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Price check: S&W model 65 3inch
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> Price check: S&W model 65 3inch
April 14, 2007, 06:27 PM
Very good condition model 65. Apparently a police trade-in. Minimal wear. What would you pay?
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April 14, 2007, 06:41 PM
Summit Gun Broker has 'em for $385. Don't pay more..............
April 14, 2007, 06:44 PM
Depending on the dash number $250-$300 would not be unreasonable.
I have a 65-6LS with a 3" barrel, but it was obtained via a trade.
I did, however, give $300 for my 28-2 a couple of years ago at a gunshow. That price range seems to be common.
The 65s especially the 3" barreled models are getting harder to find as they are being snapped up by collectors, so if you want it, I would suggest you go out and snap it up pronto even if it is a bit overpriced!! The value will only go up!!
April 14, 2007, 08:11 PM
$350-$400 depending on condition, dash number and type of grips. I would go as high as $450 for a nice LS.
Nomad, 2nd
April 15, 2007, 12:55 AM
Picked up 2 reciently in Ex condition for ~$330 each.
April 15, 2007, 02:51 AM
I recently bought this three inch Model 65-5 (http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2006/12/pawn-shop-circuit-ladysmith.html) for $299. I passed it on to a fellow wheelgunner for the same amount. We both felt that was an excellent deal. It was good karma.
April 15, 2007, 07:49 AM
How much do you guys think a 65-3 with wooden combat grips would be worth?
Ala Dan
April 15, 2007, 10:17 AM
In my area, a S&W 3" model 65 .357 magnum is in "hot demand", and most
likely would being as much as $350 in LNIB condition. The standard 4" model
would be in the $275 price range. The reason for the price difference is the
fact that the 3" makes for an excellent carry piece.;) :D
April 15, 2007, 10:33 AM
It's a popular barrel length, so it'll be worth a little more. If it's tight and passes Jim March's revolver checkout (stickied at top of this forum), I'd say $300 max. PD trade-ins are worth less than privately owned guns, of IF this was a privately owned gun, it would be worth a bit more. Very important to check the condition of the forcing cone on these K-frame .357s. While this wasn't all that important in the old days, for some time now it has been standard practice to practice with what you carry. Most PDs issuing .357s were into the relatively light, high velocity .357s and this is a bit harder on the forcing cone area. I'd also check the barrel cylinder gap.
Black Knight
April 15, 2007, 11:13 AM
I picked up a 3 inch 65 round butt about 2 years ago for $275. I got the original S&W grips and a set of Hogue Monogrips (on the revolver). Good revolver to replace my 2 1/2 inch 66 round butt that my wife likes so much.
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Agricultural Economic Report No. (AER-829) 23 pp, January 2004
It has been well documented that Americans, as they grow more
affluent and time-stretched, spend more dollars on food away from
home than at home. Fast food and full-service restaurants must
continually jockey for this revenue. The fast food segment had once
grown accustomed to an ever-increasing market share. With those
days apparently behind them, some fast food restaurants are now
offering more of the variety of items and heightened amenities
typically associated with full-service establishments.
This report examines how the demand for food away from home is
changing, how these changes could affect the size of the
full-service and fast food segments, and how restaurants might
respond to these shifting demand signals. U.S. households are
becoming, on average, richer, older, smaller, more ethnically
diverse, and more likely to contain single people or multiple
adults without live-at-home children. These changes each have
foreseeable impacts on the demand for food away from home, the
subsequent offerings of foodservice establishments, and ultimately
the diet and health of all those going out to eat.
Both full-service and fast food restaurants are increasing the
variety of foods and services available to their customers.
Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar, a full-service restaurant,
for example, reports that new and significantly improved menu items
account for over 50 percent of its offerings. Even among larger
fast food chains, such as McDonald's, the situation is similar.
Restaurants affiliated with this pioneer of the limited-menu
concept can now offer over four dozen items on their menus,
including a fruit and yogurt parfait as well as a grilled chicken
salad. What is driving these improvements?
Although many factors could be contributing to the evolution of
the foodservice industry, a sustained shift in consumer demand
appears to be the primary force. A change in demand can alter the
competitive dynamics of a market. If consumer demand is shifting in
favor of the foods and services traditionally offered by
full-service restaurants, full-service restaurant companies will be
encouraged to operate more outlets offering more variety and dining
amenities. Fast food restaurants might also introduce many of these
same foods and services themselves. So, in order to understand why
restaurants are adjusting what menu items and services they offer,
it must be asked what consumers are demanding when they eat
Economic theory and household survey data were used to update
existing studies showing how rising income, shrinking household
size, and an aging population might influence household
expenditures at full-service and fast food restaurants. In
addition, we examine the significance of the changing structure of
American households. Traditional families, defined as a married
couple with children, accounted for 30 percent of all households in
1980. However, they totaled only 24 percent of all households in
2000 and may further decrease in share to about 17 percent by 2020.
By contrast, single-person households increased from 23 percent of
all households in 1980 to 26 percent in 2000, and may reach 29
percent in 2020.
Household survey data were used to quantify the relationship
between a household's spending at each type of restaurant and its
demographic characteristics, including its structure, income, age,
and race. The resulting statistical model enables us to simulate
how much a "typical" household spends on fast food and full-service
The statistical model was next combined with projections from
the Bureau of the Census on how the demographic characteristics of
American households are likely to change. The results of this
exercise indicate how the demand for foodservice may change under
these projections and assumptions about the future behavior of
consumers and firms.
Simulations indicate that, between 2000 and 2020, per capita
spending could rise by about 18 percent at full-service
restaurants, versus about 6 percent for fast food. In other words,
both segments are likely to grow, but trends favor full-service
restaurants relative to fast food establishments. This suggests
that, while consumers will value convenience, they will also want
meals with more variety, amenities, and recreation traditionally
associated with full-service restaurants.
Not surprisingly, an assumed increase in incomes will have the
largest impact on the away-from-home market. Members of a higher
income household spend more money away from home, especially on
full-service dining occasions that are richer in variety and other
services. However, the changing structure of households will also
have a major impact. Both single-person households and households
with multiple adults but no children tend to spend more money per
capita-versus a traditional household with children-in both market
segments. To be sure, not all anticipated developments in the
population bode well for each type of restaurant. The aging of the
American population will dampen the demand for fast food.
