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If you like. I prefer more straightforward approaches. If a gun sold to you is ever used in a crime, or accidental shooting, you go to jail for ten years period. No exceptions. That way no responsible, law abiding gun owners are affected - but the irresponsible gun owners are very, very afraid.

Voters like the spending policies of democrats. Voters like the tax policies of republicans.

Yes Ron, we know. Only your religion offers hope of salvation. Anyone who believes anything different is condemned to eternal damnation. Heard it all before and it is kind of sickening to hear it some more.

The cable repairman was on my street and asked me what time it was. I told him it is between 1 and 5 pm.

"People are saying she's not electable. I'm not saying that, but everyone is saying it. It's unbelievable how many people are saying she's just not electable, and the country's not ready. They've turned off all the voters. Just the other day a disabled veteran came up to me and said 'Mr. Trump, I love you and you are our only hope. She's just not electable.' He was crying because all the people feel very strongly about this."

This desire to "harden soft targets" is surreal. Some Americans are willing to live their lives like that by choice. Live like the Israelis have had to do. Not because of ongoing threats by an oppressed tribe, but merely so they don't have to give up the thrill and enjoyment of holding and playing with the tools of war. Living with a potential threat that can come from any direction at any moment. It sounds like a very imaginative work of fiction yet it is daily life for no good reason.

Interesting. A court found Trump guilty of sexual abuse, meaning that, by definition, he met and abused E Jean Carroll. He immediately went on CNN and claimed once again that "he never met her" and said that she told a " fake...made up story." Given that there is photographic evidence that he met her, and given that there is a legal decision that he sexually abused her, that is once again slander. And it looks like Carroll will be filing her next lawsuit fairly soon: "It's definitely actionable. And here the cruelty will make him less wealthy. He's not going to get away with it another time." Trump could become her gravy train.

Lots of young people have "problems" in Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, Japan, NZ, France, Netherlands, Sweden, etc. Only in those countries they don't have easy access to killing machines, which is why the USA has a far higher murder rate than any other wealthy nation. The problem isn't mental health, the problem is the gun.

3 dead. Six wounded, including a cop. The shooter fired off somewhere around 150 rounds before being stopped. Apparently you have a slightly different definition of the word 'instant' than I do.

I just watched the History Channel special. It was pretty good, though very little new ground was covered (unsurprisingly). - Drove me mad that they used the "A" sketch throughout the entire program. I guess they didn't have the time to explain the "B" sketch? Though I would argue that's pretty important to cover. - I had never actually heard about Dick Briggs and his eerie prediction about the Ingrams finding the money before. Seems pretty apocryphal and difficult to verify, though. Also, knowing that he was a proven liar, I would probably just lump him in with the other false confessors at this point. - I didn't know Lakich worked in an environment possibly suitable for the tie particles. He was a more unorthodox suspect I was glad to see covered. Don't think he was Cooper, but the circumstances surrounding his family's death are interesting and something I want to learn more about. - And of course there was the segment about William J. Smith at the end! No new pics or information as far as I could tell, though.

Yes, it is so wonderful that mass shooters can be stopped so efficiently. And usually before more than 5 or so innocents are dead. It's a wonderful world.

On some DZs that is still the present tense. Some skydivers never mature and never grow beyond the recreational drugs that they consumed as teenagers or in their twenties. Back in my twenties, I developed an addiction to caffeine and have never been able to shake that addiction. The only difference now is that I drink my last cup of coffee before 13:00 in order to allow it filter out of my system and get a decent night's sleep. Back during my twenties I also smoked a little marijuana, tried hashish, tried speed, etc. but my only lasting drug problem was alcohol. Eventually I automatically picked up a beer every day at sunset. I knew that alcohol was aggravating my insomnia, but it had become a bad habit that was difficult to control. Eventually I was forced to decide between drinking with the boys on Friday evening versus getting up early enough to catch the first load Saturday morning. The first decision was admitting that I could only have one of those pleasures. I decided that the first load was more important and that decision helped me maintain a full-time skydiving career for 18 years. I have been sober for 26 years now. Every time I consider drinking again, I remember the three day long hangovers the last year that I drank. Sorry boys, but Ihave more important things to do than drink beers with you.

