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[ellenater]

I’m so sorry. I’ll help if needed. We lost our dog while on our trip, recently. She was scared by her new dog sitter. They found her after several hours. We were completely traumatized the whole time she was missing. I am not a religious person but will pray you find your buddy! I’ll drive around today, too. Have there been any sightings? Does he like other dogs? Are there any other tricks to lure him out? Any special treats or food he likes? Good luck! Keep us updated.

[GenHillOne]

FWIW. . . here is my (non-) answer from Safeway:

“Thank you for your e-mail regarding Safeway’s position on Seattle’s new bag surcharge. Safeway has not taken a position as yet with regard to that new ordinance as it pertains to home delivery.

As soon as it does take a position, the company will advise its customers of the impact it will have on home shopping. I have forwarded your concerns to management for their consideration. Thank you for bringing the matter to our attention.”

[HP]

Admiraljaneway, the possesive form would be more appropriate if you were to say i am going over to the nordstroms’ for dinner but not if you are going to the place. If you are going to nordstrom to go shopping you are just going to nordsrom just like if you were going to disneyland you would not say i am going to disneylands. :) and i know i have not capitalized, its quicker for me that way with my lame typing skills. I will add what else makes me irritated is that my daughter who attends seattle public schools stopped getting spelling lessons or tests after second grade, which seems crazy to me.

[Mwest]

Loreece is coming over early this afternoon with Gibs’n’s mom to help look for him. We’ll have her wearing a bright orange vest with the picture of Giibs’n on it’s side, that way people won’t think it’s Gibs’n. We’re going to continue to canvas all areas we can, he could be almost anywhere in the vicinity by now so we’ll try and leave no stone unturned. If you want to come with us or to hand out flyers just post here or call 206-910-4588, most likely we’ll be down by Alki point because of the high volume of traffic down there, but we will also be on Charlestown near 45th Ave SW.

Thank you all for so much support you have no idea how much it means to us.

[JoB]

ok.

beachdrivegirl..

those you would be likely to encounter in public who have guns are legally carrying a concealed weapon.. they are not hiding anything from the law. This is one crowd that you can be positive that somewhere there is a record that they own the gun they are carrying…

those who buy guns legally from dealers are not hiding their guns… there is a record that traces the serial number on the gun to them.

The rest either make sure their guns are unregistered because they want to avoid government scrutiny… or they are too impatient to purchase a gun where they have to wait three days.. or they stole it… or they can’t legally own a gun.

it is likely that regulating where you can carry a gun will not affect their behavior at all.

the constitution was designed to be a body of law that could change and adapt to the times… thus it has been amended.

Although a recent court ruling would seem to suggest that the right to bear arms is not limited to the needs of a militia, it is unclear how the guns provision in the constitution will ultimately be decided.

The constitution says nothing about whether carrying guns in public can be regulated… although you wouldn’t know that from the propaganda the NRA puts out.

Gun regulation is not a gun ban.. and we already have several gun regulations in place that have yet to be successfully challenged.

i REALLY don’t like getting threatened with a gun or shot at… and both have happened to me in public spaces.

Had that ever happened to you i am quite sure you would agree enthusiastically with that statement. You only challenge it because it hasn’t happened to you and yo think it can’t.

Since this behavior happens on our streets, and by your own admission is happening in our homes,it is only a matter of time before we have a horrific incident in one of our parks.

How bad will that incident have to be for you to find it relevant? and better yet, how much will it have to cost you as a taxpayer before it is relevant?

There is obviously nothing more i could possibly say to you that would make any kind of impression.

As best i can tell, you object on the grounds that you don’t think someone should tell you what to do regardless of whether you want to do it or not.

While that is consistent with your political philosophy, it rules out the entire body of law designed to protect citizens from unnecessary risk.

I really do wonder what your attitude towards driving laws would have been had you been around when the driving habits of those who owned automobiles began to be a safety hazard.

I suspect you would have objected on the grounds that there was no clear evidence that automobile drivers needed to be regulated…

if people considered the rights of others as important as their own and behaved in a polite and considerate manner to one another.. there would be no need for laws regulating public behavior.

sadly, that is not the case.

[pocketzena]

I am looking for a reliable person to pick up my two kids from daycare/school on Tuesdays and Thursdays, possibly Fridays as well, bring them home Hours are 3Pm-6:30 or 7:00 pm, and we pay well. Job involves driving, keeping the peace at home, and warming up or starting a simple dinner for the kids. We live near Alki, and the school and daycare are all in West Seattle, 10 minutes from my home.

If you are interested, call 206-979-5941, please have some references too.

[JoB]

New Resident…

i had to walk away from this thread after i read the link you provided to some pundit who was trying to slam Obama for murdering children.

