Billygoat

Speed bumps kill

In all fairness to SAR, miscommunications are the norm. I used to be an EMT with the Fire Dept. and it was common to get unclear and wrong descriptions of the scene. For example; We were once paged out to a man kicked in the chest by a horse, a pretty serious if not critical injury. When we arrived, there was a man laying on the groud by a table saw. It turns out the table saw kicked a piece of wood back and it hit him in the chest and felt, to him, like a horse kicked him. If some one was listening to the scanner they would have incorrect information describing what took place.

What's a name cost these days, just need an idea, need to know if I can buy a new ice screw or save up for the name. At least $40. Go to "who's online" upper left corner, look for the "hang ten braw" hand and click on "here". If you want to avoid ads for ice screws on this site, you best be chipping in

Well De-lish Trish, I don't see you wearin' sack cloth, unless you mean "let's hit the...!"

I think I figured out which photos are Mattp, Allison, icegirl, and Alpine K but who are the rest?

Yeah, Doolittle, look at his photo.

Yeah. It seems climbers have become soft, spending their days posting and perusing various websites. A Black Diamond exec was quoted as saying " You just have to follow the demographic."

Definitely! he is all blurry lookin'

True. She had that look in her eye and claimed to know a few friends of mine...

Cause we donate $$$$$

Trask, have you tried Wild Irish Rose? Not bad. WTF is Do little talkin' about?

Dwayner, in that first picture, the guy bears a resemblance to Lowell Skoog. Are you saying trask and Skoog are one and the same

The Macallan 12 year at $38. MMMM Good

I predict thursday to be the best this week.....

oooo that brings back memories

I'm going to touch myself....

It can never be a "free" market with a few rich guys manipulating it Summer dresses are coming....

You are right Greg as long as you keep that money in a jar but then inflation is going to wither it...Geez, I get gas there too, maybe we have a lot more in common that I thought.

I feel like that too sometimes Trask. I'm not trying to save the world. I just don't like it when our economy gets fucked up and we go after some two time, rinky dink dictator instead of the friends of the powers that be who actually caused the economic collaspe thru their greed. And poor people will fight and die in the war and middle class people will finance it, and the economy will still suck and the rich will keep getting richer....

I just know from experience that once you get past a certain point the money you have makes money for you in a snowball effect and when you start hangin' out with the people that have access to real power you start influencing policy and that most of the real power and money is concentrated in the hands of the very few. It cost rich people far less to build a house than poor or middle class people. Greg, even if you make $500,00 a year, you are still only upper middle class and you are being taxed to hell, and you don't do your banking off shore, and you have very little real influence over your congressman. Damn thread drift! Will bite you in the ass everytime...

I'm a little bit of both. I am a business man and I have liberal leaning. I build things out of wood but I want to save the old growth. I build mansions for rich corporate people and low income housing. I own guns, shoot animals and eat them, and drive a big American truck, but I also think there should be gun control, I shop at the Co-op, and think Big Fat Americans should not be driving SUVs if all they are doing is commuting to a desk job. They should have a toyota hybrid. I guess that makes me a progressive

Exactly. I try not to shop at REI. I've just noticed that when people are either poor or middle class, it doesn't matter whether they claim to be right or left wing, the common issues bind them together and that usually involves rich people trying to take money from them. That's why at the WTO, we had blue collar workers protesting alongside hippies. I think it benefits those few in power to have the working class, right and left masses (mobs in their parlance) to have us fighting about abortion, gun control, welfare etc. rather than focusing on corporate welfare, corporate criminals, bad foreign policy, and taxation.

Oops! I lost my head. Geez Greg you are kinda liberal in some ways.