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1 ranch - 2 vets - 4 dogs - 9 meat popsicles - a dozen cattle - 14 chickens n' a herd of goats

my 3rd visit in as many weekends - slurry sick snow high-centering on the final mile - pouring weak-sleety shit in the slickery parking lot - the ghosts of a great big bonfire - into the deep! checked out the "sandcastles" - holy fucking great hollows afore the hall-guard bat-man - a big, big scary boom below the hard-boots we beat upon the bottom of the room - total zen in the corkscrew of the chamber's end. great times - 4 white boys crammed into the cab of a new-model what-have-you - me n' bob n' the tappet-brothers all about at the broaching of the day...

for every one of us living in this world means waiting for our end let he who can achieve glory before death when a warrior is gone that will be his best and only bulwark

and thus totally at home in cc.retard spray!!!

'bout sums it up for me - if that shit ain't on the test...

renew, renew, renew!

11/16 - blustery in the evening, poor portents for a weekend spent in outdoor pursuits - a storm brewing, fierce and soon to follow the setting of the sun, but time enough for a lap in the damp, breezy, chilly dusk - chicken-wing => corner => hidden treats => corner HOW YOU KNOW ITS WINTER AT BEACON: 1. on a friday afternoon you don't just have the corner to yerself, nor the whole rock, but what appears to be the entirety of the damn park, including the river! 2. all the chalk's washed off the holds, so ya gotta actually look around a bit... 3. your solo options suddenly seem awful limited, as cruise'n and any part of young warriors doesn't even appear on the radar 4. kenny's food bucket on the party ledge has turned into a foul slurry of what-the-fuck 5. you ain't seen jim in a looooong while 6. all the elk have fuckered off the island, the herons are hell n' gone, and the peregrines have a prissy air about them 7. on the rare occasions you climb indoors, you gotta re-tighten all yer shoelaces 'cuz you've been climbing in thick-socks since ever-fuck 8. you actually can hear the nagging voice of your wife ("you're an asshole") when having a quick lap after-work in the dark 9. getting even a single lap in after work seems a god-send to dispell the grim demons of Seasonal Affective Disorder 10. the fucking wdot cock-suckers FINALLY appear to be bringing their goddamn roadwork on 14 to a head, and the sorry white-bitches who've been holding signs all summer are now burka-safe under 10 bundles of warm whateverthefuck

the good news is that, given the fact their various products were made almost purely out of preservatives, any remaing hostess snack left in a time-capsule, bomb shelter, double-wide trailer, etc. oughta be good anytime between now and judgement day

if only we had uglier, less charismatic generals

i got more rights w/ the coca-cola company then w/ genghis khan and his boys at least?

anachronism, why in 400 BC you had boys like socrates saying "i am not a greek or an athenian, but a citizen of the world." course, i think the tearing down of political walls was what the anarchists were all about last century, and all they managed to do was make some mildy interesting, noisy music

have you read "guns, germs and steel?" great book, if not. basic theory: germs have been one of the prime evolutionary tools shaping our societies since we started living in big'old herds

i don't follow - constitution demands a majority of the e.c. votes (currently 270) to become president - how does a 3rd party ever get that? sure, a 3rd party could conceivably get more than the 2 established parties, but no way a full on 51%

i do like a popular vote system as the e.c. justifiably makes voters feel their individual vote ain't worth anything

i'd be fine w/ that if every other state did it simultaneously, but obviously it would just fuck one party or the other if it was scattershot

isn't the point that some vaccines work very well, others not so much? not getting your kids a flu shot doesn't seem nearly as insane as not getting the hpv-vaccine or any of hte others i mentioned above (personal annecdote: my daughter damn near died a few years back during the big swine-flu outbreak, despite getting the vaccine a few weeks earlier - we still give the kids their shot each year, but we don't expect much that'll it help) that said, i get a flu-shot when it's convenient for me, which is most years - i'm an autistic-savant already, so why worry?

is this thread shitting on all vaccines or just the annual flu one? the conventional wisdom, as i've understood it since ever-fuck-afore, is that the flu vaccine ain't very dependable, but the big boys, like for tetanus, diptheria, measles, etc. are actually quite good. read a book once about kids dyiing of diptheria in nome, alaska - holy shit that's a suck-ass way to die, and i'm very happy that vaccines have largely relegated it to history books...

i don't see why the gop would oppose it but then i don't understand the proposal very well - i suppose the system would have worked against them in 2000, but in theory it's still 50/50 when it comes to a close vote instead of washington divying up it's ec votes by the popular vote in this state it uses the national #'s? does that pass our state consitution's muster? i'd be pissed if, say everyone in this state voted democrat, but then had to help hand over power to the replicants. and, as i understand it, the "faithless elector" laws some states have passed are likely unconstitutional, but have never been challenged as so simply b/c it's never been an issue - what happens when the electors of a state decide on decemeber 15 not to vote the way their state said so? i could be talked round to it i suppose, just want to banter about it more... this proposal does nothing to solve the impossibility of a 3rd party taking the white house?

doesn't this increase the odds of needing a national recount for a close election, a la florida in 2000 but on a much shittier scale? don't the "swing states" have no motivation to change the status quo, since it brings them so much more attention, and thus potentialy swag from the eventual victors?

taking parenting/medical advice from a playboy bunny is like....

like most prophets, i'm a lousy fucking practicer of what i preach... ...cocksucker!

good time to remind you boys of the "100 character" rule of spray - jesus - text boxes w/n textboxes are the unabomber manuscripts of the 21st century - be funny n' astute, or at least offensive, n' get out!

nice!

if only i didn't have a) a job and b) a burnign need for the dentist to unfuck the tooth he fucked up last week this weekend though...

best tori amos lyric: "wanna smash the faces of those beutiful boys, those christian boys - what, so you can make me cum, it doesn't make you jesus!"