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As an atheist I do not require that you or the government also be atheist. I want my government to be secular.

Are you familiar with the measurement PPM?

By that logic, the Black Panthers were really just white supremacists at heart. No, it's just that we're tired of living in a supposedly secular constitutional republic and standing silent while the state blatantly places one religion on a pedestal.

You're being deliberately misunderstanding (Looks like we're all afraid to say "obtuse", might get you thrown in the hole at Shawshank.) by choosing such a specific failure in universal healthcare. You know that's not how it goes everywhere.

I'd rather sit next to your pet Velociraptor then some of the children on planes these days....

At one time in the past I suffered from generalized anxiety disorder and performance anxiety. I found my solution to the problem in the following. Philippians 4:6,7 New King James Version (NKJV) 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Once a year me and some buddies travel to Swiss for the "Eiger Scenic Tours", so yeah Heli to the top of Eiger mountain. Northside of Eiger is pretty vertical, and so you get out, and have like a normal skydive, right next to the wall of that Eiger and you end up deploying like in a normal skydive (so no BASE gear required). Check this out: https://www.facebook.com/dfu1963/videos/491228498102808/ Jumps are ~140 EUR each For more info go here (Patrick Reuter is the organizer): https://www.wingsuit-fly.com/

Brian Germain has a good article on down sizing. And a chart to go along with it. It's a sticky in the 'Canopy Control' forum. BillVon has a very good article on downsizing in the 'safety' articles. He includes a good checklist of skills you should be able to demonstrate on your current canopy before downsizing. Strongly suggested to only go down one size at a time. It's suggested that the reserve be approximately the same size as the main. Not everyone follows that advice. Some folks like as large a reserve as they can fit in their container. Some companies make rigs that hold tiny mains and reasonable sized reserves. One of the jokes that applies here is: I've never heard anyone look up at their reserve when they needed it and complain that it was too big.

Hit up Douggs at Learn To BASE Jump (LTBJ). He and Sam Hardy are organizing a WS skydiving event in Lauterbrunnen next to the Eiger this summer. I think your thread title (Safe flight lines over terrain in the alps not BASE) has a few different contradictory elements. Learning from someone like Douggs will be a good starting point to learn what's out there.

You bring passion to the table. You also frequently bring anger and express it in an aggressive way. This is my observation.

Skydive Bovec in Slovenia (basically on a border with Italy) has a great scenery and there's wingsuiters most of the times I'm there. It's a PC6, not a helicopter though.

That makes no sense. Palin is a larger than life caricature of a far right buffoon. Man or woman her politics are diametrically opposed to those that would have encouraged a left leaner to vote for McCain (and don't forget that McCains own stated politics swung drastically right during that campaign as they chased their own base at the expense of centreist votes). Now, people who didn't vote for McCain because of Palin and then went on to vote for Trump... those people could well be mysoginists. But they're Trump supporters, so no great shock

Well, the same is true about Trump, so maybe it was partly misogyny. However, she wasn't the top of the ticket, and she had no business or other cred really. I couldn't countenance Palin as a fill-in President if McCain died, and I couldn't give support him after the bad judgement in choosing her. We were not aligned on some issues, but I was confident that he would not have harmed the US. The earlier point about McCain minus Palin beating Obama, especially had he picked someone like Kasich, is a likely outcome. McCain would have likely had 8 years, and Kasich would be POTUS now.

He's in the PNW, I imagine the whole place is mellowing out with the clouds floating around!