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Quick Nick
Trad climber
Huntington Beach, CA
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Aug 17, 2011 - 11:51pm PT
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Lol. I would imagine you can send me an email. Whoever that was that said "it's all good," it never stopped. Don't mind read, I have enough troulbe reading my own.
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Quick Nick
Trad climber
Huntington Beach, CA
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Aug 17, 2011 - 11:54pm PT
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More routes than I can count, not meaning many, I just suck at math. As far as Mr. Gordo, words cannot explain what he has taught me, and I have no idea how many routes, I gotta stop taking valium on my way home, or at least write this sht down.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Aug 17, 2011 - 11:56pm PT
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I'm stoked that the 'tardliness has been co-opted by......climbing.
Awesome!!!!6!!!!
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Quick Nick
Trad climber
Huntington Beach, CA
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Aug 17, 2011 - 11:57pm PT
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Next trip out to the Quarry. I will never pass up an op. to cruise out to Josh and be schooled by these guys.
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Quick Nick
Trad climber
Huntington Beach, CA
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Aug 17, 2011 - 11:58pm PT
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Buy some prints from Epi's website, or send a money order to Todd. I'll share stories after payment is received.
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Aug 19, 2011 - 11:19am PT
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so-called "green jobs" stimulus a complete bust, says...
wait for it...
waaaaaaiiiiit...
the NEW YORK TIMES???
well, i guess the old gray lady 1) can't be blamed for being so slow and 2) still manages to get one right every now and then
how much do you want to bet, nyt publishes an editorial calling for more green jobs programs within a week?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/us/19bcgreen.html?_r=1
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Aug 20, 2011 - 07:34am PT
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before you continue the "obama inherited this mess" defense, remember that he asked for, campaigned for, and promised for the opportunity to take over the "mess"...and you VOTED to give him that opportunity
Change for the Worse
Just as he promised, Obama has fundamentally transformed America.
By PETE DU PONT
The Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt is the latest fruit of the Obama administration's big-government policies. Ask Americans how the country is doing, and the response is a vote of no confidence. In August 2009, 34% of likely voters said the country was headed in the right direction. A month ago that proportion had declined to 25%, and last week only 16% thought so. Rasmussen's mid-August poll found that 4% of adults rate the economy as good or excellent, and 66% think we are doing poorly.
Just before his election as president, Barack Obama declared that "we are five days from fundamentally transforming America." He has made good on that promise. Huge increases in federal spending—up 28% in just three years—were the beginning. Putting health care—17% of the American economy—under Washington's control was next. Government control of business is expanding too: 379 new government business rules were added in July alone, according to Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming. Federal government debt held by the public rose from $6 trillion (40% of GDP) in 2008 to $9 trillion (62%) in 2010, The Congressional Budget Office says it could reach 200% by 2037, if the economy doesn't collapse first.
Mr. Obama's original budget for fiscal 2012 would have more than doubled the debt held by the public, from 2010's $9 trillion to $19 trillion in 2021. Politico reports that by the 2013 inauguration, the government will have taken on addition debt to the tune of "$22,500 for every man, woman, and child in the nation" during Mr. Obama's tenure. Some 45 million Americans, or 1 in 7, receive food stamps, up from less than 30 million a few years ago. Finally, in the previous two years our annual economic growth after inflation has averaged only 1.3% annually, just about half our past 10-year average of 2.5%. In the first half of this year, it was running at an annual rate of 0.8%.
The White House says unemployment will decline to 8.25% this year, though it may well remain above 9%. Looking back at the past 50 years, no president has been re-elected when unemployment was higher than 7.2%.
One of the Obama administration's central (and most damaging) beliefs is that tax rates must be raised for what President Obama calls "millionaires and billionaires," which he defines to include individuals and small businesses making as little as $200,000. Interestingly, Christina Romer, who was chairman of Mr. Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, has done some research on the impact of tax increases, and concluded that increasing taxes by 1% of GDP for deficit-reduction purposes leads to a 3% reduction in GDP.
Raising taxes on affluent taxpayers is not just bad economics, it's unfair. The Tax Foundation has pointed out that in 2009 taxpayers earning over $200,000 paid half of all income taxes, even though they had earned just 25% of adjusted gross income. On the other hand, more that 58 million taxpayers, around 42% of tax filers, paid no income tax at all. Add in the money some of them receive in refundable child care tax credits, the Making Work Pay program and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and it is obvious that ratcheting up taxes on higher income taxpayers would just exacerbate this inequity.
Growing dissatisfaction, skyrocketing spending, a weak economy, and a real debate about tax hikes all suggest that the 2012 presidential election will be very different from the 2008 Obama victory. A recent Pew report finds that 41% of voters would like to see Obama re-elected, and 40% would prefer a Republican win in 2012. That one-point Obama lead was down from 11 points in May. The President's approval rating from January through June averaged 47%. Earlier this month, according to Gallup, it fell to 39%. Mr. Obama is unlikely to win re-election unless that number improves.
