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How much do tandem instructors get paid?
captainpooby replied to paulagc's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
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Quotehttp://www.loper.org/~george/archives/2003/Aug/984.html >They teach their children to hate. So do the israelis: ---- Israeli school textbooks as well as children’s storybooks, according to recent academic studies and surveys, portray Palestinians and Arabs as “murderers,” “rioters,” “suspicious,” and generally backward and unproductive. Direct delegitimization and negative stereotyping of Palestinians and Arabs are the rule rather than the exception in Israeli schoolbooks. http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0999/9909019.html --- You dispute that truth of that? Funny, thats just the impression I get of people who strap explosives to themselves and detonate them to kill innocent women and children in the hope that they will meet 72 virgins in heaven. I think that IS suspicious, murderous, riotous, and generally backward and unproductive. I guess I'm just missing something.
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Yeah, the bullets came from K-Mart. It was a small 'victory' for those kids to have that particular round removed from the department stores shelves. Is it blaming inanimate objects? Don't know, sounds more like blaming k-mart for making said bullets so readily available. I don't know about in the states but a long time ago, you could buy cigarettes in any drugstore... now you can't. I guess it's bad taste. It's sorta like that. Ya. And hammers and saws make houses. The fact is numerous federal laws were broken BEFORE the murders. They were already legally prohibited against aquiring the guns they had by several laws. LAWS DONT STOP CRIMINALS!!!! Guns could have been completely outlawed and they still would have done what they did. Broke laws to obtain weapons. Oh ya, and murder is illegal too. Taking away firearms only disarms the law abiding. Face facts, the world is full of evil minded people who wish to do others harm. Nothing you can ever do will change that. Cain killed Abel with a rock. If Abel had picked up his own rock and defended himself things may have turned out different. I bet a lot of you people who would outlaw guns are afraid of WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you had one more than what I would do with mine. Leave me out of your plans to disarm the world, you are safe from me but I realize I am not totally safe from the evil in this world and I choose to defend myself. The 2nd amendment IS NOT about duck hunting.
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http://snsimages.tribune.com/media/photo/2003-11/10408338.jpg More from the religion of peace. They teach their children to hate.
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" The SIM clearly state that both passenger, and instructor must meet the requirements of the demo. (I.E. Open field demo=both must have a "D" license) " USPA gave us a waiver for that but here's something interesting: They said the total tandem wing loading couldnt exceed my PRO rating wing loading. Since I got my PRO rating at over 1.5/1 it wasnt an issue.
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Had a G23c for a while that I got in a deal with a 590. It was a nice gun but I dont like compensators on a carry piece and .40 smith ammo was a little expensive back then so I traded it for a Colt Combat Commander. .40 Glocks have a rep, whether true or not for going kaboom. The arguments rage over why and how on the gun boards.YMMV
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Man the Bucs are stinking like horse poop this year! Thought we'ed have a good team with Gruden after winning the Super Bowl last year. Who knew?
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Tell us more about the reality of the WMDs that would be found within a few hours of taking Iraq. Tell us about the reality of the claims in Bush's State of the Union speech. If that's the sort of reality the right deals in, I'm not impressed. You dont suppose that while the left was screaming for us to wait for the UN to do its job and Saddam was violating resolution after resolution that maybe he hid some stuff? Imagine if I'm the cops and I phone six months before I execute a warrant on your house. We went in with the best intel we had. The UN agreed that Iraq had WMD or they wouldnt have been trying to put inspectors in all those years. Oh look. They did bury things in the sand! http://www.newsmax.com/images/headlines/mig25a.jpg
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If you're speaking in gross terms I agree we're #1. Relative to our country's wealth, we are further down the line, historically not even falling in line with the UN's target of %0.7 of the GDP (more like %0.1 in the 1990s) Even though we do provide a lot of developmental funds, it's nearly impossible to avoid bias when it comes time to dole out the foreign aid. It's also ridiculous to expect nothing but praise when you give out money to nations entrenched in military conflict. Oh. The UN. That wonderfully relevant organization. Why should we let them tell us how much of OUR money we should give. Here's an example of the UN's stupidity: http://www.bens.org/sw_ar051702.html Stanley A. Weiss Articles International Herald Tribune Friday, May 17, 2002 A Charade of Bullies Feigning Decency Human Rights Commision WASHINGTON--While the international community was distracted by accusations of human rights violations in the West Bank, an outrage with global repercussions recently unfolded at the annual session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Some of the world's most brutal dictatorships are making a mockery of the world's highest human rights body. How tainted is today's commission? Just compare its membership against the ranking of democracies published