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Tell me again: is it just the moss holding all those blocks together Teh? View of the other side of the Phallus: Back when the undammed high river flows killed the trees at the base, well, you can see why it doesn't look like a "Rooster" at all to pioneer folks floating down that treacherous part of the Oregon Trail, or other locals.(insert Cliff Claven moment here) "The Chinook Jargon word for the rock was iwash, referring to penis"...:-) Reference below: you can't easily make up shit like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster_Rock_State_Park

You talking about this? http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-government-contractor-claims-al-qaeda-has-confirmed-bin-laden-fairytale.html "Friday, May 6, 2011 One of the groups behind the endless fake Bin Laden tapes and a contractor for the US government tells us that “Al-Qaeda” has confirmed the death of Osama. Although Bin Laden has been dead since 2001, the fact the US government is having to rely on the notorious SITE Institute to prop up the crumbling Bin Laden fable that was manufactured on Sunday night shows how desperate the White House has become in its bid to sell the public on more terror fearmongering. “Al Qaeda released a statement on jihadist forums confirming the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant messages,” reports CNN. “The statement, translated by SITE, lauded the late militant, threatened to take action against the United States, and urged Pakistanis to “rise up and revolt.” SITE’s claim that “Al-Qaeda” has confirmed the official White House version of events concerning the death of Bin Laden, thereby lending presumed credence to a narrative that has quickly attracted derision and suspicion even amongst mainstream journalists, is about as credible as if Barney the Purple Dinosaur had made a statement assuring us that Osama was killed on Sunday evening. SITE is a US military-industrial complex front and has been caught red-handed releasing fake Al-Qaeda tapes on numerous occasions. The SITE organization is nothing more than a contractor for the U.S. government, receiving some $500,000 a year annually from Uncle Sam, the majority of which is paid for by U.S. taxpayers. The group was founded by Rita Katz, the daughter of an executed Israeli spy. Katz has worked closely with the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security. SITE’s website content was found to be largely copied from the U.S. State Department. “SITE’s “Terrorism Library, on cursory investigation, looks to be a straight data scrape from the U.S. Department of State’s Patterns of Global Terrorism – 2003, Appendix B,” notes SourceWatch. This organization is nothing more than a dummy group which acts as a conduit for Pentagon propaganda. Everything about SITE indicates that it is nothing more than a trojan horse that is regularly used by the military-industrial complex to release staged Al-Qaeda videotapes as part of the ongoing propaganda offensive to justify the brutal, pointless and manufactured war on terror."

