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I just realized you live nearby. I am at work in Garden City right now, and live in West Babylon. Levittown is right up the road!!! Chris

I think I am going to send Nikkie an email to find out. Yes, Linda is doing the recurrency this weekend! THanks

Question: I am obviously not current. I am going to safty day for two reasons: 1)Because I think everyone should go to a safety day. With out safety we wouldn't be jumping too much. 2) Recurrency training. I am a student, and if I get recurrency ground training this weekend, but can't jump due to weather, how long is that training good for? Typically they would want you to be trained and jump the same day I suspect. Right? Chris

So, it has been 6mo since I jumped last. Injury, and it is cold here in the North east in the winter. THis weekend is safty Day at the Ranch, and I was planning on making my come back!! Then I got a surprise. We are expecting 3-6 inches of snow tomorrow . I am so sick of winter. I mean sure the snow will be gone by this weekend, by we are forecasting rain for sat and sun. Oh well, it will have to wait a couple weeks I guess. I also don't know what it is like to jump in 50 degree weather. During my coldest jump it was 70. I am a bit nervous of jumping in temps at altitude of 0F Chris

What alti where you jumping from???? You docked at 14K, what was your exit?

It is not that I though it was easy.. I just couldn't have imagined there was a LOT of dirt diving for it!! I know it must be difficult, but the concept is quite simple. Everyone knows their positions, and where they "should" be, I just didn't suspect a DD was needed.

You are wrong thinking that we think the UN is useless because of 1 decision. Iraq - they are wrong and useless Kosovo- they are wrong and useless Somalia - wrong and useless The list goes on. The fact is that they are useless when it comes to enforcing the the resolutions they adopt. Look at their track record

One otherthing I forgot to mention... If you read my post you will notice when It was my opinion I cleary said "in my opinion"

John, You are right, I should not trust the AP or reuters, but the odds I will be sitting down with the President tonight are slim. So I will stick with the trusted companies we get our news from, they have been quite reliable through the years. Are you suggesting that no info is good or factual if I don't get it right from the source? I guess I will throw my TV and newspapers away. And, if we all did that we might be accused of being uninformed citizens. Catch 22 I guess.

WOW very good point!!!! not that complicated is it!!!!!

I noticed the guy I was talking to was from Croatia, and thought actually he would understand the US position better because of that. He clearly must know that targeting civilians is not what US foriegn policy is about, but that innocents die in war. The main reason though we supported SH was because he was actively going after IRAN. Much like we supported Stalin for awhile too. You know what happened in Beruit, and why we hated Iran. We didn't like Iraq either, but it was the lesser of 2 evils in the region. Also, there was hope there, since Iraq was the only Secular state in the region. Our thought was that maybe, just maybe Iraq would go democratic and bring some stability to the area. That thought will be there with the new gov in Iraq too. There are pushes in the Middle East where this is beginning to happen, and it is a step in the right direction. Places like Bahrain and Qatar now have "Independant" journalism (not completely but getting there). Thiswill help in the long run to show the middle east that a "GREAT DEAL" of their problems are not with us, but instead with there own governments. This will alltake time yes, but will help with regional stability in the long run. Do you get digital Cable? I just got it, and there is a Discovery times channel. Now I hate the "Liberal" NY Times, but they are getting better. Anyway, the times teamed up with Discovery to create this channel, and as of late, there have been some excelent shows and documentaries on the Mid East. Very enlightening, very balanced. In my opinion, this war will breed some short term hatred, but some long lasting possibilities for peace in the middle east.

Sorry, but I need to correct you on a few FACTs you mis spoke about. First off, we did not support Iraq when he fried the Kurds. We stopped supporting Iraq when they used Chem weapons against Iran (before the Kurds). IN FACT, we began to support IRAN again Iraq at that time. If you are going to state something factual then source it. My facts are coming form th NY TIMES in a piece called "Understanding Iraq" it was presented about 3 weeks ago... Look it up, maybe you will learn something. Now,... let me explain to you the difference between a war with civilian casualties and terrorism. Terrorism targets civilians without discrimination. Modern war targets enemy forces, and at times civilian casualties happen. Is it OK that this happens??? Well, that is the price of war. Sacrifice for the greater good. Let me explain one other important thing. The USA will also kill it's own civilians for the greater good. Example: We have reasonable knowledge a hijacked plane filled with passengers is going to fly into a building with thousands in it. If we could get there in time, WE WILL SHOOT it down to save the others on the ground.[/B] If it wasn't for nessesary war, you wouldn't be here to have this discussion. What gives us the right to decide about lives of the children? THe fact that Iraq's leadership doesn't care about them, and the morality of the USA! Why do people in Iraq starve during an "OIL FOR FOOD" program while SH wealth increased by 4 times? If 1000 innocents die to save 1,000,000, then that is justified in my book. I guess you stand with the POPE. Just sit back while murder rape and torture happens, it will work itself out. Right? Just like it did in WWII when the church took the same stance. If you remember we came to the rescue. Everyone called Churchill an idiot, just like they do with bush today. But now Churchill is praised, and I think you will see the same with Bush and Blair.

