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Alberta court settles COVID-19 vaccine dispute between Lethbridge, Alta. parents The parties have not been named, but both parents had joint custody over the children and decided each child would receive all of their routine childhood immunizations and annual flu shots. However, once the COVID-19 vaccination was available for each of the children, the decision over the shot ended in a dispute that resulted in legal action. So vaccinations for the less common diseases are OK, but a vaccination for a disease spreading in a global pandemic is not. How the anti-vaxxer mind works is a complete mystery to me.

He just wants to be able to judge if they're really worthy of the help. It's an old English-heritage tradition, differentiating the worthy poor from the unworthy poor. Wendy P.

A photo I found of Kliff prepping for a CReW jump with us. He's on the right.

“Just since this summer, 150,000 unvaccinated Americans have needlessly lost their lives despite the widespread availability of vaccines,” Dr. Peter Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, said yesterday. "Good riddance"; me.

Yes and thats why people that have a hard on for them are just not being fair. If statutes allow business to shield income. Common practice suggests any responsible business should take advantage of those tax breaks. The same for the owners. Ok But The USSC ruled again and again to allow unrestricted lobbying. Americans have had the opportunity to vote on lobbying. The opportunity to vote on kicking out congressmen who are beholden to certain industries. Americans have refused to seriously address it. Amazon doesn't employ nurses and teachers. They pay warehouse workers more than minimum wage. Bezos does however use monopoly advantages unfairly. Using insider information against his own private business customers. Once again US laws tackling monopolies is weak. What laws exist are unenforced. America is fortunate to have people and their associated business like Gates, Bezos, Musk, etc. I admire all of them. But American acceptance of lobbying and unfair tax laws is destroying its social fabric.

So am I

I wonder where the money went?

Florida man gets 5 years for assault in Capitol riot, the longest sentence yet Robert Palmer, of Tampa, was sentenced to 63 months for repeatedly assaulting police officers at the Capitol. I suppose for him participating in the riot was Simply Irresistible.

He is not really an anti-vaxxer. He is a covid vaccine refuser. Which is not really a medical position. It is a political and tribal identity thing.

Hi airdvr, Re: I've always felt education is how you at least start to solve it. I'm talking about K-12. IMO anyone, here in the USA, who thinks that just a high school education will take care of your financial future, should ponder the thought a little more. Unless, of course, that you are fortunate to possess the skills of Michael Jordan or Tom Brady. Re: I've always felt education is how you at least start to solve it. I could not agree more. This why I support free tuition at Community Colleges; just keep the GPA up. Jerry Baumchen

more... crew could see the lights of Portland and other distinctive lights in the area. Would a pilot know when they passed a Vortac.. like Battle Ground. It seems that passing the Battle Ground vortac would be something the crew would aware of,,

That is horseshit, a big pile of it too. The problem is that these ineffective cures are being supported by fucktards to the exclusion of actual effective medical treatments that limit severe sickness and death. It does hurt when you support quack cures and refuse legit ones. I personal believe scotch and cigars treats covid, because I like them, but that can't hurt anyone else in an acute sense because I also advocate for vaccines, and I am fully vaccinated and recently boosted.

The harm comes from making people think that they can rely on these instead of the proven vaccines.

Back in the 1979’s, my mother had a co worker whose daughter was a nurse in California. For John Wayne. Her regular comment was “my daughter shot John Wayne.” Wendy P.

Kliff was a person I made my first road trip with. We jumped at a Halloween boogie at Coolidge Az in 89. We were the last ones out, and at 15,000. The spotter told us if we didn't like the spot tell the pilot to go around, Kliff and, l figured we could make it back. It was a fun couple of days. I will miss his smile around the DZ.

Perfectly good canopies. Open well. Land well. But they do come in two different versions. If you get the chance to jump if you might note on the card whether it is a "r" or "l" varrent. Lee

I admire them. I just don't think there should be different rules for billionaires than for the rest of us. (I can't buy senators and congressmen to make special rules for me).

The buck stops here, if ya know what I mean. There is no deflection and no refusal to take responsibility concerning the voting numbers for the board of directors because there is nothing to deflect and no failure to take responsibility for. Turnout in USPA elections has always been low. I've noted before that there are some obvious reasons like new members that don't vote because they don't know our system or even what they are voting for, and life members who are still on the voter rolls but are disengaged, but there are also people who don't vote because they simply aren't concerned with it. These folks don't see anything wrong with the way things work. They get their magazine, processing times for licenses and ratings are fast, they have 3rd party liability coverage in case they break something or someone, and dozens of other things USPA does for them in the background. Fun jumpers (the largest segment of us) just want to show up, make some hops, drink some beer, and do it again next weekend. Our members aren't voting for representatives that make life-altering decisions on their behalf. They are voting for volunteers who work for the members doing at times some of the most mundane things imaginable. If the governance of USPA isn't important enough to a member to prompt them to vote, so be it. We will still represent them the best way we know how. That comes with the price of membership.