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We het yourda fdddreedom. We het yourda watermelons. We love yourda fddried cheeken, though. Extara chreespy. I got a bucket rdddight now een my BMW.

Presenting theory or anecdote as fact does not make it fact. Kinda' like anthropogenic global warming. And WMDs . . . If cell phones don't cause brain cancer, then why is everyone so fucking stupid?

I'm for detaining and torturing anyone sporting a mullet.

Ah seenk, mon ami, zat zere wuz a tahm, long ago, when les Etaz Uni alzo won eets wars, no?

I'm with Seahawks here. Our rule book is holding us back from achieving our true potential. We need to chuck it and trust our government to do whatever it wants whenever it wants to, no holds barred. That's the only way we're going to kill all the terrorists in the world and win this thing. There is no better person to play judge and jury than an FBI agent. Let's stop detaining, and start executing. Come to think of it, we'd waste a whole lot less time and money if we applied the same principle to all law enforcement. Real men want summary justice.

* Alpine Climbing = Hardcore sex with a psychotic who can fuck all day when she's not taking a break to throw a cast iron skillet at your head. * Sport Climbing = Sex in a Youth Hostel with really thin walls. * Gym Climbing = Sex in a Youth Hostel bunk room. * Bouldering = You show me yours and I'll show you mine. * Ski Mountaineering = Exhilarating sex in a five star hotel with a curvatious celebrity in flowing white satin. Just before climax, she throws the ice bucket in your face. * Free Soloing = An elicit affair that you know, one day, will come back at you. * Ice Climbing = Discovering that the siren you've been lusting after is just a small town girl, after all. * Dry Tooling = Discovering that the siren you've been lusting after's mother also wants in, and she's quite a bit rougher. * Top roping = I can't possibly look that bad when I'm doing it, can I?

Certainly one of Travolta's most masterful performances.

...allowing the Constitution to stand in the way of defending our freedom: Judge rules U.S. can't hold civilian as an 'enemy combatant'

Now I would walk five hundred kilometers and I would walk five hundred more, just to be the man who walked a thousand kilometers to avoid burning all those liters of petrol in his Smart Car at your door. You load sixteen thousand kilograms, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don'tcha call me cause I can't go I owe my Euros to the company store. Art is measured in pounds, shots, and miles.

I'm looking for a partner for Jack Mtn for June/July. S face, SW ridge probably. Midweek fine. 3 day (2 night) trip. PM if interested.

If you combine the 2 lists (400' and 1000'), you get 144 unique objectives. Of those, about half would be considered somewhat 'classic'. The only one I'd strike off the either list is Little Tahoma. Why climb every plug that hasn't yet eroded from the side of what is so obviously the main attraction? Having said that, playing the list game can lure you to areas you might not normally go (the Paysayten, Sawtooth, and Chelan Wilderness areas, where many of these peaks are, for example), which can be an adventure in itself. A trip into the Pasayten in full fall color, or into the Sawtooths in the height of wildflower bloom, are worthy objectives in themselves. If you can knock of few peaks off the list in the process, so much the better.

I found the route too docile so I've been working on a variation for grown ups. Please respect my fixed lines and quickdraws until I get back thanks.

I've been wrapping bolts in bacon to prevent moisture induced loosening.

Redding has the worst culture on planet earth (that is, if you're not into meth), and it's consistently 110 F during the summer.

Metrivia: A Newton of force is equivalent to the weight of an apple at sea level. The metric system sucks. "Only 500 meters to go!" Fuck you, pal. "Jesus, we've got 20 km to go still." THen STFU and walk. "How many ml of whiskey do you think we'll need?" Christ. Who has time for the tedium? Besides, the metric system makes things smaller. In the end, the consumer gets screwed. Take our construction industry for example; the last group of real men fending off a tide of limp wristed CE marks, closet sized apartments, and toy dishwashers plastered with 50 pastel colored icons that handle only two of those dough boy size latte cups per load. Think you could build your dream home with the 2 foot setback under the metric system? Think metric. That would be 2 meters, mon ami. At the standard 3 story, 80 x 80' American home footprint, you'd be giving up more than 3000 sq ft of living space; 9 times the size of the average Euro-flat! There goes covered parking for the Denali. The only thing that would get bigger under the metric system would be electricity. Try plugging your stereo into a European outlet and you'll see what I mean. You might want to have a fire extinguisher on hand. There's a reason why european electrical plugs weigh about 10 kilos each and look like they're sized for the main power bus on the Titanic. Furthermore, the words are too long with the metric system, so you wind up with cutesy little nicknames for everything. Take 'kilometer'. No one ever says it. The most you'll ever get out of a European is 'kilomet'. No, it's 'Klicks' (if you want to sound like VA case who's off his meds, fine. I don't), or 'km's (OK, faggot), or simply 'K's (mkay?). Here, we say 'miles'. Not 'Five thousand two hundred and eighty feet', or 'sixty three thousand three hundred sixy inches'. Miles. We can remember the extra word. It's just not that hard. And finally, who wants to switch to metric time? Personally, I like Earth's day and year length the way it is. Who the hell wants to work a 100 hour day? And do you know how expensive it would be to change that? This isn't the Chunnel we're talking about here. So let's all just relax, have a dram, and forget about becoming European or, worse still, Canadian. Give those foreigners an inch, and they'll take a furlong every time.

