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I'm a big fan of "defensive democracy". Our constitution was written well before the pogroms of the 20th century and got it wrong through lack of foresight. Once again, as with providing a constitutional right to health care, several European countries have actually learned a lesson or two from the past. Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and their fellow hate-mongers are guilty of Volksverhetzung.

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Still waiting, you pussified shitheel.

 

At least he has the courage to use his real name.

 

you can't be serious. As if using one's real name was a reasonable option with right wing thugs baiting on a regular basis in a public forum. We won't even discuss the use of the web by prospective employers, etc ...

 

This kind of random violent thing

 

In this political climate, the hanging of a federal worker with FED written on his chest is random? I don't think so.

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Still waiting, you pussified shitheel.

 

At least he has the courage to use his real name.

 

I've been taking my lumps, insults personal and otherwise, on this board for years. Never once have I been motivated to find out anything more about a poster beyond the quality of their spray. I suggest you either grow a pair, work on your verbal kung-fu, and mind your business or ask yourself whether an internet message board is really right for you.

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they didn't happen to find his liver missing and a can of fava beans on the ground nearby did they?

lecter0103.jpg

 

the pic is a decent reminder - crazy is crazy, no matter what side of the spectrum it falls - the right sure does seem to want to dance w/ its wackos though :)

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"A Small Benediction

 

There is no Frank anymore, and hasn’t been for some time, meaning we are here discussing the memory of Frank. Yes, there’s the Frank in a few books and pictures and a grave in Chamonix holding remains which once held Frank. But really, once I realize (again) Sacherer is gone and Kamps and Pratt to name a few who most influenced me, I realize they all are only in my mind now. Then it dawns on me they were just so when they were alive. These climbers, all climbers, are only our view of them, the intake and processing of the talks, the movement on rock, the laughs, the glory, the bickering, the ranking of feats, the unraveling of how they were and why -- all only fleeting sparks between minds working just as now, here, on this thread, back and forth.

 

It takes some time to grasp there really are no climbers or even climbs other than our making, naming and assessing of each, our passing along witnessing all to our joy, wonder and sorrow. All is only low voltage firing of neurons between our ears, tiny electronic summaries of the earthly formations we climb upon, of the people with whom we climb, of even our selves moving along as before a mirror, time all the while clicking. A man named Frank we knew and now remember ended at a little square of ground in Chamonix which, Jan said, she and Frank’s family have not yet been able to visit. And yet here we all are making the only visit we ever can make – in our minds.

 

And so my small benediction: let us be most humbled, thankful and awestruck at the prize of consciousness, the sunny days on what we call rock and mountains with others we call friends, the noble globe itself only a dot in the vast swirl of matter and time, in the great physics of it all Frank pondered, the same which pounds and baffles each of us under a clear night sky. And there, looking up, perhaps I am not alone making a quiet vow to hold more tightly to good friendship and love before sleeping Frank’s sleep.

 

Tom Higgins

LongAgo "

 

This thread is what you guys want to accomplish before you sleep Franks sleep?

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This thread is what you guys want to accomplish before you sleep Franks sleep?

dude, it's thursday - wtf else are you gonna do on your lunch break?

 

It involves a Towel at Beacon. Sorry, no camera.

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If I haven't taken the time to thank you for your recent very well researched and thought provoking posts, please accept my apologies for my laziness jb.

 

....And my thanks as well.

 

Regards

 

Bill

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Well, I am glad you enjoyed my posts, but I am serious that hate-mongering in national media has to stop and those responsible have to be held accountable for what they set in motion.

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is there an example of an economic downturn anywhere when regressives on bully pulpits haven't cultivated divisiveness through hate speech?

 

Revealing political corruption and expressing vehement disagreement with policy is now hate speech? Stop wiping your ass with the first amendment, ya little B-ham commie prick.

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