Off_White

Nicely played, and very reasonably done. Much more impressively handled than some grubby scuffle.

Exactly! Costs and Market Rate are only somewhat connected.

The only problem is that this is completely false. "Tax Freedom Day" next year arrives on the earliest day in 60 years and overall tax rates, including state & local tax burdens, are the lowest they've been since the mid seventies. The only first world industrialized nation that pays less taxes is Japan. We're a nation of walmart bargain hunting whiners who don't want to pay the cost of the services we use. Over taxed. Yeah, right.

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnjMaRM3g8

Landlords don't pay property taxes, tenants do.

In The Event of a Zombie Apocalypse. [video:youtube]

It's prognostication, not a smorgasbord. You don't get to choose the ones you like. "Can I get seconds on the union busting?" "No, shut up and pay for Tacoma's bankruptcy you tool."

Oh wait a minute, did I just agree that I was one of the dimwits? Need more coffee.

I did, and it was a fine analysis of the situation indeed, with adequate scientific content yet accessible enough for the layman. Thanks for the link. Prole's right about the climate versus weather thing, and I suspect PP's aware of it too. Any time Petey invokes Prole, you can be pretty sure it's just a troll.

It wasn't a great picture year, and I don't have "the one" but here's three. Wheat Thin - pretty amazing to be cool climbing in the sun on the Cookie on the last day of May The Chunkyard at Tieton, newish crag just left of Moon Rocks Shooting the shit in El Cap Meadow

Yup, DADT was a Democratic intermediary step, the situation before was quite a bit worse.

Oh! How far you've fallen from the fresh faced squeaky little Cheamclimber with his alpine jeans!

FactCheck gets the front quote, but most of that article quotes Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch, a considerably more conservative operation.

I'd throw the recent Desert Towers by Crusher Bartlett into the mix, full of tales and history, some quite gripping, as well as lots of historical articles re-printed.

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You could manage to piss off Off_White by calling him capricious, and you would likely get your name changed... to something like donkeypuncher or along those lines. Don't ask me how I know this... I believe your temporary moniker was Donkey Fellator...

[video:youtube] I need me a skinny black tie

No worries, it will all get better when we eliminate public employee pensions.

Hah, Dane: the new face of Spray.

It's possible you have that backwards Dru.

Well, D-Dog won't show up and talk, since everyone will make fun of him for his passion for bestiality and financial scams. From film I've seen, all of Dean Potter's falls while-free-soloing-and-wearing-a-chute have been staged, faux falls that are really about pushing out and getting into position, intentionally bailing out, a much edgier launch site for base jumping. Not that there is anything wrong about that, any more than that his free solos of hard cracks are relentlessly rehearsed and thoroughly annotated with tick marks that define hand and position, its just that he omits these details in all descriptions of how rad he is. He didn't fall on the Eiger either, and he wasn't on the classic North Face, but rather a steep limestone 600' tall sport route on the far right side of the lower face. Though he described it as the Eiger Nordwand, it didn't seem he needed to wear anymore clothing than a pair of shorts. Hey, I'm not saying that freesoloing 5.12+ isn't impressive as hell and a serious undertaking, but inflating your achievements beyond what wild thing you've done is total bullshit. See, here's the N Face of the Eiger. He traversed in from the right and climbed route 28.

Aww, with KKK I'm just funning around, as I'm pretty sure he's aware. You on the other hand I find a genuinely loathsome internet twit, and a snow slogger to boot.

Oh be still my heart, he does so love me!