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joe as denethor!

tree ledge does this mean the sling anchor that joe'n'the'brca put up on the tree as of a few weeks ago has been hacked off? i admit to being pretty swiss on the issue - it's a neat landmark and the ledge will be less w/o it, but clearly it'll have to go someday. so long as i don't know the person it takes w/ it, i'll most likely laugh my ass when it does- then i'll go all elessar on it n' shit and have to find a fresh sapling to plant in it's venerable scar! jim can stand in as mithrandir...nolse as frodo naturally and layton can play pippin and merry all at once since he's so fawking fast...mtnhigh as grumpy gimli 'course. oleg can play a savagely slavic legolas - he's got that kinda ageless young guy thang. boromir is too much of a political hot-potatoe for me to asign i fear, as is samwise, since they're such dumfawks...a man more crude than me will have to take them up - 'less someone wants to volunteer. on a lighter note i hear The Man, like the unholy eye of sauron Himself, has occasion frequently to o'er glance our little shire

as usual, john is spraying via satellite whilst belaying...

oh wait, i thought of a good solution!

all solutions are painful. ultimately, leaving very soon (within the next 12 months) is the least bad, IMHO. our prestige will suffer, iraq may well slide into total chaos, terrorists may still well attack us. we've wailed on the tar-baby and gotten 2 fists good and stuck - might as well hack'em off and save the feet - they'll regrown in time. and yes, i'd have to be a fool to think that we'll actually leave in that time. we're there for 3 years more for sure - according to our last election, that's what the people want, in addition to keeping boys from kissing too, of course. the success of democracy in the middle east will have nothing to do with US soldiers standing in the firing line. the participation of outside forces in a civil war will only prolong the violence and confuse the post-war relationship. we've already stirred the pot good n' hard by removing saddam - it's time to get our stick out and hope it all settles for the best...

sorry joe - not this week. might be out on sunday though...

anything by tool "kinky sex makes the world go round" dead kennedys anything by rammstein most of the shit on the "lost highway" soundtrack, speaking of hierate mich soundtrack to "close encounters of the 3rd kind"

keeping your nose open for the smell of flailing steel on basalt is also helpful

don't see anything in my way 2morrow afternoon - i oughta be out round 330.

Nor had Earl Warren. nor did rehnquist - and for the majority of its history the court has been filled w/ judges w/ no previous judicial experience. i don't know that that's a good thing necessarily, but as court's tend to be defined by tradition, it makes sense that any given nominee will lack previous black robe credentials. the only thing that worries me so far is the SMU background - my cousin went to SMU -

fucking germans! no wonder we bombed the shit out them! it hard to have the high ground when your hanging out w/ swamp fucks...

and then one summer, at band camp....

i quit smoking when it occured to me that i had been contracting colds more frequently than when i was a non-smoker, and also when, despite being deathly ill, i'd still light up at least once a day to get my phlegm nice and nicotine ridden. i'm glad i figured it out and had the sack to stick to my convictions - that was right when i was first getting into the outdoors and climbing, another positive for a hobby often considered deleterious. course, if i was wired up the kazoo w/ tubes and shit and staring death hard in the face, i'd be smoking off the filters too - afterall, that's where they hide the heroin! again, i repeat that tobacco companies are slimy - so are car companies, and candy bar companies, and budwieser, and companies that make napalm and stealth bombers and toxic chemicals. shit, even the quaker oats people are probably a bunch of fucking assholes! tyler durden had SOME shit right...

opposable thumbs? to quote the late, great bill hicks - "ever notice how people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? 'i believe god made me in one day.' yeah, well, looks like He rushed it..."

i'd agree w/ this only to get weed legalized - not too practical for tobacco though, as that requires a fair bit more real-estate to grow and would be damned unfair for them city-boys insurance companies already refuse or raise rates for tobacco users - i hav eno idea if that's commesurate to the strain black-lung types impose on the overall system

i'm just in it for the sex really oh, alright, and the cuddles too...

but they don't just enslave and kill people i enjoy smoking an occasional cigarrete and ain't such a weak-willed puss to be lead aroudn by the dick by some shit that makes your breathe stink, your fingers yellow, and your bank account skinny the co.s are definetly slimy - but pretty much every organization that makes a living by selling shit people don't absolutely need is. booze also enslaves and kills people - are we going to go back to taxing that into extinction as a forerunner of outlawing it entirely? why can't we allow nature to run it's course? people who control themselves enjoy the shit they want, and dumb fucks who are disposed to throwing it all away on a butt, a drink or a joint take an early dirt nap?

this board is misanthropic enough i'm sure this has already been said somewhere, but as i've been up since 530 this saturday morning watching shrek w/ my cranky daughter, i feel sufficiently angry to restate it: smokers who sue tobacco companies should be crucified for their irritating stupidity - how else could i buy your bullshit argument that you didn't know the product was bad for you? and if you're whining that you couldn't quit you're an even bigger loser - suck it up and start chewing sunflower seeds! i smoked for years and quit when it became obvious it wasn't what i wanted - i'd like to be able to have the occasional cigarette these days w/o having to throw down $3000 or feel like a fuckstick for picking some guys pocket by bumming one. whatever - the colonization of the americas was based on booze, smokes n' slaves - we gotta keep at least some of the classics legal!

i had popcorn for dinner last night left over chicken strips my daughter gummed and then threw on the floor the night before that back in the day when i had a life and could cook things that required a whole 10 minutes to prepare, i totally dug on this: take frozen breaded chicken strips, cook 'em according to directions, then dump a can of crushed tomatoes on top, throw in some spices n' stuff, then moz cheese on top and bake it for another 10 minutes or so. instant chicken parmesan! drink an entire bottle of $4 red wine with it and feel the old country charm

crystal meth would probably help

the 22nd muthafuckas!!!

naw, too long a drive for piss-poor weather - to further the pun, i gotta keep my powder dry w/ the fam to maximize my climbing siknez!

i'll know 2morrow - if the sunday forecast for smiff sucks i might dig on scratchign away at broken rubbers and bullet scars and the like...

you can never have too many pix of cute chix climbing!

He Has Spoken now to hope it don't rain like this weekend...