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Indeed. Unless our wishful thinkers get it in mind that there are no practical limits on Presidential power anymore the game is up. Trumps dynasty will continue until there is another coup. As I see it, only Biden can fix this but he'll need to get dirty hands and quit believing what is no longer true. If he won't step away from the nomination then, yes, he should resign. Maybe we'll get lucky and Kamala will do what is right. It isn't Sunday anymore, the facts have changed.

Time for a new plan: Biden announces he will not accept the nomination and spends the next 4 months carefree cleaning up the mess with Executive Orders stacking the courts jailing Trump, etc. etc. etc.

The only three GOP women in the SC Senate have lost their primaries to right wing males because they each opposed SC's total abortion ban. The SC Senate will now have only two female senators, both Dems. I just don't understand what this country is coming to.

So once again you posted a gloat to "own the libs" and it ended up backfiring, with a cat-5 that has shattered previous records in terms of how early in the season it came. (Broke the record by more than two weeks.) And it happened because sea surface temperatures are also at record highs, which is of course driven by climate change. https://bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/ohc/ So the thread that you started to try to deny the effects of climate change - ended up being a very good example of how fast the climate is changing. There's a lesson here that I am sure you won't learn.

Morning, Marc. After reading your post with quotes last night; I decided to verify what was written. I understand these are not your words, but a quote." Nor, could I find the source of your quote. But, I decided to go right to the source of which you reference and downloaded the Project 2025 "Mandate for Leadership" and just finished all 871 pages. I could not find your quote by reading, nor with using the "find" function. Side note: Is anyone on here aware that this "Mandate for Leadership" started in 1979 by the Heritage Foundation and was presented every four years after an election - no matter which side was in office. It was and has been a recommendation document. As I read thru it - there are a couple of important concerns for Democrats, 1) Women's Abortion Rights, and 2) Climate Control. Before everyone starts quoting what others have wrote about Project 2025; I would suggest reading the actual document, copying those areas that cause concern, pasting them with the page number on here. There are things you may agree with and things you don't. I didn't agree with all of it. I'm surprised the Democratic party does not have a similar document - perhaps if they did, both sides of the aisle could sit down and interlace what is good for the nation as a whole rather than partisan screaming points - by those who interpret it for others. Nigel mentioned your military service and "heartbreaking." I served under every President between Nixon and Bush v.1. We'll survive. Personally, I'm proud to be in a nation where we can at least have this kind of dialogue - not a luxury that many other of the 195 countries on this planet have. A Banana Republic damn sure would not have this kind of dialogue.

I know. But that's OK - I write my posts for most, not all, people to understand them.

The church is always there to give the autocrat legitimacy and, actually, to make it happen in the first place. As long as we get more God they’re happy and the autocrat couldn’t care any less.

Biden could order the DOJ to issue a statement disqualifying Trump from office, referencing Jan 6 alone and the fake electors scheme, ignore the curren indictments and simply act as the 'president'. Then order the Federal Elections Commission to disqualify him, stating it as an official act to protect the country. and then have the DOJ start new investigations into his ties with foreign countries his corruption and so on. But of course, they have no balls and will not do this. But this is exactly what and how Trump would do it

Yes, America will survive. That is an excellent post and you're reading the entire document reinforces my attitude that you're the only intelligent republican in this forum. Dialogue? The nomination hearings of the Trump SC appointees shed no light on their current string of outrage upon the state. Roe v Wade, Chevron and presidential immunity have completely upended law and precedent. Stare decisis was promised by all and immediately thrown in the trash by the new appointees. Last night Trump posted on Truth Social that there should be military tribunals to try Liz Cheney for treason. A concept thats completely unhinged. So where would the constraints on his actions be during a second presidency?

Sunrise in Costa Rica looks better every morning. I’m from Pittsburgh just like Mr. rogers. ”Won’t you be my neighbor” Before home prices here go through the roof!

