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oooh, I really like the red webbing! :D Sweet! angela.

ok, I just saw billvon's post. I am deleting the reply. Angela.

deja vu. I could swear I already replied to this, yet it says it was just posted. I am sure I replied to it. did we lose posts somewhere? Angela.

You're not loading enough, likely. Although, I only load 1:1 and I can do this no problem. It could be you lack upper body strength. Or, maybe because it's a square? I don't remember if I had problems on the Sabre 190 or not. I don't recall not being able to hold the toggle down, though. Angela.

Well I'm glad to hear that. Now, what about if children are being slaughtered elsewhere in the world - is that worth fighting against? I am not going to say it is not worth fighting against. But, what I will say is that the US cannot have things the way it wants them in all places. We have one country. The fate of the world does not rest in our hands. There are plenty of countries where there are people dieing of starvation. What are we doing about that? Stuffing our faces with the rice they harvest, wearing the clothing they sew. Plenty of corporations in the US pay practically nothing to have foreigners produce for them. Things in this world are fucked up. Not everything can be remedied, and certainly not by war. Angela.

I can't believe there were no juices in your poll. Grapefruit juice here. Angela.

So in other words, you don't like what the politicians are doing, yet you don't bother to vote to try and change what you don't like. Does that about sum it up? What would it take to make you fight in the armed forces? How about if the Russians invaded Florida and started slaughtering children - would that do it? Voting is pointless. Doesn't get us anywhere. Bush is in office, I honestly don't think he won. If someone was here slaughtering innocent children, then they are no longer innocents. I believe that would do it. In case you didn't know, we are not being attacked by Iraq. Angela.

Or, I could just do neither, like i'm currently doing. Angela.

I have whipped toggle turns as far as they'd go on a Sabre II. It's fun! :) Stall the canopy, too. You can stall it with your toggles (you may need to take a few wraps), and you can stall it with your rear risers (this will be easier to do). make sure when you let up from a stall, you do so easily. And, do this up high (above 2500). You don't want to be afraid of your canopy. Scott Miller has an essential skills course you might want to look into, it's not very expensive and worth it. Angela.

No, because as a citizen of a country you are part of a "team," and that's the way the team works. You don't get to not pay your taxes because you don't like where the money is going, you don't get to abstain from jury duty because you don't believe in the death penalty, and you don't have an inherent right to decide when, where, and if you sacrifice for the right reap the benefits of living in an affluent western nation. This "#%@&, you! You're not the boss of me," attitude is relatively new, historically speaking. Traditionally, it has been understood that when your leaders decide something is worth fight for, you fight for it, and if you disagree strongly enough with the leaders, you fight the leaders. You don't just sit at home sipping lattes, watching five hundred channels of cable television, relaxing in your comfortable seventy-two degree climate controlled study; complaining about it on an Internet newsgroup. One of the unfortunate facts of living in a "civilization" is that you have to be part of one of these teams. You don't get to just go and do as you please--That is called "anarchy." Fortunately for all of us living on the team called the United States of America, we actually get to elect the leaders who make the laws, and if we don't like the laws they're making, we get to vote them out of office. That's a luxury the common man hasn't had throughout most of recorded history. This arrangement generally keeps us from having to fight our own leaders, since we have another way of ending their rule. Today you might have to fight for a cause you don't believe in but I do, and tomorrow I may have to fight for a cause I don't believe in but you do. It's called "majority rules." If you find yourself invariably in the minority, you can always seek out a country more in line with your way of thinking, or you can try living in a cave where nobody can find you. One of the great things about this country is that even the minority has rights and a voice. However, they still have to abide by the rulings of the majority. The only thing the majority can't rule against is the "inalienable rights" laid out in the Constitution. Only having to fight when you agree is not one of those rights. Sorry, I disagree. I am not willing to fight a fight I don't stand for. Just because some "elected" (and I say that VERY loosely) official decides to go to war, does not mean I will go. Yes, I pay taxes, but they pull that money out of my check. I do not willingly send it to them so that they can stuff most of the money in thier greedy pockets. I will not fight a war for these assholes if I don't believe in it. Furthermore, they can't make me. Unless they somehow take over my brain, they are not going to get me to go over to Iraq shooting and bombing. I'd sooner be deported. It is not worth my energy to fight the politicians. It is a battle to be lost. It would be like voting in the election; No matter what the vote, Bush wins anyhow. Angela.

Thank you for your devotion to your country. I'm glad that not all Americans had your attitude in 1775. Why should anyone have to serve in a war he doesn't believe is right? Because some politicians feel it is right? Because you feel it is right? Tell ya what, have Bush poll americans, non-anonymously, and see who thinks we should be at war. Then, if the majority thinks so, when they draft they go ahead and call them in. Angela

Do you drive a car? Are you aware that 40,000 people die each year in car accidents, right here in America? Are you going to give up your car in order to help reduce the possibility of car accidents? You're not worth arguing with, you don't hear anything other than what you want to hear. You don't care that people are dying because our President wants war. When some terrorist blows up the building you live in because they don't feel our government is run properly, then you can tell me that there is a greater good in this. Until then, forgive me if I seem ignorant & uninformed to you because I don't agree.

That's a shame. It could've been an ACTUAL incident, not like this shit. Angela.

That's tough, man. I hope that things work out so that you don't lose your right to bear weapons. I seem to remember a thread about your girlfriend being a little crazy. not so fun now, huh? :( Angela.

I think it's more life in a society that believes all men are abusive assholes and deprives them of due process So, you feel that this would've been different if he claimed that she came after him with a gun?

I apologize for not being more clear, I didn't realize that that was the way it sounded. I do not hate the soldiers. I hate the war. I think that the politicians and leaders of our country have poor decision making skills and are too trigger happy. jmo. Angela.

I want your friends home safe, too. I am just not in support of this war. I understand that they are following orders. I do not condemn them for that. Maybe carelessness needed to be clarified a bit. I am not saying that your friends are walking around with guns shooting children. I am saying that we know that many innocents have been killed as a result of orders. Maybe those orders were not "kill innocents", but, those orders caused and are causing the death of innocents. I do hope that our troops return safely... I just wish they were called back sooner than later. I don't see the good outweighing the harm here. take care:) Angela.

/ and a partridge in a pear tree:D

That's what I was thinking! Has everyone gone mad? I LOOOOOOOOVVVEEEE to FLYYYYYY, but...I need to feel love...all of it. haha! Ditto! Angela.

Man, I was thinking the same thing! I don't think they're doing it right Angela.

Yay, I win! Angela.

No ... So, you're saying that making love is not considered sex? I think sex is sex and making love is also sex++. So, really, you're getting more outta the deal, right? Angela.

Yes, i'm that naive. So, you wanna fill me in by answering the questions? Angela.

Are we? What good exactly are we doing? We are at war, people are being killed. What is the goal? Are we going to take over Iraq, vote on a president and officials to live in Iraq and run the place? Are we going to kill every last man in Iraq because they were taught/told to fight? So, we'll have a country of grieving Iraqi women? I'm sorry, i'm just not seeing it. Angela.