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This ? Is this because he's a Muslim? What would we be doing if McCain was in, and he died and left Sarah Palin in charge? Oh, nevermind, she'd have quit by now and you'd have the AG, probably Alberto Gonzoles, as President. Then anyone who voted for McCain/Palin would have done what? Cut off their dicks?

Looks like you're still stalking. I don't believe you are Plaidmans ex though, as showing up here like this would be a total 100 percent crazy stalking bitch move. What ya gonna do next? Kill his rabbit? Plaidman doesn't have any money. He sold me a piece of of his gear so that he could afford to share the gas for a Yosemite trip ...which he didn't end up taking. I am still holding it for when he wishes to redeem it. As you know, he's not a rich man other than being rich in spirit and soul. Still, it's good advice to all of us. Like you, I too am wishing Bill well in court and through what is undoubtedly a stressful time.

http://www.humansexmap.com/ Someone with way too much time on their hands!

Yeah, yeah yeah. I have a barrel of stainless Fixes in the basement. Maybe 2 barrels. I have no problem leaving hangers behind.....other places. I've recently put in and left 358 of them, the big 1/2 diameter ones. Stainless. But that was where they can be expected to be left unmolested for a while and on new routes. Not at this location as these are established routes and there is no need. In fact I did put in a single set of the Stainless Fixe chain anchors out here: the ones which have the hanger integrated into them, and have been waiting to see how long they stay there. CC.com poster Lodestone jumped in and was able to get one of the bolts pulled out with that 4' crowbar and we reused that hole. The other one snapped, but he had it loose and it was close. It was the first time I've heard of a 3/8 being reused. Greg Barnes of the ASPCA says he gave up on being able to reuse a 3/8 hole. We're at about 2 months they've been there I think and they have not been molested .....yet. I Loctited them down, but that's no guarantee they'll be there tomorrow when someone pulls them for their project elsewhere. I go look to see if they are still there everytime I'm in the vicinity and have been amazed that they have lasted this long. The chains are plenty strong, that's a 1/2" diameter bolt, it's bigger and stronger than what was traditionally utilized up there since @ 1980 (3/8 x 3 studs and steel chain)- and chain is used because it tends to be left alone. However, if you would like to donate the hardware or the money to see how long until your shiny new hangers last till some chump yanks them for a project he's working elsewhere, step up. Sad, but from what I've seen they have about a 15 min life expectancy from when you first turn your head and some douche with a wrench shows up I'd say.

We are so blessed with you continually telling us what is proper and how to live our lives. What would we ever do without you? [/sarcasm]

