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I like this one best: EPA Address #2 Trees: The real cause of forest fires

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE CONVENTION SCHEDULE, New York 2004 6:00 PM Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Falwell 6:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance 6:35 PM Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd amendment) 6:45 PM Salute to the Coalition of the Willing 6:46 PM Seminar #1: Getting your kid a military deferment 7:30 PM First Presidential Beer Bong 7:35 PM Serve Freedom Fries 7:40 PM EPA Address #1: Mercury, it's what's for dinner. 8:00 PM Vote on which country to invade next 8:10 PM Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh 8:15 PM John Ashcroft Lecture: The Homos are after your children 8:30 PM Round table discussion on reproductive rights (MEN only) 8:50 PM Seminar #2 Corporations: The government of the future 9:00 PM Condi Rice sings "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" 9:05 PM Second Presidential Beer Bong 9:10 PM EPA Address #2 Trees: The real cause of forest fires 9:30 PM Break for secret meetings 10:00 PM Second prayer led by Cal Thomas 10:15 PM Lecture by Karl Rove: Doublespeak made easy 10:30 PM Rumsfeld demonstration of how to squint and talk macho 10:35 PM Bush demonstration of trademark deer-in-headlights stare 10:40 PM John Ashcroft demonstrates new mandatory Kevlar chastity belt 10:45 PM Clarence Thomas reads list of black Republicans 10:46 PM Third Presidential Beer Bong 10:50 PM Seminar #3 Education: A drain on our nation's economy. 11:10 PM Hillary Clinton piZata 11:20 PM Second Lecture by John Ashcroft: Evolutionists: The dangerous new cult 11:30 PM Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh again. 11:35 PM Blame Clinton 11:40 PM Laura serves milk and cookies 11:50 PM Closing Prayer led by Jesus Himself 12:00 AM Nomination of George W. Bush as Holy Supreme Planetary Overlord

Fish sells em, shops sell'em, find a bro to swage one up for you, or... Send me a PM with an address and I'll mail you one for free. If you dat broke, I'll consider it charity

Sounds like a sport climber huh?

BD Yos hammers suck the butt. Broke the handle out of the one I used pretty quick and they ain't heavy enough for real nailing. I now use the Kong Eagle wall hammer. Jim Bridwell Signature model. Heavier (about 30oz), and good all around design for real nail-ups. You can find 'em on the net for about $65. Also, ClimbMax in PDX carries them. That's where I got mine.

Ochoa Taqueria, on 8th in Hillsboro, OR.

This whole thread is a bunch of hyperbole, and while I generally enjoy hearing Andy Rooney's commentary, that's a load of shit. Fifty years from now the only thing people will remember is that we ousted Hussein, on dubious premises, and what the eventual outcome was...democracy sweeping the region, a quick transition to radical islamic theocracy..whatever. The eventual outcome will do more to color the perception in the history books than any prison abuse scandal. Furthermore, I would HOPE that the indefensible brutality of the radical muslims...suicide attacks on innocents, beheadings of non-combatants, innumerable terrorist acts....would be what stands out in the history books. This administration is inept, and has sold conventional conservatives down the river with their bungling, fiscal irresponsibility, and blind arrogance in sticking to their preconceived notions. I don't condone or make excuses for the Abu Ghraeb situation. I believe it's beyond a "few bad apples acting of their own volition" and that those who ordered it should be punished. Nevertheless, the degree of outrage shown in both the media and the arab street over this, in direct comparison to the LACK of outrage shown in the arab world over the murder of Berg, Daniel Pearl, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, and the four contractors who's bodies were burned and mutilitated is sickening. Where is the perspective? We have lost some moral high ground because of this, but when the moral example perpetrated by the jihadists is on the order of cold blooded murder of innocents and subsequently receives less condemnation and outrage and faces no accountability within the muslim world...somebody has a fucked up sense of comparison.

Perhaps, but listen to the Derek and the Dominoes album...the Clapton/Allman pairing was pretty nice eh?

Ahh, just Ford answering the new category spawned by the Nissan Murano, Chrysler Pacifica, Toyota Highlander, etc. Looks like shit, not tough or capable like a truck, too big to get good gas mileage, too small to carry a bunch of stuff. I see quite a few of these (Pacificas particulary) around town. Although in Fairbanks the Suby wagon outnumbers any other car by a wide, wide margin. I'd wager that about half the cars on the road up here are s00bs.

Duane Allman smokes all dem foos. You could argue for some of Warren Haynes Govt Mule solos too.

I'll take issue with this study because I don't believe its ultimate conclusion is correct. The ultimate conclusion is that NPR is not liberally slanted. I believe that is false for the following reason: Yes, the outside sources, as shown in the study, are more often conservative. However, the NPR hosts, producers/editors, and on-air staff commentators/reporters have a fairly strong liberal leaning. It is quite evident in their tone, questions, and editing. The points they emphasize, and the way interviewers address interviewees also show this bias. These people above have a much greater impact on the shows than the guest sources they interview. I like NPR. I listen to it approx 5 days a week because it's less biased/more neutral than some other sources and it's relatively intelligent for morning/afternoon radio. I'm probably just slightly left of center. But I definitely sense the liberal...well not exactly bias, but slant, in NPR. Just yesterday in the car I was thiking that the way the host asked questions, the points he stressed, and his demeanor and tone, made him seem obviously liberal and slanted. I still like NPR though.

