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What is interesting is "trip queens" is not what I wrote. I have no reason or explanation as to why it says that. So since it started that whole side tangent, I apologize, my fault. Nice "turn around" with it though. Matt Matt, You started using the term "trip queens" in your post no. 33752, dated April 16, 2012, in replying to a post from mrshutter45. I just acknowledged that, and apologized for the mistake, in the post you just quoted. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Not every one pays income tax, every one should, they benefit from the GOV. Every one should pay a percentage of their taxes, no deduction, no loop holes. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Right, I was talking percentage. To me assessing tax in equal absolute amounts is idiotic and unworkable. I agree withthe first part of your sentence. The EVERYONE pay is a nice Utopia, but that is just never going to work. Then why is the "Fare Share" argument being used so much? Their percentage is less, but their share is MORE. Every one in the country benefits from the GOV's "work", every one should contribute to its funding, that includes income taxes. Some people may not be able to pay their full fare share, but they can pay a share at least! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

True. But, I'll bet you that their total tax burden as a percentage of income is still incredibly low. But the amount is still higher than I pay. They also employ far more Lawyers, Accountants, Chefs, Drivers, Lawn Care guru's, personal trainers, security etc, than I can, so they are spreading far more of the wealth than this article want us to believe. Close loop holes, ban deductions over a certain thresh holds and make EVERYONE pay. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/17/nugent-threatens-death-if-obama-wins-in-november/comment-page-6/ Maybe he meant he would be arrested for speaking out and exercising his 1st Amendment Rights, that have been squelched by a new anti-protesting law? Hey, the left has their "fringers" and the right theirs too. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

What is interesting is "trip queens" is not what I wrote. I have no reason or explanation as to why it says that. So since it started that whole side tangent, I apologize, my fault. Nice "turn around" with it though. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Which is different from Sen. Brown's bill, how? One has a "D" the other an "R"? What did I win? oh, the Gold medal "DUH" award huh? Oh well. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Matt and Blevins, Where have you two been for the past year or two? Didn't you notice any number or posts by Hominid a few weeks ago about the weather? And he included a discussion about the winds aloft using information from people who were there and measured the actual weather parameters. The mathematics of the jump are simple. It is just what the clock read and the VOR and DME receivers read at the time of the jump that you need to come up with. Surely a couple of "queens" such as yourselves can come up with such simple information. At least give it a try. "Queens"? your homophobia is exposed. Nice PA, you lowered your self to BK. Sad. Problem with the weather your alluding to here, no one agrees with it! BK says the science is a cover up, others are trying to say their memory from 40 years ago is better than the written reports. The math for this has existed long before cooper was a wet spot on his mommies bed sheet. True, it is easy, so who already did it? Matt Matt, You need to start reading your own posts. In the first sentence of this post, you introduce the word "queens". So are you actually complaining about yourself? You write: "Problem with the weather your alluding to here, no one agrees with it!" In reality, only people who can't read weather data disagree with it. Hominid used valid weather information and drew valid conclusions from that information. Maybe you should take a look at what Hominid did. Also, the FBI has a predicted jump point and drop zone for Cooper dating back to 1971. This chart is posted on Sluggo's web page. You really need to do more research to expand your horizons. YOU introduced "Queens" to this thread as an insult, and thus became no better than BK. Look at the quoted text, you wrote it, remember? If I missed the accepted data and the accepted exit and landing zone posts, I apologize. But one can hardly be blamed given the amount of trash clogging this thread. Now, if there is an accepted posting of the Data and its results, why does any one give credence to the fluffers and their garbage? @ BK, go away, there are adults having a conversation, it obviously is too hard for your maturity level to comprehend. Go take another hit, and a sit. Maybe you should come back when your maturity equals your age. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

You must have spent hours composing that one. Attaboy. Do we really need MORE laws? or can we just amend the current laws to flex with the times? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Well it is a privately held entity. It would be nice if it was a little more even handed in application. The "appearance" of favoratism does seem to exist. PA's get ignored and threads the mods don't wish to keep a close eye on get over run with childish antics. I would suggest a hard one time warning to a new user first time they cross the line. The warning post coup[led with viewing privileges only in the thread they crossed the line in for 48 hours. I would further suggest if a thread is on the page that no one in the Moderator Team wants to moderate, delete it. Make the last post, say this thread is being closed and its topic will not be allowed on the page. Or add "Stealth Moderators" who can delete posts or temporarily block users till the Green and Red Mods can address the issue. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

