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Captain...or Skully
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Aug 15, 2011 - 12:43am PT
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Pick a spot, you little bitch..................................Good luck....................'Tard.............................................................................Feckers................................................................................................................Bite me.......................................................................................................as#@&%es...........................................................All .....................................You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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apogee
climber
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Aug 15, 2011 - 12:46am PT
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Got a corndog here for ya, Skully....
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Aug 15, 2011 - 02:22am PT
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I like a good corndog, but you guys take the cake.
Imagine, a corndog cake. The mind boggles.
Eff you very much, 'Tard. I got yer 'whay'. Faker.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Aug 15, 2011 - 02:43am PT
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That's a big pile of gop. You gonna eat that?
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Aug 15, 2011 - 03:07am PT
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Bring forth. Let's see it. You started it, faker.
Look around. No......Wider. NO............W I D E R !!!!!!!! WIDER YET.
Look around. Dude, I know these folk. MANY of them. In The REAL world. No one knows you. You're not real.
Deck of cards. Bite me.
BTW, yer so called hi tech bike sure breaks a lot. Need some maintenance tips? My triple triangle has never failed. In 16 years. Hmmm.
To me, that says something. Even after Brad Bond broke it brand new. He bought some parts & Voila!!!!! no more failures.
Preventive Maintenance. It's kinda easy peasy. Maybe, I guess.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Aug 15, 2011 - 03:28am PT
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Deck of cards. You aren't relevant. Nor have you EVER been.
You don't exist.
I've never tried to be a badass. You dumbass. I'm just another monkey.
I won't ask my tribe to defend against a POS like yourself. You Aren't worthy. Nor have you EVER been. Save it. Waste of time.
Who is on the back cover of The Stuportopo guide? OMG, it's me.
I am real. Have a nice day in cardboard land.
Actually, I've got partners, but most have children. I have more free time than they do.
No one in the Valley knows you(that includes oldtimers). I know why. You aren't real. Never have been.
Bye now. I've got this corndog cake to get through. I can't be bothered.
That twisting almost truth stuff is pretty poor form. Maybe you actually perceive things in that fashion....I dunno. Fairly sad, I'd call it. Go ahead & have your damned Tardnet. It's ALL you've got, anyway.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Aug 15, 2011 - 09:26am PT
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Is that what it's called now? A butter stick? Bwahahhahah. :)
Warbler - I guess that was a total Freudian slip (or Freudian typo). There are lots of things I hope Rick Perry doesn't do. I meant to state I hope he doesn't get a photo of himself choking down a 'butter stick' :) ha!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 15, 2011 - 02:11pm PT
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Riley speaks truth -- at least regarding the deep-fried butter stick.
It (but not any presidential candidates) was featured on the news on
Friday night. They start with a butter stick, add sugar, cinnamon,
batter, and deep fry. I don't know if they come with an ambulance
ride to the ER included, though.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying Rokjox's efforts to make extra work for
Skully. Well done!
John
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Aug 15, 2011 - 02:53pm PT
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I wonder how she is with a cigar?
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Aug 15, 2011 - 03:39pm PT
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If any of you guys are dumb enough to vote for her she'll have this talking about hot dogs stuff pretending that it's a phallus shut down right quick. And you'll all have to go to Church on Sunday for remedial instead of climbing or posing online too.
Its all fun and games till these evangelists start passing laws telling you how to live your (immoral) life.
ps, how is it that no one has animated Rickys great photo yet? Get that head a bobbin. This stuff is usually scripted by the managers, lets see how Ed Rollins likes the new .gif.
I miss ouch. He would have already had this finished.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Aug 15, 2011 - 04:12pm PT
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Huh huh, huh huh, Radical said "pole".
:)
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Aug 15, 2011 - 05:32pm PT
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so...fareed zakaria still think keynes is right and suggests the government "pay people to dig a ditch and then fill it back in again" once again proving that libs have no appreciation for history...this is exactly what fdr did and is exactly why unemployment was still in the upper 20s in 1938
then, former enron advisor and libs' fave economist paul krugman fantasizes about an alien invasion (citing the twilight zone as his source) as a means to repair the economy...he does point to ww2 but seems to forget the other wars that barry currently has going
and you call bachman a nut
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Aug 15, 2011 - 05:52pm PT
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That f$%^ing Warren Buffett, he don't know jack squat about Eekunawmics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html?_r=1&hp
"OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as “carried interest,” thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they’d been long-term investors.
These and other blessings are showered upon us by legislators in Washington who feel compelled to protect us, much as if we were spotted owls or some other endangered species. It’s nice to have friends in high places.
Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent.
If you make money with money, as some of my super-rich friends do, your percentage may be a bit lower than mine. But if you earn money from a job, your percentage will surely exceed mine — most likely by a lot.
To understand why, you need to examine the sources of government revenue. Last year about 80 percent of these revenues came from personal income taxes and payroll taxes. The mega-rich pay income taxes at a rate of 15 percent on most of their earnings but pay practically nothing in payroll taxes. It’s a different story for the middle class: typically, they fall into the 15 percent and 25 percent income tax brackets, and then are hit with heavy payroll taxes to boot.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, tax rates for the rich were far higher, and my percentage rate was in the middle of the pack. According to a theory I sometimes hear, I should have thrown a fit and refused to invest because of the elevated tax rates on capital gains and dividends.
