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True. But all outcomes have to start with raw data. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ Personally, I would like to go back to a time when not everyone could have a gun in their car or on their hip.

Now, I'm fucking distracted.

Cossey is the only source for the NB6/8 description, there is no corroboration, only conflicts. The burden of proof is on the affirmative, not negation. Prove it was an NB6/8, not it wasn't. Cossey has told many conflicting stories, you can't just ignore the lies, misinformation and inconsistencies but accept this one aspect. That would never fly with a witness. Cossey's description in the FBI files conflicts with Hayden's. Cossey's description conflicts with the missing chute packing card. Cossey never supplied his packing records, lied to the FBI about it and later claimed he did have the records. Cossey lied to the FBI. Lied by omission and about his records. Cossey lied to active FBI agent Carr. Cossey changes the description form NB6 to NB8,,, why, it wasn't modified. Cossey would have learned of his error within a day or two but never corrected his error. Lied by omission. He knew by the 26th for that in person FBI interview but must have talked to the FBI prior, Cossey claimed he was called the evening of the 24th.. a file on the 25th describes the front reserves in detail, that had to come form Cossey. Cossey must have talked to somebody between the evening of the 24th and late afternoon 25th. Cossey was contacted and agreed to lend all 4 of his chutes, Emrich was grabbing all 4 from Issaquah including 2 backs but was contacted and told to send only the fronts,, Cossey was not aware that Hayden's back chutes were sent instead of his. During the hijacking he thought those were his back chutes used by Cooper. Emrich didn't know about Hayden only that he had sent two fronts. Cossey claimed he was called the evening of the 24th, the back chute found was described and he described his NB6,, how can this be if he didn't even know about Hayden's chutes being sent. Cossey's later stories revealed his belief that he thought they were his two personal back chutes, the NB8 bailout (Cossey was a pilot) and a B-4 freefall). Neither match Hayden's. Cossey was telling us what he believed at the time of the hijacking. Hayden's returned back chute was completely different from Cossey's NB6 description.. Hayden said they were the same, the tan one was a civilian version early 1940's, the Olive Drab a military version by colour of the same type. Unlikely Hayden would have two completely different bailout rigs, they would be a matching pair. Hayden never met Cossey, he bought the chutes at a surplus store and the store arranged for them to be packed. Everyone assumed Cossey owned them prior to Hayden but there is no proof, we don't know. Mark M's experience had no bearing on the identity of Hayden's missing chute. The 28' thing, that is odd but Cossey claimed a flat circular which is consistent with a 28'. The packing card said conical which is consistent wth a 24'. The FBI file seems to attribute 28 to Hayden, that could be an error/typo, or it may be a conflation with Cossey's early description. The 302's have errors and conflations. They are facts, they are investigative notes. Ultimately, Cossey and the missing chute packing card are incompatible, both can't be true and the totality of evidence supports the packing card not Cossey by a long shot. COMBINING the inconsistencies from Cossey, the fact that he never provided his packing records and the evidence that he believed his personal chutes were taken from Issaquah that evening and sent to Cooper WITH the details on the missing chute packing card it is overwhelmingly clear what happened.. There is really no way to dismiss that packing card as not belonging to the missing chute. It was signed by Cossey on the same date as Hayden's remaining one. AND where did it come from. It had to be Hayden's missing chute. To accept Cossey's NB8 claim you must reject that packing card. You need corroboration that it was an NB8 and proof that the packing card is wrong. I can't see any way to do that. I am 100% on this unless there is new information. and agreed ultimately it doesn't really help us solve the case now. It only means they were looking for the wrong chute, it/parts might have been found but rejected. The premise to the argument that Cooper died because nothing was found is false. We don't know. and Cossey screwed everyone and may have undermined the solving of this case long ago. Cooper just picked the newer chute. There is nothing else to read into the chute selection. and Gryder's rig does not match Cossey's or Hayden's...

Just got my relatively regular wine delivery. It is delivered by a medical transportation company, so it is in a temp controlled environment and it is always the same delivery driver. A very nice middle aged Muslim man. Today after a chat he wished me a Merry Christmas, as he has in previous years. The only people who believe there is a war on Christmas are white, generally male, middle aged Christians. I have a feeling this is something similar. The only people who believe people are going to be forced to drive Priuses....are idiots.

My Audi S5 is standard 349hp turbo charged, but have it chipped so we are up to around 449hp. My local gas stations love feeding me the 94 octane.

Go ahead, massage some data for us, something to back up your beliefs in the gun culture and how it is making us safer. My nipples are erect with anticipation.

