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If the rattlesnakes have fledged and are starting to fly, it's time to open the cliff. I've only been rattled at once, on lead, and it still is a strong memory 33 years later.

I dropped the big one this am. I meant business as it broke the waterline and needed 2 flushes to clear. Didn't do a damn thing for Asscrackistan.

no, they were too long ago.

Minx's back

At least no one responded to this with the now classic: "ya...well. Not my problem bro".

Well, I didn't see your PM but found this from a July or 2 ago instead. ps, all expense! woot! Do you need a phone number for someone?

I'd imagine that "The Rock Warriors Way" book by Arno Ilgner would be of great assistance to you. Good luck!

You read those comments? LOL! If Chael Sonnen is able to bring in Pat Morita to train with him, I am very sure he will win. Because Pat Morita is dead, and that means that Sonnen has control over death itself, while Anderson Silva merely controls the Matrix.

HELL YEAH! What he said. I stayed on this side of the hill this weekend and got rained on. Felt kind of stupid till I started settling into an outdoor hot spring buck assed naked in a light mist, then it was all good and forgotten:-) No climbing and not much other either. At least you were exploring. fawk yeah

What is this? Have you abandoned the Dfucks and are now an Rfuck?

No pics but my friend Dave cut off a tapered plastic frying pan handle, threaded it with 7mil cord and made a working chock out of it that he seemed to always have on his rack. It paired well with the harness he had sewn himself.

What did you decide to do?

Are we going to have to buy you one of those shirts that says "Does not play well with others" for your birthday or for Christmas:-) I can sympathize. I once walked off and left an entire rack of big pro on the ground after a tiring solo day....it's very disconcerting. When I walked back the next day, even though there is only 5 or 6 people who know of this place, as the picture shows, I was still relieved that there it was right where I'd left it. Yeah, you can see the 9" and 12" valley giants, some other large cams, my shoes.... lots of money tied up in there. Good luck with the #4.

Don't worry, be happy.

Google Maps/mapquest Eby ave, it can be on the way in and is directly across from the Monkey (binocs will help for close up viewing if climbers are on it). It's what you want as it's an awesome viewpoint for your dad and he won't have to take more than about 3 steps from the car if you just pull over on a wide spot on the road. Have a good trip!

Well, you could send him an e-mail telling him what a bitch he is, it's at the bottom of this long diatribe. " How to save the United States and the other free countries? I have been receiving many e-mails from my readers who write that I am one of the few voices in the West who has been warning about the danger of the military growth of China for the past 20 years. The U.S. Defense Department has been complaining that this military growth "lacks transparency," that is, no one in China responsible for this growth explains why China needs to develop a military might exceeding that of the United States in post-nuclear weapons, such as global molecular nano technology, the space destruction of space satellites, etc. Does the U.S. Defense Department assume that every country can be expected to explain beforehand its strategy? The Chinese strategist Sun Tse taught more than 2000 years ago that secrecy and surprise are the key prerequisites for the military victory. The previous U.S. president ignored the "China danger" throughout his 8-year presidency and fought against Iraq, a backward country whose population was 26 million, out of which the Sunni, who were pro-Hussein and against the war, accounted for one third of the population of Iraq. On the other hand, the population of China is 1.3 billion, and please note that prior to post-nuclear weapons, already in 1976, China had thermonuclear 4-megaton bombs, the test of which could not be concealed from detection abroad. As for President Obama, he has borrowed money from China to fight the recession, which thus seemed to be incomparably more disastrous in his view than China's post-nuclear attack that will strike from behind the "lack of transparency" the U.S. Defense Department complains of. No wonder my readers ask me what they can and must do. The only rescue is the enlightenment of the people of the U.S.A. and of the other free countries via a film that will include documentary evidence and be otherwise of great interest to a considerable segment of the population of the free countries and of all who value freedom. Money? In 1978, I founded the Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc. a non-profit organization, including in its Advisory Board quite a few world-known thinkers, intellectuals, scientists, and politicians. Of course, the donations to CSWD, Inc. are tax-exempt. No donation is too small, for a majority of the population of the free countries are not indifferent to their survival versus their conversion into nano dust, and if this majority donates, the sum will be sufficient to produce the best film possible even if every donation is small. The film, apart from its emotional impact, will show on the basis of the best documentary evidence (1) how far the dictatorship of China has gone and is to go in the development of crucial weapons of the 21st century; and (2) how determined the dictatorship of China is to establish its world domination and thus, inter alia, to prevent domestic revolts like the Tiananmen movement of 1998 or the mass withdrawal from the Communist Party of China in the past two years. There is no doubt that the film will wake up the major media and many politicians. Nor is President Obama hopeless: Once he has realized the scope of the movement in defense of the free countries against the dictatorship of China, he is sure to join in. If you consider donating to this cause to save the free countries from the imminent danger of post-nuclear annihilation, please let us know via e-mail: navlev@cloud9.net, and we will mail to you all the relevant information necessary to make a tax-exempt donation to our non-profit Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc. CSWD, Inc. Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc. Citibank 5671 Riverdale Avenue Bronx, NY 10471 Thank you! Lev Navrozov, President, CSWD, Inc. E-mail: navlev@cloud9.net "

