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PD113 @ wingloaded 1.8-2.0 depending on my current weight. Rode it three times and it lands like a special type of dream in no wind. Its like one of those dreams where you see the ground coming, you know you're going to fall and you know its not going to hurt but the grass stains your about to endure have you already pissed off in the air even before it happens. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

I could come up with an endless list of reasons to be a proud American. But since I have seen many other countries I know it is not an accurate statement that Americans are more proud of their country than other people are of theirs. I do however find that most Americans that travel to other countries have a tendency to be more proud of this country because they get to see first hand that its not propaganda but that indeed we live in by far the best country in the world. I have found that even Western Europeans (people of first world countries, England, Spain, Italy, Germany, etc.) who tend to be proud of their countries, when speaking honestly will tell you that they love their country but give them a green card and they will be in the U.S. in a flash. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

I rarely pack at home. I usually only do it if I was in a hurry to leave the dropzone and for that reason I daisy chained it up before leaving. That being said I usually pay extra special attention to do the best possible pack job on my last jump of the day. I am actually obsessive compulsive when it comes to packing. I will check that my pilot chute is cocked at least 3 or 4 times on the average. After my rig is closed up I will often sit back and think, "Did I quarter that slider just right?, Did I leave at least 18inches of line unstowed? Are the line bites the perfect length? Is that warning label in the proper position so that if will be the first thing to come out of the bag for a clean deployment? Are the brakes stowed as tightly as possible to avoid a premature brake release on opening? {one unstowed brake on opening would be a guaranteed cutaway on my baby}". If I don't specifically remember doing any of those, I will be on the airplane thinking about my cutaway proceedures. For that reason, if I am jumping a pack job days old I find it harder to remember having done all of those things I consider important. Also ever since I got my 79, (1,000+ jumps ago), I have not jumped anything that I did not pack myself with the exception of once on a CRW jump and I don't intend to. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

I choose "D"...ya know, the one where you can be beautiful AND intelligent. Tanto ---------------------------------------------------- what about secret option "E" where you can be beutiful, intelligent, a skydiver and a lipstick lesbian. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

I was just thinking about creating this poll, and I was going to put >25K/Mo as the top. I know at least one skydiver that's over that... ---------------------------------------------------------- yeah I could think of 3 or 4 at Skydive Dallas alone but probably none of them are even online anyway. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Your top end is too low. The majority are over the top so it's impossible to tell much. You should set the top around $12k/month, that will catch about 95% of the population. ------------------------------------------------------ Ok come on. His top end may be a little to low but $6K/per month is realistic. $12K/per month would probably cover pretty close nobody unless you took the poll at skydive Dallas or something. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

. "When a gay turns his back on you, that's not an insult, it's an invitation!" Shrewd political commentary, or just trying to piss people off? ----------------------------------------------------------- Now a proud gay man would not take offense to this. Look at it this way. Imagine if a woman said, "if a guy looks down at you its not an insult he is just concealing his pleased smile after looking at your chest". Would that offend any heterosexual man? I don't think so. Also, I have never heard Rush make any derogatory remarks toward any race, religion, nationality or sexual orientation. ------------------------------------------------------- there are plenty of people who agree with Howard Stern 97% of the time. Heck, there are plenty of people who want to BE Howard Stern. --------------------------------------------------------- The difference there is that when someone agrees with Howard Stern, it is typically by coincidence. It is not due to the fact that they both gave a certain issue clear and concise consideration before arriving at a meaningful opinion. The reason for that is that Howard Stern does not give anything clear and concise consideration. Instead he speaks out of ignorance and constantly proves in disscussions that he really did not look at all the facts before forming his opinion. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Have you listened to Rush Limbaugh before? Pissing off the liberal left, yeah he does that. But his main reason for popularity is for his representation of the silent majority. Many people love him. I love him. I have a picture with him at his TV show in 95. If I had a scanner I would post it online. I am so fond of him because before him I never could find another person addressing political issues that I agreed with 97% of the time. Now times have changed a little and a lot of conservatives have come out of the closet. Now we have Bill O'reilly, Sean Hannity, Neal Cavuto, hmm we still don't have enough representation. Well thank god for FOX news. Anyway Rush Limbaugh started it all. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

