KaskadskyjKozak

Not quite. Many people who bitch about public schools have moved to a place where they think the schools are good. The problem is that overall public schools are not doing a good job, even though they could be if they were fixed. This will never happen due to political realities, greed, and our wonderful teacher unions.

Funny, I paid taxes which educated "other people's" kids before I had kids in school, and will be paying for "other people's" kids in just a few years. Ditto for medical care of others. And I'm sure I've kicked in more than my fair share over the years, since I've always paid income and payroll deduction taxes. And I'm coughing up at least $1000 a month for insurance, but hey, keep pretending that YOU pay for MY kids.

Actually, you're responsible too. Democracy in action! Enjoy. And coming soon - you'll be paying for a share in the health insurance coverage of all Americans.

This kind of field trip is taken seriously by very few. It's just another day away from instruction and a chance to do nothing. How much time is spent in transit, waiting around, doing nothing? A lot. If you want to expose children to view points of world leaders - it had better be appropriate for their age (jr. high, maybe, sr. high, yes), and could be done far more effectively by showing video tapings of the leader's speeches followed by discussion. Even so, this is pretty fluffy stuff, especially considering that few of our kids could point out where Tibet is on a map, or give even one fact about the region's history. If we really care about educating children about our world leaders, we need to beef up our history and geography curricula, with a healthy dose of studying current events.

Cool. I find the Christian bashing lame and repetitive. Yes, they are great. They don't make up for the extra cost of raising a family but they help. They'll be the ones running the country and helping you out when you are old. Yeah, yeah, I know you've save, invested etc. but you never know. Overall ROI in our public schools suck - but it varies from place to place. Best approach (since I already fucking pay the taxes) is to move where the schools are decent. Which I have. Can't wait to get that $2100 rebate soon.

hardly radical - radical was french/chinese/russian revolutionaries burning down churches, raping nuns and crucifying priests, no? you have not elaborated more on the double standard, nor on why the other reasons for facilitating school children in seeing/hearing the dalai llama are bullshit School children don't need to see the Dalai Lama speak, especially considering the pathetic ROI we get on the basics on our public school system. Attempts to send children to see him are nothing more than a manifestation of left-wing political bias of those making this proposal. (And Archie, sorry, but that's not just an ad hominem attack - it's factual and completely fair game.)

so are my responses.

yeah, like this encourages people to post warnings of large organized climbing club events on cc.com.

your radical anti-christian hatred is showing again.

they are also from the "scrambling" class. Something for beginners who want to do more than on-trail hikes, but will likely never rope up.

OMG N00b l0lz 1111! teh google. they invented it for u to use. google can't turn up any new photos of mounties looking clueless since 2002? Guess it's not such a great tool, or you're just too stupid to find fresher material.

I'll take the $2100 stimulus rebate, thanks. You're just sore because you're rich and don't get any.

To prevent redundancy, maybe the mod's should just put them in a locked thread pinned to the top of Spray or the Climber's Forum. From the URL it looks like these are 6 years old, maybe you can head down this w/e and get some new material for the website and your own jollies? Also, I'm not sure how you find these, I can't browse the directories above the final image name in the URLs. So you must have these specially bookmarked. Now THERE'S someone with a life.

he is a world leader, he is a major figure in world events that directly impact the usa, the religion he represents is poorly understand by americans and thus seeing him speak on it is educational from a social-studies perspective, his is not an evangelical faith nor is his visit to make converts or really even talk about buddhism at all. BULLSHIT. care to elaborate, your worshipfullness? it's a typical rationalization of left-leaning anti-Christian hypocritical double-speak/double-standard.

With practice, you'll probably become a better homosexual.

That is the best! picard/riker'08 - MAKE IT SO! Worf can be Secretary of Defence. Fuck it, let's rename the DoD back to the Dept. of War.

Mccain's got more than a few Dean screams in him left That should be entertaining. I'm looking forward to a few October surprises.

Don't forget people who mock blue collar Pennsyltuckians Keep laughing jackass... all the way to a McCain victory party.

1. how many times has this exact same image been posted? 2. at least the folks photographed are getting out. The dude looks like he's at least a sextagenarian. Kudos to him. Many Americans are overweight, inactive, apathetic couch potatoes, who don't give much thought to the outdoors. If some beginners need to take a class to get off their butts and do something, and combine that with some "green bonding", so fucking what.

he is a world leader, he is a major figure in world events that directly impact the usa, the religion he represents is poorly understand by americans and thus seeing him speak on it is educational from a social-studies perspective, his is not an evangelical faith nor is his visit to make converts or really even talk about buddhism at all. BULLSHIT.

That is the best!

Nuke Mecca.

lack of freedom of speech goes hand in hand with the rest of the "progressive" euro-philosophy.

18 cents doesn't amount to shit when you consider that prices went up at least 60 cents in the last year.

me too. Keep your eyes on Europe, then... He already had his eye on Austria.