Fairweather

Strangely enough, mine curves slightly left. But I refuse to believe this is anything more than genetic irony.

No. The moderation over there is considerably more balanced /evenhanded. But then, they don't have Bush-hating conspiracy idiots who lack even the most basic mastery of written English like Shadow Man 1.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/09/03/ar911.phone.calls/

Mountain biking at Victor Falls with Gotterdamerung and CaptCaveman. Beautiful day. Muddy. Rainier coming out of the clouds.

Ah, yes! The classic liberal arrogance rears its ugly head once again and this time foraker is the point man! "Anyone who does not think like me must be stupid, moronic, unenlightened, neanderthal, uneducated, etc..." This is what I would expect from j_b, not from the name bearer of a great Alaskan peak. Try to open your mind a little. Try to keep a lid on that self-important aura.

The latest! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6367631/site/newsweek/

Really? I thought Kerry viewed the matter as "primarily a law enforcement issue". Of course, that was before he became candidate Kerry. I'm sure as prez Kerry, he would "bring Osama to justice".

...and by this time next week the unopened bottle will rest at the bottom of your pail under the warm, stagnant water that was once so cold, clean and crystalized - awaiting a celebration never to be. BTW: Bush was chosen in 2000 by the electoral college. Many subsequent recounts, even those done by left-leaning papers, demonstrate this to be so. It is likely time for you to grow up and accept our constitutional system of government and elections. This election holds the potential for Bush to win the popular vote, yet lose the election in the electoral. This is our way. I will accept it if it comes to pass. (however unlikely) I will not carry on like a whiney little bitch for 4 years about our "unelected" leader. Grow some hair.

The fore-mentioned peaks are products of the Skagit Gneiss whereas their counterparts are not??? F#$%^k if I know.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6327343/

We gave $$$ to The Palestinian Authority too! Until they decided to use it to kill our Israeli friends and buy ships full of weaponry from Iran. Israel could disappear tomorrow.....the Muslim extremists would still kill Americans at every opportunity.

Palestine?? Did I miss the statehood ceremony? ...and yes, Terrorists.

...But as lame as our media is here, at least we don't tolerate media threats against our leaders and listen to constant and overt shit like that foisted on the Brits.... America Under Attack ... by British Media Monday, October 25, 2004 By Scott Norvell Anyone thumbing through The Guardian's (search) weekly entertainment guide this past weekend could be forgiven for spitting coffee all over the couch when they reached the television listings section. In a weekly TV column, writer Charlie Brooker (search) launched into a refrain familiar to anyone who regularly reads The Guardian, the house organ of London's liberal left-wing. Taking on George W. Bush's performance during the recent debates, Brooker dubbed the president a "lying, sniggering, drink-driving, selfish, reckless, ignorant, dangerous, backward, drooling, twitching, blinking, mouse-faced little cheat." He concluded his ditty with the following paragraph: "On November 2, the entire civilized world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?" Sputter. Our friends the Brits, indeed. Brooker's longing for an assassin (The Guardian apologized for it Monday, calling it an "ironic joke") is an extreme, but by no means atypical view among London's punditry class these days. Thumbing through the rest of the week's television listings in the same magazine as Brooker's column says much about how Britain's media feel about America and Bush in particular. It's the week before the election, of course, and programmers are scurrying to get their harangues on the air while there's still some semblance of an excuse — a "news peg." The BBC (search), Britain's taxpayer-funded broadcaster, has the most ambitious schedule of anti-American fare. Sunday's Panorama magazine show was about how 9/11 and Bush's "war on terror" (the Beeb uses these derisive quotation marks whenever it mentions our war on Islamic fundamentalists) have polarized the American populace. Over on BBC4 (search) the same night was "The America Debate," a political roundtable broadcast from Harvard University featuring an uncharacteristically balanced panel interspersed with hopelessly biased reports from correspondents around America (the BBC doubts America's "great Liberal tradition" will survive unless the Democrats win the election.) Tuesday, BBC2 (search) offers us a rant in the form of a travelogue titled "Holidays in the Danger Zone: America Was Here." This week's program focuses on El Salvador, and if last week's episode on Nicaragua (the Nicas were living the Socialist dream of peace and equality under the Sandinistas (search) until big, bad America started financing the Contras (search) in the 1980s) then every problem currently faced by El Salvador is sure to be laid at American feet. Wednesday, the broadcaster treats us to the second installment of a three-part series titled "The Power of Nightmares," which reports that a cabal of U.S. neo-conservatives (search) have fabricated the idea of Al Qaeda (search) and an international terror threat in order to solidify power. Not surprisingly, The Guardian has been lapping up this line of thinking with special reports tied to the broadcasts and op-ed columns galore about its insightful portrayal of that dubious "war on terror." Thursday, the BBC is re-running "Who Runs America," a series which uses profiles of prominent Americans to validate every stereotype and prejudice BBC staffers have about America and Americans. A FDA official talks about how overweight Americans are. An evangelical pastor from California speaks to the country's fanatical religiosity. The CEO of General Motors addresses our love affair with gas-guzzling cars and greedy overuse of the world's natural resources. New York police commissioner Ray Kelly talks about his success fighting crime in the Big Apple "at the expense of burgeoning prison populations," and an FBI official is interviewed about how American law enforcement has run amok in the name of homeland security. All this is to be expected, of course, from the BBC. The commercial broadcasters aren't much better, however. Channel 4 goes for the jugular whenever it can, and this week provides plenty of opportunity. Saturday, the network visits the latest output in the "American Empire" -- Angola -- to tell how we are tightening our grip on African oil because of the chaos in the Middle East. Monday, Channel 4 kicks off an entire month of special programming titled (cue sarcasm here) "The Greatest Democracy on Earth." The inaugural show, "The White House for Sale," sets the tone for the rest of the month with descriptions of how the country that imposes its Democratic ideals on hapless nations around the world is actually corrupt to the core. Saturday, Channel 4 returns to that favorite topic of the British chattering classes -- those wacko fundamentalists in America. "With God on our Side" describes how ignorant, whacked-out Christians in several swing states have kidnapped the American electoral process and are leading the Beacon of Freedom inexorably toward religious extremism. Television is not the only medium for such tripe. Newspaper op-ed pages are awash in columns along the same vein, and radio programs are not much better. The handful of dissenting voices are drowned out by the chorus of conspiracy theories, Bush-bashing and cultural stereotyping. Americans who applaud the resoluteness of our British allies in the War on Terror would do well to refocus their applause on 10 Downing Street (search) and the British Ministry of Defense. Blair has endured a drubbing about Iraq such as few Americans could comprehend, yet he has stuck to his guns. And if this week's television fare is any indication, the drubbing will continue well past the American election and into Blair's own electoral season next year. He's going to need all the well-wishes he can get, because there won't be any coming from this side of the pond. Scott Norvell is the European Bureau Chief for FOX News. He is based in London.

