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    what exactly does the Clinton foundation do that makes it so appealing that large organizations, and foreign countries donate millions upon millions of dollars to them?



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

  2. cvfd1399

    That's why bill and Hillary are so well off.



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

  4. kallend



    But Pope Francis seems like a pretty good guy to me.



    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?

  10. Deimian

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    The main issue in this case was the unwritten hierarchy in skydiving – not the chest strap.

    Someone wanted to state his superior position and the other one didn't want to concur. The chest strap was irrelevant.



    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.

  11. 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.

  12. Southern_Man

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    I'm sure for most (NOT MEANT TO BE RACIST) black kids it isn't hard to obtain real weed due to it being the culture, and the fact that source of most weed is from African Americans in this city not sure if its because they are the growers or the dealers, but that is who is behind the major busts that happen.

    On the other hand you bring up something I have not thought of and that its mostly white kids getting screwed up on MOJO, I actually dont remember anyone other than Caucasian kids doing it. So either they are too stupid to get real weed, or its harder for white kids to get real weed so they turn to synthetic.



    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!

  21. ryoder

    If anyone wants to join the squabble, over at the Times-Call there is a debate going on in the comments section below this article: http://www.timescall.com/news/ci_28178689/longmont-airplane-noise-lawsuit-over-but-questions-remain

    "Nature_Girl" is Gibbs mommy, (who lives in FL), and at the moment the debate is pretty much her versus everyone else.:D



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

  22. brenthutch

    ***>Looks the same to me. How about a ruling now we are comparing on the actual words
    >used, and not your exaggeration.

    OK. "You are full of venom" is worse than "that is your paranoia."



    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!

  24. 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.

  25. kallend

    ***I think Obama has taken the absolutely wrong stance on ISIS. The first thing he should have done is say:

    "This is a Muslim problem. The muslims have to take back their religion from the extremists."

    ....

    Just my $.02.



    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.