Lucky...

I give up. How many? Seventeen. I counted 18.

This is where I am. A reserve is only for mains that aren't flyable and landable. Good job, at 28 jumps I would have done the same thing. Hell, I did, I had a long snivelling main way early in the student program and chopped it; bad decision. But IMO that wasn't your best decision but it is great that you did make a decision, some just fight it or scream all the way down when a simple chop would have fixed it all. So I give you an 8. I had a friend apparently not stow his toggles, or something like that when packing, and they both broke upon opening. We were real young jumpers, we opened at the same alti together and I flew to him, we opened around 6 to have more time to fly around, he was shitting his pants waving me away so I left. Anyway, I get down before him and watch him execute a rear riser flare. Kinda clumbsy, but it worked. He was seconds from making your decision and chopping too. Did you have an RSL? I always say, don't trade a good main for what could be a bad reserve; you can't reverse the trade.

Here's a site with data. Not sure what teh agenda is or if the data is valid, it appears to be but we can check it. http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/08/05/are-health-insurers-making-too-much-money/ Insurer: Company Profits: CEO Total Compensation: CEO 5 Year Compensation: UnitedHealth Group $2,977,000,000 $5,030,000 – WellPoint $2,490,700,000 $4,070,000 – Atena $1,384,100,000 $38,860,000 $77,860,000 Humana $647,000,000 $2,390,000 $56,910,000 Cigna $292,000,000 $30,016,000 $120,510,000 Despite lower than expected profits, insurers are not holding back. The industry already set records from January to March, “when health-care firms and their lobbyists spent money at the rate of $1.4 million a day” on campaigns designed to influence the health care reform legislation now moving through Congress. So the market is down so profits are down, but fighting HC reform is on the agenda, HUGE. They could be finding better ways to provide more coverage to more people and make the necessity for a public option void, but instead they will take their ill-gotten gains and use it to combat everyone getting HC. And the Republicans back this wasting of HMO resource. WE GET IT, REPUBLICANS / CONSERVATIVES.

Hey Bill, obvioulsy a current poster registered as a newby to make this genius statement. I hope we don't have a rash of this going all ways, it trashes the forum.

Do you think all the R votes are going that way? Maybe, considering R's and L's are only 3 degrees away. At the end of the day, a vote not going to D or R is watsed, so L's usually go R. no, but it might make people investigate the other candidates that are running. And you fucking people with wasted votes. No vote is wasted. Even my vote to Perot was wasted. He was the closest and he got 19% PV and 0 EV. Of course a 3rd party did win, the Repubs over the Whigs and knockedthem out. So it is posible that a better party comes along and knocks out the horrible R Party, but I know, you think that's the Libertarian Party. WRONG. They are just a a sick-n-twisted extreme of the R's, just what the country wants to avoid rather than further.

Can you name a SINGLE CEO making a 10 digit salary? It's funny how you attack others for using supposedly bad sources when you make up facts left and right. I can't name an HMO CEO period. I guess with you connies I have to be litteral. So they onlyh make 50mill a year, my bad. Just like with GD deaths; 1M, 5

Can you name a SINGLE CEO making a 10 digit salary? It's funny how you attack others for using supposedly bad sources when you make up facts left and right. I can't name an HMO CEO period. I guess with you connies I have to be litteral. So they onlyh make 50mill a year, my bad. Just like with GD deaths; 1M, 5

If fascist Ronnie and GWB had totally fucked the American economy, would you approve? Oh, you did I'm sure, if you were old enough to vote in 84 I'm sure you helped reelect Reagan. And I'n sure you voted GWB in 04 as well. So you do approve and now you don't approve of Obama fixing it as I'm sure you didn't approve of Clinton raising taxes to fix fasict pig Ronny's mess.

Prove it. Actual facts. You know what those are, right? Something from the RNC saying that instead of your usual bloviations. I'm not gonna have the affidavit from god as you want, but I can make a strong inferrential case. -- http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-26-heating-bill_N.htm Republicans on Saturday blocked the Senate from considering a bill next week that would nearly double federal aid to help the poor pay heating and air-conditioning bills. -- Katrina late/non-response -- Constantly voting against min wage increases -- Shooting doen HC pub option whenever possible -- http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE50D67A20090116 "That spirit of bipartisan partnership for low-income children appears to be disappearing before our very eyes. It's being replaced with partisan exploitation" said Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the usually collegial Finance Committee. He called it "damn disgusting." Crying that the bill was partisan dem rather than, "lets get the kids HC"...talk about disgusting sociopaths. -- Senate Passes Health Insurance Bill for Children http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012900325.html Lawmakers voted 66 to 32, largely along party lines, to renew the joint state-federal program and spend an additional $32.8 billion to expand coverage to 4 million more children. The expansion would be paid for by raising the cigarette tax from 39 cents a pack to $1. And the Nazi Party largely voted it down. Tisk tisk. Mike, I could go on, but you still want that affidavit from god. Your idea of running poor people into the shitter to teach them character or whatever lovely reason you have to deny poor peoiple benefits is just delightful.

