Fairweather

From the article:"On the north side of Mount Olympus, in the Olympic Mountains, the depth of ice on the Blue Glacier has dropped an average of 65 feet annually since 1987, according to estimates by University of Washington researchers." Huh? I climbed Olympus last year for the first time since 1984. I did notice the lower glacier seems to have dropped a bit, but the depth of ice near the base of the icefall is/was over 1100 feet! Let's see; at 65 feet per year since '87....that's over 1200 feet of depth supposedly lost! Obviously a misquote, but when you're writing a story like this, details DO matter. That picture of the South Cascade Glacier is absolutely shocking.

I'll be in Bellingham Saturday. Maybe I'll express it in person.

Nice try, punk. He was talking to a group of kids about the value of education. And he was talking contemptuously about American soldiers - just like you do.

Prole = John Kerrey? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15499174/ "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Arrogance of the left on display - again.

I don't know, but it's still on-air and profitable. And, to my knowledge, they never filed for bankruptcy.

Arrogance. I'm sure our troops would love to read such a succinct example of your unbridled contempt. The poverty and ignorance cards you and yours regularly deal are particularly galling. The "support the troops" rallying cry and disciplinary cudgel is the epitome of patronizing contempt for soldiers and their families. It's founded on the notion that those in combat have to know that they are fighting for a just cause, that they and their buddies are not dying in vain, that their sacrifices have been worth it. Can anyone in their right mind say that the catastrophe, chaos, and hell that is the US invasion and occpation of Iraq has been worth it? If the answer is no, then continuing support for this war, staying the course and feeding troops an obvious line of bullshit means you don't support the troops at all, you support their use as cannon-fodder in an illegal war waged for illegitimate ends that the current administration has all but admitted is unwinnable. If you really wanted to support the troops, and here I mean the actual human beings under the uniforms and not the institutions of the armed forces, then you'd be doing your best to get them the fuck out of there. This includes making information that is verboten or unavailable to them available, encouraging organized refusal. The paternalistic "support the troops" rhetoric has extended the shelf life of "Operation Clusterfuck" and therefore put more US troops through the meatgrinder. History has focused primarily on the antiwar movement within the US as a main motor for ending the war in Vietnam. Not suprisingly, the highly effective anti-war movement within the armed forces itself has been largely ignored. Resistance to and refusal of direct orders, going AWOL, etc. in an organized manner was instrumental in ending that horrorshow. These people were no more traitorous than were runaway slaves! The internalization of the idea that human beings could become the property of others, plantation owner or military is fundamentally wrong, downright fucking barbaric. Any notion of really supporting the troops must first dispel this sick, inhumane, and immoral idea. Check out the new film "Sir, No Sir": http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70043764&trkid=189530&strkid=268177404_0_0 A nicely convoluted response to your indefensible statement. On one hand you're basically calling our soldiers uneducated killers and torturers and sarcastically proclaiming that you can't wait for their safe return, and now you're saying " 'hooray for our troops', but I wish they would mutiny to validate my political beliefs". Just great, man. You're a real shit bag Prole/j_b. I always knew Bellingham was full of defectives. Here's some advice: Your 7 years at WWU ended a while ago - why not move out into the real world and spread the word? I suspect you'll find people's views beyond that 5 mile campus radius are more diverse than you realize.

He'll soon have a hard time hearing Air America anywhere as it filed for bankruptcy last week and has no sources left for additional funding. And if NPR were taken off the public dole I doubt it would last long either. (But I will admit to actually liking much of their programming.) As confirmation of the beliefs held by so many 'progressives', it seems the free market and boredom just don't get along without extorting capital from hard working folks via taxation - or at least milking charity from wealthy left-leaning activists. It now appears Air America's inflated poll numbers were nothing more than questionees making a political statement - few advertisers there saw a noticeable lift in sales. So long Air America...so long Al Franken. You just weren't that entertaining - or funny.

Fairweather's picks: (in order) Mitt Romney® - How'd a Republican Mormon make it in MA? Joe Liebermann(I) - Kicked out of the "Big Tent", I hear! John McCain ® - Bad Tempered Moderate Bill Richardson (D) - I want to hear more

Arrogance. I'm sure our troops would love to read such a succinct example of your unbridled contempt. The poverty and ignorance cards you and yours regularly deal are particularly galling.

Mom's calling! Say's it's bath-time.

I doubt my wife could even watch you masterbate and contain her laughter. My 5'2" black-belt daughter would probably just rip off your sack and braid your Vas deferens' into a new cordelette.

I'll take this juncture to insult Fairweather's wife. She's a whore. $20 on a venomous reply within 20 seconds of his reading? You upset that I insulted your girlfriend? Psssst....I don't know how to say this delicately, but, here goes.... I hear she's seen more than just a few cc.com members members.

"Takes his ball and goes home?" I believe MaryLou was the one who hit the ignore this user radio button. She joins her fellow losers; Trashtarkington and Moschillin. I haven't left what you call 'this discussion' at all, but some of your comrades certainly have. When the core of this thread consists of leftists making statements like, "I am ashamed to be an American", "Let's put Saddam back in power", "Saddam = George Bush", "650,000 dead - how dare you claim only 60,000!", and Prole propegating an outright hysteric lie from dubious sources about a US-sponsored coup, I feel no compulsion to play nice. How do you think our troops over there would feel if they read your bullshit? This thread is a who's who of the cc.com self-hate-hate-america crowd. Other than Trashkent's Iraq partition proposal, which Bush has wrongly rejected, I see no solutions here. Just the usual bullshit. Go look in the mirror fuckheads. I am you looking back from the other side.

Ah, but we have met. You just didn't realize it at the time.

Your skin is thin. Your skull thick.

That is the saddest thing I have ever heard. What makes America a great place is the ability to say what you think. If you disagree with someone, why not try and have a well thought out arguement with them. You are just plain sad man. Please spare me your selective indignation. Have you ever seen fit to address some of the lacking civility coming from those with whom you likely agree politically? No. Some real original stuff too! "Reichwinger", "KKK", "NAZI", "Fucktard", etc, etc, etc - all meant to shut down debate and bring conservatives and centrists in line. You are sad, hypocritical, and confused all at once.

Do you even know where that picture was taken, or who the killer was? If you're disturbed by images of Saddam's handy work, then you have no business commenting on our subsequent actions - IMO, of course. Back to your obnoxious briefs now, crybaby. No moderator will save you from your own weak constitution.

Why on Earth would anyone have thought Saddam had WMD's?? I mean, Saddam was just an all-around misunderstood guy, eh Treefrog? And yes, Allison - I too am ashamed that you're an American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Can%27t_Wait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party%2C_USA Still waiting for some "truth" from you, Jim.

Here's part II: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/preps/278778_sealth25ww.html

Interesting article. I've often wondered the same questions that are posed and partially answered in the piece. The article seems to make the all-too-common assumption that humans are apart from nature. Creationism put aside - as it must be for a discussion like this - we humans are either wholly part of the evolution of this planet, or not. I don't doubt that if you remove one species from the web others will thrive. And I'm not trying to suggest we can't or shouldn't try our best to minimize our impact on this natural world of which we're a part. I'm not, however, in any hurry to go quietly into the night.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/fogofwar/

Um, yea - You better read the entire statute. Also, note in your snippet, "initial detention".

This argument is moot. If fairy-land Seattle types ever succeed in usurping our constitutionally protected right to possess arms, I will become a 'criminal'.