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I watched the time lapse video of Europe’s changing borders from 400 BCE to the present and recommend it to anyone. What stands out is that the “Ukraine” has been swept by armies from east to west and west to east for centuries. Also north and south. It is truly a crossroads for history. There is no mystery as to why there are multiple ethnicities living there.
I also read the Brookings educational article explaining the cooperation between the US, Russia and Ukraine when dismantling the past Soviet nuclear arsenal. All three parties knew it was a task that had to be done and I see it as a lesson to be remembered regarding the art of compromise.The fact that Ukraine came out of the deal with an assured security umbrella could be seen as a carrot for a future invitation to NATO, and therefore a worthwhile investment for the US, besides clearing the nukes from the newly formed sovereign country. As it turned out, Ukraine, being populated by several groups with some very contentious history has never been a model democracy and soon gained a reputation for corruption. No nukes, no brainer.
It seems a bit specious to say that for reasons of ego and Empire expansion, Russia fomented civil unrest in a neighboring country, which resulted in a civil war that lasted seven years, just so she could then invade with no apparent provocation and risk starting a world war. Granted, this is in fact something we, the US, has done numerous times so perhaps it’s natural to suppose that this was the case. If this supposition were true then the US would be treaty bound to defend Ukraine.
If on the other hand, we dig into the muddy buildup to the Maidan massacre, starting a few years before with contested elections, the Orange protests, covert and overt interference by NGOs and our State Department, culminating in the 2014 coup that sent the elected president Yanukovych, running and left Victoria Nuland’s hand picked, right, very right wing, as in Nazi crew in charge. By accepting the West’s “trade” agreements Ukraine cut trade and commerce with Russia and gave the West additional access to their internal affairs; military planning for one.
This new regime quickly enacted laws that repressed all things Russian which generated resistance, more repression and violence in a wave from west to east . The people of the Donbass drew the line and the Crimea cried out immediately for protection. (It should be understood that resisters were being killed). Since the whole Russian Black Sea fleet has been there forever, protection was close by; Crimea held a referendum, succeeded and just like that was accepted back into Russia. This constitutes an invasion of Ukraine which began the avalanche of sanctions imposed by the US and all her vassals.
Now we have Russians both east of the Donbass line and west, with family members in Russia, because there has always been free movement and trade between them, forever, and the military supplied by Kiev starts lobbing shells indiscriminately onto towns and cities of the Donbass. Those Russian speaking “Ukrainians” being shelled get military supplies from Mother Russia next door. There was nothing good about all this.
What followed was Minsk I and II, both led by Russia’s efforts with Germany and France, to help Ukraine find a peaceful settlement, a compromise that would give the Donbas fair representation in Kiev and maintain Ukraine’s national boundaries but both failed and were finally abandoned in 2021. Angela Merkal later admitted that the Minsk II treaty was purposely stalled to give Western support enough time to build up Ukraine’s military. It was never going to be signed.
During those seven years, over 14,000 men, women and children were killed in Donbas from western Ukraine’s constant bombing. During the same time, the collective west, led of course by the US, levies wave after wave of sanctions on Russia, turns the Putin is evil meter up to ten, and begins to seriously pour funds into Ukraine, all of which appears to Russia as existential threat,- there is that continual NATO expansion thing also -, just one more attempt to weaken and break up it’s Federation.
When the Kremlin concluded that all attempts for a diplomatic resolution had been exhausted and it was obvious that Kiev would move forces into the Donbas, Russia took the initiative. Russian forces were lined up on the road to Kiev when a new effort to negotiate was attempted. This was brokered by Turkey in mid March, 2022. Diplomats from Ukraine and Russia, having met in Belarus and Istanbul, had made significant progress toward a peace deal. This turned out to be the final opportunity for both countries to avoid what followed but the errand boy from the West, Boris Johnson, “convinced” Zelensky to walk away. Since then it has been bombs away.
