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8 years of digging dirt about his alledged womanizing to splash in the media, of official enquiries about his alledged fiscal improprieties. all for nothing. and you tell me he got impeached for lying about having sex? bwahaha.

ragging on cyclists is a very common trick used by "social commentators" to generate controversy and publicity. next, he'll have a tv forum about it.

i did not bring up clinton. i brought up the fact that you dismiss false statements made while justifying a very costly war (human and financial costs) to a cautious public, while you consider impeachment for lying about an aspect of one's personal life a good thing.

"mistatements" about the justification for a war in which people are still dying daily and the cost of which will amount ~$600billions could hardly be considered a minor affair. drawing severe conslusions on that basis is hardly goofy, especially for people who considered getting a blow job in the oval office an offense warranting impeachment.

clean break gets my vote but i am curious of what else people can think of. prussik too but only with variations.

http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/nov_2002/washington_its_time.htm it's time for an income tax.

if it's not lying, it's incompetence. you choose.

the user fees situation is getting out of hand and non-motorized users of the outdoors will probably not be able to prevent it. it is in fact getting so ludicrous that i think we should consider playing their own game (the anti-tax folks): we should vote in toll booths on lake washington bridges, and even perhaps all main highways out of town (let's get medieval since it's apparently what they want). i think the latte tax sounds better and better (perhaps next time, the starbucks dude will give dough to the right campaign), probably we should have one on pro-sports tickets, etc .... when everyone starts getting hit left and right, they'll reconsider a reasonable progressive tax. sorry, i do not offer a solution to the fee problem but unless you know lots of people ready to move thier butts on this issue .... we are screwed.

so, does it mean we have to be nice to snaffles?

so what's the cascades alpine rock climb with the most hand jamming?

true but the wider range of camalots allow for fewer pieces when going with a small rack

you may have a good point but i find it hard to believe they did not consider predation more info here: http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/problems/erik_beever_interview.cfm#threatened "Work during the 1970's by Andrew Smith demonstrated pikas' vulnerability to high temperatures." David Hik has also reported plummeting collared pika populations during the warm winters from 1998-2000 in the Central Yukon. The dense, insulting fur of pikas provides excellent wamth for them during periods of extreme or prolonged cold temperatuers, but this fur also contributes to pikas' inability to withstand increased temperatures." don't feed the trolls

fancy that! for once, we have reciprocal feelings for one another.

link to story American pika doomed as 'first mammal victim of climate change' Paul Brown, environment correspondent Thursday August 21, 2003 The Guardian Scientists believe the American pika, a mountain-dwelling relative of the rabbit, is heading for extinction and will be one of the first mammals to fall victim to climate change. Ochotona princeps, a stocky tail-less animal about the size of a hamster, lives between the tree-line and mountain peaks. As the climate heats up it is having to go to higher altitudes to find suitable habitats. In the winter it lives under the snow in tunnels, feeding off piles of hay it has stored inside. A study reported in the US Journal of Mammalogy found that in pika populations at 25 places nearly 30% of the animals had gone. The locations are so remote that there seemed to be no other factor than climate change. The study between 1994 and 1999 surveyed the sites in the Great Basin, east of Sierra Nevada and west of the Rocky Mountains, where pikas had been recorded. Although the habitat had apparently changed little in that time, pikas had vanished from seven of the 25 places during the past 86 years: a period shown by the data to have experienced climate change. Research shows that American pikas are particularly vulnerable to global warming because they live in areas with a cool, fairly moist climate. They are active above ground in the early morning and retreat to their nests in rock crevices shortly after sunset. "Losses of pikas are disturbing because pikas are often locally abundant and scientists had assumed that alpine and sub-alpine ecosystems were relatively undisturbed because of their isolation," said Erik Beever of the US geological survey's forest and rangeland ecosystem science centre, the lead author of the report. "The responses of pika populations are a signal of the impacts of climate change in alpine and sub-alpine systems." Many northern hemisphere mountain animals are expected to migrate north or seek higher ground to find suitable habitats as the climate alters. But the American pika appears not as well-equipped as other species to handle this environmental shift. "American pikas are like the canary in the coal mine," said Caterina Cardoso, head of WWF-UK's climate change programme. "Their disappearance is a red flag that our heavy reliance on dirty fossil fuels, such as coal and gas, is causing irreparable damage to our environment. We must switch to clean, renewable energy resources before it's too late for us and the pika."

may be. but usually the criticality of the situation depends on how close one is to the disaster area: "10,400 more deaths than normal during French heatwave: undertakers PARIS (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 France's undertakers said Wednesday there were 10,400 more deaths than usual so far this month, amid claims that thousands of people may have died from the effects of a heatwave that hit Europe." http://www.terradaily.com/2003/030820135613.mqikuwvt.html

this is the time when the winner_gets_all, might_is_right people show up. of course none of them have lived in a war zone for decades (or all their lives for the young).

the biggot brigade shows up ... of course, the problem is no worse than for other minority groups that have gone from poverty to having significant disposable income.

