Category: General Interest

Submitted By: codger817@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

Trump did not win an “overwhelming victory”. His margin in Tillamook County was 49.03% to 47.69%. His margin in the nation was 50.01% to 48.24%. He lost in Oregon 55.2% to 41.05%.
We are left with a nation deeply divided.
Going forward, we should work through our differences with civility and tolerance.
Painting people who voted differently than did in inflammatory terms will do nothing to bring us together and solve our problems.
Big government can mean taking care of one another. Open borders can mean having enough employees to do the dangerous, dirty, and demeaning jobs we have trouble filling, child mutilation is a “scare word” for free choices, forced experimental shots never happened, and all our wars date from 2014 or earlier.
I sincerely hope I am wrong, but I think the ride we’re embarking on will be one we regret.
Thankfully, elections come around every 2 years. It may not be too late to reverse our course. Let’s temper our future choices with kindness and tolerance.
Respectful discussion is welcome at codger817@gmail.com.
Jim Heffernan

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Filmed 11-15-24 5:10-5:23 a.m. – Nehalem Bay
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Kindness and Love DO matter.

It’s something we all can do and practice.

Here are some possibilities.

Smile at people

Give someone a hug

Pay it forward at a coffee shop or restaurant

Give the person talking your full attention

Do something kind for yourself

Hide a happy note for someone to find

Get in touch with an old friend or relative

Let a car in front of you in traffic

Smile and thank someone who serves you

Take a treat to local firefighters

Tell someone you love them

Feed the birds

Keep the leaves in your yard to protect pollinators

Do something unexpected for someone

Reflect on the good things in your life

Take a board game to play at a senior center

Read a book to a child

Make a thank you card for you librarians

Entertain someone with a happy dance

Great a family gratitude jar

Go a full day without complaining

Bake cookies and share with your neighbors

Pick up and recycle trash in your neighborhood

Say Hi to someone who looks sad

Write a happy message with sidewalk chalk

Paint a kindness rock and randomly place it

Share food with someone who is hungry

Sincerely compliment 5 people

Post a positive message on social media

Reflect on kindness you witnesses during the day

Stop the negative chatter in your head

Create your own kind deed

(some of these ideas came from The Great Kindness Challenge Family Edition www.greatkindnesschallenge.org)

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We’re Hiring!
MANZANITA FARMERS MARKET MANAGER POSITION AVAILABLE for 2025 Market Season

The Manzanita Farmers Market is now hiring for the position of Market Manager. See below for a job description and other pertinent information. If you are interested, we would like to hear from you as soon as possible! Please send letter of interest, resume and three references by DECEMBER 2, 2024 to manzanitafarmersmarketboard@gmail.com or mail to Manzanita Farmers Market PO Box 608, Manzanita OR 97130

Manzanita Farmers Market Manager Job Summary
The Market Manager helps develop the farmers market with the MFM Board of Directors. The Market Manager independently plans, operates, and delegates activities to volunteers to fulfill the functions of the weekly farmers market. Must be able to work Fridays during market season, May through late September. The Manager reports to the Manzanita Farmers Market Board. This is a contract position.

General Market Manager Duties, including, but not limited to, the following:
• Recruit and manage farmers and other vendors
• Organize and recruit volunteers at weekly market
• Plan and facilitate annual vendor training
• Maintain market record keeping; maintain and organize files with contact information on all market participants, vendors, entertainers, volunteers, service providers, sponsors, customers
• Manage online vendor platform (Manage my Market), including onboarding and vendor assistance
• Manage and track vendor invoicing and all other MFM expense and income tracking and provide organized information to MFM bookkeeper. Make deposits at bank.
• Implement low income food access administration, for SNAP, DUFB, WIC & FDNP and outreach to vendors and customers, with other related programs such as vouchers from partner organizations
• Assist in the development of cultural accessibility to the market.
• Develop, lead and manage promotional efforts for the market, including print advertising and social media; maintain and update MFM website, maintain MFM Facebook page and draft weekly in season e-newsletters; with support from the board advertising committee, develop an annual advertising and marketing plan.
• Develop, lead and manage fundraising efforts for the market; with support from the board fund development committee, develop and implement an annual fundraising plan.
• Set agenda for and attend monthly board meetings. Give monthly market reports and other reports as applicable.
• Work with the market treasurer to develop annual budget; track payments, income and expenses.
• Create mid-season and end-of-season status reports and submit notes, files and other information to the board as requested.
• Participate in annual personnel review
• Manzanita City Council liaison; Updates on City Hall construction, impacts on 2025 season

Qualifications:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as a working knowledge of administrative functions and practices
• Must be self-directed and proficient at creative problem solving and organizational development
• Enjoy working with people from different backgrounds
• At least two years experience in community organizing or farmers market management
• General background and strong interest in community development including small business and economic development initiatives
• Interest in healthy eating and improving access to affordable, nutritious foods through direct farm markets
• Must be proficient in basic office equipment
• Must be proficient with Microsoft or Macintosh office software, social media tools, website updates, and general internet navigation

Hours: This is a part-time contract position, and is expected to take approximately 80 hours per month during the “high” season (March through September) and approximately 40 hours per month during “off” season (October through February.)
Annual compensation from $15,000 to $17,000 depending on experience, with potential for performance-based incentives.

