@jefftozzer, if you were a westENDER a power outage wouldn’t have delayed your article release, plug in your generator, just saying ;-) but you would have to be “transferred out” if you were having a stroke.
Oh, I thought about you while I was whining last night in the dark. Every time I see a woman on National Geographic washing her clothes by beating them on rocks beside the river, I think, "Is that Dr. Sarah in a power outage?"
Maybe we should list of Democrat owned businesses. Only problem it would be very short and only have companies on it with ties to French grants and public $ into it. Sure is funny how far the left has strayed from Americas values. Media is their source of misinformation and growing. Thanks Jeff for exposing the hypocrisy of our leaders.
The Dems already do a pseudo boycott. Every Friday they obstruct pedestrian traffic, annoy/harass drivers and people, and deter potential customers from businesses around the Washington Square all to "protest" their latest hysteria of the week.
It looks like they all have a snort of whiskey before they get there. Some look pretty seedy. Wouldn’t answer the doorbell at my house. Lots of four letter words that my mom said I shouldn’t say. Thanks mom!
Democrat owned businesses might be the result of massive subsidies. Perhaps a proper Democrat might pass legislation that would punish a business competitor. Most successful businesses play both sides of the fence. I fear that Jeff's message might have fallen on not only deaf ears.
Sounds like an industry to me, especially with all the NGOs out here.
What gets me is with the need for healthcare workers at OMC, is Peninsula College doing anything to help students prepare for getting work at OMC? Or connecting students to OMC, since they hire for food service and other positions that aren’t based in medicine? They’re so concerned about welding, but healthcare is a big industry out here with OMC being the largest employer, and it seems OMC has to constantly recruit from out of the area. Currently 159 jobs listed on the OMC website: https://olympicmedical.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/OMC_Careers
Thank you for sharing the podcast interviews; I hope more people learn about Antonio and Virginia!
Oh, boy. What a week and it's only Wednesday. I'm glad you have power again, Jeff. Great potpourri!
I don't know how Mark Curtis was able to read 600+ pages of the Clallam County Comprehensive Plan in two days, but I bow to him for that accomplishment. I look forward to his continuing analysis. Thanks, Mark!
Thanks for keeping us informed! So many things happen that never reach the general public. For example a young person had their backpack stolen by someone who threatened them with a GUN near the bowling alley/PBH Thursday night and as far as I can tell no related arrest yet! Information is power that helps us keep our families and homes safe. Thanks for keeping us informed!
The blanket/coat over the head is not for warmth. Notice you will frequently see drug users with their head covered, but legs and torso exposed even in the coldeset weather. If you watch videos from other cities you will see the same behavior in all the hard core harm reduction cities. The blanket or other fabric over head posture is the same as the sunny day umbrella held to the side pose- it's to block the wind for their torch lighter and to block the view of public narcotic consumption. Blanket over head behavior is typically followed by a fent fold with pants waist at thigh level and the presence of burnt foil. Blanket over head behavior is often followed by sidewalk sprawled body, scattered foil and "friends" and two ambulances to deliver narcan.
The local hysterical lunatic communists don't understand that if they actually were successful in closing down the few remaining small businesses here in our community, that they would then have to pay more taxes, and either be exposed to higher prices of the businesses that remained OR they would no longer be able to find anywhere in our community to do business with~! Then these mentally ill "save the earth' climate cultists would have to drive many more miles to get the same products that they chased out of the local area and prove just how stupid they REALLY are~! For instance, Sequim recently lost its only dedicated retail locksmith business Downtown, so now everyone has to find help for their specific needs wherever they can... Need to have the locks on your home changed? Want a new safe installed? I would bet that it just got more difficult and expensive to get locksmith services in Sequim and the surrounding area~! Do these idiots really believe that anyone would want to come to Sequim to open a new locksmith business??? When the fools in the community conduct economic warfare on others just because of their voting decisions, that is Treason and a direct violation of American values! It is also as ignorant as it gets, because I have never heard of anyone actually changing their vote based upon terroristic threats. NEVER~! Quite the opposite, if anyone ever attacks me for my voting choices, they can bet that I will double down on them and take measures to respond to those who would dare to attempt to bully me~!
That is great news! Before I made my comment I actually checked Online to see if there was any other locksmith in Sequim and none are currently listed. Thanks for the tip! I will keep it in mind if/when we need locksmith help. Have a great evening!
So now Habitat has given back the $800k and will focus on the Sequim Ave project...except last year they worked on a grant with the city for that project and that grant didn't pan out. Seems they discovered building 48 homes at once is harder than building one and they couldn't meet the requirement of having the land "shovel ready" by a certain date. Now they're hoping to get it this year and if not, then what - two big chunks of land sitting vacant and no money to build anything?
I give them credit for trying. The’ve never taken on a project that large before, I don’t believe the opportunity fund was explained to them properly that it was public funds and require three bids. I will almost guarantee, regulations and requirements were also prohibitive in getting this done. So lesson learned go forward and hopefully they can get some houses built for those that don’t make county commissioner and Wendy Sisk type wages.
Postings come across my Facebook feed for unclear reasons. Recently I saw something from Steve Johnson. I know him from another situation and can recognize him in person but I won't go into that here. He is a proud "No Kings" demonstrator and, I believe, member of Indivisible. He seems to have severe bipolar disorder. He swings rapidly from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) to SDS (Seegers Derangement Syndrome) in the blink of an eye. He has been investigating Jake (meaning he did a Google Search and used AI! Oh my!) and came up with all sorts of "incriminating" facts.
"Creating Theocracy.
So I did a little research on the Christian Right strategy to take over small town governments with the goal of steering them towards theocracies. The first AI response seems to sum up Seegers probable motives and actions fairly well. "The efforts of the Christian Right and Christian Nationalist movements to establish control over small-town governments have evolved into highly organized, well-funded operations across rural America. Rather than focusing solely on national elections, these movements utilize a strategy called "regionalism" or "charter communities"—encouraging followers to migrate to small towns, acquire local real estate, and build institutional power to create local theocracies" Seegers has migrated to our area, acquired local real estate, and is attempting to build institutional power by running for public office. That he is a Christian Nationalist is clear. Please Share."
To accomplish those goals, his research provides, as evidence of the "well-funded operations", the Seegers Family Foundation. He says that there are $3 million in the Foundation and that it is being used to advance Christian values (Horrors!). A $3 million portfolio, well invested, should be able to generate 5-10% in income per year or $150K to $300K. Overwhelming!!!
Now compare that to the leftist, globalist (but I repeat myself) Open Society funded originally by George Soros to the tune of $32 Billion (that's with a B). Or the leftist, globalist (but I repeat myself) Gates Foundation funded by Bill Gates to the tune of $36 billion and now with assets thought to be worth $91 billion.
But the $3 million Seegers Family Foundation is the existential threat to our democracy.
Christian values are not the problem in society. Moral decay, drugs, crime, fraud, are not biblical traits or lifestyles condoned. Quite the opposite and I commend Jake for his direction he follows with integrity and committment. Go Jake!
The LWV claiming any non-partisanship or equal treatment of all is patently false. Of the unfortunately only two viable political parties the LWV exclusively promotes only candidates from one. Even an independent is not safe from the LWV attacks because independent also is not Democrat. Regarding the JST, I wish them to be friends and neighbors with no more and no less rights or advantages than all the citizens of the U.S.. Claiming to be about the community is not entirely hypocritical, but it is hypocrisy. I do not see the gambling business as a "community" business. Neither do I see taking grants and minority business enterprise benefits not enjoyed by the majority of the community as "community". Not unlike the casino, the drug rehabilitation clinic is yet another cash register collecting Government money. All of the B.I.A., tribal status, treaties, indigenous, land back, "native" American etc. industry is antiquated, out dated and should cease to exist. All sovereign nations should be treated equally. Should the JST, as example, choose to be sovereign, they should be treated the same as Canada, Mexico or Poland with comparable taxation, tariffs, travel restrictions, etc.. It is hypocrisy to claim some special rights due to ancestry, while simultaneously enjoying technologies, sanitation and transportation that their ancestry would not recognize. In or out, but not both.
Picture Clallam County as a sun bleached terrarium where the wrong reptiles keep escaping, and wading through the muck is Jeff --the self appointed bard of bureaucratic doom, swinging a butterfly net and declaring a scandal every time a nonprofit fills out a grant application.
With the subtlety of a black bear wrestling a tipped-over trash bin, he turns routine tribal donations into mafia conspiracies, misreads tax statutes like a man who once mistook a garden hose for a rattlesnake, and treats federal audit paperwork with the wide eyed panic of someone accusing a dishwasher of treason.
Complexity ruins the fun, so he imports big city fentanyl apocalypse footage to quiet coastal towns, declares standard voter registration rules the death of democracy, and gleefully boosts unendorsed chump change candidates who promise to hand count ballots and personally lower property taxes.
In the end, Jeff is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos with outrage while insisting everyone else is playing chess, happily turning harmless tax statements into ransom notes because, in a county that manufactures its own satire, outrage is the only product he knows how to sell.
If you are going to bring up the lovely former Serenity House property Tempest House- and Halloween season seems like the right time to reflect on this horror-
Everybody please if you have not given the former Tempest House site a look this year either drive down Albert street between First and Front st in the next week, OR enter 105 Albert into Google maps then drop into the street view. The photos maps show are from a good day.
Check out the property tax statement and history from 535 E First st, which is how the former Tempest house is listed on the tax roll. https://websrv22.clallam.net/propertyaccess/Property.aspx?cid=0&year=2025&prop_id=61462 Note it was sold by Serenity in May 2021 on the premise of being rehabbed as condos. It has been a chronic worsening blight to the community ever since then. Every year or so PA council talks about doing something about blighted properties, but that is all they do, talk. Blighted properties abound in PA! Start holding the city of PA accountable for their failure to address blighted properties. Also what type of business is current building owner Expanse LLC and who is their registered agent Dirk Cahaan? Is this just somebody's tax shelter at the expense of the community? (side note- anyone else think the never opened "BigBite"restaraunt in PA is a scam or front of some kind?)
Those of us who watched Steve J (rest in peace) literally rot to death on the streets of PA will recall him spending much time at the closed Tempest site during his final year or so, sitting in his wheelchair inside the fencing at the corner of Albert and First where he would give meth heads money to bring him alcohol, drinking until he passed out and was taken to OMC. Then clean up volunteers removed the next round of urine and blood soaked blankets. And he would return and repeat.
The former Tempest house still stands today as a momument to the colossal failues of the homeless industrial complex in Port Angeles and Clallam County.
Remind these radical miscreants that Indivisble Sequim is, essentially, INVISIBLE Sequim. Yes, they make a lot of noise and hand waving, but they're merely a vocal sub-minority with a lot of bark, no bite, and leaving poop on your porch. If halve the VOTERS boycott a business, that's serious, but that isn't going to happen, regardless.
@jefftozzer, if you were a westENDER a power outage wouldn’t have delayed your article release, plug in your generator, just saying ;-) but you would have to be “transferred out” if you were having a stroke.
Oh, I thought about you while I was whining last night in the dark. Every time I see a woman on National Geographic washing her clothes by beating them on rocks beside the river, I think, "Is that Dr. Sarah in a power outage?"
Brittney Spears!
Bingo!
I love it!
Jeff you remind me to laugh!
and Dr. Sarah-
That is such a compliment! 😁👊🏻
I believe that the early stone-age civilizations didn't wash clothing because they wore animal hides.
Maybe we should list of Democrat owned businesses. Only problem it would be very short and only have companies on it with ties to French grants and public $ into it. Sure is funny how far the left has strayed from Americas values. Media is their source of misinformation and growing. Thanks Jeff for exposing the hypocrisy of our leaders.
The Dems already do a pseudo boycott. Every Friday they obstruct pedestrian traffic, annoy/harass drivers and people, and deter potential customers from businesses around the Washington Square all to "protest" their latest hysteria of the week.
Now, now. You know with Safety Staufer being large and in charge there could not be any obstructing going on.
It looks like they all have a snort of whiskey before they get there. Some look pretty seedy. Wouldn’t answer the doorbell at my house. Lots of four letter words that my mom said I shouldn’t say. Thanks mom!
Democrat owned businesses might be the result of massive subsidies. Perhaps a proper Democrat might pass legislation that would punish a business competitor. Most successful businesses play both sides of the fence. I fear that Jeff's message might have fallen on not only deaf ears.
Thats pretty funny that a 7' tall logger can call out a Britney Spears song from your first layer!
I laugh so hard at the "Angry Logger " meme of Mitch, having met the gentle giant myself.
An angry one at that :D
So so very sick that folks will go out of their way to hurt local business because they do not like who they support.
Some of the folks who they are willing to bend over backwards to hurt are families which a lot of the time includes feeding their children.
Yet they think they are the better ones. How fricking sick can you get?!
Proving they are dictator/ King mentality -- agree with me or eat cake.
On addiction studies, I was looking at Peninsula College the other day out of curiosity. https://pencol.edu/areas-study/healthcare
2 out of 7 degrees focus on addiction
5 out of 10 certificates focus on addiction
Sounds like an industry to me, especially with all the NGOs out here.
What gets me is with the need for healthcare workers at OMC, is Peninsula College doing anything to help students prepare for getting work at OMC? Or connecting students to OMC, since they hire for food service and other positions that aren’t based in medicine? They’re so concerned about welding, but healthcare is a big industry out here with OMC being the largest employer, and it seems OMC has to constantly recruit from out of the area. Currently 159 jobs listed on the OMC website: https://olympicmedical.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/OMC_Careers
Thank you for sharing the podcast interviews; I hope more people learn about Antonio and Virginia!
Oh, boy. What a week and it's only Wednesday. I'm glad you have power again, Jeff. Great potpourri!
I don't know how Mark Curtis was able to read 600+ pages of the Clallam County Comprehensive Plan in two days, but I bow to him for that accomplishment. I look forward to his continuing analysis. Thanks, Mark!
Thanks for keeping us informed! So many things happen that never reach the general public. For example a young person had their backpack stolen by someone who threatened them with a GUN near the bowling alley/PBH Thursday night and as far as I can tell no related arrest yet! Information is power that helps us keep our families and homes safe. Thanks for keeping us informed!
The song is by Britany Spears, Baby One More Time.
Good job, you sound like a super fan!
You are clever! It was a favorite at one time. ;o))
The blanket/coat over the head is not for warmth. Notice you will frequently see drug users with their head covered, but legs and torso exposed even in the coldeset weather. If you watch videos from other cities you will see the same behavior in all the hard core harm reduction cities. The blanket or other fabric over head posture is the same as the sunny day umbrella held to the side pose- it's to block the wind for their torch lighter and to block the view of public narcotic consumption. Blanket over head behavior is typically followed by a fent fold with pants waist at thigh level and the presence of burnt foil. Blanket over head behavior is often followed by sidewalk sprawled body, scattered foil and "friends" and two ambulances to deliver narcan.
The local hysterical lunatic communists don't understand that if they actually were successful in closing down the few remaining small businesses here in our community, that they would then have to pay more taxes, and either be exposed to higher prices of the businesses that remained OR they would no longer be able to find anywhere in our community to do business with~! Then these mentally ill "save the earth' climate cultists would have to drive many more miles to get the same products that they chased out of the local area and prove just how stupid they REALLY are~! For instance, Sequim recently lost its only dedicated retail locksmith business Downtown, so now everyone has to find help for their specific needs wherever they can... Need to have the locks on your home changed? Want a new safe installed? I would bet that it just got more difficult and expensive to get locksmith services in Sequim and the surrounding area~! Do these idiots really believe that anyone would want to come to Sequim to open a new locksmith business??? When the fools in the community conduct economic warfare on others just because of their voting decisions, that is Treason and a direct violation of American values! It is also as ignorant as it gets, because I have never heard of anyone actually changing their vote based upon terroristic threats. NEVER~! Quite the opposite, if anyone ever attacks me for my voting choices, they can bet that I will double down on them and take measures to respond to those who would dare to attempt to bully me~!
As they say FAFO~!
Sincerely, Mike
Mike, I was also dismayed about the locksmith closing up. However, there is a new one, (Tim's), open on east Washington. I was in there today.
Thanks, Patriot John Campbell~!
That is great news! Before I made my comment I actually checked Online to see if there was any other locksmith in Sequim and none are currently listed. Thanks for the tip! I will keep it in mind if/when we need locksmith help. Have a great evening!
Sincerely, Mike
So now Habitat has given back the $800k and will focus on the Sequim Ave project...except last year they worked on a grant with the city for that project and that grant didn't pan out. Seems they discovered building 48 homes at once is harder than building one and they couldn't meet the requirement of having the land "shovel ready" by a certain date. Now they're hoping to get it this year and if not, then what - two big chunks of land sitting vacant and no money to build anything?
How can they still have a job after failing so badly?
Pretty amazing, if it were me and my job I'd have been kicked to the curb long ago.
I give them credit for trying. The’ve never taken on a project that large before, I don’t believe the opportunity fund was explained to them properly that it was public funds and require three bids. I will almost guarantee, regulations and requirements were also prohibitive in getting this done. So lesson learned go forward and hopefully they can get some houses built for those that don’t make county commissioner and Wendy Sisk type wages.
Postings come across my Facebook feed for unclear reasons. Recently I saw something from Steve Johnson. I know him from another situation and can recognize him in person but I won't go into that here. He is a proud "No Kings" demonstrator and, I believe, member of Indivisible. He seems to have severe bipolar disorder. He swings rapidly from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) to SDS (Seegers Derangement Syndrome) in the blink of an eye. He has been investigating Jake (meaning he did a Google Search and used AI! Oh my!) and came up with all sorts of "incriminating" facts.
"Creating Theocracy.
So I did a little research on the Christian Right strategy to take over small town governments with the goal of steering them towards theocracies. The first AI response seems to sum up Seegers probable motives and actions fairly well. "The efforts of the Christian Right and Christian Nationalist movements to establish control over small-town governments have evolved into highly organized, well-funded operations across rural America. Rather than focusing solely on national elections, these movements utilize a strategy called "regionalism" or "charter communities"—encouraging followers to migrate to small towns, acquire local real estate, and build institutional power to create local theocracies" Seegers has migrated to our area, acquired local real estate, and is attempting to build institutional power by running for public office. That he is a Christian Nationalist is clear. Please Share."
To accomplish those goals, his research provides, as evidence of the "well-funded operations", the Seegers Family Foundation. He says that there are $3 million in the Foundation and that it is being used to advance Christian values (Horrors!). A $3 million portfolio, well invested, should be able to generate 5-10% in income per year or $150K to $300K. Overwhelming!!!
Now compare that to the leftist, globalist (but I repeat myself) Open Society funded originally by George Soros to the tune of $32 Billion (that's with a B). Or the leftist, globalist (but I repeat myself) Gates Foundation funded by Bill Gates to the tune of $36 billion and now with assets thought to be worth $91 billion.
But the $3 million Seegers Family Foundation is the existential threat to our democracy.
Christian values are not the problem in society. Moral decay, drugs, crime, fraud, are not biblical traits or lifestyles condoned. Quite the opposite and I commend Jake for his direction he follows with integrity and committment. Go Jake!
It's the lack of Christian values and trashing of this nations Constitution.
Dale, the only theocratic takeover is coming from the Dems' big tent with Muslim candidates promoting and endorsing Sharia Law.
Denise can you believe people vote for these anti American Muslim fanatics and fraud of taxpayer $? SCARY
The LWV claiming any non-partisanship or equal treatment of all is patently false. Of the unfortunately only two viable political parties the LWV exclusively promotes only candidates from one. Even an independent is not safe from the LWV attacks because independent also is not Democrat. Regarding the JST, I wish them to be friends and neighbors with no more and no less rights or advantages than all the citizens of the U.S.. Claiming to be about the community is not entirely hypocritical, but it is hypocrisy. I do not see the gambling business as a "community" business. Neither do I see taking grants and minority business enterprise benefits not enjoyed by the majority of the community as "community". Not unlike the casino, the drug rehabilitation clinic is yet another cash register collecting Government money. All of the B.I.A., tribal status, treaties, indigenous, land back, "native" American etc. industry is antiquated, out dated and should cease to exist. All sovereign nations should be treated equally. Should the JST, as example, choose to be sovereign, they should be treated the same as Canada, Mexico or Poland with comparable taxation, tariffs, travel restrictions, etc.. It is hypocrisy to claim some special rights due to ancestry, while simultaneously enjoying technologies, sanitation and transportation that their ancestry would not recognize. In or out, but not both.