annually by independent, nonprofit Freedom House, based in New York. Of the commission's 53 member nations, 29, or 55 percent, are rated only partly free or not free by Freedom House, meaning that they have little or no respect for basic civil liberties or political rights. The commission, which is intended to "examine, monitor and publicly report" human rights abuses, includes such not-free regimes as Communist China, with its criminal record on human rights and violent repression of religious minorities. There are Congo and Algeria, whose security forces regularly torture and murder civilians with impunity. And Communist Vietnam, which continues to stamp out any hint of dissent. And there is partly-free Russia, whose forces in Chechnya have killed thousands of civilians, left hundreds of thousands homeless and been accused of widespread rape and torture. Of the 10 regimes ranked worst by Freedom House, half - Fidel Castro's Cuba, Moammar Gadhafi's Libya, female-oppressing Saudi Arabia, slave-trading Sudan and terrorist-supporting Syria - have seats on the commission. How did these habitual abusers come to dominate the body designed to police them? Blame the complex dynamics of the United Nations, which too often put politics above principle. As in all UN bodies, membership on the commission is based on regional quotas - 15 seats for Africa, 12 for Asia, and so on. A nation's human rights record is not a criterion. In most cases, regions decide who will represent them during three-year terms. Only when a region offers more candidates that it has seats does something like a real election occur, by secret ballot of the 54-member UN Social and Economic Council, which oversees the commission. It was this secret vote that booted the United States out last year for the first time since the commission's founding in 1947. The 21 nations of the so-called Western European and Other Group had offered four candidates for three seats. (The United States recently regained its seat for the 2003-2005 period.) Meanwhile, the African bloc selected Libya and Algeria, and the Asian bloc selected Saudi Arabia and Syria. The commission's recent session in Geneva in some cases followed the old practice of shaming by naming - for example, highlighting abuses by Iraq and Cuba. But the real shame was vote after vote in which an alliance of abusers united to defeat condemnations of their own miserable behavior. For the first time in two decades, the commission voted not to criticize Iran for its record of religious and political persecution. Among the 20 commission members providing cover for the Islamic Republic were fellow oppressors Saudi Arabia, Libya and Pakistan, joined by China and Cuba. An Iranian diplomat called the vote a "great victory." Russia was spared criticism of its brutal Chechnya campaign, thanks to the support of China, Syria and Cuba - dictatorships which then joined in repeatedly condemning the West Bank incursions by Israel. Instead of watching for abuse, members once again watched one another's backs. Nigeria, which stands accused of massacring thousands of its citizens in recent years, voted to prevent debate on Chinese abuses. China, in turn, backed a Nigerian motion to prevent condemnation of Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwe strongman who rigged his March re-election after violently repressing political opponents. President Jiang Zemin then traveled to Nigeria to express China's gratitude for the African regime's help in protecting "the legitimate rights and interests of the developing world." Nigeria took the lead in persuading the commission to end the regular human rights monitoring of its neighbor Equatorial Guinea, known for torturing and imprisoning opponents of the ruling regime. That was just weeks after the two nations resolved a long dispute over their maritime border and access to the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea. Acknowledging allegations of the commission's "increased politicization," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, called on members to engage in "deep reflection." African members reflected, then granted a seat to Zimbabwe. Robinson warned delegates as they left Geneva that "if the commission is not able to act for the protection of those whose rights are being violated on a massive scale," it would "lose its essence." If the United Nations is to realize the lofty goals of its founders, prying this important human rights body out of the bloody hands of the world's worst abusers would be a good place to start. Ha Ha. If it wasnt so disgusting it would be funny.
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This got me thinking about something funny. The landing area for my demo was the grass strip between the pit wall and the front straight. Not too hard with the winds right but still a high pressure jump. All the cars would be on the track waiting for the start. Can you imagine (I did) landing on one of the cars? "Excuse me Mr Andretti, sorry about your car!" On the other hand if I really screwed up and hit the grandstands it wouldnt have even made the papers cause there were almost no spectators to hit!
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"I really don't have the time point out all the facts to you do the research your self. " If you cant back up your facts....then dont post crap I have to wade through. This is a debate, without facts to back up your argument you lose. "I don't know whom do you consider an American. It depend if you look at the laws in the world. There are blood laws and land laws. The blood laws say it depends where your parents were from. The land laws say it depends on where you are born" Born or naturalized, still American. By your reasoning, unless you are an Indian, you're not American. Some of the Founding Fathers were immigrants, I believe.
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Apparently he didnt see the memo: "Dont attack police officers..."
