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I have this bumper sticker on my truck.

yeah, with your girlfriend on the back wasn't she the one that was having the implants removed? fyi, just in case you're not into pullin on plastic, the fda has allowed the use of silicon implants again. the drout is over. Silicon implants have actually always remained available to breast cancer survivors undergoing a mastectomy and to women who needed to replace thier original silicon implants and chose to do so with another set of silicon implants. Pamela would have qualified under the second catagory; so boys who like that sort of thing need not have worried too much.

I had such a good time skiing yesterday I could just cry! But not as loudly as that guy. Did you see his skipole? zigzag'd!!!

so why outlaw naked twister parties?

So should White Center. Just out of principle.

Your post on that thread is one of the best things I have ever read on any of the threads that are always created after an incident like this. I copied it and hope you will let me use it (with proper attribution) the next time this conversation comes up. Good on you for making such good, clear, strong points!

I am glad this debate got going too. Both sides have good points. I just want to throw one in there too. I am a motorhead. I have a sportscar that I take to the track. I have a vintage truck I take to car shows. I have a pickup I take through the mountains. I burn a lot of fuel. In a normal year, I also spend a fair amount of time living off the grid. My home is pretty much self-sufficient and requires little power. I also spend time camping, hiking, climbing, fishing, doing all that fun outdoor shit. There are a lot of people who have the same range of varied interests as I do. Your argument seems to ignore that fact. It is not an us-vs-them because often, the us and the them are the same person. However, we try hard not to get sanctimonious about our "carbon footprint" and bike rides. Wanting some peace and quiet in the woods appeals to most folks. Putting out a rational plea to allow that pleasure to remain in place makes sense. The rest of everything else just sounds like bullshit. Good luck to your effort; I truly hope that area remains a haven for hikers.

What's amazing to me is that the same people who say they are against overconsumption are just fine with this. I don't get it.

No, people who took out "bad" loans were greedy in the sense that they were living beyond their means.

This is the ugliest living cat I have seen.

Note that the threat level is still "high". Has it ever been lowered? Enough already.

I didn't mean to make the late thing sound so much like and analogy--I knew it was a tenous one and mostly I just felt like ranting. I do that. I don't remember bitching about the SoCal financial deal. You'll have to remind me what I said. I remember bitching about people who don't pay insurance insisting that the gov't pay their way was unacceptable. Essentially, people who pay for their insurance and pay their taxes get to cover thier own losses as well as their neighbors. That is unfair. And I don't understand how the security holder is the only one hurt by this. We all are hurt by this. Absorbing other people's losses, even after those people assumed the risk in order to make money, is an unfair burden to put on folks. It is a bad message to send out there--"Do what you want and the gov't will cover your ass". It is unfair to not treat people like adults. You take the risk, you weather the outcome. And it is sad that you think I believe these things because I think people should suffer. I believe these things because I believe in fairness. As for the envy comment--well, that is just absurd.

They kinda do need them to survive. I don't know if you saw the slide show, but not a whole lot grows there in the snow. Mostly just meat.

So sorry to hear about this--get better!!!

I completely agree with this. I think there are so many things like this and it pisses me off. Our acceptance of this type of shit is irritating even in small ways. For example, I hate it when people start meetings late because they are waiting for the late folks to show up. IOW: fuck you for being on time, I am not going to respect that. The rate hike is the same thing on a larger scale: fuck you for being thrifty and responsible, I am going to ignore that. Folks have a right to be resentful of that--it's crap.

WTF is up with the spa craze? I hope this will pass like the Ben and Jerry's thing. How much overpriced, underneeded pampering does a person gotta have?

Congrats on being in the Journal--that is super!

My new bumper sticker: "I take all comers"

You are right, this was an amazing thing to watch. Thank you for posting this.

I'll take option #2.

In literature, this usually represents symbolic castration. Especially if it is the right hand. Dishing out useless knowledge for free today.

My sympathies to your friends. I hope the best for their property, and if they suffer losses, that those insurance assholes pay up. Sending good thoughts to your friends.

Need some useless knowledge? Got it right here!!!

It would actually be "fewer" not "less" because the points are discrete items and not a mass.

Hugh is the one having the most fun.