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So if someone says, "I wasn't proud of this country till now", they're a "ignorant dumb ass tradiding liberal nazi fuck stick that should move out of this great country that gives all of us the great right it does, including the right for your dumb liberal remarks" But if someone says, "I didn't love this country till I was deprived of her company", that's cool. Are you rushmc's younger clone? Grammar, spelling, logic, and political opinions are a dead match, he just seems to have the wisdom of a few years on ya (and doesn't rely on swearing so heavily). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Nowe this is cool YOU parot Obama's bs arogance. I am really starting to understand you. Makes it easier to follow your ports. (to clarify, I dont think people are stupid or un-educated when they do not agree with me. I only only think they are wrong. Can YOU see the difference?) "Ignorant" does not mean stupid, it means "unaware" or "uninformed". If someone says they do not know what Obama stands for, that means they are ignorant (unaware) of what he stands for. If the information they are unaware of is readily available, and they choose to not avail themselves of it, they can blame nobody but themselves for their ignorance. I posted link to a .pdf from the Obama campaign earlier in this thread that provided a bit more detail on his platform. Did you read it or are you still "unaware" of its contents. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Better yet just get it over with and tell us why you hate our great country! I do not hate our country, and I've made no such claim, so there's no true answer I can give to your question. You, on the other hand, have claimed to be proud of our country and I've simply asked your reasons. Assuming your claims of pride are true, the question shouldn't be that difficult to answer. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I'll beg to differ on on the first part of the comment. He's proven the former, has yet to prove the latter (although his energy comments ring with more honesty than most). He is no more smarter than the average if he does not have a speech (paper) in front of him. The average graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law? Blues, Dave Oh is that his graduation status???? If you listened to him you would just think him and his wife were just poor black kids on the streets.?? That is where they both started. No silver spoons in either of their mouths, and both with JDs from Harvard, with honors. It seems to me they are the type of citizens we should be proud of, but go ahead and mock them if you feel the need. Blues, Dave I will continue to mock any ignorant person that has just became proud of this great country at there age!!!!!!! I was proud of the countrty i was rased in when i was a kid! You should have been to! I just had to quote it. Now tell us, what things about this country make you so proud? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

How many people do you suppose find themselves staring down the barrel of the gun thinking "I'd pull the trigger for life in prison, but since I could be executed in 15 years, I won't"? Blues, Dave I know you would love point all crimes to guns, but that is not what i said! There are alot of crimes you can get the DP for in Texas not just gun crimes. You obviously don't know my position on guns, and my point still stands. Do you think there's a man who's looked down at his dick and said "I'd rape this bitch with this thing if all I was risking was life in prison, but since I could be executed in 15 years, I won't"? I *seriously* doubt anyone's ever had that conversation with themself, in Texas or otherwise. And if criminals WERE prone to such considerations, what drove Ted Bundy to do it again, and again, and again? Blues, LDave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Pilot: "Don't make me come back there!" I bet it'd work. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Did you get your request for financial donations approved by Sangiro first? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

How many people do you suppose find themselves staring down the barrel of the gun thinking "I'd pull the trigger for life in prison, but since I could be executed in 15 years, I won't"? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I suspect if we turned that around 180 degrees.. we would find a FAR greater number of muslims who would say good riddance of the USA were wiped off the face of the earth tomorrow. I never suggested that bigotry was limited to any particular religion. How often do you think Mark considers the irony in his sharing this trait with all those Muslims? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Not in the least. The most common them among skydiver dreams seems to be landing a nothing out, and one way or another, hoping nobody saw. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Apparently even the people in charge of enforcing the laws in Texas don't like them, otherwise they'd have followed the law and advised this guy of his right to consular support. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

In regard to this statement, I don't think you're missing anything. I myself have noticed the rampant hypocrisy. I only disagreed with you in regard to a sweeping statement about all Muslims and the fact that they commonly name their sons Mohammed. You guys are comparing apples and oranges. Criticism and ridicule of a belief system is not the same as hatred for all adherents to that system. There are plenty of people here who denounce Islam and ridicule the 21 virgins thing and other aspects, and they're not accused of racism. Mark brings a wholly different level of hatred to the table than the atheists here. I've not seen a single person here post that all Christians are evil, insane, violent, or worthy of eradication. By contrast, if all Muslims were wiped off the face of the earth tomorrow, I suspect Mark would post (or at least think), "Good riddance." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Tell your mom that "midget donkey scat orgy" is the name of a band. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Take a zombie. Make it a teenage zombie. Make it a christian teenage zombie. Make it a christian teenage zombie vidiot. Make it a christian teenage zombie vidiot stalking me on myspace. Have sex with it in the grass on the side of a freeway and later claim rape. Would that count as odd? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I seem to remember reading recently that, at least in most states, evidence is sealed upon completion of the execution. This dramatically reduces the odds of showing where states have executed the wrong person. I don't know if this is true or not, but I'm inclined to believe it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

