Fairweather

Amen.

...I didn't know what you were talking bout at first... This is just terrible.

I'm sure Iraqi civilians will die. Sad, but the blood will be on Saddam's hands, not ours. If he choses to place his anti-aircraft defenses near/on hospitals, mosques, "baby milk factories", and schools, we will have no choice but to destroy those targets. Flame away, but I would not trade the life of ONE American serviceman for the lives of 1000 Iraqi civilians. The Iraqi people stood still while a tyrant was in their midst. Now some innocents will likely have to pay. Sad, but true. This blood will be on Saddam's hands.

Perhaps the French CAN help the United Stetes in this war without sacrificing their pacifist beliefs. They can show Saddam and his troops the proper way to wave a white flag! Their expertise in this practice remains unchallenged.

Great post! Who would ever have thought.....The French and Germans as allies! Thank goodness they don't represent all of Europe. Sounds like the Spanish, Italians, and all of the ex-Soviet Eastern European republics are with us. I heard today that Denmark is with us. I will make it a point to avoid purchasing any French or German-made products until they get their shit together.

originally posted by Sexual Chocolate: Sexual Choc, this seems to be a recuring theme for posts you present as your "evidence". "....I can't remember the source/ I forgot...." blah, blah, blah. Did the dog eat your homework?

...and still more. JB, Sex Choc, Dr Flasher, are so anxious to blame America first...so anxious to over-analyze, so sure they're morally and intellectually superior to the majority, that they can't see a picture like this as murder on a ghastly scale by a tyrant who's got to go.

...more of Saddam's handi-work.

...see attached. Halabja. Northern Iraq,1988. Saddam did this. Not America.

Hey bDubya, Whats the latest on building the Skagway to Juneau highway I read about last year? I've taken the ferry up Lynn Canal a couple times and I have a hard time believing that a road could ever be built...at least along the "shore".

Do you think the Dems would be proposing ANY tax cuts to ANY income level if Al Gore were president and/or the Dems controlled congress? They have been reduced to the "Me Too!" party. The writing is on the wall if they want to read it....

Desey, My all-time favorite mountain boots are my La Sportiva K2's. (Leather inners!) My love for my K2's led me to buy a pair of LS Nepal Extremes when I was looking to replace my plastics. Big Mistake! They are too soft in the ankle, and my feet go numb at about 15 degrees f. The moral of my story, I guess, is that boots (leather, anyway) are the biggest gamble you'll ever take re: gear. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to brand/fit/comfort and no way to predict your final level of satisfaction. Good luck. Just my .02.

...and your flag-burning avatar is over the top. (as I'm sure you intended it to be) Is that you holding our flag? I hope it catches "someone's" attention. Ya know what I mean? Don't get me wrong. I do believe flag burning is protected speech. I just believe you are a bit childish. ...just another uninformed yoot, you are.

Wasn't that Siberian Prison camp run by Sexual Chocolate's great uncle, or somethin'?

Don't be 'dissin the Sweedish Bikini Team my liberal friend... some things are just sacred. Besides, I don't need subliminal or overt advertising to tell me that girls in bikinis are good.

Disagree with your "role model vs advertising" premise. I suggest that James Dean, Don Johnson and their Hollywood/television succesors brought more young people to smoking than Joe Camel.

Off White, Here's a story for you and Mattp: A family friend of ours is a state water quality big-wig down in Olympia. I recently saw him at a gathering and as we hadn't seen each other for some time, we had some good conversation. He has two sons, aged 18 and 19. The 19 year old is a student at Evergreen State College, and the 18 year old.... joined the US Marines on Sept 12, 2001. ...Same upbringing, different result! Go figure.

so hippies would be stupid to have identified with the ideals of Donovan, Joplin and Hendrix but we'd be smart to heed Zappa's words? Is he some kind of bastion of thoughts in the western world or something? I did not think so. You are going to make a grumpy old fart some day. Joplin...dead; drugs Hendrix...dead; drugs(?) Morrison...dead; drugs Visionaries; yes. But they've got the blood of dead kids on their hands IMHO. ....ready for a flamin'...

Mattp, I still remember your Mount Washington E Face TR. It was great! And its on my short list. Some common ground is always good. Thanks.

Iain, Don't you believe in "voting with your pocketbook"? Why would I pay for my son or daughter to attend a college that condones, or attempts to instill a doctrine with which I disagree? I can tolerate, and even admire well thought out rebellion from my children! But not when it has been hammered into them by a left wing teacher/professor. Like I said before, education...not indoctrination.

Mattp She hasn't even considered Evergreen. I was only using that institution to illustrate my point. Your reply is well taken though.

I can only hope that you take a long leader fall onto a BD Bod harness that damages your already small testicles so badly you are unable to hurl your liberal spawn upon this great nation.

sounds like she's already under political "indoctrination". and "to be fair" I went to Macalester College, alma mater of that "whining liberal" Kofi Annan. Iain, Last time I checked, indoctrination/passing along your values political and otherwise, was a parental purview. Do you share at least some of the values instilled by your parents? Or were those values erased/displaced during your tenure at Macalaster College?

My daughter is a high school junior and is starting the college search process. I only hope I am paying for her "education", and not political "indoctrination". Why don't parents demand the censure or termination of these (tenured, no doubt) professors who focus on idealogically twisted curriculum, left wing OR right wing? I've already given her a very short list of "daddy-won't-pay" schools. (ie: Evergreen State College) Fortunately, for both she and I, UC Berkeley falls into the "daddy-can't-afford" category.

Dwayner, Great post! I'm personally undecided on the merits of the Iraq war position our govt is taking (though recently leaning toward a pro-administration stance), but it is encouraging to know that someone on "the inside" of the university scene sees things objectively re: the neo "anti-war" movement.