ericb

And it would appear your plate has been far too full lately

I used to work with highschool youth ~ 4 hours per week, but since the new baby (and my more than full-time employment), not too much right now. Why do you ask? So Eric, exactly how many hours per week should us liberals be volunteering again? Nice selective quoting, and not exactly my point but nice dodge nonetheless

Actually - I don't think everything is A-OK.....I think the trickle-down part of our capitalist ideology is broken - specifically, thanks to our greed and consumerism, the wealth doesn't "trickle down" in practice like it should in theory. The current administration rightfully believes that NGOs are far more efficient at distributing aid than the government, so it relies heavily on this mechanism. Unfortunately, all they can do is make you rich, and give you tax breaks for donating to these organizations - they can't make you give. To sit here and bitch about what the government is not doing is not particularly constructive - if you can see holes in the system, do you part to plug them. In Tvash's case, the evil government enabled a free market system that made him a lot of money and let him keep most of it...enough that he apparently doesn't need to work. And what does he do with the excesses that have been afforded him??? Nepal, the Caribbean....you know the rest, or you can ask Fairweather.

I used to work with highschool youth ~ 4 hours per week, but since the new baby (and my more than full-time employment), not too much right now. My wife and continue to contribute financially to water and HIV related projects in South Africa. Why do you ask?

FW....I think a better analysis is to how much time he spends screwing around on this site vs. actually taking action to remedy the victimization by the govermental system that he rails against. If Tvash donated half the time he spends bitching on this site to organizations that actually are working to fight poverty and injustice, he could truly make this world a better place. As it is, his big contribution to "the cause" will be 45 minutes of his time next November.

actually AS seems to have served Bill Gates well....more fodder for the "limousine liberal" tag

So funny it and the requotes got scrubbed from the TR? There seemed to be a marked reduction in your TRs after that as well....whatever...as you say, no post, no proof. Where are the Truthers!!!!???? Perhaps you should start a separate thread about how my wife feels about my climbing. followed by a YouTube video, then a reality TV program contract. Would you mind giving me a photo with you wearing one of her bras for starters? I need some dirt if this is going to work.

So funny it and the requotes got scrubbed from the TR? There seemed to be a marked reduction in your TRs after that as well....whatever...as you say, no post, no proof.

Ummm....I don't know of many posters here that have had a TR hijacked by someone claiming to be their wife, posting under their avatar, and bitching about how much climbing they were doing.....wish I would have copied that classic bit before the mods scrubbed it...but thanks anyways O' oracle of marital advice

anybody know what the difference warmth/fit/performane wise is between the Trango Extreme EVO GTX and the Nepal Extreme EVO Goretex is? Based on my limited research, it looks the Nepal has more ankle support, but is it considerably warmer?

Interesting indeed...and important to have top of mind as context for his paradigm. Let me guess..... "Higher ordinary income tax for the upper middle class and upper class wage earners (I'm living off investments and more impacted by capital gains)" "The government should provide healthcare (I could have cared less 3-years ago but now I'm self employed by choice)" "American capitalism is the enemy (but it wasn't 4 years ago when the capital markets made my options a windfall)"

I'm guessing a danger of any route that involves an extensive approach on glaciers this time of year after only a couple storm cycles is partially bridged crevasses.

bingo

already been done...see Henry Todd

I dunno.....obelisk

This was a lot more provocative when I thought this word included a one letter typo

I used to do environmental consulting for the south american mining industry, and my observations would support this article. My company would regularly take old, fat, out-of-shape geologists from the US up to mine sites located at 4,000+ meters, and it seemed that the smokers fared better than the non-smokers, at least in the short term.

Oh brother where art thou

Marmot mountain has a large selection

You ended up saying at least as much (or more) about your brothers than you did about women

Banging your sister-in-law and then bragging about it on a climbing website? What's worse than banging your sister-in-law and then bragging about it on a climbing website?

Banging your sister-in-law and then bragging about it on a climbing website?

The big problem I had with the new package was the light rail to Tacoma bit....we already have commuter rail that works quite well for this corridor - what about the 405 corridor??? The bundling of roads and mass-transit doomed it. The fiscal conservatives killed it due to tax implications, and even the Sierra Club opposed it because they didn't like the auto-friendly aspects of it.

Ditto....FWIW...one theory on the Hood tragedy last December is that they topped out in a whiteout, and being unfamiliar with the the South side descent, were unable to find the "easy" way down.

Hey Porter....this is about as serious as I've seen you in a thread participation for quite some time.....you run out of pain meds?