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heh.

I'm going to take a photo of a rescue with my cell phone. Just in case.

...have you earned yours yet?

This happened to me as a teenager once on an peak near North Bend that shall remain unnamed. The lighter came in really handy. Thank god we were up there smoking pot!

wow, 2000 feet of raising and lowering, respectively.

thx! I dislocated the same shoulder a decade ago, and broke the collar-bone on that side prior to that, and the collar-bone fused weird, causing my right shoulder to lean forward slightly more than my left, which has caused all sorts of problems (i.e. carrying heavy packs). I wonder if it's related? Laying on a bench is kind of weird because my right shoulder blade gets pushed flat by the bench, pushing my right shoulder further back than it naturally wants to go (due to the collar-bone thing) -- always been kinda uncomfortable because it's hard to balance the weight evenly between both shoulders. I wonder if this is causing part of the trouble. I wonder if doing an inclined bench press on a nautilus machine would hurt as much? I should test that theory. I think I'll give it another 2 weeks, and then I guess I should check in with my PT. It hasn't bothered me in any other situations, so I haven't really worried about it too much....

OK, I want some free medical advice, too. When I do bench presses, I get this weird sharp pain inside my right shoulder. I can do curls and flies just fine with no shoulder pain, and it doesn't present itself when climbing. The only time I ever get it is when doing bench presses -- even if I do them at really low intensity. I took a break from free weights for about 3 weeks now, and stretched out well and warmed up and tried again, and it's still there. I guess the obvious solution is to stop doing bench presses. Any other suggestions?

I shouldn't have hesitated at the end of my running start.

But not huge.

I once tried to jump down an entire flight of stairs. I almost made it, except I landed short, rolled my ankle and pitched head first down the next flight of stairs. That was a pretty big fall.

I'm half-tempted to call them up and ask if they can reverse my cancellation and give me my old number back. "But nobody warned me!"

what about pictures of world-record winning breasts?

If you could see it with your own eyes you would understand. Everything being done there is to stimulate autonomy. 1) Building the Army 2) Building the police force 3) Fixing dilapidated power, sewer, water and housing issues 4) Creating a constitution that all sects can live with. ensuring these things are done ensures that we will not have to go back. Edit: Oh yeah and catch Iranian soldiers trying to mess it all up I have a friend (Marine) who HAS been there, and HAS seen it with his own eyes, and he thinks it's all bullshit. I'm just pointing out that not everybody who has seen it with their own eyes believes in the mission. My grandfather served in the Pacific from '41 to '45. He considered the war to be all bullshit and a waste of 4 years of his life. While being shipped home after the war, he threw his uniform overboard. Just saying... My friend's perspective was that the leadership had no clear idea what they were doing, or what they had got themselves into, or how to accomplish anything that they might decide they were doing. And that once somebdoy decided what they were doing, they were usually at odds with some other decision made elsewhere, to do something different. Clusterfuck was how he described it. that's a very common sentiment that workers have about their bosses and the companies they work for. in a big company or bureaucracy (like the military) the average worker (soldier) doesn't have the field of vision that the leaders have. at the same time, all too often the leadership doesn't have the hands-on knowledge that the workers (soldiers) have. can't really take the single data points as gospel, in either direction My point, exactly. Scott has/will have an interesting perspective on the Iraq situation, perhaps more so than ours, but that doesn't make his opinion gospel, just because "he's been there." I know guys who "have been there" that would disagree. His/their service hardly makes them experts. So, in the end, we're all just a bunch of motherfuckers pretending to know a lot more than we do.

If you could see it with your own eyes you would understand. Everything being done there is to stimulate autonomy. 1) Building the Army 2) Building the police force 3) Fixing dilapidated power, sewer, water and housing issues 4) Creating a constitution that all sects can live with. ensuring these things are done ensures that we will not have to go back. Edit: Oh yeah and catch Iranian soldiers trying to mess it all up I have a friend (Marine) who HAS been there, and HAS seen it with his own eyes, and he thinks it's all bullshit. I'm just pointing out that not everybody who has seen it with their own eyes believes in the mission. My grandfather served in the Pacific from '41 to '45. He considered the war to be all bullshit and a waste of 4 years of his life. While being shipped home after the war, he threw his uniform overboard. Just saying... My friend's perspective was that the leadership had no clear idea what they were doing, or what they had got themselves into, or how to accomplish anything that they might decide they were doing. And that once somebdoy decided what they were doing, they were usually at odds with some other decision made elsewhere, to do something different. Clusterfuck was how he described it.