For more information or questions, email to manzanitafarmersmarketboard@gmail.com or call 503-753-6327.

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“Election Results”

Now that the election is over I’d like to remind people that it’s what the overwhelming majority of people voted for. Please respect those that may not have voted the way you did. In the past, I’ve had election results that I didn’t like, but I didn’t attack those who voted for the opposite candidate.
Elections have consequences and I and others are excited at the new direction we are about to embark on. Please refrain from the name calling.

If you like big government, lawfare open borders, censorship of your political enemies, men in woman’s sports, child mutilation, forced experimental shots and new wars to name some, then you probably won’t like the new direction of this country.

If you love this country, enjoy your liberties and freedoms with limited government and equal opportunity for all, then you’ll appreciate where we’re headed. There are many more reasons but this is a start. Enjoy the ride!

Sincerely,

MAGA
MAHA

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North Tillamook County has several non-profit organizations whose mission is to make sure people in our area have food security. People helping at these organizations are all volunteers who devote hours and hours of their time making lists, creating recipes, cooking, cleaning, ordering, delivering meals, and so on. You cannot put a price on the joy they give and receive. This is the time of year I would like to recognize these organizations and ask that you also recognize them with your support.

Starting in Rockaway Beach we have two organizations who work on food security. Meals for Seniors Inc. (MFS) has been around for over 20 years. “Our mission is to enable the senior citizens of North Tillamook County to continue living independently in their own homes by providing access to nutritious meals and social occasions.” They both serve and deliver meals from the dining hall at St. Mary by the Sea Church, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. MFS is a federally designated non-profit with 501 (c)(3) status, Tax ID # 90-0097197. They are currently serving over 12,000 meals per year. You can help them by supporting their cause. Meals for Seniors, Inc. PO BOX 852, Rockaway Beach, Oregon 97136-Phone-503-317-8967

Also at Rockaway Beach is the Rockaway Beach Lions Club. They provide baskets of food for families and seniors at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Their contact information is: Rockaway Beach Lions, PO Box 611, Rockaway Beach, Oregon 97136.

The North County Food Bank is in Wheeler. If you go to their website, North County Food Bank Tillamook Oregon, you will find out everything you need to know about the food and clothing bank. They need food, clothing, monetary donations, and volunteers, especially this time of year. You can call them to leave a message at 503-368-7724. Their mailing address is NCFB, PO Box 162, Wheeler, Oregon 97141. There is someone there on Tuesdays to receive both food and clothing.

A momentous change has come about to an organization located in Nehalem. What used to be run under the roof of Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church in Nehalem has been reorganized and is now called Nehalem Bay Community Services. (NBCS) This is the same organization which runs the CHILD Program, Nehalem Senior Lunches, Nehalem Bay Food Pantry, and the summer Munch a Lunch Program for kids. They have their own 501(c)(3) non-profit number, 93-4296849. If you would like to donate to one or more of their services, please note this information in the memo line. Many of you remember the CHILD program provides clothing at back-to-school time. This time of year, CHILD puts out tags in local businesses with requests for toys and new clothing for children at Christmas time. Senior Lunches are both served and delivered from the Nehalem Bay United Methodist Church in Nehalem on Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30-12:30. The Nehalem Bay Food pantry has food and clothing for people and dog and cat food for pets. They are open Monday, Friday, and Saturday from 10-2 and Wednesday from 1-5. The Munch-a-Lunch program works to provide breakfast and lunch meals for when school is out for the summer. Donations to Nehalem Bay Community Services can be sent to NBCS, PO Box 232, Nehalem, Oregon 97131.

The last program I’ve heard about is handled by the Nehalem Elementary School. You may drop off food to the school in Nehalem. For more information you can call 503-355-3639 Monday-Friday.

Please let me know if you need any more information on Food Security here in North Tillamook County. I would be happy to try to provide you with more information. These local organizations can always use your help, with both food and clothing, no matter what time of year it is. Thanks for helping people out.

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Every Great Dream…

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman 1820 – 1913

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Here’s a story from elsewhere. Anyone have a local inspiring story to share? Let’s make and share our own giving and kindness stories!

After Hurricane Helene, a North Carolina woman uses the power of social media to reunite families with old photographs lost in the storm

By Caitlin O’Kane
November 12, 2024 / 7:50 PM EST / CBS News
www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-helene-asheville-north-carolina-photos-instagram/

We’ve seen the images of destruction, debris and flooding left behind from Hurricane Helene. But other images also came out of the storm: family photos – snapshots of happy memories and important milestones – left behind in the mess.
After the deadly hurricane in October, Taylor Schenker, who lives in Canton, North Carolina, nearby hard-hit Asheville, found herself with about 200 family photos that didn’t belong to her.

It started after the storm. Schenker’s house weathered Helene well, but she said her friend’s entire home was destroyed by flooding from the Swannanoa River. At least 220 people across six states died in the hurricane, including over 40 in Buncombe County, which includes Asheville.

Schenker and her friend went for a walk to check out the home, which was one of the many in Asheville that was destroyed.

