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Went to the mountains. Climbed a bunch. I am a hard man. THUMP THUMP THUMP. The check is in the mail.

Got all packed up with the boat & kids to go to Banks Lake for a 3 day. Made it to North Bend when we turned around rather than fight all weekend. Now I am planning on a 2 day recon into the Necklace valley.

He didn't exactly pull himself up by his own bootstraps. How did he get his first job (wasn't that ceo of a Texas oil company?)? I have an uncle who was a Yale alumni. Clinton's pot smokin was nothin compared to W. He was a HARD partier until "He found the Lord". In other words, daddy said "straighten up and I'll give you $38million. Keep partying and you can clear brush on my ranch".

Duh. I'm a dung beetle. That's why I live on cc.com.

I'm sorry but Reagan is no sacred cow. He just happened to have the best propaganda machine since the Third Reich (no other similarities insinuated. honest). I could go on and on about how Reagan used carefully worded generalizations that were meant to be taken in many different ways by vastly differring people. They used the cowboy persona to perfection. The first president to be seen in leather since Teddy was Ronnie - the first time we saw him after we invaded Granada. After his Polyp operation- back in the saddle-literally. and on and on. Look carefully at his record. He did some good things (like most presidents) but he severely eroded our miranda rights (not to mention deficits, higher taxes, user fees, bigger government, etc). He will not go down in history as being great. That is a star-struck opinion of those who bought into the Media presentation. Turn off your TV!

Put your beer down. I am totally against the patriot act and do totally believe that Bush and his cronies are a bunch of fascists. Just don't try to tell me any modern president wasn't just as self serving and crooked. We are being brainwashed by mass media. Somebody like Walter Cronkite would be labeled "Lunatic fringe" right now. The mass media "new" is entertainment. It is not journalism. It is through brilliant manipulation of the mass media that we are being bilked out of our constitutional rights. A cop does not need a reason to stop you and search your car. People are being prosecuted for crimes using evidence obtained under the patriot act even though they have nothing to do with terrorism. If you call your buddy AlpineK and plot a crime together, say buying a pound of good bud. Under the patriot act, your phone can be tapped and you can go to jail based solely on your own phone conversation. That is the errosion I am talking about. If you think electing someone "with a good heart" to the Whitehouse is going to fix things, fine. Explain how that person is going to get any party's nomination.

One of my brothers is an opthamological sturgon. He doe cataract surgeries at 4 to 6K a pop. on a "good day" he can do nine. Overhead on three nurses, building, malprcatice insurance, equipment, liscenses, supplies takes about 55%. He gets the rest. Do the math. Then the patients need drugs. so forth and so on. Socialized medicine does not work well in America any more than capitalism works in Russia. The cultures are not willing to look past the temporary bumps to the goal. Meanwhile we have socialized our society with military protection, police, power, sewrer, roadways, retirement, being poor, being a lumber company, being an oil company,.....but don't call us socialists.

I would try to make it. 50/50 right now. Work must be done.

I'm sorry but now I have to lecture the liberals. If I've said it once, I 've said it a thousand times, Anyone who has made it to the White House doesn't have a moral bone in their egomaniacial body. ITS ABOUT ME STUPID!!! That's all there is to it. Sure they jump thru the hoops for one special interest or another but it's for sound bites. Anyone who wants the job should be automatically disqualified. That would have left us with only our first three presidents. After that, it was the constitution that held us together. Now we are letting that slip through slight of hand in the mass media. Hang on to your hats boys. They want blow jobs from all of us. The only way to stop them is with knowledge.

there is a lot more info there than can be cut into a single paragraph. putting a spin on events takes a sentence, straightening out the spin put on by a number of posters takes a short article. if it's too long for you, skip over it. Who appointed you chief cook and bottle washer? Must you always feel the need to "un-spin" our comments? What makes you possibly think we agree with you? I do skip over most of your shit because it's extremely boring and one-sided. I would suggest that you buy some friends and pretend you have a life, and spend less time playing "cub reporter". Again, thank you for your patience. Yeah. When Trask says "dems are dumb" you're supposed to say "No they're not". Haven't you read the rules?

The kids ropeup came and went. Mostly a "went" kind of thing. I would bring my kids to the ropeup but would be prepared to answer some tough questions from her kindergarten teacher the following week. Maybe the kids could be there just long enough to win a raffle?

The kids ropeup came and went. Mostly a "went" kind of thing. I would bring my kids to the ropeup but would be prepared to answer some tough questions from her kindergarten teacher the following week. Maybe the kids could be there just long enough to win a raffle?

I have been attacked by several bears. Five of them, I had to escape up a tree or down a hidden draw or to a group of people. One charged right up to me in the middle of a clearcut. Since he was young and about my size, I stood up to him and he backed down. It was touch and go. If I wouldn't have stood up to him, he would have chewed on me a bit. He was probably just kicked away from his mother and very hungry. If he was bigger, he would have known it and I would be a dried up turd in the Yack river drainage. Now that I have kids, I am looking for a 45.

What the fuck does this mean, asshole? Take your meds Fairweather. This is a discussion not a battle. People die when CIA operatives are revealed. If someone is guilty of treason, the traditional high court punishment is death.

If you ain't singed the short ones it weren't a real fire.

Isn't time for Hinkley to get out on parole?

Well OK. And you get a shot of my crotch too.

Go to the ropeup in Leaven worth Oct 10-12. Find someone to show you around a little.

So pass it on.

That really hurts.

Here is scientific evidence that we liberals have been right all along. Fairweather

Yup. But your Koflachs will suck to ski in so get shorter skis than usual and take a few test runs before you commit to a back country frolic with a pack on. Since I love to ski, I have pretty much given up on the "mountaineer boot to ski and climb in" dream. I have gone back to tele whackers and carry my light plastic boots.

This should look familiar.

She's a hottie I know Sooooo. Is she single or not? I was present for a bulldozer opening a gartersnake ball one spring in Montana. There were thousands of sluggish snakes inching away for all they were worth. Smelled like a hot day in a sewer.

Fairweather. You didn't read my post. F on reading comprehension. Here, let me spellit out for you, from a liberal; Ted Kennedy is the worst scourge to hit polotics. He was never as smart as his brothers and only got by because of his last name and continual pork barrelling in Mass. Without him, the Democrats would have a chance of forming a true moderate left. Clinton was the only Dem to get around him in a long time and he has a long list of faults. Funny how you never mention his sale of our best computer technology to China. Bush is near the bottom of the barrel of his side too. No need to beat a dead horse. POINT; our political system is in trouble. We rely on TV for our news (according to a few polls conducted over the last few years), and make decisions about world event based on sound bites. This is not a party problem. It is everyone being lazy. We all know how bad TV is as a source of credible information. Yet that is where our political decisions are made. That is our problem. As long as we have a balance of power in this country we will be OK. Right now, mass media has too much power.