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No worries, in our hearts and minds, you will ALWAYS be Number 1 Donkey Fellator..... ...especially if you keep reminding us of this particular honorarium.

Story of a FactCheck.org, a non-partisan watchdog group calling bullshit and lies at a cost of $3.1 million for the ads on Obamacare from the government. Having a little bit of an issue keeping the lies straight. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/misleading-andy-griffith-ads-cost-taxpay Pretty good quote here: "Even Barney Fife would see that these Obamacare ads are bogus,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, in a statement, referring to the bungling Mayberry deputy sheriff character in the show."

"Girly"? "Girly"? You mean like Lynn Hill or Bobby Bensman "girly"? Wow!!! Congrats! Welcome back.

wAY TO GET AFTER IT. i'LL DONATE THE FIRST $10 FOR A WATERPROOF CAMERA FOR YOU.

Sorry for that. We'll keep an eye out over this way as well. Any pictures of your rack or obvious distinguishing marks? Did you us paint, fingernail polish or tape your own colors on for id? Camo Metolius (Marmot?) bag is a rare one, but the other stuff sounds like every thing else out there.

*Uhhh, we might need to find someone who can translate Larry into English:-) It's not against the rules to talk about climbing or post any climbing pics ya know! So here goes. Old Larry was the moniker used to distinguish him from Larry Harpe, Pinks El Cap partner for Space (and others?) whom was on occasion referred to around here as Little Larry. Not that he wasn't a badass, just that Lucky Larry was bigger. In case you wonder what Larry H. looks like, he's seen here in that famous ad on the back of the climbing Mags. Larry upgraded from Pink and belayed Dean Potter on the FA of that real sparky Tombstone climb where Dean took a hell of a whipper. Double DDs: I never was King Beatard although it's true that I have climbed, as recently as last month in Red Rocks, with the man. I have a CC persona, it's me, what you see is what you get. I would, however, trade Beatards strong assed arms for my flabby out of shape ones though. King Beatard with the veins a poppin on the First ascent of Lone Wolf and the Last Hurrah at Beacon Rock. Beatard left a RURP up there as "someone" forgot the funkness and it's still there buried deep awaiting a 2nd ascent if anyone is into some booty. Bring a funkness or a chisel. Ivan? The King set to belay. FA of P2 of Lava Tube The King baggin the 2nd ascent, or maybe he's about to drop a deuce from fear , The Salethe Highway, The Old Witch Pinnacle at the Coethedral Formation. 2 ascents later Plaidman pulled a cantaloupe sized block off from just at tad above this shot that flew 300' down and almost killed his dog waiting patiently on the ground. Hanging with the man, waiting for Ujahn to stop playin with himself up above, check out the brand new Wired Bliss cam right there:-) Woot! Your Total for the cams is $XXX and that you are in Oregon there are no AZ taxes. Thank you for being the first customer of the Wired Bliss return. Michael McGuinn A little windy, check out the strap from the pack whipping around. Nothing like the rainstorm/shit storm today though. King Beatard becoming a peon of the Gunks. The King leading the first ascent of Excalibur. Kyle Silverman photo. BTW, *Welcome to being a real person Kirk. Really, it's much better for the psyche.