I don't like him. He is an idiot. Although I agree with him on many issues I find him ignorant and uninformed and because of that I find him to be holding back our side on issues in which I agree with him. I find him to be extremely jealous of Rush Limbaugh. Maybe I am talking more like 5 years ago but as I recall Rush Limbaugh had the undisputed highest ratings on talk radio and Howard Stern followed him. I think that Howard Stern should not have let this bother him because they had two very different talk shows. Howard Stern is more like a comedian and Rush is more somebody who knows what he is talking about and therefore has a serious show. But since Howard Stern couldn't see this clearly he chose to attack him with name calling, "Pumpkinhead" thereby pissing certain people off myself included. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Dutch??? what? ok for everybody to know Deutsch is German not Ductch. Dutch in German is Hollandisch. edited to correct this. Oh my mistake I didn't follow the thread. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Ich kann Deutsch. Ich habe es in Dresden, Deutschland gelernt als ich acht monaten dort gelebt haben. Wo haben sie es gelernt. Es gefaelt mich sehr Deutsch zu sprechen, besonders online weil meine ausprache ist nicht dort bemaerkt . If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Ok to make this simple if you take a trip to Miami or Union City, NJ where the REAL hispanics are, the ones who fit the definition today, just like they did 10 years ago just like they did 50 years ago, then you will find that the majority of them hate that word. That is right, the majority of Cubans hate that word. We do not consider ourselves any more of a minority than the Norwegians consider themselves. And the last thing we need is for our accomplishments to be linked to Mexican failures. We don't need affirmative action we don't want affirmative action. We vote 87% Republican, Enough said. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

That is after they tried to redefine the term. Find yourself a dictionary before 1990. In anycase as you see the number one definition is still the original one having to do with Spain. They have just tried to broaden it and I resent that. I will accept that when the broaden Anglican to include the Bahamas, Jamaica and all the British Islands in the west Indies that are 90% black or when the create a term linking the French to Haiti. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

given the fact that the hispanics have surpassed the african americans as the number one minorities in america i think it benefit us all to learn a little spanish! ------------------------------------------------------------ Ok thats it. Now let me start my saying that your misconception is not at all unique. Its quite a common one but I find the need to correct it when ever I see it. Lesson #1 HISPANIC means everything that decends from Spain basically for a person to be truly HISPANIC both his parents must be of Spanish descent making him white or at least as white as you would call the Italians the French the Portugese and the Greeks. Lesson #2 The overwhelming majority of people running around the U.S. speaking Spanish are Mexicans. Mexicans typically (with some exceptions) at best 50% HISPANIC and the rest Aztec. If you need to learn more about this do a search on Moctezuma the last Aztec ruler. Lesson#3 Minority means less than half. So technically everybody except women in this country is a minority. Oh you want to put men and women together. Then everybody who is not of British descent is a minority. The majority of people in this country still are of British descent, hence that so very loved WASP catagory. (White Anglosaxen Protestan). Oh wait you want to put all northern Europeans together and call them the only white people. Well now you have a majority but now the largest minority now are the Italians. Bottomline is this topic get complicated and stupid. And this politics of victimization by minority status is nothing more than troublesome. But most of all its extremely offensive to me when you take a black person from the Domincan Republic, a Mexican Aztec, an Oriental from the Philipines, and an Inca from Peru and then tell me that because they happen to have a 'z' at the end of their last name just like I do that I am of the same race. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Uh huh... and men NEVER lie.... Ever heard of AOL inches???? False advertising really really sucks..... Amazon ----------------------------------------------------------- I think AOL only strengthens the case here. At least that is what I got from my experience. In 1995 I discovered internet chatting mostly through MSN back then a little through AOL. Anyway that year I met five girls in person that I had originally met online. Every single one was a complete dissapointment and proved to have lied about her weight. I figured internet dating was for the desparate and stayed away from it. Last year I don't know what possessed me to give it a try once again. I guess I thought times had changed. Well they hadn't and the statistic went up to 6 for 6. Every single one lied to the point that if I knew the truth I would have never met her in the first place. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

