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Progress: Last night, same scale, 168, off 9 lbs. Pullups has gone from a single set of 2 to 2 sets of 6 now.

Yeah, back when the head goon was building nuclear weapons, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3335965.stm and had sponsored the Pan Am bombing -when we had money coming out of our ears, I would have felt substantially different about all of this. I think if you truly and genuinely identify someone like an Adolf Hitler wanna be in advance and a well timed Cruise Missile can fix it before several million innocents die, then that's worth pulling the trigger on sooner instead of later. Reagan authorized the strike to do just this and sadly all that happened is we killed Gadaffi's little daughter. Yet now things are different: Libya has relinquished their Nuclear and weapons of mass destruction development programs and we've wasted all of our treasure acting the fool over in the sand box, things are decidedly different. To say nothing of the fact that we already have pissed off most Muslims sitting on the fence over our good intentions. Those are my thoughts, certainly Hillary doesn't feel this way. http://amerpundit.com/2011/03/17/report-hillary-clinton-looks-for-exit-angry-over-obama-indecisiveness/ The war remains at home and it's all about our budget and Federal Government overspending spending like a drunken sailor craziness currently being discussed in the congress. IMO, this is the big win or lose for our country. Spending more military money won't win the election for Obama, the reverse will be true. He looks like a shoe in to win a 2nd term right now, but if we continue along this vein, as hard as it is to dislodge an incumbent who wants to stay in office, this will pry him out of office. Yet our country will be taking the hit if we can't resolve this crazy spending and balance our energy use/output. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-obama-isnt-fighting-t_b_834472.html The US press keeps repeating the mantra that this will be over in couple of days...uhhh, yeah, sure dudes: I'm surprised that some of you will buy that bridge.

If every US citizen had to pony up actual out of pocket money up front, say $30,000, to get this war started, especially if the costs included burying Libyan civilians we killed and caring for future disabled US vets, shit like this would never get off the ground. We would be better off served spending 1/2 the money we waste on military imperialism and adventurism around the world on gaining a secure energy source. An R & D adventure like the Manhattan project working on multiple things. You could toss the money out to existing private research projects even and make it simple. The Pentagon hires over 28,000 people who's only job it is to sway public opinion through the media that we're not assholes. That doesn't include the same thing happening in other departments of the government, the CIA budget for influencing the media as well, for instance. ..shit, we'd save a bundle both coming and going if we'd just stop being assholes.

OUR COUNTRY NEEDS TO GET OUR OUT OF CONTROL GAS USAGE DOWN AND BALANCE OUR BUDGET! My opinion is that we don't need to be the worlds policeman and we sure as hell don’t need to stick our nose into Libya. Gadaffi and Libya are not in our national interest outside of the 2% of the worlds petroleum that they pump. Before we get into potential costs of that kind of intervention, look at almost any war we get into. Invariably we underestimate both the time and the costs that we will experience there. Both sides of the US civil war, for instance, thought they were looking at a week or two to get up there into enemy territory, kick some ass and get back home for dinner. Both sides! Both France and German thought the same going into the great war. Even our boys heading over to the trenches of Belgium and France in WWI had no clue what that was going to be. It was stench and rats daily chewing your best buddies flesh in ditch water that was more sewage than water. Periods of extreme boredom were punctuated by moments of extreme terror. Our current wars should be cautionary tale enough. Asscrackistan is looking to be an extremely long war and that is just a bunch of simple villagers with usually antiquated or underpowered weapons including antique .303 Enfields that they took off of the British when they kicked them out hundred years ago. Iraq cost so much more than anyone ever guessed that the shock should be enough to remind us to never ever get involved in any kind of imperial militarism. Spend a moment to look at paying for this stuff. Research what the cost of a single Jdam is. This country is broke my friends. We are pitching into the shit hole right now as I type this and there doesn't appear to be the political will to do the right thing. On another thread one of the left wing wing nut denzions who repeated plays a one note samba about the "regressives" suggested that the “ONLY” way to fix the issue is to increase taxes on the rich. It was too stupid and simplistic of a post to respond to as obviously that idiot never looked at our burgeoning and increasing budget deficit and increasing government spending. We MUST GET OUR OUT OF CONTROL FEDERAL EXPENDITURES UNDER CONTROL. AND we need to raise taxes, especially on the rich. Both things. That Obama doesn’t get this was clearly indicated by “allowing” us to keep an extra 2% of SS payments this year, all the time knowing that will create even more havoc on that program down the road which has already been criminally and habitually underfunded. We need to re-introduce the word “conserve” , gone with Jimmy Carter, into the political lexicon. A recent Pentagon sponsored report suggests that we might have been attacked economically with the intent on destroying us. At the time the study was posted, 2 of the 3 things had occurred to economically destroy this country. The 3rd is occurring right now. China has stopped buying US debt and is a net seller. Underlying this trip to bankruptcy court, we are borrowing that money from the Fed, a group of rapacious private bankers. They own more of our debt than any other country right now. And the oil crisis, whereby we continue to use more than every year, while reserves decline, will be hitting at some point right in the middle of this. That a perfect storm has arisen is not in doubt except to all but the most oblivious. It’s here...knocking on the door, you just haven't read it in the mainstream news cause the feds don’t want any one alarmed. We are fast running out of other people money to borrow and waste and the bankers now literally own this country's debt and our future. Jig is up, the Ponzi scheme that is the government's slight of hand budget is about to be found out. We don’t have the money to start firing missiles at Libya and we need to wind down the wars we’ve been engaged in and get stupid and wasteful expenditures down ....real real soon. We can prioritize and spend some of that military waste that we keep in our pocket on schools or energy research - or just let people keep it in their pockets, they’ll find a way to invest it that is better than anything the Pentagon will do with the $. Our deficit and borrowing is a national security issue of the utmost importance. If we can do that we have a chance of getting some of the increased government oversight and control off of our backs. Living in a police state is costly both in real money and in psychic costs. We don’t need either. We need to do everything we can as fast as we can to get our expenditures down and the budget balanced. Spend a moment examining the costs of our overgrown military: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/01-7 Best bumper sticker to keep in mind on this kind of bullshit: “I even oppose the NEXT war”....LOL. Stay strong my brobahams.....