*Uhhh, we might need to find someone who can translate Larry into English:-) It's not against the rules to talk about climbing or post any climbing pics ya know! So here goes. Old Larry was the moniker used to distinguish him from Larry Harpe, Pinks El Cap partner for Space (and others?) whom was on occasion referred to around here as Little Larry. Not that he wasn't a badass, just that Lucky Larry was bigger. In case you wonder what Larry H. looks like, he's seen here in that famous ad on the back of the climbing Mags. Larry upgraded from Pink and belayed Dean Potter on the FA of that real sparky Tombstone climb where Dean took a hell of a whipper. Double DDs: I never was King Beatard although it's true that I have climbed, as recently as last month in Red Rocks, with the man. I have a CC persona, it's me, what you see is what you get. I would, however, trade Beatards strong assed arms for my flabby out of shape ones though. King Beatard with the veins a poppin on the First ascent of Lone Wolf and the Last Hurrah at Beacon Rock. Beatard left a RURP up there as "someone" forgot the funkness and it's still there buried deep awaiting a 2nd ascent if anyone is into some booty. Bring a funkness or a chisel. Ivan? The King set to belay. FA of P2 of Lava Tube The King baggin the 2nd ascent, or maybe he's about to drop a deuce from fear , The Salethe Highway, The Old Witch Pinnacle at the Coethedral Formation. 2 ascents later Plaidman pulled a cantaloupe sized block off from just at tad above this shot that flew 300' down and almost killed his dog waiting patiently on the ground. Hanging with the man, waiting for Ujahn to stop playin with himself up above, check out the brand new Wired Bliss cam right there:-) Woot! Your Total for the cams is $XXX and that you are in Oregon there are no AZ taxes. Thank you for being the first customer of the Wired Bliss return. Michael McGuinn A little windy, check out the strap from the pack whipping around. Nothing like the rainstorm/shit storm today though. King Beatard becoming a peon of the Gunks. The King leading the first ascent of Excalibur. Kyle Silverman photo. BTW, *Welcome to being a real person Kirk. Really, it's much better for the psyche.

For strange Finnish rock: [video:youtube] Classic modern and hawt Russian: (although the Finnish group the Leningrad Cowboys performing Sweet Home Alabama with the Red Army choir is amazing) [video:youtube] Peace for the holidays: [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oeLLncUQCk&feature=related It's the season. Happy holidays and take care all!

Ex CIA officer on this article says that we need Wikileaks as the news is now totally corrupted by government and those in power. Whole article below: "Exclusive: ‘The Fourth Estate is dead,’ former CIA analyst declares By Nathan Diebenow Friday, December 10th, 2010 -- 12:53 pm 'The Empire' is 'being threatened by a slingshot in the form of a computer' RayMcGovern Exclusive: The Fourth Estate is dead, former CIA analyst declares Traditional lines of communication between the people and the press have fallen into such disrepair in America that a whole new approach is necessary to challenge the military-industrial-governmental complex, according to a former CIA analyst sympathetic to WikiLeaks. "The Fourth Estate is dead," Ray McGovern, of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview. "The Fourth Estate in his country has been captured by government and corporations, the military-industrial complex, the intelligence apparatus. Captive! So, there is no Fourth Estate." McGovern explained that the term the "Fourth Estate," known today as the news media in the US, was first coined by 18th century British statesman Edmund Burke. Burke is said to have pointed to the balcony in Parliament and lauded the print media of his day for being the safeguards of democracy. "That was very powerful back then," McGovern said. "And just a century later you get Tom Paine, James Madison. You know what Thomas Jefferson said? He said if we have to make a choice between having a government and having a press, I’ll go for the press every time. He understood that any government without a free press will resort to despotism." McGovern, a CIA analyst for 27 years, whose duties included preparing and briefing the President's Daily Brief and chairing National Intelligence Estimates, said that he preferred to focus on the First Amendment battle of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange than on the current "cyber war" in which WikiLeaks is embroiled. McGovern said that modern people can now become informed through what he termed "The Fifth Estate." "Luckily, there is a Fifth Estate," he said. "The Fifth Estate exists in the ether. It’s not susceptible of government, of corporations, or advertisers or military control. It’s free. That is very dangerous to people who like to make secrets and to make secret operational things. It’s a huge threat. And the Empire – the Goliath here – is being threatened by a slingshot in the form of a computer and a stone through these emissions thrown into the ether to our own computers." "It’s quite amazing," he added. "Will the United States and its slavish allies present in Sweden... succeed in making such an object lesson of what happens to an organization and a person – a demonized person – namely Julian Assange? What happens to them if they defy the Empire if they break the rules which they have?" McGovern asked. He also questioned Attorney General Eric Holder's handling of the WikiLeaks founder's case in the wake of habeas corpus being thrown "out the window" by the previous administration. Specifically, he wondered what Holder, the highest law enforcement officer in the US government, meant by the federal government using "other tools" to get Assange and shut down WikiLeaks. Assange's attorney said Friday that he expected his client to be indicted by the US. "The broad hint is the extra-judiciary tools," he said, referring to the news media. "And yet not one of those stenographer correspondents sitting before him there has the guts to say, “What do you mean ‘other tools?' You going to assassinate the guy?” McGovern continued, "They’re just letting it hang out there like other stuffed shirts like Jeff Merrell at the Pentagon [who says to the effect,] 'Everything is on the table. We don’t rule anything out.' Well, you know that reflects the state of the defunct Fourth Estate. That’s precisely why you need people to be able to get out of the framework of the Fourth Estate and to the new." McGovern also noted the demise of the Fourth Estate, with an anecdote about the 30th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers' release in June 2001, months before the 9/11 attacks. He said that at the reunion, most of those in attendance did not believe the press would publish such information were it made available today. "They went down the line, two guys from the [New York Times], two guys from the [Washington Post], and they all said, 'I don’t know,'" McGovern said. "I’m looking at that, and I’m thinking, 'Holy shit!'" He continued, "The amazing thing was that these people still had a lot of self-identification with these newspapers – some were still actively employed by them. And not only did they say this, but there was no hint of embarrassment or remorse. It was just the way it is today." Even while the Fourth Estate may be dead, WikiLeaks learned one important lesson from Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers, McGovern admitted. That lesson was to tell the news media that the documents are being given to more than one outlet at the same time. WikiLeaks addressed that question by making sure that when they gave documents to the Times, they said The Guardian, Der Spiegal, Le Monde, and El Pais also had them, McGovern said. "These guys are very, very clever," he said. "As you can see, I wish them all the success in the world." McGovern said that WikiLeaks' benefit is that it gives people the chance to become informed and place a check on government. He added that WikiLeaks' information on the wars is the "ground-truth," in that the data came from the American troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. McGovern said that WikiLeaks -- or outlets like it -- has the potential to make the world safer to the degree American people get exposed to this information, draw adult conclusions from it, and pressure the US government to change its policies. "You have no doubt about the authenticity of what these people are reporting, and it’s a new ballgame once these things become accessible to the American people," he said." From http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/former-cia-intelligence-analyst-fourth-estate-is-dead/

