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Here we go....nice stuff!

I'm in the office pool that she quits within half a year.....As they say, "once a quitter....." ps, is she taking George Stephanopoulos (who worked for Michael Dukakis/DEMOCRAT, then Dick Gepart/DEMOCRAT, then Bill Clinton/DEMOCRAT before becoming an unbiased journalist) place as color commentator or sumptin' else equally interesting?

LOL!!! psst, don't tell the good doctor, he'll flame you till the cows some home.

In today's Archeological update, news no doubt Raindawg has been all over but is just getting to the rest of us hosers. The pyramids apparently were built by free men, not slaves. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100110/sc_nm/us_egypt_antiquities_tombs

Hey, if Paul Allen, the worlds 5th richest man at the time, can declare bankruptcy one of his corporations exclusively to screw the folks who loaned him money, none of whom was anywhere as rich as him, then it's good enough for the rest of us isn't it? (reference bankruptcy of Oregon Arena Corporation (OAC))

HOLY CRAP JOE! I have to tell ya, I heard that Cilogear *cough* DO *cough* cough* make a 60L as well. *cough* Of course, I suppose it would be easier to find you guys or for you to find your way out by following the trail of dropped gear left like so many breadcrumbs and all:-) LOL! Nepal? Namche?

I was only going with the quote in the story I found on the site you linked JB. It said: Evidently that wasn't the full story. Makes you wonder how often that happens and may have just happened to you on this thread on other topics.

do you ever read the stuff you write?

Hey! All I see is pics of a car! If we don't get climbing pics it didn't happen! PS, Did you get wet?

Yup, what builttospill said Will. I'd tie in with ya anyday. From looking at his web site, I suspect that the other dude would be fun to go out with in a group, or for an easy day for something light and fun as well. Looks like a great guy. Sometimes I suspect that it's just the moon and stars are out of alignment. I once had a moon and star issue with a partner when I was young, in my 20s. The late Roger Smith. When Roger was on, he was an awesome partner for rock, snow, ice or just getting out and bustin it. Strong, smart, fun and talented climber. But when he wasn't....well, it was a total emotional horror show. It must have just been the moon and stars Roger had going inside of him as at some point he got tired of this world and sadly choose to end it. Hope the rest of the trip goes smooth and the senoritas treat ya right.

pull out the crusaders and send in the Mormons and the McDonalds and all will be right as rain...

Kind of harsh on your buddy Barak there....oh wait, he's still in the first phase and will catch up to the 2nd part later....watch it happen JB. Everyone says so.

Did you do that just to see who read the whole thing and would point out that Dec 7th was a full month ago? A day that would live in infamy indeed! LOL! I'll drink a toast to all of them anyway even though it's a month late. PS, Ujahn ordered his Cilogear 45L just yesterday to replace his ratty worn through old Lowe, so none of you be taking cuts on him he got there first and I can't stand seeing that thing any more..... Ujahn finally giving up the old Lowe seen here on his back in November. It has holes in it the zipper is non-functioning. My Cilogear summit pack having followed me up to a summit last September. I'd popped the lid off for this climb. Nice feature not found in many packs as it turns out for getting the rope to feed cleanly when soloing. The whole damn top came right off and the rope fed out sweetly! Probably took all of 10 seconds to get off. See the rope here over the shoulder? I was doing the Healy solo climbing thing with an Eddy. I love this pack. It weighs about as much as a pair of womens panties and seems more comfortable...opps......hmmmm. Yeah. Well, no one ever reads the entire post anyway....Cilo packs are sweet sweet stuff. Much like a Dane Burns custom tuned 1911, might not be for everyone, but if you can afford the best.... ps, I have one of Randy's packs as well (from when he was at Wild Things, before CCW, no complaints) but it's been relegated to being a gym bag these days.

LOL! 3 k's, how bout a little Kitty Litter in there?

Absolutely Off! Although not a joke, the NW has had some historically strong KKK support and as recently as a few years back Robert Matthews, leader of the order, escaped an FBI sting in PDX and ran right up to Washington where a long national manhunt finally found and snuffed him. Washington, the other Alabama Total bullshit which fortunately has been radically easing off in modern times for folks of color.

Fucking racist Washington pigs. Now to the real point: as aren't all prisons -especially ones in Washington where everyone up there has now been legally determined by the 9th to be so damn fu*king racist, really cruel and unusual punishment? Yes, it is. So I suggest not locking anyone up ever. Just speak harshly to them and let them go when they have murdered your mother. This should be enough don't ya think? Lets get the ACLU on that, they apparently have plenty of time and money to worry over such penumbra issues while ignoring things actually written into the constitution. These folks can sleep over at Trashs house while they wait for the harshing talk and release into society. We'd be able to clear up the judicial backlog as well in short order. No 2 year long OJ style trials ever again. ps, the Coon chicken inn later moved out Sandy blvd to about 50th, next to the fire station there. New name now, but still have Chicken.

Yeah but you seem much kinder and nicer posting as Elise.

I hope you aren't complaining. See - they're doing it by priorities, so they'll be working on an energy policy, import/export imbalances and the massive federal debt at some point once the real important stuff, like getting rid of this import ban on folks with HIV, is finished up with.

I believe that Areans is not guilty of any crime. Back on topic: JB, what do you recommend to cease the red ink? Or is it OK to continue on this part and we can just pay the ever increasing interest on it for the rest of our lives and pass the debt to our children?