I’m still wondering why you think he’s talking about his own chute and not Hayden’s. Because I don’t think we have any actual reason to think that Hayden wasn’t given an NB-6. Cossey could indeed be describing his own rig and that still wouldn’t negate the likelihood that Hayden was given an NB-6. Cossey said he made Hayden’s chute from Navy surplus. That rings true. There would have been more of those cheaply laying around than anything else because Mark explained that in the late 60’s and early 70’s all the people sporterizing the bailout rigs started using AF rigs. He said they rarely used the Navy chutes because of the chest strap sliding up and down. They were concerned that the harness would start to get frayed and wear out from repeated abuse each jump. Mark says it was rare to see anyone with those harnesses. So it’s not unlikely at all that Hayden had an NB-6 since Cossey would have given him something that was undesirable for his skydiving clients and thus cheap to part with. And honestly I don’t think the container really matters anyways since it would just be metal parts at this point (we’re grownups and know that Cooper’s chute won’t be found in a box in amazing condition). It’s the canopy itself that would survive and is what may still be found one day and so we need to know for certain what size the damn thing was. Why do Cossey AND Hayden say 28 footer separately? Are they really both wrong? Isn’t it possible, though improbable, that back on May 21st that card erroneously ended up in the museum chute’s packing card slot? You can fit more than one card in those slots. They aren’t crazy tight. My AF rig showed up with an additional packing card in it that was blank. So you can definitely put two in there without any trouble. Could this be a brain fart by someone instead of both Cossey AND Hayden being wrong on canopy size? Because all of our criticisms about the canopy are based on the 100% truth that the packing card came from Cooper’s chute. I don’t think we should be at 100% acceptance of that. It’s probably from his chute, but we can’t know for a total certainty without further evidence. Be super nice if Earl’s family has his log books. Although I get the sense Earl did this stuff for Hayden off the books or maybe just got lazy since he figured these chutes probably weren’t going to ever be used and that he simply didn’t spend the time to write them in his logbook.

Cossey claimed he was called the night of the hijacking, the 24th.. this is not confirmed. Cossey was interviewed by the FBI in person on the 26th, he acknowledges the back chutes were for aerobatics. This file was sent out at 4:25 PM on the 25th. The missing chest reserve is described in detail, that had to come from Cossey it was his rig. Who else could have known that detail. Not Emrich, he gave them the dummy chute so he wouldn't know the rigs details. These details would only be known by the owner or if the chute was opened. Cossey must have talked to the FBI before this file was sent. Also, the missing back chute here was described as Olive Drab and Tan cotton harness.. Cossey claimed Sage Green Nylon container and harness.

Cossey lied to the FBI about his records... Cossey claimed NB6 was a "flat circular" and not modified.. (Gryder) The packing card for the missing chute is conical, NOT flat circular.

Yup, small sample size but another issue, 4 tests were done on the money,, which bills?

yes, of course.. stitching looks sketchy,,, the B-4 harness gets confused with the B-4 container, unrelated. The B-12 came with the B-4 harness. I actually found two B-12's that had the handles swapped to the other side. So, not rare. The one on left is an 3 pin version, the one on the right is a 4 pin, matches Gryder's,, the loop wasn't moved, they added one to the other side when they moved the handle.

I'm planning on buying a Cooper $20 at some point and I'm 100% going to sacrifice a piece of it for Tom to do some more testing on. The fact that we're basing all of our info off a single piece from a single $20 makes me uneasy. Same thing with the tie. I know Tom tested a Boeing man's tie as a control, but I'd like to see a lot of ties looked at.

All of this is summarized in the score. So answer the question, which candidate is most qualified I'd love to see you hire a VP, SVP or C level employee by requiring paid temporary employment for a designated timeframe. I wouldn't even move if there was a probationary period and the exit package wasn't defined up front.

So you understand that this is literally what happens all the time, right? Because there is rarely any such thing as the definitive most qualified candidate. Again, if you have ten people with first class degrees from the top ranked universities in the country, one of them is gay and the boss doesn't like gays, 2 of them are black and the boss doesn't know how to relate to black people... are they getting hired?

Maybe, just maybe having firearms so easily available isn't a positive.

bullshit

I mean yes, but... Say what now? BTW does anyone remember the contrail over the California coast that a bunch of people swore must be a ballistic missile launch because it was glowing in the sunset? Sometimes the internet really is just a great big stupid factory.

About as good a look as your deaf buddy legal gun owner murdering his entire family.

Next year will be the year of the snake. Tonto would have had that as his sig.

As does the middle east war. In Ukraine the loss of Russian armor has led to the increased use of pure infantry assaults by Russian units. As a result Russian casualties have gone from about 24,000 per month in May. To what is now over 35,000 a month. It seems as if Russia has lots of meat and artillery but not much else.