Fairweather

The unions have contracts and health costs are going up for everyone. What's your point? Bust their unions and lay off enough of them to balance the budget. Firemen included. We all saw this coming years ago--even as state and local governments continued to grow and grow. Anyone believe that property taxes will fall as quickly as they went up commensurate with true market value? The formula is simple.

Wow! Those were a couple of nice pictures.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Fuck; I hate that shit.

Huh? Tvashie is the one who put forth recognition as a motivation. I was lamenting his glorification therein. Why you be hatin' on me?

The concert pianist perfects not only their own being, but brightens the world for others through the expression of their music. Climbing is an almost purely selfish endeavor.

That's funny, coming from someone who personifies the word ego and started climbing just two or three years ago.

I've been climbing for almost 30 years and I still couldn't tell you what the word "redpoint" means. Seriously. And I only recently learned the word "take". WTF? Is that like "tension"...or "falling!!!!"? And recognition? Is that what it's all about these days? Sad. I've got nothing against sport climbers or rock gyms, but it is now apparent to me that spending too much time breathing chalk dust in confined spaces has certain negative impacts on higher mental function.

AKA Democrats.

Bailey Range - Olympus Traverse - Glacier Meadows to Queets Basin Mount Adams Circumnavigation Mount Rainier glacier circumnavigation

Bob - declaring that Obama is Muslim is simply promoting a non-truth. Claiming he would enact sharia law here is utterly ridiculous. There is plenty-enough wrong with the Democrat Party platform to use without resorting to this kind of nonsense.

...maybe because they aren't. actually fw, they are. from social security to taxes to health care to inheritance tax to war and the military budget, the conservative republican agenda is not favored by the majority of americans. it's actually not even close on some of these issues. Some data might help your case. Or maybe you just hang out with different people than I do, eh? As it now stands, the only tool we have to clear up this question is an election.

...maybe because they aren't.

...into one picture or word.

It looks...gerrymandered. I've seen wilderness areas in two or three non contiguous units, but this one looks utterly contrived. I like the Mount Hood north section additions though. Why is White River Glacier (what's left of it) canyon on the southeast being added? Is someone gonna open a pumice quarry or mine the remaining ice? Could it be that it is being included for social reasons? Gimme a break. edit: This "revised" map shows the Cloudcap Road is, in fact, going to fall victim to the infamous narrow road corridor strategy of exclusion and will be unrepairable if and when it eventually washes out. Sad--and somewhat underhanded.

I would recommend spending most of your honeymoon in the vagina.

Brings it on himself.

uh, am i missing your point? is your dithering over a # of africans actually killed being done b/c you actually thought slavery was okay? are you one of my sunny southern friends from the old days, raised on gone w/ the wind and the uncle remus stories who actually think the "peculiar institution" WASN'T a monstrous wrong? Gimme a break, Ivan. I hope you know better. I just think it's outrageous that anyone could buy into such an absurd number. Especially someone who claims to know Jack Shit personally. BTW: "Hacked to Death" is still in use--"The American Pageant"--Kennedy/Cohen/Bailey--a 200-300 level college textbook, 13th ed. 2007.

I just want to know why someone who claims to be so educated--like our proletariat friend--is so willing to digest the "400 million" dead Africans pap. Tell me, Prole, did the Atlantic turn red and the entire ecosystem therein change as feeding sharks doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in number, such a ready source of food now at hand?

...an oft quoted "middle passage" number that is utterly ridiculous. Anyone who believes this has big problems with not only math, but truth. Now is the part where you fall back on, "yea man, so what man, are you trying to say that four thousand, or forty thousand, or whatever, man, that that was ok? Is that what you're saying you right-wing bastard!!!!!! Huh????" That quarter-and-a-half you did at Whatcom Community College was just enough to make you a total dipshit without a fucking clue.

You mean like when he and his sons hacked to death 5 fellow human beings in Pottawatomie, Kansas? Yes; I would say that made him a terrorist--which is why he was hung. what if he would have used a smart bomb instead of hackery? He did not posses the commission to act as he did. He was not appointed, elected, or assigned to act on anyone's behalf but his own. He can't even be described as a vigilante since those he killed had committed no crime.

Hmmm. Let's review your earlier comments: "Having grown up in Woodinville and seen it been raped by developers, I'm not sorry to see this sort of thing happen. I'm not sad to see more mcmansions go away. It's too bad they didn't get the entire block." I think you're being dishonest with yourself and everyone here. Time to own up.

You mean like when he and his sons hacked to death 5 fellow human beings in Pottawatomie, Kansas? Yes; I would say that made him a terrorist--which is why he was hung.

You're the parasite, my self-absorbed little comrade. Need to be stomped out, you and your ELF buddy gnats. Please accelerate your earlier boasted plans to leave this country.

Depends on the rules governing that state's elections. In any event, it's not a "federal" thing. Rush Limbaugh is a fucking douche bag for saying shit like this. If it's actionable, the Democrat Party should sue him.