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Hugh Conway

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  1. Passive? The allegations - including from a number of other people like Gordon Wiltsie is that he was anything but passive
  2. It's not really character assassination to describe a climber as a conceited asshole, is it? Always thought the Krakauer hate post-IntoThinAir was the standard sub-culture hero who makes it big and no longer belongs to the sub-culture so they need to find someone else to lionize that belongs to "them"
  3. surely as good Americans we 3 can find some way to be mask agreement in argument? Here's the book "3 Cups of Deceit" http://static.byliner.com/original/3/Three_Cups_of_Deceit_Jon_Krakauer_Byliner_Originals.pdf
  4. It's "probably too much" that someone uses charity funds to promote their own book?
  5. Yeah, after donating $75k to CAI he finds out it's paying out $1.7million for Mortenson's book tour. So he gets a bit pissed. And then he writes a book, downloadable free, and donating the author royalties to charity, what an asshole. You fuckers are dumb.
  6. http://www.cascadeadventures.net/misc/snow_cat_rental.htm BTW: you are a fat lazy fuck if you can't be bothered to walk to the top of the palmer
  7. No, Room To Read still does awesome work. They don't have nearly the bullshit story though
  8. Given how much cheaper and arguably better climbing gear has gotten in the last decade and likely will only get cheaper, I wouldn't consider any gear an investment. Go climbing
  9. Had a nice surf session today w/the new made by me longboard... so yes. Regarding the US and it's politics, it's generally fucked trending towards really fucked, so no, on that front
  10. Does anybody? true, Jay's weaving has just gotten particularly irksome lately. like your "double taxation bollocks" now that you think it should be treated like income
  11. That's because you didn't include WW2 in your data: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=205 marginal rates (your site) http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php tax revenue as 20.9% of GDP in 1944, up from 13.3% of GDP in 1943. Marginal rate went from 88% to 94%. You'll also notice how far the top bracket fell in that time period as well. Similar occured earlier in the century when the top bracket went from 7% to 77% in 3 years I realize though that "facts" are uncomfortably at odds with your ideology. If the relationship between top marginal rates and revenues is a simple function of marginal rates and income thresholds then every cut in top marginal rates should result in a proportionate reduction in tax revenues, and should never lead to an increase - right? There's a reason that the Euro's like broad consumption taxes in addition to high marginal rates, because they figured out that there's not enough aggregated income in whatever income threshold they deem wealthy to cover the bills. You don't like admitting you were wrong?
  12. That's because you didn't include WW2 in your data: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=205 marginal rates (your site) http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php tax revenue as 20.9% of GDP in 1944, up from 13.3% of GDP in 1943. Marginal rate went from 88% to 94%. You'll also notice how far the top bracket fell in that time period as well. Similar occured earlier in the century when the top bracket went from 7% to 77% in 3 years I realize though that "facts" are uncomfortably at odds with your ideology.
  13. damnit, you aren't supposed to expose Jay's lies, that's the LibDopes job
  14. 400,000 authorized growers in California? >1% of the population grows weed? Someone was smoking furiously whent hey put together those states
  15. Willing to bet you are entirely full of shit there - Mexican farmworkers in California have a life not much different than the Joads did.
  16. same linky... Kimmo - A bit of parenting advice....if you have your kid look a word up in the dictionary (rather than give them the definition verbally) he/she really will remember it better. PEOPLE WITH MONEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR MONEY? HOLY SHIT PETER THAT'S HUGE NEWS!
  17. I thought this was about the paid conservative shills.
  18. Yeah, and I read Reason, go figure. Reading widely is good for your brain. Reason's a fair bit more literate than post 200-whatever Salon. Same with slate, they died post web bubble. Some great stuff in the last milennium on Salon though
  19. too many idiots, bill, think that labeling themselves as some political party in America actually means something. There's nothing wrong with Conservatism as a belief system; as practiced in America currently the policies and politicians they advocate are shills who produce a weakened impotent country that works against their ideas and produces something directly contra to their ideals
  20. prole's supporting Bachman/Romney 2012?
  21. sweet fucking baby jesus, I was wondering what brought on this Boehner-esque assault on logic
  22. For future spring Sierra use - the CDEC does measurement of a number of snow stations: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/ The April 1 report: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ between 170-155% of the normal snowpack for this date.
  23. This years snowpack is approaching all time records in the Tahoe area.
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