I watched the actual story on NBC Nightly News last night. It stated that the entire bunker complex had been searched upon US troop's arrival and that an embedded reporter was with the unit. The story you link to is not the story that ran last night. It has been modified and embellished. Look at the date of the "updated version". Fuking Kerry-loving media dickheads, and the choads like ChucK who swallow it down without missing a drop.

That's you argument? The three individuals you mention don't work for the administration. (Pearle left last year, I believe) And I can't say I disagree with anything in the mission statement you posted! Many government/ex-government officials have affiliations with other groups. Even Arab-American groups! And let's not even talk about the affiliations some university profs hold! Again; what is it about US Israel policy you find so offensive? The fact that a few Jewish-Americans who hold government jobs are complicit?

President Bush's refusal to pardon Jonathan Pollard comes to mind. But, frankly, why wouldn't any thinking individual support Israel? They are fighting for their survival against an enemy who still lists their complete destruction as a goal. Why would we continue to support a Palestinial organism that refuses to renounce this evil doctrine and kills busloads full of innocents on a regular basis? You claim to support some of Israel's more controversial policies. Fine. But why claim that a jewish conspiracy of sorts exists within our own government when you, yourself are on the same page? BTW: I don't think you are anti-semitic, and I specifically stated in my post that I was not comparing you to Hitler. I simply think that you toying with a somewhat paranoid - and even dangerous - idea that seems to have found roots in the culture on the left.

And yet your new-found buddies on the left scream bloody murder when Americans of arab descent are searched at airport terminals....just because 19 hyjackers on 9/11 were of middle eastern origin....so now we're searching 80 year old Chinese grandmothers to asuage their hysteria. This, even while those same pals blame "the jews" for the path our current government has taken. For you to single out Jews as they relate to "neocons"- which can't even be properly defined- is a joke. I am not Jewish. I don't consider myself a neocon. I am Christian, but my conservatism is secular at its roots. What you have done is taken a few prominent Jews, thrown them into the manufactured neocon mix to support your thesis, and proclaimed it to be true. Weak.

"Confederates in the Attic" by Tony Horwitz...on the couch "Unfit For Command" by O'Neill and Corsey...at the gym "The Starship and the Canoe" by Kenneth Brower...on the shitter

I'm dealing with perception only. I've always thought the chances of a liberal state like Hawaii going ® were about the same as Alaska or Wyoming going (D)!

Hmmm...I see a pattern here. And it aint' pretty! I recall another historical figure who liked to blame those of a certain race/religion for a nation's ills. Can you guess, Will? I'm sincerely not trying to compare you to that person!!! But consider how your rants would sound if you blamed other whole groups such as "those asians", or "Latinos", or "Blacks"...it is no different. Why is it OK to bash Jews as a group or blame them as a whole for perceived governmental wrongs? And why do modern liberals seem so intolerant of this group? Shameful, IMO. BTW: Scoop Jackson was from Washington State, not Wyoming as you stated.

I've always said that about cops.

http://electoral-vote.com/ Wow! Bad news for Kerry in.....Hawaii(?! )

We miss you here Rodchester! If the afterlife has internet access....Well, I just wanted you to know. Respectfully, Fairweather

Will Strickland. Once a calm voice of reason and balance in an sea of cc.com angst. His dark journey to the angry left is almost complete.

My current wish list: Mount Adams - complete circumnavigation of mountain on RTM trail and XC route between Mazama Saddle and Avalanche Valley. Maybe throw in a climb of The South Klickitat Icefall or White Salmon Glacier. Mount Rainier - Tahoma Glacier Mount Rainier - Ptarmigan Ridge Mount Stuart - North Ridge Olympus Range - Approach via Queets Basin, set up camp on Hoh Glacier (Camp Pan) and climb everything with a name... W,M,E,Athena,Mathias,Mercury,Owl,Tom,Hermes,.... Mount Hood - Climb Coe Icefall and finish via Sunshine route to summit. Oops, that's six....