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Well, it's a closely guarded secret....awww, kidding. From your words.....there is this from just the previous page of this thread as an example...Kevin, do you read the stuff you write or is premature Alzheimer's setting in? :-)

Ouch, rough crowd.

Omama is my president. I don't expect to like everything he does, hopefully, it's better than it has been with the last dude in there. I am going to not backbite the guy, although it may seem that way on occasion. I'm praying he does the right things and keeps the country safe, cause everything after that is a pony ride. From all accounts, it looks good to me. Sorry if anyone don't like it, but that thats the way to be IMO.

It was who I thought..... Kevin and Ivan, there's lots of other places to go bolt....Lots!

Great find SS!

I don't think there is an absolute Black or White to the thing Ivan, and you just reinforced it. I hate to see us acting in ways that are the opposite of what we think our self image is. ie, gracious, helpful and friendly. Yet our overseas actions are full of such horseshit, to the point that you probably couldn't list it all the list is so long. Carter, to his credit, tried to reign in our foreign excess's and failed. Looking at Obamas list of appointees, I don't suppose it will change, but it would be nice if they closed Guantanamo and still kept the few who truly would be dangerous out of action. It was only last June that the supreme court ruled they have access to due process http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article ...can't say how that's been going, but I know they have been releasing some. It's a confusing mish mash in that there truly are innocent people there, who's names were given in a duplicitous manner by other Afghans to further their political reasons. And there have been plenty of instances of detainees released from Guantanamo who have returned right back to the [Afghan] battlefield to kill Americans. I suspect that the Obama admin will just have some of these dudes merely transferred to Afgan prisons so he can still claim Gitmo is closed.

I thought you had some good points JB. Edited to add: I tend to be very suspicious of magazines ever since I learned that Steve Forbes (Forbes Magazine) dad, Malcolm, made a mint of money by literally and legally blackmailing corporations. His tactic would be to squash negative stories if you paid full price for a 6 page ad. If you chose to disregard his friendly attempt to help you, and not to place the ad, then the story would run with extra "sky is falling for your company" spin. If you were preparing a bond offering, it would be disastrous. Who says all the pirates live in Somalia? Cya!

Hi Bradley! Good bumping into you last night. You should have been doing laps earlier in the year with us outside before it rained. BTW, there is a little climbing wall close to your work in Lake Oswego. Kevbone found it only as his company was moving across the river, so I thought I'd just say it now. Maybe it's all old news. Also, Ujahn has like 3 secret bouldering areas close to you, he use to live @ a block off the lake and found these spots while on runs etc. Ask him about it sometime he doesn't keep secrets. I went to one once, and it's a little shithole, but I got pumped fast. (common occurrence:-)

Yes, thanks for supplying the link which was requested.... NOT! Oh, sorry, no link. Of course you would be too busy talking and complaining to go find it. I do see that the goon called you "cuddly". WTF was he thinking? Definitely a Gestapo like move. We all know that the Gestapo started off that way and it went downhill from Cuddly:-) ....NOT! Now we will watch and see if Trash will show up with a rational post, with links, or if he will pull another low-life dickhead asswipe personal attack. I suspect the latter. Anyone want to do an office pool?

hah hah! Thanks Matt. OK, here's an example: In response to a post from Doug, Peter Said: to which Trash replied in full: Now 9 out of 10 people, if you removed the posters names and asked which of these posts is coming from a piece of shit low-life dickhead? 99.9% would name the 2nd post as coming from a piece of shit low-life dickhead and not the first. Do you need more examples? When we examine it closer, we see that Peters post is on topic. Topic is "Janet Reno back at homeland security director post". When we look at the 2nd post, we see that the shithead who posted it called the first poster a racist, although it was the shithead himself who introduced the idea and offers no supporting link. Rational and reasonable folks of course, find this disingenuous and disheartening to see this kind of a low life attack for no apparent reason.

jb, what gestapo like tactics ? links?

OK, who is the phantom?

i think most folks would acknowledge mandela is a remarkable man, and not the sort of person to compare the rest of the world to though - he also got his revenge, in a sense, by winning (seeing apartheid destroyed and becoming president) - if he'd been pardoned or released a decade earlier, when teh bad guys were still in power, who's to say he wouldn't have become a violent terrorist? So you are suggesting it was a good thing he was kept locked up. hmmmm, ok.

OMG! LOL!

Alright now, lets keep this about Pink and Minx MmmmmK? Pictures and a TR?

Our own Geoff would chase that ambulance for you quite capably I suspect, but he lives in PDX. Once they start working with you, you usually don't have to keep beating them over the head with the lawyer thing. If you do need to toss it out there, filing a grievance as Rad says is another tool in the box though. Good to see it moving along for you, looks like it's going to work out OK in the end. We'll keep our fingers crossed: good luck!

