KaskadskyjKozak

immolation in the catholic church was commmon in the past but usually not self-inflicted nor did the victim die w/o shrieking in agonizing pain or moving a muscle! I believe that usually those burned at the stake died of smoke inhalation, not burns.

How do you define middle-class, and what data set confirms that it's disappearing? Most of the data that I've seen tells a different story depending on the statistical categories that the analyst chooses. "Households" seem to be a favorite despite the fact that the composition of the average household has changed significantly over the interval being considered, a household for demographic group A isn't the same as an average household for group B, the quintiles being compared don't contain the same number of people, the composition of the average income (money-wages vs benefits vs subsidies vs tax credits etc) differs between groups and quintiles, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. Below for example, you've got the same data, parsed with different statistical categories. Agree with your sentiments about the current national hardships vs the depression though. BFD. There is a little thing called inflation to consider as well

If you wait for a trip report/beta there will be massive crowds there who also read the report.

teabagger!!

I'd rather be in the mountains thinking about God, than in Church thinking about the mountains.

Why do you guys keep starting threads when we have this perfectly good one already!??!

Bug/Minx Kimmo/TTK

The point of the site is climbing. I don't understand anyone who is pure spray in general, but all the more so when their posts are mono-dimensional. There are plenty of internet sites to discuss US politics.

Bullshit. Big difference. Maybe if you spent a little less time on your self-delusional think-tank analyses of politics and endless tirades you could climb on the weekends instead of working them. I propose that you two go climbing, together. Preferably to some place likely to involve lots of tent time, like southeast Alaska. Your combined energies will result in some huge sends and you'll solve the worlds problems at the same time! While we're at it, how about some other therapeutic partnerships: -Prole/Fairweather -Choada Boy/Raindawg who else? I was reserving my next nemesis outing with you SS

EXACTLY

strange, I had a different impression for some reason. Didn't Trash say you walked around quoting Beowulf?

dude, where the fuck do you get shit like that?

And how many TRs do you have? Or posts discussing anything other than how shitty the US is?

Yes, an annoying character, not too different from j_b or prole (I can't deal with reality and life!!!). But the book is well-written and very memorable and unique. Did you read his short-stories? That Bananafish story is fucking disturbing.

Bullshit. Big difference. Maybe if you spent a little less time on your self-delusional think-tank analyses of politics and endless tirades you could climb on the weekends instead of working them.

*yawn* You're a kook. Nothing more. BTW, do you do/think about ANYTHING besides politics and how "shitty" life is in the US?

Your sig line is sick, dude.

More in a year than you will in a lifetime

R.I.P.

He's organizing the community allright. A little projection, eh? Considering you and your agenda is the one eating shit right now...

You expected more from a "Community Organizer". Man, you are stupid.

Chicken Little, the sky is falling!!!!!!! Your alarmism is a joke.

j_b thinks that endless bitching will eventually solve it. gotta give him an "E" for effort on that one.

Yes. The approach.