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  1. BillyVance

    The first one is just fucked up. Outright child abuse. >:(

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/02/mom-deployed-taser-on-son-to-wake-him-up-for-church-court-docs-say.html?cmpid=prn_msn

    However... when the kid does it to himself in front of his mom, I think she wins the "mom of the year" award for her reaction. :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtcKY3akVCI



    I keep seeing stories with things sort of like this, that is, in their home, or a girlfriend hitting her boyfriend and have to wonder "how did the police get involved?"

  2. ryoder

    ******
    As long as people salivate for "likes," retweets and "going viral" we will not want for the endless stream of silliness. :S



    Next thing we know, we'll be seeing them do it with USED condoms.B|

    Well, at least they are buying condoms;
    So now we just need to explain to them how to properly use them.:P

    Are they buying them or just wasting the ones that get distributed at no charge?

  3. rushmc

    Seems relevant to the thread.

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/04/01/london-murder-rate-beats-new-york-for-month-as-stabbings-surge.html



    I wonder where the whole knife thing came from. It seems like a few years ago it became a major trend, it was cool to have and use a knife. I've always wondered where it came from. It doesn't take much with younger people some time. I remember when I was that age and it was easy for my friends and me to get into some new thing we'd seen in a movie or head in a song.

  4. gowlerk

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    As far as my last remark goes - when nukes get thrown everyone will be suffering badly afterwards.

    No Winners IMHO




    If that ever happens it will not be US versus Russia. They will be uneasy allies against another force. Just like the last time.



    I've always figured that Putin will use one eventually, just to do it. The trick will be finding a target that won't start Armageddon and possibly trickier, some place that he doesn't want to own. He could let a top secret radio communication leak that he and his top anti-Chechyan and anti-Isis commanders were on a flight back from somewhere but plane trouble caused them to put down in the Syrian desert. Then watch via satellite from the comfort of his office as that area fills up then Push the Button.

  5. Calvin19

    *** whatever he thought the US was capable of just multiply that many times to get near the truth that few will ever know before it's obsolete.

    So, I am not overly worried about Russia's newest claim -



    I can't tell if that comment is a nod to the tin foil hat people or a patriotic battle cry.

    I just thought it was a cool video, and I'm surprised that nobody came up with the lifting ring earlier. The first time I saw it was on a Topol M and it seems like such an obvious way to launch a missile from a tube or silo.

  6. At the risk of again being accused of using the lowest of the low I'd like to ask about the definition of predestination and preordination. Does it really mean that the thing that is predestined to happen must happen? If I'm at your home and say "well, I'm going to drive home now" I am predestined to drive my car to my house. But of course that doesn't mean that it will definitely happen. But when I hear these terms in Biblical context it's taken that way.
    Is there a reason to assume that is predestined is inevitable?

  7. JerryBaumchen

    Hi Bob,

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    we don't even mind paying for the schools.



    Good for you. And I am happy to pay for schools.

    I consider school budgets one of the most important votes that any of us will ever make during our entire lives.

    Jerry Baumchen





    My wife and I are on fixed incomes. What we can't figure out is why this is supposed to be bad.
    Seriously though, neither of us ever had children so we always do whatever we can to help, since we took a pass on the hard parts.

    Edit: I think it's time society rethinks the whole "those poor elderly" mentality. We have all the money but get offered discounts. When I was 23 getting married and building my first house I really could have used the discounts I get offered now. One thing though, any waitress that doesn't automatically offer me the discount gets a bigger tip.

  8. ryoder

    ***Looks like Pruitt may be on the way out. I hope so.



    You don't really think Pruitt's replacement will be someone qualified, do you?

    Kelly really needs to sit the Halfwit down and explain to him:
    "This is not The Apprentice. There is no requirement to fire someone at regular intervals.":S

    He has Michael Jackson syndrome. No one will be The One to tell him how silly he looks.

  10. JerryBaumchen

    Hi Bob,

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    Personally I don't care what we'd have to spend if it would work.



    Have you ever voted against any school budget?