“We spent about four hours digging through the mud, looking for any belongings of hers we could find, because her house literally just doesn’t exist anymore,” Schenker told CBS News last month. “And during that process, I found about four of five individual photographs and we laid out the photos – along with some clothes and we found an American flag – along the bank, hoping they would be reunited with people.”

“That’s my dad and I,” Vanessa Graham commented under this family photo shared on the Photos from Helene Instagram page. Graham is one of the people Taylor Schenker has helped reunite with her old photographs after the hurricane.

Schenker said thinking about the photos she left behind kept her up that night. “Just thinking, ‘Here are these little photographs that miraculously made it through all of this and now are sitting here and what if it rains or what if the wind blows and they aren’t able to be reunited with their family,'” she said. “That would be such a shame because they made it through all of this. And I know how special a memory like that can really be for somebody.”

So, Taylor went back the next day to get the photos and ended up finding more. She said it was obvious the photos belonged to multiple families.

“It was [a photo of] a middle school basketball team. It was a photo of a beloved dog. I found a wedding photo of a bride hugging somebody,” she said. “You take photos because you have a moment you want to remember and so, they did all seem just special.”

Realizing how many important family memories she now had in her possession, she started the Photos from Helene Instagram page — a virtual lost-and-found. She hoped people would recognize the photos on her page and word of mouth would help reunite them with their rightful owners.

The Instagram page is filled with school portraits, Christmas cards, images of childhood friends and families on vacation. She even found a photo of Michael Jordan dunking the ball that a local man says his dad snapped years ago.

Schenker took them home, dusted them off and categorized them in folders and bins for safekeeping until they could be returned to their owners.

Schenker said she found about 100 photos herself, but picked up about another 100 from other people who found them, including search and rescue teams. At the time of our interview in late October, she said she had returned about 15% of the photos she has collected. She still adds new photos to Instagram daily.

Each reunion is a heartwarming reminder that what she’s doing is important. “Being able to have that moment where you hand something so special to somebody and then also just give them a hug – because they’ve lost likely their entire home in this situation – it’s such a privilege to have an insight into this moment in their lives through these photographs and be able to give them back to them,” she said.

Schenker mails photos to people who are no longer in the area, but she also hand delivers the ones that belong to families who stayed close by. In one case, a college-aged son found his family’s photos on her Instagram, reached out to Schenker and connected her with his mom.

“We have now found five photos of this one family, of these two sons, and when I met with the mom to reunite the photos, she shared that one of her sons had actually passed,” Schenker said. “And so, when they lost their home, they lost all memory of this child. Which is absolutely devastating in addition to the devastation that has already happened.”

She said she recently went for another so-called photo walk – where she digs through debris to find images – and recognized the woman’s late son in yet another photo.
Becky and Nancy Tate, a mother-daughter duo, also found old family photos through the Instagram page. “It was an extremely strange feeling to just be scrolling on social media and randomly see a picture of me when I was 10 in front of a Christmas tree,” Nancy Tate told CBS News on Instagram. “That’s how I found out about Photos from Helene, a total fluke and scrolling and seeing a picture of me covered in dirt.”
Becky Tate and her daughter both recognized their photos on the Instagram page. Tate’s daughter, Nancy, said in the comments her mom was crying when they discovered it.

“A very surreal feeling to know all of your belongings and photos have been lost, and then to realize that some person you’ve never met is trying to help people locate these pictures, just out of the kindness of their heart,” Nancy said. “That truly sums up the Asheville community.”

Nancy tagged her mom in the Instagram comments, saying her mom cried when she saw it. Becky told CBS News she felt a combination of joy and shock – “a time of high adrenaline and disbelief.”

Schenker said that many families who lived in the same neighborhood before the hurricane have recognized other people’s photos on the Photos from Helene Instagram page and helped connect each other to Schenker.

“The process is definitely fulfilling,” she said. “It’s fun to see the moment that a photograph is reunited and to see the people in the comments tagging each other and saying, ‘Hey, is this you?’ or ‘Oh my gosh, you just reminded me of this moment in my life that I had totally forgotten about.'”

She said she chose her Instagram’s name because most of the photos we’ve seen come out of the hurricane show the devastation left behind – but her photos from Helene are happy memories of Asheville and the lives lived there.

“You still can’t go to the grocery store without seeing piles of debris,” she said. “And I think that has definitely made me and others celebrate these wins even bigger. Because you have to in order to get through the day to day now.”

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to the BBQ readership,

Americans who voted for Trump are soon going to learn how his policies are going to affect their lives negatively.

This is Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American” posted tonight 11/14/24.

At the end of her letter, I have left all the links to her references as well.

om peace namaste

lucy brook
nehalem resident
U.S. citizen

November 14, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

Two snapshots today illustrate the difference between the economic—and therefore the societal—visions of the Biden-Harris administration and of the incoming Trump administration.

The Biden-Harris administration today released numbers revealing that over the past four years, their policies have kick-started a boom in the creation of small businesses across the country. Since the administration took office, entrepreneurs have filed more than 20 million applications for new businesses, the most of any presidential term in history. This averages to more than 440,000 applications a month, a rate more than 90% faster than averages before the pandemic. Black business ownership has doubled, and Hispanic business ownership is up by 40% since before the pandemic.