I have absolutely NO idea what you are talking about. Duane did NOT know McCoy and you KNOW that. BULL! I do not wish to argue, but I WILL NOT tell an untruth about this Cooper thing. I am preparing a formal document of identification of Duane Weber as Dan Cooper in 1968. I KNOW that McCoy was the one who got his deal for him, got him out of Jefferson, gave him the rifle to destroy, and put him in Project Norjak. I KNOW Mac missed Duane by one day in New Orleans. I KNOW that Mac introduced Marjorie to Duane. I know Duane wrote a letter about Mac's 'death', etc. I KNOW that you know because you confirmed it. Mac said he worked with Duane before and expected to find him in California as John Collins, but actually found him in Missouri as Duane Weber. (NOT JOHN COLLINS!) Mac never told me what they did together, but Mac, being the same age as me, would have been in the service starting around 1961 at the earliest. He got two weeks in a Mexican jail for a bar fight in those early years. His only bad mark on his military record. They were not 'friends' in the true sense of the word. Mac was his "handler". And they ABSOLUTELY did know each other, and it can be proven many times over. Mac's Brigham Young Medallion, for one. Karen, number two, TOG and me for three, his letter for four. The rifle for five. It is almost an endless list. The Insurance job, Bloomington, Maggie, Cleveland. Nichols, on and on. Why did you make such an obviously untruthful statement? ____________________________________________ Every time Knoss learns something new about Weber - suddenly he invents a connection to McCoy or someone else. Note his description of Duane with the Blonde hair and the fair complexion and make-up being use went out the window when the pictures showing my complexion in comparison to Webers were posted. ___________________________________________ You did not win the argument. It was as I said. I stand by my statement. I could add, for your edification, that by the end of the summer your claims would be more accurate than my earlier observations. Some things are fluid. My first impressions of him were of a younger person because he smiled a lot. Had a magnetic smile that lit up his face. By the end of the summer I was more familiar with a straight faced older man with fewer smiles and a more tanned complexion. The tan aged him 20 years it seemed. Not a spiffy dresser, baggy old pants and scuffed shoes. Long billed golf cap. Not the same cheerful guy. That was about the time his wife and her boyfriend absconded with the rent money from 21 apartments at $105 each. Not much. Mac caught her the next week and brought her back. "What a bitch!" Mac said. I seem to remember Niagra Falls? Maybe not. When will we see your fiction at Books-a-Million? An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Matt and Blevins, Where have you two been for the past year or two? Didn't you notice any number or posts by Hominid a few weeks ago about the weather? And he included a discussion about the winds aloft using information from people who were there and measured the actual weather parameters. The mathematics of the jump are simple. It is just what the clock read and the VOR and DME receivers read at the time of the jump that you need to come up with. Surely a couple of "queens" such as yourselves can come up with such simple information. At least give it a try. "Queens"? your homophobia is exposed. Nice PA, you lowered your self to BK. Sad. Problem with the weather your alluding to here, no one agrees with it! BK says the science is a cover up, others are trying to say their memory from 40 years ago is better than the written reports. The math for this has existed long before cooper was a wet spot on his mommies bed sheet. True, it is easy, so who already did it? Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Why don't you get your head out of your ass and grow up? Post the truth ONCE in this thread so it can be looked at. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

"Fake" because Vertical RW is hard to do, got it. In other words it is real, with real coaches, just not what you want. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

If it wasn't for those pesky continuing resolutions. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

My offer to do the math for the Release point and LZ still stands, yet none of the trip queens can agree on ANY weather, even though there is a a record of it, it is called wrong, by people who weren't even there. Knoss' story has been proven false over and over and over. Yet he lingers. He insults and makes personal attacks over and over, yet he is still posting. So, some one get the winds aloft, I will do the math. Some one get the point over the ground that the A/C reported the "bump" when they believe "Cooper" exited. Then I will give you a pretty accurate search grid. Some thing Amazon and I have each had experience with. Of course, this many years later you wont find any viable evidence, but it will put to rest a few half brained theories. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

