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  2. BIGUN

    I think we can agree that all politicians lie.
    There's beau-coup articles on why they lie.

    I think its safe to say that most in this forum ain't gonna be running for political office.
    The biggest lie - I need four million dollars to win this campaign for a $100,000/year job, so I can "fix" the economy, abortion, education, military, gun control, gun rights etc., etc., ad nauseam. It's all a perpetual, "Mr. Smith goes to Washington & Groundhog Day" in theaters near you.



    I think the reason we're in so much trouble now is that as a population we got tired of having to watch politicians constantly and defend our country from them, so we decided that one party was ours. That way all we have to do is vote Democrat and we've done our part.
    We've forgotten that there isn't any real difference between them.

  3. BillyVance

    ***Cave diving is kind of like the proximity BASE jumping of skydiving, from what I understand. A little slower, but still the dangerous outer edge.

    Wendy P.



    Exactly... it's at the extreme edge of dangerous.


    And aside from the serious danger there are the "other" problems.
    You'd need a stun gun and a roll of duct tape to get me in there. These kids somehow got themselves back in there but pulling themselves out through cracks with strong currents and zero visibility could easily send a person over the edge.

  5. ryoder

    ***
    Well, it's not as if I could do anything about it anyway. It's just how I look at it, but The Whitehouse never returns my calls.



    Ever since I started putting on a Russian accent when I call the WH, they just connect me immediately, so I don't even need to wait for a callback anymore.:)
    Damn, why didn't I think of that.

  6. kallend

    ***"I'll give Trump the same latitude, he's the President, our chief diplomat and can conduct himself as he likes. The difference is that he's already shown himself to be inept in situations like this already having shown that he has no idea what he should or shouldn't say to protect our intelligence work. "

    I have an old rule, I give a new President the first two years. But it's not been easy this time.



    "A week is a long time in politics"; Harold Wilson.

    An awful lot of damage can be done in two years.

    Well, it's not as if I could do anything about it anyway. It's just how I look at it, but The Whitehouse never returns my calls.

  7. "I'll give Trump the same latitude, he's the President, our chief diplomat and can conduct himself as he likes. The difference is that he's already shown himself to be inept in situations like this already having shown that he has no idea what he should or shouldn't say to protect our intelligence work. "

    I have an old rule, I give a new President the first two years. But it's not been easy this time.

  8. ryoder

    I was listening to BBC radio last night:

    Good news: The first thing they plan to bring the kids is food.:)
    Bad new: Enough to last 4 months.[:/]



    And what are the odds of a dozen children spending weeks, even months, on a rock in a damp cave without developing medical emergencies?

  9. ryoder

    I was listening to BBC radio last night:

    Good news: The first thing they plan to bring the kids is food.:)
    Bad new: Enough to last 4 months.[:/]



    It's got to be getting really rough in there. Thirteen people in a bubble of air for eleven days now and no end in sight.
    And each option they come up with, like diving, sounds ok at first then someone just has to point out little details, like they'd probably die in the process.

  10. I used to jump at Jackson County Airport near Ravenswood Wv. We were right next to the Kaiser Aluminum plant and that wasn't a coincidence. Kaiser built the airport and pretty much the entire area. Then it closed down because it couldn't compete with cheap imports.
    It's impossible to describe the misery this has caused. No jobs at the plant, no jobs providing services to those employees. Another region of West Virginia became a scene of misery and no hope.
    We need aluminum? Then open the plant again. And yes, I know, it'll make that bike cost a little more, but is it really worth making things a little cheaper, and making the 1% that much richer, while destroying our own communities?

  11. BillyVance

    ***Ok guys flight attendant here those bathrooms are gross you don't want to take a black light in there. I don't think its illegal. No I have never caught people doing it but then again after service I just might be taking a break reading blue skies mag:P



    Is it true that some long haul planes have a secret compartment for flight crew to sleep, maybe even get some hanky-panky in? >:(


    Not if they tell you.

  12. DJL

    ******I do understand the difference between gas chambered and bolt action. I have one of each.



    Awesome! Are they registered?

    They don't need to be in my state but I'd have no problem with registering them. Why?

    I believe we're at a point in time where anything that gets collected into a computer database has a high probability of getting stolen. Too many computer people are filling in gaps in their competence with arrogance.
    If you register something there is no legitimate reason to believe that that information will not become public.
    And then when someone needs a gun they'll know which house to rob.

  13. They sell little spacers that really help and who knows what else by now, I did this once in the early 70s.


    Here's something that will sound stupid and if it is, fine, but a warning. Grout feels and looks like plaster and after mixing and dealing with it a lot it can be easy to get a little sloppy. Don't. It feels like something that you can wipe up later but it's actually chisel time if it dries somewhere you don't want it.

