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Reminds me of a Far Side cartoon wherein the scientist says somelike like "My mistake was going into astrophysics for the money" Squid, let's go to the Bugs. If that doesn't get your squidly juices flowing, well, there's no hope for you.

I love how our perceptions about WW2 are overly 'rosy' yet our perceptions about Iraq are overly 'pessimistic' and poisoned by the 'Agenda Media'.....

Who would ever call into question the honesty of a car salesman?.... If you're trying to 'take the high road', what's the lawyer for?

It figures that you'd drink something in a screw-cap that you found next to a dumpster...

If they are getting laughs off of us geezers on the rails, then I'm reciprocating and getting a good laugh off of them when they face plant in the moguls, which they invariably do. All I know is, I may be 'old school' but if my skiing skills advance to the point where I can do interesting ski mountaineering, I'm more likely to run into uneven terrain that I need to know how to deal with than I am some groomed tube or a nice shiny rail.

For you, I can be.

Si j'etais le roi, les choses seraient differantes.

Easier than grad school and probably just about as useful.

Actually DSB = Dreaded Semen Backup. Thought you knew that. So, tell me, when you join the military do they just yank your brains out through your nose with a rusty coat hanger and stuff testosterone soaked rags back in? Sure seems that way from here.

Someone's apparently suffering from a little springtime DSB.

John McPhee said it best: "Geology is legitimized tourism"

old school: def. that which the new school finds too difficult to do (possibly the result of too much brain damage caused by crushing their nuts on a rail in the terrain park)

2-day mogul camp at Whistler. It looked like Christmas there with all the snow coming down...or...what Christmas *should* have looked like there......

If you remove the organized economics that supports things like energy production, then you immediately find yourself in a situation where billions of people are going to want to start chopping down trees to for cooking and heating. We'd probably deforest the planet in less than a year. Clever plan. Reminds me of Platonic and Marxian political systems: this will work if we can get these impossible, magical conditions to exist and then sustain it.

I got yer grog right here, poser.

Global War! -Ming (the Merciless)

Is anybody out there not having a good time?

What's the watermelon for?

My wife's noticed that. Back home, she's a medium, here, she's an extra small.... And to think we used to make jokes about the tank-like wives of Communist party leaders....

And who were the poor bastards who did the testing?

Maybe you could describe the experiment a bit more.

I'm waiting for the following Queen classic: Bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like You say black I say white You say bark I say bite You say shark I say hey man Jaws was never my scene And I don't like Star Wars You say Rolls I say Royce You say God give me a choice You say Lord I say Christ I don't believe in Peter Pan Frankenstein or Superman All I wanna do is Bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my Bicycle races are coming your way So forget all your duties oh yeah! Fat bottomed girls they'll be riding today So look out for those beauties oh yeah On your marks get set go Bicycle race bicycle race bicycle race Bicycle bicycle bicyI want to ride my bicycle Bicycle bicycle bicycle Bicycle race You say coke I say caine You say John I say Wayne Hot dog I say cool it man I don't wanna be the President of America You say smile I say cheese Cartier I say please Income tax I say Jesus I don't wanna be a candidate For Vietnam or Watergate Cos all I want to do is Bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like

I've been wondering why this whole thread makes me a bit....ill.

I'm not saying they have a message I like, simply that they've been doing a much better job of organizing, marketing, positioning, and attacking the left. The Dems have missed too many opportunities to attack the Republicans and dozens of domestic issues that it makes me think they lack the will to fight.

If I've said it before, I'll say it again, you can't really blame the Republicans as being the sole reason why a Democrat didn't get elected. If the Dems had fielded an inspiring candidate with great ideas, they wouldn't need phone banks to 'get out the vote'. In the last few years, the Dems have lost any ability to inspire anyone. At the same time, the Republicans have managed to wield cohesiveness by having a message, by staying on message, and taking the initiative. Whether you like their message is another matter entirely.