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Grayling in the Chena and Delta Clearwater, pike in Minto flats, rainbows in upper Montana and Peter's creeks, kings in the Kenai, chum in the Salcha, and silvers in the Delta Clearwater. Then packing all my junk into the Soob and heading south.

I've had one for about 4 years now, the stainless steel version of the one you linked (which is alum). Works very well, easy enough to clean. But I'm using it in car camping situations so the weight might be more than you want to bother with.....although it's not really that heavy and the alum has to be a bit lighter. No complaints with mine. Just make sure you have some drinking vessel that will fit between the spout and the "shelf" thing or you'll have to hold your mug kinda half tilted under it while it brews and spews. You could always do the french press top on the Alladin mug thing. Better than folgers, and lighter than 'spro maker.

Another vote for the FF. I have a eight year old 20deg, weighs right at 2lb w/dryloft shell. Best bag I've owned hands down. Plus, you're supporting the local bros instead of some corporate wanks getting Mao's millions to sew em. Feathered Friends, you can't go wrong.

You know what this beyotch needs? More cowbell.

Well, considering the oil companies don't set the price of crude, the traders on the bourses (NYMEX, etc) do, and the oil companies don't set the price of refined products..again, the bourses do....you don't really have a strong point. And you may recall many gas stations were prosecuted for "price gouging" in the aftermath of Katrina/Rita. Where the oil companies are screwing us is royalties from production on public lands. Very big issue up here, particularly when the shitheels still haven't paid all the fines from the Exxon Valdez debacle and there was the largest spill recorded on the north slope last month. Gasoline is suffering from a refinery bottleneck from volume capacity, new regs (as JayB mentioned), and the annual maintenance downtime/switchover to summer formulation. It's a commodity, and I'm not opposed to the market mechanism of price setting, as it will demand conservation. The downside is that it affects the middle class and the poor disproportionately. That's a tough nut to crack. We're looking at a disaffected middle and lower class and vast income disparities throughout the world. Last time things looked like this economically was around 1910 or so. And you see what that led to in the next fifty years...WWI, Great Depression, civil war in Spain, WWII, Korean War...and so forth. Interesting times.

Mangina.

Why closed?

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No Barbies in Yakima?

You don't have ta. I'll be on the ferryboat back to PNW in Oct

I'm not into the cross dressing thing so I don't wanna get IN your pants. Getting you OUT of your pants might be another story. Sounds like most of my partners. You'll fit right in. Yah no problem, as long as you sport the dough for the brews and supply the car, I'll go into the store and buy it, and drive your rig way over the speed limit. Don't have a dog. G-spotter, Dean Potter, call me whatever name you want. As long as you're ok with the

Are ya makin' buildings or layin' rugs? Save the drama fo yo mama. Time and place. Not here. Not now.

Dude in the back against the car is EE, the chick is Shelly , no idea who the ice cream eater is, dude in front is Leroy?

In 2006.... March 21 – Bloomberg (Claudia Carpenter): “Orange-juice futures in New York rose to their highest price since 1992 on speculation the government will reduce its estimate of Florida’s orange crop because of damage from dry weather. Florida is the world's second-biggest grower.” And way back in 1983..... "Randolph: This is not a meal, Valentine. We are here to try to explain to you what it is we do here. We are commodities brokers, William. Now, what are commodities? Commodities are agricultural products, like coffee that you had for breakfast, wheat, which is used to make bread, pork bellies, which is used to make bacon, which you might find in a bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwich. ---------- Mortimer said it was for research. Research, so he can get that top secret report, two days before it goes public. Oh my God, the Dukes will corner the entire frozen orange juice market. Unless somebody stops them. Or beats them to it." --------

Southern Comfort. Kanye West. Opera. Joyce. Casinos.

Damn dude. Sort that shit out in person not here. I got one for ya...my first job in PDX. I had a company rig I would take home at night. On the way to the office one morning I got fired for making a right on red without coming to a complete stop at a T intersection (boss was in the convenience store at the corner). There was no street to my left at the interstion, I could only go straight or turn right. Since the opposing traffic also had a red light, there was no possibility of any conflict. And I got canned for it. Not speeding. Not screeching tires around the corner driving crazy...just recognizing there was no possible issue with turning right on red. If anyone should have understood situation and that it was impossible to have a collision it was my boss....a traffic engineer.

Because 99.99% of your poltical cohorts that I hear advancing these very arguments do so with no intent to help these people as they view them as inferior and lesser beings. Now, you may very well be the Black Swan Event of the wingnutteratti and have moral motives for backing these policies, I think you are mistaken in your conclusions, but good for you if that's true about your motive. Having read your commentary on matters in general over a long period of time, I am hardly persuaded that this is the case. We could keep arguing about min wage, but it's the same argument that's been going on for 30+ years, with the same talking points on both sides. What baffles me is how, as a free market capitalist type, you have no problems with excessive CEO compensation. Are you not a shareholder? You enjoy the fact that dividend yields are in the toilet historically while these inept crooks divert company cashflow into their own pockets and dilute the float with excessive op grants? They sit on each other's boards, collect a chunk there while approving the comp packages for each other..it's ridiculous. That's your money they're stealing. Who owns the corp? Last I checked it was shareholders.

Well there's now a confluence of Nick's reco, and mine: TNF Cat's Meow 20deg polarguard delta, last year's model closeout on sale @ Campmor $130 right now.

I beg to differ. It may be consensus among your Univ. Chi Friedmanite winger bretheren. Here's a list of 562 economists who would say otherwise: http://www.epinet.org/stmt/economistsminwage200410web.pdf An excerpt: We believe that a modest increase in the minimum wage would improve the well-being of low-wage workers and would not have the adverse effects that critics have claimed. In particular, we share the view the Council of Economic Advisers expressed in the 1999 Economic Report of the President that “the weight of the evidence suggests that modest increases in the minimum wage have had very little or no effect on employment.” While controversy about the precise employment effects of the minimum wage continues, research has shown that most of the beneficiaries are adults, most are female, and the vast majority are members of low-income working families.

Jay, given your last statement... Please reconcile these: Productivy gains have been enormous over the last decade according to govt stats. In that same time period, real wages have been flat to down, while CFO and CEO salaries have roughly tripled. BTW, I don't think you can eliminate povery by just paying everyone wages that are above the poverty threshold. That is not my assertion. But I also don't believe that you automatically hamstring a business by requiring minimum wage. Further, I assert that when your employees are not having to work two jobs to make ends meet and not stressing the fuck out because they can't take a sick child to the doctor, you will increase productivity of those employees and to some degree offset the higher wage. I don't believe that it is moral, ethical, or christian nor a benefit to shareholders to pay corporate execs wildly bloated salary packages while the rank and file employee can't heat their home or feed their kids. You deem it socialist, I call it human compassion. I leave you with two thoughts: 1. As of 2005, if the minimum wage had risen as fast as CEO pay since 1990, the lowest paid workers in the US would be earning $23.03 an hour today, not $5.15 an hour. 2. In 1965 the CEO:Worker pay ratio was 24:1. Today it is over 430:1. In Japan today it is 55:1. And before you claim "they are worth it" take a look at Treas. Sec Snow's tenure as CEO of CSX Rail, or Ken Lay, Kozlowski, etc, etc.

Shit or get off the pot.

and good luck.

JTuff, I think you meant: Big mofo SUVs or polar bears

.12 ga or .44mag or tabasco in a spray can