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    Tim Walz

    They didn't know that Walz put in his retirement papers months before the deployment decision. And he was a Command Sgt Major, but was told that to make it permanent he had to take a leadership class. Since he'd already decided to retire (he wanted to run for office, and couldn't run for office while in the Guard), he didn't do the school. Wendy P.
  2. Just something to consider: in the case of a malfunction, or a less-than-perfect landing, no one ever wishes they had less canopy above them. At 120 lbs, I put several hundred jumps on a canopy of 220 sq ft (it was the olden days). Wendy P.
  3. It's their problem. Wendy P.
  4. Yeah, we have organizers for newbies and experienced on the weekends, generally announced on the club’s Facebook page and on the DZ bulletin board. Wendy P.
  5. Like the selection of a VP candidate because of the electorate they appeal to? Wendy P.
  6. One good friend of mine is now 92; 2 years younger than my mother would be. But she’s the one who bought an electric car last year because she’s excited about the technology, and who makes sure she always has events to look forward to. She’d probably also flirt with a doorpost, as long as the doorpost said hi. Now that’s young! Wendy P.
  7. Well, having regularly jumped, and had inspected, gear that was older than that, I'm not sure I do. I sold a rig in 2017 that had about 1500+ jumps over 15 years, that had been bought used in the first place; it was a 1997 Javelin. It was sent back to the factory, who checked it over and replaced some of the flaps. That's the "depends." I'm probably better than most at taking care of my gear, and have some understanding of it. Why the limits beyond individual inspection? Wendy P.
  8. Because, well, the answer is “it depends.” Wendy P.
  9. Because you’re basically a polite person. Being woke doesn’t mean you can’t call an asshole an asshole, but does the fact that heterosexual people don’t in invite you into their beds mean that you aren’t polite? If a deaf person doesn’t invite you into their bed does that mean that you say “fucking listen to me!”? Woke is just another word for “polite even if I’m not scared of the consequences of not being polite,” or “polite because I choose to, rather than have to.” Wendy P.
  10. He's Canadian; it doesn't really matter who he backs. Wendy P.
  11. Thanks for your perspective; it’s a really important one. Yeah, I started in college, but it was static line, and student jumps were well under $20 US. While that translates to more than $20 now, it doesn’t translate to anything remotely like the $100+ of AFF. Wendy P.
  12. It was often called the Jesus String or the Jesus Rope in my circles. A friend of mine put his own onto a Starlite container after a notable (cleared at 400') container lock on a Piglet in our area. Me, I lived dangerously and didn't. Wendy P.
  13. The first rig I owned was bought used for $400; a couple years later I bought a custom Wonderhog Sprint (pre-vector) for $400. But I think I paid about $2500 for the only new complete rig I ever bought; Mirage (the Mike Cerasoli one that followed the Rapod Transit) with a Firefly and a K-20. But I tend to stick with gear for a long time. My husband just bought an upsize rig for himself, for $5500. 10 years old, but pristine and a great fit Enjoy your new rig Wendy P.
  14. Very possibly true. Or maybe it was laser-eyes Joe who orchestrated the whole thing so that it happened after the Republican convention and VP pick Wendy P.
  15. What, a 20-year-old guy failed to plan and prepare adequately? I’m SHOCKED! And he got lucky with how close it came? Equally shocked. They're the masters of “what could possibly go wrong?” Wendy P.
  16. Coreece, I don’t know if you see “the right” as a single entity, marching in lockstep, but “the left” for damn sure isn’t. We’re not the party of “all or nothing,” and there are definitely divisions and factions. That doesn’t make us hypocrites, it makes us willing to compromise. Sometimes people aren’t happy with the results of compromise, and keep talking. It’s not like they’ve been muzzled. I have a feeling a decent number of strongly pro-life evangelicals will vote for Trump anyway. Does that make them hypocrites? Wendy P.
  17. It’s all part of the economy. Wendy P.
  18. That way he maintains control of the narrative Wendy P.
  19. No matter what happens, it'll be possible to find a problem with it, and if it's a topic/person/cause you disagree with, you'll work hard to find that problem, and if it's one that you agree with, the problem will be "unimportant" or "unavoidable." Just like people who favor the Democrats think about things like the completely chickenshit way in which the Republicans both denied a Supreme Court justiceship because "it was too close to the election," and then ramrodded one through seven months later in the next election cycle because they could. The difference is -- Biden really didn't want to drop out; he was proven wrong in that want, and the circumstances changed. The Republicans in the Senate were consistent in the "whatever it takes" philosophy, including lying and cheating. Wendy P.
  20. wmw999

    Trump

    Yeah, I heard a kid say it the other way and asked my mother about it, and she said that wasn't a word we used. Wendy P.
  21. Something that someone else brought up is that selecting Kelly might then put his Senate seat at risk in 2026. Gain the Presidency, lose the Senate? Wendy P.
  22. And I had a Super Swooper Tandem as a backup rig for awhile; it flew well. Blue Skies, John Wendy P.
  23. Conservative Never Trumpers aren’t in her corner. She’s too progressive for them, and they’ll more likely sit out. Wendy P.
  24. So why is that bad for Kamala (who was single at the time, as was Montel Williams at this charity affair), while this is OK for Trump, whose wife was pregnant at the time? Wendy P.
  25. My grandmother's first husband left her in 1921 or so. She had to leave her kids (my aunt and uncle) with a lady while she went to work to support them as a newspaper reporter. They never heard from her first husband again, and when my cousins tried to contact their birth grandfather he refused contact. It's happened all along. It's become more acceptable, and it's not as often a stain on the woman (without being a stain on the man). And while some of the kids knew more than the teacher about some sexual things, they didn't all, and I'll bet she gave them context, and actual information, rather than 7th-grade BMOC posturing. I'd call that a win. Wendy P.