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catbirdseat

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  1. Here you go Seahawks. Is this is where you get your opinions about the ACLU? World Net Daily
  2. That's just plain bullshit and you know it. That sort of talk began back in the McCarthy era. The ACLU will defend the right to free speech, even if a person happens to be a communist. It doesn't make the ACLU a communist organization. From the ACLU website: "The ACLU believes in the freedom of thought, inquiry or advocacy by any individual or group regarding a specific economic, social or political philosophy. That position, grounded solely on the nation's tradition of free speech, means no governmental restriction unless there exists a clear and present danger of illegal action."
  3. You guys are terrible! Is this how we treat new members?
  4. How long did it take you from the base of the climb and back to the base?
  5. dunno - blake's a handsome white man - seems like if anyone's talking their way out it's him, 'specially w/ a carfull of similiar looking girls, eh? Ah, but he wasn't driving a pickup, nor was he wearing the requisite baseball cap. But I think it was the rope in the back that gave him away as a perfidious climber.
  6. Ever climb at Nevermind Wall? I hear that place is so rad!
  7. Is it really as run out as Gary says or was he off route?
  8. Hey Kurt. What do you think of this outfit?
  9. How was the military? Did you enjoy that?
  10. If your record is clean, I think they will offer deferment to you.
  11. The law allows you to briefly exceed the speed limit while passing. You should argue that you were still in the process of passing when you were clocked. Where would you have to go to fight the ticket? Good luck.
  12. Hey these guys learned their trade from the likes of Rush Limbaugh. They don't actually make reasoned arguments.
  13. It's probably just as well they took a cab home anyway.
  14. It's a huge stretch to say what Hillary advocates is socialism, even the mild forms of which are practiced in Europe. She's just saying that tax and benefit policies should no longer be geared to benefit just the wealthy. They don't need any more help.
  15. catbirdseat

    I'm in love

    Show her your big brush chipper. It will turn her on.
  16. When the road gets really bad it gets bad fast. Don't push it because you'll just risk your car for minimal distance. Just park and walk.
  17. catbirdseat

    Democracy

    This is called "killing a thread by bringing it back on topic".
  18. Jens, you are dreaming! Are you on pain killers? Mountaineers creek would fill up with gapers driving off the road. Of course it would give the FS headaches. More like a huge migraine.
  19. I think it is ironic posting that on a climbing site. The guy needs to sign up for a gym membership.
  20. Kane is a 5.11 climber.
  21. Layton, isn't it good to know that your buddies have some much confidence in you? It's truly heartwarming, that's what it is.
  22. Small world. I met James Lucas one year after the accident, while he was still limping around and just starting to climb again. I'd heard that he was free soloing 5.9's when he could barely climb 5.10b at the time. Is that true?
  23. catbirdseat

    Democracy

    I'll bite. I don't think voters are irrational. The reality is that when you vote for a candidate you are voting for a complex platform and a person who will make a large number of decisions during his term. But people tend to seize on only one or two issues and ignore all the others. The issues they care about are voted on rationally, but the end result is that all the other issues are voted on irrationally. Case in point: abortion. There are a number of people for whom this one issue trumps all others. They could really care less about ANY of the other issues, trivial ones, like war and peace, the economy...
  24. "We are the knights who say 'Ni!'. Bring me a shrubbery!"
  25. I think some people have a need to suffer. If they don't get it, they figure out how make it happen. I think they should just pair these kids up with Layton or Colin for a weekend. Those guys would take them along on one of their little climbing trips and show 'em what suffering is really like. A lifetime of suffering compressed into two days.
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