So, according to another one of your made-for-convenience definitions, a political party can have a membership that is completely different from what their doctrine and ideology dictate. Nice try, but that dog don't hunt. Spin again. Who said completely? That is your made for convenience interpretation. If youi take the GOP/RNC, you would have some carbon-copy Nazis, some partial, some welfare moralists who align with the right for moral reasons, some fiscals who don't care about the moral right, etc. So when people vote, they don't look for which party they align with 100%, they look for the closest party to them, with their collective beliefs. Sometimes you luck out and the party you like never goes against you, rarely tho.

Precisely what I was thinking http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushsheep.htm

That, meaning the Reoublican structure? If so, they are for the rich and against benefits to teh poor under the guise that poor people will become rich, hence we will keep the tax structure low and welfare scant. Whereas the Dems are for the well-being for all. Yep, but the individual members might and often do have differring ideologies. Saying the Republican ideology is Nazi isn't the same as saying every member shares all those ideologies. Generally it comes down to which party you're closer to rather than which do I completely identify with. If that were the case, few people would vote, as they wouldn't be carbon-copy Repubs, Dems, etc. Taking teh RNC, I think they are so out of touch that they don't care what the electorate wants, which is why they lost so many in the last 2 elections. Not to mention young and minority voters were awoken by the ever increasing grotesque nature of the R's.

In my opinion nobody with even a half of brain would seriously consider what right wing says on this matter. They already defend the stuff which has been failed already (where are those WMDs?), so their attack on something which just _may_ fail looks like a fat chick joke. Right, but you still have to give em a wake up and see if they are ready for reality yet. I see they're not; they still think the current system is a raving success.

Can you name a SINGLE CEO making a 10 digit salary? It's funny how you attack others for using supposedly bad sources when you make up facts left and right. I can't name an HMO CEO period. I guess with you connies I have to be litteral. So they onlyh make 50mill a year, my bad. Just like with GD deaths; 1M, 5

I guess he wasn't all bad. This is kinda why I metaphorically compare Hitler to modern-day Republicans - they tend to have similar ideologies. They're not carbon copy, and I'm not literally saying Repubs are Nazis, but there is a metaphorical connection. Sure you are. Remember this a few posts back? Republicans as individuals = voters with varying degrees of beliefs Republican Party = GOP / RNC Republican ideology = Doctrine that rigidly states how Republicans within the ranks will behave / what they will believe. So I was refering to the party structure and the ideology system, not anyone in particular.

I liked Reagan.

I guess he wasn't all bad. This is kinda why I metaphorically compare Hitler to modern-day Republicans - they tend to have similar ideologies. They're not carbon copy, and I'm not literally saying Repubs are Nazis, but there is a metaphorical connection.

You whining about getting the same treatment you give out isn't any record, either. I'm not whining, just wishing they would atatck the substance rather than me. No, you ARE whining. You attack other posters then get a case of the red-ass when they bite back. You mean like how you called them nazis, or say that they just want poor people to die? I called the Republican Party/ideology, Nazi. All kinds of other substance if you wish to not just cherry-pick.

Hilter, when elected and taking office in 1933, started concentration camps. In these camps he put various people, most notably: - Homosexuals - Communists - Democratic Socialists - Anyone who disgreed with or could be a problem to Hitler's dream So let me think, who else in history or what party is also for these ideals? Could it be current-day Republicans? Let me see, they hate Socialists, Communists and gays: - The recent attempt for the 28th Homophobic Amendment - Tea Partiers rallying sometimes with guns against Socilaism - All the anti-Communist rhetoric Sounds to me like current-day Republicans and Hitler had/have a few things in common. Show me how Hitler / the Nazi Party had anything in common ideologically. So when I make reference to the Repubs being Nazis, I'm not really far off or using some typical slant common in internet forums. Nice strawman tho And Reagan was the head Nazi, considering he named all kinds of Hollywood actors as Communists and they were basically blackballed or worse from Hollywood after that. He was a real Nazi fucking fascist pig.

You whining about getting the same treatment you give out isn't any record, either. I'm not whining, just wishing they would atatck the substance rather than me. I guess what can they say; HC is great the way it is or that it is good that only some people get HC? Right, so they attack the deliverer of that criticism.

2 conservatives in a row attacking teh poster and not the post; THAT ISN'T A RECORD.

You do all that, between sitting at the keyboard, 24/7, and slamming out insults at conservatives?.... You truly are an amazing man. Tell us your secret. 24/7???? When I was working part time a whileback I spent a lot of time here detailing the failed RW protocol, now that I'm working full time WITHOUT BENEFOTS in usual American fashion I don't have the time for that. Better check recent posts and revose your errant assertion.

25 posts, is that a new record? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law Vs 1 post of nothingness from you = no record.

Right, the rattle from the RW is that of, what if Obamacare fails. They are in such stark denial that HC isn't a current failure and a raving success that they can't grasp WE ARE IN A MAJORLY FAILED MESS NOW.

That seems to ignore the substantial debt associated with it. Taxpayers pay for this regardless. And when revenues get further into the red, more will pay direct taxes for it. We don't ignore it. We accept it. It's going to cost more no matter what we do. Without a public option, the insurance companies will get too big to fail, and when they do, our health care system (or lack thereof) will destroy us. Taxpayers will pay dearly. Then we will finally join the rest of the developed world and have a single payer system. Kinda like when Hoover fucked up the GD recovery and we had 5 consecutive terms of Dems, 7 of 9 as well. I was kinda hoping "Tax cuts my friends" would have been elected so we could slam hard the other way.