Lyndon Baines Johnson (D) Assumed office November 1963: $5 billion deficit Left office January 1969: $3 billion surplus Reduced the deficit by $8 billion Richard Nixon (R) Assumed office January 1969: $3 billion surplus Left office August 1974: $6 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $9 billion Gerald Ford (R) Assumed office August 1974: $6 billion deficit Left office January 1977: $54 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $48 billion Jimmy Carter (D) Assumed office January 1977: $54 billion deficit Left office January 1981: $79 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $25 billion Ronald Reagan (R) Assumed office January 1981: $79 billion deficit Left office January 1989: $153 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $74 billion George H.W Bush (R) Assumed office January 1989: $153 billion deficit Left office January 1993: $255 billion deficit Increased the deficit by $102 billion Bill Clinton (D) Assumed office January 1993: $255 billion deficit Left office January 2001: $128 billion surplus Reduced the deficit by $383 billion George W. Bush (R) Assumed office January 2001: $128 billion surplus Left office January 2009: $1.4 trillion deficit Increased the deficit by $1.5 trillion Barack Obama (D) Assumed office January 2009: $1.4 trillion deficit Left office January 2017: $665 billion deficit Reduced the deficit by $735 billion Donald Trump (R) Assumed office January 2017: $665 billion deficit Left office January 2020: $3.7 trillion deficit Increased the deficit by $3 trillion Joe Biden (D) Assumed office January 2021: $3.7 trillion deficit Fiscal year 2022: $2.775 trillion deficit Fiscal year 2023: $1.376 trillion deficit Reduced the deficit by $2.3 trillion (so far) So in the past 60 years, only one Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, had a larger budget deficit in his last year in office than he inherited from his predecessor. All six Republican presidents had larger deficits in their last budgets than they were handed at the start of their term. And yet so many gullible voters have swallowed the GOP line that it's the Democrats who are spendthrifts, the basis for McCarthy's current threat to refuse to pay the nation's bills -- something Republicans never did as Trump was adding $8 trillion to the national debt in just four years. Hypocrites!

"I've got this thing and it's fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for fuckin' nothing." The practice of Presidential pardons needs to be abolished. It is just a mechanism by which a crook can lure in his lackeys to help in his crimes, letting them get off scot free.

I have heard "oh god" and "oh god yes" screamed once or twice. Does that count as a religious experience?

And on Monday Rudy Giuliani's assistant, Noelle Dunphy, filed sexual harassement and wage-theft charges against him. The complaint listed these gems: Giuliani would “point to his erect penis, and tell her that he could not do any work until ‘you take care of this.’” Giuliani drank “morning, noon, and night, and was frequently intoxicated” and “unpredictable.” Giuliani would go on “alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and antisemitic remarks.” Dunphy claims Giuliani demanded oral sex when he was on phone calls with Donald Trump because it made him “feel like Bill Clinton.” When Dunphy worked remotely during the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, Giuliani demanded that she appear naked during videoconference calls. Giuliani didn’t pay Dunphy for her work, promising he'd pay her as soon as his divorce was finalized. Dunphy says that not only does she have recordings of many of these, he gave her access to his email account - and she kept a record of his emails. Sounds like the trial will be a slam dunk. Biggest issue may be that it gets too gross for jurors to listen to.

That right there explains a lot of politics.

How interesting. Your position is that if one has not literally heard the voice of god speaking directly to them, as you have, then there's no reason to believe in god or be religious?

Is there anything worse (on a forum, not in the real world obvs) than someone who tries to weasel out of standing up for what they said when they realise it hasn't gone down well? Not your opinion, huh? Lets just check that. You said, and I'll copy and paste so there's no mistake, "IMO the country isn't ready to elect a female". Simple question here - what does the 'M' stand for in IMO?

"He looks like he could change a nine-dollar bill in threes." -- George Kennedy in "The Eiger Sanction"

Maybe it would be appropriate for the Popes picture to be on the $3.00 bill.

Maybe he is from the Ron school that teaches that analysis is not needed because it is all about "the feels".

The "bumbling Joe and Kamala show" are your words not from the poll, right? Please put some definition to the claim; not single words like "border" or "economy" but your own actual analysis.

From History's Greatest Mysteries, 2020: Ammerman: We knew it was a hijacking. We didn't have a flight plan on it because nobody knew exactly what the routing was going to be. So we were told "Just follow him. Keep everybody else away from him." It became fairly obvious that he was on Victor-23. Ulis: The first priority here when tackling this case is trying to figure out the path that the jet took. Can you gauge precisely how you could identify the exact location of Flight 305? Ammerman: Yeah. What I'm looking at is a map on a video screen. Aircraft are being presented in what would look to you like an equal sign. On the leading slash, the aircraft itself could be anyplace on that line. So it could be in the center, it might be at the left side of the line, it might be at the right side. We don't know. Ulis: Any idea of roughly what kind of distance you're looking at there? Ammerman: I would guess four to five nautical miles long, that line is. Ulis: How do you know that he's actually within Victor 23 if you've got sort of that much play there? Ammerman: Sure. It's very uncertain just exactly where the airplane was within that target area that we're seeing.

