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It sure is, I think that it's called "Angry Antagonistic Academic"...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/04/creators-of-everybody-draw-muhammad-day-abandon-effort-after-it-becomes-controversial.html She chickens out and cancels the event. Turns out, she has learned that Muslims would be unhappy and "who knew that would happen"? "why did she send the cartoon to the media in the first place? "Because I'm an idiot," Norris replied." Wellllll DUHHH! HELLO! MCFLY, ANYONE HOME UP THERE

LOL! Great video find Kevin. Except I think it's faked, no one can cut a penny that easily. Isn't that illegal anyway?

Yeah, kind of obvious NOW how man has f*ed up the environment here, we should stop them from screwing up our natural resources. Oh, can you see the bolts in the picture? No? Clue, there are thousands and thousands here, they're holding the cars, rails, towers and the bridges together.

Speaking only for Dwayner, he decries this massive industrial rape of the environment and applauds the efforts of Mother Nature to reclaim her own and will be outspoken on limits to chalking the new boulders in this new bouldering area. ...now....who wants to see some red circles on the freeway lanes?

Where's the "all of the above" option?

full story: http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=313170 Headline: Seattle cartoonist launches "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" OK.....sounds innocent enough, what could possibly piss anyone off with this fun idea to explore how folks feel about religious tolerance? I wonder what other nuggets of wisdom that the next Molly Norris "post modern stress disorder" cartoon will contain? Edit to remove stupid cartoon

Nice meeting you both today. Bill

I see Armylife and Cougarlife as different things......prefer cougarlife myself. I guess Google analytic has this group of yahoos pretty much all figured out.

To stick to the insult theme you all started, all I know is that Scott Biaos piss has more class than most of you non-tax payin' trailer park livin' tools.... Scott's wife said so. yus sayin'.............. http://www.ScottBiaosPiss.com

LOL, 2 9's and 2- 12" - but for over 35 years I was without pro larger than 4" so that every time I got on the wide it scared the hell out of me .....doing it pro less. Never climbed enough to be good at it like Chuck Pratt back in the day...now I have pro but still sort of avoid it.... I'm not going on the pilgrimage this year though as I have bigger fish to fry: Gent, Andrew, Adam, Stan, Haydar and Ujahn are. Maybe Justin too, I don't have a scorecard. The last wyde I got on was the 10' upper section of Child Abuse back in November, which easily and gladly takes a 5" and a 6". Jimmy sent Adam here up with ONLY a #4 for the 2nd ascent, so he was looking at a huge whipper/ledge fall/flake impalement/combo splatterplatter....but he sent it anyway and lived, most likely with his testicles up in his throat someplace as I had both cams:-).....now he wants to buy a #6! Child abuse pics below, me belaying Shaun. Not a good shot of the Wyde part, but wyde there is. (Ask Adam:-) ) Jim Opdycke photo Jeff Thomas photo

He needs one of these green cams like in the picture. One time, I went up to this place to solo. Sat my stuff on the ground, was kicked back looking at the view and reveling in life. Totally forgot all my rack and went home. Walked away. Hiked right out. This is what it looked like the next day when we hiked back in to get it...shoes, water, cams: the whole thing. The exact spot I'd left it. My hiking partner kept laughing at me, calling me a forgetful old man. We all had a great time, the dogs were sniffing at rodents under the rocks like crazy. I never told her what that stuff costs that I just forgot there in the dirt.

LOL! thanks for that one!

People pay good money for great photos like that John. Has an easy to follow red line too..... This is the good stuff! Pretty reasonable time on it too for spring. Thanks for sharing it.

Pulled this off Mountain Project, that the #6 (probably the #5 as well) Wild Country Friends are going to be discontinued, and it looks like it may be true. Anyone know for sure?

I always liked Maryanne better.....jus' sayin'....

isn't that D-dogs old girlfriend? OMG, jizzy. OW, you missed some great hot cougarlife ads with yer adblock, and doesn't the Putzblock block all of Kevbone posts?

Hound: you might pickup a Silver/Red new from Bentgate. I just bought 3 or 4. This is the only new hybrids available I am aware of. http://www.bentgate.com/alienhybrids.html I've seen a recent post on supertopo of 2 locations in ca with regular Aliens...you might search it out. I think one was the Mt shop in Yos. Good luck.

Actually, I woke up this am thinking of the Shoshone viewpoint. They've seen well over a 100 years of Dantes hell with the government: if this is just a case where they finally got the dice to roll their way for once after all this time, good for them.

I'm already covered Fairweather unless you have something specific. I consider that more insurance than investment though. Mountain House #10 tins are the best food stock for long term storage as they have a 25-30 year shelf life....lets see, I'm 56, so 30 years hmmmm, I'll be Beckeys age before it expires. I think "things" are investments. Once China revalues the Yuan, coupled with probable inflation and high interest rates - we'll be paying more for all kinds of things. One of the reasons I bought too much climbing gear. cough* rationalization *cough* Best stock tip I got from a CC.comer was Apple at under $90 a share. Its in the $234 range. They've come a long way since Bill Gates was giving them money to keep their doors open.

manipulative Machiavellian bureaucratic pricks

OMG! 4:20 was so over 2 hours ago dude. AJ is smokin hawt!