The scenario presented above regarding how the civil conflict in Ukraine began and the stages of escalation can surely be debated but the question has to be asked, why did the West get involved and dump fuel on a conflict that could’ve been settled in 2015, knowing Russia’s concerns and how adamant their stance would be, if not to try and burn the whole of Russia down. To believe our nation jumped in to help Ukraine negotiate a reasonable solution, which would have truly been helpful under an umbrella of security, and which would have ensured stability, is delusional.
The US, spearheading sanctions along with confiscating foreign Russian assets over the past eight years has only confirmed to Russia, and much of the world, that the West will never view them as equal partners so Russia has turned east and while America’s pride and misbegotten, outdated foreign policy has just about wrecked Europe, let’s not forget Nord Stream, the rest of the world has moved on to form multiple trade and security agreements based on respect for sovereign rights. The sanctions have done far more to damage and isolate the West than influence Russia’s decisions in Ukraine. But the greatest folly of the West has been to push this conflict right up against the nuclear option. How did we think this would go?
It makes one wonder if the headlong policy wasn’t meant to bankrupt NATO countries, Germany especially, destabilize all of eastern Europe and dump billions of US dollars into what was once a country but is now a black hole sucking down deals for weapons, land and resource grabs. It looks like war as a business model. Before shaking hands with the West for loans and security guarantees, Ukraine should’ve looked at Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and closer to home, Georgia. We goaded their corrupt president, Saakashvili, to attack the S. Osetians in 2008, and Russia came to their defense. Georgia lost some territory as a result. Russia only reacted.
Ukraine however is different in that almost every time Russia has been invaded from the west they have come across the Ukraine. Referring to President Putin’s lesson for Tucker Carlson, and whomever, ( I hope millions of Americans tuned in), he made it clear, several times, that Russia’s offers for participation, their requests for cooperation and their willingness to engage in diplomacy has been spurned by the West far more often than not. Five waves of NATO expansion towards their border and now, under the guise of protecting Ukraine, weapons would be placed on their front porch. How do the people of America think this will go? European countries have a shared history with Russia and they have no doubts. Besides, they have internal problems of their own, as does America, which Mr. Putin pointed out. Many of these problems are a result from sanctions against Russia that have backfired.
Unless someone does something very, very foolish, poor Ukraine will be lucky to find itself only at the mercy of Russia’s demands which are what they asked for from the beginning; a neutral buffer zone with no Nazis. The Ukraine that rebuilds will not be the same country it was and the loss of some territory will by the least of their tragedies and for what, to be one last brick in the wall to keep The Bear at bay.
Again, why would Russia want to invade Ukraine? What would they gain that could not be achieved through diplomacy and trade agreements that would benefit both countries? Would the Russian people want to acquire more “empire” through bloody aggression just to end up with a rebellious vengeful citizenry and invoke the condemnation of the whole world? What kind of security would that buy? How contradictory is the thinking that the largest country in the world, with vast resources needs to expand aggressively? It is not Russia that has 800 military installations scattered all over the globe. Is it unreasonable for them to ask that one or a dozen more not be placed on their doorstep? The debate about who and how the strife in Ukraine began and how much effort to find compromises by who really needs to be answered, especially by each and every American. Where is the wisdom? Where have the billions gone and are we more secure now, or would it be better for our nation to have invested those billions at home? It’s a guarantee Ukraine would have fared much better.
I read the Wikipedia histories of the Russian/Chechnya wars and that was educational. I did note that there was no mention of US aid for Chechnya, but Wikipedia is known for bias by omission, at the very least. As to military techniques, I’m not sure what the comparison is to Syria, Mariupol and the rest of Ukraine other than war is hell. If the reference is to compare the loss of civilian lives as well as wanton use of the common soldier, I would recommend listening to Colonel Douglas MacGregor for his assessment of military actions in Ukraine since 2014, (which is when the war began), as well as an in depth history of the whole Eurasian Gordian knot. Also, former marine and weapons inspector Scott Ritter offers comprehensive insights. Both have done dozens of interviews covering the war; just as a bonus.
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Dems Pass Ceasefire Rez #2
So, hopefully, once again, this will be my last post on BBQ.
