Fairweather

Peter's not talking Jesus Camp; he's taking about the mainstream media.

Cross from Royal Basin into Deception Basin and climb/ski to the head of Mystery Glacier. From the col you can either ski the glacier and back out the way you came, do a couple laps up Hal Foss Peak and Mount Fricaba, or (maybe) ski down Del Monte Ridge and out the Duckabush River to Boulder Shelter and back to the car where you began for a nice loop trip.

So you're against the resurrection of the "Fairness Doctrine"? I'm really not sure because your prose is virtually unreadable. Are you presently intoxicated?

Is Israel bringing the charcoal?

Of course. This act is clearly a case of domestic terrorism. I'll even grant that it's a good deal more repulsive that those Oregon ELF-types burning down laboratories or ski lifts--acts that seem to bring out the chirping crickets with avatars like yours. But if you had bothered to calm your jerking knee you might have taken my comparison at face value. Yes, both the murder of the abortion doc and the islam convert murder of the Army recruiter are terrorism.

Diversion? I think it's an apples to apples comparison. Heck, I hear e-lawyers do it all the time. I just love the way you goof-balls get all riled up when your world view is questioned.

Ugh, don't gimme that crap. While technically true, apart from the 1% smart enough to see the political downside to the act, the other 99% felt like the sun shone a little brighter, food tasted a little better, and life was like getting licked on the face by a puppy. Pro life my ass. Religion of peace my ass. Hey, you might be on to something BIG here! Does the same hold true for all--I mean 99% of--Muslims post 9/11?

No. I just want you and yours to display consistency from time to time and apply some of that critical thinking you seem so fond of touting even absent your own application thereof.

Wow! Lots of snow down low, but it looks like early July up on the mountain. Thanks.

So you're willing to cast judgment in one case, but not the other? Now, why would that be?

How would you know; none of these people have been tried. Neither has the accused in the Tiller case.

Uhhh, because anti-abortion wacko fucknuts make up a substantial portion the Republican electoral base which is not the case with the Democratic party and Islamic wacko jihadist fucknuts? Anti-abortion beliefs equal neither the promotion of, nor tacit support of murder. Meanwhile, your party is trying its best to secure the release of individuals who are--in some cases--not distinguishable from the killer of Doctor Tiller. Again; where is your outrage?

I'm not sure why Republicans would need to denounce this murderer any more than Democrats would need to denounce the recent Islam converts who killed an Army recruiter yesterday. Where is the outrage, oh JimProle? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,524405,00.html?test=latestnews A convert to Islam accused of having "political and religious motives" in a deadly Arkansas military center shooting pleaded not guilty to capital murder Tuesday and was ordered held without bond. One soldier died and another was wounded in what police say was a targeted attack by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, on U.S. forces. Muhammad, an American citizen who is a convert to Islam and previously was known as Carlos Bledsoe, already had been under investigation by the FBI at the time of the shootings. Muhammad was charged in Monday's death of Pvt. William Long, 23, outside the Army-Navy Career Center, which handles recruiting, in Little Rock. A prosecutor said Muhammad admitted shooting Long and another soldier "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past." Long and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, had recently completed basic training and had never seen combat. Ezeagwula was in stable condition at a hospital. An FBI joint terrorism task force based in the southern U.S. reportedly had been tracking Muhammad after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested and jailed there for using a Somali passport, an official told The Associated Press. The probe had been in its early stages and based on Muhammad's trip to Yemen, ABC News reported. While there, Muhammad, who was born and raised in Tennessee, studied jihad with an Islamic scholar, according to Jihadwatch.org. He moved to Little Rock in April. After the shooting, investigators searched his apartment and found additional weapons, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the AP. An FBI spokesman in Little Rock did not immediately return a call for comment. At Tuesday's court hearing, Deputy Prosecutor Scott Duncan said Muhammad told investigators that "he would have killed more soldiers had they been in the parking lot." Long and Ezeagwula were targeted as they stood outside the recruiting center smoking cigarettes. Muhammad, wearing a dark blue jail uniform with brown plastic sandals, sat with his hands in his lap before Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle. He did not say anything during the brief hearing...

Actually, Bill, the don't taze me bro guy was subdued at a John Kerry rally. The pattern is clear. Democrats won't tolerate free speech. I suspect that poor woman has already been shipped off to Camp Tolerance for reeducation. Actually, it does look like they're about to lynch her. Shit!

I asked j_b to provide some numbers to support his earlier claims. I guess it's easier to just toss out unfounded charges of racism.

Spare me that nonsense. Believing in the sanctity of our borders is both an environmental and a common-sense imperative.

Of course. Prior to NAFTA Mexico was a paradise that no one would dream of leaving. Please, j_b, provide for us facts that demarcate where the contributions of illegals offset the burden they impose on government services.

I doubt j_b's compassion extends to hard working people forced from their homes by outrageous property taxes.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Open the gates and let them flood in! "Free" college education and health care for everyone! Abolish personal responsibility! While Prole is just a little H.D.T. wannabe, I believe j_b is the real (I'll say it...a commie) deal.

Update: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/19/senate-votes-allow-loaded-gun-national-parks/ "To the surprise of many, the amendment easily passed, winning support from 67 senators -- including 27 Democrats. Among those who voted "yes" was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada" WTF? Looks like congressional Democrats are willing to put this one past Obama's executive decision? Am I missing something here? Ghosts of 1994? I remain hopefully suspicious. More to follow...

Great father/son report! This is what life is all about. That sixth picture of your son on the ridge belongs framed on your living room wall. My kid is twenty now and we're heading up Rainier next month.

Thanks for the civil discourse. What you state is also the reason that glacial recession does not necessarily equal ambient warming. There have been a few smaller studies re Greenland that reveal an albedo/soot darkening problem, and until these are reconciled with--and included in--the broader picture, I will remain a skeptic of the CO2 model. Even then, of course, there is the whole Martian icecap thing...

Correlation does not necessarily equal causation. Spoken like a true believer.

I was curious about the albedo argument too. The albedo of Earth is something like .338 and I haven't read that it has changed at all. The CO2 argument is pretty simple: UV light in, IR out. IR is "trapped" (actually, scattered) by CO2, methane, water vapor, etc, on its way back into space, and the planet warms. But it's almost as if this primary argument isn't strong enough to stand alone so these hyper-complex models are heaped upon the premise in the hope that more will be better. Some of these models climatologists have hung their hats on are now collapsing (West Antarctic Ice Sheet just yesterday), and instead of reflection you have this mad rush to do nothing more than patch them up--even to the degree that irreconcilable outcomes are said to be evidence of the models veracity! Again; I would just be happy if people like Josh were at least willing to consider the possibility the science is incomplete--if not seriously flawed. Anything less reeks of an almost-religious zeal.