We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt
America has experienced this crisis before. Every few generations, a class of greedy oligarchs rise to power who are so intoxicated by wealth, so determined to hoard more, more, more, that they become a threat not just to our economy but to our democracy itself.
— It happened in the 1850s when the plantation aristocracy rose up, destroyed democracy in the South, and then tried to conquer the entire nation.
— It happened again when the Robber Barons of the Roaring 20s crushed unions and helped trigger the Republican Great Depression.
— And it’s happening today in the aftermath of the Reagan/Bush/Trump Revolution, as billionaire fortunes have exploded over the past 44 years and the American middle class has collapsed.
-Thom Hartmann
Chris Berrie
Rockaway Beach
Zachary Stocks of Oregon Black Pioneers will present a detailed biography of York at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum on February 28 at 6 pm. The presentation will include York’s experiences during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, his life before and after, and his place within national African American history. The event is free, but registration is required as seats are limited.
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-man-called-york-presentation-tickets-1981967991616?aff=oddtdtcreator
This program will be held at 10:30 Monday, February 9 at the North Tillamook Library in Manzanita.
The violins used in this program were purchased through a grant funded by Clatsop County Cultural Coalition and Oregon Cultural Trust. We thank both organizations for their generosity.
The free readings for children ages 2 to 5 are planned monthly in partnership with the Astoria Library, North Tillamook Library in Manzanita, and the Seaside Library. For more information visit North Oregon Coast Symphony’s website at www.nocsymphony.org.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You have a lot of the former and none of the latter.
There are only 5,000 characters in a reply here on BBQ, and refuting misinformation takes far more work than it does to rattle it off in the first place.
In the words of Jonathan Swift: “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect.”
As I said in my earlier reply, I did not endeavor to disprove all your false allegations- merely show that your arguments are spurious in that they are not based in reality. It should not be on me to disprove your radical assertions- you should bring the receipts for the claims you make.
There’s a link below with the facts about Jan 6. There is lots of documentation of President Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost. The insurrectionists may have believed the election was stolen, but they believed conspiracy theories without evidence.
Many such cases, these days.
This is where Occam’s Razor can be helpful. I leave it here for your consideration.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Also, while I’m here: Liz Cheney didn’t run a court. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6th_Committee
They made referrals to the DOJ for prosecution, but did not do the charging themselves. They also didn’t sentence anyone. Judges did that, and then President Trump pardoned almost 1500 of the criminals, some of whom have gone on to reoffend.
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/at-least-33-pardoned-insurrectionists-face-other-criminal-charges-but-many-are-now-going-free/
The American project is rife with abuses of power- slavery, segregation, the Bay of Pigs, Grenada, Haiti, El Salvador, Iran-Contra, Panama, the MOVE bombing, COINTELPRO, Citizens United, the Trail of Tears, the Indian Wars, Indian Termination Policy, ICE, drone strikes, the Powell memo- and I think they are all bad and that we shouldn’t do them any more or ever again. =)
To BBQ Readers Generally:
Hello! Your hair looks great! If you listen to that guy up there, do so with the largest of grains of salt, please.
Wikipedia has the following on the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
All the numbers at the end of a sentence on Wikipedia link to a source for the claim or statement made in the article- it has been communally fact checked and verified. The riot was not incited by “feds” though there were some federal employees, military members, and law enforcement officers among the mob of white supremacists, fascists, and disgruntled supporters of President Trump.
I implore you to question things you read or hear- especially things that rile you up or sound too good (or too bad!) to be true. The SIFT method is a good place to start:
guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=1241077&p=9082322
Stop!
Investigate the Source
Find Better Coverage
Trace Claims, Quotes, and Media to their Original Context
Also, because it got brought up a lot recently- I’m a socialist! It’s fantastic and I think you should try it. A lot of the best things in this country are socialist: Social Security, the interstate highway system, national parks, AmTrak, libraries, public schools, the EPA, the National Weather Service, even the good ol’ Manzanita Transfer Station.
