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No, I don't recall the part about your nephew at all. But I do recall Jim gushing here his participation in the "World Can't Wait" march a while back--an event sponsored and organized by American communists. He's free to do this of course, and I even salute his idealism; but it's somewhat disingenuous for him to later re-veil his true beliefs for the sake of argument or semantics. If you accept that physical participation in public protest or mass-demonstration is, for lack of a better word, a consummating act, then it seems safe to call someone who marches with fascists a fascist--and someone who marches with communists a communist. Seriously.

...says Jim, who marched arm-in-arm with communists on the streets of Seattle only a few short years ago.

what's really rich is that "pay to play" (user fees) has become generalized in direct response to tax cuts advocated and won by the so-called "small government" (cough, cough) crowd that has been in charge for the last 30+ years. Do try to be consistent. While giving props to the program at Denali the fact remains that, at its core, it is an unnecessary governmental endeavor. Calling for smaller government while decrying the cost/benefit ratio of a pay-to-play scheme that isn't needed to begin with is not inconsistent at all. Do we really need an expensive government enclave at 14,000 feet?

I called the NPS station in Talkeetna and spoke to one of the rangers there (I'll withhold the name for now). I was told that they haven't received any information on a fee increase for 2011, and that they begin accepting registrations on Oct 1 for next season--the increase will definitely NOT hit the 2011 season. But here's the kicker: the proposed fee for 2012 may actually be $1000.00. Keep an ear out--and your keyboard ready. Unlike MRNP where its easy to just skip registration and climb, Denali has the access points pretty well locked up.

Looks like a NPS jobs program. Just what we feared from the start: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/09/12/1337950/climbers-decry-fee-hike.html

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Not at all. It's just that your mumbling idiot somehow managed to become president--thanks largely to his fellow mumbling idiots.

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of61E1FesPU

Republicans good? Not so much. Democrats bad? Almost universally.

If that preacher would just submerge those korans in a big jar of human urine, libtards would call it art and immediately stop all their carping.

Self-righteous indignation with a pinch of W. Predictable, but I love it!

Gotta love the way Ivan always steps in when his fellow libtards cross the line: "Mmmmkaaay, nothing to see here. Let's move along everyone..."

I'd hate to hear what they say in private. Pretty ugly, no doubt.

Hey, check it out: Xenophobia on the left looks just like xenophobia on the right!

24 BD Oval Wire Gates - Lightly used - $75 12 BD Light Ds - Lightly used - $35 Or $100 for all of 'em.

Never forget, KK: We are the racists.

Wow. Unbelievable. Where da PC mods be?

f a i r b e n e f i t s Um, if you say so.

And yet you recently boasted about how you were able to tell your boss to fuck off while you spent the better part of the summer in Bolivia? I smell denial--with a dash of hypocrisy. Sticking to the facts as well as Fox news I see. I would have gladly subjected myself to the whims of the marketplace if my employer said they couldn't afford to let me go. Would have been my choice. But I'm in a profession and decently educated. I see a big difference between professional jobs and trade jobs. How this morphs in your tweaky head to an argument for a non-regulatory utopia is part of the continued mystery you show us every day. Amazing really. You proposed that corporations are interested only in their share price, yet your sabbatical represents exhibit A to the contrary. Thanks again for making my point.

...and then they got greedy and drove their employers across the Pacific.

And yet you recently boasted about how you were able to tell your boss to fuck off while you spent the better part of the summer in Bolivia? I smell denial--with a dash of hypocrisy.

When I saw your thread title I began to think that maybe you had put up a new route down at Smith or something. Then I remembered how you're much too, um, aristocratic to share your climbing exploits with we commoners here...

Thanks for the heads up. We're going up there next June, but $500 is absolutely outrageous--as is the lack of transparency in the government that supposedly works for us. This is what happens when NPS staff in a particular unit are allowed to cultivate a "country club" mentality. Sounds like maybe some transfers are in order.

Trip: Ingalls Peak - East Ridge Date: 9/3/2010 Trip Report: With my little brother Steve, Pope, and his buddy Keith, I hiked to Ingalls Lake and climbed the East Ridge of Ingalls Peak on Friday. A very enjoyable climb on fairly solid rock--once you're above the approach gully scramble. All fourth or low-5th class with one or two 5.7 moves on the last pitch. Loads of non-epic fun.

Just the opposite, bitch. No HFCS or refined sugar for 6mos now. After 30 days I almost roundhouse kicked a Mike&Ike dispenser and feasted on the supermarket floor.