Tree-Topping in Lincoln Park
Solomon offered to cut the baby in half, and now the Port and City Council are considering topping the Lincoln Park trees instead of cutting them down completely.
posted by Tom Harper at 10:31 AM
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
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Fucking Ray Gruver is robocalling his customers to wish them happy thanksgiving. Fuck you Ray!
Alright, I don't know Ray Gruver. He may be a decent fellow for all I know. But whenever I visit my family in PA and see that billboard with his face as I enter town from the east, I become irritated. Perhaps it's the beard. At the risk of being judgemental, I'm not sure that this is the kind of thing that encourages visitors to be excited about showing up on the Olympic Peninsula. I get the whole big fish in a small pond thing, but perhaps it's time for the community to move on to something that's beneficial to the public at large.
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At least the town didn't smell like burning plastic today. I was told it was thieves burning "the evidence" (packaging) of things they steal, burning it in their stoves. Or it's the particulates!
Yeah, fuck you Ray, that call cost me ten cents.
Looks to me like it's downtown that's getting "topped." Business after business after business leaving (with Cottage Queen just the latest). Empty storefront after empty storefront. And the city wasting millions of dollars on a Shiny New Waterfront Sidewalk! that no one cares about, and that doesn't add to the commercial appeal of downtown, and that sucks money and energy away from other, more pressing issues in Port Angeles.
Yes, despite the absolutely brilliant leadership of Barb Frederick, downtown is clearly dying. Yes, despite the absolutely brilliant leadership of Cherie Kidd (among others), Port Angeles is dying. Soon there'll just be City Hall, Nippon, and possibly a convenience store or two left.
So, I guess the message this Thanksgiving is to be thankful that the absolute worst is yet to come, so some people might still have time to get out before the last leg is cut out from under Port Angeles.
They say Port Townsend is a nice place to live...
Reminds me of the lone, scraggly trees left by loggers as "habitat", as one drives around the peninsula. No one can say that looks attractive.
Or, like the butchered trees along roads after the utility line crews get done.
A park is supposed to be a place of beauty, where people go to rest and restore themselves. They are supposed to be a nice place to recreate, not just be some ugly space that has to exist because of some planning mandate.
I know Ray, he is okay, but I don't like him spanning me with phone calls and I've told his office girls that before.
Characteristics of a TEABAGGER PARK:
No trees
No grass
Usually made of sub standard cement
Usually quite permanent in nature, yet requires expensive upkeep
Ugly
Ridiculed
Rarely used
BowlingJOe... Yes, it must be the beard. No one like beards. People with beards are clearly evil. Like you said, tourists see men with beards on the Olympic Peninsula and turn around and head back to Seattle where no one has beards. Women and small children run from men with beards. Other men slit their wrists on the spot. The community should move on, indeed, and ban beards in Port Angeles. Also, they should seize all privately held billboards and put up their own advertising welcoming people to the area. Maybe a saw blade? Definitely not a man with a hint of facial or body hair! Wax those arms and legs men of Port Angeles! For the tourists!!
Beards. Jesus.
Interesting article in the Sequim paper about the Sequim businesses that are opposed to those innovative ways to inexpensively nourish oneself - those evil things...food trucks.
Pretty much all of the fucking teabagger OBSTRUCTIONISTS are opposed to them!
Danny Thomas said, "There are two types of people in the world, givers and takers. Takers might eat better, but givers sleep better."
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unrelated, 5:04 - it was one word, "beard". Was tongue in cheek, too. Your tirade about one random word was humorless. Interesting though, when teabaggers attempt humor. I think, perhaps, that Bowling Joe's comment about the beard was a veiled attempt at pointing out that it's not "just one thing" about Clallam that sucks.
Clallam is rural America. Rural America has always had a higher number of old, white, haters, things are better here now, just doesn't seem so, in comparison to some places, because big cities have become so "tolerant". And peaceful...per capita. It's more dangerous in Clallam! And it's 98% white! Go figure!
What really pisses them off, this, and many other "freeloaders" are going to have health insurance soon!
And then, after a year or so of good mental counseling in Tacoma, where they will help me unravel years of hate, isolation, and fear, I'm moving back to my hometown of PA, liberated and EMBOLDENED, and will increase the size of the labor pool and will take a job away from your crack smoking nephew!
I wasn't implying, or didn't meat to imply, at all, that Mr. Gruver was an old hater. We are what we are, and Mr. Gruver obviously has a better marketing plan (can you say snail mail spamming?) than let's say, the hearing aid guy? That guy needs a new ad, that creepy smile, the mountains, the lab coat, it's a feast for the neurotic personality. Makes me want to stab my ears with ice picks. And he would JUST LOVE THAT!!! ;)
Beards are neat - and are NOT just fun to sit on! Crazy/anti-social people, the types obviously over represented here, I would imagine like people with beards more than others, because so many facial features are hidden, easier to interpret, or not so much clutter, body language type stuff to deal with.
I'm in Caldwell, ID tonight. This shithole makes PA look like a resort.
Saw a poll on the TV news last night, asking how many folks bought some "Black Friday" item yesterday.
20% said they had.
Not that number in Port Angeles, where the Walmart parking lot was packed to the maximum Thursday night.
Maybe that should be the new Port Angeles slogan: "We like Walmart best."
We have a nice Wal-Mart. I've only lived here fucking forever, at least they treat me like a local, not a tourist, not that that should matter at all, and smile. Everyone there. Customer service matters! Also nice to buy shoes there, and not have them fall apart. Guess they don't buy into the lets sell seconds to tourists bullshit.
YOU WILL SAVE A TON SHOPPING THERE, and look at all the energy we save not having to drive to Sequim or Silverdale! Remember that!?
So, you save a ton, and they will be nice to you! Sam the evil founder has been dead forever, every other store like that in town uses their biz model, OR WORSE. I'm glad to know they were packed Thursday. Fucking PDN would never report that.
Yes, but so much of the stuff that Walmart sells is such crap! Not all of it, but most of it.
As more and more small stores close around town, we can see how well the Walmart approach to building and supporting community works.
We all love scapegoats, don’t we?
We “hate” Wal-mart, which in turn, enables us to buy our shitty Chinese slave-labor “bargains” at Target and Penny’s. ( Or “Locally” at Swain’s for that matter).
We “hate” the City Council, the PABA, The PADA, the EDC, Haugwood, Kidd, some shitbird Insurance Guy on a billboard, Billy the sexist poster, Tom and his Blog, for allowing “just anybody” to post, probably me for just being an asshole, etc…which in turn, enables us to ignore the fact we’re doing fuck nothing to remedy our intolerable situation.
Truth is, we’re all fucking fascists, regardless of political ideology. Cons don’t care that they’re greedy pigs (in fact they’re kinda proud of it) … and Libs just hold their noses (In their pussyfied way) and bitch wile they consume resources and benefits at the same rate.
Ain’t a one of us gives a shit that our smart phones and tech junk are manufactured in plants where Chinese peasants paint “Help Us” (in English) on the roof, just before they jump. You ever wonder how many dead and crippled civilians we get to the gallon? Nobody gives a damn about what happened to that 10 year old Sri-Lankan kid that sewed our underwear. We all survive on booty stolen, one way or another, from the Third World.
Quit Bitchin’.
Only 32,594 minutes left to shop before Christmas.
Billy the sexist poster doesn't do any christmas shopping. Unless I have a reason to shop at Ambrosia.
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WTF - great post! Billy's not a sexist. One liberal/pussy jumped on him. I think it's cool he wasn't jumped on here. He's not a sexist, because he has a good heart. Billy's sort of the K-Mart version of Burroughs? :)
Speaking of herds, sex, love, hate and being "jumped on", look at the "expert" comment/advice from Mr. Family Guy at the PDN article about the AIDS walk by the new Rainbow Club at our college. Growing pains! Ouch!
Yeah, "Quit Bitchin'". No need to be concerned. We're Americans, and we can do what ever we want.
Don't tell me things I don't want to know. Don't make me think about troubling things that might result in me changing.
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