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i agree with POP on this one. i've seen 2 cutaways from tandems in one day. on skydive spacelands website there is a jpeg of a lineover on one of their tandem canopies, it was cleared though. hey POP, tell your friend their safe now, i had to "sweat bullets" until jump # 475 to have my first cut-away. every jump wondering, this little voice saying "is this jump the jump?" used to drive me nuts! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

Bahrain is really nice this time of year!

i'd bet tequilagirl could whoop that ass! even if tonya had a hubcap! heck, i'd fight her myself, but she'd probably kick my ass, and i'm not willing for that to be publically dissplayed! well....if the price was right, i guess a man could "swallow his pride" for the $$$!! but i wouldn't go down in the first round either! she's still a booze-hag. sad, she really could've had it all right now, instead she's reduced to degrading herself just to make a buck or two. hmph...oh well! "Those That Can, Will, Those Who Can't, Won't" (that's an old saying that i just made up!") c ya on "fight day" --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

not to take away from the original topic, but i must once again vehemently dissagree with this statement. and by the way, it's 60% of the U.S.A.'s oil that is imported from third world countries. this is ridiculous in my opinion. (*side bar* we have enough oil, and natural gas stored in underground salt domes along the coastline of texas, and the atlantic seaboard to last us for over 30 years right now) i have 29 years of experience in the petroleum industry and i'm one of the thousands of men and women that put gas in your tanks, jet fuel in your jump ship, heating oil in your homes, etc...the U.S.A. as i've stated before has the reserves, and the acreage to drill untapped reserves onshore, and offshore. enough to where we could be energy independent indefinitely, let's remember this before making statements like this. we have the resources, the machinery, the technology, the skills and the personal to make this happen, but due to politicians, "the enron's" and other companies like them in the states, it will never happen. sad, but true. we don't need foriegn energy, we want/covet it versus ours simply for the fact we don't want to destroy our own invironment(s). do some research if you don't believe me, put on offshore oilrig off the west coast and see how quick green peace or some other political fanatic attacks it, by the way, how many that live in the U.S. would like to see a drilling operation in your backyard? off of your coastline? inside your city limits? ol' wyubya's brother, the govenor of the great state of florida renigged on his promise to open up florida's offshore coastline, and deep waters to drilling and production. all of the aforementioned, coupled with the fact that "we the people" would rather destoy 3rd world countries environments (look at the waste we deposit in mexico every day...NAFTA..."what a joke") and the dependence of these 3rd world countries who have no choice but to sacrifice their environment(s) for the financial income, "we're sliding down a greasy rope" so, is it about oil? it's way deeper than that. making that statement just simplifies the matter. but as i've said before, it will culminate with an attack regardles of "why" it's all politics, not "about oil" i've mentioned this in the past, one more time won't hurt, there are hundreds of men and women who were working in the states drilling for oil and natural gas that are now overseas because of the dramatic rig count drop. it's not about oil at all......todays price of oil per bbl: $26.50 USD natural gas per mcf: $4.60 USD, with prices like these we should not have to depend on 3rd world energy, in fact we're actually "shooting our economy in the foot" by not drilling our own reserves in the states. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

Chuck: haven't seen them yet, i will wait patiently with enthusiasm! hope she doesn't take a really hard blow to the ol' boobies, one of them may POP! i'd like to see that! i remember a news story about her second marraige, her husband filed assualt charges against her for beating him about the head and shoulder area with a hub cap!

how many of you think Tonya will be able to reinvent herself? i don't think the boozehag can pull it off myself, at least not without a hubcap. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

whats this "we" stuff? you have a mouse in your pocket? J/K --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

good luck. personal plates do not allow but 6 alpha-numeric charachters. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

you really should go read the "Forum Rules" before getting just too carried away. i was just trying to help keep you out of trouble. and if your paranoid about daragatory remarks about your country, and you going to attack everybody that makes a remark that you don't agree with about your country, your going to be a busy man. what if americans got all bent out of shape every time foreigners attacked our country, verbally, terroistcally, or by burning our flag, or caricatures of our president(s) in the streets of their countries? lighten up bro. everythings kewel. Please Visit Forum Rules Here --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

as a sidebar comment on electric vehichles, can you imigine a major collision in one? just yesterday i was watching cnbc in the morning, and they were showing electric technology, i don't believe i'd want battery acid all over any open wound(s) i may have in the unfortunate event of a collision or major accident. yich! vehichle emission technology is at it's best right now more than ever since the inception of the internal combustion engine. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

you must cut us "old timers" some slack, we kinda forget where we are sometimes! J/K your right, it should've been in talk back. i'm sorry! thank god for piss poor shots! c ya! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

Hi Jraf: little stiff there, eh? could have pm'd that, as it could be misconstrued as a personal attack, or just "plain rude" take care, be safe!