    I have known many, many people who say this must be done or this or whatever; but when it comes to paying for it, they will not vote Yes.

    Jerry Baumchen




    Absolutely not. The one school levy that we had trouble with was one that exempted us because we were over sixty. That made no sense to us and we let them know (this is a small village, it's easy to voice your opinion to the mayor and she passes it on. We saw no reason why we should be exempted and if we were we shouldn't have a say in it. But no, we don't even mind paying for the schools.

  12. wolfriverjoe

    ***Something I think would help would be centralized security stations. Equip schools with secure doors that can be closed and latched remotely. This would be not just for protecting students but isolating the shooter. Ideally you'd have them stuck between secure doors in an empty bit of hallway.
    The schools would need video cameras that show all the critical spots with these feeding to a central spot, maybe a room in the closest police building or a standalone but central building...

    ...Putting a security guard with their own office in every school is expensive and counterproductive...



    So putting a guard in every school is 'too expensive', but remote secure doors and cameras isn't?

    Personally I don't care what we'd have to spend if it would work. But one, I think the centralized security system would work better regardless of cost. The other thing is that we go through times when we see a problem as urgent and lots of people, even the ones in control, are either willing to spend the money to solve it or not willing to admit to the voters that they aren't. So, the money is there. But it won't last. The centralized security systems seems like the hardest one to screw up with budget cuts down the road. The biggest expenditures are now, while people are willing to pay for it.

  13. Phil1111

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    Calling them nazis is going too far. However, Hogg appears to have lied. There's an interview where he admitted to being at home during the shooting, rather than at school when it happened.


    Cool. I can trace where you got that specific lie, too.
    ***Poor guy, being used by the media to promote their anti-gun agenda.

    Given all the lies you've been fed, and eagerly believed - I don't think that Hogg is the one who is being used.

    Its almost a losing cause to compete with the FSB, Fox news, Breitbart, etc. They work 24/7 to supply the uninquisitive with brain numbing drivel. Which the target audience laps up like Pavlov's dogs.
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/david-hogg-on-campus-rumor-hoax/

    They know that if their target audience doesn't hear what it wants to hear, and I'm not talking about reality, they'll just turn off the tv or radio and go to the internet to find cites that will never tell them anything that conflicts with their world view.

  14. Something I think would help would be centralized security stations. Equip schools with secure doors that can be closed and latched remotely. This would be not just for protecting students but isolating the shooter. Ideally you'd have them stuck between secure doors in an empty bit of hallway.
    The schools would need video cameras that show all the critical spots with these feeding to a central spot, maybe a room in the closest police building or a standalone but central building. When they see something suspicious on a video camera they can send a signal to the principal to make sure the person approaching the school follows the old rule of going straight to the school office. If not it gets escalated with doors latched and police notified. Part of the lowest level alert could have police cars getting into the vicinity, circling the block but no flashing lights. Then if need be increase as necessary.
    But I think the centralized security would help a lot.

    Putting a security guard with their own office in every school is expensive and counterproductive. It's expensive so sooner or later corners will get cut. You'll end up with a bunch of retirees who see this as a step up from Walmart and being so many of them supervision will be next to impossible. They'll be in their "secure office" and the sound of gunshots will wake them. In their confused and panicked state who knows who they'll shoot.
    By having a centralized system you need far fewer security personnel. They can hire for quality rather than quantity and supervision will be much easier. Or better yet add a room with the equipment to the local police station and man it with police officers.

  15. wolfriverjoe

    ******You jump outta planes, but you're scared of hypothetical lynch mobs that don't actually exist. Got it.



    Reginald Denny says hey.

    Well, to be fair, he didn't run anyone over. If he had, he'd likely have been ok.

    I seem to recall one incident where a hit and run driver was attacked by a mob. But he was attacked because he was driving way too fast, hit a kid and tried to get away (did a quick search and came up empty).

    I don't recall any where the driver wasn't driving like an idiot and got attacked. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, or couldn't happen.

