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  1. That makes Crap Crags look like clean rock. In Oregon, we take what is dished out to us.
  2. I give you $250 bucks and you'll name it "Tool Festival"? I don't know..... Lets wait for me to start drinking and revisit it, only way that could happen, and it might after beer #4 or so...never know.
  3. Nice. Speaking only for myself: I always try to be aware of where my penis is at all times. I have learned from this episode, and it's been nice to broaden my mind: that not everyone feels like me.
  4. I got it I got it: "Tool Festival"
  5. no ring to it.
  6. I can neither confirm or deny that. I have re-examined the poster and determined that it is indeed Ozone. I understand that a guidebook will be published soon. BTW, public attaboy for Tim Olsen. Tim got the Boners call and within 2 hours of it took down the new info he was just starting to put up on his web site that would have diminished the books value. Moreover, and more importantly, he got behind the project and did the Topo drawings for the book, making multiple trips to get it right. Big kudos to Tim. Thanks from us all! Tims web sites: Mr Piton.com Portlandrockclimbs.com/ buy PDX guidebooks here.
  7. Maybe you have a better name in mind? Share it with us.
  8. Yes, plenty of ice, however, it will all be in the drinks that have the lil umbrellas in them and around the keg.
  9. McCain will now go find out and learn about Palin, and he'll get back to you later. This vote is getting easier and easier for me.
  10. OK- turns out McCain is still learning as he goes as well. Nice trait to have as a president, jump, and then later shit your pants when you F*up and learn that you jumped too fast. Link " By Tim Shipman in St Paul, Minnesota Last Updated: 4:22PM BST 02 Sep 2008 Senior allies of the Republican presidential nominee insisted that the team of press officers will handle the worldwide media frenzy surrounding the selection of only the second woman ever on a presidential ticket. But they also admitted that they have operatives on the ground in Alaska to probe more deeply into her background. Democrats detected a whiff of panic in the McCain camp, amid growing claims that Mrs Palin’s personal history was not properly vetted before Mr McCain announced his pick on Friday. The Washington Post reported that Mrs Palin, who has portrayed herself as a fighter against corruption and a dogged opponent of wasteful spending, secured $27million in federal funding for the small town of Wasilla, where she was mayor until two years ago. News that she hired a lobbying firm to secure the cash could undermine Mr McCain’s claims that Mrs Palin is a kindred spirit in opposing so-called congressional "earmarks" of public cash for pet projects. Mr McCain’s aides were already on the back foot on Monday when allegations circulating on the internet forced Mrs Palin and her husband Todd to issue a statement revealing that their daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant and ready to marry her boyfriend, Levi Johnston. It also emerged that Mr Palin was arrested for drunk driving in 1986 and that Mrs Palin has now hired a personal lawyer to fight her corner in a sleaze probe investigating whether she abused her position as governor of Alaska. She is being investigated by Alaska's legislature over claims that she called for the sacking of the state's public safety commissioner because he would not fire a state trooper, who happened to be her estranged brother-in-law, claims she describes as “outrageous” and “false”. But the growing sense of hysteria around her candidacy threatens to undo the excitement generated by the announcement. It has made her speech to the Republican convention on Wednesday the most eagerly awaited address by a vice presidential candidate in decades. Mr McCain’s team, who are prepping her for the appearance, have so far kept her out of the media’s way in the hope that the controversy blows over. But she may soon have to respond to the drip drip of stories or risk losing control of her image. A Republican with ties to the campaign told the New York Times that the team assigned to vet Mrs Palin had not arrived until Thursday, the day before she was named as Mr McCain’s running mate. The source also suggested that reinforcements were still being drafted to go there on Sunday. There were also claims that Mr McCain, until midweek, had wished to select either independent Senator Joe Lieberman or former homeland security chief Tom Ridge as his vice presidential candidate, suggestions that met with anger from conservative Republicans because both men, unlike Mrs Palin, are supporters of abortion. “They didn’t seriously consider her until four or five days from the time she was picked, before she was asked, maybe the Thursday or Friday before,” a Republican told the New York Times. “This was really kind of rushed at the end, because John didn’t get what he wanted. He wanted to do Joe or Ridge.” Forced into a damage limitation exercise, the McCain campaign said they had completed a very thorough background check, including a criminal records check and a probe of Mrs Palin’s financial records. But the FBI said they did not participate in any criminal check. Arthur Culvahouse, the lawyer who led Mr McCain's vice presidential search team said that when he interviewed Mrs Palin for three hours, the first thing she volunteered was that her daughter was pregnant, and she also quickly disclosed her husband's arrest. Mr Culvahouse said he thought everything that came up as a possible red flag during the background check had now been made public. “I think so, he said. “Yes. I think so. Correct.” Mr McCain’s team will hope so, since the furore around Mrs Palin’s selection, along with Hurricane Gustav, has derailed the Republican convention in St Paul, Minnesota, which was supposed to be Mr McCain’s coming out party. President Bush, who cancelled his speech on Monday night is expected to speak via video to the convention on Tuesday evening. His wife, Laura, offered her support to Mrs Palin and warned that Democratic attacks on Mrs Palin and her family could backfire. The revelation about her daughter’s pregnancy provoked a firestorm of criticism and salacious coverage. “The other side will have to be particularly careful,” the First Lady said. Asked if the noisy reaction to the story is evidence of sexism in the American media, which Hillary Clinton claimed to have identified during her battle with Mr Obama, Mrs Bush said: “I think that's a possibility.” She expressed pride in Mr McCain’s controversial pick: “I'm going to get what I wanted, which is to be able to vote for a Republican woman. “People, as they get to know her, are going to be so impressed with her grit and her sensible judgment. She has shown how terrific women can be, and how strong women can be, in office.”
