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I don't despise the Health Care System of other countries. I'm all for single payer here.

Hi John, I'm 81 & I agree with you. I do not like wearing a mask. I do not like getting shots. I do it to keep me & others safer. Not absolutely safe, just safer. There are no guarantees in life. Jerry Baumchen

May I suggest installing different-colored risers to the two different canopies? Different-colored risers will give you a second reminder of which canopy you are landing.

It's not about winning or losing or money. It's about keeping active physically and mentally. It's about staying alive. I'm not quitting anything, be it the DZ, my airplane gigs, doing deals, etc. No way.

Hi folks, I think this one comes under the 'for worse' category: Washington state prosecutor says wife’s racist rants shouldn’t be held against him - oregonlive.com She had declared herself a “proud white nationalist” and held up the Ku Klux Klan as a beacon of “white culture.” Jerry Baumchen

But he had his freedom.

If people think that masks work 100% - then I agree. They reduce, but do not eliminate, your odds of infecting someone else. They are like reserves in that respect. I have never heard anyone say anything like masks are a 100% effective "magic shield." Can you point to a statement by a government or a medical organization that claims that masks are 100% effective? Because I think that's a strawman argument. And if you look at what the government actually said, it made it pretty clear that they weren't 100% effective. No one said, ever, that you can go to a crowded Wal-Mart for hours and be perfectly safe. In fact, they were saying that you had to mask AND avoid unneccesary trips to that Wal-Mart AND stay six feet away from other people where practical. That implicitly says that masks are not 100%. Sure, people may have falsely assumed that masks work 100%. That's their problem, and the best solution to that is education. What, exactly, did they disagree with? Did they disagree with the CDC that masks worked 100%? Because, again, the CDC never said that. How do we know it's not mask wearing and not: 1) COVID and its fallout 2) the difficulty in getting into a hospital until the problem was severe and/or 3) anxiety causing asthma and worsening COPD? Do you have data that shows pathogen X reproduces better in masks and that that's causing it? Because doctors (including my wife) often wear masks for most of the day exposed to some of the worst bugs out there. And they don't get sick any more often than other people. Because if YOU wear a mask your odds of getting it go down. And if everyone ELSE wears a mask your odds of getting it go down even more. Again, actual studies prove this.

It is not surprising in such a polarized time that we all make so many assumptions of each other as if there are only two possible sets of beliefs.

Frankly, anyone who was “led to believe” that masks were a magic bullet either really wanted to believe that, or was paying attention to sources that used that language. Where I am (solidly blue), plenty of people considered masks to only be better than nothing — which they are. Witness the huge drop in flu and the common cold. Had those been as prevalent as usual, there would have been even more illness this last winter. Wendy P.

Thanks for the correction. I was listening to it on a broadcast while driving and didn't read the article.

Nor do I but what chaps my ass most is it didn't need to be such an imposition on everyone. We should have ignored the squeals of the anti-vaxer, anti-masker, anti-social distance crowd long ago and required vaccination passports for entry to all public venues. We should have rewarded all who were doing what's was considered best and let the rest of them shop for groceries during special maskhole and anti-vaxer hours and stay out of the airports and off the trains and buses. That and let them go to tent city hospitals with Alan Alda in charge.

DFS346: Excellent book by the way. One topic that confuses me is your selection of the actual landing zone of DB Cooper. I'm curious about a few things that maybe you have tim to answer if you feel like it. 1. It sounds like you believe the pressure bump and the 8:13 time indicate the general time and place that Cooper jumped. In other words, he did not jump past Portland or in the Lake Merwin area. 2. I interpreted your writing to indicate that you thought he jumped north of Portland, around the Battleground VORTEC, but that because of the money find, and the fact that nothing has been found near Battleground, that through Occam's Razor, he had to have landed in the river or south of the river. Am I in the right ballpark here? Thanks.

They always help with your trolling.

