JoeWeber
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Thanks Bill, I'll put you down with the never give an inch, armed speech over free speech is the American way, and because what about something else crowd. Honestly, you guys kill me.
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Air superiority would be great but air defenses may be all the west can do now. We're fighting a proxy war and right now we don't want spillover into Russian territory with our weapons. Maybe later but not now. Long range missiles need to be supplied now that the Ukrainians have demonstrated prudence and that they can be trusted. Maybe I'm just being a curmudgeon but I don't believe any of our allies would have done anything bold without the US backstopping and approving the decision. The Kerch bridge should be gone, agreed, but isn't that an interesting puzzle? Somehow the Ukrainians were able to time it perfectly and blew the roadway just when a train of fuel tankers was crossing on the tracks above. And they got it all so right that the tankers caught fire and destroyed the railway, too. And still no one knows how they did it. They must have some very tricky special forces, no?
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Europe is being steered, and so are you.
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Yes, the US has supplied $60B of stuff we wouldn't use anyway, good for us. But we are not supplying the arms that would make advancing against Russias extensive defensive works easier. I say no more games, ATACM's should be fast tracked at the minimum. Also, we should suggest "nalevo" that we don't have a problem with an occasional over shoot. More than that we are way behind the PR game in that it is documented that Russia has used cluster munitions since they invaded but because we suck they can get traction saying that we are the start of the problem. Ukraines counter offensive is stalled because they are protecting their troops. That is smart. Let our EU partners hand wring as they have ever done, now it is time to show the it really is the American Century. Let's get after this and get it done.
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Free speech cannot exist coequally with armed speech. That's the plain and simple bottom line: if you are packing a pistol or shouldering your AR-15 sane folks will say nothing before risking a momentary excitation of the reptilian part of your brain. Thus the Second Amendment never give an inch, open carry, easy concealed carry, crowd are by definition anti-free speech. Where engaging in concealed carry when visiting a house of worship to a supposed peaceful, saving, God fits into that particular brand of confusion is another mystery.
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Traficing minors not that big of a deal in California.
JoeWeber replied to BartsDaddy's topic in Speakers Corner
I read the next sentences and I also think you have a damn sad way of looking at things if second to spending time in prison comes the notion that you have morals. If you wish you'd have said that first, but just aren't able to organize your thoughts such that you can do that, then you have another thing to think about. -
Is it your position then that the criminals in every other developed country do follow the laws? If not, then how would you account for the amount of gun violence in America?
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It's being saved for later.
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He's making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice, climate change ain't coming to town!
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Please explain because I cannot see what you see and that's a fact. Not in broad, general terms but specifically what each has individually done that is evil. Just the top 3-5 offenses each if you don't mind.
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You said this: Reality is that lots of people with small canopies don't even swoop, I see every weekend lots of folks on 70 sqft doing 90 on landing. I said Bullshit. Whatever the number of people who even have 70sqft canopies is for sure that number isn't lot's and not a lot of them do 90's.
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Every weekend? Bullshit. WTF, you think we all just snuck in under the packing tent? Go away. Here's reality: at our DZ a very accomplished, but older jumper, was denied the chance to jump his brand new $8000 rig with a 70sqft main parachute. Seriously, you do not know jack. Yes, I'm on the other side of the fence now but my mentors, like Wyatt and others who knew things, always counseled newbies like me to take it slow and bail early. And he did it swooping my pond. Slaton in 1993, I think, showed me that huge speed could be had with a simple, and safe, 180. Sorry, but I have real world reasons for not thinking your observations have any value.
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No rain In Spain must strain the right wing brain
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You also learn that in DZO school.
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Maybe next time we can draft a Constitution with checks and balances.
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Maybe you saying it will make a difference because my efforts have been fruitless.
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Thanks Chuck, good to know what the president of the USPA thinks about a single aspect of the industry you lead. Perhaps, in the next issue of Parachutist, you can headline that as your own byline above the reported swooping fatalities. Maybe that would be enough to keep youngun's from aspiring to do what is on the cover page.
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Hey, BIGUN, do you have Tubervilles back? Are you ready to switch to the party that supports the United States Military? You know, the party without every Republican Senator that hasn't yet condemned Tuberville? Or is the strength of the US military less important than abortion issues when you make your decisions?
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OK, guys - you got 10 seconds to make good
JoeWeber replied to JerryBaumchen's topic in Speakers Corner
Jerry, thank you for this post. Please understand why we are collectively paralyzed over making a comment or giving a like. -
Certainly, I'm no chart but I can offer empirical dip your tootsies data. At least in Panama the water has been toasty. Ships instruments often showed 31° at anchor. Swimming closer to shore the water would often be noticeably much warmer. I will say that the corals, while relatively shallow, seemed in better shape than expected.
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Hey you, how are you? Those were some big fun years, that's a fact. I truly hope you are doing fantastic and still having some great swoops wherever you have landed.
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Then please tell us how to take the many injuries and fatalities out of swooping. Imagine you operate a DZ where your 90% who are eventually injured learn to jump. How would you organize things? What criteria would you use to say yes to one and no to another? How much energy and what percent of your time would you think is right to spend on managing the desires of swoopers compared to the rest of your business?
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Nonsense. It's been “guaranteed “ through an absurd collection of rewritings.
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Mission Impossible - interesting stunt
JoeWeber replied to kleggo's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
The number of jumps I could make in a day went way up when I realized I sucked at packing. -
Una mas Bingo.
