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Contrary to popular belief, it is NOT illegal to go to Cuba as a US citizen with a US passport. It IS ABSOLUTELY illegal to spend even one penny of US money in Cuba unless you have special dispensation from the State Department, and they are supposedly only issued for "cultural sharing events" whatever the fuck those are. I think it's really fucking SAD that our government is so blind. If American tourists were flocking to Cuba spending shitloads of dollars and Castro kept up that same old Communist song and dance he would be out of there in a New York second.... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Shit and Fuck in particular are considered THE bad words not allowed on a prime time TV series - only South Park and Chicago Hope have allowed Shit to be broadcast (knowingly) - exceptions of course were the unedited movie versions of Saving Private Ryan and The Exorcist on CBS (but those are movies not series). The main push for profanity on TV really came after the NYFD profanity laden tirade that was broadcast live after 9/11 (that was justified profanity IMHO). That was really the first time Fuck had been used during prime time (I'm sure there are some exceptions out there I have missed). Main thing is who cares? TV has an On/Off switch and descriptions of the show - parents should learn to moniter what the kiddies watch and know how to use said switches. Don't use the TV as a babysitter. Too many kids have nursed at the cathode ray nipple already.... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

"Actually Hognose are venemous, but not harmful to humans as they dont bite defensively. They are rear fanged and have a primitive mild venom, only dangerous if you are a toad or allergic to it." Just FYI, this is mostly true, but the venom toxicity has never been definitively established due to the lack of bites in which humans receive a dose of venom. The Madagascar Hognose snake (genus Leioheterodon as opposed to the US genus Heterodon) has a moderate venom that has caused serious problems in children who have been bitten. They also get significantly larger than the US hognose snake, and the fangs are a bit more forward making envenomation much easier. All rearfanged snakes belong in the classification of Xenodontin, meaning strange-toothed. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Absolutely NO doubt that it's a corn snake (Elaphe guttata). http://www.emichigancity.com/cityhall/departments/zoo/images/corn-snake.jpg As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

47,904 As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Yep... NO GO GO ON As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Kevin Costner in Robin Hood, hands down. Hell, he gives up even trying about halfway through that piece of shit As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Thank you Kallend. Shows the ignorance of people in general. ARABS are SEMETIC people (basically the same as Jews but (usually) with different religious beliefs). Iranians and Afghans are CAUCASOIDS (caucasian). Also, Arabs are Middle Eastern and Iranians/Afghans are Central Asians. BIG difference culturally. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

It's really only the Mullahs in Iran that tend towards fundamentalism. 70% of the total population of Iran is under age 30 because of the Iran-Iraq war, and they all want to be like America... And the DZ there is a tandem mill only, no fun jumpers. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Huh...we routinely get more than 2 miles of altitude at our DZ, and I would put a LOT of money on Mullin's King Air vs their Caravan to altitude As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

No spoilers here, but the ending is pretty perfect, really the only way it could end. Hopefully you will understand when you have seen it. Definitely not a "happy" ending, but not really a "bad" ending either. Shit, can't say anything else without ruining it for some... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Well, the guy must not have known jack shit about weed and its effects. That or he got usually smoked shwag and confiscated some kind bud... Scientists have established a lethal dosage for marijuana, but its literally impossible to consume that much. Talk about getting paranoid.... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

That's a funny article considering a lot of my friends serving in Iraq told me the first thing they did on arrival was to procure an AK-47. I took basic training at Ft Bliss, El Paso, rifle training was in the desert. In desert conditions its simply virtually impossible to keep an M16 from jamming. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

on a serious note, DO NOT let that bastard sting you. I was in a taxi in Kabul, Afghanistan and one of those mothers was buzzing in the back window. My buddy (being a macho Afghan) tried to kill it with his bare hand and got stung. Less than 10 minutes later his arm was swollen like he had been bitten by a snake and he had red streaks shooting up his arm (like you see with food poisoning). We stopped at a pharmacy and he got some medicine for it but he was in pain for 3 days from it... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

thanks guys. No battery acid, I think I may have worn it prematurely by pulling the pullup cord out too fast. As for the D bag, it is just too old to withstand my shitty pack volume being stuffed into it. I am ordering a new one this week. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

My D-bag was ripped down the side so I got it sewn up today, meaning I had to unpack my rig. As I was in the process of repacking I did not have a pullup cord. Looked in my trunk (was not at the DZ) and found a length of 1/4" braided nylon that would fit the closing loop. As I proceeded to thread it through the first flap and pull, the closing loop snapped in half. My pack volume sucks because I suck at packing, but this was a really new closing loop, only 18 packjobs on it. Could it have snapped because I didnt use an actual pullup cord, or does that make a difference? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

