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So F'n what? He beat Trump, saved NATO and is kicking Russia's ass. I don't care if he has a stolen copy of your last job performance report and the Commodore it was written on. Bitch about trivialities as you ever will but I'm a happy camper.

Bill, Wendy, Do we really have to allow this?

Sure, there are many older current jumpers to be found - I'm older than the bloke on the cover, as are you and the jumpers you have mentioned. They didn't look us up though! Their loss. However, to the general public who read N.G., doing an extreme sport like skydiving at the age of 69+ will seem unreal.

A long time ago in a college level English Composition class, we had an exercise in this sort of critical thinking. This was just before the 'turn of the century' (98 or 99), so Google wasn't an option. We were given an article from a tabloid (Weekly World News?) and asked to pick it apart. It was full of glaring errors, and most of the class spotted most of them. I impressed the teacher somewhat when I pointed out that the article referenced Antarctica, and said something to the effect of 'the article says they have to leave in October, because of the coming winter. Southern hemisphere has spring in October.' Nobody else had noticed that one. My parents taught me to analyze and critically examine stuff like that. It's a handy skill that is VERY lacking. The number of people that fell for Trump and all his bullshit is a clear example of that. The number of people that fell for (and continue to believe) his "Fake News!!!!" garbage is both frightening and depressing.

If Joe Biden were in a coma he is still preferable to the lying grifting treasonous sexual predator that you seem to prefer in the White House

Nope.

Worst non-female suspect in history. The family is owed an apology.

Ulis cracks, shifts talking points, walks back suspect by now claiming anybody at Rem Cru could have acquired Titanium Antimony particles even the secretary... maybe he realized Petersen's hair was parted on the wrong side.

Worth adding to the discussion - Biden has maintained a security clearance the entire time the documents were in possession. Trump cannot claim the same.

Fortunately for me, I (and you, and Brian) DO live in the US. The US has, traditionally, been a technological leader. What we develop here becomes worldwide a few decades later - and what is developed in California becomes countrywide a few decades later. And that is exactly what we are seeing today with EV's and renewables. And you know this. You know it would be absurd to go back 20 years and say that cellphones will never catch on because there are almost none in Africa or India. The claim that since those places don't have a lot of renewables yet means that renewables will never catch on is just as silly.

I LOVE the hypocrisy. 10/10. Up next - BH demands an investigation into Biden's dealings with China.

Then no problem. Biden declassified them right before they discovered - while he was president.

Just throwing this out there, since it tangentially applies to this Tina discussion, though it more directly relates to some statements made in the FB group, which I stopped participating in. The term used when people seem "off" or evasive, and we conclude some kind of guilt, is "demeanor evidence." Our criminal court system and even the 6th Amendment are built least partially around this concept. And now we've added factors like "microexpressions" to supposedly reveal some inner truth or turmoil. It's the "They're hiding something" thing. But it turns out we suck at this. Study after study has shown that 1) microexpressions and other post-event patterns reveal dick, and 2) we are exactly as likely to be wrong when interpreting demeanor, as right. Worse, cops and other professional interrogators are exactly as bad as everyone else; they are right just about 50% of the time, which is the rate of chance. And worse yet, they are more confident that they are right than everyone else, so sometimes the results can be disastrous. I'm not talking about actions--doing a Google search for how to dispose of a 115-pound woman's body after your 115-pound wife suddenly disappears for example. I'm talking about those "intangibles" that make us think someone is guilty. We turn out to be very bad at correctly interpreting those, and our skill is completely unrelated to our confidence around it.

"My Tempo 150 reserve sits pretty tight in my Vector might I be able to get a 170 low pack volume in the same reserve tray ?" in my experience a PD optimum 143 has very nearly the same pack volume as a "standard" PD 126 reserve, so moving up one size is doable if moving from standard to low pack. Ask your preferred canopy vendor to be certain

If anyone has any literature/article or documentary information on this, request share.

