The Bob Show

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Re: The Bob Show

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Clear? Clear!
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/18 23:58:42 UTC

From my airplane flying, it was customary to open the cockpit window and yell "Clear Prop!!!" before starting the ignition. That was a warning that if you were near the prop ... get out of there now!!

To be honest, it's never been "clear" to me what the word "clear" means in launching a hang glider. I generally try to launch with no one touching the wires at the moment that I commit. I figure if I can't hold it without wire help for a second or so, then I'm really gambling. So when I use the word "clear" I'm usually saying it with everyone already "clear". But I don't know if that's a common usage or not.

This is a good topic of discussion. Since words are meant to communicate something ... it's good to be sure that "something" is the same for everyone who participates in that communication!! Image
I figure if I can't hold it without wire help for a second or so, then I'm really gambling.
But neither you nor anyone else is really gambling when being on launch minus crew when allowing the wing to float up six inches into the turbulent jet stream to verify suspension tension is near certain death.

Everybody's gotta wear a helmet at all times when connected to a glider no matter what for very obvious safety reasons but get on a howling ramp unassisted with millimeter wide safety margins... NO PROBLEM. (Despite:
Craig Pirazzi - Telluride / Paradox, Colorado - 43151 - H4 - 1989/03/27 - Luigi Chiarani - AT PL ST AWCL CL FSL RLF TUR XC
buying it just APPROACHING launch unassisted on 2015/08/24.)

You pull this disingenuous bullshit to facilitate your bullshit political maneuvering efforts the contradictions WILL catch up with you, Bob - whether or not you acknowledge the reality. The blatant contradictions WILL BE caught.
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Re: The Bob Show

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http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5075
Shall We Ban Bob K from the SHGA Forum?
Ban BobK + any quotes or paraphasing
Ban BobK but allow quotes or paraphrasing
Leave Bob alone
Engage Bob. Back him when he's right about something. Cut him to shreds the other 99 percent of the time.
NMERider - 2016/01/20 18:32:00 UTC

I can't speak for anyone else but I no longer wish to see any new posts by Bob K on the SHGA forum.
I know a really effective and simple solution for that issue, Jonathan.
I also don't want to see him quoted or repeated. He has made himself persona non grata in my book.
Apparently not in all Greblovillains' books - or you wouldn't need to worry about him being quoted or repeated.
Bob has his own forum...
That should be grounds for banning right there. When someone has one place to speak he certainly shouldn't be permitted to speak in other places.
...The US Hawks and is free to post whenever and whatever he wants there. The US Hawks is free to join with the exception of Tad.
Nah, Tad isn't free to join and he had to pay pretty heavily the whole time he WAS over there.
If SHGA members want to rag on Bob they are free to join Kitestrings.org and rant away on the Bob Show thread.
No they're not. Most of the people in this sport qualified to be on Kite Strings are already on Kite Strings. We're going for quality over here and quantity at the expense of quality will not fly.
Jeff Chipman - 2016/01/20 18:37:41 UTC
Sylmar

I'm trying to implement the ignore mod.
For your scores of Greblovillains too fucking stupid to be able to figure out how not to read stuff they don't wanna read. Better redouble your efforts.
So for those of you that need some clarity in life without the clutter of what you find offensive.
...try using North Korea as a model.
You can use it to your hearts content.
That previous sentence wasn't a sentence and "hearts" is supposed to have an apostrophe in it.
You'll see the button but it is not currently working and I'm trying to sort out the details.
What a superb expenditure of your time and effort.
In the meantime, until that button is working you can go here http://shga.com/forum/phpBB2/ignore.php
I got some ideas on where they can go. Wanna hear them?
There you will be able to IGNORE anyone you feel "worthy" of your upturned nose
Bob Bendetson - 2016/01/20 18:58:47 UTC

I completely understand some members being annoyed with Bob K. He's that irritating mosquito (the bug, not the harness) buzzing in our ears. But the nastiness and name-calling in the threads always seem to come from our side, not Bob's. He's obviously passionate (albeit possibly wrong-headed), but censoring him? As with the Internet, if you don't like what you're reading, then stop reading! But banning him seems childish.
Maybe there is someone over there who'd be welcome over here after all.
Jeff Chipman - 2016/01/20 19:07:55 UTC

Yep, I'd agree. Feel free to ban him in your own "little" world by using the ignore URL.

Make sure you login to so that the board (forum) can determine your ignore list.

Bob K, please do not assume this is an endorsement to your view.
Why should he? Why even make a statement like that?
Just providing a solution to those that would otherwise ban you from their playground.
Why accommodate people who would ban someone from "THEIR" playground who hasn't violated any rules?
I believe there has already been enough of that in this community.
Fuck communities.
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Re: The Bob Show

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Shall We Ban Bob K from the SHGA Forum?
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/20 19:17:14 UTC

I fear living in a world dominated by people not familiar with this statement:
I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Must make it pretty tough to live with yourself, huh Bob?
Thanks Bob and Chip.

Bzzzzzzz. Image
You didn't fuck Bob and Chip over the way you did me.
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/20 19:35:54 UTC

OK, that was my short post ... here's my long one.

As a forum moderator, I've also had to grapple with the banning people.
"Grapple"? Is that what you did?
So far, the only actual ban has been Tad.
Yeah, Steve you just hopelessly crippled.
Tad's posts were full of foul language and comments wishing that various people would die.
1. Quote some.

2. Motherfuckers are gonna die in this sport, Bob. A whole shitload of them bought it last year. And some of them bought it because of the crap they were fed by motherfuckers who didn't die but deserved to. Every motherfucker who helped shoot down the preflight stomp test message has some of Rafi Lavin's blood on his hands, fer instance.
There were also other liability matters which I believe posed risks to others and to our organization.
1. You BELIEVE that stalls are harmless, Sam is quite a genius!, and spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is like flexing a downtube.

2. Fuck you.

3. Go ahead, Bob. Run your mouth about unrepentant child molesters and tell me why, if you're so fucking concerned about the safety of people of varying ages, liability matters, risks to Fake Others, you've made ZERO effort in the subsequent four plus years to address any issues with SOPs.
But even in the extreme case of Tad...
The EXTREME case of Tad? One of your motherfuckers splattered another one of your motherfuckers all over the edge of the airport...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8143/7462005802_bbc0ac66ac_o.jpg
Image

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28211
Platform towing fatality in Leakey, Texas
NMERider - 2012/06/19 01:36:26 UTC

The pilot had a brush with fate a year earlier:
http://www.kitestrings.org/post453.html#p453
This is very sad.
Gregg Ludwig - 2012/06/23 20:15:21 UTC

What is that saying?..."He does the same thing over and over but expects different results."
...and you didn't even blink.
I still wish we could have found a better solution...
"WE"? Who the fuck were the "WE"...
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/12/15 01:26:02 UTC

Re: Peaceful Coexistence

Tad,

After our last conversation which I've documented below for my own memory, I've decided that I don't want you on the US Hawks forum any longer. Period. I'll take the lumps for banning you if that's what it takes.
...working on finding a better solution? Where are the transcripts of the discussions and voting records?
...and I do believe that Tad has a lot to contribute to the sport.
Great, Bob! 'Cause I'm over here contributing to it right now.
Our struggle...
...Mein Kampf...
...in dealing with Tad has highlighted the need for some fair rules governing forum participation.
Really? What's wrong with Emperor Bob just saying, "After our last conversation which I've documented below for my own memory, I've decided that I don't want you on the US Hawks forum any longer. Period. I'll take the lumps for banning you if that's what it takes."? If it ain't broke...
Our...
...Fake...
...US Hawks Board of Directors grappled with that issue in discussing our Terms of Service. You can follow that discussion (and see the votes of our Board members) in these three topics:

http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1769
http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1766
http://ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1772
How 'bout THIS:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=1764
Review of Tad Eareckson's Ban from US Hawks
Bob Kuczewski - 2015/02/17 04:06:03 UTC

US Hawks Board Members,

I had promised Tad that a review of his ban would be brought before the US Hawks Board of Directors as soon as the Board was formed. So I am posting this request as the first issue to be considered for discussion and decision by the Board.

