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Hey Bill will women have to skydive in Burkas? Me thinks the veil will greatly hinder vision!!! Blue skies, Jim

Hey guys let's step back for a moment before placing blame here. It may be that the Organ Bank who type matches all donors and patients made the mistake not Duke University or the operating MDs. When organs are delivered to a hospital they are designated by the Organ Bank for a specific patient. The local MDs must prep them and start the surgery very quickly while the organs are viable. And what about you. If your child needed surgery that was only available in a foreign country that you could not legally enter, would you go there anyway? Blue skies, Jim

Both times I have been to Eloy the Plaid Jackets were there. Although I didn't know John personally, all the PJ's were friendly and fun to be with on the plane. We were always kidding them about all the canopy material sticking out from under the container flaps. Blue skies forever John. My condolences to his family and friends. Blue skies, Jim

Thanks. With all the rain I needed a good laugh! Blue skies, Jim

Ok here's a list of grammatical instructions from the St Leo's University web site although they don't claim authorship. Can we clean-up our grammer now? "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Don't use no double negatives. Don't never use no triple negatives. No sentence fragments Corollary: Complete sentences: important. Stamp out and eliminate redundancy. Avoid cliches like the plague. All generalizations are bad Take care that your verb and subject is in agreement. A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. Avoid those run-on sentences that just go on, and on, and on, they never stop, they just keep rambling, and you really wish the person would just shut up, but no, they just keep going, they're worse than the Energizer Bunny, they babble incessantly, and these sentences, they just never stop, they go on forever...if you get my drift... You should never use the second person. The passive voice should never be used. Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the sixth century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland... As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations." Excessive use of exclamation points can be disastrous!!!!! Don't use question marks inappropriately? Don't obfuscate your theses with extraneous verbiage. Never use that totally cool, radically groovy out-of-date slang. Avoid tumbling off the cliff of triteness into the black abyss of overused metaphors. Keep your ear to the grindstone, your nose to the ground, take the bull by the horns of a dilemma, and stop mixing your metaphors. Avoid those abysmally horrible, outrageously repellent exaggerations. Avoid any awful anachronistic aggravating antediluvian alliterations. This sentence no verb." Blue skies, Jim

A month or so ago I had a toggle snap out during deployment which immediately put me into a hard fast spin. First spin belly down I saw the hanger on the horizon, second spin belly up I saw the hanger. Sometime during the second spin I released the remaining toggle and the spin immediately stopped. I checked for line twists, saw none, checked my alti...holy shit batman, I had lost almost 1000 ft in two revolutions. I hard rapid spinning situations, try to clear once and then cut that puppy away. You are lower than you think. Blue skies, Jim

The protestors should be demanding that Iraq immediately disarm as the means to preventing the war instead of demanding that the US not invade Iraq. A united world against a dictator works a lot better than allowing him to think the rest of the world will let him get buy and continue. Don't get me wrong Bill, I don't want anyone to needlessly lose their life whether American or Iraqi. Nope, to attractive a target for the nuts these days! Blue skies, Jim

FYI the "observed" rule for military personnel is as follows: If a stated position or decision has not been made by the CIC (President), military personnel are free to express their opinions or objections. Once the CIC has a stated position or decision, military personnel must follow that position or decision without opinion or objection unless it is patently unlawful in its execution. Of course if your immediate commander has the opposite opinion prior to the CIC's decision or position, you could be in deep poo doo anyway! Proving an order is unlawful is also a little difficult. Under this rule, an Army General was addressing a group of West Point cadets in New York and expressing his dismay over the administration's plan to study the reduction of US forces in Korea even though the Koreans had been caught digging tank sized tunnels under the DMZ a few months earlier. The general returned to Korea and shortly thereafter was summoned to the White House. He left his wife and children in Korea since he planned on returning. In the White House he met with the SecDef and the President. The President chewed the General out and showed him a document dated prior to the General's speech at West Point. The general was immediately relieved of his command and retired at a lower rank. The general had to come out of pocket to return his family and household goods to the US. The document was later found to have actually been created after the date of the General's speech and back dated at the President's instruction. The President was none other than our own Nobel Prize winner, that man of peace with the big shit eating smile, Jimmy Carter! Blue skies, Jim

Ummhh, I think it will have an effect, but not necessarily the one you want. Providing encouragement to Iraq to continue their practices because the US does not have a backbone! Tsk, tsk be careful what you ask for. Blue skies, Jim

At the risk of not being politically correct .... Speedy Gonzalez Blue skies, Jim

Dear Cretins: I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your three-in-one deal for cableTV, cable modem and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions.Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional prerogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties -- or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office. My initial installation was canceled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website. HOW? I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes -- an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools -- such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over four weeks my modem arrived, six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate your internet servers downtime is roughly 35%-- the hours between about 6 pm and midnight, Monday through Friday, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made nine calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers. I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off); that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answering machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman. And several other variations on this theme. Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle moments to attend to. Frankly I don't care. It's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustrations in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue. I thought BritishTelecom was shit; that they had attained the holy piss-pot of god-awful customer relations; and that no one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order. BT -- wankers though they are -- shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver. Any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief -- and will quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cat's litter tray, as an _expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit -- they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees. Have a nice day. May it be the last in your miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats. Blue skies, Jim

