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Macintoshes are so suck. You gotta believe me when I tell you I had carriage returns between paragraphs. They don't show.

I would say he is a racist. Long known as an opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. Chaired the Human Rights and Responsibilities Subcommittee of the Republican Party Platform Committee that approved a plank in the party platform protesting the Supreme Court's decision in Roe and calling for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion. While serving in the Mississippi Senate, Pickering voted for a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to ban abortion. He voted against state funding for family planning. While Pickering was president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, the organization adopted a resolution calling for legislation to ban abortion except to save the life of the mother. As a law student, Pickering wrote a law review article suggesting ways to amend the state's miscegenation statute (interracial marriage) to ensure it would be found constitutional. Nine years later, the Mississippi legislature followed Pickering's recommendations and amended the statute. During Pickering's district court confirmation hearing, he swore under oath that he had no interaction with the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state-funded agency established after Brown v. Board of Education to oppose integration efforts. However, a commission investigator wrote a memo in 1972 indicating that Pickering "requested to be advised of developments" regarding some of the commission's investigations. In 1993, Pickering published an opinion portraying the "one-person, one-vote" doctrine as "obtrusive." As a state senator, Pickering repeatedly voted against measures that would expand electoral opportunities for African Americans after passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Pickering used identical language in his opinions in the racial discrimination cases Seeley v. City of Hattiesburg and Johnson v. South Mississippi Home Health, describing each as having "all the hallmarks of a case ... filed simply because an adverse employment decision is made in regard to a protected minority." Pickering wrote approximately 1,100 opinions during his 11 years as district judge and published fewer than 100. When the Senate Judiciary Committee asked him for the unpublished decisions, Pickering provided approximately 600 and indicated that the rest were unavailable. Sources: NARAL NAACP Alliance for Justice National Women's Law Center American Association of University Women People for the American Way

Lummox is a concrete thinker- sand, gravel, all we need is some cement.

I'm not sure what you just said, but it sounds deep, man.

If you're Canadian, you better like canola oil. You all are practically swimming in it up there.

It's one thing to think of the effect of flu on the population in the abstract, but yet another when it comes to you as an individual. We are accustomed to thinking of the flu as something that kills only the very young and very old. When the Spanish Flu hit in 1918, there was no discrimination by age. Frequently, the most healthy and fit were the ones that died. We're talking about 18-20 year old soldiers in top physical condition.

I think it is a banquet. The price includes food.

I had heard that all his Everest West Ridge slides were stolen when he was in Brazil a couple of years ago. Hopefully he has been able to restore his collection.

In today's news. Here's the deal in a nutshell. Avian flu spreads between chickens and from chickens to humans but not between humans. If a human happens to be infected with human flu and at the same time gets infected with avian flu, the genes can recombine. The resulting strain could then spread between humans but would be much more virulent, that is kill a higher percentage of those it infects. That would be very bad. No one knows when it will happen, but when it does let's hope they have a vaccine for it.

Remove the moss, but leave the vegetation around the boulder.

It is always better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.

That was a quote from the real Cliff.

I'll bet they don't try that again.

I have been told this by my mother for years. Butter will melt at the bodies temperature, where as margarine will not. Butter tastes better too! Margarine is made using hydrogenated vegetable oil. Hydrogenation produces trans fatty acids which are worse than the saturated fat found in butter. Sorry if that sounds like a catbirdseat post, but I can't help myself.

"It's a little known fact that smartest animal is a pig. Scientists say if pigs had thumbs and a language, they could be trained to do simple manual labor. They give you 20-30 years of loyal service and then at their retirement dinner you can eat them."

Yes, but only if you allow enough time for it to freeze solid.

I'll go. Then all you have to do is follow the avalanche debris to your objective. Don't trip over my foot if it is sticking out of the snow.

I'll have a large order of fries with that...

I saw this in the this morning's Seattle Times, but my browser won't go to www.seattletimes.com.

My dad had a heart attack ten years ago. He awoke early one morning, feeling lousy, so he took an aspirin, but he felt worse so my mom called an ambulance. The doc said that aspirin may well have saved his life, although it would have been better had he taken two. He had a small obstruction in one coronary artery. They did an angioplasty and he has been fine ever since.

Chuck, a worthy effort, without a doubt. Watch out Iain.

Check for skid marks, then, wash before wearing.

Lots of snow on the East Face, that's for sure.

Ballard was the first suburb in the Pacific Northwest, I believe.