**OT** you obviously haven't seen hooknswoop fly his vx-60! he's precise, professional and very good. he's the best canopy pilot i've seen, and i've seen some good ones. eric butts (team atair) is very good as well. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

excellent advice!

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this whole operation is nothing more than a "pin the tail on the donkey" witch hunt. "if" they have any weapons of mass disstruction we'll never find them, this whole operation is an exercise in futility at the taxpayer's expense. of course the culmanation will be an attack on sadaam hussuin, and the beat goes on. and NO, this is not about oil. the us of a has plenty of it's own reserves to drill, the epa just won't let us do it, we do not need foriegn hydrocarbons. the reason we have it to begin with is because the original theory was to come over here, drill it, take it, and "rathole" our own. well, they showed us when they nationalized their oilfields, kept our equipment, and told us to get out. after, of course, we showed them how to drill the wells themselves. with the price of oil at $25.00-$26.00 a BBL, and gas at $4.00+ mcf, there is no reason other than scandal and greed that we're no busier in the petroleum industry in the states, the rig count has dropped off dramatically in the last 3 years. i'm not in saudia arabia for my health, that much i can tell ya. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

http://www.msnbc.com/news/840985.asp?vts=112820020930&cp1=1 just ran across this. i wonder when these fellas will invent a new way of striking, these bombs and SAMS are starting to get to where it's not even creative anymore. they've got some real "braintrusts" over here. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

you may get away with it, but with the new homeland security system just in place i can tell you from personal experience having traveled through many airports, stateside, and abroad your check in to cargo bay goes through x-ray, and they will see it, so be prepared to either lose it, or explain for at least one hour to a bunch of imbiciles why you are in possession of it. there are signs that clearly state "no knives or sharp instruments past this point", at least 5 of them on the way to the counter, this refers to check in, as well as carry on baggage. just lately, i observed security searching a man's suitcase after x-ray because he had a personal nail clipper/filing kit in it, they took it away from him right then and there, he put up a good arguement, but in the end they still had his property. airline security is getting tough. today, in kenya south africa, a 757 400 series passenger jet was taking off and was fired upon by two SAMS, shortly after that, four imbiciles with some C-4 drove into a hotel and detonated their deadly cargo, blew the whole place to smitheriens, no body count as of yet. the passenger jet was escorted back to the airport by military aircraft and landed without further incident. and of course it was al-queda. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

Clay: don't make me come over there! i know i'm old, but jeez. that's pretty funny! --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

no, it was more than that, but this was back in 1986 or so, at a place in austin called the "doll house" doesn't even exists anymore. but it was fun. back in the "day" bryan/college station had a...cough...cough...house out by the track on hwy 6, and a gentlemen's club. but i know they shut the "house" down, i don't know about the gentlemen's club, do you?

back when i used to drink, a few of my "cohorts" and myself was out being "entertained" by the ladies...cough....cough....if you know what i mean.

being safe like you are will allow you to grow older. i'll be 44 next month, i've been skydiving now for 3 years, i've already seen 6 of the people i originally trained with die. sad, but true. and i myself almost made a fatal canopy selection about 6 months ago, if not for the intervention of a good friend/ ex-divemaster (throughout my training) i really respect, i wouldn't be here now. i concur with your frame of mind. take care. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"

we'd have to "wake up Leroy" cause he ain't never seen a wreck like we fixing to have!

POP broke it with those pictures of his cat, and AggieDave finished it off when he tried to photoshop a picture. yeah...yeah...that's the ticket! now, because of these two individuals, we all have to suffer with this temporary "slap on the wrist" J/K POP and AggieDave...............NOT!

3 seconds closer to the ground maybe...death, hopefully training has been sufficient. but i agree setting the "last" audible 500' low is not good, but a personal choice in any event. --Richard-- "We Will Not Be Shaken By Thugs, And Terroist"