I'm more worried about the damage bozos like Rand Paul inflict if they're elected partially thanks to a "commitment to legalization" they never intend to pursue anyway. I don't know Rand Paul but it seems to me that in this case you are discussing (legislating, decriminalizing or legalizing drugs) it's another example where the public needs to do better research. As the public votes in "lock them up and leave them locked up" laws, and more and more laws gets passed by the legislators (but few rescinded), we are seeing more people locked up for less and less reasons. We need to stop heading down that path, and let the social scientist/experts who study these issues and publish Phds, run the show with some scientifically studied best practices. Recidivism rates (wasted lives and costs) go up when you lock up and toss the key. As far as the public workers thing goes, I'd rather pay a councilor 1/2 the money that a prison guard makes (which would mean an immediate pay raise for them based on what I think their comparison salerys are) and they are still underpaid for what they can potentially do for our country if we would stop meddling and let them work. As far as that goes, I personally know some who are overpaid, but not all public workers are over paid, and in fact some of them work a hell of a lot harder and probably for much less scratch than lots of us posting here. However, the fact that government programs, worker counts, military and just spending in general just keeps increasing as if we are drunken sailors with unlimited funds on shore leave - totally disconnected from reality or the economy, needs to be addressed and addressed real soon or we as a country will be going down the toilet - all of us. Every damn one of us. For myself, I see a connection between loss of freedom and increased government programs and desire for control. It's unhealthy and in my view undesired. This kind of needless bullshit "Fire-breathing bartenders arrested, face 45 years By: Scott McCabe Examiner Staff Writer August 17, 2010 Bartender Tegee Rogers performs a fire-breathing trick, a Friday night tradition at Jimmy’s Old Time Tavern since 1999. (Courtesy photo) Two fire-breathing bartenders face up to 45 years in prison each for performing flaming bar tricks. Jimmy's Old Town Tavern owner Jimmy Cirrito said his bartenders have been entertaining his customers -- by juggling bottles of alcohol and spitting out streams of flames using matchbooks and lighters -- for more than a decade and no one's complained. But shortly after midnight on July 24, two of his longtime employees were hauled out of the Herndon bar in handcuffs and charged with three felonies each plus other misdemeanors "They were being treated as if they were terrorists, charged as if they intentionally tried to burn down the tavern," Cirrito said. Fairfax County fire investigators charged Tegee Rogers, 33, of Herndon, and Justin Fedorchak, 39, of Manassas, with manufacturing an explosive device, setting a fire capable of spreading, and burning or destroying a meeting house. They also were charged with several state fire code misdemeanors. Both men have worked at the tavern nearly since it opened. They both recently became fathers and are very anxious about facing serious criminal charges, Cirrito said. Jimmy's Old Town Tavern bartenders have performed the fire-breathing act for 13 years, at first doing the tricks on special occasions like birthdays or to honor a fallen fireman, police officer or soldier, Cirrito said. By 1999, the fire-breathing bartenders had become a Friday midnight tradition, he said. The bar uses the fire-breathing bartenders on its advertisements. Cirrito said an investigator told him that the marshals received a letter in the mail with a photo taken of a previous performance at the bar. Cirrito said he has never received a warning from the fire marshals, and he would have stopped if marshals had given him a warning. "But I don't think we've done anything wrong," he said. "There's a lot of fire in restaurants. I've been served flaming desserts, I've roasted marshmallows on tables, I've seen 75 candles and sparklers on cakes, and I've seen bartenders perform the tricks coast-to-coast and no one's been arrested." Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Fire-breathing-bartenders-arrested_-face-45-years-510761-100943524.html#ixzz0x1TCJBrW" Call them up and tell them to stop it or pay the price. Follow up with a nasty letter. Done. They cease and the public is safe. What did that cost? $10? $20? Then get on to something serious -murders, rapes, etc. What does this overreaction do for any of us? It could have been stopped just as fast with a phone call and much less staff time. Crazy stuff. "Manufacturing an explosive device!" Bullshit! The assholes doing this prosecution should all be fired for lack of any common sense, intelligence and decency. They should be forced to pay us the money they have already wasted. Where is the accountability? That's my thoughts. Take care all.