Anyway, I was thinking…oh wait a minute…I hear something…what’s that sound?? Oh! It’s a collective sigh of relief coming across the bay from Wokezanita. I though it was a flock of Canada geese taking off because an American Bald Eagle was circling overhead.
(Just playing with some creative imagery…it’s not a threat….jeez, how did ya’ll get so fragile over there?)
This past Thanksgiving I was casually checking email before going to a friend’s house for dinner. And I see an email with the headline “I am grateful for you!” and I’m like ‘awwww…’ and it felt kinda good, you know? And then I look at the sender’s name and it reads “Candace” and I’m like “Who the hell is that?” And I linger on the name for a sec, it’s kind of familiar, and then it clicks: “Oh! It’s the arcade-token scandal lady! What the hell is she emailing me for?” And it’s a personal email, to me, and it’s kinda short and dopey and she starts thanking me for helping her and I’m like “what the hell is this lady talking about?” I’m totally confused. So I stop for sec to think about it.
Here’s what happened:
Last spring or whatever a local guy posted sh*t about me on a local Facebook page or something, and I took to this here forum to reply, because while I don’t do social media, I knew that a lot of his friends use this site.
And then I was on here for a few weeks or whatever making so many of you so happy.
It was election season then, and I was reading some of the local election stuff just for fun (I don’t pay attention to local politics, I’m into geopolitics) and I’m kinda giggling and laughing a bit to myself, at the small town comedy of it all, and then I see this one post from a candidate (Candace) where she is blatantly speaking about her intent to violate election law, and I’m still laughing and thinking, in a friendly way, ‘what a bunch of clowns!’. So I come up with a dead-pan post (I’m laughing my ass-off inside) and titled it – I think – “The NCRD race and the arcade-token scandal”, and smiled as I set it off. Funny, right?
Later, I heard Candace lost that race, a race for a sorta-meaningless functionary position on the NCRD board, because not enough Democrats had enough confidence in her for that job and she was not well-liked. Erin somebody won I think.
So let me get this straight, clown world, ya’ll then elected Candace to be Chair of the Tillamook County Democrats???? Haha! (Sorry, but I’m doing that ‘LOLing’ or whatever the kids call it these days.)
After I sent the dead-pan post, a friend who was following the race said ‘you should have let her commit the offense, then she would have been knocked out of the race and maybe politics forever.’ And I replied, ‘Don’t worry bro, she’ll never win, she’s a total blah ditty blah blah.’ And I won’t translate blah ditty blah blah because then I will sound mean.
And I am not a mean person Candace, and I want to help. And in that light, in the interest of your career, I would suggest that you don’t send me any more emails. Keep sending them if you want, send as many as you want, just sayin….
And I’m glad I didn’t knock her out of the race with the arcade-token scandal, because that law is designed to combat major grift in and of itself, and that’s not what this was, it was just stupidity and incompetence. We shouldn’t elect folks based on their race, sex, gender, or the ‘D’ or ‘R’ or ‘I’ next to their name, etc., we should elect them based on their ideas and competency. And that leads me to…ahem, Republicans? You couldn’t find anybody to beat this lady? That does not bode well for your party or the people of Tillamook county.
But I don’t know who you ran, maybe it was the drunk guy from the fair.
And now the Tillmook County Democrats have presented to us their “Gaza Resolution”. Haha! (It’s that LOL thing again.)
First of all, nobody in Tillamook County, AT ALL, cares what the five of you think about Gaza. AT ALL. You are here (supposedly) to serve the people of Tillamook County, not Palestine.
If you want to do something for the people of Palestine, you should do that on your own dime and on your own time, and there is a place to do that. Every Saturday, when it’s not raining, folks gather at the intersection of Laneda Avenue in Manzanita and the intersection of Hwy 101 to protest “The Current Thing.” You can bring your signs and your pronouns and your smiles and wave to all the cars and take pictures to post on your virtue-signaling Facebook pages.
A Gaza resolution! Haha!
NEWSFLASH!
