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A few years prior to this mess,, another jumper from Lodi was caught signing off multiple students without any ratings. He was "disciplined" by USPA by being allowed to get an AFF rating. Consistency and transparency are top of the list when one thinks of USPA. /s

Thank you for the information. I was having a conversation the other day with a fellow veteran "at risk" who refuses to get the vaccine. I've been trying to educate him and he responded the other day with, "How come you see all these people falling over dead." My response was, "We've always had that many people falling over dead. What we haven't had is camera phones in everyone's hands filming it." I did more research on the paper itself and the dataset was as a strong in preventing bias as I've seen in quite awhile (A triple blind dataset). The original paper can be found here for $35.00: https://www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.12.006 Impact of Vaccination on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With COVID-19 Infection

Worth also inviting him to source the events in these videos as well. Most of them didn't die, and most of them occurred either pre-Covid or at least pre-vaccine. It's an active disinformation campaign. EDIT: And I don't mean that as a "challenge" him type thing, I mean it as an actual investigative exercise. If he can see for himself that the people pushing these narratives are actively fluffing it with fake data, the better the odds that he'll be more sceptical in future off his own back.

Welcome to the Republican Party.

I read he took a 10 hour train ride with a small security detail, medical team and no air cover. Best, if true, they notified Moscow in advance he was going. That’s some serious beat down. That’s saying that if anything happens we’ll call it an intentional attempt on Biden and you really don’t want us thinking that. Have a borscht day.

There is a middle ground between the two of you. Joe may well be right that it's not the situation to send western troops into, and Bigun's right that the 'boiling frogs' approach has been unnecessarily cautious. There have been numerous points in the war where supply of heavier and longer range weaponry that we ended up giving them (or will give them) anyway could have made huge differences. Imagine what 10 or 15 Himars and plenty of rockets could have done to the convoy stuck outside Kyiv, and imagine what that would have meant for the eastern front that many of those Russian vehicles ended up redeploying to? We're way beyond the point of worrying that any of Putin's extreme threats might actually be serious, and the damage done to the Russian military will already take years or decades to repair. At this point we shoud stop with any worries about what might be seen as 'offensive' and supply them with whatever they can use that can cripple Russia's ability to 1) bomb civilian targets across Ukraine and 2) protect the territory they've seized. Even if that means enabling Ukraine to strike hard at airfields and supply depots inside Russia.

Hi Doug, I totally agree. As I have posted numerous times, I was a Republican for over 40 yrs. I did NOT leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me. Jerry Baumchen

Same here. I voted R for just about every major election until 2012. I haven't voted R AT ALL since 2016. And doubt that I ever will again. MTG tweeted that the 'red states' should 'divorce' the rest of the country. She seems to forget that: A - The stupid fools tried that 160 years ago. And failed. B - The 14th Amendment bars those who participate in an insurrection from holding office. I'm not sure where the 'participation' line is, but she's getting closer & closer. Funny how the R 'leadership' is not really answering any questions about this.

I think if the deal was that Russia gets 20 square miles in a separatist area and they pull out everything else, along with some other concessions (no military in that area or within 50 miles of the Ukranian border for example) Ukraine would go for it. This war has been brutal to them as well.

I expect by now, if you were to open up any Russian nuclear warhead, it would be empty except for a certificate entitling the holder to one share of stock in M&M Enterprises.

I’m checking with a cousin who used to be in the State Department in the area. All visas normally require an interview, and those are done one.at.a.time by the local office. It’s normally not a fast, easy, or certain process for normal people. My nephew’s parents haven’t been able to get a visa to come visit them from India, even for a wedding. They’re employed with lots of ties in India Wendy P.

Putin could just borrow Nixon's "Peace with Honor" speech for pulling out of Vietnam.

Gotta say Biden has been sort of kicking butt lately. First he gets the IRA passed, a landmark bill to reduce the deficit and prioritize US research and development. Even republicans who opposed it start lining up for funding from that bill. Then he gives a State of the Union address where he spars with republicans - and wins, getting them to applaud the idea of not cutting social security of medicare. And he was bipartisan enough to get GOP applause at several other parts of his address. Next he goes to an active war zone to meet with Zelensky, thus taking the wind out of Putin's sails a few days before a critical address of his own. With success in Ukraine looking less and less likely there will be more pressure on Putin to engineer a strategic withdrawal that still allows him to claim he won something. Good to see he's finally decided to get to work.

Seems like by far the most sensible thing to do. If you don’t tell them, there’s a small but real chance of getting caught in a random strike. If you do tell them, they’ll put a massive exclusion zone around him for any missile, drone, saboteur, and whatever the hell else they’re doing activity. The last thing Russia wants is a reason for western forces to get directly involved.

@riggerrob, you are mistaken. The motion for contempt means that there is an existing Court Order (aka FOAH or similar) that instructs a party or both parties to do something (e.g. pay for damages, reinstate membership and/or ratings, etc.), and that one of the parties has been refusing to follow the court order (e.g. shell out $150K, reinstate membership and/or ratings, etc.) So the other party, in this case Mr. G, had to file said Motion for Contempt in order to enforce the judgement/Court Order/FOAH/blah-blah-blah. There is no "debate" between Mr. G and USPA.