http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2624
President Trump
Bob Kuczewski - 2017/06/12 19:03:45 UTC
The graph on the previous page shows estimated atmospheric CO2 for millions of years. It's generally believed that the decline in atmospheric CO2 corresponds to the sequestering of carbon in what we call fossil fuels.
1. Who's "we"?
2. They don't become fuels until after we've dug or pumped them up and gotten ready to set fire to them.
The whole point is that putting CO2 into the atmosphere is an elastic and reversible process.
So would putting a bunch of Jews, commies, queers in a sealed chamber for a couple hours. Open the vents back up and the O2/CO2 ratio quickly reverts to normal. No harm, no foul.
The hysteria that we'll end up with a runaway green house situation (and end up like Venus) is not supported by the scientific evidence.
1. What hysteria that we'll end up with a runaway green house situation (and end up like Venus)? Who's talking about it? Sounds exactly like:
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=14312
Tow Park accidents
Jack Axaopoulos - 2009/11/12 14:49:58 UTC
gasdive,
One of the stated goals of this site is to promote HG. MOST views on this site are NOT from members but from visitors, they have no ignore button.
Having Tad run around every day giving the impression that there is a massive weekly slaughter of pilots at tow parks due to their horribly dangerous devices surely doesnt promote HG. Especially when the safety records are quite excellent.
Like Jim said, theyve gone a decade with no fatalities at their tow park. Pretty damn good I say.
Yet listening to Tad, you would think guys were dying all over the place
He's been nothing but misleading and negative and ignored multiple warnings from me. So He's GONE
Total fucking bullshit.
Tad was saying that the Flight Park Mafia was putting up 100.00 percent of its flights up on shit equipment in accordance with lunatic towing "theory", needlessly and deliberately endangering 100.00 percent of participants, crashing gliders left and right. And for the months of February and March of 2013 NOBODY was talking about all the flights at Quest that WEREN'T killing tandem aerotow instructors.
And now Jim's wonderful flight park is permanently/irreversibly...
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7233
Woodstock, Saturday, April 1th
Danny Brotto - 2017/04/05 00:51:04 UTC
Sunday is the day the we'll all miss without Highland; god I miss that place. Feeling nostalgic. I've flown out to Ridgley a number of times over the past year. They have a snazzy, beautiful, new, paved runway... but not much else going on. We had a good thing there for many years.
...extinct and Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney is permanently/irreversibly extinct for all intents and purposes.
So claims that President Trump will "melt the planet" are evidence of a biased and untrustworthy news source.
Yeah Bob. Opponents of President Trump are claiming that he'll turn the planet into a molten blob and expecting their marks to believe that and vote accordingly.
What they're actually claiming is that the climate is being rapidly and dramatically destabilized, ice caps are melting, glaciers are receding and disappearing, the Great Barrier Reef is turning into a biological desert, tropical storms are more powerful, islands are disappearing, Florida is starting to go underwater, mass extinction is ramping up. All this was predicted, is very clearly happening and documentable in no uncertain terms.
Brian Scharp - 2017/06/11 17:47:36 UTC
I'm for actively reducing the burning of fossil fuels and promoting solar and wind power.
I tend to agree with this position with the understanding that we are in a competitive world.
Yeah, let's see if we can win the race to the bottom.
Ronald Reagan was effective at de-escalating the cold war by ramping up our military might.
And greatly helped steady our path de-escalating lotsa other cold stuff.
That approach takes time. President Trump is still in the first half of the first year of his first term.
And we can hardly wait until his second, third, fourth terms.
Don't be too quick to rush to judgement.
I fuckin' despised Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney the first time I had an aviation related interaction with the motherfucker.
Trump is a world class negotiator.
For anything that Trump sees as benefiting Trump.
Give him some time to see the results.
Yeah, he'll probably keep doing the same things over and over and we'll get DIFFERENT results.
By the way, I find it interesting to note that the "Bob haters" began collecting signatures for my recall almost as soon as I was elected. Mark Forbes was more than happy to help them out. It took them over a year (of my 2 year term) to finally bring it to the ballot. It was another example of mass hysteria...
Bullshit. The Industry wanted you deactivated and marginalized and that's what it got.
...and USHPA ended up losing their insurance because there was no oversight at Torrey Pines (and elsewhere).
So if u$hPa had maintained oversight at Torrey Pines (and elsewhere) it WOULDN'T have lost its insurance? Bullshit. Commercial operations - particularly the tandem thrill ride industry - ARE u$hPa.
I lost the recall election in the spring of 2010, and Shannon's injuries happened in the summer of 2011. I had explicitly warned USHPA about a similar incident while I was Regional Director, but they ignored it. Their ultimate "solution" was to expel me for my testimony in that case rather than correct the problems. That's why the sport of hang gliding needs an alternative like the US Hawks.
Right. A dictatorship - seven years minus two months today - operating under THIS:
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=463
Davis Straub's "Oz Report" Conflict of Interest
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/03/09 02:33:49 UTC
This is going to sound cold, but I believe people have a right to make their own choices. I don't want a "nanny state" where anyone is telling me what I can and can't do ... for my own good. The sport of hang gliding would surely not exist if that thinking were carried to its logical extreme. There's something bred into all living things that urges them toward taking some degree of risk in their lives. Those who want to forbid that risk are essentially snuffing out the human spirit itself. I can't support that. I do support information. I support good information. I support exposing bad information. But I don't support dictating what anyone can or can't do. The fundamental principle of economics (and evolution) is two words: "people choose".
guiding "principle". (Just not for Shannon Hamby and ACA.)
Despite the fact that we may not see eye-to-eye on a number of political issues, I very much appreciate your membership in the US Hawks and I hope we can work together to create a viable alternative to USHPA.
When does he get to cast a vote that can't be vetoed on the whim of Emperor Bob?
The insurance industry didn't tell u$hPa to go fuck itself any time near after or because of Shannon/ACA. This:
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=32673
This is terrible
Dave Pendzick - 2015/03/30 17:42:41 UTC
This is not going to end well for us...
was OBVIOUSLY the catalyst / last straw - even if it didn't cost the insurance industry a red cent. And it was Team Kite Strings that did the massive months long investigation/exposé which clearly documented virtually everything that u$hPa didn't want anyone to know and see. And there was virtually nothing going on with that one that wasn't...
http://www.kitestrings.org/post7910.html#p7910
..."typical". If any one u$hPa-hostile entity deserves credit for u$hPa's insurance situation...
And if an insurance company were inclined to cover a hang gliding organization which one of us do you figure they'd pick?