YOU’RE NOT THE STATE DEPARTMENT
(But it woulda been fun to have been a fly on the wall during that meeting, and watch ya’ll take yourselves all seriously and sh*t while drafting your Gaza resolution! Watch ya’ll play State Department like children play house. Hahahahahaha! Yeah, that woulda been some good comedy!)
REMINDER: YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE IN THOSE POSITIONS TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF TILLAMOOK COUNTY, NOT PALESTINE
Furthermore, your beloved Bomb’s-Away-Biden’s war-pigs, whom you ALL voted for, will NEVER hear about your resolution, nor would they give a sh*t about it if they did.
A great way for ya’ll to help Tillamook County, and the rest of the world, would be to draft a resolution asking Governor Kotek to send the Oregon National Guard (people who care about America and Oregon) to help out at our Southern Border. Not to help Homeland Security process them, but to keep them out and to keep the all the liquid heroin and sh*t out. We used to be pretty good at that. Our country has legal immigration, and of course, everyone in the world is welcome to apply for asylum, legally.
I kinda have no opinion on Governor Kotek, she doesn’t come across my radar much. Seems kinda quiet, keeps her cards close. Probably a good idea when you’re riding a dragon.
But if Governor Kotek were to send our National Guard to help at the border…whoa…I don’t know, she might just go down as the 2nd best governor in Oregon history. The first best, and ask any DEMOCRAT in Salem, was REPUBLICAN governor Mark Hatfield. (I don’t see a Mark Hatfield anywhere in the current Republican crop, just sayin that the letter next to a politician’s name shouldn’t mean all that much. Ideas and competency, remember?)
Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza Gaza
Why is Gaza so trendy every few years?
And how come Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iran aren’t in your resolution, Tillamook County Democrats? Like it’s okay for you democrats to murder Muslims in those countries? It’s okay for you to destroy those Muslim lives, but not those in Gaza? (This is when the clown show isn’t so funny.)
And of course, there is nothing about Ukraine in your resolution of ‘global importance’, because deep down you all know what you did to those people in that country. 110-billion dollars murdering those people and destroying their lives, woulda been $300,000,000 for EACH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT in America. Shame on you all for that. Now I’m starting to get angry. Gonna take a break.
Continuing…
When I was a freshman at a satellite branch of the University of Connecticut, two hours north of NYC, I drove into town for a 10th anniversary memorial of John Lennon’s death. It was something to do, for fun, and a kind-of historic event, you know? There wasn’t too much happening when I was there, early in the afternoon, maybe fifty people, mulling about and placing flowers on the sidewalk outside the brownstone where John bled to death, after the CIA had him shot. A few dozen people were across the street at “Strawberry Fields”, a tiny chunk of Central Park that the City of New York turned into a memorial, some were playing guitars, etc. It was cool, I didn’t stay too long.
And that makes me think of his song, ‘Imagine’, and the part about no borders. That’s a great notion, I get it, but in reality, ‘no borders’ DOES NOT WORK. We can see this with the drugs and violence and the terrorist hit teams that are stateside, in place for their Hamas-style attacks, just waiting to see what you Woketard Dems do their friends and family back home in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Or maybe its too late; we’ve been murdering so many of those people over there for so long and have been destroying so many of their lives, it may be too late. I don’t know. But the hit teams are here, lots of them. We don’t have a southern border, people over the world know that of course, and some of them out there are real pissed at America. We need a border, duh. Like, super duh.
Anyway, John’s song ‘Imagine’ is a dream, and it had it’s place it time, for sure. But in my view, the song below is not only more peaceful and loving than John’s song, it embodies more potential for cooperation than his did; it has the potential to bridge more divides than Lennon’s ‘Imagine’. It is an incredibly powerful song.
Plus, Kid Rock ALWAYS cracks me up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFnLqJx-uU
And this is one of my all-time favorite documentaries, seriously. The way she constructed it, how it flows, etc., super-impressive from a director standpoint. Plus, this is why we destroyed downtown Portland, remember? George Floyd? Billions of dollars of damage done, the downtown cop shop is STILL barricaded like a war zone, most former businesses are gone. Downtown has yet to come back.
