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Isn't it strange that they also got rid of Joe Liberman, one of the most conservitive democrats. Sounds like a party of fence walkers to me. Vanilla or beige comes to mind.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll do that at the first opportunity.

The handle was out of the velcro and hanging down about 5 inches. Once I was under canopy, the handles never crossed my mind.

> Isn't it also strange that the news never reports the death of a single >hezbollah soldier, as if they are invincible? I'm talking about the Arabic press. We publish the number of our dead straight up. Your example was reported by the Israeli army. Those are only the ones they can count.

It maintained elevation and drifted away across some feilds. It circled me twice at about a 100ft radius. I would not have been jumping if dust devils had been visible. I assume it was large. I mentioned that the reserve got squirelly during control check. My exit weight is 190lb.

Reply To -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The reserve is 160 sq.ft., so I landed faster than ever. I left three ft. skid marks on the road and ripped the seat of my pants. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I bought the rig used,about a month ago, so I hadn't given it any thought. Can a bigger reserve be put into the rig? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Reply To -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The reserve handle stayed with the rig. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was pulled. Apparently, I didn't completely remove it.

I visited my brother in Idaho for two weeks, so I took my new rig with me. On Sat. evening my brother and his two sons watched the survival dvds 'Breakaway, and Groundrush" with me. Sunday, the 23rd we all went to Skydown in Caldwell. The first jump was around 11:30 and uneventful, except for the butt landing. Ground elevation,2500', and air temp around 100 degrees. The second jump, which is #72 for me, was about 12:30. Air temp was 105. I opened at 4,000 ft., did my control check, everything was good. My brother, his sons and wife were on the ground watching through binoculars. I did two spirals to the left- counter clockwise. I leveled out, and came back the other way. It was a hard turn, and yes, I was hot dogging for my family. About 3/4 through the turn I saw the chute fold in the middle and spun up. At this time I was at 1,500 ft. There were at least two twists in the risers, and several about 3 ft. up into the lines. It took about 1 1/2 seconds to figure out that I didn't want to correct the situation, so I cut away. My freebag circled me twice about 100 ft. away. That tells me that I was in a large vortex. On the control check of the reserve, it got squirelly for a second. I suggest being careful and conservitive at this point. The reserve is 160 sq.ft., so I landed faster than ever. I left three ft. skid marks on the road and ripped the seat of my pants. The dz is right next to the interstate, so someone saw it and called 911. The police were there immediately, asking if someone had died. The main was recovered. It landed in a wheat feild. I dropped the cutaway handle. The reserve handle stayed with the rig. I made no effort to find the freebag. It looked lika a lost cause. The main is a Sabre2 190. I have not been able to stall it, and had taken one wrap on the steering lines. At the point of the malfunction, I was flying against the direction of the vortex. Overall, I will chalk it up to pilot error. I'll take all critisism and critique graciously. My brother thought I had cutaway intentionally, and was going to kick my ass. It was the first time his wife had been to a dz.

I find it a bit suspicious that on one day he completely runs out of gas, and the next he gains back eight minutes. Any honest cyclist would admit that it would be pretty tough to accomplish.

guy is shooting into the room, but the guy is using a high velocity assault rifle the wall is breazy block it rounds would go straight through it and whats behind the wall? The Israeli post. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also notice how clean the man's clothes are.

I have always been suspicious of the milling crowds of people who never have anything else to do. Isn't it also strange that the news never reports the death of a single hezbollah soldier, as if they are invincible?

I'll bite since my post caused you to create this thread. I like your descriptions, and if I were to grade myself by those standards I would pass. Society as a whole has eliminated many of those characteristics as being superfulous. How many men do you know who still remove their hat when entering a building. Manners seem to be a waste of time. It is part of the revolution against authority. Saddly, that also includes berating the leader of one's country. The thing that I addressed earlier is the attempt at keeping a boy from being a boy, which, if allowed to run its course, causes a man to be a man. Such simple things as : Don't play in the dirt Don't climb the tree Don't jump off of the roof A man doesn't have to spend endless hours of talking and consensus to get a job done. Sometimes, you have to grab the bull by the horns, even if it means getting hurt. That's manliness. Not being afraid of failure, as long as you gave it your best shot is manliness. When I see a man on the side of the interstate with a flat tire, standing there with a "somebody please help me because I haven't got a clue" look on his face, I just want to kick his ass.

A few women? NOW is no small orginization. Their agenda is political and radical. I can tell you that eliminating competitive and sometimes, slightly rough games from a school yard wasn't the idea of a real man. Even the game of tag is being questioned because someone might get hurt running around. Also, once you get tagged, you're out of the game. This might lead to low self esteem. I thought that the betterment of the species through competition was a good thing. Right?

I could use three arms packing my new zp chute.

Doesn't that pretty much eliminate one side of the aisle?

I can't prove it ,but I am a fairly observant person. Back when I was in high school there was only one "sissy" boy. He was raised by a single mother. Today, there seem to be thousands. There also seems to be a rise in the number of women who only believe a man is good for a seed donor. I call them Man haters. They truly despise manliness or machisimo. Some of us just have it running through our blood. They make every effort to eliminate such behavior from their male offspring. Thus the effiminization of America.

Is it possible to be a Christian and a liar-thief- murderer. Yes. Being a Christian doesn't make you superhuman. All people calling themselves Christian should be celibate, except for those in marriage. Btw, only the act of homosexuallity makes one a homosexual.There's nothing gay about them.

Does that give you a warm fuzzy?

I have two problems with the whole thing. First, the numbers. You can't prove them , so please don't pretend to know exactly when things happened. Say something like "We really don't know.It could have been anywhere from 10,000 yrs. to 3 million yrs. The other problem is that all of these things happened some time in the distant past. I should be able to walk outside and see transitional species abounding everywhere. There was a baby recently born with three arms. Could that be one or was that just a freak of nature?

And you can confirm these time lines beyond a shadow of a doubt, how? Sounds to me like they were pulled out of the air to give the appearance of authority.

Please explain why the "evolutionists" always say that the alligator has existed for millions of years. Did it just finally decide that it liked what it had become, and therefore refused to evolve anymore. It has always been a reptile, and it has always been an alligator.

Does that mean that we will now have to offer them a struedel instead of a doughnut not to write us a ticket?

Yea. Maybe they could talk themselves to death.

You said that we had animal instincts LEFT OVER from evolution. That says to me that it has stopped. If I have left overs from supper, the meal is done, and the table has been cleared. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Right, I've just reviewed my recent postings on the subject and I can't find the posts I made that link evolution / instinct / morality and I can't be bothered to look any further. Sorry man. It was Billvon who said it.

So, when did evolution quit evolving? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You said that we had animal instincts LEFT OVER from evolution. That says to me that it has stopped. If I have left overs from supper, the meal is done, and the table has been cleared.

The problem is that a major driving force behind evolutionary science is not just to get the facts, but to advance the idea that there is no God. They use the physical to try to disprove the spiritual. That's where the battleline is drawn.