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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jan 22, 2018 - 10:06am PT
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That's some pretty stupid speculation
I'm sure Mueller has a very different opinion
Quid Pro Quo Russian sanctions are some serious allegations for getting help from a foreign country
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 22, 2018 - 10:13am PT
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That's some pretty stupid speculation
Yeah, the Carnegie Endowment hires nuthin but retards.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 22, 2018 - 10:36am PT
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WaPost
Trump is tearing up fracking rules on federal lands. Be alarmed.
----Editorial Board
So here's a thought: what would be the impact of contamination of the Central Valley groundwater with chemicals that were dangerous/noxious, from uphill fracking activity on federal lands?
Destruction of the breadbasket of the United States? What would be the effect on the State? The Country?
Toss the dice and see what happens?
I speak as a person who lives over one of the largest groundwater aquifers in the US, contaminated and unusable due to contamination by federally contracted aerospace industries of the 40's-50's-60's, here in the San Fernando Valley.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 22, 2018 - 10:39am PT
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So are you trying to tell me that The Kremlin is the friend of the US?
No, I wrote that Kremlin was a friend of the US around 1991.
I don't think so, but there were possibilities, and I think we squandered them. I think that happened because of neocons on BOTH sides, who still maintained the Cold War mentality (and there are a lot of those left).
Opportunities arise, and those in charge have to be prepared to act on them. We did have an opportunity, and we let it pass to bring us to where we are.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jan 22, 2018 - 10:51am PT
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The BS non-stop propaganda against Hillary tipped the scales
and that was done with the help of RUSSIA
They were calling Hillary worse than Hitler, she was a baby killer and hated puppies, pure lies
she gave Russia Uranium, she had a private e-mail server which were high crimes according to the Cultists
the stuff they did before the election tipped the scales, not the truth about Hillary or Trump
The Russian's stole the DNC e-mails, they worked with Trump and against the Dems and Hillary, they worked to strip voters from the voter rolls, the gave the NRA money for the election, who knows how much Russian money was pocketed to help Trump win
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Jan 22, 2018 - 11:37am PT
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Comey's ill-timed release surely didn't help Hillary...Can't wait to see what Muellar has to say...
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 01:43pm PT
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Yury, perhaps I am mistaken, but you almost sound like a Putin/Kremlin apologist.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Jan 22, 2018 - 01:44pm PT
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 02:49pm PT
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And Yury, I do my homework, but sometimes I speculate on forums (this is about the only forum I waste my time on, but I have fun doing it).
Despite one arse wipe on this forum who wants to take a swipe at me all the time, just some turd in California who lives on welfare and does not pay taxes, and begs from people, most Supertopians are good people.
I cannot help but speculate that with an handle like Yury, you may have some Russian influence, but then for a while I was posting as Vlad (I had my reasons, right or wrong, and I came clean, and I did not fool most people on this forum, I knew I wouldn't) and Vlad in not exactly an Anglo-American name, is it.
Dude, some 45 years in five countries, living and working as a journalist (and zoologist by avocation), interviewing the likes of Maggie Thatcher and Tony Blair, sitting down with Bill Clinton, interviewing presidents, prime ministers, captains of industry (Richard Branson, Denis O'Brien, etc etc etc), working on nationals (papers) and TV… and I know sh#t. Just a typical fake news hack. If it was so easy.
Right. You are right, I am wrong. There, that was easy.
Yury, according to you, I have posted loads of unsubstantiated BS, and you.. I have seen errors and misinformation in what you have posted. Shall I take the time to dig and call you up on them? I do not have the inclination, but if you invite me to do so, gladly.
Are we any different?
I am having fun, no whiskey (who can afford it) and no wine, just a good time. And the forum arse wipe can go stick his head in the toilet where it belongs. Not you Yury, just some ST jerk. He knows who he is.
And I use my real name, with the exception of Vlad, and I left so many clues, people knew I was Patrick, I have used my real name since 2005 on this forum. I have nothing to hide.
And I do climb, there is just eff all rock here in Wexford, and I do miss certain places I have lived on this planet (my native California and Alaska comes to mind) where there is so much rock,it is sick.
