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Torture?!!?!? Did we read the part about SERE Instructor and SERE Psychologist. So what we consider training; the namby pambies consider torture?!?!?! The "wall technique" is torture? Can't imagine what they'd think of the "Dead Bug" or a twelve mile ruck, or... Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Awesome story, Jimmy. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

I have a female friend that is obese. She was in a horrible car crash when she was younger and spent almost a year in the hospital. She can walk but does so slowly so people don't ask her why her foot is turned out. Her undergrad degree is in Nuclear Physics, a Master's in Engineering Management, and a J.D. in Patent law. She will spend an hour talking to anyone she meets no matter what their social or educational status and can relate to anyone from janitor to food service to Physicist to diplomat - and can make any one of them laugh. When she makes someone else happy; it makes her happy. She's one of the most beautiful women I've ever met. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

No worries, mate. You're talking to about the most anal retentive a-hole when it comes to packing. Proud that I not only haven't had a reserve ride yet, but have students with hundreds of jumps without a reserve ride. Challenging each other helps keep the edge. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Sheesh... I'm working on it... gimmee a minute. And its no longer BW; its Xe. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Madison contended that the powers of taxation and appropriation of the proposed government should be regarded as merely instrumental to its remaining powers, in other words, as little more than a power of self-support. I guess a better metaphor might have been the foundation of the house (infrastructure) upon which the states build the shelter for the people. A lot of the federal agencies began during WWII and shortly thereafter and just simply gained momentum until what we have today. I'm beginning to feel like the "Tenth Amendment" thread and this one are commingling. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Sir... it says nothing about the general welfare of the people... “pay the debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.” In my lay interpretation from below... that means to take care of the house, not the people inside. Technically, taking care of the people inside... is more of a state responsibility if, 1) a part of the State Constitution, or 2) the State Constitution is ratified by its citizens to encompass that care... The grant of power to “provide ... for the general welfare” raises a two-fold question: how may Congress provide for “the general welfare” and what is “the general welfare” that it is authorized to promote? The first half of this question was answered by Thomas Jefferson in his opinion on the Bank as follows: “[T]he laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They [Congress] are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union. http://law.onecle.com/constitution/article-1/18-spending-for-general-welfare.html Embedding the Human Right to Health Care in U.S. State Constitutions Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Well, I just read the Contents and the first few review pages and looks like I'm gonna order it as soon as I'm done typing here... Looks like a good read... thanks for the recommendation, Tom. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Try to keep up. I never asserted that - I strongly believe in public health: http://www.usphs.gov/ http://www.cdc.gov/ I do not believe in a US universal health care for all citizens. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. http://www.answers.com/topic/general-welfare http://law.onecle.com/constitution/article-1/18-spending-for-general-welfare.html The battle over the General Welfare Clause was all but lost six decades ago in United States v. Butler (1936) and Helvering v. Davis (1937). In Butler, the Court struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which taxed processors in order to pay farmers to reduce production. Although invalidating the statute, the Court adopted the Hamiltonian view (almost in passing) that the General Welfare Clause is a separate grant of congressional authority, linked to and qualified by the spending power. Sorenson perceives correctly that virtually all governmental activity involves the expenditure of money; accordingly, there is little difference between Hamilton’s view and Crosskey’s position that the General Welfare Clause represents a plenary grant of power. Any doubt remaining after Butler as to the scope of the General Welfare Clause was dispelled a year later in Helvering. There the Court defended the constitutionality of the 1935 Social Security Act, requiring only that welfare spending be for the common benefit as distinguished from some mere local purpose. Justice Benjamin Cardozo summed up what has become controlling doctrine ever since: "Nor is the concept of the general welfare static.... What is critical or urgent changes with the times." Justice Harlan Stone struck the final blow in Flemming v. Nester in 1954, holding that questions concerning the propriety of conditions imposed on spending, and questions concerning the generality of the benefits, were for the Congress to resolve–-subject to judicial invalidation "only if the statute manifests a patently arbitrary classification, utterly lacking in rational justification." However disheartening such cases may be to advocates of a narrower and more constraining General Welfare Clause, they do reinforce the urgent need for quality research from competent scholars like Sorenson. The second hurdle for Sorenson is that his scholarship may be more widely referenced by historians than by jurists. Curiously, Sorenson chose as his principal theme the refutation of Crosskey. Writing long after the Supreme Court had done its damage, Crosskey’s influence has been marginal. He is cited but three times in Supreme Court majority opinions, and in only one instance has the cited material implicated (tangentially) the General Welfare Clause. To be fair, Crosskey indisputably provided intellectual ammunition for the bad guys and, in that sense, Sorenson’s effort to disarm him (and them) is an important part of the ongoing struggle to secure a more propitious climate of ideas. Third, the focus of that struggle for ideas may have shifted in light of the Supreme Court’s 1995 salvo in United States v. Lopez. The explosion of federal power under the expansive rubric of the Commerce Clause–-arguably more harmful than any aggrandizement traceable to the General Welfare Clause-–has at last been scrutinized by the Court. And if the Commerce Clause is ever restored to its rightful role–-that of ensuring the free flow of trade among the states-–the next campaign may indeed be waged against the Necessary and Proper Clause. Distended by the Court in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), that Clause now allows Congress to employ means in exercising its powers that are merely convenient--neither necessary nor proper. So, while welcoming Sorenson’s attack on the modernized General Welfare Clause, one should not be surprised if it is stalled by the allocation of scarce intellectual resources to more exigent projects. At a minimum, friends of liberty will surely find Sorenson's portrayal of Madison more congenial than Crosskey’s. Proponents of a government constrained to exercise only its enumerated powers should not be discouraged if progress is gradual and halting. Sometimes, in order to effectuate radical change without rending the social fabric, we may have to content ourselves with incremental challenges to long-established doctrines. Sorenson has undeniably supplied more than his fair increment. By tracing to Madison a view less conducive to swollen government than the view embraced by the New Deal Court and its successors, Sorenson enrolls on the side of limited government. He is part of the crusade to circumscribe the reach of the feds–-even if his vision of Madison would not bind Congress as tightly to the original enumeration as old-line anti-federalists might desire. Source: Robert A. Levy http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj16n1-11.html Now, go fish... Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