Our simulations show how the demand for foodservice is changing.
Not only could these developments affect the quality of people's
diets and, ultimately, their health and well-being, but they will
likely affect the structure of the foodservice industry. Restaurant
companies and their suppliers will be encouraged to cooperate to
ensure the variety of foods and services demanded by consumers.
This study lays a critical foundation for future analyses of such
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Launched in 1953 by a California Cub Scout leader who envisioned a race requiring little more than a block of wood, four nails and four tires, the Pinewood Derby is coming of age. Parents have long helped their sons with the projects. Now, former Scouts and adults—mainly men—whose kids have long since grown are skipping the middleman to cut, sand and paint their own race car fantasies into reality.
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"When it says Libby's Libby's Libby's on the label label label"
The current online kerfuffle among libertarians (and Horwitz and I had nothing to do with this one!) involves labels. Glenn Beck has recently relabeled himself from conservative to libertarian. Alexander McCobin, the president of Students for Liberty, joined a lot of other long-time libertarians in questioning the sincerity of that relabeling, and in return Beck labeled McCobin a jerk, a Fascist, and a Nazi. It's internet gold.
This kind of argument is one of the things that makes me nervous about labels. As nearly everyone involved in the kerfuffle has noted, labels that demarcate who's in and who's out have the nasty whiff of the purity test about them. The last thing libertarians need is to become more like the American Kennel Club than we already are. Debating whether one is insufficiently anti-state, too anti-state, or just anti-state enough seems to me to be about as sensible as deciding whether a chihuahua's expression is sufficiently saucy.
Now, I know which of these two guys I'd back if they were entering the Westminster dog show, but that's not important for this post, because what I want to talk about is another way that labels can be a problem.
They're too good at what they are designed to do.
Labels are designed to simplify things. They group people together on the ground of common characteristics. There's nothing wrong with this. It's remarkably efficient and—like the scientific taxonomy that groups life by kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species—it makes a lot of things possible that would not otherwise be. Imagine a discussion of religion where we couldn't use the labels Christian, Muslim, Jew, and Hindu, for example, but instead had to describe—every time—the relevant differences in theology.
However, the precision of labels as used by scientists is not often reflected in non-scientific writing or in conversation. Instead we are treated to conversations like some I have had recently, where I'm asked if I'm a feminist, say yes, and am told that therefore I must be a socialist, or support the minimum wage hike and Obamacare. Or, I'm asked what kind of philosopher I am (a question guaranteed to make a poet's head explode), and I say that while I'm not a philosopher, I've always thought that Kant had a point about not treating other people as means to your own ends. Naturally I am then told that I am a Kantian and must subscribe to a long list of beliefs that seem, to my interlocutor, to follow logically, but seem to me to be entirely unrelated.
The point is that it is very easy to use labels to avoid having to think about what we mean. They serve as a kind of ideological shorthand that assumes we can stick a label onto a jar and thereby tell what's inside it, instead of looking inside the jar first and discovering what's really there. That's what's happening when we say "I'm a libertarian" and people recoil in disgust and assume that means we like the confederacy, or think the poor "deserve" poverty. That's what's happening when someone else—like Hayek for example—supports a minimal social safety net and gets called a totalitarian or a socialist. That's what's happening when I recently saw two great students talk past each other about being "autonomous."
In The Power of the Powerless Vaclav Havel wrote that:
"…ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life takes on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one' s own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority."
That's the utility and the seduction and the danger of this kind of shorthand thinking. As everyone who loves a good Ikea meatball has recently discovered, sometimes a label doesn't tell you everything you might want to know about what's inside.
I agree completely. The comments below are from a piece I had written about political labels:
"It's pretty easy to find things we don't like about government and politicians. Maybe that's one reason why there is so much negative campaigning. We see a lot of battles between "us" and "them". The "us" is our own group, and the "them" is any group or ideology that poses what we consider to be a threat to our way of life.
But let's face it, if a person wants to get elected, he or she has to get the votes of more people than the opponent. And getting votes is often a process of identifying oneself as a member of some particular group or groups. "I'm a Republican" or "I'm a Democrat" is a start, but this turns into "I'm a Liberal" or "I'm a Conservative" or "I'm a Moderate". This is followed by "I'm a Union Member" or "I'm Irish" or "I'm Black" or "I'm a Woman". How about this one: "I'm a Black Woman Democrat who is a Social Moderate and a Fiscal Conservative".
Group identification is inevitable, and maybe there is nothing wrong with it, until it becomes a substitute for clear thinking and compassionate understanding. Group identity would be pretty harmless if it weren't too often used as the main reason, sometimes the only reason, for voting for a person or group, and opposing another person or group. Voting a certain way as a union member, or a small businessman, or a farmer is not wrong, but it is often just a way to avoid having to really think about how we can improve the way government affects our lives."
Hayek admitted to never completely leaving the Fabian Socialist strain of his teacher Friedrich von Wieser. What word would you use to describe someone that rejects laissez faire, as Hayek does, and favors government control/intervention of resources in X key areas? Social democrat? Neoliberal? Liberfabian?
Certainly not libertarian. Unless you want to discount economics. Mises was right when he labeled the Mont Pelerin Society attendees "Socialists!".
Granted, Hayek did reject the notion that UBI was implementable on at least one occasion, I recently read. The incentives, free money etc, would create demographic calamity.
j r
Hayek as social democrat?
This comment alone makes Skwire's point.
Not really. Will the real Hayek please stand up. Another way to look at it: If Hayek was really a free market libertarian– there is no way in hell that Margaret Thatcher would have been a fan.
What is worse, labeling that over-identifies ("Hayek is a social democrat") or mislabeling ("Hayek is a libertarian")?
Skwire's admonishment works well in reference to the McCobbin and Beck kerfuffel; not as strongly with Hayek. Skwire's example, the "totalitarian" charge, might have come from Antiwar Radio hero Scott Horton. In typical Scott Horton fashion it was tinged with hyperbole and emotional vernacular. The charge was backed by a semantic/syntactic treatise. And it's fine in my book. (Insert Artistic Communication 101 quotations here.) Must language be filtered to sound like NPR?
