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Her, her ... "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Is this the real deal, i.e., legitimate and virus/spyware-free? If so, I'm up for it. Yup. It's just a Firefox add-on. Lance has not been staring at me. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

What ads? "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

No, you saw the photo that she chose to send to him ... we don't know who he actually met. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Okay, I've now seen the movie. They actually do make fun of amputees. Hands, not legs, but still ... a double-amputee is at the center of one of the movie's running jokes. And as for the use of retard ... there is NO other word they could have used. Well, I take that back. I think they ALSO used all the other formerly "correct" words, too, including moron, and idiot. But retard/retarded are used repeatedly, and to perfect comic effect; it would not have worked any other way and it's spot-on satire. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Fucking hilarious. And if you're easily offended, pull the stick out of your ass and go see it anyway, because it's fucking hilarious. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tropic_thunder/ "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Never. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

How's your husband feel about that? In all seriousness, I'm inclined to agree with you. The type of guy who is going to judge me and decide I'm no longer acceptable to date because I slept with him on the first date (hmm... last I checked, we were both doing the horizontal tango, there) isn't really worthy of a second date anyway. With my current relationship (3+ years now) we can't really decide what our first date was, so we might have had sex for the first time on the first, second, or third date depending on how you define our "first date." "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Meth. I was thinking heroin, myself.

My personal opinion - the stuff you described is exactly the right thing to do without worrying about supplements to "release" fat. What are you looking for at the end of your hike - some sort of supplement? Or some particular type of food to eat? You may want to get a body fat test so you have a baseline, then as you lose weight you can get measured again to make sure you're losing primarily fat. One thing that you didn't mention is how much water/non-caloric beverages you're drinking. That can help a lot with weight loss, especially if you're not already drinking a good amount. Helps with feeling full, but it also just helps things "move" better (non-scientific opinion, but seems to really help). It can also be a good "oral fixation" substitute for your beer - replace beer bottle with water bottle. If you're not a breakfast person, try to become one - especially if you're adding a morning workout. Oatmeal, eggs, whole grain cereal, yogurt, fruit ... something in the morning to get your metabolism going and your energy up, otherwise, you're actually doing your body a disservice if you wait till lunch to eat. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

But it DID happen to my brother! But it was fairly mild - someone had set up a couple of utilities in his name and he discovered it when he moved out of a shared housing situation (where the utilities had been in the roommate's name) and tried to reestablish utilities in his own name at his new place. It was a pain in the ass to clean the mess up, but it didn't ruin his credit for life (like the dramatic types would have you believe) or even for very long - IIRC he had the whole mess straightened out within a few weeks. So while this stuff does happen and probably isn't uncommon, like most things that are hyped up in the media, the worst case scenario probably isn't happening nearly as often as anyone selling insurance would like you to be paranoid enough to believe. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Dave's mom was my AP English teacher and is an all-around cool woman. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Nicely put, and I'm inclined to agree with you in general, and if this were a "straight" movie - I'd be more inclined to support the groups protesting it. But it's a satire of some pretty self-absorbed actor-types, none of whom would be expected to use or care about the appropriateness of terminology or behavior, and to have the characters do so would actually weaken the movie. From what I've read of the movie, none of the characters is particularly "PC" in any way that we would expect ... but that's part of the fun of the movie. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

It may not be so much that, but the expectation that people in the sport will judge them for no longer being in the sport. Whether they actually will is another story, but think about how many people come into this sport and drop all of their whuffo friends, say unequivocally "I could never date a whuffo again" and "I'll never, ever quit skydiving, I'm in it for LIFE!" And now they've quit ... and they assume that everyone else has the same attitude about non-skydivers or ex-skydivers that they had ... that they're somehow worthy of judgment, or somehow less "cool" or aren't going to fit in anymore. I love the people I've met in this sport. But I know that for a lot of them, the thing I have in common with them is that we're skydivers. When that goes away, I'm not certain how much we'll have to talk about anymore. There are, however, a lot of friendships I've made in this sport that have moved beyond the dropzone and I hope that I'll be able to maintain those to some degree, and I'll certainly try. But if I'm an ex-skydiver, I don't know that I'm going to be hanging out on the dropzone all the time anymore, and time on the dropzone is what holds a lot of friendships together - it just is what it is.

Nothing changed when I got my C license about my pull altitude. I still prefer to toss by around 3K on most jumps. What's changed is that I've begun participating in larger and larger jumps, and on those, group separation often dictates lower opening altitudes depending on where I am in the formation. So while I'm comfortable with a lower altitude if necessary on a larger jump, on a smaller jump I'll still choose to open by 3. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

2004 ALCS. Sure, the World Series was fun, too, but the ALCS was the really fun part. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Hey, Andy's old enough to remember all of the Babe's big moments when they happened - let him have his memories for as long as he can. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

I've done it, without the spouse and kid. It's fun for a while, then it wears on you. At first it's fun to rack up your airline and hotel miles, and you think "oh, cool, I can stay somewhere else on the weekends and skydive," but pretty soon all you want to do is sleep in your own bed and be able to eat a bowl of cereal in your own kitchen rather than deal with the effort it takes to get breakfast in a hotel lounge or restaurant. Every few years I think I'm ready to get back into the road warrior lifestyle, and I do it for 12-18 months and completely burn out. Personally, I'm just not really made for that much time away from home. I like some travel, and the job I've just accepted has a moderate amount of travel. But it's all in the same time zone, the flight's about an hour, many of the trips will be day trips, or just one night, and I probably won't have to make the trip every week. That amount of travel is cool with me because I'm spending much more time at home than on the road. When the only number that matters anymore is the number of miles you have in your frequent flyer accounts ... life's pretty sad.

http://www.king5.com/video/?z=y&nvid=271536 Great coverage! "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

http://www.king5.com/video/?z=y&nvid=271536 Woo hoo, nice coverage on King 5!!!! "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

5'8" and 190 is not the body type that tandem masters are concerned about when they're concerned about students who are not in physical condition to do this sport. You are under the weight limit, relatively height/weight proportional, and self-described "decent physical shape." Sensory overload is very common on the first jump. Don't let your performance on your first tandem make your decision for you about whether you think you can/should/will be able to perform on subsequent jumps. It makes me sad that you feel sad because of reading the mocking comments of tandem instructors about overweight customers. Yes, there are customers who are overweight to a point where they can't safely be taken on a skydive - because of safety - there are total weight limits on the gear, there are limits to how the tandem harnesses can be adjusted, and certain body shapes just don't work. But (in my humble, non-tandem-instructor opinion), yours doesn't sound like a body type that would be a safety concern at all. Go jump again - I bet this time you will pull.

Recycling is good for the environment. Think of it as a positive contribution to the planet. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

Despite the weather gods' attempts to keep her at 99 jumps all weekend at the Leap for Lupus boogie at Kapowsin (wind on Friday, rain on Saturday, low clouds on Sunday), monkycndo and I got her on a short call on Sunday and planned a jump in the plane. We hoped to get full altitude, but only got about 7,500, so it turned into a "launch a three way, (almost) funnel it, save it, then take Pat for a wild spin till breakoff altitude" jump. Good times. Then comes pie. Mmmm... pie. Thanks to Valinda for helping us do the honors. "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

:3:0 Fun weekend despite the weather at Leap for Lupus this weekend. One jump into very windy conditions on Friday, nuttin' yesterday, and two today including a very fun speed star competition from 7 grand (our team won, thankyouverymuch), and grannyinthesky's 100th (finally! we thought we were going to have to send Pat home without getting it done. Photos soon). "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke