skydivingchad 0 #1 April 10, 2008 So I'm wondering. How long does it take the USPA to post the minutes for the BOD and General Membership meetings? It's been about 2 months and they already have the time and date for the summer meeting posted. I'm too lazy to contact them directly and I figured I would get some better reading from the responses on here. Does it usually take this long or are they just not going to post them? Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Pelt Head #3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #2 April 10, 2008 Didn't you see the horrible whitewash in this month's PARACHUTIST, according to it everything is fine and dandy . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peregrinerose 0 #3 April 11, 2008 I laughed my ass off reading the Parachutist BS, the article in Skydiving was infinitely better and probably closer to truth. Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slotperfect 7 #4 April 11, 2008 It normally takes this long. I asked the same question the first time I was tracking an issue I expected to pop up in the meeting minutes on the website.Arrive Safely John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CSpenceFLY 1 #5 April 11, 2008 Yep, if you want to know what is going on read Skydiving Magazine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #6 April 11, 2008 Get hip to yourself . . . The USPA hides out on the east coast because for 6 months out of the year there's no jumping going on and there's no jumpers banging on their door. I belong to a lot of professional associations and they all spew that same line about, "We're in Washington and working for you, and we got you a break on a rental car!" Please, it's a phony industry onto itself. USPA should be in Florida, California, or Texas. Maybe they'd then stop running that lame "spring cleaning your gear" article every April. HELLO, we are out here jumping year round and so should the office that represents us. On Christmas morning and New Year's Day I'm doing level ones with the kid that wasn't quite ready the day before. While you're sipping eggnog in front of a fire in your fuzzy slippers I'm watching student videos and telling them how good they did. USPA should be next door to Perris, or Eloy, or anywhere where I could take my students and introduce them to the people that have their backs. But you chose to hide where no self respecting full time jumper would live in the first place. It's like a guy with a Harley who parks it for 6 months out of a year and still calls himself a biker. And, you know what, we know our fifty a year goes toward your snow-bound cocktail parties . . . NickD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #7 April 11, 2008 No jumping for 6 months? Some of us didn't get the memo... http://www.skydivingstills.com/keyword/canopy-snow#P-2-12 The white stuff is called snow. It makes landing funner. Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kschilk 0 #8 April 11, 2008 Quote It's like a guy with a Harley who parks it for 6 months out of a year and still calls himself a biker. NickD Well...it is a Harley."T'was ever thus." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peckerhead 0 #9 April 11, 2008 QuoteAnd, you know what, we know our fifty a year goes toward your snow-bound cocktail parties . . . How do you get away with only paying fifty? PS California sucks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildfan75 1 #10 April 11, 2008 Yeah! Or in Wisconsin where jump all year long! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,991 #11 April 11, 2008 > Or in Wisconsin where jump all year long! I'm sorry, but you have just been firmly placed in the eggnog-sippin, fuzzy-slipper-wearin, livin-where-no-self-respecitin'-jumper-be-livin category! At least there's ice fishing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
packerboy 3 #12 April 11, 2008 Would it be illegal to farm fish in your swoop pond all summer just so you can yank them out in the winter? Don't know why I'm asking.. even if we had a swoop pond, we can't get through the snowbanks down the driveway to the airport from Dec. untill March. -------------------------------------------------- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #13 April 11, 2008 Quote Get hip to yourself . . . The USPA hides out on the east coast because for 6 months out of the year there's no jumping going on and there's no jumpers banging on their door. I belong to a lot of professional associations and they all spew that same line about, "We're in Washington and working for you, and we got you a break on a rental car!" Please, it's a phony industry onto itself. USPA should be in Florida, California, or Texas. Maybe they'd then stop running that lame "spring cleaning your gear" article every April. HELLO, we are out here jumping year round and so should the office that represents us. On Christmas morning and New Year's Day I'm doing level ones with the kid that wasn't quite ready the day before. While you're sipping eggnog in front of a fire in your fuzzy slippers I'm watching student videos and telling them how good they did. USPA should be next door to Perris, or Eloy, or anywhere where I could take my students and introduce them to the people that have their backs. But you chose to hide where no self respecting full time jumper would live in the first place. It's like a guy with a Harley who parks it for 6 months out of a year and still calls himself a biker. And, you know what, we know our fifty a year goes toward your snow-bound cocktail parties . . . NickD So what you're sayin' Nick is that unlike in the 'general society'. . . In Skydiving ~ Those that can - TEACH...those that can't Govern! BTW. . fifty don't buy a lotta cocktails in that part of the country, maybe someone out there is smokin' WHO's ashes! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydivingchad 0 #14 April 11, 2008 See I knew it wouldn't take too long to get some people going, and give me some good responses. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. Pelt Head #3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peregrinerose 0 #15 April 11, 2008 You enjoy getting people riled up entirely too much Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #16 April 14, 2008 Quote Yeah! Or in Wisconsin where jump all year long! Well, yeah...there's that. Then there's sane people. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denete 3 #17 April 14, 2008 QuoteDidn't you see the horrible whitewash in this month's PARACHUTIST, according to it everything is fine and dandy . . . Wasn't there one sentence that mentioned the closed-door sessions (but not called that)??? One sentence to convey the bulk of the meetings. Talk about denial. (Ummm...you don't need to see his identification...these aren't the dilatory droids you're looking for...move along.)SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
packerboy 3 #18 April 14, 2008 You don't need to know what they do with the money, you just need to know where to send it. Move along. -------------------------------------------------- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #19 May 9, 2008 Did you notice they were posted? http://www.uspa.org/contact/BODminutes/BODMinutesfeb08.pdf"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