Why? we had a few good jumps on Sat... Blue skies, Jim

I believe the US is protecting my financial interests and the world needs a base currency so why not the $ ? Why do you believe every spin the media puts out, given the historical tendency of the media to lie to the American people to further their own political beliefs and agenda? Yes. And to answer your earlier question AGAIN. It is not right for a father to obtain an Air National Guard position for his son. But I would do the same for my son! It is not right for the son not to fulfill his obligation to his unit and get away with it due to political pressure. Now where are the facts documenting the influence that you have been asked for several times? Blue skies, Jim

Mark these would be a lot funnier if they were not true. Thanks for the laughs! Blue skies, Jim

Much, much better. Now get those legs up a little and don't let up on the brakes until you're on the ground. Remember to fly it all the way down. It was hard to tell because of the image size, but looked like the arms might be coming up a little when 2-3 ft above the ground which will increase your forward speed and really make you run. Blue skies, Jim

Whew! The way this was going I thought you were gona' confess you ain't really an Aggie! Blue skies, Jim

No they are all very patriotic, but not necessarily patriots. Blue skies, Jim

I never said that. All I said was "Who has served?" would be the first question I asked. Why did you assume it was the only question? People who serve in the military come from our society and bring with them all their faults and problems. The military just like our government and society is not perfect, but it's a damn site better than most. Change of subject? But since you insist. Let me be perfectly clear...anyone who wants to serve and has the physical and mental abilities should be allowed to serve. I did not exclude anyone who wants to serve from doing so in my prior posts. I personally think the anti-gay bias is wrong becuase a persons sexual prefrerence has nothing to do with their ability to do their job or love their country. I believe all people are created equally and have the right to equal protection under the law. You accuse me of being an "expert on patriotism". I wish I was so I could speak more clearly and precisly on issues like this, but thanks for the thought. I know you meant it as a slam, but I'll take it as a compliment. I'm proud of what I have done and how I served. AND I AM PROUD OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED BEFORE ME AND AFTER ME. The majority of them are good, honest people trying to do a very difficult and often boring job. The least we can do is be supportive of them even if we are trying to change the govt policy behind the scenes. Blue skies, Jim

Hope everything works out. I had a 12 yr old that I found in a parking lot as a kitten get mauled by a dog. It took 3 months to get her back to normal and then she had a great 6 months. Then one day she was moving a little slow and not eating much. I went to work and never saw her again. I was grateful to the vet for the extra months. Don't give up on her. It will be worth it. Blue skies, Jim

Let's not be so restrictive as to where a person served. Ask Al Gore this question. Blue skies, Jim

No, he was a criminal and killed US citizens. But, in his mind he probably thought of himself as a patriot. Blue skies, Jim

Like Justin, I was not career military either. I took the out so I could go to college. I knew a lot of guys in the military who were misfits, criminals, and worthless, but they didn't keep me from doing my job because I wouldn't let them. All I meant to imply was that by doing nothing to correct an observed problem we all become part of the problem. Bill, I seem to remember you said something about people who don't vote. I thought you meant if they don't vote they are part of the problems we have. Justin, I apologize for the comment. I did not actually mean "you" in the specific. I should have been more clear. Blue skies, Jim

I don't think you have to die to be a patriot. Let's see what Cambridge says: patriot noun [C] a person who loves their country and, if necessary, will fight for it. Most Americans love their country. They may not agree with the government, but they love their country. Many will not fight for it though. My point was that not everyone who works in America can be classified a patriot unless they are willing to fight for it if necessary. If you put 100 people in a room and ask me to identify the patriots, my first question will be "Who has served?" At least I know they were willing to fight if necessary. The rest I will never be sure of. Blue skies, Jim

Let's see she has a low paying job with limited respect. Yep, just like a military job. She can quit anytime and do something else. Ummhh can't do that in the military. She can refuse to move. Can't do that in the military. She can go home at night. Sometimes can't do that in the military. She can sleep with Justin at night. Sometimes can't do that in military. She gets a warm bed. Nope not always. List goes on and on. Don't get me wrong. I also agree that most teachers (and policemen/firefighters/EMS) workers are unappreciated and underpaid. However I disagree that all are. Those serving in Administration are usually underqualified and overpaid because they are bureaucrats with a bureaucratic mentality JUST like a military bureaucrat. You are not supposed to get medals for doing your job! The one's that really count are given for heroism and valor. When 58,000 teachers die "in the line of duty for their country" over a ten year period then you can include them in the same sentence with the word patriot. A good citizen is not equal to a patriot. By the way as a Vietnam vet, I didn;t get any parades either! But I enlisted, I did my job with the tools I had and I tried to do my best regardless of the frustration and crap dished out by others. Sounds like to me you gave up and became part of the problem! Blue skies, Jim

Without material and supplies from the US, the millions of Russian soldiers that were mustered would have had a little more difficult time with the Nazis, you think? A war is not won by troops in the field alone. Blue skies, Jim