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Do you know any of them? I will volunteer to be a 'catcher' at the next race...

Yeah, look at my pics, you can see the mike zip tied to the camera. I would LOVE to see the video of that! You had better watch your mouth. NASCAR will fine you $25,000 and penalize you 25 points!

Im not at the race today but I just looked at the schedule: Looks like they "cornered" it at Texas too....Great! The fans LOVE the REMAX team. The dignitaries highlighting the pre-race ceremonies prior to the Samsung/RadioShack 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Race: - “God Bless Texas”: Celena Rae - ReMax Skydive Team - Intro to Present Colors: U.S. ARMY Color Guard - Invocation: Dr. Roger Marsh TxARM - National Anthem: Little Big Town - Fly-by TOT: F15’s out of Eglin Air Force Base

Thats cool...I never saw it in a position where there was enough room to even think of skydiving... The fixed wires seemed to be all over. Just how big was the hole you had? Those wires are thin and hard to see to. Im impressed!

There will be no skydiving demos at Texas this weekend. The REMAX team must be sad. NASCAR has been installing those overhead cams like they have at NFL games at NASCAR tracks. I still cant figure out how it works but all the wires, pullies and towers make skydiving impossibe. It is cool to see that camera zooming around though. Pic1 Pic2 Pic3 Pic4 pic5

Thanks Michele, The only reason I feel bad is that I have caused - well, not caused but my rational and fair reaction is causing them so much pain. I dont feel bad for my actions, I was honest about my feelings, I just hate seeing people upset like that, even if it is irrational. A

http://www.airmanshiponline.com/marzo2003/09-FSD-1996-07-08-Dubrovnik%20CFIT.pdf#search='CT43A%20gpws' I just read this report. This is a classic CFIT accident with all the standard factors. This is exactly what happened to Rick Hendricks King Air going into Martinsville 2 years ago. They were tracked on an outbound radial of the NDB exactly where is should have been. If you move it, the radial will have a totally different path. NDB approaches are very difficult to fly and most pilots never fly them in real life. They are very easy to screw up. Throw in fog, mountains, foreign controllers and a compex, non precision approach that the pilots had never flown, a recipe for disaster....

Getting a co-signer might be hard because there is a pray to God slight possibility that your bad luck continues and they become burdened with a car payment. Im sure you are trustworthy and it sounds like you have done a great job digging yourself out of a big hole that is not your fault. I have an idea: Find a cosigner friend with good credit. Find 10 DZ.commers that will split the payment in the slight chance you default. $60 bucks a month would be no big deal if it came to that. Im in for covering 10% of the downside of a friend you can get to co-sign. I wish I knew you a little to be the co-signer... edited to add: I used to work selling cars. Tell me exactly what you want and I will let you know what to tell them you are paying. If you have a trade, let me know all the details of that too. It might be better to sell seperately. Mike

UPDATE ON THE SITUATION - 1 year later I had talked to my mom/sis/bro a few trimes before the visit and it was interesting but there was an obvious rift between bro and mom/sis that they were all to freely talking about. The visit (2 days) with my birth mom/half sis and her son went very well. My half brother lives in CA five miles from where I lived. He did not come to Seattle for the visit. We all got along great and had a nice dinner on the last night and all cried a bit. I learned my mom was abused and had a very hard life. I learned I was the product of a one night stand (found him too) and she gave me up for monetary reasons...(A GREAT REASON) I learned that they were very poor and my half bro says he remembers eating out of trash cans. My dad was a pilot and flew to Bangor once a week and I ate lobster and steak all the time. Private school, college, car, airplane all paid for. I felt really guilty but my honest reaction was "WHEW! that was close!" I finally told them the way I felt recently but I was ashamed to. I had everything on a silver platter and they are struggling financially still. (My half bro does OK) I think my dad gave me the work ethic I have that has allowed me pretty good sucess that I would not have had otherwise. Plus, I needed his discipline. I would be in jail if it werent for "The Great Santini" When I got home, EVERYBODY was asking me how I felt. I honestly didnt know and had no idea how to process the emotions. Frankly, it was the LACK of emotion.I got so sick of answering the question that I didnt call my half brother after the visit because I knew he would ask. He was very hurt by this and hasnt spoken to me since. To me, that reaction makes me want to meet him even less. I dont like drama and they all seem to strive on it. My adoped family has ZERO drama. Also, I cant fake love and, while I love what she did, I dont love her. She claims to deeply love me. My girlfriends understand but to me it makes no sense. She doesnt even know me. She would say "I love you" every time we talked trying to get me to say it to. I never would. And, the one big thig that freaked me out is when she said that "I love you as much as my other 2 kids" - I said "God I hope not! - You raised them"... I quit calling her after this and she was evidently crushed, as was my half sister and her son who thought I was da bomb. My half sister is VERY cool and if she lived closer we would be close Im sure. But, if I get a few days off, there are friends and their kids I have a long and loving relationship that I consider family that will always come first. I am not, and have never been all that close to my adopted family. They are all great and I had the best childhood of anyone I know but we are not the closest family. I am VERY close to about 5 of my friends and their kids and they are the most important people in my life. I wonder if I rationalized that I could pick my own 'family' since I was adopted. I feel bad but I cant fake emotions. My sis is one of those pretty judgemental Christians and we clash on a lot of stuff (last one was the Osbournes). My parents are great for about 2 days then their friggin dog (we call it the granddog) will drive you insane. I feel bad that my 'selected' family is way more a part of my life than my birth or adopted ones but thats the way I feel. I need to get closer to my adopted family I know but I dont know what to do with my birth parents. I called my birth father a year ago and told him we owe each other a beer. He is very unemotional about this and open to meeting me. I will meet him soon but it will be out of curiosity. He said he works for Sony Pics and has a house in Hollywood with a deck and hot tub and he parties all the time. I was like "DAD!" My birth mom emailed me on my birthday and I responded but I think I am going to cut ties. I have no need for a relationship with them and if I did have one anyway, it would be awkward at best. They are all deeply offended already at my lack of desire for a relationship. People familiar with these situations told me a year ago that this was the BEST that would happen... I think it would have been much better for them if they had not contacted me. I wanted her to know Im OK but I think she is more depressed now. For me, it is a great story to tell and got rid of a little seldom thought curiosity, thats it. Heres a pic from that dinner.

