Serenity

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_yemen_al_qaida

Fat drips up on Humpback.

Remembrances on this day. http://www.letitridethemovie.com/

Wrong again.

Off of exit 42. This time of year the 'trail' is not wholly applicable as the entire mountain will be 100% covered in snow, and does not see the hordes and masses that Mt Si does.

http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/stoning.htm

Haha...yeah the gondola has always been my pipe dream. Alpine Lakes wilderness needs to be moved back a few terrain features.

But, both the top and at least the upper 1/2 of the western side are defined by a snow-slab fracture. The upper 1/2 of the sliding surface appears to be planar. The NWAC has been stating that 100% climax slab avalanches are probable given the dynamics of this snow pack. So I would say that it was a slab avalanche with the decollement being a wet relatively smooth grassy surface with possibly a surface hoar layer immediately above. The debris could be expected whenever such a large wet strata is involved in a structural failure. I would also add, that in a failure of this sort, as wether it is a slab causing a debris flow, or a mud flow triggering a slab avalanche is mostly arguing semantics. I went up and looked at this yesterday. Two guys were skiing down and stopped to talk to me. One of the guys said he lived by the treatment plant and witnessed the whole thing. He told me that there is a guy who has lived at Hyak for 50 years who made mention that when they leveled the ground under the lift towers that fill dirt was brought in, which was a compost of sorts. A slurpy mixture of old rotted tree stumps and moraine like rock gravel is the result going down the mountain. From looking at the event up close you can indeed tell it is NOT an avalanche, but was the result of total ground collapse underneath the snowpack. The hole looks more like a bomb crater than anything. The fact that there is a crown in the snow, is only a result of the underlying surface blowing out. I hope they shut the area down and build a gondola to the top of Snoqualmie Mountain.

And I guess it would be inconvenient to mention that the guy was a repeat felon who just got out on the drug and gun charges. So he was no angel either.

It's referred to as a 'double capture slip", it occurs when fine motor functions are disrupted by stress or heart rates that climb above 170BPM++. The officer clearly intended to draw his TASER, a less lethal means of controlling a non compliant suspect, but inadvertently drew his sidearm. You can see in the video the look of shock on his face when he realized what happened. Being a cop is a tough job, and the large number of criminally minded illiterate scum bags in the United States don't make the job any easier. I feel bad for the officer. He made a mistake, and he'll have to live with that for the rest of his life.

Pat, Fair enough. Hope that e-thug thing works out for you. See ya round twinkle toes.

No, I am talking to you directly, on this forum. Don't try and sidestep and tapdance. Look at how you speak to the other posters on this website. Look at your post above when YOUR personal crusade started going sideways. Look at how many people you insult on here with 'moron this' & 'asswipe that'. If you can't handle being put on the hot seat then maybe you better tone down your attitude here a little bit.

You got a rock in your pocket? I'm talking to YOU, and YOU only. Last I checked you have zero moderator pull, so don't go trying to pretend like you're one because you got called out net tough guy. You love talking people down, talking shit, then when someone gives you the chance to stand up behind your keyboard words you start calling foul. I think I've made my point again. You're nothing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for letting them go. That's how they wake up one morning and find themselves dead. I'm just pointing out a few factoids in the process. Last I read Pat this board offered freedom of speech. You've certainly abused yours. If you have a fucking problem with me shit dick them man up. I'm stateside and pissed off.

I'll believe that 6 shots of tequila holds an integral part of your current euphoria.

And you base all this on the election of a junior Illinois Senator or is it something else?

Despite public perceptions the Gitmo detainees have been treated better than 99.9% of foreign war detainess in history.

The Guantanamo prison now has about 385 inmates. Records on 517 current and former detainees show that 95 percent have been members of or associated with al Qaeda or the Taliban and that 73 percent participated in hostilities against U.S. or coalition forces, defense officials said. The analysis is a response to a series of highly critical reports by Seton Hall University law professor Mark Denbeaux, which found only a small number of Guantanamo detainees who had fought against U.S. forces. Among the six detainees identified on Monday was Mohamed Yusif Yaqub, who the Pentagon said assumed control of Taliban operations in Southern Afghanistan after his release from Guantanamo, died fighting U.S. forces on May 7, 2004. Abdullah Mahsud was released only to become a militant leader within the Mahsud tribe in southern Waziristan with ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda. He directed the October 2004 kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in Pakistan, the Pentagon said. Maulavi Abdul Ghaffar became the Taliban's regional commander in Uruzgan and Helmand provinces after his release and was killed in a raid by Afghan security forces on Sept. 25, 2004, the Pentagon said. Abdul Rahman Noor was released in July 2003 and was later identified as the man described in an Oct. 7, 2001, interview with Al Jazeera television network as the "deputy defense minister of the Taliban," the Pentagon said.

http://www.mysteryrants.com/

Mystery Ranch as I'm sure you already know is the same guy who designed and sold the rights to Dana some time ago. IMHO Mystery Ranch is a step up the evolutionary food chain. Just make sure you get the made in the US of A Bozeman stuff and not the Camelback made in China product. I have several of the MILSPEC MR packs, and they are AWESOME McLovin!

What I would do is purchase an XBOX, play ski racing (on hard level) while eating ho-ho's, and repeatedly screaming "I am Shane McConkey bitch!" Don't underestimate the mental aspect of your training regimen my friend. http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/sports/skiracing2006/index.html

I'm not bagging on you that hard dude, and I am not criticizing your musical tastes http://alpinelite.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html Your political analysis based on songs lyrics came across as juvenile. How about that Leon Panetta? Way to go team Obama!

How old are you?

Where's your been there, done that summit photo?

I disagree. We go to great lengths, bend over backwards so to speak, to demonstrate respect for the culture. There is no underlying effort here to promote western mores on the locals. Instead what you have is an effort to promote independence, and security. This is the country in which the order to launch the largest terrorist attack on US soil came from. The idea is to remove the impetus for further such actions in the region. Believe me, we do more to protect their identity than they do for ours.