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Scott- Thinning of big trees isn't thinning - it's logging. And logging will just perpetuate the problem. Having just driven over Santiam Pass this morning, and looked at the burned areas, it really doesn't look that bad - clearcuts looks much worse, IMHO. Salvage logging would be acceptable - but as part of the regularly scheduled logging quote, not as a bonus.

I just drove through Santiam Pass this morning - good lordy there are alot of homes in that neck of the woods. All scattered through the dry forest. The burned areas didn't look that bad.

Scott- You seem to have missed the basis for the thinning. Underbrush and small trees are a greater fire risk - more likely to catch fire, more likely to burn & kill the tree, shrub, etc. They aren't economical to harvest though. Larger trees are more likely to survive a blaze. And are economical to harvest. If you log the trees more likely to be living after a fire, and keep the kindling, how is this making the forest less likely to catch fire?

They may be better informed. Our country was not founded to respect the level of education or amount of information a voter has. Every person with a pulse (note: not required in Chicago), of age, and not convicted of a felony, has a right to vote.

Was their ever any African colonialism then

Someone managed to get in the 90th percantile without understanding what that means

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Ain't that rod a little light for Stealies?

I dunno - maybe they didn't think they did the FWA?

The Gunks are in NY as well - the Mohonk Preserve (PRIVATE!) being the major administrative district. Fairweather. Your full of shit if you think because your local you have greater say in the administration of a national park. Should we have your vote weighted inversly proportional to your distance from the Olympics ( as well as weighted by time spent in the park, and close to the park).? Unless of course you want to take the Alaska lead, decrying Washington, all the while sucking the Federal Teat dry.

There's your precious evidence. If claims of responsibility are now intent, I guess the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigade is our biggest terrorist threat http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5087301/

I doubt you will find similar instructions on a NRA site. John Allen Muhammed could have gotten marksmanship tips from the NRA....

I'm glad you disagree. But there is no proof associating him - no evidence!

Huh? The Elf leader didn't plan the SUV bombing.

At what? Book knowledge - certainly. A large number of the Chinese I've met, including PHD's, are often useless when required to do something non regurgitory or theoretical.

The problem with your theory is that there is no way to know who posesses insider information (trading on inside information is illegal). It wouldn't be far fetched to have a CEO hold his stock while pumping it publically, while telling all his friends to dump it (harming the public) Monitorring who exactly is a friend of the CEO who would be impossible.

From the Publications search engine on the Nat Geo website, May 1968 is the one your looking for. $2.05 including shipping on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=280&item=6904888298&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Or you don't have freinds to pardon you

Hmmm.... I'm fine with classifying ecoterrorists as terrorists. As long as the next anti-abortion protester or white supremacist or other right wind fruit job gets charged as a terrorist. Yeah he made his own choice. But like the Boy who burned the Bush's boat randomly throwing the book at someone isn't justice.

Gee. I guess a life's worth $400k to Greg. Correction $40k. 22 years in prison for $40k damage? And Neil Goldschmidt gets off for Child Molestation to Oregon Justice.

Gee. I guess a life's worth $400k to Greg.

But at what level of significance, Mr. Smarty Social Science Pants? Alpha = .05? Are you willing to accept that one time out of twenty you might see an observation more than two standard deviations from the mean? Consider THAT carefully when buying your next jacket. 6 Sigma quality for weights in clothing! It's all about 6 sigma!

I would be fine with this. As was evidenced in the Florida election debacle, the general population cannot grasp this concept.

It's called process variance. Unless you show me (or Arc'teryx) that the average weight of their product (sample of say 100?) is greater than they claim, they ain't going to care.

He was on the Terrorist Watching Squad.