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When I think "bouldery" or "boulder problem" I think steep, tweaky and tricky moves. And also, a sequence that is way easier once you get the trick figured out. And can you really call a crack bouldery? As far as hard starts go, how about "Beak Beak Beak". Now there's a classic! Everyone I take up there loves that damn thing. As far as "Thin Fingers ... the likelihood of injury is low", the way I heard it, that's where Paul Boving died (pitched off that move and hit his head). And agreed, that Slow Children start is freaky, what with being right above the belay slings and what not (catch your heel and flip over, or seriously wrack your nuts on the chains, or smash your belayer, or ALL OF THE ABOVE!). And the Zoom start, how the hell do you do that!? (without yarding on those convenient bolts )

Has anybody figured out the acrobat chicks, the three running women, the blue necklace thingy? Those three fat guys on the roof? I now think those brightly colored panels are The Doors (and the Pastels).

Chili peppers Hole Cranberries Pastels? White Wedding? (Wedding Present?) WTF are the oranges with faces and the contortionists supposed to be?

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Black Flag U2 Dead Kennedys Spoon Queen

Octupus's Garden (all of 'em) St. Vitus I guess these would be in the 8/9 category I don't know if I'd send someone "working" on 5.8 up the South Face of Jello Tower (maybe if they were graduating 5.8). And what about Angel Crack, that's a good workshop item for 9+/10- Oh, and Plum Pudding did not seem difficult for 5.9 (compared to, say, DH p1 or Roger's Corner), but I've only followed it, so it could be TR bravery talking.

+ = Spacegulley!!

mmmm....okay You think you could be a little more specific on what point you're trying to make by using splendid examples to refute the controversial opinion that all the evil in the world is caused by American foreign policy?

Hey Jay, Didn't you listen to GW yesterday or read about it or anything? He clearly said that the insurgency in Iraq is made up of "rejectionists, Saddamists and terrorists". I think you can pretty much attribute the motivations of the first two to be a reaction to American foreign policy (one in particular). El Prezidente also specifically mentioned that the third group (the only one in which your comment has some relevancy) is relatively a very small one.

Oh my god! A terrorists from Belgium. Looks like we'd better invade Venezuela before it's too late!

Has this been posted already? ice-axe murder

carrot and stick

U.S. military secretly pays Iraqi newspapers for running stories trumpeting U.S. mission

Scenic March of the Glacier Lillies, 4th of July at Paradise Climbing N Ridge of Middle Peak of Index, Index Traverse, July 2005

Check out the recent posts on Baghdad Burning. The top post starts off with her description of loverd ones being rounded up in the night, killed and tortured, and of how this breeds more hate and more violence ... Then you can move on to discussion of the torture houses and abductions perpetrated by the Iraqi's currently in power ... Finally on the third post you get to read her musings on the scenario of innocent families burned to the bones by white phosphorus... That part stopped me... sheesh, it's as bad as reading one of those action news blow-by-blows of a child abuse/abduction case... Anyway, just in case anyone's feeling the need for a little angst/depression

Send that bitch into the mags n' shit.

Speaking on the House floor on Friday, Representative Jean Schmidt, Republican of Ohio, asserted that the colonel had "asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, marines never do." [...] Asked to respond on Monday, the congresswoman's office said only, "Mrs. Schmidt's statement was never meant to disparage Congressman Murtha." Is this a guy/girl thing? Is there something I'm not understanding here?

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gremlin-only posts are the way to go

I think fair and just is one person, one vote. It amazes me how so many people vote for politicians whose primary goals include redistributing wealth away from those voters. I mainly favor "progressive" strategies because of self interest. Though repugnance of letting people die in the street is part of my equation, the practical side is that I'd like my environment to not be a jungle where I need to carry a gun just to keep desperately poor people from trying to rob/kill me for subsistence. I guess I fall in the "teach a man to fish, and you'll feed him for a lifetime" crowd, rather than the current conservatives who seem more like the, "if we take away his food, he'll have to learn to fish, or die" type.

I tacked about five miles onto my commute to save $ 200K on a house. I think that was a good tradeoff considering it meant the difference between buying a house and not. I can still run to or from work if I'm feeling energetic.