The wanker's view from down under LINK Which says: "How secretive and shabby the Americans are There was no rejoicing in Times Square when Hirohito died, though he ordered the killing of 2350 Americans in Pearl Harbor. I remember no such gladness when Hitler died, or Ho Chi Minh, or Mao Tse Tung. Or Che Guevara. Or Salvador Allende. Or Joseph Stalin. These laughing, flag-waving, crowded scenes outside the White House and across America have no precedent (except, perhaps, in the South when Lincoln was shot) and it is to be wondered why they occurred. There was a magical-realist quality to Osama Bin Laden. He looked like the risen Christ, and was often thought dead and came always back to life. His broadcasts needed always to be authenticated because the CIA wanted him dead. He’d humiliated them so enormously they kept saying he was dead. He was ‘on dialysis’, they asserted, wrongly; he had to be dead by now. 9/11 was so clever. He had to be dead. And once again they are covering up, and in denial. As with John F Kennedy, whose brain was stolen, his car washed of its blood, film of his autopsy made to vanish, his alleged assassin murdered and that assassin’s evidence unrecorded, burnt or discarded, we have here, now, a significant body, the corpse of the world’s most wanted man, ‘buried at sea’. Why do this? Why even think of it, when identifying him forensically was critical to the peace of the Arab and Muslim world? Uday and Qusay weren’t buried at sea, nor the twenty-four-hour burial rule applied to these two cosmeticked enemy stiffs. Saddam was helicoptered home to his tribal city (by Mike Kelly MP and Minister for Cheese) for interment in his clan’s sacred ground. Why treat Osama any differently? Why put his body where it couldn’t be checked over? Why not have an autopsy? Why not give their most famous son back to the rich Bin Laden family, and see them set him down in their family plot? What right do Americans have to a fallen enemy’s corpse? Where did that new rule come from? How dare they? Clearly they feared the sight of his widow, wounded in the fire-fight, at the graveside of him and his dead son, and the sight of his grieving daughter and his other sons would humanise him in an inconvenient way. Clearly they feared his grave would become, like that of Karl Marx or St Thomas a Beckett, a pilgrim shrine for apostles yet unborn. But there were other, forensic reasons too. A coronial enquiry, with witnesses, would show if women were fired upon, or children. It would show if Bin Laden took his own life, as Allende did, it seems, or if his bodyguard, sworn to kill him in such a circumstance, shot him as well, in the back, perhaps. It would show if he had his hands up, and he was therefore killed against the rules of war, or if his wife said, ‘Please, no.’ It would also get from his wife and daughter evidence of who had lodged them in their splendid quarters, who paid the bills, who took the children to the local school, and what Mushareff knew, and what Azari knew, and indeed what Benazir Bhutto knew, of his five-year stay, if that is how long it was, only three minutes’ walk from an army academy, the West Point of Pakistan. How shabby the Americans are. How secretive and stupid. One thinks of the 600 plots to kill Castro: the poisoned face cream, the poisoned wetsuit, the exploding cigars, the former girlfriend who, after sex, couldn’t do it, even when he offered his gun. How low grade they are. How creepy. How overpaid for their shoddy scheming and their bungled midnight raids. And Osama Bin Laden was buried at sea. Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Imagine Hitler, buried at sea. Or Trotsky. How stupid can they be? For there is no end to it now. As with Elvis, his voice, his image will recur on websites for fifty years. Was it him? Did he survive? Is he still alive? He must be. He must be. His widow will charge his American assassins with war crimes for killing and wounding civilians: her son, herself, her daughter. His family will spend millions cleansing his name. The Sunni clergy will denounce the blasphemous travesty of his last rites, not on family ground but the cruel sea. Karzai will demand compensation for the towns destroyed in America’s vain search for him, in the wrong country. The Saudi royals will be shown to have given him money and Bush to have known this while his father took fees from them. A good few Pakistani colonels will be tortured and shot. The Navy Seals that shot him (in the face, not the legs) will get jobs on Fox News. The Taliban will seize Pakistan and its WMD. And his legend, like Che’s, will grow luminous, and more and more twelve-year-old suicide bombers go into supermarkets whispering his name. And all they had to do was keep the body, film its autopsy, open it to media view and give it back, in due season, to his family for a proper Sunni funeral, as they did Saddam and Uday and Qusay, in the green, green grass of home. What klutzes they are. And how dearly we all must pay for their clumsiness, in a rejuvenated al-Qaeda and acts of terror without end, in this country too. And an atomic war, perhaps. And it’s a pity. PS. Osama was unarmed, we now are told, but he ‘resisted’ and so was shot ‘above the left eye’ and ‘part of his brain was blown away’. This, and other details, might explain why Barack Obama spent so long rewriting his speech, his worst thus far on a great specific occasion, and why he seemed uneasy giving it. What, we may ask, is he now to say of a murder committed by uninvited American troops on foreign soil, illegally? And what is he to do with an illegally kidnapped widow, daughter and sons, and their ongoing education in Abbottobad? And, indeed, with the question, why are we in Afghanistan? And with the further, larger question, why, if Osama Bin Laden was for five years in Pakistan, and Pakistan’s rulers knew of it, we are not making war on Pakistan today? In reprisal? As we did on Afghanistan? Why are we in Afghanistan, by the way? Is there any reason left? Bob Ellis is a writer and commentator"

nice can skip the middle. [video:vimeo]

157 lbs. 7, 6 pullups. Shaved my head per wifes instructions (actually I fucked it up and over did it she is now saying:-) and am leaving for Yos tomorrow. I'm thinking 140 range now. When I was pulling hard as a pup, I weight 145. As I have significantly less muscle now (wife is very clear on this one:-), should be in the range of acceptable.

Yup. The distortions, mistakes, errors and flat out lies were running full speed ahead. It really makes one wonder what the truth really is doesn't it? The Pentagon has over 28,000 people who's sole and singular job it is to manipulate thought on our military, and it makes you wonder how effective they are being on US specifically. That doesn't include the CIA manipulations and all the rest of the NSA horseshit. jb and I part company on the idea that our government is overstaffed. He thinks we need more of those folks running around to fulfill the essential role of government. I feel that the overstaffing of these petty fiefdoms and bureaucracies is counter productive to our freedom..

Wow, sweet! I'll get there Kev, might be a bit as I have a Sworee to go to tonight and am in the valley for the next 2 weeks. If you bump it in 3 weeks my feeble brain will remember....and btw, fandango, flamico and spanish guitar is great! No need to resort to generic and geriatric toothless old gummer music just for me:-)

Bone, the date you posted has come and gone, are you still playing? Wuzup?

Are you asking us to fix this for you?

MS, he's Jerry's kid now.

The Taiwanese news summation is once again ahead of you all. [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiDyrkU0WAQ&feature=player_embedded#at=66

Someone in Greece must have read jbs post and that is the course they now claim will fix their countries debt problem. (cough) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110502/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_greece_financial_crisis "By DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press – Mon May 2, 9:48 am ET ATHENS, Greece – Greece's cash-strapped government promised Monday to raise an additional euro11.8 billion ($17.5 billion) by the end of 2013 via a crackdown on tax evasion, and indicated it could seek a second extension of its bailout loan repayment. Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou outlined the tax crackdown, which includes the appointment of a former terrorism prosecutor to the effort, a year after Greece was rescued from the brink of bankruptcy by a euro110 billion ($164 billion) bailout package from the European Union and International Monetary Fund..........." This should be interesting.......

