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That you can muster an overall positive view today, says more about your insularity and the veneer status of your liberal convictions than anything else considering the role played in spreading the neoliberal cancer that is ripping apart social fabrics and economies across the world, the leading role of plutocracy in deciding the future of democracy, our ranking near the bottom of most indicators of social fairness and economic justice in the developed world (and some) as well as the disastrous wars that we keep waging. Why should it be so surprising that some people aren't interested buying into the glorification of the military that enforce a calamitous foreign policy, even if most of these individuals weren't really responsible for the role they played? Now, you won't read me slagging off soldiers, little less the dead ones, but don't try to force your militarism on all of us, especially when you can't recognize that honoring the victims of conflicts on all sides is the right thing to do. For the record, I have spent quite a bit of my time here opposing the many (likely including you) who keep calling Americans stupid as if they were responsible for the mind-numbing propaganda spewed by the media and the policies implemented by Washington DC.

I am sure it's true in your head, rob.

"He'll also be sure to claim his targets lack humor when asked to keep it clean."

and you say this right after accusing someone, with whom you had an argument, of being a proponent of eugenics? It just shows how much you know. But, do keep going on with the disparaging comments that have nothing to do with the topic.

The specifics don't really matter. The typical internet board bully will rationalize any use of personal information (real or imagined) in order to disparage and harass those who say things he doesn't like. He'll also be sure to claim his targets lack humor when asked to keep it clean.

Ha! good work, Hercule.

Interesting how you keep claiming that you are a "moderate", yet you sound like a john bircher.

Right, Prole forgot about the tried and true argument that if they need food stamps and housing assistance, they can't possibly be poor.

Possibly, although NCDC shows precipitation for September 73 in Washington to be ~1/3" above average and mean temperature slightly above average: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/wa.html

Here comes the quack pop-psychologist with his crystal ball.

I don't see what good could be said on this topic nowadays. Now if you'd rather talk about good things, you can always go ahead. Nobody is preventing you.

poverty is defined relative to the cost of acquiring essential amenities, which is obviously not the same everywhere.

Consider yourself lucky you didn't get the ever popular: "it's their parents' fault for being lazy, divorced, uneducated, etc", but just give it a chance, it's only a matter of time.

hmmm, rather unclear what is meant by "setting off a 120-foot-long fracture line" in early September

Is this a competition for the most strawmen in one statement?

What you call guilt is also known as having a sense of fucking history so we don't repeat the same fucking "mistakes".

Wow! Your posts have a tendency to leave me speechless.

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http://daily.sightline.org/2011/06/20/the-ymca-should-not-need-a-guide-outfitter-permit-a-special-use-permit-a-national-environmental-policy-act-assessment-and-a-business-plan-to-take-poor-kids-into-national-forests/

Although it doesn't strike me as a significant problem in Icicle Creek, polishing from use is an issue on softer rocks. "It's what we used to do" doesn't appear to be a particularly compelling argument, since technological improvements should be encouraged to conserve the resource and climbers still managed to use the most appropriate boot for the job. In turn, users may have their own valid reasons for using whatever foot gear they decide but having newbies climb in whatever street shoes speaks mostly to the poor quality experience this outfit appears to provide their customers.

meh, it looked like a half-baked scheme and there are several reasons to doubt Iran was behind it: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/indian-bomb-iranian-terror-or-false-flag.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/all/1

Same nutjobs , different bill:

http://hint.fm/wind/ Clickable to zoom in.

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