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I do not believe that money is "speech". Call it what it is, "bribery", outlaw it, throw all parties who participate in it in jail and then maybe we'll get our representative government back. $0.02 Bribery is such a harsh word. Let's call it "Sponcership" I'd like to see all the politions dressed like NASCAR drivers in nomex suits. (God knows, they're all flaming assholes) put the sponcership patches on them. Then we can see who is racing oops voting for what.

The union worker can go to the polls and vote. He should be allowed to donate to whomever he pleases. The stockholder can go to the polls and vote. He should be allowed to donate to whomever he pleases. The union president and the corporation president can go to the polls and vote. They should be allowed to donate to whomever they please. The collectives of the unions or corporations should NOT be allowed to do what the VOTERS are allowed to do. Those collectives cannot cast a ballot. I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that individuals are afforded their rights under the constitution, not collectives. An individual may invoke the 5th ammendment, Has a corporatin or union ever been allowed to do this or has it been the officials of the collective who do it? The ability to vote should determine where the money comes from. 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 quote that comes to mind, "(Mr. Reprasentative, have you no shame? At long last, have you no sense of decency?" That may not be exactly accurate but the idea still appliies. These assholes get paid a LOT of money. To do this sort of shit? At least to unemployed me it's a shitpot full of money. It's probably a good thing they're not paid by the word. The polititions would bankrupt the country faster than the Wall St. guys have. Oh, wait. They have just about bankrupted us already. 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 cop walking his beat late at night sees a drunk staggering along the sidewalk holding his car keys. The drunk says to the officer, "Ocifer, somebody shtole my car. It wash right here on the end of my key." The cop was about to go off duty and didn't want to do all the paperwork of arresting the drunk so he says, "Just go on home and you'll probably remember where it is in the morning, And zip yourself up, man. You're hanging out." The drunk looks down and says, "I'll be danmed! They got my girlfriend too." 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 hate most reviewers because for them, it's easy to call everything crap and be right 90% of the time. Quote Sad but true. And not just for movie reviewers. 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 mean, can you actually imagine thousands of these things flying around a city? nonononono! only if the piloting was totally remotely controlled by satellite could it ever ever work. I think it's a good idea. But I would want the "Guns and Rockets" option. (Along with the leather seats and CD player.) There are too many idiots operating motor vehecles on the highway. Turning them loose in the air... 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 visuals give big fright, high pucker, and a strong-sick wiish to be anywhere else. Heavy Fear sits on you hard. Quote "It's better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you down here." Goes along with: "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." And like someones signature line here: "Live and learn,,, if ya live." 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?

Thanks for helping me out. Can you PM me and tell me how that's done? 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?

Here's a link to David's Website. If I can make it clicky. http://intervision-djr.com/poptops/rick1poptopsopening.htm[url] 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?

BLACK HUMOUR AMONG SOVIET AIRBORNE TROOPS SAYS THAT, IF NEITHER THE MAIN NOR THE RESERVE PARACHUTE OPENS, THE PARACHUTIST STILL HAS A WHOLE TWENTY SECONDS TO LEARN TO FLY. Quote Well, ther Russian soul DOES have a sence of humour.

"All that is required for Evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing." When extremests and fundamentalests hijack an idea or religion, the mainstream should point them out and shout, "Blaspheamer!!" The deafening silence of mainstream Islam is puzzeling just as the mainstream West. Osama bin Ladin and Pat Robertson are "Brothers of Different Mothers." There's really not that much difference in what they say. Take what each one says and swap the proper nouns around and each one sounds just like the other. They each should be called Blaspheamer. This is more important than just pointing out that the emporer has no clothes. They should be denounced and ridiculed and then ignored. 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'll believe it when I see it happen. A lot of people are invested in this idiotic "war". Too many people have too much of a vested interest to let this go. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Prohibition was the greatest thing that ever happened for Organized Crime. The current Prohibition is what gave the Cratels, Drug Lords, and all the other bad guys all the money to be so scary. If the current Prohibiton was stopped, a lot of people would be out of a job. Both the "good guys" and the Bad Guys. 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 have a perfect example of this...biker bud of mine picked up a girl hitch hiking, she said she was hungry and not really going anywhere, so he took her to his house and feed her...then gave her a ride to where she wanted to go! Next day, his house was broke into, tool box,and jewelry stolen... Turns out the hitcher knew friends of mine, and tried to sell his stuff to them! (plus nieghbors saw her and the discription wa perfect) I confronted her, and first thing I asked was, "WHY would you steal from a guy that helped you out?" The cunt, (sorry only word that fit her) say's, "If he didn;t want me to steal his shit, he should have never shown me what he had worth stealing"! SHE felt Justified.... people can justify anything in their minds if they want to! This would fit right in the other thread, "Why can't I pop a women in the mouth?" This bitch would certainly blur the lines. "If you didn't want my punch your teeth out, you shouldn't have shown them to me." That's the same sort of justification. 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?

