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So he could claim, a la Mark Twain, that the rumors of his demise are "greatly exaggerated". Glad that you are okay, Rob.

My buddy Mark has a set of three slider nuts that he let me borrow once. Once they are set in a parallel sided crack, they are set! They aren't nearly as adaptable as LoweBalls.

Hey, Joel, who are the people you don't like to see? Any people, or just certain people? I don't mind seeing people so much as hearing them. Some just seem to forget when they aren't in the city any more and continue hollering at the top of their lungs.

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That was almost as long as a doctoral dissertation. Geez. Drunks don't have that kind of attention span.

With friends like Polish Bob, who needs enemies?

Colin uploaded the topo to this site about a year and a half ago. I looked at it recently. It looks as though it has been purged. Send a pm to colin. Maybe he has a copy still. Try a search for the original post on "Fee Demo Wall".

I sure hope the election goes off as well as possible. It's damn important. The Shiites will get elected. We'll train them and get out and they will take care of killing off the Sunni terrorists. Either that, or the Sunnis will finally see the futility of fighting the majority and settle down.

You must be self-employed.

Layton, just think, if you lose in court, you could pay triple damages, or $15. On the other hand you could be forced to pay court costs. I can't believe a trademark for dirtbag could hold up in court, but you don't want to find out.

Cascade Climbers Nostalgia. They are pining for the "good old days".

I finally got around to taking a picture of my old gear collection. I got them from a guy who climbed in college ten years ago and in turn got them from his father. There are Chouinard, Eiger and SMC pieces.

I remember how I was pissed off in 1990 that Papa Bush stopped the army from entering Bagdad and taking out Saddam. In my own mind, I used that as justification to vote against Bush, who I thought was a pretty good president, even though I am and was a Democrat. Now I realize what a wise man Papa Bush was and what a fool I was for thinking as I did.

The older MSR ones used to break rivets, but they have replace the aluminum rivets with titanium ones and this doesn't happen any more I am told. After all four front rivets broke on my MSRs I replaced them with SS bolts with aircraft nuts. A friend of mine bought a pair of the newer ones and didn't know about the switch to titanium. He tried to drill out the rivets, but his drill bit wouldn't cut and he couldn't figure out why.

Mais oui! Haven't you ever heard of the Sniff Test?

In order to see the benefit of the Iraq War you have to first believe that Saddam Hussein was threatening us with total annihilation. That is the only scenario that is worse than what we are experiencing.

All I am saying is that it isn't cut and dry. In many industries, the price of the product CAN be raised to compensate for the higher wage costs. Also, in many cases, labor is only a small fraction of the product cost.

Cleophus' entire cc.com career spanned only three days!

What area is it in and what is the rating?

It could become just another of the Flaming Fords.

Yay, Chris!

Jay, you are a supply-sider if there ever was one. The assumption that you make are that if you raise the minimum wage that jobs will be cut. That may be true in some cases, but not in others. Certainly more true in manufacturing than in the service sector. Maybe the solution is not across the board wage supports but targeted ones. Maybe Milton Friedman's idea of a negative Income Tax instead? There's one that never took off. This is where tarrifs come in. The only argument for tarrifs is one of national defense. The supply of certain goods could be cut off in time of war. Propping up a domestic manufacturing helps ensure supply. Getting back to the word "idiot". I don't think anyone here thinks the word is being used in the literal sense. We are using it to describe people who lack the ability think critically. I've always thought that one of America's strong points was that we taught our children to think critically. All the emphasis on test scores and the like is a sign that we no longer value the ability to think, but rather to regurgitate information.

Did somebody let one?

Best Trip Report: Uncle_Tricky of course- Truth is Stranger than Fiction

No way, Jose.