There, my rant, my two cents and my sign off for this evening. Cheers.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 03:46pm PT
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And… as much as I would love to post articles or links to what I have written (Maggie, August 1989, when I was editor of a magazine in Wembley, and others) writing this post just pisses me off the more.
I think I still have some interviews in publications I edited and worked on, with Tony Blair, Michael Howard… I still have some stuff in my physical, paper, portfolio, but…
F*#king thieves. I was moving, I had a box on the moving van, it had my laptop, the clarinet that my brothers Casey to Mac to me, academic papers and documents, financial documents, family photos, and I think some DVDs… it was in Dun Laoghaire, Clarinda Park, I only went inside my flat for about five minutes (I was moving out).
Gone. The box was gone.
Nowadays and for the past 20 or so years, I backup digitally, but not then. Who would have thought.
I was so stupid. I think these people see that somebody is moving and then they strike.
I reported it but the Gardai, but what could they do? Just advised me to be more careful next time.
Yeah, next time. Stupid me.
For years, I kick myself. If only I had done this, if only I had done that, if only. People say "get over it Patrick." But I had stuff in that box I'll never get back. Sort of like my care for Jennie, "if only…", years of being a carer, and it may have come down to, "If only". I am such a fool. Losing a box of stuff is one thing, but losing the love of my life to the system, is unforgivable.
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The flat I was moving out of was the same one that was burgled several months before… my (basement) flat was a mess, they tipped over/out both of my four-drawer filing cabinets in my office, they did not take my Mac Performa (and I had my laptop with me that day), but they took my Mamiya-Sekor 1000DTL that my mom bought for me on my 14th birthday, they did not take my US passport (but my landlord above was also burgled by the same pair - yeah the au pair next door perhaps saw them - and his US girlfriend had her passport taken, and jewelry and his Nikon he had for years).
F*#king thieves. I do not know how many of you Taco Standers have been burgled, but it is really like having your castle violated. Albeit, a small two-bedroom flat, but it was my castle. It is a shitty feeling.
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They tried crowbarring Des's (landlord) front door (the marks were there) and then came down stairs and kicked my door in, and then left out my backdoor to the garden and shimmied up the pipes to the open window in his lower bathroom (good climbers, I guess, I'll give them that much). These old Georgian houses. (the Guards - police- said that they were probably drug addicts, well, they were good climbers, hah hah).
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And can I pre-empt that turd who will probably post a bottle of whiskey with my name on it, or something like that, I have not been drinking, I cannot afford it.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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I have been on this forum since 2005. I have calculated that 46% of my life has been living and working outside of the US to date. I am studied in international relations and affairs, both at university and in life, in practice.
I try to write what I believe, and what I see. I can write some shite, hence one reason I took a "furlough" as Patrick and became Vlad, now who did I fool?
I am not insulted by childish antics of the likes of the California turd, though I admit it does bug me, but not much. But when somebody claims I post a number of unsubstantiated claims, and yet this poster has some posts of question, well, pot calling kettle black perhaps.
This forum is the one I engage in. Sometimes I cry, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I bitch, sometimes I agree, other times not. But I am a climber, always have been, always will be.
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Can I just add, I write this stuff because I live alone, in the sticks, missing my love in a nursing home. I have a great dog and a brat cat, but I get lonely. Sure the beach is about 70 meters away and I meet a lot of people, but there is no rock down here in Wexford, at least when we lived in Dalkey there was the quarry, good granite, good routes.
The Taco Stand is my relief. I have made an ass of myself on ST at times, but…
Another EDIT (I cannot stop it, ignorance knows no bliss)
And for the heavens, Yury is going to post some "facts", substantiated of course (by whom?) and the turd will post some sort of anti-irish whiskey bottle meme, as night is day.
I love it.
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Now, it is cold, by Irish standards and I just finished an article for a former editor, so I am going to get ratty, says 'Patty'.
Hey Dwain cleaner, do you even climb? I can still lead 11, scared to sh#t but I can still do it. Ice is nice, but I'd rather have it in an Irish whiskey that you are so fond of posting with stupid images.
I am in a fesity mood. Anybody can throw anything they want at me. I have not been drinking, turd from the Sierra foothills, I am just tired, and tired of the BS some on the Taco Stand has to present.