GOD DAMN IT DEVIL WOMAN... WHERE IS MY DINNER!!!!!!!!

I keep my wife chained to the stove so she never forget to cook my dinner.

Well, i don't know about other post but this is a GREAT ONE. Why is it you make a comment like this when it is about Chirac? Article about Bush and Blair come out every day in Europe criticizing them. The truth is from everything I see on both sides, that Chirac's problem is that of Jelousy toward the US. He wishes they didn't have as much power as they do, and he wishes France had more. Let me ask you this. In this day and age why does Fance have a perminant seat on the SC with Veto power? Serious question that I would like an answer for.

I know what your talking about, and I have no idea??? The funniest thing though is this. At the very begining of the movie Vic goes to the DZ and looks up and sees people in Freefall and says wow.. look at that. Now, we all know you can't really see someone skyboarding that well with the naked eye. In the rest of the movie they are using binoculars to view them. So my question to them is> What happened between the begining f the movie and the rest? Suddenly everyone got further away???

Yeah.... It is called war!!!! That's what it looks like. Funny though, you didn't post any pics of the Kurds or iranians burned to death by chemical weapons. It doesn't surprize me though. You like many arab news agencies only want to show one side of the story.

Cutaway was on TV last night. First time I ever saw it. As insanely unreal and stupid as a lot of it was, I have to say it was a lot better thn Dropzone!!!! At least there was a good deal of real footage in this one. Wouldn't it be great though if we all could be pro's with 2 jumps and some tunnel time? Chris

I am laughing my ass off right now. I am laughing because I ampretty sure you are kidding around. However, in the future can you please put a smiley face at the end so I know. Because if you are being serious... well... I wouldn't know what to say.

-Quote_____________________________ One question though, didn't we help put S.H. in power over 20 years ago even though we knew he was bloodthirsty SOB? ___________________________________________ I notice a lot of people put this comment in with out really understanding the situation. Read up on history, and you will understand. Did we help put him in? NO. Did we help support his fight with IRAN? To some degree yes, but our support stopped the moment he used Chem weapons. Then we began to support IRAN(secretly). See, there were several things going on at the time, one of them was a baraks bomb which killed 250 US soldiers. The culpret... Humas stationed in IRAN. We weren't about to go to war with IRAN, however, we could support a country which was at war with IRAN to make up for what they did to us. But we played both sides, because we knew SH was a looney, and we didn't want to get in too deep with him. SH was under the impression we were his best friend, up until the IRAN contra scandal came out. Then SH realized he had been played. After 8yrs of war with IRAN, and only winning by using chem weapons, his country was broke. So, how could he get money???? Well, he could invade Kuait (sp?). SH is such a moron, he really believed no one would care, unfortunately for him he was wrong. Th US went to the UN, and the use of force was authorized to remove Iraqi's from Kuait. BUT, and this is important to remember...Th UN did not authorize the removal of SH. The US could have done it with out their approval, however, much like now, Bush Snr though it would be a bad political move. So, did we help him? not as much as some people would like you to believe. Chris ps- sorry for the spelling

I heard this also on 710AM radio in NYC. Could be true. I suspect it is seeing as that staion uses reliable sources (AP, rueters) during their moring talk/news program. Chris

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, The Swiss holds 'America's Cup,' France is accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war."

I like it!! PS- Nice sig

about the hippie thing... I spent 3 years in central maine with a large group of "crunchy/hippies" The only thing they differed in from the "True hippies" was there lack of a cause. So, they looked for causes. Usually it was some sit in to stop people from eating meat, or they would join some PETA rally, but either way, their lack of hygiene polluted the air I breathed. And to me, that was ironic.

I have misdirected revenge because I have confidence in my administration? Or my administration has misdirected revenge?