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don't you know the "stop rain" dance? arc did, but he is gone now, only lawers can help now

it's only 3:20...

please tell me little barbara bush is one of these lawers, if so my emotions are insufferable too, i mean, i suffer emotionally from the rain....

why is a chicken talking about turkey?

thanks, and E, i would prefer not storing it tied into your harness every weekend! just kidding, thanks.

i need to know how to store my rope long term. i am going to africa and then into the peace corps, which will be about 3 years without it. now, i may just take it all with me, but the chances of that are slim, so how bad will it be to leave it in a closet in the rope bag? this is a metolius monster dry rope. aren;t you all going to miss these noob questions from me?

i almost feel kink of bad, i mean someone is actually drawing their sense of self worth from an internet forum, what is this world coming too??? don't die on rainier arc, cause then people on cc.com might actually feel bad for you, cause i am sure they don't right now

so this guy at my work is named scott lippi, his email reads slippi@.... anyone else got funny name combos that make you laugh inside whenever you look at someone knowing you can't laugh out in their face?

ok, real question about an REI coat, anyone have their down jacket that is on sale right now for like $70? the 650 fill one, any opinions, why might the other brands be better, and are they $100 better?

I'm not following what your point is. Yeah... those are the financials I'm quoting. And yes, after everything was taken out to run the company and pay taxes, they had 32 million left over that they put away in the piggy bank and increase the retained earnings. My point in bringing up the exact numbers was because the argument that is always used to show how great REI is the ol' "...look at how much money they give to outdoor causes...". I just want to point out that while yes, 2.5 million is a lot of money, it's not a lot when you look at how much money goes over their books. And all of those contributions are probably not as altruistic as you think. Pretty sure the advertising/PR folks get a say in what "grants" are allowed and which aren't. I thought their original mission statement of sorts was on their website, but now can't find it. I know I've got it quoted in a letter I wrote REI several years back... maybe I can find it. But in effect, it basically said that the co-ops purpose was to make high quality mountaineering equipment available to its members. You tell me what's changed. I think the comment was made in reference to the "well they give money back to the community so they can't be all that bad, can they?" attitude. i like your name, and wanted to continue the massive quoting.

Ahhh, more evidence of "tolerance", and what happened to the holy grail of "diversity". More evidence that those who espouse these goals are paying a bunch of lip service backed by no convictions whatsoever. i don't think it's about being intolerant or something, just that it is unhealthy and maybe they should be treating their bodies with respect. same reason i would never suggest anyone start posting on this website, though i keep coming back, just like beef soft tacos.

this is and email from a friend of mine at goergetown law, thought you all might be interested in some more first had knowledge into this... " I've never been a conspiracy theorist. I was pissed off in 2000, just like all of you, but I didn't really believe that anyone could steal an election. I had a little more faith in democracy. In 2004, I didn't believe that the problems in Ohio were a big deal, or that anyone created them on purpose. But today, I saw it with my own eyes, and I'm sorry for doubting all of you who believed in the fraud when I didn't. I volunteered all morning at the Maryland State Democratic Party Voter Protection Hotline. The party lit-dropped over the weekend, and one flier told people to call our number if they had trouble voting today. I thought I'd be bored all day, but I wanted to volunteer anyway, because a bunch of us from Georgetown Law were going as a group. I thought I'd be bored because I believed people didn't really have problems voting. Maybe I was deluded because I vote absentee, or because my home state (Washington, baby!) tends to have smooth elections. My first call of the day was an easy one, just a voter who needed to find her polling place. Unfortunately, things quickly went downhill from there. Before the hour was up, we started getting calls from the first of dozens of poll watchers at precincts with broken machines. Poorly-trained poll workers couldn't figure out how to turn on the voting machines or the electronic poll books they were using to see if voters were registered. When people called with problems, we entered them into our database, and a small red flag appeared on a digital map of Maryland for each complaint, with a message sent immediately to the democratic election lawyer in charge of that county, who'd then dispatch another volunteer lawyer to try to sort things out. When I logged on just before seven am, there were four flags. When I left just after two pm, there were hundreds. We had maybe fifteen phone lines, and I personally talked to at least five people who, while voting, saw their touch-screen machines incorrectly log their democratic votes as votes for the republican in each race. One person I talked to had to hit cancel and change her vote SIX TIMES. Another had the same problem in every single race on her ballot. One voter pointed out the error to the poll worker present, and the Diebold representative on-site, and even the Diebold employee couldn't explain what was going wrong. The volunteer next to me logged a call from the biggest democratic precinct in the state, where every single voting machine had crashed. I logged a call from a precinct where nine of nine machines were down, and the poll workers passed out provisional ballots instead, for THREE HOURS, until the machines were fixed. I got a call from a disabled voter, who told me there were ten people waiting to use the only handicap-accessible voting machine at a precinct located in a retirement home! She waited over an hour to vote, but other voters didn't, and I talked to people who had to leave the hour-long lines to go to chemotherapy, or dialysis, and they were pissed as hell about it. Another voted called to say that the only handicap-accessible voter machine in his precinct had been broken for an hour. One poll watcher said the election authority forgot to deliver extension cords, so they couldn't plug in any of their machines. In Maryland, you're only required to show ID at the polls if you registered via mail and haven't voted in person before. Or I should say, that's what the law requires, because some callers complained that poll workers were making them go back to their cars to get their driver's licenses, even at the same precinct they'd been voting at for years. Another person I talked was told by his poll worker that there was "some sort of card" he had to fill out before he could vote, and that the precinct was mysteriously out of these cards. They told him to come back and vote in three hours, but of course, like so many people I talked to, he had to go to work, couldn't go back to the polls, and was pissed off that he couldn't vote. I talked to one poll watcher who said people were making everyone in line fill out a 'voter verification form,' which asked for their names, addresses, and social security numbers. There's no such form, and this was just a way to harass people and scare them about voting, and it's blatantly illegal. Let's not even talk about the "sample voter ballots" republican volunteers were passing out. This was a glossy list of all the local democratic candidates, and then at the top of the list pictures of the republican governor and senate candidates, implying that the local officials endorsed the republican governor and senate candidate. In fact, these popular local officials, like the county executive in one of the Baltimore suburbs, did just the opposite, and denounced the lying sample voter ballots when they first appeared yesterday. One of the people passing out the forms told a poll watcher that the republican coordinated campaign offered him a hundred bucks to pass them out for the day, and they brought him, and five bus loads of people, from a Philadelphia HOMELESS SHELTER to do it. The republican senate candidate is named Michael Steele, and he's been running a great campaign, until now, because in the last week he put signs up all over the city saying "Steele – Democrat." He knows Maryland is a blue state in a blue year, and he's lying about his party because he knows people wouldn't vote for him otherwise. I talked to so many people who left the voting lines that I no longer have faith in Maryland's elections. I don't know who is going to win here tonight, but there's no way to know if they deserved to win, no way to know who most Maryland voters really wanted to vote for. I don't know much about who runs Maryland's elections, and because it's a blue state I assume they're a democrat. After tonight, though, they did such a poor job that they need to be thrown out of office. My faith in that democracy, in the little old state of Maryland, is seriously injured. I've never believed in conspiracies before, but after today, it's sure hard not to."

