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nice. don't climb too much too fast or you'll go and burn the joint down

if i name drop do i get a free bottle of burgundy? if'n i can score a babysitter i'll come n' bring the wife, hopefully after a rain-sodden day at the baconwand.

brilliant! 'bout sums up how it sounds to me...

shit! in america, if they make a movie about it, it's famous history and holy fuck, hollywood done made TWO films about this carbuncle on the crotch of humankind - the lincoln county war engaged the godlike acting prowess of both The Duke and martin sheen's other, less fucked-up kid

when the conversation veered off the donkey path somewhere up-thread, the point was that there are a multitude of definitions of "war" and that yes, you can construction a definition that would include ambushing people for revenge - hell, sounds just like the famous lincoln county war of 1878! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_County_War violence is violence, and at some nebuolous point in the collective conscious, enough individual acts of violence do amount to what is understood to be "war" - every christmas tree i piss on, afterall, gets filed under fox's "war on christmas"

"aren't you a little short for a storm-trooper?"

who are these eagles that you speak of?!? i wish to...talk...to them.

eyes never lie - might explain why some folks wear tea-shades at all hours

channeling gloria steinem these days?

once it's in place, pretty easy for them who's done tr's to go back and make certain it's all kosher, assuming it don't involve advanced calculus 'r nothing

whilst sunbathing and getting good n' drunk in the merced a few years back, i saw some dudes rapping el cap on a single rope from the summit near the nose topout - that, in fact, looked fucking ridiculously unrepellent!

christ on a cracker, how's this for a life's resume?! "Doug had diverse job history included: Camp Counselor and Horse Wrangler at the Larry Joe Boys Ranch; U.S. Hospital Corpsman AH 12 on the USS Haven in California (1964-66); Peace Corps Volunteer with the Warao Indians in the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela (1966-68); Peace Corps Trainer in Arizona; hard rock miner in Colorado (lead, zinc, silver); Veterinary Assistant and School Bus Driver in Leadville, Colorado; worked for Dick Sparrow on a '40 Horse Hitch' of draft horses that traveled around the country for the Bicentennial; sheepherder in Colorado and Wyoming; track building crew for North Pacific Railroad in Ames, Iowa; Cannery Warehouse Foreman at Uyak Bay on Kodiak Island, Alaska; Deckhand and then Captain of the Anna A and the Bainbridge (90 ton vessels) in the Gulf of Alaska; Cowboy'd in Idaho; Discharge Supervisor of U.S. Aide grain ships in India, Honduras, El Salvador, Cape Verde Islands West Africa and Tanzania; and as a Spanish Interpreter for the Language Exc hange, Skagit Valley Hospital, and United General Hospital. Along with his Navy medical experience, Doug was also a Wilderness EMT and used this knowledge to save numerous lives throughout his adventures." 67 is plenty old, historicaly speaking - sounds like he made good use of his time and had enough fun, i'd hope, to meet death w/o complaint.

wondered that as well, though haven't been imaginative enough to think of a reason why we'd arrest one guy but not two or more? it's not like there's that big of a difference, scandal-wise? Sounds like it's a pretty sensitive/SF base so who knows what will eventually come out of this. Seems rather like the proverbial onion and we are just getting started peeling. i'm keeping my hopes of ever understanding it well low - it's not like this incident was needed to know it was well-past-noon in terms of getting the fuck out of afghanistan, just as my lai was not particularly necessary to know that vietnam was a lost cause in 1968.

wondered that as well, though haven't been imaginative enough to think of a reason why we'd arrest one guy but not two or more? it's not like there's that big of a difference, scandal-wise?

dunno - how do folks on a single income live w/ one? never seen the fuss in them thare contraptions - goddamn electronic handcuffs! besides, you ever really need one, there's no shortages of meat-puppets about packing'em.

some enlightened member of the stone® age saw fit to murder this old boy over 5000 years ago chimps, our closest relatives, routinely hunt and eat monkeys, often in co-ordinated groups, as well as kill members of outside troops interloping into their territory - predators in general seem to be rather, ya know, predatory and pissy? bully for our australian aboriginal brethern - evolution seems a dispassionate process though, and it hasn't favored their enlightened attitude - their maori neighbors sure as hell weren't lacking in aggression!

LOL! Probably in a damn text, too. Biotch. nah, even today the two of us share a cell phone and hardly ever use it - fucking luddites!

'bout sums it up for every woman i ever met You haven't met me, Bud. I'm probably too honest and direct......that's probably a big reason why I'm still single. awww, i was just kidding - plenty of honest birds out there - for example, my future wife, first time i met her, told me she never wanted to see me again

that's only cuz everybody calls the true leader Das Tooth or Der Toofwand or any of a million more charming appellations

if we have in fact become less violent as a species over the past few millenia, it seems to me to largely be a product of our ability to learn - other critters can do that of course, and the skill only goes so far, but we have learned how to make life more comfortable, how to tolerate The Outsiders, and how to redirect our inherent combatitiveness into more productive enterprises (profesional sports, for example, offer all the glories of the mercenaries of days gone by w/ substantial less risk to all involved).

to channel my inner kevbone: what does it mean to be "better?" we do have nice digital watches

that was the guy i was thinking of in my post above - think i heard him on npr before? the fact that wars were once measured in decades and centuries (and in antiquity hardly named at all, given their lack of clear beginnings or endings) seems illustrative enough of the decline in the general level of violence of our species. as for animals not warring w/ each other, here's a video of 2 lions killing a 3rd for fuckig w/ their territory - wolves do it too - i suppose the semantic argument could be had, but jesus, it's not a revolutionary concept - living things, in a world characterized by scarcity and lawlessness, tend to be rather aggro with all of their neighbors, relations or not [video:youtube]

what's a "spreadsheet?" saw that "watson" computer feller on jeopardy last year - i suspect he could figure out all my tr locations - you can rent him, right? a map that you can just click on for tr's is of course a capital idea, btw.

the worst crime a man can commit is being ordinary

no time but to spray and run - couldn't think of a medium to large sized western power not associated with a violent conflict since the end of world war 2 - what can you think of? by some standards at least, humanity is experiencing the most peaceful period of its existence in recorded history - the congo might not be much better off, but the vikings at least have largely chilled the fuck out