The way self described "libertarians" put Hayek on a pedestal makes Horton's response timely. it is similar to the way people condemn the Catholic Church in response to the pedo scandals. The Church may actually have a lower proportion of sickos than the populace at large: It is the distance between the image and reality of the Church, of Hayek, that makes the difference.
Have you seen the George Carlin skit where he says "F^@k the children!" ? Do you think it should be taken at face value?
Sorry. Should read: "The charge was backed by a semantic/syntactic treatise."
Alright,j r, maybe the chihuahua sauce is a little too spicy. But there are caveats- some of which I have pointed out- to Skwire's take on labels.
Re Hayek. If he is libertarian, then he is as socialist as a libertarian can be. If he is socialist, then he is as libertarian as a socialist can be. Is that fair, in your estimation?
j r
I honestly don't know what that means. The most precise term to describe Hayek that I can think of is classical liberal. I guess you can argue that classical liberals should be excluded from the spectrum that is libertarianism, but that tells me much more about you than it does about libertarianism.
Shouldn't there be distinctions? Why not make libertarianism a more stringent form of classical liberalism in particular ways. There is a strong case that Bismarck and Marx were classical liberals by BHL standards. But libertarians? At any rate– here is a quick rundown of Hayek's pro positions, leaving aside many of Hayek's underlying justifications. He certainly departed from traditional views on coercion, embraced "market failure with state remedy" schemes, was pro-Pinochet, rejected property as a the fundamental facet of economic calculation, and had none of Selma's appeal… But anyway:
Hayek supported State/Government…
fixed minimum wage
mandated maximum hours
management of economic fluctuations
orchestrated monetary stability
wealth transfers from rich to poor
run international body to regulate conflict
development projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority
organized insurance
funded healthcare
compulsory education
food regulation
building codes
professional licensing
city planning
provision of public recreation/parks
scientific research
eminent domain
"On the other hand, it is merely common sense that government, as the biggest spender and investor whose activities cannot be guided wholly by profitability, and which for finance is in a great measure independent of the state of the capital market, should so far as practicable distribute its expenditure over time in such a manner that it will step in when private investment flags, and thereby employ resources for public investment at the least cost and with the greatest benefit to society." (Hayek 1979: 59)
So you see where I am comin' from?
matt b
Can you provide a link for all these assertions? I'm not disputing your facts I'd just be curious to see some textual evidence beyond the short quote. I'm especially surprised that he would support the minimum wage, there's a few other head stratchers on there too but some of the ideas are well within the limited government libertarian mainstream.
"Mainstream"? Who cares. Down with that wishy-washy incoherence.. How about Mainline?
Rather than cite every point, since most is common knowledge to even first time readers of Road to Serfdom, I will paste the following interview snippet. It's two statist economists and Hayek, taken from here:
Now, Hayek has not been consistent throughout his very long career. I already mentioned his flip-flop on UBI. Hayek also seems to be against a minimum wage in his Hayek on Hayek interviews, but for it here. At any rate:
Mr. Krueger: "What about limitation of working hours—a
maximum-hours act? Is that compatible with your notions of
proper planning?"
Mr. Hayek: "Yes, if it is not carried too far. It is one of these regulations which creates equal conditions throughout the system. But, of course, if it does beyond the point where it accords with the general situation of the country, it may indeed interfere very much. . . ."
Mr. Merriam: "Would any limitation on the hours of labor
be objectionable in your judgment?"
Mr. Hayek: "Not 'any,' but they can be. There you have one of the instances where my objection is not one of principle but one of degree. It is one of the things which cannot be made to fit the question of the cost involved in that particular
Mr. Krueger: "Is a minimum wage law permissible?"
Mr. Hayek: "A general, flat minimum wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody.
But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all
industry to decreeing particular and different minima for
different industries, then, of course, you make the price
mechanism inoperative, because it is no long the price
mechanism which will guide people between industries and
Mr. Merriam: "What about the TVA?"
Mr. Hayek: "There is a great deal of the TVA to which no
economist in repute, and certainly not the laissez-faire people will object. Flood control and building of dams are recognized functions of the government. I am under the impression that a good deal else has been tacked on to this
scheme, which need not have been done by public enterprise.
But the principle of flood control and the like's being
provided by the government is an entirely legitimate and a
necessary function of the government."
Mr. Merriam: "Even if it involved a development of
hydroelectric power, as the TVA does?"
Mr. Hayek: "That depends upon the circumstances. If the
hydroelectric power really could not have been provided by
private enterprise, I have no objection."
Mr. Merriam: "That is not a matter of logic but of practical
Mr. Hayek: "The whole question of whether you can or
cannot create competitive conditions is a question of fact."
Mr. Merriam: "Not of logic?"
Mr. Hayek: "All I am arguing about is that, where you can
create a competitive condition, you ought to rely upon
Mr. Krueger: "Is a comprehensive system of social insurance
a violation of your definition of good planning?"
Mr. Hayek: "Certainly not a system of social insurance as such, not even with the government helping to organize it. The only point where the problem can arise is how far to make it compulsory and how far, incidentally, it is used to strengthen the monopolistic actions of trade unions, because that is one way in which it may well eliminate competition."
Mr. Merriam: "You do not mean to say that you would be
against any government social insurance, would you? You
want to make it entirely optional?"
Mr. Hayek: "It might well be made optional, which is not in
contradiction to its being government assisted, but why it needs to be made compulsory I do not see in the least."
Mr. Krueger: "One of the reasons was that a great many
people, the population at large, was supposed to get it. That
was the reason for making it compulsory. I think that
everybody is pretty well agreed on that.
Mr. Hayek: "I do not know about that."
Mr. Krueger: "What do you think of a minimum guarantee of
food, clothing and shelter to people? Is that a violation of
your definition of proper planning?"
Mr. Hayek: "What do you mean by a 'minimum guarantee'? I
have always said that I am in favor of a minimum income for
every person in the country."
Mr. Merriam: "You used that in your own book (The Road to Serfdom). What did you mean by it?