  11. Same here - being old rules...! My shoulder hurts....
  12. From memory: "Knife? You call that knife? Now here mate, THIS is a knife!" (pulls out pig sticker) More about that here: Link to everything you will every need to know
  13. billcoe

    my labor day...

    Nice Rudy! I got money the lil one will be ropegunning for you in less than a year!
  14. Bryon sent me the lil one and I just blew it up and laminated it at Kinkos moments ago so I can stick it to a tree by the Ozone trail. I'll go look at John Stewarts to see if this would be better and replace if needed. Looks awesome in person. Whomever put it together had their sh*t seriously together.
  15. Want to see my Ozone poster?
  16. Tell me about it DD, my youngest is off to college in 2 weeks or so.
  17. I can neither confirm or deny that. Sorry, sworn to secrecy.
  18. I can neither confirm or deny that claim. Sorry, sworn to secrecy.
  19. B4, dropping into the buttcheek tightening, ball shrinking, 250'-300' partially overhanging rap. Front view: After, the end of day Sig Sauer .45 cal Earnest Langdon limited edition making holes in paper and folks trying to rehydrate cause someone forgot to bring water. Someone else:-) Lil Dawg all tuckered out, @20 holes later, still retaining 2 out of 3 lights. 2/3 battery remaining!). Obligatory for Dwyanus and Pope. My camera had low battery condition, I was lucky to get these.
  20. Working so you can play. Adam Winslow and Ujahn Davisson (on the right dressed as Al Jolson in blackface) Ujahn on Beeline, wide shot. This will be the first route inside what you can see in the picture frame. I count @10-20 potential lines there. Close up- I have a 10-1 zoom lens and this is all the way in, I'm about a 1/4+ mile away. Let that dirt flow bubba! Currently about 30' of solid 1-1/2" wide handcrack has been discovered and unearthed. (hey Dawg , we're rap cleaning. it's part of the human condition, get over yourself)
  21. Cool, I was going to blow up a small a color poster and put it there, but thanks for doing that. 6 pack of wine...I can do that. BTW, MarkD (and Boner), check your emails, I'm drained so it's on you folks now to move the ball forward, good luck.
  22. ______________________________________________________________________ Plot thickens. Who called it? Link to UK Telegraph artical "Dutch withdraw spy from Iran because of 'impending US attack' The Dutch intelligence service has pulled an agent out of an "ultra-secret operation" spying on Iran's military industry because spymasters in Netherlands believe a United States air attack was imminent. By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Last Updated: 9:24AM BST 01 Sep 2008 According to reports in the newspaper De Telegraaf, the country's intelligence service, the AIVD, has stopped an espionage operation aimed at infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry in Iran. "The operation, described as extremely successful, was halted recently in connection with plans for an impending US air attack on Iran," said the report. "Targets would also be bombed which were connected with the Dutch espionage action." "Well placed" sources told the paper that a top agent had been recalled recently "because the US was thought to be making a decision within weeks to attack Iran with unmanned aircraft". "Information from the AIVD operation has in recent years been shared with the American CIA secret service." Brig Gen Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of the Iranian armed forces, warned at the weekend that military attacks against Iran would trigger a Third World War. "The exorbitant demands of the US leaders and the global Zionism which have created the current situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Caucasus are gradually directing the world to the edge of the cliff," he said. The US has refused to rule out a military attack against Iran if its government continues to enrich uranium as part of its civilian nuclear programme, which the West suspects has the clandestine objective of developing atomic weapons. Iran has warned it would close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Gulf and a major oil shipping route, if it is attacked. On Friday, the Israel newspaper Ma'ariv reported that Israel has stepped up preparations for a contingency plan to attack Iran, should diplomatic efforts, via the United Nations, fail to derail Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons programme." _______________________________________________________________ There is a slight chance, perhaps less than 10%, this is only public propaganda designed to push Iran into compliance and abandonment of their Nuclear program...slight, very slight. The question I would raise is: "Why would the Dutch, if they really had such a successful surveillance program" break it off, fold up their tent and then announce it (wide span, multi-country broadcast) so publicly, it to the world? In doing so, they would most likely lose what they had worked so hard to have gained. It also pre-announces to the enemy our intentions. Why do that? Questions with layers of more questions and shadows underneath those questions.
  23. Damn straight! Saw CCR in 1969 and Fogerty still gets on it. Turns out he lives near, I guess my bro stayed at his place a couple of years back up by Troy. yN4B-ta6hFQ "Now I ain't no Doctor, and I ain't no Noiuse.....uhh huuhhh huhhhh...mmmm mmm mmmm "
  24. Talk about the uber high road: "I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics." -Barak Obama __________________________________________________________ Wow. I like it. My mouth is open. Can't find myself personally backing off just yet, but that's me. Wow. Thats f*ing refreshing after 8 years of Karl Rove (and James Carvelle) attacks on everything that isn't lined up directly behind you.
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