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Definitely something to that. People are generally frustrated everywhere and it’s easy to blame the incumbents, whatever party they’re a part of.

Chris Cunningham and I did a show last night for anyone interested. Also available on the DB Cooper Sleuth podcast on all apps.

When lax government oversight leads to a degradation of quality in the name of profit, resulting in 737's pounding in and jettisoning doors mid-flight, things have gone too far. My panties are unsoiled, thank you very much...they're also lacy, but it's strictly a comfort thing!

Regulations on dumping pollution, keeping bankers from making foolish loans to deadbeat friends, corruption of the state and anti-competitive behavior. None of that is necessary in a dictatorship after all, it works so well in Russia and China.

Any replacement needs to deal with the Biden/Harris war chest. That is, they'll need a shit bag of money, like hundreds of millions if it's a cat and dog fight, unless Harris is brought into the solution from the start. That is and has been my concern with the Joe needs to go argument. Yes, he needs to go on the merits. But the thing is more complicated that just that.

But remember that SCOTUS has annointed POTUS as king. So if he abdicates the throne, Hunter is next in the line of succession.

Hi folks, I do not need the WSJ to tell me this: Mr. Biden’s best bet for survival, bizarrely, is to keep warning Democrats that his withdrawal will simply force them to confront other notable mistakes—crowning a barely qualified and unpopular vice president Opinion | About the Democratic Panic (msn.com) IMO that is a very poor argument. IMO she is not the heir apparent; far too many others more qualified. Jerry Baumchen

When big Dem. $$$ donors tell him its time to ride into the sunset.

Biden, Ginsberg? No one seems to be able to tell powerful people it's time to go. Like I said earlier, if the D party foists this choice upon the nation then it deserves the result it will inevitably see.

Hi Ken, 1. He had a cold. Yet, he seemed to get over it the next day in Charlotte. 2. It was jet lag. Yet, he had not been anywhere for 12 days. 3. Now, he says he needs more sleep. He must be campaigning for Trump. If he was truly in charge of his faculties, he would fire his entire campaign team. It is only to get worse. Jerry Baumchen PS) It looks like a number of the D's are putting some distance between him & them: Democrats in competitive House races break from Joe Biden (thehill.com)

I've seen plenty of fast paced Trump blooper type edits. They are funny and the make him look like the buffoon he is. Biden edits show something a little more sad. I don't envy America its choice. Happy 4th!

Or because the Rs have shown a strong propensity to edit stuff to make their opponents look bad.

I was struck by the refusal of the DoJ to release the tapes of the interviews. Probably because Biden sounds very old and confused in them.

Why is showing photo ID a fuss? The last half-dozen Canadian elections (municipal, provincial and federal) have all required me to show gov't issued photo ID at the polling station.

I can tell you with the utmost confidence that one Ranger would not call another the N word. And, even if it should happen; that's an educational process that would not occur in the classroom.

The Supreme Court has given to the President the power that Parliament removed from the English king in 1649. And Americans have the nerve to call Brits "subjects" as a slur. Who are the subjects now?

True, better to reach the ground softly anywhere than crash hard in a nice field. So chopping the main if possible remains the best option. However, that was my take on a situation in which the winds might be a factor of consideration. And if a side-by-side is kept, the advice is to keep it together by actively giving both canopies some inside rear pressure (basically rear-riser turn both canopies into each other) to nail them tight.

largely overstated until it actually happens. Are there not enough examples from Trumps time in office and enough words coming out of his mouth, not enough information from the Republican party (Project2025) to see that THEY DO IN FACT intend to do these things? When Trump says he wants to be a dictator, there is no reason to not believe him and if you read Project 2025, they intend to make that happen. Bring on the civil war. This is in fact the time to panic - the normal means of each branch of government checking the others is failing badly and people who say 'you are overstating' are just going to stand there and watch it happen

The issue at Lodi was a complicated one - most people new to the sport don't get, and people who have been involved for a while argue over. I never had a problem over there when I was actively jumping more, but I would never send a new or newer jumper there unless they were under direct supervision from someone I trusted. The accident with Brett on Sept.17th (read above) is a microcosm of what was going on: Brett came to another local DZ a couple weeks before this accident. I was S&TA. I would not let him jump the wingsuit without an instructor. He wasn't very current and kind of had an attitude that was not really receptive to our constructive suggestions. He left and now we all know what happened next. Is that a Lodi issue, or a Brett issue? Some will say Brett was an adult and was licensed and chose to do that and it killed him. Some places do there best to help those who aren't keen on helping themselves. And that is probably the biggest difference between Lodi and some other places. Lodi will let you be an adult, largely make your own choices, and deal with the consequences. Except swooping..don't touch the front risers. Lodi supporters will point to things like no swooping, I've seen Bill kick people of the DZ for unsafe things, etc. etc. And that is all true. However, there was this "let adults be adults" attitude that got more than one person killed, because as we all know, adults sometimes don't know how to be adults - especially skydivers. The TI issue was criminal in my opinion. Anyone that thinks Bill didn't know what was going on doesn't know Lodi. Lodi is a fraction of what it used to be at this point. The TI thing did him in. Kill experienced skydivers all day - nobody will really care. Kill a tandem student with criminal shenanigans - the party is over. Adults being adults right?