tvashtarkatena

Swim for it, you motherfuckin polar bears! Flame on!

Groovy....

Enough already. I'm turning the furnace on.

"Or then again, I might just settle for doing the miniature fox terrier." - V7

My reference was to high level Bush appointees, not FSO applicants.

Well golly, Beaver....

I'm sorry Don....

More apologies. The price of being too photogenic:

With apologies to Brian

I usually climb with only one other tool.

It's difficult to find talented people who want to sign on to a sinking ship. In addition, the gene pool of people who subscribe to this administration's failed policies is not impressive. The only motivations I can think of for anyone accepting a position in this tragic joke-of-an-administration at this point would be a)serving the party now for future personal gain later and b) accepting a high profile position that would normally be way beyond the candidate's competency level as an upward career move for future personal gain later, or c) bored with retirement/need something to do. I suppose 'mitigating the damage from the inside' might be one, but Bush effectively filters for that. It should come no surprise that Bush appointees and nominees are bottom of the barrel.

Ditto. Tarptent Squall. Floor, bug netting, hoop tent, vestibule. 2 lbs total (ski pole required).

Wasps: Quick to anger, not very bright. I love my groupies.

A high pressure front, to be sure.

I'm going to infect this site with the rage virus.

OK, I'll give you the last word. Oh, wait.

I'm still getting the bottom of post response options (Reply, Quote, etc) in duplicate: one is a button, the other is underlined text. It enrages me.

Pretty realistic battle scenes. The night artillery barrage was artistically done. I couldn't help noticing some striking personality similarities between the high school teacher and the author of this thread, however.

Oops. Correction made.

The only revelant point to this rhetorical hair splitting is that the behavioral differences between species are huge.

No hangover here, but I did go to a good costume party at Prost. The winner (who is granted a free beer a day for a year) by popular demand was dressed as the Spanish Lessons guy at Greenlake. One punker had a very convincing CD embedded in his face sawblade style. "Awareness Lady" was there, covered with ribbons of every color. And of course, the requisite population of sexy nuns, flappers, devilettes, and St. Pauli Girls.

Meditating near ground hornet nests. How...relaxing. They are different species of wasps, just as cheetahs and cougars are different species of cats. I've also passed close to nests in season without being stung. At other times, however, I've been swarmed. Do a long term study for us and publish your results, but you might want to bring your epipen along just in case the little bastards aren't feeling the satori.