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http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Canmore+guide+Japanese+visitor+safe+after+being+chased+tree+grizzly/5466972/story.html

Very. How did you get the backstage pass? It was a great show.

Well, keep voting democrat then, they are giving everything to everybody. Money is free, it falls from the sky. It's only money - we have unlimited amounts to pay for both welfare and wars. And keep those Obama tax cuts for the rich in place too. See, by voting dem you can have it all forever. Brilliant. http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/reports/freepass_pdfs/debt_and_deleveraging/debt_and_deleveraging_full_report.pdf Oh Bill you're breaking my heart!

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/millionaires-the-middle-class-and-taxes-actual-numbers

sure (though not fewer loopholes, but ALL of them) -- and only if you increased the long-term capitol gains tax as well. 15% on an unlimited amount of income is RETARDED A massively simplified tax code without any deductions, loopholes or subsidies in exchange for lowered rates across the boards sounds pretty good to me. The problem is not the long term capital gain tax. We shouldn't be heavily taxed on income that is already taxed when it's put into investments, and Buffet doesn't disagree with this. The problem is that tax rate under Bush was extended to business dividends where it's became abusive. Most businesses in the US that generate significant income (S corps) the owners are given a reasonable wage and then as a "shareholder" are taxed on their distributions at 15%. So a $30 million a year business the owner can take a salary of $25k and then take a dividend, say $1 million, at 15%. Yes, it's being taxed beforehand at the corporate rate, but so is everything else. Canada has something similar, but the difference is the sky is not the limit, there is a cap on that 15%. And that is what the US needs to do. Small to medium sized business owners deserve the 15% tax break; they worked hard for it. Let them have their $250k at 15%. CEOs don't deserve a $40 million payout at 15% and that is where the abuse comes in. So therein lies the problem. How many people actually knew that. I know very intelligent people who don't understand the 15% dividend tax. They will argue until their blue in the face about taxation when not even understanding it.

Your friend forgot about hanging Ben Bernanke for being the most inflationary Fed Chief ever.

That's not really the problem. Biotech is fueled by investment. It's risky but with a blockbuster very lucrative for a long-term investor. During the dot com days tons of money flooded the biotech market with big hopes from the human genome project, lots of people got rich, and you know the story lots of people got killed in the aftermath. It has not recovered since. Part of it is due to people really getting burned. CTI, which at one point was the highest valued company in the world, has burned through several billion dollars in cash and has never had a drug approved. In the end though, the high risk money went somewhere else, into more dot coms and then into real estate, something that would fail or succeed quicker. I don't see the money returning without some fundamental changes. What needs to change? The drug approval process needs to be modernized. Certain classes of the newer designer therapies that are not chemotherapeutics (ie immuno and cell based therapies) need to be strictly excluded from any potential liabilities that are not the result of gross negligence. I'm sure many read the NYT article yesterday about a new therapy for CLL. While R&D is expensive, the approval process contains the bulk of the cost. That needs to be stripped away with a strict opt in process ie you will die without this therapy if it kills you that is the risk YOU took. That would provide access to experimental therapies quicker to the thousands being diagnosed with untreatable diseases every day. Let's be honest, many of these new therapies, including the one quoted in the NYT articles and Provenge, is really a couple days of lab work that isn't very expensive.

Has anyone ever considered that the lack of a better health care system discourages entrepreneurship? The risks of starting your own business are already huge. Is your family's health worth it? It would be interesting to know how many people this has discouraged and compare the rates with countries with coverage for all. Oh, and shouldn't Bank of America be renamed Bank of Shareholders. Your welcome for the bailout.

Yes that is actually a quicker method I guess, you have to copy only the image url to paste in. It's not just copy and paste though because you have to use the UBB markup. Flickrs policy is they do not "allow" image linking without a physical link to their site, which is totally understandable. I do want to point this one thing out, and I will preface it with the fact that we know our photo gallery software currently is a bag of suck sometimes. It's really better for people to post their TR images in our photo gallery. Reason is we can control those images, versus we can't control flickr urls or when you move your blog or it disappears. We aren't looking to own your photos, although I will not lie in that photos with proper metadata help our cause a lot. We want TRs to be timeless and around hopefully forever. So again, I really encourage people to include their TR photos in our gallery. Sorry to hijack your great TR, Jason.

Is the picture with the stars and tent and fire a double exposure or the composite of two photos? Too bad you missed the photo contest!

Regarding FLICKR. It's sort of a pain in the ass. What you need to do is left click on each photo, click on "Medium 640" which will take you to a new page, and from there you can then left click again and then copy the image address. We unfortunately don't have the resources at the moment to make this a simpler process from Flickr.

Could it be this one? http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1032574/gonew/1/The_party_that_picked_up_my_PE

Now THAT is a mustache ride. Cool trip, Rob!

Those are probably the most spectacular set of photos I've ever seen in a TR here. Incredible trip thanks for sharing.

And the winners are...... Alpine Cragging Scenic Devin27 Ski - JasonG Bouldering Ice - Jon Frieh Humor - Le Piston and Rad Thanks to everyone who took the time to post their amazing photos. I have to admit I feel guilty in a way posting the winners because the quality was so high among all the entries. Thanks again to our sponsors listed above for making this happen; please thank them with your business. Winners please contact me and I'll make arrangements for your prizes.

Totally. No holes required. I had a retaining wall outside my old place that I could slip a campus board onto the top. It was a basic frame with arms that came out that would hook onto the top of the wall. Light enough to carry around and small enough to store.

Mike, do you have any retaining walls or anything outside your condo which you could latch a portable campus board onto? I built something like this a while ago and it worked great.

Go over I-90 and Blewett Pass.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015945283_highwayfire19m.html

Roubini has been slaying Rick Perry on Twitter it has been AWESOME! I encourage everyone to listen to the Charlie Rose interview with Warren Buffet, should be online.

This chick is weapons grade stupid... http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/08/17/exp.piers.christine.odonnell.cnn?hpt=hp_t2

PLEASE use this link

Bump!