The administration encouraged that growth with targeted loans, tax credits, federal contracts, and support services. Small businesses are major job creators and employ about 47% of all private sector employees.

President Joe Biden rejected the “neoliberalism” of the previous 40 years that had moved about $50 trillion dollars from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. Those embracing that theory maintain that the government should let markets operate without regulation, concentrating wealth among a few people who will invest it more efficiently than they can if the government intervenes with regulations or taxes that hamper the ability of investors to amass wealth.

Biden and Harris returned the U.S. to the model that both parties had embraced until 1981: the idea that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. That system had reduced extremes of wealth in the U.S. after the Great Depression and given most Americans a path to prosperity.

Biden’s policies worked, enabling the U.S. to recover from the pandemic more quickly than any other country with a modern economy, sending unemployment to historic lows, and raising wages faster than inflation for the bottom 80% of Americans.

It has also had social effects, most notably today with the announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the U.S. is seeing a historic drop in deaths from the street drug fentanyl. From June 2023 to June 2024, deaths dropped by roughly 14.5%, translating into more than 16,000 lives saved. Experts say the drop is due to better addiction healthcare, the widespread availability of the opioid reversal drug naloxone, and lower potency of street fentanyl.

If the record of the extraordinary growth of small businesses in the past four years is one snapshot, the other is a social media post from yesterday, in which former pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy noted that the government spends $516 billion a year on “programs which Congress has allowed to expire.” “We can & should save hundreds of billions each year by defunding government programs that Congress no longer authorizes,” he wrote.

Bobby Kogan, who worked in President Joe Biden’s Office of Management and Budget and on the Senate Budget Committee, explained that Congress often authorizes spending as “temporary” in order “to encourage Congress to revisit it to update various parts of the bill, such as eligibility, benefits, etc.” But Congress can still fund the programs in appropriations bills.

Kogan noted that the largest program currently operating under expired authorization is veterans’ medical care.

Trump and his advisors embrace the neo-liberalism Biden rejected. Rather than invest in the economy to create opportunities for middle-class Americans and those just starting out, they want to slash the existing government to free up more capital for investors.

Trump has tapped the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who invested at least $132 million in cash in Trump’s campaign as well as the in-kind gift of the support of X, and former pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy to run a “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, named for Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency.

According to the Washington Post’s Jeff Stein, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Cat Zakrzewski, and Jacob Bogage, people around Musk say the group is intended to “apply slash-and-burn business ideologies to the U.S. government.” Musk has vowed to slash “at least” $2 trillion from the federal budget and has warned it will create “hardship.”

That the people embracing this plan see a world in which a few elites run things showed in today’s social media post by the “DOGE.” The post called for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account…. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”

Such cuts would be enormously unpopular, and in the Washington Post yesterday, Stein, Dwoskin, Zakrzewski, and Bogage reported that Trump’s aides are exploring ways to enact dramatic cuts to the government without congressional approval. Key among those is simply refusing to release the money Congress appropriates for programs Musk and Trump want to cut. This is known as “impoundment,” and Congress made it illegal in 1974 after President Richard Nixon tried to shape the government to his wishes by refusing to fund congressional programs he opposed.

Trump tried to do this quietly in 2019 by refusing to release the money Congress had appropriated for Ukraine to fund its fight against Russian incursions until Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky smeared Biden. When the threat came to light, the House of Representatives impeached Trump. Although the Senate ultimately acquitted Trump, according to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) all the Republican senators agreed he had done as the House charged.

Now Trump’s team apparently hopes that a pliant Supreme Court will declare the 1974 Impoundment Control Act unconstitutional, permitting Trump—or Vice President J.D. Vance, should Trump not be able to fulfill his term—to shape the government without consulting Congress.

Because of the 2024 presidential election, Trump will soon be able to return the country to the neoliberal vision of the 40 years before Biden, supercharging it with the help of unelected billionaire Elon Musk, who recently claimed the title of being the “George Soros of the right,” a reference to the liberal philanthropist who has been the bogeyman of right-wing pundits.

But it’s not at all clear that Americans actually want that supercharged neoliberalism. As vote counts are continuing, it has become clear that Trump’s victory was slim indeed. New numbers from Nate Silver suggest he will not clear 50% of voters.

At the same time, a new study out today from Data for Progress showed that people who paid “a great deal” of attention to political news voted for Vice President Kamala Harris +6, while those who paid “none at all” went +19 for Trump.

Many of those voters got their information from social media or right-wing websites, but one of those today underwent a historic change. The satirical news outlet The Onion bought right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s InfoWars at auction. Jones’s property was up for sale because juries found him guilty of defamation and awarded his victims about $1.5 billion in damages. After the 2012 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that killed 26 students and teachers, Jones insisted the event was a hoax designed to provide an excuse for gun safety regulations. He and his supporters harassed the victims’ families for years.