We last spoke on Sunday before the incident, he was happy for 2023 had loads of plans and was living his best life. Very sad loss a very genuine individual.

A huge loss to the sport and to many of us fortunate to know him as a Friend, we last spoke on the Sunday before his accident, life is short, enjoy ti while you can.

don't they use c-130s for mff training in the desert? or do they use civilian aircraft? i know an instructor who was there several years ago and i thought he mentioned using a c-130 but it's been years since i talked to him. i know that during airborne ops the c-17 can't slow down enough to let jumpers out unless it has less than half a tank of fuel, and when we jumped it was going at about 170 knts. that was static line and not mff though.

Why even ask the question? Any entity that can afford high speed aircraft can also afford aircraft that can be safely flown at slower speeds. There is simply no need to complicate things. If you require tailgate birds for tactical military freefall exits, just acquire tailgate aircraft like the Skyvan for initial training. This has been a routine practice for military freefall training for years.

The counter to playing politics(propaganda) to mislead the ignorant base, is education. In Finland elementary schools teach children how to read news stories. "A typical lesson that Saara Martikka, a teacher in Hameenlinna, Finland, gives her students goes like this: She presents her eighth graders with news articles. Together, they discuss: What’s the purpose of the article? How and when was it written? What are the author’s central claims? “Just because it’s a good thing or it’s a nice thing doesn’t mean it’s true or it’s valid,” she said. In a class last month, she showed students three TikTok videos, and they discussed the creators’ motivations and the effect that the videos had on them. Her goal, like that of teachers around Finland, is to help students learn to identify false information....Finland ranked No. 1 of 41 European countries on resilience against misinformation for the fifth time in a row in a survey Finland’s success is not just the result of its strong education system, which is one of the best in the world, but also because of a concerted effort to teach students about fake news. Media literacy is part of the national core curriculum starting in preschool.... After Finland, the European countries that ranked highest for resilience to misinformation in the Open Society Institute survey were Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland and Sweden.... The United States was not included in the survey, but other polls show that misinformation and disinformation have become more prevalent since 2016 and that Americans’ trust in the news media is near a record low. A survey by Gallup, published in October, found that just 34 percent of Americans trusted the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly, slightly higher than the lowest number that the organization recorded, in 2016. In Finland, 76 percent of Finns consider print and digital newspapers to be reliable," So perhaps when you hear someone say they don't trust or read MSM. What you're really hearing is that they love to digest propaganda. i.e. FOX.

Good to see it being well regulated.

Dude takes a lot of vacations Wendy P.

35,000 convicts Is the number I've read. The fact that the Russian constitution, laws, don't allow for any of Wagner's promises, provisions, etc. Doesn't seem to matter too much for all the convicts who make those deals with Wagner. Yevgeny Prigozhin likely sends a copy of the head smashing video. To those from the families that inquire about unpaid death benefits. This all goes back to : Yeah the corruption and rot of Russia is complete. Be it killing those who criticize Putin in any country in the world. Stealing state assets, fixing the courts, killing opponents. The US has spent $5.5 trillion on its nuclear programs and another $1.2 trillion maintaining and modernizing it. It's also why Canada can afford it's social programs. Russia: No that's not Joe's yacht, it's Putin's.

It’s my understanding that Lyle was doing aerial surveillance/photography for the CIA on that leg of the trip. According to one of the news articles that came out in the local paper, Vic had an embassy rep show up as soon as he got to the hospital. That to me is very telling he was CIA. Here is testimony from somebody that saw Lyle in Honduras the night before the crash. He was supposed to be on the plane but overslept… but notice how he refers to them as contractors.