The Maersk was on a US Aid Relief mission. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

You'll need to start with the interpretations of Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson; then peruse thru several SCOTUS opinions on the matter. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

As in National Welfare; not personal welfare... Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Tim, When the Crossfire1 became popular, Simon sent me 5 different sizes to test and I used several different rigs for each one. Of most importance to measure was parasitic drag with a person my size. I began with the least wing-loading and worked my way up. Here's what I noticed and you hit one of them on the head: Lower Wing-Loadings caused less than on-heading openings - even after the slider came down, corrective inputs were required to get back on azimuth of flight. In some cases, the recommended container sizes per canopy sq.ft were disparate and while a very tight fit were catching on sides of the main pack tray. . The best voodoo advice I can give is to: 1. Pack it as recommended. 2. Make sure you're not too lightly loaded (he is on the very bottom end of the recommended W/L and as I started out in that neighborhood can tell you the Crossfire actually does better with on-heading openings the higher the W/L.) 3. Make sure it fits properly in the D-Bag and is square and coming out square - if NOT and "if you can," test it with the D-bag straight up and down (I do this in my Wings container - with several different canopies). 4. Body position - agreed. One last thing... if after the slider is down and still off-heading... check the trim on the brake lines. Can't do it right now, as my log books and I are in different places together, but I'll dig them out and see if I can find any thing else in my notes. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Did you see the part at the beginning - If you can... You got to read the whole fucking thing before getting out your Trebuchet..... Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Are ya talking about getting that sex change operation again? Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Morning, brother... post whoring time just to start the day off right - well you're half right. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Bonfire material: Womens 4 way team = 8 boobies. I have SO got to get my ass back down to Spaceland to see everyone again. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Thank you Bitte Gracias The ability to share in some of the greatest skydiving moments in mine and others lives. For some reason, it is that first benchmark into your particular discipline.. whether RW or vRW Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/multidb.cgi Budget of the United States Government: Search Results Search Database: Budget of the US, FY2008 For: "STATE SPENDING" Specifically the .pdf entitled: [08 Budget Perspectives] 8. AID TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 1 The tables begin on page 20 and appear to be a somewhat fair distribution based on population for social programs and square miles for Infrastructure. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

There's always one at every table. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e42Z-udprCE Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

Please take this the right way as you sound somewhat casual about rigging; but for the time, money and effort... you're better off working towards another pilot rating or type. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

If you can... place your D-bag straight up and down (lines to the backpad) instead of rotating the bag with the lines to the bottom of the pack tray. Having said that, Crossfires need to be W/L fairly high to behave on many fronts. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

You're a very nice man. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.