Mark, Jere Lille wrote with some ideas for you. I think you will probably get a notification, but just in case you don’t, I’m sending one, too.

Thanks for the ideas, Jere Lulle. I don’t know if Mark was going to be there for more than the one day. Since I don’t know well how this site works, I don’t know if Mark will get a notification that you have given this response to his question, so I’m going to make a comment, too, to be sure he sees what you have said.

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, even the Canadians who had theirs last month.

As I see it, it doesn’t have to be rushed to occur on Thanksgiving, itself. Take the time to plan it and do it anywhere in the “holiday” season, essentially now through New Year’s

AND, someone unconnected to the “pure friendship” gesture could be passing out Aftermath Foundation cards. That’s as friendly and uncontroversial an action as you could do., IMO, but of course OSA would spin it as the most heinous of ‘hate speech’

That’s easy to fix. Just don’t TELL them you’re an SP. Unless you’re easily recognized like Mark Bunker or Mike Rinder or Leah, if you don’t give any truly identifying information such as your full name, they’ll never know, If I were down there, I think it’d be great to fire up a grill and broil up some hamburgers and hot dogs down by the water. There’s gotta be some place which can be used near the downtown, if only at the marina — I’ve never seen a marina that didn’t have some sort of picnic area. Trouble is, the Marina’s slip rates are outrageous; a minimum of $270 though I saw some note that there were some daytime tie-ups for no charge — so cruisers can go see the Aquarium, I suppose.

Bix, the CO$ ain’t got nuttin’ on Islam’s use of “peaceful” front-groups trying to improve Islam’s reality as a hate-mongering, destructive ‘religion’ bent on destroying everyone who doesn’t believe exactly as they do. Witness the internecine conflicts between the various Islamic sects, not to mention their absolutely despising any Western country — basically any country whose citizens have a chance of having it better than they can have.
ING is “Islam network group” whose site paints a pretty picture completely at odds with what the Islamic leaders demand of their followers. Khomeini and al-baghdadi are prime examples, ISIS is their army.(with just enough separation to give them plausible deniability.)

What a MAJOR understatement. In my experience, the better days were akin to ceasing to hit my head with a hammer; felt LOTS better, even though there was still an aching headache remaining.

AND the SO might bite him.