Here's the headline the PDN pulled from this "You're all gonna die!" Council meeting:
Port Angeles Council told of casualties, destruction of a massive quake
The headline does not seem to have captured the urgency and excitement of a presentation that centered on thousands and thousands of Clallam County residents dying in a massive earthquake.
Which is, of course, par for the course with the PDN. They have never really been known for accuracy, though it is an interesting case of them missing an opportunity to spread The Fear, which they so often prefer to do. But, this was a what if kind of thing. A hypothetical.
The PDN's "news coverage" continues to be as fuzzy
as this photo they printed of Jim Buck. Quality is Job None!
Or perhaps they were considering the messenger. Jim Buck's record as an elected representative leans way, way right. NARAL and the ACLU both rated him at 0% supportive. The Washington Sierra Club was able to generate a 20% supportive rating. But the Washington Conservative Union (the only union conservatives like, doncha know) gave good ol' Jim a 90% rating, while the NRA gave him a solid gold A+. Of course, the PDN also skews way, way conservative, so it's no surprise they gave Buck so much coverage, despite the lack of a screaming headline to match.
But an earthquake is a what if, something that could happen tomorrow, or could happen 100 years from now. Who knows for sure? However, one thing we do know for sure is that the same Port Angeles City Council is on a totally unsustainable financial path, one that has already become a slow-motion disaster.
So wouldn't you love to see a headline like this:
Port Angeles Council told of destruction, lives ruined by crushing debt and incompetent fiscal policies
And hey, aren't conservatives supposed to be the fiscally conservative politicians? So couldn't good ol' right-wing Jim Buck come back for an encore and tear into spendthrifts like (Republican) Cherie Kidd, (Republican) Pat Downie and (Republican) Dan Gase? Couldn't he? Shouldn't he?
And...No. Of course that won't happen, any more than the PDN will turn into an honest and accurate newspaper. The City will continue to spend beyond their means. Infrastructure will continue to crumble. Drugs and poverty and a pervasive sense of hopelessness will continue to ravage the community. And the PDN will continue to ignore it all. That special kind of Clallam County Quality will be maintained.
The PDN can NEVER tell the truth of what is going on around here. It has to always twist "news" around to make Port Angeles look wonderful, great, generous and benevolent.
ReplyDeleteRemember, it is real estate, and real estate money that runs this town. And runs to County. It is the real estate industry that pays for the bulk of the ads in the PDN.
Most of the activities of local government involve real estate. Zoning, planning, development.
So, the PDN has to make the place look wonderful. Minimize talk about things like earthquakes. People don't want to buy houses that are going to be devastated.
Speaking of bucks, there's another story of note in today's fishwrap. Bob Martin is (finally!!!) retiring from Clallam County. He's been there over twenty years, doing nothing but harm, all while drawing an inflated salary. You want to talk about bucks stopping, think about the over one million bucks that Bob Martin has been paid to be a stooge for all manner of bad ideas at Clallam County. One million dollars of your money, my money, all to pay a guy who knows and does nothing.
ReplyDeleteThe article touts Martin's "involvement" in the Carlsborg sewer fiasco. Though not in those terms. Way back when, as many of you remember, the county brought in expert consultants to deal with the Carlsborg issue. They were, as consultants go, highly qualified. They came up with a lower risk, lower cost suggestion to deal with it.
But rather than go with plan "A" from their own expert consultants, the county chose to go with plan "B", as in, "do what Bob says". He's the one who said to pipe it to Sequim, over the river, etc. More complex, riskier, more expensive. All seemingly because know nothing Bob Martin said so.
It remains a (no pun intended) watershed moment in terms of Clallam County idiocy and incompetence. It's also completely inexplicable. Why the hell did Bob Martin have such authority? Even if he was fronting for others, the impression was still given that he made the decisions on this issue (and others), and that's a risky perception to allow.
But there it was. Bonehead Bob wandering the halls of the courthouse, coffee cup in hand, wasting time and drawing a fat salary, all while only occasionally being called upon to issue or prop up yet another bad idea coming down the pike. The Tweedle DUMB to Jim Jones' Tweedle Dee.
So good riddance Bob Martin, I wish we could get our money back. I also wish I could believe that you will be replaced by someone who knows what they're doing. I wish, but you won't. Tweedle DUMB mach 2 is undoubtedly all lined up.