Not me dude. I know that he did spend a lot of time and money doing replacements. In my experience, if they're the old steel Rawl 5 pieces, those may be ticking timebombs (although I haven't heard of a failure yet), go for it. But if they are regular old rusty steel wedge anchors, the steel get's rusty and they look like shit, but they only look that way - they don't crank out. I figure that in a horizontal placement where it's been drilled straight down and is in moisture all the time, if you can't pull it straight out and use the same hole, leave it be. I learned this by going up to the Butte at the top of Jack of Hearts. Someone had removed a chain on one of the bolts that went straight down. They'd left this rusty crappy stud. As this thing rusted quickly then sat in water all the time for the next 20 years till I showed up, it looked like total 100% shit. I kept hearing complaints and fear about these old fuckers till finally I saw an otherwise unroped kid pull straight out while trying to wiggle over the edge and establish himself on rappel. I held my breath and was about to say a prayer waiting for them to pull right out in a tensile failure mode and the kid to auger in, and the resulting fatality -unfortunately right in front of my nose. This is something from experience I have learned to dislike more than anything in climbing. That is, watching a person die right in front of you. The wailing, crying and nashing of teeth of the loved ones left behind lingers in your memory. But the kid lucked out and the damn things surprisingly held. So to prevent the next stupid ass who did this from dieing, I figured I'd start by replacing those 3 old wedge anchors as they were some of the worst looking out there. I just assumed from the way they looked that it would be an easy thing. The plan was to simply lever the old ones out and put in the new stainless ones in the same holes. I show up with a 3' crowbar and am unsuccessful of budging a single one. I give up for the day but I come back with a larger 4' crowbar and after about a half hour of working on it and coming close to what I perceive to be blowing the rock out, I give up. I then added a single new chain with a monster 1/2 x 7" Stainless wedge anchor to back up the old bolts, which are still there. Anyone who thinks that the old steel wedge anchors are crap is welcome to go out there and take a whack at pulling them. However, do not blow out the rock, and as they are put in the best location, use the same holes. I figure that there are not any that need replacement at Beacon, and if any are found, then folks can discuss that single bolt here or that other bolt over there, and choose to replace, back it up with a 2nd or as I currently feel for most of them, leave it alone. If they get replaced, hey, whatever, but there's something to be said for the patina of the old ones and learning that they will hold as you will certainly encounter worse most other spots you climb. I've since just added a chain here or a chain there, but have generally learned to leave them be. I think that cranking off the stud, tapping it down and sealing the hole with epoxy is the best you can hope for for appearances, but not always the best thing to do. The best thing for most placements (not all, certainly not all) is probably to just leave it. At some point as it corrodes, someone with a long crowbar will be able to lever it out, and the hole can be reused with a new stainless wedge anchor installed. That's my thoughts on that. Here's the way it plays out in person, and it's certainly not as pretty. Here are some of the better looking, less crappy looking ones where I added a single (painted stainless) chain so that total failure won't happen and kill some kid.

It was the best of times.... It was the worst of times.... no joke at all, perfectly described. Good to see you alive and healthy while checking in rednoze, got to be nicer in Alaska now than anywhere in the middle east.

I had some friends hire mules to carry haul bags into the high sierra - thought that was interesting. Of course, it's deriguer in Peru.

ha ha ! Pretty boyz? What U takin' bout willis? That dude is flat out unattractive!

Why bother asking? For myself, until he becomes a real person, and not a faceless/nameless flamethrower who appears not to read more than the first 3 or 4 words of others posts, I've giving up reading his stuff. I've tied in with many on this site, and it's been good. Jayb and his lovely wife for instance, and would do so again if he ever wanders back over this way. If JB ever stops ranting and becomes a climber, I'd probably start reading his stuff. Until then: I'm done with the person (I say person as I don't know if jb is a guy or a girl actually). I suspect if he used his real name, he'd be a lot nicer. Prole, who shares a lot of similar views as jb, seems to actually read your entire post before he disagrees. LOL! Furthermore, he posts stuff on occasion that cracks us all up, so he'll still be on the reading list for me.

Hola Beacon Pole smokers! Same same, can someone finally put out a new edition? Wait, nevermind as it's the samesame - no need for a new edition. Samesame

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Welcome to the dark side. LOL! The costs of the Iraq war took us down the down the financial toilet, getting military spending under control should be one of those things which would be looked at first. Hope and change. Hope and change. Maybe the out of control can be looked at after the next election or the one after that once all the same un-important things get re-re-evaluated again. Hey, it's only money!

Thats an improvement over your earlier idea that Elvis is aid.

Well played sir.

OMG! EEEwwwwweeeeeych!!! Blechkkkk! Mr hands

Yeah, I was replying to Steve and trying to head the anti-bolt dude off at the pass. Everytime Don steps in to something like the link below, it winds up being 27 pages like this. If he wants to continue that debate he should head over there, where you had the last post. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/901264/27

I don't see any bolts in these road cuts. Maybe Don can find them and circle them in red?

