KaskadskyjKozak
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I don't drink with psychopaths packing heat.
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My diagnosis of the cause: crack smoking combined with Satanism.
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Pot... kettle... black.
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November sucks ass.
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Regardless of what really went down, when it becomes known to the insurgents that surrendering may just get them tortured and/or killed, fighting to the death is going to be a much more likely option. That has a good chance of making it much harder for the coalition forces.
They are already brainwashed with propaganda about what we will supposedly do to them. We've been down this path before in other wars...
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Powell will be back with the Democratic Administration in 4 years!
The U.S. could use Powell's service, no matter which party's administration he serves under.
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It is obvious that NO MATTER whom Bush appoints to ANY position, they will immediately be the subject to character assassination and the politics of personal destruction by the opposition.
Under a Democratic administration, all we would hear about from the left-leaning media would be fluff pieces about the nominees and how progressive the president is for nominating women and minorities to key cabinet positions.
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If you want to avoid the crowds take the Clear Creek Route. The route is non-technical and can be done in a day pretty easily. Just crampons and ice axe are needed.
I did it in June and there was a lot of good glissading on the way down.
Are there any (road) access issues that early in the season? I do not have a 4WD vehicle. I believe that route is on the other side of the mountain (N side?).
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If these guys are going to play the total war game, then they should expect the same treatment.
"Total War" would mandate that no buildings were left standing for them to hide in in the first place. We are not engaging in this type of war.
Our troops already expect bad treatment from the insurgents. People who videotape beheadings of live *civilians* will certainly have no qualms about shooting our men in the back, or killing wounded. And it goes without saying that Iraqi insurgents don't arrest each other when they kill Americans - no matter what the circumstances.
We should not be killing unarmed Iraqis. But we are doing a lot better job of following the conventions of war than the other side is.
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What do you think about this: prisoner shot ?
If it is as it appears to be (we'll see) - I don't like it.
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As I understand it, the weather in Shasta typically stabilizes in June. I'm considering a memorial day climb (walk-up, Avalanche gulch). What are route and weather conditions like at this time of year? How crowded is the trail up?
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waste of space avatar
not annoyed by your posts, I would say the same to a person who was only posting liberal propaganda and hiding behind an avatar
its the whole only post in spray thing thats lame......post your opinions all you want, but use your real name, oh yeah, and CLIMB
1) obviously you are annoyed by my posts. Tough shit.
2) You are also annoyed by my avatar and anonymity. Again, tough shit.
3) Posting on the internet and climbing are not necessarily mutually exclusive activities.
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Ian't believe you guys are still arguing.
kaskadkywxkzywz - STFU and climb BIATCH! 100% rate of posts in spray, go skullfuck yourself
1) If you are so annoyed by my posts, don't read them.
2) I'll post wherever I fucking want to
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On a related note...
The more I read and hear about this post-election analysis, I am coming to the conclusion that the whole "moral values" influence on the election is bogus.
Apparently there was a poll that listed several options and asked voters what was the #1 issue that influenced their vote. "Moral Values" was listed and received the most responses (20% or so). The problems with this are 1) if you ask people to come up with their #1 issue without *listing* the issues for them, much fewer say moral values, and 2) this item combines many issues for people (gay marriage, abortion, the war in Iraq), 3) liberals opposed to Bush's policies also may be included in this statistic (the war in Iraq is a moral issue for many). 4) In those states where a gay marriage issue was on the ballot, Bush's performance was relatively worse than his overall performance (3% improvement over 2000).
I think both sides are trying to leverage this question to their advantage. Liberals want to attack Bush and Bush supporters and claim the election was decided out of fear. Some Bush supporters want to claim morality is "on their side" and claim credit for the victory to get payback for their support in terms of policy. I think both sides of this are wrong, and that the moral values issue was BS to begin with.
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Time to re-evaluate U.S. involvement...
WE MUST PULL OUT OF CALIFORNIA!
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The military presence we maintained in Saudi Arabia since GW1 doesn't count?
Ok, but we were off of Iraqi soil. But, then again the no-fly zones were enforced by the air force for 10+ years. It's still a difference w/r/t Vietnam.
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Is anyone else in the lower right quadrant?
(economic 1.00 / social -1.74)
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In Vietnam there was not a 10 year history of defying the terms of a peace agreement, and playing cat and mouse games with inspectors. In Vietnam there was no history of using chemical weapons on the Vietnamese people. Vietnam did not recently invade two sovereign nations and try to annex them. In Vietnam, only one side made the claims about the facts surrounding the Tonkin Bay. In Vietnam there was almost 20 years of war; they didn't use chemical weapons, they had random executions; they only invaded one sovereign nation (South Vietnam); the North didn't lie about Gulf of Tonkin - I don't remember Saddam lying about WMD, he just acted like he had them.
Kaskady for all time best avatar!
One more difference:
Vietnam: gradual escalation
Iraq: massive use of force/complete withdrawal/large use of force again
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There was a great piece on NPR this summer by Walter Cronkite marking the 40 anivershery of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. LBJs tape have recently been made public. Well worth digging up on thier website. Flakey inteligence then and now. Lies then and now.
In Vietnam there was not a 10 year history of defying the terms of a peace agreement, and playing cat and mouse games with inspectors. In Vietnam there was no history of using chemical weapons on the Vietnamese people. Vietnam did not recently invade two sovereign nations and try to annex them. In Vietnam, only one side made the claims about the facts surrounding the Tonkin Bay. In Iraq everyone seemed to agree that Iraq had had WMD, had violated UN resolutions, and *something* needed to be done. Huge differences.
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Well I AM a school principal, and I don't think there's enough information in the article to determine whether the principal was justified in the disciplinary action are not. If she was told by school staff to knock it off, why didn't she knock it off? Maybe she was cartwheeling through crowded hallways or the cafeteria... There just isn't enough information in the article to support armchair quarterbacking.
Maybe it was just CYA - in our litiginous society, you always have to worry about being sued.
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It's funny the way Kerry is painted as a left wing liberal, but he is far to the right of most people I know. Nader is actually more in line with my own beliefs, but I still didn't vote for him for obvious reasons.
You've gotta take everything you find on the internet with a grain of salt. The authors of the site refuse to give their "formula" for how they compute the scores - that strikes me as a bit suspect. Everyone has an agenda, after all.
Having said that, I think Republicans and Democrats in the US are generally pretty damn close together.
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Tax Reform
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how about any excess oil profits and Halliburton profits going to pay off the national debt?how about any excess profits made by trial lawyers?
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Tax Reform
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with the addition of having some portion of any surplus go to paying off national debt.
Yes.
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That's lovely how this is no longer Bush's or Saddam's fault, but now it's those damn Brit's.
I'm not blaming them for the current conflict, but the legacy of European imperialism affects the world profoundly even to this day.
Wait a minute, where did the Nigerian memo originate???
Fallujah in pictures
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Yes.