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The big mullet hair was later 80's. We "feathered" our hair in the late 70's early 80's and mine was COOL. You had to be sure your ears did not show at all. I was all cleaned up for this picture, so they showed a little. Hah! I'm scanning old pictures as they decompose, here's the only zoomie one I have of me in ROTC at Cal-Berkeley before the moderates on campus burned our buildings down. While everybody else with any sense thought this was a high-and-tight, Captain Marion McCurdy thought I looked like a shaggy dog. I think that's why he eventually introduced me to the Marine Captain who taught me a true appreciation for hatred of scalp hair while in uniform.

Nuh-uh! It's cause the Skreamster is the only guy on his team that wears slacks and a collared shirt to work. -

Alex, you've got a lot more energy than me. Clergy and religion to me are really interesting, very well educated guys that I trust with my children. 1. Clergy helping? 2. Statistics. 3. (Do they have leadership? yes they do. Do they have infrastructure? yes, albeit limited at this point. (although arguable given the history and penetration into society some of those groups have achieved) Who specifically? Does clergy help? Yes. Unequiviocally, in my parish. Fathers Jordan and Vicente love my daughters, tell them so, and motivate them towards acting in what an 8 year old interprets to be a "Christlike" way. Often that means picking up litter that missed the can, and just being helpful, friendly and kind. They lead by example. I love them both. Statistics? You and I know better ( you appear to be quite intelligent, and therefore reasonably understand that statistics, once massaged, can make nearly any argument. Other than like ones like "how many of your children have died due to Hamas bombers?" and even then you could argue the sample was not significant. Lastly, who in the Christian "sphere" is sponsoring terrorism. I know lots of East Coasters and even San Franciscans put money in the hat for the IRA in years past, but I don't recall a cardinal or bishop who took the money and bought plastique with it and sent boys off to learn how to infiltrate mobs while wearing suicide vests. This hurts my forearms.. Alex, if you are new, you are worthy of debate. Congratulations, you'lll have fun here. I'm out. Nice job, though. Spark thought without calling anyone an ass hat.

Um, that sweet beast was uncrated in front of me. The first black one to get to SF BMW. The second guy to ride it was (3 years later) Chris deBar, and then I let Iwan ride it, cause, well, Iwan is cool, and in Europe they ride from England to Holland in the snow and call it commuting. You were too busy photographing the amazing display of lack of body consciousness of the men of BAS. We'll ride next weekend if you want. JP

Handcuffs. legirons, a neato thing called a rip-tie which looked like calf roping but with the calf yelling about "you are oppressing me!" Um, zip-ties, and most important for any soiree involving lots of angry invitees to a function: seasoning! No really good violent get-together is complete without that tasty treat, Oleoresincapsicum. Nummy! Season, tenderize, set in a cool cement container to cool, and release. It's what's for dinner! Hey! Them was the revolver days, too! S&W 66! Old school!

That motorcycle looked pretty cool.

OK, that's on the road trip when he comes out! A drum though? That's a pretty tall bridge!

Yeah, Tom, that's why I pretty much don't visit here much. Lots of parsing for the joy of an internet argument where one participant is driven to exasperation and leaves and the other claims victory. Regarding Mr. Crowley's statement that everybody is guilty, I disagree. If the Unibomber, McVeigh, Eric Rudolph (abortion clinic and Olympic bomber) had all been acting under whatever the christian version of a fatwah is, we'd be rounding up those clergy members for conspiracy and they would have been charged as well. Regardless of their "religion" particularly that nutwad Rudolph there is no mainstream religious tolerance of their actions. If there is an Al Quaeda type of support structure for the McVeigh's and Rudolphs of the world, I'm unaware of it. I'm betting is has something to do with the Colonel with his wee beady eyes, though.