I think one has to consider Lev Navrozov's personal history (as a Soviet intellectual and dissident and working during Stalins reign of terror), after walking a mile in his shoes, things look different and priorities which may not be on our radar as we take them for granted - arise and are seen fresh. Good book: Lenin's Tomb. Almost too much data, but excellent.

Clearly we should consult a local...wait, there's one of the North Side locals now... ....looks like it's not an issue.

Cleaning. The picks work great for getting dirt out of cracks, the adze for pulling off hummocks and whacking roots. The shafts can be used for prying rocks, however, the real joy is that they are easy on the arthritic fingers after hours of work.

You thought I surfed porn and CC.com all day? Here's another site I often check, it's a little difficult to follow today - author is former Soviet Lev Navrozov: for myself, I don't agree with it all but there is an interesting point or 3. Try to read it with an open mind and not be offended by the title of Levs article. http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/lev0540_06_17.asp

I'd agree, however it depends how it's measured Pat. http://www.democrats.com/the-longest-us-war-the-harshest-blow-to-the-rule-of-law

This is the second time you've posted this, I'll bite. What does this mean? Does it involve the Presidential elections or elections in general? Is it the end of the earth Mayan calender thing? Also, if it involves you still getting off on hot pictures of Sarah Palin don't respond as I don't want to hear about that again if it does. ...jus sayin.... 2012 baby.

I do not. No comparison. Check it out, great books. http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Sun-Decline-Japanese-1936-1945/dp/0812968581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276790163&sr=1-1 Get the 2 volume hardcover ed. for cheap.