This socialist has a name, and it’s
Jeremiah Shepersky
Deadline to apply is this Friday, February 6th.
Application found on the City Homepage: ci.manzanita.or.us
I want to acknowledge two vital organizations serving our community, starting with the Food Pantry at the Methodist Church in Nehalem. This pantry is a part of Nehalem Bay Community Services and provides essential resources to those in need. They accept donations of food, clothing, linens, pet food, and more. The food pantry is open to everyone on Monday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM, and on Wednesday from 1 PM to 5 PM.
If you are able to contribute, please consider donating items such as canned meats, peanut butter, canned fruits and vegetables, soups, and similar goods. Needs may change weekly, so when making a donation, it is helpful to ask what is currently needed.
Nehalem Bay Community Services also offers a Senior Lunch program every Tuesday and Thursday beginning at 11:30 AM. Financial support for this program is always appreciated. If you would like to make a donation, please send a check to Nehalem Bay Community Services, PO Box 232, Nehalem, Oregon 97131. Be sure to indicate on your check how you would like your donation to be used. Your support helps ensure the continued success of these important community lunches. Lunches are also delivered.
The second organization I wish to highlight is the North County Food Bank, located in Wheeler. The food bank is open every Tuesday from noon to 3 PM and serves as a lifeline for many in our area. While the clothing bank is temporarily closed due to the construction of a new food bank building, your monetary donations are especially valuable at this time. Cash donations allow the NCFB to purchase food at reduced prices, stretching your contribution further.
The NCFB is building a new facility because they have lost the building they started serving from 30 years ago. Support for this new facility is greatly needed and appreciated. When donating, please indicate how you would like your contribution to be used. Large donations are particularly necessary for this project, so please consider reaching out to others who may be interested in supporting the food bank’s new building.
At our Protest on Saturday, February 7, you can drop off checks or food for either organization. Just tell us where you want your donation directed and we will make sure it gets there. Thank you!
Resonance is warmly attuning to and deeply understanding what we or another feel, think, and need, even if we don’t like what we or the other person is doing and are hoping we’ll change behavior.
Huehca Omeyocan will perform an immersive cultural event with Indigenous music and dance ensemble dedicated to sharing the ancestral traditions of the Anahuac (Mesoamerican) people through performance, percussion, and movement and in honor of our oceans.
Join Bay City Arts Center, along with local watershed advocacy groups in celebrating 10 years of Huehca Omeyocan’s cultural dance honoring our healing ocean. This is an immersive cultural event dedicated to sharing the ancestral traditions of the Anahuac (mesoamerican) people. Join us!
6pm – 8:30pm at Bay City Arts Center 5680 A St, Bay City
Tickets on are $20, kids 12 and under free
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Friends of Netarts Bay Watershed, Estuary, Beach, and Sea – WEBS, Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP) and Lower Nehalem Community Trust staff will be around to tell you all about what there is to love about wetlands, specifically the estuaries that make our North Coast so biodiverse and special.
Craft supplies provided. See you there from 6PM – 8PM on Thursday, February 12th!
The self-described socialist wrote, about feds killing the small, unarmed woman Ashley Babbit, who was protesting on J6:
“She was climbing through broken glass of one of the doors when U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd fired a single shot to stop her entry to the secured area. This stopped her from crossing the threshold and scared her accomplices away, preventing their advance into the breach. While her death is regrettable, I feel that his use of force is one of the few captured on video that remains defensible.”
Frist of all, the above is hardly a reason to end somebody’s life.
Second, I am so glad that you do not work for ICE!
The socialist went on to write:
“I do not mourn Babbitt. I am angry that her co-insurrectionists were pardoned.
My heart breaks at the fate of Good and Pretti, because they were trying to make the world a better place.”
I do mourn for Ashley, as I mourn for the two shot dead in MN and for anyone, of any belief, race, sexual orientation, etc., that is shot dead by out of control feds.
Again, I am so glad the socialist does not work for ICE, and I hope he doesn’t own a firearm.