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"Disputes in Palestine? Hell yes Palestinians have every right to be pissed off, not as Christians or Muslims, but as Palestinians. Right now it sucks to be Palestinian, Israelis are large proponents of this suckage, and Americans are guilty by association" I am sorry but you're misguided. Have you ever looked at a map of the middle east? Israel is the tiniest country by far. The rest of the Arab/muslim nations have far more land and wealth than Israel. Why dont they help the Pallies and give them a piece of land? I'll tell you why. Its because they wouldnt have a cheesy excuse to attack the Jews. Israel is guilty of nothing but defending itself and I am really tired of hearing America is guilty of anything. Why dont you do a little research and see who is THE LARGEST giver of foriegn aid in the world. We give it to shithole places like Somalia who murder our soldiers and drag them thru the streets in thanks. No one ever thanks America for the good it does. They only accuses us of meddling.
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I have personally been waivered to do a tandem jump with a whuffo into the Homestead racetrack for the IRL opening race last spring. The TSA pulled the clearance for the jump at the last minute for reasons not related to skydiving. Nothing was allowed to fly within 2 miles of a stadium for while. You have to jump thru a few hoops with the USPA and FAA but it can be done. I have 2000 tandems and 9000+ skydives and the conditions were very specific. A practice jump had to be made with the passenger and the fee(that we were being paid by the promoter) had to be non refundable if we cancelled due to weather/winds. It can be done if you have the credentials. I dont think just anyone could get the waiver. Mark Schlatter, a professional demo skydiver did all the arrangements. I was his his hired gun.
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The Iranian minority in the U.S. is the most educated minority in this country. Yep. The smartest ones left Iran. even there nuclear weapons are MADE IN THE USA. You have some documentation I presume? I think we actually threw an American in prison for life for giving the Iraelis military secrets. [nuclear]Weapons that we are the only ones who have used. Anyone who knows anything about WW2 would agree that using nukes prevented an estimated 1,000,000 US casualties that would have resulted fron the invasion of Japan. Oh, and I believe they started it. Pearl Harbor? Actually if you do a little research you well see that most items invented in America were not invented by Americans. Most people in America are Americans. So you're saying that most things invented in America were not invented by people who live here? That doesnt make sense. Singer, Browning, Gatling, Wozniak, Edison (holder of most patents), Ford, to name a few off the top of my head. I had no idea you have visited every country in the region. The few I have been too are a lot more modern then you think. Camels are not the main form of transportation any more if that’s what you are trying to say. But then again when your only form of information is Hollywood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you think I get my info from hollywood, you are sadly mistaken. I can and do read a lot. and I read very little fiction. I can spell too. I dont type very well though.
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The left deals in feelings. The right deals in reality. Paige, you are woman after my own heart!
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The feds had nothing to do anymore so they made something else illegal. If only Miller had showed up for his SCOTUS appeal there wouldnt be gun control like today.
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In a little over fifty years the Isrealis have taken a little tiny piece of desert and made a country that has defeated all the might that the Arab world has thrown against them. On the other hand, the Arabs/muslims have sought with all their oil wealth and might to do nothing but destroy Isreal and the west while doing nothing to help the Pallies except arm them. If you take away the oil, the Arabs have created nothing to sustain themselves. They would become wandering nomads again. They are still living in 700 AD and want to stay there. Am I missing something here? I think they are. They are like kids born into money who never had to work for it. Say, like the Menendez bros who killed their parents for the money saying they were abused. The Isrealis, on the other hand, did usefull things with the aid they recieved and built a functioning country out of sand. Now the Arabs/muslims swear to destroy them and us for helping. Green glass parking lot. Problem solved.
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At the end...........dead.
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Story goes that a British Airways pilot spotted them and asked"Is that AF1?" and the reply was:"No we are a Gulfstream9" The BA pilot paused while he figured it out and acknowledged back:"have a good flight Gulfstream9" That came from a reporter on the plane. So, in this instance, they werent AF1.
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The left still refuses to recognize the fact that the Verona project proved that McCarthy was right in evry case. If anything, he didnt dig hard enough.
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Sure, it was 19 people on the planes who performed the act. The y were drawn from a culture of millions who hate us. Thousands danced in the streets after. Just who do you think was the market for those toys? A hundred people? No, it was a whole race. From what I read in the Quran forgiveness was pretty highly rated. They teach their children to hate us. Christianity is a religion where God sent His Son to die for us. Islam is a religion where God sends your son to die for Him. Peace. Sure. Mmmmmkay.
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You realize you are stealing?
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So, why do you think she's full of it? She backs up every single fact up with a note to source. Name one lib author that does.
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Islam, the religion of peace. Never send a man to do a neutrons job. It wont be over till they are all gone. Sorry, its true.