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This years model, the "Captain Jack sparrow" boots. I find the sword more intimidating than the boots, but whatevaaaa.

whosier daddy jackboot? LOL!

LOL, it's interesting how you always blame your own out of control behavior on others. Most children start taking responsibility for their actions...like when they are 6 or 7! Maslow would have something to say on your low level of comfort and being developmental disabled, although I'm sure it's someone else's fault blah blah blah blah). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs Good luck, wish you well.

Wow! Nice. Be even better if you were on lead and had that angle on the shot. I'm not sure if this was last year or end of the other one. Shits all blending together. Photo Ujahn Davisson or Adam Winslow. Photo of the Salathe Highway route on the Old Witch.

OMG! Is this "Air Bag Deployment" a climbing route or did this involve an automobile? Good rock? Und now, I zink zat you are playing wit me!

Thug. You see the story a few days back. Hilarious. Wikileaks material shows that Chavez and crew manipulated the $ of oil so that they could sell a bunch of oil way undermarket value ($78 and up range open market at the time of the cable) at $5 a barrel to China. It's reported that the Venezuelans were furious when they learned that China turned around and resold the very same oil to several countries (including Japan and the US!) at full price. LOL!!!! Here's the Wall Street journal version of events, the article I'd read earlier had specially named Japan and the US as end user recipients: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/12/15/wikileaks-china-profits-off-cheap-venezuelan-oil/ This link has some interesting jb like takes on US hegemony in this arena: http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/wikileaks-cable-big-oil-loves-venezuela-eno

Confess, you don't seriously read that stuff do ya JayB? LOL Nice links from both J's, thanks to you both. PS, I fell asleep in the middle but woke up for the conclusion of your .edu link Jayb. 3 things which relate to this discussion: 1st) In many peoples opinion (Robert Rubens, mine, etc) what keeps the tax system going is the facade or reasonable expectation of fairness. Although some say that the rich are not paying their fair share and there are exceptions, most of us know that they are. A quick look at a chart would confirm this to anyone with half a brain. If the perception were to become widespread that the rich were riding for free on everyone else, this system would fall apart. 2nd) I have seen several papers which have correlated the concentration of wealth at the top to depressions. (although it is true that I'm too lazy to go find this study and give you a link) Pulling all that extra money out of the hands of the many and putting it into the hands of the few seems to be something which the current administrations are trying to allow without the hard crash by pumping cash into the system. Yeah, there: I said it. 3rd) Economists, (like those who put together your interesting and complex study which appears to conclude that raising tax on the top earners is counterproductive) as a profession and a group, are a pretty fucked up bunch. They pontificate and pitch models of why this or that occurred, yet by universal claim they are much better at driving by looking in the rear view mirror and explaining what they just saw, and have a difficult time telling you what the view is going to be in even a very short time. Rare is the rich economist. Although there are exceptions of course. Certainly as JB's real link concludes there isn't agreement by experts on your links conclusion that raising tax rates on the top tier folks is counterproductive. Dropping the rate from 91% to 70% (Kennedys bill) was am obvious and sure winner, but as said in jbs article: "reducing the top tax rate from 70% to 50% is probably a revenue gainer and surely not much of a loser. From 50% to 28% is, I think, very different: a big revenue loser." Regards:

Nice! 60's Chad?

Bad example, I believe that you're totally and 100% wrong on this Matt.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-franken/the-hardest-vote-ive-take_b_796716.html Same-same as it ever was. Short version if you don't want to read it, this is all Obama's fault. Al Franken on why he voted for the Obama Tax Cuts for the rich (Franken say's it's all Obama's fault, which is a change from it being Bush's fault at least = progress!). Of course, government spending is out of control with no end in sight and not a word on that either from Al. What respect I did have for the man has diminished dramatically. Looks like George Soros, the Kocks and and all the rich folks will give Big Al the Christmas reach around he so desperately seems to need. The demsolibs seem to know which side their bread is buttered, maybe they learned that from the Rebublifucks? Hey, it's only money, keep sending yours right in there so they can continue to spend it irresponsibly for you. How your senators voted: http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_senatevotetax1210a_20101204.html Short version: all 4 senators in Wa/Or voted (drum roll here) "YES! Those poor rich folks need a break and we can worry about balancing the budget just before the next election." Fortunately, this graphic will help us know where all that money will be going. As you can see, I'll be investing porn whereas Pat Gallager will be loading up on mayonnaise. Maybe this will "trickle down" and I can eventually afford a butler for my butler next go round.

