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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2016 - 06:16am PT
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — California researchers have named a newly discovered rare plant after Jimi Hendrix.
The plant, found in Baja California, Mexico, has been christened Dudleya hendrixii , or “Hendrix’s liveforever.”
Liveforevers are a kind of succulent with enormous lifespans.
This one is a stalky plant less than a foot tall with pinkish-white flowers that dies in summer and re-sprouts in fall.
San Diego State University says a former graduate student, Mark Dodero, discovered the plant — supposedly while listening to Hendrix’s song “Voodoo Child.”
The university says Dodero and Stephen McCabe of the University of California, Santa Cruz, decided to name it for the late rock guitarist.
However,...the plant is in peril. San Diego State says its two-acre habitat is threatened by farming, off-road vehicles and development, but what isn't?
"I guess I'm goin' down to Mexxico, I guess."
I'm wonderin'...Dodero could have been a big Gabor Zsa-zsa fan. Dudleya zsa-zsa or Dudleya Gabor? I'll leave that one bee for now.
Have a good morning...in spite of it all.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2016 - 10:20am PT
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Vertigno.
Down words abound
Around ground zero heroes.
Cross words are rare
Between this mighty pair.
"Let's climb this boulder."
"I'll give you a shoulder."
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 19, 2016 - 11:16am PT
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Heros come in all sizes and shapes
Climbing gods often make mistakes
Holy cow its Harding !
Wow!
I've got say yeah it is Christmas time
And one more time!
Going " Home" again!
Obscene really,
but hey that's why they hate on me
the same way that they lay up on
Old Sugarbux.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2016 - 02:19pm PT
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I'm So Weary of Geary Views
A mountain of sound gear.
The seven-mile-long Geary Boulevard (or Geary Street, as it’s called east of Van Ness) was named after San Francisco's first mayor. John W. Geary was elected in 1850 and accomplished quite a bit while living in S.F. for just three years. Pictured: 4227 Geary St. corner at Stockton in Jan. 1907.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Dec 19, 2016 - 02:21pm PT
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Words frozen in mud
In a cold town
Where everything has happened
And still does.
A thin strand,
stretched and strained,
Keeps the faith
During the long cold nights
Life is good
Hard and cold
But also good
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 19, 2016 - 04:31pm PT
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Flip flop,happy to hear that variables being what they are, that things are good.
Merry Christmas here comes another (scary) year
I hope it brings you lots of daddy-O days
Cause just cause just don't pay & criminal enterprise costs and pays
They give us every possible distraction while stealing our very souls.
From instant sex to instant fake food. Phones that send & take pictures and can control anything that is copesestic Bright lights that tell lies on purpose. As a form of entertainment they offer separate 'what you want to hear' from what one needs to hear
I've. Read the Camus before (edit: yikes!)
I failed out of French, where reading Camus was required.
Then did poorly in German, even though it was taught by an NFL Cheerleader,
may have read Kafka?
I was day dreaming about her Cheerleader tight end
I wrote a wonderful response but it evaporated.( sarcasm that does not translate in type)
The need to strike out had come upon me
No doubt it is a very good thing that that rant vanished.
Need to say that when peace nick al baby was writin' it was a grim scene.
Now it is about to be that big grim scene again.
I'm not holding my breath or using my words to fight against tyranny
Trumps in we all are in for some sorry stuff.
His choices to run things
Have been the butt of jokes for a decade
His vision is one of domination of the proletariat
The need to know ones history is very important
The last world leader to go around on a victory tour?
All I'm saying is that A Camus was then and is now no match or any sort of loud enough warning bell
Every man women and child has been distracted, misdirected, given a distraction to occupy their minds with
In order to use misdirection to change the last of the free -ish into a land dominated by blight
There is a line in the ACamus piece that needs carful scrutiny
The part about how to view the Russian People
No no no .
because of the floririd overly wordy prose of two gents from a long dead generation when the were published, a world that was washed clean with the blood of the 1st conflict(s)words that
glorifying the down trodden, the proletariat the pawns in the maw of the changing Military industrial complexs' spawning.