I am posting this as a member of the US Hawks (and not as a Board Member), and it is my recommendation - as a member - that the Board make the decision to defer this discussion for some number of months (2 to 6) so that the Board can get used to operating as a Board before making a decision that may significantly change the experience of all of our users on the forum.

Thank you for your time.

Respectfully Submitted,
Bob Kuczewski
Member of the US Hawks
discussion, Bob? Lying duplicitous motherfucker.
Our solution isn't perfect...
Lipstick on a pig.
...and we will surely need to revisit it from time to time.
Once every five or ten years should be plenty enough. Starting in about a month of course.
It's not an easy problem and it does bump up against some very important issues that have been with humans since we learned to speak.
What the hell. There've always been thugs and scammers who gain control of turf and make things run the way they want them to. Again... If it ain't broke...
The bottom line is that there will always be someone not liking something that someone else is saying. Any "solution" must provide a reasonably objective measure or metric so it is not abused.
How 'bout this?:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=802
AL's Second flight at Packsaddle how it went
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/10/23 16:29:29 UTC

I'm looking for people who can work together to build an on-line training manual for hang gliding. Yes, that does require a certain amount of agreeability and willingness to compromise. The only Training Manual that Tad can build is the one where he has 100% control.
Those rules, measures, and metrics should be spelled out in advance so people know - in advance - that they are violating those rules.
Still not seeing anything in your SOPs about unrepentant child molesters. The only person you've ever fully banned because he was - and is - an unrepentant child molester and still - four plus years later - absolutely NOTHING to ensure the safety of visiting people of varying ages?
It's never fair to make up rules "after the fact" and then apply them to someone supposedly "violating" them.
Nah, better just to say, "After our last conversation which I've documented below for my own memory, I've decided that I don't want you on the US Hawks forum any longer. Period. I'll take the lumps for banning you if that's what it takes." and dispense with any pretense of rules - existing or retroactive.
Due process starts with objective rules.
Reasonably and objectively pulled out of Emperor Bob's ass and applied anyway he feels like. Suck my dick, Bob.
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Re: The Bob Show

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http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5075
Shall We Ban Bob K from the SHGA Forum?
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/20 20:50:25 UTC

P.S. Your forum does have a terms of service that all members agree to upon signing up. I've included it below.
Oh good.
I don't believe that I've violated any of those terms. Furthermore, as Bob has pointed out, any attempt to stretch those terms to exclude my posts will end up more than covering the posts of many "on the other side".
That sorta thing never bothered you any on The Bob Show when I was getting attacked by douchebags like Charlie Schneider and Peter Birren.
SHGA Forum Terms of Service

While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed).
Note: Discussions about T** at K*** S****** being a senile lunatic who elected to have both of his testicles surgically removed on a whim are exempt from these Terms of Service.
...
NMERider - 2016/01/20 18:32:00 UTC

I can't speak for anyone else but I no longer wish to see any new posts by Bob K on the SHGA forum. I also don't want to see him quoted or repeated.
The reference to my own posts is bad enough, but JD's desire to presumably ban anyone who even quotes or repeats something that I've said is chilling.
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/HG_ORG_Mission_Statement
HangGliding.Org Rules and Policies
No posts or links about Bob K, Scott C Wise, Tad Eareckson and related people, or their material. ALL SUCH POSTS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DELETED. These people are poison to this sport and are permanently banned from this site in every possible way imaginable.
NMERider - 2016/01/20 21:52:49 UTC

Oh please Bob, This is a prime example of why I want you gone. You know damn well what I meant. I don't want you posting anything here any longer. You have overstayed your welcome in my book.
Skip the parts of your book that don't interest you.
I also don't want to see other forum members posting things you've written. Nowhere do I say that that I want anyone else banned because they chose to quote you or re-post things you've written elsewhere.
Why not? They're posting stuff you don't wanna read.
Honestly, I have no desire to ban you...
Do you have the power to ban him?
...but you write so many things that are questionable misleading and non-factual...
Then call him on it and discredit him. I always treasured the crap that Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney put in writing. And when the Ponzi scheme was collapsing in early 2013 my archive of his years of total rot was used to humiliate him and permanently shut him the fuck up.
...that it amounts to spam.
No it doesn't. Wanna see a good example of Bob spam?
Bob Kuczewski - 2012/01/15 07:11:25 UTC

Tad, you seem to be dodging this pretty simple question:
bobk wrote:Tad, as a 30 something year old man, you had a homosexual relationship with a 12 year old boy while you were in a position of trust with regard to that boy.

Do you think you did anything wrong?


In your answer please disregard the consequences of the law and of others who might have penalized or retaliated against either of you. I am only asking if you think you did anything wrong as a 30 year old man having a homosexual relationship with a 12 year old boy in isolation of the societal consequences.
Do you think you did anything wrong or not?
Lemme know when you've got something comparable over there.
You are spamming up the forum and I don't find it entertaining.
I do. The place is pretty fuckin' boring 99 percent of the time.
It's impossible to have an intelligent discussion on any topic anymore without you interjecting your personal B.S. into the discussion.
Try talking about the Terry Mason inconvenience fatality.
The USHPA expelled you with a preponderance of evidence and you were given every opportunity to present evidence to the contrary and you damn well know...
Total bullshit.
...it yet you claim your due process rights were violated?
Total travesty.
Please go away and post whatever the heck you like on your own corner of the web. Write all the letters to the editor of the San Diego tribune as you may please. Attend all the city counsel meetings that you like. But don't keep coming here and trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.
What? Greblovillains are too stupid to know when the wool is being pulled over their eyes?
It's far beyond tiresome. It's spam.
I'm far from bored.
Please post your spam somewhere else.
Bob Bendetson - 2016/01/20 22:29:11 UTC

JD, Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Funny. That's EXACTLY what I thought about Bob and his Homosexual-Relationship-With-A-12-Year-Old-Boy spam.
Is it possible you have a wee bit of a crush on Bob K.? And you're masking your lust with anger?
Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney too.
Tom Shaffer - 2016/01/21 00:42:38 UTC

No need to ban Bob. Just don't read his posts as someone may have said earlier. Just change the channel if you don't like what's on.
Wish I'd thought of something like that.
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/21 03:35:18 UTC

Yes, I do know "damn well" what you mean. But you didn't think it through very well.