nice, don't have much experience so thanks. as for perfect sending temp, 72.6 degrees, anything else and i don't really have my A-game, so it's not my fault if i can't lead that 5.6 at any other temp!

when does it usually start snowing/ get too freaking cold to climb at smith?

umm, seriously ? that was it you guys? you all were talking so big about how hard you were going to party this weekend, and all i heard at skull hollow was the hippy drum circle . i met marylou and jens, both totally cool , thanks for the belay device ml , but where was everybody else? i guess as somebody new to this site it was first hand experience that most of the stuff said on here is pretty much bull . hahaha, maybe it was better i didn't meet up with all you "hard party people" cause the early morning climbing was perfect .

I too find this word used in a negative connotation towards women's genitalia to be offensive and unnecessary.

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yes, i am with you cp. i just have trouble trying to make every kid fit into the same mold for a test. just a goofy line of reasoning. i think it really comes down to who is willing to care about kids success. if no one cares, then all the federal mandates and budget cuts or raises won't help kids learn if no one takes the time to show them their success matters to the world.

like torture. we must fight to torture people because that is a value americans uphold. if we uphold the principle of torture, we have responsibility to live by it and torture them goddamnit

I think if you take him at his word, he has tried to do something. He has articulated that his strategy to combat terrorism is to foster Democracies. Sounds like a good idea on it's face. Too bad it's not working out though. agreed. sounds good, but isn't working out.

um, fuck no child left behind. cutting funding from already underprivledged kids is not the way to help them succeed. we need a paradigm shift in the way we are looking at education. not every child is the same and not every child can pass the same test mandated around the country. local discretion must be used, one place where i really believe a huge bureaucracy is hurting the nation. i think bill gates could change the way we look at this, but our future is at stake here, something has to be done, and punnishing students with worse conditions and less funding when they already started out with insufficent resources to succeed in the first place is not the way to accomplish change. almost makes me as mad as the war if you can't tell.

ok, maybe you predicted this coming, but it is something i care about so i am going to post it. sure bush hasdone some things to stop attacks, more security etc. but what has he done to prevent the continuation of an atmosphere where terriorists will want to attack us. i think what is more important than just making sure no one attackes us is to builld a social, political and economic climate where these terrorists will not have the need to attack america. all of the actions bush has taken have done nothing to resolve this, and i personally think that is a problem. if terrorists want to hurt the us they will find a way. we need a president that will work to take away any reasons a terrorist would have to attack us.

so can i expect your own rendition of the joke this weekend? seems like the type of crowd it would go over well with.

i saw a guy running for oregon govenor from the pacific green party, sounds like they would have the best scenery of all the parties for sure. count me in for beautiful vistas.

hmm, i thought bob saggot in the "aristocrats" was about as vulgar as you can be. way to risk your life though so you could come back and brag about risking your life for some crab and tell us how hard and vulgar it is. you are an insperation rednose.