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Looks like I miss-called the date for this one. (thankfully) Don't have time to get all these in and to retrofit their planes for the distance? Unless the US jumps on it instead with crusie missile support (still a strong possibility). linky "Israel slated to buy US smart bombs By YAAKOV KATZ The US Department of Defense has notified Congress of a potential sale to Israel of 1,000 smart bombs capable of penetrating underground bunkers, which would likely be used in the event of a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The notification to Congress was made over the weekend by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the branch of the Pentagon responsible for evaluating foreign military sales. Congress has 30 days to object to the deal. The deal is valued at $77 million and the principal contractor would be Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. The bomb Israel wants is the GBU-39, developed in recent years by the US as a small-diameter bomb for low-cost, high-precision and low-collateral damage strikes. Israel has also asked for 150 mounting carriages, 30 guided test vehicles and two instructors to train the air force in loading the bombs on its aircraft. The GPS-guided GBU-39 is said to be one of the most accurate bombs in the world. The 113 kg. bomb has the same penetration capabilities as a normal 900 kg. bomb, although it has only 22.7 kg. of explosives. At just 1.75 meters long, its small size increases the number of bombs an aircraft can carry and the number of targets it can attack in a sortie. Tests conducted in the US have proven that the bomb is capable of penetrating at least 90 cm. of steel-reinforced concrete. The GBU-39 can be used in adverse weather conditions and has a standoff range of more than 110 km. due to pop-out wings. In its recommendation to Congress, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency wrote that Israel's strategic position was "vital to the US national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability. This proposed sale is consistent with those objectives," the statement read. The agency's announcement came amid growing concern that the Pentagon was not willing to sell Israel advanced military platforms such as bunker-buster missiles in an effort to dissuade Jerusalem from attacking Iran's nuclear facilities. Bunker-buster missiles would be a fundamental component of an air strike against Iran, since many of the nuclear facilities, such as the Natanz uranium enrichment complex, have been built in underground, heavily fortified bunkers. During the Second Lebanon War, Israel reportedly received an emergency shipment of bunker-buster missiles from the US to use against underground Hizbullah facilities. Yiftah Shapir, from the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said the GBU-39 is one of the most advanced in the world and would improve Israel's standoff fire capabilities. "The bomb is extremely accurate," he said. "All you have to do is punch in the coordinates, fire and forget." He said they could be used to attack Iranian underground facilities like Natanz but that they could only penetrate a few meters. "Hundreds of these would have to be used in an attack on Natanz for it to be successful," Shapir said."

No need, prepped for this years ago. Prepare for the worse, hope for the best.

Don't know the route but that's a good lookin kid Rudy! My boy is leaving for college next week, both of us are gonna miss him big time, he's so damn much fun to hang out with.

Does that explains Dawgs interest?

Every same one of us, if we had to pick only one, would pick art....almost every single time. Art's cost is a one time shot and cheap in comparison. Even big brother gobment art.

Found some climbing stuff here: Link

Jayb, what do you find to be an ultra compelling, must read, of Wallace's?

The sky may be falling Largest bankruptcy ever: "Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday in New York, listing debts of $613 billion"

If you can get everyone to believe the gloom and doom scenario it will be acted out. That simple. The next President will be Barak Obama. I have been putting my money where my mouth is using the glorious winnings from my "Hillary not being the democratic nominee" to fund this joyride. This is not to say I am looking forward to him f*ing up the county like I highly suspect he will. Just that it will be his turn. "Real change", the oft repeated and perhaps the only Obama campaign slogan, doesn't tell the koolaid drinkers if it might not be bad change. Like "Real Bad change". They will learn all this later of course, much to their chagrin. The true believers are already parsing their comments and blaming Bush for the future so that their guy can get a free ride...see that up there? I suspect BO may be the lesser of the 2 evils, and his Biden pick vs McCains pick, put it that way for me. I mean, I want to "believe" in the guy, but I don't "Believe" in the tooth fairy or Santa Clause any more for a reason. Belief is fine and all, but what have you ACTUALLY done in life? Not a hell of a lot in Obamas case.

no. Nothing about that post is serious. Thanks for raining on my parade though. I was trying to assist Peter to improve his Dawg baiting skillz. We are using a few of those monster bolts if that was part of the question.

