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Afternoon, Jerry. I looked at the site. I would donate if it were more a bipartisan or Independent's focused pac. It is good to see a grass roots movement for changing out the old guard. Maybe some momentum.

You start to understand how they get away with it. Baffle with bullshit and it’s just too exhausting to try and stay on top of.

That's a data point, useful in the current situation. Maybe you have not owned businesses but often you do need to take a long view; in fact many corporations that currently make no money trade on the stock market. What you never want is a schizophrenic, ignoramus of a president whipsawing the markets and suppliers you rely on forcing you into accepting losses that outside interests think you should ignore.

I just found out that the company that makes yardsticks won’t be making them any longer. Bummer.

A zero-based budget would be a start.

Pretty quiet in here.

Yes, two of them are about sketch B.. But the stew comments are not the cause for sketch B, the real point is that the FBI was wasting time with suspects who were too young or not a swarthy/latin complexion. They felt the sketch was not getting good tips.. It was suggested to have the sketch artist reconnect with the stews to create a better sketch.

The first Comp A came out 11/27/71. Those two passenger statements are referencing Comp A. That quote from the stewardess is from Alice Hancock commenting on the Initial Sketch.

Ah, but his family and buds are better prepared than the Brits, and they don’t care what happens to the “little people” as long as they get rich Wendy P.

7:19 in video Himmelsbach.. Money was given to Cooper strapped in 100's and bundled with rubber bands.. A strap is bank lingo for 100 bills paper bank banded.. "There were ten thousand twenty dollar bills assembled in straps of a hundred bills to a strap and individual straps held together with rubber bands."

Presumably, Cooper did not have access to FBI internal communications! So far there is no FBI doc that simply states how the Cooper money was packaged. Nobody thought it was important. Unless they were waiting on Cooper to tell them? Its a brilliant strategy. Wait for Cooper to divulge the details of the case back to the FBI. Only Cooper would know. SNAFU.

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CKRET • DB Cooper in Skydiving History & Trivia May 1, 2008 · Report reply And so I shall Maurico, Sorry, I have been crazy busy but I did make some progress. We could not find a photo (yet) of the bag used for the money but I was able to confirm it was like the one I posted, a simple money sack. As for the "shocking " information about the money, I spoke with the individual who carried the money from the bank to the airport the night of the hijacking. When I was talking with him he recounted that they were in the vault running the money through the counting machine and strapping the bundles. I didn't catch it at, first but later in our conversation I caught on to the strapping part and said, "wait a minute." "you were strapping the $20.00 bundles with $2,000 paper straps?" He said "yes" and I almost fell out of my chair. So I then started putting calls into Brian Ingram. He called me back and we spoke about the discovery of the money. What I found was that the money was not recovered near the water but about 20 to 40 feet from the edge. He said he found it in an area that had recently been covered in water. So I thought, "well not really much of a difference." I then asked for the details about the condition of the money when he found it and he confirmed, after speaking with his parents, that the money absolutely had rubber bands around the bundles. This makes sense because there is no way paper straps would have kept the money together over the years. So this all means, on face value, that if the money given to Cooper by the bank had paper straps and the found money had rubber bands....... well you could see how I was a bit perplexed. This would mean that either Cooper lived and repackaged the money or someone found the money and repackaged it. Which would be "par for the course" with regard to this case. I then went back and re-interviewed the bank security manager and found out that he wasn't directly involved in packaging the money, only carrying it to the airport. He was relaying what their normal procedure was for processing and packaging money for shipment. The funds that were given to Cooper were not pulled from their circulating cash but from a security fund that was prepackaged for these types of incidents. This money was not strapped because the bank did not want any subjects to know where it came from so it was packaged with rubber bands. My head was spinning for a few days until I could get it straight. As for the "oscillation" explanation that still stands. The crew was referring to the equipment not the pressure bump. In fact, a hand written log that was being kept as the evewnts unfolded has an entry at 8:11 that the crew reported the cabin pressure was "fluctuating." So the time reported when the crew mentioned the oscillations was when Cooper most likely started down the stairs. The further he got down the stairs the more air would be rushing through the cabin. The pressure bump, which would be when he jumped, occurred (according to Rataczak) 10 to 15 minutes after their last contact with Cooper at 8:05. CKRET aka Larry Carr conflated packets and bundles... he didn't get that packets were paper banded and bundles rubber banded. He also incorrectly stated that each packet (100 bills) was randomized, he misunderstood. Bundles were randomized not packets. Also, Grinnell didn't know if the bundles were randomized. IMO, the balance of evidence tips to randomized bundles of packets. The TBAR money most likely landed as a 3 packet rubber banded bundle.. as it went to Cooper.

