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Hey Fairweather, is this what you had in mind?

i don't seem to have this problem. maybe karma's catching up with you?

reminds me of a former oh-so-PC colleague of mine who once, when I commented about how the winter weather that day was a little 'nippy' replied "That's pretty racist, don't you think?"

I'm thnking maybe taking Monday and Tuesday off. Heading up on Saturday. Mostly interested in doing trad, 5.8-5.10. Only been out twice in the last month so I'm working my way back up. Trying to do so quickly. Have all my own gear and a new 60m 9.5mm rope.

how about this: acting in accordance with the laws and principles we so loudly proclaim to be the hallmarks of a just and humane democracy. seems pretty easy to me. why does the right seem so rabid about demanding personal accountability when it comes to the actions of individuals yet they are perennially blind to the actions of the current administration? why are we willing to forgive the trespasses of presidents but not of the common man? yes, and before you say it, i've taken democratic presidents to task as well. but you know what, they're not wielding power right now.....i've always found it a real weak retort when someone says 'well, but clinton yadda yadda yadda'. yea, he did, and it probably wasn't right either.

. In that case, I'd say it's ok. Of course, I don't want to make myself sound like the arbiter of climbing ethics, I certainly am not. It's just my opinion.

"Happy for us that when we find our constitutions defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assemble with all the coolness of philosophers and set it to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitutions." --Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 1787. ME 6:295, Papers 12:113 "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40 "The idea that institutions established for the use of the nation cannot be touched nor modified even to make them answer their end because of rights gratuitously supposed in those employed to manage them in trust for the public, may perhaps be a salutary provision against the abuses of a monarch but is most absurd against the nation itself. Yet our lawyers and priests generally inculcate this doctrine and suppose that preceding generations held the earth more freely than we do, had a right to impose laws on us unalterable by ourselves, and that we in like manner can make laws and impose burdens on future generations which they will have no right to alter; in fine, that the earth belongs to the dead and not the living." --Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, 1816. ME 15:46 Thomas Jefferson, just another fucking liberal......

what would be nicer is not having prison camps that invite comparisons to those in vietnam, german, korea, etc.....

no no no. the sarchasm. it's where the search and rescue guys hang out. kind of like the bat cave....

I guess that means shooting someone with a gun is bad, but drowning them in the pool is 'OK'.

it's hard to take anyone seriously when they make an error like that!

I do. Oddly enough, I took it as an 'elective' when I was in sixth grade. But that was Alaska and a different time. Hard to imagine hyperprotective tank-driving soccer moms here not having a fit about that.

Yes No, but don't say you've done the route as it was meant to be done and as laid out by the FA. But that's just my opinion....

like i've said before, the whole thrust of the current administration when it comes to environmental issues is to claim that all decisions will be made on the basis of good science and then they'll proceed to slash budgets for that science, eliminate researchers, and/or covertly direct that no research be done. it sounded great initially and I was all for it but time and again they've stuck that long bloody knife back in.

"people who hate America" = "people who expect us to live up to our fine sounding words and impressive rhetoric"

i think hexes are great. really much better than cams if you want somethin bomb proof. that said, i pretty much don't use them much anymore since i trust my cam placements. I think they are a great learning tool and a cheap alternative to cams if you are a student and just getting into climbing (i.e. no funds to shell out for cams) there are times, though, when i see a placement and i wish i had a hex for it....

looking to use up a couple of vacation days. would like to go to squamish for 4 days, either Th-Sun or Fri-Mon or Sat-Tues. Would like to do moderate routes (5.8-5.9) and have a go at something like Rock On.

does the Coast Guard ever charge anyone for rescuing stupid boaters?

i should get my dad to start giving all you goobers rides to Talkeetna and rides to Costco and a place to hang. he wouldn't overcharge you too much. ;-) he is Retired Guy after all....

let me be the first to say: you are SO suck. PS: may the weather gods be with you. stay safe.

The very definition of tragi-comedy / FDA Looking Into Blindness-Viagra Link By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer Friday, May 27, 2005 (05-27) 08:09 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials are examining rare reports of blindness among some men using the impotence drugs Viagra and Cialis, a disclosure that comes at a time when the drug industry can ill afford negative publicity about another class of blockbuster medicines.

more like, why you shouldn't ask men's magazines about anything. it's kind of like looking for relationship advice in women's magazines.

you don't the city to do it, there are enough goobers in seattle with unsecure wi-fi setups to surf for free. I did this for a week or so when i first got my laptop and was playing around with it until my wi-fi modem showed up. i can't believe the number of them i can pick up while sitting at home in redmond.

the never built any of this fun stuff when i was a graduate resident at East Campus! they just had parties full of girls from all the women's colleges...