Mr. Hayek: "I will restate it in my own way—I mean to
secure a minimum income on which every one can fall back.
You have it, of course, very largely in the form of
unemployment insurance."
Mr. Merriam: "When Krueger used that term, you seemed
Mr. Hayek: "No, he turned it into a specific guarantee of
particular things."
Mr. Krueger: "That was an exact quotation."
Mr. Merriam: "Of your book."
Mr. Krueger: "A minimum guarantee of food, clothing, and
shelter. If that is permissible, then I am glad to hear you say
so, because you do go considerably further than that. In the
international field you want a power which can restrain the
different nations from actions harmful to their neighbors. It
seems to me that you do allow far more of public planning
than most of the readers of your book in this country have
matt b
Okay thanks for this. Interesting. I agree with most of it but, of course, I'm not a hard libertarian.
The question is whether you softies can deliver the goods. Hayek's justifications are suspect. Especially the assertion that a monopoly institution with special taxing and legal rights can intervene "outside" and/or "without distorting" the market in such a way as to produce an empirically measurable, ante-action determined, comparably better benefit to the least well off. The, ha ha, labeling of hard v. soft cannot account for the what-looks-like-to-me bad economics at the base of Hayek's moralizing. What about the initial disruption of calculation that government is– never mind any policy proposals. And then there is public choice theory…..
Now, calculation and public choice are applicable to all forms of social organization. i.e. Each of us as individuals are special monopolies. But what form serves the moral imperative?
I am not sure what Hayek finally concluded on UBI, actually. His writing is not clear in many places. Yes, the inequality of wealth among different state demarcated populaces would make it necessary for UBI to go hand in hand with immigration restrictions. The following Hayek quotation is easily interpreted as meaning that UBI implementation is more important than immigration freedom. For now. At least until the developing world catches up. Either way, still, Hayek has himself in a socialist dilemma. National socialist if UBI and restrictions on cross border entry. World socialist if he forces wealthy nations to subsidize poor ones….
"It is obvious that for a long time to come it will be wholly impossible
to secure an adequate and uniform minimum standard for all human beings
everywhere, or at least that the wealthier countries would not be
content to secure for their citizens no higher standards than can be
secured for all men. But to confine to the citizens of particular
countries provisions for a minimum standard higher than that universally
applied makes it a privilege and necessitates certain limitations on
the free movement of men across frontiers… we must face the fact that
we here encounter a limit to the universal application of those liberal
principles of policy which the existing facts of the present world make
As everyone who loves a good Ikea meatball has recently discovered,
sometimes a label doesn't tell you everything you might want to know
about what's inside.
I know what's inside — balled meat. And that meat might even have been bald.
I like the comment by Havel.
Labels don't explain everything, and they also shift. In my own life I have gone from a slightly left of center student, to a conservative, And then, and Arch-conservative, and then slowly began a transformation to a form of libertarianism. But not the kind that would pass muster with the wild eyed guys in the Libertarian party.
I suppose it is just a symptom of continuing to think for yourself, eventually you get a wide range of opinions about various subjects, Some which may even appear contradictory.
Sean II
Sarah – Hands down, your style is the best on the board. All of the main authors here write interesting things, but in the pure-pleasure-to-read category, you've really set yourself apart.
Thanks so much, Sean!
Sean II
Which reminds me: are you familiar with Emo Phillip's "Die Heretic!" joke? There is urgent need for a libertarian version…
One evening I came across a man poised to commit suicide by leaping from a bridge. I said, "Don't jump." He said, "Why not? I have nothing to live for."
I said, "Don't you believe in a cause or something?" He said, "Yes, I'm a libertarian."
I said, "Me too! What kind of libertarian?" He said, "Well, I guess you might say I'm really more of an anarchist." I said, "Me too! Anarcho-Syndicalist or Anarcho-Capitalist?" He said, "Anarcho-Capitalist." I said, "Me too!"
He said, "I used to worship Rothbard but much less so now." I said, "Me too!" He said, "Lately I've been more interested in tracing the roots back to Spooner, Tucker, and Molinari." I said, "Me too!"
He said "I'm just not convinced we have to ground every little thing in a closed-off, deontological framework to make the system work." I said, "Me too!" He said, "I think that very mistake led Rothbard to some serious errors in his use of the homesteading concept, among other things."
I said, "Really? Me too! What would you say is the most compelling historical model of a stateless society?" He said, "The American West, of course."
I said, "Wrong, you statist piece of shit. It's Medieval Iceland." Then I pushed him off the bridge.
matt b
I think the main problem with the label "libertarian" is that, to many people on the left, it means "crazy right winger who happens to think you should be able to sniff cocaine of a hookers stomach while simultaneously buying stocks which you will pay no tax on the profit of." We libertarians have done a bad job communicating our distinctness from the right (as my example indicates saying you think drugs and prostitution should be legal is not enough). Think about it: libertarians write far more about economics for right wing publications like the WSJ and National Review than they do for left wing publications like The New Republic or The Nation. Indeed, most people identify libertarianism plain and simple with economics. We need to speak out more on other issues to demonstrate that we realize liberty is about a lot more than lower taxes and less regulation.
Understanding that your main point is that the idea of liberty has to extend beyond economic issues, I would nevertheless argue that economics has got to be the centerpiece. It is the one and only subject where government interference is always wrong. Drugs and prostitution and other social issues usually have some sort of asterisk such as young age, willing consent, threats of violence etc., plus many centuries of religious and ethical teachings and indoctrination. If social conservatives disagree with libertarian positions on drugs and prostitution, I can still applaud when they support libertarian ideas on economics, without feeling any need to convince them that the rest of what I believe is right.
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I think there's a lot of problems with this argument. To begin with, I don't think it's plausible to claim that government interference is always wrong in the economic realm. If you think young age applies to snorting coke why not to something like labor? Should there be no child labor laws whatsoever? Beyond that, there's the question of externalities. Pollution is an area where even many libertarians support some government intervention and even many free market economists think there should be some health and safety regulations.
It goes far beyond drugs and prostitution of course. Conservatives often support restrictions on free speech and immigration as well as the denial of equality in marriage on religious grounds. They also support various policies at odds with the separation of church and state. More fundamentally, it seems like your last statement could be just as easily applied to liberals. Would you say "I can still applaud when liberals support libertarian ideas on social issues without feeling any need to convince them that the rest of what I believe is right." Probably not right?
