jazzjumper

Liz and I showed up on Friday, stoked and ready to be humbled in the tunnel. We were not disappointed.

Paiger and Ari rocked, and got us well oriented in the tunnel. The were so positive, and gave us upbeat feedback the whole time. All in all, Liz and I did 95 minutes each, and were so tired (and so stoked.)

I'll be back to fly with them both again. I learned a lot from them. Anyone who thinks a low time jumper who has lots of tunnel time isn't qualified as a coach doesn't know what they are talking about. I saw Paige go through her AFF training, and even did a few coaching jumps with her. She was well on her way to be a great skydiver. But now, seeing her carve in the tunnel is just SICK!

Ari rocks too, but I only met him....and seeing him and Paige carve knee docks and surfs are sick as well.

Get your ass down to Skyventure and fly with the parents of FOXXY LOVE.

Paiger....send me your home address, I need to send you something!

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Actually, this letter isn't a fake.

Sort of. The Cindy Williams who wrote the original worked for the congresional budget office, and was not the fomer actress.

The actress Cindy Williams has been burried in hate mail.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/gipay.asp

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But the letter itself was real. I make no claims about where it was published or who it was intended for.

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Come on guys, since when could drug dealers and murders EVER be compared to being a lesbian?

As far as I know drug dealers and murderers both have victims, if lesbians have victims too, then I wanna be one of em!!

I never compared the two, you did. My point was the character issue. If it's against his morals, then that is what it is.

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Contrast that with Dick Cheyney who had mostly positive things to say about Mary's lifestyle, and you see a striking difference of character.

Okay, I think VP Cheney comments were less on Mary's lifestyle (hinting of a lesbian lifestyle) than the way she is actually living her life regardless of her sexual orientation.

Now, I'm not a Keyes supporter, he is his own worst enemy. Just because his daughter comes out as a lesbian (which may or may not be an attack on her father), why should that make him change a core belief? Did he even know of his daughter's sexual orientation when he made the comments about Cheney's daughter? And if so, if (hypothetically) his daughter was a murdering crack whore, should he change his position on that as well?

No offense to the murdering, crack-whore jumpers out here.

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This fake letter's been spinning around the net for a few years now.

Actually, this letter isn't a fake. Mike Bragg worked for me at the 75th Communications Squadron at Hill when he penned this one, and another gem to a female congresswoman from Colorado (the name escapes me now.)

Yes, there is training you get, other no compensated salary benefints (medical/dental/30 days of paid vacation, etc). However, the basic point of the letter was to say:

"Hey Miss Williams, you don't know what you are talking about!"

Whining or not, I get what he is saying. I just got back from a 4-month rotation is relatively good conditions...and it still sucks.

Yes, the letter had been peice-meal from a number of other letters. However, A1C Bragg did write this one, and a few others.

Hey #10! Happy Birthday...from the whole SBSP gang!

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I wonder what their preferred discipline is....

Well, they are belly to earth executing 180s That means only one thing....

It's dead now...the state senate killed in in committee, unanimously.

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Actually Jazz, I'm right there with you on the 2nd Amendment and so forth...I just wish they had
found a better name for the agency.


Department of Domestic Security?
Domestic Security Agency?

Something other than "Homeland". Ick.

Okay, I'm 100% with you there. The only thing that would probably have made the hair on my neck stand up more would be "Motherland."

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Again, alarmist...

What is your explanation for the fact that so many millions of germans ended up supporting a government that did what the Nazis did?

Mob rule, and the mentality of a beaten country (WW1). Hitler was a cult of personality, and his people had suffered huge losses in WW1.

If this thread is to suggest that the US Department of Homeland Security will turn in to something akin to the the Third Reich, or mirror Stalinism, then you guys need to pass the blunt to the jumper on your left.

My point is, it's obviously bad to allow one government organization a complete free pass. However, with terrorism being capable of what it is (and we say it in living color Sep 11, 2001), something has to be done to ensure this country survives. The American people will hold check on these events. Yes, out government can still do some pretty stupid things...but they pale in comparison to what other governments do.

There is a cost to freedom, sacrifices that were made by people long before us, wiser than we shall ever become, who gave everything...fortunes, families, their very lives. To think that we can ensure liberty for every individual, citizen or not, under every circumstance shows a detachment from the reality of what freedom truly costs.

