AlpineK

Shit man you could have hung out with the Turtles, and watched us beat Rat down to celebrate the big 4...0

In the first place I'm not a member, so I can't look at a membership statement. Secondly REI is a cooperative. There was an article I read somewhere back a few months ago that detailed what generally happens to cooperatives. All of them get founded for altruistic reasons, but at some point in their development human nature and greed takes over. REI is a typical cooperative. The bottom line is you might be technically right, but in the real world you and every other member of REI have been fucked, and there ain't much you can do about it. I recommend getting over it and shopping somewhere else. Somewhere that's straight up about telling you that they're in business to make money...it's the American way.

Looks like excellent early spring conditions.

I figure the way things are leafing out and growing we're about a month to 6 weeks ahead of schedule. By this logic winter ended between February 7th and the 21st.

Sucker. You don't own stock. You've got a membership. If you wanted to buy stock you should have invested in a real corporation

Bad Cover: 21st Century Schizoid Man by April Wine

Good Cover. Tomorrow Never Knows by 801/Brian Eno.

That Pope he's a real wild one; nudge, nudge, wink, wink, you know what I mean...

Yeah the whole thing in Lebanon is a good thing... so far. I'm sure the elections in Iraq were a good example for others in the middle east, but that's not the only thing that's happened recently. Palistinians had an election recently, and while the US gave them some aid, they did it on their own. Also you've got to consider the protests and election in the Ukraine. You've got to wait a few years to do a historical study of all the factors. If you want to look at something historical try Iran. Iran had a decent government, but we didn't like them, so got the Shaw put into power there. By doing that we created the seeds of the Iranian revolution. In the long run our intervention turned out poorly. You can look at other examples like what Eisenhower did in the Congo in the 50s. With so many US interventions turning out poorly I think it's way too soon to give much credit to anyone. Time will tell.

So don't fucking read the thread! I don't want to burn my membership card. I want my fucking money! There's nothing like being stuck in a bad relationship, knowing it, but still refusing to leave. You're not getting your money back. If you want to continue to bitch about how Nordstroms (REI) doesn't stalk what you want and charges too much on an open forum then get used to comments from the peanut gallery.

Get a date with Mike

I'm tired of the discussion. We all hate the place...so don't go there, and burn your membership card if you have one.

I think we all know what kind of instrument Mike likes to play.

Yeah, it was dry at Index. Kind of like August. I can see a lot of places being closed due to fire hazard when it really is August.

Saturday: instructed at a fruit tree pruning class then drank beer Sunday: Index

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I don't have a problem with the Nickerson this time. Sped is right though in the big picture. There are other places out there. Unfortunately a lot of the places that I think have more charactor also allow smoking, which means you've gotta have the energy to fight online with the Pub Club dictator (Dave Schultz). There was a Pub Club at that Belguin place back a few weeks ago...not very many showed up.

Not that I had anything to do with it, but I would say the cause of the move relates more to you and Scott than Mr E.

They wont get to far without tax money from the west side. This will get about as far as Freedom County did.

I think the, "average person," probably wouldn't be able to contribute to American literature like Hunter Thompson did. I've read a bunch of his books and like RobBob said they are very funny. If you take a look at writers/artists through history you will find a lot of examples of people with depression or other mental problems. It may be that his lifestyle was a symptom not a cause. In any case I heard an interview with a friend of his who points out that if he had done everything he said he had he would have died in the 70s. He may have done a bunch of what he describes himself doing in his books, but there's a lot of exageration that he used as a literary device. You don't have to like him as a person, but you should respect the fact that he'll probably have a greater impact on culture than you, I, or any other average person will. Hunter T

Well I'm ready for the terrorists. I just closed off a section of my house with plasctic sheeting so I could work on drywall. Maybe I'll just leave it that way in case the terrorists decide to attack Lake City.

What's the big deal; just don't miss. Labor's cheap over there...hire an extra maid.