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and not one person reminded you that the simplest and most secure anchor is to be had by merely girth hitching your tauntaun!

that's what snow is for no, snow in alaska is for pouring tequila and lemon-lime gatorade mix over

it is always advisable to take nice, soft wipes with you on an alaskan expedition

hell - if you want experience building an anchor in a really funky, funky place, climb sky chimney - the perch up in the cave is a wierd one - please take pictures and share w/ the group again!

dude! you're gonna get: a. boils b. frogs c. locusts d. serpents shit, maybe collect'em and start some sorta zoo?

start with roast pork and potatoes. A bavarian town without pork is not bavarian exactly! i was completly flummoxed when i ordered a schnitzel at gustavs the first time i sat down there and i was informed it wasn't on the menu - and no spaetzi either!

you know tvash has to be a sincere aethist when you see him fucking w/ moses like this

i'm all misty eyed to reminensce on the time before cc was sponsored by the us army, before the hoodwand had inflicted its horrible laments on the taun-taun-less, and yea, verily, even before dan the speed-racer had humped his first high-altitude hound.

i'd actually support this, especially if, in spanish, more than 1 of the 3 r's actually started with a fucking r! tvash don't self-loathe - he just loathes in general and indiscriminately.

word - send word - illinois?

thought of a few others while enjoying a cordon blue sandwhich at gustavs the other day w/ tvash, where there was ample evidence of the following: white people also like: vests - down, fleece, whatever. white people really like keeping thier titties hot and their arms cold. ...which is strange, given that they have enough money to afford sleeves... children - goddammit, white people love nothing more than more little white people. white people are constantly talking about their kids. they even use white terms to describe their children, like "beautiful little snowflakes." white people love children so much they get depressed when they can't make any and spend fortunes instead on trying to fix their latte-damaged reproduction systems instead of having endless consequence-free sex.

is it propaganda if he actually believed what he was saying?

geoff, would you rather go to ozone or broughtons? the rock oughta be drier for sure!

b/c i don't want to drive 5 hours to climb sandstone slabs - i like cragging for practicing alpine skillz, and i've yet to encounter peshastin like rock in the high country of warshington!

the road's gated and probably won't be open for business for a few weeks at least

wyeast faces the rising sun, so warms up and gets slide happy faster than luetholds which lurks in the long shades of the west face

we have nukes - they have nukes. we have more nukes. so what? it's a MAD scenario all over again... and again, we were plenty arrogant in the 50s about our military strength compared to the PLA, and then they busted our asses all the way back to the 38th parallel and kept us there.

i certainly have no desire to spend a single dollar or see a single american killed over taiwan, so i imagine a chinese move into taiwan would largely go unchallenged by us. it's not the cold war anymore - we don't have to back taiwan out of a belief in the domino theory anymore. to militarily oppose chinese reconquest of taiwan seems to me roughly similiar to great britain deciding to get militarily involved on the side of the confederacy during the civil war. it's pretty much internal chinese affairs. again, chinese conquest of tibet seems far shakier, and regardless, in taiwan or tibet, we should punish china non-violently for abusing the human rights of people there. i don't fear china becoming some austin-powers menace either - like any powerful nation that has a long history of dominating a wide region, they want to have the biggest dick in their area, that area happening to be eastern asia - why should i, a north american, give a damn, especially if its a non-violent empire they establish? okay, if they try to militarily invade the middle east we can zap'em, but really they appear to be doing the same thing we're doing there and elsewhere in the world - sucking it dry of its resources. how can i complain w/o being a screaming hypocrite?

speaking of china and the einstein quote - we have fought a war w/ china in the past 60 years, 1 directly and 1 indirectly. we didn't win either. who gives a shit about taiwain? it seems like no one gives a shit about tibet, so might as well throw in a tiny island that's way more ethnically chinese to match it, eh? having a huge military and dealing w/ china is only going to increase our desire to use that military on china and fuck up my ability to buy rubber dogshit for 1/20th the cost it takes for a mexican to make the same rubber dogshit finally - tvash and bill should be fawk'n nice to each other - you're both good guys

it was still big and beautiful a week ago too

and while i'm at it, here's another einstein gem: "It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets."

arms race/huge arms industry + militarism + belief that your view of the ideal world should be imposed on others = major causes of world wars 1 and 2 'you cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war' - albert einstein

i don't always agree w/ jay's posts, but i enjoy their consistent erudite nature and general lack of hateful vitriol - and thread drift's as natural as drunken sorority girls doffing their duds

heard an article on this on npr - seems counter-intuitive but you can't make the 5 much worse, so why not experiment, eh?

historical speculation is always just that, speculation. my point is that the way things actually worked out, with us not spending a titantic fortune on a standing army prior to ww2 (and persuing an aggressive foreign policy as a likely result), wasn't bad at all. we won the war, emerged as a super-power, and did not have nearly the same death and destruction as everybody else. how could that have been improved?