Hillary was right. About EVERYTHING

As much as some people see this as an "impediment" to the Cooper case, after discussing the issue openly with several retired FBI agents, I am moving on to try and address specific issues which have surfaced and are important to the Cooper case. Question: Can diatoms found on the Cooper money be dated to within a ten year period 1970-1980 ? Answer No, diatoms cannot be dated to a specific 10-year period like 1970-1980 using current radiocarbon dating techniques. The search results indicate a few key points: Radiocarbon dating of diatoms provides ages for the overall diatom population in a sediment sample, not the precise year each individual diatom was produced The maximum age resolution that can be achieved with radiocarbon dating is around 60-100 years, depending on the method used . This is much coarser than a 10-year period. Radiocarbon dating has an upper limit of around 60,000 years, with some techniques extending it to 100,000 years . So it could not be used to date diatoms from the recent 1970-1980 period. There can be offsets between the radiocarbon ages of diatoms and other sediment components like foraminifera, likely due to factors like bioturbation and contamination . This further complicates the dating of diatoms to a precise time period. In summary, while radiocarbon dating can provide ages for diatom populations in sediments, the dating resolution is not high enough to pinpoint diatoms to a specific 10-year period like 1970-1980. The search results do not indicate any methods that could achieve such precise dating of individual diatoms. Conclusion: some other method or some other aspect of the money find needs to be identified and tested which might shed light on when the Cooper money arrived at Tena Bar, and how . . .

That's it man. Always look on the bright side of life!

Hi Joe, It's only about 5 minutes of your life to call the White House. You will make more happen with that 5 minutes than 153 hrs posting on here. Jerry Baumchen

Actually Canada won a war against the US in 1812. But as a open friendly type country they likely wouldn't mind if Americans celebrated that as well. Y'all can bring some bourbon and I'm sure they will provide some rye whiskey.

Trump is not a priest or religious leader though, wouldn't autocracy be more accurate?

One year, 411 jumps, and spent 6 of those months looking for a place to open a safe jump center that had rules. But then, you know that story.

You can’t have July 1st. It’s Canada Day.

Yes, and no. The ruling so hamstrung any possible prosecution that it is difficult to see how it would even be possible. It is now forbidden to seek testimony from, or even to interview, anyone in the administration. It is also forbidden to raise any issue regarding the president's motive for an act. How could a prosecutor even establish if an act falls under the "official" or "unofficial" category under such circumstances? As an example of the situation we now have, imagine Trump announces on the White House social media feed that he will sell pardons for $1,000,000, and then he actually does so. Issuing pardons and communicating to the public on official White House channels are part of his official duties, so neither of those things could be used as evidence. His motive for issuing the pardons also cannot be raised. So all we would have is the payment, which could easily be disguised as a donation to a PAC, from which he could legally use the money for personal purposes. So, in practice the Supreme Court has just legalized bribing the President. Similar arguments could be raised for all manner of other acts that would be criminal for you and me, but now not for the President. Perhaps someone could argue that a President could still be impeached and removed from office for such conduct. Leaving aside the glaring fact that virtually no Republican in Congress would vote for that (so the Democrats would have to control the House and over 60% of the Senate to actually remove a Republican President), yesterday's SC decision means that if the President does such things they are not illegal. So what is left that might qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors"? With this decision, the SC effectively neutered the possibility of impeaching and convicting a President as well. The President is now indeed our King. The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves. This decision by the Supreme Court qualifies in every meaningful way, except perhaps in name, as a constitutional amendment, making the President the modern day incarnation of King George.

You're welcome. Yes democracies will survive from election to election. The whole trump episode in US history reminds me of the American politician, Frederic R. Coudert, who quipped in 1939.” 'May you live in interesting times."

He is The One. The One; wherein a special code is carried by a randomly selected human being. This person is gifted with vast superhuman abilities as an avatar within the Matrix, which sometimes manifests as extraordinary powers in the real world. We now know; Meso is The One within our Matrix. :)

Except her lead statement of, "It decided that the president of the United States, possibly the most powerful person on earth, has “absolute immunity” is incorrect. The Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have at least some immunity from criminal prosecution for “official acts” in office, no matter their “politics, policy, or party,” but stipulated that that protection doesn't cover everything. Chief Justice Roberts laid out three different categories of presidential acts: Official acts that rely on core constitutional powers, for which “immunity must be absolute” Official actions “within the outer perimeter” of official responsibility, that require at least presumed immunity Unofficial actions while in office, from which the president has no immunity https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-does-the-supreme-court-ruling-mean-for-trump-6-questions-answered#:~:text=In a historic decision%2C the,protection doesn't cover everything.