Anyway, this doc is outstanding:
rumble.com/v3wz426-fall-of-minneap-olis.html
Like I said, last week I was watching a movie in bed (that I bought at the Hope Chest for a dollar! Score!), then was rousted, and then all this BBQ sh*t happened.
All the dude wanted was to watch his dvd.
🙂
Andy
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V for Victory! V for Vendetta!
This will never happen in Wokeland, do you know why? Because soon the antifa punks are going to figure out how badly the tech-whore Dems have ruined their lives, and the tech pigs know this, and they also know that antifa would burn every robo taxi to the ground. The Dems now this too. And the Dems also know that those Antifa punks, once they figure out how much ya’ll have lied to them and fucked up their lives, are gonna be real pissed, and they are serious shit, like they would scale the new downtown Ritz Carlton (gross) with ropes and roust George Soros and D.A. Mike Schmidt from a penthouse meeting, or something like that. (We’ve all seen that 30-foot banner hanging on the side of Dante’s asking Portlanders to make sure Schmidt doesn’t get reelected.) Don’t fuck with antifa, trust me, you want them on your side. And they’ll figure it out soon enough, and they are. Furthermore, there has been droid delivery in Arizona and D.C. for several years. Wokeland seems perfect for droid delivery, right? Wrong. Do you know why there isn’t droid delivery in Wokeland despite the tens of millions of dollars the city has spent on ‘bike’ lanes (actually purposed for droid delivery)? There is no droid delivery in Wokeland because of tweakers and
Antifa, but mostly Antifa. Trust me.
And just for fun!!!!!!!!!!!
Other than the fact they they filled their local fishing hole with lead, it’s great!
LIKE SUPER FUN!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KnAzpi4avo
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For those of us who appreciate visual aids, the link below is to a very comprehensive history of not only Ukraine but of the whole region. Since we, as a nation, are supporting the war there, it would be enlightening for all of us to understand how borders have ebbed and flowed in the past thousand years. Compared to our Eurasian partners, our collective national memories are like a five year old. These maps can offer a deeper perspective.
original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2022/10/09/maps-not-to-die-for/
injured white cat downtown nehalem
The cat evaded my attempts to get closer, so i took a photo and have been reaching out to TAS and United Paws to try to get the cat medical help.
Does anyone know if this cat belongs to someone?
Thank you for any help. Jordan
Ski and snowboard gear sale Saturday
The equipment ranges in size from youth to adult. In addition to skis and boards, there are multiple pairs of snow pants and bibs, some never worn. Also gloves and goggles.
The sale takes place at 11195 Seamont Way in the barn.
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Touching on sheilabaysides post
I’d like to share this article with you.
medium.com/@muktimasih/the-psychology-of-gossip-and-its-not-good-35eff5f8c37e
Measure 110
I found this report from OPB Radio documenting one person’s OD on fentanyl and a cop saving his life disturbing but also, for me, it raised some questions about the wisdom of the 110 retrenchment.
www.opb.org/article/2024/01/30/oregon-drug-crisis-portland-streets-overdoses-every-day/
The interviewed officer made the point that Measure 110 arrived on the scene at the same time as the spike in fentanyl. So it may be simplistic to make sweeping generalizations about 110 effectiveness.
Connecting migration with the rise in fentanyl availability is even more simplistic. On a basic level, it just doesn’t comport with the physical reality of this drug. Fentanyl is widely used in surgery to put patients under. The typical dosage for a 2-4 hour surgery is 400 MICROGRAMS (1mcg is one-millionth of a gram; a paper coffee filter weighs about 1 gram). A kilogram of raw drug cuts into tens of thousands of doses. No poor Cental Americans lugging 100-pound bales of product across the Rio Grande needed.
Pre-pandemic, Oregon spent $10,000 a year on each K-12 student and $44,000 a year on each prisoner. We’re in the top 10 and moving up. Also, note that $44k doesn’t include the pre-prison enforcement/judicial costs. One way or another we’ll all have to pay for 110 retrenchment.