Hi Bokdrol, A good friend, Jay Gile, who is 75 just called it quits. He was very active right up until then. Jerry Baumchen

Interesting article. It's from September, but it has some good info. It also has some predictions that didn't quite come true. One thing that has become crystal clear is how bad the corruption is/was. Virtually ALL the money intended for keeping the military functional was stolen. So the military is barely able to do anything. Let alone win a war. You have to wonder how far it goes. I know Putin had threatened to use nukes, but shut up. He then tried to pretend that Ukraine was going to set off a radiological device (dirty bomb), which nobody with half a brain believed. Did he shut up about nukes because he found out that the money intended to keep them operational had been stolen and the 'nuclear arsenal' was just a pile of radioactive junk? I don't know but it's plausible. I believe he stopped trying to pretend that Ukraine was going to use a dirty bomb because he was told in no uncertain terms that: A - Nobody in the west believed it was going to be Ukrainian, that it would be Russian (and they would likely be able to prove it from analysis of the residue) B - If Russia used nuclear material in any form that Russia would suffer severe consequences. I've read a variety of sources making a variety of claims. I both do and don't believe them. One was that if Russia used any sort of nuke, the entire Russian Navy would cease to exist. Every ship at sea sunk, every ship in port (along with the port facilities) destroyed. Not sure how plausible that is, but the Russian navy is a faint shadow of it's former Soviet self. It's becoming more and more clear that Russia has lost the war. They probably lost any chance of winning last summer when they failed to win in the first 3 or 4 months. The threats of nukes, and the attacks on civilian infrastructure just reinforce this. Putin isn't attacking the Ukrainian military because he really can't. So he bombs civilians.

Lynse mentions that he didn't remember him wearing glasses (so this presumably would include wearing sunglasses). However, he doesn't say anything about his eye color. He likely just didn't pay attention to it. Why would he have? Williams doesn't mention anything about sunglasses one way or the other. I can't imagine him wearing them in the terminal. That would have called unnecessary attention to himself. I believe this passage from Flo's 302 indicates that he took his glasses off for a while after the passengers left.

I don't believe Tina knew Cooper prior to the hijacking.. and she wasn't in on it. Tina's camp didn't do a search they released a narrative to pre-empt a large scale ground search. IMO, it was a CYA move in case they found Cooper and/or the money. It is getting really hard to keep straight who said what about each of the sketches.. redactions don't help. Lyle was an FBI informant prior to NORJAK, I posted proof. It was related to his foreign contacts, mostly Russians. This is odd because that is the CIA's turf... I never found any proof he was connected to CIA but that may have come later and the CIA was all over Central America.. Ex military guys travelling the world working humanitarian missions screams CIA.. (Kivett)

Oh piffle. You don't need NOAA to look foolish. You do it very well all by yourself.

Yes that’s the page I was referring to, good find fly. Interesting about the plane registration. Lyle told his good friend John Fairbanks that he had purchased the 180. Here is that correspondence and a picture of Vic in the plane (Cessna 180) with with him.

I’ve spoken to his son Lyle Jr and his granddaughter Amber extensively. His death is it’s own mystery I’ve went down the rabbit hole on. They believe and I tend to agree with them after conducting my own research into LC’s crash in Honduras that the CIA took him out. I reached out to the lone survivor of the crash Victor Vinson aka Cajun Vic who somehow thought to take his seatbelt off as the plane was going down which allowed him to be ejected out miraculously saving his life. I found it really interesting that the day after we spoke on the phone the page on his website for his name brand chain of Cajun food trucks that detailed his entire story of the crash was removed from the site. Here is Vic undergoing jump training with Lyle earlier on in that trip they took to Honduras.

Russia is having serious issues in the domestic weapons supply sector. All those fancy yachts have to be paid for somehow. The Chairman of the Election Commission goes to Putin after the election: “I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?” “The bad news.” “Zyuganov, the Communist Party candidate, got 75% of the votes.” “Holy crap!” cries Putin. “What’s the good news?” “He just fell out of a third story window and was killed”

Cosmonaut rather than astronaut. Add BASE jumper to the list of achievements. Fly free, Major Tim. 2 wrongs don't make a right - but 3 lefts do.

Clearly a man defined by his contributions to the sport. RIP, Tim. We owe you. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX