Category: General Interest

Submitted By: dwieb1@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

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!

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

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.

Submitted By: dwieb1@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

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!

Submitted By: dwieb1@gmail.com – Click to email about this post

I value fairness above most things so in my effort to find out how much mainstream media knew, but didn’t report to us, I found an interesting counter-point on fascism as it pertains to the GOP candidate for president.

www.newsweek.com/its-time-stop-calling-donald-trump-fascist-opinion-1975888

The value in recognizing his rhetoric as fascist is in understanding what he and many of his activist supporters are saying, rather than just passing it off as crazy talk. That perception has driven us nuts questioning the sanity of his broad support. That’s clearly wrong and divides us.

So while this is an excellent opinion piece and nails his character, I think it’s a distinction without a difference.

-Dave

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this “Letter from an American” needs no introduction.

November 3, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
NOV 4

I’m home tonight to stay for a bit, after being on the road for thirteen months and traveling through 32 states. I am beyond tired but profoundly grateful for the chance to meet so many wonderful people and for the welcome you have given me to your towns and your homes.

I know people are on edge, and there is maybe one last thing I can offer before this election. Every place I stopped, worried people asked me how I have maintained a sense of hope through the past fraught years. The answer—inevitably for me, I suppose—is in our history.

If you had been alive in 1853, you would have thought the elite enslavers had become America’s rulers. They were only a small minority of the U.S. population, but by controlling the Democratic Party, they had managed to take control of the Senate, the White House, and the Supreme Court. They used that power to stop the northerners who wanted the government to clear the rivers and harbors of snags, for example, or to fund public colleges for ordinary people, from getting any such legislation through Congress. But at least they could not use the government to spread their system of human enslavement across the country, because the much larger population in the North held control of the House of Representatives.

Then in 1854, with the help of Democratic president Franklin Pierce, elite enslavers pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through the House. That law overturned the Missouri Compromise that had kept Black enslavement out of the American West since 1820. Because the Constitution guarantees the protection of property—and enslaved Americans were considered property—the expansion of slavery into those territories would mean the new states there would become slave states. Their representatives would work together with those of the southern slave states to outvote the northern free labor advocates in Congress. Together, they would make enslavement national.

America would become a slaveholding nation.

Enslavers were quite clear that this was their goal.

South Carolina senator James Henry Hammond explicitly rejected “as ridiculously absurd, that much lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that ‘all men are born equal.’” He explained to his Senate colleagues that the world was made up of two classes of people. The “Mudsills” were dull drudges whose work produced the food and products that made society function. On them rested the superior class of people, who took the capital the mudsills produced and used it to move the economy, and even civilization itself, forward. The world could not survive without the inferior mudsills, but the superior class had the right—and even the duty—to rule over them.

But that’s not how it played out.

As soon as it became clear that Congress would pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Representative Israel Washburn of Maine called a meeting of thirty congressmen in Washington, D.C., to figure out how they could fight back against the Slave Power that had commandeered the government to spread the South’s system of human enslavement. The men met in the rooms of Representative Edward Dickinson of Massachusetts—whose talented daughter Emily was already writing poems—and while they came to the meeting from all different political parties, often bitterly divided over specific policies, they left with one sole purpose: to stop the overthrow of American democracy.

The men scattered back to their homes across the North for the summer, sharing their conviction that a new party must rise to stand against the Slave Power. They found “anti-Nebraska” sentiment sweeping their towns; a young lawyer from Illinois later recalled how ordinary people came together: “[W]e rose each fighting, grasping whatever he could first reach—a scythe—a pitchfork—a chopping axe, or a butcher’s cleaver.” In the next set of midterm elections, those calling themselves “anti-Nebraska” candidates swept into both national and state office across the North, and by 1856, opponents of the Slave Power had become a new political party: the Republicans.

But the game wasn’t over. In 1857, the Supreme Court tried to take away Republicans’ power to stop the spread of slavery to the West by declaring in the infamous Dred Scott decision that Congress had no power to legislate in the territories. This made the Missouri Compromise that had kept enslavement out of the land above Missouri unconstitutional. The next day, Republican editor of the New York Tribune Horace Greeley wrote that the decision was “entitled to just so much moral weight as would be the judgment of a majority of those congregated in any Washington bar-room.”

By 1858 the party had a new rising star, the young lawyer from Illinois who had talked about everyone reaching for tools to combat the Kansas-Nebraska Act: Abraham Lincoln. Pro-slavery Democrats called the Republicans radicals for their determination to stop the expansion of slavery, but Lincoln countered that the Republicans were the country’s true conservatives, for they were the ones standing firm on the Declaration of Independence. The enslavers rejecting the Founders’ principles were the radicals.

The next year, Lincoln articulated an ideology for the party, defining it as the party of ordinary Americans defending the democratic idea that all men are created equal against those determined to overthrow democracy with their own oligarchy.

In 1860, at a time when voting was almost entirely limited to white men, voters put Abraham Lincoln into the White House. Furious, southern leaders took their states out of the Union and launched the Civil War.

By January 1863, Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation ending the American system of human enslavement in lands still controlled by the Confederacy. By November 1863 he had delivered the Gettysburg Address, firmly rooting the United States of America in the Declaration of Independence.

In that speech, Lincoln charged Americans to rededicate themselves to the unfinished work for which so many had given their lives. He urged them to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

In less than ten years the country went from a government dominated by a few fabulously wealthy men who rejected the idea that human beings are created equal and who believed they had the right to rule over the masses, to a defense of government of the people, by the people, for the people, and to leaders who called for a new birth of freedom. But Lincoln did not do any of this alone: always, he depended on the votes of ordinary people determined to have a say in the government under which they lived.

In the 1860s the work of those people established freedom and democracy as the bedrock of the United States of America, but the structure itself remained unfinished. In the 1890s and then again in the 1930s, Americans had to fight to preserve democracy against those who would destroy it for their own greed and power. Each time, thanks to ordinary Americans, democracy won.

Now it is our turn.

In our era the same struggle has resurfaced. A small group of leaders has rejected the idea that all people are created equal and seeks to destroy our democracy in order to install themselves into permanent power.

And just as our forebears did, Americans have reached for whatever tools we have at hand to build new coalitions across the nation to push back. After decades in which ordinary people had come to believe they had little political power, they have mobilized to defend American democracy and—with an electorate that now includes women and Black Americans and Brown Americans—have discovered they are strong.

On November 5 we will find out just how strong we are. We will each choose on which side of the historical ledger to record our names. On the one hand, we can stand with those throughout our history who maintained that some people were better than others and had the right to rule; on the other, we can list our names on the side of those from our past who defended democracy and, by doing so, guarantee that American democracy reaches into the future.

I have had hope in these dark days because I look around at the extraordinary movement that has built in this country over the past several years, and it looks to me like the revolution of the 1850s that gave America a new birth of freedom.

As always, the outcome is in our hands.

“Fellow-citizens,” Lincoln reminded his colleagues, “we cannot escape history. We…will be remembered in spite of ourselves.”

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Join us for on Tuesday Nov. 5, 12 – 2:00 at the Pine Grove Community House in Manzanita. Meetings are open to the public. Or come for the program at 1:00: Jeff Warren will discuss a wide range of honey topics, including what to look for in labeling, fake honey, and more. We’ll taste different honeys. As it’s election day, we’ll vote on our favorite honey! www.ntcwa1933.org/ ntcwa1933@gmail.com

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“Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself”

Tillamook County continues to grapple with efforts to pressure our libraries, schools, our elected leaders and our neighbors into banning books and limiting discourse in our schools and public institutions.

A recent letter this time, focused on the LGBTQIA+/Gay Agenda as harmful to our youth and our society, and exhorted local leaders to respond.

“Gay Agenda” was coined by right-wing Christian groups in the United States in the 1990s. The term represents a pejorative effort to encourage harmful legislation and hateful speech towards minority groups. It is a form of Christian bigotry.

Our LGBTQIA+ youth are already under siege in this country. It is estimated that 40% of homeless youth identify as LGBTQIA+; many are on the streets having been thrown out of their homes by parents due to their queer identification.

If there is an actual “Gay Agenda”, it is for our Gay friends and neighbors to be allowed to stay alive without persecution.

I urge Tillamook County officials throughout all levels of our institutions to not only encourage acceptance of all of our residents, but to go further and to advocate for all of us, regardless of race, creed, or sexual orientation. All of our stories are worth hearing.

Mark Kuestner

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There are many reasons to support one candidate over another. Party affiliation is an obvious choice. How they might affect taxes, or what an individual might attempt to accomplish while in office are others. At the end of the day, all politicians are fighting for one thing or another. They are supposed to be fighting on behalf of their constituents, or, at the very least, the people that voted for them. When it comes to Women’s Reproductive Rights, Cyrus Javadi does neither. He follows his own personal religious beliefs.
Last year he co-sponsored Senate Bill 1536 that would make it illegal for a women to seek an abortion after 15 weeks. He attempted to make it the law in Oregon for a woman to lose her rights and choice over her own body. There’s no place for this in government.
UNITED IN THE FIGHT to protect Women’s Reproductive Rights, WE CAN STOP Cyrus Javadi!
No matter your party affiliation, or what good you feel a candidate can do, we all must consider the harm that can come from just one.
Please vote for Andy Davis for House District 32, the candidate endorsed by Planned Parenthood, and SAVE Women’s Reproductive Rights in Oregon.

Thank you.

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NEAH and her pups spotted on Nehalem Bay
www.youtube.com/channel/UCtDisMjv9_ezqqTav8qUrdg

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I’m a new art teacher on the coast with 10 years experience in group & private art sessions currently working out of my cannon beach studio.

For November and the first two weeks in December – I’m opening up sessions for Christmas card & Ornament creations. We have a variety of options in the block printing, creative resin, shells & crystals. Much more than I could get in the single photo to post.
Shoot me an email for my FB & Instagram pages to see more of the art I teach.

Sessions are 30$ per person
Mommy & me sessions are discounted 5$ per person.

I’m open to groups of 4 at my studio or larger groups at your location of choice.
– play date groups for kids & adults.
– homeschool groups
– church or meditation groups.

Art is a great way to gather and connect during the holiday season. Blessings – Karen

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One year ago,

Autumn Winds
   
October 31, 2023

Under this waning moon

in a season of descending, 

everything is cradled, held

in silence. As the east winds 

gather, offering a presence, 

rising over coastal mountains

then descending to the ocean,

they can open a heart to hope,

a hope that abides imagining,

imagining a space where no one

is excluded, all are welcome,

and the intimacy is generous.

In this genesis

of what has been denied

joy is recognized without a name.

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FRIDAY, 11/1 – FINAL SALE DAY: FALL PLANTED / SPRING BLOOMING BULBS

Join Friends at NCRD (North County Recreation District) tomorrow, Friday, November 1, from 9 AM to 11 AM for the FINAL DAY of the BULB SALE. These unique bulbs are of incredibly good quality and ready to be put into the ground or into pots.

Brighten your neighborhood; plant them in your own yard or in your neighbor’s yard for a Special Spring Surprise!

If you want to see Friends’ selection of bulbs, please call Patty (503-801-3534) before 9 PM on Thursday night, for an emailed catalog and order form. Friends of NCRD takes cash, checks made out to Friends of NCRD, and Venmo.

FRIENDS MISSION STATEMENT:
To support NCRD programs and projects through promotion, fundraising, and providing scholarships to encourage inclusion for all.

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The Tillamook County Housing Commission has opened applications for its third round of funding to aid development of multifamily rental housing in Tillamook County. Proposed projects must be to build new multifamily rental housing of three units or more and may be located anywhere in the county, including cities and unincorporated areas. To support the immediate needs in the county, funding is prioritized for affordable and workforce housing options.
The online application is available on the Tillamook County Housing Commission webpage: Applications will be accepted through December 31, 2024.
Any individual, private company, builder, developer, public agency, local government, or nonprofit organization may apply. Both new projects and projects already in planning stages are eligible to apply. Funds may be requested for any associated cost of the proposed project including infrastructure, system development charges, cost overruns, materials, labor, and permits.
The maximum amount the grant will fund is $20,000 per unit in a project. There is a total of $400,000 to award in this funding cycle.
To maintain fair standards for assessment, applications will be evaluated by the Housing Commissioners using a criteria-based point system, weighted to ensure that small and large projects are given equal chance to receive funds.
Applicants must submit a pro forma, the financial document that demonstrates their need for additional financing for the proposed project. Applicants will also make a short presentation of their project to the Housing Commissioners at its December meeting. Final award decisions will be made by the Board of County Commissioners.
The Housing Production Solutions Fund was developed by the Finance Committee of the Tillamook County Housing Commission. The fund is supported by fees Tillamook County collects for Short Term Rental (STR) operator licenses in unincorporated areas. The fund is part of the Commission’s larger strategy to find collaborative and achievable solutions to the countywide housing shortage.
For more information and answers to questions about the Fund, please contact Housing Coordinator: Parker Sammons, at Parker.Sammons@TillamookCounty.gov or, visit the Housing Commission website, tillamookcounty.gov/bc-hc.

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In the middle of the night I was listening to BBC radio when they reported that Biden apparently called Trump supporters “garbage.” It took a few minutes, but I realized Joe Biden would never intend to say anything of the sort, and it must be disinformation. In the morning I found the quote and quickly understood opportunistic people were intentionally spinning his words to mean something very different from what Biden intended.

I expect that from Republicans who decided to put party over country, but mainstream media is either willfully ignorant or guilty of contributing to the dissemination of false information. Are they that desperate for what amounts to click bait? Do they have no common sense? Did they just follow the lead of other media outlets without bothering to do a few minutes of investigation? What happened to fact checking? And why do they have a double standard when reporting on the 2 parties? Inquiring minds want to know :p

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The word fascist is triggering because of its association to Hitler and all he did. However Benito Mussolini is known as the founder of fascism, and whatever one thinks about Trump doesn’t mean he isn’t following that play book.

I heard an excellent interview with Jennifer Mercieca, an American scholar of rhetoric and professor of communication at Texas A&M University, last night on Australia’s ABC News Daily. It is only 15 minutes long:

www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-news-daily/what-makes-trump-a-fascist/104533134

She explains in detail the method behind Trump’s “madness.” Suddenly everything Trump says in his rambling rally speeches makes perfect sense, and I understand why so many good, and probably rational, people love and support him.

Trying to figure this out has been a long journey for me and probably many others. Meanwhile apparently this is not a new revelation, since Mercieca wrote a book, released in 2020, explaining his rhetoric:

https://www.amazon.com/Demagogue-President-Rhetorical-Genius-Donald-ebook/dp/B08B3LCS3X

Considering all the grief this issue has caused over the last four years, why mainstream media has failed to mention this important analysis will be a subject covered in future history books. The Harris campaign must long ago have understood what’s going on and I trust there is a good reason they haven’t brought it up themselves. It’s only because Trump’s former cabinet members are just now sounding the alarm, and Harris was directly asked by a reporter, that it’s getting any attention at all.

I hope this helps anyone who has likewise struggled. It sure helped me, and I’ll no longer have to self-medicate with alcohol out of frustration from not knowing what’s happening. I know now.
-Dave

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To the BBQ readership: VOTE ON OR BEFORE NOVEMBER 5. Let YOUR voice be one that is heard.
Indeed, noble are these words written below by HCR, political historian.
Note my insertion in CAPITAL LETTERS. And my closing words also in CAPITAL LETTERS.

om peace namaste
lucy brook
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American citizen

