tkhayes

pretty happy with the blackbox radios. $200 each but 16 channels. we had them programmed so 1-2-3 on same freq. 4-5-6 on same freq, etc, that gave us 5 different frequencies to use at any time. Batteries did not last as long as I expected, they are pricey but we ended up replaced most of them 12-18 months into use of them. good quality audio and UHF

right, so you are saying that SWAT teams are cheap then? That is what I read into it the first time you said it.... makes no difference to the point of the argument...has little to do with the militarization of the police forces unnecessarily, or the subsequent abuses that they dish out, or the cost of operating them at taxpayer expense, or the excessive overuse of them, which you have incorrectly indicated is not worse than in 1965.

You went on about $1 machines and such,

yes in fact I believe we SHOULD DO NOTHING. WHile that may be hard for you to fathom, it is a reality. Obama will screw this up? John McCain would screw this up. Romney would screw this up. Sarah Palin would screw this up. ANYONE would screw this up, as you say, given that there is absolutely NO SOLUTION to the issue. i am all about fixing things that we can fix. And in the same light I am not interested in spending time and money trying to fix things that cannot be fixed. No solution? Stay the fuck out of it until one appears on the horizon and then work towards it.

No, actually we are hand-picking multiple literal events and posting that information as facts. You seem to have trouble separating what is really happening from what you think was happening in 1965

http://kut.org/post/how-much-it-costs-austin-every-time-swat-teams-roll-out knock off your bullshit about somehow swat teams costing fuck all. If they cost as little as you say, then why did it take me 5 seconds to find dozens of articles about the cost of swat teams? Swat teams today are far different from 1965. mostly due to the sheer number of them.

we do in fact know that he was unarmed. we know that and that has not ever been disputed. If there was a knife, a gun, a baseball bat or even a fucking soda can to threaten the cop with, we would have heard about. So no, we do not have EVERY SINGLE FACT surrounding this case, but what we do know for a fact is that a cop shot a unarmed citizen in the face. We do actually know THOSE FACTS.

Yes they do, and they should also have the responsibility of paying for their mistakes when they take the life of someone who actually was NOT an immediate danger to their lives. It's 'stand your ground' to the nth degree. I am not interested in people 'feeling imminent threat' and then being able to take someone's life because 'they felt it'. I am interested in real threats being addressed, not what you 'feel'.... why? Because you do not have, nor should you ever be granted god-like powers to make such life and death decisions based on your 'feelings'.

what is stupid about a bunch of pictures of what is really happening at any given place? No I do not actually get your point. not at all. There is nothing stupid about a picture of a guy on the top of a vehicle with a rifle and scope, especially if that is a an actual picture of a guy on the top of a vehicle with a rifle and scope.

not sure that the value of real PLF practice is worth doing. I have seen several injuries during practice over my 33 years. Plus a PLF makes sense with a round parachute, whereas the forward movement of a square generally makes it quite a different fall that is difficult to simulate from a chair or picnic table. However I do see the value of teaching it to some degree, even making people do 'just one' of them to make sure they are not 100% uncoordinated goofs and can grab the concept of 'land tuck and roll', and/or 'if you are going to fall down then fall down and do it right'.

$65/jump includes packing to rent a tandem rig. Still require them to have all their ratings and medical stuff on file and I generally have to know who this person s and why they are doing it. etc. i.e. pretty much inner circle and local friends only allowed to do such things.

please re-read your own post and tell me that you did not just lump every black person in that town into the same category

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ferguson-riots-and-the-military-like-police-response-1.2735588 Population is 21000 people and they have all this assault gear for the local police? Wondering if any taxpayers are aware of that...wel, they are now, but likely not outraged until the SWAT team arrive son their own doorstep someday.

+1 www.thenewjimcrow.com worth reading and chapter 2 the most disturbing of all IMO.

push people around long enough and they will likely start to do stupid shit. The Tea Party is a good example of that as well.

