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We have one as a pet (My kids named him Pete). It went throught a dozen crickets in 3 days last week. Voracious! Another cool thing about them is how they turn their head to look at you when you approach them.

2nd this one "Ok - so you climb the easy moves straight up then DYNO straight right... Then under-cling the tiny flakes while doing a high-step / mantel move on nothing for feet till you get the good hold and clip the fixed-yet-scary downward facing pin." Yep - easy to on-sight. Sounds more like the moves on Model Worker...

My guess is some guy named Rupert Murdoch had something to do with that...

Pork Chop Torpedo @ Index...weird lean with crumbly feet.

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."

A boardwalk with a swamp over it...

Who, Thompson or Nixon? Uh...basically it was.

My favorite HST quote comes from his Nixon eulogy: "If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

Yes...please do.

crack: Rattletale-pitch 2/Breakfast of Champs (toss up) sport: uh...Newest Industry...?

Looks more like a German soldier smoking a hookah and following a flying onion ring at night somewhere outside of Stalingrad.

Roland's Pink Elephant on Elephant Dome, near the headwaters of the Kern? (I only saw it from the ground.)

"Blame yourself for not making this country one you want to live in" WTF?

My mom voted for the shrub in 04 simply because she felt Teresa Heinz Kerry was a dingbat. Talk about irrational...

I believe the senses cease to function after death, hence your grumpiness is pointless.

Matt, I am not arguing against the organized effort. It has obviously been of some benefit for us as climbers. It is the "Your legislators set policy for state departments - just let them know what you want." mindset that seems a bit naive. Maybe I missed the meaning, but it seemed that the above statement greatly simplified that which requires considerably more effort to acheive.

Gee Professor Freeberg, thanks for the civics lesson. Now I understand everything. Anyway...I'm not bitching. My negative response was to the notion that "just let them know what you want" is going to do anything. Along with the "write your congressman" or "change things with your vote", I have difficulty with the idea that any attempt I, as an individual, make toward changing the screwed up way things are done in government is going to amount to much. This seems rather contradictory to me.

Didn't Fox News lose millions of dollars in it's first couple of years?

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I have contacted my legislators on numerous occasions about a variety of concerns... the response has always been a cordial form letter or quaint hand-written note and never (despite the promise) any follow up... In other news... MattP says Look at that Bolt Nazi thread...we can't organize a consensus about a couple of ancient bolts let alone an entire climbing area. I agree that we could have some clout if we got our collective shit together, but I see that as quite unlikely to happen.

No doubt the harness manufacturers are tooling up to handle a sudden spike in new harness orders...

...and your shit does stink.