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if history's proven anything (beyond the truth that anybody can be killed and that doing so rarely makes anything dramatically better) its that NOBODY can really change their mind much, no matter what tact their enemies take - pretty goddamn sure we're all just in it for the gut-laughs...and the pudding

i have failed at the internet and shall surely choose the sordid course of seppoku this'un's better actually - i don't have to figure out how to make the surrender-monkey faggoty euro-symbol thisaways :{=

b/c, to misquote national poet laurete quentin tarantino, scary questions beget scary answers?

I'm hoping for a Burr-Hamilton reenactment. And whom, pray tell, do you wish to play the part of Hamilton? :-) does it matter that burr was the bigger asshole? holy shit, tvashie might not be much cherished 'roooooound here, but he does win the award for emoticon of the day - i am the walrus - :€(

damn, sounds like the only way to get this all sorted is pistols at dawn

for right or wrong, you got as much hope of wresting a man's smith n' wesson away from him as his heathen god

aLl Ur Dr0n3 R b3L0nG 2 u$!

how can we be savages if we have digital wrist-watches?

WWSHD?

12/2 - day 64 - nice night at the beacon-wand, though didn't manage any climbing - frost fangs on everything, phantsmagorical faces, the frozen fingers of fell-fate - wandered down to the base but it was already long light - wicked wind for sure - recent big old rockfall down the east face, plenty of man-slayers done rampaged right through the trail - gave it a go and climbed up the first 50 feet of the corner but the Little Voice i've been ignoring in the back of my mind the past few flights done grew itself a pair and was yelling loud enough to garner the unwanted attention of the least frowsy of librarians - wandered about and let my hands warm and even gave it another go before turning around once again at the same point - just didnt' want it i guess - sure i could do it just didn't like the feel - settled for a circumnav and a walk up the trail in a huge gale suprised to arrive at the car in the early evening dark NOT to find a nasty ticket on my window - recently got a big old ticket from the new dumb fuck for climbing all day and getting back to the lot a few minutes after sunset - jesus christ on a cracker.... 12/14 - day 65 -jeebus, been way too long since the wedder and demands of famiwly lined up to let me out for a slice of bacon - dawn coolish n' clammy-foggy at the house, but clear and bitter blue by the gorge's mouth, the wind ripping open wounds in the sky - geoff drove as i'm in the midst of semi-annual arguments w/ the wretched fools that infect our fair stone, so i thought it sensible to Maintain a Limited Profile the plan was jensens - gear in need of reclaiming afterall - didn't happen - blowing and shady at the start, cloud-scud obscuring the sordid sun - it seemed way too damn mean out to mangle our way up that not-so-meager bit of stone before nightfall, and these park fucks have set their cruel faces to enforcing all sort of prohibitions against that so...so goddamn blustery at the bottom anchor of jensens that i was mortal afeared one of the other of us was gonna get blown off the mighty exposed stance there - geoff eventually ambulated up a little bit before deciding he was all opposed and as i was already settled on our sad defeat i said so-be-it settled on doing an aid lap on wind-surfer, no simple affair in the Big Blow about us - i did the first half and geoff the last, me sipping on bitter beers and blackened butts and Biding My Time when done we got 2 pitches up the corner before dark and wind and traffic sent us down the warrior could it be the last bit of beacon for this battered year?

the shadows are pointing all the wrong way?

so i'm assuming you won't be claiming in the dank of the north side like above? geoff and i got plans to do jensens, should you want to come w/ - great route for 3

like...to the civil war and marco polo n' stuff?

you can't kill stupid, so avoid fancy book reading if you can

i doubt anyone would disagree, but worth remembering not all coppers are cock-suckers http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama-cops-gesture-to-shoplifter-goes-viral/ gonna need a good more of these per day to cancel out all the recent negative press though, eh?

does every american police officer need to be carrying a gun? police killings aren't unheard of in england, where most cops don't, but they sure seem much less common. keerist, even the fucking meter maids at beacon rock state park are strapped these days. isn't a radio and a can of bear mace good enough for 99% of cases?

is that true? doesn't the recent national conversation point to the opposite conclusion? i'm interested in seeing too how the new "yes means yes" law in california works out, as opposed to the tired old arugment (at least at uva) of how it's all b/c of the culture of fraternaties and it'll simply go away if they ban the frats.

all the more reason to find someplace new to ride hard n' put away wet pronto, no?

who can't get excited about an ice climb w/ a bivy and a fire?

my bad, so many of these gawd-damn cases its kinda hard to keep'em straight http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/justice/south-carolina-trooper-shooting/ holy shit though, that video is nuts - crazy to think you can be in a gas station and within 10 seconds some cop is shooting the shit out of you for nothing - reckon that's the status quo though for residents of mogadishu?

shiiiit, why ya'll been gone so long? how hard is it to fit 4-letter fuck words together w/ the occasional original observation?

i've been using the same 1-liter tonic bottles i accumulated during a gin-bing in the glory days of the 1st obama-administration

no, i think the "rhetoric" is that the police are generally too quick to violence, no matter the adjectives you wish to stick to the person they're violent with (though yes, part of that complaint is that the violence is particularily focused on folks of color) - the news paid plenty of attention a couple months ago to the south carolina cop that shot the non-black dude who was reaching to get the drivers license the cop asked for, for example. i think to some extent its inevitable - you give a guy a gun and a badge of authority and he's gonna start dreaming of a day he can plug a bad-guy and get a medal, plus you give him reason to fear (why else would he need a gun?) i don't know how to do it, but training the fear out of cops seems of paramount importance, since that is obviously a big part of why they shoot people within seconds of encountering them - sure, cops do get killed on the job occasionally, but so does every other kind of employee under the heavens - cops don't even make the top 10 - fishermen, farmers, truck drivers, and garbage collectors get killed way more often (though i'll concede them truck drivers kill more than a few innocents too )

sure, though the jade wabbit wasn't too bad for a very new space power, no? shame there ain't no worlds worth conquering in our neighborhood, might give us earthlings something to agree on

don't mater how far you travel, the universe likely still has an expiration date