Jim

And the point is exactly what Greg? Just pointing at the facts, which are grim and getting grimmer.

Translated as: I can't address the questions either, so I'm just going to leave a hit and run comment, before slinking off. Maybe I'll come back and leave another. Translated as: I agree with Heston's statements but I'm too afraid to say so in public OR I diagree with his ideas but don't want to tarnish the big gun guy.

Funny thing huh? Wolfowitz testified yesterday that the administration is going to need an new appropriation of $250 Billion (yes with a "B") for the war effort. The latest estimate that the war is costing us $5 Billion a month. Charming.

My favorite scene in that movie is Heston tying himself up in knots over the "cultural differences" statements. Talk about painting oneself into a corner. It's pretty amazing to see the right-winger back-pedalling from the type of talk they put out for their own consumption when it gets a good public airing.

This is what happens when alternative views actually get anywhere near mainstream media coverage. The right-wingers get their shorts twisted.

How about 50 billion flip flops? http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/13/iraq.spending.ap/index.html

Ecologists are way cool.

The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the -- the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." --GWB Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003 ""

I think the title is supposed to be humor. The text of the article is well writtten and logical. It's a good summary of the GOP attack-dog style these days of attempting to discredit anyone who points out the effects of policies or provides a viewpoint that is an alternative to theirs. Rather than discsuss the merits of the policies they go for the throat and character assassination . Expect more of the same in this election year.

Jeez- you could walk from anywhere in Seattle to downtown in 3 hours. Where are you commuting from, outer Magnolia? Sounds like the perfect candidate for a bike commute.

Our office is pretty casual and ecologists are no fashion plates so my attire is not a problem. However these ideas may help. It's good you have a shower. Roll clothes instead of folding. If you have to do the suit thing I have no suggestions since I never wear them. One guy in our office brings a few days worth of clothes into the office on the one day of the week he drives to the office. But you at least need a closet to hang clothes. Keep your office shoes at the office in the file cabinet If there's no place to dry a towel then bring a plastic bag for transporting it home. If there's no place to hang smelly bike clothes then do an easy spin into work and go a long loop home for the workout. Ask about getting a clothes rack and wire shelf in the shower area for clothes storage. Another option, but more expensive is joining a gym with lockers nearby the office and storing stuff there.

I get kinda bus sick when trying to read, the damm bus is alway so friggin hot and no one else seems to mind so I'm the one who has to ask the driver to take the heat off stun level, I have fallen asleep and missed my stop by a half mile, and then there was the time a baby threw its food in my hair. I ride most of the time.

Come on now. Not all bikers are idiots; same goes for vehicle drives. Seems to be enough dunces spread among various sub-cultures. Except those chicky-doodles from Bellevue or Mercer Island in the Excursions - a high rate of incidence there.

Most every day it's not hosing, and some when it is, all year. Beats the bus and parking costs! And I get to take the 40 mi loop home in good weather - like today!!

Lots of stories about that ascent. Actually it was welders gloves - as I heard it from Largo himself. But then again that may mean nothing from that story-teller.

It is? Then you shouldn't have any trouble finding me hard facts, not just hints and stories about IRCRC reports. Hellooooooooooo: The Red Cross report from a year ago is factual. It documented quite a number of serious problems at the prison. CNN had a minor blurb on this about 6 months ago and said the army was "investigating". You're flailing oh young one and embarassing yourself.

I've used two Gibbs ascenders. It's just about impossible for the rope to come out of those give that cotter pin backup. But just in case I've used two. I've weighted the rope with a pack and that has worked fine. That said - I would much rather go with a partner but it's adds variety to just bouldering.

Again? We didn't the first time.

Scary eh?

Three years ago, Mark C. Rutzick was the timber industry's top lawyer trying to overturn fish and wildlife protections that loggers viewed as overly restrictive. Back then, he outlined to his clients a new strategy for dealing with diminishing salmon runs. By counting hatchery fish along with wild salmon, the government would help the timber industry by getting salmon off the endangered species list, Mr. Rutzick wrote. Now, as a high-ranking political appointee in the Bush administration who is a legal adviser to the National Marine Fisheries Service, Mr. Rutzick is helping to shape government policy on endangered Pacific salmon. And in an abrupt change, the Bush administration has decided for the first time to consider counting fish raised in hatcheries when determining if some species are going extinct. The new plan, which officials have said is expected to be formally announced at the end of the month, closely follows the position that Mr. Rutzick advocated when he represented the timber industry. (05/08/04) New York Times

i·ro·ny(plural i·ro·nies) noun 1. humor based on opposites: a type of humor based on using words to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning 2. something humorous based on contradiction: something said or written that uses sardonic humor

What we do know is that the International Red Cross documented abuses over a year ago and submitted their report to the Defense Dept. Nothing much was done. Defense kept the information to themselves and didn't report to the Senate Armed Services Committee, which they should have. Defense Dept. classified their investation report to keep it out of circulation - which goes against their own guidelines of only classifying information regarding national security and/or sensitive diplomacy, not to keep the information out of other sectors of our own government. They realized they had a problem, but from their standpoint it was a PR one and they just tried to keep the lid on it, which is typical for this administration.

............great spokesman as he never really says anythig.

Nothing personal. You went from the Gomer sophmoric thing to the anti-semitic baiting thing, back to a sophmoric comment about Amy Goodman. I'd say that's a wide swing in two posts.

You keep bringing up new subjects in this thread when your old ones get trashed. Usual