Well, it's official. Thesteelcity was right and so was the article of his I re-posted.
The FBI investigation into the noose came to a close. Their finding: The rope/noose had been in the garage since last fall and was from the garage pull.
"Never let a crisis go to waste" though.
I was skeptical about the whole thing from the beginning, along with you and probably a ton of other people. Here's Bubba's message to us apparently: