Stefan

Fuck. My job is so meaningless. I need to move on. Thanks for reading my bitch for the day.

Okay. So I don't read carefully! Jump all over me whydontcha?

I will have to play a little devils advocate here. I have always been in favor of motorized use to maintain trails. For example if it takes 6 people to clear 20 logs in 3 days becuase they have to use a hand type saw and walk in, I would rather have 1 person on a motorbike with a chainsaw do the same work over 1 or 2 days. Chainsaws should be allowed to maintain work on trails.

check out the timeline. George Bush did not think of running for president until he met the Hawks in 1998. (George Shultz was part of that too) I would like to know what they talked about to him in 1998. I bet the sales pitch to Bush jr. went something like this: "We want Saddam, but we can't get elected. We feel piss poor we didn't get him in the first go round and you know Clinton doesn't have balls. You want Saddam becuase he was after your daddy in 1992 by hiring a hit squad. So lets get together. You run for president. You have a good chance of winning! Eventually we find a reason for going to war, and we run the whole thing. We all get Saddam outta power, and you get the glories of sending a dictator to hell. Remember Clinton has disgraced the presidency with Monica and you restore the presidency to its morals."

duh. This was not Bush's war. This was Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz's war. It was a Hawk's war. Go back to the original Iraq war and see what the role each one of these players played. They screwed up at the end of the original Iraq war becuase they didn't bring the downfall of Saddam--hell, even Norman Schwarzkopff admitted that mistake. Those Hawks only got George Bush involved in 1998 to run for president becuase Saddam had tried to hire a hit squad to assassinate Bush senior. It was a Hawk's war from beginning to end. The only goal was to eliminate Saddam becuase they failed in the first go round. The goal was not to bring democracy to the country.

Lower taxes. Yes. But less government? No way. Check out the national debt and how it balloons during "republican" times such as Reagan, Newt Gringrich, and currently. Less government means less spending. And the current republicans sure do not know how to spend less. Republican ideals are in a qualm of hypocrisy these days.

It was 65 degrees for a high at Paradise on Monday. It was 48 degrees for a high at SeaTac airport on Monday the same day.

All you need to do is shut down Wal-Mart. The Chinese will then come crawling back to the U.S. to get back to the "luxury" lifestyle they have started to pick up on.

Yes, he is too busy for "spray" at the moment. I happen to know what he is doing. You should meet him. He's an interesting guy with a story to tell. I know him....he knows me....I took a month long course from him before....he also gets my trip reports...

Maybe Dwayner is doing something more important than spraying these days....maybe he is clipping his fingernails or taking out the fuzz out of his navel.

What about Afghanistan? Doesn't anybody remember Afghanistan?

I do not like the amount of power the president has. I say a new ammendment needs to be added. Instead of Congress enacting war....it needs to say something like: "The deployment of more than 500 troops in any single conflict needs to be 2/3 authorized by the Senate and the House" That way the president has some authorization on very little skirmishes and can be dealt with immediately, but when these skirmishes become very large then there should be more difficulty in exposing lives. It also would require more negotiation with other nations to help out in large conflicts.

They are the shit becuase a mountain climber told them to get their asses in line: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/seahawks/2002624231_hawk15.html

I saw the discussion on PBS. I liked it. It appeared one time that Lowry got a little angry. How come there has never been apology by the Bush Administration? I remember when Reagan apologized for the Iran-Contra thing even though he never knew about it or authorized it. Apologizing for the actions of people who one supervises--a good manager.

Why do you think they have started putting tarps on the glaciers in certain European resorts? Some banks have started not giving loans to ski areas in Europe for new lifts becuase the banks fear future snowfall and the ski areas will not be able to pay the loans off.

Down. Lighter. Lasts longer. Leave it out of the stuff sack hanging in the closet or under your bed. Don't climb in rain. It's no fun.

In their second list they have "Jesus only" to be cast out of everyone. Doesn't that make them hypocrites. I have too many demons. I love the hernia as a demon!

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no more camel toe

Pat said thus: "And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there." Pat does not read the Bible, becuase the Bible says thus: John 15.16: You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. John 15.17: This I command you, to love one another.

Nothing beats reality.

I would generally think you are correct on this one.

I don't buy that argument. Why? European cities have always been more crowded on a denser per square kilometer area than most areas of the U.S. Higher denser areas in first world countries have always been more expensive, whereever you are in the world. I checked into this about 20 years ago. It was some stupid high school class on Europe vs US. It was cheaper to buy houses in the US when I did my little study. In addition, there are more social taxes going on in Europe inflating the price. Have you ever checked into the price of land in Switzerland? 100 year mortgages are common.

Compare ground footprint. Compare land costs. Simple math really. Um. If I was to think that, then building elevated highways would be cheaper than building on top of dirt. Elevated stuff costs money. That's why bridges are so expensive. I still would like to know why European cities do not have monorails, and have trains at low level instead. Maybe the Europeans know something we don't. After all they are more knowledgeable about mass transit than their American fools.

If that is true, why don't you see more monorails in Europe? All I see is trains, trains, trains.