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Pakistan isn't just a smaller, dustier U.S. where people have, on average, better tans. It's structured completely differently, and that makes things complicated. Our military is completely loyal and obedient to the Executive Branch. Pakistan's military and intelligence services are not; they are rife with divided loyalties are are a political force in their own right that must be negotiated with by the Pakistani government. "Why doesn't Pakistan help us fight the WOT?" is a question that doesn't make sense in this context. Which Pakistan are we talking about? At any given time Pakistan's executive may have only some or little power over the military and intelligence services, never the the population at large, much of whom hate our fucking guts. In addition, Pakistan's got nukes; something that gives them a hell of a lot of bargaining power, as North Korea proved just recently. Finally, Pakistan is involved in a number of conflicts at present; a low level civil war, Kashmir, and the Taliban's shinanigans, to name a few. It's a very unstable country, and the U.S. doesn't need another government-less shithole like Iraq, particularly just as it's planning on stirring up yet another major clusterfuck with Iran. Our sway over a fractionalized Pakistan, given its instability and nuclear capability, is limited at best. On any given day, the best we can probably hope for is that they won't do anything completely fucked up.

If I wanna listen to some cock eater sportin' a toy cowboy outfit, I'll dial up the Village People.

Natalie Maines could kick Alan Jackson's ass up around his shoulders with both spiked heels tied behind her back.

I've fucked 'er. And another thing: Jackson shaves his legs. This same thing started happening in Australia a few years back: the rednecks and androgenites got together and created a new breed of tight jeaned, pointy booted shitheels.

You'd have to genetically cross Hank Williams Jr. with Shania Twain to get a worse partial abortion of a singer. His Brokeback outfits and cocksmoker mustache require no commentary.

Those poor, bologna eatin', Jebus lovin' workin' men and their liberal tormentors. Yeah, right.

the spirits say that 1000L is a ridiculous amount of weight to carry 1000 lira? 1000 liters (volume, dude)? 1000 points of light? WTF are you trying to say, cracker?

Country music is great. It's Alan Jackson that sucks. His stuff sounds like a co-marketed ad campaign for FOX News; just a bunch of over-produced pandering to a predictable crowd of dumbshits, without a spec of anything genuine from the heart. If Jebus walked the earth today, he'd wretch.

Why the mullet? WHY?

They all have those, bud. They are called ovaries. Classy. I have a friend who just died of ovarian cancer. Try explaining your joke to her two surviving pugs.

See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya, sucker.

Nobody's gonna poke my bottom, numb or not.

assintake? Every once in a while, GGK comes up with something you can take away.

Trader Joe?

I can easily understand everything GGK writes; I guess you're just plain stupid. And try learning his language, moron. Good luck with that. At least he's bilingual (and possibly knows more languages)...a substantial improvement over the baby shit that dribbles from your barely functional brainstem. You're no Pulitzer prize winner in the eloquence department, boyo.

Sur Das Bhajan Raga Desh In Dadra from the Festival from India collection (Ravi Shankar). I don't know the name of the vocalist.

Technical difficulties preventing the showing of this slide show from the past two years of climbing during the CC Picnic this spring. With apologies for a few dupes that our QA department let slip in, here it is: Slide Show

Emo metal artist workers of the world, unite.

I'm glad to see CC has installed an effective bug light for the inevitable botflies who seem to buzz around every alpine fatality. They're fixation with tragedy is disturbing enough, their need to publicly denigrate the victims under the guise of 'being helpful' is beyond explanation.

That's gonna leave a mark.

LaRouche? Bridge across the Arctic?

The originator of this thread was convinced for weeks that I was Hugh Conway, even as HC and I dissed each other (in a clever ploy, doncha know). It's even funnier now that we know that HC is a 14 year old girl. Heh heh.

That fucker still owes me $50.

So I can carry a gun in DC now. OK. Yawn.

Go Exxon.