Picture Clallam County as a sun bleached terrarium where the wrong reptiles keep escaping, and wading through the muck is Jeff --the self appointed bard of bureaucratic doom, swinging a butterfly net and declaring a scandal every time a nonprofit fills out a grant application.
With the subtlety of a black bear wrestling a tipped-over trash bin, he turns routine tribal donations into mafia conspiracies, misreads tax statutes like a man who once mistook a garden hose for a rattlesnake, and treats federal audit paperwork with the wide eyed panic of someone accusing a dishwasher of treason.
Complexity ruins the fun, so he imports big city fentanyl apocalypse footage to quiet coastal towns, declares standard voter registration rules the death of democracy, and gleefully boosts unendorsed chump change candidates who promise to hand count ballots and personally lower property taxes.
In the end, Jeff is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos with outrage while insisting everyone else is playing chess, happily turning harmless tax statements into ransom notes because, in a county that manufactures its own satire, outrage is the only product he knows how to sell.
If you are going to bring up the lovely former Serenity House property Tempest House- and Halloween season seems like the right time to reflect on this horror-
Let's all remember their most famous client and known window pooper, Johhny Talbert https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/sun-drop-murder-suspect-receives-no-bond-in-cabarrus-county/275-9daf1f7d-e568-4875-ad0b-476686cbcf5b -and think about how many years he lived off of Port Angeles/Clallam county tax payers while he walked amongst us and kept patrol officers busy dealing with his behavior, all while we were shamed for not being compassionate enough.
Everybody please if you have not given the former Tempest House site a look this year either drive down Albert street between First and Front st in the next week, OR enter 105 Albert into Google maps then drop into the street view. The photos maps show are from a good day.
Reflect on the closure of Tempest and ponder the future of PSH in PA https://www.myclallamcounty.com/2019/10/01/tempest-house-even-closed-scene-of-trouble/ This time with Northview, things will go down in style, in apartments that cost more than my home and with world class views. Just look at how well the PSH efforts in San Francisco are going https://thevoicesf.org/housing-first-morgue-second-2/ Why can't Clallam learn from the mistakes of other much better funded communities?
Check out the property tax statement and history from 535 E First st, which is how the former Tempest house is listed on the tax roll. https://websrv22.clallam.net/propertyaccess/Property.aspx?cid=0&year=2025&prop_id=61462 Note it was sold by Serenity in May 2021 on the premise of being rehabbed as condos. It has been a chronic worsening blight to the community ever since then. Every year or so PA council talks about doing something about blighted properties, but that is all they do, talk. Blighted properties abound in PA! Start holding the city of PA accountable for their failure to address blighted properties. Also what type of business is current building owner Expanse LLC and who is their registered agent Dirk Cahaan? Is this just somebody's tax shelter at the expense of the community? (side note- anyone else think the never opened "BigBite"restaraunt in PA is a scam or front of some kind?)
Those of us who watched Steve J (rest in peace) literally rot to death on the streets of PA will recall him spending much time at the closed Tempest site during his final year or so, sitting in his wheelchair inside the fencing at the corner of Albert and First where he would give meth heads money to bring him alcohol, drinking until he passed out and was taken to OMC. Then clean up volunteers removed the next round of urine and blood soaked blankets. And he would return and repeat.
The former Tempest house still stands today as a momument to the colossal failues of the homeless industrial complex in Port Angeles and Clallam County.
Remind these radical miscreants that Indivisble Sequim is, essentially, INVISIBLE Sequim. Yes, they make a lot of noise and hand waving, but they're merely a vocal sub-minority with a lot of bark, no bite, and leaving poop on your porch. If halve the VOTERS boycott a business, that's serious, but that isn't going to happen, regardless.