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Try calling the DZs in the drier parts of Europe, like Portugal or Spain. Ask them how many loads do fly per day. Two dozen loads per day give you the chance to make a dozen or more jumps per day. Ask them which months have the clearest weather. Also ask about bunk houses near the DZ. Go to bed early every evening and consistently stand in front of manifest when the window opens every morning. Buy or rent two or three rigs and pay packers. You would be wisest to get large 7-cells (e.g. Triathlon) close to the size of you Black Jack 260. Tell manifest that you want to do as many jumps as possible per day. Bribe manifest with cookies, recreational drugs, sexual favors or whatever it takes to get you back in the air quickly. Keep plenty of snacks and water handy to keep your energy levels up. And don't just fling yourself out of an airplane 50 times per week. Hire a local coach to critique your landings. Even better if your coach videos your landings. Aim for stand-up landings with the pea gravel bowl because that is the biggest landing area you will find below many BASE exit points. Ask manifest if you can do hop-and-pops from 1,000 meters (... er ... 3,000 feet) and focus on perfectly stable exits followed by deployment just behind the airplane.

It broke down with the increase in population and the reducing of empty land to exile people to. It broke down with the reducing of class structure (we no longer expect people to "know their place," because we now understand that it goes against the very concept of "all men are created equal."). That doesn't mean it can't be fixed, but just telling the minorities to fix their problems before we address ours is bullshit. It's like an abusive husband expecting perfection from his wife before he changes a single thing -- and, as the judge, he can always find a fault to pick. No, we (by that I mean white Americans) are not an abusive husband -- but we do kind of expect our voices to be listened to, and if there's disagreement, we kind of assume that our telling of the story will be taken as the real one, simply because the people who have even more power look like us, and were raised in families like ours. We weren't raised wrong, just incompletely. Because when we were kids, many more people did, in fact, "know their place." And that place wasn't close to us. Wendy P.

I doubt that she used Ryanair. We will be travelling during July & August... (If we get our Visas in time!)

Under the proposed new immigration legislation, anyone who arrives in the UK that the government doesn't like, is likely to find themselves with a one way ticket to Rwanda.

Because of the way the action works. The barrel shifts back and the back of it (firing chamber) goes down just a bit when it's fired (it's called 'delayed blowback' if you care). So it's actually tipped up just a little bit in the front when the slide is back.

Its a sick competition. "The F.B.I. released alarming data showing a rapidly escalating pattern of public shootings in the United States on Monday, one day before the massacre in Uvalde, Texas. The bureau identified 61 “active shooter” attacks in 2021 that killed 103 people and injured 130 others. That was the highest annual total since 2017 when 143 people were killed, and hundreds more were wounded, numbers inflated by the sniper attack on the Las Vegas Strip in October of that year. The 2021 total represented a 52 percent increase from the tally of such shootings in 2020, and a 97 percent increase from 2017, according to the F.B.I.’s Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2021 report..... The F.B.I. report identified one particularly chilling trend among active shooters: Officials have noticed an increase in the number who moved from place to place in search of victims, a group the bureau refers to as “roving” shooters...From 1966 to 2019, 77 percent of mass shooters obtained the weapons they used in their crimes through legal purchases, "

Stop underestimating 3rd graders. You can buy her a JR-15 from WEE1 Tactical. https://wee1tactical.com/ For a little defense to compliment her new offensive capability you can pair it with a new bullet proof back to school backpack from Amendment II with their new Rynohide CNT insert. Check out their CEO firing a pistol into a child's colorful backpack to prove it works. Instead of being so negative, be grateful there are people who can control their gag reflex and are willing to spend sleepless, tormented nights to do the hard work of keeping children safe.