KaskadskyjKozak

I don't think of my religion as "right" and others as "wrong". I do judge individual beliefs as right or wrong.

Exactly. Each and every sect thinks it knows better than the other sect, and knows better than anyone else. It doesn't matter if the ideas conflict with science. Faith means not listening to anyone else's argument with an open ear. Quite the contrary. Men and women of faith are praised and held in the highest esteem for being steadfast in closing their minds to ideas that might contaminate the dogma. I find that most visceral attacks against religion are not made in a response to actual incidents of religious people engaging in a "I know better than thou" attitude, but rather, by the conscience of those who reject religion and God. Furthermore, those who attack all religious people, and faiths with a broad-brush are exhibiting the same disrespect, dismissiveness, ignorance, and outright arrogance that they claim to be rallying against.

So, people are "ignorant" when the polls are negative to "your side" but worth citing when the opposite is true.

Mizuki was one of the fittest people I ever met. I did a conditioner with her up to Muir last April and couldn't keep up with her - despite the fact that her pack was 20 lbs heavier than mine (55lbs) and I outweighed her by 40 or 50 lbs. When she was geared up and in the mountains, she was in her element. She looked like she belonged there. And as others have said, she was very mild mannered, quiet, and very respectful. I remember going up my first friction pitch with her looming over the top. I struggled the whole way up and she remarked "good job" - a real confidence builder. RIP, Mizuki

I was headed up to a climb when our driver told me he had noticed a nail in his tire. We swung by Les Schwab to see if they could fix it. This was 30 minutes before closing but they helped us out. The job was worse than we and they thought... when removing the lugnuts, the bolts got stripped... totally rusted out. They had the replacement bolts in stock and managed to still got us out of there in 40 minutes, and the bill was only $30!

depending on their level of participation, I'd be comfortable meting out appropriate punishments. really folks, if what we are having a problem with is that this goes on under our noses, then that's damn easy to fix, considering we occupy the country and have huge sway over the government there.

Fine, let's find the guys that did this and execute them immediately. Do you support that?

Fairweather: take my advice and add that worthless piece of shit to your ignore list. Your life will be a lot more pleasant - consider it like DEET for a human nuisance.

Domestic violence and murder of women occurs in the US too. We have plenty of newstories of the vilest murders.

There was this guy named Saddam Hussein who dumped poison on the Kurds when they pulled shit like that. The Kurds stopped pulling shit like that. Fucked up world, that, but then to their deaths we sent thousands of our own -- to fix things. That's the most idiotic statement I've ever heard.

those people are fucking nuts

Yeah, if he gets over-zealous with the killing, we're gonna need more people. Hey for once Schultzy managed to post without more typos than sentences.

when you pick up your permit for the climb ($22) you will get a pass to park your vehicle at the Sno Park - so it is included in the fee.

I would "speculate" that the hatred espoused by members of this forum against Christians, Bush, and a myriad of others exemplifies intolerance and makes this world a much worse place to live in.

anything is better than Javascript

Falwell's rhetoric was annoying and pompous, but revelling in his death is disgusting. You assholes should be ashamed of yourselves.

Twice a week, 12 miles each eay

Javascript is evil and it sucks ass.

+1 on the Scarpa Mantas - they kick ass!

that story is so old...circulating the interweb for years

Well I coughed up the $22 in the end and went. Got a beautiful weather window Sat morning, and clouds rolled in when I was almost all the way down. I never saw a ranger or anyone checking for permits. The permit system sucks ass - just gov't fleecing us because the CAN.

you guys need to get off the computer... and, well, get off

rockfall icefall falling

Not catholic but at least he got a brain. Wow....its all lies in the catholic church...have you not seen "the Da Vinci Code"? Never seen it. Is it good? It got 25% on rottentomatoes.com