Jones appeared to be trying to keep control of InfoWars by having a company associated with him buy it up under the terms of the bankruptcy and restore it to him. But Sandy Hook families worked with The Onion to keep it from returning to Jones’s hands. Jones is screaming that the sale that took it away from him was a conspiracy. The company associated with him, First United American Companies, is already protesting the sale in court.

Jones rose to prominence in 1993, when he dropped out of community college to start a talk radio show that warned the government was making war on Americans. His shtick echoed the anti-communist grifters of the post–World War II years that promised small donors that their contributions could stop the creeping communism in the United States. Jones became popular enough that he went on to found InfoWars, which made him rich from the sale of nutritional supplements. The theme of InfoWars was that “There’s a war on for your mind!” and that only people like him could deliver the truth.

But his lies cost him a billion dollars. And now, noting that “InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society,” The Onion has bought his website, which it plans to relaunch in January as a parody of Jones and a site that promotes gun safety legislation.

The chief executive officer of The Onion, Ben Collins, told Kim Bellware of the Washington Post: “It’s not just Jones, it’s the people on Instagram trying to get you to drink raw milk; it’s the multilevel marketing people trying to get you to join a scam…. Those people have outsize impact in our completely bifurcated and balkanized media environment.”

fyi: “bifurcate” definition: divide into two branches or forks

fyi: “balkanize” definition: to divide (a region or body) into smaller mutually HOSTILE states or groups. Note the word I capitalized.
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Notes:

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/11/14/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-a-record-20-million-new-business-applications/

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/11/14/fact-sheet-a-record-20-million-new-business-applications/

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/11/14/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-a-record-20-million-new-business-applications/

advocacy.sba.gov/2023/03/07/frequently-asked-questions-about-small-business-2023/

apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9

www.thedailybeast.com/george-soros-of-the-right-thatll-be-me-says-elon-musk/

www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/economy-if-trump-wins-second-term-could-mean-hardship-for-americans-rcna177807

democrats-budget.house.gov/resources/reports/impoundment-control-act-1974-what-it-why-does-it-matter

www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/13/elon-musk-government-efficiency-congress-budget-law/

www.dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/11/14/what-political-news-engagement-tells-us-about-donald-trumps-victory

x.com/NateSilver538/status/1856967496462446603

www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5191743/overdose-deaths-drop-fentanyl-opioid-crisis

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/14/infowars-auction-alex-jones-sandy-hook-the-onion/

theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

Joe Conason, The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (St. Martin’s Press, 2024).

www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-10-28/elon-musk-we-can-cut-2-trillion-from-us-budget-video

Igor Bobic, “’We Are F**CKED’: New Book Reveals How GOP Senators Bailed Out Trump During 1st Impeachment Trial, HuffPost, October 7, 2022 at www.yahoo.com/news/f-ked-book-reveals-gop-110011623.html.

Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian, Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump (New York: William Morrow, 2022).

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FROM MICHAEL MOORE 11/13/24

Here are my suggestions of things for each of us to do, in our own personal time, to recharge, reboot, and revitalize our spirit

ONE. Kindness. The first step in our daily lives is to be kind. To live by the ancient code of Philo: “Be kind, for everyone you encounter is quietly carrying a great burden.” And to paraphrase something Jesse Jackson once explained to me: Ignorance and prejudice create a paralyzing and irrational, out-of-control Fear. Fear of “the Other.” Fear of the Different. Fear of the New. And Fear leads to Hate. And Hate leads to Violence. Therefore, in order not to end up with violence, ignorance and stupidity must be the first to go.
So, perform at least one act of kindness each day. You will instantly make a small piece of this world a better place.
Listen. Especially listen to women. (I ESPECIALLY LIKE THAT ONE!)
Read. Books.

TWO. Join something. Anything. Being in community is a radical act. Those in power know that one of the key components of staying in power is to divide people because when the people get together, well, it never seems to turn out well for those in power. So right away, simply deciding to join with others — for any reason — is one of the purest acts of Democracy. And I’m serious, join anything. A knitting circle. A darts team. Your local HRC, ACLU, BLM, or any one of a number of social justice groups. Neighborhood clean-up. Food bank. Community theater. Over-50 hockey. Regardless of which state of grief any of us are in, nothing beats being with other humans. And by coming together — even if it’s just to make a quilt — it is during gatherings like these that somebody randomly comes up with an idea, and two other people pile on with their ideas, and before you know it, you have the beginnings of a new First People’s Cultural Center in town.

THREE. Take care of yourself. We need strength to fight. It’s really that simple. And for us to win, really win, this will require 100% of our body, mind and soul. So… Drink tea. Listen to music. Go snowshoeing. Eat ice cream. Rest, on a shoulder. Randomly just start singing The Beatles’ “Let It Be” — right now. Don’t wait, just sing. “When I find myself in times of trouble…” Practice gratitude. Get a pedicure. Notice birds. Do standing push-ups against a closet door. Cross the river into Canada — with no clue as to why you’re there. (Pro Tip: Call home and announce you’ve left the country.)
FOUR. Get some real news. Go outside the mainstream media. There’s all kinds of journalism these days — dangerous muckrakers, investigative humorists, fearless instigators, unbought and unrepentant writers — find them. Embrace it. Read it. Watch it. Listen to it: ProPublica. The Guardian. Ha’aretz. CBC nightly news “The National.” Labor Notes. John Oliver. Current Affairs. BBC NewsNight. The Chris Hedges Report on Substack. Ayman on MSNBC. Drop Site News. A Closer Look on Seth Meyers. The Lever. Hammer & Hope. More Perfect Union. The Katie Halper Show. Night School with Marc Lamont Hill. “Citations Needed”. Jewish Currents. Al-Jazeera English.
Start there.

