KaskadskyjKozak

Yakszczo ne hryb, ne vliz u borszcz.

Pryjszov Kozak na pole srav, Pryjszov kacap hiwno - ham!

Czuiut' wony dzwin a ne znaiut' de j vin.

Those suicide statistics are out-of-date, and may be more reflective of post-Soviet-era malaise than inherent societal (or seasonal/geographical) factors.

Yawn. Highest standard of living in the world. Those taxes end up paying for things that I pay up the yingyang here for - like college, student loans, etc. The Norwegians I've met have reasonable equivalent salaries, and equivalent disposable income - which in the end is all that matters to me. Seperate argument entirely high taxes = less disposable income = government bureaucratic waste = less freedom = lower incentive to work = less productivity = lower quality of life my quality of life would be shit in Europe - if it's a break even for you - go for it. Make sure you speak the language, and tell everyone you are Canadian, though.

Now you guys have done it... he's mad, really mad.

Astronomical taxes.

I'm only an intermediate downhill skiier and generally stick to groomed trails. What level of skill is required to ski this route? Are you skiing all the way from the summit?

Let's send him to mediate the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. I'd be glued to the proceedings on CPAN watching the comedy unfold...

I've heard that Germany is a great place to live.... for Germans.

On a day like this, how can you even think of leaving Washington?

General Patton was against it as well, but the only alternative was a continuation of the war - the bloodiest in history.

Granite Mountain is notorious for slides on the gully I think you are referring to. At least it is mentioned in the guidebooks. I'd recommended looking for such information in guidebooks, or route descriptions (or talking to a Ranger or someone knowledgable about the area). This does NOT replace independent avalanche evaluation on-site, but can complement this analysis, or even rule out a certain route depending on recent weather patterns.

The next time someone talks about some "imminent threat", it will take a hell of a lot of concrete evidence to convince me, that's for sure.

Govoryu, no predpochitayu razgovarivat' na soloveynom ukrainskom.

Thanks, I'll consider this option. I'd like to allow 2 days for the climb though. The purpose of the trip is to get to altitude on a non-technical climb, and see how I do. I've been at 12,000+ feet twice. The first time I just had a headache at the summit (Adams) and puked back at basecamp. The second time I had to stop and turn back (Rainier). Is there a decent high camp on the Clear Creek route?

Wow, JayB really knows how to push SC's buttons...

Ty v c'omu pomylyayeshsya. Bahato z nas v Ameryci nenavydyly kacapiv-komunyakiv. My stoyaly z polyakamy v solidarnosti protyv yikhnikh zlodiyiv.

In prior wars supply trains were staffed with military personnel - convoys were driven by soldiers, meals were fixed by soldiers, repair work was done by soldiers. In Iraq the fuel trucks are driven by US contractors, the meals fixed by contractors. Same roles, same duties, different "boss" than in the past, and one that to my mind places themmin the role of unarmed combatant. Thanks. Where are you reading up on these details? Our media doesn't seem to cover any of it.

Especially since those same jobs would have been performed by soldiers in past wars. We've outsourced the logistics of our army and somehow expect our enemy's to respect this. Please elaborate.

Assistance? Like intelligence? Collaborators? I'd say yes, but they need to *know* for sure that someone is doing it, not just suspect it. BTW, I don't think of all the insurgents as terrorists - only some, maybe even a very small percentage.

I do. But only if they target our soldiers.

None of them were firing at us, or sitting on top of weapons stockpiles (conventional weapons), or doing anything wrong? If he was unarmed, then I think that murder is not much different than the CARE worker's... I don't equate the two. These civilians are not intentionally murdered. It is "collateral damage" - a horror of war, terrible, and tragic. The CARE worker was intentionally murdered in cold bold. It is personal. I equate the later to premeditated murder, and the former to something like "manslaughter". If it can be proven that we *intentionallY* target civilians with our bombs, well that is another matter...

They are certainly 'less innocent' if they had guns and were firing at our troops. There is no moral equivalency here.