Fairweather

Take this bet: Tom Delay will not be convicted. The 2002 money laundering charge is based ex-post facto on Texas campaign legislation passed in 2004. This prosecutor has tried six other times to get a grand jury indictment and failed. With his complicity, he has had a film crew following him around his office doing a documentary. If, as is now alleged, he allowed this crew access to the grand jury, he himself is guilty of a felony. Nonetheless, this is really about getting a mug shot of Delay and footage of a Republican congressman in cuffs for public consumption. Even when the charges are dropped - and they will be dropped - the goal of this prosecutor is acheived. Dirty politics. Plain and simple.

I guess I missed that one.

The reasons I find you so annoying have little to do with this thread and more to do with your completely untempered youthful exuberance...and a myraid of other comments, quips, and chiming in you have done. Lets have a look: http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/466292/an/0/page/0#466292 old news, but still tragic none the less. I was on the Ledges in March and was right at the spot he fell at the top of the Chute. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/453082/an/0/page/0#453082 Mount Yukla, 7500+ feet. One of the hardest mountains in the Chugach. Climbing this face this weekend.SICK! Anyone here ever done it? Should be balls to the wall! So how did your trip go, Clint?? http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/475072/an/0/page/1#475072 http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/475099/an/0/page/2#475099 ...all the while offering your vast expertise on the mountain to others, you can't even identify simple physical features on Rainier. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/461736/an/0/page/0#461736 If there is death afoot in the mountains, you seem to be the first on the scene! http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/446381/an/0/page/4#446381 Ahh yes, the famous Gibraltar Ledge winter ascent. This is where I made the mistake of simply noting on the TR that your ascent was technically a spring climb....WOW, did I get a flurry of angry PM's from the groupies in your college climbing club!! http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/s...true#Post508221 Take some advice, junior: *Don't offer advice to others that you are not qualified to give re: topography, technical, condition reports, etc. *Avoid injecting yourself into fatality reports by saying things like "Oh! I was there once! Oh, Oh!!" *Chestbeat (if you must) AFTER the climb. Not before. And if you insist on tantalizing the masses with a preview of your next grand conquest, at least follow up later with "well...uh...we never really left the trailhead." ...and maybe some pictures of your car or something. BTW: Have you ever even set foot on the Olympic Peninsula?

Actually, Clint, my point is that you are a little impetuous moron and the only one I know who regularly chestbeats before an actual climb....climbs that seem rarely to materialize. I rarely spray like this outside of the appropriate forum, but your little altercation with Sobo the other day finally convinced me that you are but a gnat only half a step up the food chain from DH.

Here's another report that you must have missed. But then, it's easier to perpetuate a myth than to do a little research before spouting off....much less actually climb something. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/488262/an/0/page/0#488262

H-e-l-l-o-o-w-w-o-o. How much longer are you going to help perpetuate this myth before you actually do a little research? You don't know what you are talking about. I'll say this one more time: Conditions on Olympus were great this summer!! Comprende' senor Clint?? Geeeez.

Love his guitar, but always thought his music could use more cowbell. Cliffs of Dover...the best mountain avaition music in history!

I climbed Olympus this past July with my kid. The "moat myth" was exactly that. A myth. Conditions were great.

Lets all go chumming with Rachael!! BTW: Sobo get's the win this time.

I like the part about rehabilitating Westside Road!! If they're serious about this project - which I doubt - then I will support this fee increase. Put it in writing, Mr. Uberaga!

I think it will be Clinton vs McCain, but what if it's .......

JoshK said: Blah blah blah blah blog ABC says blah blah blah blog XYZ said blah blah blah matt p you are wrong cause blog 123 says blah blah blah blah i'm lonely blah blah blah i'm gonna go jerk off to picture of condi rice blah blah blah blah If this is what they're crankin' out now days, I feel vindicated having sent my daughter to another - albeit very liberal - university. Combine the above reply with constant spelling and syntax errors, very little demonstrated knowlege of history, an obviously limited world-view, and I propose that he does not represent his university well here. He does write killer trip reports, though.

One of the many things you'll never understand, eh? Heaven forbid you send your daughter to one of the better universities. Of course given the intellectual fragility of conservatism, I can understand why. I hope you're not referring to my daughter, beyotch. I'll make a necklace outta your teeth. Reword your slander such that it clearly attacks only me.

I guess I just never understood geek humor.

Josh, thanks for reminding me - once again - why I didn't send my daughter to the University of Colorado. I'll admit, however, it appears the Human Moron Systems program there is preparing you, and the next generation for the challenges of tomorrow. You go, Josh!

If the access road hasn't been snowed in by November, and there is snow on the upper mountain, I understand the Clear Creek route is great - and probably the easiest way up the peak. No rope necessary, but if it's icy, crampons might be useful. If your plans are put off until wintertime, the Green Butte/Avalanche Gulch route is the way to go - snow conditions permitting. The actual gulch is fairly steep as you approach Thumb Rock at 12800'. If it's icy, it could be scary for novices. Plowed road to 6800 feet makes it the route of choice though. A great ski too!

I suspect this thread is really about Snugtop's ongoing quest for her Mrs.

Ion microprobe? Is that what your wife calls it??

"I don't have time to sharpen my axe! I'm too busy chopping all this wood." -Just a saying that I'm fond of FWIW. The Tacoma paper did a story a couple months back about longshoremen making $100k per year! Some of them held masters degrees but found the hours/work/comradery on the docks more rewarding. On the other hand, taxpayers finance a good share of higher education. I'm not sure to what extent they should expect a return on their investment.

I fear the home-grown western leftist more than Islamic fundementalists - more than China or any manifestation of the former USSR.

Speaking of verbal blunderers, did anyone hear Howard Dean on Larry King Live last night accusing the white house of playing "hide the salami" (his actual words!) regarding legal briefs written by justice nominee Mier?

Use whatever criteria you would like to! Apparently open-minded, "non-judgemental" libs currently hold the immunity idol on this island.