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You mean claim bone spurs and get a deferment?

There is a growing movement among Christians to maintain their faith - but to leave their church. As of 2017, 10% of the Christians in America are "dechurched" i.e. they still believe in the precepts of Christianity but no longer want to be associated with their (or any) church. A Medium article seeks to explain this phenomenon. In it, the author lists several barriers that Christians see between them and an established church. These include: Normalization. Most Christian churches place women in subservient roles within the church, and many women do not want to associate with an organization that sets a model for their daughters that they are the subservient sex. (And in fact women are leaving churches faster than men.) Politics. Many Christians can no longer stomach the alignment between Christian churches and right wing politics. The author describes Christians who "walk away from the church because they can’t reconcile why the church supports political parties that want to build economic wealth while turning away the refugee and oppressing the minority." Sexuality. Only heteronormative people are really accepted by churches these days. That of course excludes gay, trans and nonbinary people, and these people are leaving in droves. In addition, as LGBT barriers are slowly broken down, even straight cis Christians are realizing that they have friends and family who are LGBT - and they do not want to participate in a church that treats them as lepers. Anyway, good read below. https://medium.com/backyard-theology/the-rise-of-churchless-christians-c16dfc8452c3 https://www.barna.com/research/meet-love-jesus-not-church/

What goes unstated in that story is that this is a arms dealer for China. He paid a trump advisor to influence US-China relations during trump's term. He peddled anti-Biden stories using his "independent" think tank when his real occupation was as a agent for China. Fox News regular who accused Hunter Biden of having nefarious ties to China is now being charged with having nefarious ties to China its hardly any wonder why trump wants to gut the FBI when this US citizen/Chinese agent was doing such a good job for the US right.

Indeed, I've had a hell of a good run, opened in 1988. Crazy. I'm lucky to have fantastic staff and awesome jumpers who know I want to be gone a lot but must have the same or better safety etc. so it's easy to keep it going. Also, I really thought we'd be part 135 a decade ago and set up for the possibility, although the op's manual is probably too out of date. I can tell you with certainty that some big operators are going to have a lot of engines to overhaul and a lot of SB's and SIL's to accomplish if we go 135. They might also have some 'splainin' to do about how many hours since flight school their pilots have.

The Bill hasn’t passed, nor is on the way to be signed by the president. A LOT of discussion will be held on most of the items listed in this bill in committee. We have seen this movie before, most recently with ATC payment for use by GA aircraft. USPA doesn’t usually discuss what battles they are fighting until they are over. But hey, I still have my BASE rig, so there’s that!

Happened to see this on YouTube. Lee

At least President Biden was able to see through the poor advice from the naysayers and overrule them.

Ok, I feel bad for that mistake so I will post something new from my files... This is a redacted letter that I was able to get unredacted... WHY was it redacted?? and it has elements/themes that were in Gunther's book.. it may have been written by "Clara"... or Cooper himself.. gave her $5000 cash... close to TBAR amount?? The letter isn't written as fact.. but to claim Cooper was dead and he was a good guy.. just like the Gunther narrative which was published much later. This letter is fascinating because of the redactions and similarity to Gunther's book, I can't see some rando writing this. It was mailed Sept 72.

The number of jumps I could make in a day went way up when I realized I sucked at packing.

What Genesis is missing is good science.

@Flyjack, are you comfortable explaining what you mean about "being asked" not to disclose your research? My first thought was book deal, but then someone else presenting your research publicly at CooperCon would seem to be the ultimate deal-killer. It's hard to get more public than that! Even sharing with select people privately would seem risky in that case. All it takes is one of them to say a single thing in public to mess up the whole deal. What does it mean when you say you are "being asked" not to share?

Oh 100% agreed, I probably could have been clearer. Yes there's an uptick, though nearly not as much as is being painted by some, and yes it will be for the reason you mentioned, better acceptance and understanding at a broad level. My critique is of those who think people can be influenced into being trans, or that it's only increasing because it's become "trendy". This is akin to blaming the increase in left-handedness over the last century as being caused by trendiness. Lol.

Less than a handful of voter fraud cases and the GOP feels that much stricter access to voting is required. Tens of thousands a year dead with guns and the answer is supposedly, more guns.

I'm guessing that as the suspect is in custody, he's a white male.