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Have you got something against Virgins?

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Go to the 21 minute mark in my video from tonight.

Martin Luther King was perhaps the most woke civil rights leader in American history. He brought visibility to the discrimination and oppression that black people in the US faced, and risked his life (and ultimately lost it) to try to change that. Hopefully his legacy will live on, and will be expressed by confronting the remaining injustices that black people face, and the injustices that other minorities (gay, trans, disabled, immigrants) face here as well.

Regarding striking matches vs the tie ... Find a slo mo of matches lighting - its an 'explosive event' - blows particles everywhere in the space around the match lighting. If you strike a match in front of the tie or anywhere in the vicinity of the tie, the tie gets covered by every particle related to the match chemistry.

With respect to Eric, contained within there is one of the reasons why this was never going to work. "Moreover, Dunbar and Ulis are asking the FBI to grant Ulis and a DNA specialist access..." Eric HAS to be in the room when it happens. I told him this was an issue like a year ago. Instead of FOIA'ing it or doing this publicity campaign type stuff, I told him he needed to line up a DNA specialist and have THEM contact the FBI through back channels and request access. From my perspective, that was the only chance the idea ever had for success. Eric needed to divorce himself from it and only have a role in the background. I believe Eric has good intentions with all of this, but from the FBI's perspective, he's just some guy who has been on TV a few times and is out making statements to the media.

In those days before the Suez Canal the Red Sea was an unimportant pond. I hear it was even easily parted.

When you were a kid back in Davenport, did you ever imagine that one day your political agenda would lead you to defend a rapist?

He was a smokejumper and was involved with Marina Air Park near Tuscon and helped get the Nationals there in '69?

You can. You can also not make one a condition of the other. Unfortunately, both you specifically and the rest of your party (the ones who aren't actively pro-Russian) have made it explicitly clear that Ukraine is quite far down the list of your political priorities, to the point that it is completely expendable unless it can be used to leverage action on those other priorites. That's why people say you don't support Ukraine - because you have been quite open about the fact that you don't really care.

It would be interesting to know how many skydives were made at Lodi for the same time period. I spent many years skydiving regularly at Lodi and I remember 2 Twin Otter sized aircraft going back to back both weekend days from early Spring to Fall several summers in a row. I remember a few summers where there were more than 100 tandems on Saturday and another 100+ on Sunday. Thats alot of skydives and alot of tandems. I have my own reservations about how Dause ran Lodi, but statistically I don’t know if it would stand out. As far as tandems go, I can only think of the 2016 accident noted above and one where the tandem instructor had a premature opening out the door resulting in a main/reserve entanglement. Instructor was seriously injured and the passenger died sometime later on the operating table in his home country (Austria?). Any way, that makes maybe 2 fatal tandems while in same time frame surrounding Norcal DZ’s had how many?

Does anyone remember this jumper from the Marana AZ area in the late 60s? A rigging customer of mine is reflecting on his jump career from that time, and remembers Paul Tag as a larger-than-life character. He's interested in finding out more about him.

Yo Harry: Thanks a lot for the info! You jumped El Cap exactly three weeks before I did. (Gee, I wonder how many 'virgins' went off in between and were added to the EC# list before me?) I already had a permit to go back for a 2nd El Cap jump. It was only a few days later, but, alas, it was not to be; NPS had shut us down by then. Nick D. You were exactly correct; the people jumping El Cap that summer weren't really BASE jumpers at all. We were just a bunch of yahoo skydivers who thought we were off on a lark in the park. Good memories! Jerry

They were actually called the Flat Bed Ten. (Jerry's just having some fun). And they were from Lake Elsinore. They didn't want to hike the whole trail so they moved a barricade and drove a flat bed track up a closed road. And you know, to Rangers that's the equivalent of murder. But they weren't the only reason the legal jumps were stopped as there were plenty of other skydivers breaking the rules. Jumping with no permits, jumping after their permits expired, or a day before their permits were good, also jumping at night, doing RW, and so on. But one thing you have to keep in mind is the Park only agreed to try the legal jumps mainly to gather enough ammunition to shut down jumping forever. And after it was over they had it, "See, these guys can't even follow some simple rules." But it also needs to be said these weren't B.A.S.E. jumpers, they were skydivers. Skydivers out on lark and taking things about as seriously as skydivers take anything. So I've never gotten too mad at them even though we've been paying the price all these years later. But the simple fact is the Rangers had a plan and we didn't . . . NickD