If your solution to not seeing my posts is to ban me, then it's a logical extension that your solution to seeing other people quoting me would be to ban them as well. How else do you plan to enforce the rule that I can't be "quoted or repeated"?
How 'bout going after them for some personal relationship totally unrelated to hang gliding from two or three decades ago?
Jonathan, your inability to think through the logical consequences of your statements seems sadly consistent with your inability to think through the consequences of your flying choices.
Good, Bob. Play that game with him. 'Cept substitute flying stuff 'stead of personal relationships.
I've only watched a few of your videos and yet among those few I've seen you drop a burning canister from your glider over flammable brush and I've seen you land your hang glider in a prison.
Well Bob, all the law and order Judeo-Christian morality wack jobs have gone so nuts with locking people up for decades that lotsa times your only reasonable XC landing options are prisons.
I don't even need to mention the accidents you've had which demonstrate a pattern of not thinking through the consequences of your actions.
Probably lifts his wing into the turbulent jet stream just prior to launch too - when he already KNOWS he's hooked in. What an asshole.
The USHPA expelled you with a preponderance of evidence and you were given every opportunity to present evidence to the contrary and you damn well know it yet you claim your due process rights were violated?
That statement is also not true. There was no shred of any evidence of any violation of any USHPA SOP or bylaw or even rule ... let alone a "preponderance of evidence". For example, USHPA made the claim I that interfered with instruction at Torrey Pines. But there were no witnesses who testified to that because it never happened. There was also no opportunity for me to cross examine whoever made that claim. It was just stated by USHPA as a matter of fact - which it was not. The entire expulsion was a kangaroo court based on false or faulty evidence.
Have you got a Bob Show kangaroo court date for me yet? Speedy trial thing.
Take this quote from the April 18th, 2015 Rich Hass letter:
Rich Hass, President of USHPA wrote:In a subsequent restraining order hearing initiated by Air California Adventures against Mr. Kuczewski, the judge watched Mr. Kuczewski's own video of the confrontation and commented that Mr. Kuczewski's behavior was "just totally unacceptable behavior". The judge encouraged Mr. Kuczewski to avoid similar confrontations in the future.

Rather than heed the judge's admonishment, Mr. Kuczewski returned to the glider port within a week of the hearing and caused a similar confrontation. Once again, police were called after Mr. Kuczewski refused to leave. Police arrested him for the second time - this time for malicious mischief. On April 12, Mr. Kuczewski returned to the Gliderport with a reporter and TV cameraman. Once again, the Police were called when Mr. Kuczewski insisted on taking actions not authorized by the site administrator. Mr. Kuczewski finally obeyed the police officer's demands that he leave the gliderport and he was not arrested. USHPA's board will consider whether Mr. Kuczewski's behavior at the Gliderport is consistent with the purposes and interests of USHPA.
That sounds pretty bad doesn't it?
Not if you know how u$hPa officials and former u$hPa officials operate.
But what's left out is that I won the case and the restraining order was denied. It's also left out that while I was arrested for asserting my rights, the City of San Diego never filed charges and I can now go to the Gliderport - any time - WITHOUT BEING ARRESTED. Those are the victories that establish the rights of all people (hang gliding pilots, paragliding pilots, the general public, ... and even Jonathan Dyetch) to use our city parks without being bullied by the Jebbs.
But not, of course, unrepentant child molesters. Open season on them for life and beyond.
USHPA pulled the trigger on my expulsion based on false allegations that had not run their course through our court system to be proved false. Shame on USHPA.
I didn't realize you had such high regard for the court system, Bob. It seemed to me that you wanted to inflict a whole shitload of bonus prizes...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=884
The Bob Show
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/12/16 20:50:32 UTC

I think this topic is mostly done. It was a sad ending, and I wish it had turned out differently.

But I did want to address Warren's comments on double jeopardy. We have a system of justice that requires people to "pay" for their crimes. Sometimes that payment is money, sometimes it's service, sometimes it's jail, and sometimes it's even death. But along with the notion of "paying" there should also be some level of remorse indicating a willingness to not repeat the offense. That's what Tad never exhibited, and that's what concerned me the most. Tad's unwillingness to admit he was wrong (in this very obvious case) was symptomatic of all the problems we've had with Tad in many other areas. His refusal to condemn his own conduct also made it difficult to have him on a forum where we do not screen people based on their age.
...above and beyond all the legal/constitutional stuff. Lifetime ostracism for not validating the values of self righteous Nazi bigots and bullies.
The only remaining question is whether USHPA will reverse itself now that the truth is coming out.
Yeah, right.
My guess is they'll core this sink right into the ground just as they did with the insurance program that the members paid for with decades of membership dues.
And complicity with all the u$hPa/Industry scams - the standard aerotow weak link probably being the most outrageous example.
Robb Derringer - 2016/01/21 03:39:25 UTC

I agree completely with JD in this matter. This guy offers nothing useful, informative or helpful in any way. His "discussions" are completely biased, divisive and duplicitous. He is clearly motivated by a desire for revenge at being ousted by USHPA and thus only seeks to misinform, confuse and clog up every attempt at genuine discussion of our concerns as a club/community with his blaring, tedious and histrionic opinion. To my knowledge BobK is not a member of SHGA, is clearly not a member of USHPA and thus sadly not an active member of our community. Why is he being allowed to control, dominate and conversely censor our forum and threads with his tedious never ending diatribe? Unfortunately, I agree, and again ask that BobK be banned from our club, forum and premises.
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=756
Discussion with Tad about Towing / Foot Launch
2011 US Nationals, Big Spring, Texas
Charlie Schneider - 2011/08/12 12:15:45 UTC

"(and there aren't a whole lot of Dragonfly drivers that I'm gonna get too choked up about)."

I think this pretty much sums things up. What kind of person thinks like this? Absolutely no one I would ever respect, honor or have anything to do with. What a looser. This attitude alone undoes every single thing that guy ever tried to do that was worh while. So what do you have left? Worthlessness with worthless advice. Un f'_cking believable.

Pilgrim

PS: I apologize in advance to the other folks on this site for the 14 page rant that is to come trying to rationalize this unbelievable statement. Good luck because I will not be buying that crap. HHPA was right on to dump this guy. He ain't no good for anything but screwing the pooch.
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Re: The Bob Show

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http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5075
Shall We Ban Bob K from the SHGA Forum?
NMERider - 2016/01/21 03:58:58 UTC

The above statement is filled with falsehoods and personal attacks in direct violation of Sylmar forum rules.
Where are they? And if they exist why was zero effort at enforcement made back at:

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson
I have never landed in a prison. I have never dropped a burning canister from my glider onto flammable brush. I have a well-established ability to think through the logical consequences of my statements my flying choices.

For the above reasons alone I believe it would be in the best interest of the SHGA to remove BobK from the forum before he expands his personal attacks, falsehoods and vitriol onto more members of the community. It's disgraceful for the club to permit such an individual to participate here. This is not a public park. This forum is not public property.
Maybe you can get him for plagiarism, Bob. Sounds so very much like the stuff you and your Dedicated Bob Show Sycophants were saying about me.
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/21 04:01:02 UTC

I have been a member of the SHGA on and off since 2004. Since I live in San Diego, there have been lapses in my membership from time to time, but as far as I know the Sylmar Forum does not remove members just because they are not current. If the SHGA wants to establish such a policy, then it should be enforced for everyone. I would discourage such a policy since it further fragments an already small group of pilots.
Cool.
This call for my removal is very much like a lynch mob, and it's motivated by some of the worst aspects of human behavior.
While what you motherfuckers did to me four years ago was so very noble.
It reminds me of the Salem Witch trials where hysteria ran unchecked in a small community ... and they put people to death.
Oh do tell me about it, Bob.
That's the DNA that lives in each human being and it can only be overcome with the calm rational thinking demonstrated by Chip, Bob B, and TomS. Thanks to each of you.
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/21 04:14:46 UTC

I assume I'm speaking with Jonathan Deytch also known as NMERider.
1. Duh.
2. And don't bother getting his name spelled right.
Please correct me if that's not true, and I will swiftly apologize for my mistake.