October 29, 2024
Letter from an American
Heather Cox Richardson

Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump offered Americans his closing argument in the 2024 presidential race on Sunday, October 27, at Madison Square Garden. At a rally that evoked a Nazi rally at the old Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939, Trump’s warm-up acts set the terms of Trump’s final pitch to voters by calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and railing against “f*cking illegals.” They called Vice President Kamala Harris “the Antichrist” and “the devil,” and called former secretary of state Hillary Clinton “a sick son of a b*tch.” When Trump took the stage about two hours late, he echoed the warm-up acts, and then reiterated that he believes fellow Americans are “the enemy within.”
The racism and fascism Trump’s MAGA Republicans displayed at Madison Square Garden is usually expressed within their media bubble, where it passes for normal conversation. The backlash against it among people in the real world appears to have shocked the Trump campaign so much that the candidate is running away from his own closing argument.
On Monday, Trump felt obliged to tell an audience in Georgia, “I’m not a Nazi.” The Trump campaign has made it a point never to apologize and never to explain, but on Monday it broke that rule, trying to distance itself from performer Tony Hinchcliffe’s comments about Puerto Rico.
This morning, Trump announced he would hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago. He showed up more than an hour late for the assembled press, then began the event by undermining faith in the election, claiming the campaign is going “very well; there are some bad spots in Pennsylvania where some serious things have been caught or are in the process of being caught,” although it was unclear what he meant.
He went on to deliver such a litany of lies that CNN cited them as a reason to cut away from the speech. Trump chose not to acknowledge the offensiveness of the Madison Square Garden event, saying ““The love in that room, it was breathtaking—and you could have filled it many many times with the people that were unable to get in.”
Tonight, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris offered her own closing argument to the American voters. Once again taking her campaign directly to Trump, she held a rally at the Ellipse near the White House, where Trump spoke to his supporters on January 6, 2021, before sending them off to the U.S. Capitol to stop the counting of the electoral votes that would make Joe Biden president.
More than 75,000 attendees in the Ellipse and standing on the Mall near the Washington Monument waved flags and held up signs with “USA” printed on them as Harris spoke in front of a backdrop of the White House, on a stage with a line of American flags.
“One week from today, you will have the chance to make a decision that directly impacts your life, the life of your family, and the future of this country we love,” she said. “[I]t will probably be the most important vote you ever cast. And this election is more just than a choice between two parties and two different candidates. It is a choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American or ruled by chaos and division.”
Harris outlined Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and noted that he is “unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and out for unchecked power.” She continued: “Donald Trump has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other. That is who he is. But America, I am here tonight to say: that is not who we are.” She called for Americans “to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division.”
The vice president described herself as “someone who has spent most of my career outside of Washington, D.C.,” a former prosecutor who cares that all people are treated fairly and that those who “use their wealth or power to take advantage of other people” are held to account.
She promised to “work every day to build consensus and reach compromise to get things done…. [to] work with everyone—Democrats, Republicans, and Independents—to help Americans who are working hard and still struggling to get ahead.” She vowed to lower costs by delivering tax cuts to working people and the middle class, ban price gouging on groceries, lower the cost of prescription drugs, provide down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, and build millions of new homes.
She promised to fight for a child tax credit and to lower the cost of child care, as well as allowing Medicare to cover the cost of home aides for seniors.
She promised to “fight to restore what Donald Trump and his hand-selected Supreme Court Justices took away from the women of America.” “[W]hen Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide,” she said, “as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.”
She promised to “work with Democrats and Republicans to sign into law the border security bill that Donald Trump killed.” She promised to “remove those who arrive here unlawfully, prosecute the cartels, and give border patrol the support they so desperately need. At the same time,” she said, “we must acknowledge we are a nation of immigrants.” She vowed to “work with Congress to pass immigration reform, including an earned path to citizenship for hardworking immigrants like farmworkers and our Dreamers.”
“As Commander in Chief,” she said, “I will make sure America has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.… I will strengthen—not surrender—America’s global leadership,” and stand with America’s allies because “our alliances keep American people safe and make America stronger and more secure.”
While Trump offers “more chaos, more division, and policies that help those at the very top and hurt everyone else,” Harris said, “I offer a different path. And I ask for your vote. And here is my pledge to you: I pledge to seek common ground and commonsense solutions to make your life better…. I pledge to listen: To experts, to those who will be impacted by the decisions I make, and to people who disagree with me…. I pledge…to approach my work with the joy and optimism that comes from making a difference in people’s lives. And I pledge to be a president for all Americans. And to always put country above party and self.”
“I love our country with all my heart,” she said, “And I believe in its promise. Because I’ve lived it…. And I see the promise of America in all of you…. I see it in the young people who are voting for the first time who are determined to live free from gun violence and to protect our planet, and to shape the world they inherit.
“I see it in the women who refuse to accept a future without reproductive freedom, and the men who support them. I see it in Republicans who have never voted for a Democrat before but have put the Constitution of the United States over party. I’ve seen it in Americans, different in many respects, but united in our pursuit of freedom, our belief in fairness and decency, and our faith in a better future.”
“Nearly 250 years ago, America was born when we wrested freedom from a petty tyrant. Across the generations, Americans have preserved that freedom, expanded it, and in so doing, proved to the world that a government of, by, and for the people is strong and can endure. And those who came before us—the patriots at Normandy and Selma, Seneca Falls and Stonewall, on farmlands and factory floors—they did not struggle, sacrifice, and lay down their lives only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms…only to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant.
“These United States of America: we are not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators. The United States of America is the greatest idea humanity ever devised: a nation big enough to encompass all our dreams, strong enough to withstand any fracture or fissure between us, and fearless enough to imagine a future of possibilities.
YES, INDEED, NOBLE WORDS THESE BE: AN IDEA, A CONCEPT, A HOPE, HOWEVER HIT AND MISS IT HAS BEEN MADE INTO REALITY, HOWEVER MUCH MONEY INTERESTS HAVE SOUGHT WITH PARTIAL SUCCESS TO CORRUPT IT.
“So, America, let us reach for that future. Let us fight for this beautiful country we love. And in seven days, we have the power—each of you has the power—to turn the page and start writing the next chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told.
“I thank you all,” she said. “God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.”
In Las Vegas, Nevada, today, the Harris campaign placed a giant political advertisement on the Sphere, the music and entertainment venue owned by the same family that owns Madison Square Garden. The globe showed stars and stripes, pictures of Vice President Harris, the words “Harris-Walz,” “November 5,” “Vote for Freedom,” “Vote for Opportunity, “Vote for our Future,” “Vote for Kamala,” “Vote for a New Way Forward.” “Vote for Reproductive Freedom,” “When We Fight, We Win,” and “When We Vote, We Win.”

PLEASE VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT IN OUR NATIONAL ELECTION.

PLEASE VOTE FOR ANDY DAVIS FOR OREGON HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE FROM OUR DISTRICT—ANOTHER VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY RATHER THAN BIG MONEY INTERESTS.