Hmm, der Huberbuam are gettin' a run for their money: Huber: El Corazon(Salathe',Albatross,Son of Heart,Heart Route), El Nino(NA Wall), Salathe', Free Rider (Salathe'->Excalibur), Golden Gate (Salathe, Heart), Zodiac. Caldwell: Salathe, Lurking Fear, Muir, Zodiac, Dihedral Wall, West Buttress.

Mtn Home is pretty close to Boise, so the area you're thinking of is probably Lucky Peak canyon aka the Black Cliffs. They are maybe 20 minutes from Mtn Home, it's basically 5 minutes east of Boise on ID HWY21. Half-pitch length stuff, but lots of it, basalt trad and sport.

C-mac was on the phone with 'em not me.

From C Mac: just got off the phone with Beth Rodden-Caldwell who told me about Tommy Caldwell's latest addition to his spree of incredible big wall free climbing ascents. On saturday May 22, Tommy Caldwell finished free climbing the Dihedral Wall which is now likely the hardest big wall free climb in Yosemite, if not the world. Over 4 days, Caldwell, belayed by Beth and Adam Stack, climbed a staggering number of hard free climbing pitches on one El Cap's oldest and most distinct lines. The free version of the Dihedral Wall follows the original aid line very closely with only a few variations. The first five pitches are 5.12. The crux 6th pitch is rated 5.14a, the first pitch to receive that rating on El Capitan. After that comes a unrelenting 9 pitches pitches of 5.13. of those, one is rated 5.13d, a few are rated 5.13c, and many are rated 5.13b

jjd, I understand the implications of the supply curve shift and why it should decrease production. I just don't see it as realistic for the reason you said...relative inelasticity of demand. Holding the consumer price constant (i.e. the tax burden is completely upon the producer...and yes, I understand that is unrealistic) and the demand constant, I don't see the production decrease happening. All I see in that scenario is decreasing margins for the producer. The author states: "Widget sales are less profitable at any given price, which induces sellers to supply fewer of them." That's where my point of contention lies. Yes, the S/D basics indicate decreased production. But tell me this: You own XYZ widgets. Because of a new tax, your margin just went down from 30% to 20%. You cannot pass along the costs through price increases. Will you sell as many as you can (assuming you don't have a monopoly you can sell at your historical level or a potentially higher level if you can gain market share) to retain economies of scale and hold down fixed costs per, or decrease production thereby reducing gross revenue? I recognize that oil is a completely different animal. I just find the assertion unrealistic unless the producer has other methods to generate revenue that become more attractive in the new environment.

Hi Merv!

Yeah yeah yeah. See above.

They are all over the southeast. I've got more stories than you've got beer to tell them over. To just paint them all with a stereotypical brush: Rednecks. Steal bolt hangers. Dangerous. Believe they have the "right of way". Don't seem to understand that they can rap any place on the cliff with the same result, but climbing routes go specific places. Fat. Ignorant. Communist. Moonbats.

Ok, that makes sense, but is only half the equation. You basically said: Without manipulating the price the consumer pays, demand should remain constant...so increased production won't help the producer. Easy enough. But her assertion is that they would actually decrease production and I'm still having trouble seeing why this would be the case. She argues that the tax would induce sellers to supply less. I would assume she is saying they restrict supply to drive prices to a level that generates the margin they want and they would just produce less long-term thereby keeping prices high but cutting overall production costs. At some price level the increased fixed cost per unit is offset and the per unit margin increases. The challenge to the producer it seems, would be to create the same cash flow. In any industry with a large capital infrastructure, it seems that this would be difficult. Sure, you reduce labor costs when cutting production, and raw materials costs, but your fixed costs per unit increase and your economies of scale in both production and raw materials likely increase (I'm talking generic business, not oil specifically). Oil is a crazy business environment, nevertheless I do own some XOM shares.

Pete, your link to the Baum article (which incidentally I'd read on Bloomberg earlier) lead me to this question, which is not really part of the oil discussion but more basic: She states: "Now let's suppose suppliers are responsible for forking over the widget tax to Uncle Sam. The seller now keeps only $4.50 of the $5.00 ticket price. Widget sales are less profitable at any given price, which induces sellers to supply fewer of them. The supply curve shifts inward, to the left, reducing the quantity supplied to the market." If the margin on each unit is reduced, and the supplier wishes to generate the same amount of revenue, it seems a simple conclusion to say that they would produce more, increasing the quantity in the market. Fixed costs are just that, so by decreasing production they would further decrease the margin on each unit. Assuming the tax imposed is a percent of sale price rather than a fixed per-unit rate...why would her assertion hold? I know this is a basic question, but I'm looking for an answer. Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet.

SIGNS AN ATHLETE IS USING A BANNED SUBSTANCE Gets "psyched" before each competition by banging his head against a locker, although he's on the chess team. Her javelin was shot down by jet fighters. Killed two spectators and a line judge with his forehand lob at this year's French Open. Although a sprinter, he won both the Indy 500 and the Preakness. Swimmer's refusal to trim beard and wax chest costs her valuable seconds in the 100-meter freestyle. His red and yellow jersey reads, "Track Cartel de Colombia." Remainder of high-jump event postponed until he lands. Somehow manages to win the 100-meter butterfly without getting wet. Signs new contract for $6 over 2 million years. Instead of exploding out of the blocks, he just explodes. According to the urine test, he's six-week's pregnant. Breaks his pelvis but insists he can just "walk it off." Has switched her shower song from "I Feel Pretty" to "Old Man River." Forget Nike and Reebok-he's got endorsement deals with Merck and Glaxo.

Hopefully Eddie Moneyshot will NOT be appearing in a thong ala Griffith.