RobBob

If you girls are through spraying on my post, I'd like to know whether you think this gal's story is for real.

forrestm, ...never mind...

I'd rather buy gear from a company that doesn't contribute anything to anybody. Give me the net-net price on everything. I'll decide if/when I'm going to contribute to any political action groups.

From the title, I thought it was gonna be an opportunity to gently nudge johnny destiny toward help. "Affirmative Action" encourages the opposite.

A good read, but it's so long that I'll print it out to read later. Sometime I may have to write down a couple of descriptions of jungle ambushes as told by my best bud and co-worker. He was in the Teams and has more real-life fire fighting experience than anybody I've ever met. He doesn't talk about it to hardly anyone, and I know he'll never write it down himself...but there's a little room in his house with a wall full of medals. He is the ultimate war hero---and still a stealth fighter, because no one would guess it from his polite, unassuming manner. Here's to ya, Mike.

Damn, z, you are a posting mofo this morning. Maybe you are not the trask but instead the caveman?

I love trask's nom de plume "z." "Tito, pass me my glove..."

This morning I was deleting old "favorites" from my browser, and before deleting peakware.com Rainier summit logs, I read the most recent posts. I came across this one: "This was a challenge for me. I summitted without ropes,crampons, or an ice ax. That makes things a little more interesting. The view from the top was spectacular. Such a breath of fresh air. I couldn't have asked for a better New Year's Day experience. " Jill Christiansen Bismarck, ND USA Email: jlchrist2003@yahoo.com Date(s) summited: Jan 1,2000 Date signed: October 14, 2002 Is this gal an animal, or crazy, or what?...do people regularly climb in the winter w/o gear?

I got a good look at Mont Blanc while flying into Zurich last spring...there it was, popping out right through the clouds...gave me the shivers. Thinking that I gotta try to climb it (the std route, of course ). Can anybody offer advice...thinking abt next September.

Damn, you guys are having fun while I'm checking email in a podunk motel. Wish I could stay and spray/trask is turning gay/y'all be kool while I'm away.

Hey, I'm looking at these moving graemlins for the first time! (My pc doesn't allow them to move.) I just wanted to register in that I was so disgusted by TLG's posting of that Ginsberg poem on the other thread that I could puke. I posted it here so hopefully that other shitbird thread would die. This one ain't much, either. Gotta go, off to do my part making contrails today.

One of my buds who's an ex-marine sent me this: From a Marine in Bosnia. Note the signature A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia): A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France. I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface at some point in the near future anyway. That is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of faggots for soldiers. I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support was only for show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around. He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and beat his ass in front of the entire Multinational Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman. He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Mary Beth Johnson LtCol, USMC

WTF? Is this DFA's self-loathing avatar, reserved for when he veers off-course? And where the hell is Africia?

Iain, that was a stretch...just as this is. My question is: which one is Dr. Flash Amazing??

I still don't git the connection between deer hunting and Engrish on this site. I saw Engrish firsthand in Japan in the 80s. Also there have been quite a number of Asiacan goods sported about in the US. People with tee-shirts, headbands, even tattoos and they don't even know for sure what they say!

Okay, Greg, here goes. But I do not think it's inclusive, because I see state references to cases (like NY) that aren't on this map.

WTF are you idiots refering to?

No Greg, not yet. But somewhere recently I saw a map and it was more widespread than I had believed.

I love venison, but I am keeping a close eye on increasing reports of CWD.

I just did a quick search, got past the wacky UFO "chem-trail" posts, and found this "Contrails develop when hot, humid fumes from a jet engine meet the cool air of the upper troposphere. Water vapor in the exhaust and atmosphere freezes to create tiny cloud particles, much like the mist that forms when a person exhales on a cold winter day. As turbulence in the upper atmosphere tears contrails apart, they can spread into wispy sheets essentially identical to natural cirrus clouds. Engines can also stimulate cloud growth indirectly, by way of tiny aerosol particles within the exhaust. These aerosols-droplets of sulfuric acid and specks of soot-serve as seeds. They provide surfaces upon which water molecules can condense or freeze to create cloud particles, explains Eric J. Jensen, a participant in SUCCESS and a researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. " which was extracted from this: web page

Damn Freeclimb, don't screw up my troll ten minutes after I cobble it together, pointing out my muddled organization and writing. Obviously water vapor is not a product of combustion. Question: Is this a purely pressure-caused condensation, or is it not also a temperature-induced one? Vapor trails often appear to be shed at the engines...or are they actually at the wingtips?

Have to say that I never have believed the global warming gloom-and-doomers, since man has a history of over-rating his impact on the universe. I think that most climatologists would agree that catastrophic asteroid strikes, periodic changes in Earth's rotational orientation, tidal forces (both directly and their secondary trigger effect on volcanism), and volcanism itself have been key determinants in the wide fluctuation of Earth's temperatures over the long term. However, to the extent that man does affect temperature, I wonder if anyone has really put the key factors into accurate perspective. Two factors, I believe, must contribute more to the human equation than they are being given credit for today: 1) Human infrastructure. Just the bricks, mortar, concrete and asphalt itself. Constantly absorbing and radiating heat. If you have an outside temp gage in your vehicle, watch how it fluctuates between cities and rural areas. Even small towns seem to have 1-3 degree F bumps in temp compared to backcountry areas. 2) Aircraft contrails. I rely on flying for business and recreation, and would be loath to reduce the amount of flying that I do. However, the more you observe the skies with this phenomenon in mind, the more you can actually see contrails take on the look of cirrus clouds. It stands to reason, in this layman's eye, that the combination of burned hydrocarbons and water vapor discharged into high atmosphere would have a much greater effect on climate than equal amounts discharged from the ground. And this obviously relates to climbing in a roundabout way.

Totals now show: INTJ 31% (8) INTP 19% (5) ENFP 11.5% (3) ISTJ 7.5% (2) ISFJ 7.5% (2) ENTJ 7.5% (2) ENTP 7.5% (2) INFP 4% (1) INFJ 4% (1) There seems to be a growing correlation (50%!) between INTJ/INTP profiles, and climbing sprayers.

Hey, I was the first to say I think Bush was a stoop about skidoos in Yellowstone. "Everything in Moderation" is a pretty good rule for living, unless and until a resource is proven really finite (like oil). Study each issue before you shoot from the hip---and miss. That seems like a good approach to this Republican. Hell, let's go over to spray and debate global warming again.

I bumped him up also, in agreement abt grabbin' in the name of the gods.