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And this is who so many are okay with occupying the office of the PRESIDENT. "Heard it somewhere and it seemed right to him." He is in the office that has all the resources at his disposal. ALL of them. Anything he needs to learn/understand, there is SOMEONE (or many someones) who will appear in short order to explain it ad nauseum and ad infinitum. Answer all the questions until the matter is understood. "seemed right" is not the guesswork that the occupant of the most powerful position in the country (and most of the world) should just be spouting off. Let's not even get started on the comment that he doesn't have good judgement. [facepalm] All the accomplishments supporters want to point to? I'll admit, some things enacted in this administration have been good. Getting started on prison reform, for example. Great first step in that process. However, no one has convinced me that THIS guy is the only person in the country who could have signed those bills, or negotiated anything. In a different perspective: his incredibly short list of accomplishments are vastly overshadowed by this incredibly MASSIVE pile of damages.

TriGirl here. Marine Corps Officer. Liberal, atheist, feminist. Wanna draw?

I'm guessing cis, due to the presence of wives.

February 4, 1990. I was sitting in a Cessna 182 and this guy told me to get out. So I did. Then he told me to let go. So I did. And there it began. There have been so many changes and advancements in skydiving since my first jump. There were pretty much four disciplines back then (five if you count instructing) - RW, CRW, freestyle, and style and accuracy. We all flew big slow F111 mains. Some of us still had round reserves. A 180 to final was okay. So were big S turns on final. AAD's were for sissies. Audible altimeters had one beep. If we wore a helmet, it was a leather "frap hat" because only students wore hard helmets. Swooping was what you did in freefall to get to the formation (don't you ever swoop my slot again!). A case of beer was a case of beer, not a 12 pack. Very few dz's flew turbines. Most students did their first jumps on a static line out of a Cessna. USPA D license numbers were in the low 10,000's. And look at the sport now. Tunnels and coaches and turbines and modern gear and canopy education and GoPros and so many different things to do in the air. Jumpers today have more skills at 200 jumps than lots of us dinosaurs had at 500, 600,1000 jumps. Makes me wonder what skydiving will look like in 2050 (not that I expect to be around to see it). Just like I couldn't have imagined what skydiving would be today, I can't even imagine what it will look like by then. It's been an awesome thirty years for me. Thanks to everyone that has been a part of it.

Sorry. I thought your name was Jakee :)

pics or it didn't happen. congrats!

And BTW, who doesn't like watermelon, bbq ribs, or fried chicken. Right, and while I have a rather broad sense of humor, I never really understood those jokes. Later in life I found that it wasn't really about liking the food, it was just that they were black. Not even in the 80s? Back then across the river from Windsor, if you had a Caddy, you was pimp - but in a good way.

Never.

Dammit, you're ruining the fantasy that firearms would be the most relevant thing to survive the collapse of our centralized government! It's as if all of a sudden we would start shooting each other and have to all run out and shoot deer as if we aren't sitting on some of the worlds best land for farming and grazing.

The guys who did the ACA site had done a project for my father (defense contractor) and they fired them halfway through it. When the ACA debacle rolled out as a failure they were not surprised. Anyway, here to you, Iowa:

Only beans, libs/progs don’t believe in firearms, they will defend themselves with flatulence.

Yeah, I should have kept my 25 years as a smoker in the closet.

Same god who let his "chosen people" endure the Nazi Holocaust. I think we can safely say that god doesn't involve himself in human affairs.

Oh, I just love a story with a happy ending!!! (I just now watched the second half.)

I skipped to the end. She left in cuffs.

Yikes, you ain't kidding. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but the comments are kinda funny, especially the ones about Michigan. I mean I know we like the f-word up here and all, but damn we usually don't emphasize it like that - jeeze.

The guy is asking about Hog. Do you really think we care about your personal preference between Squirrel and PF suits, or who you look at, or not...

Cue anyone who is appalled that our senators put their party before their constitutional duty. Not you, obviously.

Thought from the sideline: Since so often you call yourself the greatest nation of the world, maybe, just maybe, you should start putting up the greatest persons for election as president.

I don't mind if students friend request me, especially if they were part of a group that is memorable for one reason or another. Sometimes students wait around for weather, etc, and you get to interact with them longer than usual. Your situation sounds like something the instructor would be stoked to hear about.