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looks excellent. superfun. thanks!

is resistance futile?

been 7 years since i gave ole'jeff anohter try - i'm up to 0-2 now but i suppose you gotta punch the ticket to make the 3rd time the charm? good times none the less - oleg who i ain't seen since fuck-all n' the powderhound of course - busted out of pdx early saturday to spectacular skies - easy driving all the way to the trailhead - mostly snow-free the first half but the last half to jeff park still doable in tennis shoes arrived around noon n' spent the day sunning on the bare patches, binge'n'purging n' soaking in the views of the big, big route -dinner by 5 n' bed by 6 up at midnight even as daylight's saving fucked us n' made it 1 - a southern breakfast n' half-frozen water n' then up we went - post-holing here and there, me steadily fallling behind n' sweating like the proverbial fat kid in the candy store - b the moraine top i was content to say fukkit n' wander back down so the Tremendous Two could continue at break-neck speed n' get it done piled 3 sleepign bags on top of myself back at camp and snoored away until i heard the rotten sound of those dismal bastards bounding back into ear-shot just a couple hours later - they too will be back to settle the score someday rightous walk out, slipping n' sliding on the slickery trail in my soul-less shoes, passing a deluge of day-hikers winter's dead as disco

too busy packing to give sammy a good read, but inshahallah, it will be done, as i like me some old skewl english i figure patiotism is essentially the civic equivalent of religion, and as such, is prone to a myriad of interpretations, most of which i'll disagree with but all of which i'll have to concede are no more legitimate than my own i also figure a guy earns 2 medals of honor his patriotism is safe to assume, though in truth ole smedley caught the tale end of an era when said medals were given away like books o' mormon (twenty alone for the massacre at wounded knee ) i don't understand your final question but will have to wait till monday to sort it out...

dunno, the logo long since rusted n' fell off

suddenly the pieces are falling into place

would lincoln's executive actions stood up to such scrutiny? and can you accuse the Bearded One of such egregious n' ersatz patriotism? meh. i never met america. i hear she's hot though, so i'm looking forward to our heated encounter

meh. wasn't the nsa recording every email ever at that time, can it be that hard for future generations to reconstruct? i haven't met a single human being who wants hillary as a candidate, so i'm all for faux news convincing her to keep the fuck out

the cartoon clearly claims that liberals are non-patriots - look at it again and tell me how i'm reading it wrong? the "you don't love your country if you're an obama-type" meme is out there in the zietgiest lately as i'm sure you're aware - my point is it's bullshit - sounds like you agree in the case of snowden so i guess we're good

"he is a lover of his country who rebukes it's sins and does not excuse them" my line is its retarded to assume that patriotism is the sole province of a single political persuasion, as your cartoonist suggested - butler would've been considered a die-hard patriot to conservatives today up to his publishing of "war is a racket" (not so different to snowden really), and yet he was no less a lover of his country the day after it hit the stores.

Nutjobs are not a new thang--on either side of das politik. Civilian or military. not my question nor my point. smedley (side note, coolest name for a ninja-warrior ever, no?) was hardly a nut-job but a right-noble product of the roosevelt era i know you dig on. bull-shitted his way into the marine's officer corps at 16 or near to it. won 2 medals of honor and would have been 3 if the world knew much about his china experience. the question was: was he a patriot? would you have dared dispute his love for god, king n' country despite his latter-day condemenation of cash, coin n' corporations?

It's always fun to see the resident libtard megalomaniac using Ivan's login. hardly - the double-plus enigma-proof password i got issued in the golden years of the the g.w. regime is nigh-on unbreakable

here's a curious puzzle for our pal: patriot or not, from the perspective of a conservative? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

it's always fun to see the fans of fox effect an "you're the product of main-stream media" mien

3/4 - day 10 - took the day off to do some union agitating but it abated soon after noon - winged it out to beacon and got another solo lap on stone soup in despite my snot-filled senses wrecking my equilibriums full spring in the fucking first week of march, the world flipped on it's frack'n vernal maidenhead

it gets broke in the alpine, it gets buried in the alpine

seems like torment can only be better when frozen solid

yup, if yer liberal ya can't be a patriot...or have a work ethic - well done, sir

trippy - heard in the news that a big chunk of the other cave collapsed?

been too damn nice outside for weeks to be on the interwebs

anything worth doing's worth getting filthy drunk celebrating

funny, was thinking just hte other day you were due for one of these mega-awesome tr's - kee-rist, this is a mighty big world we live in for the adventure'n'type

ya'll ain't got a canadaian version of CSPAN to help you cope the zees?

in danger of becoming the new triple coolers?

February: warlord: a life of winston churchill at war, 1874-1945 by carlo d'este - a big old tome at 700 pages but every page was great - never had learned much of his early life and enjoyed that bit the most - an insufferable child w/ serious daddy issues - thought an idiot boy by most, notable only for the bizarely intricate games he liked to play w/ thousands of toy soldiers - games in which no else could play, unless they swore to obey him and be defeated - a thoroughly lackluster student who only late in life took to academics w/ a vengeance a total pain in the ass to be with, never without a contrarian opinion on any subject at hand since his earliest days - many who worked w/ him couldn't bring themselves to like him, yet were thankful for the opportunity - "When you first meet him, you see all his faults. It takes a lifetime to appreciate his virtues." great quote of his on monty, a man every bit as aggravating as himself: "Indomitable in retreat; invincible in advance; insufferable in victory." and, in response to monty's claims to extreme health as a result of his tee-totaling: "well i both drink AND smoke, and am 200% fit" taken captive in the boer war, he escaped, perhaps by betraying his fellow captives who's plan he horned in on and then ruined by his hasty flight - rose to prominence as a curious mixture of soldier and self-aggrandizing journalist in india, sudan and south africa - was a renowned polo player in his youth as well, totally reckless didn't know that, after eviction from high office in the wake of gallipoli, he rejoined the army and got posted to the front line in france for a spell - he had a great taste for danger that persisted throughout his life, evident in ww2 by his watching the nightly bombings of london from the rooftops