KaskadskyjKozak

WTF?? Dude a rock could fall from the heavens bounce and crush your skull in the parking lot! ;-)

I've never been on the moon, and neither have you, so how do you know it's NOT made of green cheese??? Answer me that! Your information is no better than mine. I've never met Hitler, and neither have you, so how do we know he murdered 6 million Jews? Your information is no better than mine!

Regarding dogma: in the beginner course there is definitely a certain amount of "learn it this one way and don't ask a lot of questions". This is primarily due to risk management and making sure that a mix of inexperienced folks (and more experienced) base line to some minimal standard. Those that go out climbing a lot afterwards, read on their own, go out with guides or private partners, or take more advanced courses will quickly move far beyond the "one way". :-)

Actually "knowledge, judgement, and fitness" are given much more emphasis in the Mountaineers climbing courses than the "10 essentials". I almost got kicked out of the navigation field trip during one of those November monsoons that goes on for 5 or 6 days because I didn't bring sunscreen. edit: it was still a pretty good class for the money, though yeah, but that's more general than a "climbing course" and the demographics and experience of the people teaching that are different than say those teaching "winter and mixed climbing"

Actually "knowledge, judgement, and fitness" are given much more emphasis in the Mountaineers climbing courses than the "10 essentials".

and four official languages and a pocket-knife w/ 327 different functions? An army knife and no army! :-)

In the Neolithic? funny that tiny-ass modern switzerland w/ a total population less than new york city still has 26 seperate states and four official languages

i've never been there, nor met an afghan, but my understanding is that, despite divisions in language, ethnicity and sect, there is a core of "afghan-ness" - a sense of shared history, cultural pride, desire for indepedence from outside powers, etc. it seems to me the kind of nation best described as a confederation where the many groups feel a simulateous collective and seperate identity. canada has 2 national languages and plenty of divisions too, no? doesn't mean it can't function as a corporate entity. Belgium. Switzerland.

Why did they do that? does this mean folks will need to bring lots of runners to set up a rap line, or did they just clean up tat?

ChemTrails!

sure, patton had a great plan - and how likely would have being way more forceful w/ the soviets at that time ended up in ww3? Patton opines on the Russian character: "The difficulty in understanding the Russians is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk."

Bump.

Someone should tell them that the good Colonel played Mohammed in a film before he founded his restaurant chain.

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!!!!

BoneTrailz

this is your brain on drugs

Kevbone prosto tupoy sobaka. Proignoriruj ego da vsyo.

Bratchik, ponyatno chto baltayesh' s idiotom, da?

all that stoning led to a lot of begatting too I remember a book where it was So and so begat so and so and he begat so and so for like 40 pages. I think those guys must have had some killer weed. Perhaps it is the Jews' best kept secret. Um, yeah, it was to like establish lineage and thereby validate a prophesy about ancestry of the Messiah.

We need Samuel L. Jackson serving in those Embassies. "Is this a mother fucker? Is it?" "YES!"

Would rappelling down the gullies from the notch be problematic at the bottom due to these conditions, or does the final rap get you past any such nastiness?

Hey boner, was the attack on our embassy in Libya today fake too? Tell us the REAL story!

set it up at Burning Man

Dude you have to reject all mainstream media, the hundreds and thousands of reports, but accept that one kook website you find that gives the craziest explanation. The kook site has credibility! Yeah, that's the ticket!

So who created this tragedy? Uh, OBL... Don't believe everything you SEE!!!