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GOP members in Congress (with a few exceptions) need to submit DNA samples. One day, they're going to find rooms at Mar-a-LIE-go filled with backbones and balls and DNA will be needed to positively identify them so that they can be returned to the rightful owners.

There are tails at either end of any bell curve. Let's stop treating the extreme tails as if they represent normal attitudes.

So Democrat is the new Black? Wendy P.

But.....they might vote wrong.

Wrong, the airliner did not stay on the center of V-23 per Portland ATC. It was hand flown by Rataczak not on autopilot. You just can't dismiss something because you have the facts wrong. The jagged and abrupt nature of the "FBI" map is because it is 1 min incremented plotted points.. somebody just joined the points, it is not the actual path. It is a crude representation. It can be smoothed out within the 1 mile plotting error to accurately reflect a jet's path..

Right, if it’s not going to affect the next election you shouldn’t bother trying to hold the Executive branch to account for egregious misconduct and corruption in public office. You know we can smell the desperation coming off you?

Is that as deep as you can go? Do you think Cheney is doing the select committee work to get reelected? For some, victory in the mid-terms will be an eviscerated Trump and a stronger democracy. Sadly, too many people who think they know better see the world only through an amber colored gallon of gas.

For the minority who is used to ruling the majority. The tail wagging the dog is normal.

More accurate than your statement.

and have you moved from that position from 2010...

Hi Robert, Chris Rock is not someone I pay much attention ( I'm the really old guy here ), but this is more truth than farce. I particularly liked the part where the shooter wanted his bullet back: 'You ain't keeping my property.' Jerry Baumchen

January 6th is pretty simple. The sitting president violated his oath of office by not defending the Constitution from domestic enemies. To watch on TV and do nothing should earn him a cell in a federal prison.

Hi Doug, Thank you for that well-reasoned reply. Re: are instead isolated angry young men that got to this terrible tipping point over time. I think this is exactly what is going on. And, that is why I say that this is NOT a mental health issue. This whole 'mental health issue' is just another way for both parties to not have to deal with the real issues; one being the easy access to guns. IMO we simply have to take away these guns that, in truth, are weapons of war. Jerry Baumchen

I heard on a podcast today that the apathy response is, "it's in the past, it didn't ultimately change anything, let it go." Though I will allow that perhaps your comment refers to the top 10 things US citizens care about on a day-to-day basis (think pocketbook/kitchen table issues), if by chance it instead follows the "it's in the past" mindset, this is a sad state of affairs on multiple levels. Social Studies and Civics need to be restored to the public school curriculum through Grade 12 (local government, federal government, history, comparative politics, geography, legislative process, etc). Those who really don't care, who are truly apathetic because it's "in the past" have no idea just how precarious our democratic model is, and what is at stake should it be dismantled. I for one am impressed that the committee considered the NHL playoffs and other broadcast events when scheduling the public hearings, so that the electorate can actually watch the hearings themselves instead of relying on their favorite news channels to summarize and tell them what they should take from the proceedings. (recall the Republican woman who attended the Mitt Romney town hall who later commented that she had not idea, had never heard, that anything had been reported against President Trump from the Comey investigation).

Thanks for the reminder guys. I just replaced a (missing) screw on my metal-handled hook knife and it is going back into its pocket on the shoulder of my harness.

And that, right there, is what I find most scary.

I know one still floating around, but personally would recommend against jumping it. The few jumps I had on the suit, I had handles completely disappeared inside the suit one jump after deployment, and trying to use the arm-wing release (to test) it actually just bunched up the sleeve, without the cable coming out, essentially locking the sleeve. With the zippers not being the greatest, not a useful or safe feature. I know Andy Ford, jumping one for a project many years ago, had a cutaway (spinning mal) where he had the same issue with handles disappearing inside the suit, and he actually performed a cutaway/reserve with his thumbs punched in above the handles, pulling the cables out. As to the suit itself, its stable, but looking at actual wing size, not that big, as the armwing bellow the hips is so narrow/small, it doesn't add to much in actual lift/profile. Performance was comparable to a skyflyer 3, perhaps only a tiny step up. I do like the segmented/interchangeable idea behind the suit (you could 'zip off' the full wing, and potentially replace it in future with bigger/smaller wings). But in construction, and rigging, quite complex and price-wise probably not that much of a save, vs just buying / making a new suit. I think the suit had a great idea/design philosophy behind it, but similar to the early TonySuits with webbed gloves, not something comparable with modern day wingsuits in performance or safety.

I think that is now known as the "Marjorie Taylor Greene Defense".

Maybe 35 years ago I was with a group of jumpers at a pizza joint at the end of the day. Someone walked in, yelled "Hey Asshole!!" Over half the diners turned to him and yelled "What?!" My intro to the Muff Brothers.