Bob Martin is responsible for the half million dollar Lange settlement by issuing an illegal building permit on land that was not supposed to be developed. This the county attorney's office tried to protect for 25 years until Lange finally hung in and won in court. Add another million in failed attorney fees to this mess and he alone cost taxpayers over one and a half million. Good bye and good riddance.
Deletewe seem to have a never ending supply of Tweedle Dumbs around here
DeleteHey CK! But the BUCKS do keep coming to Port Angeles.
ReplyDeleteLook where virtually all the projects the City is spending all this money on is located. All downtown, along the waterfront.
All the projects that the City has indebted it's residents to, are guaranteed to be destroyed by the expected earthquake and tsunami.
That's called quality leadership. Quality planning by our professional staff.
Even within government, you would be hard pressed to find credible professionals not telling civic planners to locate new projects out of known hazard zones. Don't rebuild in flood zones. Build new critical infrastructure in areas not prone to anticipated or historic natural disasters.
But in Port Angeles, they put the most expensive project ever built right along the waterfront, on fill.
They've built fake beaches.
They've built a cement promenade.
They've built windmills right at the water's edge.
It's because Port Angeles is *special*, dontcha know.
What? Me worry?
You bring up many excellent points and an important angle when pondering "Port Angeles preparedness." Thank you!
DeleteWhy do things the smart way, looking to the future, when you can be Port Angeles, and build for certain failure?
DeleteEven now the city's "brain trust" is intent on developing a "Fine Arts Center/Convention Center on this same liquifaction foundation. All of the local tribes are moving their infrastructure to higher ground but not these brain-trust idiots. The leader, a former superior court judge, is the one who restored Madam's rights after 3 felonies. That is the level of thinking we have leading the charge.
Deletebecause you can't stay an impoverished county and get all those great benes if you become successful. This is welfare mentality, and the whole ploy are the "insiders" sucking mega bucks from all those grants --- literally little piggies at the mama pigs teats.
DeleteThey don't see HOW it could possibly hurt every single other living person in Clallam County. They get theirs, so they are good.
And, the people who know about this are given some money, for some service, no matter how inflated in value or even if they fail to deliver --- to shut them up.
The thing is, these aren't masterminds. They're dumb clucks who swagger like they own the place, but in reality, it only takes a few people to stand up and speak up.
The county would be a whole lot better off with a lot of these boneheads behind bars, or bankrupt.
The real story is at the Port.
ReplyDeleteThey can't walk away from the CRTC and the commitment to take the recycled composite materials which were required as quid-pro-quo for all that State funding McAleer is so proud of having procured.
In addition she recently was quoted in the PDN that a significant property owner 140 acres) at Sequim Bay had put holdings up for sale. This is either false or she has disclosed confidential information.
Trouble brewing and McAleer is going to make Fluoride Issues pale in comparison.
I cannot believe that the Port Angeles city council would come allow Jim Buck to lecture them on any topic.
ReplyDeleteJim Buck is a zealot. He's a nut. He has no credibility whatsoever.
Which, now that I think about it, makes him seem like a perfect match for our city council, actually. I'm sure he has a stake the outcome of stoking this fear. Maybe he's gone into insurance, or is shilling emergency food buckets like Jim Bakker, or...? Whatever it is, it's hard to believe he's just doing this out of the goodness of his heart. Jim Buck has no heart.
And our council have no brains. So I don't expect Buck dire warnings to elicit much by way of a response. Like CK points out, the city is doing fine at crumbling all on its own. no earthquake required.
Just another scam artist worshipped by the scammers themselves.
Deletethe council gets no choice in who shows up -- talk to the staff, they run everything.
DeleteGreat blog, but how many times has the topic of this thread been repeated over the years? Everyone already know PA is a shithole, and its leaders worse than that.
ReplyDeleteYes, but it is important to note that Port Angeles and it's so-called leadership KEEP the place a shithole, and KEEP doing stupid things, regardless of being warned or told of better ways.
DeleteThis is important because there still are people out there who think " If only..." Port Angeles can change, be saved, or be salvaged. The years of documenting all the never ending idiocy shows this is just not going to happen.
Anybody who invests in Port Angeles is an idiot. There are just so many better places.
From comments on PDN's story if McAleer/Cobb debate at PABA (note: I am not Daniel Binswanger): Daniel Binswanger
ReplyDelete12 hours ago
On September 19, 2016, I was hired by the Port of Port Angeles as its Director of Business Development. Shortly after being hired, Commissioner McAleer and Executive Director Karen Goschen asked me to meet with McAleer associate Fred McConkey to explore the purchase of his property at Highway 101 and Sequim Avenue. Ms. McAleer informed me it was her intention to liquidate the Port's John Wayne Marina and to use those funds to purchase Mr. McConkey's Sequim property. Also, part of my duties at the Port included the oversight of Port real estate and property managment, as well as, the Composites Recycling Technology Center. Within weeks of being hired by the Port, I learned of a financial discrepancy in the lease amount being charged to the CRTC of which could cause the Port to forfeit a more than $2,000,000.00 reimbursable grant.
Who made that grant?
DeleteDaniel Binswanger
ReplyDelete12 hours ago
Continued: Upon informing Executive Director Ms. Goschen and all three Port Commissioners, I was told to write a letter justifying the financial discrepancy and Commissioner Steve Burke suggested we "do a shell game with the money". I objected to anything other than 100% transparency with this issue which was met with extreme hostility. I subsequently reported this issue to the Ports Human Resources Manager Holly Hairell who in turn reported my objection to the Port's Director of Administration and Finance John Nutter who in turn informed Executive Director Karen Goschen. Within hours of my reporting the financial discrepancy regarding the CRTC lease, Ms. Goschen placed me on leave and ultimately dismissed me.
"Steve Burke suggested we "do a shell game with the money"."
DeleteOf course. What else would local government here do?
Daniel Binswanger
ReplyDelete12 hours ago
Continued: I am writing these comments because I had a first hand view of what seems to be gross negligence and impropriety at the Port for the benefit of those at the top and their cronies. I objected to and reported what was clearly improper action by government employees and officials and was summarily dismissed. I believe it is vitally important the citizens of Clallam County be aware of how senior management and elected officials have overseen the publics assets, and I have first hand knowledge of what seemed to be gross negligence and potentially unlawful actives by them. For the sake of all Clallam County citizens, I sincerely hope wrongdoing at the Port is exposed and corrected once and for all. Sincerely, Daniel Binswanger
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/politics/marinas-topic-of-debate-at-port-of-port-angeles-candidate-forum/
As was pointed out earlier, it is all about real estate. Having a family member of a major real estate company (McAleer) in a position of political power is bad, bad, bad. Clear conflict of interests.
DeleteColleen McAleer is married to David Gilles whose residence is Bainbridge Island.
DeleteColleen's day job is president of the Washington Business Alliance in Seattle.
Sure she owns a home in Sequim but where is she spending her time?
Driving back and forth between Sequim and Seattle or with her husband on Bainbridge Island?
Dammit CK!
ReplyDeleteBeen trying to tell you about McAleer but all you did was make fun of the misspelling of her last name. You should be all over the whistle blower who turns out to be the wolf in sheep's clothing.
McAleer chased away States and Binswanger who filled the role of Director of Business Development (Colleen's role as an employee).
States quietly leaves 12 months after CRTC is formed but those inside know it was about coverup required by McAleer.
Binswanger lays out why he was terminated from his role in posts on the PDN copied above.
Dan Gase (Mr. Inside) now fills the role that fleshed out inappropriate acts and practices. Mr. Gase will not bring forward any information will he?
The problem is McAleer, Goschen, Nutter (who is an OMC Hospital Board Commissioner). All three should be gone for unethical behavior worse than PC City Council or County Commission.
We do remember Queen Scam-master Karen Rogers is also on that same OMC Hospital Board.
DeleteGase will do as a good little Clallam County boy should do -- shut up and take whatever abuse comes his way.
DeleteI'm listening to you 6:09am.
Karen Rogers is pure smoke screen. She is on the OMC Foundation which raises funds for the hospital at various dinners Anne auctions.
DeleteNutter is an elected hospital Commisioner. Two different things. Nutter is being groomed to be next generation. Former PA police officer who is too young to be retired. How does he end up the director of Finance at the Port? It is part of the grooming process.
I told you to back the fuck off. You have no idea what you are doing. Delete the McAleer posts now or else!
DeleteGosh, I'd sure like to comply with your oh-so-polite request, but, you see, I can't hit the "delete" button what with me being PARALYZED WITH FEAR and all that. Plus, as you so helpfully point out, I have no idea what I'm doing, so...
DeleteThree rational questions for the Port Commissioner McAleer
Delete1) what happened to your promise to hire business minded professionals to run the port operations? An internal promotion of Goschen, Nutter and Gase in the leadership is a fail on your campaign promises.
2) What deliverables are required of the funds the Port received to build the CRTC and isn't the Port ultimately responsible?
3) What rights does the Wayne family have if the Port wanted to sell the John Wayne Marina including but not limited to cash, in-kind, right to purchase, compensation for use of the John Wayne name (because that isn't free)?
We have taken the liberty of forwarding this information to the State Attorney's Generals Office where hopefully they have time to look into this. Just like Colleen McAleer was afforded whistleblower protection that led to her rise in power so should Daniel Binswanger.
DeleteSo, we're back to threats again?
DeleteWhy? Inquiring minds want to know why Colleen McAleer and/or anything about the McAleers is not to be talked about.
They sure like the public's money.
Wow 9:41pm, love the posturing. Where did you learn that? AS a bully in kindergarten? Did your parents teach you that kind of thinking?
DeleteShe's a public figure, and therefore, open season on McAleer's dismal record of serving the public, or should I say SELF-serving the public?
Stop the treats, bubby, or else.... hahahahahaha
Karen Rogers is a psychopath who has run the OMC Foundation with her iron fist, and it hasn't really generated much revenue (except for her) since her sticky little fingers got into the pie.
DeleteJust like when she was Mayor of Port Angeles, don-cha-know?
Don't be stupid CK we have your number. Delete the posts and move along to other topics.
Delete1:25pm
DeleteWow..really? You better get tweezers out to measure that big dicked threat you just posted.
I'll take you on.
I've already purchased the URL McAleer Sucks for website. Wait until it's up.
Then just try and MAKE ME take it down.
While all negatives piled on County, City, Conservatives, and Port well earned the article still makes important points anout liquefaction, tsunami, and readiness. We sit up here and marvel at hurricane response ineptitude of Trump Dynasty thinking probably things can't get any worse for us in our forsaken unemployment pit. Unfortunate truths are the historic economic drivers for area are located where they will be most damaged. Personally didn't know Lincoln Street going up the hill was at risk. On the other hand perhaps this explains the absence of humanity downtown and along the harbor in general.
ReplyDeleteBig quake, we're going to turn into an island, in a beeg, beeg ocean. No roads, no internet, nothing. We'll be sitting here trying to pickup the pieces with the hospital in the drink, all of downtown gone (no real loss) and, mad, crazy chaos.
DeleteWe will have weeks here to ponder what happened, and I'd wager a fair amount of lawlessness.
Get your guns and stock up on the ammo.
Yes, threatening your neighbors is just SO Port Angeles.
DeleteJust like those movies. You sit in your house, blazing away at the marauding hoards of hungry people, desperate after the natural disaster. Boxes of ammunition later, with the bodies of your once fellow residents dead and dying at your property line, the rainbows come out, the triumphant music starts, and everyone is happy.
Right?
Conservatives? Planning?
ReplyDeleteI thought the only thing they talk about is "Less Government, Less taxes". The only thing they seem to want is less costs and less regulation for business.
So, big surprise that virtually all American businesses moved to China. That was really good for America.
And guess which local conservative spent a lot of time in China?
Most conservatives are actually socialists, as they give lip service to privatization and competition as trigger words, but in reality take public money and corporate welfare in countless ways.
DeleteIt would be so much better for public discourse if we talked about facts rather than misleading labels.
Yes, because paying taxes to have street lights come on, basic services, and what we call civilized society is just so wrong.
DeleteAnon @ 8:38 - which politician spent a lot of time in China?
Delete@ 10:51 Jim Buck.
DeleteYou better fucking lay off McAleer or else.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. American styled "Democracy".
DeleteAt least the Mafia in Italy are straight up, and everyone knows the scene. Here we keep pretending we give a shit about "Democracy".
Like we see in Iraq right now? After all the lives lost?
I will lay off McAleer for sure. I will vote for Cobb. Thanks for the advice.
DeleteWould love to know why the troll has such a thing for McAleer? I learn so much more here because our local rag is not a source for information. CK does the community a service.