LOLOLOLOLOL! BTW, Mr Snowchaser - if you don't like a thread, as noted by Pete H and others, one option is to move along. This creative process is how the world famous Jake Porter came to be. ie, someone with creativity thought him up and someone with less (more?) creativity borrowed him for a screen name. Good stuff.

The only asset around here I see appreciating is gold (and commodities), and the revenue stream looks very uncertain. What are you taking about? $2,000 revenue stream sounds nice. mmmmm

Cash...don't want to think of the total if I tossed the equity on that shit pile:-) The other upside is converting some dollars into Yuan, it looks like I still have money. The good newz is that 2 buck Chuck hasn't gone up in price at all! That, and it pairs well with the 10 for a $1 cat food. Woot!

pfft, that Billcoe memorial bolt ladder that pissed off Pink so badly? Nah, it's staying....well, upon reconsideration maybe not a bad idea as I'll be able to pickup a few extra cans of cat food for dinner which I can then share with Jim, Lucky Larry or Kimmo up there:-) Pry away. ps, better pickins - as near as I can tell there are @ 364 more of the larger 1/2 x 6-1/4 out here plus @ 40 of the Fixe SS biner style rap hangers for them as well: http://www.mountainproject.com/v/oregon/coethedral/106865073 It's not a catastrophe until you see the sign that says "Will trade cams for food".

I'm missing @an extra $250,000 in cash that went down a real estate toilet bowl last year. If anyone finds it, send it along. Of course, the stock market (apple was an exception) looked bad for the home team as well. Probably have to eat cat food and move into King Tuts basement up there to retire....when I'm 80.

I'd take the 2 offset cams for $70 if you take Paypal. I'll send an email. paid in full

Lucky? Are you Lucky?