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Lazy afternoon on the Nehalem Bay. www.youtube.com/channel/UCtDisMjv9_ezqqTav8qUrdg

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Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays will be here soon. Holidays like these can affect us in so many ways. I am hoping the information below will provide you with some ideas for helping others and that doing so will bring you great joy.

Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays mean school will be out and therefore breakfast and lunch for kids will not be there. Several kids are in the backpack program which sends food home for them over the weekend. This will help at Thanksgiving. The Christmas break will be for two weeks. The Nehalem Grade school is also collecting food to send home with the children. You can donate food at the following drop-off places, Mohler Co-Op, RTI Nehalem, North County Recreation District, Wild in Manzanita, Nehalem Food Mart, and Nehalem Elementary. The name of this Food Drive is called “Let’s Share & Care”. This program is currently running and will continue until December 18th. Among the items needed are cereal, bread, pasta, rice, healthy snacks, flour, sugar, peanut butter, jelly, tuna, beans, canned tomatoes, soups, corn, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, chicken, and vegetable broth. You can buy one of each item or just one item to donate and you are going to know you made a difference. Contacts for this program, which is run by the Family Resource Center at the Nehalem Grade School Coordinator, heavenh@nknsd.org. You can call and talk with someone at 503-355-3639. Checks can be mailed to Nehalem Elementary, PO Box 190, Nehalem, Oregon, 97131.

In another message let me get back to you with the local programs in our area who need extra help this time of year. Thank you for helping!

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Aileen ‘Bobbie’ Recio used to own the River Sea Inn in Wheeler in the ’70’s and ’80’s. It was right there by the Wheeler City Boat ramp and later became Heron Rock, The Sea Shack, Salmonberry among other names.

She and her husband Nick employed many people, they had Dinner Theaters upstairs so lots of locals were involved in that.

I remember they had dogs including Pharaoh Hounds, which are a (nearly) hairless dog.
When Bobbie retired, she and Nick moved to Willits, CA where she made many friends and a ‘splash,’ literally in that community. (See obituary)

Having not heard from her, I finally found a mutual friend who shared that she passed away in April of 2023 at the age of 93 (Nick passed in 2015). You Go Bobbie! What a good long life.

Attached is her Obituary which conveys her spirit-
She is survived by a niece and a nephew, but of course many friends.

I would love to hear some memories of her if you’d like to share? Maybe eventually I can get a collection of these memories to her family. I can still hear her voice, kind of raspy and always enthusiastic.

Sincerely,
Lori Dillon
Please email to: banjo2@nehalemtel.net

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The latest issue of Manzanita Today is out today. Enjoy
www.manzanitatoday.com/

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I really don’t want to be a regular poster, but someone recommended an excellent article to me and I thought it would be a disservice not to pass it along.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga

Big tech has replaced news partly because the national news media failed us a long time ago. They’re all only interested in profits. BBC is supported by a surprisingly reasonable fee levied on each household. They aren’t beholden to corporate interests, and they do a fabulous job providing many valuable services.

Yet in spite of all the misinformation we are bombarded with in America, we still have license to consider alternatives and challenge our thinking (for example: the notion that Ukraine cannot win could be contrasted with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan).

Being aware that there’s a cesspool of information out there is half the battle. The other half is having an open mind and persistently comparing bits of info to refine our perceptions.

-Dave

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A hearty congratulations to our re-elected Mayor, Kathryn Stock, our two re-elected City Councilors: Jerry Spegman and Tom Campbell. Thank you for continuing to volunteer for Manzanita!
And thank you to Manzanita voters for supporting our City Council and our City Manager, Leila Aman by voting YES, affirming their earlier actions moving us to Water Billing on a Monthlty Cycle.
Now we move on to exciting new challenges: Creating a new Comprehensive Plan, finishing our new City Hall and Police Station (looking more and more like buildings every day), putting in new water infrastructure along Classic and Necarney City Road as well as an actual new road surface and pathways for Classic!
Keep up the good work
Bravo!