OMG it embarrasses me that the likes of her and Trump are associated with the GOP. She (and Trump) are certifiable idiots, full stop.

mmm sub optimal it seems I would like to see it deployed with the leg and chest straps done up and normal tension on the harness as it would have been designed for. Very few reserves are deployed without a secured harness , at least not more than once.

winsor second from the right. As usual Brent is far right.

Completely untrue. I have it on good authority that the average Democrat legislator has a 10 point IQ advantage on the average Republican. Fact, I saw it on Facebook.

While I agree that this particular legislator is an idiot - or plays one on TV at the very least - it strikes me that neither side has the market cornered on stupidity. For every blithering idiot elected to office by one side there is an absolute moron counterpart on the other. The yin and yang of politics as it were.

And the right loves him cause he says nigger and compares black people to planet of the apes. Like being at the dinner table for them.

Joe Rogan is a free thinker with an inquisitive mind, he conducts long format interviews lasting hours covering a wide range of topics. The left wants him canceled because he is not a doctrinal lefty. Although he endorsed Bernie Sanders for President, he has also given voice to the likes of Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro.

People don't want to think for themselves, the ability for reasoning is at an all time low, and it is a bi-partisan phenomenon. My wife was outraged that Joe Rogan was an anti-vaxer, because that was what she gleaned from the 2 minute news blast. I told her that I didn't listen to those exact episodes but I was fairly certain that he wasn't personally making those claims, and that people were probably outraged because he gave facetime to some controversial guests. Ultimately that was my take on the recent events. Besides if you get your medical advice from his podcast you are a fucking idiot, and you are probably making the supplement companies rich! If you don't die of covid you will probably just OD on Alpha Brain and Athletic Greens instead. People are outraged because of 1 minute sound bites from the nightly news. I see the same phenomenon with issues that make conservative's blood boil. People are mad as hell, but 9 times out of 10 they only know that their tribe is mad, and they haven't spent any time reasoning out their position themselves.

I really don't know much about Joe Rogan, but apparently he tends to get Woke panties in a knot as a matter of course. What I don't get is, given that the Woke consider it to be a god given right to be completely out to lunch, why don't they extend that opportunity to others? In any event, if he had quoted any number of rap titles and lyrics, I am sure he would have provided plenty of material for the accusatory clip that went around. I am fully confident that, if we get past the current crop of cancel culture proponents on the right and left, there will be more in the future. These things appear to run in cycles. BSBD, Winsor

(Pardon the momentary hijack, but...) I always find it curious when 'movie' cars are mentioned. As Joe inferred, there are often several of them. They have the 'hero' car, which they keep pristine, which is used by the actor or second unit for standard driving shots, pulling into or out of parking spots, and what-not. Then they might have one or several others that they use for stunts or chase scenes. And yes, a shell car is used for dropping into lakes or whatever. So when an article mentions a movie car, I always wonder which one. I remember reading an article about the convertible GTX that was used in seasons 2 & 3 (?) of Mannix, before they changed to the Challenger. When they were done with it, some secretary at the studio bought it. No one thought about it ever being collectible, the secretary just liked it and bought it for personal use. Can't remember what they said it was worth today. And while it's cool to watch, I always cringe when movies destroy classic cars. There are only so many of those left. How many old Chargers were trashed by the Dukes of Hazzard TV show? Anyway, caring about any of that probably indicates my getting old(er)...

Kind of like how the US military was used to clear out a park for a photo op? Wendy P.

FEMALE PRAYER > Before I lay me down to sleep, > I pray for a man, who's not a creep, > One who's handsome, smart and strong > One who loves to listen long, > One who thinks before he speaks, > One who'll call, not wait for weeks. > I pray he's gainfully employed, > When I spend his cash, won't be annoyed. > Pulls out my chair and opens my door, > Massages my back and begs to do more. > Oh! Send me a man who'll make love to my mind, > Knows what to answer to "how big is my behind?" > I pray that this man will love me to no end, > And always be my very best friend. > > Amen. > > > MALE PRAYER > > > I pray for a deaf-mute nymphomaniac with huge boobs > who owns a liquor store and a bass boat. > This doesn't rhyme and I don't give a sh!t > > Amen.