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Yeeeeaaahhhh. Sick marketing angle, too, with the shoes. Love it.

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to be sure, if you manage to survive someone shooting you in the head it's gonna make you pretty fearless. Jumping out of a plane will seem like a piece of cake

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we paid Steven Seagal to drive around in his tank and clean those up

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Or in front of one.

Er, with votes.

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I dunno, at least you'll die doing what you loved. The only other better alternative is death by constant sexing, which is logistically more difficult even if its arguably more enjoyable.

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I'm thinking <a href="http:\/\/www.pimaair.org\/images\/collection\/Aero_Spacelines_Super_Guppy_MG_8362_a.jpg" target="_blank"> Super Guppy </a>.

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Smacking into another skydiver, or the door frame of the plane, is disorienting.

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Someone would have to put a gun to my head to get me to jump out of a plane.

Too soon?

You go, Gabby.

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That fella from Panama? What was his name again?

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Grijalva and Giffords are the main evidence that there are sane regions of Arizona.

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I'd like to see her, Tammy Duckworth, and ... (help me out here: who would be the third woman?), on the TeeVee as the new Charlie's Angels, kicking ass and taking down numbers, only they'd be working for themselves, not <i>the man</i>.

Seriously, very inspiring. I feel even more ashamed that the rest of us have been unable to use their respective tragedies to do much of anything about either veterans affairs or guns.

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But Sarah does not get a chute or get to shoot wolves. Once she finds that out she'll bail!

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yes, south of the Pinal county line (also too, Flagstaff, home of Dok's alma mater)

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she'd just quit half way down

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