I consider the social issues side of things to be just as important if not more so. Forced childbirth or throwing people in jail for pot sounds a lot more freedom limiting to me than a higher tax rate. I'd rather live in John Rawls America than, say, Rick Santorum's though both are deeply problematic of course. In any event, I just think the focus on economics has been excessive given the many other issues that involve questions of individual rights and liberty.
Part of the problem though is that there are areas of overlap with modern conservatives but not much overlap with the modern political left. As they really don't resemble the old left so much as they resemble fascists. I am thinking of the cronyism, and drone strikes of the current administration and the nanny-ism of people like Bloomberg.
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I don't think that's right at all. There's just as much agreeement if not more with the left. It is people on the left that stand with us on protecting a woman's right to choose, championing marriage equality, ending the drug war, repealing the PATRIOT ACT, closing Gitmo, challenging the surveillance/ security state more broadly, opposing the extraordinary expansion of executive power under President War President and President Hope and Change. Beyond that, they are far more pro-immigrantion and pro-immigrant rights, oppose the religious rights war on the right of people to watch adult material, and stand firm against efforts to theocratize this country a la Rick Santorum.
To your other points, Bloomberg is not a leftist but a bi-partisan fetishist's wet dream centrist technocrat. And there has been more criticism regarding Obama's drone war on innocents from left-wing sources like The Nation and Mother Jones than, say, National Review or the Wall Street Journal which have defended our war of terror, oops I mean on terror. Now lest I sound too soft on the left, I think they hold views on economics which are profoundly anti-freedom, opposing choice in education, health care, and retirement planning while supporting countless prosperity killing policies. But let's not kid ourselves that the right are our flawed allies and the left are not worth our time. The right is just as flawed.
As long as groups like the Libertarian Party continue to believe that their natural allies are currently in the GOP, and that democrats and progressives are "statists", "socialists" or "fascists", the LP will never gain critical mass. I have tried to point this out to members of the LP in Texas, but they are too busy plotting and imagining their imminent glorious revolution against the Federal Government to listen.
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Oh man, the LP is filled with loons and fools. The fact that a total right wing hack like Wayne Allyn Root could advance so high tells you all you need to know. I think that, unfortunately, there's a fairly number of lunatic right wingers who think of themselves as libertarian but really aren't and they give libertarians a bad name. It's a shame that the party won't heed your call for enlightened outreach and respectful engagement. I think it may be a lost cause sadly though having Gary Johnson at the top of the ticket in 2012 gladdened my heart.
There are a lot of GOP partisans who think of themselves as libertarians. I have had discussions with them in the past. They always unravel in front of you when you ask them whether they support the War On Some Drugs, massive military spending, equal rights for gay people. etc. etc.
The underlying challenge with the LP is that they will accept support from anybody, even if those people are authoritarians and wackadoodles, crackpots and wolves in sheep's clothing. I'm not in favour of strict ideological purity tests if you want to be a mass-market political party,since that tends to reduce your pool of possible members, but if you accept any wackadoodle as a member because you think you need the members, sooner or later you are going to have to take yourself to the casualty ward after they blow your legs off in public with some incendiary collection of thoughts or actions.
Right now, the LP is toxic to many progressives because its economic liberty arguments are incoherent and read like an apologia for capitalist excess, and it's constitutional arguments are being advanced by a bunch of people whose instincts hover somewhere between secession and setting up a self-governing commune in the middle of nowhere because they can't get their way. Absent, as has been pointed out, is any significant outreach based on civil liberties, which seem to be regarded by many libertarians as something that will magically appear once Government Is Off Our Backs.
matt b
Very, very well said. I completely agree. I wish some thoughtful people would reform the party but right now things seem pretty hopeless.
I suppose what I was referring to was the actions of current left wing politicians, and no I do not agree with you. When you look at the modern left politicos, they do act like fascists and they do not resemble the principled left wingers of a generation ago. (By the way when was the last time a national left wing politician called for an end to the drug war?)
I also think that on the social issues there is more variation of thought within the conservative movement than there is within the liberal movement. You can often find voters and even some politicians in the Republican party, for instance, who have libertarian views on social issues. You see nothing but a very tight zeitgeist enforced on the left. Enforced vigorously, no deviation tolerated.
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I hear where you're coming from but I think the same could be said of right wing politicians. For example, while a right wing publication like National Review is filled with good economic ideas we libertarians suppport, actual right wing politicians spend their time passing things like No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, TARP, and so on and so forth. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that conservative hero Paul Ryan, the Mittbots VP, voted for everyone of those things. So while a lot of Dem politicians don't represent the good ideas on the lef, a lot of Repub politicians don't represent the good ideas on the right.
Hm, that's an interesting point. But what I would say is that those people in the gop are really just libertarians, whether they know it or not. I call them Clint Eastwood Republicans, they are rinos but instead of liberal they are libertarian. The number of socially libertarian GOP politicians is really small. Maybe there's a few more of them than there are economically libertarian Dems but not many more and there's vigorous enforcement of orthodoxy on the right too. Witness the cries of dirty mexican lover from Rush Limbaugh and company whenever someone in the party mentions immigration reform.
That last quote is key. I find that the whole issue of ideology is under-discussed. Personally, I tend to view ideology as inevitable. So long as you have a certain guiding value or set of values I don't see how they can be taken seriously if not accompannied by a certain degree of articulation at a larger theoretical level, or by venturing into some conjecture as to how those values would be applied. This is how you end up in the realm of ideology which itself presents a new problem (as illustrated in the quote). I like what the post-left anarchists have to say here: the propose a "critical self-theory" which, to my understanding, consists of a constant revision of how ideas are articulated in order to keep those primordial values alive (in their case, personal autonomy). Still, I don't think you can do without some sort of conjecture.
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We don't do milk at all for our youngest daughter due to dairy allergies. I don't find milk substitutes necessary.
Oldest daughter gets raw milk in season.
Both drink water with meals or when they are thirsty.