Holy Crap Will! That?! I had to re-read it to find offense. Fuggetabout it. Like I said, I don't think the young men who are doing this stuff decided their course after reading the back of a breakfast cereal box. They've been being acclimated to it as soon as they learn to read, and they aren't allowed to read "Cat in the Hat" or watch "teletubbies". They are usually about 20 or so, and over here that would put them born about 1985 to parents mad that Reagan was president until 1989. Then they are still mad that Bush 41 gets the job for 4 years, but then maybe are mollified that Clinton gets the job from 93 to 2001. It has been my experience that Clinton was pretty well liked internationally (regardless of whatever foaming at the mouth reasons some of my compatriots just couldn't stand him) OK, so these boys started out under Reagan for 4 years, turned 8 when Clinton was the boss and learned how to drive a car bomb legally when Bush 43 won, or the pentaverate arranged with Sandra Day O'Connor for HW to become president. Some of these boys learned how to fly jets into buildings, and some learned how to destroy subway systems. It did not happen in a week or a month or a year. They were raised to it. The west is not prepared for this. We are a drive-through, what pill do I take to fix it now, what do you mean my connecting flight is an hour after I arrive? kind of people. Worse in the US, but it is a western thing. A 30 year old man who was raised to beleive the west is evil in a demonic was is going to be pretty hard to do business with. You tell your housemates to be ready! Some rumours that Herc may not happen because of the demands on their air force, but we'll find some excuse! JP

Ah, Dave, just remember the concept of "escalation of force" I interviewed hundreds of men and women who wanted to become cops. The wierdest part is you have to ask everybody all the questions, even if they completely blow one. A favorite "situational" question is that a guy just robbed a bank and escaped on the subway. In scenario questions like these there is never any backup available anywhere, you are the only officer on the scene and are forced to take the lead and make a decision. If you're lucky, it's a common-sense thing that doesn't require specific legal or procedural knowlege. Anyhow. "The door opens on the train and there is a man standing there who matches the description of the bank robber. What do you do" Applicant: "I bust a cap in his ass!" I had to leave the room. Since this was his "final" answer, and we aren't allowed to go back and get them to maybe see if the guy was armed, or maybe ID him before busting a cap in his ass, we had to go on. "Would you give your mother a speeding ticket?" "Hell Yeah! My mama left me to be raised by my grandma! She got NOTHING coming from me!" And on, and on. Avoid the busting of the cap into the ass until the bustee is more of a threat to the public than your cap busting self. Good luck. God. Found this one of my first day on the job. Don't look as goofy.

Will, I can't find the post where you tore me a new one for being a W supporter. It probably got deleted. It's one of the biggest reasons I don't come around Speakers any more, and almost never post here. I have some very good liberal friends who hate GW and think none of this stuff would have happened if his opponent had gotten elected. I don't think it matters too much, and I don't let it interfere with my friendships. The new and weird and terrifying thing is that western citizens, like that looney John Walker from Napa and the new group they found over in Lodi, CA have parents who send their kids to school in Pakistan and company to be educated that the west must be destroyed and all the territory taken during the crusades must be recovered and that all who do not convert to Islam must be killed. Pretty much. Now, there's not many of them, statistically, but it didn't take many to do the Twin Towers and most of downtown London.. Is it a war? If not, what is it? Those kids who were in those madrasas were educated over the courses of several western administratons, Conservative, Liberal, Tory, Socialist, Communist or whatever, depending on where you are from. The nearly month I spent in London, half of it with you, Will, there was little or no media coverage of my government that was positive. I look forward to you coming to live with me for a month and maybe seeing it's not quite as wild west as it seems, even if I do carry a gun a lot of the time. I think the folks who blew up London and New York, and Madrid don't give a whit about the stripes on the pants of the elected leaders. It's not like the parents get upset that Nader didn't get elected and then send their sons to a School For The Elimination Of Non-Muslim Western Civilization For Boys. It's usually way deeper and wierder than that. I remember being in Spain, quite a few years ago, and in the Southern part there are Moorish Mosques that had the minarets removed and bell towers built on top. and churches built inside cause they are just so huge that a church could be built inside. Beautiful buildings. Fairly crudely converted. Those conversions deeply and profoundly offend devout Muslims. When I was in Edinburgh, and even London just last year, there were a bunch of churches that had been converted to discotechs and other uses. Outrage? No. Heck, one of the local real estate offices I compete with is in a converted church. They even get bought back and forth from faith to faith. "Hey, the Methodist church is for sale." "Really, how many square feet? The Lutherans are looking for something with a pipe organ". Wow. I'm going on and on. Will, I wish I could have read your vent. I'm just guessing at how I might have pressed your buttons (and the buttons of lots of my anti-right-wing-American Politics leanings). It really isn't about the last few administrations in the West. The creation of martyrs that is bearing fruit now is not the result of Reagan/Clinton/Bush/Blair/Chirac/Shroeder/Howard yadayada. It doesn't matter how much a person may or may not like the current elected leaders of a western democracy. There are a whole lot of little boys with only one book that they have to memorize, and the way they are being taught to interpret that book does not allow for western freedom. Yikes. Sorry about all that. Will! Stop apologizing to me in speakers, you get me all typee. Laters! Stay safe! JP

