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My very experienced partner, Annabelle Bond (whom I am dating) and I would like to join your Cho Ohface expedition. We are tired of PAYING TO CLIMB, and can outfit the entire team in Tibetan Yak-Fur Vests, which Annabelle says makes me look "hott".

I once saw aid climbers on El Capitan. I am sure we can hire porters at the Index store for $25 per day. I believe we can acclimatize on Mt Si, and climb the NNB in 1.5 days. To all the detractors and naysayers who believe it is not possible to climb this jewel without PAYING TO CLIMB, I only say this: ............................. ....................../´¯/) ....................,/.¯./ ..................../..../ .................../..../ ................../..../ ................./..../ ............/´¯ '...'/´¯¯`•¸ ........./'/.../..../......./¨¯\ ........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...') .........\.................'...../ ..........''...\.......... _.•´ ............\..............( ..............\.............\... ...............\.............\...

Actually, there is nothing "new" about it. The reciprocation agreement is from 1990. We also had some of them here during the last ('02) midterm elections. My understanding is that they will have no power of any kind, but will only issue some type of report after the elections to spotlight potential problems. How is this a bad thing? We may be the beacon of democracy, but let's no kid ourselves, shady shit goes on in elections, even here. I'll skip the Florida 2000 bit because it's been hashed to death, so here's another example: Illinois 1960. Kennedy's victory was more than likely the product of Daly's manipulation of the election. We are not giving up anything, only inviting a delegation of somewhat disinterested people to observe and tell us if they see problems. Surely transparancy is a good thing in a democratic election?

And your girlfriend says you're a practioner of "single push" tactics.

Fairweather, you read the NY Post? A Rupert Murdoch paper. The same guy who owns/runs Fox News. Weak. There is plenty of intelligent commentary from the right, but please spare us the tabloid rantings of the Post. I tell you what is funny though: This writer who is bitching about feminized men and "poets" is pretenious enough to use the name Duncan Maxwell Anderson...sounds like a fuckin' nancy-boy pussy name to me.

I have not hiked any of the Cascade Jewels, but I am an amateur jewel thief. You can see I wish to Not Pay for Jewels. Can you please consider me as a climber and translator for the Cho Oye Como Va climb (I speak Spanish)?

Easy there dirt-neck. We all know you've seen the Rampage video.

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Let me help you out with that one. It works like this: 1. Run focus groups in Canton, OH; Des Moines, IA; and Pittsburg,PA. Develop 3 or 4 potential "messages" or replies to criticisms from these sessions. 2. Conduct a national telephone poll with said "messages" 3. Adopt the "message" that sells best among those who fall into the "undecided, likely voter" category.

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jjd: You read it correctly, and the 9/11 Report snips are interesting. Nevertheless, there was no good reason to compromise this source whether raising the threat was justified or not. If they had sufficient reason to raise it, fine do it. But you have to ask yourself "why the need to justify it?" To me all signs point to the fact that they've been playing politics with the alerts in the recent past and now that they have (or potentially have) a real reason to raise the level, they've compromised their believability such that they have to justify that decision to the public. My background readings on this case support what Murray states above.

Goddamn j_b, that would take me seven or eight days to compile all the "sources" with extreme bias that you routinely use in your arguments. You obviously buy into them, hence your credulousness, or credulity if you prefer (both are correct btw).

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That's rich coming from you, one who dines at the trough of the left-wing propaganda machine.

Very good Mr. Fairweather, now do you have a hall pass? Am I to assume that you are also negotiating with terrorists behind the administration's back ala Ronnie Ray-gun? jjd: In spite of the long winded Ridge letter, you seem to be missing my point. Cast aside the various "convenient" terror alert timings for a minute, that is only peripheral to my point. My point is: These assholes outed this guy Khan, as a way to back-up their decision to raise the alert level, and in doing so compromised a valuable intelligence source. Now you might say "but everyone was questioning the relevance of their decision to raise the alerrt, they had to give some background". I reply to that: Bullshit. If they hadn't been playing politics with the alert for the past year, there would be no need to "back up the decision".

Patriot Act is a whole 'nother ball of wax, save it for another thread. I am pissed that these jokers compromised an intel source that was paying big dividends in tracking down al Qaeda operatives, in an attempt to justify a politcally motivated raise of the terror alert based on info that was 3 YEARS OLD! (I think I need to raise my run-on sentence alert to code red after that one)

Nice job letting politics interfere with doing your fucking jobs. Assholes. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/09/terror.wrap/index.html

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I'm gonna go ahead and say Malcom is full of shit. On sandstone, or other soft rock, I could see the potential for brushing making a hold bigger (by sculpting the rock above/behind it). Dreamtime is on granite. If anything, I would expect brushing to make the holds worse be removing texture and abrading the tiny edges into even tinier edges. I've climbed plenty of boulder problems that required brushing to go at their given grade, but ONLY because a bunch of chalk happy beanie boys with a community chalk bucket the size of a daypack felt the need to immerse their entire hands into the chalk before every attempt and then do the eura-wanker chalk blow...never mind that is was 45 degrees out and zero chance that their hands were sweaty. Maybe I'm wrong and they were sweaty, after all they didn't have their shirts on

I could do without Al Jihada, they show too many pictures of this fugly bastard, who BTW is about to get his head ripped off and stuffed up his ass. Nice choppers Muqtada, now come here so I can stomp them out with these size 10 Redwings. This fucker shoulda been clipped 8 months ago.

If you are Alex Huber, you can get Sportiva to make you some Mythos with undyed leather and have cool tan ones. The rest of you wankers get to deal with purple toes instead The hardest slab stuff I've done has always been in old blown out slippers, but for anything more than a pitch I prefer a stiff edging shoe that is well broken in so that is has some flexibility, but still alot of edging power. Slab is all about body postion and weight transfer. Watch someone highstep sometime...most people will almost have to "bounce" onto the high foot. If you can keep the good body position (i.e. centered over your feet), make smooth weight transfers, and have alot of strength and flexibility in your lower body, the shoes are the least of your worries.

The report release this morning showed growth to be about 14% of the predicted level, or roughly 32k, when consensus estimates were for 225k, and the lowest growth level since December. Furthermore, the last two months numbers were adjusted downward by a total of 61k (which also happened at least one other month this year as I recall). The economy is not humming along. If you believe those job numbers are good, you should look at Wall Street's last two sessions....a 300pt decline in the Dow, almost entirely driven by the jobs report. Add the oil situation (which had already beaten the market down this week) and you have some convincing signs that all is not well on the economic front. I also find it curious that last month they chose to use the business survey numbers to report unemployment, while this time they chose household survey numbers. Especially when you consider this little nugget: "July's overall gain was the smallest since December and well short of the 150,000 or so jobs economists say need to be created each month just to keep pace with an expanding labor force and ensure the unemployment rate doesn't rise." Check it out: http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/040806/economy_11.html

A fig8 version of the EDK has a greater propensity to "roll/capsize/etc" along the strands than an overhand. (not the same kind of roll as in "pass over terrain "like you are talking about). DO NOT TIE THIS KNOT. I HIGHLY SUGGEST you read this study (don't miss the chart of results at the bottom where Fig8 style EDK capsized at 300lb and less). http://www.xmission.com/~tmoyer/testing/EDK.html