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pretty certain the folks cheering on 9/11 didn't think the folks killed WERE innocent maybe we should just stop cheering for the murder of folks for any reason? funny thing, by law of averages, if osama was a us citizen and had been arrested and found guilty on a capital charge, he'd likely still be alive today

odds that we'll be making may 1st osama day, just to compete w/ the lousy brits and their lame-o guye fawkes, who, let's be honest, didn't succesfully do a damn thing?

a teacher can't help but shed a tear to see the student exceed the master

not 10 minutes ago me n' my son gave up on the final page of a "where's waldo" - "that rat-bastard's playing a bin laden" i said. maybe i should go take a 2nd look at that page?

where's the pix? can't imagine not having help on that gigantic goddamn drive wtf where you hauling 5 gallons of water for? even if you're out for 2 full days, 2 gallons oughta be just fine, and you hardly have time to drink anyway when soloing!

meow!

15 year-old compulsive pizza-eaters' faces are the best nature can do?!? elizabeth hurley in "bedazzled" is my vote for nature's finest shape

i don't know him, so clearly he is gay, or a sport-climber, but in either case not deserving of my august attention

where's the chick doing handstands on summits though?

that's the via ferrata dude so popular w/ the anti-bolting crowd dood!

my hair doesn't look this good even when i'm not clutch-fucking my way up somethign steep!

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. - Richard Dawkins but doesn't he contradict himself?

team-building activity 1999? mostly just helping entropy i reckon...

shit, it's much easier to spot a cougar at pike's place

is that half-dome?

this is when you can expect to be heckled about not skiing i'm a gargantuan goddamn mammal, several stones heavier than you at any rate, and your standard msr-denali sized slowshoes worked just fine for me

fucking awesome. "anything built like that just gotta be called lucille"

love his dinky paddle at the end so...though...how is this different from a failed suicide attempt? where's the skill - seem like you must just need to be lucky?

fucking love hobbies that let you bring plenty of booze

slightly - the exposure is certainly worse on reids at any rate, should you take a spill and not stop yourself quickly

i do have his height and weight about right, but goddamn i wish i had his tolerance

anything to pad my tr lead