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You should do it. However, on the San Juan Islands run, you have to reserve a spot at the ferry website. You don't pay on the website but it guarantees you get on that ferry. But, if the ferry is not running, then you wait until it does. San Juan ferries are not very reliable that way. I have not been to Orcas, we always head to Lopez. I've been to San Juan also, but never Orcas. I had friends in Jr High saying Orcas was the best. Everyone says so. But we know someone with a cabin on Lopez on the Mud Bay so that's where we head. mspart

Yeah that guy is an idiot. I have to say. mspart

Biden is senseless and Trump can still put together a sentence and not trail off with - whateverrrrrrrrrrrrrr. But I agree with Vak's statement above. Neither should be candidates. mspart

Did you know the WA state ferries are designed to make little to no wake? These carry hundreds of cars and people, big boats!! mspart

Gee, that's what is happening in D run big cities today. Obviously MAGA is against that. mspart

Trump is at least mentally lucid. You cannot say that about Biden. mspart

You mean IDF is assisting the evacuation. Say it ain't so. Those devils wouldn't do that would they UB? Save Gazan's lives? No it just can't be. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-772068 https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/middleeast/gaza-civilian-casualty-criticism-grows-israel/index.html https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-gazans-waving-white-flags-head-south-along-idf-evacuation-route/ https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-08-23/h_92f3d64ede6bc0c84af9c0cf2822f7c9 Well it looks like that is what they are doing. Who does this in war? No one but Israel. They don't want to kill indiscriminately like the Palestinians do. They are showing that by this move to help civilians get out of the area that will soon be under attack. If Palestinians would give up their weapons there would be peace. If the Israelis would give up their weapons, they would be annihilated. Golda mspart

To be honest, I had not read anywhere where Trump was already tried in front of a judge. If that is the case, then my argument is moot of course. I thought the judge made the determination before the trial, which is what all the new agencies are calling the current event. You have to admit, if this is the trial, the judge would have been wildly out of bounds which is what I thought was happening. Again, I have only heard of one trial, the one going on now. I was not aware there was a bench trial to establish guilt and then a penalty trial. I have never heard of a penalty trial. Civil trials usually end with the penalty. Criminal trials will sometimes have a penalty phase or hearing after the main trial. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4299301-new-york-fraud-trial-ivanka-trump-testify/ Ivanka Trump takes the stand in New York fraud trial targeting family business: Live updates This is from today's TheHill.com. This says the fraud trial. That's what I was going on. Perhaps the news media has it wrong as well. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/01/trump-civil-trial-new-york-00119297 Trump goes to trial in New York before a judge who just ruled he’s a fraud Again, Politico says similar. They don't say penalty phase of the trial, just the fraud trial. So if what you folks are saying is true, then I was wrong, and apologize. But in looking on Google, I'm not finding anything about a prior trial, just that the judge made the decision. I welcome any links that can be provided to allow me to understand this more. mspart mspart

Does anyone think it is weird that the judge passed judgement on Trump before the trial even started? He essentially took away his business licences in NY. An appellate court reinstated them until they can hear the case. That is weird to me. Here is some more weird: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4296283-trump-chaotic-testimony-new-york-fraud-trial/ ... Before the trial even began last month, Engoron found Trump, the Trump Organization and other defendants, including some of his adult children, liable for fraud. Engoron ruled that James had proved the crux of her case that claims the Trumps falsely inflated and deflated the value of the business’ assets to receive lower taxes and better insurance coverage. ... As Trump answered questions about his 40 Wall Street property, he snidely remarked that the property’s valuation at $550 million was a “very low number” and that “all you have to do is look at a picture of the building” to know that. After that remark, Engoron admonished Kise again to take control of his client. “I would think, respectfully — of all witnesses — your honor would want to hear everything this witness has to say,” Kise said. “No, I do not want to hear everything this witness has to say,” Engoron angrily replied while Trump shook his head and smiled. “I am not here and these people are not here to hear what he has to say; we are here to hear him answer questions,” Engoron continued. “It’s very simple. Is this an accurate number? It’s very simple.” Unprompted, the former president replied: “This is a very unfair trial — very, very — and I hope the public is watching.” ... Trump calls judge, NY AG ‘frauds’ Perhaps the most heated moment of Trump’s testimony occurred when the former president launched a rant raging against the judge and New York attorney general, calling them “frauds” and “political hacks.” “It’s a disgrace that a case like this is going on; all you have to do is read the legal scholars — the papers — and you’ll know,” Trump said, raising his voice. “This is a political witch hunt.” Wallace, the state lawyer, had been questioning Trump about whether the former president believed his properties were undervalued on his statements of financial condition and attempted to veer the questioning back in that direction, but Trump ignored him and continued the rant. “Even yesterday, she’s out there saying ‘fraud, fraud.’ The fraud is her,” Trump said, referring to James. “He called me a fraud and he didn’t know anything about me,” Trump said of Engoron. What judge says the court doesn't want to hear what the witness says? I have never heard of that. As I see it, Trump answered questions with additional pertinent information that the judge apparently did not want to hear. Well the judge did call him a fraud before the trial so why would he want to hear him. Get it over with so they can get the judgement brought down that has been predetermined. This case will be appealed for sure, it has been horribly mishandled by the judge. The judge is interrupting rather than one of the attorneys taking exception to the testimony. Trump will lose this case because the judge already has it out for him as determined by his pre trial censure of his case by finding him liable for fraud - before the case was even litigated. Who does that? Yes, the judge is not impartial by any means. But I guess he thinks he is immune because everyone must be on his side. This is not how American jurisprudence is conducted. I have never heard of such a thing. If it can be done to Trump, it can be done to any of us. This is wrong. I'd like to hear how this is not wrong by someone that knows that judicial process. mspart

