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This is a standard gun-grabber play, which starts with gun registration. First, get 'em all registered. Second, start making them illegal. Third, go get 'em. And people wonder why gun owners are opposed to registration. I'm wondering if the mass disobedience to the new Connecticut gun registration law is going to lead to bloodshed when the cops go out and start trying to actually enforce it by taking away unregistered guns...

Does having buns in your home make you fatter? Inquiring minds want to know.

So, are you and kallend saying that people should not be trusted with either guns or parachutes? And that we shouldn't allow people to own either?

I always send them a fake Western Union MTCN number so that they'll run down to the office to pick up their big score, only to be embarassed when they find out it's not real and there's no money. When he writes back, tell him you mis-typed the number, apologize, and give him another one that's close to the first one. He'll run to the office again... See how many times you can f**k with him before he catches on. Scam the scammers.

Yeah, that's it! Sometimes that dial gets turned after you insert the four connecting straps. And then all you have to do is accidentally tap that dial to make them all fall off. Imagine after landing your parachute and fiddling with taking off your gear. You try to turn the dial only to find it won't turn. And then you have the sudden realization that it won't turn because it's ALREADY turned. And that all they way down you were just one tap on that dial away from falling out of your harness... Kind of like the few instances we've had where the 3-ring cutaway cable has almost come out of the riser loops except for the very tip of the cable, and the only thing holding the risers onto the harness was the tension while under canopy. When the jumper lands and the tension is released, the canopy falls off. Ack!

Does that affliction only affect conservatives? Certainly seemed like it when Steven Colbert was booked at the National Press Club. But in reality, no. As I said, I believe it afflicts upwards of 30% of the population; all of it. It's just Rush Limbaugh is carried on far more radio stations across the country than any equivalent, strictly left wing clown and therefore more people of the US are taken in by his nonsense. And how many liberals are taken in by the frequent mass media press clips of Obama every day? 30%, by your number. And those are probably viewed by far more people than those who choose to tune their radio dial to Rush during their commutes.

Just because some people do stupid things, does not mean that all people do stupid things. That's true with both guns and parachutes.

"Atmonauti" is an old Cherokee Indian word that means "tracks poorly".

You DO NOT want a chest strap to be opened easily... The main design principle is that it simply stay in-place, no matter what. There are stories of army paratroopers with those gizmos on their chest to which four straps are attached, and secured with the turn of a knob. Well, some of those guys have landed, and the knob un-turns one last click and all four straps fall off... Not a good idea for sport free fall or under parachute. But a good idea for quick egress when nazis are shooting at you. Chest straps are also common hand holds for group exits. Do you want to risk someone's finger or thumb pushing that button just as they pull you out the door?

What if nudists jumped into a nudist colony, where it's normal for people to be nude - would that still be wrong? As for baseball, well, nudists play baseball nude, and it's perfectly normal for them. What say you about that? As long as they're not forcing their nudity upon people who don't want to see it, there's nothing immoral about it, right?

shots Now you're in a loop... Go to post #344 and repeat.

Does that affliction only affect conservatives?

How many white women were there in the Miss Black America contest?

Yep, two wrongs don't make a right. Different people have different hates. They think their hates are okay, and other people's hates are wrong. A lot of people loved to bash Tebow on the football field for his Christian beliefs. But those same people now say its wrong to bash Sam for being a gay football player. Both sides are equally wrong. If you participate in one form of hate, you have no business criticizing other people for other forms of hate. That's hypocrisy. [inline Tebow.jpg]

Maybe you should give your vehicle info too, so people in your area can be on the lookout for that, which might lead to the gear.