LOL! ...but first, you need to get some serious roads in there, blast the fucking rocks all to hell and D9 the shit out of it....OF COURSE, ONCE YOU GET IT LOOKING LIKE THIS ... .....THEN START BITCHING ONLINE ABOUT BOLTS NO ONE CAN SEE - RIGHT GLADYS KRAVITS DON??? RIGHT! Nice work, carry on.

Bet you some serious money that you can't find one post of his "cheering" the wars.....

Did I say that out loud? Opps.

I KNOW, LETS JUST DO PERSONAL ATTACKS SINCE NO ONE HAS ANY ANSWER FOR THIS

Interesting and spot on article except that the Bush tax cuts for those over $250,000 need to be rescinded as part of this effort. " The Ecstasy of Empire August 16, 2010 The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery. As recently as August 2 Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner penned a New York Times column, “Welcome to the Recovery.” Without a revolution, Americans are history. As John Williams (shadowstats.com) has made clear on many occasions, an appearance of recovery was created by over-counting employment and undercounting inflation. Warnings by Williams, Gerald Celente, and myself have gone unheeded, but our warnings recently had echoes from Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff and from David Stockman, who excoriated the Republican Party for becoming big-spending Democrats. It is encouraging to see some realization that, this time, Washington cannot spend the economy out of recession. The deficits are already too large for the dollar to survive as reserve currency, and deficit spending cannot put Americans back to work in jobs that have been moved offshore. However, the solutions offered by those who are beginning to recognize that there is a problem are discouraging. Kotlikoff thinks the solution is savage Social Security and Medicare cuts or equally savage tax increases or hyperinflation to destroy the vast debts. Perhaps economists lack imagination, or perhaps they don’t want to be cut off from Wall Street and corporate subsidies, but Social Security and Medicare are insufficient at their present levels, especially considering the erosion of private pensions by the dot com, derivative and real estate bubbles. Cuts in Social Security and Medicare, for which people have paid 15 per cent of their earnings all their lives, would result in starvation and deaths from curable diseases. Tax increases make even less sense. It is widely acknowledged that the majority of households cannot survive on one job. Both husband and wife work and often one of the partners has two jobs in order to make ends meet. Raising taxes makes it harder to make ends meet–thus more foreclosures, more food stamps, more homelessness. What kind of economist or humane person thinks this is a solution? Ah, but we will tax the rich. The rich have enough money. They will simply stop earning. Let’s get real. Here is what the government is likely to do. Once Washington realize that the dollar is at risk and that they can no longer finance their wars by borrowing abroad, the government will either levy a tax on private pensions on the grounds that the pensions have accumulated tax-deferred, or the government will require pension fund managers to purchase Treasury debt with our pensions. This will buy the government a bit more time while pension accounts are loaded up with worthless paper. The last Bush budget deficit (2008) was in the $400-500 billion range, about the size of the Chinese, Japanese, and OPEC trade surpluses with the US. Traditionally, these trade surpluses have been recycled to the US and finance the federal budget deficit. In 2009 and 2010 the federal deficit jumped to $1,400 billion, a back-to-back trillion dollar increase. There are not sufficient trade surpluses to finance a deficit this large. From where comes the money? The answer is from individuals fleeing the stock market into “safe” Treasury bonds and from the bankster bailout, not so much the TARP money as the Federal Reserve’s exchange of bank reserves for questionable financial paper such as subprime derivatives. The banks used their excess reserves to purchase Treasury debt. These financing maneuvers are one-time tricks. Once people have fled stocks, that movement into Treasuries is over. The opposition to the bankster bailout likely precludes another. So where does the money come from the next time? The Treasury was able to unload a lot of debt thanks to “the Greek crisis,” which the New York banksters and hedge funds multiplied into “the euro crisis.” The financial press served as a financing arm for the US Treasury by creating panic about European debt and the euro. Central banks and individuals who had taken refuge from the dollar in euros were panicked out of their euros, and they rushed into dollars by purchasing US Treasury debt. This movement from euros to dollars weakened the alternative reserve currency to the dollar, halted the dollar’s decline, and financed the US budget deficit a while longer. Possibly the game can be replayed with Spanish debt, Irish debt, and whatever unlucky country is eswept in