There are or were several different Himms. The official or semi official Himms speaking to the media and select individuals, the Himms who had to communicate with and deal with other officials in the Cooper case especially during the excavation, and the private Himms known by his friends and personal associates such as Jerry Thomas ... so everything Himms did and said is a mixed bag. Himms was different people with different messages in those various roles. Himms had to respond differently in all of those roles. I have never talked to an agent who did not back and support Ralph fully ...... right up to the present day. My advice to people who chose to talk about these matters is: you need to stay grounded! Ralph was many different things to many different people at different times. From gardener to FBI agent to husband and partner and friend. On the money issue: why is Carr and his work/posts about how the money was packaged in the old thread, not being mentioned here? Once again I am totally perplexed.

Because he is following Bannon's approach and "flooding the zone with shit." When he gets caught taking bribes he deports a toddler with cancer, or calls Pelosi a withered up whore. or appoints his son to be VP. And the press moves on to the latest pile of shit. Keep in mind that the press IS reporting on all this. But what drives availability is popularity; the new shit doesn't end replacing the old shit, it just drives it off the front page so almost no one sees it.

Don't burn your fajitas celebrating, they had a ready made appeal filed nearly instantaneously and failing there they still have their lapdogs at the Supreme Court.

Great. Now, I've got add chicken tacos on skydiver night.

Out for a drive recently and stopped by my childhood home. I knocked and asked the people living there is I could come inside as I felt nostalgic about the home I grew up in. They said no and slammed the door! Damn, I hate my parents.

Go to your room.

Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven. When they get there, St. Peter says, "We only have one rule here in heaven: don't step on the ducks!" And sure enough, there are ducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck. Although they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one. Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw. St. Peter chains them together and says, "You two will be chained together for all eternity. Now go." The chained couple departs, and the other two women asked St Peter why? He said, "she stepped on a duck, and so as punishment she gets chained to an ugly man for the rest of time." The next day, the second woman accidentally steps on a duck and almost immediately along comes St. Peter with another extremely ugly man. He chains them together and says: "You two will be chained together for all eternity. Now go." The third woman has observed all this and, not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, is very, VERY careful where she steps. She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks, but one day St. Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on ... very tall, long eyelashes, muscular, and thin. St. Peter chains them together and tells them to get along. The happy woman says, "I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you for all of eternity?" The guy says, "I don't know about you, but I stepped on a duck!"

Someone once tried convincing me that SL BASE jumps werent BASE jumps and that SL skydives isn’t considered skydiving its Parachuting. So technically one could have heaps of SL skydives and SL BASE jumps but still not be a considered a skydiver or BASE jumper.

I think the Sabre 2 is a great canopy made by Performance Designs. I have owned a 190, 170, 150 and 135 throughout my skydiving progression. Here is a breakdown of my experience with those wings, exit weight around 200lb. Openings: Usually what the Sabre2 takes the most flak for, inconsistent headings on opening. Overall my experience is really good, most jumps are smooth and on heading, some have a small 90 turn and the random one a bit more. I would say the most consistent thing about this canopy opening is the closed-end cells. Anytime I had a 'bad' opening I would blame it on my body position or not coming out of the track enough, still totally acceptable openings though. Never had a line twist with this wing at any size. Control Inputs: Risers are a great tool for controlling the canopy, I found all the pressures to be acceptable and I can maneuver the canopy easily without having to use toggles. Fronts are great to get that dive started before a landing and rears feel powerful, though I don't have much to compare too (Mainly a Crossfire 1). Flare is sensational, practice stalls up top and it seems like you can pull the toggles down forever before it stalls. When coming in to land I never have any problem using my toggles to convert all my forward speed to lift. Harness: I have never really been impressed by the harness inputs on this wing. The crossfire I jumped for a while, was at less wingloading, but had way more control using the harness. I can definitely finish my 90 swoops with harness after some front riser input but I really have to lean to get some output. Overall, it's a great wing to learn on. I have about 600 jumps across different square footages and wingloadings and have loved every second under this canopy. I would call this wing the jack of all trades and master of none, there is a probably a canopy that does a specific thing better than this one but this is one where you could flare out your big WS, chuck your PC, then ride down and do a 270 and drag pond