If interested, read on as I will explain my view of the events of J6. If you are not interested, don’t read what I am about to write.
If you watched the video I posted showing Ashley’s murder, you will see Pelosi’s Capitol police standing by and doing nothing while feds – in my view – are smashing windows. My favorite is the fed – in my view – with the mask and wrapped in the Don’t Tread On Me flag!
I believe J6 was a riot orchestrated by the feds. Ray Epps is one of the feds who got found out, and he can be researched. Much like the ‘umbrella man’ in Minneapolis the first time around, who was seen lighting fires, and was likely a fed, there were lots of feds doing the bulk of the violence and window smashing on J6.
The reason why Pelosi’s Capitol police opened the gates for the protesters was so they would trespass, get charged with sedition, and then the dems could try to link the sedition to Drumf, so he couldn’t run in ’24.
A huge flag for any free thinker:
Dick Cheney’s daughter ran the kangaroo court(!), and that fact alone should get the attention of anyone who remembers the most anti-American (9/11) and most murderous (Iraq) administration of my life: Dubya and Dick. She handed down extreme draconian sentences to folks who were wandering the Capitol grounds as if they were tourists. 20 years???? This is why I wrote a piece on this site when Drumf deployed the National Guard to Portland – so young activists wouldn’t be arrested and sentenced like Lizzo sentenced j6ers.
The socialist also cites the NYT in his ‘media literacy’ paragraph as an example of objective reporting. This is the same war-war-war!!! NYT that published treasonous Dick Cheney’s WMD lie from BS Italian intelligence that Saddam was procuring yellowcake, that NYT article written by fellow treason gal Judith Miller. In my view, the NYT has always been nothing but propaganda for the 1%. And the NYT LOVES WAR.
I would also like to point out that the socialist did not deny the many anti-American murderous atrocities of treason committed by Team Blue that I wrote about – only finding issue with the number of executive orders I wrongly ascribed to King Obama. King Obama, however, still holds the record for persecutions of whistleblowers and journalists.
I did forget to mention my favorite lie from King Biden though: After US special forces and Norwegian special forces blew up Russia’s Nordstream pipeline, an act of war – done to escalate NATOs war against Russia – King Biden lied to the world, and to HIS OWN VOTERS, claiming that Russia blew up their own pipeline! That act of terrorism from King Biden resulted in the single largest release of methane ever, if that matters to any climate change folks.
Finally, I believe Biden did in fact steal the election. As did JFK and Dubya did twice.
I believe J6 turned quite rapidly into a riot orchestrated by the feds.
I also believe those protesting on J6 had a great case and great cause for protesting the election. And, I think they were trying to make the world a better place, by standing up for democracy, as THEY BELIEVED THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN.
Bottom line: there was no reason for that officer to murder Ashly Babbit.
Yes, this horrific capacity in humanity for shallow evil and lies has always existed, but so has our capacity for deep love and truth. Those of us that share this collective grief and rage about our current reality are truly expressing our maintained connection to our own humanity and love for Life, and that too, has always existed. Therefore, the conditions are still the same. Life is asking of us in this moment, and every moment, the same thing that it has always been asking of us humans, simply, to risk it all. Life is asking us today, as it always has, how alive can we be, for our lives? How human, can we become? How tender? How soft? How honest? How complex? How open? How vulnerable? How connected? How kind? How patient? How curious? How amazed? How brave? Given all that is on the table, how much are you willing to give of your life, for Life? For the future ones? What are you here to do, really? Let us take our places in the long and distinguished line of people who have stood for Life. Let’s risk it all.
We’re all going to die, this I know, and none of us know when, or how. Friends, I beg of you, make a place for grief in your life. If we are going to do the true, honest work of meeting Life on it’s own terms, knowing that everything we love, including our own lives, we will lose, there we will find the courage to live our lives for Life. Life does not want us to stay safe or small, it does want to know what kind of ancestor do you want to be?