It seems that 3pt does not appreciate hard work and what it can do to open doors. Not surprising viewing the other things he has written. I've seen this play out. I have 5 boys. One is a hard worker, has various businesses he owns and is successful and makes a lot of money. Yes, he got some breaks. But it was his hard work and do not take NO for an answer that made him successful. He tries to get his brothers to take such entrepreneurial risks but they are unwilling to put in such effort. So they are not as successful as he is. All are very smart, but he is really the only one that takes action. They all started similarly. I have to say, I am not near as bold as he is, so the other 4 take more after me. I'm not sure where the one son got his drive at but that is the difference. He makes more than me. Now to be fair, I have another son that got a college degree and got a job at a place. He quit and got a better job and more pay but not like the one son. But he's doing ok. Another has an associates college degree, but has a pretty good job doing maintenance on equipment. But there is no upward mobility there so he will soon hit a ceiling but it is good for now for him. He is under 30. The other two are younger and basically retail workers, min wage type jobs. Their outlook is not as good. They have no future education (academic or trade) goals so they are essentially stuck at HS diploma level type jobs, unless they take after the one brother. It is the drive to succeed that makes the difference. What I view as risk, my one son views as opportunity. If he spends 40k to make 80k, that is money well spent and he makes the difference and then the whole thing the next year. I don't think that way. I think, where would I get the 40k, and then how do I get the work to get the 80k? He is a wonder for sure. For instance, he decided he was gonna do snow plowing. The truck and rig cost right around 40k. He figured he could easily make 120k and had contracts already lined up. He has been doing that for a few years. Part of that is spreading salt when it goes under freezing. He makes a lot of money for little actual work, even here in Seattle area. He and his wife have two other businesses that bring in enough money to live very well on. mspart

Cool stories. Bruce is underrated entirely. mspart

There is quite good parity until the top 3 weights. Those guys are monsters. mspart

I count that as a win anyway. It is well known the US has a ginormous appetite for opioids. mspart

Well, the poll, however it was done, got Axelrod shook up as well as many others. Maybe he doesn't care about methods as well. I'm confident that's the case. mspart

I heard it on the X!!! mspart

That may be an issue. But diesel engine generate electricity so as long as the batteries are protected from the water, i think it would be ok. But they would need to think about that for sure. mspart

They are working on this in Seattle. They want to do Electric Ferries for crossing Puget Sound. msaprt

British Columbia has such a great free medical system that they can't handle all their cancer patients and are sending them to Bellingham WA to get treatment. It is such a great system that they are using the US as their example of how to get it done. https://komonews.com/news/local/british-columbia-canada-vancouver-bc-bellingham-whatcom-county-cancer-care-health-public-government-funds-vulnerable-payments-cascade-center-joseph-peace-diagnosis-minister-universal-system mspart

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4296053-biden-allies-look-to-mitigate-fallout-over-latest-dismal-poll/ Biden allies look to mitigate fallout over latest dismal poll by Brett Samuels and Alex Gangitano - 11/06/23 4:12 PM ET ... The poll found Biden trailing Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, in five out of six battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania — while leading Trump in Wisconsin. Biden carried all six states in 2020, and they will likely determine the winner of the 2024 election.

Well, based on the fears expressed here, I say we shouldn't allow schools to teach Reading, Writing, or Arithmetic. We don't want those types teaching it you know. Actually we are there if you look at the test scores. But kids are taught to know about CO2, gender ideology, and antisemitism if we look at the colleges around the country. And after all, those are the most important things to know right? mspart

Are they proposing to move the other Palestinians on the West Bank? Remember, there are Palestinians in the Knesset. So I don't think ethnic cleansing is the goal. Getting bad guys out of Gaza is. Leaving them in the west bank. That is not ethnic cleansing in the way you want to make it out to be. Of course you don't think they are bad guys but I refer you to Husker's response to you. And I refer you to the 1400 people they raped, burned, tortured and killed, not as an act of self defense, but as an act of barbaric war that they now do not want. Well, they got it because that is what they initiated. What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. mspart

Tough to go shopping when your appendix bursts. Now for other things sure. mspart

This may be true but they will have to make an exception for food delivery and other trucks. They are just not practical as EV unless the solid state battery provides function as promised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_battery That's understandable now isn't it? mspart

Or perhaps mail in balloting is not secure, as apparently was shown to the judge. And who's to know. Primaries are usually low voter turnout. So stuffed ballots could be in the name of those that didn't vote. When signatures are not checked or there is no ID, who's to know if the ballot is legit or not? mspart

Maybe the question should have been will Yianni make the Olympic Team for 2024? Then people can say their peace on that. Or maybe the question could be who will be our 65KG rep on the Olympic MFS team? Who wants to take on these questions? For myself, I don't see Yianni making the team. He would have to do some major improvement which can be done and a person of his caliber is certainly capable of it. But as has been noted, 65 is super tough. mspart