Led Zeppelin started Metal Music before Metal Music was a catagory. Jimmy Paige use a violin bow on his double necked guitar. 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?

OK, let's keep going with high wind stories: This was about a year after I learned that I didn't want to jump in hight winds, In Jacksonville we had been kicked off Herlong Field and went to a cow pasture across the highway. It was a wide open field with one pine tree in it. We were under the packing tree guessing that the wind was around 20 MPH. We were about to go get beer when tha pilot metioned that he had a glider plane tow rope in his trumk. Yeah, we might have some fun with that. Out comes a T-10 and an old harness. We attach the tow rope to the harness at the crossing diagonals so that the rider is facing the canopy. Well, this was kinda fun. We just got dragged back and forth in a 45 degree arc. The beer got back and that made it a little more fun. Then Albert (forgot his last name) says a PC would get us off the ground. I don't remember who it was that said, "Yeah, but would that be a good idia?" Albert wanted to do it so why not. And he did get off the ground. About 15 or 20 feet. I took a ride and almost immediately knew this to be a BAD idia for me. I got down and opened a beer. Albert on the other hand, said if a PC would do this well what would my Delta II be like? Well, it was Albert and he wanted to so... As I was getting it out of the trunk, the wind REALLY kicked up. 35 to 40. Albert goes up and starts hollerin' "GET ME DOWN!! GET ME DOWN!!!!" The rope is 100 feet long and it's up at 40 or 45 degrees. We start to try to get on the rope and walk it down but it's also going back and forth trying to kill us all. We got Albert down to maybe 15 or 20 feet when he, for some unknown reason, thought it would be better to slide out of the saddle and just hang on with his hands.With the canopy going back and forth he lets go and to this day I have no idea how he managed to not land on his head. One ankle had a broken bone or 2. The other ankle was destroyed. This was in 1971, before all the replacement parts came to be. Albert made one jump a year and a half later and we had to carry him to the plane. When tha winds come up, GO TO THE BAR. 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?

This has been up for 30 min. had 31 views, 2 other responders and nobody's said it yet? BEER!

I dunno man! I didn't make the graphic, but if you consider the line as a bell curve . . . whammo . . . LA is toast (if it ever actually happens). The 1908 meteorite that hit Tunguska Siberia was probably using a beta version of mapquest.

Does the 3rd image (tod2) show the invention of the powere line landing?

High Wind Story: Back before ram air canopies, the reason for pulling the ripcord was so that you could jump out of an airplane again. Well, I'll tell you that the reason to not jump in high winds is the same reason. It was the fall of 1970 in Jacksonville, Fla. Our little group (maybe 6 or 7) used a C-172. This particular Saturday the ceiling was maybe 4,000 ft. but the winds were probably 30 to 35. Three of us really wanted to jump. The rest were content to start drinking. Some body said, "Cross country." Yeah, that's the ticket. So we go up and throw a WDI. It went into the next county. OK. 4 miles sounded about right. A hop-&-pop at 4,000 ft, 4 miles away with Para-Commanders. What's wrong with this picture? We go out and the other 2 guys who had a lot more experience (a few hundred jumps compared to my 40 or 50) immediately started holding. I, on the other hand wanted to get back over the air port before I started holding. Big mistake. The other 2 guys landed where they were soposed to. I was barely able to make the far side of the air port. I made a run across some trees and turned back into the wind between the tree line and the runway. In the next 15 seconds, I believe I experieced all the violence of an entire NFL game. Only the far tree line stopped the canopy. I slowly gathered up my canop and started wakding back. A truck came out to get me (retrieve the body, I think is how they put it) For the first time in my short jumping carreer, I just put my gear in the trunk instead of packing, I went back home and laid on the couch for the next day and a half. The best way to make sure you can jump tomorrow is to survive today. 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?

Yeah. We live in a world where 50% of the pwople control 100% of the pussy.

I know it's a little late but I just ran across this in an old trunk of old stuff. I would guess that it came from the a newspaper colunm in Birmingham, Ala. in the early 1940s. It sounds like the dialect is from NYC so I have no idea what it was doing in a southern paper. I don't know who wrote it but I guess I should offer appologies to Clemment Moore. St. Nick Visits the Salesgirl ‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the flat Not a creature was stirrin’ (include me in that) My stockin’s a little the worse for the wear, Was hung on the back of a three-legged chair; Outside snow was fallin’ in beautiful flakes, But I didn’t care – I was too full of aches; I’d worked in a store through the holiday strife, And was plannin’ to sleep for the rest of my life, When up from the airshaft there came such a clatter I leaped out of bed to see what was the matter; (I thought at the time ‘twas a nut down one flight, Who starts up his radio late every night; So I went to the window and loudly did cry, “Is this Christmas Eve or the Fourth of July?” When what to my dead-with-sleep eyes did appear But a hinky-dink sleigh and eight tiny reindeer! And who should be drivin’ right up to the door But one of them masquerade guys from the store! I said to myself, “What can be this guy’s game?” When he clucked to his reindeer and called ‘em by name; Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now Prancer! Now Vixen! On Comet! On Cupid! In Donder and Blitzen!” An’ just as I’m dopin’ what next he will do, Right up to the housetop the whole outfit flew! And then in a twinklin’ I heard on the roof The prancin’ and pawin’ of meat on the hoof; (Just imagine my feelings, with sleep nearly dead And some sap with an animal act overhead!) As I drew in my neck and was turnin’ around, Down the chimney my visitor came with a bound; A big bag of junk he displayed with a grin, And he acted to me like he’d like to move in. He was chubby, good-natured and oozin’ with glee, But I ask you dear reader, what was it to me? The point that I make it ‘twas then 2 o’clock, And a man in my room without stoppin’ to knock! I was thinkin’ how noivy he was and how slick When he says to me, “Lady, I’m only St. Nick.” Well, a poor tired store slave in no mood for fun, I gave him a look and I asked him, “Which one?” “As a Christmas rush salesgirl,” I said “you’ll agree That a look at St. Nick is no big treat to me; This had gone far enough and this bunk’s gotta stop— Take the air with them goats or I’ll yell for a cop!” He spoke not a word but went on with his work, And filled up my stockin’s then turned with a jerk. And layin’ a finger aside his red nose, And givin’ a nod, up the airshaft he rose. He sprang to his sleigh with a shake of his head, And I pulled the shades down and fell into bed. “Merry Christmas!” he called as away his deers fflew, And I just gave a yawn and I answeres, “Sez you!” 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?

WARNING: GRAPHIC DETAILS MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR SENCEITIVE READERS. Joe Morgan told me that he had a set of medical examiner photos from a bounce (fatality) at Elsinor that he used in his first jump course. The dead guy was a "no pull." The pictute showed him in a stable, face down position. His helmet had come off and his head split open and his brain had popped out. You could see the ripcord and the brain in the same picture. Joe said that he would say, "If he had used this (pointing to the brain) this (the ripcord) wouldn't be laying here. If he had used this (the ripcord) this (the brain) wouldn't be laying here." This was before USPA started their "Mainstreaming" of skydiving advertising. 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?

That is a really pretty one and I'm not even a Joni Mitchel fan. But I prefer Jimmy Buffets "Cowboy in the Jungle" for the expat sentiment. But I'm from Fla. Living in Robeson County North Carolina is an awful lot like living in a third world country.

But you need to be careful. Back about '77 a friend said that he had found a solution to the problem. No one ever accused this guy of being subtle. One night on a 2 lane road with a ditch on each side, the oncomming car wouldn't dim their lights. So my friend picks up his 2,000,000 candle power Q-Beam Spotlight from the seat beside him and shined it into the oncomming headlights. Just as he was going by the other car, who was heading into the ditch,he saw the Jacksonville Police paintwork on the door. No, he didn't stop or even slow down. He took the spotlight out of his car and mentioned that he probably should not have a gun in his car either. 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?