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That's funny. I just read your post three times, and I still can't figure out what the fuck is has to do with my post. Your 'point' has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with my point. See, I never said anything about the content of the article. Go back, read my post a few hundred times before responding. Hopefully you'll understand it by then, but I'm not holding my breath. Moron. You find value by reading the halfbaked opinions of nutjobs right and left, and I'm the moron?

Huh? 1st Punic War was confined to Sicily 2nd Punic War - the Romans feared the military strength of Hannibal, who they couldn't defeat in open battle, but who didn't have enough soldiers to attack their cities, so they waited till he'd overextended his supply lines, then crushed him. 3rd Punic War - Rome sacked Carthage, killed or sold are the Carthaginians into slavery, then sowed the ground with salt. I'm missing your reading of history

That's funny. I read it and saw an interesting analysis of 20 years, followed by a haphazard fallacious conclusion, yet again linking Saddam (who had nothing to do with 9/11 ) in the broader war on terror, that he isn't a part of. Of course a lie repeated a thousand times is a truth, huh cracked? I suggest you head to www.johnkerrysthedouchebagweneedtocleanamericafromthenotsofreshfeelingthebushescaused.com

My Betalight packs down to like 1.5 L or so, and weighs 1.5lbs. More comfortable than a bivy in rain/snow/the like. Roomy for a tent inside too. Bivy's are fine for camping in crappy spots (narrow rock, etc), or if you don't really except bad weather, but if the weather turns nasty, something over your head is the way to go.

Montrail

Mountain Hardwear's owned by Columbia BD's in Salt Lake City Ex Officio Kokatat (N. Cal) Arc'teryx (part of AdidasSalomon)

G-mail's currently a private beta.

Or "Freedom" loving anti government right wingers?

So the problem isn't the press, it's when people know about the nastiness of war? When people know of the nastiness of an Unprovoked war? Iraq didn't attack us like the Japanese did. Or declare war on us like Hitler did. Iraq didn't have anything to do with Al Qaeda - and so far, doesn't seam to have had any Active Weapons of Mass Destruction programs. Or even be actively supporting any terrorists (apart from the Palestinians) like Afghanistan was. So what compelling reason was their to go to war in Iraq?

That is very, very true

Nothing like $14 for a pit toilet and a crappy picnic table!

Yes

Depending on where you climb in the East, some of the areas have been 8 month a year after work cragging sites for 50 years (Carderock in DC comes to mind). Polished doesn't begin to describe the rock.

They own Dana as well, and Garuda, and Tubbs and Atlas. In short, most of the not that innovative any more, once K2 bought them out, gear manufacturers. And Dan Quayle is on the board.

OMC in PDX, as of a couple weeks ago had TCU's for $30, and Forged Friends for $18!

That also own Ex Officio. The only one I'll miss is Volkl.

Heaven forbid they do what they are supposed to

The Camouflage Smock of the Waffen SS, as well as the MP43 (first assault rifle) Shaped the face of modern war. And that's to say nothing of the V2 (ballistic missile), V1 (first cruise missile, ME262 (first jet fighter), and on....what do you expect from a nation of scientists and engineers?

Screw football, I wouldn't go to MIT cause I dig girls , not tools. MIT's in downtown Beantown. There's some fly honey's down there. It also has/had the highest intramural participation in the US. Harvard has the Harvard Mountaineering Club. As for the pontificating NOLSe - I went to a school with the best program in this country in my field, and a D3 football team that hadn't won a game in 3 years. WTF do you think I picked it

When you have 1Meg of stored e-mail, you have 3 megs @ 50-100kB for some commercial e-mails, that's 30-60 e-mails, or 10-20 a day. Yes, I get that much e-mail, probably 50% of which is spam, which the crappy Yahoo filter doesn't catch. And since I've had my account for 6 or 7 years now, I don't want to change. I get even more e-mail at work

Not have your mailbox get shutdown after day 3 of 2 week trip because of spam, daily updates, and correspondence.

Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss Mountain Guide, Is Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 15, 2004 GENEVA -- Ulrich Inderbinen, a legendary Swiss mountain guide who made his last ascent of the storied Matterhorn at the age of 90, has died. He was 103. Inderbinen died in his sleep Monday at his home in the southern Swiss resort of Zermatt, his family said in a death notice published Tuesday. The ``King of the Alps,'' as Inderbinen was known to admirers around the world, spent 70 years leading mountaineers up Switzerland's most forbidding peaks. He was 95 when he finally retired. Advertisement Even in his 90s, he regularly climbed peaks of more than 13,000 feet and estimated that he stood on the summit of the Matterhorn -- ``the most beautiful mountain in the world'' -- at least 370 times. ``I have never felt bored,'' he once said in an interview with The Associated Press. ``That is unless my clients walk too slowly.'' Inderbinen was born into a family of nine children Dec. 3, 1900, and spent most of his childhood tending animals in the mountains above Zermatt, at that time still an impoverished farming community. He made his first ascent of the 14,700-foot Matterhorn in September 1921 with his younger sister. He got his first job as a mountain guide four years later. ``Mr. Inderbinen showed himself thoroughly safe and reliable, so I hope to climb with him more frequently,'' wrote his first customer, a German doctor. He was extraordinarily healthy, only taking time off once -- when he was grounded for 10 days with a shoulder injury after slipping on ice. He made his first trip to the dentist at 74 and never needed glasses. ``My good health I attribute to my positive attitude to life, my enjoyment of nature and my profession. As a child I learned to be satisfied with little, to make no demands on life and always to work,'' he said in the 1996 biography ``As Old As The Century.'' ``Stress and haste are unknown to me. I live as I climb mountains: at a pace that is slow and deliberate but also purposeful and regular. Among my colleagues I am known for not liking to stop before I reach my destination,'' he said. Inderbinen said one of the best periods of his life came after his 80th birthday, when he took up competition skiing. He always won as he was the only competitor in his age category. He received a pair of skis for his 90th birthday -- a gift he put to regular use -- and a mountain-climbing ice ax when he turned 95. A deeply devout Roman Catholic, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by traveling to Rome to receive Pope John Paul II's blessing when he was 96. Despite his international reputation, Inderbinen remained modest. Foreign television crews wanting to interview the living legend found he was a man of few words. He rarely took vacations and never saw the sea. He never owned a car or bicycle. ``I am the only person in Zermatt without a telephone,'' he would say proudly. His clients knew they could find him in Zermatt's church square in the early evening. Throughout his life he remained under the spell of the Matterhorn, Switzerland's most famous landmark. ``It's simply a fascinating mountain which was as appealing to me on my last climb as it was on my first,'' he said. His only regret in life, he would always say, was when his family vetoed his plans to climb Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro at the age of 92. ``I've really no idea why they were all against it,'' he sighed. A journalist once asked him if he was afraid of dying. ``Not really,'' he replied. ``When I look at the death notices in the paper I scarcely see anyone of my own age.'' The funeral will be held Thursday in Zermatt, according to the announcement in the daily Waliser Bote of Brig.

Yeah, Betty's Pies - worth stopping for. Betty's is good. There's a place in Grand Marais, before the Gunflint turnoff that's even better though!