The recent differentiation between the 2 parties appear to be this: *Democrats are tax and spend. *Republicans are borrow and spend. If we have to chose one, we need to go with the first one. Both choices will eventually send the country to hell and have our kids totally fucked in the ass: but at least with the dem version, they'll have some minor lube with it. Why neither party can work right now on lowering how much we spend is beyond human comprehension. Yet sooner or later, the checkbook will be empty and the banks and other countries will not want to issue credit at any kind of terms we will want to pay, and paying off the debt alone will be a huge burden. It's critical that we get the house in order now, before it's a total crisis and interest rates raise. Good for Peter DeFaszio. Obama more than likely crafted the deal with the repubs as a political trap to make this issue stand out with the voters. This is a minor issue, the voters need to insist on less spending now. The alternative is more taxes later.

I shipped a Go Pro for my daughter who's working some environmental thing in Hawaii. They'd done a lot of research before they decided on that one. The deal was that REI won't ship Lithium Ion battery's via air. Yet USPS would take it, even clearly marked. So ?

Few noticed that China did this exact same move back before the "housing bubble" burst that moved that to the front burner and along to reality. Here it is again....be interesting to see if this is the spark that will ignite the blaze. Hold onto your seats boyz. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B71KO20101208 " BEIJING | Wed Dec 8, 2010 3:35pm EST BEIJING (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar will be a safe investment for the next six to 12 months because global markets are focused on the euro zone's troubles but America's fiscal health is worse than Europe's, an adviser to the Chinese central bank said on Wednesday. Li Daokui, an academic member of the central bank's monetary policy committee, said that U.S. bond prices and the dollar would fall when the European economic situation stabilized. "For now, market attention is still on Europe and for the coming 6-12 months, it will not shift to the United States," Li said, when asked about U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to extend tax cuts for all Americans. "But we should be clear in our minds that the fiscal situation in the United States is much worse than in Europe. In one or two years, when the European debt situation stabilizes, attention of financial markets will definitely shift to the United States. At that time, U.S. Treasury bonds and the dollar will experience considerable declines." U.S. Treasury prices fell sharply for a second day on Wednesday as the proposed tax deal sparked concerns over the government's ability to service its massive debt burden. Moody's Investors Service said it is worried the tax cuts could become permanent, hurting U.S. finances and credit ratings in the long run. In Europe, Ireland's parliament passed the first in a series of resolutions underpinning its 2011 austerity budget on Tuesday, marking the first step in a lengthy approval process. But investors are now worried that the region's debt crisis could engulf Portugal next, or Spain. China has a big stake in the performance of dollar assets. The country holds the world's biggest stock pile of foreign exchange reserves at $2.64 trillion and an estimated two-thirds of that is invested in dollar assets, including U.S. Treasuries. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), an arm of the central bank, is responsible for managing the reserves. Li was speaking on the sidelines of a financial forum in Beijing. He sits on the monetary policy committee of the central bank but does not have real influence on key decisions on interest rates and the yuan. China's annual economic growth will exceed 9.5 percent in 2011 and will remain above 9 percent through the coming decade, Li told the forum. The long-term growth outlook would be underpinned by the need to continue investing in infrastructure, he said. "China has a vast domestic demand that is untapped, and that's the fundamental difference between China now and Japan in 1985," Li told a forum. In addition, China would have to spend a lot on "low carbon" industries, lending more support for the economy, he said. Li also predicted that global commodities prices, including oil, would rise sharply next year. Speculation about a Chinese interest rate rise in the coming days has intensified after an official newspaper flagged the chances of an imminent move amid expectations of rising inflation in November."

I always thought that was extra $? I obviously need to learn some negotiation skillz from the master!

Wowzer On the upside, she'd be a good match for Pat. Although by "admitting" her mistake (sort of I suppose as she seems to then nudge it as if it's really everyone else's fault here), she is at least 1 step above him on Maslows Hierarchy of needs. Which makes her 2 steps up off the bottom and slightly ahead of the development of a banana slug. Wait, shes a convert...ah hah, maybe she's his sister?!