Yep. Very much aware. And that 302 is from the guy who literally watched it on his radar and he said it was 1-2 miles EAST of the center of V-23.

A Trump appointed prosecutor has been investigating Hunter Biden for 5 years now and has yet to bring even 1 single charge. Hunter and Joe Biden must be the smartest motherfuckers ever.

See the older History Channel, 2-part series from July 2016, for more on the Igram find. Dwayne says a little too much in the interview at minute 62 of episode 1. The same information is given in Colbert's book, The Last Master Outlaw... [page 188] ... "see them two little sticks right there" after young Brian cleared his first spot for the fire. In addition, see the Ingram's reaction at minute 68 in the same episode 1, where Dwayne and Brian watch the Ron Carlson interview pegging the "hippie couple". Similar explanation in the book [pp 166-68]. This Dropzone forum was down during that period and I never saw any discussion on any of these points on the other forums. Seems like two big keys regarding the 'money plant'.

New York Post? I wonder who owns that.

Oh you’re too kind. The NYP has been a shit show for much longer than that.

I don't know much about Pokeman but I'm in the Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach area for a quick run and, while here, I hit 3 different Apple stores to get a solution for getting my data from 2 bricked MacAirs onto a new one. Let me tell you, if pronoun confusion, concern over skin color, age, sex, tattoo's, piercings, sexuality, or any of the panoply of concerns so many people have today is a bother for you then buy Dell. In the West Palm Beach store, with everyone else baffled, they wheeled out this 23 year old kid, who fit the description of too many fears, and who then quickly looked at a couple of things and told me no problem it'll be done in two hours but you need to wait. I have to believe the tent is big enough for everyone, seriously.

This is four days after the skyjacking. Are we going to assume that ATC radar is wrong? If so, there would be dozens of airline collisions in American skies daily.

It is often suggested that cabbies wouldn't have remembered Cooper. However, they found the cab driver who took Hahneman to the airport. Hahneman was also just dressed in a basic business suit. Just some food for thought.

Even though jumpers should be trained not to turn on their AAD at the house, it happens and could have been a factor in some fatalities, which is why I spent a lot of time on the automatic barometric update algorithm. Although I do not want to encourage people to do so, it is something that people have done, so I think that an AAD should be able to handle that poor habit. Different AADs handle their automatic update process differently, for better or worse. I am pleased with how my automatic update is working, I have tested it in several different turn on and DZ altitudes and drive times, both live and simulated.

Now THIS is awesome. Texas Representative Louie Gohmert was whining about how unfair the arrest of Santos was: "If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you!" I mean, isn't lying to Congress and the FBI a right protected by the Constitution for republicans? I have no idea how the Onion is still in business with real world statements like this coming from republicans every other day.

Lets see if I can fill in some gaps that I have created... The purchase price for this unit would be equal to the Cypres, even with all the additional internal sensors and such. What goes on under the cover will be very different however, with the processor looking at 10 channels of data at a sample rate of about 4 times faster that the Cypress or Vigil, not sure what the Mars sample rate is. The cost of service is TBD. I see that as a double edged sword in that, like with your reserve that has to be repacked by a rigger, and most of us have to pay to have that done, the manufacturers of the rig don't cover that. And, at the same time, seeing the units ever 4 years allows us to catch problems and address then before they become a problem, and that I think is something that benefits us, so why should the customer have to pay for our quality control program? The units will be put through a rigorous validation process every time they are sent in, and that will take some labor and ware and tare on the equipment, which could be argued as the cost of doing business, and with any cost, it would be passed on to the consumer. Lets just call this TBD :) The black box is not for "data logging" as traditionally understood. The jumper will not have access to the SD card as it will be packed in the reserve container. This unit will use the data recorder to provide it self with the senses needed to determine the conditions it is in, which we call "Situational Awareness". With it being situationaly aware, it can make decisions based on the conditions it is sensing. One example of situational awareness is having to land in the plane. Every AAD on the market will fire if the pilot descends to fast (provided exceeded the arming altitude). Because my AAD is/will be, aware that it is still in the plane, or more correctly stated, it knows it has not exited the plane, it will not fire when it detects the high descent rate at the magic altitude. The data that is stored will be useful for post accident analysis, and will provide us with a record of its operation between service intervals. AADs are meant for a specific purpose.. I have data recorders if anyone wants to "collect data". The military wants them to be simple too lol... Your requirements are different than the military, that is why there will not be any WiFi to download the data. There also won't be a self destruct feature... Personally, I am very reluctant to do anything non Government, but I am confident enough in this unit that I have let several people of whom I greatly respect convince me that the liability can be mitigated.