I hope to be at this one Sunday. Most likely soloing a tad on untested rock. If things don't work out, well, it's pretty isolated up there, doan' cry for me Argentina. I have a new Noveske AR-15 and a CZ75 Tactical Sport 9mm pistol I need to send some rounds thru the pipe. Shoot then climb then come back is the plan. Interestingly enough, despite it's appearance - this rock is more solid and harder than anything I've seen in a long while. Certainly much harder than the stuff above.

interesting news: anyone who bought shit from this prick has to give it back! Link "Hit-and-run locker room theft ring busted, say feds Authorities have broken up a gang gym thieves they say was responsible for using stolen credit cards to buy computers and other electronic equipment which was then sold for millions of dollars on eBay, according to federal charges. By Mike Carter Seattle Times staff reporter Authorities have broken up a gang gym thieves they say was responsible for using stolen credit cards to buy computers and other electronic equipment which was then sold for millions of dollars on eBay, according to federal charges. Officers assigned to a federal Electronic Crimes Task Force today arrested Billy Morris Britt, 36, of Seattle, and Gabriel K. Jang, 37, of Renton, on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Both appeared before U.S. Magistrate Brian Tsuchida this afternoon, where they were ordered held pending a detention hearing on Tuesday. The pair are charged in a 40-page complaint alleging they and others stole hundreds of credit cards from gymnasium lockers in Washington and Oregon, created nearly instant fake identification in their cars, and then purchased expensive electronics equipment with those stolen cards within hours of the theft. Detectives determined that many of those items were posted for sale on eBay within days. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Warma said the men operated what amounted to a "mobile counterfeiting lab" that could create within minutes realistic driver's licenses, bearing the names on the stolen credit cards and the photo of the thief. She said several search and forfeiture warrants were served today as the men were arrested. And thousands of people who bought electronics from Jang's company, Nexus Systems Inc., are being tracked down and told that they will have return their purchases, Warma said. Many of the items were "high-end computers and cameras," including Apple laptops, that were sold for thousands of dollars — but just under retail prices — on eBay by Jang as "overstock." The thefts were so extensive that they had already caught the attention of police and of store security officers at the electronics big-box store, Best Buy. Seattle police Detective David Dunn, assigned to the U.S. Secret Service-led task force, was able to track the thieves and tie the credit-card thefts to the purchases through an e-mail address that was linked to a Best Buy Rewards card that had been used hundreds of times. Rewards cards provide loyal customers with special deals and other incentives for buying at the store. Britt had drawn suspicion to the card because it had been used more than 125 times using 77 different credit cards for purchases of more than $250,000. The case opened in October 2007 when another Seattle detective, investigating a credit-card theft from a Seattle gym, contacted Dunn in October 2007 after learning that the rewards card had been presented when the stolen cards were used at a Best Buy. The rewards card had been used with that purchase, and Britt was able to find the person whose name it was registered in. That individual said he had never opened a Best Buy account, but that his credit cards had been stolen from a Bellevue gym several years earlier and used at Best Buy before he could cancel them, according to the complaint. Dunn was able to track the e-mail address on that card to Britt, and began following him, the complaint said. Meantime, a Best Buy store investigator had become suspicious of the Rewards card and opened his own investigation. By watching eBay, he was able to track items purchased using the fraudulent Rewards card to identical items being sold just days — and sometimes hours — later on eBay by a broker named "Nexusi," an identification registered to Jang, according to the charges. A financial investigation showed that $2 million from the sale of electronic goods had passed through a PayPal account used by Jang since 2004, and another $1.3 million into a checking account traced to Jang. Britt was arrested in October at a Best Buy after a clerk became suspicious. Investigators found a card-reading device in his car often used by credit-card thieves, the complaint says. Warma said hundreds of gym locker rooms in Washington and Oregon were hit over the years and the thieves were smart: they'd take only one or two cards from a wallet, leave the cash, and replace the wallet where they found it. Often, the thefts went unnoticed for hours. "In the meantime, they're buying a couple of MacBooks while you're in the shower," she said. Mike Carter: 206-464-3706 or mcarter@seattletimes.com"

Bone, this is an album cover. You should make it your sig line? ie, you've been BONED! Sample song titles include: "Drain the Main Vein," "Ain't No Talkin' With Your Mouth Full" and "Tails Up Heads Down"

Damn, I missed all the good stuff bullshit cause I was off raising my kids. That's a good thing I'll bet. You might check with the "Phantom", whomever that is/was, and everyone else so that another chop job doesn't ensue before placing more bolts Ivan. Where did Nate go off too BTW, never hear of him anymore.

oppps, mean Janet Napolitano. Similar Dyke like look. "The Obama transition team keeps on leaking: word has it that the president-elect will appoint Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to head the Department of Homeland Security, replacing the controversial Michael Chertoff. The move puts the border governor in charge of immigration and border security. Arizona has a large number of undocumented immigrants. Napolitano, 50, endorsed Obama in early January and became one of his most visible supporters. Sources told Politico the offer is likely to be made, and that Napolitano is expected to accept." All kidding aside, might be a great choice. Full story link: http://www.politico.com

OK, I need to revise my thinking for 2008, #1 no longer. link

Thanks for the link: here's mine. Link May be dated (2006), I was in China in 2007 I think, and GM was still the largest then I'm pretty sure. Buicks everywhere. Not like our Buicks, but more like Toyotas.

GM (Buick) sells more made in China cars than any Japanese Mfg. Does GM get your Chinese government bailout or just Chery? Do you have a link Hugh or did this come to you in a dream last night?