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I agree with da Lee. Why not smooth demand, and thus efficiency, for large power plants (which tends to drop dramatically at night) by plugging in our cars? As for your pickup...better sell it while it's still worth something. At $5 a gallon, it won't be.

New Hampshire legislature approves civil unions As the calcified conservative movement crumbles under it's own weight, the country quietly moves on...

Light weight, carries a shovel, skis, 2 tools, and crampons well, 45 to 55 L (multiday). Any thoughts?

All Pamela, All The Time.

The average driving commute is 32 miles round trip, or 160 miles per week. Most people still commute solo. If you take at least one other person, the break even point, in terms of miles driven, for a weekend drive verses the average weekly commute is about 320 miles round trip; slightly further than the distance from Seattle to Leavenworth and back. It's a good thing to think about when deciding on what your next 'approach vehicle' is going to be.

I'm not concerned about water quality at all. Why should I be? I filter it. Your irrelevant lab reference sadly reminds me of that poor kid in every class who can't seem to get through a sentence without reminding others of how smart he his.

It sounds like the dark and light green line:

I only do it because I want to be loved.

Those spring shots are gettin' me sprung.

Tough shit. Welcome to the 21st century pal.

...or an oversimplifying dogmatist with a very poor grasp of the complexities of the subject at hand, the dynamic nature of what is good for the environment (and thus, those who must make a living off of it), the climate-based ephemerality of the "Green Revolution", or which way the trends in third world agriculture are actually heading.

You can add about 50 million voting morons (x 2, actually) to this short list of the prescient.

That's what happens when you forget the facetious emoticon in your postings... Talkin' 'bout my gen-ration.

We just had some home grown spinach and asparagus last night. My savoy style spinach leaves are thick, the size of dinner plates, and have a crisp snap when you bite into them. The asparagus is sweet and really makes your pee reek. Just thought I'd rub that in while the rest of you fuckers argue about where to get your veggies.

So THAT's what's wrong with Quincy....

Throughout it's history, the Supreme Court, which is not an elected body, has generally deferred to the Legislature, which is. This results in more, rather than less, democratic outcomes. Instances where the Supreme Court has disagreed with the Legislature in their rulings are few and far between. Democratic outcomes are not always just ones, however. Slavery was upheld for decades by the Supreme Court, again, in deference to existing legislation, which was enacting the will of the people (those who could vote, that is) at the time. The bottom line is that if you have a democratic society full of assholes, you get assholish legal outcomes. Hence, the past six years. We're reaping what we've sown. The Supreme Court struck down the military tribunal system in large part because it was not adequately supported by legislation. The executive branch and fuck head Republican congress then dissected that loophole and filled it with enough bullshit to delay or circumvent another adverse Supreme Court ruling for a while. As a result, the CIA and private contractors may still torture people, the President may still unilaterally 'interpret' the Geneva conventions, attorney access to detainees is still very limited, and evidence or confessions, obtained through torture in other countries, such as Syria, is still admissable in these kangaroo tribunals, and habeus corpus is still in the trash can. There are still multiple lawsuits pending on behalf of many of the detainees at Guantanamo, so stay tuned. Of course, in their latest manuever, the shitheap currently stinking up the Whitehouse is calling for limited attorney access to detainess, for reasons of 'national security'. The last (Australian) terrorist they let go on a face saving plea bargain to a minor charge went home without jail time...a real threat to national security. Riiiiighhhhht.

Round out yer food knowledge by reading "The Botany of Desire" and "Fast Food Nation". You'll be planting your own veggies afterwards in short order.

Guess you had to be there. You weren't. Drive by the place sometime and let me know how responsible you think the landlord is afterwards.

Since the situation in both Afghanistan and Iraq has continued to deteriorate despite our presence, I would say our presence is either a neutral or negative factor, not a positive one. Either argues for an immediate withdrawal. The mentality that we can 'fix our mistake' in Iraq is an interesting one. I liken it to shooting your spouse, then trying to 'undo' your mistake afterwards. Very American (Oops, I spilled...sorry!) Good luck with that. An irreversible chain of events was set in motion the day we said 'Let's roll' (remember that bumper sticker? Where are they now?). We destroyed a society, which immediately began to factionalize, a process which continues today. Now, what we have in Iraq is a viral movement of continued factionalization (first the Sunnis, now the Shiites), each group with either its own competing agenda or no agenda other than to wreak havoc, and each group successfully feeding off of the chaos. This decentralized process is now a force of its own. It will continue until it burns itself out or the local powers that be force or negotiate a solution. It also interesting to note that the process is spreading throughout the region; to Pakistan and Afghanistan, most notably. As the perpetrators, invaders, and outsiders, we have not, and cannot, help in the reversal of this trend. We are, to borrow a phrase, 'failing upward'.

Sounds like a real Big Boy outing. Is this photo good enough to draw your route on and repost? Dat wood b kool.

Few people outside of mental institutions still believe that the Bush administration did not purposefully mislead the American people on numerous occasions. Still, the question remains: Why? The answer is simple really. Like all of us, they simply wanted to be loved.

An opinion from the far bottom.

browned out underwear = hard mixed alpine climbing

More Dragontail prOn: from the big wind storm 2 weeks ago: 2 climbers bail out of the Hidden Couloir What they were bailing from 3 shots of Colchuk in the wind storm