attention to the safety of his team members who start re-forms around him. i need to make sure i am aiming myself back towards the drop zone to make sure i m safe and to make sure everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. but as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air, and another midair collision. this time, two different wing-suit fliers. as they tumble in the sky, the team reaches 5,000 feet and bland signals to pull their parachutes, unsure if everyone is accounted for. after we opened the parachutes, i look around to see the correct number of people are there. i knew how many people we had in the flock when we left the airplane. and then i counted that number of parachutes, plus mine, when we opened. so i knew everybody had a parachute open. they could have been hurt, but they weren t dead.
around him. i need to make sure i am aiming myself back towards the drop zone to make sure i m safe and to make sure everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. but as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air, and another midair collision. this time, two different wing-suit fliers. as they tumble in the sky, the team reaches 5,000 feet and bland signals to pull their parachutes, unsure if everyone is accounted for. after we opened the parachutes, i look around to see the correct number of people are there. i knew how many people we had in the flock when we left the airplane. and then i counted that number of parachutes, plus mine, when we opened. so i knew everybody had a parachute open. they could have been hurt, but they weren t dead. when they land, bland finds out that everybody in the group
a parachute open. they could have been hurt, but they weren t dead. when they land, bland finds out that everybody in the group is okay. his legs and back are very sore from the impact, but more than anything, he s thankful the episode is over. it was a huge feeling of relief to finally get my feet back on the ground. there a rule, that it s better to be down here wishing you were up there, than to be up there wishing you were down here. but if you think this brush with death will cause scott bland to stop jumping out of planes, think again. a lot of people look at skydiving and think these people are just nuts. they have a death wish. this is not the kind of thing i could do. there s no payoff without some kind of risk. and if you take a graduated risk, the payoff can be well worth it. jumping from 6,000 feet above one of the coldest and most remote places on earth, a wing-suit flier misjudges his altitude and crashes into a
part of my gear could have been opened and i might not have been aware of it. i could see from his face looking straight at my face that nothing else was wrong. so at that point, i knew i was okay. bland immediately turns his attention to the safety of his team members who start reforming around him. i need to make sure i am aiming myself back towards the drop zone to make sure i m safe and to make sure everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. but as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air, and another midair collision. this time, two different wing-suit fliers. as they tumble in the sky, the team reaches 5,000 feet and bland signals to pull their parachutes, unsure if everyone is accounted for. after we opened the parachutes, i look around to see the correct number of people are there. i knew how many people we had in the flock when we left the airplane. and then i counted th
republicans leaders were trying to talk about it as if it weren t dead, but i think it s been dead for some time, and i don t think it s going anywhere. probably not much of anything else. in this atmosphere this is not a good time. well, speaking of that, because it takes both sides of pennsylvania avenue. what is the raexz of the white house to cantor s defeat, and will president obama, who was holding up on executive action to further ease regulations about deportation? will he now move ahead on executive action because he figures there s no deal to be made in congress? it s interesting because if cantor s loss had happened in isolation, there would be a lot of cheers from the white house. the white house also knows what this signal is about the president, particularly immigration. at this point, though, it looks as though the white house is going to hold out on executive action until john boehner himself says emgregs reform is not going to happen this year.