We are collecting *clean and dry* flexible plastic films, including: bread bags, ziplock bags, bubble wrap, bubble lined plastic mailers, grocery bags, dry cleaning bags, etc. Bring your stash anytime during our open hours: Thursday through Monday, 10am-5pm (closed Tue/Wed).
The plastic we collect will go directly to Trex, an outdoor decking and furniture manufacturer. When the community recycles enough pounds of plastics, Trex will provide an outdoor bench in return. Win win!
Green Coast Market is located at 117 S. Miller Street in downtown Rockaway Beach. We are a local foods store proudly featuring over 100 small farmers and food producers from Oregon (and nearby WA). SNAP/EBT happily accepted.
Also, mark your calendars for our one-year anniversary festivities! We opened on February 14 last year, and we’ll be celebrating all weekend long with demos, tastings, free samples and more.
As Rep Javadi says, Since 2003, 70% of TLT moneys collected MUST be used for marketing tourism. He points out that overnight visitors contribute to that tax and that “day trippers” do not. And that ALL visitors use our infrastructure that needs to be maintained and paid for: water, bathrooms, roads, police, etc.
And in Tillamook County the other 30% of TLT money HAS to be used for roads.
So how do tourist communities maintain their infrastructure when they see their population double, triple and even quadruple during high tourist season?
He is co-sponsoring HB 4148 along with our Senator, Suzanne Weber, and others, which allows cities and counties to change the percentage that goes to marketing while leaving at least 40% for marketing.
This is a good start to fixing this problem. Please our legislators with your support.
Rep Cyrus Javadi
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1432
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, H-373, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Rep.CyrusJavadi@oregonlegislature.gov
Website: www.oregonlegislature.gov/javadi
Senator Suzanne Weber
Capitol Phone: 503-986-1716 Disrict Phone: 503-300-4493
Capitol Address: 900 Court St. NE, S-405, Salem, Oregon 97301
Email: Sen.SuzanneWeber@oregonlegislature.gov
Website: www.oregonlegislature.gov/weber
From Rep Javadi’s newsletter:
“This is the same bill we introduced during the long legislative session in 2025. No changes. Just more support.
Senators Weber and Nerron Misslin, along with Representative Julie Walters, myself and many lawmakers are sponsoring the bill.
Now, before anyone reaches for the fainting couch about a bill that raises taxes or ruins tourism, let’s be clear about what it doesn’t do.
It doesn’t eliminate tourism promotion.
It doesn’t raid marketing budgets.
It doesn’t punish hotels, short-term rentals, or the people who make their living welcoming visitors.
It doesn’t raise taxes. It doesn’t increase rates. And, it doesn’t create a new program or a new bureaucracy.
What it does (quietly, almost modestly) is restore balance.
Cities and counties would still be required to devote at least 40 percent of lodging tax revenue to tourism-related spending. That’s more guaranteed promotion than almost any other industry receives from a consumer tax. And, this is important, if a city or county wanted to invest 100% of the tax on tourism promotion, they absolutely can.
That’s the beauty of it. Cities and counties can decide how to meet the needs of their communities. Local governments could finally use the remaining funds for what tourism actually needs to function:
Infrastructure. Public safety. Emergency services. Basic livability. In other words, the stuff that makes visitors want to come back.
So, let me say it again:
No new tax. And no rate increase. Just permission to use existing dollars honestly.
Want to read more? Find the full newsletter here: cyrusjavadior.substack.com/p/sunsets-and-sewer-pipes
Text of HB 4148
apps.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB4148
The first reading is today, 2-2
olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/Measures/Overview/HB4148
Located at Alder Creek Farm and Natural Area in Nehalem, the Lower Nehalem Community Trust (LNCT) Community Garden season runs from late February through October with work parties on Tuesdays and Saturdays, 9am-noon, rain or shine. All are welcome, with no prior garden experience necessary. Garden Volunteers enjoy garden training and education, and share produce amongst themselves as well as with our local community food partners.
Visit our webpage to learn more: www.nehalemtrust.org/alder-creek-farm/community-garden/