I didn’t refuse, nor did others. I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone — not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 — shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. People invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off. And to those who argue that higher rates hurt job creation, I would note that a net of nearly 40 million jobs were added between 1980 and 2000. You know what’s happened since then: lower tax rates and far lower job creation.
Since 1992, the I.R.S. has compiled data from the returns of the 400 Americans reporting the largest income. In 1992, the top 400 had aggregate taxable income of $16.9 billion and paid federal taxes of 29.2 percent on that sum. In 2008, the aggregate income of the highest 400 had soared to $90.9 billion — a staggering $227.4 million on average — but the rate paid had fallen to 21.5 percent.
The taxes I refer to here include only federal income tax, but you can be sure that any payroll tax for the 400 was inconsequential compared to income. In fact, 88 of the 400 in 2008 reported no wages at all, though every one of them reported capital gains. Some of my brethren may shun work but they all like to invest. (I can relate to that.)
I know well many of the mega-rich and, by and large, they are very decent people. They love America and appreciate the opportunity this country has given them. Many have joined the Giving Pledge, promising to give most of their wealth to philanthropy. Most wouldn’t mind being told to pay more in taxes as well, particularly when so many of their fellow citizens are truly suffering.
Twelve members of Congress will soon take on the crucial job of rearranging our country’s finances. They’ve been instructed to devise a plan that reduces the 10-year deficit by at least $1.5 trillion. It’s vital, however, that they achieve far more than that. Americans are rapidly losing faith in the ability of Congress to deal with our country’s fiscal problems. Only action that is immediate, real and very substantial will prevent that doubt from morphing into hopelessness. That feeling can create its own reality.
Job one for the 12 is to pare down some future promises that even a rich America can’t fulfill. Big money must be saved here. The 12 should then turn to the issue of revenues. I would leave rates for 99.7 percent of taxpayers unchanged and continue the current 2-percentage-point reduction in the employee contribution to the payroll tax. This cut helps the poor and the middle class, who need every break they can get.
But for those making more than $1 million — there were 236,883 such households in 2009 — I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains. And for those who make $10 million or more — there were 8,274 in 2009 — I would suggest an additional increase in rate.
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.
Warren E. Buffett is the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway"
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Aug 15, 2011 - 05:58pm PT
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dyamn
elcap beat me to the Buffett article.
Warbler....now THAT's funny!
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Aug 15, 2011 - 06:24pm PT
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Aug 15, 2011 - 07:00pm PT
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"pay people to dig a ditch and then fill it back in again" once again proving that libs have no appreciation for history...this is exactly what fdr did and is exactly why unemployment was still in the upper 20s in 1938
FDR wasn't exactly original. Progressives were just as misguided in 1848
The sophism that I am attacking in this essay is all the more dangerous when applied to public works, since it serves to justify the most foolishly prodigal enterprises. When a railroad or a bridge has real utility, it suffices to rely on this fact in arguing in its favor. But if one cannot do this, what does one do? One has recourse to this mumbo jumbo: "We must create jobs for the workers."
This means that the terraces of the Champ-de-Mars*12 are ordered first to be built up and then to be torn down. The great Napoleon, it is said, thought he was doing philanthropic work when he had ditches dug and then filled in. He also said: "What difference does the result make? All we need is to see wealth spread among the laboring classes."
Bastiat, 1848
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Aug 15, 2011 - 07:20pm PT
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"pay people to dig a ditch and then fill it back in again" once again proving that libs have no appreciation for history...this is exactly what fdr did
BS
Skyline Blvd where I live was a one lane dirt logging road until the WPA turned it into the 2 lane scenic highway it is now for nearly 20 miles. At the same time, the Rural Electric Administration brought in the first electric power. My now deceased neighbor used to take the mule with two cans of gas down to the water pump to supply water to their house. After electrification all he had to do was throw a switch. It enabled them to pump enough water to put in a commercial orchard.
A modern highway and power system that are still in use 75 years later. This brought many new homes, hundreds now. Which all pay property taxes and electric bills.
The American West infrastructure was significantly improved by the New Deal programs. You can argue about whether it was necessary to get us out of the Depression or whether money could have been better spent elsewhere, or not at all.
You cannot claim that no lasting good was done.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Aug 15, 2011 - 07:31pm PT
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Both "Silent Cal" and Hoover had almost identical market crashes on their watch.
Coolidge slashed Federal spending, lowered tax rates and the economy recovered in six months or so.
Hoover raised Tariffs and amplified his crash. (shades of Bush and TARP I)
FDR continued the Keynesian fallacy and guaranteed ten years of hardship.
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corniss chopper
climber
breaking the speed of gravity
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Aug 15, 2011 - 07:46pm PT
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Your typical Liberal wakes up in the morning thinking: I need a little bit more Government intrusion in my life......
and guess who is working to make that dream come true?
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