Gene Dieken
Hey Julie…
In the meantime, this piece was super fun to write, one of my all-time faves:
TillCoDems pass a Ceasefire Resolution
It is with great honor and respect for the resolve of our Tillamook County Democratic PCPs that I share with you our TillCoDems newly approved Gaza Ceasefire Resolution (TillCoDems Resolution #2024-01). Please see the resolution at this link:
This is a strong stand we take as Democrats on behalf of Americans and the global community.
Constance Shimek
TillCoDems Chair
If you’re interested in finding out more about how you can get involved and make a difference in this 2024 election year, please send email to chair@tillcodems.org. Thank you
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Ageism and COVID
Masking has never been about freedom, it is a choice about caring for yourself and others. I would feel horrible, if through my neglect, I gave someone this disease knowing that it did not have to be. We are all in this together. Being tired of COVID doesn’t make it disappear. We are all tired of it but we all can do more to protect ourselves and others. Please think twice about your decision to not mask up when appropriate.
I am posting the link to a article from CNN because it is informative about COVID and aging.
We are an aging society here on the coast and we need to let the world know that we still have value. A solution is suggested in this article.
Thank you for reading about my take on things. Everyone stay safe and let’s all matter to each other and spread some love! Audene
www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/health/aging-discrimation-kff-partner-wellness/index.html
Response to Julie and
First of all, I’ve lived one of the happiest and most interesting lives a broke-ass motherf*cker has ever lived. I’ve been to all 50 states via car/train/bus/thumb, met all sorts of interesting famous and not-famous people, worked I don’t know how many different cool jobs all over this country, spent lots of time in the deep wild all over the place, etc. etc. etc.
Secondly, I have written many, many things and I’ve made three films that I carefully crafted as to avoid negativity.
And that’s not easy to do when you’re making an anti-war film about Iran (a country which, unfortunately the Dems are now using to escalate world war three, a war in which we are already in btw), a film about the polluted Columbia River, the imperiled salmon runs, the natives being treated like crap, etc.
My stripper movie is quite fun:
tubitv.com/movies/575933/the-dancer-diaries
Another way to affect change, Julie and “Community” is to angrily hold a mirror up to idiots and morons who are not just idiots and morons, but are also destroying lives and our quality of life by:
Completely disregarding our southern border. 300,000 people from 140 countries crossed in December alone. And who knows how many thousands of pounds of the Chinese Communist Party’s fentanyl, the cartels’ meth and the cartels’ heroin were simply walked over and brought straight to Oregon thanks to the dipsh*ts running the DPO and the worst federal administration in American history.
And don’t any of you woke sheep reading this dare scream ‘Andy’s racist! Bwaaaaaaaaaaaa!’. As a cabbie I worked with and was friends with people from all over the planet. I current work with and am friends with Mexicans and a Lebanese guy.
So yeah, last month:
This guy came in: (I can’t find the link of the convicted terrorist saying to the reporter at the border ‘You’ll know my name soon’, but this article from Reuters makes my point. And the numbers in this story are incorrect, LOTS MORE terrorists have crossed and are waiting stateside in stand-by:
And this guy came in:
https://twitter.com/DrewHLive/status/1754864041418514720
There will be Hamas-style terror attacks stateside very soon. I’m not sure how I can phrase that without it sounding negative.
A deep dive on the border crisis is available here:
rumble.com/v4aiwyl-the-210th-evolutionary-lens-with-bret-weinstein-and-heather-heying.html
We all know people who have overdosed because of the self-righteous narcissist arrogant lying Oregon Dem politicians and the dumb-asses who vote for them. The DPO is literally killing people with their arrogance narcissism and stupidity. Doesn’t that make you angry? Or does that make you just say ‘oh well, the world is in chaos. Happy day! I’m going for a beach walk!’
Anyone who has family that has overdosed in Oregon over the last few years should join in a class-action lawsuit and bankrupt the DPO, that coven of anti-life incompetent murderous Covidiot woketards.