I think she was too busy with the waffles. well in that case, she should send pics and all will be forgiven! Hey! I was busy playing Paigow in Vegas and drinking! You know they don't allow cell phones at the tables! FU! They do to! Just like when you have to go pee, you put your bet halfway in and halfway out of the bet-circle thinging, step five steps back from the table push the "answer" button wait .5 seconds and say "fuck you" and then return to gambling. Pai-Gow? What kind of wierd Hong Kong Pimp Motherf*cker did you go to Vegas with?

Hey, I ain't the prettiest dog in the pound, but there ain't nobody more fun to spend an afternoon in the park with. Blackmail? Who the hell are you going to get me to pay you to not embarass me by showing them to? This one goes to 11, baby! (and thanks Lany, you are very nice about not showing the most heinous ones. I still need that one of me and deBar in JPG if you get the time

I think I'm going to be in Perris doing some camera work this weekend or next weekend, that's as close to Texas as I'm gonna be for a while. My speedo is blue. Wanna see? I kinda screwed up my ensemble, I had black shoes and white socks. If I was getting all European I would have had an odd hat. That's it, next year I'll be sporting a beret!

NSFW? NSFW? Holy - Clean my eyes out with a galon of clorox - Batman I have this spot in my memory that I am going to have to try to remove now - If tequila isn't going to work - I'll need a knife . . . Count your blessing she didn't post any of the ones with me in them.

Thanks for the reply Bill. This was a 384, they are older canopies that have been relined recently. Ed, I was trying to let you know that I was not being sarcastic. You've never been condescending or sarcastic to me when I've asked for advice, or you have offered it. I appreciate your feedback. I've had my tandem ticket for about a year, and have just over 300 tandems. Since this spring, I'm averaging 10 to 20 a week. I think you know what I mean when we get together and tell "no shit there I was" stories about heinous malfunctions, and even misjudging a problem as a malfunction, that could have been fixed, but was chopped. The main steering line breaking was just not one of the stories I had heard, and it's probably because you (Bill) fixed the problem by going to the drogues. I still just can barely imagine how hard those openings must have been when you took everybody to tandem terminal. Yikes. With the wind like it was (gusty and changing directions continually) the better decision in my specific case was to chop. If it happens again and I am not carrying my max weight passenger, I'll have the time to see if I can turn and flare with just the risers. Thanks all, for all the input. Bill, being able to get feedback from you is like somebody who owns a Cobra being able to exchange e-mail with Carroll Shelby. Thanks very much.