DeleteThank you whomever put up the Daniel Binswanger stuff. This completely explains how Dan Gase now has that position at the Port. He's a team player, a dumb one, but one none-the-less.
ReplyDeleteHe is not the first or last employee to be dismissed for pointing out problems. This county has a do as I say and not as I do mentality. To move up your must have a very brown nose and closed mouth.
ReplyDeleteAnd no moral compass.
DeleteNutter is an insider who got his commission position at the Hospital (not their foundation) from someone quitting - he was a former employee (like McAleer at the Port) which makes his independence questionable.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.olympicmedical.org/default.aspx?ID=13
Olympic Medical Center's Board of Commissioners hold two public meetings per month in Linkletter Hall at Olympic Memorial Hospital.
John Nutter District 2, Position 1 - to 12/2017
Legislative Advocacy Committee - Chairman
Audit, Budget and Compliance Committee
Mental Health Advisory Committee
Human Resources Committee
May 7, 2009 - John Nutter of Port Angeles has joined Olympic Medical Center’s Board of Commissioners after being officially sworn in on May 6, 2009. Nutter will replace Cindy Witham, who resigned her position as a board member in March.
Nutter, a local Port Angeles police officer and former finance director for Olympic Medical Center.
If Nutter is on the hospital human resource committee, why didn't he advocate for Binswanger instead of having Goschen terminate the guy for bringing forward a concern?
DeleteIsn't Nutter, while a police officer, the one who busted city council candidate O-hole for shoplifting and possession of cocaine? At least give him that credit.
DeleteHey CK, who ever is sending those comments threatening you if you don't lay off McAleer is committing a crime. If you have the IP address you should turn it in to the FBI. There are laws against that stuff. Betcha they are coming out of the IT department of the county.
DeleteHey, Anonymous 8:29 AM...SHHH. You'll spoil the surprise.
DeleteYeah that County IT department has some pretty nasty characters in it. It's really a hornets nest of bad actors.
DeleteRealtors are funneling campaign contributions to McAleer through her husbands business. Conveniently she hasn't taken his last name to blur the transparency.
ReplyDeleteBitch I know where you live. One more word about McAleer. Try me.
ReplyDeleteYawn. It was entertaining the first time. Now you just sound stupid. A good comic knows when the shtick has peaked.
DeleteIt's not schtick, fuckface. I am serious as a heart attack. Go ahead and test me, coward.
DeleteIs that a written or a verbal test?
DeleteAnonymous 9/30 @ 7:31 PM
DeleteMs Colleen McAleer has failed in every effort including a very short Real Estate Career where her brother fired her followed by a brief period as Port Business Development that she hoped to parlay into Port Executive Director.
She has made many enemies and is now endangering Port Operations, Commissioners, management and staff.
Hope that's enough to satisfy you.
Awww...she's got a secret admirer who wants to protect her.
DeleteAwww..that's so cute.
Somehow I don't think she has noticed you, though.
At this point, you are starting to sound like a stalker.
@ Anon 7:31 ROTFLMAO!!!
DeleteNo, really. "It's not schtick, fuckface. I am serious as a heart attack. Go ahead and test me, coward." Is that your picture (of the obese naked nerd in front of his computer) CK has posted in the next thread??
Serious as a heart attack? Give me a break. You probably are on the verge of giving yourself a heart attack because your comedy routine is falling flat.
Okay. Enough. You had your 15 seconds of internet "fame", however pathetic it was. Move on.
You should be cautious, Colleen is running the table. She got Jeff Robb fired, she got Jim Hallett to quit mid-term, John Calhoun to retire, she tried to get Randy Johnson onto the Port but had to settle for Steve Burke.
ReplyDeleteShe will come at anyone who gets in the way of pushing Real Estate sales to Team McAleer.
She has had her run. The CRTC is her baby and when it collapses she will need to leave the state. The economic whole it is creating is mind boggling.
DeleteThe port is on the hook even though the set up a nonprofit as a front.
Where do we store all the pickleball paddles and park benches?
Thanks a lot MaC!
Does anyone know who has the listing on the Fred McKonkey's property in Sequim?
ReplyDeleteYou know that the Timber Advisory Committee (TAC) runs the Port. They are generating most of the revenue through timber exports.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. Remember PenPly, first. Now the former Port Angeles City Council member, Grant Munro, shipping those logs to China from Port property, using Port financed equipment.
DeleteDon't I remember Grant Munro just taking - literally taking - some big pieces of equipment from the bloated corpse of PenPly? The same PenPly who owed so much money to so many? Couldn't that equipment have been sold to help pay some of that debt off? If they had done that, might that not have saved the citizens of Port Angeles from having to pay for the unpaid utility bills (hundreds of thousands of dollars worth) of said dead PenPly?
DeleteDo you mean THAT Grant Munro? Talk about a Grant whore...
If I remember correctly, Grant Munro was one of the partners in PenPly. He was one of the great business minds that saw the opportunities PenPly offered to soak the public for all that money in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs".
DeleteAnd yes, not only was he not required to pay back all those hundreds of thousands of dollars, not only was he allowed to then take equipment from PenPly for his new venture, BUT the Port then went and bought him $500k log handling machinery.
It works well, when you have the right friends.
Well someone forced Binswanger to delete his post from the PDN
ReplyDeleteonce something is posted only the PDN can remove the post. More of our "free press" (ahem) in action.
DeleteThe PDN deletes comments ALL THE TIME. On a not necessarily related topic, their website's "paywall" is a joke.
DeletePDN is a rag. The regional managers are scum. And Mr. Black is a sociopath. That paper isn't even worth wrapping fish in.
DeleteBinswanger posts in PDN story have been deleted. All three are gone, one says .
ReplyDeleteWhew! Good thing they're still available here.
DeleteOh, and on a related note...Currently over 400 pageviews here today...In case anyone is interested.
DeleteThe Port story is bigger than what you have read. It is the real deal and needs more light.
DeleteThey may have pushed Dale Wilson out of business but this blog has a different power base they can't influence.
The 400 hits are half from Team McAleer and half from those tired of the back room dealings she has pulled since her father set her up.
But, nobody actually reads this blog, doncha know! LOL!
DeleteHa! Any hits from Bainbridge Island where McAleer's husband owns a home?
ReplyDeleteThis is supposed to be about earthquake preparedness which is important to the community. I am really disappointed that others have hijacked this thread.
ReplyDeleteWe should all focus on the topic and work together in a collaborative and collegial manner in support of the greater good.
In addition to earthquake preparedness I am firmly committed to improving our schools by supporting bond initiatives for infrastructure. I am also in favor of raising teachers pay commensuratibe with the pay of other local school districts with similar demographics.
Earthquake preparedness is nothing compared to the tidal wave of debt bearing down upon this county. Ever wanted to live in a bankrupt community?
DeleteHey Anon 5:52 Nice that you care.
DeleteDo read the header of this blog. Here, I'll make it easy for you: "Telling the truth about one of the worst, most corrupt places on Earth, and providing more information than the Peninsula Daily News could ever hope to."
So, yes, there is much that needs to be done, but we first have all the corruption and deceit this blog is committed to exposing to deal with.
Look at all those that HAVE tried to make Port Angeles a better place, and have been systematically run out of town. For years. You aiming to be next?
Anonymous 10:38 PM is right on target. A natural tsunami is always a maybe thing. But the manmade wave of debt is a sure thing. The ability of local governing bodies to cope with either of them is seriously in doubt.
DeleteThese assholes have already planned how to profit on the earthquake, tsunami and recovery. wouldn't be surprised if one of the usual suspects has already cornered the market on bottled water after the shake out. "Never let a disaster go to waste."
DeleteCalling them assholes would be a disservice to assholes everywhere.
DeleteThey're nothing but criminal psychopaths who care nothing whatsoever about the city or the citizens..
CK - the number of posts and looks/hits says the port is over-ripe (rotten) and while McAleer should take the brunt as being the longest there, you won't find much love for Connie or Steve.
ReplyDeleteBinswanger must have signed a severance agreement with restrictions on what he can say but the cat is out of the bag.
Know you're not a newspaper but thanks for giving the story some legs to run.
https://youtu.be/8sUdnpWWOuU
ReplyDeleteAt 22 seconds, Cherie Kidd says “The Strait of Juan de Fuca, an inlet of the ATLANTIC Ocean.”
I checked it, folks, and it's true!
DeleteMaybe Cherie is confused about what being "contemporary" means. Maybe she's trying to be bi-coastal?
Maybe you need an entire section of this site devoted to Kidd?
Delete