by the thoughtless expansion of the European Union. But when no countries remain that can be destabilized by Wall Street investment banksters and hedge funds, what then finances the US budget deficit? The only remaining financier is the Federal Reserve. When Treasury bonds brought to auction do not sell, the Federal Reserve must purchase them. The Federal Reserve purchases the bonds by creating new demand deposits, or checking accounts, for the Treasury. As the Treasury spends the proceeds of the new debt sales, the US money supply expands by the amount of the Federal Reserve’s purchase of Treasury debt. Do goods and services expand by the same amount? Imports will increase as US jobs have been offshored and given to foreigners, thus worsening the trade deficit. When the Federal Reserve purchases the Treasury’s new debt issues, the money supply will increase by more than the supply of domestically produced goods and services. Prices are likely to rise. How high will they rise? The longer money is created in order that government can pay its bills, the more likely hyperinflation will be the result. The economy has not recovered. By the end of this year it will be obvious that the collapsing economy means a larger than $1.4 trillion budget deficit to finance. Will it be $2 trillion? Higher? Whatever the size, the rest of the world will see that the dollar is being printed in such quantities that it cannot serve as reserve currency. At that point wholesale dumping of dollars will result as foreign central banks try to unload a worthless currency. The collapse of the dollar will drive up the prices of imports and offshored goods on which Americans are dependent. Wal-Mart shoppers will think they have mistakenly gone into Neiman Marcus. Domestic prices will also explode as a growing money supply chases the supply of goods and services still made in America by Americans. The dollar as reserve currency cannot survive the conflagration. When the dollar goes the US cannot finance its trade deficit. Therefore, imports will fall sharply, thus adding to domestic inflation and, as the US is energy import-dependent, there will be transportation disruptions that will disrupt work and grocery store deliveries. Panic will be the order of the day. Will farms will be raided? Will those trapped in cities resort to riots and looting? Is this the likely future that “our” government and “our patriotic” corporations have created for us? To borrow from Lenin, “What can be done?” Here is what can be done. The wars, which benefit no one but the military-security complex and Israel’s territorial expansion, can be immediately ended. This would reduce the US budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars per year. More hundreds of billions of dollars could be saved by cutting the rest of the military budget which, in its present size, exceeds the budgets of all the serious military powers on earth combined. US military spending reflects the unaffordable and unattainable crazed neoconservative goal of US Empire and world hegemony. What fool in Washington thinks that China is going to finance US hegemony over China? The only way that the US will again have an economy is by bringing back the offshored jobs. The loss of these jobs impoverished Americans while producing oversized gains for Wall Street, shareholders, and corporate executives. These jobs can be brought home where they belong by taxing corporations according to where value is added to their product. If value is added to their goods and services in China, corporations would have a high tax rate. If value is added to their goods and services in the US, corporations would have a low tax rate. This change in corporate taxation would offset the cheap foreign labor that has sucked jobs out of America, and it would rebuild the ladders of upward mobility that made America an opportunity society. If the wars are not immediately stopped and the jobs brought back to America, the US is relegated to the trash bin of history. Obviously, the corporations and Wall Street would use their financial power and campaign contributions to block any legislation that would reduce short-term earnings and bonuses by bringing jobs back to America. Americans have no greater enemies than Wall Street and the corporations and their prostitutes in Congress and the White House. The neocons allied with Israel, who control both parties and much of the media, are strung out on the ecstasy of Empire. The United States and the welfare of its 300 million people cannot be restored unless the neocons, Wall Street, the corporations, and their servile slaves in Congress and the White House can be defeated. Without a revolution, Americans are history. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is the father of Reaganomics and the former head of policy at the Department of Treasury. He is a columnist and was previously the editor of the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, “How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds,” details why America is disintegrating."