My comment for April 1 was about many things not directly related to the anthrax attacks of 2001, even though some seem to contain similar lessons. People seem to understand the need to have procedures in place to assure that airline pilots are mentally healthy before they take responsibility for the lives of their passengers. Is it really so much different to want policies to assure that microbiologists who work with deadly pathogens are also mentally healthy?
I also wondered if the lynch mobs forming in Florida to take justice in their own hands are much different from the lynch mobs that formed to demand Steven Hatfill's arrest in the anthrax case.
Then I got off topic and wrote about how Newsweek magazine has changed to the point where it no longer contains anything of interest to me. Last week's issue was all about the TV series "Mad Men," which I view as nothing but a soap opera. I prefer TV shows where something gets accomplished in every episode. My favorites are: (1) House, (2) The Mentalist, (3) Castle, (4) Justified, (5) Eureka.
And, I also mentioned that I've passed the half-way point on the second draft of my new book.
Ed
I would recommend to Mister Lake THE ECONOMIST, which I've been reading semi-regularly for several years now. It's a British magazine (though for some odd Brit-English reason they call it a 'newspaper') that's more like US NEWS & WORLD REPORT used to be (only more thorough)rather than like the old TIME or NEWSWEEK. That is, it's as close to a global outlook as you are going to get. Of course, that means there are more articles on Botswana and Mali and Mauritius than the typical American wants to read, but since it's thick and there are plenty of stories about the USA and other English-speaking countries, you can skip the small stuff about the nations of marginal interest...
ReplyDeleteJust a thought!
Mr. Rowley,
ReplyDeleteThanks. I used to subscribe to Scientific American and American Cinematographer. I suppose there are other magazines to which I could subscribe, but I need to finish my book before I could make any kind of decision along those lines. Right now, old joke books seem to contain what I need.
Ed
I always read the hard copy of the ECONOMIST, but I should have thought to look for the online version too; it's here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.economist.com/
Hello from Spain:
ReplyDelete- A year ago the FBI released the Mccormick´s indecipherable notes.
- I have read what you wrote on the theme and i would like to show you my solution:
-Look 2nd note,last line, i see that:
"O-W-m-4 H8L XORLX"
+If O=O, W=W and R=R
+If m=N, H=I and L=M using Caesar Code B or +1
+If X= Variations of the letter "C" (MC,C and MC) using shorthand
+If 4= four= FOR by phonetic solution like SMS language.
+If 8= eight= eit= ei= letter "A" by phonetic solution like SMS language (example L8= late or leight, H8= hate ....)
+If the hyphen join the letters in a word.
+If we add vowel "i" by transcription shorthand solution.
THEN.....
"O-W-m-4 H8L XORLX" means "OWN-FOR I AM MCCORM(i)CK".
It is the signature, last will or testament of Mccormick.
+ If you think "4" is not "4" but "y"
+ If you think "8" is not "8" but "I" then the solution is:
"Y"= wai= WHY or WAY by phonetic solution, similar sound.
"I"= ai= letter "A" by phonetic graphic representation.
THEN= "O-W-m-Y HIL XORLX" = "OWN-WHY? I AM MCCORMICK"
-The plainttext not exist.
-Only exist a Stenographyc text that was hidden with a personal shorthand system with some measures of deception.
+ If my theory is correct in "Marais Temps clair C.A." (mo) there is a suitcase buried by Mccormick with 99.840 $ and more, after central curve in a bird watching position.
+ Can anyone tell me if at the northern entrance of "Marais temps Clair CA" (mo) is a house with number 35.
Bye.
- By the way, exist another unsolved murder, Mccormick report that in the note one, line 12.
+MRDE= MURDER by shorthand and phonetic solution.
+TF= Thief, etc....
+C= D, contraction of Had or Would and DO by shorthand and Caesar code B.
"A THIEF CALLED ¿? HAD MISS QUIT SOLE MURDER LOOSE TO TIED WOULD AND WOULD NOT HAD BEEN"
Hello, Joseph from Spain.
ReplyDeleteYour comments are far over my head. I'm no expert on the McCormick case. I just commented on it once or twice because the mystery intrigued me when I first learned about it. But, after a few days I moved on and forgot about it.
Right now, I'm in the final steps of writing a new book about the anthrax mailings of 2001, and I don't have the time to study what you've figured out, particularly since I can't figure out what you are saying. For example:
+ If my theory is correct in "Marais Temps clair C.A." (mo) there is a suitcase buried by Mccormick with 99.840 $ and more, after central curve in a bird watching position.
It's almost as complex and indecipherable as the McCormick writings. I can guess that "99.840 $" translated into American format would be "$99,840" but I can't even guess what the rest means.
Sorry.
Ed
Hello from Spain:
ReplyDelete+ I have found the home with the number 35 in the predicted place and this is his address:
6035 Missouri 94, Portage des Sioux, MO 63373 U.S.
+ My theory was this:
- Mccormick stenographic notes tell us how we can find $ 99.840 and more ... hidden in a suitcase buried in Marais Temps Clair CA (MO) and must enter in that place by the side of the home 35 which is located at a distance of 36 and 29 miles from Mccormick´ home (1400 Chouteau Avenue, St Louis, Missouri).