That is all.

I wonder what that said....

Ya got to let that festering cancer sore on your ass and all that anger just go brother...let it go.

You rapped down and stole a van? Woot! Keep stoke alive !

Government jobs for everyone! Who wouldn't want to be part of the government overlord class? We can keep borrowing from the Fed to pay for them. In fact, maybe we should try to outsource all those Government clerical jobs to China. They'd be posting in spray a lot less than some of these guys, and as non-native English speakers probably be more legible when they were posting how superior they were as well. Then we could all live life's resembling a rich mans cat.

You sure seem quiet on the demofucks and Obama's tax breaks for the rich Bob. Certainly will help in the race to the bottom, although they all have lots of other tricks up their sleeves.

Mr McGuire Newt: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin Prole: Yes, sir. Mr McGuire Newt: Are you listening? Benjamin Prole: Yes, I am. Mr McGuire Newt: Plastics ! New tag line: "Makes Nancy Regan look like a real woman."

Great vimeo! Love that song too. Whats the route at approx the 4 min mark? opps, nevermind, I see you answered the bone same question.

Fixed that. You guys thinking of the death of Michael Connell? He was the man testifying that Bush and company (ie, via his work) stole the Ohio election via computer fraud? In fact, he had been hired to do it. http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Ohio-Court-Considers-Unsea-in-Best_Web_OpEds-110112-348.html

More craziness:-)

It's got to be the same as it ever was for you Pat, you're a genius and everyone else is an idiot or an asshat...or both. How'd I do?

It's a floor wax....AND a desert topping..... found and used in * as an industrial solvent and coolant, * in nuclear power plants, * by the U.S. Navy in the propulsion systems of some older vessels, * by elite athletes to improve performance, * in the production of Styrofoam, * in biological and chemical weapons manufacture, * in the development of genetically engineering crops and animals, * as a spray-on fire suppressant and retardant, * in so-called "family planning" or "reproductive health" clinics, * as a major ingredient in many home-brewed bombs, * as a byproduct of hydrocarbon combustion in furnaces and air conditioning compressor operation, * in cult rituals, * by the Church of Scientology on their members and their members' families (although surprisingly, many members recently have contacted DHMO.org to vehemently deny such use), * by both the KKK and the NAACP during rallies and marches, * by members of Congress who are under investigation for financial corruption and inappropriate IM behavior, * by the clientele at a number of bath houses in New York City and San Francisco, * historically, in Hitler's death camps in Nazi Germany, and in prisons in Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Libya, Iraq and Iran, * in World War II prison camps in Japan, and in prisons in China, for various forms of torture, * during many recent religious and ethnic wars in the Middle East, * by many terrorist organizations including al Quaeda, * in community swimming pools to maintain chemical balance, * in day care centers, purportedly for sanitary purposes, * by software engineers, including those producing DICOM programmer APIs and other DICOM software tools including DICOM routers, * by popular computer science professors, * by the semi-divine King Bhumibol of Thailand and his many devoted young working girls in Bangkok, * by the British Chiropractic Association and the purveyors of the bogus treatments that the BCA promotes, * by commodities giant Trafigura in their well-publicized and widely-known toxic-waste dumping activities in Ivory Coast, * in animal research laboratories, and * in pesticide production and distribution.

Wait...?! To clarify, you just got rid of that Gri Gri2 you JUST bought like a week ago?

Thanks for the report and offering it to me as a loaner Chad. I like that it's lighter than my Cinch!