Our law enforcement officers here in Tillamook County are some of the most amazing public servants I have ever witnessed. The Portland cops are great too. I worked there as a taxi driver for eight years and watched every demolition of old Portland, and the aftermath of every violent (sorry ‘mostly peaceful’) protest by the antifa fascists and BLM communists.
I would never be a LEO in Wokeland, and mega praises to any Portland cop who is managing to stay in that sh*thole, drug-infested violent town. I left the taxi biz before my co-worker cabbie Bruce Lawson was knifed in the neck from the backseat and killed by a crazed absolute lunatic tranny shim who was let out of jail early because of Dem anti-life legislation after threatening store workers with that very same knife. (The Oregonian made sure to get the shim’s pronouns correctly. Thank God for that!)
One of my steady taxis had a bullet hole in the trunk and backseat, after another co-worker was shot in the back and crippled. Yes Julie and community, it is good to open your eyes and look at this stuff. It might just save your life one day.
Our officers out here who work in the field have to deal with violence and threats of violence every day, and here in Oregon that violence has ramped-up immeasurably, after the billionaire farma pigs released a bio-weapon into the world and shut down the global economy for reasons that most on this list, sadly, will never take the time to understand.
I was at Mohler Co-op when Shawn (deputy, don’t know his last name) was taking the report, the morning after the tweakers (Foss Rd gang I heard) used a saw to cut into the co-op from the outside. Rene was sad. Everyone in there was sad. Shawn was sad, I could feel it.
And what was even sadder was this elderly guy, 85 maybe, frail, lives alone in an indefensible isolated house on the Miami-Foley, comes up to me and he meekly and very very sadly told me that the tweakers had stolen $200 of gas from his car so far this year. They siphon it, not drill his gas tank like the tweakers did my housemates car here in Tweakerville a few months ago. There is absolutely nothing he can do about it. It was so sad.
Julie and “Community”, I challenge anyone to rewrite this piece, containing all of the pertinent, potentially life-saving info enclosed herein, without being negative. Good luck.
Anyway, Julie runs one of the best restaurants in the area, Buttercup, and you should go in if you haven’t, and she makes the best homemade ice-cream in the entire world, with very unique, high-quality ingredients.
That said, I’ve never left North America, not counting Hawaii.
Doh!
🙂
(There, that wasn’t so bad was it? Gets a little negative in there for a bit, but overall it’s positive-ish. And you said if I was positive, good things would happen to me, right? Free ice cream???)
Rice & Shine!!!
Oh, and probably a good idea not to assume you know what someone might or might not be doing, especially if it’s their business and lively hood.
Really? Just a touch irresponsible I would say.
Response to Andy
Love,
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Beware of your surroundings
What Good Democrats Say About Corruption
( I ex’d their names out to prevent retaliation.) because we need all the good Democrats we can get and we need more Republicans in our legislature for a balance – I am for a balanced legislature.
In the past few months, a handful of Democrat office holders have gone public with their protest against their own political party for what they see as the abuses of one party rule in Oregon.
This week, Democrat Oregon state Representative XXXXXXXX has left the Democrat House Caucus because of how the caucus was hiding things from the public and how decision making power was made behind closed doors. XXXXX explains in a very bold and eye-popping letter in the Oregonian :
He said his Party overrode the duty of the people:
“I could not continue to participate in a caucus that had stopped acting democratically. We had failed to set a positive example of transparency and engagement and stopped supporting laws that returned power to the people we represent. Instead, we let our partisan desire to maintain power override our duty to the people….”
They kept the public in the dark:
“Since I joined the caucus in 2019 as a freshman legislator, it has become less and less democratic. My fellow Democratic lawmakers and I met privately each day during the legislative session. We debated proposals like the Student Success Act and public pension reform, and we did not even inform the public about the topics of our discussions and preemptive decisions.”
It was extreme partisanship:
“Over time, we even stopped debating the issues, as caucuses became a forum for leadership to give orders to ensure the Democratic agenda prevailed over the Republicans’ agenda, regardless of whether it was in the public interest.”