ALL over that...my home DZ and wouldnt miss a chance to jump that for anything! Whats the altitude? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

I might hear it coming, someone close may hear it coming, but they sure as hell arent going to equate it to a gunshot, and unless they are a bow enthusiast like you obviously are they are not going to have a clue until it is too late. The average Joe American has no clue what a bow or crossbow being fired sounds like. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Back on topic, if thats the case (and I have read the MPAA IS going this route), think about the repercussions. ALL movies starring John Wayne will be rerated R. Basically, all movies made prior to the year 1990 will be rerated R. Think I'm bullshitting you? Go look at the rating on Alfred Hitchcocks film Psycho on DVD - YEP. Rerated R when it has been shown completely uncut on television for the last 30 years. Ratings mean shit basically. Take a look at the "rules" the MPAA applies to determine ratings sometimes - a sex scene can be as graphic as you want for an R as long as there is a cut before there have been more than three consistant pelvic thrusts. 4 Thrusts in a row its automatically NC-17 (Unrated vs R versions of Angel Heart is a good example of this). And look at the early '70s. Planet of the Apes was (and still IS) rated G - with a good amount of nudity, a good amount of violence (remember when Taylor gets shot in the throat, or the black guy has a lobotomy?), and language ("Get your filthy hands off me you damn dirty ape!" "God damn you! God damn you all to hell!"). Or take The Andromeda Strain (was and still IS rated G) - no language I remember but it has nudity (some boobs and a butt), and a scene where he scientists use a scalpel to cut into a dead guys arm to find out his blood has been turned into powder. NO WAY either of those films would get anything less than a PG-13 today....Hell, rewatch Jaws, thats a SOLID R rating by todays standards (graphic violence, fairly graphic language, full frontal nudity). MPAA - what a fucking joke they are As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

ermm you answered your own question, well in a way. What you seem to "forget" is that a gun was designed soley as a weapon to kill, yeah yeah we can argue that they are now used for target practice, or shooting clay pigeons.. etc but they were still invented with a single purpose... No neither the Knife, the car, the match, alcohol, drugs or even cricket bats are desinged with the sole purpose of killing... Bullshit. Guns are designed primarily to kill, yes. But that is not their only use. Almost nothing is invented for a single purpose. A gun can be used to shoot out a tire of a fleeing car, shoot a lock off a door, shoot down a tree limb that a cutaway parachute is stuck on (yes I have done that), to intimidate the criminal fuck that just pulled a knife on you in a dark alley (that's right, you don't have to kill him just scare the fucker away). So if we ban guns whats next? ban bows and arrows? crossbows? Hell, if I was going to kill someone I would likely prefer to use a crossbow since noone would ever hear it coming, and they are just as deadly... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

If you ban guns, only criminals will have and continue to use them against an unarmed civilian populace. If you were to destroy every gun on planet Earth, people would simply turn to the alternative to continue to kill - baseball bats, knives, hammers, cars, explosives etc. It is impossible to ban everything that can be easily and/or succesfully used to kill. Look at the INSANE rules the FAA/NTSB has in place for airlines and what you can/cannot carry on. I work for an airline so we were given a list of the "forbidden" objects - the obvious - guns, rifles, plastic explosives, spearguns, dynamite, pepper spray, tear gas, mines, throwing stars, nunchucks, brass knuckles etc. but please explain the following on that list (I shit you not) - transformer toys, fishing poles, golf clubs (like there is room to swing one in a cockpit), keychain screwdrivers, knitting needles, blunt scissors, nail clippers, pocket knives, nail files and fishing hooks As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

He's a rigger, you're not. Yeah he's just a person but damn, if you don't trust him to tell you how to clean spilled soda from your rig, how the hell do you trust him to inspect and repack your reserve??? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

I lost my shoe on exit two weeks ago...fractured my toe on landing. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

Don't know abour actual DZs per se, but Thailand obviously hosts jumpers at least once a year as thats where the WR formation was, and Laos just had a boogie like two months ago. Nothing in Cambodia, nothing in Myanmar, nothing in VietNam. You might try Malaysia, I know there has been some BASE done there from Petronas Towers. Or Singapore. Good luck man, thats a fun part of the world to be in. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

no idea how to make that a clicky, but I have been to the following countries: In the military, Panama On vacation, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Laos, China, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan (yes on vacation), Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...