- Anyone can view and verify the existence of this home for himself.
- I used Google Maps, Google Earth and "Street View" but Google recognizes that the measures of distance is only approximate and Mccormick wrote this in 1999 (there may be unexpected changes). Google pics does not lie.
- I think this shows that my interpretation of the stenographic notes is correct and the transcription of Mccormick´s personal shorthand is valid.
+ Now anyone have to walk 651 steps from the north entrance of Marais ... to a bird watching site hs been after the central curve and pay attention to the presence of "corm" (three corms or tree corm) .... and you must avoid the jupiter´s mistake as in Poe´s short story "the gold bug".
+ Seven months ago i bet this with a friend and now i can prove it, look:
http://www.themorgandoctrine.com/2012/04/joseph-from-spain-nails-last-detail-in.html
+ I think i have finished my work. I can no longer do anything more from Spain. If the FBI wants to dig up the case or not, that is up to them.
+ Good bye.
Greetings from Spain.
Joseph,
ReplyDeleteInteresting. But, all I can do is let your analysis speak for itself. Maybe someone will check it out.
Marais Temps Clair C.A. (Conservation Area) is a real place in Missouri. But, is the decoding done correctly? I have no idea.
Ed
Hello.
ReplyDelete- Can not be decode a text that has never been codified.
- I guess it's a problem stenographic with some measure of deception (code Caesar B and other signs). McCormick used a shorthand system own because the vowels disappear, but the vowels that are essential for the reconstruction of the original speech or text remain.
- The original stenographer the only one who can "rebuilding" the original text, and I can only give an "imaginative" solution based on the transcription of the shorthand symbols. ( look "Criminals Minds" season 1, episode "real rain" about a court reporter / stenographer crazy)
- The FBI says he wrote these texts since childhood, so the shorthand system used should be simple. A child's play, literally.
- The mathematical solution of the problem I have explained (35 Home = 6035 missouri 94 .....) has given me the expected solution. Now you just have to dig a suitcase where I say it is.
- Someone should check my assumption and I would prefer that someone in or outside the FBI, active or retired, I can do not this, and to give the money to the orphans of McCormick
..... if they still alive.
Joseph,
ReplyDeleteI can't go to Missouri. Marais Temps Clair Conservation area is 378 miles from where I live. That's 608 kilometers.
And, I don't know how to put you in contact with someone in the area. You should do some research to find someone in the area who is willing to check out your theory.
There's nothing I can do.
Ed
Hello.
ReplyDeleteThank you for paying attention to my thoughts.
+ If my dream comes true one day the sun will rise and the snow that covers almost everything will melt, and the hidden will be found.
Greetings from Spain.
Hello Mr Lake:
ReplyDeleteDo you want to read a little history of terror?
I'm worried, very worried.
You know I can not express myself well in your language.
You also know that I claim to have deciphered the FBI notes, and I was looking for someone to find a suitcase with $ 99,000.
Two people wanted to help but disappeared, and now I've found a third person ..... but the little camping trip to Marais has become a strange flight. I do not understand what happens to this third person, may he be a U.S. citizen (but a young adult).
Can you help me understand what happens to his compatriot?
This is the story with links:
1+ Anonymous 01/17/13(Thu)15:47 No.11831923
I'm on the run, /x/... I suppose now that I'm enroute its safe to tell what I came across. This is OP from the Ricky McCormick thread...
I drove to Marias Temps, where the money may be buried at 5am.. it was 20 degrees, I figured no way in hell I'd come across anyone...Wrong. I pulled into the north entrance...big mistake. As soon as I round the bend I'm greeted by the site of a white pickup truck and a panel van, both were Ford models. There are figures standing around and they have their parking lights.. now, my car is performance oriented and has a loud exhaust. It definitely got the attention of the men, and they immediately began walking briskly to my car.
I shifted into reverse and punched it, throwing gravel everywhere. There wasn't enough space between us and one of them turned a flashlight on the front of my car.. IL requires a front plate. Fuck.
So I get back out on the main road, fly across the bridge to Alton and hide my car in the garage of my buddy who I can trust. I walk home
But maybe I'm overreacting, right? Maybe they were just hunters. My illusion of safety vanished the moment an hour later when the same van drove past my house. Twice. NOPE.jpg and I boarded the first train out of town.
So I'm going to a friend's place a few hundred miles away. What should I do? I am so scared and feel completely terrified and ......
More read: http://4chandata.org/x/I039m-on-the-run--x----I-suppose-now-that-I039m-enroute-its-safe-to-tell-what-I-came-across-This-is-OP-from-the-Ricky-McCormick-th-a329788
END PART ONE
PART TWO
ReplyDelete2+ Anonymous 01/20/13(Sun)17:51 No.11852244
Original OP here. Hi guys. Here's an update:
So I got home today. Decided to just kinda chill for a bit in the city I went to (someone cracked the code of where I went tehehehe) and have given the situation much thought.