So my daughter doesn't handle cow milk well (although she loves cheese and yogurt, and does just fine by them), and has been drinking almond milk for the last year of her life. I was wondering if switching entirely to coconut milk (like Thai Kitchen or Chaokoh) would be beneficial? We get the Silk brand almond milk, and there's a lot of extra stuff in it, whereas (in addition to antiviral qualities) coconut milk only contains coconut, water, and sometimes guar gum. Getting an equal amount of coconut milk as we do currently for almond milk would be twice as expensive. Worth it though? Advice, please.
EDIT: I do want to mention that I have a nut milk bag, so I could potentially make my own almond or coconut milk, but my last coconut milk attempt was an epic fail
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We don't do milk at all for our youngest daughter due to dairy allergies. I don't find milk substitutes necessary.
Oldest daughter gets raw milk in season.
Both drink water with meals or when they are thirsty.
I think if money is what is holding you back, you could dilute the coconut milk to make it go farther. The almond milk I've had (unsweetened in the carton), is pretty thin, whereas full fat coconut milk is super thick and sometimes not even pourable (I use Thai Kitchen organic). Also, if you are wanting to switch between the two, make sure you are getting an unsweetened almond milk!
Yeah, we get the unsweetened (I'm diabetic, so I was using it on my cereal pre-PB). I love how thick the coconut milk from Thai Kitchen is! I think it gets me into trouble sometimes, easily polishing off a can by myself in a day.
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What about goats milk? dd and I drink it... I love it... tastes way better than CM IMO - though DH disagrees... if/when dS moves to milk other than mamas - he'll drink goats as well... : )
What would you all recommend for coconut milk thats as close to dairy milk as possible? I tried the whole coconut milk and it was too much for me to handle. very thick and had a non sweetened yogurt taste to it.
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What problems did you have making coconut milk? I've made it twice, easily both times. I use a simplified version of the tropical traditions recipe as follows:
1 cup dessicated coconut shavings
1-1/2 cup hot water
Put ingredients in a blender and blend together for a few minutes (I usually go for 3-4). Pour into a bowl lined with a handkerchief, butter muslin, or tea towel. Gather the corners together and squeeze the lump of coconut to release the milk into the bowl.
That's it! Some people (and the Tropical Traditions recipe) have you do multiple presses (each time with fresh hot water) to extract more milk but since each subsequent press is weaker I don't bother. The result you get is a thin liquid -- Thai Kitchen and other brands are thick because of the guar gum. It'll separate if left undisturbed into a thicker, richer fraction on top, the cream, and a watery liquid on the bottom. Just shake it up before using/drinking, and do so within 2 days or so as it doesn't last very long.
Well the major problem is we started with mature coconuts instead of young coconut. It was a pain in the @#^* to get the meat out. I blended the meat, juice & hot water together in my ninja, then strained the meat into a container with the water & juice. A thin layer formed on top, and never blended (even when shaken). It was also bitter and nasty. I will try again with young coconuts, just to say I gave it the old college try. I WANT the thick, yummy thai kitchen-like stuff. I just want a lot of it. How do I get a lot of it on the cheap? A half gallon of almond milk is $3, a half gallon of Thai Kitchen coconut milk would be $6
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What does she need any milk for at all anyways?
My daughter is 2.5 years, i would not give her straight coconut milk as a beverage on a regular basis. she would just fill up on it and not eat anything else. fat is good but a bottle full of coconut milk for a toddler is a huge amount fat and would likely take away from their eating other foods which provide a wider ranger of nutrients.
The coconut milk I drink only has 5 grams of fat per serving
it tastes better than the So Delicious brand coconut milk in my opinion
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The coverage, cost, and quality problems of the U.S. health care system are evident. Sustainable health care reform must go beyond financing expanded access to care to substantially changing the organization and delivery of care. The FRESH-Thinking Project (www.fresh-thinking.org) held a series of workshops during which physicians, health policy experts, health insurance executives, business leaders, hospital administrators, economists, and others who represent diverse perspectives came together. This group agreed that the following 8 recommendations are fundamental to successful reform:
Replace the current fee-for-service payment system with a payment system that encourages and rewards innovation in the efficient delivery of quality care. The new payment system should invest in the development of outcome measures to guide payment.
Establish a securely funded, independent agency to sponsor and evaluate research on the comparative effectiveness of drugs, devices, and other medical interventions.
Simplify and rationalize federal and state laws and regulations to facilitate organizational innovation, support care coordination, and streamline financial and administrative functions.
Develop a health information technology infrastructure with national standards of interoperability to promote data exchange.
Create a national health database with the participation of all payers, delivery systems, and others who own health care data. Agree on methods to make de-identified information from this database on clinical interventions, patient outcomes, and costs available to researchers.
Identify revenue sources, including a cap on the tax exclusion of employer-based health insurance, to subsidize health care coverage with the goal of insuring all Americans.
Create state or regional insurance exchanges to pool risk, so that Americans without access to employer-based or other group insurance could obtain a standard benefits package through these exchanges. Employers should also be allowed to participate in these exchanges for their employees' coverage.
Create a health coverage board with broad stakeholder representation to determine and periodically update the affordable standard benefit package available through state or regional insurance exchanges.
Join the dialogue on health care reform. Comment on the perspectives published in Annals and offer ideas of your own. All thoughtful voices should be heard.
The FRESH-Thinking project (http://www.fresh-thinking.org) convenes a multidisciplinary group of scholars who collaborate to comprehensively study the specific, detailed challenges to health care reform. This group represents diverse sectors of the health care system and beyond—physicians, health policy experts, health insurance executives, business leaders, hospital administrators, economists, and others. Through the FRESH-Thinking project, the authors met in a series of 8 workshops to delineate "essential foundations" necessary for fundamental reforms in the U.S. health care system.
Despite diverse perspectives and policy positions, the group agreed that the United States must create a health care system that provides all Americans access to an affordable, standard benefits package. We must simultaneously build the capabilities, infrastructure, and incentives to ensure that all Americans receive high-quality care. Through an iterative process of debate and comment, we found common ground on 8 fundamental policy recommendations to achieve these aims.
