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Scary how the hard-core right-wing of any religion travels full-circle until it resembles the hard-core left-wing of another religion. They both become rigid dictatorships/autocracies that brutally suppress any deviation from their narrow world-view. Their narrow world-view alienates many possible sympathizers. Remember how the United States of America was founded in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, Thirty Years War, Catholic Reformation, etc. that laid waste to large swaths of Germany and sparked a bloody Civil War in England. That is why the Constitution of the USA specifically forbids Congress from making any rules related to religion. I respect the American constitution because it tries to pre-empt any religious war in the USA by separating church and state.

All six of those unindicted co-conspirators have a hell of an incentive to flip on Trump while they are still unindicted co-conspirators.

In order to flip, the prosecutor has to offer a plea deal. Generally, that happens when the prosecutor needs additional testimony to convict the primary target. It seems that Jack Smith has enough to convict Trump. I'd doubt he'd offer much to the others. Personally, I'd like to see all 7 of them get significant time for Seditious Conspiracy.

Boris Epshteyn is going to court with Trump today. WTF Can they change his current title of Co-conspirator 6 to Co-indicted-co-conspirator while he's there? It's getting to be quite a challenge to keep track of all of the Trump crimes, indictments, and the web of co-conspirators. Criming better than anybody. Nobody knows more about conspiracy than Trump. People are saying. What a sad shit stain on American history.

I have to partly disagree with that. Xfire is an awesome canopy, great openings, super responsive on harness, very good on rears, very fun to fly. But the recovery arc is quite short compared with Katana or most cross-braced canopies, which makes it dangerous to swoop with it, as you have to turn quite close to the ground. At least that has been my experience in 500 jumps with Xfires of different sizes.

No double keel, but had several hundred jumps on a couple of single keels. One black, which I passed on to a friend, and a white one. I'd split the nose slider on them for a touch better performance. Made about 25 jumps on the black one with no main slider at all. Jumps 1-24 were gravy openings, but that 25th one about killed me, so slider went back on. Some pics attached. The colorful Dactyl was Zing's.

Lots of arm muscle. May I suggest training in the gymnasium 3 or 4 times per week to include chin-ups, curls, push-ups, parallel-bar dips, etc. Technique also helps a lot. Personally, I like to pull toggles to shoulder level, then rotate my elbows up so that I am using more muscles (pectorals, latimus dorsi, trapesius, etc. to finish the bottom half of the flare.

How about Alaska? He would have Sarah Palin to keep him company. He would be able to see his friend Putin's Russia from there.

Hi kleggo, Yup, it was the best skydiving magazine ever; and I go back a ways. It was always current and the editorials were even better. Jerry Baumchen

Someone must have counseled that now was an inopportune time to go to court arguing that you shouldn't need to pay your lawyers.

The greatest fear of all conservatives is that they will be treated like they treated minorities, women and gay people.

I'd counter that there's a virtually limitless supply of tools chasing this Hunter Biden angle.