Author: North Coast BBQ

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!

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?

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

Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins, published in his Young India newspaper in 1925, are behaviors he believed would destroy society by undermining moral, ethical, and human values. They are:
1. wealth without work,
2. pleasure without conscience.
3. knowledge without character.
4. commerce without morality.
5. science without humanity.
6. religion without sacrifice.
7. politics without principle.

IS THIS IS NOT WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY OUR COUNTRY? ARE NOT MORAL, ETHICAL AND HUMAN VALUES BEING DESTROYED?

we need instead, the following:
1. wealth WITH work.
2. pleasure WITH conscience.
3. knowledge WITH character.
4. commerce WITH morality.
5. science WITH humanity.
6. religion WITH sacrifice.
7. politics WITH principle.

these principles serve as a timeless guide for maintaining a just and sustainable society. let us elect leaders who will follow the teachings of Mahatma Ghandi. be sure to VOTE in every election.

om peace namaste

lucy brook
nehalem resident
U.S. citizen

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