I'm to trust the down trodden slaves to rise up and forestall the next Stalin , Putin?
That is nuts. Words against gun? Ask John Lennon !
How did that work out for ya?
Ho shot dead you say? Well that a fine answer don't you think.
If you rise up agains the powers that be they will cut you back down
And I'm sorry but I do not buy into any of the sweet stories, all meant to be the
Opiate to the masses back through the generations.
they are and always have beengood ways to teach morals , right from wrong and all the shades that privaledge allows
Wow I need to stop and find som Rx
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Look I just got past all my grinchee nessI can not edit for typos or re-correct auto-correct
Merry Christmas,
I'm gonna step on a scale.
Butter cooked food coming at me.
I can't stomach it much anymore.
I'm sorry this reads so bitter but I've hit a barrier
hit it head on,
I'm a miserable cur during the holidays and admit that Tru asumpi
Is foook in scary, his choices to share the power are terrible unless you want to re form the USSR.
See there! That advice to read the J Bloom book! Distraction misdirection, all inclusive Gluten free! . . . mfm s them!!
Sounds like a good read that I will like that mirrors very closely the book about the run up to the Second war, the invention of radar a the formation of the Rad Lab, wich brought Swiss tutors Tuxedo Ny and most certainly the real First climbers in the Gunks.
Remember, the story that you get to read is often nowhere near the truth.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2016 - 05:04pm PT
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Don't you wish you could read this one?
“[An] engaging and ambitious retelling of the Iridium saga . . . a panoramic narrative, laced with fine filigree details, that makes for a story that soars and jumps and dives . . . [A] big, gutsy, exciting book.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Pacy [and] . . . worth reading, not just for the wild ride that involves secretive Saudi sheikhs, plucky terrorists, never-say-die businessmen and Bill Clinton, but also as a reminder of how vast business can be vastly dumb . . . A thrilling boom-to-boom corporate drama.”—The Sunday Times (UK)
Joe Bob sez: Don't buy this book. Steal it and then read it.
Read it in the street.
Please be indiscreet.
Shuffle both your feet.
Smile at whom you meet.
Flip before you flop.
But don't flip off a cop.
Rotate your cotton crop.
Exhale before you pop.
Read the story of how the largest man-made constellation in the heavens was built by dreamers in the Arizona desert, targeted for destruction by panicked executives, and saved by a single Palm Beach retiree who battled Motorola, cajoled the Pentagon, wrestled with thirty banks, survived an attack by Congress, infiltrated the White House, found allies through the Black Entertainment Network, and wooed a mysterious Arab prince to rescue the only phone that links every inch of the planet.
John Bloom books and events are gluten-free.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 20, 2016 - 01:46am PT
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Prayers for Dwain!
Cosmic !
Candle lit
You are in our prayers
Amaranth V , V , V
482948]
A Parently, it is considered bad parenting to leave your kids in a box to wait for the bus?
Aught :30 or 3:30
Hey almost missed ya! Yikes I'm out the door
Here it's freezing 0 yup, a goose egg , zero degrees
Then I'm the looney one to grasp the need for the 'Amish booth'
of my youth, a box A standing coffin against the wind The bus stop.
These boxes where a regular thing around north eastern neighborhoods
The School Bus Box, where we waited in side when it was zero plus the wind chill
We got some raw days . Now the prince and princess get a semi heated car to bask in
Leaving your child in a box at the end of the parking spot is frowned on in these parts!
Anarchists HY RIPPER, ( a ripper is the start of a rant )
I hope we will talk soon?
I'm a tree hugging granola crunching ty-dyed
anti
Just as radical an anti as an anti can get
If it's a thing I'm sorry; I'm raising children.
