JoeWeber

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  1. JoeWeber
    Thanks Phil, you're always there to cheer me up. I won't forget, I promise. Seriously, Jet-A pricing at the DZ level has been mostly constant at for decades. Maybe +/- a buck some years, but irrespective of the meme, fuel isn't a dominant cost in a jump ticket. Actually, jump tickets for up jumpers in the US are all subsidized by student tickets at 60-70% of DZ's based on my aircraft leasing experience. So I'm not depressed. I'm tanked up and ready to roll. The thing is, I do not think US skydiving will roll this year. I also think next year will be a trial.
  2. JoeWeber
    As usual the wholesale price of Jet-A has remained stable. Somehow or another that cheap oil never seems to make it into my tankers. 2018 1.969 1.911 1.893 2.032 2.175 2.152 2.140 2.148 2.214 2.296 2.100 1.811 2019 1.822 1.925 1.960 2.022 2.061 1.879 1.938 1.864 1.898 1.931 1.922 1.932 2020 1.893
  3. JoeWeber
    Here you go Turtle, I found something positive for you to fawn over.
  4. JoeWeber
    Jeez olof, Mark might be anti-government but it's in an adorable, non nihilistic, sort of way. I actually wouldn't be surprised to find bat ramen on the shelves in some places I've been. Somewhere I have pictures of deep fried bats hanging at a food stall in Northern Vietnam.
  5. JoeWeber
    So, have any of you actually been on a Russian airplane in Russia? You know, like a Tupolev-154 on a short haul? The pilots had an entirely different opinion of what constitutes sobriety, at least when I was there. I was also on the World Team Transport and Jump aircraft in 1996. I recall looking at the military transports fascinated that they had the emergency cut out locations in English. The attached pic is a passenger aircraft. I'm never surprised when a Russian plane crashes.
  6. JoeWeber
    Turtle-dee Turtle-dum is Turtle-some on his best day. Who the fuck is paying him to be obtuse and annoying, RushMc?
  7. JoeWeber
    You really need to spend a summer jumping at my DZ.
  8. JoeWeber
    Oh, I remembered instantly, then said Fuck out loud. This getting old just sucks.
  9. JoeWeber
    Never mind.
  10. JoeWeber
    And I'll take the honor of gifting your 100th. Good retirement number if you've a mind.
  11. JoeWeber
    For a bonus, which famous american political figure said: "polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers"?
  12. JoeWeber
    A. 100% agree. This is a place where people need to educate themselves in a big way. B. It's more of a schadenfreude and just deserves sort of thing than a cruel and pointless thing, at least for me. In fairness, it's not like those Red States are losing sleep over contributing to a second wave in Massachusetts or Oregon.
  13. JoeWeber
    Then you have a very warped perception of the majority opinion. Sure, there are millions of deluded simpletons who would be thrilled if the powers Trump claims were his actual powers and he could use them to stamp out the libtard hordes. But the sad truth is that those fine people are, by and large, ignoramuses who are intellectually incapable of keeping the different moving parts of complex problems in workable order in their minds. As I see it, it isn't that they want winning so much as they want who they despise to see what losing feels like. It's those worthies who seem desirous of authoritarianism even though they can not understand what that really means. The majority simply want fair, intelligent, checked and balanced leadership from the executive. The exact opposite of what we were gifted with when the system went to hell in a hand basket and elected Donald J. Trump as our President.
  14. JoeWeber
    Not lately.
  15. JoeWeber
    It's a happy 60,000 not the unhappy 100-220,000 some eggheads were saying. But importantly, it would have been Billions dead had Trump not saved the day.
  16. JoeWeber
    As I think about it, you may be on to something. If the act of actually casting a ballot takes a certain amount of intelligence we may have found a solution to the problem.
  17. JoeWeber
    I'm not doing well at keeping my vote a secret anyway, methinks, and the majority of votes are already being bought, seems to me. Mail voting is the way, at least for now, and just like all other voting methods any fraud is mostly right wing fantasy. In Oregon it's a 20 year success story.
  18. JoeWeber
    Nice.
  19. JoeWeber
    You mean Hoffa?
  20. JoeWeber
    Hopefully someone clues into the slogan potential: Liberate Michigan. Vote Biden! And the same in every state. And in November, Liberate America!
  21. JoeWeber
    Um, Rebel?
  22. JoeWeber
    With a dozen or more civil wars around the world already up and running why wait around here? Just grab your poster and Confederate Flag have at it.
  23. JoeWeber
    Same church, different pew.
  24. JoeWeber
    Great idea. Instead of chilling for a few more weeks, let's subject the nation to a protracted civil war, destroy our infrastructure and economy and advance by 500 years the day when Mandarin is our National Language.
  25. JoeWeber
    The key words are "sovereign citizen". It's a mind set that infiltrates many of Mark's posts.