ChasingBlueSky

Thanks JP, I needed that laugh today. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Actually, No. That is incorrect - He said that he was against abortion, PERSONALLY, but was for it POLITICALLY. Yeah - I thought it was an oxymoron too. I don't. That shows respect for what the majority of the people support these days. That is a good politician doing his job, listening to the people and representing them despite his own religious views. The statement makes me respect him more than fear his religious convictions. I can't say as much about the opponent. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

*I ignored where the real weapons of mass destruction are at: N. Korea and used bad information on WMD to conduct a war against an opponent I knew I could beat. *Sent 900+ American troops to their death in connection to that bad info. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Shut your mouth! BTW - it depends on which direction you drive once you leave the terminal. I find it interesting they spend millions of dollars cleaning up the terminal and surriounding area, then you have to drive past the projects to get to I-55. I live west of the airport, which is just a typical bungalow neighborhood on the south side. Now, if I could just get those damn choppers to stop buzzing my apartment lately.... I always find it funny...when I am on the phone with a whuffo, they complain on those rare days when the planes take off in my direction. When I have a skydiver on the phone they get excited and ask me a bunch of questions about it. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Hey! I resemble that remark! Or, well...I did about 20 years ago. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Go see it by yourself right now at the cheap theatre. That will be cheaper than the rental, and you don't need to wait. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I nearly shot my toe off with one of those and an M&M when I was a kid. Don't ask - I don't like to tell that story _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

No aligator jumps this year. I think a few of us will be staying away from that creature this year after the aligator funnel jump last year. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I've seen a bunch in that 13-mile construction zone that has no construction going on. Due to the zero-tolerance stance they have this year, you will get pulled over for doing 56 in a 55. Oh yea, if you see a white cesna flying along the interstate for a while, you may want to slow down. I found out first hand about that nifty little trick _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Try a 4x6 then. After all, size matters. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I learned the hard way the first year I went when I didn't stake my tent down. Then there was the year that a plane wasn't properly tied down _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I spent all Sunday working in the yard and planting grass. I woke up this morning to find pretty much all of that hard work gone. Apparently there is a family of rabbits in my neighborhood that feasted pretty good last night (my roommate chased them off). Who would have thought that there would be so many damn critters living around Midway Airport. I'm still charging my landlord for all that work. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Maybe not until later tomorrow or Sat night...haven't figured that out yet. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Ok, but you gotta put it on the floaty raft in the pond. I still wanna pitch my tent there sometime... There is a picture out there somewhere of someone that did that. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

After a conversation I had with someone asking me questions last night, I would figure I would post this. Previous visitors know how goofy August weather in Illinois can get. Don't let the reports of 70F this past week fool you...it will get hot by the time the convetion starts. In fact, we have 90F+ days forecasted ahead. Make sure to drink plenty of water during the day. What else to expect? At least one storm, and usually its powerful summer thunderstorm (reminder: Don't hold onto your tent when a microbust hits tent city). I think last year was the first time I had to pull out a sweatshirt and jeans for more than one night. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

And don't offer someone of the same sex a ride. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I am interviewing and have my resume on the internet. What do you think? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

And the firetrucks making the water arcs with the hoses. That was one of the coolest things i've ever seen. Then Rod swooped the 412 under the water arcs, then landed on top of the firetruck...then the Golden Knights airshow, and the swooping from the Icarus Extreme Team with one of them landing on the back of a moving quad. Who needs the Angels? We had our own air show! The best part? I caught it by accident! I was packed up and ready to leave when I saw the crowd over by the pond and wandered over there to see what was going on. Since that took me past sunset, I stuck around for the couch burning. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

There is a rumor floating around on the net...I found it on www.theforce.net....here it is....possible spoiler ahead (there is no script out there yet, so it is speculation): So the guess would be that the Jedi's are weak in the force, as Yoda said, possibly because Vader is absorbing it??? After all, they are all getting weaker and Anakin is only getting stronger. So, by Vader killing of Palpatine and then passing on he restores balance to the force. Yea, its kinda weak, and not where we thought the series was headed....but, it seems to make sense with the lame story line Lucas has been setting up. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Don't let TunaPlanet know you reposted my repost! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

SHHH! You are about to start a rant here about how the media never gets anything right! Or maybe he just told the reporter wrong. It's still a nice story. Remind me to never place my estate in your hands to make decisions! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

www.saukvalley.com/284849240195476.bsp A picture of Dave C with the student is on that page. At 93, Lansing man takes to the skies When you are 93, there's not much you haven't done in life. But Larry Baker, who hit that milestone on June 14, found something so unusual and so much fun, he did it twice. Wearing a leather helmet that appeared borrowed from Red Grange, Baker climbed into an airplane one recent Saturday afternoon in Ottawa. He waited until the plane reached a height of 13,500 feet, then stepped out and plunged toward terra firma at the breathtaking speed of 120 mph. First barely visible to observers on the ground, Baker and instructor Dave Cicciarelli, to whom he was securely harnessed, slowly came into view when their white-and-pink parachute opened at 5,500 feet. About five minutes later, they floated to the ground and made a safe landing at 25 mph. Baker, of Lansing, was barely able to contain his enthusiasm while dusting off his bright green jumpsuit after his first skydiving attempt. "It was wonderful, beautiful, great! I'm ready to go again," Baker said. "Everyone in their lifetime should try it at least once. It's a must." Four hours later, Baker made his second jump. Baker got the idea six months ago when he heard of a 92-year-old man who had skydived. "I figured I'm the next in line," he said. Baker is the oldest person to have jumped at Skydive Chicago, which opened in 1993 in Ottawa. Baker, who saw the Chicago skyline far in the distance, marveled at his experience. "Jumping out was the best part. It's like flying on your own. That's a terrific feeling," Baker said. "You're falling pretty fast, you know. That wind knocks the breath out of you." Before his first jump, Baker sat through a brief how-to class taught by Cicciarelli, who has jumped more than 12,000 times in 17 years. "I've never been hurt," Cicciarelli told the first-timers. "What happens to you happens to us, and we have plans tonight." After the class, Baker said he was "more excited than nervous." Although 14 people have died in accidents at Skydive Chicago in the past 11 years, and Baker had to sign an extensive release form, he wasn't worried. Part of his confidence was due to an automatic activation device that deploys the parachute at 5,500 feet. "I heard the chance of having an accident is 1-in-86,000," he said. "I look at it this way: I'm 93. If this was my last day, so be it. At this age, I haven't missed too much. It's been a very good life," Baker said. Baker has been retired for 28 years from his job at U.S. Steel South Works. He got a job there — at 55 cents an hour — after he graduated from Bowen High School in Chicago in 1928. He worked at the steel mill for 48 years, built his own house on a private lake in Lansing, and outlived two wives. "They would think I'm nuts," he said of what his wives would have thought about the skydiving. "My daughter did, too." Baker's only child, Jeanette Harris, 65, also of Lansing, was not overjoyed when she learned of her father's plan. "He had a heart attack three years ago, he broke his left leg two years ago and has a titanium rod in there, and he has brittle bones," she said. But Baker said their preliminary visit to Skydive Chicago proved there was "nothing to it." BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (yes it is a medical word - 45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words11.html _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Lucas would ruin the Zahn novels. They are by far better than anything Lucas has done in the last 10 years. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Try going out there when there is nothing there but the remnants of the beaten down grass from all of the golf carts and other modes of transport. That's the odd visit... I did that last year...but the C130 and the Cajones trailer was still sitting out there at the time. I was odd walking across the field and finding no garbage but able to see all the grass trying to recover. What a stark comparision to the days before that. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....