Didnt happen. For a plan to work out like that, you would have to ensure that the weather was IFR on the peak that they hit. No way you can predict local visibility like that. Had they enacted the plan and visibility allowed them to see the terrain and avoid, they would have figured out the plot. Too risky....No way to guarantee the weather and the fallout from a failed attempt would be easy to prove and massive in implications.

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The Absolute worst movie of all time has to be the Shawshank Redemption. Ugh!

There is an easy way to cure global warming. With all these cars we have, if we all just picked a day where we didnt drive and left our cars outside all day with the A/C running full blast and the windows open, we should decrease the relative temperature of the atmosphere. During the last century, the average temp has risen 1.1 degrees F. With 300,000,000 cars and trucks in the US, all pumping out cold airconditioned air all day, we should lower the temp of the earth by 1.1 degrees, no problem. With a/c air at 50 degrees and ambient air temp at 85 degrees and with a volume of cooled air being replaced at 40 square meters an hour per car, we should have the entire atmosphere cooled in 26.3 hours. You cant argue with math. Where is my nobel prize?

If I could do it right in the middle of the packing area at Perris and have an hour to draw a crowd, Ill do it to Paul Quade....Just to see how red he would get. Sorry Paul, you are at least a 12 packer....

Oh... Southern Die Hard lifelong NASCAR fans are not pissed off that Bill Lester is driving or that there is a development program to get more minority drivers in the sport, they are pissed off that California and Phonix are stealing dates from historic tracks like Darlington and North Wilkesboro. They dont hate minorities, they hate yankees and hippies

People: Any 'symbol' means only what the person who is displaying it/saying it thinks it means. The confederate flag, to many in the south, represents a lifestyle, not race. A black man from Alabama would be more welcome in the Talledega infield than a White man from New York would be. Everyone that displays a rebel flag does not hate african americans, they love their southern heritage. What other lasting symbol is there? Remember when Bush Sr was flashing the peace sign in Austrailia, there it is the same as flipping the bird. He meant peace, they took it as "fuck you". Where I work, when someone tells you "have a nice day" it really means "fuck off". You wont see many rebel flags at the NASCAR race in Texas this weekend. I would like to see it fade into history because of the people that are confused about what it represents, but you cant force it. There are minorities in NASCAR and, remarkably, there seems to be fewer racial incidents than in any other major sport.

My God! It has hit in Florida too!

As long as you arent a Kurt/Kyle Bush fan. I like Biffle and Edwards a lot... Jeff doesnt get booed at TX too bad.... If Bush wins Bristol again im quitting NASCAR

Reporters should not attempt to create news, period. I think its great they didnt happen to run into a racist. But with 100K fans, the chances were pretty good at finding one asshole. Hell, there is one asshole racist at least out of the House of Reps.

They would have had to change the sheets if I slept there...I have a great imagination and I can picture her clearly. She is a class act too... I wish more minorities (hell, all kids nowadays) would emulate them instead of gangsta rappers. Queen Latifa is classy too. Danny Glover is an idiot....Where is he now? Not beside that moronic congresswoman...It was nice to see the bluff called on the race card for once.

I love the paycheck/unreal job security and the time off. I hate dealing with not so bright employees.....a lot.

Will Smith has real talent though and was smart enough to diversify....I actually like his music too....

I think this is horrible and I hope there is a firestorm over Dateline NBC's tactics. On the flip side, sounds like all the bubbas handled themselves perfectly and hopefully erased some stereotypes. I am going to the Texas race this weekend and the crowd is suprisingly diverse. http://www.thatsracin.com/mld/thatsracin/14272351.htm

The more I think about this the more pissed I get. At first glance or to who anyone is not a skydiver, leaving your laptop with a bunch of drunk strangers seems careless. There is a special bond between 99% of us that is so strong and trustworthy that most of us would trust our firstborns with any one of us. He went off to bed probably thinking,,,ehhh, not the best idea but surely I can trust everyone here....And rightly so....The 1% a-holes are few and far between. He created a good time for people for free and risked it all to let them continue having a good time. The theif took advantage of this, probably partied all night because of his generousity and ripped him off because of it. It is almost like kicking a puppy. I would love to have this a-hole exposed. I got a 4gig iPod Mini you can have for free...I havent used it in a year....It works fine though. Whats your address?

I love telling whuffos that skydiving doesnt seem 'high' because you are sohigh. I can sit in the door and look out no prob (over 1000'). Put me on the edge of a building and I am petrified. Once you get abouve 1000' and for some reason the fact that you are in motion seems to ease the sense of how high you are.