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Doh!

Woohoo! Go for it, girls. I mean ladies.

Genetically there is not, but that is not the point I'm trying to make is it? I'm saying development is what counts, not genetics.

You can use them. Taking them off would be a pain for the bit of rock you'll encounter. It'll be hard on the points, but you can sharpen them later.

Czech your geography. The Olympics are in Washington.

It appears that it is open seven days a week.

No, knucklehead, not when it it born. A full term baby has a brain. That would be infanticide. You should be able to kill a fetus until 6 months gestation, but I feel to remove all doubt, it should be no later than 3 months gestation. An embryo is a no-brainer, you should be able to kill a days old embryo at will. And we do this ALL THE TIME! Again it depends on gestation. If the fetus is later than 3 months, I'd say the person should be charged.

They can stop him from using the Games symbols, but they can't stop him from the trademark "Best of the Olympic Peninsula", because that use is protected. The question is whether he has the money to fight it out in court. The Olympic Committee is flush with cash.

What defines us as humans is intelligence and that comes from developed brains. A human embryo does not have a brain and in that regard it is no different than the embryo of any other species of animal. After it has developed for 6 months it has a brain. That is when its humaness is realized. The clerics arbitrarily declared that we become human the moment an egg is fertilized. Well, that doesn't cut it for me. There is no logic in it and no thought in it. It comes from some sentiment that copulation is some sort of sacred ritual which creates a soul. Bah!

Johannesburg

Another statement of the obvious: "high post counts are a dubious honor".

It sucks to be #3 To borrow from another thread, "that's your opinion".

Dru will seldom avoid a chance at self-promotion.

BB King is a great guitarist, but he's not a ROCK guitarist.

Chopping a hole in a frozen lake because you forgot the stove.

Tvashtarkatena will either drop a stopper or fix a cam.

I'll often bring one titanium ice screw for "just in case". Doesn't weigh that much. If I were dangling in a crevasse, I think I might want to get a screw in just in case. That thought brings up a question. So you're supposed to start prusiking out immediately after you fall in. Obviously, you can't both hang from a screw and prusik out. I think that you have to assume your buddies can hold you while you do this. So the only circumstance where I'd put in a screw would be where I'd broken a leg and couldn't ascend on my own.

I don't have your book Marty. Did you copyright it?

I'd offer to transport Jens, but I can't make it tonight.

Don't mess with Mom! Got it?

Some arborists are removing a huge tree from the front yard of my neighbor's house. It's coming down piece by piece. I was thinking what they are doing scares me to death.

Three Fingers, also by Mack Bates, contains quite a few mountaineering stories as well. Not having read Cascade Voices, I wouldn't know if those stories are redundant or not.

CV joints make more noise when turning one way compared to the other. Easy to determine. If the noise is more or less speed dependent, but not direction dependent, it is more likely the struts. If that is what it is, see if you can't find used ones at Pull A Part.

I agree they don't call them "cramalots" for nothing. They can really make up for the shortcomings of those desperate leaders who are too sketched to place a cam properly.

Exactly my point! And that underbelly is repulsive! When you can't attack the man's arguments just attack his appearance. Ad hominem attacks are all you can come up with.