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I think the proper usage is "smote". I just love the whole "smiting" thing. I suspected recently that Guy Wright wasn't going to "Axe" me from the Sequential Record, but "Smite" me from it. "You keep dragging your ass down to the base, JP, and I will smite you from this attempt". "Where's JP" "I smote him" "JP? What happened?" "I was smitten" Smiting is cool. I want to see much more usage of the whole smitage thing. "I jumped from the Herc and the frigging prop blast smote the hell out of me!" More stuff like that, please.

Dude, how many words do you type a minute?

The carnage was biblical in proportion. I mean end-of-the-world, dogs-and-cats-living-together, madness. The only thing it lacked was. like, a plague of locusts eating our canopies dropping us into a volcano something-or-other. I even had to wear my sausage-casing supersonic RW suit instead of hanging, and it was just Old-Testament kinda bad. Thanks Roy, wouldn't have missed it for anything.

Thanks Tom. I figured one of you guys would be on the job about that. Girls had first communion today. Jesus would have laughed along with the whole church when I had to tell one daughter to move out of frame so I could photograph the other with the two parish priests. It was fun.

Good call! That is, in fact, the Skymonkey throw-down.

Uh, I was there. You were the telegraph, but the message was subtly different. Nice try, though.

Me. And I'm at Byron.

If you leg-hump him I will be bitter. I'm not above pouting. Don't make me.

Here's the letter: \ You can listen to the voicemail by getting on the KSFO website. It's a very partisan right wing site. Be forewarned. It's left sister is KGO and I can't listen to either for any length of time.

Lisa's on line! Hi Lisa! Miss you online!

Kathy and Bill have split up. I imagine they will probably still have the Kathy boogie. I hope so. She's a sweetie and is well loved by the skydiver community.

Bwah! I also think Jesus would much have rathered that everybody be wearing a chalice around their neck. I think he enjoyed the wine miracle. Or maybe even a surf motif for the water walking thing. Or shades, for the blind guy cure... Having to see that cross everywhere he looks would probably be the source of some bad flashback dreams. "Oh, Crap! You guys chose the cross? I HATED the cross!"

That's it. And it's endemic in our society. When I was growing up, there were a lot of After School Movies about how the kids of divorced parents acted out doing bad things, and criminal things and how it was not their fault because their parents split up. Later it was adult children of alcoholics and on and on. The military is reflective of our society as a whole. I wonder, what would our generation do when forced to confront eating in a soup line, like our grandparents (US) did. I enjoy your reflexive thinking, Bill.

I wonder. I doubt very many folks enlist in the army to "linen exchange" which is where the inmates turn in thier soiled clothed and bedding for clean laundry. Likewise supervision of the feeding and bathing. Honestly, I would only sign up for that duty for about $300,000, tax free and with a pre-signed presidential pardon and amnesty. I think dishonorable discharges are enough for the enlisted folks. For the leadership there might be the need for some brig time. As to the guy who worked corrections in Georgia or wherever, he was in a distant land and obviously thought the rules had changed. Part of the problem of having and "enemy" is that they remain the "enemy" once you've captured them. Does the enemy deserve clean clothes? Fresh food? When I wore a uniform I used to hear "You wouldn't be such a badass if you weren't wearing that badge" My usual reply would be "Dude, I wouldn't be in your company if I wasn't wearing this badge" but the feeling is sort of a universal one. The POW's without their guns aren't so tough. A week before they may have induced terror to a soldier in a firefight, and may have caused death and mayhem by rifle and knife. It takes tremendous discipline to face that same enemy when he's naked and blindfolded and NOT say "You're not so tough now, are you! This one is for !" Whap! It does happen. I interviewed a cop killer. I got through it by telling the inmate I wanted an excuse to kill him, and that there were 20 deputies in the booking area that wanted to help. I told him exacty what he had to do to keep me from having to lay a single finger on him and he complied. I don't know how I'd get through that if I couldn't understand a word the guy was saying. What to do when the guy doesn't understand "Shut the fuck up!". As to the pictures, they are proof that the soldiers didn't think they were doing anything wrong, that, at least, there was valid rationalization for it. That's weird, huh? But I know it's true.

So you're saying Jesus wore fur?

Party and skydive with Chuck Blue. Live to tell the tale and you might come away with a hat to prove it happened.

See, most of you love to argue religion, few of you seem to have any desire to joke about it. It's really all just about the potluck. Really.

Remember the psych experiment, at Stanford, I think, where a group of college students were put together in a room and left with only the instruction that a small number of them were "in charge" and the ones in charge ended up abusing the majority with no other instruction? This is nothing new. Without thorough training and constant monitoring, it ALWAYS happens in detention facilities. I have over three years experience working in a major County Jail. Things can get our of control very quickly when there aren't enough grown ups around.

Since he "knew the secret" and all, I'd guess he'd laugh lovingly at our clumsy attempts to understand the big picture. Kind of like how I laughed with one of my daughter's this morning when she was singing a song with the word "party" in it as "potty". As in "Potty all the time" and "Potty all night long". But since most humor has some sort of victim, would Jesus have laughed much? I think so. He hung out with capenters and fishermen and sinners, and those people have a long history of party time. Seriously. What kind of joke would have started out as "Hey! Jesus! Listen to this..." "A Rabbi, a Centurion, and a Moor walk into this bar..." Imagine his laugh. I know I have given him many opportunities to point and laugh at me. "JP, you're killing me. Again"

Nah. Just walk up to Tom and ask him for advice. Do it in front of Julie.

His weekend job?

You know, Wings uses skydivers in their advertising . I took that picture of Q (the guy in the red jumpsuit) that they use on the banner at the top of DZ.com's home page.

Happy Birthday Southern Command! See you soon. JP (Northern Command)

You're just weird, Val.

You misspelled it. Jesus actually outdrank Luke and Paul. Everybody like having Jesus at a party. The wine flowed like water.