Schweitzer and Terrorism

Last night I came home from the last snowboarding trip of the season, this time I headed up to Schweitzer, Idaho. The club left on thursday afternoon but I had class on friday so I had to drive up by myself on friday. The trip took approximately 6.5 to 7.5 hours and it was an incredibly boring drive. I arrived at the cabin at approximately 8:30 at night. Everyone was worn out from riding that day and from driving all day on thursday so they weren't very active. Friday night we all just sat around watched TV, listened to the radio, kicked back in the hot tub and just relaxed.

Saturday was the day, however. Nick, as always, woke up at 7am and the lifts didn't even open until 8:45am. I do not know why this boy always gets up early but he does. Slowly everyone else in the house began to wake up and by 8:30am we were all waxing down our boards and getting ready for the spring conditions. Nick, Charlie and I headed out to the lift lines at approximately 9:30 or so, leaving behind 7 or so other members. It was a late start but the lines are much much smaller in the spring so it doesn't really matter. The weather was nice, around 40 degrees, sunny with very low winds. I had donned all my normal winter gear and was sweating like crazy within an hour. At noon Nick, Charlie and I headed back to the lodge to shed some of our winter gear in favor of lighter clothing, eat some lunch and pick up the rest of the crew. By 1pm the whole crew was up on the mountain minus two females that decided to not ride that day.

It was a good day for riding. The snow was slushy as was expected but at least it wasn't icy. The slush did make for a ssslllloooowwww riding day BUT we stayed on single and double black diamonds all day since the steepness makes up for the slow, sticky snow. The lift lines closed at 4pm and we all snaked through the trees and made our way back to the cabin. Ski-in, Ski-out lodges are the only places to stay!!

As this was the last trip of the season and our school terms had just started I think we all decided to hit it pretty hard that night. Since I had driven my personal vehicle up we were able to use it drive down to the bars in town. We hit the first bar at approximately 8pm. There were nine of us hitting the Sand Point Idaho "scene". When we walked into the first bar we tripled the population of the bar. There were two old men and two young women sitting at the bar when the nine of us walked in. Normally you would think that this would be really lame, but think about it. We dominated the bar, we essentially had two pool tables, a foosball table and a bar at our disposal. One of the people in our crew had met the cute bartender the night before and she was hooking us up all night, drinks were cheap. It was good times.

After kicking back at the bar for a few hours we added four more girls to our group. The two cute girls from the bar, the bartender from the night before and the bartender's friend. Our count was now up to 13. Sand point doesn't have much of a scene, so we hit the VFW Eagles lounge next. Yes I do mean the Eagles as in the old-man eagles club. We quite honestly walked in the door, looked around and walked back out. The next stop was a bar called the backdoor, because it was located behind another bar (hhmm.. I wonder if that bar was called the front door). The backdoor was an interesting bar, they served hard alcohol had nothing on draught and played alternative rock and industrial music. The lighting was dim and the furniture was very industrial/modern looking. Very interesting. The rest of the crew was definitely into the bar though because they served shots in 3 ounce glasses and the shots were cheap.

Just in case you were wondering, I was the DD so I was drinking soda and water all night while at the bars.

Sometime around 10:30 or 11pm we decided to migrate the party back up to our cabin which was nine miles up the mountain (Sand point is in the valley below Schweitzer resort). The 13 or so of us made it up to the cabin and kept the party going, it made for good times. I, again the DD, took a "shuttle" service back to town around 3 or so in the morning to take a few of the girls back home. People may have been drunk but they were still respectful of the opposite sex, we didn't have a "girls gone wild" house. After I got back the party was pretty much done and over with, I watched some TV to get myself to sleep and finally dozed off around 4 or 5am. I woke up the next day (sunday) at 8am, helped clean up the house and then made my way back to Portland.

I am glad I went, it was a much needed break and I feel refreshed and ready to tackle another term of school.

OK, Ok. I'm sure you're wondering about the title "Schweizter and terrorism". Well during the evening I was kicking back in the hot tub with this girl Jess, sitting opposite of each other. We were talking about all kinds of stuff and then she brought up the infamous topic of politics. The topic started out by referencing talk-radio shows. She is a regular listener to Rush limbaugh, Lars Larson, Michael Savage and a few others. Her few points definitely reflected her listening too. Wow, I hope and pray that she never votes or we're all screwed. Ok, so what's the point of the word terrorism in the title. Well the topic of course veered over to that of war and she expressed deep concern over the fact that there is mass immigration from the middle east to France (and also to Germany but she didn't mention Germany). Her reasoning was that France and Germany are harbouring large terrorism networks to specifically attack the United States.

I, of course, asked a very simple question. "Do you think that some of those people that immigrated to France and Germany are simplying trying to escape their own war torn country, to essentially save their own life?" Of course not!!! that can't be it, Why would anyone from a middle eastern country want to save their own life?!? I mean they are born to kill other people by blowing themselves up, right?? She actually honestly believed that was what people from the middle-east did. They had no regard for the life of others nor their own, they were born to kill (notice the word born and not the word raised, she argued for born). Seriously now, just take a step back and think about that statement.

Request: Can someone out there find this study for me because I can't locate it. She stated that someone had done a study in which a 2 yr old child from the middle east was placed in a room with a 2 yr old american child. The 2 yr old child from the middle east immediately attempted to harm the american child. Supposedly this "experiment" was repeated and the results were the same. She stated that the study concluded that the effects of the "hundred years" war are deep rooted into every child born in the middle east.
****Note: The hundred years war had everything to do with western europe, but that's what she said and that's what I am trying to figure out. Personally I think this study was done by some whacked-out republicans with too much free time on their hands (note: I am registered open, and I don't adhere to a republican/democrat/green party title because all the parties are off their rockers, it's just that republicans seem to have utter disregard for others so I'm not fond of the modern hard-core conservative republican.

Ok so moving on. She also stated that what America really needs to do is to close its borders and get themselves out of the UN. I will only say a few words on this.

• Closing our borders: (1) This defeats the entire purpose of America. (2) 80/20, 80% service 20% goods, that is what makes up our economy. If you close our borders other countries might not be as keen on trading with us or more specificially importing to us. What will that do to us.... think about it.  We make hardly anything in this country instead we buy from other countries (or outsource), yes that makes us dependent. Is that good? I don't know how much do we rely on the other parties? 
• Also to me, this statement demonstrates the complete selfishness of the person making the statement and that person's utter disregard for the happiness of others. But then again maybe those of us currently living in America were chosen by a higher being to always be better than everyone else in the world.
• Get the US out of the UN: I won't even comment... it's a silly idea.

I'm not going to spend anymore time refuting this girl's ideas, because they simply aren't worth the time. I can only hope and pray that she does not vote.

Ya'll have a nice day now, ya hear!