In formulating the recommendations, we achieved consensus on the following underlying observations and principles: First, the main problems of the U.S. health care system—coverage, cost, and quality—are well understood and well documented. Second, improving access alone is insufficient. Most discussions about reforming the system primarily focus on how to finance expanded coverage. Sustainable reform, however, must substantially change both the financing of care and the systems for organizing and delivering care. Finally, doing nothing is not an option. Maintaining the status quo in health care represents a significant threat to government finances, the economy, Americans' standard of living, and our nation's future.
It is impossible to solve the problem of access to health care services without fixing the financing system. But without fixing the delivery system, it is impossible to solve the cost and quality problems in a sustainable manner. Escalating costs will undermine access, and poor quality will add costs and undermine the overall value of health care coverage. Patchwork and haphazard incremental changes have not and will not create a sustainable system. Reform requires a systematic, goal-directed process; new programs and policies must offer a coordinated and coherent approach, and they must reinforce each other. For instance, a health information technology infrastructure and better outcomes measures are necessary to pay physicians and other providers on the basis of results, but merely providing the infrastructure without reasons for clinicians to use it will simply add expense.
Reform of the health system will not occur overnight. We must find a place to start. Mindful of the urgency, we have formulated these 8 recommendations as an essential foundation to achieve needed fundamental reforms regardless of the particular policy options chosen. Some of the recommendations pertain to reform of the delivery system and others to reform of the financing system.
1. Replace the current fee-for-service payment system with a payment system that encourages and rewards innovation in the efficient delivery of quality care. The new payment system should invest in the development of outcome measures to guide payment.
Current payment mechanisms reward the provision of narrowly defined services and increased product volume, independent of appropriateness or health outcomes. Instead, payments should be linked to improving patient outcomes, reducing racial and other disparities in outcomes, increasing efficiency, and moderating the growth in the cost of care. Linking payment to outcomes will require continued investment in the systematic development of outcomes measures.
Current efforts are laudable, but they should be augmented with the development and rigorous evaluation of additional pilot and demonstration projects that use different payment mechanisms, such as bundled or global payments and capitation, as well as new ways of organizing and delivering care. These projects must use clear performance criteria so that the system rewards the approaches known to improve patient outcomes or save resources and terminates those that compromise patient outcomes or increase the cost of care. Because of their important role in the health care system, Medicare and Medicaid can lead the efforts in payment reform.
2. Establish a securely funded, independent agency to sponsor and evaluate research on the comparative effectiveness of drugs, devices, and other medical interventions.
Data are lacking on the effectiveness of medical interventions and processes of care. An independent agency not subject to interest-group pressures should sponsor both analyses of existing data and new research on the effectiveness, comparative effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of health care diagnostics, therapeutics, procedures, and processes of care. All public and private payers (including self-insured organizations) benefit from such assessments and should contribute resources to funding the agency. The data, analytic methods, and evaluative criteria used should be transparent and the results of its research widely disseminated to the public, physicians, government agencies, insurers, and other health care providers to inform health decisions.
3. Simplify and rationalize federal and state laws and regulations to facilitate organizational innovation, support care coordination, and streamline financial and administrative functions.
Both federal and state laws and regulations provide inconsistent requirements that frequently inhibit reform of the health care system, especially the coordination of care among various providers and more effective use of physicians, nurses, and other providers. Reform should include, but not be limited to, state laws and regulations governing the corporate practice of medicine doctrine and scope of practice limitations. The states should retain authority for enforcement of provider licensure, credentialing, and consumer protections. Federal and state laws should be revised to allow gain-sharing in situations with bundled or aggregated payments that improve patient outcomes, reduce disparities, or enhance efficiency.
4. Develop a health information technology infrastructure with national standards of interoperability to promote data exchange.
Effective deployment of health information technology is essential for collecting data on outcomes to guide quality improvement. A successful health information "superhighway" requires the rapid development and implementation of national standards for interoperability and exchange of electronic data to facilitate the collection and sharing of data on health care quality, outcomes, and cost throughout the health care system.
5. Create a national health database with the participation of all payers, delivery systems, and others who own health care data. Agree on methods to make de-identified information from this database on clinical interventions, patient outcomes, and costs available to researchers.
Most health plans and health care providers do not effectively use existing data to improve the efficiency and quality of care. The expansion of health information technology recommended above will provide additional sources of valuable data. To effectively use these data in improving the health care system, national standards should be implemented for combining the data to ensure consistency and comparability. Researchers using transparent and established methods should have as much access as possible, but patient confidentiality and an appropriate level of proprietary interests should be protected.
6. Identify revenue sources, including a cap on the tax exclusion of employer-based health insurance, to subsidize health care coverage with the goal of insuring all Americans.
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7. Create state or regional insurance exchanges to pool risk, so that Americans without access to employer-based or other group insurance could obtain a standard benefits package through these exchanges. Employers should also be allowed to participate in these exchanges for their employees' coverage.
Because of risk selection and underwriting, the small group and individual insurance markets perform poorly. Exchanges in which insurance companies offer a standard benefits package with guaranteed issue, portability, and renewability and no exclusions for preexisting conditions can expand the offerings to small groups and persons at lower rates. Along with mandatory coverage for standard benefits, the exchanges must implement risk-adjusted payments to minimize adverse selection. These mandates on insurance companies must be matched by mechanisms to ensure complete participation of those eligible to prevent the accumulation of only high-risk persons within the exchange. Potential mechanisms include substantial subsidies, possibly combined with enforceable mandates. Employers should be allowed to participate in these exchanges for their employee coverage.
8. Create a health coverage board with broad stakeholder representation to determine and periodically update the affordable standard benefit package available through state or regional insurance exchanges.
For insurance exchanges to operate efficiently with competition on cost and value, they must have standard benefits packages. Design of these standard benefits packages will entail attention to many technical details and tradeoffs. An independent board with broad input would be best able to formulate options for standards benefits packages that Congress and the current administration could accept or reject. These packages could also define the base coverage that employer-based plans must meet to be eligible for tax exclusions. Individual participants should have the option to purchase packages with more coverage.
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Navy (0-2) plays Boston College (1-1) on Saturday.
Players were in class last week when the terrorist attacks occurred. Within minutes, all nonessential personnel, including the football coaches, were ushered off campus, players were sent to their dorms and patrol boats deployed to monitor the adjacent Severn River.