More on Io

Tvashtar in true color. Charged particles from Jupiter's magnetic field ionize the sulphur dioxide plume, causing it to phosphoresce blue.

The thread that unravels our mighty warrior culture will be pulled by a bicycle....

Tvashtar erupting on Jupiter's moon Io As photographed by the New Horizons probe, currently heading for Pluto.

Lakalakalakajihad! I believe that the state should muskets, power, and ball to all citizens who apply. Any surplus revenue should be expended to improve the quality and distribution of medicinal marijuana. As recent events have soundly proven, National Defense is more a state of mind than reality.

I haven't seen a segue that smooth since Sammy Davis Junior became a Jew.

I was fishing next to this rich Texan once when a bear came out of the bush, clamped his jaws around the poor Texan's head, ripped the top of his scalp off, and sucked out a good portion of his brain. Incredibly, the Texan lived... ...and went on to become President.

A few pages ago a few presidents were being roasted for 'breaking the military'. I say good for them, although I'd rather see the military either junked wholesale or parted out to the highest bidders so we can finally put a tourniquet on our most expensive tax hemmorage.

Right now I'm sporting a pair of Victoria's Secret magenta colored crotchless rabbit fur lined panties, and I hope, more than anything in the whole wide world, that president Bush and Dick Cheney drop dead at this very moment. Discuss.

YOu are wrong. Under the legal principle of specificity, procedures for obtaining wiretaps for international communications fall under the Foriegn Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA (the more specific law), not under the Congressional Authorization to 'all means necessary' of 2001, as the administration argued. FISA requires warrants to be obtained; something the administration did not do (among other things) in its secret spying program. The ACLU won a lawsuit against the NSA in 2006, which resulted in a Detroit district court judge ruling that the program is illegal under FISA as well as the 1st and 4th amendments. There has been no Supreme Court review or ruling on the case, nor has there been an appeal of the ruling on the part of the administration. Congress did make some minor amendments to FISA last year to streamline the process of obtaining warrants and extending the time limit for obtaining those warrants to 7 days, but the administration finally agreed to operate under FISA guidelines after they lost the above suit. When speaking of Extraordinary Rendition, he's not referring to Abhu Graib, which was (from a paperwork standpoint, at least) handled by normalizing the Army Field Manual with Geneva Convention prohibitions on torture. That applies only to our uniformed military. He's referring to an ongoing program kidnapping, secret prisons, and torture (much of which occurs in third party countries under our supervision) by the CIA and it's contractors. After testimony by victims of this program, the administration finally admitted to it's existence last year. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 still allows the president to enterpret the definition of torture as outlined by Article 1, Section 9 of the Geneva Conventions. It also provides immunity, retroactive to 1998, for those who may face charges for torturing at any point in the future. We now know quite a bit about this program because of those victims of mistaken identity who've been released from this program and gone public with their stories. This program violates our extradition treaties, international law, the laws of the countries where kidnapping occurs, and several previous U.S. statutes banning torture, not to mention our constitutional principles of due process. Appropriately, it has become yet another lightning rod for an administration whose actions have repeatedly stained our national honor and destroyed any credibility we once had in improving human rights around the globe. You appear know as little about the law as you do history. The crimes of previous administrations in no way justify the crimes of the present one. And actually, members of this administration could easily be tried as war criminals considering how aggregiously they've violated international human rights law. They will not, of course, because we've got bigger guns.