Perhaps I was overreacting, but I doubt it. I know what I saw, and the van deliberately slowed down by my house twice. Shit like that doesn't just happen randomly.
Anyway, things are normal at home. Except for this:
Twice in the last three days, my email account has been either compromised or deactivated. No idea what's up with that, and my passwords are extremely difficult and change often. I am very secure (or so I thought) but apparently someone was able to both shut mine off and get in somehow, twice in the last three days. I've made the Spaniard aware of the situation and he told me to try and keep records of everything. Does anyone have those threads archived? I asked people to, and some claimed they were. I would have done it, except you know, I was on the fucking train escaping what I thought to surely be only bad things.
Who knows who was out there, and if by some INSANE coincidence a van with a burnt out taillight that looked the same drove by my house after I had encountered it at the entrance to a place which supposedly has 99k buried. Who knows. Like I said in the other threads, the only person who I can speak for is myself.
But I'll tell you what...I'm going back to Marias Temps Clair and I'm taking /x/ with me this time. Oh and I'm going in the middle of the damn day because fuck going at 5am.
Anyway, thanks for the support guis it means a lot. And to all the doubters and haters, I can't say I blame you... I feel like it's been a month since it all happened, and it was thursday morning....
Keep your eyes open, Anonymous. There's weird things out there (especially in Madison County Illinois)
More: http://4chandata.org/x/two-days-ago-we-had-this-thread-on-here-OP-found-a-wikipedia-article-abut-an-unsolved-murdercontacted-some-guy-that-said-that-he-c-a336101
END PART TWO
PART THREE
ReplyDelete3+ Anonymous 01/24/13(Thu)04:07 No.11875606
Everything I've ever done framed in the background of my thoughts, horrifyingly set in time. Unable to move on because I'm stuck trying to undo. I feel like it's 2005 all over again.
I was an unusual kid. Radio frequency scanners, Citizen's Band radios, Amateur licensed but no antenna. I was always too curious for my own good. This is a natural continuation of my growth as a person.
Those California streets I walked and biked... AC Transit buslines.. Living with this inside you so long. It's a miracle I've come this far. Staring out an Amtrak window in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Illinois, it makes no difference.
My friend Mark disappeared 4 years ago from Chicago. He's gone, dead I know. I don't believe in the paranormal but I know he's no longer with us. I often wonder where he died. His parents don't know what happened.
I'm writing this to a board of anonymous users on a niche area of 4chan because I don't know who else to turn to. You don't go to other people in real life and talk of these things.
I'm being followed.
I don't know by whom, or if they're private or LEO (I have my suspicions). But it's definitely happening. Minivans in the middle of the night, there's always a car following me-level stuff. I'm terrified. I went to Marias Temps Clair and posted about it online. This may be my only hope of preserving what happens to me. I wonder, what did Ricky think was happening? Walking out of a hospital ER in the hot, humid summer of 1999.. I was living in Cahokia Illinois that year. It was overwhelming heat. Ricky wasn't too bright in traditional ways, but he was brilliant in others. Raised in a poor area just over 4 blocks from where I would later date briefly in St. Louis, his childhood home no longer exists.
Were it not for those notes, every trace of him would be gone. Ricky McCormick was murdered, and I'm worried I'm about to be next.
Read more: http://boards.4chan.org/x/3.
I do not want that third person has an "accident".
What do you think?
Bye from Spain.
Joseph from Spain wrote: "You also know that I claim to have deciphered the FBI notes, and I was looking for someone to find a suitcase with $ 99,000.'
ReplyDeleteI'd totally forgotten about that. But, I remember it now.
Joseph from Spain also wrote: "Two people wanted to help but disappeared, and now I've found a third person ..... but the little camping trip to Marais has become a strange flight. I do not understand what happens to this third person, may he be a U.S. citizen (but a young adult).
Can you help me understand what happens to his compatriot?"
Sorry, Joseph, but this is all to far into the "paranormal" for me. This is information from people who believe in ghosts, mind-reading and magic.
Some of it looks like it's from someone who is just trying to make people think he's in trouble. It reads like a murder mystery from the 1940's (except for the obscenities):
"Twice in the last three days, my email account has been either compromised or deactivated. No idea what's up with that, and my passwords are extremely difficult and change often. I am very secure (or so I thought) but apparently someone was able to both shut mine off and get in somehow, twice in the last three days. I've made the Spaniard aware of the situation and he told me to try and keep records of everything. Does anyone have those threads archived? I asked people to, and some claimed they were. I would have done it, except you know, I was on the fucking train escaping what I thought to surely be only bad things."
That's the writing of some person making stuff up to try to get readers interested and excited. It's someone who wants to be a writer of mysteries or horror stories or stories about the paranormal.
I don't believe any of it. I can't make any sense of it. And, I don't have the time to try to make sense of it. This is something of interest to you, but not to me.
I think you may have entered into a group of people who are just playing with you. They're making stuff up to get you excited.
Sorry, but I don't want to get involved.
Ed