Bob_Church

I'm still confused. In what way do you see Bill defending anyone? In any case I agree that better pre-employment checks should have been done here. How does that affect gun background purchase checks? Are you trying to make a case against Wasserman or against background checks? I don't know if this was the original reason for the post, but you can bet that the next time someone suggests a database of gun owners this will be called out as an excellent reason not to. A legitimate concern about gun databases is letting criminals know who in their neighborhood has guns to steal. And some 300,000 guns are stolen annually from "law abiding gun owners" who are too careless to secure their guns properly (USDoJ data). Guns are in the top 3 targets of choice for burglars. It's really disheartening. The local service station has a notice board and every once in awhile there will be a sheet of paper listing a small arsenal with "please keep an eye out for these guns, they were stolen from me......." And I also wonder how often that's a way to sell the guns to others and not acknowledge it. But either way, enough weapons to shoot up half a dozen schools or workplaces just joined the criminal world.

I'm still confused. In what way do you see Bill defending anyone? In any case I agree that better pre-employment checks should have been done here. How does that affect gun background purchase checks? Are you trying to make a case against Wasserman or against background checks? I don't know if this was the original reason for the post, but you can bet that the next time someone suggests a database of gun owners this will be called out as an excellent reason not to. A legitimate concern about gun databases is letting criminals know who in their neighborhood has guns to steal.

For home use I want a device, maybe just a flash drive that works with an application or something so that I plug it in and it takes care of passwords for me. For one thing, anyone trying to use my wireless would have to park in my driveway which I'd notice and I no longer have secured data so it's just not that big a deal.

The part that drives me nuts is working on wireless boosters to get a wireless camera going and then when asked for a password trying to remember which device I'm on now, it's like "which layer am I in now?"

One reason it stood out this time was that then I called the phone company but I had to give them the PIN number off my bill. Their security was higher than what I'd just used to have a months worth of enbrel injectors delivered to my home.

That would creep me out. Any idea how they got the info, let alone why they asked it?.

Once they verify who I am by asking my name and birthdate they then say "for security purposes I need your address with zip code." This week alone I've changed appointments and ordered prescription medicines to be delivered to my home. All using exactly this protocol. I have three doctors and they each use this protocol.

We seem to be rapidly approaching the point where I'll have to enter my user name and password to flush the commode. It's gotten downright weird. I'm trying go get some wireless boosters set up and every device has to have its own password and the list is getting longer and longer. But that's now what I'm posting about. When I call one of my Doctors' offices or the drug store or pretty much anyone else medical related my records are protected by the following Top Sekrit information. My birthday and address. I can change appointments, get medical information and pretty much anything by providing those two publicly available bits of information. Of course these are the same idiots who tell me at least twice that if I'm having a medical emergency to hang up and dial 911. But the idea of how easy it is to confirm my identity is downright strange. And it would be so easy to assign a password and it would take less time to give it to them.

I doubt it. Elsewhere on here you will find where there are about 35% of the Trump voters who will believe in him; even it he walks onto 5th Avenue & shoots someone. They do not hold their noses, he is their man. Of course, this thread ( #tregret ) is about those that wish they never had voted for Trump. C'est la vie, Jerry Baumchen I think 35 was stated but was it ever backed up? That's how ULs start. And I'm not confident that regret for Trump would translate to votes for Clinton. But seriously, how did the choice for Democrat contender somehow get locked down to HRC and Saunders?

That's a nice rig. I find myself missing my old Red White and Blue Paracommander more and more these days. I'd like to put a few jumps on one but don't have the gear. Ok, I'll be honest, I can't convince my wife to let me buy another rig. But I would like to get a couple of jumps in on one again. Please tell your friend "Well Done!" from me.

I can't find them online but I'll try to get over to the Athens News and find some of the articles leading up to the elections where they polled OU students and found that about 2/5ths of them were planning on voting Trump, and then the results out of the students precinct showing those number holding up when they voted.

Reality says that is not true. It was simply old, uneducated, white people who put Trump in office; along with the out-dated Electoral College. Jerry Baumchen Something that really surprised me is that in the run up to the election when OU and Athens did those standard quickie interviews where you'd see five or six photos as the people were asked questions over and over again at least half of the college students would say they were voting for Trump or were undecided. These are students at a liberal arts university. The polling showed that nearly half of OU students were saying that they were going to vote Trump. And those are just the ones who admitted it. I never would have believed it but it came up that way time after time.

