Greg_W

How, exactly, does THAT work? I don't understand some peoples' relationships sometimes.

The 'Palmer' is "The Hairy Palmer", a bar that Trask owns. Just kidding, I believe it is the Palmer Glacier on Mt. Hood.

Lucky that the salesgirl was on top of things, you could have fallen victim to stealing from yourself!! Stupid broad. Lucky for you the drugs that repress your mutiple personalities is working.

Don't forget the strange looks the gumby snowshoe people were giving us as they drove up to a hail of gunfire. hehehe Saw Michelle and Wayne out walking around and recuperating.

Do you have a rent-to-own program?

Okay, I'll touch base with you this week.

If you define slow as "can you only come in one day a week; that's all we can afford to pay you." Slow like Eeyor swimming through molassses in January.

He holds a catchy tune. I'm more interested in things going INTO Britney's mouth, not what comes out of it.

We are speaking past each other. You seem to think that the Federal Government is a democracy; you're wrong right here. Go back and review your Constitution, Federalist Papers, et cetera.

SC - I would agree with your assessment of how the President should operate; his priorities should be just as you listed them: Americans first, America second, everyone else THIRD or lower.

Way to go, guys. That's how every SAR outing should end.

Uh, dude, umm.....splinters, man. What are you thinking?

Yeah, fuck the Beatles. Joe Strummer, God rest his soul, was one of the best things to come a-singing out of Britain.

That is a bullshit question. "Public opinion" (i.e., on-th-street opinion polls) has no bearing in REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. Only constituent voices to representatives. The President (no matter whom) operates on public opinion; that is not how the job is set up.

Just making up inane spray drivel to avoid high blood pressure on the "Dubya" or Icicle threads. So, what the hell is the weather doing up here? It was blue skies as I was driving out to Sultan this afternoon. Weird for January.

Well, fuckstick, can you name the last election that DID have greater than 50% voter turnout? Just because people chose not to participate in our electoral system does not legitimize the results. You seem to be under the mistaken idea that our federal government is based on popular majorities - we are REPUBLIC OF DEMOCRATIC STATES whose federal governing body is based on REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. Get with it, ya twit.

Mattp - Unfortunately, the Iraqi people have not been the beneficiaries of the aid we have tried to send. Originally, the "oil-for-food" program was supposed to go to the people. However, the food travels through Saddam-controlled ports and checkpoints being subject to pilfering and outright stealing by Saddam and his agents. This is not our fault. We are not responsible for Saddam's actions; only for ours (learned that in therapy). We are doing what we can to get aid to the Iraqi people (much like in Somalia), but Saddam is in power.

I'd sign a treaty with you baby. Can you say "border dispute"?

That was my first response, too, actually. A prime example is the view you have of Pearly Gates and Goat Dome now from the road. Granted, there is probably a good amount of understory fuel; like on the trail up to Givler's. I wouldn't mind seeing a map of the proposed area and will definitely want to be involved in the comment period.

Do us (Trask, Mikeadam, myself, and a few others) a favor, move your ass over there for a year and then report back. This laptop keyboard is frustrating me; I can't truly express what a liberal wet noodle I think you are.

SC, you're still a clueless idiot. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the living conditions (as reported by people who have visited or lived there) are not A-1 and that it is due to Saddam's domestic agenda. WE have been the cause of their living conditions? Well, clueless, their president has chosen not to abide by the surrender agreement signed after the Gulf War. We are just enforcing it. Saddam Hussein, and no one else, has chosen to neglect the needs of his people. You are a fucking apologist asshole. You make me sick.

I'm at home, now, so I just might. But after I sober up you'll still sound like an extreme tree hugger

Thanks, forrest, for posting that. I will be writing my representatives in Congress, I would encourage you all to do the same.

I know people who have been accosted in grocery stores when spotted buying formula!! Those people are out there!!

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