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NO PRISONERS!!! post-script: it seems "i am" is also not a complete sentence, as it too implies more words being necessary "i am he" for example - amusingly, one could not even say this in russian, as it would just be "i"
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the internutz equivalent of watching 2 'tards playing ping-pong?
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pretty certain i climbed w/ him, and miloshk!
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[TR] Mount Hood - South Route, Old Chute 10/16/2011
ivan replied to Loomis's topic in Oregon Cascades
nope, at least not the n face proper - tried getting on the coe but after poking around a few places decided it wasn't worth losing all that elevation on scary ground just to come right back up again - looks much cooler just to approach it from the beginning of the glacier, though that's obviously more of an excursion we wandered up the mtn via the snowdome and got great views of the n face though - the sicko pencil is apparent, but i'd be goddamned if i ever tried climbing it - the n face gullies looked okay and were very active spindrift factories - the cooper spur looks tiiiits now and is the easiest way backdown the n side from the summit fo'shizzle right now. -
baptists have always been literalists - think they might be taking that abraham n' isaac story a bit too seriously? [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGIkEJXJJ4
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bastard! you've no excuse not to be a few grades sharper in a years time
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we have to get the deleorean up to 88 mph to save the benefactor of the flux-capicator!
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regardless, "i am" is just 3 characters, and thus shorter - "stop" and "ouch" are longer. now what's the judge's ruling on "no?" related query: what is the shortest bible verse?
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War on terror. i'm sorry, but for full credit your answer must be in complete sentences.
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so....making it a full-time job w/ no salary is going to INCREASE the number of honest, average 'mericans in congress and DECREASE their corruption? making money in politics has fuck all to do w/ salary - i'd be more interested in seeing some solution to the revolving-door that lets you go from regulating on the public side to making millions on the private side with the very companies you've been making sweet rules for.
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what DOES the government tell you to believe kev?
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"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up." (Hosea 13:16) Nice guy, that God. oddly though, having a son seemed to turn him into a fucking hippie
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reckon you can skip all german and japanese and italian history then?
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[TR] Mount Hood - South Route, Old Chute 10/16/2011
ivan replied to Loomis's topic in Oregon Cascades
fuck the s side - shoulda seen the ephemeral fantasies of the n side this stormy sunday morning the cooper spur, for example, beats the holy-hell out of the dog route on the s side and there's not a flake of snow on the cloud cap road -
anyone from eugene would be remiss to mention the ease of the winter-closure option of destroying the gate anarchist-fashion and living like a king for a night....
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in the bivi site - a great drunken challenge at night in flip-flops, beer in hand
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i was hoping for the classic crotch sabeteur shot...
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that's more a testament to their complete lack of interest in the subject than anything - i have had a good number of crazy-eyed politically active n' pissed off conservative kids (and jesus christ, what monsterous factory produces those kind of high-powered mutants?) over the years who have sussed me out for what i am and been bitter n' bitchy about it the last few months of the semester. meh. it's all philosophy goobly-talk - there is a collective sense of "impartial" or "unbiased" but it has no objective reality - for life to be anything more than just soap-box intellectualism you gotta take a side and run w/ it. i'm off for beacon in the drizzle - dog bless the 3 day weekend...
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it's also rather silly to think me an extremist - i don't really give enough of a shit about the world to urge or undergo any radical redrawing of the way things have always been, a necessary qualification for extremists on either side of the spectrum, no? - like jim morrision, i just wanna get my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames apathetic wannabe climber moderatish liberalism is about all i can aspire too
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i think you've misquoted/misinterpreted me, but am not quite enough an internet-psycho to go searching through 100,000 posts to get to the heart of it actually, page 1 of all my class syllabi states my official role as "devil's advocate," to tell them they're wrong no matter what they think - it also says that, while i set myself the goal of being as neutral as i can see to be (and our opinion of what is "unbiased" is just that, afterall, an opinion, and to say hitler was an asshole is certainly a biased statement, but one few would believe to be), any student with half a brain and a bit of interest will be able to see exactly what my true political opinions are after a few weeks of close observation, and that they'd be as wrong to swallow my true opinions hook and all as those of their friends, parents n' priests. at any rate, the role of a public teacher is of necessity different from a newsman. i have a choice to not watch an admittedly conservative talking tv-head, my kids don't get a choice about showing up for class though.
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ha!!! put "walter cronkite bias" into The Google and see what you get - there's no small # of folks who are convinced he was an evil liberal biased minion of the donkeys here's one of the gems: http://www.mrc.org/Profiles/cronkite/welcome.asp the news is oft called "the first draft of history" - so if history is inevitably biased, then so too must be its rough draft. again, bias is natural and not to be feared, especially when it's confronted up front. nothing is what it is, it is what we want and make it to be.
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pretty sure sarah palin needs no help in that regard i'm all for civility in politcs, but jesus christ, not calling a true asshole an asshole just muddies the water...
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basic social studies - there is no such thing as an "unbiased" history. better to have your bias up front and center so everyone can take that into consideration when sorting out their own personal version of "truth."
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trying to appeal to assholes (the republican base) = being an asshole yourself ow's spot-on.
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Acting is a great qualifying skill for politicians, Ivan! And Ronnie did a few things between the first and running for prez. Jon Stewart, OTOH... comedians aren't actors? just shooting the shit, mind you. politicians usually spend most of their lives being politicians, but there's alwasy room for gifted amateurs? populists sure don't like the status quo. shit, forgot this guy! and another republicant to boot!