Driven by a few people in secret:
“…worst of all, leadership positions were filled based on success in fundraising, not merit or expertise. The House Democratic leaders even stopped telling the caucus members about their discussions. In effect, the content and direction of legislation for all of Oregon was decided by a group of 10 or fewer people picked by their ability to raise money, in secret.”
this Democrat was not alone.
Oregon State Representative XXXXXXX broke with his Democrat caucus when it came time for the hyper-partisan redistricting vote. Redistricting is where politicians get to set the boundaries of their political districts. The recent 2021 redistricting plan was sharply criticized by local and national media for being too partisan where it made it easier for one political party to seek re-election but hindered the other.
A third Democrat lawmaker, Betsy Johnson recently announced that she is leaving the Democrat Party and is switching her registration to Independent in order to make a run for Governor. Like Rep. XXXX, she too explains that modern lawmaking has become too partisan, too one-sided and too remote from the people.
This article was taken from Oregon taxpayers association and it is a few years old – but this remains true
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Now All Oregon Supreme Court Judges picked by Governor Kate Brown
Our state constitution says that the citizens of Oregon get to vote for Supreme Court Judges. But we haven’t done this in years.
WHY – Because of corruption. As much for the judges as the governor.
Here is how it works: In Oregon, when a Justice steps down from the bench before his or her term is up for whatever reason, the governor – by law – gets to fill that position until the next election. Now any judge that the governor picks to fill this position has to agree to step down before his or her term is up so that the governor can pick another judge. That shows the governor and the judge are in collusion. Not good for judge nor governor – right? But worse for us.
At election time the name of the judge the governor picked appears on the ballot. No other name appears on the ballot for this position and so this candidate, picked by the governor, will win even if nobody votes for him or her. This has been going on for years.
That means that these judges decide issues politically instead of judiciously.
How does this effect you?
How our property tax system works
I reached out to both candidates, requesting a short summary (so that both would fit within the constraints of BBQ).
The first response came from Kari Fleisher, who submitted the summary you will see below. She also stated that she welcomes any further questions to: kari@karifleisher.com and my website at www.karifleisher.com. Also, you can always direct traffic to the Assessment and Taxation website at www.tillamookcounty.gov/assessment
Unfortunately the second candidate, KaSandra Larson, was not able to provide a summary due to “personal and family obligations to attend to this week.” She said she will, however, explore a future article on the property tax system.
So, with that said, here is Kari’s summary:
As a candidate for Tillamook County Assessor, Kari Fleisher aims to ensure that Tillamook County taxpayers are informed about the property tax laws that bind us all. In Oregon, property taxes provide funding for school districts, Tillamook County, cities, and special districts, including fire, ports, transportation, and sanitation. These government organizations offer services to the local community. Property taxes are ad valorem, aka based on value. Taxpayers pay taxes based on the assessed value of their individual properties.
Oregon voters passed two significant laws that limited the amount of property taxes collected
from taxpayers and the amount of money taxing districts can receive. First, Measure 5 limited
the total property taxes paid by an individual property to 1.5% of its Real Market Value. The
second was Measure 50, which created a new term called Maximum Assessed Value. The Maximum Assessed Value typically grows 3% per year and is not tied to Real Market Value once set. The lower of the two annually becomes the Assessed Value. An individual property can see increases in their Maximum Assessed Value above 3% due to changes to their property like new construction, remodeling, rehabilitation, subdivision, and more. One downfall of Measure 50 is that Assessed Values are no longer equitable to like property. Only Real Market Value can be used for comparison/equity purposes.
All properties are assessed per Oregon Revised Statutes that allow using cost, market, and
income approaches to value. In Tillamook County, we use a computer-assisted mass appraisal
system to input various property information to calculate a value. We annually adjust our
valuations based on market research. Programs like personal business property and industrial
property require using directly reported costs from taxpayers.
Taxing districts had a permanent tax rate set when Measure 50 was passed. The only way to ask for more money is for a 5-year operating levy or a bond limited to capital improvements. Both require voter approval. Once passed by the voters, this will increase the tax rate and taxes for all property owners within the district.