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The Chevy Gorst rocks!

I got some paw protectors at Petsmart (Muttlucks or something like that) that work pretty well. I really have to cinch down the velcro to make them stay on though. My dog doesn't like them at first but then she gets so excited to be out in the snow she forgets about them pretty quickly.

I met some French Canadiens in Costa Rica a couple years back. They were adament that in our lifetime Canada would become part of the US. They said there are just way to many natural resources in Canada and the US corporate machine would need to consume them. They thought it would all start with Canada accepting the US dollar as their currency. Kinda wierd coming from Canadiens. I have never met any other Canadien that would ever entertain such an idea. Maybe they were just jaded because they were from Quebec.

I think Limbaugh was a sports broadcaster before he got into the political realm.

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I figure its got to be a bad sign if the car can't handle hauling a freaking Yakima rack. Can it haul a driver if he's had a meal in the last 5 hours?

Where did you get that photo? I went to that high school my freshman year. My sister played in that band for 4 years. Wierd to see a photo from my San Diego high school in this context...

Make sure you get the prescription fungicide pill. The non-prescription crap they sell at the drug store is worthless. The Rx stuff can be a bit expensive and takes four months for most people. And you have to get your blood tested while you take it to make sure its not damaging your liver. But its really the only effective way to really get rid of that stuff.

The Seattle TV news (paragon of journalistic excellence) was sayingthis morning that it is believed he was actually electrocuted. Whether he was killed by the shock or the fall caused by the shock... they didn't say. So here's a question. Would a "buildering" accident show up in the Accidents in North American Mountaineering book? I suppose not if they always stick to their title and only report pure mountaineering accidents. It would be interesting to see statistical data on this stuff.

Funny you should bring that up. Cocaine is another paradoxical drug. Natives in South America will have their little kids chew on Coca leaves to calm them down.

I've experienced that, back in the college days drinking coffee pretty much non-stop during term paper/ final exam crunch. After you take in enough caffeine, I think your system finally just rebels and shuts down. Maybe a self-defense mechanism so you pass out before you can kill yourself? In children caffiene paradoxically acts as a sedative. Perhaps you were acting particularly childish that day?

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like this? http://www.verticalendeavors.com/ve/boyscouts.htm Word. Just maybe a bit more specialized.

I think the powers that be in the climbing world should create merit badges that can be displayed on one's helmet. There could be ones for knot tying, sandbagging, bolting next to cracks...

FYI, Google is offering a free anti-popup program. The catch is that you have to have a Google tool bar on your browser. They also try to track your browsing habits but it is easy to opt-out. Its working pretty well. I have had about 76 blocks in about 4 hours of surfing. It doesn't get everything though. Anybody have suggestions about a good program for blocking? I especially hate those grey window pop-unders that sneak through even when you aren't surfing.

But it is all a Democratic legacy going back to Roosevelt and Truman….you know the democrat know how to start the fire (you is a prime sample) but don’t know how to put it out …but then they criticizing anyone who try to clean THEIR messy shit I am not being an apoligist for Democratic administrations. I am not even a Democrat, even though you claim I am a "prime sample [sic]". If thats a some sort of homoerotic compliment, thanks, I guess I'm flattered. But I am married. Of course some Democrats have had elements of their foriegn policy that misguided in retrospect. So have Republicans. You seem to be suggesting (please correct me if I mistook you) that all foriegn policy problems are soley the fault of Democratic policies. Anything that the Republicans do that is questionable was some how the fault of an earlier Democratic policy. You offered some links that list out acts of terrorism against the US. Your links don't offer any analysis as to how the Democrats caused these acts. Are you really suggesting that Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, and Carter somehow forced Reagan to give up in Beirut in the face American casualties? Somehow former Democratic presidents made Reagan trade US weapons with Iran so the terrorist groups they controlled would release our hostages? Thats ludicrous. It appears to me the following could be a summation of your political outlook: Your side is always right. But if it appears to be wrong, it must have been the other sides fault. Good things that happen while your side controls the government are soley because of you side. Bad things are soley attributed to a previous bad administration. Again, please correct me if my perception is wrong. I think there is an equal distribution of people who ascribe to the aforementioned approach on the right and left. I don't find their contributions to a debate very useful. If a person isn't capable of some introspective critisism of political ideaologies and policies he or she ascribes it works to discredit any valid arguments the person trys to make. To say that Clinton and other Democrats are soley repsonsible for 9/11 is just as crazy as liberals saying the current state of the economy is soley due to Bush's policies. Things as complex as terrorism and economic trends occur over a continuum of time and no one president can ever fully take credit for or shirk events that happen during his administration. Also - The suggestion that Democratic strategists sit around trying to get us into problems and then lose and election to make Republicans is very entertaining. FYI - I'll be on the pennisula starting tonight so I will have to bug out of this discussion for a few days.

Yeah, Clinton was the first president to "chicken" out of an adversive military engagement. Its a good thing you don't have "...a short memory all cushioned by the geographical remoteness of your state..." But if you were to stroll a little further down memory lane, you might remember an event more egregious than the Somalia pullout. 241 Marines were murdered in a Shi'ite terrorist truck bombing in Beirut in 1983. How did the great military leader Reagan respond? We pulled out a couple of months later without achieving any of the original objectives. But the terrorists apparently didn't garner any "INDORSMENT" of their tactics from Beirut. They are only encouraged by foriegn policy bumblings from Democratic administrations. It must have been when Clinton "INDORSED" terrorism that Iran became part of the "Axis of Evil." Because back during the Reagan's administration, he must have been following Sun Tzu's rules to mitigate their terrorist potential. While "TERROR cannot be negotiated with. TERROR has to be eliminated BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE…yes, that include life..." it appears terror (or the terrorist state of Iran) can be sold United States arms to get American hostages released by (gasp) terrorists in the Middle East. But Reagan did have his illegal Central American war that he didn't have the balls to try to justify overtly in front of Congress and the American people. So I guess he really needed the bloody money. And he had "no specific recollection" of that whole Iran-Contra thing, so its all good. Thanks, IceIceBAby for pointing out that this whole terrorism thing is soley the fault of Clinton policies. No conservative ever has or will "INDORSE" terrorism.

Squeal like a pig.

I am simul-reading two books. I'm getting through "We Wish to Inform You That Tommorrow We Will Be Killed with Families." Its a pretty gut wrenching book about the Ruwanda genocide. When that gets too depressing I bounce over to reading "Seabiscuit" which is a surprisingly good story.

I am shopping for some topo map software for my Dad. It looks like the National Geographic product (Topo It) might be the best but also the most expensive. Anybody have any thoughts/experiences?

Pat Robertson is gonna be really upset when he sees this. Click this line to see the salacious video...

Gorst.

Semi related - This a link to a story about an Iranian expatriate who is using his US TV station to brodcast his programing into Iran via satellite. Its very satirical and rips on the mullahs and ayatollahs. Its apparently very popular in Iran and the channel has been responsible for organizing anti-government protests from the other side of the world. Anyway, its a great story about something that happened by accident but essentially turned into a Radio Free Europe... except its probable way more effective than anythin the government could have dreamed up for encouraging democracy in Iran. Here is the link Iranian National TV Story

Who drove after all that? Sounds sketchy.

Our friends in Oregon are so progressive... Interpreter Job article link Maybe CC is being discriminatory by not offering a klingon version.