Apples and oranges comparison. The weasel word is "acquaintenances". An acquantenance is just somebody you happen to know. Could be someone from work, someone from the drop zone, someone from school, someone from social circles, at the bar stool next to you, heck, just anyone you happen to know somehow. The vast majority of those people shot by acquantenances were not shot in their homes, or with their own gun. So that's really not the equivalent counterpart to a gun being used in a home for self defense. Most all that acquantenance crime stuff is outside the home with the perpetrator's own weapon. So having a gun in your home is irrelevant to acquaintenance crime. Good try at playing with words and trying to confuse everyone though. Do YOU keep a gun in your home?

I remember reading a study many years ago, done by the guy that made F-111 parachute fabric. His name was George Harris I think. He put a bunch of swatches of parachute nylon on the roof of his building exposed to sunlight for a long time, and then brought them inside and tested them for strength degradation at various time intervals. It gave a good measure of how UV light weakens nylon fabric. I have no idea how to find that study now, or if ZP fabric would be different from F-111...

Robespierre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_de_Robespierre

They schedule groups of people (not necessarily related) to arrive in intervals. They then have one instructor give the group their ground training. The instructors rotate this duty. And finally, they line them up for their tandem airplane rides with their specific tandem masters. It's an orderly process, I'll give them that. Better than having people trickle in by ones and twos, and having to repeat yourself for the training many more times over. By the time that batch is being dispatched with certificates and videos in hand, the next batch is arriving, and the process starts over again. They know what their capacity is, and how long it takes to process them from start to finish. Of course, weather can always throw a monkey wrench into the smooth flow. They just need to factor in some fun jumper space on the plane along with all that. This is preferable I think to just having all the tandems for the entire day showing up at 8 am, and then having some suffer very long waits and getting all bitchy about the delay. Althought I think it's good for tandem passengers to have some time to hang out beforehand, watch parachutes being packed, and see other tandems landing, to get a feel for the whole experience. I've always thought it too impersonal to just have them show up, slap a harness on them, jump 'em, and send 'em on their way, slam-bang-thank-you-maam. A sign in an old rigging loft used to say; "Get it on, get 'em up, get 'em out." I like to see them hang around for a while, see what they're about to go through, watch the landings, see the smiles, and feel the vibe.

Masterson Ha! Try and follow THAT one!

Okay, so let's say you're correct, that conservatives are guilty of hypocrisy for not complaining about Bush's spending, while complaining about Obama's spending. Now, by the same token, aren't liberals equally as guilty, for complaining about Bush's spending, but not complaining about Obama's spending? I await your thoughtful reply. The US has run a debt every year since Andrew Jackson was president. In that time the US went from being a backwater to being a superpower and the world's richest nation. So tell us why debt, per se, has suddenly become bad. So then you APPROVED of Bush's deficit spending! Oh, and you didn't answer MY question: Aren't liberals equally as guilty? To answer YOUR question: Because there comes a point when you have too much debt, and the payments on those debts are too high. A reasonable amount of debt can be a good way to fund projects based upon future revenue. But we're in so deep now, that there's no end in sight... We're spending 223 BILLION per year just on interest!

Term limits and pegging their salary to the national average would be a good start, as well as some system to make sure they're not pocketing bribes from lobbyists and interest groups. How about for every percent they spend over a balanced budget, their own salaries are REDUCED by that same percent. They only way to make these fat cats quit spending everyone else's money that we don't have, is to hit them in their own pocketbooks. Spend 10% more than what a balanced budget would be - take a 10% pay cut!

The likelihood of two people each having something the other wants, and of comparable value, seems rather slim. Seems like the best course of action is to sell what you've got for cash, and then use that cash to buy what you need. That's why we have money as a common medium of exchange. It bridges the gap between dissimilar items. Old timey doctors may have taken a chicken in trade for their services from their country patients, but after a while, they've already got enough chickens and need a new car.

Gee Billy ~ wife checkin your posts again? You just know she was lookin' over his shoulder when he typed that.

Okay: you have a puppy, a kitten, a case of St. Arnold's beer, a bottle of tequila, and an old fat man. Which do you save? P.S. We're all going to hell for making fun of letting old people die...