Nice Marc! Last weekend I was recovering from the weekend before at Smith. Was lucky enough to go out with 2 of the very finest gentlemen. Stan and Gent. Good times. Till I banana peeled on a snow covered rock and popped my shoulder. Owww! Still hurts (wahhh wahhh wahh) Gent was getting over a massive cold. He climbed well for being toast, and he gave it to both Stan and I and we were down for a week:-) It was nice in the sunshine as we started the day Friday warming up. Stan lead a couple of the 5.11's and then thought he should try something harder. Coming down off of Churning in the Wake, he shook off my compliment by saying, nah, I hung a few times. I've never climbed 5.13 so I was impressed and told him so. "Nah", he reply's, "Rudys boy Drew led this on his 4th or 5th try and he's 10 years old", then he laughed. It came as no surprise to me that lil kids are outclimbing me on anything. His kids, who didn't come this trip, are a joy to hang around and they both outclimb me on sport or plastic:-). His youngest is @ 9 now. Lil kids, certainly Stan and Dales 2, have so much joy on rock that it's just infectious and fun to watch! I had run into Rudy and his boy lapping Wartleys once, I think the lil one was like 6 then! It warmed up enough that this guy peeled and had a nice run up this route right next to us with a hang or 3. Even the fat old guys got some mileage as the fingers got loose in the sunshine. Next day we wake up to snow. Stan says lets hike up to the Squaw and climb it. We hiked for quite a bit in deepening snow, drifts to 12", and the wind was a tad sideways with a few white flakes mixed in and I was suggesting that an R-X rated climb should be reserved for better weather. This was partially caused by the guidebook suggesting that the best way down was to downclimb, not rap. Yeah, it snowed all day long. Actually, we were within 200 feet of the Squaw and it wasn't visible until we got closer. The clouds eased some and we got some shots, but it basically snowed most of the day. Stan and Gent hiked on up, and Stan looked like he was going to free solo it for a while. The hike back would have been uneventful had I not greased off. The highlight after that was Kelly Rice and Tom showed up at Stans house and she has an Ultra sonic machine so she such a sweetheart that she does my shoulder, which was excruciating. The she works on Stans back and Toms Achilles tendon (he bikes competitively and thats a side thing they get) They released me from hanging around waiting for them for the next 4 days saying that they'd catch a ride with Kelly and Tom (yeahhhhh!) and I drove home the next day unable to even reach the car radio with my right hand. Sucks to get old, but it's going to happen to you all too if it hasn't already. Of course, my wife cracks up on hearing all this and calls me an old man then rubs the old man lineament on the shoulder to help out:-) Ciao all!

...You need to warn him off eating the yellow icicles!

Marbles? I would have guessed Oysters. Looks real cool though...in several senses:-)

Good stuff djdan ! Messner was a badass of the century as JH noted above. He shares that distinction with some others as well. Everyone knows about the no O2 thing, but Messners free solo first ascent of what later turned out to be a very long and involved 5.9 in the Dolomites was nothing short of earthshaking. Of course, this in no way lessens the fact that Raindawg is still an ass.....

On the money. It all depends on your personal thoughts and baggage how you feel about this act. Certainly not a hero by common definition of the word. Much like Tre Arrow up on the ledge. Go Tre Go! The folk "hero" was called a "Hero" a lot until he got convicted for burning up logging and cement trucks. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/tre_arrow_says_oregon_halfway.html The penalty seemed excessive. To like everyone. However, if it had been your truck he torched, would he still have been a "hero" to you? I can assure you that kind of reasoning could extend to every vehicle on the planet. Even your Prius. Would you then feel he was a Hero? Or only when he was destroying someone else's stuff? I can give you my answer, but let me just say that us old people have different standards than self-centered blowhards like Pat Gallagher, who have very little life experience and thus tend to be a touch screwed up in the head, as his posts usually indicate.

The courts will soon rule, but whats your take? Essential "tool" for the FBI or intrusive and illegal monitoring without a search warrant? In the old days a search warrant was issued by a judge before they tapped your phone or did something like this, and is suppose to be fast and easy if there is just cause. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110303/D9LNEKJ00.html WASHINGTON (AP) - A community college student who says he's never done anything that should attract the interest of federal law enforcement officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the FBI for secretly putting a GPS tracking device on his car. Yasir Afifi, 20, says a mechanic doing an oil change on his car in October discovered the device stuck with magnets between his right rear wheel and exhaust. They weren't sure what it was, but Afifi had the mechanic remove it and a friend posted photos of it online to see whether anyone could identify it. Two days later, Afifi says, agents wearing bullet-proof vests pulled him over as he drove away from his apartment in San Jose, Calif., and demanded their property back........ ..............The federal appeals court in the Washington circuit where Afifi's case was filed ruled in August that the collection of GPS data amounts to a government "search" that required a warrant. The Obama administration asked the court to change its ruling, calling the decision "vague and unworkable" and arguing that investigators will lose access to a tool they now use "with great frequency." The lawsuit says the agents who showed up to collect the device were "hostile," threatening to charge Afifi if he didn't immediately cooperate and refusing his request to have a lawyer present. The suit also says agents showed they knew private details about his life, such as which restaurants he dined at, the new job he'd just obtained and his plans to travel abroad." ......click link for entire story and not just snippets reposted....This story has been out there for quite some time

..as the pain in my fingers starts to subside, I am beginning to feel that training hard might be possible again in the future at sometime....maybe I'll be able to have a tick list soon! Planning on a short red rocks trip and a Yosemite trip. Hoping for good weather for both is my concern. Plenty of good and challenging routes.