Perhaps what he mean to say was I'm sure that you've got us all curious as well, how much? Be aware that no one uses wooden ice axes any more in the mountains for a reason, so it's purely going to be over the mantle or the door, or much like my 2 wooden ice axes, buried someplace in the basement under a ton of shit. You might drop the hint to the bride and see if that's something she wants in her house, or if not, that your buddy has a man cave in the basement like moi, where all the my shit my wife can't stand (buddy bear) goes. Buddy is a carved bear I fell in love with, who is seen below smoking a bong and about to cough, that I bought on Jim and drug home. Wife hated him and he got evicted in short order to the..... Man cave:

LOL, this should be a Utube video.

Well, you can see a doctor for that when it goes through,

Well, until Jeff Thomas, Dane or Lowell Skoog show up, we'll have to muddle through with some guess's. I think carabiner holes showed up in the 50s axes, but they had the slimmer head design in the 40s and 50s - so you have a pre war axe. How much earlier? The length of axes has gotten shorter over time, with long assed nearly walking stick lengths getting shorter @ the turn of the last century. Axes they use to be as well, with the hatchet shape becoming an adze shape just before that time period as well. Thats all I know. Based on that you may have a 100 year old axe or so, but you could most likely send a picture off to Edelweiss as they are still in business, and ask them yourself. They say they've been in business for 220 years. Edelrid has not been in business that long, 50's I think, although that does look like their Eagle logo. (nice work Chad) http://www.edelweiss-ropes.com/ or info@edelweiss-ropes.com for email. Are you looking to figure out what you are going to sell it for or whats the story here?

hanman, have you tried the A5 Hurricane drill against the Pika?

Good on ya for getting out in some shit weather when most of the rest of us are all curled up next to the fireplace like so many tired old dawgs. LOL!!! I need to remember that one! Classic.

Hey, I got double amputee 3rd grade girls outclimbing me these days you aren't so damn special. G- haha, nice, but isn't that the fake rock in the Polar Bear exhibit in the zoo? Where's the bears?

Huh? Piker? No way. Perhaps a pause to compare how many people actually died in the Iraq war would be appropriate here. Then we can point to the Yellow cake affair/Joe Wilson/Valery and the lies that led to all of those people dead in some bullshit war. If they'd wikileaked that crap as the stampede to war was on, maybe there would be a lot more people alive, the world would be a safer place and the US would have more $ in the bank instead of being nearly bankrupt. Those in power appear to have committed high crimes and treason and it should be looked into a long time before some asshole Aussie rummaging through our wastebaskets even gets a 2nd look.

- moving right along Sobo! ______________________________________________________________ Oh yes you are too Don't make us go drag up all those old posts! LOL! all

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Access would be to drive up the Clackamas river road as it should be clear all the way, then up FS 4620 till you hit snow. Park, back the snowmobiles off the trailer and go, probably only be a few miles. Or it would be about a 1 mile X-Country ski as the crow flies up sandstone creek: the creek which is close to the start of the 4620 road.

Gorge might not be frozen but Coethedral should be in starting tomorrow for sure. 60 miles from PDX. http://www.mountainproject.com/v/oregon/coethedral/106865073 It is, as far as I know, still virgin and unclimbed ice awaiting first ascents. Only a handful of people have climbed there on the rock in the summer time so far, so that means that it's a total winter ice adventure. Noaa is calling for snow with lows of 25 and highs of 28 tomorrow. Most likely means that there is ice. In. Now. Virgin, unclimbed ice. All week. http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=45.11230010229608&lon=-122.21026618033648&site=pqr&smap=1&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text There looks like there might be some currently formed on the upper walls in the oregon side right now in the gorge. I was out in the rain Sunday and could see a few strips here and there in the upper gullies - pretty warm though.

...speaking of Barney Fife....