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Invasive weeds are by definition those that livestock will not eat or which are harmful if eaten. Since cows preferentially eat the nutritional native grasses, they allow the weeds to take their place. Furthermore, cattle spread weeds around as the seed cling to their hides. Grazing on public lands: .

So did anyone mail some worms to this woman? Inquiring minds want to know.

1:1,000,000 chance. Right, we're all going to die.

My daughter's 1990 Honda Civic Si was just stolen from the Safeway parking lot in Greenwood. It is red, license plate (WA) 155GFK. If any of you see this car, please call the police.

I'm almost falling out of my chair!

While it's true that I am relatively inexperienced, I'm not a total newbie. I just think the Newbie Forum happens to be the best place in which to ask such questions. In this case I don't think there is one right answer. It is a matter of personal preference. I wanted to see how various people do things. For example, I would have thought the unruly lummox would be the one to dash up the route and deal with the mess later. So my guess was wrong there.

Trask I think it is foolish to use a moderator's dick when you could have used someone else's dick. [No you can't use mine.]

Here you go Greg. I believe we should build as many nuclear power plants as we possibly can. Does that sound like a radical environmentalist? Nuclear power produces zero carbon dioxide, and we now have Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada in which to put the waste. We've spent billion of dollars to develop that site, so let's use it dammit! We could use the clean electricity to produce hydrogen fuel for use in the fuel cell vehicles that Bush has been talking about.

I had a partner who was adamant that he would never under any circumstances enter that couloir no matter what time of day, time of year, going up or down. He said every time he'd ever been to Cascade Pass he had seen ice fall thundering down the slot. So yes the traverse is a waste of time, if you aren't afraid of the couloir. If you have the extra time and have a lower risk threshold the traverse isn't all that bad. No I didn't put the slings in the washing machine. I used a bucket of warm water and dishwashing soap.

As one married for 20 years, I can only pass on the advice my grandfather gave me when I was married. "You have to give a little to get a little". Translated that means unless you take your wife on your climbs, you'll have to do something for her in return. So that could mean taking her out do dinner, ironing the clothes, going to a movie. If you maintain a balance between climbing and domestic life, you'll have a happy and long marriage. Yes, kids will put a damper on climbing, but not totally. You'll still get out, but just not as much. Having friends and relatives to help watch the kids helps a lot. Remember to volunteer to take in your friends and relatives kids so you can cash in the favors when that awesome climbing opportunity comes up.

I guess we need a New Australia where we can ship all the poor who crowd our jails. The US now strongly resembles 18th Century England with its gin and opium addicts, high crime, poverty, etc. Rather than deal with problems they sought to export them. They called it "Transportation". One could be transported for something as minor as stealing a loaf of bread. It's too bad there isn't a new land in this world, but there just isn't.

We know that CO2 is probably the strongest absorber of infrared radiation in the atmosphere. Even though it is a very small percentage of all the gasses, it is the main factor in atmospheric heat storage. Since we don't know yet exactly what the consequences are to doubling or tripling its concentration, the prudent thing to do would be to try to keep it at the same concentration as it is now. The problem is that there is no cost free way to do limit CO2. About the only way is to improve efficiency of our homes, cars and factories. Sometimes the money we save on fuel will pay for the investment, although sometimes the payback time is long. One way to reduce the amount of CO2 emitted per unit energy is to favor fuels that have the most hydrogen in them. Natural gas has the highest hydrogen to carbon ratio at 4 to 1. Light hydrocarbons like oil have a ratio of about 2 to 1. Coal has essentially no hydrogen and produces the greatest amount of CO2 per unit energy. Unfortunately, we have lots of cheap coal in this country and a growing shortage of natural gas. Indoneisia has huge reserves of natural gas, but there is at present no practical way to get it to the US. At one time gas liquification was being developed so that large tankers could be used to transport it. People fear what would happen if one of the ships should explode while in port, so there is no port where ships can unload to a pipeline even if the gas could be delivered.

Bias in the media has more to do with what is not reported than what is or how it is done. It is difficult to know what is underreported except when one has first hand knowledge. One way to know is to compare our media's coverage to that of foreign sources that we trust, such as the BBC and perhaps European media, if not Al Jazeera.

