manifesto. His style was unique and in time a number of people who knew the Kaczynski's were trying to connect the manifesto with a person, including a newspaper editor in Montana who had met Ted and David and was living not to far from Ted ... I think in time a connection to Ted would have been made if not in the Chicago area, then in Montana. Ted was just too active and socially 'productive' not to be noticed and connected sooner or later. David and Linda had always been concerned about Ted getting into trouble . . . moving Ted to the rural area of Montana had been designed to try and keep Ted out of trouble ... ! David was a teacher in Lisbon, Ia for a time. The editor of the Montana news-paper that knew Ted took his degree in Iowa City, Ia and knew people in Lisbon, Ia ... its a small world sometimes! Sooner or later it was going to catch up with Ted...

I definitely erred by agreeing to do the podcast before I had a chance to put my findings into writing somewhere. My explanation is simply I haven't had time. As some know, I have a young child that takes most of my free time and since his birth I have tried to move away from the Vortex. I also have a demanding day job. Not having something in writing about this is on me. Mea culpa. To address the criticisms: There is a sample size issue. These results are probabalistic, and a false positive is always a possibility. I was using the Signature stylometry software that is about 25 years old. I would much prefer to let the DNA sample taken from Clara's letter do the talking. The Forman's will be supplying me with more writing samples from Barb and I believe there's a way to address the sample size issue. I will also try to find reasonable control samples to test as well. (I did test control samples of other writibg about Cooper, but I'd like find something contemporaneous to 1982 when the Clara letter was written)

Couple of questions. What agenda do you think I have? I don’t have “a guy” I have always been in the dead camp. Anyone alive after 24/11/71 was a no from me and this has never changed. Why do I have no business talking about this? What more right do you have to be here than anyone else? When it comes to me being a self-proclaimed novelist il put this to you and as a military man I’m sure you will appreciate it, how about we compare resumes and il flip you for it?

When was Jo ever in Seattle to spend time examining FBI 302s? Jo was a realtor. Her primary mission was to 'own' the Cooper story in its entirety including all rights. That is where Duane came in. One witness claims he has her on tape. In the beginning her claim was that Duane 'might be' DB Cooper. Within two years Duane 'was' Cooper. After the first several years her relationship with the FBI became contentious. Her relationships with Vortex people became contentious. She tried to groom Tom Kaye and Larry Carr while ignoring and even deprecating me behind the scene. I never saw the value others thought they saw in Jo. Jo avoided me. She got hostile with me several times. I still remember one exchange I had with Jo on this forum. Jo was explaining at length how it was Duane who brought DB Cooper up first which included Duane spontaneously taking Jo out on a sight seeing trip when they lived at Virginia Beach. During this random trip driving down a street Duane pointed to a house and slowed and explained: that is where Richard McCoy lived (and was killed). Jo said she didnt know what Duane was talking about. I let this pass without comment and a week or more later I spontaneously asked Jo: 'remember you said Duane showed you where McCoy was killed'?. I asked: 'Who knew McCoy's address?'. Jo quickly replied: 'Oh. I did.' ... which contradicted her prior version. This example was so typical of Jo. Just change the context and you get different even contradictory answers from Jo . . . On the other hand I continue to this day amazed about how many people didnt care about Jo's credibility! Jo enjoyed a kind of immunity which applies to this day . . . she had many people convinced she knew something!

Thank you for sharing Deimian, appreciate it