tvashtarkatena

OK, Weather Gods, thanks for watering the tomatoes and killing the bugs. Now fuck off. Let's get some summer going on again.

I just thought I'd get in on a little o' that.

Prole, you fucking commie POS!

I'm pretty much an alpine climber, so the whole bolt thing just isn't my battle. Every once in a while an old piton falls out of some moss filled crack somewhere up there, or a glacier melts, or a mountain suddenly gets a thousand feet shorter, but that's about the extent of the change to the physical environment in that world. When I go cragging, I kind of expect a manufactured environment, including trad routes, which tend to be wire brushed, etc.

Do you see? Do you see what we've become?

I can understand longing for Spray's halcyon days when polite company exchanged pleasantries; just good comrades enjoying each other's company with a bit of good natured ribbing thrown in...along with the occasional death threat.

Crisis elsewhere probably. It couldn't just be us. We're all so nice here.

He broke up with me He broke up with all of us.

When I don't want to see other climbers, I pick a route that is likely to not have anyone there. Or I go midweek. Yeah, solitude is pretty easy to find, even nowadays. For anyone who can't seem to find it...learn to bushwhack. If you grouse about areas like Vantage and Smith or any crag close to a city being too crowded, though, you might as well add a soapbox to your rack.

Don't Ebay your down bag and downgrade to a POS synthetic one. Get a proper bivvy sack or a silnylon tarp when rain is possible.

You've slept together, haven't you?

I'm kind of with Joseph, here. I go out because I like to. Once in a very great while I'll go out with someone because they want to try the experience. It seems like that this attitude also describes most climbers I've met. And there's nothing wrong with that. Catholic guilt be damned!

If you're local, if you haven't climbed with someone you've flamed, you've climbed with a partner of someone you've flamed. Incestuous business, I tell you.

I've always thought so.

As long as your not a fucking idiot, that is. I like being alive.

Check out my TRs: proof positive that I'll climb with anyone, and that my partners share the same lack of discrimination.

I like the solitude of climbing, but if you're going to crag in a popular area, a few bimbos (I prefer the term hotties, personally), are just fine with me. A lot of bimbos these days can outclimb me with both slender, well manicured hands tied behind their exquisitely arched backs...preferably with strips of alabaster silk. Some of them even come to the crag...are you sitting down?...without any men!

Worry not. There is zero chance of his intellectualism rubbing off on you.

1000 pages of obfuscated legalise babble. Nobody but a herd of lawyers can (or will) even attempt to read that POS. yes but its a Republican plan therefore like any good partisan he hasn't read it either, he just knows it has to be good. On that note, i got a good laugh listening to Hannity along with Ann Coulter and Dick Morris "analyze" each line of Obama's plan yesterday. Like you said, those bills are pretty complicated but thank goodness we had such impartial legal 'experts' on the case to decipher it for us laymen. Hey you'll never guess what their findings were!? Is it that hard to punch the bill's name into Google? Enter "Patient's Choice Act" and there are summaries aplenty. I first read about the bill in the WSJ in May, and that article is link number four: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124286548605041517.html Here's a quick non-republican analysis: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/05/ask_the_expert_eight_thoughts.html Here's what the CEO of crunchy-icon Whole Foods has to say about reforming health care. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html IMO the less involvement that conflict-of-interest laden third-party rationing agents have in influence what kind of treatment I get and when, the better. I'd also much rather pay hundreds of dollars into an account that I own and control, and have the un-used balance accumulate, than hand it over to either an insurance company or the government. I also think that it makes much more sense to use health insurance as....insurance...to keep from going under in the event of a medical catastrophe, rather than a monthly pre-payment scheme. I'd also like to be able to buy insurance in a national market, as opposed to being limited to the choices that any given state regulator thinks that I should have. For the people that are uninsurable, IMO it makes much more sense to give them income indexed vouchers that cover most of their costs, and let them decide which providers/treatments work best for them than it does to give the money directly to giant, conflict-of-interest-laden cabal. IMO giving individuals as much control as possible over their health care dollar appeals to me on principle, and I think it also has quite a few practical benefits that come along with it. Whoever offers a plan that's closer to that model will get my support. At the moment, and for the foreseeable future, it looks like that'll be the Republican party. If you like a single-payer, government-as-uber-HMO model, or just think that maximal government control over the entire sector a better way to go - then it makes sense to support the Democrats. If you fall into that camp, it's perfectly fine under these conditions to say that "The Republicans don't have anything to offer that I like and/or approve of." Saying that they haven't offered up anything other than opposition just isn't accurate though. If you want to notch the claim down a bit and state that they have done a miserable job of presenting their plan, arguing on it's behalf, then I'd agree with you. Summary (one is always needed with this poster): Let the individual regulate the industry. Pit individuals against huge corporations. It's worked so well in the past....

It's no wonder why most of the Republicunts on this board have quietly become liberals....too embarrassing to hang to the club membership.

The Book of Mormon's more realistic...it's got Mexicans in it.

You fucking moroni

If it was kinda like hazing at college fraternities, i assume they all laughed it off over a kegger that night as soon as they logged off and left the guy in the chamo pants and black Reeboks, alone and crying quietly to himself about little Trig and the Good Times That Once Were. Except that the guy logged off for good. Sometimes spraying just goes awry, its just meant to be fun, ya know?

It's all fun until somebody gets hurt.

I'm not really into science fiction. That's in the Fantasy genre. Get with it, dood.