A very heroic story, but I have my doubts that it is true. It takes quite a bit to get a bad conduct discharge. Sailors get into fights all the time. Those rarely result in discharges. 377 Not saying Jo's story is true on Duane, but '90-day wonder' indicates an officer, and striking a superior officer...well, yeah, you can get a BCD on that one, possibly. This is more likely also, if the person had not been in the service very long. Not saying I BELIEVE those were the circumstances, but... Knoss: What the heck are you talking about? 'Raoul?' That's the fictional character that James Earl Ray made up in an attempt to shift his blame for the King murder. And although there is no doubt that Ray had help (gun store owner where Ray bought rifle testified that TWO men were together and one was Ray, the other seemed to be giving him advice)...it's also true that Ray pulled the trigger on King and went to his grave in denial. You are SO full of it sometimes, I swear. Do you just cherry-pick among the characters, real and imagined, from historical events and simply toss them into your fable at will? Sounds like it to me. Your story is completely convoluted and the end result is a twisted mess of mish-mash garbage full of false accusations. Along the way you slander innocent people who had nothing to do with pulling off the Cooper hijacking. Get out of town. Your talents are being wasted. You might want to enter yourself in THIS next year. (*laughs*) You show up with that story, you are a winner. Think about it: Cooper, airline safety, the Dead Guy, the FBI, 'Project Norjack,' LSD, Nixon, ('I am not a crook!') the Pilots' Union, the FAA, hypnosis, draft dodging Vietnam and your subsequent recruitment...and my personal fave, 'Tommy Gunn'. You could even say he had a brother named Peter. Easy winner. The audience will go nuts laughing...and you will get the trophy for sure. Beans beans the musical fruit, the more he eats the more he toots, the more he toots the worse he feels, so Blevins Blevins 24/7 on Beanzone - You're starting to make as much sense and Knoss. You don't like Blevins, we get it, now move on. Matt You have been here for years participating in the "Cooper-thingy", as Blevins phrases it. So, what's your "thingy" and how does it apply to the Cooper-thingy-dada ? As an art form for thingy- busters? Surely you have something to contribute? I made my offers, but you all would rather act like children and play your little games. Personally this thread should be locked, you all should be banned and then this web page can go back to being a fun place for ACTUAL skydiver's. Dan Cooper is dead, let the case go with him. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

