Elisha

Troll.

Yeah, I think he's an idiot too. While he may have some valid points, there are so many out of context statements and already a few counter examples mentioned by other posters that his article has no credibility.

I would say that the language thing will be appreciated pretty much everywhere...as to Heidelberg, they'll think - woa, you actually are not the run of the mill tourist! I've been to Heidelberg several times and I've seen t-shirts (IN ENGLISH) that say, "I'm not a tourist! I live here!"

At the very least, consider visiting Lompoc once you have your License. I don't think the landing area is THAT small and they have a nice friendly staff there. They have a Caravan now and there are usually plenty of up jumpers, so don't worry about it being a tandem factory...that's more in the past.

Then go to the store and buy a pint glass.

That's what I like to hear...but I suppose Otay is San Diego...which is way far away from me.

I don't see why it matters or anyone would care.

sux.

...and fortunately I'm booked from Thursday night until Monday at around noon with church stuff, so I shouldn't feel bad myself for not being able to jump. But Bush is still dumb.

Some the gospel writers were eye witnesses (If Matthew wrote Matthew) Mark wrote Peter's perspective. By gospel accounts, Peter was there as was John. I understand if you don't have faith in anything you can't see with your own two eyes, but I'm just curious as to why you think someone's devotion to their religion is weird or undesireable. Got some news for you guys....there are some extra-biblical parts in Passion of the Christ! [sarcasm][/sarcasm] The major "additions" if you will are The Mystical City of God by Mary of Agreda (a 17th century nun) and the writings of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (a 19th century stigmatic). (I copy and pasted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_of_the_christ) I'm not saying that these "extra" events didn't happen, but to think they were always in the Gospel accounts is rather naive.

The 2nd, if it doesn't hit Yolo/Cloverdale is within a mile or two if that. The third looks REALLY close to Lodi and definitely encompasses Yolo.

A human made movie is backing up your belief??? Dear Jesus ..... Windcatcher, Really. Read and reflect what this poster is saying. Your comments just sound so emotionally driven and trite.

Oh, to answer the question....if you jump with another up jumper, consider it lucky. You'll most likely be the 3rd/4th slot on the Cessna load. Cessna works, but is the most ghetto looking plane I've seen. But hey, you have a rig so don't need to worry about landing in it. As said, nice staff w/ a very mellow gigantic German Shepherd. If you're already close by and have rig on hand, then why not? (Btw, there was some rumour that a King Air might be stop by briefly, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it.)

Do you mean the 21st or the 28th? 21st to 23rd REALLY bad for me, but weekend after plausible. AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE ONLY A FEW MILES AWAY FROM ME!!!

Have something else going on Sunday afternoon up in NorCal.... I had originally planned on being there. June (like last year) would have been better. But Evelyn has told me that you have these 'Excel Camp' thingys too?

Saw it twice when it first came out: once with agnostic/barely religious coworkers and once with other church friends. One of the church friends brought some non-church friend who ended up walking out in the middle - couldn't handle it. Two of the church friends are Palestinian and could understand the Hebrew and Aramaic pretty well since they are both semitic languages like Arabic. Don't feel I have any particular need/deisre to see it again. I go to a lot of services during Holy Week and hear all the Passion Gospels and hymnography. As graphic as the movie is, I felt prepared for it in a way just from going to church a lot.

Sometimes the same with Palestinians. I know several...but they're not Muslim but Christian and have many relatives over in Palestine. Unfortunately, they're caught in the middle of the HAMAS(and other terrorist orgs)/Muslim/Jews. I also know some very nice Iranians and Persians (Persians are a subset of Iranians. Actually not completely as I think Persians are in Iraq and other countries as well. There are other peoples like arabs in Iran besides Persians. I've heard froma Persian at work that there is a very good Persian restaurant in SF I should try.

Those statements were about as funny as "The sun rises in the morning" or, "The sky is blue". You mean you really believe that AIDS is spread because of a lack of funding?

Well, I assure you that most of the clergy I know (I run in Eastern Orthodox circles) are certainly not well off. Many are well-educated and earn their money well and should be paid more but are not.

It actually just came in my NetFlix queue last week. I hadn't seen it in like 15 years and I was disappointed - not nearly as funny as I thought it would be albeit a few good moments. Holy Grail is by far better than Life of Brian or Meaning of Life (which was better than L of B).

I suppose it would...which wouldn't be a bad thing. It's not supposed to be a business! I think that if they were worse though, it would "out them" and turn off many of their followers.

Additional comment: I find those of the Roberston/Fallwell/etc. ilk to be like modern-day Pharisees. A bunch of hypocrites who think they practice the Gospel but hardly appear to from their public persona. They should really be self-examining themselves regarding the parables of the Rich Young Ruler, "It is easier for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven", the Beatitudes (the "Blessed's"/Sermon on the Mount) and the parable of the Sheep and the Goats (re: love).

