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So we’ve gone and bombed Iran. Not sure whose wet dream that was, but I’m sure they’re rich and influential. I have one longtime acquaintance who said he feels safer already. Because there’s nothing like being the biggest guy in the room. At least until you remember you don’t own the house. Fuck me Wendy P.

I suppose if they mine the Straits of Hormuz the price of oil might go up, might there be a few beneficiaries in that space? I don't think Russia uses the Straits. We do to ship gas to India, I think, but I will never believe this was anything more than dick swinging by President Hurt Feelings.

Let me point out some additional things that support Georger's comments above. Tena Bar is washed by water flow that comes down the narrow channel between Caterpillar Island and the Washington mainland. The outlet from this channel is a very short distance upstream from Tena Bar. There is a marina in that channel and a number of people live on their boats (remember Amazon?) in that channel. It is safe to assume that there is some biological material in the water that exits that channel and washes Tena Bar. Anyone interested in testing their theory about the missing shards from the money that was found should do the following. Take some genuine currency and place it in a container until it is thoroughly soaked then remove it and place it in direct sunlight until it is completely dry. Repeat this about 50 times and then note what is missing from the original bills. To put it another way, the bills don't have to roll on the river bottom to lose the shards.

First, the shards I have found that are large enough to discern are from the middle of the bills.. not the outer edges. I have not found any examples of tumbling money.. I tried to come with a test but I just can't see how it can be done properly to replicate the conditions and recover the money. The money sinks but it still has buoyancy like many things other than heavy items like rocks.. I have found images of bills suspended just above the bottom of water. It is reasonable to conclude that the current can roll the money along the bottom. The TBAR section of the Columbia is very flat and sandy with almost no snags. and all the images of buried money I have found do not have symmetrical damage like TBAR. The damage is very random... nothing like TBAR's uniform erosion. Also, circulated currency is riddled with bacteria.. even if sand is sterile, the money already had bacteria on it. It is absurd that the uniformly rounded edges are from bacteria.. There was some bacteria damage on the bills but it is random. Further, why did the bills get rounded only around the outside and NOT through the middle of the stack,,, answer, the erosion was not in situ. Internal fragments... these are different pieces

Or thinking you have friends in that house.