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Last bump. Leaving Fairbanks this Saturday. Will hit the ropeup, and if no housing by then going to live in Josh for the winter.

"Longtime Republican was source of e-mails By Alexander Bolton The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page says the documents came to him from a House GOP aide. That aide has been a registered Republican since becoming eligible to vote, said the source, who showed The Hill public records supporting his claim. The same source, who acted as an intermediary between the aide-turned-whistleblower and several news outlets, says the person who shared the documents is no longer employed in the House. But the whistleblower was a paid GOP staffer when the documents were first given to the media." Linky: http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/100506/news2.html

This thread has potential.

A 50-something year old queen was "played" and "baited" by 16yr old boys? Umm, riiiiiggghhhhttt! Sure, but you neglect to mention that the "word" is coming from party propagandists Limbaugh and Drudge. Go read the IM's and then tell me he was set up...I'll wait... http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/02-02-03b.pdf

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Kevbone...are you related to Lambone?

I think the moss growing on their backs and the webbed feet are a sure giveaway.

Would the ramp would be elevated enough at that point that it could be constructed over the rock? Then you'd have a sheltered area and possibly some nearby bridge columns to expand the climbing area?

You could always get a cheap weight belt at a dive shop.

Trogdor, something on your mind?

Archie, it is amanita muscaria, and I would not eat it. Panthers are brown as you mentioned. Be aware that as amanita ages, it does take on a more yellowish color. There is an amanita look-a-like that has the white "spots" which are smooth whereas amanita "spots" are called "warts" and are like bumps on the cap that can be flaked off. But from your pic, those are clearly warts and that is clearly amanita muscaria. When working a "hoods in the woods" program in Utah, our summer field operations area was full of them and an enterprising young lady decided to add them to the group food one night. 11 juvies and 3 field staff trippin balls for most of the night did make things interesting... Amanita is notoriously variable in the potency of toxins as well as hallucinogens. (as are most shrooms..potency varies wildly from cap to cap even ones growing adjacent to each other). It's rare that someone dies from eating amanita, but it does happen. If you want to shroom, stick with psylocibe variants, much easier on your liver and less likely to kill you.

Ho. Lee. Shit. That made my day.

FIFTH AMENDMENT? You assclowns don't even know the bill of rights? I think you want to cite the FIRST amendment wrt free speech. Fifth concerns due process, double jeopardy, emminent domain, and self incrimination.

What size, do you have pics, and are you interested in selling the frame only?

FYI: U.S. judge's ruling could end forest user fees By Tony Davis ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tucson, Arizona A federal magistrate's ruling could end, or scale back the scope of, the $5 daily user fees charged on Mount Lemmon and in Sabino and Madera canyons. The case could set a national precedent, possibly ending fees in other national forests around the country, said the chief Forest Service official for the Mount Lemmon-Sabino Canyon area. It could also mean cutbacks in maintenance and improvements of picnic grounds and campsites, and possible closure of some facilities because the fees generate hundreds of thousands of dollars annually that are plowed into recreation areas, the forest official said. Magistrate Charles Pyle dismissed Forest Service charges last week against a Tucsonan who got $30 tickets twice in the same month for failing to pay fees when parking and hiking on different spots on Mount Lemmon. Pyle ruled that the Forest Service went beyond its congressional authorization when it charged fees for parking to use a trail, for roadside or trailside picnicking, for camping outside developed campgrounds and for roadside parking in general. For hiker Christine Wallace, a legal secretary who says she finds Mount Lemmon "a spiritual place . . . where I connect with nature," Pyle's ruling was exciting because it could ultimately end what she says is a system of double taxes for public-land users. "I was the one who was out there on the line," Wallace said Tuesday. "I'm excited that the charges were dismissed. More than that, I'm excited at the way the judge reacted to our testimony, our motions, our exhibits. He did research on his own. He put a lot of thought into it." The federal government hasn't decided whether to appeal the ruling. But if the ruling stands, it appears that the Forest Service will have to charge fees only for use at specific sites — not for driving up the mountain and parking at certain areas, as it does now. Opponents of the fees both locally and nationally call Wallace's case a landmark. They say she is the first person to have legally challenged a Forest Service ticket by failing to pay the fee since a 2004 law was passed restricting the Forest Service's ability to charge such fees. "The Forest Service has not carried out the law. . . . We've hesitated until now to use the word illegal because only courts can decide what is legal, but now I feel free to use the word illegal in regards to (the fee on) Mount Lemmon," said Kitty Benzar, co-founder of the Western Slope No Fee Coalition, based in Durango, Colo. About 4,505 national forest sites across the country had been charging fees until the 2004 law passed, although 435 such sites had fees eliminated because of the new law's restrictions, U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey testified to Congress last year. The Tucson ruling could spell an end not only to the fees, but to the Forest Service's ability to repair and upgrade campgrounds, picnic areas and toilets on Mount Lemmon, said Larry Raley, district ranger for the Santa Catalina Ranger District. The fees raise $700,000 annually for Mount Lemmon and Sabino Canyon. Raley said that if some or all of the fees go away, some picnic areas may be closed and pay toilets could appear on the mountain, among other changes and cutbacks. He said he doesn't think that Congress will appropriate more money to make up the difference, since those appropriations have dropped 50 percent to 75 percent over a decade. "I don't believe it is a double tax," Raley said. "Money collected from that area goes to picnic tables, bearproof containers and all the restrooms in that area. Several campgrounds and campsites have been rebuilt." The Forest Service will keep charging the fees as long as the legal case is unsettled, but Benzar predicted that many people won't pay from now on. "I guess there will be a showdown," Benzar said. "They'd have a lot of nerve to keep ticketing people. It will be ugly." This ruling brings to a head a bitter debate over the user fees that has intensified over a decade. A 1996 federal law first gave the Forest Service the right to charge fees under what was then called a demonstration program. The service started charging for Mount Lemmon in 1997, at Sabino Canyon in 2001 and at Madera Canyon in 2002. Federal officials said they had no choice but to collect fees, because attendance at popular recreation sites had mushroomed while agency budgets were pared. Opponents said that charging people to walk on public lands was unfair when mining and timber companies and ranchers paid below-market fees to take out copper, cut timber and graze their cattle there. Wallace, who has lived in Tucson 35 years, hikes somewhere in the Tucson area at least once a month. At first, she paid the Mount Lemmon fees. She decided to stop paying in about 2002 after being convinced by arguments of no-fee advocacy groups that the fees aren't fair, she said. She also grew to believe that the fees were part of a broader effort toward privatization of what she feels are essential government services, including schools and prisons. After parking on the mountain 10 to 15 times without getting a ticket, she got tickets twice in September 2005 for parking near the General Hitchcock Campground and at the Marshall Gulch Picnic Area, both times so she could hike popular trails. Rather than paying the $30 fines for each ticket, she decided to contest them in court. She drew support from the no-fee coalition and got an attorney from Santa Barbara, Calif., who specializes in court appeals of user-fee tickets. "I just didn't think it was right to have to pay," Wallace said.