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I find it kinda frightening that 65 years ago or
so, the 3rd Reich had a little thing called the
Reichs Heimats Sicherheits Amt

or
Reich Homeland Security Office.

Reinhard Heidrich was in charge. Things that
make you go hmmmmm.

Anybody else noticed that things went a lot
better for us when we still had a WAR Department?

Again, alarmist...you're equating another brutal organization with a department whose worst crime has been detaining someone (who frankly probably is guilty of acts promoting terrorism) to a xenophobic organization that participated in the single greatest atrocity (unless you call the Stalinist purges #1) in history.

I'm not for the laws that grants then unchecked power, but we (US citizens) would never for it. It's why we refuse to give up the right to bear arms.

I think that has a lot to do with the woman. There are lots of things very nice to look at. Some nice to touch.

I think a woman who is comfortable in her own skin, and does her best to keep herself in shape is as sexy or more than the supermodel type. Proportion is best....

Sexy is as much a mental vice physical thing. Be it and you are.

Okay....one more thing you need:

Captain Morgan Private Stock. No shit, once you go CMPS, it will be all over with (and the girls like it.)

Johnny,

If it means something to you, then you know what to do. Respect for the flag is just that. Find a way to clean it, or do the right thing.

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LOL,
I'm 5'11

skycat, that pic!!!

yummy....guys with rock hard biceps...

I like to feel a man's muscles, too bad they weren't big enough to pick me up

Yeah, that is why I work out...so I can climb shit.

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I wanna be a skydiving wife who has lots of sex with her husband and brings her kids out to the dz

Uh...Sarah...how fast can you pack (a rig)?

i just returned from a 4-month tour, and believe me, the canned care packages aren't worth the time nor effort. My family, friends, and girl took good care of me.

Ensure you enclose a card for him...put some of your perfume with it. Something to read, something to see (a few, but not too many pictures), something to eat (again, not too much.) For small/medium packages, you can expect it to take 7-12 days to get to notable places in the theater, 10-14 to more austere locations.

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No suprise there. From a speech by William Stone III, a libertarian speaker:
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By the way, I prefer to refer to this as the "American KGB Act" after the Russian translation for "Homeland Security." I kid you not: the Russian translation of "Homeland Security Department" is "KGB", and the Russian KGB originally had the same function as its new American counterpart.
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Actually, KGB stands for Committee for State Security. It's been so long, but it's something like Komityet Gosvudarsteneye B(V)oyenafort (with english letters.)

To equate the Department of Homeland Security with one of the most restrictive and violent state run security apparati in history is alarmist indeed.

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If you are single and friends with the opposite sex, yet attracted to them, are you intentional about the relationship? Meaning...are you looking for it to become more?

I assume you mean by being "single" that you aren't in some relationship? Boys and girls differ wildly in this respect. Girls can afford to be oblivious to what this does to a guy. For guys, it depends on how much self control they have.

From a skydiver perspective, if you put bait in the water, expect something to hit at it.

If you want to become closer friends with a guy, the ones worthy of it will respect you when you push them back if (when) they make a move.

After reading the article, it seems like extorsion to me. I doubt it will affect Pepsi's bottom line. Russell Simmons is trying flex (again). I appreciate a lot of the things he does for aspiring artists. But Pepsi is allowed to hire anyone they want. Profane doesn't necessarily mean words independently, but maybe the overall message.

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I've got outside video.

What do you have video of? Have YOU had sex in/on/around a hearse or a coffin?

Or are you offering to video any takers on this offer?

Uh no...I call outside video....

I would only recommend that on a Flash enabled website (with sound control). However, the flash tech sites have great loops.

http://www.flashkit.com/loops/

I've got outside video.

Phree,

That kicks ass. J-Rock is the man! Am I the only one who caught the the multipoint hybrid? We tried like hell to get that in a year ago and could never make it happen. That is AWESOME! I miss jumping with you guys.

r/Jamie

Have you done any reserach with small computer companies to figure out what they might charge to configure a WiFi network (all software/hardware already in place)? I certainly would go for a flat fee for the configuration plus a fee per device secured.

I'd take some time to work on the sales pitch, and be prepared to show them how you figured it out. While they might be pissed you found them, I'm sure they'd much preferred being more secure.