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Trump has trouble sleeping at night due to nagging fear that next election might be decided by Americans, instead of Russians.

Well there are these. Now with the firings of all the IG's he is working on a whole new class of underlings, Consigliere and Caporegimes.

It shouldn't matter why she wants an abortion. It is none of anyone's business. So it just completely sucks that she felt the need to lie. It also completely sucks that she felt the best way to gain sympathy was to claim to have been raped by black men. That says something deeply disturbing about the society she was trying to survive in.

On hydroxychloroquine, Kristen Welker with NBC "President Trump made the claim that thousands of frontline workers are using the medication. We did a little bit of a fact check, checked with the largest medical association, which said they don't have data to back that up at this point."

More here.. https://thecoopervortex.podbean.com/e/db-cooper-was-a-railroader-anonymous/

Oh good thing you mentioned that. Cheap, for the cost of some gifts to Jared, Saudi Arabia gave Donald Trump 83 gifts including swords, daggers and artwork of himself "Presents to the President include two robes lined with fur - one from a cheetah and the other from a rare white tiger." from above link. Give MBS credit he knows what motivates trump. Perhaps if Nancy Pelosi gave trump a couple CITES type gifts. A couple ivory statues of trump, appropriately stained orange. A rare Tasmanian devil robe. trump would sell out his tribe by telling the truth.

Consider the person, the time, and the place. She was a troubled youngster in a troubled situation -- the happiest times she remembered were apparently the time she spent in the youth home (also according to Wikipedia). She wanted an abortion, and that seemed (to her 21-year-old, not-well-raised self) to be one way to get it legally. Didn't work. Again based on other stuff I've read, as well as Wiki, she's the kind of person who always wanted to have a family to belong to, but she wanted them to want her as much as she wanted to have one. I've had a couple of friends like that -- hugely nourished by finding religious communities, when they'd been unmoored much of their lives. Only when you find out that the answers that are provided don't fit all the questions you have, you have to re-evaluate. Sometimes that means tossing away what came before, sometimes it means redefining the problems, spinning the "answers," or simply accepting that nothing can answer everything, and that the community is more than its ability to answer all questions and problems. So she's an authority on herself; she may have been making a deathbed confession, or she may just have been sniping back at a perceived lack of support when she felt she needed it. Either way, her life as it was lived is her legacy -- both the abortion ruling, and her fight against it. Damn I can get wordy. But most people have situations that are too complex to make facile one-line judgments valid, unless they're very tightly delineated. Wendy P.

Not really. We don't get many brain dead entitled suburban white women out here. They wouldn't survive. Of course, I have my tin foil barrier installed around the house and all of my essential oils to keep me safe outside just in case, so no worries here, I'm good.

That is just wrong on so many levels.

Aren't you worried someone will burn it down to prevent it from spreading the disease?

I picked up the phone, and my father said "turn on CNN. Were those the guys I was talking to last week?" "That's them." My father never jumped, but he enjoyed coming to the dropzone, talking to people while he took pictures, and he rode right seat in Papa Victor to take photos of groups exiting. Flying back from Perris he said that he understood the appeal of the sport, and that I had great friends. As an aside, a week later I was on the way to altitude on 9HW when Steve Woods made reference to seat belt use and Mike said "you'll never get skydivers to wear seat belts." "Turn around." Everyone was belted. After Tommy Piras bounced AADs became de rigueur, and after PV you didn't see jumpers without seat belts on takeoff. The tuition was dear, but the lessons seem to have been learned. BSBD, Winsor

I found those German training on youtube, it looks a lot like the allied training I didn't find anything on sex swings from that era though

I never jumped a Triathlon but I did jump a Spectre for a few years. The Spectre always landed very well, but the openings were unpredictable. I transitioned to a Storm with Dacron lines and I haven't been disappointed. If a smooth opening is high on your list of priorities then I would highly recommend those bulky Dacron lines on whatever canopy you choose. You wont be the "Cool Gal" on the dropzone, but your Chiropractor won't be making a fortune off you.

The OP will pack smaller than the LPV. In my experience the LPV offers the least bulk reduction of all the low bulk reserves I have packed. As a side note, the Icon sizing isn't great from my experience and I wouldn't trust using their chart to confirm fit on extreme ends of their scale.

Is this the place for starting that discussion? The currency requirements are based on the idea that skills decay over time. The decay occurs regardless of the reason why you unable to jump. Pushing deadlines back suggests either that we should accept a lower standard of proficiency and safety (at least this once), or that the standards are too high.