Fairweather

Will your 'insurance' also bring the neighbor's childred back to life? Believe it or not, trees sometimes DO threaten life and property. We had the top snap off of a 100' Douglas Fir during a windstorm about 10 years ago. A side-branch pierced the roof above our bedroom and nearly went into the bed itself. We were in another room when it happend. Our neighbors had their house litterally cut in half by a Fir during the same storm. If a tree is a serious threat it should be cut down - and two more planted in its place.

Do you know how old, tired, and just plain ridiculous that argument is? Suggesting that someone who isn't serving should remain silent is just as stupid as suggesting a Canadian has no right to an expressed opinion about an American-led action. You, of course, are free to leave your cushy state-supported life in Canada and join the NGO of your choice. Putting one's beliefs into action! Isn't that what you stand for? You could even put your skills to use in Darfur - if you have any.

A valid use of the preemption doctrine.

Succession was not specifically prohibited. In fact, New York and, I believe, Vermont had considered it at earlier points. (Disgust with the war of 1812? - I can't remember) The Confederate constitution virtually mirrored the American version and contained even stronger guarentees re property and personal liberty. (Granted; slaves excepted) The fact that Fort Sumter was deep in Confederate territory and that it was surrendered without loss of life (1 dead during a cannon malfunction) left Lincoln with no justification for war. Then why were four Union states allowed to continue on with slaves? (Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, Missouri) Also, breakaway West Virginia. Lincoln didn't issue his emancipation proclamation until Sept 22, 1862 after it was clear that the Union Army was getting its tail kicked back across the Potomac and northern newspapers were editorializing (rightly) for peace. Politics, not morality. True, that. I disagree. Raising an army with the sole purpose of imposing your will upon your neighbor through invasion is just as wreckless as invading a far off country under false pretense. More so, even.

Are there any left?

Unless you are 100% certain what your triggers are, I would keep an Albuterol inhaler warm and available at all times while climbing. My lungs get tight in March and April with tree pollen and I use an inhaler sparingly when I run outdoors during these two months. I did notice tightness once on Mount Hood during a very, very cold January climb, so I can't be certain that pollen is the only culprit. Go out and buy a 'peak flow' meter. They're only about 30 bucks. It might help you guage your own lung performance, and keeping a log of the readings might help your doctor better advise treatment.

Um, that whole "R" and "D" pedulum thing has swung back and forth a few times since 1861 my nowcentric co-sprayer.

...instigated by a president now wrongly revered as one of America's greatest leaders: Should generals Scott and Sherman (particularly), and Lincoln have been tried as war criminals - responsible for the deaths of over 600,000 uniformed troops and unknown numbers of Confederate civilians? How about conditions at the prison camp in Elmira, New York? Liberal moralizing seems to be too often expressed in violent ways. Some things never change.

Really, Matt - you aren't actually interested in our opinions, you're interested in promoting your own. I would be more accomodating if I believed you were the least bit open to real debate or the slightest change in you own belief system, but time and time again you revert back to your 'endless question' strategy - where you dissect some unimportant flaw in a challenger's reply and pick at it like a scab, all the while ignoring the greater point. I think I've already 'confessed' that Rumsfeld and Cheney are guilty of manufacturing some of the so-called evidence that got us into Iraq. I certainly believe they should be held accountable in some way that won't damage future leaders' ability to conduct war. Being held accountable in a foreign court is not acceptable in any way. I don't think it has been effectively demonstrated that he authorized specifics, but he certainly condoned it tacitly. I have yet to be convinced that the torture revealed at Abu Grab rises to the level of atrocity. I am much more concered that the soldiers responsible for killing that Iraqi family and raping their daughter are publicly executed. Yes

Thanks for sharing, dumbass.

This might help you overcome your serious mental affliction: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7501020220921158523&q=penn+and+teller+bullshit

Update: 323.5! Time I will never get back.

The fruits of Iosif Vissarionovich's literacy and health care program. Something for the left and SC to be proud of! Accolades indeed. Communist imposed Ukranian famine victim? 10 million of these folks - but at least they died knowing how to read and write! I think you're being too hard on SC. Honestly. How can a guy who owns both land and a 27 foot yacht be a real collectivist? These past couple years I have come to the conclusion that Sexual Chocolate, while liberal - as most wealthy urbanites are - is most certainly not a communist. I think he just likes to play devil's advocate to an extreme, or perhaps is conducting some sort of social experiment right here on cc.com. Save your harshest barbs for Prole (formerly j_b) and Jim. I'm convinced their version of freedom would have us both loaded onto railcars and "re-educated" in short order.

So does this mean you're going to let some homeless man squat on that nice sailboat you own... rent-free? (The one you're trying to rent out on another thread.) Put your money where your mouth is SC! Ahh, but of course it's left-leaning folks like you who prefer to be generous only with other people's money and property, no? Honestly, you do make a point about private property but on an unrelated level: Do any of us really own property insomuch as witholding tribute from Ceasar will result in government foreclosure?