This. If you rig it wrong (it will appear to be correct) you get lots of friction. Review your set up vis a vis the manual. All this solo shit has made be be nicer to my climbing partners so that they want to climb with me. Soloing with a rope generally sucks IMO. Good luck.

Don't forget to say something about his mamma, in Pink pajamas. So he's dead? Shot in the head in bed with lead.....now we can finally stop thinking and worrying over that nasty reactor in Japan still sending radiation over our way!

Here's the rest of that quote Andrew:..."and he killt men by the hundreds, And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse." (reference) [video:youtube] Congrats to John and all, very inspirational!

So then it's true for the poor/intelligentsia and for small dollar amounts. They'll go elsewhere. The wealthy must just be too stupid to move for a 2.6% tax increase. Well, that applies to New Jersey but apparently not to Maryland who appear to have seen a different thing altogether. Of course, this was only a temp tax set to expire. http://www.open.salon.com/blog/richard_rider/2011/04/08/overtaxed_maryland_millionaires_go_missing_1 http://washingtonexaminer.com/taxes/2009/05/its-not-just-millionaires-fleeing-maryland-taxes "Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy. Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%. And because cities such as Baltimore and Bethesda also impose income taxes, the state-local tax rate can go as high as 9.45%. Governor Martin O'Malley, a dedicated class warrior, declared that these richest 0.3% of filers were "willing and able to pay their fair share." The Baltimore Sun predicted the rich would "grin and bear it." One year later, nobody's grinning. One-third of the millionaires have disappeared from Maryland tax rolls. In 2008 roughly 3,000 million-dollar income tax returns were filed by the end of April. This year there were 2,000, which the state comptroller's office concedes is a "substantial decline." On those missing returns, the government collects 6.25% of nothing. Instead of the state coffers gaining the extra $106 million the politicians predicted, millionaires paid $100 million less in taxes than they did last year -- even at higher rates. No doubt the majority of that loss in millionaire filings results from the recession. However, this is one reason that depending on the rich to finance government is so ill-advised: Progressive tax rates create mountains of cash during good times that vanish during recessions. For evidence, consult California, New York and New Jersey. The Maryland state revenue office says it's "way too early" to tell how many millionaires moved out of the state when the tax rates rose. But no one disputes that some rich filers did leave. "

Here it is!

We all feel the same. These kittens would probably off themselves if they had to read jbs posts.

Fuckin' A right on jb! Other than your usual points, the bitches in government are debasing our currency via overspending and fucking us all in the ass. (despite what you say, I give Reagan very low scores on the budget and spending, you obviously were sleeping in class again) Thats just some weak assed shit that you tossed in there and it appears that you can't refute jb's shit with real numbers or information. Just bring some facts first. BTW, I often read his pithy crap, (sometimes I scroll) but I've generally stopped responding as I don't believe he reads, or if he does read, he doesn't reflect upon, others posts. Thus his rants tend to be arm waving ravings and not actual dialogues with information exchanged like others posts often are. Take care all

Bitch There can be but one.

True, but it would help. We need to cut the budget AND make the tax laws fair. The Obama tax cuts for the rich only will continue to exacerbate the budget horror show we can't seem to stop. This is a great link with facts concerning the vast majority of the population being hosed by the rich I'd like to see Jayb refute. http://wweek.com/portland/article-17350-9_things_the_rich_dont_want_you_to_know_about_taxes.html The federal spending and reach into every little aspect of our lives is still out of control IMO. Raising everyone's taxes might crash the economy, but someone has to grab the tiller and fix this issue soon, or pay the piper later. Cutting government spending should be done as well, if you raise taxes and spend it via big gov't then you haven't done jack or shit except to make things worse.

Classic! Following in the footsteps of Galen Rowell, the great one. Awesome shot. You got more like that Mikey? Nevermind, I clicked the link on your post....duh! LOL! Probably about to be sucked into a black time hole surfing your site now:-)

Too bad you don't have some big-assed rich aerospace and defense oriented manufacturer up there who could help you get it done. There's one HQed in Chicago called Boeing, is Chicago getting one? BTW, next time you're down this way, have Ivan show you the Spruce Goose, just south of town in the Evergreen museum that has some real interesting things. SR-71 Blackbird, lots of other war birds as well.

I heard that we outsourced all that pot growing to Mexico with NAAFTA. We send them guns and money and they send us great weed and more people than we can handle. It's a symbiotic relationship that works quite well. God forbid any seriously nasty terrorists figure out how porous that border really is. "People growing marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the U.S. electricity supply, and they create 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year (not counting the smoke exhaled) according to a report by Evan Mills, an energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read more: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity | San Francisco Business Times"

The jobs tend to run on the West Side of town (Beaverton, Hillsboro) while the climbing tends more on the easterly part. So, depending on where your job is, don't live east of your job and you'll most likely be fine. Welcome to Oregon!