EVENT SITE LOST IT

[westender]

In a few years it'll be just kiters and loose dogs running around shitting and pissing all over everything. You know what they say about the folks who sail in Oregon.

[mirkef]

I love the Gnarl solution! Poor kiters, they started many years later so they get the leftovers. But I also agree in a decade there will be so many more kiters than windsurfers. Aha, then we can switch, kiters can go to Hatchery and windsurfers will be lucky to still be sailing at all even at the event site, and closer to emergency services!javascript:emoticon('')

[tetiaroaxx]

BP don't be a he-ro, don't be a fool with no lines,
BP don't be a he-ro, we're gonna miss he-ro jibes,

[Bret]

Yeah Dude just wait till the sand fills in. Just one big sandy beach where you need to walk. The red buoy has been moved over the years. The next big rain and snow melt off will flatten the eventsite to a big sandy beach. It's a matter of time for the Parking meters in front of Jensen Beach across the St from the new distict of Hoodriver. It's a question of time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwCBHP4cocc&feature=related

I will never forget driving out to watch the Gorge Games in 1996 and seeing the National News filming the Games at the Event Site.

[isobans]

i know everything

[isobans]

[isobans]

to a garden tool:
actually g-g:
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2. A senior United Nations official said on Wednesday that the growing use of armed drones by the United States to kill terrorism suspects was undermining global constraints on the use of military force. He warned that the American example would lead to a chaotic world as the new weapons technology inevitably spread.
Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters

In a 29-page report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the official, Philip Alston, the United Nations special representative on extrajudicial executions, called on the United States to exercise greater restraint in its use of drones in places like Pakistan and Yemen, outside the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The report — the most extensive effort by the United Nations to grapple with the legal implications of armed drones — also proposed a summit meeting of “key military powers” to clarify legal limits on such killings.

In an interview, Mr. Alston said the United States appeared to think that it was “facing a unique threat from transnational terrorist networks” that justified its effort to put forward legal justifications that would make the rules “as flexible as possible.”

But that example, he said, could quickly lead to a situation in which dozens of countries carry out “competing drone attacks” outside their borders against people “labeled as terrorists by one group or another.”

“I’m particularly concerned that the United States seems oblivious to this fact when it asserts an ever-expanding entitlement for itself to target individuals across the globe,” Mr. Alston said in an accompanying statement. “But this strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.”

Mr. Alston is scheduled to present his findings to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday. While not legally binding, his report escalates the volume of international concerns over a tactic that has become the Obama administration’s weapon of choice against Al Qaeda and its allies.

[WMP]

I say we use our garden tools to dig up all the grass and dredge all the sand from Event Site and move it all to Wells Island to create a huge grassy / sandy beach along the entire north shore.

No peeing & pooping dogs can swim to Wells Island, and kiters don't like Wells Island because of all the trees.

[Georges]

[wsmike]

Wells Island is a designated bird refuge, sorry to rain on that parade but that's a non-starter as dubbya would say it.

The Event Site is only good for: picking up cute chicks, and letting your dog run around to piss an shit on stuff. The wind sucks, there's no swell, and you have to contend with noob kiters and jetskis. If the kiters want the Event Site they can have it but in return we get the Water Park, the Hatch, and Doug's like said before.