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I don't think it is possible to answer that unless it happens to you.. I know that the mental pain would be so bad it would hurt physically. When my x took my son that is what I felt. Sheer terror, helplessness, anger, pain. It would suck beyond belief and I would dedicate my life to killing those that killed my loved one.. Rhino

Will you pay me 80k???

Awesome!!! Thanks Dave

No problem.. I thanked the guy that sent it to me also.. How is everyone today?? How are you feeling?? Rhino

I am changing my degree path.. I now want to go into the FBI under the antiterrorism task force.. Damn Clay, after reading your posts from last year in this thread I am impressed and motivated. It is an ideaology. The ideaology must be exterminated. I don't know whether to feel angry or sad? My emotions are very mixed today. I need to find a quiet time to think about this and reflect or something.. Chilling to read this thread again.. Rob

I am SEGADOR Rodriguez..

~An Ode to America~ Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many there are. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, and the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!" Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There was Clint Eastwood, Willy Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, (Mohammmed Ali) Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Sylvester Stallone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's spirit of solidarity turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way through this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what ulterior motive. I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the California hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy. What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion. Only freedom can work such miracles!

That was my home DZ.. Mike runs a first class dz.. It is great!! Rhino

God bless you all..... Rob

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Those power naps are the greatest!!!

2500 huh.. I was wondering when that happens.. Now I know.. LOL Rhino

Semper Fidelis

I say a prayer before the plane starts to role.. "Dear God, please forgive me for I am a sinner. Please protect myself and everyone on this airplane and help us get to the ground safely. Amen" Rhino

I would recommend a Crossfire2 loaded at 1.65..

On your first jump using your soft links do a hop n pop from altitude and turn and burn all the way down. That will help build an instant memory in your slinks. After my first jump I was good to go.. Rhino

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1.9 - 2.1 depending on weights. Speed is good!! Side note.. Watching Hook swoop is what made me want to swoop. What a ride!!!! Rhino

You said it.. ON ACCIDENT.. No one flew an airliner into the wedding party. And it was AFGHAN intelligence that targeted that wedding party so give me another one? The convoy could have radioed ahead saying we are this many vehicles leaving at this time and that might have been avoided.. You can't possibly compare the 2.. Their is not war CURRENTLY happening in the US border.. Their is a WAR in Afghanistan. Al Quida was burrowed in that country. Again cause and effect. They LET the Al Quida in their country and didn't stand up in time "Like Iraq" and now they have to pay the piper because Big Brother is cleaning house.. Rhino

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are your descendants from Teletobia? LOL All B.S. Aside, 90 percent of people have NO CLUE as to what Palestine is and where it came from. That land doesn't belong to Palestinians because Palestinians don't exist Rhino

My new post has the correct entire history.. Rhino

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/meaning.html http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early.php

I asked Skyrad this question now I will answer it.. You see this area we call Palestine NEVER belonged to them.. Rhino Where did the name Palestine come from? The name Palestine refers to a region of the eastern Mediterranean coast from the sea to the Jordan valley and from the southern Negev desert to the Galilee lake region in the north. The word itself derives from "Plesheth", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". Plesheth, (root palash) was a general term meaning rolling or migratory. This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea. The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The Philistines reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts. From the fifth century BC, following the historian Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean "the Philistine Syria" using the Greek language form of the name. In AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and so renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit. The name "Provincia Syria Palaestina" was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized "Palestine" is derived. This remained the situation until the end of the fourth century, when in the wake of a general imperial reorganization Palestine became three Palestines: First, Second, and Third. This configuration is believed to have persisted into the seventh century, the time of the Persian and Muslim conquests. The Christian Crusaders employed the word Palestine to refer to the general region of the "three Palestines." After the fall of the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official designation. The name, however, continued to be used informally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan River. The Ottoman Turks, who were non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years (1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, the Palestine region was attached administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul. The name Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and applied to the territory in this region that was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Roman "Palaestina". Quoting Golda Meir: The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity. [In an article by Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post, November 25, 1995]

Damn.. That is a hike.. LOL

I still would like an ACCURATE answer to the 3 questions I asked you? Where did "Palestine" come from? Who coined the word "Palestine" for Palestinian people? Who originally owned "occupied" the land that the Palestinians are on? Rhino