There are some great posts here, I'll name two that I have always admired, and apparently from different "political camps" if I understand it correctly.
John Stannard and John Gill. I grew up with those names, from the late 1960s to now. Sure,one was East Coast, the other a renowned boulderer. But names I know. And admire. And respect, like so many on this forum. Pat Ament, Jello, Werner (a gobshite but I like him), Tom Higgins… gosh, I could go on and name the people who have made their impact on climbing in North America (and beyond), Donini does not count, as he has done far too much for me to be beyond envious.
This is a good forum. I love it.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Jan 22, 2018 - 07:10pm PT
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There, my rant, my two cents and my sign off for this evening. Cheers.
G'damn... if only....
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Jan 22, 2018 - 07:28pm PT
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"Frankly my dear, ..........no one really cares"
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 07:30pm PT
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Yeah Russ, I know, but when have I ever been mean to you? Probably have. Not worth looking up, but...
You have over 8,000 posts on this forum, not bad.
Norton, yeah. Who gives a sh#t. Thanks for your input, like Russ, I guess you people would just as soon as hear me… nothing.
Norton you have almost 12,000, wow, all real smart and intelligent like Russ's.
Coolaboola, I can live with that.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Jan 22, 2018 - 07:44pm PT
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I can still lead 11, scared to sh#t but I can still do it.
Bull f*#king sh#t.... let's see it.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 07:56pm PT
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We all have our reasons what we do in life. I have learned that.
Sometime I can be judgmental, other time be judged. Some choose to eschew the granite of California, and look past that, others embrace the seemingly boundless of rock in California and the West. The limitless, in some words, of the world. But not a world without limits.
I have not tasted the world like some have, Jim Donini comes to mind, but what I do, I revel in however simple.
But I do climb, when and where I can. Norton and Russ may try and diss me, I do not care (well, I must to some degree as I mention it, but…).
I know who and what I am… imperfect.. A lot to be desired, but I have never hurt anybody.
So Russ, I guess that previous not was not my final two cents.
"If only" you wrote, well not quite yet, grasshopper.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 08:02pm PT
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Bull f*#king sh#t.... let's see it.
Hah hah, okay dude, you pay and I will produce. Don't be an as#@&%e. I am hoping to make a family reunion in Washington this July, if I can afford it. If I am there, meet me at some place, Town Wall, Leavenworth, Liberty Bell, whatever, I will prove it.
I like you Russ, I like your posts, somehow I have rubbed you wrong. Well, c'est la vie.
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You do not know me, outside of what I have posted on the Taco Stand, you are too young to know me from C4, you have people who know you and what you have done, I do not, I never wanted to, I climb because I love it, one reason I left C4 in 76 ( I guess I could not cut it could I, the BS).
Call me bullshit if you want Russ, I am not going to lose any sleep.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 08:32pm PT
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And anyway this has gone off topic, I started this thread because Trump is looking like a king. In more ways than one.
He still has his earnest followers. He still goes against the norms, which some people like.
He is still a moron. Which some people like.
Go figure, he has the pulse of many Americans (though not the majority).
He still ignores the Constitution (does he even know what it is, and yes I can more or less recite the body of it), and he still caters to…
…to…
his base. In case some of you do not know, the POTUS is an elected paid job whose duty is to all the people, not a select few. He is not our boss, we are his boss (yes, I live abroad, for years, but I am still an American).
So the slipping into non-politics, into climbing (well, it is a climbing forum, so…), is not what i intended this thread to be, but instead a look at the state of affairs.
We are climbers, we are humans, we have opinions.
And truth be known, I am sick and tired of you as#@&%es who try and to paint me in your own eyes. You will never paint me. Likewise.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 08:38pm PT
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Poor snowflake Patrick. Yeah. And what are some of you?
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California, now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 22, 2018 - 08:45pm PT
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Dwain, I know you are having it sorts with you body. And I do wish you the best, even if I do not know you. If slagging me is a way for you to… I do not know, to have a bit of a laugh (they say laughter is the best medicine), I really do not mind at the end of the day. I slough it off, sort of.
Best wishes, I have never wished anybody ill in my life, not even Trump. (Well, maybe.)
Take care and there are back exercises, which you probably know of.
Cheers
Patrick
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