billcoe

Happy (late) birthday greetings from me too!

I've been getting some Political Correctness kickback on that word lately. The correct word is "ASIANS" as it turns out..... A...S...I..A..N..S.........can you say that? I like the way you say that..... ______________________________________________________ repeat after me: YOU CALL HIM DR JONE

Here it was last year. That's Bandit the wonder dog there in the middle.

I'd vote Spanish, lots of chances to use it all the time.

hmmm, well, I've been misunderstanding many of Dons posts as humor the whole time. I'll admit Rabbi Schlomo up there isn't very funny though. Of course, he's probably posted that very pic at least 40 times already, and it's out of context here.....Perhaps you need to check your own humor-meter.

I was thinking of Jeff Lowe. Did some sick extreme stuff, way scary and way out there - totally amazing. Has Multiple Sclerosis and needs 2 canes to walk. Lots more of that kind of craziness going on. But given Stossels libertarian bent, I suspect that this will be about the government paying for rescues.

Dawg had to learn that there is a time and a place for everything....which didn't correspond to what was actually inside of his head. Like if his students started tossing shoes at him in the middle of class for instance....So every thread in Rockclimbing should not be a anti-bolt lecture. Thanks mods!

That quote was taken out of context. It was used to make a point by another poster. (not me, jus' saying). ps, I can see that my Raindawg trolling skills have waned significantly. Sigh....I keep trying.....maybe I need a new gig? I really only put in a single protection bolt that day. It was 1/2" diameter and 7" long. Didn't want to handdrill it. 7"!!! Thats longer than my pecker.

So that's where the phrase "The Hershey Squirts" comes from......hmmmm

Global warming was the issue 15 min ago. 15 min from now, (2-3 months in real time) the US is gonna put a North Koren satellite into the sea. North Korea has declared such an move a blatant act of war.

...and you all thought this thread was dead: as if on cue....odays news as a a few moments ago..... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_wrongly_held "SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. "There are still innocent people there," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. "Some have been there six or seven years." Wilkerson, who first made the assertions in an Internet posting on Tuesday, told the AP he learned from briefings and by communicating with military commanders that the U.S. soon realized many Guantanamo detainees were innocent but nevertheless held them in hopes they could provide information for a "mosaic" of intelligence. "It did not matter if a detainee were innocent. Indeed, because he lived in Afghanistan and was captured on or near the battle area, he must know something of importance," Wilkerson wrote in the blog. He said intelligence analysts hoped to gather "sufficient information about a village, a region, or a group of individuals, that dots could be connected and terrorists or their plots could be identified." Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel, said vetting on the battlefield during the early stages of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan was incompetent with no meaningful attempt to discriminate "who we were transporting to Cuba for detention and interrogation.""

The suspected alleged assholes/suspected lowlifes have made the "Americas Most Wanted". 'America's Most Wanted' recreates attack on skier near Washougal 01:05 PM PDT on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 By kgw.com Staff Father-son suspects in attack "WASHOUGAL, Wash. -- ‘America’s Most Wanted’ is recreating a brutal carjacking that almost killed a Washington man at a forest campground last month. Kevin Tracey, 52, was beaten, robbed and left for dead during a cross-country ski outing near Washougal on February 9. Background: Skier beaten Police say 33-year-old Michael Collins and 16-year-old Teven Collins beat Tracey with a wooden club, dragged his body into the woods and stole his black Ford Explorer and wallet. Skamania County detectives said Wednesday that they were working with the United States Marshal’s Service and a film crew from the show ‘America’s Most Wanted,’ interviewing people and recreating the crime. Michael Collins is a sex offender with an outstanding arrest warrant for failing to meet his requirements to register. Police consider the suspects armed and dangerous. Tracey's vehicle, checkbook, wallet and several credit cards were stolen in the attack, according to Skamania County authorities. Court records suggest the pair used Tracey's Visa card in Washington, Madras, Ore., and Lathrop, Calif. Police believe the suspects may also be traveling in Tracey’s 1998 black Ford Explorer SUV. The vehicle had Washington registration and plates at the time it was carjacked. The plate numbers were 455-YHY. Skamania County Detectives are asking people who may have information in this case to contact them at (509) 427-9490. The episode will air March 21." ____________________________________________________________ Off topic perhaps, but the day the news published this, there was a parade of unmarked police cars with sirens and lights that blasted down SH 14 towards Washogal about 1:30 pm or so. A grey pickup truck with grey canopy, total civy rig except for the police lights hidden inside, followed by a black expedition or blazer, then 3 more 5 min later, then 2 more -mostly black. So total of 7 unmarked civilian looking rigs. Full lights and sirens. Last time I'd seen this kind of action, the feds had arrested an Al Qaeda cell in Beaverton and the parade was heading to the justice center. Edited: found it, it was a robbery of Lacamas Credit union at noon by a bomb carrying robber, they chased him up Washogal river road and he crashed. He still had a bomb in the car and they detained him till 3pm. http://columbian.com/article/20090319/NEWS02/703199992/-1/NEWS "A man with a homemade bomb allegedly robbed a Washougal credit union shortly after noon Wednesday and led police on a 70 mph chase up Washougal River Road, police said. The pursuit ended when the suspect crashed his car, which flipped onto its top and trapped him inside. Fearing that an explosive device was in the car, officers waited several hours for a bomb squad to show up and remove the device before extricating and detaining the man...."...more click link. Damn....It makes one wonder where all those unmarked police are sitting all day out in the middle of no where.... Bonneville Dam?

