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When I got back from VN, I had had maybe 12 hours sleep in the previous week. and none in the privious 72 hours. My best friend met me at the airport at 8 AM and proceded to show me around Jacksonville, how things had changed. Around 4 PM, I have no idia where we were, the walkway started moving. It looked to me like tha pictures of "Galloping Gerty". Walls were waving, everything sounded wierd. I'm talking MAJOR halucinations. And no, we had not even had a beer, being only 20 years old. He took me home, I fell into bed and woke up 28 hours later. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

And I would add Fort Clinch State Park in Fernindina. Built in around 1855 (?). Much bigger than Castillio ds San Marcos (sp) in St. Augustine. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

Ignorance of the law has never been an excuse that will allow anyone to break any law. But some people insist on not taking personal responsibility for their own actions....and here we are. Madness indeed. Quote Obscure, vague, or arbitrarily enforced laws are like "double secret probation". The recording laws seem to vary from state to state. Some allow all recording, some only video. When I call customer service at a lot of companies, I hear something like, "This call may be recorded for quality purposes." If this guy had had a sign that said he was recording, or he made the statement after his case started he may have been within the rules. I'm not a lawyer and don't even play one on TV. The judge still sounds like a dickhead but there might be more to the story. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

And beer. I don't wanna go if there's not beer in heaven. How could it be heaven if there's no beer? But I knew it was faked right off. The "Presbyterian" church gave it away. Now if it had been a Baptist church... Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

And don't forget them damn aliens what kidnapped back when. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

He even towed one boat, with arms and legs shackled. He once did something like 2,000 push ups on a morning talk show. But it goes to show, eat healthy, exercise, die anyway. But after 95 years, you probably deserve a rest. He always seemed like the real deal. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

Is this the beginnig of the "slippery slope" ? http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/01/19/2781268/campbell-overdoing-it-on-corporate.html Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

To me, reaction means starting a responce to a situation. During those micro seconds while starting the reaction, you're still thinking. A poster above described a near canopy colision avoided becarse he did the opposite of a trainning procedure. But I would guarantee that his hands were moving when he decided to alter his rejlexive responce. And a word about trainning. Trainning others. You may tell them that practice makes perfect. That's not true. Practice make perminent. Perfect practice makes perfect perminently. Make sure the trainning is correct. That is what will save thieir ass when the sokid waste hits the rotary air handler. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

I think whatever works for you. I like to (try) use the calm approach. Like Wyatt Earp said, "You have to take your time, real fast." Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

In the magazine Psycology Today Sept. 1969 (?) there was an article on stress. It described 4 activities, a fireman, a scuba diver, a skydiver, and I have forgotten what the other one was. The skydiver section was reprinted in Parachutist in the Jan. 1970 issue (I think). These articles all came to the conclussion that we all experience EITHER time contraction or time expansion in stress situations. I don't remember if there was an explanatin as to why some experience one and not the other. When I started teaching first jump courses, I always asked my students if they had ever been in any kind of emergency situation before like a car wreck for instance. Some of them could describe moment by moment what happened and take 5 or 10 minutes to tell about a 5 second event. Some said. "I looked up and the other car hit me." It was the second type that turned out to better suited for bowling. But even with the bowling group, in a stressful situation, people will revert to their training. I've seen people handle malfunctions very well and not be able to tell me what happened in a detailed way. I don't know if this time expansion/contraction thing is nature or nurture but I know it's real. I would lean toward nurture. Being involved in sports at an early age may help develope the awareness needed in stress situations. One of the things Ken Coleman said when he was first writting the program that became AFF is that skydiving was not for everyone. Tandem filled the gap. It lets the bowlers jump out of an airplane and go back to bowling or whatever it is that they do. It's the tandem masters, even the ones who I think are not as good as they should be, who have the time expansion characteristic. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

Meg Whitman spent $160M and still lost badly in California. Money doesn't make up for a crap product. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

I'm very sympathetic with the law that the SCOTUS just struck down. I agree that corporate money is one of the cancers of our political system. I'd sorely like to see a way of prohibiting corporations - as corporate entities - from having undue influence in the political process. But having said that, I look at the exact language of the First Amendment: Frankly, there's nothing in there making the prohibition of "abridging the freedom of speech" applicable only to individual persons, or even only to citizens of the U.S. So I think that if another law restricting corporations' ability to participate in the political process is going to pass constitutional muster, it will have to be crafted to take that into account. The Freedom of the Press should give the corporations enough room to have their say without contributing directly ot a candidate. When a candidate takes money from "speciial interests", that is non-voting corporation, I take it to mean that the candidate has sold him/her self. Since they all take the money, it's a matter of the lesser of the evils. I like to beleive the founding fathers had higher ideals. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

I've made the comment in severel other threads that this concept of "corporate personhood" is perhaps THE main problem in poitics in this country. Our freedoms apply to "we the people". A corporation can't cast a vote. So it should have not enjoy those freedoms and especially not be free to infulence real voters with a massive amount of money. One person, one vote. That's democracy. In our representative form, the reprasentatives can be more focused on getting re-elected than on dealing with the problems they were elected to deal with. Because these "corporate persons" can give a lot of money to help or almost guarantee their re-election. That, in effect, "buys" the reprasentative so the corporation has much more than one vote. What they have is more powerful just like a cancer cell is more powerful than a cell of penicellin. That one cancer cell has grown and corrupted the entire body of our poitical system. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