I have no idea whether you actually understood what you read and thought it through.. but either way i have no wish to further discuss reproductive rights with you after reading that vile and totally uninformed post.

I heard someone tonight put it better than i could..

the question is… do you believe that it is a woman’s right to choose… or do you believe that the state should choose for women?

Obama believes this is a personal matter… it is the woman’s right to choose. He has said so publicly and repeatedly.

McCain believes it is a public matter.. it is the state’s right to choose. He has said so publicly and repeatedly. Further, he believes that the right to life begins at conception.. which is when the egg is fertilized.

I take both candidates at their word. They are very clear about what they believe.

When you give the state the right to choose you give up the right to tell them how much they are going to limit your choices… and John McCain has been very clear about just where he draws the line.. the same place that Palin and our current president draw the line..

and that line makes any type of birth control that prevents the fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall.. abortion.

That’s not an extreme assessment of their policy… you will find it reflected in our current governmental agencies.

You can choose to deny that they could just make policy that effectively makes them laws… but you would be wrong… because Bush has already done just that.

And there is a real desire on the part of the more conservative part of the republican party to follow that up with actual laws.

Obama’s position is clear.. regardless of any and all attempts to muddy the water… it’s pro choice.

i am proud to support a candidate who realizes that this is a life and death issue for women… not just another way to score political points.

[JoB]

LOL..

beachdrivegirl.. don’t you get it? irresponsible gun owners are already hiding their guns in their purses and on their ankles right now.. and they are carrying them into places you go all of the time.

How much less regulated could they get than they are now?

We don’t find out about irresponsible gun owners until their guns kill someone… or they are killed with their guns.

And we label those incidents tragedies… as though they couldn’t have been prevented.

At least i had the honesty to label my cousin irresponsible for inadvertently making the gun that killed her in her bath available to an imbalanced teenage boy.

Believe me, no-one was ever charged in that shooting. The boy who did it killed himself and the rest of the household didn’t survive.

The only member of that family to survive was the estranged husband who no longer lived in the house.

There was no outcry at the irresponsibility of giving the combination of a gun safe to a teenage boy who would share it with his friends. It was reported as a tragic accident.

And that is just one story. it happens to be one i am intimately involved in, but it is not the only gun tragedy i know. I have a friend who killed her child as he snuck back into their house after sneaking out to get drunk. And i lived down the street in a very good neighborhood from someone whose child killed the child next door playing with a gun that wasn’t supposed to be loaded.

Those people and their families are shattered.. and it was all preventable had they had a little more respect for the guns in their homes.

I held my first gun as little more than a toddler.. which appalls me as an adult.. and my first lesson was how to put the safety on. I could break down and reassemble a weapon when i still had strength in my hands. I was a sharp shooter… outshooting my stepdad by the time i was 12. I come from a law enforcement and military family. I know a lot about guns and gun safety.

If anyone is competent to own and carry a weapon, i am. And i choose not to.

i am not ant-gun.

But i am not in favor of those who don’t know anything about guns owning and carrying them concealed into public spaces.

If they are irresponsible with their gun at home, they are likely to injure only themselves and their loved ones.

If they are irresponsible with their guns in public, they put me at risk..

and i really don’t like getting threatened with a gun or shot at. It is one of the most frightening things that can happen to you..even if you don’t get hit.

[mellaw6565]

BDG says: “I think most of the posters, at least mine, point is that a gun in a park is not and will never be the issue it is an irrational band aid solution to make those affected, personally and emotionally, feel better in some odd way”

That’s not my opinion and certainly not the majority opinion on here as you suggest, BDG. This was a pretty easy going disagreement until tonite. Even the original poster said he wasn’t necessarily opposed to gun control in general.

This topic started about one piece of proposed legislation – that’s what I’ve tailored my remarks to.

[beachdrivegirl]

Well JoB that is where our opinions differ. I do not believe that by banning guns in certain areas make us safer. IMO, it makes those irresponsible gun owners, those very ones that you mention in your post, hide their guns. And when irresponsible gun owners hide their guns things go bad and it is harder for the government to regulate. Very much like the drugs scenerio that JT mentioned. if you are making it so irresponsible individuals have to hide their problem we (the public) cant recognize nor find real solution to solve it.

cheers,

one of , in your opinion, children!

PS by calling me a child isn’t that not even borderline but IS a personal attack and name calling!

[JoB]

beachdrivegirl..

to the contrary.

guns in the hands of people who don’t know or don’t care how to use them safely are a threat to public safety in any public arena.

it’s not a bandaid or a sop to make someone feel better.. to consider legislation that would keep them out of our parks.

There is no valid reason for them to be there other than the fact that it is not currently illegal to take them there.

[beachdrivegirl]

I think most of the posters, at least mine, point is that a gun in a park is not and will never be the issue it is an irrational band aid solution to make those affected, personally and emotionally, feel better in some odd way

[JoB]

I can see how your argument breaks down in the face of how little supervision and regulation there is of legal gun ownership.

Things get right nasty when you are faced with fact.. don’t they.

You are more regulated and educated when you take a pet home from the local humane society than when you buy a gun.

But i can see where the right of any individual to purchase and carry a concealed weapon that they may or may not even know how to fire safely is more important than keeping weapons out of parks.

talk about an emotional argument…

[charlabob]

You’r right, NR — her corruption of the integrity of her state investigative bodiesi on behalf of her sister’s ugly divorce, makes her highly qualified to follow in the footsteps of Alberta Gonzales, and Monica Goodling. Although she’ll be Vice-President, we have seen how effectively repug veeps can meedle in all areas of government.

But wait — her foreign affairs credentials are also impeccable, as a Faux and Friends “reporter” said this morning, “After all, she’s governor of a state right next to Russia.” Nope, he wasn’t kidding.

Her son is supposedly going to Iraq but she claimed, when asked a question about her views on the war, to have “Not followed the war that closely.”

McCain isn’t demented; it’s a giant plot to make sure the Democrats win because the other side knows what a mess they’re leaving.

[JoB]

I can see where cracking down on those gun dealers would make a difference.

if you buy a gun from a licensed gun dealer, they need to make a copy of your driver’s license and file a report (basically a felony record request) and make you wait three days to come pick up your gun.

what, you say.. Is that all?

yup.

same with an assault rifle… you know.. automatic weapon with which you can kill the greatest number of people in the shortest amount of time.

However, if you need a gun faster than that, all you have to do is go to a gun show and buy a used weapon.

i don’t think they even have to ask for your driver’s license and they file no request for a felony search.

And you can buy any kind of gun you want.

And yo can walk out with it right away.

And those are what are called legal weapons.

Getting a carry permit takes a bit more paperwork than that.. and depending upon where you live you might even have to show that you can fire your gun and at least hit the target…

to be honest, i don’t know what it takes here since i am not interested…

but i have had a carry permit in another state and they just checked for outstanding warrants and flirted with my cute little young self before issuing it.

That’s the process folks.. guns are far less regulated than cars.

and you don’t even have to buy insurance.

doesn’t that make you feel safe?

[flipjack]

I keep seeing supposedly literate people, (journalists even!) using “then” when they should be using “than”. It really bugs the hell out of me!!!

Rule of thumb:

THEN: connotes TIME

THAN: connotes COMPARISON

SO if you want to compare something then use the right word!

THAN

1 a– used as a function word to indicate the second member or the member taken as the point of departure in a comparison expressive of inequality — used with comparative adjectives and comparative adverbs (older than I am) (easier said than done) b– used as a function word to indicate difference of kind, manner, or identity — used especially with some adjectives and adverbs that express diversity (anywhere else than at home)

THEN

1: at that time

2a: soon after that : next in order of time (walked to the door, then turned) b: following next after in order of position, narration, or enumeration : being next in a series (first came the clowns, then came the elephants) c: in addition : besides (then there is the interest to be paid)

3a (1): in that case (take it, then, if you want it so much) (2)– used after but to qualify or offset a preceding statement (she lost the race, but then she never really expected to win) b: according to that : as may be inferred (your mind is made up, then) c: as it appears : by way of summing up d: as a necessary consequence (if the angles are equal, then the complements are equal)

[Anonymous]

Diane:

Thank you for that unbiased and honest review/opinion on Palin.

I’m starting to think that it was an extremely intelligent choice.

Maybe he isn’t so demented after all…..

[thriftwaygirl]

I just went out to look in the general area that he was last spotted. After calling out several times, I heard a response (barking). This of course may have just been other neighborhood dogs barking because it was after dark, but you never know.

I waited there for a while calling and looked around in bushes etc but no sign of him. But the answer to my calling out gave me hope he may be in the area.

Have you gone door to door in that area? Maybe someone took him in, but isn’t a WSB visitor…?

I’ll keep my eye out and do a drive by during daylight hours.

[mellaw6565]

Interesting this decision came out today in light of this thread:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/377123_folklife30.html?source=rss

I love the exchange between the attorney, the judge and the LEGAL gun carrier:

“For people who think they need a gun in a public place, they should have second thoughts,” Hammer told Trickey.

“No kidding,” the judge answered, without humor.

After hearing an apology from Grainger, Trickey called the 22-year-old’s decision to bring a gun to a crowded public gathering “a colossal lapse of judgment.”

(end)

Also, I love the fact that the LEGAL gun carrier was sentenced to continue treatment for heroin addiction. Now that’s the kind of LEGAL gun carrier I want around kids and people in my public parks!

Proves your point, eh JoB?

[Diane]

thanks SuitsarenotBoring for “Going back to Palin”

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I was shocked at 7:45am to see this in breaking news, and started this post; then had to run

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I wouldn’t have remembered her by name, like TR’s hilarious script of her morning, “WHO?”, but I had heard a lot about her (as the Gov of Alaska) back in April when she basically took 5 mins from her job to have a baby, her 5th; I knew nothing of her politics, but amazed at her capacity to give birth and run back to the business of governing a state

~

seeing Palin this am, my first reaction was “what the heck is with the huge up-do?”, which is exactly how all the girls wore their hair for formals when I was in high school, 40 years ago; the ’84 beauty queen thing doesn’t even explain it; Phyllis Schlafly hair comes to mind, and very similar ideals, super smart and super conservative; Palin could be a younger, cuter, kinder, more well-spoken version of Schlafly; check it out: http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/bio.html

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having watched many of Palin’s speeches and interviews today, I am concerned; she is extremely articulate, brazen, bold; and walks the talk for her point of view by showing her love for her downs baby that many would have considered legal/ethical to abort; she’s advocating for opening up her state to oil drilling, saying there are trillions of reserves, would provide jobs, would save the country by providing oil until we can create alternatives; and with her oldest son in Iraq; and out there hunting in the wilderness for moose to show off how guns can be good; she speaks brilliantly to the conservative agenda and is very dynamic; as much as the pundits have tried to rip her apart today, I’m very concerned that she can win over many swing voters; she’s very likeable and the oil, gun, Iraq position coming from a woman, from a mom……McCain really got lucky with this one

[elgrego]

I’ve been to the Bakery, that’s a good idea. I didn’t even think about them (and I was even telling someone about it today). I don’t like Endolyne Joe’s at all, so that’s a no-go. Alki Cafe might be good, but that’s a bit of a hike for me (I leave near Westwood Village).

[RS]

That is a fabulous taco truck, but I’m pretty sure they don’t do eggs and chorizo. Elgrego, have you tried the Salvadoran Bakery? They have sit-down breakfast and have chorizo and egg, I think. Endolyne Joe’s sometimes has migas with chorizo, and the Alki Cafe used to have a chorizo scramble too.

[mellaw6565]

LOL JoB! I’m with you 100% on all of your sentiments posted here.

Vincent – once again, no one is talking about taking away your freedom or your right to own a gun. Your evidence about what the Framers intended is also anecdotal at best and so is your claimed right to carry a gun whenever and wherever you feel like it.

It is clear that the government is allowed to impose reasonable restrictions on gun ownership in the interest of public safety. That is what we are talking about, not about your right to own a gun in general. Quit being so dramatic and angry – “fascist implications” – please! Get a grip!

[JoB]

New Resident,

at what point are the right to free speech and the right to freely associate negated by the fact that the person you are talking with and associating with once engaged in political protest?

correct me if i am wrong.. but political protest is the essence of free speech.

I am afraid it is impossible to connect Obama to any possible crimes committed during that political protest since he wouldn’t have been old enough at the time to commit those crimes or been living where it would have been possible for him to inadvertently be included somehow in the commission of those crimes.

So, his crime is enjoying the dinner conversation of someone whose has paid whatever debt he incurred to society and is intelligent and respected enough to be part of the local university.

Have you looked at who McCain hangs out with.. heck, who he does business with and who they do business with?

That’s current terrorism on a global scale…

if we follow your logic, McCain should be jailed and we should throw away the key.

[vincent]

Your argument is filled with emotional pleas and loops all around various talking points with the only anchor being fear of the unknown. Fear of other people with freedoms, and it would seem fear of what you would do with the same freedoms as another person, ( Your constant projection of people with legal firearms flashing them and firing into public).

Ultimately your opinions are just that, and sadly they weigh very heavily on anecdotal evidence. You also are pushing for legislation that is against the spirit of this countries bill of rights, but has immense fascist implications on its own. all facts you choose to ignore in the view that your personal *ideal* of safety is more important than facts.

You live in a country that has a right to bear arms, and that right extends to public places. Parks are public places, they are not the property of the city, or the mayor. Supporting this ban is not only ridiculous, and short sided its wasteful, as it will be easily defeated in court.

Freedom is a tricky thing, with any rights, you have to take the good with the bad, for every I have a dream you have to also accept racist diatribes. Or you dilute the point of all of it, as people seem more and more apt to forget as time goes on and this country gets less free every day.