Doug

Two words: Fawkin Hawt!

I'll be there. I have to bail by 5 so if you and the youngn want to take my seats, you can have em!

I'll ask the question first: Anyone have any reviews on Scarpa Summit mountaineering boots? I'm thinking pretty hard about a new pair of boots. I'm a little torn at what to get, though I'm narrowing it down. Today I tried on a pair of Scarpas that were a light weight boot on the low end of the range for a technical boot (I can't recall the model). They will accept crampons. The fit really well. In looking through their literature they also make a more burly boot (the Summit) from the same last. I'm told that If they are built on the same last, the fit will be the same. I figure if I need something really burly I'll wear my plastics, so these would be for more general cascade mountaineering. Any thoughts?

No, it would be Hallify

I'm going to take a bath in crude tonight baby!

Isn't that called fishing off of the company pier? As opposed to screwing your co-workers which is called dipping your pen in the company ink?

Marmot also has a pretty good sale rack, same as the basement at the old Capitol Hill REI. I like FF as well. It's just that it's difficult to comprehend any REI not carrying mountaioneering boots!

It's snowing pretty good in Kent right now.

My bitch with REI lately (last 10 years or so) is that their stock is usually very limited. This was proven to an even greater extent last Saturday. I found out that the birthday party I took my daughter to was ok with dropping her off and coming back later. So I decided to head to the Southcenter REI to look at some new boots. They don't carry Mountaineering boots at that REI!!! Why not just put them in the freakin' mall and call it the Life is Good Store???

O.k., so Bobby Kennedy may not have been killed by Sirhan Sirhan. I hear that David Kennedy was killed by Syringe Syringe

Mixed snow and rain in Kent right now. Just look at it this way Minx, If you go out this weekend and buy a few end of winter specials, you can really relax in 250 or so days when everyone else is stressing out!

Why? Was Obamba's father a lying, murdering, backstabbing thief like the Kennedy dad apparently was? C'mon Bill. Old man Kennedy was a Nazi Sympathizing Bootlegger.

But getting sucked never gets old. Go figger? Mine was St. Paddy's day. Now, all you guys erase that form your memories.

Happy Birthday!!!!

That one was a classic.

I asked a question on this site a few months ago (I reiterate it was a question not a claim or accusation) that the a reason or the reason for invading Iraq was to set up a Forward Operating Base for the war on terror. I believe that the response was nil, other than to labeled a left wing tug job. Your reason number 4 seems to lend some credibility to my earlier proposition. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.......

I can not confirm nor deny the the level of information that I may or may not have access to. However, I don't suppose the revenue from all of the crack and heroin sold on the corner make up any part of the GNP, do they?

Mandolin: Anything by Chris Thiele (Nickle Creek)

FW - Thanks for the chart on the weapons. I don't know that the clandestine weapons sales that occurred during that time frame would make a dent in the statistic, but thank you none the less. To the point of the article you posted, I have listened and read 4 reports on the topic in the time frame I was at my daughter's gymnastics class this evening. From Fox to NPR. From all indications none of the politicians involved knew the alleged ultimate source of the funding for the trip. Does it look bad, hell yeah! Did they commit a crime or impeachable defense? You tell me. As far as being willingly ignorant of the geopolitical situation in that era, you are probably correct. I do know that the US was friendly with the Shah and that pissed off a bunch of the Islamic Fundamentalists who ran he and his cronies out of the country and took a few US hostages to boot. And Carter pissed them off so bad they timed the hostage release with is leaving office. Or at least that's what I read in school. Our family was friends with a few of the families evacuated from Tehran in 1977 and I only know what I've heard from them and from an old roommate (ex-pat Iranian) and his dad. I read a lot of pretty decent points you make in your posts but it is too bad they are mostly obscured by the bluster you frequently add to them. While you seem to be more astute politically than many of the posters on this site, I do find your skills at civil discourse severely lacking. Speaking of duped, would it be somewhat accurate to say that the US and our congress were duped by deliberately faulty and misleading information leading up to the vote by congress to go to war with Iraq? Just asking.....

Substantiate your 1% figure. Yeah, tell me about the hostage thing will ya? You've got me pegged, FW.

Yeah, I think that kinda crosses the line......

Gosh, imagine how the the Bush Sr. led CIA felt when they were supplying Saddam with all of that support in their skirmish with Iran. Duped, I'm sure. But they are Republicans, so in the interest of national security and intelligence I guess they are above the law.

And of course, Why do rednecks do it doggy style? So they can both watch NASCAR on TV.

Pass-bro? CanIwhiff? Bitchland?

Yeah, but Sobo's from Yakima, an invitation for oral ususally starts with "hey bro, come here".