Coldfinger

I like bitching about spelling.

What? Create a new user profile so I can post my YouTube video? No.

Yeah the funny part is that would actually be very good for lawyers. As corporations would no longer be barred from doing stupid things, people WOULD get hurt, and lawsuits would fly. Not sure which is worse--regulators or litigators--but I do know who costs a company more money!

Hey! Didn't the GOP, I mean Tea Party, defend paying Wall Street and Corporate types their bonuses and golden parachutes when they not only left the "losers" but were in fact the ones who drove them into the ground because in a capitalist system we honor our contracts. So how do you justify rescuing these rich bastards "at the expense of my taxes" while giving the finger to everyone who worked their entire life for a company to get a pension so they don't end up on the street in their old age? Did that slip your mind? We helped Detroit and an entire generation of retirees still has what they worked for--after all isn't capitalism also about rewarding hard work? Not to mention the hundreds of thousands who still have auto industry and related jobs? Good government policy means stepping in where possible to avert the collapse of a sector of the economy that can be avoided. Bad decision making by a few overcompensated snob retard executives and board members does not justify throwing everybody else whose hard work actually produced the product/service under the bus.

What does that mean? 1 in 8 summiteers die? Guess it'd have be on the way down.

She died in a bathtub. Well it's not THAT bad, could be worse. We just had a fellow here who killed himself by head on collision with a Honey Bucket.

One thing we haven't really acknowledged here is the risk to OTHERS especially those who come to the rescue. Just had a SAR fatality here in Wyo. when a helicopter crashed during a rescue for a snowmoblower who, it turned out, was also a fatality. Another good example has to be the famous Art Gilkey rescue attempt on K2 where the entire party was willing to attempt a rescue even though that meant they all would most likely die and in fact they did almost die. Often lost in that was that a party of two roped climbers would have died had their rope not become entangled.

No, because I understand statistics. Don't be a weenie [dog]! A beautiful woman is a good enough reason to gamble. Seems to be true of climbing too, remember some folks (including me) really sticking necks out on R/X and hormones seem an inducement.

Yeah you will have the guy who is a complete idiot! I remember Ron Paul speaking in 1988 and thinking where the hell did they find the freak. His whole schtick is being 'that guy', who will take the far extreme of an issue not because it makes any sense whatsoever, but simply because it is the far extreme. There is certainly a role for such a person in a deliberative body like either house of Congress, but in no way should such a person be the sole executive power. Or put another way, it's not quite a village unless there's an idiot, just not with the idiot as the mayor.

Well I'll put it this way: which party establishment do you support in a GOP primary? Paul's been in Washington forever, he just has a diffy style, but it's the same big government is controlling your life BS we see in every GOP platform. Put another way, he's the current face of the same old evangelical/corporate establishment we saw with the Tea Party, Palin, W, Quayle, etc. etc.

OK OK, I'll leave the Bacon bit alone. On a separate note I have been wondering why I haven't heard much from Santorum & Co. on his Italian heritage. Turns out there's a reason: they're staunch liberals and communists! And Too Many Icecubes

Not sure that'd work out for ya, seeing as how well cooked the Bacon forum turned out to be.

I hear the big diff vs. the Sounders is that in PDX there are no soccer moms.

I didn't know he was hanging out with Damon Stoudemire and Rasheed Wallace!

What's a tricorn? Nevermind, figures he wouldn't use the correct--French--spelling. I thought you might be referring to something going on in Pasco.

Besides, as an Italian-American Catholic, I have to imagine he is outraged dirtbag Americans elitist snobs chopped Cesare Maestri's masterpiece. Although I have no idea where he'd fall in the climbing spectrum since he is dead set against using protection.

No you'll be pregnant the rest of the time.

I can see why you'd vote for Paul--IN THE GOP PRIMARY--but not for the reason you give. Sheesh! What impeccable logic.

PS Have to wonder why he doesn't go by "Dick" instead of "Rick"? Maybe he figured nobody would vote for Dick Scrot[or]um?

Careful what you wish for.... I can see a world, a Rick Santorum world, where men are men (working, bringing home bacon), women are at home (knocked up and/or cooking bacon in a pan) and it would be a complete disaster for climbers. For one thing, I'd have to work year-round and for another I'd not only have to find a woman, but I'd have to support both of us AND knock her up, I mean how does this leave any time or money to go on month long bouldering trips? While the absence of females (due to barefooted bacon cooking duties) at crags and especially bouldering areas could be seen by some to be an improvement, especially when one can look forward to an apres climb bacon dish waiting at home, I for one would mourn the loss of my ultimate dream: not working at all due to my stinking rich spouse.

It's a useful thing to report these sightings, or better yet to document tracks, for wildlife purposes as well. Here in Wyo we were having problems with antler hunters running ATV's in all sorts of places they shouldn't go and it was the Game Wardens and not the feds with their britches in a bunch as it had a big effect on deer and especially elk.

Actually, no, I really had no idea what you were talking about.

No idea.

Or come out swinging with a lead pipe stick-clip?

Your ethics are what should drive you, not the acts of others. I have had a few rather humorous run ins with motorized folks rushing up on what they thought was a meek hiker. Next time try jumping up and down while holding your balls. You'd be surprised.