A NC congressmen said that the trouble in Iraq could be solved if the word of the Lord was spread to that region. I know Bush has called the war in Iraq a "crusade", but damn. It also show a basic lack of understanding of the Muslim faith, because Jesus is in it and they still think he is a cool dude.
“Everything depends on everyone learning about the birth of the savior,”
The Bush administration and their appointees will not give the geological age of the Grand Canyon. Instead they say it was created by the flood of Noah's Ark. You can't make this shit up.
PFANAC (Project for a New American Century) is closing its doors. Old white guys with a severe military-industrial complex, had it wrong about American Imperialism, and our young men and women in Service paid the ultimate price.
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him. "The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him" said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. "With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated."
If you have not viewed this amazing piece of meme then check it out not.
I originally thought it was cock in a box, but I guess it was a dick
One of my best friends, who is a Mt. Hood vet., has some words to say about the recent tradgety.
Hood can be as dangerous or benign as one makes it. It kills people nearly every year and is also summitted by over 1000. The three guys, each more experienced than me I believe, were on the mountain for the first time. They were doing a difficult route, the north face, which has about a 2500-foot or so section of 60-65 degree ice, which feels almost vertical. I haven't done that route, but have done one with about 300 feet of 70-degree ice on Mt. Rainier. On technical routes like that, you "carryover," meaning you take every bit of gear you have to the summit, then descend a less technical route because down-climbing near-vertical ice blows serious ass - in this case that non-technical descent route was the south side. When a carryover is done, every effort is made to go as "light" as possible, meaning that little more than the bare essentials are brought to cut down on weight. This low weight equates to speed, which equates to safety on a long, exposed route such as this, which pretty much needs to get done the same day it is started because there really aren't any good places to bivouac (camp) for the night. It's unlikely these guys brought heavy, warm gear for hunkering down, nor is it likely they had much extra food or fuel to melt snow for water. It seems like one guy got a dislocated shoulder, which slowed the group. Upon summitting, owing to poor visibility and their unfamiliarity with the peak, they couldn't find their way down the south (nontechnical) side. Having been on the top of that mountain 10 times or so, I can tell you that that safest way down (south side) isn't immediately obvious from the summit. It is a semi-precarious chute called the "pearly gates" of about 35-40 degrees, but just below it, the slope mellows and it's an easy (and long) walk down. They couldn't find it, so they attempted to descend the north face route that they had just come up (horrible prospect). The only way to safely descend that route would be to rappel it, which would be insanely tedious and really dangerous, especially with fresh snow falling and increasing avalanche danger. A piece of gear, such as an ice screw or picket would have to be left with each rappel, and, if their rope was like most others, they'd only be able to rappel 100 feet or so at a time before having to place another screw or picket to set up another anchor point. I hear a lot of people (fellow pilots, every time I've flown over the mountain since this deal began) that don't know what they're talking about call these guys stupid for doing the mountain in the winter. The truth is, that route is only "in" for about a month or so each year, usually around December. In early season (Feb-Apr or so), the route is covered in loads of snow, which leads to avalanche danger. Later in the season (Jun-Aug), when most people climb the mountain via other routes, this route warms up and rockfall is copious (they whiz by you and sound like bullets in a movie - seriously, and they freakin' hurt if they're small and kill you if they're big). Ironically, my buddy and I talked of doing this route about the same time these guys did about a week prior to the incident but didn't go because of the weather.
So, to answer your question, I think these guys knew what they were doing, and a nasty sequence of events (dude getting hurt, crap weather, and their inability to find the correct descent route) got them into a really, really, rough situation. I have pictures of the north face, and several of the summit and pearly gates if you guys would like me to post them.
Looks like the Republican hate machine is turning its sight to my man again. I always thought that the Religious Right saw our action in the Middle East as a holy war. It is scary to see it in print.
Yo Yo Yo.
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Bushie has said repeatedly that he listens to his Generals and does what they want him to do.
Unless he disagrees with it.
I don't normally like diatribes about Bush. It is too easy to do after all. But this one is measured and mostly correct. Please give it a full read because it is very pragmatic.
Finally HC comes to her senses and sees that the Iraq war is not a winning issue in 08'. Too little too late. Even though Karl will be out in 08' does not mean that the Right's machine won't pounce on this day.
Bush and the Bushites are busy again making sure what we don't know can't hurt us.
The biggots in the camper in Borat lost their money grab against SBC.
This is a case of causation reflecting correlation. Veggies are smarter than meatheads.
I knew this was going to happen! A US firm has been busted for hiring illegals to build the US/Mexico fence!!!!!
Craig Newmark, of craiglist.com fame is fucking awesome. At an analysts meeting the, analysts could not wrap their heads around the CEO's desire not to maximize profits (craigslist currently has no advertising).
Craig is a multi-millionaire and wants to preserve the goodness and purity that is Craigslist.
Internet-altruism 1
Capitalist-pigs 0
Oh man, these are going to be a fun 2 years in politics. In the latest, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) future chair of some hardcore committee sent a letter to Rummy on his way out. It goes into detail about war profiteering.
A must read.
Finishing up a big political day, it looks like the cutest little Senator, Denny Kucinich is going to be running again!! I like it because, like if Russ ran, he will force issues that the DLC and RNC don't want to talk about. It hopefully will make the pro-Iraq dem's(Hillary) unacceptable.
Quote from the Cleavland Plain Dealer:
U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich is running for president – yes -- of the United States.
Too little too late there SecGen Annan. Wish you would have grown a pair 3 years ago. I also find it very funny that the Republicans fault you for corruption. That's rich.
With Russ no longer in the running, Hillary being a political lightning rod like I have never seen in my short life, Kucinich is a munchkin, I am officially supporting Obama as my Candidate. Obama/Edwards or Obama/Clinton or Obama/Feingold would be my current dream ticket because: Obama Edwards would literately change the poles of the Earth with the amount of Magnetism they would have together. Obama/Clinton would be a fund-raising juggernaut and she is the wife of the first figurative black president. Obama/Feingold, Black/Jew. . . never mind that won't happen.
I can't wait to look back on this post in a year.
A new decision came down that says that even sharing a folder on a P2P network = distribution. Why does this matter? One of the key defenses of most P2P cases is on a part for the copyright code that says you are not infringing unless you distribute. In most cases the definition of distribute has always applied to physical copies. This is most likely a non-precedent setting case, but also shows that the RIAA team is honing their skills to bring more draconian provisions via Congress.
I like Russ more in the senate. I really do. That way he can talk like this.
In a dorkier post, but hilariousness nevertheless, the new version of Windows has a "key server" which unlocks the program. Which boils down to free Windows Vista.
I love America.
