panzwami

I've got a P5. Loved every minute of it.

c'mon, more people get in. Got 12 so far, I know there have to be more poker players out there...

he was 0wning that table for a good couple hours. Every time I turned around he was up another few hundred.

bottom pair is BOSS baby.

I think the rules are found in the Skydiver's Competition Manual, here: http://www.uspa.org/publications/manuals.htm

Andy, was this a chop (your or someone else's)?

sweet.....that means this week I can be proud to be a GT alum.

Yeah I'd definitely say Skydive Monroe, especially if you're a belly flier. You can keep up with the hangar situation on their website (www.skydivemonroe.com). Check the message board for updated info.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051118/D8DV51A80.html WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans, seeing an opportunity, maneuvered for a quick vote and swift rejection Friday of a Democratic lawmaker's call for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq. "We want to make sure that we support our troops that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. "We will not retreat." House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California had no immediate reaction to the idea of a quick vote before Congress leaves Washington for two weeks. GOP leaders decided to act little more than 24 hours after Rep. John Murtha, a hawkish Democrat with close ties to the military, said the time had come to pull out the troops. By forcing the issue to a vote, Republicans placed many Democrats in a politically unappealing position - whether to side with Murtha and expose themselves to attacks from the White House and congressional Republicans, or whether to oppose him and risk angering the voters that polls show want an end to the conflict. Murtha offered a resolution that would force the president to withdraw the nearly 160,000 troops in Iraq "at the earliest practicable date." It would establish a quick-reaction force and a nearby presence of Marines in the region. House Republicans planned to put to a vote - and reject - their own resolution that simply says: "It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately." Most Republicans oppose Murtha's plan, and some Democrats also have been reluctant to back his position. Some members of the House and Senate, looking ahead to off-year elections next November, are publicly worrying about a quagmire in Iraq. They have been staking out new positions on a war that has grown increasingly unpopular with the American public, resulted in more than 2,000 U.S. military deaths and cost more than $200 billion. The House move comes just days after the GOP-controlled Senate defeated a Democratic push for Bush to lay out a timetable for withdrawal. Spotlighting questions from both parties about the war, though, the chamber then approved a statement that 2006 should be a significant year in which conditions are created for the phased withdrawal of U.S. forces. "Our troops have become the primary target of the insurgency," Murtha said Thursday. "They are united against U.S. forces and we have become a catalyst for violence. The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion." A day after his comments, a U.S. field commander in Iraq countered the position of the congressman who usually backs the Pentagon. "Here on the ground, our job is not done," said Col. James Brown, commander of the 56th Brigade Combat Team, when asked about Murtha's comments during a weekly briefing that American field commanders give to Pentagon reporters. Speaking from a U.S. logistics base at Balad, north of Baghdad, two days before his scheduled return to Texas, Brown said: "We have to finish the job that we began here. It's important for the security of this nation." Republicans chastised Murtha for advocating what they called a strategy of surrender and abandonment. Democrats defended him as a patriot, even as many declined to back his view. "I won't stand for the swift-boating of Jack Murtha," said Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004. Also a Vietnam veteran, Kerry was dogged during the campaign by a group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who challenged his war record. "There is no sterner stuff than the backbone and courage that defines Jack Murtha's character and conscience," Kerry said. For his part, Kerry has proposed a phased exit from Iraq, starting with the withdrawal of 20,000 troops after December elections in Iraq. A Kerry spokesman said "he has his own plan" when asked if Kerry agreed with immediate withdrawal. As a Vietnam veteran and top Democrat on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, Murtha carries more credibility with his colleagues on the issue than a number of other Democrats who have opposed the war from the start. Bush administration officials have been cautious in responding to him. "We have nothing but respect for Congressman Murtha's service to his country," White House communications director Nicolle Wallace told NBC's "Today" show Friday. "And I think he spoke from the heart yesterday. We happen to have a real serious policy disagreement with him." Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, a 29-year Air Force veteran who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for nearly seven years, called Murtha's position unconscionable and irresponsible. "We've got to support our troops to the hilt and see this mission through," he said. With a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts, Murtha retired from the Marine Corps reserves as a colonel in 1990 after 37 years as a Marine, only a few years longer than he's been in Congress. Elected in 1974, Murtha has become known as an authority on national security whose advice was sought out by Republican and Democratic administrations alike.

"Full cavity searches all around." "I'm talking Roto-Rooter. Don't stop until you reach the back of his teeth."

I wrote a book on how to live poor. $100,000 and it's yours.

This boogie is the heat. Anyone even close to college age should go.

Is Pants Berger senior enough for you?

What was the crime that was committed?

Why does Sport Acc at Collegiates always seem to bring out the worst in peoples' canopy flying? I still can't believe some of the stuff I've seen with my own eyes.

(What's your favorite color?) MAGENTA! (Where do you get your weed?) COLUMBIA!

you do realize the Sentry and Rage are two competely different canopies, right? The Rage is a 9-cell, elliptical canopy designed for higher performance flight at higher wingloadings. The Sentry is a 9-cell rectangular canopy designed for much more docile flight. Probably the better option for 85 jumps.

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/safety/detail_page.cgi?ID=47 Numbers 1 and 2 are probably where you want to start.

hey, women don't need men. Don't you watch Oxygen?

note to self....these are not toys for keeping oneself occupied at the DZ when the winds are too high for jumping.

It's one of the finer merits of the two-party system: if you're not with us, you're against us. Politics in this country has degenerated to the point where you no longer win elections by convincing the electorate that your ideas are better for the country than the opposition's. Instead, victory is achieved by making people more afraid of your opponent than he can make them of you. Both sides are equally quick to pounce on the other's weaknesses and missteps as opportunities to sway voters not toward their own ideas, but away from the other side. The end result is that both sides fight over who is the larger victim, hoping to sway sympathy points by pointing out how much more flawed the other side is, repeating the process forever.

if you're going to make an accusation like that in a public forum, I really hope you're prepared to show evidence to back it up.

Looking over the forums at RC.com, they have built-in text links for certain terms when you roll the mouse over the word (i.e. TRAD, N00b, etc.) Pretty helpful for people visiting the site that don't know much about climbing. Any chance of getting something like that set up here? Having pop-up definitions for a few skydiving glossary terms might not be a bad idea.

Written permission? As in something like "I hereby grant Ashtanga permission to lick the naked photos I took of Jumpchikk"?