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My day couldn't have been better. Fat ice within 2-1/2 hours of Seattle.

Hire professionals. The take home message is if you are felling a 100 foot tree, you should remove all people in all directions for more than 100 feet from the base of the tree. Duh.

Packed boot trail Low avy danger Nice fat ice Iceguy and catbirdseat It was fun Thank you geordie

Here come the science heavyweights.

My wife was given two years to live by her doctor in 2000. The drugs she was taking weren't working. I'd done some reading about new class of drugs that has only become available recently. I suggested to her doctor that he prescribe one of them and he did. Her tumor regressed and apparently has disappeared. Her doctor says they don't use the term "remission" any more. They now call it "stable" or something like that. In any case, it pays to stay up on developments in science, even if you aren't an expert.

Dude, that one is getting a bit long in the tooth. Time to fire up the ol' Photoshop and make a new one.

Nothing is obvious, Scott. There is no basis to debate this doctor's scientific merit, only the ethics of cloning a human. There is no reason to believe that the experience with humans will be any different than with animals, and that is one can expect many malformed and self-aborted fetuses and offspring with short and sickly lives. This is in addition to any other religious and moral concerns one might raise.

Yes, let's not forget ehmic.

Will, it sounds like a three dog night.

It kind of makes you appreciate all that Dave Schuldt does for us each week.

She can say she is a Latvian and be telling the truth.

You seek certainty from science. Science isn't about certainty. A theory is true as long as experiments continue to support it, otherwise, it goes out and is replace by a new one. If this guy is a fake, he will be exposed, eventually.

A fertility doctor claims he has implanted a cloned human embryo into a woman. If successful, the woman would give birth to a clone of her husband. I think Dr. Zavos is bluffing.

Good advice, eh?

Let's just bury the hatchet.

Hope you get nothing but tailwinds.

I did not take Thinker's post as good-natured humor. My previous post had been an attempt to correct some misinformation concerning the Mountaineers. Fenderfour was either intentionally (as a troll) or unintentionally confusing Basic Climbs with Intermediate Climbs. I regard PM's as confidences (even though the site managers can access them). To be mocked with my own PM is something I consider dishonorable, not playful. I have received all sorts of PMs, many of which I would love to share with the rest of you, but I do not out of respect for the sender (especially trask). Eric8, you can verify for yourself that it is rare for me to go off on someone. Your comment is specious on its face.

Iain, are you my shadow or something? Like the wallpaper sticks to the wall Like the seashore clings to the sea Like you'll never get rid of your shadow You'll never get rid of me

A great post. Last winter on a climb with Marek, we picked up a third guy, named Dave at Muir Hut. About all we knew about him was that he was fast, because we had watched him ascend the Muir Snowfield. He turned out to be a great partner.

Thank you for that. *vomicon*

Okay, Dave, no more PM's. I'll just post right here. You suck. The next time I see you at Pub Club, I say it to your face.

So post something on topic, marylou. Don't you think Pickering is a great choice? By being a Federal judge, he will be available to be appointed to the Supreme Court when the time comes, so he and Chief Justice Renquist can work together to overturn Roe versus Wade. Isn't that just swell?

CC.com has exceeded it's poo thread quota for the week.

I was wondering the same thing.