No kidding...as a heterosexual female, I still find this to be somewhat of a turn-on, if I'm being honest! ---------------------------------------------------------- Don't say that in public. A response like that will get you 27 private messages. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

ok my only question is: Who were the three gay guys who said this was a turn off? If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Ok lets put it this way. Most little girls have no choice on the matter. They get used to it when they are young. As they get older they get more attention because of it and they realize they like the attention they are getting. I bet if you to a poll you would find that most women will cut their hair to a relatively short style after they have been married for years and have come to the realization that they no longer have to attract males. So you see they always have a choice (after adolesence) but choices come with consequences. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Ivan you don't know what she is going through because she has had long hair all her life. When I was in my sophmore year of high school back in the days, most of my freinds were headbangers. One of them even had hair way past his shoulders and all of them had hair way longer than mine. I decided to try to grow my hair I got it to the point where it was 6 inches long. I hated it, it was in the way and was driving me crazy. I finally came to the realization that I couldn't take it anymore and went back to my shaved head. Women don't have this problem. Long hair for them was always there because it has to be, because they are women. So they don't suffer as much because of it. They got used to it at a very young age. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Ok I will go so far as to say that funding is necessary to rebuild school districts. But if the attitude is not corrected first, the money will go to waste. That I have seen happen. Some of it may end up in the pockets of some BOE employees. If you had a never ending supply of money then you could just continue to pump money in but since that is not the case the attitude must be corrected for postive results. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

I think what you need to do is vist some Newark public schools. There you will find what all the Democrats have created. I guarantee you that you will not find an elected Republican official in Newark, NJ. (Not in the past 20 years) So you can get a clear picture of what the Democrats have created there. After you visit Westside High (where Shkeal Oneil went to school) or Malcom X Shabbaz, south 17th street grammar school (they have 80 schools in their district believe me I can name a lot more) then you might realize that a clean warehouse would be a lot better place to learn in. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

well I have spoke a ton of Spanglish. But only when I know the person I am speaking to can understand both Spanish and English. Its not uncontrollable its just that you can have a larger vocabulary to choose from when talking to certain people. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

So it's your position that, although democrats vote for more money for education, republicans are really the more pro-education because they are better at motivating their children? Personally, I vote for politicians because I think they will represent me well in government, not because they are good parents (although that's always good.) ----------------------------------------------- Its my position that you will produce better students teaching them in a warehouse if they are interested in learning than if you taught them in a palace if they had no desire to be there. If they were interested in learning they would take care of the warehouse and improve the conditions accordingly with their own tax dollars. If you took the money away from another district to build them a palace they would urinate, spit and vandalize it before you could finish building it. The response of the typical liberal politician would be to then go and steal some more money from the richer district. The cycle will repeat but the problem will never be solved. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

How did you get exposed to Afrikant? Are you one of those blond African-Americans from Johanisberg who is getting shafted by the affirmative action programs? If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.

Ok there are similarities with Latin languages (Spanish, French, Italian, and Portugese) because obviously they all came from Latin. With the exception of the French Latin people are superior. Oh wait and except for the Portugese too. Hold on a second there is a significant difference between the Spanish and Italians. Ok we all know Spain is the best but back to the topic at hand. Knowing Spanish backwards and fowards does not mean you will understand Italian French or Portugese. That is a complete myth. Being that I speak Italian and know countless people who speak Spanish as a native language I have been able to put this to the test over and over again. Sure they will catch more words than a German would. But they will not catch enough words to carry even a very slow conversation. Even if they can 5 out of ten words from the sentence, which typically they won't, it still wouldn't be enough to understand the true meaning of the sentence. Instead it would only provide a clue for guessing what was said. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.