OK fellas, based on the economy, where do you think your money needs to be today for tomorrows best returns? This is where YOU put yours, or where you think it should be if you had any $. Let me start. Real Estate is almost in range for me again in some areas. Still waiting. Todays lower risk hot speculative play, IMO, which means "In My Opinion" which may not mean jack or shit, is setting up an Everbank account and having your US dollars converted into Chinese Yuan. It's a no interest account, and strictly a play on Yuan appreciation (depreciation if you guess wrong). However, the account is a regular FDIC protected bank account, and if Everbank crashed, your money is as safe as in the corner bank at 2% return. I see Yuan appreciation in the future, and continued real estate decline. As they cross, I'll sell the Yuan and buy some RE. Maybe 2 years, although a newer condo that is selling for $30,000 with $187 month HUA and renting at $550 (low) - $600.00 would work today if OPM could be fished out to invest in it.

Same thing happened to "Cock Rock". As I understand it, all the pioneers floating by called it that. Then they changed the name so you didn't have to say "Cock" in public. Pfft, they botched that, it doesn't look anything like a "Rooster". "Rooster" Rock in the gorge. Gary, did you see the pics of Jeff styling last Saturday? http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/953381/Re_Naked_first_ascent_at_The_F#Post953381 Don't scroll past the first 3 pics if you're in public BTW.

http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone "Fact Sheet The problem * Normally under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the American people are not generally subject to random and arbitrary stops and searches. * The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.” * But what is “the border”? According to the government, it is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the United States. * As a result of this claimed authority, individuals who are far away from the border, American citizens traveling from one place in America to another, are being stopped and harassed in ways that our Constitution does not permit. * Border Patrol has been setting up checkpoints inland — on highways in states such as California, Texas and Arizona, and at ferry terminals in Washington State. Typically, the agents ask drivers and passengers about their citizenship. Unfortunately, our courts so far have permitted these kinds of checkpoints – legally speaking, they are “administrative” stops that are permitted only for the specific purpose of protecting the nation’s borders. They cannot become general drug-search or other law enforcement efforts. * However, these stops by Border Patrol agents are not remaining confined to that border security purpose. On the roads of California and elsewhere in the nation – places far removed from the actual border – agents are stopping, interrogating, and searching Americans on an everyday basis with absolutely no suspicion of wrongdoing. * The bottom line is that the extraordinary authorities that the government possesses at the border are spilling into regular American streets. Much of U.S. population affected * Many Americans and Washington policymakers believe that this is a problem confined to the San Diego-Tijuana border or the dusty sands of Arizona or Texas, but these powers stretch far inland across the United States. * To calculate what proportion of the U.S. population is affected by these powers, the ACLU created a map and spreadsheet showing the population and population centers that lie within 100 miles of any “external boundary” of the United States. * The population estimates were calculated by examining the most recent US census numbers for all counties within 100 miles of these borders. Using numbers from the Population Distribution Branch of the US Census Bureau, we were able to estimate both the total number and a state-by-state population breakdown. The custom map was created with help from a map expert at World Sites Atlas. * What we found is that fully TWO-THIRDS of the United States’ population lives within this Constitution-free or Constitution-lite Zone. That’s 197.4 million people who live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders. * Nine of the top 10 largest metropolitan areas as determined by the 2000 census, fall within the Constitution-free Zone. (The only exception is #9, Dallas-Fort Worth. ) Some states are considered to lie completely within the zone: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Part of a broader problem * The spread of border-search powers inland is part of a broad expansion of border powers with the potential to affect the lives of ordinary Americans who have never left their own country. * It coincides with the development of numerous border technologies, including watch list and database systems such as the Automated Targeting System (ATS) traveler risk assessment program, identity and tracking systems such as electronic (RFID) passports, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), and intrusive technological schemes such as the Secure Border Initiative Network (SBINet) or “virtual border fence” and unmanned aerial vehicles (aka “drone aircraft”). * This illegitimate expansion of the extraordinary powers of agents at the border is also part of a general trend we have seen over the past 8 years of an untrammeled, heedless expansion of police and national security powers without regard to the effect on innocent Americans. This trend is also typical of the Bush Administration’s dragnet approach to law enforcement and national security. Instead of intelligent, competent, targeted efforts to stop terrorism, illegal immigration, and other crimes, what we have been seeing in area after area is an approach that turns us all into suspects. This approach seeks to sift through the entire U.S. population in the hopes of encountering the rare individual whom the authorities have a legitimate interest in. If the current generation of Americans does not challenge this creeping (and sometimes galloping) expansion of federal powers over the individual through the rationale of “border protection,” we are not doing our part to keep alive the rights and freedoms that we inherited, and will soon find that we have lost some or all of their right to go about their business, and travel around inside their own country, without interference from the authorities."