KaskadskyjKozak

Huh? We are all interconnected, and being an isolationist has bit us on the ass in the past. Read some history, man.

My father in law has Georgian relatives and friends. He's been on the phone a lot. One striking set of comments from relatives: one living in Moscow and one in Tbilisi. The one in Moscow says the situation is all the fault of the "fascist" president of Georgia, and the relative in Tbilisi says it's all the fault of the Russians. They are both ethnically from the Caucasus region, and there is a lot of anti-Caucasian sentiment in Russia (a lot of skinheads who beat "non-Russians" on the streets...)

how is so? NATO expansion is the only way to go. the only thing that soviets react to is a big stick. the right response would have been to bomb the shit out of kaliningrad. the strategy is to take over countries one by one. your kind of thinking cost europe WWII and this kind of bullshit thinking caused the soviet takeover of eastern and central europe after the war. pretty weak for someone claiming to understand soviet mentality The US would never tolerate a military alliance composed of nations on our borders, armed to the teeth. It's pretty weak to expect Russia to do so. Russians are paranoid MF'ers, and we are only antagonizing them. I think Ukraine f'd up when they gave up their nukes back in '91 though.

agreed - the best time is when it's all snow car to summit.

I was the same way, especially with my oldest. Now I regret that a little. Once they hit 4, it gets more fun and a lot easier. My 6 year old is very athletic and he could do 10 miles hikes even at age 4.5, which made things easier. Now my 10 year old can almost hang with me. We did Granite Mtn a few weeks ago via the ridge run. He only complained a little.

I bring good food plus treats - sandwich, baked crackers, cheese stick for good food. Cheetos, kudos bar, fruit leather or some such for the "reward". Also, they get more rewards for harder hikes (7+ miles), and less rest breaks.

my oldest is 10. he'll be shaving before I know it. :-(

Because helping to goad Russia into becoming a new world bogeyman ensures lots of new defense contracts for installing missile batteries all over eastern Europe. So....its all about the money? NATO membership involves buying weapons systems from the US, France, the UK and Germany. NATO expansion was and is a bad idea. Russians are paranoid, and we're giving them reason to be more so.

Bad luck comes in 3's. Hopefully this is the 3rd and final?

Geez, who would want to live in an oppressive socialist myopia like that?!? apparently, you.

what happened to planuj, rakhuj, vszystko na khuj??

he probably hasn't gotten around to responding to your last message yet.

yeah, but can you free solo Orbit off the couch with a watermelon tied to your ass???

I'm afraid I am a hostage-taker. That must make me a terrorist - the REAL terrorist.

not that there's anything wrong with that...

i'm just hating 'cos xfit is ghey

guess he wasn't into crossfit then, either.

Really. I dont hear about daily attacks on American soil. Which news is reporting it? If you are referring to Americans being attacked in Iraq.....do you blame that county? If Iraq occupied America....would you want them out? Did they attack us on our soil? Before we occupied Iraq. If it were Iraquis, then no; but it isn't. We already took care of those terrorists:

Pinot Noir and plank-grilled salmon

I typically buy Chopin. I don't go over often enough to bring back anything. Besides, I tend to save my two-bottle customs limit for cognac and armagnac I picked up in the duty-free. The state-owned liquor stores here suck donkey dick and all stock the same mass-produced shite. I miss the good specialty stores in California... My favs are Zubrowka and Luksusowa but I can't really find them easily in EWash. There is a really good Fraser River Canadian Vodka, though can't recall the name off hand. I bought the Belvedere once... my recollection was that the bottle was pretty, but the contents not quite so impressive.

The Rapture. It seemed to have taken TTK as well. Who'd have thunk?

try hitting harder what will I do in meetings then? play games on your blackberry

try hitting harder

I typically buy Chopin. I don't go over often enough to bring back anything. Besides, I tend to save my two-bottle customs limit for cognac and armagnac I picked up in the duty-free. The state-owned liquor stores here suck donkey dick and all stock the same mass-produced shite. I miss the good specialty stores in California... Amen to that, bratyku. I got a taste for Armenian cognac, and they don't have shit here. :-( The stores in Cali, OTOH...