Speaking of Shite: Don't be talkin no trash about Khamenei or the other grand assahotola. This is thought crime and will be severly punished in Iran. "Iran blogger jailed for Khamenei insult dies Mar 19 06:50 AM US/Eastern A young Iranian blogger jailed in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday. Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said that although there is not yet an official report about the death on Wednesday of Omid Mir Sayafi, "officials in the prison said that he committed suicide." He demanded "an immediate inquiry and an autopsy into why he died." Dadkhah said another prisoner in Evin, a Dr Hessam Firouzi, "had warned officials in the jail of the state the young blogger was in. "Dr Firouzi called me from the jail to say Omid had a slowed heartbeat and he had taken him to the infirmary, but that doctors there did not take this seriously and said he was faking it," Dadkhah said. He added Firouzi reported that Sayafi had also been very depressed. The blogger, aged around 25, was sentenced in February to 30 months in jail for insulting Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic. Sayafi was first arrested in April last year and released on bail after 41 days before being detained again this year. Iran has launched a crackdown on bloggers and Internet users deemed to be hostile to the authorities and their Islamic values. " http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.07bbbd956513da57cbd653fdde9c7ca2.431&show_article=1

My thoughts are if any one chooses to stick their dick in the grinder, no matter if they are picking mushrooms, wildflowers or climbing, THE GOVERNMENT should ABSOLUTELY not be involved in any way except as a relayer of communications - if that. Expecting them to bail ya out gives them the moral and probably the legal authority to tell you when, where or even if you will go. Call Portland Mountain Rescue, the local explorers, the country Search and Rescue or boyscouts post and if they choose to go save your ass for free, then it's free. Otherwise, pony up the money. I've gotten that call from the potential widow at 2am when the weather is too bad for the Mountain Rescue folks to mobilize and gone up to chase down a buddy with folks I've called to wake up in sideways sleet. It the way it should always be.

I thought the title you reference means that you might have just learned that Barney Frank is gay.

I noticed your car there when passing by with the fam on the way to the Couve. Had I know you were there, I'd have brought your Silent Partner and dropped it off. Give me a heads up next time you are headed that way. OK, but I think it might ruin the spontaneity!

yup, thats it exactly: but maybe they'll profile how its done in Europe and things will change for the better.

Nah, have to work. I think to explain the dawgpile, it was one of those "hey, it's gonna be clear today and raining all weekend" things for everyone. Like a mass movement, it all happened at once and there we were.

It was dry warm and sunny where we were, looks like you had the better route though.

My wife told me to take the lil Dawg out last Sunday. So I grabbed it and got the hell out for the day. Here's the lil Dawg sitting on a rock last Sunday. I think I'm bannzed now from the house and got the dawghause thing going:-) . Just a lil misunderstanding....she was thinking But she forgets that I am always thinking about things in terms of climbing....like the dog pic there:-0 Lots of climbing hammers.

Well, I wasn't talkin about your mom, I'm just trying to help define it and saying that you can tell when they are not Cougars anymore from the visible spots, cause then they are Leopards. my wife has some cream she's using to try and remove the spots....I'm not saying she's not a cougar though cause at 50 she can't be a Leopard yet...... can she.... OMG!

Isn't that a Leopard then? ....a Leopard is a Cougar with spots...... jus' sayin is all....

Bill... you're kidding, right? Think of any weapons upgrade, whether it is the B-1 bomber or the latest generation fighters, or the pathetic trucks we sent to Iraq in which our troops had to put sandbags on the floor or weld scrap metal onto. We should trust the pentagon procurement office to make good choices? I agree with part of your premise, and I stated this point the other night in response to one of Serenity's posts: we DO have to have some measure of trust or respect or appreciation and at some level we cannot second-guess everything. At least not on an operational level. But when we are talking about procurement? (Let alone policy) The larger point remains: at the fundamental levels we can and should second guess pretty much everything. Well, I wasn't kidding. In fact as I pointed out earlier, threads like these are only really geared for sound bites. Frankly, I would have thought that you OR Trvash would have called it on the real obvious Elephant in the room, ie, the US attack on Iraq. Did it make us safer? We spent a fortune there, if the goal of the military is to make us safer for the most bang for the most buck (safest easiest cheapest)....did it happen? Was this it? Did we meet our needs and our goals? Are we safer now? I don't see it, but I hope someone behind the curtain is looking at something I can't look at, otherwise, we just squandered our national treasure and international political goodwill for ......for what again? Billion and billions of dollars flushed, thousands of lives wasted (maybe in the 6 figures depending on who is counting) many of our allies wary, defensive and alienated by our trampling on international law and/or convention. See on the soundbite thing? I could keep on if you want Matt... ..and Mike and Scott, you dudes and folks like you are part of that national treasure. This shit is seriously fucking precious- our money, our countries security and our very lives: and are not to be tossed about like a used Kleenex for minimal or non-existent reasons. Like I said: I'm praying and hoping that there is something behind the curtain that's not so obvious....as I get older, I learn that is often the case.

You're not going all Kevbone on me now are you:-) ? pssst: it's the weasel card.

It seems to me that trust is a big part of being a citizen. For instance, we should be trusting that the Pentagon is war gaming how to get the most bang for the buck internationally from our military and diplomacy. By that I mean how do we maximize our safety while minimizing the expense? The Pentagon hires 27,000 people to work on Public Relations that various issues, like Guantanamo, causes. 27,000. and they have a budget as well. Good PR isn't cheap. To say nothing of what happens if an insurgency develops in some remote country that is anti-US based on these kinds of issues. Furthermore, I agree with Mike above that changing what happens is the more important component of the equations, more so than closing a particular place, however, Gitmo is a polarizing issue now, so that cat is out of the bag. Frankly, I would not want to not have the tools that seem to be so routinely utilized there, available. If, like an OAK tree, the US were to stand firm, it is a matter of time until the rest of the world pulls the "international law" card and force us to pull it off the table. Be better to have that card(s) up the sleeve for an emergency than not.