ScottP

According to John Stewart, he was flyfishing in Montana and then closing a deal on some waterfront property in the Northeast before heading south to be told, twice, to go fuck himself during a media event.

Bush Sr, The Shrub, Brown and Chertoff said they aren't going to play the "blame game", (and then some of them turn around and blame state and city governments for not being prepared). As John Stewart said so well, "Those who won't play the "blame game" are themselves to blame."

Looking through a strange little shop down a side alley in Key West back in 1982, I saw a greeting card with a picture of Nancy Reagan wearing a fur coat. On the coat was a large button that read, "Let them eat cheese." Some shit never changes, and never will.

Your compassion overwhelms. Are you including the gang-raped 5 year old in your blanket statements? Huh? People who want help becuase they chose not to leave is hypocritical. Those people who were stranded need to take responsibility for their own lives. By that logic, intentionally putting yourself into a potentially life-threatening situation and then asking for, and accepting help when you get hurt is also hypocritical. Those people who get injured while climbing, therefore, need to take responsibility for their own lives. So true you are. In fact I have been rescued. However, it was my responsibility from where I was at. It was my responsibility to get back. I requested a helicopter. It was under no obligation for the government to send one to me. Oh. And I never bitched about it. I also never expected a helicopter. I never expected help. I do not whine. My life is my responsibility. By your own record, you were only waiting for a ride off Temple for 7 hours. If you had been there for a week, expecting help to arrive ("Due to the time (3:30), I knew my partner had to get out for a helicopter for me."), I bet there would have been considerable bitching going on. If you truly never expected help, just how far did you get from the accident site in those 7 hours.

Your compassion overwhelms. Are you including the gang-raped 5 year old in your blanket statements? Huh? People who want help becuase they chose not to leave is hypocritical. Those people who were stranded need to take responsibility for their own lives. By that logic, intentionally putting yourself into a potentially life-threatening situation and then asking for, and accepting help when you get hurt is also hypocritical. Those people who get injured while climbing, therefore, need to take responsibility for their own lives.

It might help the conversation a bit if the crag was named so there was some context to your argument.

Let me be the first to spew the tired cliche'... "That gear is now worthless. Send it to me and I'll dispose of it..." Nyuk Yuk Yuk. Sorry to hear about the vehicular assault. I agree with the safety glass notion. Maybe a serious bout of vacuuming would be in order.

A Ass Pocket Full Of Whiskey IMO, his cover of Boogie Chillen is second to only 's masterpiece originals.

"A Salon article on the photographs by Aaron Kinney suggests the captions were a result of a combination of contexual and stylistic differences: Jack Stokes, AP's director of media relations, confirmed today that [photographer Dave] Martin says he witnessed the people in his images looting a grocery store. "He saw the person go into the shop and take the goods," Stokes said, "and that's why he wrote 'looting' in the caption." Regarding the AFP/Getty "finding" photo by [photographer Chris] Graythen, Getty spokeswoman Bridget Russel said, "This is obviously a big tragedy down there, so we're being careful with how we credit these photos." Russel said that Graythen had discussed the image in question with his editor and that if Graythen didn't witness the two people in the image in the act of looting, then he couldn't say they were looting. The photographer who took the Getty/AFP picture, Chris Graythen, also posted the reasons behind his caption: I wrote the caption about the two people who 'found' the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water — we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow."

Care to share what enemy occupations, seiges and other natural disasters you've experienced that gives you the ability to call it as you see it? My guess is you have no idea what those people have experienced and therefore are in no position to second-guess their motivations.

My wife and I are going to scramble Wedge Mountain soon. We will be driving up the Mountain Home Road from 11worth. I have a copy of that 75 Scrambles book, but having never been up there. I was wondering if anybody had some useful advice on getting to the trailhead/start of the route.

More cowbell.

According to the Kramer guide, Marts and Burgner freed it 4 years later. Leave the route alone. It's been safely climbed countless times as is. The need to "fix" it is contrived and pointless.

Word from the Mount...

"The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

I took my last sip about 20 yards before reaching the parking lot. (I was well-hydrated throughout the trip.) How did you construe what I wrote as a "bitch"? I just found it an odd question and thought I'd share the experience.

Last Sunday as I stood at the top of the east face gully of Kaleetan, a pair of climbers appeared from the south. After the usual greeting, the woman asked if I was alone. After I responded that I was, she asked if I had water. Not like "We ran out of water, do you have any to spare?", but more like, "Do you have ample water to complete your trip?" Like the way your mom asks if you've had enough to eat. It reminded me of the time in the trailhead parking lot the night before a trip into Glacier Peak when a drunk walked out of the dark and asked us how many tents we had.

I've done a literal handful of first ascents of crag-like routes, and those I've done weren't on popular crags. My partners and I spent the time trying to do the routes in a style that befit our abilities, with little regard for what future parties would experience. A route I was part of putting up has since been retrobolted. At the time we didn't think this step-across move was that hard, just thought provoking. Others disagreed, asked permission, got it and now there's a bolt at the mental crux of the route. I guess the point I am trying to make is that in some cases, first ascents aren't for anybody but the first ascenders. On a popular/accessible crag you have to expect that what you clean and install will get used. If you're the FA and the courteous sort, you'll take that into account, but it's hardly an obligation. What others do after is pretty much out of your control anyway, so there's no point bitching about it.

yeast=fungus Wrong. Did you flunk high school biology? Truthfully, I don't remember anything from my high school biology. Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) is not a fungus? From the phylum Ascomycota, which to my understanding is a group of fungi.

yeast=fungus

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