Good news, the longest us war is about over. Bad news: we lose it. Debka file is calling it for the Taliban: The Afghan War nears end with Pakistan-aided Taliban victory DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis June 13, 2010, 9:33 PM (GMT+02:00) Taliban fighters with ISI-supplied weapons After eight years and four months, America's longest war is about to end, debkafile's military and intelligence report - although not in victory for the US-led NATO forces but at best in a draw, or at worst, in a win for the Taliban, al Qaeda's extremist partner. The repercussions of the US exit in these circumstances will impinge on American influence worldwide including the Middle East. The allies owe their reverses to five factors: Postponement of the Kandahar offensive, Taliban's acquisition of anti-air missiles and ability to strike anywhere in Kabul, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency's extensive support for the Taliban, and a UN proposal to "de-list" some key Taliban and al Qaeda figures designated as terrorists. debkafile elaborates on these factors: 1. The big Kandahar offensive in southern Afghanistan this month, the centerpiece of the new strategy President Barack Obama approved last December along with a 40,000-troop surge, has been postponed until the fall - at the earliest. With the participation of American, British, Canadian and Afghan forces, this offensive was billed as the operation for turning the tide of the Afghanistan war. Washington was understandably reluctant to announce the postponement although, according to debkafile's military analysts, it was unavoidable after the disappointment of Operation Mushtarak in Marjah, which was to have been a dress rehearsal in another part of the South, Helmand Province, for the big show in Kandahar. In Marjah, the combined US-UK force and the Afghan army, which most of the time refused to fight, were unable to loosen the Taliban's grip on the town or prevent the insurgents from using it as a springboard for grabbing the whole of southern Afghanistan. Sunday, June 13, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal paid a visit to Kandahar to assure the local tribes they had not been abandoned. Karzai spoke with gusto about the coming offensive; he only "forgot" to mention a date. With the Kandahar delay, the bottom is about to drop out of Obama's overall war strategy. 2. Another deadly turning-point in the conflict was marked last week with the discovery that Taliban had acquired the missiles for downing Western helicopters and low-flying aircraft. The British Prime Minister David Cameron had to cancel his helicopter flight to the main British base of Camp Bastion on June 12 after receiving intelligence that the Taliban was preparing to shoot it down. Three days earlier, on June 9, an American Chinook crashed near Sangin in the Helmand Province killing all four US servicemen aboard. It was then that US and NATO commanders first realized that an unknown party had given the Taliban those anti-air missiles and instructed them in their use. This means that US helicopters can no longer provide ground forces with close air support and must fly at higher altitudes out of missile range. 3. In their White House talks of May 10-14,Karzai and Obama glossed over their differences by agreeing that the Afghan president would convene a "peace jirga" (a conference of tribal leaders) that would include chieftains and commanders associated with the Taliban as the first step toward national reconciliation. The conference did take off in Kabul on June 2, attended by 1,400 heads of tribes and factions. But when President Karzai's speech was in full flow, Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen burst in, hurling rockets and grenades. The President just managed to finish his speech before being whisked off the platform by security guards and driven away in a convoy of armored cars. The tribal chiefs saw for themselves that neither Afghan nor American forces were capable of promising security for any peace conference, whereas the Taliban were clearly able to operate freely in the Afghan capital and any other part of the country. 4. At the same time, Staffan de Mistura, the top U.N. representative in Afghanistan, put in a good word for the Taliban when he told reporters Saturday, June 12. "The U.N. is listening to what the peace jirga is saying. Some of the people in the list may not be alive anymore. The list may be completely outdated." Fueling momentum for a political solution to the nearly nine-year-old Afghan war, a U.N. committee is reviewing whether certain people could be removed from blacklist that freezes assets and limits travel of key Taliban and al-Qaida figures, the top U.N. representative said Saturday. 5. On Sunday, June 13, The Sunday Times of London ran a long article under the heading: Pakistan puppet masters guide the Taliban killers. It was based on a new report by the London School of Economics according to which Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency is providing extensive funding, training and sanctuary to the Taliban in Afghanistan. The report cites concrete evidence suggesting that support for the Taliban is the "official policy" of the ISI, which not only trains and funds the Afghan insurgents, but is officially represented on the their leadership council. Washington was shocked by this evidence so soon after President Asif Ali Zardar assured President Obama when they met in Washington last month that he could count on the commitment of the Pakistani government and intelligence resources to fight Taliban and al Qaeda, as a solid prop of US strategy for the Afghan war. But all the time, it transpired, behind their false face to US military and intelligence chiefs, the ISI has been collaborating with Taliban commanders in their operational planning and selection of targets, supplying them with weapons, explosives and roadside bombs and making grants to the bereaved families of suicide killers who murdered American and British troops. According to the LSE report, half at least of the 15 members of the Taliban's Quetta Shura (the council which runs the war from its seat in Quetta, the capital of Pakistani Baluchistan) are active officers of Pakistani military intelligence. "It is impossible to be a member of the Quetta Shura without membership of the ISI," said a high-ranking Taliban fighter. Given the depth of the ISI's integration in the Afghanistan Taliban's war effort against NATO, the US military might as well drop their efforts to cut the Afghan Taliban's weapons supply route from Pakistan. The revelations of the LSE are not new, debkafile reports, except for the fact that a prominent Western publication was willing to print them. They were covered fairly exhaustively in previous issues of DEBKA-Net-Weekly in the past two years. Most recently, on February 28, 2010, DNW 434 exposed a shady Pakistan intrigue behind the handover to the Americans of Abdul Ghani Baradar, whom they represented as Mullah Omar's first lieutenant the lost of whom would seriously impair Taliban's fighting ability - so they claimed It was in fact an ISI trick. Baradar was no longer important to the Taliban and his handover no great loss because he had turned coat and was looking for an opening for peace talks with the Americans. The ISI needed to get rid of him before he succeeded to keep the Afghan War on the boil, because as long as it lasts, both the Taliban and the Americans will be dependent on Islamabad and the Pakistanis will carry on pulling wires and playing one side against the other. The longer the Obama administration clings to the assumption that cooperation with Pakistan and its intelligence agency is the only course for beating the Taliban and al Qaeda, the more elusive an Afghanistan triumph will be for the US and its allies. http://www.debka.com/article/8846/

Did you ever read about the medical experiments that the Japanese military conducted on Chinese prisoners? It was widespread, done on thousands and thousands of prisoners, and so disgusting that it would make a normal persons stomach, maybe even Josef Mengele's, turn. I suspect that more Japanese women would be putting out to the Chinese kids if they had a clue about that bullshit. The Japanese government suppresses this knowledge. As I understand it, they do not acknowledge the rape of Nanking and many other things as well in their history books. (I'm not saying we do not do similar things JB) So does the US, we're embarrassed because we said we would not prosecute the war criminals in charge if they would turn over the information that had conducted in these bizarre experiments on thousands of live (well, for a while) Chinese prisoners. Getting the research knowledge was more important to us than justice and we let the miscreants go free. Of course, there was the Bataan Death march too, that should be worth a lil somtin-somtin" no? :-)