Campus gates remain closed, guarded by sandbags and marines wielding automatic rifles.
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Numerous former Navy players are preparing for deployment in the country's war against terrorism. It's all part of the five-year military commitment they accepted in exchange for a free education.
"I know there's a lot of (former) football players that are on Seal teams and in the Marines. And they're the ones that are going to be out there fighting," safety Matt Brooks said.
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Like most other college football games, last week's road game against Northwestern was canceled.
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This is a discussion on Plug and Play Minix! - Minix ; Minix is modular, but the fact that it uses statically linked binaries may be a hinderance. Here is an idea on how to implement shared objects: A simple method to include shared library support today would be like this: When ...
Minix is modular, but the fact that it uses statically linked binaries
may be a hinderance. Here is an idea on how to implement shared objects:
A simple method to include shared library support today would be like this:
When the dynamic executable is loaded, a section .sodep is read, which
contains a list of null-delimited list of libraries. ZMAGIC executables
or .a archives (regardless of archive style [Which is either the ones
made by GNU ar or ACK ar) can be specified. Include support for AAL objects.
The dynamic executable is linked with a different crt0.o, call it
dcrt0.o or so.
The server or process responsible for loading a program into memory will
also have ld-like capabilities. The main executable is loaded, with all
of the sodeps, and 'linked' using a linker-like linking. The resulting
executable would be static in RAM, but in thereoy, this would allow for
shared libraries. In fact, it may even be possible to create a tool to
undo the static-linking of ackpack-generated binaries. (if gcc made then
don't touch it, gcc is horridly broken, and so are it's generated
executable's format.) The unstatic tool would run like this: The binary
is checked if it is gcc or ackpack generated. If (gcc) { return(1); }.
if it is ackpack, check to see if symbols exist. if symbols exist, they
are checked against a database of symbols to see which library they came
from, if any at all. These symbols and the code sections the reperesent
are removed. Then the .sodep section is created, sodep data is written,
and then the file is saved. (ohh yeah it also backs up the old binary)
I don;'t know if that is detailed enough, and i do leave some things up
to the reader to assume (those thing are obvious if you know what you
are doing). Please don't flame me if the idea is
bad/stupid/unsupportable/mentions ZMAGIC/biases against gcc/etc. After
someone disects GNU binutils (namely the BFD library [ohh yeah, may want
to make a dynamic libbfd.so after this is all done and dandy]) to see
just how GNU does a.out. It also put in some data, appearently that
ackpack & it's toolchain doesn't know about. This may be part of the
reason tht gcc objects are incompatable with those compatable with
ackpack and vise versa. This does lead you to wonder just HOW does Minix
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On Friday, September 25, myself and Todd Chapman, President of the WRR met with Town of Walworth Supervisor Bob Plant to discuss the status of the trails in and around the Town of Walworth, including Ginegaw Park. I participated in the meeting as President of the Wayne County Snowmobile Federation.
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Toward Alaska via Banff and Jasper
Trip Start Apr 10, 2005
25Trip End Dec 20, 2005
We left the Hyatt farm in Winlaw and started heading north through the Slocan Valley. This part of the province is really quite beautiful. One of our fellow WWOOFers, Steve, had told us about some undeveloped hot springs down a logging road near Nakusp, so we decided to try and find them. It was a little bit of poke-and-hope, but we tried one route, asked some passersby for directions, and so on until we found it, approx 10 km down another logging road at halfway river (of course we picked the wrong one). The hike down was a little hairy, and I wiped out and twisted my knee, but it truly was worth it. Although it started to rain, Traic and I soaked in these natural hotsprings for about an hour, which were about the temperature of a nice hot bath - a little hotter where the water was bubbling up through the rocks. There's a couple pictures to give you an idea of the spot
We left Nakusp the same day, crossed at the Galena Bay Ferry and made our way to the big town of Revelstoke. It's a railway intersection and a hotbed of heli-skiing and other treacherous sporting activities along the boundary of Mount Revelstoke National Park and Glacier National Park (not the one in Montana, the Canadian one). Some administration chores kept us in Revelstoke for a few days, getting the car serviced, our photos uploaded, groceries, etc.
I think this area is the most dense for national and provincial parks in all of Canada. After Mount Revelstoke and Glacier parks comes Yoho and Kootenay parks, and then of course there's Banff and Jasper. We stopped in Yoho for a night, and visited Emerald lake...a good decision. The colour of the lake was just stunning. We also visited Takakaw Falls (say it...it's fun), one of the highest waterfalls in Canada (the highest is also in BC, Della Falls, but we haven't seen it...yet). After Yoho we moved on to Lake Louise in Banff Park. The campground here has an electric fence installed around it - apparently bear visits used to be common, so they had to add this extra security(?) measure. If you visit Banff, I definitely reccomend Lake Louise. It's not as developed as the Banff Townsite (58 km south), but there's still plenty of amenities
We did visit Canmore, briefly, and Banff the following day. We hiked by the Cave and Basin area along Sundance Canyon. We started to drive through the downtown area, but we got stuck in traffic and decided to get back on the highway to Lake Louise.
The following day we headed out to drive the Icefields Parkway through to Jasper. We were thrilled to unexpectedly run into our former WWOOF partner Steve, hitchhiking along the same highway, so we picked him up and figured out how to squish his stuff in our car too. Now what are the chances, I wonder...He's been with us ever since, and will probably come up to the Yukon with us! It is really nice having him along, although Sam may not be as happy, sharing the space in the backseat :)
After setting foot on the Athabasca Glacier and spotting a few other wonders of nature along the Icefields highway, we spent the night in Jasper. We caught a glimpse of Mount Robson the following day, a clear view of the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Our refuelling destination, and the place where we would have our wheels aligned was Prince George. I wouldn't recommend the place to anyone...it smells like a pulpmill (sorta like an outhouse) all day long. However, if you are looking for a large Value Village or Salvation Army, or perhaps a Wallmart or Canadian Tire, then this is your place. We spent two nights prepping for the drive northward. Finally, we made our way west from Prince George, to take the scenic highway 37 north to the Yukon.