Bob_Church

In the 1930's, in a discussion, FDR said that Douglas MacArthur was the 2nd most dangerous man in America. When asked who was #1, FDR said Huey Long. Jerry Baumchen These days it's hard to imagine a politician being loved by the people the way he was.

I'm just curious, but do suppressors interfere with accuracy?

Here you go, you're official now. You'll have to view it at actual size to be able to read it. If you need anymore of that issue let me know and I'll scan it. Bob

Something I've been curious about. I see a lot of jumpers say that the weight to size ratio scales down. Well, they don't say it that way but what I mean for instance is this. First off, assume all other things are equal, type of canopy, all that. Does a 100 pound person jumping a 100 square feet canopy get the same performance as a 170 pound person jumping a 170? It seems to me that the 100 to 100 combination would be a lot hotter since there are other things involved. Anyone know what the results really are?

Biden's shotgun? Not anymore.

I haven't watched any of this yet. Can I watch these episodes now then go back or should I start at the beginning? Every episode is a standalone story, unrelated to any other episode, so order does not matter. Thanks, I'm going to give them a shot. I want to watch that first one of season 4 then probably go back to the beginning. I have so much stuff available that it can be hard to get to any of it. Who'd have ever thought we'd have so much on hand at the click of a button?

an eight foot snowman with a shotgun.

I'm betting it's poorly trained holiday temps. It would be interesting to be able to see if Amazon saves money by not providing enough training or end up losing it in lost packages and lost goodwill.

I haven't watched any of this yet. Can I watch these episodes now then go back or should I start at the beginning?

I didn't know that aspect of it. Damn. And there's also the way it could undermine an important system. All it takes is one politician who wants to make a name for themself by introducing legislation to prevent this stuff from happening, but doing it in a half-assed way that just hurts everyone.

Check around about skydiving and scuba during the same time frames. It may be fine now, I really don't know but when I started they warned us against it. Be sure to check with the DZO or instructors first. And have fun.

Studies? What about the fatalities. Do a google search on dog attacks and read the results. That brings back memories. I did a report once on how you can prove Anything with studies.

If this worthless piece of crap doesn't spend the rest of his life in prison there's something very very wrong. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/30/574789231/police-arrest-suspect-in-fatal-swatting-prank

So if pit bulls are no more dangerous than other breeds, and the press is biased, are you suggesting then that there are actually hundreds of people killed yearly? The problem is that you're allowing yourself to be biased by all of the people that they've killed, instead of digging up studies that show that they're all fine. I bet you think smoking is bad too. Or drunk driving. Despite the fact that I'm sure you could dig someone up somewhere to give you a study saying otherwise. Maybe that guy who claimed to disprove the holocaust is free this weekend.

That's funny. While looking for stats on this, I found the same Wiki page you linked in a later post. Look at the 70s and 80s. Look at how many Pit Bulls. Look at how many German Shepherds (and other dogs). The idea that the lack of media reports correlates in any way with a lack of attacks is rather disingenuous. These days, any report of an attack makes the internet. The "anti" groups latch on to it and spread it all over. That didn't happen 25 years ago. Back then, the incident you linked in the OP never would have made news beyond local or regional. I'm sure you'll agree when I say I still want to make abusing a dog a capital crime punishable by a long slow painful death. Any dog. There's some seriously sick crap going on in the name of dog fighting. How can a human being enjoy it?

Do the assholes that dabble in dog fighting typically breed German Shepherds? (honest question, not trying to be a contrarian). Let's put it this way. If a bunch of people move in up the street will it matter to you (not just you, I mean everyone you) whether they have a schnauzer, a german shepherd or a pitbull?

Do the assholes that dabble in dog fighting typically breed German Shepherds? (honest question, not trying to be a contrarian). The attacks and deaths aren't limited to dogs that were abused and turned into fighters. Maybe the question is "why don't the mouth breathers who like fighting dogs ever use German Shepherds?" Dogs are abused and neglected every day. Which ones are killing people?

Especially if they were timid (like one dog-sitter Shocked). It's the dog, not the breed. But a big powerful dog has a bigger, more powerful, bite, and bigger muscles. Just as the Governator would be a lot scarier when aggressively angry than PeeWee Herman... Wendy P. " How does that account for all the dogs like German Shephards that have been abused but never killed the neighbors?

"A Shih Tzu in the hands of an asshole could be just as bad of a dog, it just wouldn't do the same damage." It would really help to see something that backs that statement up. And that goes for at least nine tenths of the statements on this thread, both pro and against pitbulls. I've heard people say that pitbulls don't react to abuse any differently than other breeds of dogs. Well, that would be important, but where does it come from?

"You're referring of the propensity of people to moderate their views when answering polls and talking to strangers. Most polls have sophisticated quantitative modeling as the basis of the poll. It factors race, incomes, sex, etc. It also factors non responsive answers, hang-ups , etc." No, I'm referring to people actually lying rather than admitting to unpopular views. And all the sophisticated modeling in the world isn't going to serve as a lie detector. Modeling determines who you ask, not what they really think.

Speaking of polling in general, it's hard to take the results seriously anymore. I think it was in 1998 that pretty much every state had gay rights laws on the ballot. Polling showed all of them having a strong lead and yet they all failed. But is that surprising? Not the anti-gay part, but the lying to the pollsters. If you have beliefs that go against the grain, anti-gay, anti-affirmative action, things like that, would you let people know? Remember the woman in California who's restaurant was attacked when it came out the she'd donated to a group opposing new laws protecting gay renters.

That's the funniest thing I've read in quite awhile! Thanks for sharing! Thanks. I've got a picture of the stream of any leaving the cessna somewhere. I've got to find it and post it.

Don't take this personally. But I've always thought that golden retrievers are the smartest dogs.They have a natural best demeanor of all dogs. Fastest dogs to learn something. Furthermore I've always been of the opinion that the people that get them have an above average IQ in general. Having said that the smartest dog I've ever known was a German Shepard that my brother adopted when the dog was about 8 years old. The only bad habit he had was chasing deer. He would not stop chasing deer. Beyond that he had every behavior down to a T. He had a nose like a bloodhound. Ferociously protective and loyal. Knew how to read a person like a book to get what he wanted. I think you could read a book to Benny and he'd understand. On the other hand there was the difference between understand and obey. If he thought you were being stupid he'd just ignore you. I worried about leaving my wife at home at night way out in the country with such a friendly dog. Then one night I got home really late and was walking down over the hill to the house when Benny started up from the house. The rumbling in his chest scared me, even knowing I'd be ok when he as it was me it was really unnerving. But I felt a lot less worried about my wife being home when I had to work late after that.

"Pitbulls have the title today that dobermans did in the 1960's." In the early 80s our DZO and his wife (Mig and Cindy Fernandez, Ravenswood Wv Airport) had two dobermans. They were like two kittens but every evening they went to this business as it shut down and let the owner lock the dogs in the business. The dogs were fine, lots of food and water. People outside could see them and no way they were going to break into a place with two devil dogs roaming the aisles.

My golden retriever Benny loved kids but had to take care of himself. My brother in law would bring his two kids over and they'd try to ride Benny. As soon as they put a leg over his back he'd sit down and they'd slide off. Then, and I'm not kidding, he'd look at me look for all the world like he was smiling.