If you could see it with your own eyes you would understand. Everything being done there is to stimulate autonomy. 1) Building the Army 2) Building the police force 3) Fixing dilapidated power, sewer, water and housing issues 4) Creating a constitution that all sects can live with. ensuring these things are done ensures that we will not have to go back. Edit: Oh yeah and catch Iranian soldiers trying to mess it all up I have a friend (Marine) who HAS been there, and HAS seen it with his own eyes, and he thinks it's all bullshit. I'm just pointing out that not everybody who has seen it with their own eyes believes in the mission.

Figured as much What are the alternatives..? Clearly oil is major concern. Islamic extremism, terrorism, and the nuclear threat from Iran are major concerns as well. It's not just oil. bingo. Iran, who just today predicted the demise of Israel and the destruction of the US; where most of the militants in Iraq come from anyways is the main concern. Ironically, the radical religious regime in Iran is largely the result of earlier "geopolitical" strategies of the U.S. Things like that seem to bite us in the ass. After all, who put SH into power in the first place? Who gave OBL his start? To a large degree, this mess we've got ourselves into re: the middle east is a beast of our own creation. I hope we learn our lesson, but our actions in Iraq make me think that we haven't.

What about people who signed up to fight in WWII? Were they idiotic? Just curious. This is just another way of saying, "if you don't agree with me, you're an idiot."

Why is he an idiot? If he believed that the Iraq War was important to our country, and joined the military to do his part in it, I would call this putting one's money where one's mouth is. Isn't this better than the guys who beat the war drum but aren't willing to go themselves? Who are the real idiots? Or, are you saying that he's an idiot because he doesn't agree with you? That seems pretty presumptive. I believe the war is wrong, and that we got into it based on lies, and I suspect there is an alterior motive behind this whole thing. But I'm not so arrogant that I assume there is no possibility I am wrong! Everybody thinks they are right. What are the odds that I'm one of the few that actually are? You've got to keep things in perspective, dude. Your brain will always tell you that you're right once you've made up your mind -- but that doesn't make it so. Don't lose your skepticism -- even if it's maintaining a healthy skepticism about your own views. That's the only way to have a chance of ever getting it right.

When soldiers start questioning authority, that's the day we turn into the French. Absolutely he should be blindly following his leader's (legal) orders. Like a fucking robot, I hope.

What's worse? An anti-war guy who refuses to join the army to fight in a war he disagrees with? Or a pro-war guy who tells everyone how they're shits for not supporting the war, but refuses to join up himself? Which one is not "acting on their convictions," hmmm??

Hey, I respect service. But does that mean I'm not allowed to give him shit, either? He's somehow immune from criticism now? Hell, I know lots of guys in the service -- some of them are fucking douchebags. Probably good in a fight, though. He's a fucking citizen just like me. That's cool that he's joined up -- cheers mate. But do I have to suck his ass now? I'm flipping him shit, too, KKKKKK. Why are you picking on KevDouche?

I fell a few weeks ago. It was a tiny fall, but it was onto an alien. AN ALIEN! Does that count as a huge fall?

If I don't vote for your candidate I'm a bitch? Having opinions about the Iraq War makes you a sad armchair quarterback? Or only if the opinions disagree with yours, scott? Should americans just blindly follow their leaders without any skepticism or critical thinking? I don't eat pork rinds. And, I don't consider my opinions, or those of my friends, to be "socialist garbage." We may disagree, scott, but I'm an American as much as you are. Why is it that the republicans and pro-war guys that spray on this site don't consider themselves sprayers? Who do you think you're fooling? I don't have convictions? I haven't acted on them? Other anti-war citizens don't act on theirs? Am I a fucking loser because I am not joining the military to fight in a war I don't believe in? Am I a fucking loser because I disagree with the war and am doing what I can do bring it to an end, and elect leadership in line with my opinions? Yeah, you're right, me and my friends NEVER act on our convictions. "Your side" has the total monopoly on that. I'm so sick of this whole "us and them" bullshit. I've tried to resist it, but clearly that's just the way it has to be, I guess. So fuck "you" guys. See you in November.

You know, it's funny. I've often said on here that though I disagree with them, I respect the people who are pro-war. I don't think they are evil. I think they honestly think that this is the best thing for this country/world/Iraq/etc. The same goes for the administration -- I think that at the time, ultimately, Bush thought he was doing the right thing. But, when I have my own (anti-war) opinions, the same people who's honor I've been defending come online and call me all sorts of names, and tell me that I hate my country, and that I hate America since I don't agree with them, etc. Just because my political opinions are different than theirs? Pretty strange, isn't it? Why have I been defending these people? My mistake.

well, it's a good thing you don't have a chow, those things are killers.