tvashtarkatena

The U.S. Navy also established a board of inquiry in a attempt to bring some of the crew to courts marshall, but public outcry shut that effort down. Perhaps the men in the photo were saluting the officers in charge of that little project. History tends to dampen hysteria, except, of course, in the case of you and your kindred morons.

The U.S. erroneously assumed that the Soviet Union's international boundary applied to all communist countries. The North Koreans thought otherwise. What constituted international waters was in dispute. They apparently viewed the spy ship Pueblo as brazenly operating within their waters. The U.S. signed a declaration admitting that we had violate N. Korean waters and apologizing for it in return for the release of the Pueblo's surviving crew.

Toof is a ramp of crappy snow on slab. I would think Chair would be a slog with all this snow, but others may be able to provide better first had reports.

Golite Jam, but it's not a ski pack, either. Pro Mountain Sports has em.

Trip: Sweet Source Lake Ice - Date: 1/21/2008 Trip Report: Don't bother looking for it. Gear Notes: Lot's of unused ice gear to talk up the snow bunnies with Approach Notes: Alpental upper parking lot > cat track > turn left > turn around > reverse

but perhaps not so well in the Nocturnal House.

He'd do OK in the wasp exhibit, though.

Bet they wouldn't have shot it had it been a liger

Soloing is cool, but it seems pretty tough to control all the factors involved in the latter sport.

is that before or after shooting their dog and destroying their house with a tank?

His ropes were also weathered. This is all according to Wiki, of course.

Iran made several warm diplomative gestures towards the United States immediately after 911, expressing sympathy and condemning the act. They also supported the U.N. effort to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan. The U.S. (well, Cheney) snubbed these gestures, and so a rare opportunity to begin burying the hatchet with that country was squandered by the Bush administration. It didn't jibe with the regime change plans the "thought leaders" (Cheney) have had for Iran since the mid nineties. Since then, I'm a Dinner Jacket has replaced his more moderate predecessor, Iraq has (predictably) exploded, and the U.S. has repeated threatened Iran with "serious consequences", which in Bush speak clearly means military action. As a result, reconciliation has become more and more difficult. The shame is that it didn't need to be that way: the Bush administration chose this confrontational course.

dano was anything but a genius... ur prolly right, I read somewhere that he was super smart with all his jump calculations though. ...except his last one.

Under Bush, the U.S. has begun developing new nuclear weapons; extremely provocative. In addition, Russia ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 2000. Under Bush, the U.S. has yet to do so. Also very provocative. Dumbass.

Well, assuming that they didn't build the enclosure to intentionally allow the cat to roam, they must have not been aware of how talented the cat was. I really doubt anyone's done exhaustive jump tests for full grown Siberian tigers using asshole teenagers for bait, so such a gap in the zoo's expertise is understandable. It also seems that the SF Zoo has a pretty good track record as compared to some others: Escapes from the LA Zoo What we know about animal intelligence and physical capabilities is pretty limited. They continue to surprise us. Dumbass.

The Zoo has since posted these plackards: "Warning: 1,500 pound cats are potentially hazardous and dangerous. When abusing big cats you accept full responsibility for your safety as well as the safety of others around you. You are personally responsible for learning the proper techniques and good judgment necessary for proper abuse of all big cats. The specimen information provided by the San Francisco Zoo is not a substitute for qualified personal instruction. Learn the proper abuse of big cats and understand their limitations. Inspect all big cats before abuse and avoid any cats that are famished, worn out, or are not fat through thorough and frequent injestion."

There is one lesson we can all take away from this: Never taunt a 1,500 pound cat while sporting a "RATT" T shirt.

Juan taun of snaffle, my baby's Juan taun of snaffle....

I thought the incident was manufactured, until I found out that Geraldo was doing the investigative reporting.

"You will explode after two minutes"??? Sounds like that was dubbed in from a German shiza flick.

The universe is coldhearted. There is no "deserved" involved; that's injecting a human construct into what is a simple interaction between a young man and nature. The Happy Meal did something stupid which resulted in the termination of his planetary visit. People, young and old, cull themselves from the population in this manner all the time. In the final analysis, its not personal. It's just business.

Has the Navy commented yet on the water skiers behind those speedboats?

Stimulus Package: The ultimate self-eating watermelon.

Running of the Voles

But, then your package couldn't be considered unless one ascribed to homoeopathy. Not sure how you obtain your information, but it certainly isn't anywhere near the size of the telephone pole firmly lodged up your ass. You were the one who insisted on using your tongue to "forestall future fecal impactions". And, although your tongue dwarfs your appendage lower, it really isn't larger than normal. A pity the peccadillos of the sexually insecure. ...more's the pity that you didn't have that pole milled smooth (and staples removed) before insertion.