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sounds like the kinda reasoning i use to explain to my little kids why they need to stay the fuck out of other folks' yards w/o they know them

limbaugh is god to fundementalist whackjobs, who are intellectually incapable of comprehending satire b/c they take everythign literally

no doubt - most communities can get schools within a few miles of their students though - my district recently went round and round w/ parents over the busing issue - we could have solved all our budget issues by simply making everyone w/n a mile walk to school, but parents were up in arms about how cruel and dangerous that would be, so the school board caved...

i'm unsure what you want kk - do you want gov out of the education business entirely? i don't know who on earth can guarentee you a damn thing - schools can guarentee you that if your kid gets whopped on the bus that the offender will be punished though, is that not enough?

No. I biked to school. If our kids are on public school buses they should be guaranteed to be safe. all the bus drivers i had were meth heads or psycho-christains who read the bible w/ one hand while sucking down vodka w/ the other surviving the cheese is a rite of passage, and a stern admonition to all youngsters to join the great american race of car owners i'd be happy to get rid of buses and force all kids to bike/ride to school - the expense and hassle of busing constitutes a major drain on expenses and constrains flexibility in scheduling, plus all the phatties could use the excercise

kk, did you never ride the cheese? damn near the closest thing to thunderdome in the western world. bus drivers get paid absolute shit and aren't exactly lining up for work - can you even imagine how shitty that job is, 60 some odd kids, you're back to them, not a damn thing for them to do but figure out how to make your life a living hell? hate crimes laws are stupid and i can't imagine you'd belive in them in the first place.

i've never tried getting in from the stephenwulf anchor area but it would probably go - it doens't much matter though - to the hordes it loks like a pain in the ass, so they don't mess w/ it - all the climbs above rr/lao are stiff though, and i think the local wankers have their hands full enough w/ the shit that's easy to access

i'm sorry, can you use a larger picture?

i don't see the big deal getting up to this area... that's cuz yer a real rawk climber yer typical god-fearing beaconite likes his pro always close at hand and the climbing positive and solid feeling - i like rr/lao, but most folks think it looks gross.

not that dude's was authentic samurai sword, but the ancient quality test from old nippon was that the sword's edge be sharp enough so that a silk hankerchief dropped onto it would cut itself in half

did the first pitch of FT w/ mike last weekend - it's stupid dirty and inconcievable to me as a free climb in any condition, really, but certainly not the current one - it was harder than i remembered to french free and i'll bring an aider next time i think - the stretch just below the bolt really befuddled me, and the tiny nut i used broke a large chunk of critical stone required to get there - the second pitch still needs an aid lead to clean and probably swap the anchor - doing anythign saturday?

it was a joke, maaaaaan, and i thought it was funny. in fact, i'm still chuckling. hahahahaaahaaa. sumtimes i'm not so good at the intrewubs

Because driving a truck isn't the same as driving a couch. is arch driving a truck or doing work that would be dangerous under the influence?

as many as you want, but they probably won't work afterwards?

my thoughts exactly.

for pts 1-3 i have but this to say: [video:youtube]

99% of coders must be smoking crack - at least that's how it seems from the shit I've seen over the years.

b/c the right to privacy is a joke?

ninjas are moon-lighting samurai

evolution is reaaaaaal slow, esse - it will be thousands of years before the instinct to kill trespassers goes away - some of us evolve slower than others i'll warrant - congrats on ascending to the 9th level of nirvana already! Be sure to let us know when you ascend to the level beyond Reader's Digest-style bio-determinism. Though I'm sure the kids love being able justify each and every one of their "shit where they eat" social behaviors on such "solid" scientific foundations. hey, great, you've got it all figured out - i'm sure the rest of the world is right behind you. here's a fun extract from the ancient laws of rome, the "12 Tables" - this is table 2, law 4: "Where anyone commits a theft by night, and having been caught in the act is killed, he is legally killed" i'll check, but i'm pretty sure our american legal code has some slight basis in the roman - reckon that evolution has some room to grow law 6 we have outgrown, (kinda): "If anyone commits a theft during the day, and is caught in the act, he shall be scourged, and given up as a slave to the person against whom the theft was committed. If he who perpetrated the theft is a slave, he shall be beaten with rods and hurled from the Tarpeian Rock. If he is under the age of puberty, the Prætor shall decide whether he shall be scourged, and surrendered by way of reparation for the injury." law 7 does attempt to introduce the niceties of the modern world, that you can't just kill 8-ball in your house unless you were threatened, and only after you've attempted to get help: "When any persons commit a theft during the day and in the light, whether they be freemen or slaves, of full age or minors, and attempt to defend themselves with weapons, or with any kind of implements; and the party against whom the violence is committed raises the cry of thief, and calls upon other persons, if any are present, to come to his assistance; and this is done, and the thieves are killed by him in the defence of his person and property, it is legal, and no liability attaches to the homicide." seriously, watch tv for more than 10 minutes, read a paper, take a stroll through the mall - do you really think we've quit being romans? that the romans themselves had really quit being cavemen? why you so down on the cavemen to begin w/, eh?

telling people what is and is not american doesn't strike me as being particularily american, but then i am very tall, which probably isn't so american either man, i need to go punch an american flag in the face!

you're such a fucking pussy wait, i thought he was an evil communist who wanted to kill all the honest red-blooded americans in their sleep?

side note, i saw a psychologist's study some years ago about people's behaviors in parking lots - he found that, on average, drivers take almost twice as long to vacate a parking space when another car is waiting to take the spot - his theory is that the caveman brain was at work in that situation, and that having staked a claim to object, the caveman was hesitant to relinquish it w/o a show of strength

evolution is reaaaaaal slow, esse - it will be thousands of years before the instinct to kill trespassers goes away - some of us evolve slower than others i'll warrant - congrats on ascending to the 9th level of nirvana already!

Or when we hear rustling in the detached garages of our rented flophouses. the psychology is the same - our brains are hardwired to defend our shit - the caveman brain percieves his shitty rental house no different from his neandertahl home - i don't have enough details to have a meaningful opinon, but what little i do have doesn't make 8ball sound like he's not too different from your standard red-meat eating honkey