This just shows that George Bush is a complete idiot. He says “We believe in free speech in the United States of America” as the secret service drag the woman yelling at him away.
I wish George Bush and his fat friend had to spend an hour a week with the Iraq War Veteran I was in rehab with last year. The young man went to Iraq when his wife was pregnant with their daughter. After getting hit by an IED he came back from the Iraq war with a traumatic brain injury that made mine seem like a good time. His wife had their baby while he was in Iraq. At the end of the day this young man has never really met his daughter. Plus his father had to fight like hell to get him into a decent rehab facility because the US government was and still is just leaving veterans in VA Hospitals to basically rot. This just infuriates me!!!!
He does not accept money from lobbyists and John McCain does.
I hope he does not ask the Queen Bureaucrat to be his VP. It would be very hypocritical considering the Clinton’s are the biggest money favor mongers ever…. aka Marc Rich oh and Patty Hearst both large donors to the Clinton Presidential Library.
Keystone is replacing their current River Run Gondola. They are giving the gondolas to employees. My girlfriend Lisa has always wanted a gondola and just so happened to know an employee willing to give her their gondola.
Seeing how a few hundred gondolas hang from a rather small cable and zoom up and down the mountain at a high rate of speed I thought Lisa and I could just grab the gondola toss it in the back of my truck and away we go. I was slightly off.
We arrived to this…..
Turns out gondolas are a lot bigger and heavier than I had anticipated….
After a rather slow drive, by Lisa ; ), from Keystone back to Denver the next question was how do we get this thing out of the truck…..
Solution….
Lisa choose 51 because like Kaitlin her brother passed away very young and was a Division 1 college football player. His number was 51.
Finally Lisa and her new toy. Please let her know if any resorts are getting rid of their Aerial Tram
This weekend I went “Towing” which is paragliding behind a truck. The simplest analogy is comparing it to water skiing however you are behind a truck and being pulled into the air. When you get high enough you release yourself from the line and fly away. Today on my last flight I caught a thermal, which is lifting air that essentially lifts you higher if you are able to stay in the lifting pocket. I was able to stay in the thermal pocket and went from about 800 to 2,339 feet off the ground and traveled about nine miles, according to my buddy Svein in the chase car that picked me up. My flight time was 34 minutes and 49 seconds with a maximum lift rate of 8.4 feet per minute and a top speed of approximately 45 miles per hour. It was one of the coolest experiences ever. The only drawback to the experience was being on the Colorado plains and landing in rather populated cow pasture and not being able to avoid a very lovely cow patty.
Below is a picture of Chris one of the people I went flying with being pulled up behind the truck. You can not see the truck because all I had for pictures was my phone. The guy towing is Joe who paid quite a bit of money for a rather sophisticated paragliding tow device that he anchored to the back of his truck. Although sitting in a truck all day dragging us around Joe seemed more excited than us….so thanks Joe!
In the picture Chris is about 200 to 300 feet off the ground.
