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Monty Python is definitely favored by lefties. However, I will gladly fart in your general direction ;-) don't get it cause Monty's entire stick from the TV series is making fun against their government. Ministry of funny walks? Government bashing is a conservative issue and Monty did plenty of that. Maybe it is not that there are no funny conservative entertainers but rather conservatives don't have a sense of humor.

Jeff Foxworthy "you know you are a redneck when you ......." and all the rest of his touring crew like Larry the Cable guy they may only be funny to rednecks though.

Is that why you led with the gun related insults? Just a few seconds on gun control advocacy social media sites clearly demonstrates there is a vitriolic us vs. them mentality. Gun control is demonstrably about more than just controlling violence. do tell us what gun control is about. Being that gun control comes from voter mandate. (the feds are under the firm grip of NRA so there is no chance of gun control coming from big brother) what do the voters have as far as a grand scheme for gun control? Gun control advocacy media sites may not be a good resource for what the truth really is. One could call it a unbiased fact source. Any gun based vitriolic us vs them mentality is a story told by the people selling fear of "takin our guns away".

that is a real piece of art. In my mind, I can see some old blacksmith sweating away over a anvil, making those crampons.

it is this aggressive attitude about gun ownership that is the most disturbing and IMO the reason why the recent gun initiative passed. If gun owners came across as sensible and responsible individuals, non gun owners wouldn't give a crap about people owning guns. NRA says that people kill people not guns killing people. When we hear such aggression coming from gun owners,(even such a minor comment such as "eat it") it is not a big leap to think it would be good to get guns out of these peoples hands. There are many pro gun activists that say the craziest shit and it scares the bejessus out of the rest of the country. A few bad apples ruining it for the rest of the playground?

I thought there were written rules against posting eBay here. maybe even craigslist is off limits but they haven't made a filter for that.

that was not an example of good writing. I sure liked that tech tip section though, till they ran out of novel ideas than they resorted to stuff that was in every How To book.

Yup, yarn-spinning is a dying art and Pagel's skills are right up there with the best. while the majority of stuff in climbing magazine may not be a superb quality, I have been surprised by some really good writing, mostly in rock and ice. Seems like there is at least one good article in every issue. off the top of my head, a recent issue had a good article on a well known base jumper death (Sean Leary?) and Ueli Steck s face Annapurna controversy. I think that the ratio of good to mediocre articles is about the same since the 90's.

just cause one is old enough to serve in the military does not mean that same person is an adult. Old enough to die for country yes....adult maybe....maybe not. As a person who joined right after HS myself, I have a little experience with immature military personnel. (self included in that crowd)

you may need to define their "plight". if it is how many young black men are killed daily, then you may have a point. But I think the bigger issue is discrimination and prejudice against all black people. Having a young innocent black man killed by a white police officer is just another example of this and the real reason for the anger. Are you suggesting that most of the problems of the black culture are due to their own actions?

maybe I miss understood. It sounded like you were saying that the presence of media on a situation brought about the reaction of the ferguson locals.

blaming the media coverage for the protesting of black people in ferguson is a slap to the face of the black people of ferguson. Are you saying that if the media did not cover the story, then they would not have fallen prey to the negative covering of the story and gone out angry? I think that a long history of slavery and then a long history of inequality and racial oppression may have had something (or everything) to do with their anger. When white people have a long history of oppression (by who?) then we will have a reason to scream for the murder of John Williams. Even though we all should make a fuss about anyone who is murdered by police regardless of color.

number don't matter to "them". it is all a conspiracy coverup.

yeah, like these "smart" skiers.

assuming you have a job already lined up, shouldn't you live near your work? Biased here but I like Snohomish county much more. Index, leaven-worth, stevens pass, plenty of hiking around, mtn loop hwy areas and you don't have to drive through seattle to get to the n cascades park. Not driving through seattle is worth whatever redneck neighbor hassles I face.

a detailed account on his blog http://www.joshlew.com/i-have-fallen

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build something. time for a new deck? try instructables. plenty of DIY projects to distract.

it is a big world out there. should be plenty to distract you if you just look around.

oh great....now I gotta google that.......wish I hadn't............

I have never been to Mississippi and I hang with my homies, the little feet riders. Good on you for taking care of that cool place.

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Doing a bunch of closet cleaning, getting rid of things that are doubled up. All of it is listed on craig's list. Sorry about not listing the photos on this site but I don't feel like downloading that many photos to cc.com reply either through PM or craig's list. Dana Designs pack, Slider, snowboard carrier pack - $50 http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/spo/4725413039.html kids snowboots Kamik size childs 13 Black - $25 http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/clo/4724754457.html ski snowboard pants, L, black, eddie bauer - $30 http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/spo/4723050580.html Giro g10 ski helmet - $35 http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/spo/4721879169.html UnoVac 1 liter stainless steel thermos unbreakable - $20 http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/spo/4721845174.html supergaiters large, rubber rand and goretex upper, med/large - $30 http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/spo/4720794009.html REI hooded fleece jacket, medium - $10 http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/clo/4720160216.html tag-a-bike for kids. tag behind adult bike - $90 http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/bik/4720160518.html There are a couple options of meeting up. 1. I work at a boeing plant on east marginal way in south seattle and can meet there between 7am and 1:30pm. 2. On my commute home starting at 1:30pm via I5 to I90E to I405N. Then on hwy522 to near maltby. If you can meet somewhere near that drive. 3. After 4pm, I can meet you at the maltby café parking lot. 4. Weekends. We can figure something out. 5. Or if you want to have it shipped, pay with paypal and add actual shipping costs. thanks gene

no example to provide but maybe a better glove instead? wouldn't a glove that was insulated with many small patches on the palm be grand. Have it so that when clutching a tool those patches would all line up and when the hand is open, the patches would spread apart and breathe better. My only good advice is to keep your core warm and you hand should stay pretty warm.

from the move the hut dot org site. To our many friends and supporters: We won the court case against Seattle architect Tom Kundig! Superior Court Judge Culp has ruled that Mr. Kundig and his partners violated the covenants by placing their hut on the ridgeline of Flagg Mountain and must remove it. Not only is this an amazing victory for a small community that banded together to fight a Seattle celebrity architect, but a victory for all who are fighting to preserve the wonder and beauty of unsullied nature. Frank Lloyd Wright had plenty to say on this topic: "No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other." Many thanks to everyone who made this happen.