I didn't say "onto flammable brush". I said "over flammable brush". I am referring to the video of your burning smoke canister coming loose and dropping from your glider as you flew from Crestline launch to do aerobatics over the LZ. Does that help your memory?
Not as much as it would if you posted the link to the video.
I am referring to a video where you recently flew along the Crestline ridge and landed in a closed, gated, and guarded facility which I believe was either a prison or some other form of correctional facility. Does that help your memory?
See above.
Neither of those are personal attacks. They are simply a recounting of the actions of someone I've known as Jonathan Deytch. If that's not you, then please accept my apology.
NMERider - 2016/01/21 04:30:32 UTC

You made false and misleading statements against a member of this forum.
1. How 'bout the videos, Jonathan?

2. Why the fuck should it matter whether or not false and misleading statements are made against a member of some stupid glider forum? The obvious implication is that it's totally OK to make false and misleading statements against anyone who ISN'T a member of some stupid glider forum. And hell, whenever you wanna make false and misleading statements against a member of a stupid glider forum just arbitrarily ban him first. No problem then. Go ahead and gang rape him.
You did so in the course of executing a personal attack. You need to be removed.
So show me the legitimate process you have in place for removing people. Got any provisions for rights and protections of a targeted individual? Or is it just whatever any lynch mob feels like doing?
Orion Price - 2016/01/21 04:46:36 UTC
Speaking of false and misleading statements, personal attacks, blindingly obvious outrageous lies. Anybody who tolerates this motherfucker in his midst has ZERO moral authority to say ANYTHING.
1. It's inevitable. He can't stop what's he's doing.
Hanggilding.org BANNED
Paraglidingforum.com BANNED
ozreport.com BANNED
crestlinesoaring.org BANNED
1. So if somebody's been banned from other forums it's a no brainer that he should also be banned from whichever one he's participating at the moment.

2. Kite Strings is the only forum from which Bob's been LEGITIMATELY banned. And it's also the only one from which he's been unbanned to restore the full access he had with his original account. I have requested that he not post here but all of his relevant statements get quoted and fully responded to.
They all tried to work with him.
Wonderful tolerant patient individuals every one.
To the effect: "Bob it's cool to have your opinion, just tone it down."
Yeah, just like in the US Constitution. Freedom of speech - just keep it toned down to a level that everyone's happy with.
His response is something like you see on shga "Everyone is out to get me, Rosa Parks, 1st amendment rights, GO USA."
Suck my dick, pigfucker.
2. He hasn't been silenced. He just keeps running his same record. We've heard all your bullshit. Talk about something else.
Like Tad electing to have his testicles removed. That just never gets old. Maybe throw in something about Tad's mom electing to have one of her breasts removed.
3. He boots kooks off his forum.
Tad isn't a Grebloville member so it's totally OK for him to make personal attacks unchallenged - right Jonathan?
So his arguments here are pretty funny. It's only free speech when it's his. Why can't we also boot kooks as well.
Bob didn't boot a kook. Bob booted an unrepentant child molester to make The Bob Show a safe place for people of varying ages to visit. And it was obviously the right decision - in the four plus years since The Purification not one single visiting person of a varying age has been raped and murdered. So let's hear it for Emperor Bob.

And it's REAL TELLING, OP, that with all the crap you've flung at me at every opportunity you've consistently treated that issue like plutonium. Please tell us why you're not playing this very obvious card that scumbags like Davis Straub, Jim Rooney, Bob Kuczewski, Sam Kellner, Paul Hurless, Brad Barkley have had so much fun with.
In this clip bob is explaining why people like him need treatment and not ejection from USHPA.
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You aligned yourself with this motherfucker against me when it was convenient and now you're getting from him EXACTLY what you deserve.
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/21 06:53:57 UTC

By the way, it appears that - purely coincidentally and just today - the Sylmar forum now has 2 new members named:

aoeuaoeu
ueoaueoa


I didn't create them and I don't know who did, but I suspect they were created to cast "votes" in this poll. Maybe the moderator can match IP addresses to see who they might really be. Image
Obvious sock puppets - like Bob Show Nobody.
Regardless of who they really are, they do highlight the fact that any poll on a forum - especially a forum where anyone can register - is neither scientific nor reliable nor worthy of any action against a real person.
Versus:
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/12/15 01:26:02 UTC

Re: Peaceful Coexistence

Tad,

After our last conversation which I've documented below for my own memory, I've decided that I don't want you on the US Hawks forum any longer. Period. I'll take the lumps for banning you if that's what it takes.
and then cowering behind THIS:
Bob Kuczewski - 2015/12/29 03:27:48 UTC

Your response to essentially reactivate your account is something I won't do without the approval of the Board.
bullshit.
I'm not against people using fake names to conceal their identity from all the identity thieves out there...
That is NEVER why anybody uses a fake name on a glider forum.
...but on our forum we...
Meaning Emperor Bob.
...have a rule that people cannot attack others without confirming who they really are.
1. Unless the other is Tad. Then it's open season.
2. Show me the archives in which this rule WE have on OUR forum was proposed, discussed, and voted into policy.
It cuts down on the sock puppets...
Yeah Bob. You have fewer sock puppets than you would have if our forum didn't have that rule.
...and drive by snipers ... not to mention the voter fraud.
Also not to mention the fact that the only Bob Show member who has a vote that actually counts for anything is Emperor Bob.
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you need to be careful about which of the voices you are going to listen too.
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I SEE THINGS THAT ARE NOT THERE!
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/21 16:20:25 UTC
Bob Bendetson - 2016/01/20 18:58:47 UTC

...the nastiness and name-calling in the threads always seem to come from our side, not Bob's.
Thanks Bob. The nastiness that you mention now includes use of my likeness (video frame in this case) in a defamatory manner.
http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson
Orion Price - 2013/03/11 15:12:28 UTC

Final bit of troll food, I read about Tad's reputation this morning.

Tad Eareckson is a generally discounted crackpot and internet troll. He doesn't fly and has been perma-banned from most everywhere: .org, oz report and all the local club websites with discussion forums like ours.

He has two main speaking points. 1. All HG landings should be done prone as belly landings using wheels. All other foot landings are suicidal, he will say. He schadenfreudes hard at our accidents and especially fatalities 2. He is a self proclaimed "engineer" and inventor of Rube Goldberg tow bridles. As you can see his elegant designs are a huge commercial success sweeping the industry. His explanation of how his bridles work indicated he doesn't have any education on the subject.


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His situation reminds me of a tragedy of a family friend. As began to loose his edge, he proportionality wanted to write people weirder and weirder letters. Newspaper editors, distant relatives, and especially the government would receive long rants pointing out his intelligence and schadenfreuding over their failures. Eventually his internet usage had to be monitored, and his snail-mail letters "mailed" by someone else. The failure mode exhibited here is nearly identical.
Fuck you, Bob.
As Chip has pointted out, anyone not wanting to read my posts can use the "ignore" button.
Let me point out that anyone who needs an "ignore" button to be able to not read something he doesn't wanna read is a total douchebag.
Jonathan's continued call for my ban isn't about what he doesn't want to read. It's about what Jonathan doesn't want anyone else to read.
But Emperor Bob's extrajudicial banning of Tad most certainly wasn't because Bob wanted to silence a dissenting voice upsetting his cult members...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1701
Complaints about Tad
Rick Masters - 2015/01/16 18:59:15 UTC

He has concerns about people trying to muck up the forum, but he has also dealt effectively with Tad.
It was all about making The Bob Show a safe place for people of varying ages to visit.
Steve Murillo - 2016/01/21 20:55:02 UTC
Manhattan Beach

Bob K

Please ban Bob. He's exhausting. We've heard it all before. We don't need to hear (read) it anymore. Please.
Then "WE" don't really need to make the deliberate effort to hear (read) it anymore do "WE", dickhead?
the bob show - 2016/01/21 21:21:26 UTC
http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5034
USHPA mailer re: donations for RRG
NMERider - 2015/12/20 04:44:45 UTC

Tad's Bob Show forum topic isn't devoted to tearing you down, Bob...
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i keep changing the channel (click) but the story is the same everywhere i go (click), bobk this, bobk that (click). what evil the USHPA is (click), just what part of bobk do we not understand.