The whole point is that any argument can be turned on its head depending on how you look at things. Rush Limbaugh just makes me want to puke. In his world everything is just so damn simple and black and white. Well, the world isn't simple and it takes, thought, hard work and time to solve our country's social problems.

Timmy, first of all, we appreciate all you have done, though we probably don't thank you and Jon enough. You gotta figure that among 3,000 (+/- avatars) there are some sickos out there. If a threat actually affects how you live your life, that's when it is time to call the cops. It is possible to catch and prosecute people who make e-mail threats. A guy was just arrested recently.

Greg, I must be doing something right. And no, I ain't standing still. Why is it you think you're doing something "right" by pissing me off? You are showing that you have been spoonfed by the likes of James Carville, Terry McCauliffe, and a host of others who want to make you believe the soundbites and half-truth bullshit that the Democratic (and Green) Party wants you to swallow. You're not doing something 'right', you're proving to me how stupid and gullible people like you are; that's just sad. If you are truly pissed off by my post it shows how narrow you really are. For your sake, I hope you are just putting on a show. The liberals like Dave Schuldt don't get all pissed everytime the conservatives take a jab. Why is it some conservatives get all bent out of shape when liberals try to feed them back some of their own medicine?

You are a moron. Necro, just about all substances are toxic if the concentration is high enough. Even water can be toxic if you drink too much. As Thinker pointed out, CO2 is not toxic at the concentrations found in our atmosphere. Make no mistake (as Bush would say) as a contributor to global warming, CO2 is harmful. It will have to be dealt with, but I still say the EPA doesn't have the authority to do it, in the same way that the FDA doesn't have the authority to regulate "food supplements".

There were times when the smoke was pretty bad. It made Mars look all the more ruddy when it rose at night. I was suprised that the smoke didn't bother our lungs more than it did. I had to launder everything I owned yesterday, including slings, harness, pack, sleeping bag. Everything reeked of smoke.

Though it pains me to say this, the Bush administration is right on this issue. The statute which estabilished the EPA defined "pollutant" in a certain way. A pollutant is something which directly causes a toxic effect on an organism and CO2 doesn't fit in that category. If we want the EPA to regulate CO2 we'll have to get Congress to amend the law.

Greg, I must be doing something right. And no, I ain't standing still.

"In an unexpected situation, it did not come automatically. Todd believes he might have started off hacking at the snow with the adze instead of the pick" Many people carelessly hold their axe with the adze under the heel of the hand because it is more comfortable, but you can't arrest that way. A fellow named Peter Morse was killed on Kendall Peak that way. The adze is useless for self-arrest and it may not be possible to turn the axe around in the instant that it is required.

I don't believe that crude oil prices are what is driving up the price right now. It is refined gasoline markups. The most efficient place to sell North slope oil is the asian markets. The transport costs are less.

I have to say that Bill Clinton's record on anti trust issues was abysmal. There is no denying it.

Please, take Fairweather with you.

What is there to explain? Since you asked and I had a little time: The FTC initially tried to quash the sale [link ] . After the two companies agreed to divest themselves of a number of ARCO holdings, the sale was approved. The holdings as far as I was able to ascertain did not include ARCO's west coast refineries link which were its most profitable components . The supporters of the merger figured opponents would be mollified by divestiture of crude oil supply elements and would not realize that it was refining that represented the critical point for gasoline production. The current rise in gasoline prices on the west coast is a result of the merger. The merger was supported by the Republican led Alaska legislature link . "Big Oil has made similar demands. Is it just a coincidence that Republicans and Big Oil share the same agenda? Public Citizen is concerned that massive campaign and soft money contributions by the oil & gas industry have been influencing national energy policy in ways that benefit Big Oil at the expense of consumers, workers, and the environment. For example, as shown in Table 7, Republicans running for federal office (excluding the race for president) have taken in $680,000 in Oil & Gas PAC contributions versus $180,000 for Democrats, while the Republican Party has collected $1.4 million in soft money contributions compared with $510,000 for Democrats), as compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics." link