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Good idea! He could send NCNP rangers there from Marblemount to manage the area. Nobody would get in. (Except guide services who paid a franchising fee, of course)

Oh, I'm a fan of mild chest beating as the next guy. But Ho-le-crap. It's like sitting at a bar scarfing beer nuts and the guy next to says "...this reminds me of the time we were on the south face...blah, blah, blah". Next it's the TV commercial, or the beer foam, or the coaster (!!!???) that presents and opportunity to launch into another unrelated opportunity for soothing whatever-the-fuck insecurities are driving this train. After a while the repetition is quite tiresome. Even amongst the more restrained chest-beating of CLIMBERS.

back on point your concerns about the influx of tourism are valid. I still think this move is way overdue.

Cuba flipped us a middle finger 50+ years ago and we've held a grudge ever since. We don't like it when other countries don't kow-tow to us :-)

But if fat Americans just swarm resorts the only damage would be to an expanding (but small number) of resorts in certain areas, no?

There are tourists already from Canada, Europe and elsewhere. Exactly what sites would be impacted by these tourists and why aren't they already impacted?

I'll give credit where it's due. This is way fucking overdue. Nice work, Obama!

Yes, you are.

AAC is a great club and worth the $80 a year for sure. :-)

Thanks! I'll be skiing in the Great White North (eh?). Hope it starts snowing soon!

I just notice that the people that seem to really really dig Monty Python seem to be liberals/left politically. My observation is all. Conservative comedians? Hell if I know. I'm off of work for most of two weeks and will enjoy the holidays for sure. Hope you do as well!

better a hamster than a gerbil :-) I like elderberry wine :-)

Monty Python is definitely favored by lefties. However, I will gladly fart in your general direction ;-)

You! Stand still laddie!

Ttk is a walrus. Hmmm, that does sound about right. Coo coo ca choo!

The killing of innocents vs. the guilty (or presumed to be) is generally a difference folks can readily see and feel about differently. You can simultaneously be appalled by civilians being gunned down in a public place, and favor the shooting down of an armed gunman and not be a hypocrite. Really, I need to explain this? In any case your reasoning above at least is less inflammatory and more sensible than the previous statement disguised as a joke. But, I guess due to being habituated to this tactic and style by your political comrade I mistakenly conflated you with him. I know you are in general a more reasoned person, so my bad.

I'm hoping for a Burr-Hamilton reenactment. And whom, pray tell, do you wish to play the part of Hamilton? :-)

Hilarious. Of course nobody that is right of center could possibly care about, or be saddened by the following news stories: Yemen violence Pakistan violence Really this kind of partisan finger pointing and attribution of how someone else "truly feels" got tiresome and sickening years ago. Shame on you, OW.

Yep, right on point. Of course our resident sociopath leads off any debate with insults, fills them in the middle, and closes 'em out with the same.

Pot, kettle, black from the local left-wing cc.com sociopath.

Heart of Darkness.

And from our very own finest...

Everything always comes back to Enumclaw...

The media has provided adequate and thoroughly damning evidence that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist. Can we dispense with the trial now and just convict?