(click) (click) (click).... DAMN!
1. Bull fucking shit.
2. Your anonymous post here being a prime example.
3. Try another medium - asshole.
Jim Shaw - 2016/01/21 22:11:23 UTC

That being said I am with TomS. We live the ol' U S of A, freedom of speech and all. Let's keep it this way here on our forum as well. Bob is already regulated to the political topics and now can be disinherited individually as well, thanks to Chip's efforts.

BTW, haven't y'all learned that the best way to have something go away is to ignore it? Some of you are guilty as sin in egging Bob on. And now you want him banned?

Bob K, I am sticking up for you to keep your freedom of speech here on this forum.
So far...
I just wish you will realize this one fact and maybe it will change your insistent behavior (and just maybe we can get back to the old Bob?). Hear me Bob...I, for one, and I am sure I am in the great majority, just want to go flying and having fun with my flying buds. And I just want it to be as easy an experience of doing so as possible. This is an escape from my other world of responsibilities, family obligations, worldly problems, etc. Bob, heed my words. Allow me, and quite possibly the great majority of us pilots, escape from our already overburdened normal life without having to reject you too, with a button or worse!
Totally fucking clueless.
Jim Shaw - 79677 - H4 - 2005/07/21 - Joe Greblo - AT FL RLF TUR
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/22 05:24:32 UTC

Jim, your kind and steady nature shines well in your words. Thanks!!!

I am the same "old Bob" that you knew long ago.
No shit. And always will be.
But we have lived in different worlds these past 10 years. I would love to have lived in the land of Sylmar. I'm sure you've got politics there, but from what I've seen everyone shares the love of flight, and that supersedes everything else.
And all we really need for hang gliding is love of flight. Fuck competence.
Unfortunately, I haven't lived in the land of Sylmar. I've lived in the land of Torrey. Torrey isn't run by a club where pilots can exercise democratic control. Torrey is run by a "concessionaire" and that has resulted in a completely different experience than my friends at Sylmar have known. USHPA has supported the concessionaire model over the club model at Torrey, and I believe that has resulted in a number of accidents that ended up contributing to (if not defining) our insurance fiasco.
And Bob's backyard is the only backyard that Bob gives a flying fuck about.
The good news is that Ken has agreed to meet with myself and hopefully other pilots to at least discuss a number of these and other problems. We're going to combine it with a fun day of flying at Dockweiler this coming Sunday. I hope you and all the great pilots at Sylmar will join us. I will, of course, want to discuss some issues specific to my expulsion, but I'm sure there will be time for lots of other topics as well.

The bottom line is simple. If you want to see the "old Bob" ... see him in the air. Image
Getting hard for me to remember the time that I flew.
Greg Kendall - 2016/01/22 06:42:04 UTC

I actually think that Bob shouldn't be banned from the forum, though I wouldn't object to limiting the amount of his posting some how.
Just a moderate amount of censorship for special individuals.
If he hasn't made his point by now, volumes more won't change that.
Right. Now let's have another discussion about perfecting one's flare timing.
I don't approve of most of what he says, but I will defend with 5 minutes of my spare time his right to say it.
Yeah, more than that and you might get into issues in which principles come into play.
Steve D - 2016/01/22 07:11:37 UTC

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
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Re: The Bob Show

Post by Tad Eareckson »

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5075
Shall We Ban Bob K from the SHGA Forum?
Orion Price - 2016/01/22 20:41:18 UTC
Greg Kendall - 2016/01/22 06:42:04 UTC

I don't approve of most of what he says, but I will defend with 5 minutes of my spare time his right to say it.
Funny how Bob will ban any kook he doesn't agree with on his own forum.
He didn't ban a kook he didn't agree with on his own forum. He banned a brilliant...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=463
Davis Straub's "Oz Report" Conflict of Interest
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/02/23 18:22:16 UTC

Tad,

I believe you're a brilliant fellow, and I'm happy to have you on this forum. Thanks for taking the time to post. I mean that very sincerely.
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=884
The Bob Show
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/12/13 05:55:39 UTC

If I boot you permanently it will be due to my concerns over the topic we discussed on the phone. This forum should be a safe place for people of varying ages to visit. You have not given me any assurances that's true with you on this forum.
... unrepentant child molester to make The Bob Show a safe place for people of varying ages to visit.

Then for reasons that he won't fully (or partially) disclose there)...

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson
Bob Kuczewski - 2013/03/10 18:20:34 UTC

Eventually (and for reasons that I won't full disclose here), it became necessary to ask Tad to leave the US Hawks forum, and he is currently the only person who's been completely banned from the US Hawks.
...it became necessary to ask the brilliant unrepentant child molester to leave The Bob Show. (And the brilliant unrepentant child molester told him that he wouldn't cave into the threats of a cowardly blackmailer and that he could go fuck himself.)

Most recently Bob banned the brilliant unrepentant child molester...
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/20 19:35:54 UTC

As a forum moderator, I've also had to grapple with the banning people. So far, the only actual ban has been Tad. Tad's posts were full of foul language and comments wishing that various people would die. There were also other liability matters which I believe posed risks to others and to our organization.
...because his posts were full of foul language and comments wishing that various people would die. (There were also other liability matters which he believed posed risks to others and to our organization.)

(And Emperor Bob is really good at assessing liability matters which...

US Hawks Hook-In Verification Poll
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/11/07 05:42:59 UTC

Sam, you are quite a genius!!
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8143/7462005802_bbc0ac66ac_o.jpg
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...he believes pose risks to others and to our organization.)

And you'll notice that while Bob was more than happy to deface Kite Strings with tons of his...

http://www.kitestrings.org/post1217.html#p1217
The Bob Show
Bob Kuczewski - 2012/01/15 07:11:25 UTC

Tad, you seem to be dodging this pretty simple question:
bobk wrote:Tad, as a 30 something year old man, you had a homosexual relationship with a 12 year old boy while you were in a position of trust with regard to that boy.

Do you think you did anything wrong?


In your answer please disregard the consequences of the law and of others who might have penalized or retaliated against either of you. I am only asking if you think you did anything wrong as a 30 year old man having a homosexual relationship with a 12 year old boy in isolation of the societal consequences.
Do you think you did anything wrong or not?
...Homosexual-Relationship-With-A-12-Year-Old-Boy his interest in the topic took a thousand foot plummet after I banned him. Didn't pursue the issue further elsewhere.

So if Bob is GENUINELY CONCERNED about risks to others (of varying ages) how come he's not screaming nonstop about the dangerous sexual predator in our midst and advising Grebloville to under no circumstances admit T** at K*** S****** to its forum where he would have unfettered access to the people of varying ages he so craves to satisfy his depraved appetites?