This case has absolutely nothing to do about national sovereignty. It simply has to do with the US living up to agreements they signed. Really no different from anybody living up to following an agreement they signed. Shhh....that's apparently not to be discussed. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Rest assured, we're still trying to provoke it, just not so overtly. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Tell about how it's gonna be, George, and the rabbits too. Da fatta da lan'! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I think she was talking about the students only giving us 2 hours of their time. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Those are ridiculously feminine. Could they put any more pleats in them? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

This example proves my point. USPA is not in bed with tandem factories and all GMDZ's. This type of litigation is what I expect USPA to be involved in. Keeping skydiving safe and available for everyone. Your point seemed to me to be that GMDZs that do not allow fun-jumpers (i.e. tandem factories) do not cost us individual members any money, and your sub-point seemed to be that we don't spend money on court costs related to them. I provided an example in which just such a dropzone caused us to incur exactly such costs. I agree with you on this, but I fail to see how having a rating course at your DZ is a cash cow. I suppose other DZ's do it differently, but at Skydive Orange we host numerous rating courses every year. The CD pays the club $5 for each candidate trained. We're not making much money on the deal at all. I'd venture a guess that each of your candidates buys at least a few jump tickets in the course, and I've seen plenty of examples of DZ's charging something like a $50 fee per candidate taking a course (they arrange for the CD, collect the cash from the candidates, and pay the CD, shaving their cut off the top along with any unpaid jump tickets). If it weren't for the cash generated, why would the GM-DZO's on the board have fought to limit all IRCs to their DZ's...to get first stab at new staff? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Hey, you seem to be more up on the phone stuff than just about anyone else on here. I'm with Verizon and want to stay with them. I'd also like to move to a phone that is more functional for things like email and web-browsing (I already have an iPod for multimedia stuff). Right now, it seems like my best bets are the XV6800 or XV6900. The former has Wi-Fi, which seems like it would come in handy for web browsing when in town, and both seem like they could act like a wireless modem for my laptop when at the DZ (I assume this means cellular modem...we don't have a wireless network set up out there yet). Our DZ is in a fairly rural area, but my current phone does seem to have access to the full network there (I can call, text, web-browse, etc from there). Got any opinion on either of these phones/networks or a better suggestion? Would I be better off with one of the Blackberry devices? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Imagine it in a cheech & chong voice, "Do we have turtle, man?" Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Yeah, especially after the sizeable contribution the elder Hiltons made to McCain's campaign. Jon Stewart said it best: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=178207&title=dick-move-of-the-week-mccain (He covers it in the first couple minutes) The entire clip just rocks! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I'll go one better. Mikey Hawkes of Skydive Las Vegas shame. SLV is a GMDZ that does not allow fun-jumpers (i.e. a tandem factory). Mikey found himself on the opposite side of the aisle from USPA when he assisted in the writing of state legislation that was drafted in a manner that would put his competitors out of business (GMDZ's that do/did allow fun jumpers). Through quite a bit of USPA and volunteer effort, the legislation was diluted, but still became by far the largest regulatory intrusion into skydiving we've seen in the US. Among other things, the BSRs developed the force of law in Nevada as a result of that legislation. The drama following that waste of our dollars was arguably bigger than the current ASC fuss, as one BOD member provided some minor assistance to the survivors of a fatality at SLV who were suing the dropzone. It is difficult to say exactly how much the GM program costs. For example, what percentage of Ed Scott's time/salary is spent on GM work versus individual member work? Nevertheless, USPA has repeatedly admitted that the GM program is not self-sufficient and is in fact partially funded by individual membership dues. Instructional rating courses used to be held wherever enough candidates could most efficiently organize them. The group members decided that instructional rating courses should NOT be considered a benefit for the members who want to improve themselves and assist in the growth of our sport, but should rather be considered a cash cow for GMDZs. They pursued this and eventually achieved today's state, in which instructional rating courses may only be held at GMDZs, thereby making them less accessible and more expensive without making them one iota better for the candidates or the students those candidates eventually train. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)