+1

And we would still be paying for it with money we do not have. So if you think that is a great idea, then I look forward to seeing your second mortgage on your house so you can send a check to the US treasury to pay for it. Because I as well as a large majority of Americans are not in favor of spending ANYTHING there. Not a nickle. And all the other points that followed your mostly ridiculous post. Let's see, we fucked it up, so instead of ending it, we should continue to stay there at a cost of lives and trillions hoping that someday it becomes normal....now there is some amazing logic. You cannot even define success in Iraq. And those that think they can define success do not even agree with each other on what is 'success'. A reasonable goal of any kind must be attainable, measurable and mostly definable. Iraq is none of those. It is a cluster fuck that we helped create. Keeping Saddam in power would have been a better option. And we have absolutely ZERO need to even attempt to fix it now. Sorry that is just the way it is.

Hannity is a drop-out and became an entertainer. Rachel Maddow for example, still pulls 1M viewers a night. And she has a doctorate....like.... even from a real school and everything...... having said that, twice as many people watch hannity over Maddow, but probably because shes talk that intelligent-speak, whereas Hannity speaks that....I'm not really sure....oh yeah, that Fox-speak.....

Not sure who is surprised by this. My father in law ran for mayor of Lake Wales a bunch years back. His contender? John Paul Rogers.....KKK Grand Dragon from way back. People, especially in Florida, should not be surprised to find out there are active KKK members out there....probably quite a few of them.

sorry i usually do not troll dropzone.com to advertise our boogies much. Dates are already set and on the calendar of events for December at www.skydivecity.com http://skydivecity.com/Calendar/calendar.html We usually have 700-1000 people come through the Xmas Boogie every year, organizers for all disciplines, multiple Super Otters flying, Pirate Day on New Year's Eve, plus we have run double page adds in Parachutist and several other mags recently about the boogie specifically. Dinners every night, fireworks show New Year's, Night Jumps, High Altitude loads, etc etc. hope to see you there, TK

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." so much for that.

why is it up to the govt to resolve discrepancies that they claim may exist? People sign up to find health insurance policies. Policies that exist in a PRIVATE market. Does the private insurance industry care about there things? Are they resolving them? Do they need to? Do they care? I expect as long as they are getting their premiums paid and their profits maintained, then who gives a shit. I expect the private market outside the ACA probably has similar numbers, but I doubt anyone has bothered to look.

If BHO sat on a toilet, took a shit and wiped his ass, I expect the extreme right would find something 'communist', unpatriotic or Muslim about it. get over yourselves. The depth to which you reach is not only unimaginable, it demonstrates how out of touch with reality you really are.

I got to fly the SOCOM parachute team into a demo yesterday in Clearwater. Getting there in the C-182 was a trip around thunderstorms and general weather Armageddon, so I got to transition right over Tampa Int'l on my way there.

Except that there is no evidence that the govt is bullying or out of control (not in the realm of healthcare) and there is also no evidence that the President has ever, or intends to write his own laws. Nice right wing rant, and due to the real disconnect with reality, demonstrates clearly a large part of what is wrong with this country - a disconnect from reality followed by a flawed belief structure. Both a sure way to never solve problems that we have, just blame others. Having said all that, the ruling was and is quote narrow, only applies to closely held corporations, only applies to specific birth control and does not apply to JW's stopping blood transfusions etc. But when the JW's or anyone else now goes to the SCOTUS with 'their' beliefs and religious demands, a precedent has been set that their albeit narrow claims might be honored by said SCOTUS. That is disturbing, and can definitely turn into a slippery slope. If your religious beliefs tell you that slavery or sodomizing children is OK, and that God tells you this, and you hold these beliefs all your life, and they are closely held beliefs, then you are entitled to have those beliefs since this is a free country. When you come to us to write public policy that encompasses those beliefs, we will most likely tell you to fuck off and go away.