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Now there is a standard contradiction for you! "Decent" and "honorable" are not terms I would associtate with anything the democrats have done since FDR. War on Poverty? Voting Rights Act? Both spearheaded by LBJ. Peace Corps - JFK

Wow, I don't feel so bad about my language now.

You're one of them alpine faggots. The big wall mojo will strike you blind.

Explain. How did he put his foot in his mouth?

OK, so you really are superior. Congratulations. Don't you still have some responsibility to try, in some small ways, to help keep other people from being killed by their stupidity regardless of what their learning may or may not have been? Or, better yet, volunteer to mentor/teach newbies so they won't make these mistakes. I guess you could just do nothing and whine on the internet... I think he was responding to some here who have said crazy dangerous stuff is a normal part of learning to climb. I didn't get the sense that his post promoted ignoring people who were about to do something fatal. In fact, I don't think his post addressed that at all. It was about what's inside and outside of the normal boundaries of the process to learn climbing.

cough < bullshit > cough Big MAC attack? Marijuana + Alcohol + Cocaine bullshit? wut?

You can damn bet marijuana was put on Schedule 1 in 1970 because it was the DOC of all those damn dirty hippies promoting peace and love. Nixon knew they would be the downfall of America. They were the ones who attacked the Guard at Kent State, they were the ones who protested the war and the illegal secret invasion of Cambodia, they were the ones who wanted free love. Ho Chi Minh was going to take over! All because of the demon weed!

Franz Kafka

Actually I have this in mind equally with my memories of drunk drivers, drunks falling down stairs, the drunk who went through a plate glass window, the drunks who go to sleep with a lit cigarette, etc. The two hells together is what I had in mind when I said that without alcohol we'd need half as many cops, lawyers, and surgeons as we do now. You're right about the era. Cocaine was exclusively a drug of Hollywood glitterati and I'm not sure if I had even heard of meth. Heroin was not in Dallas when I was an EMT.

This is cc.com. I just skim things then jump to conclusions.

It's the term "nut tool." You make it sound dirty.

One of Dallas' ghettos, long ago. I guess maybe now other drugs are in play too, therefore alcohol isn't so bad after all.

Icicle Canyon Thursday. I was content to climb around it but no, Rob had to poke it with a stick. Prolly one of them gopher snakes.

Yeah, no shit! Iron my shirt then fix me a sammich!

With you, or just anyone?

It's about the entire viewing experience, all wavelengths, not just *a* channel.

I like the one for blood coagulant. Niiiice. But the reaction those materials create are exothermic, potentially causing thermal damage to tissues around the wound, so be careful. Used to be you had to go through a class before they'd sell you the stuff. Now if someone would come up with aftershave containing blood coagulant.

Iron my shirt!

That's a good point.

I was an EMT many years ago. Until then I never knew how much damage alcohol causes through society. Without alcohol we'd need half as many cops, lawyers, and surgeons. The toll of that drug is unbelievable unless you get down in the trenches and see it day in and day out. The press has plenty of coverage from the individual standpoint---the endless parade of celbs in rehab, articles about new findings in the field of alcoholism cures, that sort of thing---but little is said about the toll across the nation and through families. In two years of emergency response, I never went to any emergency caused by meth, heroin, marijuana, LSD, or any other illegal drug...but each and every shift had anywhere from a few to continuous hours of alcohol-related calls. And every one of the most gruesome was alcohol-related.

At Index Sunday there was an old guy trying to get up the crack on GNS. He flailed and cursed, getting partways up then sliding down again and again while shrieking “falling!” Finally his more experienced belayer got him to bail and led him away. Spectacle.

and cutting oil

Our pal may starve to death! He has hens to keep happy! “Taking corn from the mouths of chickens to put into the gas tanks of U.S. cars and trucks is causing feathers to fly in Washington, D.C.” http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/363412_chickensonline18.html Downside: it’s about eating chickens, not fertilizing eggs.

Let us know when the giardia kicks in.