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I'm not disagreeing with that. I think Quade was right when he said it was intended as a joke. I just think it was a grave error coming from the instant GOP argument (Kerry said stuff like this too, in the primary) that Edwards is inexperienced, but very pretty. I think it is the kind of joke like: "Hey, Fatty!" "Oh, come-on, I'm just kidding!" "Hey Pizza face!" "Oh, come-on, I'm just kidding!" "At least I'm not bald!" "Oh, come-on, I'm just kidding!" I really do think that political campaigns think they understand people just because they belong to a club. There's a tendency that Republicans tend to think they know business better, and Democrats think they understand race better, just by registering. "Of course I understant (subject) I'm a registered (party member). I think our population has changed more than the fogies who are running the campaigns vaguely know. Politics runs on gift money, from whoever. Any body who gets that much neato stuff for just being a great guy starts to believe their own press. It's going to be very interesting.

Oh, ( I read the rest of the thread) I though you meant "virgins".

I just picked up one of these with the light warning sensor. I got one cause Greg Gasson has one, and he said it was a good thing to have during his seminar at the Holiday Boogie. How do I set the first alarm? The new website is short on directions. Clay? You have one of these, how do I set the first alarm for 4500 feet? And the second and third alarms go off when? JP

BAH! But the Wings harness and container system, with the new amazingly comfortable cut-in laterals, is a great compliment to my Camera Wings. HAHAHAHA!

I disagree completely. This is the type of humor that Shakespeare described as "a truth hidden in a jest". Both Kerry and Edwards, and the Kerry campaign, see connections to the JFK administration/campaign. Again, I am not interested in their politics, just the campaign strategy. That first televised debate between Nixon and Kennedy cemented the of being "better looking on TV" . I have no doubts the K/E will exploit this, but the vanity of saying "We're prettier" is going to backfire. They are MUCH more telegenic than Bush/Cheney, but saying so out loud is violating the first rule of a beauty contest.

Once the instructor is down, we use a similar system. It's mostly for flare instruction. We either carry the radio with us (the student wears a little motorola with an earpiece under their pro-tec) or leave it in a little structure that is out in our landing area. Like I said, we use it to guide a student in to land and flare, and we like to see them off radio instruction by Cat C or D at the latest.

I"m starting dinner. I'll check in in a bit.

WTF were they thinking? Look, I appreciate the unique bloodsport aspect of American campaigning, but this premeditated comment was astoundingly stupid. The attack on Edwards hasn't even started to get rolling and they serve this up on a platter? I predict a poster/ad will be forthcoming somewhere down the road once the GOP has pinned some poll-approved weakness in Edward's gravitas which features him agains the backdrop of the polling group weakness with the quote from this past weekend, "Maybe I don't know (polling approved weakness) but I have better hair than the Vice President!" Oy.

Uh, if you were replying to me, I had 197 RW jumps when I put the camera on. I had the approval of my S&TA at the time, and more importantly, my mentor.

DAMN! Forf or fife, whatever it takes.

Crap! I am apparently already there!

He keeps you in a padded cell?

I'll be over there with Skreamer after the Herc boogie. You want we should visit them? He speaks Klingon and everybody knows I'm not quite right in the head.

I did about the same thing. The S3 was just completely different and really kicked my ass the first few times. A buddy of mine, who's GTi I borrowed for my jumps, jumped my S3, once. It was just too much work for him for the increase in performance. Go with a coach, and jump from the same aircraft you've been jumping. I made my first Cessna exit with the S3, and there was just nothing fun about the whole flight. I love the suit and Cessna exits now, but at first I thought I had made a huge mistake. I think the S3 is just a lot harder than the GTi to fly.

Because you are the MOTOR MAMA! I got my haircut at my gangster barber today. He likes to slick back my hair. Thinks it makes me look badass or something. Whattya think?

Yeah, I've been lagging on posting these, cause it's a work in progress. This is the setup for now.

Shannon already won that prize in Perris. She landed on the OTHER side of the freeway, and that was in the Matter suit. I saw her eyeballing Fireflyr's new Classic...

Is the tractor-manager thing like another hat you wear when you aren't doing commo-commando stuff? So that means you are in charge of the RV, right? Like in "Stripes"? Sounds cool to me. Test drive one of the one's with the cannons to the DZ. Show that psychologist CoconutMonkeyMotherfokker a thing or two. Or just do BIG-ASS donuts in one of the deuce and a halfs or whatever the equivalent is these days.

No tracking pantz, no birdsuits, no camera wings (they wouldn't help anyhow. Bootied RW suits are ok, and Mad John judges it with his eyeballs from the ground. I was first in the novice group two years ago. Now I am going after the "fat, old-guy" prize.

Your "Patrician" nose? Engard!

Uh, so Dave? I guess this means don't disassemble one of my pistols and put it in my checked bag for some target shooting on the Firth of Fife, then? (How's that? Been reading up!) Peaceful Jefferey? I fart in your general direction! (Not a personal attack, as there could be a great deal of collateral damage when I fart in a general direction. I suppose it would be a personal attack if I farted in his specific direction, but I didn't)

Who really cares what Karl Rove is thinking. QUICK! What am I thinking RIGHT NOW! C'mon, Svengali, I can take it!

You're a freaking lawyer. I missed the number of amendments.

Bull. People rise to their expectations. Guys who cheat want women who cheat because then there is no high ground. Utter bullshit. Mouth, I love you and this isn't directed at you, specifically. But when a man or woman cheats and everybody just shrugs and says "Of course", expect much more cheating. A father who cheats on his wife is also cheating on his children. Bah. As to only being able to "cheat" when married, what is anybody's word worth when they are committed prior to or without marriage, and they break that trust. Have the lawyers gotten into our pop culture so deep that the cheater will say "I never specifically told you that I wouldn't nail a hussy in the bathroom, so you have no grounds to bitch!" ? What nonsense.

I get that a lot. "Look at that Yank! That ugly mutt must be a LEAST half French!"