And would we have laughed at that? HELL YES!!! Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

A scene in a Cheech & Chong movie: Cheech is at a party in the kitchen. He starts playing with some Comet cleanser. A girl comes in and before you could say shit, she snorts the whole thing. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

I know some body had to say, "What could possibly go wrong?" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

A first-grade teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her students. The teacher asked, 'Harry, what's your problem?' Harry answered, 'I'm too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in the 3rd grade and I'm smarter than she is! I think I should be in the 3rd grade too!' Ms. Brooks had had enough. She took Harry to the principal's office. While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to the principal what the situation was. The principal told Ms. Brooks he would give the boy a test. If he failed to answer any of his questions he was to go back to the 1st grade and behave. She agreed. Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he agreed to take the test. Principal: 'What is 3 x 3?' Harry: '9.' Principal: 'What is 6 x 6?' Harry: '36.' And so it went with every question the principal thought a 3rd grader should know. The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, 'I think Harry can go to the 3rd grade.' Ms. Brooks says to the principal, 'Let me ask him some questions.' The principal and Harry both agreed. Ms. Brooks asks, 'What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?' Harry, after a moment: 'Legs.' Ms. Brooks: 'What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?' The principal wondered why would she ask such a question! Harry replied: 'Pockets.' Ms. Brooks: 'What does a dog do that a man steps into?' Harry: 'Pants.' Ms. Brooks: What starts with a C, ends with a T, is hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin, whitish liquid?' Harry: 'Coconut.' The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open. Ms. Brooks: 'What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky?' The principal's eyes opened really wide and before he could stop the answer, Harry replied, 'Bubble gum.' Ms. Brooks: 'What does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down and a dog does on three legs?' Harry: 'Shake hands'. The principal was trembling. Ms. Brooks: 'What word starts with an 'F' and ends in 'K' that means a lot of heat and excitement?' Harry: 'Firetruck.' The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher, 'Put Harry in the fifth-grade, I got the last seven questions wrong... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A first-grade teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her students. The teacher asked, 'Harry, what's your problem?' Harry answered, 'I'm too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in the 3rd grade and I'm smarter than she is! I think I should be in the 3rd grade too!' Ms. Brooks had had enough. She took Harry to the principal's office. While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to the principal what the situation was. The principal told Ms. Brooks he would give the boy a test. If he failed to answer any of his questions he was to go back to the 1st grade and behave. She agreed. Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he agreed to take the test. Principal: 'What is 3 x 3?' Harry: '9.' Principal: 'What is 6 x 6?' Harry: '36.' And so it went with every question the principal thought a 3rd grader should know. The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, 'I think Harry can go to the 3rd grade.' Ms. Brooks says to the principal, 'Let me ask him some questions.' The principal and Harry both agreed. Ms. Brooks asks, 'What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?' Harry, after a moment: 'Legs.' Ms. Brooks: 'What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?' The principal wondered why would she ask such a question! Harry replied: 'Pockets.' Ms. Brooks: 'What does a dog do that a man steps into?' Harry: 'Pants.' Ms. Brooks: What starts with a C, ends with a T, is hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin, whitish liquid?' Harry: 'Coconut.' The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open. Ms. Brooks: 'What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky?' The principal's eyes opened really wide and before he could stop the answer, Harry replied, 'Bubble gum.' Ms. Brooks: 'What does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down and a dog does on three legs?' Harry: 'Shake hands'. The principal was trembling. Ms. Brooks: 'What word starts with an 'F' and ends in 'K' that means a lot of heat and excitement?' Harry: 'Firetruck.' The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher, 'Put Harry in the fifth-grade, I got the last seven questions wrong... Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

The war on the logical thinking of the left is simply put this way. A very large portion of Americans do not want the government interfering with their lives regardless of the motivation. That's right. I want the government to keep its damn hands off my medicare.

It's politics. Logic has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

I think this team got their name from the Jets in West Side Story. You know, the ones who said, "We're gonna kill that other gang!! But first we're gonna dance." Haven't been a fan since Joe Willy made history. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

The night I watched Blazing Saddles I woke up in the middle of the night. I woke up laughing. When I thought back about what I was dreaming, I realized it was the campfire scene. Slim Pickins waving his hat.

The ending caught me by surprise. The original Walking Tall. It wasn't a really great movie but a hell of a lot better than than the newwr one with the Rock. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

Bump Just for fun I love being the resident Heckler

That's deep. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

Notice how close that is to "alfalfa sprouts", which of course are eaten mainly by liberals. Coincidence? I don't think so. It's an obvious code (which HA! HA! I recognize): Libs are for al Quaeda. Where's my congressman? Most of the time, I would advise people to NOT listen to those voices in their head. In your case, however, I think the voices may have a better grasp on reality. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket?