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You are ignoring my qualification of without proper training. And we are also not talking about average people, but scared women who have ineffective restraining orders against their exes. Unless you are trying to say that firearms training is not beneficial. You are trying to counter a point I didn't make. You are too eager too read anti-gun into any post that doesn't toe the NRA line. You are trying to put words in my mouth, trying to make me out to be pro gun control.

You completely missed the point of my post, unless you are claiming untrained persons are better qualified to use firearms than those who have had sufficient firearms training. Is that what you are telling us?

I hope you give your kids and grandkids better firearms training than that. I certainly have had enough to know its not that simple. I'm pretty sure you have too. It is not as simple as point and click in a high stress situation, especially if on is unfamiliar with firearms like in the scenario we are speaking of. Is the gun loaded? Is the safety on? Is there a round in the chamber? Does it need to be cocked? How do I aim? For someone with a lot of experience with guns, these questions can be answered and the situation dealt with quickly and efficiently, in seconds or less. But someone like this is unlikely to be depending on a new gun for self defense. The ones trying to buy their first handgun are far less likely to be familiar with firearms. These are the one to whom a firearm is still a fairly complicated device.

??? Why would I have my finger crosses? Because the investigation is not complete? Still trying to paint me with your partisan brush?

Jumpers with far more jumps than you (like 10 000+ more) would disagree with your conclusion.

If the Velcro is well maintained, riser security is not an issue. I've seen very good freeflyers jumps pre 2k3 Racers without any problems. If the Velcro wears out (lack of maintenance) then it is a different story.

Perhaps that is one reason, but not the only reason. Lifestyle changes are difficult to make, especially when trying to break habits instilled during early childhood. Advertisement for unhealthy indulgences make the problem worse. How many of us were taught as children to clean our plates whether we were full or not? How many fast food commercials do you see during prime time in comparison to commercials advertising organic vegetables? There are a multitude of reasons why some people remain overweight. Laziness may be one of them, but not all overweight people are lazy. For Great Deals on Gear

Like I said, no one said it was easy. Better diet and exercise will also go a long way to treat depression. Losing weight will help as well, as self esteem improves. There are many excuses as to why its too hard for some people to lose weight. I know, I come from a round family, and have heard most of them. I don't think that it is a coincidence that those that choose running over television, and fruit over snack cakes are healthier mentally and physically. "Argue for your limitations and they are yours." --Richard Bach

They are capable of following proper diet and exercise regimens, but they have to understand right from the beginning, exercise is hard work. Changing diet habits is difficult. Just changing eating habits can be as difficult as giving up a lifelong nicotine addiction, possibly harder. Exercise requires mental strength and determination. It requires a lot of work to burn off those extra Calories. I personally know several obese people that believe walking a mile each day is proper exercise, when in reality, it is a proper warm-up for a nice exercise routine. Counseling is nice, but it won't compare to the self satisfaction of seeing those pounds actually come off, even with major depression, which I am more familiar with than you might realize. Losing weight is a lot of hard work. unwillingness to do the hard work is likely to result in an inability to lose the pounds. No one is saying it is easy. "Argue for your limitations, and they become yours." --Richard Bach

Brooks, whoever he is, is evidently not informed enough to realize that Fitzgerald's investigation is not complete, yet he draws conclusions as though it is. Typical partisan BS.

Proper diet and exercise are treatment for depression. Regardless of what else is going on, if someone burns more Calories than they take in, they will lose weight. Modifying your diet without changing your exercise regimen is likely to slow down your metabolism such that you are still not burning more Calories than you are taking in.

Actually, Stigmata got this from the Gospel of St. Thomas.

www.crisisgroup.org I made it clicky for you.

Racers are built with a minimalist design philosophy; the less there is, the less that can go wrong. Four flaps, four flaps, and arguably the most comfortable harness on the market. Racers have the best reserve pin coverage available. The pins are on the backpad of the rig, instead of on the outside. I have seen many skydivers that won't jump anything but a Racer unless it is free. No other rig seems to have the cult like following that Racer has. For Great Deals on Gear

Yeah, Yeah. For Great Deals on Gear

Incorrect. Heres an example: You are distorting the facts by making it out to be a Muslim vs. Christian conflict. There is also Muslim vs. Muslim violence, so it seems more reasonable to conclude that there is equal opportunity violence. Mikkey also presented enough information to suggest it would not be an unreasonable hypothesis that much of the violence is political in motivation, and not religious. Are you referring to a five year window in a 1400 year coexistence of the two religions? Be realistic. I have not defended violence by anybody. I think your dichotomy is incorrect. No more no less. Show me where I said this, they're your words not mine. You didn't say it. I did. You are trying to jump to the conclusion that every time there is a violent interaction between a Muslim and a Christian, that violence is motivated by religion. You completely ignore other social and political factors, as well as the intraethnic violence. Taking such things into consideration illuminates the error of your dichotomy.

As did Mikkey. Yet you still want to distort the facts and make it out to be Muslim v. Christian. On small isolated scales, this black and white mentality may be justified, but to apply it to a macro scale is absurd. You dismissed his posts because they didn't say what you wanted them to say. Islam and Christianity both teach peace. Anyone who is using either religion to justify violence does not have a thorough understanding of that religion. Referring to those violence inciting fundamentalists as Christians or Muslims is a severe distortion of the definition of those terms. The world is not black and white.

Maybe you should call Red Green. Or Tim Allen.

You took the wrong part of my post seriously... the important parts were: I couldn't make the damn smileys bold. Sorry. For Great Deals on Gear

This coming from the same guy who professes Christianity to be truer than other religions, without studying those other religions to the same extent as you have studied Christianity. I really do like the other thread better. There is more homo(u)r.

Funny, I was thinking the same thing after reading your posts.

I'm not buying that argument without better evidence. Simply having a handgun is unlikely to save your life without proper training. I don't see a short waiting period to have much of an impact on reducing murder due to an ineffective restraining order. Having a gun is not the end all be all of self defense. If police officers can have their guns taken away from them by criminals, what makes you think the same could not happen to an untrained civilian who just bought her very first handgun? And, no, I'm not arguing for gun control, or even waiting periods. I just don't think waiting periods are killing women off like you claim.

Shhesh its been ALL over the news in LOTS of places. Come on Max... its that pesky reading problem again. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Politics/story?id=1105979&page=1 It was Powell who told the United Nations and the world that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and posed an imminent threat. He told Walters that he feels "terrible" about the claims he made in that now-infamous address — assertions that later proved to be false. When asked if he feels it has tarnished his reputation, he said, "Of course it will. It's a blot. I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and [it] will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful now." From the same article: He admitted the intelligence was false. He did not admit to lying. I personally do not believe he lied. I think he was misled, like many others, and likely manipulated. He honestly believed in the system, and the system failed him, and millions of others. Here is an interesting related article from Factcheck.org.

The average american requires 25 acres of land to grow his food, bury his trash, clean his air, recycle his water etc etc. That means that in that state of Texas you could fit 6.8 million people, or 34% of the people who are actually there. So how do they do it? By using other states (and other countries) to grow food for them. United States area: 5,984,685 square miles = 3,830,198,400 acres US population: 295,734,134 Total area per citizen: 12.94 acres. If Billvon's 25 acre per average American is correct, as quoted above, (I have no reason to disbelieve its validity) the US is already overpopulated.

On which forums can we find the identities of any covert US intelligence officers?