I went to the Nation to see what was up and this was the first story I read. Good stuff, thought provoking. "Al Sharpton Wants Gilbert Arenas Punished. Seriously. posted by Dave Zirin on 01/05/2010 @ 12:52pm Whenever racism rears its head in sports, the Reverend Al Sharpton has usually had something important to say. In the process, he has proudly earned the contempt of the sports radio blabbocracy. But today, Reverend Al is earning their praise. Al Sharpton embraced by sports radio? Have we entered the twilight zone? Hardly. They are loving Sharpton because the good Reverend wants Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas severely punished for bringing unloaded guns into his team's locker room. Currently facing criminal charges and league suspension, Arenas is likely facing probation or prison and will be suspended by the NBA. It's a depressing story made worse by the fact that Arenas is perhaps the last player you would ever predict would do something so stupid. The son of a professional movie extra, and the NBA's first blogger, he is an iconoclastic goofball, more likely to bring a water gun to work than the real thing. Gilbert will take severe lumps for this: legally, financially, and professionally. But I never expected Sharpton to pile on and crudely play the reverse-racism card in the process. Sharpton announced to the New York Daily News that he has spoken personally with NBA Commissioner David Stern, urging him to show no mercy. He said that Stern must deal with "the culture of violence being perpetuated in professional sports." But the capper was Sharpton saying: "If it had been a white player pointing a gun at a black player, there would have been much more of an uproar. It's almost as if people are saying, 'Well, we don't expect anything better from our black athletes.'" Where to begin unpacking this drivel? The idea that the media has ignored this story is ridiculous, with the "uproar" reaching deafening proportions. In addition, the notion that NBA players, or black athletes get a "pass" on handgun ownership is beyond idiotic. In gun-crazy America, black athletes are routinely pilloried for legal firearm ownership, as if their post-game hobbies are drive-by shootings and robbing banks. There has never been breathless coverage of NASCAR gun ownership and no one asks golfer Phil Mickelson whether he packs heat. The fact is that there is a profound and historic double standard in this country on the question of gun ownership. White people are celebrated for exercising their 2nd amendment rights. Black people, to put it mildly, are not. Now I am not for a moment saying that gun culture in the NBA isn't a real concern. Devin Harris of the Nets said that he estimated 75% of players have firearms. But when you talk to the players, they don't carry weapons because they want to live some sort of thug life. They actually sound more like members of the NRA. Indiana Pacers guard T.J. Ford said, "As a society, I think a lot of people have protection within their home. But I don't think it's just an NBA thing. It's just a lot of regular people have protection in their home." Knicks guard Larry Hughes also commented, "We're grown men. We protect our families. We protect our homes. Whatever the case may be, whoever is bearing arms, I hope everything is done, you know, legally, but you have that right." While the NRA probably won't be approaching NBA players for their next round of public service announcements, the reasons for ownership are clearly more rooted in personal paranoia than mack-daddy machismo. There have been numerous high profile robberies, assaults, and home invasions of NBA players over the last decade. Players are scared for themselves and their families. Many have taken Stern's advice and hired bodyguards. Others who refuse to do that, see gun ownership as a sensible and logical alternative. Their concerns are serious, and won't be solved by dumping on Gilbert Arenas. Arenas is not the poster child of a "culture of violence." He is a frustrated athlete, playing through his worst season, who did something incredibly dumb. Al Sharpton turning him into Iceberg Slim doesn't make it any easier. If Sharpton was truly concerned about "the culture of violence in sports", he might start by saying something about the league's open partnerships with the Pentagon, the military jet flyovers before football games, and the open armed forces recruitment that is a part of major sports contests. If he was concerned about violence, he could say something about the alarming levels of spousal abuse in sports. And lastly, Sharpton should know that it's the apex of hypocrisy to speak of "the culture of violence in sports" in a nation currently involved in two wars. It's unbelievable to see politicians and their cable news chatterers baying for military intervention in Yemen, willing to sacrifice any number of young men and women, and then taking timeout to pile on Arenas. But that's to be expected. It is unexpected and disheartening to see Sharpton use his considerable platform to be one more voice in the chorus. [Dave Zirin is the author of the forthcoming "Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games we Love" (Scribner) Receive his column every week by emailing dave@edgeofsports.com. Contact him at edgeofsports@gmail.com.] " http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/512292/al_sharpton_wants_gilbert_arenas_punished_seriously

What kind of conversion rates are you seeing in like Saudi Arabia or anywhere in the middle east I wonder?

A year ago I went to Thailand and carried my Trango Shark through 3 TSA screenings to get out of the US of A. PDX once, San Fran twice. Malcolm says that the same folks that make Buck Knife blades make this, and it's razor sharp. I got all the way to Thailand and they fished my rack out of my carry on and to my horror I saw it on the rack and though it was about to be repoed. They missed it too, just like the 3 sceenings in America.

They are stepping it up, they just kick Joan Rivers off a flight cause she's a scary bitch had a passport issue. TSA, saving your ass from Joan Rivers "Rivers, 76, was deemed a danger to national security and booted from a Newark-bound flight in Costa Rica on Sunday by a jittery Continental Airlines gate agent who found the two names on her passport fishy." LOL! Round up the entertainers and comedians first....good idea.

A Swedish study indicates that heavy pot use increases your chance of Schizophrenia. I worked in the VA hospital for 4 years, I believe that to be true. It hasn't be ascertained if being a schiz increases your chance of being a pot smoker, there may not be a cause and effect there. I don't have the study but here's a link. http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/13/thread13350.shtml "A report released by the National Institutes of Health stated that: "Marijuana increases schizophrenia by a factor of four to six, disorients the user, causes psychotic reaction, panic, anxiety, hallucinations, reproductive cellular disruption and cancer."

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