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HhMMMMM, I am going to guess November 8, 2006

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No longer a conspiracy tin-foil hat theory. Now President Bush is publicly proclaiming it's all about oil! Who'd o' thunk it?

Enlist the mighty power of cc.com to contribute to the cause! failure

bunch of liberal rags* calling for Rumsfeld's resignation *Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times

Ha! "the sherrif in him". Such a hero. Keeping us all safe from obscene gestures. What was the lie(s)? Has he ever denied this?

I hadn't even heard of Newt an' Hillary, and I don't quite get how that is similar. What McDermott did was an attempt to destroy a political rival. That's politics, not petty weaseldom. BTW, that guy sure is a goofball. I wish someone credible would run against him. Reichert took the food off the table of someone who could not touch him in any capacity, just for what? To curry favor with Bush? Cause he's a power-hungry jerk who likes to fuck with the little guy? I don't know, but it just seems pretty weasely. But in the end, it may not really something to base a vote upon. There's plenty of petty power-wielders out there, god love 'em .

If a bus driver is really flipping people off with a bunch of kids on the bus, then I certainly don't agree with that. Disciplinary action seems reasonable. Still, that doesn't absolve Reichert from being a whiny tattletale, a pansy, limp-wristed toady, trying to score points with the boss by narcing on someone. Lame.

If you had just one crack pitch to climb over and over again, is there any better single pitch than the full Thin Fingers? I think not, but if there is, I'd sure like to hear about it!

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Reichert rats on local bus driver

It'd be tough times for accountants though.

I dunno five years ago maybe? It was back when they renovated the parking lot to accomodate the Seahawks at Husky Stadium when they were between stadiums. Coach had brought a shovel down and was enlisting people to take shifts digging up the golf balls and replacing with with some of the hardpan gravel that was remaining below the new stuff.

I remember that guy. He was really jazzed about helping us out. He said he was doing the power-washing during his break! He was great. I was a little bummed that he picked the one sunny window among 10 rainy days to do his work, but I sure as hell didn't give anybody grief about that. I thought that power-washing made a totally measurable positive difference. It really improved the texture especially (though now it has returned to its natural state ) As for climbers complaining, are you sure you're not thinking of the time that they replaced the gravel with a bunch of golfball-sized rocks? That made all falls ankle-breakers. Totally killed the climbing and created a massive danger to unobservant users. Someone bitched about that for sure, and it got fixed REAL quick. Oh yeah, as for people who bitch about the cracks being lousy. Consider this a training area. Those cracks are excellent training for the real world. If you can get up those things you are well-prepared for many difficult cracks in the real world. If your highest goal in climbing is to ascend Klahanie Crack or the Outer Space shield pitches, then maybe the UW Rock is a bit of overkill. If you want to be able to get up cracks that have actual cruxes (places where the crack gets shallow or pinches down, basically is not perfect the whole way up) then UW Rock will prepare you well.

Congressional Office that exposed corruption in Iraq is terminated "Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces. And tucked away in a huge military authorization bill that President Bush signed two weeks ago is what some of Mr. Bowen’s supporters believe is his reward for repeatedly embarrassing the administration: a pink slip. The order comes in the form of an obscure provision that terminates his federal oversight agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, on Oct. 1, 2007. The clause was inserted by the Republican side of the House Armed Services Committee over the objections of Democratic counterparts during a closed-door conference, and it has generated surprise and some outrage among lawmakers who say they had no idea it was in the final legislation." Read full story here Let's not forget about the Navy lawyer who beat Bushco in supreme court being "let go" Man! Talk about a bubble! Inconvenient truths all over the place. Gotta smoke 'em out and stamp 'em down!

I seriously doubt this Kerry gaffe is going to hurt any democratic candidates (besides Kerry). No dem-leaning person is going to hold dumbshit Kerry's remarks against their local candidate. On the plus side, democratic candidates in tough races like Harold Ford in Tennessee can disparage Kerry in order to woo the independents and Republicans on the fence. Sort of like McGavick calling for Rumsfeld's resignation. It's a total no-lose situation, noone is going to hold it against Ford for criticizing Kerry.

Wads of slings are just as ugly or uglier as a bolted piece of rock. However, my feeling is that it should only be done if the rap is necessary, or done by like 80% or more of the people that attempt the route. For example, if there's 5 pitch route with a fairly easy walkdown from the top. Say there's a stout tree at the ledge atop the second pitch. Once in a while people may get bouted, injured or rained off, and in those cases retreat using the tree. I would hesitate to install bolts near the tree in that location. Slings are much easier to clean up than bolts. If it's a place where there's an easy walkdown, but for the sake of convenience people just keep girdling a tree, no matter how many times the slings are removed, then it's time to be pragmatic, give in to the lazy sods, and install a bolt anchor to protect the tree.

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"The Pentagon cannot account for 14,030 weapons _ almost 4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it began supplying to Iraq since the end of 2003. The missing weapons will not be tracked easily: The Defense Department registered the serial numbers of only about 10,000 of the 370,251 weapons it provided _ less than 3 percent. Missing from the Defense Department's inventory books were 13,180 semiautomatic pistols, 751 assault rifles and 99 machine guns." full article

Very pretty! One thing that struck me is that you don't give out your name (anywhere obvious anyway), but you post pictures and full names of your climbing partners.

What right-wingers see when they read the NY Times

I guess you won't have to worry about that. soldiers in Iraq blocked from reading left-wing websites I wonder how our troops feel about only being able to read right-wing blogs?