    And, in the "you probably didn't know this" category, in WI, school zone speeds are in effect whenever a crossing guard is present. Not just when kids are there. So if the guard is out and the kids haven't been let loose yet, you can still get a ticket.
    I have yet to find out if that applies if the guard is there early, sets out the 'mid street signs' but is sitting in his car reading the paper (not uncommon in my town).

    I just slow way down either way. Kids can be very fast and thinking of many other things. No matter who is at fault I can't imagine living with that.

  16. ryoder

    ******I just checked the old log books, and one of them tells me I was there, and made some DC-3 jumps.

    Was that the year Pat Works was in that bad traffic accident?




    That's the one, he was in a van that went into a ditch.

    I made a quick run into town for something, and got stuck in the traffic jam on the way back to the airport, caused by the accident.

    The last load was from the Coca Cola DC-3 into Joe Svec's party in Richmond as it headed home. I landed out, being under a PC plus not knowing where he lived and had one of my stranger experiences. I guess it's because there's so much aviation, including skydiving, in that area but no body seemed to care that a guy with a paracommander over one shoulder and helmet held under his arm was walking down he sidewalk in the late afternoon in a quiet neighborhood. Kids would ride by on their bikes and say hi but not even stop, and it was the same from older couples sitting on their porch swings. It was like that Twilight Episode where astronauts land on a simulated Earth where no-one acts like this is unusual. I'm wondering when they're going to turn into what they really are and eat me. And I had no idea what to do. This boogie was my first time jumping without the group I always jumped with, I started the week as a novice. My wife, she's in the picture, would know I was out there but not where but then of course I saw that big black car looking for me and the other out, a young woman who was also under a PC.
    It was quite a week for a novice skydiver.

  17. ryoder

    I just checked the old log books, and one of them tells me I was there, and made some DC-3 jumps.

    Was that the year Pat Works was in that bad traffic accident?




    That's the one, he was in a van that went into a ditch.

  19. chuckakers

    RIP, Larry.


    The following is from Ed Scott, Executive Director the U.S. Parachute Association

    "Larry K. Bagley, D-4522, passed away on Tuesday March 27, 2018 after a brief illness. Larry served on USPA’s board of directors from 1975-1995, and as USPA President from 1981-1989. He also served a number of positions on the USPA staff from 1995 until his retirement in 2011. In 2003 Larry was honored with the FAI Paul Tissandier Diploma. In 2013 he was honored by USPA with the Lifetime Achievement Award. And in 2016 he was inducted into the International Skydiving Museum’s Hall of Fame. A recap of his many contributions to skydiving and USPA will appear in the next issue of Parachutist."



    Damn

  22. jclalor

    *********I'm not sure if I hit someone, so let me call the school and check. What??



    Yeah I mean what the fuck. If you feel something happened but aren't sure what, stop anyway and find out. :S

    I've driven through places where if I hit someone I would immediately call 911 while driving to the nearest police station. I would not stop. And I'm not a small woman named Tran.

    It’s not in too bad of a neighborhood.

    Really? That does change things. My guess is legally hit and run of course, but the real question will be how much, if any, slack the judge gives her at sentencing for panicking. I wouldn't be making any long term plans if I were her.

  23. wolfriverjoe

    ************Most excellent, thanks for sharing. I've made several church demos and they were always a blessing.



    And you can never beat the food.

    Always thought the portion sizes were a little small. Little cracker and a sip of wine if you are lucky.

    You have to experience a Methodist or Baptist feast to believe it. The spread at Leon Wv when I'd jump for their Ultralight Weekends was close, but nothing quite matches a Methodist pot luck.

    ^This. Big time.

    This is Southeast Ohio, right? My mom grew up there. Cuisine in the central Appalachian region (is that the Allegheny range?) is basic and 'standard American fare', but is absolutely amazing. Fried chicken as good or better than any in the 'south'; casseroles that you never would have thought of, and likely never would think would work that are delicious; cakes, pies and other desserts that make you wish you hadn't eaten so much of the other food.

    Where did she grow up?