Some notes in addition to whats been said. I have some garden trowels, but find that the best thing for fast cleaning of the kind of stuff I get on is an ice axe. You can whack a root with the adze, scrape moss if needed, and flip it around and use the pick both for deep cleaning of cracks and for pulling your self up hummocks if you're like me and feel it's difficult to not do some climbing while you're cleaning. The short, straight shaft, steel ice axes are the shitz. Not a curved shaft, not a lightweight aluminum model although both will work. For anything larger, like cleaning off ledges, the little bronco shovels that are like 2' long and have a plastic handle (Home Depot @$13) are nice cause they stuff in your pack and are real maneuverable. For harder dirt, or rocky ground, the shovel Ivan alludes to is a standard roofing shovel that has a wedge shaped fulcrum on the bottom which facilitates prying rocks off and is hard to beat for shoveling, chopping roots, and cranking out deeply rooted vegetation. Brad Jarrett told me to go buy a cordless blower, said for fine dust I would never go back to the palmyra bristle brushes ever again for the final cleaning. I bought one but haven't tried it yet. I'd pretty much believe anything he would tell me though. Weight about 5-6 lbs is all. I also bought a couple of the Russian nut tools for getting deep into cracks, as they are narrower and longer than about everything else out there. Always bring a dust mask. Adam and Ujahn. Who's been doing the work here!?

Post em up! I will eventually get some once I recover my camera and all my wide cams and big Bros. Everyone I was with seems to not think they have the crap. I triple checked my bag and it wasn't there (borrowed from Graham) but maybe it got left behind in the woods. You'd think it would be pretty hard to loose a #9 and #12 Valley Giant, but there ya go. Sh*t, just remembered where they are. Left them all at the cliff, just laying on the ground. An entire rack of wyde stuff: #4's up to through #12 Valley giant, 2 big bros, with the camera attached to the rack. ha ha! Glad it wasn't left at Smith or someplace popular:-) Probably over a grand of crap.

Good on ya as usual Ivan, but I need to ask: "Whats a Leeper Colony"? Is this classic Ivan-English speak? Do you mean the whole range of like doubles or triples of the Leeper Z pins? Or is this some real, actual piece? _____________________________________________________________ Fixed it so we can have the usual 50 page flamefest going.

Good to hear another good deed story. I personally think this is the rule, and not the exception, but that our propensity to blow up strange and bizarre shit on the news and only get fed that bullshit over and over and over makes us think the reverse is actually the case. Most people, rich and poor, are real good people. You just don't get the continual feed loop on the good news and good deeds because "they" don't make money on it.

Nice work dudes! Serious stuff with all the loose rocks you must have been looking at. 1 rock on the bean while on upper Wyeast and that 2000' or so ride down the talus would have been a bitch eh? Wow. to making it back.

True dat, but Clinton ran under the "It's the economy stupid" and was elected with one of his primary ideas that we can and must keep our economy strong by borrowing and spending less. Too his great credit (I know I know- this dude had faults and failures, we all know it, for instance -he pitched a .50/cent a gallon gas tax that was well done and dropped it like a hot potatoe when he saw the political opposition starting to form against it) he succeed in fixing that issue, along with some other important and large ones as well. I so totally agreed with this part of your diatribe.

Hilti is pricy. However, you probably got like a 9/16 x 12" or something bizarre and big? For climbing project? Hey, if you're trolling for Pope and Raindowg Peter, couple of tips for you, I've learned that you have to be much more inflammatory. Say, tell them you named your drill after one of them and successfully bolted a crack GREAT ROUTE then post a pic of a bolted crack! The lil Dawg itching for action. The new Gold Standard 1/2 x 7" long. Top of the new bolted route who's name is say, "Teasin' the Dawg" or "Kickin' the Dawg in the nutz" or something equally clever. There are plenty of better bolted pics you could chose from as this route appears to be trad bolted, with bolts farther apart than normal trolling dictates. Cleaning a new line to bolt. See how happy this gentleman is? That's how you look when you stuff the Gold standard in that hole. Just trying to help out.

force your way through and survive.....I think it should be added:-) Biggest Ice fall I'd ever seen b4 or since swept that area once late August. The blocks were the size of houses and the noise was not something one could describe. Nice picture jtownsley!

I is are lookin fur dem ass well. Are lives is are incomplete till we git dem. boo yah! Hey!

You can put lipstick on a ... No sir! didn't work at all.

hmmm, if she is a fur trader is she still a virgin or would that devalue the price? Link If we could get paid for "fucking yourself", what kind of money could one raise? I hear that on this site a lot, never figured it could be a good thing.

Link Lindsay Lohan is planning on an isle of Lesbos wedding. 8D "First there were the matching tattoos, then the public declarations of love and now it seems Lindsay Lohan will marry her lesbian lover. ............" Ya got to admit she's easier on the eyes than McCain, who, by the way, is looking more like a vampire (no blood in his face if the tip off) than ever, even when not standing next to your future president Barak. Compare: see? I'm sayin'

It was a joke he hatched with my dad.

Don't ever be takin' no shit about my main man Charlie Brown, amazing human being and founder of George (ie converted the land from a Pig Sty to a town). If any Charlie Brown relatives ever read this and ever have need for even the smallest of favors, you have but to ask. Turns out I inherited a debt which I would be more than happy to repay. God Bless Charlie cause if it exists, he's up there in heaven.

free soda and chips from the vending machines?