Fairweather

Recently came to my attention. How long has this policy been in effect at cc.com? Why? Has the local land-manager posse been complaining? Which forum is next?

SHIT!!!! I just tried a test-post there... and you're right. UN-F-ing believable! Say it aint so, John. What has this site become?

Do you always have your posts "pre-approved" by the mods?? And why would they not approve it? Easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

"Keep on whining and complaining......"

Yes. God forbid we actually hold our state agencies accountable for the money we give them.....all-the-while your ilk tries to give them even more! BTW, how can Republicans - who by definition are part of the government - be anti-government? I think what you really meant to say is anti-waste.

A citizen can only vote to "give up their rights" via constitutional ammendment. I-330 does no such thing. It is beyond me how this organization can be against state audits. WTF? Is this group tax-exempt? Do they really exist? I've been climbing for 20 years and have never heard of them. I went in at 5:15am today.

Let me see if I have this right? You post a link to a patently partisan site that claims to represent climbers (not me!), but want to remain insulated from debate? You should have posted this crap in Spray to begin with. Maybe a mod should move it there.

If liberals admit who they really are pre-election day; they lose every time. The only way they attain office, is to misrepresent themselves ala Hillary Clinton.

Doctors versus lawyers. I wonder how Matt will vote? I haven't had this much fun since Mackaw Tribe v Sea Shepherd.

Speak for yourself, Josh. I work 55-60 hrs/week and have never posted - or even viewed this site from my office terminal. You'll note my absence here between the hours of 6am and 5-6 pm.

Welcome aboard, Catbird! Your card is in the mail.

Easy. Just because you, a law abiding, hard-working citizen own a firearm does not mean you should tolerate your mentally ill, alcoholic, drug-house neighbor down the street arming himself. You go to the authorities....or take other 'preemptive' measures.

Na. Those teens were out swimming today. I hear the Straits of Juan de Fuca are nice around the Victoria area this time of year. And The Columbia River can be a great swim just downstream from that BC mine that belches mercury blobs into the water. ...Or maybe they were listening to Vancouver talk radio. Oh - that's right; talk radio exists only at the behest of the state in Canada. No Limbaugh's or dissent allowed, I hear. Only state approved pap. Treetoad, please pick your fights a little better, and don't ever lecture Americans about press freedom from the safety of your bland, mundane, monochromatic media ether.

...I think he tried that. The D's spit in his face with accusations of electoral fraud, mental incompetence, Ted Kennedy/no child left behind dagger-in-the-back, etc, etc, etc. I think the time for "unity" in D.C. is long gone. Time to put forward the conservative agenda.

R's and D's. Presidents come and go. But this represents a chance to make real, long-term change for the better.

Are you movin' to the country? Gonna' eat you a lotta speaches?

They should turn the administration of this site over to The UN and European Union immediately.

The next time you visit a cemetery, look at the all the flowers on the graves around you. Then, look across the way at the markers of those who passed in the 40's and 50's. Not as many flowers. And those gravestones that are dated from the 1930's and earlier have no flowers at all. Those who knew and loved them are gone as well. Unless those in the ground made a difference in their world such that it is historically noted, they are lost. How many climbers lie in the ground with nobody left to know or care about their adventures? Without an afterlife this existence here is just an exercise in futility - all for nothing.

Where will you be 10,000 years from now? http://www.longnow.org/projects/clock/prototype1/

Peter Porterfield?

If a dream Meant anything to me Would it seem A bold reality? If I knew My hand of fate, Would I do- Or hesitate? --Delmar Fadden Died on The Emmons Glacier in 1936 while decending from the summit of Rainier after completing the first solo winter ascent the mountain. Taken from The Challenge of Rainier by Dee Molenaar

A hybridization of dueling/drooling?

Sandi Burger was just convicted of stealing and destroying Clinton-era 9/11-related documents from the national archives. Almost nothing from the press. Whatever. Tom Delay is a powerful Republican who redistricted his home state. I don't blame the press, necessarily, for circling like drueling hounds. The fact remains though; Delay will not be convicted. Likely he will not even face a trial.

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.