Compare/Contrast:

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=16265
weaklink
Kinsley Sykes - 2010/03/18 19:42:19 UTC

In the old threads there was a lot of info from a guy named Tad. Tad had a very strong opinion on weak link strength and it was a lot higher than most folks care for. I'd focus carefully on what folks who tow a lot have to say. Or Jim Rooney who is an excellent tug pilot. I tow with the "park provided" weak links. I think they are 130 pound Greenspot.
I've been calling Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney a dangerous incompetent douchebag since the beginning of time at every opportunity. His bullshit got one of his idiot friends and colleagues killed dead as doornail and you're gonna be hearing NO ONE argue to the contrary nowadays. Give me an opportunity to take a shot at that motherfucker and I won't be pussy-footing around about his foul language and my BELIEF that he poses risks to others. I'm gonna tell anyone who will listen that the world would be a much better place if he'd splattered terminally on 2006/02/21 and anybody who tolerates the son of a bitch within a ten mile radius deserves whatever happens to him.
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Re: The Bob Show

Post by Tad Eareckson »

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5075
Shall We Ban Bob K from the SHGA Forum?
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/22 22:29:02 UTC

Hello OP,
Your dear friend OP.
There has been an email discussion where I've suggested that this entire topic is essentially a personal attack.
Duh.
I have suggested that one solution would be to simply delete the entire topic which also addresses a demand by JD that my post should be removed. I don't know if that's the best solution, but it might be what the Board decides to do.
Go ahead. I've got everything worth commenting on archived and addressed over here.
Because your statement about banning "kooks" is important, and because this topic may disappear, I've opened a new topic in the "Politics" discussion to address your statement and open the discussion on the general pros and cons of banning people. Please feel free to read my response there and post your own thoughts.
I can hardly wait.
Thanks,
Bob
http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5084
General Discussion of Forum Banning
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/22 22:19:02 UTC

The discussion of banning people from the Sylmar Forum has come up, so I'm opening this topic in the "Politics of flying" forum to have a hopefully objective and constructive discussion. Let me start with a quote of a quote of a quote on the topic:
Orion Price - 2016/01/22 20:41:18 UTC

Funny how Bob will ban any kook he doesn't agree with on his own forum.
This nested quote pretty much covers both ends of the spectrum: reverence for free speech on one end (Greg's post), and silencing of accused "kooks" on the other end (OP's post). Since the reference to "kooks" was made with regard to the US Hawks Forum, let me open the discussion by describing our policy.
Why don't you just link to your SOPs?
First of all, the US Hawks has a main forum (which is overseen by myself and our currently advisory...
Fake.
...Board of Directors).
All elected to their positions by votes of one to nothing. Guess whose.
The US Hawks also has a number of club forums (Torrey Hawks, Southwest Texas Hang Gliders, Rio Grande Soaring Association, South Central New York Hang Gliders, etc). The club forums are completely overseen by their own Boards of Directors...
The Board of Directors for Southwest Texas is Sam Kellner. Guess who voted them into office.
...and the US Hawks honors and enforces whatever decisions are made by the leaders of those clubs.
So while Emperor Bob feeds you THIS:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/faq.php
Frequently Asked Questions
What will keep the US Hawks from becoming another USHPA or HGAA?
You will ... hopefully. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Everyone has to do their part once in a while. If you see something that's not being done correctly, then it's your duty to speak out. One big difference between the US Hawks and other organizations is that the US Hawks really does honor the free speech of its members.
bullshit, the individual Bob Show chapter member has ZERO rights and protections. If some pigfucker like Sam Kellner who deserves to be doing time for manslaughter in the Terry Mason fatality wants an individual and his posting history to disappear, Emperor Bob will happily honor the extrajudicial snuffing.
So, for example, we have some US Hawks members who are able to post in some sections of our forum, but are banned from particular club forums.
Name them, motherfucker. Or don't you want people to get a really good look at the way things are really run over there?
While the US Hawks may work to intercede on behalf of banned members from club forums, the final decisions rest 100% with the clubs.
So just like Bob, Torrey, u$hPa.
Outside of our club forums we've had a policy that we may ban people who may represent an actual threat to our members.
1. Unless it's an ACTUAL threat. The kind that ACTUALLY KILLS one of our members.

2. So can you quote this policy that we've had?

3. When did this policy that we've had go on our books? It wasn't something you...
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/20 19:35:54 UTC

Those rules, measures, and metrics should be spelled out in advance so people know - in advance - that they are violating those rules. It's never fair to make up rules "after the fact" and then apply them to someone supposedly "violating" them.
...just made up "after the fact" and then applied to someone supposedly "violating" it, was it Bob?
There has been one such case, and the details are mostly available for anyone willing to do the searching.
Here, people of varying ages, lemme make it real easy for ya:

http://www.kitestrings.org/post1019.html#p1019

Might also wanna take a look at:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=883
What will keep the US Hawks from becoming another USHPA or HGAA?
Bob Kuczewski - 2012/03/14 15:15:03 UTC

There are lots of things to learn from Tad's case. I am not convinced that I did the best thing, and I think it's good to talk about other alternatives.
(How y'all doing with those talks about other alternatives, Bob? Got any links to the threads?)
This ban was found to be consistent with our "Terms of Use"...
Sure it has...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=1764
Review of Tad Eareckson's Ban from US Hawks
Bob Kuczewski - 2015/02/17 04:06:03 UTC

US Hawks Board Members,

I had promised Tad that a review of his ban would be brought before the US Hawks Board of Directors as soon as the Board was formed. So I am posting this request as the first issue to be considered for discussion and decision by the Board.

I am posting this as a member of the US Hawks (and not as a Board Member), and it is my recommendation - as a member - that the Board make the decision to defer this discussion for some number of months (2 to 6) so that the Board can get used to operating as a Board before making a decision that may significantly change the experience of all of our users on the forum.

Thank you for your time.

Respectfully Submitted,
Bob Kuczewski
Member of the US Hawks
...Bob.
...which were recently reviewed by our advisory Board of Directors.
They found that I had indeed posted abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated and other material that may have violated some laws of our country, the country where "US Hawks Hang Gliding Association" is hosted or International Law. And I thank you from the very bottom of my heart for not turning me in to the various authorities to have me prosecuted for violating some laws of our country, the country where "US Hawks Hang Gliding Association" is hosted, and/or International Law.

And they also found that Peter Birren calling me a "fuckin' coward", "ignorant coward", "ignorant slut", and "asswipe" did NOT constitute abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated and other material that may have violated some laws of our country, the country where "US Hawks Hang Gliding Association" is hosted or International Law.

And here I was thinking that Bob banned me...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=877
Discuss Tad here
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/12/16 20:50:32 UTC

I think this topic is mostly done. It was a sad ending, and I wish it had turned out differently.

But I did want to address Warren's comments on double jeopardy. We have a system of justice that requires people to "pay" for their crimes. Sometimes that payment is money, sometimes it's service, sometimes it's jail, and sometimes it's even death. But along with the notion of "paying" there should also be some level of remorse indicating a willingness to not repeat the offense. That's what Tad never exhibited, and that's what concerned me the most. Tad's unwillingness to admit he was wrong (in this very obvious case) was symptomatic of all the problems we've had with Tad in many other areas. His refusal to condemn his own conduct also made it difficult to have him on a forum where we do not screen people based on their age.

All of these things went into my decision and I take sole responsibility for it. I am hopeful that someday the US Hawks will be a more self-governing body with elected officers. At that time, I would welcome them to review this case. But for now, I feel it's my job to do what I can to grow this organization to support the sport of hang gliding.
...to prevent me from using Bob Show personal messaging to prey upon his registered people of varying ages. But it actually had nothing whatsoever to do with that. It was really all about posting abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, and sexually-orientated material.

