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    Hot and Republican - does it get any better?

    in Spray

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    Bush is much less than an angel. Reading Woodward's new book (which Bush himself recommends on the White House website) makes Bush seem like a streetcorner preacher. The guy should be in counseling, not the White House. I don't want to spend any of my hard-earned dollars on more wars because Bush thinks God told him to go to war, and refuses to look at reason or facts. Dude's a nutjob, totally unfit for office.

     

    I think you lack a certain historical perspective. Like it or not, and I assume most of the left leaning atheist ( or at least agnostic ) types here don't like it a bit, this is a nation that has always had God and religion front and center. Indeed the original point of the first amendment was to keep gov't out of religion and not the other way around.

     

    I suppose that in the modern context you think good ole Abe was a "nutjob" for thinking that the horrors of the civil war were divine retribution for mans wickednes and that this was the righteous judgement of the Lord? From the second innagural.

     

    Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

     

    The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

     

    Hot and Republican - does it get any better?

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    You'd think that being a pro boxing ring girl she wouldn't have much upstairs, but no, young Amy is quite the thinker.

     

    "I have voted Democratic in every election since I turned 18 except the last election. Eight years of the most corrupt administration in history changed me to a republican. I'm proud to say I voted for president Bush even if he is from the same state as the Dixie Chicks. After 911 I do not think it's safe to vote for a Democrat. I'm now a Republican and more importantly I'm an American!!"

     

    - Amy

     

     

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    Hot and Republican - does it get any better?

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    #2 is "DYKWIA"

     

    I'm from Mass. and this little acronym was coined to describe the boston brahmin's habit of disdaining the little people with the oh so ever arrogant "DON"T YOU KNOW WHO I AM ??" - most often used at restaraunts and golf clubs and the like to get preferential treatment - because well he's JFK.

    Hot and Republican - does it get any better?

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    Lauren Bush, the 19 year-old Princeton student, Elite model and niece of President George Bush, speaks Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at the United Nations (news - web sites) in New York, after being named the UN's World Food Program honorary spokesperson for it's new global hunger campaign on the web aimed at college students. Bush, who just returned from a fact-finding trip to Guatemala with her mother Sharon, was convinved of the urgent need to take action. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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    Don't run with scissors

    in Spray

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    I think the answer to that one is fairly obvious - sue the fuckers!

     

    The hospital has apologized to Skinner for the accident, but Tuesday she said plans to take legal action, although she did not provide any details.

     

     

    A hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press that lawyers for both sides were currently meeting and discussing the matter.

     

    Beginner Areas @ 11worth

    in Rock Climbing Forum

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    If you go to domestic dome do the 5.6 BS for some scary (for the grade), sometimes sandy slab to a big ledge. Couple of options for a second pitch include a 5.4 route to an obvious tree, or Underachiever a nice 5.8 with fun stem moves between a couple of flakes and a bolted slab finish. There is also a wide crack up there at something like 5.8, I think it's called snag crack(?) - didn't do that one.

    11worth Slabs to TR

    in Rock Climbing Forum

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    Oprah's Navel (10c) and another slab route just to the left (10a) can be tr'd by first climbing Sam n Cams (5.7) at Sam Hill. There is also a couple of slab routes that looked hard just around the corner to the right of the bid dead tree (sorry don't know the names or grades off hand).

    Midway, Castle Rock

    in Rock Climbing Forum

    Posted · Edited by jja

    As Fred Rogers once said - whatever sendbot !!

     

    fwiw, midway was my first multi pitch trad lead, in fact the first pitch of midway was my second trad pitch ever, and I was climbing with a partner who had never been climbing before shocked.gif midway _is_ a great beginner climb, and the better alternative to saber - the first pitch of that thing scared the hell out of me, 5.4 my ass !!

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