He faces three major challenge. The first is a rift with business leaders, who resent being scapegoated. They may work hard to raise campaign money for Mr. Obama's opponent.
The second is the increasing disappointment of independent voters, who are rightly unhappy with higher spending, higher taxes, ObamaCare, a lack of progress on trade, increased restrictions on the energy supply, and the near-commandeering of the auto and banking industries, all of which amount to an effort to Europeanize America, just as European welfare states are facing their own crisis
His latest challenge may well be from Texas Gov. Rick Perry's fresh presidential campaign speech: "The fact is, for nearly three years President Obama has been downgrading American jobs, he's been downgrading our standing in the world, he's been downgrading our financial stability, he's been downgrading our confidence and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children. That's a fact." Indeed it is, and it's a fact that bodes ill for the future of America.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 20, 2011 - 01:08pm PT
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Fattrad...Expecting Obama to fix the recession in 2 years is pure fantasy and akin to beleiving in the tooth fairy..What exactly has changed from 2007 when the recession was starting under Bush.....? .Nothing...! The tax breaks for the rich , which are suppose to create jobs for the middle class and poor , have done nothing to pull us out of the recession , yet the conservatives keep harping on this unproven remedy..?...Nothing has changed and the Republicans continue to control economic policy by stonewalling Democratic proposals as the recession continues...The Republicans are getting everything they need...They don't want the recession to end , because their base , the rich , are holding all the coins...So stop whining about the recession...The republicans have the rest of the world by the throat right where they want us...
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 20, 2011 - 01:33pm PT
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Donny...The biggest whiners and victims are the rich.....How can they maintain their comfortable lifestyle if medicare and SS won't get cut...? Whaa...!
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 20, 2011 - 01:39pm PT
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 20, 2011 - 03:08pm PT
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Donny...I'm a moderate democrat but by your definition , anyone that isn't a member of the john birch society i'm thorwn into the black and white description of liberal... there is class warfare...glad you noticed...I've been paying into social security since i was 13 when i acted in a commerical with the LA Lakers....I am entitled to it because i have invested in it...That's not an entitlement anymore than a manipulated mortgage package...The wall street bailout was an entitlement program for the ....wealthy...Let's keep things in perspective...Stop worshipping the man behind the curtain Rove..
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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Aug 20, 2011 - 03:47pm PT
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how does barry plan to EXTEND america's financial crisis? by killing jobs and causing energy prices to "necessarily skyrocket"
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=582160&p=1
ok, libs, explain why barry thinks it's ok to give brazil (where there are fewer environmental protections) a billion dollars for offshore drilling but limit our own offshore drilling
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 20, 2011 - 03:53pm PT
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What a dumb fuk:
Rick Perry continued to voice skepticism about evolution during a campaign stop in South Carolina Friday, telling a supporter "God is how we got here."
On Thursday, in New Hampshire, Perry told a woman and her son that he regarded evolution as "a theory that's out there" and one that's "got some gaps in it.”
When a woman in South Carolina congratulated him for his remarks Friday, Perry replied “Well, God is how we got here. God may have done it in the blink of the eye or he may have done it over this long period of time, I don't know. But I know how it got started."
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 20, 2011 - 04:43pm PT
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"But i know how it got started"......Perry is all knowing , all powerful... cheerleading and whipping the chimpanzees into a petulant frenzy...then he'll screw them hard...Suckers...!
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 20, 2011 - 04:57pm PT
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 20, 2011 - 04:57pm PT
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apogee
climber
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Aug 20, 2011 - 06:59pm PT
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I wish Hillary had won.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 20, 2011 - 07:20pm PT
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My, my, my
It's all about SPENDING, isn't it?
Let's take a quick look at who spends more, Repubs or Dems:
President Bush increased government spending more than any of the six presidents preceding him, including LBJ. In his last term in office, President Bush increased discretionary outlays by an estimated 48.6 percent.
During his eight years in office, President Bush spent almost twice as much as his predecessor, President Clinton. Adjusted for inflation, in eight years, President Clinton increased the federal budget by 11 percent. In eight years, President Bush increased it by a whopping 104 percent.
One reason offered for these large budget increases is that entitlement programs are growing rapidly. Although Social Security and Medicare spending growth outpaced most other programs in the mid-1990s, spending growth in discretionary programs has accelerated in the last 15 years, especially during Bush’s two terms. Between FY2002 and FY2009, discretionary spending rose 96 percent.**
http://mercatus.org/publication/spending-under-president-george-w-bush
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jstan
climber
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Aug 20, 2011 - 07:20pm PT
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 20, 2011 - 07:20pm PT
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