Andy9o8

The Illuminati need a public front through which to operate. Kind of like, say, a pizza shop... but the sausage is really pricy.

It's really not quite that simple in their case(s). Dig, and you'll see the details.

Indeed. And then, there are the Scots.

Eh, now I'm not so sure. He could have just stayed ambiguously silent about the gay marriage vote in Ireland. Instead, the Vatican went and did this: Same-sex marriage: Irish vote 'defeat for humanity' says Vatican official ... which I find hard to believe was done without Francis's acquiescence (if not his actual instruction). Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss?

Singapore Airlines jet loses power in a storm Basically: both engines (2-engine craft) cut out & the plane lost 13,000 ft of altitude before getting them re-started. Good for them it didn't happen at 12,000 ft.

Hey, can I pick up wifi in my Stearman when I'm doing low-level crop dusting over Longmont?

Always astute when it comes to public relations, the Vatican has labeled it "a defeat for humanity". You know, as if serial sexual abuse of helpless children and institutional obstruction of justice is not.

Step 7. - Show photographs with a caption of the disease superimposed over Africans so, you know, people get The Point. Like this.

That is pretty stupid, IMO. If an AFF student on his first jump points at my chest strap while in the airplane and tells me that it is not properly routed I would blush, say thank you and shut up. I have 260 jumps. I hope I keep thinking and behaving like that my whole live. This "unwritten hierarchy" is not an excuse to have an idiotic attitude, neither being sloppy in your procedures. This. An improperly routed chest strap can kill the jumper, which fucks up the DZ, which fucks me & my buds up; and I might even give a shit about the life of the jumper even if he is a sophomoric asshat. Can it also let his rig shift around more on his body, increasing the chance his pilot chute might come loose in the plane, go out the door and kill all of us? Maybe. Does it reflect an attitude that if he's careless about that, he's probably also careless about protecting his handles and his PC in the plane? I think so. So I'll tell him about it. If he doesn't like it, he can bite my ass. Sometimes I'll notice a newer jumper eyeballing my chest strap in the plane because he's learned it's the right thing to do. I'll nod or say thanks to encourage him to keep doing it. Fuck the hierarchy.

I think it's even more simple than that. People who are inclined to act like assholes will do so if given a forum that enables them, especially if with little or no penalty. Thus: Skydiving, at every historical phase of the sport, has always had its share of self-important douchebags who behave that way at the DZ, and probably always will. So, the tunnel doesn't bring out the inner asshole in jumpers any more than anything else: they were already like that.

A 2013 ACLU report noted that on average, a black person is 3.73 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white person," even though blacks and whites use marijuana at similar rates." Such racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests exist in all regions of the country, in counties large and small, urban and rural, wealthy and poor, and with large and small black populations, concluded the report, touted as the first to examine marijuana possession arrest rates by race for all 50 states (and the District of Columbia) and their respective counties from 2001 to 2010. See, here's what I mean by penny-wise & pound-foolish. According the crypto-fascisti among us, the Negroes all riot either because They're So Like That, or because they're pissed at not getting their Free Money. Yet if they were simply left alone, yea encouraged, to smoke as much ganga as they wanted... they wouldn't give a shit! No more riots! A win-win for everyone!

So bald guys never commit crimes? Or do you just hate Italians? You guys are hard to figure sometimes. Did you just miss another cat? Not hairy.

So bald guys never commit crimes? Or do you just hate Italians? You guys are hard to figure sometimes.

Swing and a miss. I mean, by me: I try, but they're too fast.

Not at all; you see, the knucKle-draggers also can't spell. I just didn't want to be imperious. Well, one thing for sure, you were not being empirical. In fact, I was.

They rioted because they're Negroes, and you know what they're like. C'mon, say it. RonD does; you can, too.

Not at all; you see, the knucKle-draggers also can't spell. I just didn't want to be imperious.

aka The Daily Hitler. I crack me up.

Pfft. That's like saying a herd of fish. Skydivers don't come in groups, they come in formations.

I would just strongly urge everyone to keep it civil. Please. Let's keep our eye on the big picture.

That is because "you are full of venom" is true, and thus worse; while "that is your paranoia" is clearly false and thus much more inocuous. Insult-O-Rama! Which is worse: "You're a grunting, knucle-dragging, bigoted fascist pig right winger ", or "You're a carpet - bagging, Yale Law School educated former Republican who has a once-functioning vagina and is married to a Democrat who's hung like a horse"? Cast your vote now!

Aha! So where there is ambiguity there is life!

Here's an example of what I mean about Boehner. the very day after the recent Amtrak accident, House Republicans voted to cut funds for Amtrak. Seriously? Are you kidding me? And then his idiotic defenses during a news conference compounded the political damage threefold. What a gift to Democrats that was.

EVERY president since 1948 should have stayed out of the Middle East. Western meddling has done zero of value there. I wouldn't go that far, though your broad point is valid and well taken. But morality aside, it gave the US decades of cheap oil, and that was of no small economic effect. Pro and con, but plenty of pro. Oh, and Camaros and cheap jump tickets.