A very heroic story, but I have my doubts that it is true. It takes quite a bit to get a bad conduct discharge. Sailors get into fights all the time. Those rarely result in discharges. 377 Not saying Jo's story is true on Duane, but '90-day wonder' indicates an officer, and striking a superior officer...well, yeah, you can get a BCD on that one, possibly. This is more likely also, if the person had not been in the service very long. Not saying I BELIEVE those were the circumstances, but... Knoss: What the heck are you talking about? 'Raoul?' That's the fictional character that James Earl Ray made up in an attempt to shift his blame for the King murder. And although there is no doubt that Ray had help (gun store owner where Ray bought rifle testified that TWO men were together and one was Ray, the other seemed to be giving him advice)...it's also true that Ray pulled the trigger on King and went to his grave in denial. You are SO full of it sometimes, I swear. Do you just cherry-pick among the characters, real and imagined, from historical events and simply toss them into your fable at will? Sounds like it to me. Your story is completely convoluted and the end result is a twisted mess of mish-mash garbage full of false accusations. Along the way you slander innocent people who had nothing to do with pulling off the Cooper hijacking. Get out of town. Your talents are being wasted. You might want to enter yourself in THIS next year. (*laughs*) You show up with that story, you are a winner. Think about it: Cooper, airline safety, the Dead Guy, the FBI, 'Project Norjack,' LSD, Nixon, ('I am not a crook!') the Pilots' Union, the FAA, hypnosis, draft dodging Vietnam and your subsequent recruitment...and my personal fave, 'Tommy Gunn'. You could even say he had a brother named Peter. Easy winner. The audience will go nuts laughing...and you will get the trophy for sure. Beans beans the musical fruit, the more he eats the more he toots, the more he toots the worse he feels, so Blevins Blevins 24/7 on Beanzone - You're starting to make as much sense and Knoss. You don't like Blevins, we get it, now move on. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Yeah i went through this two years ago. 99 up to a 107, up to a 130 and floaty-er with great glide. I might have been landing last on the load (aside from the Solo Students) but I was safe. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Yeah, that guy seems to have "twins" all over the sport. I talked to a fellow the same way one time. A few weeks later he was in the process of doing dumb shit so I started out the the landing area to address it and tell him not to come out tomorrow (it was the Saturday Sunset load that he was landing with). He made my prophecy come true and we put him on life flight an hour later. He made a full recovery and for the most part was humbled by it. I made a write up in the incidents forum some where about it. Public calling outs is what it will take. And DZO's putting safety first will be needed to support this. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/13/463317/tennessee-anti-hand-holding/ We have more in common with the Taliban than we like to give ourselves credit for. Let's see if I can get Pavlov's dogs back in their pens before they start salivating at the way the media has rung their bell and manipulated them. Facts: The bill summary: http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/billinfo/BillSummaryArchive.aspx?BillNumber=SB3310&ga=107 Sex education! Oh the horror! The definition of "gateway sexual activity": “Gateway sexual activity” means sexual contact encouraging an individual to engage in a non-abstinent behavior. A person promotes a gateway sexual activity by encouraging, advocating, urging or condoning gateway sexual activities;Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB3310.pdf, page 2, paragraph 7. The word "hand" doesn't even exist anywhere in the Bill. There is no list of what activities are defined as being "gateway". Other news reports talk about what "could" be included in that definition, which makes it mere conjecture, not fact. If there was such a list, I imagine blow jobs would probably be on the list, but hand-holding? Not likely. This is apparently someone's personal interpretation, not based upon the actual facts, dutifully reported by the liberal media to bash conservatives, and you lapped it up like one of Pavlov's dogs. Woof! Quit believing everything you read in blogs. Quit letting the media play your emotions and make you believe things that aren't true. Research the facts. Think. It is the media, you expected some thing different? But as a TN resident, our States Representatives could spend their time on more pressing stuff. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

A very heroic story, but I have my doubts that it is true. It takes quite a bit to get a bad conduct discharge. Sailors get into fights all the time. Those rarely result in discharges. 377 Not saying Jo's story is true on Duane, but '90-day wonder' indicates an officer, and striking a superior officer...well, yeah, you can get a BCD on that one, possibly. This is more likely also, if the person had not been in the service very long. Not saying I BELIEVE those were the circumstances, but... Knoss: What the heck are you talking about? 'Raoul?' That's the fictional character that James Earl Ray made up in an attempt to shift his blame for the King murder. And although there is no doubt that Ray had help (gun store owner where Ray bought rifle testified that TWO men were together and one was Ray, the other seemed to be giving him advice)...it's also true that Ray pulled the trigger on King and went to his grave in denial. You are SO full of it sometimes, I swear. Do you just cherry-pick among the characters, real and imagined, from historical events and simply toss them into your fable at will? Sounds like it to me. Your story is completely convoluted and the end result is a twisted mess of mish-mash garbage full of false accusations. Along the way you slander innocent people who had nothing to do with pulling off the Cooper hijacking. Get out of town. Your talents are being wasted. You might want to enter yourself in THIS next year. (*laughs*) You show up with that story, you are a winner. Think about it: Cooper, airline safety, the Dead Guy, the FBI, 'Project Norjack,' LSD, Nixon, ('I am not a crook!') the Pilots' Union, the FAA, hypnosis, draft dodging Vietnam and your subsequent recruitment...and my personal fave, 'Tommy Gunn'. You could even say he had a brother named Peter. Easy winner. The audience will go nuts laughing...and you will get the trophy for sure. And don't forget Sly now! He has Producer Credits, he can make it all happen on the big screen! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Paris is a real tunnel, it is one of the earlier Cali Tunnels and there is no shortage of world class and proven coaches there. Paris, never saw a fun factor killing rule there. Maybe stayhigh meant "rules" in general? As in Paris has some basic safety ones. I personally would pick Elsinore or Paris. Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

We don't care what color you are. Mike Classic! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!

Pie is good. I like strawberry-rhubarb. Good choice! Matt An Instructors first concern is student safety. So, start being safe, first!!!