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Manzanita will keep monthly water billing. The story behind the election results however  is the 204 voters who registered their disapproval of this Council decision.
The Referendum provided an opportunity to lay open a process marked with contradictory explanations by City officials, violation of an existing City Ordinance and real experience with the financial impact of these changes on household budgets that were at odds with promises by the City.
Were those 265 voters who voted to keep monthly billings willing to overlook the process and explanations really convinced that this decision was in the best interests of residents?  I can not answer that question. 
What I do know is that when you have a Councilor admit that he could not find citizens willing to talk with him about their concerns on this matter, you have a problem. Those 204 voters are not a noisy minority but rather citizens who have witnessed years of Councils who believe unanimous decisions on all city business is the sign of a healthy governing process, avoid whenever possible appointment of citizens to Committees who may ask unwanted questions and ignore and label those citizens who dare challenge the status quo.
Maybe what those 204 voices were saying to you Councilor is entertain some skepticism on what you are being told by staff and your consultants, be confident enough in your policy positions that you can appoint citizens to committees that may have opinions that differ from you and be willing to ask more questions before you make a decision.
Finally, thank you to all who voted. Think about that, you got the opportunity to directly have a say in an important community decision.
Randy Kugler

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In the analogy about ducks and rabbits, I see there is a second part: the duck turned into an eagle, but unfortunately the rabbits remained rabbits. This was caused by the rabbits making a poor choice as to where to get their information. It is understandable in a way, as the media the rabbits watched flashed subliminal carrot images ever three of four seconds onto the screen. Let us all pray for the rabbits, so that they may receive better information in the future.
Or perhaps get into the Oregon deflection program for carrot addiction treatment.

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Should there be any confusion about my recent posts, I’d like to offer an analogy:

Suppose there’s a duck and a great many wabbits. Some wabbits take a liking to the duck and how it quacks. Others are repelled by the quacking and think those who like the duck are confused or crazy. Nature guides complicate the matter by referring to the duck as just another wabbit, and this drives the others nuts. Yet the nature guides keep doing this even after two game wardens identify the quacker as a duck.

Here’s my point: there is nothing inherently evil or stupid about the wabbits who like the duck, and the others might stop twisting their tails in a bunch if the guides could bring themselves to call it a duck.

To push this tortured analogy out a bit further, if the wabbits decide to put the duck in charge it will just fly off and feather it’s own nest.

-Dave

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In Europe not many people would vote for Trump, mostly only authoritarian countries. And only one country even gives him a majority. If you watch Fox News this may come as a surprise, to put it politely.

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To the BBQ readership,

this message came to my email this morning from “Project 2025 Take-Down.”

IF YOU HAVE NOT YET VOTED, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU VOTE.

TRUMP’S HATE-FILLED RALLIES ARE PROJECT 2025 IN A NUTSHELL

The racist, misogynistic, anti-Black, anti-trans rhetoric will be the new normal if Trump Wins.

by TIFFANY TORRES WILLIAMS
NOV 4

I spent an entire dark and lonely weekend in April dedicated to nothing but reading Project 2025. I joke, but it’s not really a joke, that with the help of anti-anxiety meds and lots of long walks, I made it through the dystopian document.

Project 2025 is the conservative playbook dreamed up by the Heritage Foundation for the next Republican president. Though Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, it mentions him by name more than 240 times and references his administration more than 300. More than half of Trump’s allies, advisors, and administrators are among its 307 authors.

There is no way around it: Project 2025 is Trump’s plan for presidency if he prevails in tomorrow.

My methodology in reading and researching Project 2025 was simple: I used a notebook. Each page had a title: Women. Families. Workers. Unions. LGBTQ+. Racial Minorities. Educators. Academics. Climate. Every time I would come across one of those categories in the 920-page document, I wrote a quick summary of what it said and the page number where I could find it later to do more research.

I’m not saying all that work was for nigh, but I AM saying Donald Trump’s ties to Project 2025 are obvious — taking center stage at his rallies. Take his Madison Square Garden rally, where speakers disparaged everyone from women to trans Americans to racial minorities.

Trump and his surrogates are not just saying the quiet part out loud. They’re screaming it. Into microphones.
Here’s a sample of groups and American ideals Trump and his speakers are taking aim at that are also targeted in Project 2025:

IMMIGRANTS
Perhaps the most obvious link between Trump and Project 2025 (and Hitler) came from speaker Stephen Miller, who said “America is for Americans and Americans only”. Compare that to remarks made at a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, when a speaker promised to “restore America to the true Americans”.

Miller, who runs America First Legal, contributed to the section of Project 2025 that speaks of weakening the system of checks and balances and rounding up and deporting millions of immigrants.

Trump’s opening act at Madison Square Garden was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who continued to repeat Trump’s false claim that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are “eating the dogs, eating the cats, eating the pets.” Schools in Springfield faced more than 30 bomb threats in the aftermath of Trump’s lie.

At every rally he’s hosted, Trump has bragged about “mass deportations at a level never before seen” and Project 2025 validates that terrifying future if he’s elected.
According to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, “Project 2025 calls for allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use ‘expedited removal’ — a process normally only used near the border, and one that raises significant concerns about due process — against immigrants found anywhere within the country. It would enable raids in sensitive zones like schools, hospitals, and religious institutions.”

Project 2025 dreams of militarizing our border, expanding immigration detention centers, criminalizing sanctuary cities, eliminating protection for dreamers or children whose parents crossed the border illegally who have been living in immigration limbo all of their lives, and forcing local law enforcement to work with federal officials to identify and deport people.

BLACK AMERICANS
Hinchcliffe also took aim at Black Americans, pointing to an audience member whom Hinchcliffe identified as Black and making fun of his hat. Then he pivoted, calling the man “one of [his] buddies. “We carved watermelon together,” he said, referencing a longstanding trope about the food Black Americans supposedly eat.