And THIS:
Bob Kuczewski - 2015/12/29 03:41:18 UTC

You had said you wanted to have your account activated to make certain things more convenient for you. That was my intention, and that's why I asked for specifics. Your response to completely reactivate your account is something I won't do without the approval of the Board. I proposed a topic to discuss that, but none of the other Board members have shown any interest. Having read your message below, I can see why.
Greblovillains, counts as a review by the Bob Show Fake Board of Directors. (Sorry, couldn't wait for the US Hawks to become a more self-governing body with elected officers. So just appointed a bunch of stooges and counted their saying nothing as a unanimous vote in support of my action.)
We also have a policy on personal attacks.
When did our Fake Board of Directors develop and implement our policy on personal attacks...
Bob Kuczewski - 2015/12/29 03:41:18 UTC

Your message below isn't what I expected, but it's probably what I should have expected. Silly me for thinking otherwise.

I didn't check with the Board before "pulling your plug" because we didn't have a Board at that time. But you already know that.
...Bob?
We don't outlaw personal attacks...
In fact, we encourage them whenever the target is someone we don't like saying something we don't want anyone to hear.
...but we do not allow them to be made by people who are posting with anonymous or unverified user names.
Even when we know perfectly goddam well that they're:
Steve Davy - 88875 - H3 - 2010/04/14 - Michael Jefferson - FL ST 360 AWCL CL FSL
We...
Bob.
...have felt that criticism is important in our sport, but so is accountability for one's statements. The use of anonymous names decouples criticism from accountability, and that's why we don't allow it.
So where is our vote on it?
People who make personal attacks, but are unwilling to be positively identified are limited to what we call the "Free Speech Zone" which is similar to the "Basement" in hanggliding.org.
When did we vote on what we would call it?
All of this involves a fair amount of work on my part (as forum administrator)...
Fuck yeah. It's not like Emperor Bob can trust anybody in his fake association to do anything of any substance.
...to create the proper subforum masks for the different people who might be banned from one club or another.
But silencing unpopular individuals with unpopular positions without justification, rights, review is so fundamental to the core values of The Bob Show that every hour of effort is worth a hundred.
In that regard, I am very sympathetic to Chip's job, and his recent implementation of the "Ignore" feature is a credit to his creativity in solving a similar problem.
Good ol' Chip. Stupid pigfuckers and closed minded bigots the world over applaud his efforts and creativity.
Fortunately, the US Hawks clubs and members have abided by our guidelines pretty well, and that's made the forum administration job much easier on me.
Yep, nuthin' quite like the brutal suppression of free speech and extrajudicial permanent exiling to make things run smoothly just the way WE want them to.
There's no doubt that free speech is an easier concept to say in a one-liner than to implement in real life.
Too bad, Bob. You've got such great one liners in your Mission Statement.
Free speech has been an ongoing struggle throughout the history of humanity, and that includes the present time.
I don't think the struggle's really worth it. I like your solution so much better.
I do believe that the anonymity of electronic communication exposes a whole new dimension of that problem and it removes some of the feedback constraints that had worked prior to widespread anonymity.
I've got less anonymity and more obscene intrusions into my privacy than anyone else in the entire history of hang gliding. Suck my dick, Bob.
I opened this topic as a hopefully non-confrontational and objective discussion of the topic any I welcome all constructive thoughts.
'Cept, of course, Tad's. Probably just something about going and fucking myself anyway.

And you wanted a cease-fire between the two of us during this critical period in the history of the sport? And you think that pulling bullshit like this is gonna help dial things down a bit?
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Re: The Bob Show

Post by Tad Eareckson »

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5075
Shall We Ban Bob K from the SHGA Forum?
Janyce Collins - 2016/01/23 02:37:33 UTC

Ok, here's what I don't get. It's not like ANY of us are all that active on the forum, anyway.
http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4725
Fatal Accident Near Las Vegas

Most important disaster in the history of hang gliding perpetrated by a Greblo product on the afternoon of 2015/03/27.
- Four short posts, the last four days after impact.
- Two of them are about what a great guy Kelly Harrison was.
- It's mentioned that "He was flying tandem with an 11 year old boy who also perished."
- 43 "Looking for a Safety Mascot" posts with no Safety Mascot actually found.
REGULAR pilots just talk to one another, the very next weekend...
...about what a really great Kelly Harrison was...
...on the way to launch... (Unless you are one of the gnarly hiking badasses--
...with BOTH testicles fully intact...
...and THEY never miss a trick!)
http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5033
Extraordinary Carnage for One Day
And, on our forum, we've got a few categories in which no one has posted since August, October, and November...
And one topic on an incident in which an eleven year old kid was murdered in front of his family in which no one has posted since April Fools Day.
Bob's posts are just words! He's not out there, unwelcomely caressing...
Hard to imagine any other kind, given the subject.
...or drunkenly punching, anyone!
Just lying his fucking ass off concerning the manipulations by which Yours Truly was axed from his dump.
WHO CARES?
I sure do. But let him talk. I'm pretty good dealing with motherfuckers like that when they put crap into print.
Just don't read it! Seriously! WHO CARES? (No offense, Bob. I see it's you, and think, "Do I really want to allocate my limited leisure time to reading this post? EFF, NO!") But I don't much care that it's there, just like I don't much care about all the random Star Trek vids.. WHO CARES? My time is precious...
No. If someone posts something on a glider forum you MUST read it - unless, of course, you're provided with an Ignore button. But even then you've gotta set it up and be logged in for it to work - so it's still a pretty dicey proposition.
I would assume that everyone would do the same! It's not like we have life-altering literature on our website!
You haven't read OP's stuff?
And the enormity of THIS, when counterbalanced against the fact that we might LOSE SO. CAL. flying altogether, or, (via SPITFIRE), could participate in a chance to help homeless (read: MENTALLY ILL and ABANDONED) people, for FREE; what the hell is wrong with us that we are all so focused upon Bob?
Have you tried taking the wristbands off?
Sorry, just my unwelcome 2 cents, but WTF??
Right. It's all about silencing a minority viewpoint. Been around in the sport longer than I have - get used to it.
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/23 03:39:25 UTC
No offense, Bob.
No offense taken.
Sorry, just my unwelcome 2 cents, but WTF??
Actually it's very welcomed ...
Yeah, she wrote "WTF??" instead of "What the fuck??" So it wasn't abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated and other material that may have violated some laws of our country, the country where "Sylmar Hang Gliding Association" is hosted, or International Law.
...like a breath of clean fresh unpolluted air in an otherwise smog-filled topic.
The regular smog generated by the Grebloville assholes and the ultra toxic stuff you carefully craft and constantly refine.
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Re: The Bob Show

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Poll question
Joe Faust - 2016/01/21 20:15:32 UTC
Los Angeles

Poll. Image

Ban personal attacks?
- Yes, ban personal attacks.
- No, permit personal attacks that go against forum policy.
1. What is "forum policy"? Where can I go to read it?

2. If personal attacks that go against forum policy are being posted without consequence then there is no effective forum policy. So then what would be the point of this poll?
NMERider - 2016/01/21 20:19:57 UTC

Can we all agree on what constitutes a personal attack?
I think we can all agree that anything said to and/or about T** at K*** S****** is totally OK.
Assuming we can't all agree on this then who is even qualified to judge?
How 'bout the current Grebloville president?
Can we all agree on a judge, referee or arbitor?
Rob Burgis. Total no brainer.
A real can worms here, Pandora.
NMERider - 2016/01/21 23:51:01 UTC

Joe,
Here's the problem. The sport of hang gliding is chock full of hypocrites and thin-skinned whiners who are great at dishing out abuse on their fellow pilots but are first rate pussies when it comes to being on the receiving end and the smallest sample of the very same abuse they dish out. So do we really we have to deal with a kindergarten filled with hypersensitive 50-something year old infants?
A lot of us are getting older than that.
Really? Isn't there an old adage that says, If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen?