Mike, you do a dis-service comparing gay people (most of whom are who are real nice folks) to Pat here, who at the end of the day is still an egotistical, mean spirited blowhard and internet bitch who much like Herpes, aids or bloodsucking ticks in the asscheeks, any intelligent straight or gay person in their right mind would want to avoid. Hey Pat, I think I just nailed down the new sig-line you've been looking for. Sweet! Perhaps a bit of a run on sentence. Just trying to help a brother out. You're welcome anyway!

Mike volunteered this one for your new sig line, pretty much right on the money! Hope that helps you.

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/visualizing-mortality-history/ 200 years of mortality and wealth. I'd be interested in seeing what it would look like if you took out infant mortality and added inflation in.

The CIA and your free press. You think that they just stopped this baloney? hah hah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods Maybe, we do have Hope and Change in the Whitehouse now, and we can see all the difference that is making. What would be the odds that at least one of the complainants living in Sweden had ties to the CIA? Hah hah! http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ties/ Revealed: Assange ‘rape’ accuser linked to notorious CIA operative By David Edwards Monday, December 6th, 2010 -- 3:43 pm One of the women accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). James D. Catlin, a lawyer who recently represented Assange, said the sex assault investigation into the WikiLeaks founder is based on claims he didn't use condoms during sex with two Swedish women. Swedish prosecutors told AOL News last week that Assange was not wanted for rape as has been reported, but for something called "sex by surprise" or "unexpected sex." One accuser, Anna Ardin, may have "ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups," according to Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett, writing for CounterPunch. While in Cuba, Ardin worked with the Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White), a feminist anti-Castro group. Professor Michael Seltzer pointed out that the group is led by Carlos Alberto Montaner who is reportedly connected to the CIA. Shamir and Bennett also describe Ardin as a "leftist" who "published her anti-Castro diatribes (see here and here) in the Swedish-language publication Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas put out by Misceláneas de Cuba." Shamir and Bennett noted that Las damas de blanco is partially funded by the US government and also counts Luis Posada Carriles as a supporter. A declassified 1976 document (.pdf) revealed Posada to be a CIA agent. He has been convicted of terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of people. Ardin is "a gender equity officer at Uppsula University – who chose to associate with a US funded group openly supported by a convicted terrorist and mass murderer," FireDogLake's Kirk James Murphy observed. In August, Assange told Al-Jazeera that the accusations were "clearly a smear campaign." "We have been warned that, for example, the Pentagon is planning on using dirty tricks to destroy our work," Assange told the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet. The WikiLeaks founder said he was told to be careful of "sex traps." Had Assange fallen for one of those traps? "Maybe. Maybe not," he said. Catlin observed that both Ardin and Sofia Wilén, the second accuser, sent SMS messages and tweets boasting of their conquests following the alleged "rapes." "In the case of Ardin it is clear that she has thrown a party in Assange's honour at her flat after the 'crime' and tweeted to her followers that she is with the 'the world’s coolest smartest people, it’s amazing!'" he wrote. "The exact content of Wilén’s mobile phone texts is not yet known but their bragging and exculpatory character has been confirmed by Swedish prosecutors. Niether Wilén’s nor Ardin’s texts complain of rape," Catlin said. Ardin has also published a seven step guide on how to get revenge on cheating boyfriends. When the charges were first leveled in August, Gawker raised doubts that Ardin was working for the CIA. "If anything, Ardin's outing tends to undercut Assange's conspiracy theory that one of his accusers is a major figure on Sweden's left fringe, freewheelingly indiscreet on her personal blog and, until her charges, an enthusiastic promoter of Assange's visit to the country," Gawker wrote. After Interpol issued a digital "wanted" poster for Assange on Monday morning, an unnamed Scotland Yard source reportedly told Press Association it had been given the documents needed for the arrest. Police would not comment on the report publicly. Several British news outlets speculated that Assange could be arrested as early as Tuesday. On Monday evening, Mark Stephens, Assange's London lawyer, was negotiating with British authorities over an arrest warrant they'd received from their Swedish counterparts. Assange has vowed to fight extradition." Very few people in the world have a grasp on what the truth is in this story. How long was it after his execution by elements of the US Government that everyone thought James Earl Ray actually killed Martin Luther King? Long time for the truth to get out. Some people still think Ray did it.