While (those people you mentioned) may be speaking the truth in many instances, they seem to have forgotten about that new commandment that Christ gave....that you love one another. If they do, they sure don't have any tact about it.

Even though I mainly read her weekly column for entertainment, this is definitely one of her better columns in a while. Most are just petty political cheerleading. http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi BROWN IS THE NEW BLACK April 12, 2006 This is the only country on Earth that thinks it's not sporting to consider our own interests in choosing immigrants. Try showing up in any other country on the planet, illiterate and penniless, and announcing: "I've seen pictures of your country and it looks great. I think I'd like to live here! Oh, and by the way, would you mind changing all your government and business phone messages, street signs and ballots into my native language? Thanks!" They would laugh you out of the country. What seems not to have occurred to the "NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL" crowd is that this is a country, not a public park. There are more than 6 billion people in the world, many of whom apparently like the idea of living in the wealthiest democracy on Earth. But if the billions of people of the world did live here, it wouldn't be "here" anymore. America is special for a reason that must transcend the right to vote — or everyone would be trying to immigrate to Iraq right now. America has a seller's market in immigration, but thanks to Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law, we no longer favor skilled workers from developed nations, but instead favor unskilled immigrants from the Third World. Kennedy's bill promptly cut the number of European immigrants in half and increased Third World immigrants to 85 percent of the total. Not surprisingly, post-1965 immigrants have sharply higher levels of poverty and welfare dependence. Europeans may not seem like ideal new immigrants, but the truth is, if what they want is welfare, they'll stay in France. It's as if we've got the last Xbox 360s available on Christmas Eve and instead of doubling the price, we're entertaining low-ball offers. Or more accurately, we're paying our customers to take the darn things off our hands — and the customers are still indignant with us. On CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on Monday, Dobbs was interviewing Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican-American Political Association about his demand for "full immediate, unconditional legalization for all persons currently in the United States." Dobbs posed this innocuous question about Lopez's planned boycott, "You're talking about a boycott of all illegal aliens in this country?" Lopez exploded: "Well, first off, I refute your terminology. You don't say 'kike,' 'patty,' 'WOP,' OK. You don't say "nigger"! ... You're using language that's offensive to me and offensive to my people! ... You pollute the air every day, Dobbs. ... That language is offensive, it's derogatory, it's denigrating, and don't use that terminology to me again, referring to my people!" Dobbs eventually ended Lopez's Tourette's episode by calmly asking him what he expected the impact of the boycott to be. An hour later on MSNBC's "Hardball," Dave Rodriguez, of the League of United Latin American Citizens, leapt in to denounce Rep. Tom Tancredo for using the word "amnesty." He said: "There isn't any such thing as amnesty in this law. I don't understand what this debate is. That's your own terminology on it ..." Bank robbers and drug dealers ought to start claiming that the words "bank robber" and "drug dealer" are akin to the N-word. They could accuse lawmakers of "criminalizing felonies" and claim they don't understand what the word "jailbreak" means. At the same time on CNN's "The Situation Room," Maria Elena Salinas, an anchor at Univision, was informing Wolf Blitzer that "all Hispanics feel offended by what has been going on, by the rhetoric, the level of the negativity that you hear coming out of Capitol Hill and also on some television stations and by some journalists." So it's really more like we've got the last Xbox 360s available on Christmas Eve and the customers are not only demanding money to take the hottest sales item off our hands, but are verbally abusing us and acting petulant. I'm offended that you would even think about asking me to pay for the Xbox 360! You say it has a "20 GB detachable hard drive"? Well, would you use the word "kike"? As hardworking as illegal immigrants are when they come here, they are immediately demagogued by liberals into adopting the victimhood pose so popular on college campuses. Everybody wants to act like his ancestors were brought here on slave ships. Consider this e-mail from Michele Waslin, La Raza's director of Immigration Policy Research, to her members denouncing Sen. Lamar Alexander's proposal to provide government grants to immigrants who want to learn English and American history and to organizations offering those courses. (I'd be happy with a law that simply trained new immigrants not to be "offended" all the time.) Even though this potentially meant free money for La Raza, Waslin — of the Guadalajara Waslins — ominously warned that while the amendment "doesn't overtly mention assimilation, it is very strong on the patriotism and traditional American values language in a way which is potentially dangerous to our communities." Meanwhile, Americans aren't allowed to consider whether millions of immigrants refusing to learn English and American history is "potentially dangerous to our communities." Here, please — we'll pay you, just take the whole Xbox 360 factory. COPYRIGHT 2006 ANN COULTER

So, IYO, are my SkyBands a deathtrap/cutaway waiting to happen as well?