Deuce

Dude has a serious case of white guilt. Now that he has his pile, he's willing to handicap others by giving non-whites an unfair advantage over whites. What gall. I have worked in government since 1987. I have always been much more qualified than necessary for each of my jobs. The reason is that most government bureaucracies are required to make an excuse when they hire or promote a white man. You see, they have a list of "targets" that they are supposed to reach, so many women, and so many of each of the different racial and cultural categories. If they chose me, they had to make an excuse, in writing, to the Affirmative Action Officer for not hiring a target. It is perfectly acceptable to have not a single white male in any government department. This is OK, because when my great grandparents were shop owners and farmers in France and Ireland, they were benefiting from the practice of slavery in the American South. Somehow I still am, and fully deserve to be handicapped. See, I have had it so easy because I am a white man. This nonsense has totally permeated the cultural psyche. For the 13 years I was on the street, whenever I contacted somebody for doing something suspicious, it was all about me oppressing them because of their "whatever". I was picking on whites cause the minorities had me cowed, and I was picking on blacks cause I was a racist. It was absolutely hardest on the black officers, because they would hear no end about them being uncle Tom's while they made black neighborhoods safer. Some recommended reading on the subject. I took a couple of sociology classes from this guy both as an undergrad and as a graduate student. Good reading. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0787227641/qid=1063127643/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/103-2432238-7474252?v=glance&s=books Do women and minorities have it harder. Yep. Does reinforcing a victim culture for them make it worse? Yep. For any government job I am at a disadvantage against a "targeted" group. That is because if I am equally well qualified, I will lose the job to a targeted person. Period. So how was I modestly succesful? When the job required a GED I had a BA. When it required a BA I had an MPA. And I have several nice ties

Hmm. I think perhaps we will document the Silly Sunny Solo jump. I think it's just possible the video will record the sound of your morning singing voice in freefall. Hey, Bets? The Mrs. and the DeuceKids aren't gonna be there, so you are at the front of the line. Climb on and let's go skydive!

Have a wonderful trip. Bite Betsy for me!

Bergh, you can do a search on this topic and find almost every answer you can come up with. In a nutshell, focusing on minimum requirement is likely to get you injured or killed. 200 jumps on your belly until you are an effective RW flyer. Then camera.

You have been promoted to Groupie Wrangler and have received one Boogaloo Jump Ticket for your efforts. Redeem this coupon for one jump ticket upon arrival at Eloy.

So we could have BMI loadmasters on every plane? So like two SkyVan's and a CASA, LouDiamond and SkyMonkeyONE in eash of the Vans and B-Squared the BirdManInstructor and Queen Of The CASA? Then, on command, in formation we put out a flock to make Jari's eyes well up. Oh, wait, maybe Jari is going too. Lucky us. The talent at the Triple-B (Betsy Barnhouse's Boogaloo) is going to be astounding. It's nice when you can become a better skydiver just hanging out, and these folks are willing to jump us weekenders. Bring it! People! WHERE'S MY GROUPIES!?

You were talking on the phone while driving my car!! Dude, I was talking on the phone and putting "fire" sauce on two soft tacos while reprogramming the radio stations and putting eye drops in. What?

We swam a little. No one was naked. You didn't miss anything. These are not the droids you're looking for. Move along.

Well, you got two things going here. The hideous dress, and her body issues. Yeah, the dress is hideous. And she should dress to address her body issues. I guess since I spent so many years fat, I just don't rip on people about their bodies. I'm happy if people are happy having fun. I try not to focus on what I can't see (he can't see that she's not in great shape and that she has on a horrible dress) but what I can. (They're out having a good time, good for them) For a lot of years people wondered what my wife saw in a big fat guy like me. Maybe she saw that I wouldn't always be a big fat guy. Maybe that didn't matter then or now. She has a ridiculous dress on. So do most bridesmaids. Have fun at the reception anyway, and don't make fun of the pudgy bridesmaid in the ridiculous dress (she didn't pick it anyhow ) And yes, Antonio should have said "Chiquita, put on the spaghetti strap black cocktail dress" but somebody has to line out the cocaine, you know.

OK, I talked to you, LTDiver and SkyBytch on Saturday too. I wasn't drunk yet cause I was fetching beer in ChopChops BMW. But you guys were .

There just aren't enough hours in the day for a pernicious porno pixie.

AHAHAHAHA!

You want to meet me. More than you will ever know. Unless you meet me........ I seriously rock. I do. Just ask my kids. Buy the bike Seb.. Buy the bike.....

Way to flock, Monkey! Nice Locks, MonoUno! Bwah! We are already rocking at Eloy and can't even feel it, yet! Bring IT!

I am personally bringing Ben Frank, late of somewhere north of London. Chicks dig him, and guys fear him (cause he owns a tank on some patch of ground in England) And you will have to keep the potentials off with a bat of some sort (either cricket of baseball) cause we find that Accent just so sexy.

We found a guy who'd done one before. The grommets have pullup cords through them and they are not tied to the jumpers hands, just curled around a couple fingers. When he opened up his hands the flag came right off. Tube jump openings are scary to watch. ChopChop is real good with the tube, but he'd never seen what's going on in the opening. Skydivers. "How can we make this more complicated and dangerous?" "Hey, how about a big fabric tube!"

BWAH! "Stalkers" is a Monkey anagram for "Targets"

I have partied with you both. Seb definitely has the party mojo going on. I just don't think that when the Hollister crowd gets a heat on they go out and blow shit up. But Seb IS on the verge of getting a uberliterscooter, and that will improve his already high Monkesquity quotient.

I know you asked Q, but I can tell you don't want to use them more than once. Yesterday one of my fellow video fliers had frame drop-out on the exit because he was reusing his tapes. Very not good. Very sucking. You run the risk of drop out on the first re-use, and it just gets worse. I use mine once, then push the save tab over and keep 'em. JP

Great picture!

GEt in the pub like a responsible pusher/pimp You bastard.

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Keep me off the streets. JP

Hilarious. Go to the pub.