Last night's letter from Heather Cox Richardson, is a good read. Letters from an American July 1, 2024

Thanks. Interesting ........... speaks for itself! Thanks for posting this!! First time Im seeing this. wow I also found an AI return that basically gives credit to Ulis for the work TK did. No mention of Tom or McCrone at all. Here I found it again - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.perplexity.ai/search/will-the-db-cooper-case-ever-b-NvFr5EImTPusgotm9FAx4A What methods did Eric Ulis use to analyze the metal fragment Answer Eric Ulis used a few key methods to analyze the metal fragment found on D.B. Cooper's tie: He applied sticky carbon circles to portions of the tie, which pulled off some of the particles when removed. This allowed scientists to extract over 100,000 particles from the tie for analysis Ulis then used modern state-of-the-art technology, not available in 1971, to analyze the particles. This technology was able to "tell a story" about the fragments Specifically, Ulis traced three fragments from the tie to a specific steel manufacturer called Crucible Steel, located in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. He did this by using U.S. patents, about 18 months ago No mention of Tom or McCrone. No mention of Chaucer's experiment which is brand new. This is 50% of the reason Ive been posting these AI returns. To get somebody's opinion about them. The last thing we need is more internet garbage! Thanks for your post.... Im tempted to dump all of this AI material but I hate to do it! There may be no choice...

An experiment Chaucer did a while back would suggest otherwise. This was 24 hours after bath tub submergence.

Got me. If it was me, I'd use these powers to prove the obvious which is that Trump is a traitor. I'd empty every drawer, safe, and pants pocket in every property he has and have his ass in a steel chair with a bright light shining. He was in possession of national secrets and there is solid evidence he shared information and inferential evidence he collaborated with the Russians. That's plenty for Biden in his official capacity to protect national security by hauling Trumps ass in for serious questioning and holding him to prevent further damage. And now there isn't jack Trump or anyone else could do to stop it.

I'd still love to wingsuit from a B-17 but have not heard of anything available. Any info on possible opportunities?

It CAN be done. At Zhills some years ago.

Thanks for showing us the connection between Marxism and "woke." Woke people are trying to destabilize and destroy the old patriarchy/capitalist/democratic/ free speech/ etc. society without bothering to explain to us the virtues of their idyllic new society. There is a fine line between political politeness and dogmatism. I do not understand the new dogmatism. I am from a generation of old soldiers who had it POUNDED into them that Russian Marxists were evil and nasty. In recent years I have not seen anything to dispel that idea. I challenge "woke" people to explain to me the advantages of their new society.

Project 2025 has begun.

Have you ever been a woman in a workplace where the management is all male, and handsy? Have you ever heard "the law says I have to interview them, but it sure don't say I have to hire them." Have you ever heard "you can come in, gorgeous, but your husband can't." Have you ever heard, yet again, "you must be on the rag." Or maybe "you can't be so blunt," when you're not as blunt as some of the men in the group. Being on the delivering side of all those is privilege, because no one else in management (or the power structure) can be told any of those things, because of who they are. Wendy P.

There are so many things wrong with this stance that it's hard know where to begin. The logic is as impressive as "we had to destroy the village to save the village." If something is unacceptable it's unacceptable, as is defending the unacceptable.

I'm sure there are better choices out there than Biden or Harris amongst the Dems. Having said that, if you turn over a rock whatever crawls out from underneath is an improvement over Trump.

I wonder if the strong focus on short-term goals of saving money and servicing the stockholders contributes. I do know that Boeing’s federal division had a lot of very good employees who were encouraged to find ways to save money in the 90’s and early 2000’s (my company was a partnership between Boeing and Lockheed-Martin). During Shuttle, IBM was wholly focused on quality; as a company, at my level at least we were encouraged to support the mission, not to come up with boondoggles. I have a feeling that was the same for most of the companies at the first and second-line levels, and very possibly the third. This strong focus on quality led to risk aversion, which increases costs. And, of course, taxpayers are all about cost, as are stockholders. The systemic things I see that really concern me all have to do with money, which here in the US at least (and much of the world) is power. And we all know that people like power. I don’t have the solution; this forum (and SC) are more like the donut counter where the old guys in the corner sit every morning and identify the world’s problems. Upper management at Boeing will be replaced at the discretion of the stockholders, and only if the stock price takes a tumble. And they won’t hire someone who doesn’t want a large compensation package, because he (it’ll be a he) won’t have a “track record of stockholder satisfaction.” Any more, that’s all that matters. Money makes most people pretty short-sighted. What Boeing needs is a longer-term goal, and the time and resources to address it. So yeah, a huge stock loss will help, but once they get a good quarter and some rich people have gotten their money back, things will go back Wendy P.

Wendy P = Legend

I have done 24 tandems in a day a few times. It was terrible. Ody