  15. JoeWeber

    ***What has this country come to when you can't even depend on a a paid off porn star to stay quiet?



    So, WTF is $130,000? It's not a Fibonacci number or the latest extension of PI and it sure as hell didn't come from Trumps Feng Shui Master. What it is, is too little. The Prez simply underpaid for the service.

    I figure it's what he happened to have on him at the time.

  18. zoobrothertom

    ***What does Satan do with all those hand baskets?

    How many skydivers does it take to change a light bulb?
    3
    One to do the work
    One to hold the beer
    One to call 911.



    Another version.

    One to change it.
    The second one to say, "I could've done that!"

    And a third one to say "you're gonna get someone killed changing it that way."

  19. BillyVance

    ******An old skydiving buddy is 19.5 years into a 12 to 40 in West Virginia and me and another old skydiving buddy visit him as often as we can. They recently transferred him to another prison and when we got there last Saturday I noticed something and had to get a photo of it.



    You and Mike both. He's coming up on year 20 and his fourth parole hearing this coming January.

    What was he in for, again?

    In 1971 he hijacked a plane in the Pacific Northwest and bailed out with about $125k. They didn't catch him until 1999.

    Ok, he's doing time for felonious stupidity with a female minor.

    Some of you may know him, though it's been awhile. He was part of the greatest skydiving mystery ever, one that makes DB Cooper seem trivial. How did Mig Fernandez, one of the most together guys ever and an incredible skydiver, become partners with Mike Province, a man who's closest shot at skydiving immortality is in the form of a letter attached to the AFF program simply titled "This must never happen again!"
    Every time Mig would get the place, West Virginia Skydivers at Jackson County Wv airport, going Mike would bring it crashing down. I always assumed it must be something like on Gilligan's Island where the backstory is that Gilligan saved the Skipper''s life in the war. It's the only thing that makes any sense.
    And yes, the idea of visiting someone who's done something so inexcusable feels conflicting, but as Hoyt Axton said "and he'll always be another one of us"

    https://apps.wv.gov/OIS/OffenderSearch/DOC/Offender/Details?Id=BFgcfPo7UpgydcGQg2rCm%2Fi1bi9Fw9nnSgUPHNwgrPqZPD7XB63WvNB7RyrnHpvignS8tVi3fZFUGGdEYNlyPk0019uFlcWJCaWnmmdxyKqMZtHhbdnL4t8qTLwksrh0273cX4bth5jX7dNT5F37WEWsU%2FkTNtW2B2nu4lZXCVU%3D

  20. mr2mk1g

    On refusing service:

    There's a pub round the corner from my office which had signs out all week advertising the screening of the next world cup match. It read "Uruguay v. Portugal - 30th June. No dickheads".

    Thought that summed their stance up nice and succinctly.



    For a soccer match? Why don't they just say "CLOSED"?

  21. BIGUN

    ******Ok. So, you kinda commingled machine guns with assault rifles.



    Assault rifle = fully automatic
    Assault weapon = military form factor, e.g., AR-15.

    Assault Rifle = a fully automatic or selective fire rate firearm (semi to fully), e.g., M-16, MP-5, UZI.

    Sport Rifle = single shot (semi), e.g., AR-15, Winchester lever actions, bolt-action .308, 30-06, etc.

    Assault Weapon = Term created for the 1994 "Assault Weapons Ban," which banned firearms based on appearance, brand name, and features to describe civilian semiautomatic firearms with a military or fearsome appearance, yet no more lethality than lesser weapons. The term has no industry or military definition. It was created to give a single name to all of the firearms politicians wanted to ban in 1994. Opponents of the 1994 ban refer to it more accurately as the "Semi-Auto" ban.

    The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), officially the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, is a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law, which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons.

    wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

    And in one of the worst coincidences ever the Armalite Rifle-15 is referred to as the AR-15.
    I've met very few people who aren't convinced that the AR stands for Assault Rifle.

  22. Bob_Church

    An old skydiving buddy is 19.5 years into a 12 to 40 in West Virginia and me and another old skydiving buddy visit him as often as we can. They recently transferred him to another prison and when we got there last Saturday I noticed something and had to get a photo of it.



    You and Mike both. He's coming up on year 20 and his fourth parole hearing this coming January.

  23. I was seriously frightened on the ride to altitude for dozens of jumps but never once I exited. I'll get a mild version of that occasionally on some demos. My theory is that it's my brain trying to talk me out of it, but once I've left the plane it figures there's no point arguing now and goes into full time helping me with the jump.

  25. BIGUN

    If you are colorblind you know "this" color means stop and "this" color means go. At some point in time; somebody pointed to a color and told you it was red (or green). From then on; you associate the color you saw and were told what it was; with the color you see.

    It only becomes imperative in situations like; wiring, boom things, etc.



    I remember being tested for it when I first got my drivers license in Ohio in the early 70s. Now I have to wonder if it had anything to do with driving. If you were studying color blindness it would be a good way to find out how much is out there. They could do stuff like that back then without someone stopping it with a lawsuit.