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  1. Here's my scariest moment in the hills: link Not much compared to some of the other "hightlights" in this thread though.
  2. Please consider that: a) large rocks trundled from great height can take surprisingly unpredictable paths. b) Castle Rock looms above Hwy 2 (not to mention lower Castle Rock climbs).
  3. gawd! I'm even more bored now.
  4. He posted at least one cool trip report in the past. More than most posters. This is the first blatant ad he's posted isn't it? You think it's OK to let it slide just this one time?
  5. "WASHINGTON — The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered. [...] Another U.S. official said Rice's office was leery of the center's methodology, believing that analysts eager to avoid a repetition of last year's undercount included incidents that may not have been terrorist attacks. The U.S. intelligence officials said Rice's office eliminated "Patterns of Global Terrorism" when the counterterrorism center declined to use alternative methodology that would have reported fewer significant attacks." link
  6. If you're talking about snipping off the last 15 feet of climbs by adding premature anchoration, then I would say in general I am opposed to this idea. I'm sure there are climbs where a good case for this can be made. In general though, IMO the default should be anchors at the top, not midway. If someone places anchors midway, there should be a very compelling reason. I haven't seen the anchors on TUIB, but I have climbed that pitch and never had any problems topping out. In fact as I remember, there were two ways to top out. You could stay in the wide crack for good fun, or step right and exit to easy territory. I'm not sure I understand why anchors below that section would be needed.
  7. What I wonder is how it is determined what is a "drug" and what is a "nutritional supplement".
  8. More information from the NYT "A 1994 law championed by Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, and Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, shields makers of herbal and nutritional supplements from strict adherence to F.D.A. rules that require drug makers to prove that their products are safe and effective. Instead, the law defines nutritional supplements as food, which is assumed to be safe unless federal regulators can prove otherwise. After all, "if food producers were required to show a benefit as a precondition to sale, the sale of foods such as potato chips might be prohibited," Judge Campbell wrote." Sounds like the judge is following the law. So the answer to the implied question of judicial activism seems to be "no". To ban a food, the burden of proof is on the FDA prove that it is dangerous. The FDA's hands are tied in this case as they can't ban low doses of ephedra unless they have proof it is harmful. The current proof out there is basically linked to higher doses. However, since they suspected that low doses of ephedra were harmful, it was considered unethical to study it in humans.
  9. Here's some good advice if you're just starting out How to rock climb
  10. What's up with the red blob on Davis-Holland? Bad photoshop? Trundled Chevy? Meth lab?
  11. I might be Big Snow. You can definitely see Seattle from there.
  12. There is current thinking that high-fructose corn syrup can add to your weight because it doesn't immediately signal the satiated response, so you can intake more calories without feeling any more full. If you aren't intaking anything else, then your liver will convert the fructose into glucose which will signal your brain that you are full. But if you've already got enough glucose going from other stuff, it won't.
  13. I would really like to meet (well maybe not ) these liberals that JayB continually brings up that are big fans of Ho Chi Minh, Stalin, etc...
  14. "The chemical industry's position that this [bPA] is a weak chemical has been proven totally false. This is a phenomenally potent chemical as a sex hormone." In their study, vom Saal and Hughes suggest an explanation for conflicting results of studies: 100 percent of the 11 funded by chemical companies found no risk, while 90 percent of the 104 government-funded, nonindustry studies reported harmful effects. " link Could it be that your supposition of a "liberal bias" is just a result of comparing the bulk of the scientific community with the industry shills?
  15. I'd agree, but that's not what I'm alleging. I'm referring to the military recruiters, who are allowed on campus (and the schools are forced to allow them or lose NCLB funding), have incentives to recruit a certain number of people. (see link on first post of this thread ).
  16. Jon, According to the news I have been reading lately, the military are currently looking for motile warm bodies. Kas, I am totally against the idea that high-school counselors get kick-backs from clinics (abortion or otherwise). I'd find that hard to believe that that is happening though. Do they get kickbacks from tatoo parlors too?
  17. You put a lot of words into my mouth. I would object to allowing access to recruiters for abortions on campus if they got bonuses montetarily and in their career status for facilitating a minimum quota of teenage abortions. Also, I seriously do not consider an abortion to be as large of a threat to my child as induction into the military, especially in a period of active combat. Use your twisted logic on that one.
  18. I'm not talking about uniformly codifying anything. I'm saying that if parents want to defend their (18+ year-old) kids against predators any way they can, that's fine with me. They have my support. I don't see abortion clinics as predators.
  19. Maybe you made no stupid decisions when you were 18, but I sure as hell did. I'm lucky nothing really bad happened to me. I know I'm still going to be giving advice to my kids until well after they're 18. Also remember this is a High School we're talking about here. Since when are all high-school kids 18 and over?
  20. Alex is not advocating a draft. He is talking about mandatory military service (i.e. everyone). If everybody in the US had more at stake in this Iraq War, I am certain it would never have gotten as far as it did.
  21. Once you get a bit older you will realize that you have done things and written things that you think are pretty dumb. Parents understand that their children will not always make the best choice. Sometimes it's just the school of hard knocks, but when the risk entails death, disability, and a government sanctioned lifelong unbreakable contract, any good parent will understandably want to avoid their child becoming entangled in such a thing. Children do not always follow their parents' advice. Parents will do anything to protect their children. So along with taking an interest in their childs life and giving them good advice to not voluntarily sign their lives away because the video game the Army let them play was so cool, a good parent will hedge their bets and also seek to eradicate the child's exposure to lurking danger.
  22. If you think that people who steal your money are somehow equivalent to people who steal your children, then I'm not sure this is even worth rebutting. Surely there are people who are against this war who are using any avenue they can to fight it. But to dismiss the possibility that some may be primarly motivated to fight this recruiting because they would rather their children not be tricked into an unbreakable contract (for life!) that involves signficant risk of death or disability, is a very dumb thing to say.
  23. I find it interesting that you highlight a climb you considered scary as the "funnest" climb you did. Doesn't this often seem the case? I too think of pitches that were scary as the most memorable and fulfilling. Unless it really is a case of "I'm really lucky I'm not dead now", there seems to be a very gratifying feeling of conquest, over the pitch perhaps, and definitely over your own fear. Note the scary pitches people also rave about as must do's (Canary, Shock Treatment, American Pie, Damnation Crack, Sagitarius, other...?). I don't think these recommendations are due to people being mean spirited, but of a genuine feeling that the climb is a good test, and pumps you up when you've succeeded. Anybody wanna weigh in on this, or perhaps add to the list of scary, but doable and fulfilling pitches?
  24. You're right, they can be. But we are talking about preponderance here. It certainly helps in academia (or anywhere) to advance your career if you're a self-serving MF. But usually, if you're all about money, power, fame, whatever. at any cost, there's a lot better places to go than academia. I would think selfish conservatives like yourself would consider the lack of a drive to succeed at any cost a weakness, and would not consider my statements egotistic, but self-deprecating.
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