How dare you claim that Chavez has respected property rights, you little punk. Why do junior commies like you and Jim have to blatantly lie to make your points? Talk about denial-flavored Koolaid! Try waking up to the world outside that small-time campus on which you reside and educating yourself about how the real world works. You are un-fucking believable. http://www.landaction.org/display.php?article=265 (even your lefty friends agree!) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aLJI6oIrRB8s http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/03/desperate_cry_from_venezuelas.html (from the right) http://www.inblogs.net/oilwars/2005/09/fascist-or-fair-deal.html http://www.analitica.com/va/ttim/international/4969131.asp (a latin perspective) http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=1426 (more lefties agree that its "seizure") ...seems the only ones who reject the term "land seizure" as it relates to Chavez are mental lightweights who have somehow established themselves - in their own little minds - as thinkers!

Who can beat it? http://www.ebaumsworld.com/penguinswing.html

But things really started looking up in '62!

You heard it here first folks, the birth of a hot new conservative buzzword: PETROFASCIST! Don't worry Fairweather, you can take all the credit. Hell, write a book! Prole. I'm willing to laugh with, at, or by myself. But your post just aint funny, nor does it make sense. Sorry.

Interesting period piece. But I find writing like this particularly condescending: "What I want to speak for is not so much the wilderness uses, valuable as those are, but the wilderness idea, which is a resource in itself. Being an intangible and spiritual resource, it will seem mystical to the practical minded--but then anything that cannot be moved by a bulldozer is likely to seem mystical to them." Who is this man, icon or no, to determine one cannot be both practical and love wilderness. Classic "us" versus "them". Too bad we can't get past 1960.

Maybe they could take some of the million$$$ they're wasting bulldozing and rebuilding the perfectly good visitor's center and use THAT to fix the roads. Then they wouldn't have to raise the pass costs. Damn Good Idea Tom! From time to time we actually speak the same language.

Scary shit. His loud guttoral ranting coordinated with the flailing hand gestures then followed by strategic pause reminds me of Hitler - while his endless repeat, rephrase, rehash of the same rant harkens Castro. Even if you agree with his hatred of Bush you must admit that the guy is NOT head-of-state material. Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that one.

I don't care if she's a hooker, as long as she doesn't give me any viruses...or worms.

W, I sincerely appreciate your candor regarding this and other wilderness-related issues. You sound like a pretty even-handed NPS employee. Typically, I have found NPS employees in Alaska the same. Unfortunately, I have encountered many (usually junior level - usually young, female) NPS folks here in the pacific northwest who don't share your sense of balance and act like rabid clubhouse guardians bent on keeping the evil human hordes from contaminating the land with their very presence. I would be surprised if you don't know the type I'm talking about. If my response to this fee trial-balloon sounds excessive, it is intentionally so. Does the Denali NP boundary adjustment of 1980 preclude the NPS from tacking a fee onto air taxi services that land at Kahiltna Base or do McKinley fly-overs? I would have no problem with this. I would have no problem with climbers posting a mostly-refundable rescue bond of $1000, but I realize there are legal implications for the park. I would have no problem charging very large up-front fees to guide service concessionaires. I would have no problem charging foreigners a large fee as they do in Nepal. After all, these visitors have not paid taxes to support the NPS system. I would have no problem with Denali NP dismantling "the program" altogether and adopting a Wrangell-St Elias style approach. But what right does DNP have to charge a legitimate park user, who begins his/her climb outside traditional park boundaries, a thousand bucks? If I walk into a fast-food joint to buy a cheeseburger should I be forced to eat filet mignon - and then be compelled to pay for it? What if I just want to climb a mountain, mind my own business, and pick up after myself?

A: Chavez has yet to invade another country under false pretenses. B: Chavez hasn't run the most formerly admired country in the world into the toilette. C: Chavez doesn't lead the world's largest greenhouse gas producing country while denying that global warming is a problem. C: Chavez doesn't have his finger on the world's most powerful nuclear button. The list goes on, but why bother? At this point, there isn't anyone in this audience who needs a kindergarten lesson in current events. Speaking of kindergarten lessons, dissapproval of a greater buffoon does not translate to support of a lesser. A. The relatives of innocents kidnapped and murdered by Chavez-supported FARC in next-door Colombia probably see things differently. 300,000 rifles for a 64,000-man army, you say? B. No. He is simply leading a nation - whose capital has the highest murder rate on Earth - deeper into the toilet. C. True. He simply sells his nation's heavy, sulfur-rich sludge to those who burn it. C. Hey! That's two C's! You're not one of the Chavez-loving commies about whom I spoke, so I'll leave it at "D" (?). BTW, I thought I was on your ignore user list?