Who I will have to release into this mess.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 02:20am PT
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Talked with Dwain yesterday. His yeast infection's better. Your prayerful intercession is working! :0)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 06:57am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 12:06pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 05:07pm PT
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That is Comrade Lenin, comrade.
His hands barely fit the steering wheel of his Toyota.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 05:30pm PT
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Pics from Kevin Hammon of the fire at the Asian market on Main Street last Sunday. KH owns BS Computers on the corner.
It began burning between 10 and 11 a.m. The initial trucks called in were from Merced, then other units rolled from as far away as Turlock.
AND I HEARD NOTHING!! But neither did John up on five. Deaf olfarts we are.
There was a claw on tracks tearing the walls down, at least the parts which were judged unstable, during this morning and early afternoon. They are making things safe for an investigation team to go in there. The street is still blocked to traffic, but won't be much longer, probably.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Dec 20, 2016 - 05:54pm PT
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Mouse, you guys have seriously 'way too much drama. But I totally love the rainbow! How can you sleep with all that going on? Do you have a white noise machine? I know when I have guests, they complain about the quiet.
and on that note, I am return to Albert. Camus that is. Thank for all the images, photos, and entertainment. Back to work.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 21, 2016 - 02:18am PT
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I've got to agree with feralfae. Then, now, i had (I'd ) come to share the latest share from The Rocket Scientist. His share is just a link, so I've cut and pasted it with the one last (of four)
Response, the interesting thing to this paranoid mind is that WE have three or four threads of conflicting threads that have cross themes. The truth will never be clear.
It seems that OZ emboldened no longer feels the need to hide behind a curtain
The blank anonymity of cyber - >economic-warfare, and intellectual pirating
This brave new Front Line of war in a pressure cooker .
1) http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2908839/7-3-Earthquake-Fukushima-Prefecture-Japan
2) http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2904845/Tsunami-Warning-after-7-8-Quake-South-Island-NZ
3)a bit off the topic(. http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2868290/How-to-make-an-earthquake
The next is the Mac-daddy'
4). http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1436585/Huge-8-9-quake-plus-tsunami-Japan
Then this from the 1st link. The thing that I mentioned
TomCochrane, Dec 20, 2016 - 08:13pm PT
http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukureport1b.pdf
healyje
Trad climberPortland, Oregon, Dec 20, 2016 - 10:21pm PT
Make no mistake, the Jim Stones of the world and anyone who propagates their fictions are the ones usurping democracy and poisoning the well we call the internet. I can only assume either this account is hacked or some form of sad dementia is at play. Gat your tin-foil hats out?
The link to School shooting diniers ;
https://dublinsmickdotcom.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/big-obese-blonde-was-at-brussels-sandy-hook-and-the-oregon-umquah-college-shoot-out-mason-wells-overleeft-3-terreuraanslagen-en-spreekt-voor-het-eerst/
looked at a few places in Sandy Hook 12 years ago. If I'd gone that way one or both of my kids would have been there that day. I'm only sure it seemed very real, but who can say?
There is a lot of bashing of critical thinking that goes on and gets in the way of the truth of the truth.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2016 - 02:58am PT
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There IS rather a lot of drama in Toy Story, isn't there?
Especially with Mr. & Mrs. Potatohead. Just like with their boy Ron. Remember Ron, the guy with the beard and the funny top hat?
And Tom C is always stirring the cracked pot of conspiracy, so really, all's well.
Don't lose sleep over his revelations...
How about this, though, for drama?
If you watch Jeopardy!, quiz show #1, you know Cindy Stowell is the current champion. Cindy has passed away from cancer since the shows were taped, and they are still running. Her current winnings are immaterial at this point.
She was a smart cookie, "VICIOUSLY SMART" according to this link.
http://www.nbc26.com/news/national/cancer-stricken-jeopardy-champ-kept-winning-streak-a-secret
My condolence to her family and partner.
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