The SHGA isn't known for being the most sensitive and diplomatic place to hang out. I've heard directly from numerous pilots who refuse to set foot in our LZ again because they can't take it. Really? It's not that bad but who am I to judge these things? I'm certainly no expert witness for emotional abuse hearings and trials. I have my share of detractors who like to whine and bitch about me behind my back. What of it? They do it just as much to my face! Poor little me!!

It's one thing to write or to post an obvious parody but it's another thing to falsely accuse somebody of having engaged in acts that are criminal offenses under multiple jurisdictions.
Smoking weed? Still a federal crime so a criminal offense anywhere you wanna go in the US.
That distinction should be obvious but somehow it gets lost when it comes to the SHGA forum moderation team. The SHGA isn't exactly known for being free from hypocrisy.

See, there? I made a personal attack on the SHGA. I insinuated that the club is hypocritical. Is that a personal attack that should be censored? Is it something else that we should all learn to live with? Hypocrisy is not a crime and neither is being one of Jerry's Kids. Of course, everyone knows that Jerry's Kids all have Muscular Dystrophy, don't they?

Does Bob have MD? I think it's obvious that he doesn't. I know people who do and it's not pretty. So why compare an obvious graphical parody or satire of oneself with people who really have a difficult cross to bear. It's not like anyone pasted Bob's face onto a child strapped into a wheelchair. That would be tasteless and offensive in my book.
How 'bout this semiliterate CRAP...

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5053
Writing Analysis of BobK 12/13 - 12/26 [infotainment]
Orion Price - 2015/12/29 22:17:33 UTC

Personally I find the physiology fascinating. A bizarre failure mode in the psyche of a trouble man. Tad Ericson went down the same route. Who knows, one day i might shit the bed and spiral into madness. A public meltdown displayed on hang gliding community internet forums. My concern with Bob is if he goes full Tad on us. Sadly Tad lost his balls in the same circumstances. Literally, he had his testicles surgically removed. I'm not joking.
...Jonathan? Tad lost one of his balls as a consequence of a mega advanced case of testicular cancer that was dealt with by a horrendous summer of chemo followed by a horrendous eleven and a half hour session of abdominal surgery. And not a single one of you Grebloville motherfuckers calls him on this.

Y'all DO know what cancer is...

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5024
The Passing Of A Friend

...right?
If the graphics rose to that level I'd agree with anyone who would want it taken down.

But when the combining of images and words is clearly absurd, it is also clearly absurd to interpret it as anything other than honor and nothing more.

May the Farce be with us!
Jedd I. Knight
Jim Shaw - 2016/01/22 01:11:18 UTC

Joe Faust, I have no doubt personal attacks should be banned and there should be zero tolerance. Just take a look at OP's comment at "donations" of the flying politics thread.
This one?:

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5076
Donations
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Jim Shaw - 2016/01/22 01:17:27 UTC

And there is no can of worms regarding personal attacks.
Since the controllers of hang gliding elected to sever it from the universe of legitimate aviation and aeronautical theory and make it a religion the sport is NOTHING BUT a personal attacks can of worms.
Let's not make a big thing out of nothing. elect someone ethical and trustworthy and let them decide. we don't need a committee to bog a simple situation down.
I like that idea. Just have a dictator deciding what everyone can and can't say and do. You good with that, Bob?
A judge of the United States Supreme Court found it very hard to define what hard-core porn was and famously said, "I know it when I see it".
And that solved that issue once on for all.
That ethical and trustworthy person who is chosen can do the same herein with personal attacks.
If only Grebloville had somebody who remotely resembled that remark. Oh well, it was a pretty good idea.
Jeez....
Idiot.
Rob Burgis - 2016/01/22 02:18:54 UTC

This bullshit ends now.
BudRob to the rescue! Let's hear it for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!
Since I am the club president I am appointing myself as arbitrator and asking that NOBODY make personal attacks on ANYONE else on our forum.
Go Bud! Bud for President For Life! World peace is finally within our grasp!
This forum is for fun, and it hasn't been much fun lately.
And all those bothersome fatalities we had last year certainly didn't help matters much - even as studiously ignored as they were.
I will be directing our forum administrator to delete anything that I interpret as a personal attack and keeping a list of how many times that needs to happen and from whom. So please, cool off and keep it fun.
Suck my dick, BudRob. Ditto for any and all of you Greblovillains who don't call this asshole on this bullshit.
Jim Shaw - 2016/01/22 11:23:19 UTC

Rob, thanks for cutting through the obfuscation from the gallery and handling the problem right here and now. You da Man!
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31052
Poll on weaklinks
Jim Rooney - 2013/03/05 21:40:02 UTC

You're afraid of breaking off with a high AOA? Good... tow with a WEAKER weaklink... you won't be able to achieve a high AOA. Problem solved.
Now back to having fun!
Go fuck yourself.
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Re: The Bob Show

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Shall We Ban Bob K from the SHGA Forum?
NMERider - 2016/01/23 15:57:21 UTC

I don't know how many USHPA members read through the evidence which included video recorded depositions and it was pretty abysmal. There was a preponderance of evidence for the offending member's expulsion.
I'm pretty sure I've snatched up, studied, commented on every scrap of information available on u$hPa's expulsion of Bob.

And Bob's a sleazy duplicitous motherfucker who's screwed me over in every despicable manner imaginable and then some and continues to do so.

So how come I still find the bullshit u$hPa pulled on him a total travesty?
Give him time people. Just give him time....
Nobody will go after him for any of the hundreds of excellent reasons they SHOULD be going after him.
Bob Kuczewski - 2016/01/23 16:49:01 UTC

Where in all of USHPA's documentation does it state that the "purposes and interests of the corporation" are to allow gross negligence by concessionaires against students?
At least the students are theoretically capable of defending themselves. How 'bout hang gliding "students" forced to:
- fly upright in upright only training harnesses
- foot land
- use Industry Standard aerotow equipment which violates the crap outta even u$hPa SOPs
Also, Jonathan, I have received a number of email messages where someone named "Jonathan Dyetch" with a gmail account similar to your screen name is making demands regarding my statement that you landed in a closed, gated and guarded facility which I believed was either a prison or some form of correctional facility.

If you feel my statement was in error with regard to the type of facility, could you please send or post the actual name or accurate description of the facility so the record could be corrected as soon as possible? I have made that request by email without response, so I'm asking it here in public. Thanks.
Who the fuck gives a rat's ass where he came down if he didn't trash himself or anyone or anything on the ground? Last year we had nine US crashes resulting in ten fatalities, none of the gliders involved came to stops in accordance with the flight plans, and nobody's talking about what irresponsible and/or incompetent assholes the PICs were.
Rob Burgis - 2016/01/23 17:13:39 UTC

Bob,

I am requesting that you and JD keep your pissing match restricted to e-mail. If he chooses not to answer you there, don't take it here.
Go fuck yourself, Rob.
Brian Scharp - 2016/01/23 17:27:20 UTC

The "Cuckoo's Nest"?

I Flew Into The Cuckoo's Nest !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZOwDuslVWo
Vicarious Icarus - 2014/10/27
dead
Patton State Psychiatric Hospital. Big fuckin' deal.
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