HELL YES! I have did it quite a few times. Be safe. Ed Not being sarcastic, Ed, but you blow steering lines a lot? I can land my sport rig on the rears I had just never discussed with another tandem master landing with a blown main toggle. With the ground winds we were dealing with I am still sticking with my choice to chop it, but I'm not the only instructor who has benefited from reading about a type of malfunction that hasn't happened at their DZ. With the right toggle off and the left unstowed but attached, there was also a left turn that I would have had to fight all the way down, and maybe there were other broken lines I couldn't see above the slider. (there weren't) Anyhow, thought I'd share and maybe we could all learn a little more. Later on yesterday I had a really pudgy girl pass out on my that I had to land unconscious, but that's another story.

I just called. 25 gusting to 30 again. Sigh. It's just that time of year I guess. You fucked up, G-man. My K1200RS was uncrated and I was the only one to drive it until today. I let deBar and VanderScooter ride it cause you weren't there. Teach me to drive the knucklehead, and you will be able to break the sound barier with my rocket any time you like. Us conspirators to felonies got to stick together.

Today I get what is getting to be the usual 180 or 360 on opening but this one keeps going like a brake fire. I am committed to having nobody ever, EVER, question one of my chops. When JP chops a canopy it should probably be cast into a lake of fire and excommunicated from the tandem realm. So,while I'm spinning gently I pull the brakes clear and pump them. A wierd thing happens. The right brake just comes out and all the line slithers through the stainless ring and is now streaming behind me, and I see broken line above the slider. Huh. Um. Pumping the brake lines won't reattach them. I can't do turns, it occurrs to me that some genius like Bill Booth could do some McGuyver shit with the secondaries, but I'm just a short-bus ex-cop with really limitied skills. I tell dude (who is a really big young smart kid) to stay still. When he says "Whaaaaaat!" I chop right and left and he is perfect. Just stays arched and we do the 30 minute return to terminal while the reserve deploys. A really good job by the passenger. The brake line blew. Any suggestions other than chopping? We had plenty of height, but I am getting a little wound about three chops in three weeks.. Winds were 25 to 30 (not unusual for Byron) Could I have landed this thing on the secondaries? Mr. Booth, in particular, when the primary toggle fails, is chopping the best choice? Peace out.

How much would you pay to have a picture of this with GFD? Not enough. Friendship is pricesless. Especially after really stupid e-mails. Hey! GFD! Go on that Stratosphere ride. Really, really drunk. I dare you.

I don't think so. But right now I'm drinking Australian Pinot Noir, which I think is a felony in Napa and Solano Counties. The snorting thing is a great trick for a small guage gold chain back through the nose and then out the mouth. Like sinus floss. I think you just are gonna have to corner her and use one of those wierd eyelash curler things backwards to force the eye back in. But she'll probably have a more creative suggestion. That bitch is really, really, f*cking wierd.

A beautiful pic of you and the Mrs. in San Fran. By the look of that weather, it must have been October or May. Or, being Remsterre, you got lucky. Here's some weird ones of me. The cop one was right before some amazingly violent things happened. The cop with me is Dr. Mallard, but that nickname takes too much time to explain for this lifetime. Needless to say we went up into the Mission and answered the question "Why are BART cops kicking down my door?" The next one is me and my mom at a French restaurant (in you and her honor, Remsterre) And the last one is me just having fun skydiving. I'm really, really proud of the last one. Jim Gold took it, and it's in the Jump For The Cause Calendar thank you page. Your life and your face change. I admire the folks who change gracefully. Your entire life is really nothing but a leap. Some lives are beautiful to watch. Like ballerinas defying gravity. And then there's me drowning in pork gravy with Gareth Holder pointing and laughing. Life. How wierd.

The AKC recognizes that as an Ugly Ass Dog.

Is it like a jellyfish sting? If so, just get somebody to pee in your eye. Or vinegar, whichever is more convenient. How is someone peeing in vinegar going to improve her terminal condition? Good one. Got me. I don't think it's gonna work anyhow cause the preparation H is gonna shrink her eye socket and she'll never get the glass eye back in there without some stretching exercises.

Is it like a jellyfish sting? If so, just get somebody to pee in your eye. Or vinegar, whichever is more convenient.