Boomerdog

Then there is this: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30045034 They love "the game" up in New York and give it short shrift in the South. Would not my avatar give you some indication that I don't really give a flying f#ck what the rest of the country thinks about football, soccer whatever? Now it's lunchtime... time to go munch on a few trees or a couple of baby Brontosaurus...I haven't decided or looked at menu yet. You still don't know the name of that movie do you?!?!?

Looking at the sponsor of the bill, it makes perfect sense. The bill won't even make it out of committee.

It does not matter. Life is nothing but choices except for the one thing we ALL have to do...die. Kids? Yes...adult now Pets? Yes Financially Struggling? impolite question but ...NO. Secret death wish? If I told you it would no longer be a secret would it? Such a factor as you contend was never a consideration. Refer to the previous question. Once again, never a consideration. Whatever my COD is, I'm just as dead right? I have an AAD AND and RSL. i have a lot more jumps to make,simply because I enjoy the sport and the people at the DZ. Skydiving is a wonderful community to be a part of. But to take it one more step, it's also one of the last vestiges of freedom, which means the freedom to have or not have and AAD and/or an RSL configured on your rig. You're choice, your call, your life, and yes your death. The same applies to me.

Whooa...careful counselor, you're dancing on the margins with that race card again.

Yes...a tip of the hat to Illinois, I have to agree that Illinois knows how to bust em', try em' and lock em' up better than any other state. They've been at it a long time. Makes ya wonder don't it?

Back atacha honey! P.S. I guess you really don't know the name of that movie.

Careful now lest someone deals the race card from the bottom of the deck and declares you a racist. I won't mention any names but I understand he's a lawyer masquerading as a shark or is it a shark masquerading as a lawyer? Hard to tell the difference between the two isn't it?!?!?!?

Another Illinois politician headed for the crowbar hotel. Too many of these crooks are coming from Illinois. Something in the water? Lest we forget, her highness, Hillary was born in Chicago. She might be next along with that sex offender husband of hers.

Waldemar Cierpinski from East Germany. Marathon champion.

No, you ignore the very very very unfortunate fact that ANYONE hellbent on violence and killing one another, general mayhem and destruction is going to carry it out. It's at that point I quit caring whether they kill one another or not. But rest assured, we'll get the bill to pay the taxes for the cleanup and restoraiton.

You've come a long way baby!

Andy, Dirtbags are dirtbags. They come in all sizes shapes ethnicity, etc. Their grievances, turf, this, that, whatever, are a pretext, violence is their objective. I grew up in the 'hood and I saw all the bullshit done in the name of; pick one of the above or if you have your brand of rumble, throw it in as well.

See!? We got some common ground here. Every time I go to a baseball game, I have to look at that Budweiser sign in the ball park and it makes me wanna puke!

I am not one to get in the way of a man picking his pleasure or poison.

Yea, I buy what I like. My I-Tunes library is quite diverse. You? I should be concerned about this because........? Naw...I prefer this style of "Ugly American." Von Luger: :"You're the first American officer I've met. Hilts isn't it?" Hilts: "CAPTAIN Hilts!" Von Luger: "Seventeen escape attempts!" Hilts: "Eighteen!" Von Luger: "Tunnel man...engineer?" Hilts: "Flier!" Von Luger: "As opposed to what's called in the American Army a hot shot pilot?" Hilts: " Uhmmm." Von Luger: "Unfortunately, you were shot down anyway so we're both grounded for the duration of the war." Hilts: "Well you speak for yourself Colonel." Von Luger: "You have other plans?" Hilts: "I haven't seen Berlin yet from the ground or from the air and I plan on doing both before the war is over." Von Luger: "Are all American officers so ill-mannered?" Hilts: " Yeah, about 99 percent." Von Luger: "Then perhaps while you are with us you will have a chance to learn some. Ten days isolation, Hilts." Hilts: "CAPTAIN Hilts!" Von Luger: "Twenty days." Hilts: "Oh, uh, you'll still be here when I get out?" Von Luger: [visibly annoyed] "Cooler!" Now that's my idea of an Ugly American! You do know the movie from which the conversation is taken from don't you? You probably do but I just have to ask.

$10 million pissed away right down the toilet!

Mystery to me but large number have no correlation to what's important, right, wrong, stupid etc. A principle something to akin to "might makes right." People wanna like soccer fine with me. It's a stupid fucking boring game and the sooner we get it off US soil, the better IMHO. You want it, you got it.

Too bad Cardinal George has passed. He was local for you. He would have been more than happy to discuss your concerns about the OT etc. i'd have even paid the price of admission to listen to that one on one between you and his eminence.

Noted but you had plenty of time to make the initial post that started this thread. C'mon...push yourself a little.

Yup...that about says it. +1

The door is always open for you to heed your own advise. I would encourage you to read the Book of Job and pay close attention to the conversation God has with Job. The conversation is found near the end of the book itself. You're also welcome to read some of the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas as it pertains to calamities. Enjoy your reading.

Don't extradite and the US taxpayer is NOT the bill payer. Just walk away. Just get this horrid fucking game off our soil and ban it. Good gaaaawd, if you could bottle Soccer, you'd have the cure for insomnia.

FIRST tunnel time for your daughter and no case of root beer?!?!?! Gotta instill tradition when they're young, Dad!

Until the windmill gets tilted enough and you are in the path.

I don't have a direct answer to your question. The best I can give is an analogy. The great golfer Ben Hogan said, "The driving range is study hall but the golf course is the test." So perhaps the wind tunnel is the study hall and the actual skydive is the test. Wisdom is knowing the difference between the two. I sounds like you've seen one too many tunnels rats confusing the two.