Europe's bizarre harvest mirrors climate-change prediction: New Scientist PARIS (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 Shifting harvests in Europe this year, triggered by extreme but local bouts of rain, heat and drought, eerily foreshadow predictions made last year that warn global warming will reshape European agriculture, New Scientist says. [..] Their forecast, however, was based on a computer modelling of likely CO2 levels in 2050 and was not intended as a prediction for the immediate future. [..] http://www.terradaily.com/2003/030820190255.5p7okm06.html

excellent dwayner. how do they get there?

this is an example of your xenophobia: http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB23&Number=228296&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 see your name down there? this, however, is an example of your extremism bullshit, it was a pathetic attempt at shutting me up, which demonstrates your anti-democratic convictions. this is what you do best, bait any liberal as unamerican, traitors, anti-semite, comunist and what not. pretty disgusting if you ask me. it makes total sense why you'd be sensitive to being called a nazi. so, you did not feel like discussing the article i linked? is history too damning for you?

you think you can write stuff like this and then pretend wanting a peaceful resolution to the palestine conflict. with whom do you think it's going to fly? you are basically a xenophobe of everything foreign and different, as is painfully obvious in what you write and then you want to give lessons in political correctness? give me a fucking break. so let's recap what happened here: someone posted rejoicing at the death of a muslim dictator, i posted a piece on the rise to power of said dictator, you started saying i was an antisemite because israel apparently had a role in it, gohawks came up with some crazy garbage, and now you continue your baiting with some more outlandish things you made up in your extremist little mind. and you are doing this for 'freedom', i assume? here is another piece about idi amin and his rise to power. i hope you like it. note the sources for the arcticle: the monitor and the british public record office http://www.afrol.com/News2002/uga004_amin_uk.htm

no you don't. my sympathies lie with the innocent victims of violence on either side of the conflict. this should be enough to show how naive you are to believe the gloves were ever on. (if it is indeed naivety)

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=435153 Rats replace dogs to sniff out buried mines By Peter Fabricius 19 August 2003 In a field about 40 miles west of the town of Chokwe on the Limpopo river in Mozambique, a large rat scurries along the ground, its nose and whiskers twitching. It stops, sniffs excitedly and then scratches at the ground. The rat is wearing a harness and leash. Its handler, clad in bomb-proof gear, pulls it over to the side and rewards it with a piece of banana. Another person in a protective outfit goes over to where the rat stopped and scratched and carefully digs up an anti-personnel mine. The animal is an African pouched rat 2ft 6in (75cm) long. It is the latest weapon to neutralise the millions of unexploded landmines across Africa and the rest of the world. They have killed or maimed thousands, especially in Mozambique with an estimated 500,000 buried mines and in Angola with millions more. Frank Weetjens, a Belgian who is in charge of the experiment near Chokwe, says the rats are better than dogs at sniffing out mines. They are cheaper, smaller, more port-able, harder-working and, at 3lb (1.35kg), light enough not to detonate a landmine when they walk over one, he believes. Mr Weetjens and his team from the NGO Apopo have only been experimenting with defused mines. But he is encouraging about his rat sappers. The rats are harder-working than dogs, he says, because they do not get bored so quickly with the repetitive tasks required of them; they seem to enjoy the work, so long as they are rewarded with food every time. Apopo (the Flemish acronym for anti-personnel mine product development) has been doing its main research at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania for five years. There it has been training about 300 African pouch rats and several handlers. Mr Weetjens and his team brought 12 rats and four trainers to Mozambique in March to start the test programme under field conditions. The tests are far from over, but the team is keen to move on to real demining.

a little context. abstract by josberger and bitlake: glacier mass balance and hydrology in the north cascades http://www.ecy.wa.gov/events/hg/abstracts2003.pdf "To understand the response of glacier mass balance to fluctuations in atmospheric circulation, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has measured the winter, summer, and net mass balances of South Cascade glacier, located in the northern part of the Cascade Range, for the past 44 years. This record, one of the longest such records in the world, shows a dramatic reduction of glacier extent and volume as the mass balance responds to short-term climate fluctuations. From 1959 to 1976, the average annual net balance was -0.15 mweq (meters of water equivalent), with positive and negative balance years. The two-decade period, 1976 to 1995, was one of rapid ice loss, averaging -0.90 mweq per year, with most years having negative mass balances. Recently, 1995 to present, the glacial recession has slowed to -0.28 mweq. This long-term trend correlates with the changes in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, as it shifts from a cool phase into a warm phase and back into a cool phase. Short-term climate fluctuations, such as droughts and El Nino/La Nina events, as characterized by the Southern Oscillation Index, also correlate with the short-term variations observed in the mass balance record."

the alps are getting little snow nowadays too. they have to make more and more artificial snow every year, thus draining fresh water supplies. even though there isn't a 500 year record of long term extreme events note the storms, floods, heat waves and droughts that have hit europe and other regions of the world every year in the recent past. many places setting records of high temperature, water high and low over the last 10-15 years.