Project 2025 threatens civil rights gains for Black Americans. It will abolish affirmative action, weaken anti-discrimination laws, and dismantle the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It would remove health care protections, threatening to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and do away with social programs that benefit Black Americans and increase policing and remove civil protections. Black Americans are already disproportionately incarcerated. It even targets education that informs about the plight of slaves and the historical affect of racism.

LGBTQ+ Rights
During Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, Tucker Carlson took aim at trans people, claiming that the ability to transition genders was a “lie” perpetuated by Democrats.

Republicans have spent more money attacking trans Americans this election cycle than any other group, which is ironic considering that trans people make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population. Trump’s campaign alone has spent more than $65 million on anti-trans ads. Not the economy. Not housing. Not lowering crime. Most of the ads end with saying, “Kamala is for they/them, but Trump is for you.”

He’s singling trans people out and endangering them. His presidency will be one where trans people cease to exist peacefully in all corners of the U.S. He is leveraging people’s hate to get more votes.

But if Trump gets his way, LGBTQ+ people will be threatened by more than Trump’s harmful rhetoric.

It would destroy non-traditional families like single-parent or same-sex households and prioritize families “comprised of a married mother, father, and their children.” It takes aim at federal policies that promote LGBTQ equality or that assist single parents. It wants to gut hard-fought protections for gay couples and eliminate the anti-discrimination laws that allow them to live in peace.

Trans people would be kicked out of the military, and calls trans human beings “ideology.” It also wants to criminalize pornography, and the document states that the federal government will define that however it wants. This is devastating not only for LGBTQ+ Americans, but also for teachers, librarians, school administrators, authors, artists, publishers, and parents.

The Media
Trump used a rally in Pennsylvania to wish it was members of the media who were shot instead of him.

“To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news and I don’t mind that so much,” he said, adding the press were “seriously corrupt people.”

Trump has always taken aim at reporters. Remember this moment this moment from a 2016 rally when he mocked a disabled reporter?

If members of the press weren’t in danger before, they certainly will be if Trump wins on Tuesday. Project 2025 argues that a new Trump Department of Justice should surveil journalists’ phones and emails to keep government officials from leaking information to the press. This happened during the last Trump administration when DOJ officials secretly seized the phone and email records of multiple journalists as they attempted to discredit the Russia investigation. Project 2025 wants the practice, which was banned under the Biden administration, to be even more vigorous the next time around.
The document even muses that reporters shouldn’t be allowed in the White House, complaining about the longstanding relationship between the president and the fourth branch.
“No legal entitlement exists for the provision of permanent space for media on the White House campus, and the next Administration should reexamine the balance between media demands and space constraints on the White House premises.”
Project 2025 also calls for defunding public broadcasting and ending publicly supported educational media like Sesame Street.

WOMEN
Perhaps some of the most vile rhetoric at Trump’s rallies have been aimed at Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris calling her “the devil,” “the anti-Christ,” and claiming the person vying to become the first female president had begun her career as a prostitute.

But Trump’s threats have been toward women at-large in equal measure. He has said he will “protect women whether they like it or not.” I wrote for the Huffington Post about how the word “protector” is often used in evangelical culture to soften the patriarchal oppression that exists there.

As if we would EVER believe that the predator who infamously boasted to Billy Bush on “Access Hollywood” about forcefully groping and kissing unwilling women will protect us. Trump bragged to Howard Stern about strolling into Miss Teen USA dressing rooms to get a glimpse of the half-naked underage contestants. A jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, and another jury heard the testimony of Stormy Daniels, who said Trump cheated on his wife, Melania Trump, with her before covering up their affair with a $130,000 hush money payment.

We’ve seen enough of Trump’s history to know that he is no protector. And if it comes to pass, Project 2025 will mimic the sexism and discrimination that have marked Trump’s relationships with women.

Project 2025 will remove anti-discrimination laws that have helped women advance in the workplace. In fact, the document frequently demonstrates nostalgia for the halcyon days when women were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen before the existence of no-fault divorce.

More dangerous still, the document states that Trump should force the FDA to declare abortion pills are unsafe. Medication abortion has been used safely for two decades and have been legal throughout Republican and Democratic presidencies. Medication abortion is the only way for many rural Americans to end a pregnancy.

Project 2025 will abolish abortion in the military for any reason, meaning women who are raped by male service members will have to give birth to their rapists’ babies.
Reproductive rights are under attack throughout Project 2025, which promises on page 6 that “the Dobbs decision was just the beginning.” So much for letting the states decide.

Fortunately, women are responding with the largest gender gap in voting history (or at least the last 100 years since women have had the right to vote). If recent polling in Iowa showing Harris with a 3-point lead over Trump is any indication, women will save this country from the devastation Project 2025 will cause.

The polling in Iowa looks good, but we don’t have a single laurel to rest on. This election is close enough to be decided by a few hundred votes. If you know someone in a swing state who is still undecided, please call them and warn them about the danger Project 2025 is to all of us.

Let’s wake up to a new dawn of U.S. democracy, one where we know that we brushed up against authoritarianism, and we prevailed.

Onward, Democracy Defenders!