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No, No, NO. "Cum gums," not jizz-gargler. Fewer syllables = better rhetoric.

The poster wrote "I am so sure BD employees from Salt Lake are lining up and saying, "Please, pretty please send me to a country that is an environmental nightmare and shows even more disregard for human life than the Bush regime." Can only imagine the quality of BD employees that would actually choose that serious hell-hole over the low grade one of America." I repeat that my post was responding to this one: about Americans, not locals.

I am campaiging in New Hampshire and had no idea this event was scheduled.

I know companies are outsourcing their manufacturing to awesome places like Burma and China and Vietnam on account of those little kids working 15 hours a day in the sweat shops have the coveted "combination of good judgment, long-term vision, and problem-solving ability to adequately protect the employer’s interests" Silly me, I thought it was a cost cutting measure . . . I was responding to a post stating that the *Americans* who would work in China are, in essence, losers. You are mixing apples and oranges to apply my post to the local workers. I have experience with Americans employed by American firms who are sent abroad but I have no experience with local workforces.

Only a drudge minimum-wage worker could say something like that. 1. The further from supervision (headquarters), the higher quality the employee. Management cannot afford to send below-average workers and managers far from their oversight. On the contrary, only the highest-caliber people would be considered for remote postings because only that class of employee has the combination of good judgment, long-term vision, and problem-solving ability to adequately protect the employer’s interests. 2. Believe it or not, there are people in the world who are unlike you: they are ambitious, driven, excited at being challenged with new problems to solve, new conditions to work within, and *opportunities* to succeed and create new successes. They have a wide vision about what is possible and they see the glass as perpetually half full. These sorts of people jump at the chance to re-locate to distant places and challenging conditions. They do so in order to prove their superior worth and ability.

Given the Marines' piss & vinegar reputation for combat, things must be pretty bad when even they run out of fight.

RTFA. "He would have voted against it" means he didn't vote. Habla anglais, mon amis? What about "impossible to know when votes will be scheduled in the Senate"? A U. S. Senator in the 21st century does not know when a vote is coming up? What, do they pull them out of their ass on the spur of the moment? He has staff in D.C., right? And they all own cell phones, right? The statement that it's "impossible to know when votes will be scheduled" sounds like something only an asshat would say. I have a recollection of reading somewhere that Obama has one of the highest absenteeism rates in the Senate, has been present to vote only 30% of the time or some such figure. (not sure if that stat is accurate)

I hear there's a going to be a lot of Mounties in the area too.

Rachel Ray good, Maoists bad.

Return fire! You're an American, where were your guns? Flank and deliver suppressing fire.

I have worked out at CF Seattle for almost 2 years. They offer the CF Level certs but they don't push them. The option of going after a Level 1/2/3/4 T-shirt is there but no one makes a big deal out of it and there's not a hint that it's a requirement or even an expectation. The gains I have made in integrating upper and lower body strength, improvements in flexibility while exerting load-bearing effort, and improvement in muscular endurance have made me a different climber altogether. I think if climbers are aware that CF is out there, they're nuts not to jump all over it.

In the National Parks, it's to (a) control how many people camp in certain places so they don't get trampled and ruined and (b) to record usage data to plan new trails, or trail re-routes, close trails or campgrounds, expand them, etc. As for point (a), look at the wrecked conditions in many National Forest locations. They don't have this system (but are not chartered to do so). The NPS is supposed to preserve the National Parks in a way that generations from now, new users can go onto the land and it will be essentially unchanged from when we used it. Conservation.

That's a whole new thread that will swell to bursting in no time.

Except that his version excludes Matthew.

OK, so for sure on the NOAA page "snow level" means *only* that snow might fall at that elevation, regardless of air temp?

GOP: now the party of toilet cruisers. Representing criminals, liars, and jackasses isn't enough. Quite a broad tent they cast.

I use Olympic bars (what you would call "big hole") so I can't help you directly but Big 5 has standard plates on sale often. Check their pullout ad in each Sunday's paper. You might also check craigslist. Schools and thieves often sell weight gear there. One question---why such light plates? You using plate-loading dumbbells? (plate loading dumbbells are the way to go for a home gym)

seriouslymanyoubaggedanantelope?where?what'dyouuse?Ihear.308'sagreatroundforantelopethat'stoocoolmanIgotta stop having cold tablets and coffee for breakfast

1. The NOAA mountain zone forecast reports "snow level" as x thousands of feet here or there. 'Freezing level' and 'snow level' mean the same thing, the altitude at which precip comes down liquid or frozen. Is that good enough? 2. If you were not on a mountain zone WS page, maybe they didn't post the freezing level just because it's early October and much too early for the general population to care. Anyway, I see right there on the mountain zone pages that they are reporting snow level so your assertion is incorrect. No BS to call on anything but your kneejerk reaction.

I was a summer volunteer there 2002-2005. In the last year they have had several major personnel changes, including the superinetndent. Several long-time rangers have left, with exisitng people moving into the vacated positions while some new people have come in from elsewhere. The new superintendent, for example, moved here from another park. Either the flux has made people forget the previous culture or the new people have decided to make NCNP an unfriendly place. That said, each year I was there there were always one or two seasonals who were stiff pricks and got reputations within the staff of being ill-suited to their roles precisely because the rangers want people to cooperate with them, not be coerced. These people were never allowed back.

You'd like http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Bascom, Waves and Beaches primarily a scientific study of ocean waves but a major portion covers wave dynmaics on beaches, beach erosion and deposition

Yes, and goddamnit, only 27 are mine. (note to self: buy at least 2 guns this weekend)

Man, these reports are all over the map. Well, by next August I'll know what I bought.

All this criminality would be end if we just adopted Rule .308