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Damn, Gary, that's terrible! Maybe you should call the border office and complain to a supervisor about the asshole guard. Of course, that'll probably put you on The Blacklist. fascist assholes!

You can get in a full day with the routes in Climbing Washington. Definitely do Orange Sunshine. I think it's 2+ hours from Seattle.

Ingalls TH is open and there's no reason you can't approach Stuart that way. There was an inch of snow at Ingalls Pass yesterday.

Mozilla has built-in ability to disable popups, as well as the ability to block images from a given address. You see an ad, you right-click on it, select "Block Images from this Server", and no more ads. Just make sure that the same address isn't serving useful images for the site. I want something like that for Flash ads, too. I rarely run into websites that are useless because they're written for IE, but it does happen.

Are you having to move out because of the floods?

Holy shit, it's closed for the SEASON: web page

It looks like Highway 20 is closed for a good stretch due to a landslide. I can't find any more news about it than this (click on "North Cascade HWY SR20"): web page

Speaking of "iron lung": Chad Kellogg was competing against a Kazakh who had been training in a pressure chamber to simulate altitudes of up to 9000m (!). Bubble boy only got third, though.

Yeah, must be the stress of not climbing enough. I know what tech is, having been an actor since high school. I didn't think the cc.com/theatre crossover was very high, though, and your comment was like an inside joke -- infuriating and pointless to those who aren't "in". See PM. On topic: I can't decide whether sprinting at twenty-odd-thousand feet or the flying dyno with ice tools is the most outrageous part of Vertical Limit.

Oh yeah, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, so it's NOT FUNNY TO ANYONE BUT YOU.

Believe what you read in Spray and email forwards... it's easier than thinking! Any Democrat or Republican who believes everything in those lists deserves a slap upside the head. And since when is adultery a sex crime? Don't you bone the neighbor's wife every Sunday morning, trask?

Yikes. Well, at least you can still ride your bike up the last 7.6 miles...

http://www.nps.gov/noca/news-release.htm#94

Here's a view of J-berg and the C-J Couloir from this past weekend:

Word. Thanks for the info, Caveman.

What's the speed limit on the trail?

dammit, man! so much for the onsight!

Sorry to see you go, pope. At least you were more reasonable than Dwayner. This banning and editing is getting out of control.

that story is dumb from both perspectives. um morning radio shock jock. what do you think his job is? what a bunch of whiners. get on with your bad selves. don't cry about it, do something about it. It sounds like the pissed-off cyclists were doing something about it. They asked the radio station to apologize and to run bike awareness spots or somesuch. Since the station manager was unaware of the state laws that permit bicycles on roads, obviously there is some education to be done.

Here's my bit of talk - action: Long approach in winter, looks kind of gnarly. Did you send it yet, Bob?

Homeland security is being paid little more than lip service. The agency itself is still "getting their act together" (source: GAO) and has relaxed civil service rules that arguably make it the least desirable federal agency to work for. Not to mention the fact that state and local security programs are utterly underfunded and undersupported by the federal government. Even New York has some pretty laughable security problems and it's definitely underfunded (firehouses closing, etc.).

The Patriot Act allows law enforcement to monitor your communications (phone, email, fax, web, library records, credit card records) and even allows wiretaps of those "proximate" to you, all without a court order (violates Amendment IV, illegal search and seizure). Furthermore, such searches and seizures may be conducted without your knowledge, in advance or after the fact. The act also relaxed restrictions on the ability of the FBI, CIA, and other intelligence agencies to spy on Americans. All of these powers are, as Beck mentioned, not restricted to the vaguely-defined crimes of terrorism. Some of the erosion of liberties is not directly a result of the Patriot Act, but part of the overall changes in Justice Dept. policy under Ashcroft and Bush. For example, if you're suspected of "terrorism", you can be shipped to Cuba (where no one can hear you scream), police do not have to release any information about you or your arrest to the public record, can hold you indefinitely without charges, can cause your lawyer (whenever they get around to letting you have one, maybe after interrogation) to be under a permanent gag order for "national security" purposes. All of those things have already happened to people, US citizens included. The Patriot II Act hopes to enable the government to strip you of your citizenship at their discretion (among other things)! I think it's pretty weak to sit there and hope that someday the courts will wake up and realize that this law has brought us closer to becoming a police state like East Germany, where everyone had a file with the State Security Service.

The US has more people... so that means it has more doctors and nurses. What's your point? When you paid $10, the government paid the rest, which really means that all your fellow citizens paid a fraction of a cent each for you to get two major surgeries and to help pay the salaries of several doctors, nurses, and hospital staff (jobs). I assume "Hillary Care" was Hillary Clinton's proposal for a health care system. Is Congress voting on such a system? No. Why bother to mention it? Government holidays in France and their health care system are totally different things. We certainly don't have the same holiday culture as a European country. The increase in the number of physician's assistants and in the duties given to less-trained staff has given our doctors more time to play golf on self-imposed vacations, anyway. And I would bet that elderly people dying in France has a lot to do with where they live and the fact that they didn't have air conditioning, rather than a poor health care system. You seem to be making very tenuous correlations here, Fairweather, without any evidence or investigation.

That short fist crack at the base of GNS (first pitch of Aries?) kicked my butt the first couple times I did it. I had to pull on gear because my technique was weak . There's really just one move you have to commit to -- getting a foot in the crack.

If you can't digest more than a sentence at a time, trask, then give up all hope of ever being well-informed and give up your right to complain about the sound-bite media.