Thanks dude.

If your debit card is a "check card" with backing from Visa/MC (is there a logo on it?) you won't have any problems using it anywhere on that trip. Valley has both regular ATM machines (there's one in Yosemite Village between the village store and Ansel Adams gallery) as well as cash registers that accept credit card/check cards. Ballpark cost? How much beer do you drink? Nine days, probably $500-$600. You cannot sleep in your car at C4.

How can you even look in the mirror Fairweather? Let's look at the "doctored" vs "undoctored" photos: undoctored doctored Is there a big difference? Looks to me like it was cropped and contrast was bumped up. Did they really not bomb the shit out of Beriut? Is there a contextual difference here? Maybe you should call the Red Cross and ask them if they are lying about the DEATH of their workers and patients from those ambulance shots I linked that you choose to question. Did you get the blast fax from the wingnut noise machine? So now the Red Cross is complicit? A terrorist supporter like all those traitorous libruls? I hope you never have a car wreck or othewise need blood, shit that crazy islamofascist Red Cross will probably poison your blood if you don't bow to allah! Do you blindly lick Rush Limbaugh's nuts every day, or do you occasionally gather info from both sides, examine it, and reach a reasonable objective opinion? Look at the two photos. Seriously, is there any contextual difference? Yet you stoop to question the photo I link, which the Red Cross has confirmed...oh "RED" cross eh? Must be fuckin' commies. It's really hard to believe I used to vote with you crazy fuckers. Seriously, I am embarassed that I EVER voted for any member of the Republican party. Ya'll are nuttier than squirell shit. You have bought into the oldest prole maniputation scheme known to man...rank nationalism, you're for us or against us. Black or white. Well guess what sparky, the world ain't a light switch. I hope the rapture occurs soon so you fuckers will fly into the sky and leave sane people alone.

Missin your shocker? Pony up some more loot Mr. "I'm leavin for good". ;^)

My only plea is for Tuff Love to be Oct 14 or later. I leave this shithole know as Fairbanks on Oct 7, and barring any nutty snowstorms in the yukon or upper BC, it's about 4-5 days of driving. After 5 days of that pleasantry I should be real surly and lookin to whoop some ass, swear to god I will, so make sure Donny Baker is there.

I love you Muffy.

Pho Hung on SE Powell around 47th-ish, north side of the street. Cheap, fast, great food and good service. And the menu is dual language so you don't end up with tripe and tendon if you don't crave it.

Interesting. Jerusalem as some sort of dual-religion semi-state akin to the Vatican. Works for me. But I don't see how it could ever realistically be implemented. It's been a while, but I recall from reading Clinton's autobiography that freshwater supply issues were a major lynchpin in the peace process negotiations concerning boundaries and land.

Murray, I agree, you go in and do it yourself. But the tactics Israel has chosen are absurd. They would need to get in there with a shitload of ground forces, and root out the rockets and assholes launching them. But Israel in their limited attempts at ground incursions are seeing much stronger resistance than they anticipated. So, unwilling to pay up in blood to achieve their objective via a door to door type approach, they take the rabid dog approach...make the fuckers think you're crazy and will punish everyone and just destroy everything. It's a no-win situation for Israel, IMO. They've already lost. What you do not do is hit well known, long established UN structures. You do not indiscriminately bomb highways and bridges, then tell the entire south of Lebanon to evacuate (on what road? over what bridges?). You don't then target the cars that are evacuating on your orders, and you certainly don't hit Red Cross ambulances with your helos. Tell me this was a mistake: Yeah. Center punched the fucking cross on top and put about 100 20mm rounds through the roof. Whoops.

BD could tell you in five minutes who had those prototypes. But maybe just look on Patagucci's "Ambassador" page ("ASS being the key phrase) where we see on Dean-o's bio: " He also made the first free ascent of Mount Watkins, Yosemite's other Grade VI wall, in a day." Ahem. Go clean up your shit, chump. And NO NPS involvement. If the Park service has to get involved, we will all suffer. They will regulate first, ask questions later. We should be able to police our own.