I believe it was you whom I asked much earlier if you were intentionally just being an ass. I didn't call you one. I just asked the question. I received a "1st warning" from billvon. However, accusing me of telling "a bald faced lie" and not being "man enough to admit it" seems like a direct personal attack to me. Do the rules here apply to all? The problem is that it's not worth the trouble and flood of meaningless words you'll get for mentioning it. This forum should be of interest to thousands of skydivers. How many regulars is it down to?

Reality says that is not true. It was simply old, uneducated, white people who put Trump in office; along with the out-dated Electoral College. Jerry Baumchen Reality is that 64 million Americans held their nose and voted for Trump because the alternative was HRC.

I think the worst thing about Trump being re-elected would be the four more years of smug "he's only there because other people aren't as smart as me." It's like listening to children explain why Star Wars is better than Star Trek. And the stuff about her record number of votes. She was running against Donald Trump. Think about that. Donald Trump. It was HRC or Trump and now, it's still hard to even say, Donald Trump is President. Get it through your heads. She ran in the Special Olympics and STILL lost. Find a candidate that can beat Trump, which is pretty much anyone besides HRC, or get used to the idea of four more years of Trump.

Not liking Trump is fine, join the gang, but what worries me is that people seem determined to convince themselves that HRC is a good choice for the Democratic candidate and we're going to end up with four more years of Trump. I don't like that idea at all. People have somehow convinced themselves that HRC is the alternative to Trump in the Whitehouse instead of being the reason that Trump is in the Whitehouse.

From my personal experience it is when they do not want to be associated with the current regime in Iran. Jerry Baumchen I haven't met a single Iranian that liked their country's regime, and there have been quite a few. Vahid kept his Iranian citizenship for years then when his Father was dying he got permission to visit him. After they way they treated him he changed it as soon as he got back and now is a US citizen only.

So Sad. So many haters and losers. Dammit. You got the reply before I managed to delete my post! My experience (and it's limited so may be wrong) is that Persian people don't like being called Iranian, despite that being their country of origin. I'm sure they don't like being called Iraqi any more than I would. I've got a lot of Iranian friends and I'd never heard that one. The only time one of them used Persia was during the hostage crisis. Vahid "Victor from Pittsburgh" Kashani was jumping with us in West Virginia and never knew who was joking around or what, like when Neil told him that his brother was one of the hostages and his Mother was getting upset while gearing Vahid up for a student jump. So he started telling everyone he was from Persia which worked since none of them knew that they were the same thing.

But another aspect is that I think there are discussions that just don't work via text. It's not limited to religion but I'd say that it's high on the list.

I keep seeing stories with things sort of like this, that is, in their home, or a girlfriend hitting her boyfriend and have to wonder "how did the police get involved?"

Next thing we know, we'll be seeing them do it with USED condoms. Well, at least they are buying condoms; So now we just need to explain to them how to properly use them. Are they buying them or just wasting the ones that get distributed at no charge?

I wonder where the whole knife thing came from. It seems like a few years ago it became a major trend, it was cool to have and use a knife. I've always wondered where it came from. It doesn't take much with younger people some time. I remember when I was that age and it was easy for my friends and me to get into some new thing we'd seen in a movie or head in a song.

If that ever happens it will not be US versus Russia. They will be uneasy allies against another force. Just like the last time. I've always figured that Putin will use one eventually, just to do it. The trick will be finding a target that won't start Armageddon and possibly trickier, some place that he doesn't want to own. He could let a top secret radio communication leak that he and his top anti-Chechyan and anti-Isis commanders were on a flight back from somewhere but plane trouble caused them to put down in the Syrian desert. Then watch via satellite from the comfort of his office as that area fills up then Push the Button.

I can't tell if that comment is a nod to the tin foil hat people or a patriotic battle cry. I just thought it was a cool video, and I'm surprised that nobody came up with the lifting ring earlier. The first time I saw it was on a Topol M and it seems like such an obvious way to launch a missile from a tube or silo.

At the risk of again being accused of using the lowest of the low I'd like to ask about the definition of predestination and preordination. Does it really mean that the thing that is predestined to happen must happen? If I'm at your home and say "well, I'm going to drive home now" I am predestined to drive my car to my house. But of course that doesn't mean that it will definitely happen. But when I hear these terms in Biblical context it's taken that way. Is there a reason to assume that is predestined is inevitable?