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Skydivers are so cute when they're puppies.

Wattsup with the silly talk about exploding heads? Why do so many outraged right wingers feel the need to use mocking language. And more to the point, why do they need to repeat the same tired insults of the day until they wear them out and move on? It's so tribal.

I read a tongue-in-cheek proposal for what Bloomberg could do for the country: Offer Trump $10B to resign. - Bloomberg would still have 80% of his current net worth. - Trump would finally have the net worth he claims to have. It's a win-win!

He's got some odd positions on issues. Smoking and soft drink laws wouldn't have any impact on me personally, so those are cool though. His tax ideas would drive us deeper in debt, he seems to have an almost racist approach to policing laws, and he's an idiot on where we are with pot. I still wish the billionaires that want change would simply use their money to support decent and skilled states-people that understand the process of policies. I'm not too excited about Biden, but he is a significantly better option than what we currently have. Biden / Harris might get more support I think. Who knows at this point though, so much flux happening.

16 years is an eye blink. That's one of the problems we must deal with. The major effects of warming are down the line and easy for people to ignore in the present. You are correct about one thing, it is not an existential threat. Our main existential threat is large scale thermonuclear war. Just because the human race will almost certainly cope with a warmer climate does not mean it is wise to just continue experimenting with global warming in order to find out how bad it may or may not be. That would be foolish and in keeping with being passengers and crew on a ship of fools. We can do better without sacrificing our standard of living, and we will.

I live in Lake Elsinore Marty. Lyle Cameron who was running the paracenter at the time was the guy who told the fbi this when they came to the DZ shortly after norjack. Lyle passed away in a plane crash in Honduras in 93. I talked to his son Lyle Cameron Jr. I read him the fbi 302 and he said he heard the exact same report verbatim not directly from his dad but one of his dads skydiving buddies (couldn’t recall names thinks maybe Jerry Tyson) matching description, smoking Raleigh’s, Cochran boots, asking questions on how to jump out of a Jet. I asked if he made a jump he said no just came asked questions and left. He also added that the jumpers described him as being geeky looking same terminology Mitchell used for describing cooper. I asked Cameron jr if any of those guys there that day might still be alive he said most likely there all dead. Another interesting tidbit, Mark Metzler said at the conference that Elsinore was a known recruiting hub for the CIA. One of the last two people jack ruby called before he killed Oswald was Lyle Cameron Sr. It’s in the fbi files. I brought this up with his son and he also knew about this and has also been puzzled...to quote him “what was ruby doing calling my old man.” He believes his dad worked for the government and was killed by them. My guess is cooper wasn’t a sports jumper and wasn’t a regular jumper in the military, most likely a fighter pilot who had one emergency jump or something so he was sent or advised to go to lake elsinore and talk to Lyle (pioneer of the sport, started skydiving magazine) to do some homework for norjack. That could explain why Tina saw cooper look at the packing cards. That’s something a sports jumper would tell him to look for and where there located. This Elsinore incident is too big of a coincident to me, a guy matching description smoking Raleigh’s and asking about jumping out of jets 3 months prior, it has to be related. I believe this incident and the incident a week before norjack where there was a report of flares being dropped from a low flying plane in cottage grove Oregon to the Eugene are both directly related to the case.

I doubt it. I'm pretty sure China would have always preferred a reliable supplier instead of the US. An overland pipeline is always going to be more economical than LNG ocean shipping. That's why Russia also supplies Western Europe.

I assumed you were just finding another way of slamming any media outlet that is not sufficiently conservative.

Well, if this doesn't make you believe, nothing will. Amirite?

Please don't tell me anymore. Not in public. And whatever you do, don't let Ron find out about the secret handshake.

I'd like to buy a vowel please!

I blame money. She cannot compete with the top 2 right now. I hope she gets a VP or AG nod though. She's rather well qualified and accomplished.

personally I could care less what race, gender or socioeconomic group the candidate comes from if I can get behind there agenda

Sugar cane grows in warm temperate to tropical climates. There is no such thing as "climate change media". What other nonsense will you post today?

Some people don't finish AFF. Some people never get their license. Some people get their license and drift away soon after. Some people jump for a year or two and then disappear. Some do it until they decide to become 'responsible' and quit. That may be their own decision or they may have 'help' with it. Some jump until they realize how much time & money it takes to stay current and reasonably safe, or to progress beyond 'sorta good'. Some jump until they get hurt, or see someone they know get hurt or killed. The danger isn't 'real' until then. So they quit. Some become Tandem Instructors (or packers or even DZOs), then get burned out by the grind. Of course, some of us keep on despite all of the above and refuse to quit.

Pause! Back on OP: Pompeo is resigning!

Hi yobnoc, Four grey walls for the rest of your life is what gets a lot of people talking. Jerry Baumchen

Rudy will flip like...a dog