Stefan

Anything and everything you do is selfish. Example, yes, the Gates may give billions away....but it makes them feel good. So that's why they do it. Maybe there is not a heaven. At least I was part of a religion that thought and did some good things while I was alive.

The Olympics appear to have lost A LOT of snow from my office window! I thought they would be plastered with snow. Where did the snow go?????????

I spent 5 minutes on a concrete driveway one time when it was 30 degrees out. I became very cold very fast.

sweet videos.

I like being taller than women. I would rather look down at their cleavage than straight at it. And yes, I am that shallow. Just like them women look at my haircut. But alas, I am married, and get to bury my nose in the same but scrumptious cleavage many a time.

One of your lives has now been taken from you.

You know what happened to my x-girlfriend? I married her!

Why couldn't I have met you earlier! I have no ego!

I have never been to the Mexican volcanoes. What would you say the representation of the locals are on those volcanic peaks? I remember on Aconcagua about 1/2 the folk were from the US or Europe.

are you any relation to Al Campanis? I will give you a hint! I am still, yes, STILL, P.O.ed about about the baseball strike! I refuse to give no money to that MLB gang.

Please tell me you're joking! I will keep you guessing.

You know, I get sick of my male compadres too!

I don't see that many black folk in the mountains. Part of it is becuase the population in Seattle area is mostly white. But you know, half the population is women and I don't see 50% of the outdoorsy folk being women. So I chalk it up to less interest by black people and by women to be in the outdoors. Maybe it is a genetic thing that the white male is predisposed for more physical challenges.

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.